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Hurd Articles & Reviews

Arch Linux, Clear Linux, Fedora Compete On The ASUS ROG Strix G15   Operating Systems   2021-08-04
Radeon RX Vega On Linux: High-Performance GPUs & Open-Source No Longer An Oxymoron   Graphics Cards   2017-08-14
8-Way Linux Desktop OpenGL Comparison Atop Fedora 22   Software   2015-08-03
Benchmarking Debian GNU/Hurd 2015 vs. GNU/Linux   Operating Systems   2015-07-31
Intel - It Was One Heck Of A Year For Sandy Bridge Graphics   Display Drivers   2011-12-12
Test Driving GNU Hurd, With Benchmarks Against Linux   Operating Systems   2011-07-18
Benchmarking Debian's GNU/kFreeBSD   Operating Systems   2010-01-18
Mionix Saiph 3200 Laser Gaming Mouse   Peripherals   2009-10-02

Hurd Linux & Open-Source News

GCC 14 Compiler Adds AArch64 GNU/Hurd Support   GNU   2024-04-11
The Current State & Plans For Porting Linux/BSD Software To Redox OS   Operating Systems   2024-02-13
GNU Hurd Has Been Making Progress On Its x86_64 Support   GNU   2024-01-10
Linus Torvalds Comments On Bcachefs Prospects For Linux 6.6   Linux Storage   2023-09-06
GNU C Library 2.38 Released With More C2X Features, x86_64 GNU Hurd Support   GNU   2023-07-31
Debian GNU/Hurd 2023 Released   Debian   2023-06-12
Linux 6.1 Cleans Up More Code For PREEMPT_RT   Linux Kernel   2022-10-05
Mesa 22.2 Is Ready With Broader Support For Intel Arc Graphics GPUs   Intel   2022-07-27
Apple M2 Enablement For Linux Begins With Good Progress   Apple   2022-06-28
Phoronix Turns 18 Years Old For Covering Linux Hardware   Phoronix   2022-06-05
Nouveau Begins Shifting Around Code For Use By New Driver - Vulkan And/Or New Driver   Nouveau   2022-05-31
VMware's SVGA Gallium3D Driver Getting NIR'ed   Mesa   2022-05-05
/dev/random + /dev/urandom Unification May Be Revisited In The Future, Blocker Addressed   Linux Kernel   2022-04-26
Mesa Prepares To Drop Old GLSL-To-TGSI - Big Code Removal, Win For Performance & Fixes   Mesa   2022-04-20
GNU/Hurd Continues Effort To Use NetBSD's Drivers For Better Hardware Support   GNU   2022-02-06
Open-Source Intel & Radeon GPU Drivers Ready With Day-One Support For Vulkan 1.3   Vulkan   2022-01-25
Microsoft To Acquire Activision Blizzard   Microsoft   2022-01-18
DragonFlyBSD Now Has Working Support For Intel Whiskey Lake Graphics   BSD   2021-12-28
Mesa 21.3-rc4 Release Led By Many Zink Fixes   Mesa   2021-11-04
Facebook Has Been Working On BOLT'ing The Linux Kernel For Greater Performance   Linux Kernel   2021-09-25
Debian 11, Valve Happenings, Linux 5.14 & More Excitement From August   Phoronix   2021-09-01
Debian GNU/Hurd 2021 Released With Experimental Rump-Based Userland Disk Driver, Go Port   Debian   2021-08-14
ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Making Progress On x86_64, Multi-Monitor   Operating Systems   2021-08-01
FWUPD 1.6 Released For Latest Linux Firmware Updating Capabilities   LVFS   2021-04-26
T2 SDE 21.4 Released With This Linux Distribution Supporting 15 CPU Architectures   Operating Systems   2021-04-23
Google's VirtIO-GPU "Venus" Vulkan Driver Merged Into Mesa 21.1   Mesa   2021-04-08
GNU Network Utilities Sees First Major Release In 9 Years (inetutils 2.0)   GNU   2021-02-05
Linus Torvalds Decides To Land NVIDIA RTX 30 "Ampere" Support In Linux 5.11   Linux Kernel   2021-01-15
Another NVIDIA Engineer Just Made His First Contribution To Mesa   NVIDIA   2021-01-08
GNU Had A Busy 2020 With The GCC Toolchain Still Rocking, Finally Converted To Git   GNU   2020-12-31
Mesa 21.0 Has Finally Killed The Classic "SWRAST" Software Rasterizer   Mesa   2020-12-31
Classic OSMesa Retires In Mesa 21.0 As The Worst Of The Software Rendering Paths   Mesa   2020-12-11
GNU Guix 1.2 Adds Btrfs Subvolume Booting, New GNU Hurd Options   GNU   2020-11-23
Rust Maybe Coming To The Linux Kernel, Other Open-Source Milestones For July   Phoronix   2020-08-02
There's An Effort By A System76 Engineer To Bring Coreboot To Newer AMD Platforms   Coreboot   2020-07-24
GNU Guix Begins Publishing System Images Based On Hurd   GNU   2020-07-07
LLVMpipe Now Exposes OpenGL 4.2 For GL On CPUs   Mesa   2020-07-06
Red Hat Investing In Modularity And Will Support It Where It Makes Sense For RHEL 9   Red Hat   2020-06-18
Zink Is Now OpenGL 3.0 Complete For Generic GL Over Vulkan   Mesa   2020-06-18
GNU Shepherd 0.8 Released As An Alternative To Systemd   GNU   2020-04-21
Rust-Written Redox OS Booting The 128-Thread AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X   Operating Systems   2020-04-18
GNU Guix 1.1 Released With PulseAudio & Other Services, 3k+ New Packages   GNU   2020-04-15
GNU Guix Wants To Replace The Linux-Libre Kernel With The Hurd Micro-Kernel   GNU   2020-04-01
Glibc Sees End Of Year Improvements For GNU Hurd With The Microkernel Entering Its 30th Year   GNU   2020-01-01
The Hurd Microkernel Still Isn't Ready But GNU Had A Great 2010s With GCC + Other Projects   GNU   2019-12-25
Purism Announces Librem Server While Also Announcing Price Hikes On The Librem 5   Hardware   2019-12-17
Microsoft Teams Is Now Available For Linux In Public Preview Form   Microsoft   2019-12-10
Phoronix Test Suite 9.2 Released For Open-Source, Cross-Platform Benchmarking   Phoronix Test Suite   2019-12-03
Phoronix Test Suite 9.2 Milestone 2 Released   Phoronix Test Suite   2019-11-13
GPU Passthrough For FreeBSD's Bhyve Can Work But Is Fairly Rudimentary   BSD   2019-11-06
Phoronix Test Suite 9.2 Milestone 1 Released With Updates For macOS Benchmarking   Phoronix Test Suite   2019-10-17
Intel Now Aiming For Gallium3D OpenGL Default For Mesa 20.0   Intel   2019-10-16
Richard Stallman To Continue As Head Of The GNU Project   GNU   2019-09-26
Linux 5.4 Brings Working Temperature Reporting For AMD Ryzen 3000 Series CPUs   AMD   2019-09-16
How Can AMD EPYC "Rome" 7002 Series Be Even Better? Open-Source BIOS / Coreboot   AMD   2019-08-08
Debian GNU Hurd 2019 Released With An ACPI Translator, Support For LLVM   Debian   2019-07-07
Lennart Poettering Points Out That Fedora Workstation Could Lose Some Weight   Fedora   2019-04-11
Haiku's USB 3.0+ Support Is Finally In Great Shape   Operating Systems   2019-03-10
The New Features & Changes With The LLVM Clang 8.0 Compiler Stack   LLVM   2019-02-26
GNU Hurd Can Build Around 75% Of The Debian Packages, But No 64-bit Or SMP Yet   GNU   2019-02-03
Mesa 18.3.2 Is Finally En Route With 78+ Changes   Mesa   2019-01-15
LLVM Clang 8.0 Is Branching In A Week With Intel Cascade Lake Tuning & More   LLVM   2019-01-09
GNU Highlights Of 2018 From Hurd To GCC   GNU   2018-12-27
LLVM / Clang 8.0 Likely To Be Released Around Early March   LLVM   2018-12-04
GNU Hurd Toolchain Support Added To LLVM Clang Compiler   GNU   2018-11-29
New Linux Code of Conduct Revisions: CoC Committee Added Plus Interpretation & Mediator   Linux Kernel   2018-10-20
GNU Shepherd 0.5 Init System Released   GNU   2018-09-26
Glibc 2.28 Released With Unicode 11.0 Support, Statx & Intel Improvements   GNU   2018-08-01
Glibc 2.28 Adds Unicode 11.0 Support, RenameAt2   GNU   2018-07-05
2018 Isn't The Year Of The GNU Hurd   GNU   2018-07-03
Red Hat Making Progress On KDE/GNOME Wayland Screen-Sharing With WebRTC   Wayland   2018-07-02
Purism's Librem 5 To Rely On Secondary Processor For Binary Blobs   Hardware   2018-06-19
Glibc 2.28 Upstream Will Build/Run Cleanly On GNU Hurd   GNU   2018-04-24
A Recap Of The Many Interesting Presentations At FOSDEM 2018   Linux Events   2018-02-13
Genode Is Developing A GPU Multiplexer For Intel Graphics Hardware   Operating Systems   2018-02-05
GNU Hurd Hardware Support Remains In Very Rough Shape For 2018   GNU   2018-02-04
System76 Eyeing Disk Encryption By Default   Hardware   2018-01-27
There's One Big Feature Left For The Radeon Linux Driver Left To Tackle In 2018   AMD   2017-12-29
Debian Had A Successful 2017 With The Release Of "Stretch"   Debian   2017-12-19
Here's How Fedora Plans To Reapproach Their Modular Server Plans   Fedora   2017-12-19
Initial Tessellation Shader Support For RadeonSI NIR   Radeon   2017-12-11
GNU libmicrohttpd 0.9.57 Brings Significant Improvements   GNU   2017-11-27
Steam VR Marketshare Already Larger Than Steam Linux Marketshare   Valve   2017-10-25
Ryzen & RX Vega Totally Dominated This Summer For Linux Users   Hardware   2017-09-17
PulseAudio 11.0 Released With GNU Hurd Support, Newer Apple AirPlay Hardware   Free Software   2017-09-05
Ryzen 7, Threadripper & Radeon RX Vega Generated A Ton Of Linux Buzz   Phoronix   2017-09-01
D Language Support Cleared For Being Added To GCC   GNU   2017-06-21
Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 Released, Supports More Than 3GiB Of Memory   Debian   2017-06-18
Redox OS, MINIX, Hurd & Genode Had Their Time At FOSDEM Too   Operating Systems   2017-02-06
The Top GNU News Of 2016: Hurd, Libreboot, GCC, GRUB   GNU   2016-12-29
GNU Hurd 0.9 & Mach 1.8 Released: Adds Ethernet Multiplexer, Mach Drops ACPI   GNU   2016-12-18
Mesa 13.0.2 Being Prepped With Intel Geminilake Support, Vulkan Fixes & More   Mesa   2016-11-24
Phoronix Test Suite 6.6 Officially Released For Open-Source Cross-Platform Benchmarking   Phoronix Test Suite   2016-09-06
Marking DRI1 Drivers As Legacy & "Broken" Being Debated   Linux Kernel   2016-08-26
GNU Hurd Gets Better Rump PCI Driver Support, Now Runs VirtIO Driver   GNU   2016-08-03
OpenBenchmarking.org Crosses 19 Million Benchmark Test/Suite Downloads   Phoronix Test Suite   2016-07-23
GNU Hurd 0.8 & Mach 1.7 Released   GNU   2016-05-18
Over 18 Million Tests & Benchmark Suites Have Been Downloaded From OpenBenchmarking.org   Phoronix Test Suite   2016-05-03
Google Summer of Code 2016 Projects Announced   Google   2016-04-23
GNU Hurd Is Working On Sound Support, Still Lacks 64-bit & Good USB Support   GNU   2016-01-31
What Struck A Chord With Debian Users In 2015   Debian   2015-12-29
The New GNU News Of 2015   GNU   2015-12-25
GNU Hurd 0.7 & GNU Mach 1.6 Released   GNU   2015-10-31
VESA Announces eDP 1.4b, Marks Embedded DisplayPort 1.4 Production-Ready   Standards   2015-10-27
Arch Linux With The FreeBSD Kernel Seems To Have Somewhat Stalled   Arch Linux   2015-10-24
Google, Linux 4.3, & Mesa 11 Won Over September   Free Software   2015-10-01
Doing Graphics Hardware Acceleration With Microkernels   Hardware   2015-09-21
A Developer Is Going To Focus On Improving GNU Hurd's Hardware Support   GNU   2015-09-20
Open-Source AMD, PHP 7.0 & Linux Performance Have Been Raising Eyebrows   Phoronix   2015-09-15
Debian To Stop Spinning New CD ISOs   Debian   2015-09-15
The Current State Of Debian GNU Hurd   Debian   2015-09-08
Servo, Skylake & Even Windows 10 Have Been Very Appealing To Linux Users   Phoronix   2015-08-31
Open Benchmarking: More Windows Than Linux   Phoronix   2015-08-29
GNU Guix Package Manager Ported To GNU Hurd   GNU   2015-08-20
Workaround For Poor Ubuntu Phone Performance / Stuttering? "Touch The Screen A Lot"   Ubuntu   2015-08-15
Interesting GSoC 2015 Projects: Wine D3DRM, GameStream, NaCL Fun   Google   2015-05-04
Debian GNU/Hurd 2015 Released   Debian   2015-04-29
Reasons To Make A PTS/OB Test Profile For Your Software   Phoronix   2015-04-28
GNU Hurd 0.6 Released Brings Clean-Ups & Fixes   GNU   2015-04-15
Nouveau: NVIDIA's New Hardware Is "VERY Open-Source Unfriendly"   Nouveau   2015-04-15
Automatically Managing The Linux Benchmarks Firing Constantly   Hardware   2015-03-29
There's Many Exciting Possible GSoC 2015 Coding Projects   Google   2015-03-21
The Most Popular Open-Source Linux Benchmarks   Phoronix   2015-02-26
GDB 7.9 Brings Improvements To The Python Scripting API   GNU   2015-02-20
GNU Guix Continues Advancing As A Package Manager & Linux DIstribution   GNU   2015-02-05
Don't Want systemd? Try GNU Hurd, But It Still Lacks 64-bit, Audio & USB   GNU   2015-02-04
Hurd & Guix Were Among The GNU Projects Making Progress This Year   GNU   2014-12-28
Civilization: Beyond Earth Overcoming Linux GPU Driver Problems   Linux Gaming   2014-10-27
NIR Still Being Discussed For Mesa, LLVM Gets Brought Up Again   Mesa   2014-08-27
Guix 0.7 Can Now Install The GNU Operating System   GNU   2014-07-25
Possible Summer Improvements To The GCC Compiler   GNU   2014-02-20
GNU Hurd Is Enjoying User-Space Device Drivers   GNU   2014-02-10
Debian Init System Discussion Is Still Unsettled   Debian   2014-01-28
The GNU's RPG Game Engine Is Of Very Poor Quality   Linux Gaming   2014-01-08
GNU Hurd Is Up To 344k Lines Of Code   GNU   2013-12-29
GNU Hurd 0.5, GNU Mach 1.4 Released   GNU   2013-09-28
WebKitGTK+ 2.1.91 Supports Wayland As A Target   Wayland   2013-09-15
Phoronix Test Suite 4.8-Sokndal Nears Release   Phoronix Test Suite   2013-07-25
Finally, Team Fortress 2 Benchmarks For Phoronix!   Linux Gaming   2013-07-18
Harlan: A Scheme-Based GPU Programming Language   Free Software   2013-07-04
AMD Sea Islands Support Comes To Radeon Gallium3D   Radeon   2013-06-28
AMD HD 7000 "RadeonSI" Runs Well With Fedora 19   Radeon   2013-06-27
Debian 7.0 GNU/Linux vs. GNU/kFreeBSD Benchmarks   Debian   2013-06-10
Allwinner SoC Still Unlikely For Upstream Linux Kernel   Hardware   2013-06-05
Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 Release Brings New Packages   Debian   2013-05-22
New Features Coming For Debian 7.0 "Wheezy"   Debian   2013-02-19
FOSDEM 2013: Lots Of Wine, X.Org & Micro-Kernels   Free Software   2013-02-11
HelenOS Micro-Kernel OS Still Marching On   Free Software   2013-02-11
GNU/Hurd Plans For A Future With USB, SATA, 64-Bit   GNU   2013-02-10
BSDs Struggle With Open-Source Graphics Drivers   BSD   2013-02-08