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Ubuntu 17.10 Radeon Performance: Stock vs. X-Swat Updates vs. Oibaf PPA vs. Pkppa vs. Padoka PPA   Operating Systems   2017-11-14
Early Benchmarks Of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion   Operating Systems   2011-03-02
Testing Out ATI Kernel Mode-Setting On Ubuntu   Display Drivers   2009-06-08
Trying Out Ubuntu's Netbook Remix   Operating Systems   2008-06-09
Ubuntu v5.10 (Breezy Badger)   Operating Systems   2005-10-13

Launchpad Linux & Open-Source News

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Support Installs With NVMe-Over-TCP Drives   Ubuntu   2024-03-11
Ubuntu Looking At Applying Low-Latency Optimizations To Its Generic Kernel   Ubuntu   2024-01-29
Ubuntu Linux Working On Installer Support For NVMe-over-TCP   Ubuntu   2024-01-16
New GNOME Code Speeds Up Performance For NVIDIA Proprietary Driver Multi-Monitor   GNOME   2023-10-02
Ubuntu 23.04 & 22.04.3 Installs Haven't Been Following Their Own Security Best Practices   Ubuntu   2023-09-15
Ubuntu's NVIDIA "Enterprise Ready" Driver Package Now Enables Open GPU Kernel Driver   Ubuntu   2023-07-07
Ubuntu Forms An HPC Team To Push AI, High Performance Computing Workloads   Ubuntu   2023-05-26
Ubuntu 23.10 Improving PPA Management For Enhanced Security & Reliability   Ubuntu   2023-05-16
Ubuntu 23.10 Looks To dhcpcd5 For Replacing ISC DHCP Client   Ubuntu   2023-05-11
Ubuntu 23.10 Looks Like It Will Switch To Using Dbus-Broker   Ubuntu   2023-05-02
Ubuntu Talks Up Rust Kernel Programming Potential With Ubuntu 23.04   Ubuntu   2023-04-05
Ubuntu Making Progress On The Lenovo ThinkPad X13s Arm Laptop Support   Ubuntu   2023-02-17
Ubuntu 23.04 & Debian Prepare For Updated GNOME Triple Buffering Optimization   GNOME   2023-02-15
Ubuntu 22.10 Aiming To Support The $16+ Sipeed LicheeRV RISC-V Board   Ubuntu   2022-09-16
NVIDIA Proprietary Driver Causes Last Minute Headache For Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS   Ubuntu   2022-08-31
Ubuntu Isn't Yet Onboard With GNOME's "Device Security" Screen   Ubuntu   2022-08-28
Ubuntu 22.10 To Ship With WebP Image Support Out-Of-The-Box   Ubuntu   2022-08-28
GTK4's Broadway HTML5 Backend Coming Back To Ubuntu, Debian   GNOME   2022-08-22
Ubuntu Linux Preparing systemd-hwe To Ease OEM Hardware Enablement   Ubuntu   2022-08-14
Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS Delayed Due To An OEM Install Issue Leading To Broken Snaps   Ubuntu   2022-08-04
An Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Fix Is Coming For A Very Annoying & Serious APT Problem   Ubuntu   2022-07-14
Ubuntu's Chromium Snap Finally Seeing Progress On Supporting VA-API GPU Acceleration   Ubuntu   2022-07-04
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Has A Change On The Way For Systemd-OOMD Being Kill-Happy With Apps   Ubuntu   2022-06-30
GNOME's Mutter Working On "Max BPC" Handling To Deal With Monitor Issues   GNOME   2022-06-13
Ubuntu 22.10 Looking At Replacing WPA With IWD For Linux Wireless   Ubuntu   2022-06-03
Ubuntu's Chromium Snap Now Allows Enabling Native Wayland Support   Ubuntu   2022-05-13
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Disables 3D Acceleration For Guest VMs With GNOME Boxes / Virt-Manager   Ubuntu   2022-04-24
Ubuntu's Zsys For OpenZFS Linux Installs Sees First Update In A Year   Ubuntu   2022-04-12
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS To Carry GNOME Triple Buffering Support   Ubuntu   2022-03-07
Snapcraft 6.0 Coming To Finally Move From Ubuntu 18.04 To 20.04 LTS Base, Phase Out i386   Ubuntu   2021-09-03
Squeezing More Performance Out Of Intel Tiger Lake Xe Graphics By Using Mesa Git   Intel   2021-07-18
PipeWire 0.3.31 Released With Better JACK Support, More Crash Fixes   PipeWire   2021-06-28
Linux 5.13 To Bring A Huge Speed-Up For MD RAID10 DISCARD Handling   Linux Storage   2021-03-26
Ubuntu Figuring Out Whether To FSCK Its File-Systems At Boot   Ubuntu   2021-03-23
Ubuntu 21.04 Moves Ahead With Enabling LTO Optimizations For Greater Performance   Ubuntu   2021-03-20
Ubuntu 21.04 Will Finally Stop Making New Home Directories World-Readable   Ubuntu   2021-01-13
Ubuntu 21.04 Is The "Hirsute Hippo", Releasing On 22 April   Ubuntu   2020-10-28
Ubuntu 20.10 Adding Active Directory Support To The Installer   Ubuntu   2020-09-07
Ubuntu's Ubiquity Installer Begins Adding ZFS Encryption Support   Ubuntu   2020-06-10
Ubuntu's ZFS Daemon Zsys 0.5 Released   Ubuntu   2020-06-03
Ubuntu 20.10 Installer With ZFS Will Enable TRIM By Default   Ubuntu   2020-05-21
Ubuntu's Server Installer Was Mistakenly Leaking Encrypted Storage Passphrase To Its Log   Ubuntu   2020-05-12
A Fix Is Out For The Intel Ice Lake Performance Drop On Linux With The Dell XPS 7390   Intel   2020-04-24
Ubuntu 20.04's Server Installer Sees Last Minute Work To Better Handle Linux RAID Installs   Ubuntu   2020-04-22
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Adds WireGuard Support   Ubuntu   2020-01-30
Canonical Formulates The 32-Bit Support Strategy For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS   Ubuntu   2019-11-28
Compiz Sees New Update Ahead Of The Holidays - But It's Mainly Bug Fixing   Desktop   2019-11-28
ZFS/Zsys Improvements Are Already Underway For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS   Ubuntu   2019-11-05
Linux 5.5 To Restore Power-Savings For Hybrid Laptops When Not Using The dGPU   Linux Kernel   2019-10-22
Ubuntu 19.10 Doesn't Ship With AMD Navi / Radeon RX 5700 Support Working, But Easy To Enable   Ubuntu   2019-10-21
Ubuntu 19.10's Kernel Ships With A DoS / Arbitrary Code Execution Bug In The IPv6 Code   Ubuntu   2019-10-17
Ubuntu Desktop ZFS Install Support Lands In Ubiquity Installer   Ubuntu   2019-10-05
Ubuntu's ZFS Installation Work Will Continue Into The 20.04 LTS Cycle   Ubuntu   2019-09-24
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS With Latest GNOME Update Now Plays Nicely For 120~144Hz Displays   Ubuntu   2019-06-10
DisplayLink's USB Display Docks Should Work Nicely On Wayland With GNOME 3.32.1+   Hardware   2019-05-29
Ubuntu 19.10 To Bundle NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver Packages As Part Of Its ISO   Ubuntu   2019-05-23
Ubuntu 19.10 Is The "Eoan Ermine" Release   Ubuntu   2019-05-06
Ubuntu 19.10 To Be The Eoan ________   Ubuntu   2019-04-18
ZFS Indications Have Us Already Eager For Ubuntu 19.10   Ubuntu   2019-04-17
Ubuntu Still Working On ZFS Install Support, But Not In Time For 19.04   Ubuntu   2019-04-09
Ubuntu Desktop To Auto-Install Necessary VM Tools/Drivers When Running On VMware   Virtualization   2019-03-14
Enabling AMD Radeon FreeSync On Linux 5.0   Radeon   2019-03-04
Compiz 0.9.14 Released As First Update In Over Two Years   Desktop   2019-02-16
Ubuntu Gets Snappier Video Playback With Chromium Snap For VA-API Acceleration   Ubuntu   2019-01-22
Ubuntu 19.04 Is The "Disco Dingo"   Ubuntu   2018-10-30
Ubuntu 18.10's SDL2 Build Will Ship With Vulkan Support Enabled   Ubuntu   2018-09-20
Catfish Search Utility Joins The Xfce Project   Desktop   2018-07-15
Mesa 18.0.5 Being Prepped For Ubuntu 18.04 While 18.1.1 Going Into X-Updates   Ubuntu   2018-06-13
Ubuntu 18.10 Is Cosmic   Ubuntu   2018-05-01
The New Ubuntu 18.04 Server Installer Is Working Out Nicely   Ubuntu   2018-04-27
Ubuntu 18.04 Will No Longer Do Automatic Suspend By Default Unless On Battery   Ubuntu   2018-04-03
Mesa 18.0 Officially Released With Plenty Of OpenGL & Vulkan Improvements   Mesa   2018-03-27
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Policy Forming For Allowing Snaps By Default   Ubuntu   2018-02-08
MenuLibre 2.1.4 Released For Menu Editing On GNOME/LXDE/Xfce/Unity   Desktop   2018-01-18
Bazaar Version Control System Forked As Breezy   Free Software   2018-01-08
Ubuntu's Reformulated Desktop Was The Talk Of 2017   Ubuntu   2017-12-30
Ubuntu 17.10's Laptop Issue Appears To Be Under Control, Fixable   Ubuntu   2017-12-27
Ubuntu 17.10 Temporarily Pulled Due To A BIOS Corrupting Problem   Ubuntu   2017-12-20
Ubuntu Developers Working Towards The Eventual Demotion Of GTK2   Ubuntu   2017-12-13
Canonical's Mir Patches Are Breaking RADV With Stock Mesa On Ubuntu   Ubuntu   2017-11-07
Mir Moves From Bzr/Launchpad To GitHub, Hopes For More Community Contributions   Ubuntu   2017-11-02
Ubuntu Server's New Subiquity Installer Is Now In Much Better Shape   Ubuntu   2017-11-02
Watch Out Upgrading To Linux 4.14 If You Use AppArmor   Linux Kernel   2017-10-18
Mir 0.28 Arrives As A Late Addition To Ubuntu 17.10   Ubuntu   2017-10-12
Mir 1.0 Is Pulled Back, Now It's Mir 0.28   Ubuntu   2017-10-11
Mir 1.0 Is Ready For Release   Ubuntu   2017-10-10
Mir Continues Pushing Ahead With Wayland Client Support   Wayland   2017-09-26
Mir Now Has Initial Support For Wayland Clients   Ubuntu   2017-09-18
Mozilla Firefox Finally Fixes An Awkward, 11 Year Old Linux Bug   Mozilla   2017-09-05
Mir 1.0 Appears Close, But No Wayland Client Support Yet Nor Vulkan   Ubuntu   2017-08-12
Mir Relicensed To GPLv2 Or GPLv3   Ubuntu   2017-08-09
RadeonSI ARB_bindless_texture Revised, Nearly Ready For Mesa 17.2 Git   Radeon   2017-06-09
Mesa 17.1 Now Available On Ubuntu 16.04/17.04 Via X-Updates   Mesa   2017-05-17
Ubuntu 17.10 Is Artful   Ubuntu   2017-04-20
Mir Developers See The Door, No Commits In A Week   Ubuntu   2017-04-20
Ubuntu Server Team Begins Planning For 17.10   Ubuntu   2017-04-20
Ubuntu 17.04 Drops DRM Support For Old VIA, SiS, R128 GPUs   Ubuntu   2017-04-11
Ubuntu 17.04 Still Hasn't Landed X.Org Server 1.19   Ubuntu   2017-03-25
Ubuntu's Mir Finally Supports Drag & Drop   Ubuntu   2017-03-21
Mir Will Support NVIDIA's EGL Streams Approach   Ubuntu   2017-03-19
There's Been A Bit Of Progress On Vulkan Support In Ubuntu's Mir   Vulkan   2017-03-13
With SHA1 Proven Unsafe, Ubuntu's Mir Switches From SHA1 To SHA256   Ubuntu   2017-02-27
Ubuntu OTA-15 Now Available With Minimal Changes   Ubuntu   2017-02-07
Mir Display Server Lands API Changes, Relicenses Headers To LGPL   Ubuntu   2017-02-02
The Features Coming For Mir 0.26: EDID, New APIs, Client-Side Vsync, Performance   Ubuntu   2017-01-31
Canonical Clarifies Ubuntu Phone State: Nothing Really Until Snap-Based Image Ready   Ubuntu   2017-01-05
What Do You Hope For Ubuntu Phone In 2017? Fed Up User Announces "Ubuntu Crickets"   Ubuntu   2016-12-28
Mir 0.25 Released: Pointer Confinement, Gamma KMS Support, Libmircore   Ubuntu   2016-12-25
Ubuntu OTA-14 Released, Fixes A Number Of Bugs   Ubuntu   2016-12-07
Mesa 12.0.4 Being Prepped For Ubuntu 16.10/16.04   Ubuntu   2016-12-03
Vulkan Support On Mir Still May Be Months Away   Vulkan   2016-11-17
It's Easy To Play With The RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver On Ubuntu 16.04   Mesa   2016-10-12
Ubuntu's Mir May Be Ready For FreeSync / Adaptive-Sync   Ubuntu   2016-08-29
It's Really Worthwhile For AMDGPU Users On Ubuntu 16.04 To Upgrade Their Kernel, Mesa   Radeon   2016-08-25
Mir 0.24 Released, Vulkan Still Not Supported   Ubuntu   2016-08-23
Vulkan Support Still Isn't Ready For Ubuntu's Mir   Ubuntu   2016-07-14
Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak Alpha 1 Released   Ubuntu   2016-07-01
It's Now Easier Trying Out The Latest Git Version Of Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver   Vulkan   2016-06-03
It Looks Like Canonical Will Soon Publish Vulkan Mir Support On Mesa   Ubuntu   2016-05-21
Mir Shells/Compositors Now Can Handle Desktop OpenGL   Ubuntu   2016-05-20
It's Easy Trying Out Intel's OpenGL 4.2 Mesa Driver On Ubuntu 16.04   Intel   2016-05-17
Trying The Padoka PPA For The Latest RadeonSI Experience On Ubuntu 16.04   Radeon   2016-05-12
The Latest Changes For Ubuntu's Mir   Ubuntu   2016-05-01
Vulkan Support Isn't Yet Ready For Mainline Mir   Ubuntu   2016-04-25
Mesa 11.2 Officially Landing In Ubuntu 16.04 LTS   Ubuntu   2016-04-08
It's Easy Now Getting GeForce GTX 900 Graphics Cards Running On Open-Source Nouveau   Nouveau   2016-03-23
Running Intel Haswell-ULT Graphics With Ubuntu 16.04's X-Staging PPA   Intel   2016-03-16
X.Org Server 1.18 Makes It For Ubuntu 16.04   X.Org   2016-03-10
Mir 0.20 Ships With Screencasting To Virtual Output Support   Ubuntu   2016-02-23
Mir 0.19 Brings Fixes, Mir 0.20 Now In Development   Ubuntu   2016-02-03
Ubuntu Developers Release Snapcraft 2.1   Ubuntu   2016-02-03
KDE Neon Is Now Live: Providing Bleeding-Edge KDE Packages For Ubuntu   KDE   2016-01-30
Aethercast: Ubuntu Is Working On Wireless Display Support   Ubuntu   2015-12-25
Easily Trying Out The Latest GIMP 2.9 Git On Ubuntu   GNU   2015-12-24
Daily Builds Of Wayland & Weston For Ubuntu   Wayland   2015-12-08
Mir Gains EGL_KHR_fence_sync Support To Fix Graphics Corruption   Ubuntu   2015-11-29
Playing With Intel Skylake OpenCL On Ubuntu 15.10   Intel   2015-11-28
Mir Gets Automatic Probing For Input Platforms   Ubuntu   2015-11-25
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Will Try To Be Python-3-Only, No Python 2 By Default   Ubuntu   2015-11-04
A Fix For AMD Catalyst On Ubuntu 15.10 Is Coming   AMD   2015-10-27
External Screen Support For Unity 8 On Ubuntu Phone Is Finally Near   Ubuntu   2015-10-24
The Impact Of Switching To Linux 4.3 + Mesa-11.1/LLVM-3.8 On Ubuntu 15.10   AMD   2015-10-20
Ubuntu 15.10 Is Coming This Week & AMD's Catalyst Chokes On Its Kernel   AMD   2015-10-19
Mir 0.17.0 Brings Cookies, MirBlob   Ubuntu   2015-10-16
Mir Continues Cleaning Up Their OpenGL Code, To Support Vulkan In Future   Ubuntu   2015-10-07
Some Steam Controller Pre-Orders Started Shipping   Valve   2015-10-02
Mir 0.16 Brings Smoother/Higher Frame Rates   Ubuntu   2015-09-29
Mir Is Making Measurable Progress On Using Libinput   Ubuntu   2015-09-24
Mir Working On Evdev Device Detection   Ubuntu   2015-09-08
Ubuntu Phone Can Get Toasty & Battery Hungry With Browser Video Playback   Ubuntu   2015-08-21