AMD |
AMD NPU Firmware Upstreamed For The Ryzen AI AMDXDNA Driver Coming In Linux 6.14 | 03 Dec 2024 |
AMD Per-Core Energy Counter Support Slated For Linux 6.14 | 02 Dec 2024 |
Linux Fixes Issue Where Applying AMD Zen1/Zen2 Microcode Updates Could Slow Boot Times | 01 Dec 2024 |
AMD Begins Work Upstreaming More Versal 2 SoC Support For Linux | 27 Nov 2024 |
AMD GFX9.4.4 CDNA Firmware Published, More GFX950 Changes Point To Being MI350 | 26 Nov 2024 |
AMD I3C Controller ACPI Support Added To DesignWare Driver In Linux 6.13 | 26 Nov 2024 |
New AMD Zen 5 Perf Events Going Into Linux 6.13 | 25 Nov 2024 |
AMDXDNA Driver For Ryzen AI Now Ready To Appear In The Linux Kernel | 24 Nov 2024 |
AMD Bus Lock Trap Support Merged For Linux 6.13 | 22 Nov 2024 |
Many AMD CPU Feature Additions Land In Linux 6.13 | 20 Nov 2024 |
More AMD News | 1775 Articles |
Apple |
Basic Support For Many Pre-M1 Apple Devices Coming To Linux 6.13 | 11 Nov 2024 |
Linux Support For Apple's Latest Magic Trackpad USB-C Model | 10 Nov 2024 |
Apple Silicon On Linux Now More Capable For Gaming With Latest Mesa + Steam On FEX | 10 Oct 2024 |
Device Tree Patches Posted For Review To Boot Linux On Apple A7 To A11 Devices | 11 Sep 2024 |
In 2024 Another Attempt To Get The Apple Touch Bar In Good Shape For Linux On x86 Macs | 07 Aug 2024 |
Linux 6.11 EFI Will Fake That It's Booting Apple macOS To Fix Some Dual-GPU Macs | 17 Jul 2024 |
Linux 6.11 Will Make The Keyboard Backlight Work On More Macs | 09 Jul 2024 |
"Honeykrisp" Is A New Vulkan Driver For Apple M1 On Linux - Derived From The NVK Driver | 05 Jun 2024 |
Apple Announces The M4 Chip With Up To 10 CPU Cores | 07 May 2024 |
OpenGL 4.6 + OpenGL ES 3.2 Achieved On Apple M1 With Linux Driver | 14 Feb 2024 |
More Apple News | 128 Articles |
Arch Linux |
Arch Linux Working To Affirm Its Package Sources Under A BSD Zero Clause License | 19 Nov 2024 |
Archinstall 3.0 Overhauls The Text-Based Arch Linux Installer | 17 Nov 2024 |
Arch Linux Powered CachyOS Pulls In THP Shrinker & AMD Cache Optimizer | 10 Nov 2024 |
CachyOS Explores Optimizing Its Kernel With AutoFDO | 04 Nov 2024 |
Manjaro 24.1 Released With GNOME 46, KDE Plasma 6.1 & Xfce 4.18 Desktop Options | 02 Oct 2024 |
CachyOS Optimizing More Packages With PGO For Up To ~10% Better Performance | 29 Sep 2024 |
Valve Helping Arch Linux With Build Service Infrastructure & Secure Signing Enclave | 28 Sep 2024 |
Upstream Linux 6.12 Makes It Easier To Build A Debug Kernel For Arch Linux | 27 Sep 2024 |
Archinstall 2.8.3 Arch Linux Installer Adds COSMIC Desktop Option | 25 Aug 2024 |
Arch Linux Based CachyOS Switches To Open NVIDIA Kernel Modules, COSMIC Desktop Option | 18 Aug 2024 |
More Arch Linux News | 139 Articles |
Arm |
Linux 6.13 For ARM64 Brings GCS Support & Protected VMs With Arm CCA | 18 Nov 2024 |
Nice Performance Gains With SVT-AV1 2.3 Encoding On The System76 Thelio Astra | 03 Nov 2024 |
Snapdragon X1 Elite CPUFreq Support Revised In Latest Linux Patches | 03 Nov 2024 |
Linux Support Continues For The Now-Canceled Snapdragon X Elite Dev Kit For Windows | 25 Oct 2024 |
ARM64 SMT Control Patches Updated For The Linux Kernel | 15 Oct 2024 |
Arm's Guarded Control Stack "GCS" Support Looks Like It Will Be Ready For Linux 6.13 | 08 Oct 2024 |
Linux 6.12 Patches Neoverse-N3 & Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 For Speculative SSBS | 05 Oct 2024 |
Giga Computing Announces GA On Their AmpereOne Servers | 03 Oct 2024 |
Initial Raspberry Pi 5 Support & More Snapdragon X1 Laptops Submitted For Linux 6.12 | 16 Sep 2024 |
Linux 6.12 To Support Arm's Permission Overlay Extension | 16 Sep 2024 |
More Arm News | 347 Articles |
BSD |
FreeBSD 14.2 Released With OpenZFS Upgrade, Installer Improvements | 02 Dec 2024 |
FreeBSD 14.2-RC1 Brings Install Image Improvements | 23 Nov 2024 |
FreeBSD 14.2 Beta 3 Released - FreeBSD Now Publishing OCI Container Images | 18 Nov 2024 |
FreeBSD Reduces OS Support From 5 To 4 Years, Continues Collaboration With AMD | 07 Nov 2024 |
FreeBSD 14.2 Beta 1 Released To Work Toward This Next Release | 02 Nov 2024 |
OpenBSD 7.6 Released With AVX-512, Initial Support For Snapdragon X Elite SoCs | 07 Oct 2024 |
FreeBSD To See Better Laptop Support With Investment Backed By AMD, Dell & Framework | 28 Sep 2024 |
FreeBSD 13.4 Released With Many Software Updates & Driver Improvements | 17 Sep 2024 |
FreeBSD 15 Might Drop Its AGP Driver For Old Graphics Cards | 05 Sep 2024 |
FreeBSD 13.4-RC2 Brings Improvements For AMD Phoenix SoCs | 01 Sep 2024 |
More BSD News | 845 Articles |
Clear Linux |
Clear Linux Will Now Handle Up To 512 CPU Cores / vCPUs | 28 Dec 2022 |
Intel's Clear Linux Taps -O3 For Its Kernel Builds | 12 Aug 2022 |
Clear Linux Container Performance Continues Showing Sizable Gains | 30 Jan 2022 |
Using Distrobox To Augment The Package Selection On Clear Linux, Other Distributions | 09 Jan 2022 |
Clear Linux Preparing To Move To GNOME 3.36, Dropping Their Desktop Customizations | 26 Apr 2020 |
Intel's Clear Linux To Divest From The Desktop, Focus On Server + Cloud Workloads | 23 Apr 2020 |
Chrome, Skype, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, VSCode Now Unofficially Available For Clear Linux | 03 Apr 2020 |
Is Clear Linux Just A Toy Distribution By Intel? | 18 Mar 2020 |
Intel's Clear Linux Has Code In Place To Begin Handling Proprietary Packages Like Chrome & Steam | 13 Mar 2020 |
F2FS Root File-System Support For Clear Linux Appears To Be Coming | 14 Feb 2020 |
More Clear Linux News | 93 Articles |
Coreboot |
9elements Takes Over Intel 1st Gen Xeon Scalable "Skylake" Support Within Coreboot | 23 Nov 2024 |
Coreboot Issues Rebuttal To Recent Laptop Vendor Controversy | 29 Oct 2024 |
Laptop Vendor MALIBAL Suggests Not Supporting Coreboot | 18 Oct 2024 |
Coreboot 24.08 Released With 31 New Motherboards, Initial Intel Panther Lake Support | 03 Sep 2024 |
Chrome's Coreboot Firmware Adapting For 64-bit Boot, Prepping For Intel Panther Lake | 29 Jun 2024 |
Coreboot To Be Shown Today With An Intel Meteor Lake Laptop | 13 Jun 2024 |
Coreboot 24.05 Released With 25 More Platforms - Including The Framework 13 AMD | 23 May 2024 |
NovaCustom Announces "Fastest Coreboot Laptops In The World" Built On Intel Core Ultra | 03 Apr 2024 |
Coreboot 24.02 Released - Supporting Three New Motherboards | 01 Mar 2024 |
Coreboot-Based Dasharo Firmware Updated For MSI Z690/Z790 Motherboards | 22 Jan 2024 |
More Coreboot News | 279 Articles |
Debian |
Debian 13 Desktop Theme Finalized Ahead Of Next Year's Release | 04 Dec 2024 |
Debian 13 Is Quickly Approaching - Desktop Artwork Voting Now Underway | 19 Nov 2024 |
Debcow Optimizing Debian Packages For Copy-On-Write File-Systems | 10 Nov 2024 |
Debian Developers Figuring Out Plan For Removing More Unmaintained Packages | 03 Sep 2024 |
Debian 12.7 Released With Many Security Updates | 31 Aug 2024 |
Debian Orphans Bcachefs-Tools: "Impossible To Maintain In Debian Stable" | 29 Aug 2024 |
Debian General Resolution Hopes To Move Useful "tag2upload" Forward | 04 Jul 2024 |
Debian 12.6 Released With Many Security Updates & Bug Fixes | 30 Jun 2024 |
Debian Seeing Work To Support systemd-boot | 03 Jun 2024 |
Debian Has Yet To Establish Firm Stance On The Use Of AI | 01 Jun 2024 |
More Debian News | 426 Articles |
Desktop |
VTE-Based Linux Terminals Now Support A Nice Feature Led By Windows Terminal | 04 Dec 2024 |
Xfce 4.20 Pre2 Released For Testing | 01 Dec 2024 |
Debian 12.8 Released With Many Bug Fixes & Security Updates | 09 Nov 2024 |
LXQt 2.1 Released With New Wayland Session Component | 05 Nov 2024 |
Xfce 4.20 Pre1 Pre-Release Published For Testing | 02 Nov 2024 |
COSMIC Desktop Alpha 3 Released With More Enhancements | 31 Oct 2024 |
Trinity TDE R14.1.3 Lets Linux Users Still Enjoy The KDE 3.5 Desktop Experience | 28 Oct 2024 |
Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Release In December | 02 Oct 2024 |
System76 Releases COSMIC Alpha 2 Desktop Packages | 26 Sep 2024 |
System76 Releases COSMIC Alpha Desktop - It's Looking Quite Interesting | 08 Aug 2024 |
More Desktop News | 474 Articles |
Fedora |
Fedora 42 Looking To Package Intel SGX Software Stack | 04 Dec 2024 |
Fedora 42 Aims To Enhance The Windows Subsystem For Linux Experience | 03 Dec 2024 |
Fedora Stakeholders Debate Concerns Over "Karma" Term For Their Updates System | 11 Nov 2024 |
Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted To Same Tier As GNOME-Based Fedora Workstation | 08 Nov 2024 |
Fedora Stakeholders Debate Idea Of "-O3" Optimized Packages | 31 Oct 2024 |
Fedora 41 Releases Today With Many Shiny New Features | 29 Oct 2024 |
Suggestion Raised For Using PGO + LLVM BOLT To Optimize More Fedora Packages | 22 Oct 2024 |
Fedora 41 Has Working Intel IPU6 Web Camera Support With Modern Laptops | 05 Oct 2024 |
Fedora's Kernel Build Now Enabling Sched_Ext Support | 03 Oct 2024 |
Fedora 41 Beta Released With Many Leading-Edge Linux Enhancements | 17 Sep 2024 |
More Fedora News | 1238 Articles |
Free Software |
Llamafile 0.8.17 Brings New Web UI For This Easy-To-Distribute AI LLM Framework | 02 Dec 2024 |
Zrythm 1.0 Released For Powerful Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation | 21 Nov 2024 |
Blender 4.3 Released With AMD HIP-RT Ray-Tracing On Linux, Experimental Vulkan Backend | 19 Nov 2024 |
FreeCAD 1.0 Released With UI/UX Improvements, New Materials System | 19 Nov 2024 |
Servo Browser Engine Seeing Many Performance Optimizations & SubtleCrypto API | 11 Nov 2024 |
GIMP 3.2 Will Aim To Be Out Within One Year Of GIMP 3.0 | 06 Nov 2024 |
cURL 8.11 Released With Official WebSockets Support | 06 Nov 2024 |
GIMP 3.0 RC1 Released For Testing | 05 Nov 2024 |
Cloudflare's Pingora 0.4 Rust Framework Released With Experimental Windows Support | 02 Nov 2024 |
Academy Software Foundation Releases OpenVDB 12.0 Under New License | 01 Nov 2024 |
More Free Software News | 2045 Articles |
GNOME |
Resources System Monitoring App For GNOME Now Displays NPU Usage | 30 Nov 2024 |
GNOME Mutter Switches To High Priority KMS Thread To Avoid Crashes | 15 Nov 2024 |
GNOME Mutter Lands Improved GPU Selection Logic For Laptops | 12 Nov 2024 |
GNOME Making Progress On Full-Featured USB Portal For Flatpaks | 19 Oct 2024 |
GNOME Triple Buffering May Need To Be Re-Engineered - Helping NVIDIA Performance | 09 Oct 2024 |
GNOME Foundation Announces Cost Cutting Measures Due To Budget Woes | 07 Oct 2024 |
WebKitGTK 2.46 Uses Skia Rather Than Cairo, More CPU/GPU Optimizations To Come | 01 Oct 2024 |
GNOME 47 Released With Accent Colors, Improved Apps & More | 18 Sep 2024 |
GNOME Mutter Merges XDG Session Management Wayland Protocol | 14 Sep 2024 |
Casilda Is A New Project As A GTK4 Wayland Compositor Widget | 14 Sep 2024 |
More GNOME News | 1315 Articles |
GNU |
GCC 15 Ends Support For Altera Nios II Embedded Processors | 25 Nov 2024 |
GNU Linux-libre 6.12-gnu Continues Dealing With More Blobs In The Kernel | 19 Nov 2024 |
GCC 15 Compiler Development Shifts From Features To Bug Fixing | 18 Nov 2024 |
GCC 15 Moves C Default Language Version To C23 | 16 Nov 2024 |
GCC 15 Adds Option For Arm Guarded Control Stack "GCS" Code Generation | 15 Nov 2024 |
GNU C Library Merges Support for getrandom vDSO | 13 Nov 2024 |
Fujitsu Monaka CPU Target Added To GCC 15 Compiler | 04 Nov 2024 |
"100% Free" GNU Boot Discovers Again They Have Been Shipping Non-Free Code | 19 Oct 2024 |
GCC Preparing To Set C23 "GNU23" As Default C Language Version | 16 Oct 2024 |
GCC 15 "Stage 1" Feature Development Ending Next Month | 14 Oct 2024 |
More GNU News | 1112 Articles |
Google |
Google Chrome/Chromium Lands linux_drm_syncobj_v1 For Wayland Explicit Sync | 01 Nov 2024 |
Chrome Adds Support For FreeDesktop Secret Service & Better Wayland Window Dragging | 13 Sep 2024 |
Android 15 Released To The Android Open-Source Project | 03 Sep 2024 |
Google Increases AVIF Image Format Support With Google Search Support | 03 Sep 2024 |
Google Making Progress On 16KB Page Size For Android | 23 Aug 2024 |
Chrome 128 Released With Isolated Web Apps, Standardized CSS Zoom | 21 Aug 2024 |
Google's AutoFDO & Propeller For The Linux Kernel Helps With Up To 5~10% Faster Performance | 30 Jul 2024 |
Linux 6.11 Adding Fan Speed / Temperature & Charge Control Drivers For The ChromeOS EC | 15 Jul 2024 |
Chrome 127 Should Provide PipeWire Camera Capture Support | 28 May 2024 |
Google Announces Axion ARM-Based CPUs For The Cloud | 09 Apr 2024 |
More Google News | 576 Articles |
Hardware |
Improved USB4 Debugging Support With Linux 6.13 | 29 Nov 2024 |
FSF "Excited" For 802.11n WiFi USB Adapter Costing €50 In 2024 Holiday Shopping Guide | 26 Nov 2024 |
Granular Power Savings Patches Posted For Common "uvcvideo" Linux Webcam Driver | 26 Nov 2024 |
Linux 6.13 RDMA Changes Headlined By NVIDIA's New Data Placement Ordering Feature | 26 Nov 2024 |
Linux 6.13 PCI: AMD Enables PCIe TPH For Zen 5 Servers, Intel Adds PCIe Cooling Driver | 25 Nov 2024 |
AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer Driver Headlines The x86 Platform Enhancements In Linux 6.13 | 22 Nov 2024 |
Linux 6.13 SoC Updates Land With Initial Support For Many Older Apple Devices | 21 Nov 2024 |
Linux 6.13 EDAC Preps For Panther Lake H & Missing Support For Old Kabylake S CPUs | 21 Nov 2024 |
Linux 6.13 Adds Support For Ultra Capacity SD Cards "SDUC" For 2TB To 128TB Storage | 20 Nov 2024 |
Corsair Void Headset & Kysona M600 Lightweight Gaming Mouse Support In Linux 6.13 | 20 Nov 2024 |
More Hardware News | 2275 Articles |
Intel |
Intel Compute Runtime 24.45.31740.9 Released Ahead Of The Arc B580 "Battlemage" Launch | 04 Dec 2024 |
Intel ANV Driver Improves Vulkan Image Compression Going Back To Tigerlake | 04 Dec 2024 |
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Retires | 02 Dec 2024 |
Turbostat Utility Lands New Features With Linux 6.13 | 01 Dec 2024 |
Intel Graphics Compiler Removes Support For Ice Lake & Older | 28 Nov 2024 |
Linux 6.13 Enhances Interactions Between Intel TDX Guests & VMMs | 22 Nov 2024 |
Intel NPU Library v1.4 Adds Turbo Mode & Tensor Operations | 22 Nov 2024 |
OpenVINO 2024.5 Released With More Intel Optimizations, Better LLM/GenAI Coverage | 20 Nov 2024 |
Intel SNC6 Sub-NUMA Clustering Support With Linux 6.13 | 19 Nov 2024 |
Linux 6.13 To Tune Intel Granite Rapids For Better Performance Out-Of-The-Box | 14 Nov 2024 |
More Intel News | 3124 Articles |
KDE |
KDE Ends November With More KWin Fixes & Other Polishing Ahead Of Plasma 6.3 | 30 Nov 2024 |
KDE Plasma 6.3 Sees More Feature Work, One More Crash Fix For KWin | 23 Nov 2024 |
KDE Developers Spent The Week Fixing Bugs & Polishing | 16 Nov 2024 |
KDE's Info Center Now Shows Multi-GPU Information, Plasma 6.3 Bringing UI Refinements | 09 Nov 2024 |
KDE Will Nicely Notify You When Apps Are Being Killed Due To Out-Of-Memory | 02 Nov 2024 |
KDE Plasma 6.3 To Improve XWayland Window Resizing | 28 Oct 2024 |
KDE Fixing Many Bugs, Prepping New Plasma 6.3 Features | 26 Oct 2024 |
KDE Developers Wrapping Up Fallout From Plasma 6.2, Spinning More Plasma 6.3 Features | 19 Oct 2024 |
KDE Developers Fixing Initial Bugs From Plasma 6.2 | 12 Oct 2024 |
KDE Plasma 6.2 Released With More Desktop Polishing | 08 Oct 2024 |
More KDE News | 1351 Articles |
LibreOffice |
LibreOffice 25.2 Alpha 1 Open-Source Office Suite Released | 29 Nov 2024 |
LibreOffice 24.8 Delivers Many Advancements To This Free Software Office Suite | 22 Aug 2024 |
LibreOffice 24.8 Beta Now Available For Testing This Free Software Office Suite | 14 Jun 2024 |
LibreOffice 24.8 Alpha 1 Open-Source Office Suite Released | 21 May 2024 |
LibreOffice Enables Multi-Threaded 3D Rendering | 22 Mar 2024 |
LibreOffice 24.2 Released For This Leading Free Software Office Suite | 31 Jan 2024 |
LibreOffice 24.2 RC1 Free Software Office Suite Released | 09 Jan 2024 |
LibreOffice 24.2 Beta Released For Testing This Free Software Office Suite | 13 Dec 2023 |
LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha 1 Builds Available For Testing | 30 Nov 2023 |
LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha 1 Brings Many New Features | 23 Nov 2023 |
More LibreOffice News | 188 Articles |
Linux Events |
UXL Foundation Hosting Virtual oneAPI DevSummit 2024 Next Week | 03 Oct 2024 |
Kernel Recipes 2024 Slides & Videos Posted | 01 Oct 2024 |
Open-Source Firmware Conference 2022 Slides & Videos Online | 05 Oct 2022 |
Linux Plumbers Conference 2022 Livestream | 12 Sep 2022 |
FOSDEM 2022 Is Happening Online This Weekend | 05 Feb 2022 |
RISC-V Summit 2021 - High Performance Processors, Other Interesting Talks | 09 Dec 2021 |
Linux Foundation Expects Revenues Of $177 Million This Year | 07 Dec 2021 |
DebConf21 Kicks Off Online For Annual Debian Conference | 24 Aug 2021 |
IWOCL + SYCLcon 2021 Slides/Videos Published For Lots Of OpenCL, SYCL Technical Talks | 29 Apr 2021 |
FOSDEM Online 2021 Is Happening This Weekend | 06 Feb 2021 |
More Linux Events News | 84 Articles |
Linux Gaming |
SDL Introducing Async I/O APIs - Backed By IO_uring On Linux | 04 Dec 2024 |
Lutris 0.5.18 Linux Game Manager Brings Many Improvements | 01 Dec 2024 |
DXVK 2.5.1 Released To Fix A Major Regression & Other Bugs | 18 Nov 2024 |
SDL3 Improves Steam Controller Support, Now Enabled By Default | 15 Nov 2024 |
Unvanquished 0.55 Released With Big Performance Optimizations For Its Engine | 21 Oct 2024 |
OGRE-Next 3.0 Released For This Open-Source 3D Engine | 17 Oct 2024 |
Unvanquished Working On OpenGL 4.6 Renderer Support | 15 Oct 2024 |
Open3D Engine "O3DE" 24.09 Released With Performance Improvements & More | 09 Oct 2024 |
FEX 2410 Released With New JIT Optimizations | 07 Oct 2024 |
SDL 3.1.3 Stable ABI Preview Release | 05 Oct 2024 |
More Linux Gaming News | 2007 Articles |
Linux Kernel |
New Linux Patches Cleanup Code For Running x86 32-bit Kernels On x86_64 CPUs | 04 Dec 2024 |
Linux 6.13-rc1 Released With Many New Features | 01 Dec 2024 |
NVIDIA's New Linux Patches For GPU Direct RDMA For Device-Private Pages | 01 Dec 2024 |
Clang AutoFDO + Propeller Optimization Support Merged For Linux 6.13 | 30 Nov 2024 |
Linux 6.13 Hits A "Tipping Point" With More Rust Drivers Expected Soon | 30 Nov 2024 |
Clang AutoFDO & Propeller Optimization Support Sent In For Linux 6.13: 5~10% More Performance | 30 Nov 2024 |
Linux 6.13 Staging Clears Out 107k Lines Of Code From Old & Unmaintained Drivers | 29 Nov 2024 |
Linux Kernel Performance Bottlenecks Spotted By Mold Developer | 28 Nov 2024 |
Microsoft Makes An Interesting Improvement To Kernel Modules With Linux 6.13 | 27 Nov 2024 |
LoongArch Wires Up Real-Time Kernel Support & Lazy Preemption | 27 Nov 2024 |
More Linux Kernel News | 3678 Articles |
Linux Networking |
OpenVPN DCO Looks Like It Might Be Ready For Linux 6.14 To Speed-Up VPN Performance | 04 Dec 2024 |
Many Networking Changes In Linux 6.13 - One Line Of Code Helping WireGuard Performance | 20 Nov 2024 |
Intel IWD 3.0 Wireless Daemon Released For Linux Systems | 21 Oct 2024 |
Linux 6.12-rc3 Released With Some Late NTFS Driver Enhancements | 13 Oct 2024 |
NetworkManager 1.50 Released - Now Ensures Offensive Terms Don't Appear In Settings | 03 Oct 2024 |
OpenVPN Kernel Driver Patches Updated For Improving VPN Performance | 02 Oct 2024 |
Device Memory TCP Included With The Networking Changes For Linux 6.12 | 17 Sep 2024 |
New Rust PHY Network Driver To Be Merged In Linux 6.12 | 02 Sep 2024 |
WPA_Supplicant 2.11 Released With WiFi 7 EHT & Many Other New Features | 22 Jul 2024 |
Linux 6.11 Sees New Wired & Wireless Networking Hardware Support | 17 Jul 2024 |
More Linux Networking News | 271 Articles |
Linux Security |
New Linux Patch Lets You Force CPU Bugs/Mitigations Even When Not Vulnerable | 19 Nov 2024 |
Linux To Allow Disabling TPM PCR Integrity Protection Due To Performance Bottleneck | 14 Nov 2024 |
OpenPaX Announced As "Open-Source Alternative To GrSecurity" With Free Kernel Patch | 30 Oct 2024 |
Unauthenticated RCE Flaw With CVSS 9.9 Rating For Linux Systems Affects CUPS | 26 Sep 2024 |
Landlock Sandboxing Now Supports More Controls Around Unix Sockets | 24 Sep 2024 |
Linux 6.12 Adds Build Options For Greater Control Over CPU Security Mitigations | 18 Sep 2024 |
Linux 6.12 Landing Integrity Policy Enforcement "IPE" Module | 18 Sep 2024 |
AMD Engineer Proposes "Attack Vector Controls" To Rethink CPU Security Mitigation Handling | 13 Sep 2024 |
Linux 6.12 To Add New Build Options For More Fine-Grained Control Over CPU Mitigations | 05 Aug 2024 |
Linux's Landlock Sandboxed Apps Could Remove Restrictions On Itself | 28 Jul 2024 |
More Linux Security News | 304 Articles |
Linux Storage |
NFS Server Scalability Improvement & Other NFS Enhancements For Linux 6.13 | 28 Nov 2024 |
IO_uring Enjoys Hybrid IO Polling & Ring Resizing With Linux 6.13 | 28 Nov 2024 |
exFAT Driver With Linux 6.13 Reduces FAT Chain Traversal For Better Performance | 27 Nov 2024 |
F2FS Brings Interesting "Device Aliasing" Feature To Linux 6.13 To Carve Out Partition | 26 Nov 2024 |
FUSE Enhancements Submitted For Linux 6.13 | 25 Nov 2024 |
Large Folio Patches For EXT4 Show Some Nice Performance Gains | 25 Nov 2024 |
Linux CoC Announces Decision Following Recent Bcachefs Drama | 22 Nov 2024 |
XFS With Linux 6.13 Sees Major Rework To Real-Time Volumes | 22 Nov 2024 |
Nice File Performance Optimizations Coming With Linux 6.13 | 21 Nov 2024 |
ReiserFS Has Been Deleted From The Linux Kernel | 21 Nov 2024 |
More Linux Storage News | 1039 Articles |
LLVM |
LLVM Merges Support The For Tenstorrent TT-Ascalon-D8 RISC-V CPU | 28 Nov 2024 |
AMD Begins Adding "GFX950" GPU Support To LLVM For Next CDNA Accelerator | 18 Nov 2024 |
LLVM Clang 20 Merges Intel Diamond Rapids Support With "-march=diamondrapids" | 18 Nov 2024 |
Red Hat Engineer Nikita Popov Now The Lead Maintainer For LLVM | 17 Oct 2024 |
LLVM's Modern "Flang-New" Fortran Compiler Renamed To "Flang" | 15 Oct 2024 |
LLVM 19.1 Released With C++17 Support "Complete", More C & C++ Features | 17 Sep 2024 |
LLVM Makes Progress On Using ClangIR To Compile GPU Kernels | 11 Sep 2024 |
LLVM's Modern Fortran Compiler "Flang-New" Is Looking Good | 28 Aug 2024 |
LLVM OpenMP Runtime Lands Improvements For Intel Meteor Lake | 05 Aug 2024 |
LLVM/Clang 20 Compiler Begins Seeing Intel AVX10.2 Support | 05 Aug 2024 |
More LLVM News | 761 Articles |
LVFS |
Fwupd 2.0 Released To Drop Legacy & Deprecated Bits, Adds New Features | 04 Oct 2024 |
Fwupd 1.9.25 Supports Firmware Updates For A Few More Devices Under Linux | 25 Sep 2024 |
Fwupd 1.9.24 Adds Support For More Mediatek & Parade Tech Devices | 22 Aug 2024 |
Over 9 Years LVFS Has Served Over 110 Million Firmware Files To Linux Systems | 21 Aug 2024 |
Fwupd 1.9.22 Released With Framework SD Expansion Card & Raspberry Pi 5 Support | 26 Jul 2024 |
Fwupd 1.9.21 Released With Synaptics Carrera & Wacom Movink Support | 13 Jun 2024 |
Fwupd 1.9.20 Released With Updated FPC Fingerprint Reader Support | 20 May 2024 |
Fwupd 1.9.19 Supports New Docks, Incorporates More Fixes | 03 May 2024 |
Fwupd 1.9.17 Adds Firmware Updating For ASUS DC201 & Realtek RTS541x | 22 Apr 2024 |
Fwupd 1.9.16 Adds Support For More USB Docks & Qualcomm Devices | 05 Apr 2024 |
More LVFS News | 93 Articles |
Mesa |
NVK, RADV, & Other Mesa Drivers Ready With Launch Day Vulkan 1.4 Support | 02 Dec 2024 |
Vulkan Video Now Enabled By Default For Radeon VCN2/VCN3 Hardware On Linux | 02 Dec 2024 |
Imagination Lands Big PowerVR Compiler Update In Mesa 25.0 | 02 Dec 2024 |
Mesa 24.3 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements | 21 Nov 2024 |
Mesa 24.3-rc2 Brings Fixes For Intel & NVK Drivers | 13 Nov 2024 |
Mesa 25.0 Clover OpenCL Drops Support For NIR Drivers | 12 Nov 2024 |
Mesa 24.3-rc1 Released With Big Improvements For AMD Radeon & Intel Graphics | 08 Nov 2024 |
Mesa 24.3 Code Branched, Mesa 25.0 Enters Development | 08 Nov 2024 |
Mesa 24.3 Merges Vulkan FIFO Support On Wayland | 07 Nov 2024 |
Apple Silicon OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers Updated This Week For Mesa 24.3 | 03 Nov 2024 |
More Mesa News | 2469 Articles |
Microsoft |
Microsoft Continues "Demikernel" Development LibOS For Kernel-Bypass I/O | 23 Nov 2024 |
Microsoft Announces Open-Source Hyperlight For Embedded VMM Within Linux/Windows Apps | 11 Nov 2024 |
Microsoft Azure Linux 3.0 Update Pushes Additions For Intel, AMD & Arm | 09 Nov 2024 |
Linux Use On Microsoft Azure Crosses 60%, AlmaLinux Now An Endorsed Distro | 29 Oct 2024 |
Microsoft Open-Sources Rust-Written OpenHCL For Running Confidential Intel/AMD VMs | 17 Oct 2024 |
Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0 Adds Valkey, Enables Other New Features | 16 Oct 2024 |
Microsoft's Azure Linux 2.0 Updated With Dozens Of Security Fixes | 13 Oct 2024 |
Microsoft Continues Working On Hyper-V Dom0 Support For Linux | 09 Oct 2024 |
Updated DeviceTree Gets Microsoft Windows Dev Kit 2023 Booting Linux | 22 Sep 2024 |
Wow! Microsoft DirectX Adopting SPIR-V Moving Forward | 19 Sep 2024 |
More Microsoft News | 369 Articles |
Mozilla |
Mozilla Firefox Switches To .tar.xz For Linux Packaging | 28 Nov 2024 |
Firefox 132 Ready With Certificate Compression, Accelerated SVG Filter Primitives | 28 Oct 2024 |
Servo Browser Adds Android Downloads, Improved Tabbing & More | 04 Oct 2024 |
Firefox 131 Released With Tab Preview & CHIPS Support | 01 Oct 2024 |
Servo Browser Engine Restores Firefox Devtools Support | 23 Sep 2024 |
Mozilla Is Interested In A Rust JPEG-XL Decoder For Firefox & Google Might Develop It | 04 Sep 2024 |
Firefox 130 Now Available With WebCodecs API Enabled On The Desktop | 02 Sep 2024 |
Mozilla Developing Whisperfile For Local Audio-To-Text Translation | 22 Aug 2024 |
Firefox 129 Now Available With HTTPS Replacing HTTP As Default Protocol | 05 Aug 2024 |
Thunderbird 128 Now Available With More Rust Code & UI/UX Enhancements | 12 Jul 2024 |
More Mozilla News | 434 Articles |
Multimedia |
FFmpeg Git Continues Landing A Number Of Vulkan Video Enhancements | 29 Nov 2024 |
Linux 6.13 SoundWire Preps DisCo 2.0 Support | 27 Nov 2024 |
New Sound Hardware Support In Linux 6.13 | 22 Nov 2024 |
Intel Lands VVC VA-API Hardware Decoding Into FFmpeg | 02 Nov 2024 |
SVT-AV1 2.3 Brings More Performance Improvements: AVX-512 & LTO By Default, More Tuning | 31 Oct 2024 |
FFmpeg 7.1 Released With VVC Decoder Promoted To Stable, Vulkan H.264/H.265 Encode | 30 Sep 2024 |
Sound Open Firmware 2.11 Adds AMD ACP 7.0 Strix Point & Intel Panther Lake Support | 27 Sep 2024 |
Linux 6.12 Adding HDMI CEC Driver For A 4K HDMI Splitter/Amplifier | 23 Sep 2024 |
FFmpeg Merges Implicit DRM Synchronization For Vulkan | 23 Sep 2024 |
H.264/H.265 Vulkan Encoder Support Merged Into FFmpeg | 18 Sep 2024 |
More Multimedia News | 638 Articles |
Nouveau |
Mesa NVK Vulkan Driver Adds VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate Support | 13 Oct 2024 |
Nouveau With NVK Vulkan Driver Running More Games, Increasing Feature Set | 11 Oct 2024 |
More NVK Driver Improvements Merged For Mesa 24.3 | 18 Aug 2024 |
NVIDIA Exploring Ways To Better Support An Upstream Kernel Driver | 13 Jun 2024 |
Nouveau DRM_Panic Being Worked On For Linux "Blue Screen Of Death" Type Situations | 26 May 2024 |
RFC Patches Posted For Rust-Written NVIDIA "Nova" GPU Driver | 20 May 2024 |
NVK Vulkan Driver Lands DRM Format Modifiers Support | 14 May 2024 |
Valve Working On Explicit Sync Support For "NVK" NVIDIA Vulkan Driver | 04 May 2024 |
NVK Vulkan Driver Adds Implicit Pipeline Caching To Boost DXVK Performance | 23 Apr 2024 |
Former Nouveau Lead Developer Joins NVIDIA, Continues Working On Open-Source Driver | 17 Apr 2024 |
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NVIDIA |
NVIDIA RTX Remix 0.6 Brings CPU/GPU Performance Improvements | 03 Dec 2024 |
NVIDIA MLX5 Introducing Data Direct Placement "DDP" In Linux 6.13 For Boosting Bandwidth | 13 Nov 2024 |
NVIDIA Outlines Current Wayland Limitations & Upcoming Driver Features | 09 Nov 2024 |
NVIDIA Shipping Around One Billion RISC-V Cores In Their 2024 Products | 24 Oct 2024 |
NVIDIA R565 Linux Driver Beta Brings Improvements For Wayland, DMA-BUF & VKD3D | 22 Oct 2024 |
NVIDIA Posts Linux Patches For GPU Direct RDMA For Device Private Pages | 15 Oct 2024 |
NVIDIA Is Helping To Improve Linux's Dynamic Display Mux Support For Laptops | 14 Oct 2024 |
NVIDIA Shares Wayland Driver Roadmap, Encourages Vulkan Wayland Compositors | 10 Oct 2024 |
NVGRACE-GPU VFIO Driver Preparing For NVIDIA Grace Blackwell | 07 Oct 2024 |
NVIDIA Mellanox Linux Driver Spearheads Multi-Path PCI As "A Sign Of Things To Come" | 24 Sep 2024 |
More NVIDIA News | 1088 Articles |
Operating Systems |
AMD Continues Backing AlmaLinux For Community Enterprise Linux OS | 13 Nov 2024 |
Haiku Enjoyed A Busy October Implementing More Features | 07 Nov 2024 |
Manjaro Linux Working On "Manjaro Data Donor" As New Data Collection Tool | 04 Nov 2024 |
Rust-Based Redox OS Gets RISC-V Working, Also Now Booting On The Raspberry Pi 4 | 03 Nov 2024 |
Linux Mint Working On Night Light For Cinnamon, Collaborating With Framework Computer | 03 Nov 2024 |
Genode-Based Sculpt OS 24.10 Introduces Multi-Monitor Support | 02 Nov 2024 |
Gentoo Linux Touts DTrace 2.0 Support | 23 Oct 2024 |
Cloudflare Continues To Praise Open-Source OpenBMC | 23 Oct 2024 |
AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 Now Available For Testing, Derived From CentOS Stream 10 | 22 Oct 2024 |
Solus 4.6 Released With Continued Merged Usr Migration, Experimental Software Centers | 15 Oct 2024 |
More Operating Systems News | 1058 Articles |
Oracle |
Oracle's UEK-Next Moves To Linux 6.10, Patches In sched_ext | 21 Sep 2024 |
Oracle Rewrites Libresource For Standardized API Of Linux System Resource Information | 06 Sep 2024 |
Oracle Updates TrenchBoot For The Linux Kernel To Advance Boot Security & Integrity | 27 Aug 2024 |
Oracle Rolls Out UEK-Next Kernel Based On Linux 6.9 | 03 Jul 2024 |
Oracle Releases DTrace 2.0.0-1.14 For Linux Systems | 08 Apr 2024 |
GraalVM Updated For Java/JDK 21, Great Performance Results | 20 Sep 2023 |
MySQL 8.1 Released With More JSON Additions, Other Changes | 18 Jul 2023 |
Oracle Intends To Keep Trying To Make Oracle Linux Compatible With RHEL | 10 Jul 2023 |
Oracle Developing "bpftune" For BPF-Based, Automatic Tuning Of Linux Systems | 28 Jun 2023 |
Oracle's GraalVM Native Image Now Defaults To x86-64-v3, IGV Open-Sourced | 14 Jun 2023 |
More Oracle News | 288 Articles |
Phoronix |
Apple M4, More AMD Zen 5 Benchmarks & Linux Kernel Drama From November | 01 Dec 2024 |
Phoronix Black Friday Reminders | 29 Nov 2024 |
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Intel Arrow Lake, AMD EPYC Turin & Linux Kernel Drama Made For An Interesting October | 01 Nov 2024 |
Improvements To The Ad Experience | 13 Oct 2024 |
Granite Rapids, AmpereOne & PREEMPT_RT Landing Made For An Exciting September | 01 Oct 2024 |
AMD Ryzen 9000 Series & Linux Kernel Drama Made For An Exciting August | 01 Sep 2024 |
Linux 6.11, Ryzen AI 300 Series, Open-Source NVIDIA Kernel Driver & Other July News | 01 Aug 2024 |
Linux BSOD, NVIDIA Linux Excitement, Intel Sierra Forest & Other June Highlights | 01 Jul 2024 |
Kernel Optimizations, XZ, AMD ZLUDA, NOVA, EPYC 4004 & Other H1'2024 Highlights | 30 Jun 2024 |
More Phoronix News | 682 Articles |
Phoronix Test Suite |
OpenBenchmarking.org In 2021 By The Numbers | 01 Jan 2022 |
Phoronix Test Suite 10.8 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Benchmarking | 26 Dec 2021 |
Phoronix Test Suite 10.6 Released With Various Improvements For Linux Benchmarking | 10 Oct 2021 |
New/Updated Benchmarks For June From GravityMark To L4D2 Vulkan, Updated Neural Networks | 03 Jul 2021 |
New + Updated Benchmarks For May 2021 - Now At 661 Tests, ~36d19h Average Total Runtime | 02 Jun 2021 |
New, Updated Benchmarks For April From WRF To Chia + Xmrig | 02 May 2021 |
Many New/Updated Benchmarks For March With New SDR/Radio Tests, More Code Compilation | 28 Mar 2021 |
Vulkan Ray-Tracing Along With Other New/Updated Benchmarks For February | 28 Feb 2021 |
Phoronix Test Suite 10.2.2 Released For Automated Open-Source Benchmarking | 17 Feb 2021 |
Phoronix Test Suite 10.2.1 Released For Open-Source Automated Benchmarking | 02 Feb 2021 |
More Phoronix Test Suite News | 210 Articles |
PipeWire |
Fedora 41 To Rely On PipeWire By Default For Firefox Camera Handling | 19 Aug 2024 |
PipeWire 1.2 Released With Async Processing, Explicit Sync & Other Features | 27 Jun 2024 |
PipeWire 1.2 Can Stream To Snapcast Servers For Multi-Room Audio | 24 May 2024 |
PipeWire 1.2 Preps For Async Processing, Snap Support & Explicit Sync | 16 May 2024 |
PipeWire To Work On Vulkan Converters & Processing Filters | 05 Feb 2024 |
PipeWire 1.0 Released For Managing Audio/Video Streams On The Linux Desktop | 26 Nov 2023 |
PipeWire 1.0 RC2 Released With Fixes, Improved Rate Switching | 13 Oct 2023 |
PipeWire 1.0 RC Available With Jackdbus By Default, Improved IRQ-Based Scheduling | 06 Oct 2023 |
PipeWire 1.0 Planned For Release Later This Year | 25 Sep 2023 |
PipeWire 0.3.80 Released With Vulkan DMA-BUF Support, Tag Param | 14 Sep 2023 |
More PipeWire News | 41 Articles |
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Programming |
Rustls Multi-Threaded Performance Is Battering OpenSSL | 03 Dec 2024 |
PostgreSQL Finally Deprecates MD5 Passwords | 03 Dec 2024 |
PHP 8.4 Released With Property Hooks, Lazy Objects & Other New Features | 21 Nov 2024 |
FLTK 1.4 Released With Wayland & HiDPI Display Support | 19 Nov 2024 |
Rust Coreutils 0.0.28 Delivers Better Performance & Increased Compatibility | 17 Nov 2024 |
Rustls 0.23.17 Brings More Performance Improvements | 16 Nov 2024 |
OpenMP 6.0 Released With An Emphasis On Easier Parallel Programming | 14 Nov 2024 |
PHPStan 2.0 Released For Leading PHP Static Analyzer | 11 Nov 2024 |
Linux Optimization Patches Significantly Speed-Up Debuggers Using /proc/kcore | 10 Nov 2024 |
OpenCL Headers & SDK Updated For OpenCL 3.0.17 | 07 Nov 2024 |
More Programming News | 676 Articles |
Proprietary Software |
Tellusim Core SDK Published With Linux & Vulkan Support Included | 14 May 2023 |
SPEC Finally Updates SPECViewPerf For Linux With SPECViewPerf 2020 v3.0 | 03 Mar 2022 |
DaVinci Resolve 16 Beta Video Editor Employing Deep Learning, GPU Accelerated Tools | 08 Apr 2019 |
Lightworks Video Editor Plans For A Busy 2019 But No Signs Of The Open-Source Version | 10 Jan 2019 |
Adobe Customer Care: There Hasn't Been Enough Demand For Linux | 10 Dec 2018 |
Lightworks 14.5 Video Editor Released With Same-Day Linux Support But Still No Source | 17 Oct 2018 |
DaVinci Resolve 15 Video/Effects Editor Released With Linux Support | 13 Aug 2018 |
A VR Developer's Thoughts On The Current Mess Of APIs & Hardware | 27 May 2018 |
Keeper Password Manager Launches New Linux Version | 26 Apr 2018 |
Vivaldi Web Browser Now Available For Linux ARM / Raspberry Pi | 05 Dec 2017 |
More Proprietary Software News | 132 Articles |
Qt |
Qt 6.8.1 Toolkit Released With 550+ Bug Fixes | 02 Dec 2024 |
Qt 6.8 LTS Released With XR Module, Lower RAM Usage & Quicker Start Times | 08 Oct 2024 |
Qt Creator 14 IDE Released With Support For Lua-Based Plugins | 25 Jul 2024 |
Qt 6.8 Beta Released With Multi-View Rendering, Better GNOME Wayland Experience | 14 Jun 2024 |
Qt 6.7.1 Released With 400+ Fixes - Including Several Wayland Fixes | 21 May 2024 |
KDAB Working On Embedding Servo Web Engine Within Qt | 08 Apr 2024 |
Qt Creator 13 Released For Enhancing Qt/C++ Development | 04 Apr 2024 |
Qt 6.7 Released With Many Improvements For This Cross-Platform Toolkit | 02 Apr 2024 |
Qt Creator 13 Beta Brings Improved Docking UI, Qt App Manager Support | 15 Feb 2024 |
Qt 6.5.4 LTS Released As First Commercial-Only Release In The Series | 11 Jan 2024 |
More Qt News | 529 Articles |
Radeon |
AMDVLK 2024.Q4.2 Released With New Extensions, Other Changes | 04 Dec 2024 |
AMD ROCm 6.3 Tags Begin Appearing On GitHub | 03 Dec 2024 |
AMD User Queue Mesa Support Merged For Linux - Submitting Work Directly To The GPU | 03 Dec 2024 |
AMD Talks Up Imminent ROCm 6.3 With Big Performance Gains, New Features | 25 Nov 2024 |
AMD Linux Graphics Driver Now Allows Display Support With Modern GPUs On LoongArch | 22 Nov 2024 |
Linux 6.13 To Allow Controlling Zero RPM Feature For Radeon RX 7000 Series GPUs | 07 Nov 2024 |
Mesa RADV Driver Delivers Conformant Vulkan 1.3 Support For Old AMD GFX6/GFX7 GPUs | 07 Nov 2024 |
AMD ROCm 6.2.4 Released With Radeon PRO V710 Support & Documentation Updates | 06 Nov 2024 |
Mesa 24.3 Delivers Big Performance Win For Aging AMD Navi 10 GPUs | 06 Nov 2024 |
Valve Engineer Fixes Massive Performance Issue For RADV Driver With AMD FSR2 Sample | 01 Nov 2024 |
More Radeon News | 1935 Articles |
Raspberry Pi |
Raspberry Pi Launches The Compute Module 5 For $45 USD | 27 Nov 2024 |
Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W Launches For $7 | 25 Nov 2024 |
Raspberry Pi Camera Front End "CFE" Video Capture With Linux 6.13 | 20 Nov 2024 |
Raspberry Pi OS Now Defaults To 512MB Swap, Updates Labwc Compositor | 18 Nov 2024 |
Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 Launches For $60 USD, 720 x 1280 7-Inch Display | 04 Nov 2024 |
Raspberry Pi OS Now Using Wayland By Default On All Models | 28 Oct 2024 |
Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ Launches: 26 TOPS Accelerator For $110 | 24 Oct 2024 |
Linux 6.13 To Bring Big/Super Pages For The Raspberry Pi Graphics Driver - Better Performance | 01 Oct 2024 |
Ubuntu 24.10 Making Preparations For The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 | 20 Sep 2024 |
Raspberry Pi Showcases Rust On The RP2350 Microcontroller | 07 Sep 2024 |
More Raspberry Pi News | 160 Articles |
Red Hat |
Red Hat & Microsoft Bringing RHEL To WSL | 19 Nov 2024 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Enters Beta With Many New Features & Updates | 14 Nov 2024 |
Red Hat Acquiring Neural Magic To Bolster Open-Source AI Offerings | 12 Nov 2024 |
Red Hat & Intel Developing "Climatik" For Power Capping AI In The Data Center | 12 Nov 2024 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI 1.2 Brings AMD ROCm + Instinct Tech Preview | 16 Oct 2024 |
Red Hat Developing Ramalama To "Make AI Boring" By Offering Great AI Simplicity & Ease Of Use | 15 Aug 2024 |
Red Hat Developing "eu-stacktrace" For Profiling Without Frame Pointers | 11 Jun 2024 |
Red Hat Announces RHEL AI | 07 May 2024 |
Red Hat Offering Up To 4 Years Extra Support For RHEL7 | 25 Apr 2024 |
Red Hat Releases DNF 4.20 In Preparation For DNF5 | 24 Apr 2024 |
More Red Hat News | 300 Articles |
RISC-V |
RISC-V Changes For Linux 6.13 Deliver Pointer Masking In User-Space | 27 Nov 2024 |
MIPS P8700 RISC-V CPU Support Posted For LLVM Compiler | 27 Nov 2024 |
RISC-V User-Space Pointer Masking Appears Ready For Linux 6.13 | 29 Oct 2024 |
SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Development Board Update | 21 Oct 2024 |
RISC-V Wires Up More Kernel Features With Linux 6.12 | 26 Sep 2024 |
Linux Preparing Support For The RISC-V Framework Laptop 13 | 23 Sep 2024 |
RISC-V Enabling Generic CPU Vulnerabilities Reporting | 08 Sep 2024 |
SiFive Announces P870-D For Up To 256 RISC-V Cores | 14 Aug 2024 |
GhostWrite Vulnerability Affects RISC-V CPU, Mitigating Takes A ~77% Performance Hit | 07 Aug 2024 |
Thanks Intel: RISC-V Sees NUMA Support For ACPI-Based Systems In Linux 6.11 | 28 Jul 2024 |
More RISC-V News | 132 Articles |
Standards |
Khronos Announces Slang Initiative From Open-Source NVIDIA Code | 21 Nov 2024 |
Khronos SYCL Being Updated To Increase Appeal For HPC & Scientific Computing | 14 Nov 2024 |
Linux Foundation Looks To Become More Involved With AI Models, Welcomes OMI | 12 Aug 2024 |
NVMe 2.1 Specifications Published With New Capabilities | 06 Aug 2024 |
oneAPI-Focused UXL Foundation Now Collaborating With The Khronos Group | 10 Jun 2024 |
AMD & Intel Team Up For UALink As Open Alternative To NVIDIA's NVLink | 30 May 2024 |
Linux Foundation, Intel & Others Launch The Open Platform for Enterprise AI | 16 Apr 2024 |
Khronos Releases OpenXR 1.1 For Cross-Platform AR/VR Development | 16 Apr 2024 |
OpenCL 3.0.16 Released With One New Extension, Semaphores & External Memory Finalized | 05 Apr 2024 |
More Organizations Join The Ultra Ethernet Consortium, v1.0 Spec In Q3 | 19 Mar 2024 |
More Standards News | 295 Articles |
SUSE |
SUSE's Agama Installer Adds QR Code To The Console & Other Improvements | 31 Oct 2024 |
openSUSE Leap 16.0 Pre-Alpha Available, GA Next October | 07 Oct 2024 |
openSUSE's Aeon RC3 Released With Full Disk Encryption By Default | 27 Jul 2024 |
openSUSE Aeon Prepares For Comprehensive Full Disk Encryption | 12 Jul 2024 |
SUSE's "Agama" OS Installer Rolls Out New Web UI, Better Auto Installations | 28 Jun 2024 |
openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 Now Available For Container & VM Needs | 26 Jun 2024 |
openSUSE Leap 15.6 Release - Adds Cockpit, Linux 6.4 & Other Updates | 12 Jun 2024 |
openSUSE Aeon RC2 Released With Btrfs Compression Default, ZRAM & Tik | 28 May 2024 |
SUSE's YaST Team Drops Cockpit With New Installer Code | 18 May 2024 |
Intel's OpenVINO Now Available In openSUSE | 17 May 2024 |
More SUSE News | 304 Articles |
systemd |
Feature-Packed systemd 257 Nears Release With RC3 Availability | 27 Nov 2024 |
systemd 257-rc2 Released With New systemd-keyutil Tool | 15 Nov 2024 |
systemd 257-rc1 Released With A Ton Of New Features & Changes | 06 Nov 2024 |
Busd Taking Shape As A D-Bus Broker Written In Rust | 01 Oct 2024 |
Systemd Looking At A Future With More Varlink & Less D-Bus For IPC | 28 Sep 2024 |
systemd Talks Up Automatic Boot Assessment In Light Of The Crowdstrike-Microsoft Outage | 22 Jul 2024 |
Systemd 256.1 Fixes "systemd-tmpfiles" Unexpectedly Deleting Your /home Directory | 19 Jun 2024 |
systemd 256 Released With run0, systemd-vpick, importctl & Other New Features | 11 Jun 2024 |
systemd 256 Nears Release With run0, systemd-vpick, importctl & More | 22 May 2024 |
systemd 256-rc2 Released With A Few More Features | 14 May 2024 |
More systemd News | 248 Articles |
Ubuntu |
Mir 2.19 Released With Atomic KMS Platform Support, New Wayland Protocols | 02 Dec 2024 |
UBports' Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 Atop Ubuntu 20.04 Released | 29 Nov 2024 |
Updated Ubuntu 24.10 Install Image Released For Snapdragon X1 Elite Laptops | 28 Nov 2024 |
Ubuntu 25.04 Begins Preparations For GIMP 3.0 | 26 Nov 2024 |
Ubuntu Praises 5~7% PGO Compiler Optimization Performance Benefits | 18 Nov 2024 |
Ubuntu 25.04 To Further Enhance Its Installer, Aims For Linux 6.14 Kernel | 13 Nov 2024 |
Ubuntu's Great Mainline Kernel PPA Hasn't Been Working Since Mid-September | 01 Nov 2024 |
Ubuntu Hoping To Remove Qt 5 Before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | 01 Nov 2024 |
Ubuntu 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" Development Opens - Defaulting To -O3 Optimizations | 30 Oct 2024 |
Ubuntu Considers Replacing initramfs-tools With Dracut | 18 Oct 2024 |
More Ubuntu News | 1709 Articles |
Valve |
Steam Survey Results For November 2024: Linux Gaming Marketshare Slightly Higher | 02 Dec 2024 |
Valve Releases Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Update | 15 Nov 2024 |
Steam On Linux Marketshare Hits 2.0% For October, AMD CPU Use By Linux Gamers Approaches 75% | 01 Nov 2024 |
Valve Contributes OpenVR Video Driver To SDL | 18 Oct 2024 |
VKD3D-Proton Has Been Working On Emulating D3D12 Work Graphs, But The Tech Disappoints | 15 Oct 2024 |
CodeWeavers Working On Better Input Device Support For Proton Gaming | 14 Oct 2024 |
Steam Remote Play Adds AV1 Video Streaming Support Plus More Linux Fixes | 02 Oct 2024 |
Steam On Linux Percentage Receded A Bit Further In September | 01 Oct 2024 |
Valve's Proton 9.0-3 Brings Support For More Games On Linux, Many Fixes | 19 Sep 2024 |
Steam On Linux Drops Below 2% For August 2024 Survey | 01 Sep 2024 |
More Valve News | 676 Articles |
Virtualization |
Rust Hypervisor Firmware v0.5 Supports For More CPUs & Improves EFI Support | 30 Nov 2024 |
Linux 6.13 KVM Eliminates An "Awful Idea", Many x86_64 Improvements | 25 Nov 2024 |
Virtual CPUFreq Driver Coming With Linux 6.13 For Better Power/Performance Within VMs | 24 Nov 2024 |
IBM Power11 CPUs Launching In 2025 - Linux 6.13 Preps KVM Nested Guests For Power11 | 23 Nov 2024 |
DXVK 2.5 Brings Memory Management Rewrite & Other Improvements | 11 Nov 2024 |
VMware Workstation Shifting From Proprietary Code To Using Upstream KVM | 31 Oct 2024 |
VirtIO-GPU Vulkan Support Approaching Upstream QEMU | 30 Oct 2024 |
Cloud Hypervisor 42 Released With SVE/SVE2 Support For AArch64 Guests | 25 Oct 2024 |
Qualcomm Announces Mesa VCL Driver For OpenCL Acceleration Within VMs | 16 Oct 2024 |
KVM With Linux 6.12 Will Advertise AVX10.1 Support To Guest VMs | 28 Sep 2024 |
More Virtualization News | 603 Articles |
Vulkan |
Vulkan 1.4 Released With More Extensions Mandated, Better 8K Rendering | 02 Dec 2024 |
VKD3D 1.14 Released With Initial Metal Shading Language Output | 21 Nov 2024 |
Vulkan 1.3.302 Published With AV1 Encode & NVIDIA Display Stereo Extensions | 21 Nov 2024 |
Vulkan 1.3.301 Released With New Extension For HDR Vivid | 02 Nov 2024 |
Vulkan 1.3.300 Delivers New Cooperative Matrix Extension From NVIDIA | 26 Oct 2024 |
Vulkan 1.3.297 Introduces VK_EXT_present_mode_fifo_latest_ready | 09 Oct 2024 |
Vulkan 1.3.296 Released With VK_EXT_device_generated_commands | 26 Sep 2024 |
Vulkan 1.3.295 Released With Compute Shader Derivatives Extension | 30 Aug 2024 |
Vulkan 1.3.294 Introduces New Pipeline Binary Extension | 23 Aug 2024 |
Proposed Vulkan Extension To Improve Memory Sharing With Apple's Metal | 20 Aug 2024 |
More Vulkan News | 671 Articles |
Wayland |
XWayland Lands Support For xdg-system-bell | 02 Dec 2024 |
Wayland Color Management Protocol Might Finally Be Close To Merging | 30 Nov 2024 |
WayVNC 0.9 Released For Wayland VNC Server With New Features | 19 Nov 2024 |
Niri 0.1.10 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Brings Many Improvements | 10 Nov 2024 |
Hyprland 0.45 Compositor Smooths Round Edges, Window Snapping For Floating Windows | 09 Nov 2024 |
Miriway 24.10 Compositor Adds systemd Integration, DE-Specific Configurations | 01 Nov 2024 |
Sway 1.10 Released With GPU Reset Recovery & Other Wayland Enhancements | 28 Oct 2024 |
Wayland Protocols 1.38 Brings System Bell, FIFO & Commit Timing Protocols | 12 Oct 2024 |
Cage 0.2 Released For Wayland-Powered Kiosks With Single, Maximized Apps | 06 Oct 2024 |
Sway 1.10-rc1 Adds GPU Reset Recovery, New Wayland Protocols | 30 Sep 2024 |
More Wayland News | 924 Articles |
WINE |
Wine 9.22 Enables Wayland Driver By Default | 23 Nov 2024 |
Wine-Staging 9.21 Fixes Some Old Game Crashes & Hangs Due To DirectMusic | 10 Nov 2024 |
Wine 9.21 Brings DirectPlay Network Enhancements, I/O Completion Fixes | 08 Nov 2024 |
Wine 10.0 Release Plans Aim For Mid-January Release | 01 Nov 2024 |
Hangover 9.20 Restores Support For Running Win64 Applications On ARM64 Wine | 21 Oct 2024 |
Wine-Staging 9.20 Fixes An 11 Year Old Wine Bug Report | 19 Oct 2024 |
Wine 9.20 Released With WineDbg Now Using Capstone Disassembler | 18 Oct 2024 |
Wine 9.19 Brings Improved Window Positioning On Wayland | 04 Oct 2024 |
Wine 9.18 Delivers New Desktop Control Panel Applet | 20 Sep 2024 |
Wine Making Improvements To Its GitLab, Eyes Contributor Covenant For CoC | 12 Sep 2024 |
More WINE News | 963 Articles |
X.Org |
xcompmgr 1.1.10 Released For Classic "Eye Candy" Compositor On X.Org | 13 Nov 2024 |
Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Affecting X.Org Server For 18 Years | 29 Oct 2024 |
It's Taken Until 2024 To Add FreeBSD To X.Org Continuous Integration Testing | 06 Sep 2024 |
libX11 1.8.10 Brings Memory Safety Fixes | 29 Jul 2024 |
X.Org Testing Ground Expands Its Scope To Illumos/OpenIndiana | 23 Jul 2024 |
X.Org Server Patches Look To Cleanup VRR Handling, Make It Xinerama-Aware | 22 Jul 2024 |
X.Org Testing Ground Toolkit v0.0.2 Adds NetBSD & FreeBSD Support | 18 Jun 2024 |
X.Org Testing Ground Toolkit: Making It Less Difficult To Compile The X Server In 2024 | 13 Jun 2024 |
NetBSD On The State & Future Of X.Org/X11 | 04 May 2024 |
xconsole 1.1 Released - Preparing For Post-Y2038 Support, 18 Years After v1.0 | 29 Apr 2024 |
More X.Org News | 1211 Articles |