AMD |
AMD Posts Linux Patches For EPYC To Further Enhance Performance-Per-Watt By Default | 21 Oct 2024 |
Linux Fixes Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier "IBPB" Handling For Older AMD CPUs | 18 Oct 2024 |
AMD Releases AOMP 20.0-0 For Radeon/Instinct Compiler Offloading | 16 Oct 2024 |
AMD XDNA Linux Driver Updated As It Nears The Upstream Kernel | 12 Oct 2024 |
AMD Job Posting Confirms More Details Around Their AI GPU Compute Stack Plans | 12 Oct 2024 |
AMD To Integrate "Project Caliptra" Into Products Beginning In 2026 | 11 Oct 2024 |
AMD AOCC 5.0 Compiler Released With Zen 5 Support, New Optimizations | 11 Oct 2024 |
AMD Hardware Feedback Interface "HFI" Driver Updated For Heterogeneous CPUs | 11 Oct 2024 |
AMD Announces Commitment To "Open Security Technologies" | 11 Oct 2024 |
AMD Announces Pensando Salina 400 DPU & Pollara 400 Ultra Ethernet NIC | 10 Oct 2024 |
More AMD News | 1750 Articles |
Apple |
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 |
Asahi Linux Has Been Making Progress On Apple HDMI, EAS & GPU Features | 14 Jan 2024 |
Apple Announces The M3 / M3 Pro / M3 Max | 30 Oct 2023 |
More Apple News | 126 Articles |
Arch Linux |
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 |
Archinstall 2.8.2 To Speed Up Arch Linux Installations, Other Fixes | 17 Aug 2024 |
Immutable Version Of Arch-Based Manjaro Linux Available For Testing | 03 Aug 2024 |
Upstream Linux 6.11 Makes It Easy To Build A Pacman Kernel Package For Arch Linux | 23 Jul 2024 |
CachyOS Rolls Out Zen 4 Optimized Repository For Maximizing Zen 4 & Zen 5 Performance | 14 Jul 2024 |
More Arch Linux News | 135 Articles |
Arm |
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 |
Ubuntu 24.10 ARM64 Installer Supports The Snapdragon-Powered Lenovo ThinkPad X13s | 13 Sep 2024 |
Panthor DRM Driver For Arm Mali Graphics Working On User Submission Handling | 01 Sep 2024 |
ARM Linux Maintainer Drafts Deprecation Timeline For Old Boards/Features | 31 Jul 2024 |
Linus Torvalds Addresses His Latest ARM64 Annoyance: Installing Compressed Kernel Images | 26 Jul 2024 |
More Arm News | 343 Articles |
BSD |
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 |
Sovereign Tech Fund Announces Significant Investment Into FreeBSD | 26 Aug 2024 |
FreeBSD 13.4 Nears Release With Modernized DVD Package Set, Driver Updates | 24 Aug 2024 |
AMD & FreeBSD Begin Collaborating Over OS Improvements | 19 Aug 2024 |
OpenBSD Now Supports VA-API Video Acceleration | 23 Jul 2024 |
MidnightBSD 3.2 Released With Ravenports On x86_64, New AMD Features | 22 Jul 2024 |
More BSD News | 840 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 |
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 |
Coreboot 4.22 Released: Initial AMD OpenSIL Code Added, 17 New Motherboards | 28 Nov 2023 |
Canoeboot 20231026 Released As Another Fork Of Coreboot-Downstream Libreboot | 27 Oct 2023 |
More Coreboot News | 277 Articles |
Debian |
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 |
Debian Releases APT 2.9.3 With New Package Solver | 14 May 2024 |
APT 2.9 Released: Debian's APT 3.0 To Have A New UI With Colors, Columnar Display & More | 13 Apr 2024 |
Debian Policy 4.7 Outlines Latest Packaging/System Guidelines | 07 Apr 2024 |
More Debian News | 423 Articles |
Desktop |
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 |
COSMIC Desktop Very Close To Alpha Release, Adds Compositor Multi-Threading | 12 Jul 2024 |
COSMIC Alpha Desktop Release Still Planned For Late July | 26 Jun 2024 |
IceWM 3.6 Released With A Few New Features & Fixes | 16 Jun 2024 |
Pop!_OS' COSMIC Desktop Finishing Up Work On App Store | 09 May 2024 |
System76's COSMIC Working On Drag & Drop, More Compositor Improvements | 17 Apr 2024 |
LXQt 2.0 Released For Qt6 Desktop Port, Greater Wayland Support | 17 Apr 2024 |
System76 Now Planning For COSMIC Desktop Alpha Release In Late May | 13 Mar 2024 |
More Desktop News | 467 Articles |
Fedora |
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 |
Fedora 42 On 64-bit ARM Might Make It Seamless To Run x86/x86_64 Programs | 12 Sep 2024 |
Fedora 42 Will Try Again To Use The New Anaconda Installer's Web UI | 12 Sep 2024 |
wolfSSL "Immediately Retired" From Fedora Linux For Failing To Follow Packaging Rules | 10 Sep 2024 |
Raspberry Pi Bugs Currently Make Up Half Of The Fedora 41 Blocker Bugs | 04 Sep 2024 |
Mir-Powered Miracle-WM Continues Tacking On New Features Ahead Of Fedora Miracle | 27 Aug 2024 |
Btrfs Stakeholders In Fedora Eye Bootable Snapshots & Transparent Encryption | 04 Aug 2024 |
Fedora Workstation 42 Cleared To Offer Opt-In Metrics Reporting | 23 Jul 2024 |
More Fedora News | 1231 Articles |
Free Software |
Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source | 20 Oct 2024 |
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Has Invested Over $24.9M In Open-Source In Two Years | 18 Oct 2024 |
Inkscape 1.4 Brings Numerous Enhancements To This Vector Graphics Editor | 14 Oct 2024 |
The Long-Awaited GIMP 3.0 Closing In On Its First Release Candidate | 05 Oct 2024 |
ZLUDA Takes On Third Life: Open-Source Multi-GPU CUDA Implementation Focused On AI | 04 Oct 2024 |
Blender 4.3 Beta Delivers Experimental Vulkan UI Rendering | 04 Oct 2024 |
Zrythm Digital Audio Workstation Abandoning GTK For Qt6 | 04 Oct 2024 |
BusyBox 1.37 Adds "getfattr" Along With Other Improvements | 26 Sep 2024 |
Ruffle Continues Letting Adobe Flash Player Support Live On In Open-Source | 13 Sep 2024 |
Samba Secures A Big Investment From Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund | 13 Sep 2024 |
More Free Software News | 2031 Articles |
GNOME |
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 |
GNOME Continues Hashing Out Individual Home Directory Encryption, Modernizing Platform | 13 Sep 2024 |
GNOME Foundation Accepting Applications For New Executive Director | 13 Sep 2024 |
GNOME 47 Release Candidate Brings Last Minute Changes | 08 Sep 2024 |
More GNOME News | 1312 Articles |
GNU |
"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 |
GCC 15 Un-Deprecates Itanium IA-64 Linux Support | 09 Oct 2024 |
GNU Linux-libre 6.11 Makes Adaptations For Rust, Warns Of Hidden Binary Bits In v6.11 | 16 Sep 2024 |
GNU C Library Tuning For AArch64 Helps Memset Performance By ~24% | 10 Sep 2024 |
AMD GCN3 / Fiji Support Being Retired From The GCC Compiler | 02 Sep 2024 |
GNU Screen 5.0 Released With Rewritten Authentication Mechanism | 28 Aug 2024 |
GNU DDD 3.4.1 Released As GUI Front-End To GDB | 24 Aug 2024 |
GCC 15 Merges Initial Support For Intel AVX10.2 Support | 12 Aug 2024 |
More GNU News | 1105 Articles |
Google |
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 |
Google's Jpegli Offers ~35% Compression Improvement For High Quality JPEGs | 03 Apr 2024 |
More Google News | 575 Articles |
Hardware |
Audio Firmware Upstreamed For Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 On Linux | 20 Oct 2024 |
Linux Might Drop Fieldbus Support For Industrial Systems With No One Maintaining It | 19 Oct 2024 |
Linux 6.12-rc4 Adding Controller Support For The MSI Claw A1M & 8BitDo Ultimate 2C | 19 Oct 2024 |
Corsair Void Headset Driver Expected For Linux 6.13 | 14 Oct 2024 |
Linux 6.13 To Drop Some Old & No Longer Maintained Staging Drivers | 13 Oct 2024 |
Intel Revs Linux Driver Patches To Fend Off PCIe Thermal Issues Via Bandwidth Reduction | 09 Oct 2024 |
Linux Thermal/Power Platform Profile Support Coming For Alienware Systems | 07 Oct 2024 |
OpenRazer 3.9 Adds Support For Many Newer Razer Devices On Linux | 06 Oct 2024 |
Qualcomm Linux Driver Prepares For New "AIC080" Lower-Cost Cloud AI Accelerator | 04 Oct 2024 |
Linux 6.12 Drops New Driver That Ended Up Breaking Laptop Touchpad Support For Many Users | 02 Oct 2024 |
More Hardware News | 2253 Articles |
Intel |
Intel Posts Patch For Fixing/Boosting Lunar Lake Linux Performance On ASUS Laptops | 20 Oct 2024 |
Intel Working On Coreboot Support For Xeon 6 Platforms | 18 Oct 2024 |
Intel NPU Driver Being Updated To Handle Larger AI Workloads | 17 Oct 2024 |
Linux 6.13 To Introduce Intel 5th Gen NPU Support For Panther Lake | 17 Oct 2024 |
Intel Low Power Mode Daemon v0.0.8 Brings New Features | 16 Oct 2024 |
Intel ISPC 1.25 Released With New Targets For Xe2 Lunar Lake & Battlemage | 16 Oct 2024 |
Intel & AMD Form An x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group | 15 Oct 2024 |
Intel oneDNN 3.6 Improves Performance For Granite Rapids, Initial Xe2 Optimizations | 15 Oct 2024 |
Intel Panther Lake H EDAC Support Posted For Linux | 12 Oct 2024 |
Intel Xe2 Ultra Joiner, GPU Temperature Reporting & Another Arrow Lake ID For Linux 6.13 | 11 Oct 2024 |
More Intel News | 3088 Articles |
KDE |
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 |
KDE Plasma 6.2 Preparing For Release Next Week | 05 Oct 2024 |
KDE Sees Many Crash Fixes & Other Improvements Ahead Of Plasma 6.2 | 28 Sep 2024 |
KDE Optimizes How It Finds Mount Points - Up To 80% Speed-Up | 21 Sep 2024 |
KDE Releases Plasma 6.2 Beta, Early Feature Work Begins For Plasma 6.3 | 14 Sep 2024 |
KDE Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 Brings New Capabilities | 12 Sep 2024 |
KDE Plans To Enhance Application Development Experience, Recruit More Contributors | 09 Sep 2024 |
KDE Squeezes A Few More Features Into The Plasma 6.2 Desktop | 07 Sep 2024 |
More KDE News | 1344 Articles |
LibreOffice |
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 |
LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6 | 22 Aug 2023 |
More LibreOffice News | 187 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 |
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 |
DXVK 2.4.1 Released With Many Improvements, More Robust Direct3D 8 | 26 Sep 2024 |
SDL Now Prefers Vulkan Over Direct3D 12 On Windows | 21 Sep 2024 |
Godot 4.4 Dev 1 Brings Renderer Improvements, Betsy Texture Compression | 26 Aug 2024 |
Cemu 2.1 Emulator Released With Flatpaks & AppImage For Linux, Initial Wayland Support | 26 Aug 2024 |
More Linux Gaming News | 2003 Articles |
Linux Kernel |
Linus Torvalds Growing Frustrated By Buggy Hardware & Theoretical CPU Attacks | 21 Oct 2024 |
Linux 6.12-rc4 Released With MSI Claw A1M Controller Support, Intel & AMD Fixes | 20 Oct 2024 |
Lightweight Guard Pages For Linux Showing 5x Speed-Up For Memory Mapping Invocations | 20 Oct 2024 |
Linux 6.13 Poised To Land Prep Patches Working Toward Proxy Execution | 18 Oct 2024 |
Arm Exploring IO_uring For Graphics Drivers For Better Performance & Synchronization | 11 Oct 2024 |
DRM_Log Continues To Be Worked On As New Boot Logger For Kernel Messages | 11 Oct 2024 |
Restartable Sequences "RSEQ" Seeing Up To 16.7x Speedup With Newest Linux Patch | 10 Oct 2024 |
Linus Torvalds Asks Kernel Developers To Write Better Git Merge Commit Messages | 07 Oct 2024 |
Linux 6.12-rc2 Released With Initial Batch Of Fixes | 06 Oct 2024 |
Google Updates Patches For AutoFDO+Propeller Optimized Linux Kernel | 03 Oct 2024 |
More Linux Kernel News | 3632 Articles |
Linux Networking |
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 |
Device Memory TCP Nears The Finish Line For More Efficient Networked Accelerators | 08 Jul 2024 |
Longtime Linux Wireless Developer Passes Away | 23 Jun 2024 |
More Linux Networking News | 269 Articles |
Linux Security |
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 |
Linux 6.11 Hardening Makes FineIBT Default Configurable At Build Time | 21 Jul 2024 |
spectre_bhi=vmexit Mitigation Merged For Linux 6.11 Cloud Use | 17 Jul 2024 |
Linux 6.11 To Allow Tightening Of /proc/[pid]/mem Access For Better Security | 14 Jul 2024 |
More Linux Security News | 301 Articles |
Linux Storage |
ReiserFS File-System Expected To Be Removed With Linux 6.13 | 20 Oct 2024 |
New Patches Allow For Deleting Files ~54% Faster On F2FS | 16 Oct 2024 |
OpenZFS 2.3-rc2 Brings CPU Pinning & Optimized Kernel Same-Page Merging | 14 Oct 2024 |
NTFS Driver Lands Some Late Feature Enhancements For Linux 6.12 | 08 Oct 2024 |
Bcachefs Fixes Pull Once Again Frustrates Linus Torvalds - Two Choices Offered | 05 Oct 2024 |
OpenZFS 2.3-rc1 Delivers RAIDZ Expansion, Fast Dedup & Direct IO | 05 Oct 2024 |
FUSE In Linux 6.12 Adds Idmapped Mounts & Writeback Optimization | 28 Sep 2024 |
Linux 6.12 NFS Adds LOCALIO Protocol For "Extreme" Performance Boost | 25 Sep 2024 |
F2FS With Linux 6.12 Converts I/O Paths To Use Folios, Other Improvements | 24 Sep 2024 |
Bcachefs Hopes To Remove "EXPERIMENTAL" Flag In The Next Year | 22 Sep 2024 |
More Linux Storage News | 1015 Articles |
LLVM |
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 |
LLVM 19.1-rc1 Compiler Released With More C23 / C++23 & New Intel Extensions | 26 Jul 2024 |
LLVM Clang Switches MMX Intrinsics To Use SSE2 Instead | 24 Jul 2024 |
LLVM Clang 19 Branched, LLVM 20 Enters Development- No AMD Zen 5 "Znver5" Merged Yet | 23 Jul 2024 |
More LLVM News | 758 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 |
The Maturing State Of Rusticl For Rust-Based OpenCL Within Mesa | 17 Oct 2024 |
Mesa 24.3 Allows Rusticl On Asahi Gallium3D By Default | 13 Oct 2024 |
LunarG Exploring Vulkan To Metal Translation With Mesa | 08 Oct 2024 |
Mesa 24.3 Adds New Build Option To Allow Rusticl Driver Support To Be Enabled By Default | 06 Oct 2024 |
Apple Vulkan Driver "HoneyKrisp" Lands Many Fixes & Features | 06 Oct 2024 |
Zink Seeing VA-API Video Acceleration Implemented Over Vulkan Video | 04 Oct 2024 |
Mesa 24.2.4 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes | 03 Oct 2024 |
Mesa 24.3 Finishes The Years Long Effort To Phase Out The Old GLSL IR Linker | 25 Sep 2024 |
Frog-FIFO-V1 Aims To Address Mesa's "Fundamentally Broken" Wayland Code | 25 Sep 2024 |
Gfxstream Merged Into Mesa For Vulkan Virtualization | 20 Sep 2024 |
More Mesa News | 2455 Articles |
Microsoft |
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 |
Microsoft Optimizes Hyper-V Code To Boot Linux Faster When Having Many CPUs | 19 Sep 2024 |
Microsoft Further Improves D3D12 Video Acceleration In Mesa | 30 Aug 2024 |
Microsoft Advances Its Open-Source Font For Developers With "Cascadia Next" | 28 Aug 2024 |
Microsoft Azure Linux 3.0.20240824 Enables More Kernel Features, Adds XWayland | 28 Aug 2024 |
More Microsoft News | 365 Articles |
Mozilla |
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 |
Firefox 128 Now Available With A Fix For A 25 Year Old Bug Report | 09 Jul 2024 |
Llamafile 0.8.7 Brings Fixes, Better ARM Performance & Preps For New Server | 24 Jun 2024 |
More Mozilla News | 432 Articles |
Multimedia |
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 |
Legacy Intel Sound Driver Support Being Removed In Linux 6.12, Other Big Changes | 15 Sep 2024 |
New AVX2 Code Helps FFmpeg With VVC Decoding Performance | 31 Aug 2024 |
SVT-AV1 2.2 Delivers More Performance Improvements | 21 Aug 2024 |
Raspberry Pi "PiSP" Driver Landing Upstream For Raspberry Pi 5 Camera System | 17 Jul 2024 |
OBS Studio 30.2 Released With Native NVENC Encode On Linux, More Shared Texture Support | 12 Jul 2024 |
More Multimedia News | 633 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 |
More Nouveau News | 497 Articles |
NVIDIA |
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 |
NVIDIA Publishes Open-Source Linux Driver Code For GPU Virtualization "vGPU" Support | 24 Sep 2024 |
Even NVIDIA Has Jumped Big On The Open-Source OpenBMC Train | 08 Sep 2024 |
NVIDIA 560.35.03 Linux Driver Released With More Wayland Fixes | 21 Aug 2024 |
NVIDIA EGL-Wayland 1.15 Brings Stability Fixes For Explicit Sync | 11 Aug 2024 |
NVIDIA 560.31.02 Linux Driver Delivers Various Fixes | 06 Aug 2024 |
More NVIDIA News | 1083 Articles |
Operating Systems |
Solus 4.6 Released With Continued Merged Usr Migration, Experimental Software Centers | 15 Oct 2024 |
BeOS-Inspired Haiku Enabling More Intel Hardware & Driving Kernel Optimizations | 12 Oct 2024 |
Gentoo Linux To See Improved ARM64 Support Thanks To An Ampere Altra Max Server | 07 Oct 2024 |
RPM 4.20 Released With Declarative Build System Support, Public Plugin API | 07 Oct 2024 |
Redox OS Making Progress On RISC-V Support, Eyes QEMU & Neovim Ports | 02 Oct 2024 |
Cinnamon Pursuing Visual Improvements, Linux Mint Continues Working On Aptkit | 30 Sep 2024 |
Haiku R1 Beta 5 Released With Dark Mode Theme & Support For USB Audio | 13 Sep 2024 |
Linux Mint Takes To Forking Some APT Components | 12 Sep 2024 |
Gentoo Linux Touts Better MIPS & Alpha Platform Support | 11 Sep 2024 |
AlmaLinux Announces Certification SIG, Hardware Certification Program | 10 Sep 2024 |
More Operating Systems News | 1049 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 |
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 |
The Most Popular Linux Hardware Reviews & Featured Articles Over 20 Years | 07 Jun 2024 |
Today Marks 20 Years Since Starting Phoronix For Linux Hardware Reviews & News | 05 Jun 2024 |
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NVIDIA Open Kernel Driver News, AMD EPYC 4004 & Linux 6.10 Made For A Fun May | 01 Jun 2024 |
More Phoronix News | 678 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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More Premium News | 51 Articles |
Programming |
Meson 1.6 Build System Adds Support For Flang & OpenXL Compilers | 21 Oct 2024 |
PyTorch 2.5 Released With Improved Intel GPU Support | 17 Oct 2024 |
Python 3.14 Alpha 1 Released With Early Changes | 15 Oct 2024 |
LibreSSL 4.0 Released With EmScripten Support, Fixes Windows Support Past Y2038 | 15 Oct 2024 |
Llamafile 0.8.14 Introduces New CLI Chatbot Interface | 14 Oct 2024 |
Python 3.13 Debuts With New Interactive Interpreter & Experimental JIT | 07 Oct 2024 |
Git 2.47 Released With Improvements & Encouraging More Positive Code Reviews | 07 Oct 2024 |
Wasmer 4.4 Released To Continue Pushing Universal Apps With WebAssembly | 06 Oct 2024 |
Notcurses Is Still Alive For Ramping Up "Terminal Bling" With Complex TUIs | 02 Oct 2024 |
Golang Now Enables Speedier getrandom() On Linux | 02 Oct 2024 |
More Programming News | 662 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 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 |
Qt 6.7 Beta Released With Variable Font Support & QRhiWidget Class | 20 Dec 2023 |
More Qt News | 528 Articles |
Radeon |
AMD ROCm Looks Like It Will Finally Be Supporting OpenCL 3.0 Soon | 18 Oct 2024 |
AMD Working On GPU Compute Virtualization Support With ROCm/HIP For VMs | 17 Oct 2024 |
Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver "RADV" Demonstrated On Windows | 16 Oct 2024 |
AMD Linux Graphics Driver To Switch To More Aggressive Power Heuristics By Default | 16 Oct 2024 |
Red Hat Engineer Working On DRM Panic Support For AMDGPU Driver | 04 Oct 2024 |
DOOM Ported To Run Atop AMD ROCm + LLVM libc | 30 Sep 2024 |
AMDVLK 2024.Q3.3 Brings New Performance Optimizations & Pipeline Binaries | 30 Sep 2024 |
AMD ROCm 6.2.2 Released To Fix Instinct MI300X Error Recovery Failure | 27 Sep 2024 |
AMD HIP RT 2.4 Brings H-PLOC & New Graphics Architecture Support | 23 Sep 2024 |
AMD Releases ROCm 6.2.1 With FBGEMM Support, Installation Improvements | 20 Sep 2024 |
More Radeon News | 1921 Articles |
Raspberry Pi |
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 |
Linux Patches Work To Upstream Raspberry Pi's RP1 PCI Device Support | 20 Aug 2024 |
Raspberry Pi 5 2GB Launches At $50 USD | 19 Aug 2024 |
Raspberry Pi OS Brings Labwc Wayland Compositor As Optional Alternative To Wayfire | 05 Jul 2024 |
Suspend To Idle Under Linux Being Worked On For Raspberry Pi | 01 Jul 2024 |
Raspberry Pi Connect Adds Remote Shell Access, Support For Older Raspberry Pi SBCs | 25 Jun 2024 |
Raspberry Pi 5 Kernel Graphics Driver Support Will Hopefully Be Upstreamed Soon | 20 Jun 2024 |
SUSE Working To Upstream RP1 Southbridge Linux Driver For The Raspberry Pi 5 | 11 Jun 2024 |
More Raspberry Pi News | 153 Articles |
Red Hat |
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 |
RHEL 9.4 Beta Brings Full Support For Intel SGX & DSA Accelerator Drivers | 27 Mar 2024 |
Red Hat Changing How They Handle Their Minor Release Betas | 20 Feb 2024 |
RHEL's Source Code Access Change Is Causing Issues For CentOS SIGs | 29 Jan 2024 |
Red Hat Updates RHEL Pricing For The Cloud - Now Scales With vCPU Count | 26 Jan 2024 |
More Red Hat News | 296 Articles |
RISC-V |
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 |
RISC-V Sees Support For New ISA Extensions In Linux 6.11 | 21 Jul 2024 |
RISC-V Memory Hot Plugging To Be Introduced With Linux 6.11 | 30 Jun 2024 |
Ubuntu Talks Up A RISC-V Octa-Core Laptop | 13 Jun 2024 |
More RISC-V News | 129 Articles |
Standards |
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 |
Linux Foundation Gets Involved With Lottie To Develop Formal File Format Specification | 31 Jan 2024 |
PoCL 5.0 Released With Transparent OpenCL Over Networked Systems Capability | 19 Dec 2023 |
More Standards News | 293 Articles |
SUSE |
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 |
openSUSE Leap 15.6 RC Brings Cockpit Web Based Server Management | 29 Apr 2024 |
More SUSE News | 303 Articles |
systemd |
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 |
systemd Rolling Out "run0" As sudo Alternative | 30 Apr 2024 |
Systemd 256-rc1 Brings A Huge Number Of New Features | 25 Apr 2024 |
systemd In 2023 Added Windows-Inspired "Blue Screen Of Death" & macOS-Inspired T.D.M. | 02 Jan 2024 |
More systemd News | 245 Articles |
Ubuntu |
Ubuntu Considers Replacing initramfs-tools With Dracut | 18 Oct 2024 |
Ubuntu Snaps Up Intel's NPU User-Space Software So It's Easier To Accelerate AI | 18 Oct 2024 |
Ubuntu 24.10 Developer Preview Released For Snapdragon X1 Elite Laptops | 15 Oct 2024 |
Ubuntu 24.10 Now Available With Linux 6.11, GCC 14 & Other Upgrades | 10 Oct 2024 |
Ubuntu Server 24.10 Brings Experimental NVMe/TCP Installation Support | 09 Oct 2024 |
The Speedy Ptyxis Terminal Emulator Available On Ubuntu 24.10 | 07 Oct 2024 |
Reverse PRIME Now Works Nicely On Ubuntu 24.10 | 01 Oct 2024 |
Ubuntu 24.10 Beta Released For Testing | 20 Sep 2024 |
Proposal Seeks To Replace MySQL With MariaDB By Default For Ubuntu 25.04 | 20 Sep 2024 |
Ubuntu Core Desktop Seeing KDE Plasma Snap'ed Up, Other Ubuntu 24.10 Progress | 19 Sep 2024 |
More Ubuntu News | 1700 Articles |
Valve |
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 |
Steam On Linux Usage Flat For July At Just Above 2% | 01 Aug 2024 |
Steam On Linux Use Stayed Above 2% In June | 01 Jul 2024 |
VKD3D-Proton 2.13 Brings OpenVR/OpenXR Interop & Performance Improvements | 21 Jun 2024 |
More Valve News | 673 Articles |
Virtualization |
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 |
VirtIO Vsock Performance To Improve With Linux 6.12 | 26 Sep 2024 |
ARM / RISC-V / LoongArch KVM Updates Submitted For Linux 6.12 | 17 Sep 2024 |
LoongArch KVM To Speed-Up ARM/x86 Binary Translation | 13 Sep 2024 |
VirtualBox 7.1 Released With Improved UI, Wayland Clipboard Sharing | 11 Sep 2024 |
QEMU 9.1 Released With AMD SEV-SNP Support & Intel IAA Acceleration During VM Migrations | 04 Sep 2024 |
Bochs DRM Linux Driver Being Modernized - Better Performance For QEMU Display | 23 Aug 2024 |
VirtualBox 7.1 Beta 2 Released For This Big Oracle Virtualization Update | 21 Aug 2024 |
Cloud Hypervisor 41 Brings Performance Improvements & Landlock Sandboxing | 16 Aug 2024 |
More Virtualization News | 595 Articles |
Vulkan |
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 |
Vulkan 1.3.293 Released With NVIDIA Command Buffer Inheritance Extension | 17 Aug 2024 |
FFmpeg Merges Vulkan Video Encode Support | 11 Aug 2024 |
Raspberry Pi Driver Updated With Vulkan 1.3 Support | 05 Aug 2024 |
Vulkan 1.3.291 Published With VK_AMD_anti_lag, AMD Anti Lag Extension | 19 Jul 2024 |
DXVK 2.4 Released With Direct3D 8 Support, Native WSI Improvements | 10 Jul 2024 |
More Vulkan News | 666 Articles |
Wayland |
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 |
Blumenkrantz Proposes Workflow Improvements For Wayland Protocols | 28 Sep 2024 |
Blumenkrantz Seeks Clear Policy How Wayland Protocol Changes Can Be Rejected | 27 Sep 2024 |
Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development | 25 Sep 2024 |
Mir 2.18 Released With Wayland Server-Side Decorations | 17 Sep 2024 |
Niri 0.1.9 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Brings New IPC Functionality | 14 Sep 2024 |
Mir-based Miracle-WM Adds Optional Systemd Integration | 09 Sep 2024 |
Hyprland 0.43 Wayland Compositor Releases, Raises Build Requirements To C++26 | 09 Sep 2024 |
More Wayland News | 917 Articles |
WINE |
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 |
Hangover 9.17 Ships With Wine Wayland Support, Ubuntu 24.10 Packages | 07 Sep 2024 |
Wine 9.17 Released With Better ARM64 CPU Detection, HiDPI Window Surface Scaling | 06 Sep 2024 |
VKD3D 1.13 Improves Direct3D 12 API Support Atop Vulkan | 30 Aug 2024 |
Microsoft Offloads The Mono Project To Wine | 27 Aug 2024 |
More WINE News | 959 Articles |
X.Org |
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 |
X.Org Server Change Allows GLAMOR To Fallback To Software Rendering For Obsolete GPUs | 11 Apr 2024 |
Explicit GPU Synchronization Merged For XWayland | 09 Apr 2024 |
More X.Org News | 1209 Articles |