AMD |
AMD's GPUOpen Releases Updated RGP, RGA & RMV Tools For Developers | 21 Sep 2023 |
AMD ZenDNN 4.1 Released For Speeding Up Deep Learning Inference On Ryzen / EPYC CPUs | 15 Sep 2023 |
AMD Versal HBM Adaptive SoCs Enter Production | 13 Sep 2023 |
Expanded Platform Support For AMD Dynamic Boost Control Being Worked On For Linux | 08 Sep 2023 |
AMD UIF 1.2 Released With Initial Radeon GPU Support | 07 Sep 2023 |
AMD Preferred Core Patches Updated For Linux | 06 Sep 2023 |
AMD Open Hardware Competition Winners Announced For 2023 | 05 Sep 2023 |
Some AMD CPUs To Benefit From New Micro-Optimization In Linux 6.6 | 05 Sep 2023 |
AMD Publishes SEV Firmware As Open-Source | 30 Aug 2023 |
AMD ROCm 5.6.1 Compute Stack Released With A Few Fixes | 30 Aug 2023 |
More AMD News | 1583 Articles |
Apple |
Asahi Linux's Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant | 22 Aug 2023 |
Apple Studio Display Linux Driver Published To Control The Backlight | 01 Jul 2023 |
Experimental OpenGL 3.1 Support For Apple M1/M2 Graphics On Linux | 06 Jun 2023 |
Apple Announces The M2 Ultra SoC - 24 Core CPU, Up To 192GB Unified Memory | 05 Jun 2023 |
Apple M1/M2 Keyboard Backlight Support Set For The Linux 6.4 Kernel | 17 Apr 2023 |
Linux 6.4 Bringing Apple M2 Additions For 2022 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac Mini | 06 Apr 2023 |
Linux GMUX Support For T2 Macs On The Way For Dual-GPU Graphics Switching | 12 Mar 2023 |
Initial Rust DRM Abstractions, AGX Apple DRM Driver Posted For Review | 07 Mar 2023 |
Asahi AGX Mesa Driver Prepares For Compute Kernels On Apple Silicon | 06 Mar 2023 |
Another Attempt Made To Upstream An Apple Touch Bar Linux Driver | 10 Feb 2023 |
More Apple News | 116 Articles |
Arch Linux |
Archinstall 2.6 Released For Latest Easy-To-Use Arch Linux Installer | 31 Jul 2023 |
Arch Linux Installer Archinstall 2.6 Preparing New Features | 17 Jul 2023 |
Arch Linux Completes Its Git Migration | 21 May 2023 |
Arch Linux Prepares For Repository Changes, Discontinuing SVN Access | 16 May 2023 |
Arch Linux Installer v2.5.4 Adds Initial Swapfile Support | 29 Mar 2023 |
Arch-Powered Manjaro 22.0 Released With Xfce 4.18 Desktop, Linux 6.1 Kernel | 24 Dec 2022 |
Archinstall 2.5.1 Released With A Number Of Fixes For The Arch Linux Installer | 25 Sep 2022 |
Archinstall 2.5-rc1 For Easily Installing Arch Linux | 31 Aug 2022 |
EndeavourOS 22.6 "Artemis" Released With Improved Arm Support, WirePlumber In Use | 25 Jun 2022 |
The Bizarre Case Of Zstd's Very Slow Performance On Arch Linux | 18 Jun 2022 |
More Arch Linux News | 114 Articles |
Arm |
Linux 6.6 Adds Support For Intel Agilex 5 FPGAs, Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 | 30 Aug 2023 |
Ampere Computing Publishes Guide For Steam Play Games On Their AArch64 Server CPUs | 27 Aug 2023 |
Arm Talks Up Their Open-Source Contributions, Adding Support For Panfrost | 20 Jul 2023 |
Arm Guarded Control Stack "GCS" Patches Debut For The Linux Kernel | 18 Jul 2023 |
Linux 6.5 On AArch64 Sees New Extensions, KPTI Cleanup | 27 Jun 2023 |
Arm Ethos-U Linux Driver Posted For Machine Learning Processor | 16 Jun 2023 |
LLVM 17 Lands Arm Neoverse-V2 Scheduling Model | 15 Jun 2023 |
Arm Details The Cortex-X4 With +15% Performance, Armv9.2 ISA | 29 May 2023 |
Initial Apple M2 Support & Other 64-bit ARM Changes For Linux 6.4 | 25 Apr 2023 |
Arm Scalable Matrix Extension 2 "SME2" Support Lands In GNU Binutils | 30 Mar 2023 |
More Arm News | 308 Articles |
BSD |
FreeBSD 14 Beta Released - Initial WiFi 6 Support, Updated LLVM Toolchain, Fwget Utility | 09 Sep 2023 |
MidnightBSD 3.1 Released With Ravenports Integration | 30 Aug 2023 |
FreeBSD Experimenting With A Port Of NVIDIA's Linux Open DRM Kernel Driver | 21 Aug 2023 |
FreeBSD 14 Alpha 2 Available For Testing - The Last Series For 32-bit Platforms | 19 Aug 2023 |
FreeBSD Working On Support For LinuxBoot, Going From 256 To 1024 CPU Core Limit | 27 Jul 2023 |
OpenBSD Finally Lands Support For Updating AMD CPU Microcode | 24 Jul 2023 |
FreeBSD Celebrating Its 30th Anniversary | 18 Jun 2023 |
FreeBSD Has A Great Start To 2023 With Numerous Accomplishments | 21 Apr 2023 |
FreeBSD 13.2 Released With WireGuard Driver, ASLR By Default For 64-bit Executables | 11 Apr 2023 |
OpenBSD 7.3 Released With AMD RDNA3 Graphics, Guided Disk Encryption | 10 Apr 2023 |
More BSD News | 799 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 |
Coreboot-Based Dasharo Updated For MSI Z690-A With Raptor Lake S, MSI FLASHBIOS | 12 Sep 2023 |
Initial AMD EPYC Genoa Support Added To Coreboot, New Onyx Motherboard Target | 03 Sep 2023 |
Coreboot 4.21 Brings More System76 Laptops, Star Labs & MSI Z790-P Support | 25 Aug 2023 |
Coreboot Lands Support For The MSI PRO Z790-P Motherboards | 24 Aug 2023 |
Coreboot's amdfwtool Updated For EPYC Genoa | 21 Aug 2023 |
Coreboot Lands Support For The HP EliteBook 820 G2 | 05 Aug 2023 |
System76 Darter Pro 9 / Serval WS 13 / Galago Pro 7 Land In Upstream Coreboot | 19 Jul 2023 |
Libreboot 20230625 Released With A Few More Old Systems Added | 26 Jun 2023 |
Libreboot To Provide New Firmware ROMs With CPU Microcode Removed | 20 Jun 2023 |
System76's Coreboot Open Firmware Manages To Disable Intel ME For Raptor Lake | 02 Jun 2023 |
More Coreboot News | 266 Articles |
Debian |
Debian Dropping Its 32-bit MIPS Little Endian "mipsel" Port | 02 Sep 2023 |
LoongArch "Loong64" Added To Debian Ports | 16 Aug 2023 |
Devuan 5.0 Released For Debian 12 Without systemd | 15 Aug 2023 |
Building Debian For RISC-V Currently Relies Upon Nine HiFive Unmatched Boards | 31 Jul 2023 |
RISC-V Is Now An Official Debian Architecture | 23 Jul 2023 |
Debian 12.1 Released With Many Bug Fixes | 22 Jul 2023 |
Debian GNU/Hurd 2023 Released | 12 Jun 2023 |
Debian 13 "Trixie" Aiming To Ship With RISC-V 64-Bit Support | 10 Jun 2023 |
Debian 12.0 Released - Powered By Linux 6.1 LTS, Easier Non-Free Firmware Handling | 10 Jun 2023 |
Debian 12 "Bookworm" Set For Release Next Week With Around 100 Known Bugs | 04 Jun 2023 |
More Debian News | 405 Articles |
Desktop |
XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.17.1 Released With Accent Color Support | 29 Aug 2023 |
Budgie 10.8 Linux Desktop Released | 20 Aug 2023 |
System76 COSMIC Desktop Ironing Out Support For Themes, Application API | 12 Aug 2023 |
Window Maker 0.96 Released For Window Manager Inspired By NeXTSTEP UI | 07 Aug 2023 |
COSMIC Desktop Implements Fractional Scaling, Wallpaper Settings | 14 Jul 2023 |
HarfBuzz 8.0 Released - Introduces Shaper For WebAssembly Within Font Files | 09 Jul 2023 |
SDDM 0.20 Display Manager Released With Experimental Wayland Greeter | 23 Jun 2023 |
NsCDE 2.3 Released For Modern Desktop Looking Like The Old CDE | 16 Jun 2023 |
System76's COSMIC Desktop Enhancing Its Auto-Tiling | 15 Jun 2023 |
IceWM 3.4 Released With Improved Keybindings Handling | 05 Jun 2023 |
More Desktop News | 441 Articles |
Fedora |
Fedora 39 Beta Released With Faster DNF, GNOME 45 Desktop | 19 Sep 2023 |
Fedora 40 Eyes Dropping GNOME X11 Session Support | 19 Sep 2023 |
Fedora 40 Looks To Offer KDE Plasma 6 Desktop, Drop The KDE X11 Session | 13 Sep 2023 |
Thunderbird 115 Will Be Rolling Out To Fedora Users | 24 Aug 2023 |
Fedora Workstation 39 Planning To Drop Custom Qt Theming | 23 Aug 2023 |
Upgraded GNU Compiler Toolchain Approved For Fedora 39 | 11 Aug 2023 |
Fedora Asahi Remix Coming For Fedora Linux On Apple Silicon Hardware | 02 Aug 2023 |
DNF5 Isn't Ready For Fedora 39 - Now Delayed To Fedora 41 | 27 Jul 2023 |
Fedora Looking To Better Alert Server Administrators Around Firmware Updates | 22 Jul 2023 |
Fedora 39 Aims For A Colored Bash Prompt | 07 Jul 2023 |
More Fedora News | 1160 Articles |
Free Software |
XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.18 Released With Accent Color Support, New Clipboard & Input Capture Portals | 18 Sep 2023 |
Servo Browser Engine Enables New Default UI, Improves Crash Error Page, Replaces OpenSSL | 15 Sep 2023 |
PostgreSQL 16 Released With More Performance Improvements, SIMD For x86 & Arm | 14 Sep 2023 |
OpenSSL 3.2 Alpha Released With Client-Side QUIC, Raw Public Key, SM4-XTS | 07 Sep 2023 |
OpenColorIO 2.3 Released With New AVX/AVX2 Optimizations | 01 Sep 2023 |
ClamAV 1.2 Now Extracts UDF Partitions, New systemd Timer | 29 Aug 2023 |
libavif 1.0 Released With Stable ABI, Experimental AV2 Support | 28 Aug 2023 |
Firefox 117 Beta 8 vs. Google Chrome 116 Linux Browser Performance | 18 Aug 2023 |
SysVinit 3.08 Released With A Couple Patches | 18 Aug 2023 |
Linux Containers Forks LXD Project As "Incus" | 07 Aug 2023 |
More Free Software News | 1902 Articles |
GNOME |
GNOME 45 Released With New Apps, New Activities Indicator | 20 Sep 2023 |
GNOME 45.rc Brings GDM Wayland Multi-Seat, More libadwaita Adoption | 09 Sep 2023 |
GNOME Mutter 45 Release Candidate Brings Meta Toolkit Library, Other Last Minute Work | 06 Sep 2023 |
GNOME's Sysprof Adds FlameGraphs To Better Visualize Output | 26 Aug 2023 |
GNOME's Sysprof Integrates CPU Scheduler Data | 22 Aug 2023 |
GNOME 45 Beta Released With Many Improvements | 18 Aug 2023 |
GNOME Shell & Mutter 45 Betas Released | 08 Aug 2023 |
GNOME 45's Mutter Implements A Dedicated KMS Thread | 07 Aug 2023 |
GTK 4.12 Released With Many Vulkan Backend Improvements | 06 Aug 2023 |
GNOME Developers Working To Rethink Their Window Management Approach | 27 Jul 2023 |
More GNOME News | 1218 Articles |
GNU |
Glibc Lands HWCAPs Support For LoongArch | 20 Sep 2023 |
GCC Preparing To Introduce "-fhardened" Security Hardening Option | 15 Sep 2023 |
GNU Assembler Starts Getting Ready For Intel AVX10.1 | 14 Sep 2023 |
GNU Boot 0.1 RC1 Released For This Coreboot/Libreboot Fork | 11 Sep 2023 |
uutils 0.0.21 Released With More Improvements For GNU Coreutils Written In Rust | 04 Sep 2023 |
GNU Coreutils 9.4 Adds Experimental "--enable-systemd" Option, Faster Split | 29 Aug 2023 |
Glibc Git Lands Another FMA-Optimized Function - 24% Mean Improvement | 14 Aug 2023 |
Glibc log2 Function Up To 69% Faster Thanks To FMA | 13 Aug 2023 |
Haiku OS Support Upstreamed Into GCC Compiler | 11 Aug 2023 |
GNU C Library 2.38 Released With More C2X Features, x86_64 GNU Hurd Support | 31 Jul 2023 |
More GNU News | 1041 Articles |
Google |
Google Preparing To Rollout Stable Chrome Releases Even Faster | 30 Aug 2023 |
Google Announces C3A Instances Coming, Powered By AmpereOne CPUs | 29 Aug 2023 |
Linux 6.6 To Support Rumble / Force Feedback On Google Stadia Controllers | 18 Aug 2023 |
Chrome 116 Released With Document Picture-In-Picture API | 15 Aug 2023 |
Go 2 For "Breaking With The Past" Will Never Come | 14 Aug 2023 |
Google May Reconsider JPEG-XL Image Support Within Chrome | 07 Aug 2023 |
Google's BBRv3 TCP Congestion Control Showing Great Results, Will Be Upstreamed To Linux | 07 Aug 2023 |
Google Chrome Rolling Out Support For Per-Display Scaling Factors | 20 Jul 2023 |
Google Revises New Driver For Stadia Controller Rumble Support On Linux | 10 Jul 2023 |
Google Limiting IO_uring Use Due To Security Vulnerabilities | 16 Jun 2023 |
More Google News | 557 Articles |
Hardware |
HiSilicon Posts SMT Run-Time Control Patches For ARM64 Linux | 20 Sep 2023 |
Linux 6.7 To Add POWER-Z Driver For Exposing USB Power Measurements | 17 Sep 2023 |
Linux 6.6-rc2 Picking Up Quirk For ASUS ROG Flow X16 Tablet Mode Handling | 12 Sep 2023 |
LoongArch With Linux 6.6 Adds KGDB/KDB, KFence, KASAN, LBT Binary Translation | 09 Sep 2023 |
Linux Driver Preparing Support For ASUS Screenpad On High-End Laptops | 08 Sep 2023 |
New ASUS Laptop Features & HP BIOS Settings Driver For Linux 6.6 | 07 Sep 2023 |
XPad Driver Extends Gaming Controller Support With Linux 6.6 | 07 Sep 2023 |
Linux 6.6 Adds New Sound Support For AMD Van Gogh, Valve Galileo | 05 Sep 2023 |
AMD P-State Fixes & Other Power Management Changes For Linux 6.6 | 04 Sep 2023 |
AMD Patches To Generate DeviceTree Nodes For PCI Devices Merged In Linux 6.6 | 01 Sep 2023 |
More Hardware News | 2015 Articles |
Intel |
Intel To Further Collaborate With Red Hat, Canonical & SUSE For Intel-Optimized Linux Distros | 20 Sep 2023 |
Project Amber Officially Launches As The Intel Trust Authority | 20 Sep 2023 |
Intel Innovation 2023 Kicks Off With Meteor Lake & Emerald Rapids Launch Date: 14 Dec | 19 Sep 2023 |
New Scheduler Optimization Can Help Out PostgreSQL & More On Sapphire Rapids | 18 Sep 2023 |
Linux 6.7 Set To Drop Support For Itanium IA-64 | 18 Sep 2023 |
OpenVINO 2023.1 Released - More GenAI, Expanded LLM Support & Meteor Lake VPU | 18 Sep 2023 |
Intel Starts Work On Enabling "Xe2" Graphics Within Their Open-Source Mesa Drivers | 15 Sep 2023 |
Intel IFS Driver Prepares For Granite Rapids & Sierra Forest | 14 Sep 2023 |
Intel Compute Runtime 23.26.26690.22 Is A Big Update For Intel's OpenCL/L0 Stack | 13 Sep 2023 |
Intel Announces Thunderbolt 5 With 120 Gbps Bandwidth Boost | 12 Sep 2023 |
More Intel News | 2766 Articles |
KDE |
KDE On Wayland: "The Biggest Thing Needed Now Is Adoption By 3rd Party Apps" | 18 Sep 2023 |
KDE Plasma 6.0 Lands More Performance Optimizations, Better Wayland Gaming Experience | 16 Sep 2023 |
KDE Lands More Power Management Tuning, Behaves Better On Btrfs File-Systems | 09 Sep 2023 |
KDE Frameworks 6 & Qt6'ed Gear Apps Will Release Alongside Plasma 6.0 In February | 07 Sep 2023 |
KDE Plasma 6.0 Planned For Release In Early February | 07 Sep 2023 |
KDE Plasma 6 & KWin See More Performance Tuning This Week | 02 Sep 2023 |
KDE Plasma 6 Now Enables Tap-To-Click By Default | 26 Aug 2023 |
KDE Gear 23.08 Released With Kalendar Becoming Merkuro, Many App Improvements | 24 Aug 2023 |
KDE Plasma 6 Default Behavior Is Now Double-Click For Opening Files/Folders | 19 Aug 2023 |
KDE Apps Now Support QOI Images, Plasma 6 Development Continues | 12 Aug 2023 |
More KDE News | 1246 Articles |
LibreOffice |
LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6 | 22 Aug 2023 |
LibreOffice 7.6 Now Available For This Best Free Software Office Suite | 21 Aug 2023 |
LibreOffice Lands APNG Export Support | 13 Aug 2023 |
LibreOffice 7.6 RC2 Available For Last Minute Testing Of This Open-Source Office Suite | 03 Aug 2023 |
LibreOffice 7.6 RC1 Available For Testing Out The New Open-Source Office Suite Features | 12 Jul 2023 |
LibreOffice 7.6 Beta Available For This Excellent Open-Source Office Suite | 14 Jun 2023 |
LibreOffice 7.6 Alpha 1 Available For This Leading Open-Source Office Suite | 12 May 2023 |
LibreOffice 7.5 Released With Improved Dark Mode, Better PDF Exporting | 02 Feb 2023 |
LibreOffice Removes Support For Some Old Targets: AIX, 32-bit s390 & More | 28 Jan 2023 |
LibreOffice 7.5 RC1 Available For Testing This Leading Free Software Office Suite | 27 Dec 2022 |
More LibreOffice News | 178 Articles |
Linux Events |
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 |
Linux App Summit 2020 Videos Now Available From Steam/Valve To GNOME Circle | 14 Nov 2020 |
OpenPOWER Summit 2020 Was This Week With Many Interesting Hardware/Software Talks | 20 Sep 2020 |
More Linux Events News | 82 Articles |
Linux Gaming |
AMD Linux Gaming Performance Largely Unchanged With Linux 6.6 Git | 16 Sep 2023 |
sdl12-compat 1.2.66 Gets More Games/Software Working On This SDL2 Portability Layer | 14 Sep 2023 |
Stadia Controller Rumbles & New Gaming Peripherals Supported By Linux 6.6 | 03 Sep 2023 |
Box64 0.2.4 Released - Some x86-64 Games Now Playable On RISC-V | 19 Aug 2023 |
CrossOver 23 Enables EA App On Linux, Many Fixes | 16 Aug 2023 |
Godot 4.1 Released With More Improvements To This Open-Source Game Engine | 06 Jul 2023 |
Steam Beta Brings Fix For Linux Gamers Running Openbox, NVIDIA Crash Fix | 06 Jul 2023 |
Unigine 2.17 Brings Production-Ready Vulkan & DX12 Support | 02 Jul 2023 |
Xonotic 0.8.6 Released With Various In-Game Improvements | 22 Jun 2023 |
Sound Quirks For The ASUS ROG Ally Queued For Linux 6.5 | 22 Jun 2023 |
More Linux Gaming News | 1933 Articles |
Linux Kernel |
Linux 6.6-rc2 Released - 32 Years Since Linux 0.01 Released | 17 Sep 2023 |
Linux's SLUB Allocator Preparing To Better Fend Off Cross-Cache Attacks | 17 Sep 2023 |
NBCON Console Patches Updated For Eventually Unblocking Real-Time Linux Kernel | 17 Sep 2023 |
Linux 6.7 To Make It Easier To Toggle Support For x86 32-bit Programs | 14 Sep 2023 |
Real-Time "RT" Patches Updated Against Linux 6.6 Git | 13 Sep 2023 |
Following Criticism By Linus Torvalds, GenPD Subsystem Renamed To "pmdomain" | 13 Sep 2023 |
Linux 6.6 Enables Tracking Per-CPU Cgroup CPU Usage Stats | 11 Sep 2023 |
Linux 6.6-rc1 Released With EEVDF, AMD DBC & Intel Shadow Stack But No Bcachefs | 10 Sep 2023 |
Linux 6.6 WQ Change May Help Out AMD CPUs & Other Systems With Multiple L3 Caches | 10 Sep 2023 |
DRM CI Merged Into Linux 6.6 - Linus Torvalds: "Let's See Where It Goes" | 10 Sep 2023 |
More Linux Kernel News | 3371 Articles |
Linux Networking |
TCP Authentication Option "TCP-AO" Support Nears For The Linux Kernel | 12 Sep 2023 |
Wget2 2.1 Brings New Options, Proxies For Non-Default Ports, Better SSL Code | 01 Sep 2023 |
Intel Gale Peak, New BPF Features & Other Networking Changes For Linux 6.6 | 29 Aug 2023 |
Rust Abstractions Posted For Sockets & Other Fundamental Network Bits | 14 Aug 2023 |
Intel's ConnMan 1.42 Released With Fixes, New Time Zone Options | 05 Aug 2023 |
Ultra Ethernet Consortium Started By LF, Intel, AMD, Meta, HPE & Others | 19 Jul 2023 |
Linux 6.5 Continues Making Preparations For WiFi 7, Enabling New Hardware | 30 Jun 2023 |
Experimental Patches For Rust-Written Linux Network Drivers | 04 Jun 2023 |
Linux 6.4 Has Many Networking Changes From A New Performance Tunable To More WiFi 7 | 01 May 2023 |
Cloudflare Outlines How They Rewrote An Nginx C Module In Rust | 26 Feb 2023 |
More Linux Networking News | 244 Articles |
Linux Security |
Red Hat Working On Delayed Module Signature Verification To Speed-Up Linux Boot Times | 15 Sep 2023 |
SELinux In Linux 6.6 Removes References To Its Origins At The US NSA | 29 Aug 2023 |
Linux 6.6 Adding Randomized Kmalloc Caches For Further System Hardening | 29 Aug 2023 |
Linux 6.5 Patches Merged For Intel GDS/DOWNFALL, AMD INCEPTION | 08 Aug 2023 |
Linux 6.1 To 6.5 Git Quietly Patched For "StackRot" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability | 06 Jul 2023 |
Microsoft Aims For Greater Script Execution Control On Linux | 13 May 2023 |
Oracle Updates TrenchBoot Secure Dynamic Launch Support For Linux | 08 May 2023 |
Linux 6.4 Allows For Optional CA Enforcement Of The Machine Keyring | 24 Apr 2023 |
SELinux In Linux 6.4 Removes Run-Time Disabling Support | 24 Apr 2023 |
Linux Will Stop Randomizing Per-CPU Entry Area When KASLR Is Not Active | 26 Mar 2023 |
More Linux Security News | 267 Articles |
Linux Storage |
PuzzleFS Continues Striving To Be The Best File-System For Containers | 21 Sep 2023 |
Linux Patches To Begin Removing ReiserFS From Default Kernel Builds | 18 Sep 2023 |
Bcachefs Merged Into Linux-Next | 12 Sep 2023 |
Linux 6.6 SMB Client To Allow Adjusting Cache Time For Directory Contents | 10 Sep 2023 |
KSMBD Declared Stable - No Longer "Experimental" - In Linux 6.6 | 09 Sep 2023 |
Bcachefs Looks Like It Won't Make It For Linux 6.6 | 08 Sep 2023 |
OpenZFS 2.2-rc4 Delivers Last Minute Fixes | 08 Sep 2023 |
Linus Torvalds Comments On Bcachefs Prospects For Linux 6.6 | 06 Sep 2023 |
CephFS Completes Multi-Year Effort Adding FSCRYPT Support | 06 Sep 2023 |
FUSE Adds Initial Support For Statx, File Birth Times For File-Systems In User-Space | 06 Sep 2023 |
More Linux Storage News | 874 Articles |
LLVM |
LLVM 17.0 + Clang 17.0 Released With Many New Compiler Features | 19 Sep 2023 |
LLVM Clang Now Supports -std=c23 | 11 Aug 2023 |
LLVM 17.0-rc1 Released With Nearly 38k Commits | 29 Jul 2023 |
LLVM 18 Lands -march=arrowlake / arrowlake-s / lunarlake | 28 Jul 2023 |
Unified LTO Bitcode Front-End Comes Together For LLVM | 26 Jul 2023 |
LLVM 17 Adds New ISA Support For Intel Arrow Lake S & Lunar Lake | 20 Jul 2023 |
LLVM Lands Initial Support For Fat LTO Objects | 02 Jul 2023 |
New Patches Allow LoongArch ClangBuiltLinux Builds | 25 Jun 2023 |
LLVM Clang 17 Now Defaulting To OpenMP 5.1 | 21 Jun 2023 |
LLVM Flang Begins Seeing NVIDIA CUDA Fortran Support | 04 Jun 2023 |
More LLVM News | 724 Articles |
LVFS |
Fwupd 1.9.5 Released With Optional Passim Support, Firmware Updating For New Devices | 04 Sep 2023 |
Fwupd 1.9.4 Released With Linux Firmware Updating For More Devices | 22 Aug 2023 |
Fwupd 1.9.3 Adds Linux Firmware Updating Support For A Few New Devices | 11 Jul 2023 |
Fwupd 1.9.2 Released With Support For Firmware Updating On More Hardware | 12 Jun 2023 |
Fwupd 1.9.1 Released With Many Bug Fixes, New Capabilities | 13 May 2023 |
Fwupd 1.8.15 Released With Support For Updating More Device Firmware Under Linux | 12 May 2023 |
Fwupd 1.8.13 Adds Firmware Updating For Framework's Audio Card, ThinkPad TBT3-TR Gen 2 | 28 Mar 2023 |
How Cloudflare Updates The BIOS & Firmware Across Thousands Of Servers | 14 Mar 2023 |
Fwupd 1.8.11 Released With Fixes, Firmware Updating For CalDigit Devices | 23 Feb 2023 |
Fwupd 1.8.9 Released With Support For More Solidigm NVMe SSDs, More USB Docks | 03 Jan 2023 |
More LVFS News | 73 Articles |
Mesa |
Mesa 23.1.8 Released While Waiting On Mesa 23.2 | 21 Sep 2023 |
Mesa 23.3 Lands Optional Support For Allowing Game Tearing On Wayland | 11 Sep 2023 |
RADV Ray-Tracing Monolithic Pipelines Support Merged For Better Performance | 11 Sep 2023 |
Mesa 23.3 Fixes Zink Rendering For X.Org/XWayland GLAMOR | 10 Sep 2023 |
TURNIP Vulkan Driver Lands Initial Support For Adreno A730/A740 GPUs | 07 Sep 2023 |
Mesa 23.2-rc3 Released After Five Week Hiatus | 05 Sep 2023 |
Mesa's Vulkan WSI/Wayland Code Adds "IMMEDIATE" Present Mode Support | 24 Aug 2023 |
RADV Implements NVIDIA DGC Compute Extension | 23 Aug 2023 |
Mesa Adds GPUVis Integration - GPU Trace Visualizer | 20 Aug 2023 |
Mesa 23.1.6 Released With Many Graphics Driver Fixes | 16 Aug 2023 |
More Mesa News | 2316 Articles |
Microsoft |
Microsoft Releases A Big Update To Windows Subsystem For Linux, New Experimental Options | 18 Sep 2023 |
Microsoft Issues Updated CBL-Mariner Linux Distro With Many Security Fixes | 13 Sep 2023 |
Microsoft's CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distro Adds DNF5, Zstd-Compressed RPMs | 10 Aug 2023 |
Microsoft's CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distribution Adds Clippy | 03 Aug 2023 |
Microsoft's CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230630 Ships Security Fixes, Adds In Some Extra Bits | 18 Jul 2023 |
Microsoft Adds Direct3D 12 Powered AV1 Video Encoding To Mesa | 28 Jun 2023 |
Microsoft's Linux Distro Now Ships With NVMe Multi-Path Support, Upgrades More Tools | 15 Jun 2023 |
WSL 1.3.10 Brings Experimental Memory Reclaim, Updated DXCore & Linux Kernel | 14 Jun 2023 |
Linux 6.5 To Enable Rumble Support For Newer Microsoft Xbox Controllers | 12 Jun 2023 |
Microsoft's CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution Now Ships The AMD Graphics Driver | 25 May 2023 |
More Microsoft News | 327 Articles |
Mozilla |
Firefox 117 Available With Local Automated Translation Support | 28 Aug 2023 |
Firefox Lands Wayland Fractional Scaling Support | 16 Aug 2023 |
Firefox Finally Outperforming Google Chrome In SunSpider | 15 Aug 2023 |
Mozilla Firefox 116 Now Available - Capable Of Wayland-Only Builds | 31 Jul 2023 |
Thunderbird 115 Now Available & It Looks Fantastic | 11 Jul 2023 |
Firefox 115 Now Available With Intel GPU Video Decoding On Linux | 04 Jul 2023 |
Mozilla Firefox 116 To Allow For Wayland-Only Builds | 26 Jun 2023 |
Firefox 114 Available With WebTransport Enabled, Continued DNS Over HTTPS Work | 05 Jun 2023 |
Firefox 113 Available With Animated AV1 Image Support (AVIS) | 09 May 2023 |
Firefox 113 Beta Adds Animated AV1 Image Support | 11 Apr 2023 |
More Mozilla News | 398 Articles |
Multimedia |
Linux 6.6 Lands Support For The Cirrus Logic CS42L43 Audio Codec | 07 Sep 2023 |
Google Releases libaom 3.7 AV1 Encoder With More Optimizations | 01 Sep 2023 |
OBS Studio 30 Beta Brings Intel QSV On Linux, WHIP/WebRTC Output | 17 Aug 2023 |
MPV Player 0.36 Released With Wayland Fractional Scaling, Vulkan Video Decode | 23 Jul 2023 |
More MIDI 2.0 Code Being Worked On For The Linux Kernel | 17 Jul 2023 |
Intel Releases libva 2.19 VA-API Video Acceleration Library For Windows & Linux | 12 Jul 2023 |
Mediatek Gains Stateless AV1/HEVC Codecs, Intel Atom ISP Driver Getting Fit | 07 Jul 2023 |
MIDI 2.0 Support, Intel Lunar Lake Audio & AMD SoundWire Additions For Linux 6.5 | 28 Jun 2023 |
SVT-AV1 1.6 Squeezes Out Even More Performance For CPU-Based AV1 Encoding | 19 Jun 2023 |
Virtual PCM Test Driver Coming With Linux 6.5 To Help With Audio Testing & Fuzzing | 13 Jun 2023 |
More Multimedia News | 571 Articles |
Nouveau |
The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source "Nouveau" Linux Kernel Driver Resigns | 18 Sep 2023 |
Nouveau Patches Posted For Running On NVIDIA GSP-RM Firmware, Initial RTX 40 Ada Support | 18 Sep 2023 |
Nouveau Kernel Driver Changes For Supporting NVK Vulkan Submitted To DRM-Next | 10 Aug 2023 |
NVK Merge Request Opened For Landing Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver In Mesa | 26 Jul 2023 |
NVK Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver Progresses On Running Some Games | 26 Jun 2023 |
NVK Vulkan Driver Working Toward YCbCr Support This Summer | 18 Jun 2023 |
Linux 6.4 Lands Fix For Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Use-After-Free Issue | 17 Jun 2023 |
The Nasty Linux 6.3 Nouveau Driver Bug Appears To Have Been Figured Out | 16 Jun 2023 |
It's Recommended To Avoid Using The Open-Source NVIDIA Driver On Linux 6.3 | 14 Jun 2023 |
NVK Open-Source Vulkan Driver Development Progressing On Nearly Decade Old GTX 980M | 08 May 2023 |
More Nouveau News | 472 Articles |
NVIDIA |
NVIDIA Preparing Their Linux InfiniBand Driver For 800Gb/s XDR | 20 Sep 2023 |
Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver | 29 Aug 2023 |
NVIDIA 535.104.05 Fixes An Issue Using The Open Kernel Driver With SLI | 22 Aug 2023 |
NVIDIA BIOS Signature Lock Broken - What Caused Open-Source Pains For Years | 21 Aug 2023 |
NVIDIA 535.98 Linux Driver Released With Several Fixes | 08 Aug 2023 |
Mesa Lands Initial Open-Source Support For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 GPUs | 19 Jul 2023 |
NVIDIA 535.86.05 Linux Driver Fixes Excessive Memory Use, Kernel Panic On Full vRAM | 18 Jul 2023 |
NVIDIA CUDA 12.2 Released With Linux HMM Support | 28 Jun 2023 |
NVIDIA 535.54.03 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Updates, DMA-BUF v4 Wayland Protocol | 14 Jun 2023 |
NVIDIA SHIELD Controller Driver Coming With Linux 6.5 | 10 Jun 2023 |
More NVIDIA News | 1054 Articles |
Operating Systems |
ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Shown Running On Valve's Steam Deck | 14 Sep 2023 |
Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 Reaches Beta | 13 Sep 2023 |
Manjaro 23.0 Released With GNOME 44, KDE Plasma 5.27 & Xfce 4.18 Desktop Options | 05 Sep 2023 |
Armbian 23.08 Released With Work-In-Progress ThinkPad X13s Support, New SBCs | 04 Sep 2023 |
Linux From Scratch 12.0 Published For Rolling Your Own Linux Build | 01 Sep 2023 |
CentOS ISA SIG Experimenting With New x86-64 Baseline For Better Performance | 28 Aug 2023 |
An Automated Gentoo Linux System Updater Developed Via GSoC | 28 Aug 2023 |
Mageia 9 Released With SQLite-Based RPM Package Database, Zstd Compressed Images | 27 Aug 2023 |
OpenMandriva ROME 23.08 Brings KDE Plasma 6 TP Option, Continues With AMD Zen Spin | 24 Aug 2023 |
Distrobox Adds Support For ChromeOS - Allowing More Linux Apps To Run On Chromebooks | 16 Aug 2023 |
More Operating Systems News | 958 Articles |
Oracle |
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 |
Oracle Releases GraalVM 22.3, GraalVM CE Java Code Going To OpenJDK | 25 Oct 2022 |
Oracle Linux 9 Reaches GA With Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R7 | 06 Jul 2022 |
RHEL9-Derived Oracle Linux 9 Developer Preview Released With 5.15-Based UEK Kernel | 14 Jun 2022 |
GraalVM CE 22.1 Released With Performance Improvements, Apple Silicon Support | 26 Apr 2022 |
Oracle Releases Solaris 11.4 "CBE" Free For Open-Source Developers / Non-Production Use | 12 Apr 2022 |
More Oracle News | 283 Articles |
Phoronix |
Inception & Downfall, Linux 6.6 Development Kicking Off & Other August Highlights | 01 Sep 2023 |
AMD Linux CPU Benchmarks Dominated July From The Z1 Extreme To EPYC Genoa-X & Bergamo | 01 Aug 2023 |
What's Excited Open-Source Enthusiasts & Linux Users The Most So Far In 2023 | 30 Jun 2023 |
Phoronix.com Turns 19 Years Old For Covering Linux Hardware, Open-Source News | 05 Jun 2023 |
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AMD RX 7600, Intel X86-S & Other Exciting Linux/Open-Source News From May | 01 Jun 2023 |
Silly Open-Source Moves, AMD openSIL & Rust Happenings Made For An Interesting Month | 30 Apr 2023 |
Intel Linux Improvements, AMD openSIL, Zen 4 3D V-Cache & Other March Highlights | 02 Apr 2023 |
New AMD Ryzen CPUs, Intel Sapphire Rapids, Rust Adoption & More In Q1 | 31 Mar 2023 |
Linux 6.2, Linux 6.3 Developments, KDE Plasma 5.27 & More Made For An Exciting Month | 28 Feb 2023 |
More Phoronix News | 656 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 |
PipeWire 0.3.80 Released With Vulkan DMA-BUF Support, Tag Param | 14 Sep 2023 |
Firefox 116 Should Have Experimental PipeWire Camera Support | 16 Jun 2023 |
PipeWire 0.3.71 Released With Performance Improvements, Zero Latency JACK D-Bus Bridge | 17 May 2023 |
PipeWire 0.3.68 Released With New RTP Session Module, Many Other Changes | 06 Apr 2023 |
PipeWire 0.3.67 Fixes Stuttering For Some Bluetooth Devices | 09 Mar 2023 |
PipeWire 0.3.62 Released With Bluetooth Offloading Support | 09 Dec 2022 |
PipeWire 0.3.60 Released With Many Fixes, Improvements | 10 Nov 2022 |
PipeWire 0.3.57 Adds AAC Decoder, Opus For Bluetooth | 03 Sep 2022 |
PipeWire 0.3.52 Released To Continue Enhancing Linux Audio/Video Streams | 09 Jun 2022 |
PipeWire 0.3.46 Released With Critical Bug Fixes, Better Sound Sharing With Zoom | 17 Feb 2022 |
More PipeWire News | 32 Articles |
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Programming |
Java 21 / JDK 21 Reaches GA With Virtual Threads, Generational ZGC | 19 Sep 2023 |
LWJGL 3.3.3 Released With Updated Bindings, GraalVM Native Image Support | 16 Sep 2023 |
PoCL-Remote Allows OpenCL To Be Transparently Used Across Networked Systems | 05 Sep 2023 |
OpenBLAS 0.3.24 Released With Intel Sapphire Rapids Improvements, Apple M2 Detection | 03 Sep 2023 |
PHP 8.3 RC1 Released With json_validate, Anonymous Read-Only Classes | 31 Aug 2023 |
SQLite 3.43 Released With Up To 2x Performance For JSON Processing | 24 Aug 2023 |
Git 2.42 Released With Less Warnings For SHA-256 Usage | 21 Aug 2023 |
Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.40 Released For Small Footprint & High Performance JVM | 14 Aug 2023 |
Mold 2.1 Linker Brings LoongArch CPU Support | 13 Aug 2023 |
Go 1.21 Promotes PGO To General Use, Boosts Most Programs 2~7% With PGO | 08 Aug 2023 |
More Programming News | 553 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 6.6 Wayland Compositor Handoffs Look Promising For More Robust Experience | 11 Sep 2023 |
Qt Creator 11 Released With Integrated Terminal, GitHub Copilot Integration | 20 Jul 2023 |
Qt 6.6 Beta Released With New Qt Graphs Module, Text To Speech Improvements | 15 Jun 2023 |
Qt Creator 11 Beta Brings Integrated Terminal, GitHub Copilot | 09 Jun 2023 |
Qt Getting In On Generative AI, Starts By Adding GitHub Copilot To Qt Creator | 06 Jun 2023 |
Qt 5.15 LTS Takes Another Step Closer To Retirement | 26 May 2023 |
Qt 6.5 LTS Released With Many Improvements | 03 Apr 2023 |
Qt Creator 10 Released With Improved C++20 Support, QML Code Model From Qt 6.5 | 29 Mar 2023 |
Qt 6.4.3 Released With 300+ Fixes | 16 Mar 2023 |
The Qt Group Launches Qt Insight | 15 Mar 2023 |
More Qt News | 512 Articles |
Radeon |
AMDGPU LLVM Backend Begins Seeing Additions For New RDNA3 Refresh Instructions | 21 Sep 2023 |
AMD Releases ROCm 5.7 GPU Compute Stack | 16 Sep 2023 |
AMD To Enable Seamless Boot Across Modern Radeon Graphics Hardware | 14 Sep 2023 |
AMD AOMP 18.0-0 Compiler Brings Support For HIP Bundles, Zero Copy For MI300A | 12 Sep 2023 |
Radeon Software For Linux 23.20 Brings RX 7700 XT / RX 7800 XT Support | 07 Sep 2023 |
AMD Open-Source GPU Kernel Driver Above 5 Million Lines, Entire Linux Kernel At 34.8 Million | 31 Aug 2023 |
AMD Working On New OverDrive GPU Overclocking Controls For Linux | 30 Aug 2023 |
AMD Sends Out Patches Enabling New "DCN 3.5" GPU Display Block | 23 Aug 2023 |
Linux 6.6 AMDGPU Driver To Expose Current & Average Power For Capable GPUs | 21 Aug 2023 |
AMD Color Management Improvements For Linux & The Steam Deck Continue | 21 Aug 2023 |
More Radeon News | 1749 Articles |
Raspberry Pi |
Raspberry Pi's V3D Kernel Driver Prepares For "CPU Jobs" To Assist Vulkan | 06 Sep 2023 |
Raspberry Pi V3D Driver Gaining Per-Process GPU Usage Stats | 15 Aug 2023 |
Raspberry Pi OS Updated - Now Powered By Linux 6.1 LTS, Updated libcamera | 03 May 2023 |
Raspberry Pi Supply Chain Issues Beginning To Ease Up | 12 Dec 2022 |
Mesa's Raspberry Pi V3DV Vulkan Driver Lands New Occlusion Queries Implementation | 25 Nov 2022 |
Running The Open-Source Upstream V3D Driver On The Raspberry Pi 4 & Newer | 13 Nov 2022 |
Linux 6.2 To Put The Raspberry Pi In Good Shape For 4K @ 60Hz Displays | 03 Nov 2022 |
Raspberry Pi OS Updated With Desktop Improvements, NetworkManager, Picamera2 | 07 Sep 2022 |
Fedora 37 To Offer Official Support On Raspberry Pi 4 Devices | 02 Aug 2022 |
Raspberry Pi V3DV Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.2 | 29 Jul 2022 |
More Raspberry Pi News | 129 Articles |
Red Hat |
CentOS Starts An Integration SIG To Help Products/Services Built On RHEL / CentOS Stream | 21 Sep 2023 |
Red Hat Is Hiring To Improve The Bootloader | 10 Aug 2023 |
AlmaLinux No Longer Aims For 1:1 Compatibility With RHEL | 13 Jul 2023 |
Rocky Linux Shares How They May Continue To Obtain The RHEL Source Code | 29 Jun 2023 |
Red Hat Tries To Address Criticism Over Their Source Repository Changes | 26 Jun 2023 |
Red Hat Now Limiting RHEL Sources To CentOS Stream | 21 Jun 2023 |
Red Hat Aiming To Address IBRS Mitigation Still Being Too Costly On Performance | 19 Jun 2023 |
CentOS Stream 10 Starting To Get Underway, More Activity In 2024 | 17 Jun 2023 |
Red Hat To Stop Shipping LibreOffice In Future RHEL, Limiting Fedora LO Involvement | 02 Jun 2023 |
Fedora Program Manager Laid Off As Part Of Red Hat Cuts | 14 May 2023 |
More Red Hat News | 282 Articles |
RISC-V |
RISC-V With Linux 6.6 Offers Better Kernel Security With KASLR | 10 Sep 2023 |
New RISC-V Kernel Features Ready For Linux 6.6 | 01 Sep 2023 |
GCC 14 Adds Support For RISC-V Vector Crypto Extensions | 04 Jul 2023 |
RISC-V KASLR Support For Linux Revised Again | 12 Jun 2023 |
RISC-V Vector ISA Support Slated For Linux 6.5 | 12 Jun 2023 |
Linux Foundation Launches RISC-V Software Ecosystem Project | 31 May 2023 |
RISC-V With Linux 6.4 Adds Hibernation / Suspend-To-Disk Support | 06 May 2023 |
GCC 13 Adds RISC-V T-Head Vendor Extension Collection | 15 Mar 2023 |
RISC-V With Linux 6.3 Lands Optimized String Functions Via Zbb Extension | 25 Feb 2023 |
Microsoft .NET Runtime Lands Initial Code For RISC-V Support | 22 Feb 2023 |
More RISC-V News | 108 Articles |
Standards |
UCIe 1.1 Specification Released For Universal Chiplet Interconnect | 08 Aug 2023 |
Khronos Releases ANARI 1.0 As Cross-Platform 3D Rendering Engine API | 02 Aug 2023 |
OpenCL 3.0.14 Released With New Extension For Command Buffer Multi-Device | 18 Apr 2023 |
Khronos Developing SYCL SC For Safety-Critical C++ Heterogeneous Compute | 15 Mar 2023 |
Mobileye Provides Khronos With An Open-Source OpenCL Tensor & Tiling Library | 22 Feb 2023 |
hipSYCL Becomes Open SYCL For Targeting All Major CPUs & GPUs | 10 Feb 2023 |
PoCL 3.1 Released - Improved SPIR-V For CPU & CUDA Drivers, WIP Vulkan Driver | 05 Dec 2022 |
The Khronos Group Announces "Kamaros" As Their Newest Forthcoming API | 09 Nov 2022 |
USB4 v2.0 Specification Published For Doubling The Performance | 19 Oct 2022 |
DisplayPort 2.1 Spec Published - All DP 2.0 Devices Compatible | 17 Oct 2022 |
More Standards News | 281 Articles |
SUSE |
openSUSE Slowroll Released As A Slower Alternative To openSUSE Tumbleweed | 11 Sep 2023 |
SUSE To Be Taken Private By Its Largest Shareholder | 17 Aug 2023 |
SUSE Announces Its Forking RHEL, To Maintain A RHEL-Compatible Distro | 11 Jul 2023 |
openSUSE Leap 15.5 Released With KDE Plasma 5.27, Updated Mesa & More | 07 Jun 2023 |
openSUSE Leap 15.6 Now Planned To Provide More Time For ALP | 06 Jun 2023 |
openSUSE Aeon & openSUSE Kalpa Announced For MicroOS Desktop Spins | 31 May 2023 |
Updated SUSE ALP Prototype Focuses On Confidential Computing | 03 Apr 2023 |
openSUSE Tumbleweed Sets Great Example With x86-64-v3 HWCAPS | 06 Mar 2023 |
openSUSE Tumbleweed Rolls Out Optional x86-64-v3 Optimized Packages | 02 Mar 2023 |
openSUSE Leap 15.5 Beta Released For Testing | 21 Feb 2023 |
More SUSE News | 281 Articles |
systemd |
systemd's All Systems Go Conference Returns Next Week | 06 Sep 2023 |
systemd 254 With New Soft Reboots Feature, systemd-battery-check | 28 Jul 2023 |
systemd 254-rc2 Brings A Few More Changes | 15 Jul 2023 |
systemd 254-rc1 Deprecates SysV Scripts, Adds Soft Reboots & systemd-battery-check | 06 Jul 2023 |
systemd 253 Released With Ukify Tool, systemd-cryptenroll Unlocking Via FIDO2 Tokens | 15 Feb 2023 |
systemd 253 Is Near With RC3 Out For Testing | 10 Feb 2023 |
systemd 253-rc2 Released With More Changes To This System & Service Manager | 02 Feb 2023 |
systemd 253 RC1 Released With New "ukify" Tool | 24 Jan 2023 |
systemd's Growth Over 2022 | 28 Dec 2022 |
systemd 252 Released With systemd-measure, Other Improvements | 31 Oct 2022 |
More systemd News | 232 Articles |
Ubuntu |
Linux 6.5 Now Powering Ubuntu 23.10 | 16 Sep 2023 |
Ubuntu 23.10's Firefox Snap Enabling Wayland By Default | 16 Sep 2023 |
Ubuntu 23.04 & 22.04.3 Installs Haven't Been Following Their Own Security Best Practices | 15 Sep 2023 |
Ubuntu 23.10 Restores ZFS File-System Support In Its Installer | 13 Sep 2023 |
Ubuntu 23.10 Adding Experimental TPM-Backed Full Disk Encryption | 07 Sep 2023 |
Canonical Releases LXD 5.17 With OpenZFS 2.2 Delegation Support | 26 Aug 2023 |
Ubuntu Desktop "Charting A Course For The Future" With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Next Year | 25 Aug 2023 |
Ubuntu Delays Transition To Snap'ed CUPS Print Server | 25 Aug 2023 |
Ubuntu 23.10 Won't Be Shipping A GIMP 3.0 Snapshot | 23 Aug 2023 |
Mir 2.15 Released With Cleaning Up Some APIs, Improved Alt+Tab | 23 Aug 2023 |
More Ubuntu News | 1607 Articles |
Valve |
SteamOS 3.5 Rolls Out In Preview On The Steam Deck With Many New Features | 15 Sep 2023 |
VKD3D-Proton 2.10 Released With More Performance Improvements, Game/Driver Workarounds | 11 Sep 2023 |
DXVK-NVAPI 0.6.4 Implements HDR Support Via DXVK | 09 Sep 2023 |
DXVK 2.3 Brings Presentation Improvements, More Game Fixes, "hideNvidiaGpu" Option | 04 Sep 2023 |
Steam Survey Results For August Show A Linux Dip After A Very Exciting July | 01 Sep 2023 |
Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS | 01 Aug 2023 |
Proton 8.0-3 Released With More Windows Games Running On Linux, Fixes | 21 Jul 2023 |
Steam On Linux Use Steady For June, ~40% Of Linux Gamers Are Using The Steam Deck | 02 Jul 2023 |
Valve Contracts Another Prominent Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Developer | 26 Jun 2023 |
Steam Linux Client Beta Adds New Scaling Setting Override | 16 Jun 2023 |
More Valve News | 635 Articles |
Virtualization |
Linux 6.6 KVM Brings Intel & AMD Fixes, SEV-ES DebugSwap, New RISC-V Extensions | 08 Sep 2023 |
Microsoft Adds AMD SEV-SNP & Intel TDX Guest Support To Hyper-V With Linux 6.6 | 04 Sep 2023 |
QEMU 8.1 Released With New PipeWire Audio Backend, Many CPU Improvements | 22 Aug 2023 |
Cloud Hypervisor 34 Brings QCOW2 Support for Backing Files, Paravirtualized Panic Device | 11 Aug 2023 |
Alibaba Eyes Linux CPU Scheduler Changes To Better Handle QEMU With SMT/HT Threads | 20 Jul 2023 |
Unaccepted Memory Merged For Linux 6.5, Helping AMD SEV-SNP + Intel TDX | 07 Jul 2023 |
Linux 6.5 KVM Brings Guest Snapshots For RISC-V, AMD PerfMonV2 For VMs | 03 Jul 2023 |
VFIO In Linux 6.5 Adds Support For The AMD CDX Bus | 03 Jul 2023 |
Cloud Hypervisor 33 Released With TDX Fix, New D-Bus API | 30 Jun 2023 |
Google's Patches To Speed-Up Over-Committed Linux Guest VMs Are Looking Great | 09 Jun 2023 |
More Virtualization News | 547 Articles |
Vulkan |
Vulkan 1.3.264 Released With Microsoft Layered Driver Extension | 08 Sep 2023 |
Vulkan 1.3.263 Released With A New NVIDIA Extension | 02 Sep 2023 |
Vulkan 1.3.262 Rolls Out With Four New Extensions | 25 Aug 2023 |
KDAB Releases KDGpu As A Thin Wrapper Around Vulkan | 10 Aug 2023 |
Vulkan 1.3.260 Released With AMDX_shader_enqueue, KHR_maintenance5 | 28 Jul 2023 |
Vulkan 1.3.258 Released With New Host Image Copy Extension, NVIDIA DGC Compute | 21 Jul 2023 |
Vulkan 1.3.255 Released With Cooperative Matrix Extension | 26 Jun 2023 |
Vulkan 1.3.254 Published With Another Extension Drafted By Valve | 16 Jun 2023 |
Vulkan 1.3.251 Released With One New Extension Worked On By Valve, Nintendo & Others | 28 May 2023 |
Vulkan 1.3.250 Released With Another New Extension From Valve | 04 May 2023 |
More Vulkan News | 632 Articles |
Wayland |
Xfce's Wayland Roadmap Updated | 13 Sep 2023 |
JetBrains Enabling Wayland Support For IntelliJ-Based IDEs | 30 Aug 2023 |
Flatpak Lands Support For Wayland Security Context | 27 Aug 2023 |
libinput 1.24 Brings Changes For Apple Touchpads, Drawing Tablets | 25 Aug 2023 |
XWayland 23.2 Released With Tearing Control, Resizable Rootful, EI Support | 16 Aug 2023 |
Wayland Protocols 1.32 Brings Three New Staging Protocols | 03 Jul 2023 |
libei 1.0 Released For Better Supporting Emulated Input On Wayland | 08 Jun 2023 |
Wayland's Weston 12.0 Released With Multi-GPU Support, PipeWire Backend, Tearing Control | 17 May 2023 |
libei 1.0 Nears For Emulated Input On Wayland | 17 May 2023 |
Asahi Linux To Users: Please Stop Using X.Org | 13 May 2023 |
More Wayland News | 845 Articles |
WINE |
Wine Wayland Driver Updated With Basic Window Management Capabilities | 20 Sep 2023 |
Wine-Staging 8.16 Fixes A 16 Year Old Bug For Games Crashing | 17 Sep 2023 |
Wine 8.16 Restarts Work On Implementing Microsoft's Deprecated DirectMusic API | 15 Sep 2023 |
Hangover 8.15 Released With Box64 Integration As PE Library | 05 Sep 2023 |
Wine 8.15 Released With Few Changes, 19 Bugs Fixed | 01 Sep 2023 |
More Wine Wayland Code Submitted For Review - Part 6 | 31 Aug 2023 |
Wine-Staging 8.14 Released - Less Than 500 Patches Atop Upstream | 21 Aug 2023 |
Wine 8.14 Released Following Summer Holiday | 18 Aug 2023 |
Wine-Staging 8.13 Released With D3D12GetInterface Stub | 23 Jul 2023 |
WineConf Likely Over But There May Be A Proton / Gaming Developer Conference | 22 Jul 2023 |
More WINE News | 893 Articles |
X.Org |
XDC 2023 To Provide Update On AMD HDR For The Steam Deck, Rusticl & Wine Wayland | 20 Sep 2023 |
XWayland 23.2 RC2 Restores An Optimization For Depth 24 Windows | 02 Aug 2023 |
Twitter's New "X" Logo Is Reminding Plenty Of People Around X.Org | 24 Jul 2023 |
XWayland 23.2 RC1 Brings Tearing Control, Resizable Rootful, Emulated Input | 19 Jul 2023 |
X.Org Foundation To Become Part Of The SFC | 04 May 2023 |
xf86-video-ati 22.0 Released For Older ATI/AMD GPUs | 26 Apr 2023 |
3Dfx Voodoo 1 & 2 Glide Linux Driver Retired, Other X.Org Code Officially Retired | 24 Apr 2023 |
NeoMagic & Savage Linux X.Org Drivers Updated For Late 90's Graphics | 10 Apr 2023 |
xf86-input-libinput 1.3 Brings Custom Pointer Acceleration Profile Support | 04 Apr 2023 |
Trend Micro Uncovers Yet Another X.Org Server Vulnerability: CVE-2023-1393 | 29 Mar 2023 |
More X.Org News | 1187 Articles |