Open-Source Apple GPU Vulkan Driver Merged For Mesa 24.3
08:15 PM EDT - Mesa - Apple Vulkan Driver In Mesa - 4 Comments
26 July
Linus Torvalds Addresses His Latest ARM64 Annoyance: Installing Compressed Kernel Images
02:57 PM EDT - Arm - Compressed Kernel Images By Default - 39 Comments
NVIDIA's Open-Source Linux Kernel Driver Performing At Parity To Proprietary Driver
01:19 PM EDT - Display Drivers - 17 Comments
LLVM 19.1-rc1 Compiler Released With More C23 / C++23 & New Intel Extensions
12:51 PM EDT - LLVM - LLVM 19.1-rc1 - Add A Comment
Fwupd 1.9.22 Released With Framework SD Expansion Card & Raspberry Pi 5 Support
Linux 6.11 Is Looking Good In Early Benchmarks On AMD Ryzen Threadripper
08:23 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.11 - 5 Comments
ASRock Announces Passively Cooled Radeon RX 7900 Series
06:59 AM EDT - Hardware - Passively Cooled Radeon RX 7900 - 21 Comments
New Dell PC Driver & Intel Performance Limit Reasons Help Laptops On Linux 6.11
06:38 AM EDT - Hardware - x86 Platform Drivers - Add A Comment
AlmaLinux Picking Up glibc Patch Ahead Of RHEL To Rescue VFX Houdini Users
06:15 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Fixing Houdini - 24 Comments
KDE Human Interface Guidelines Being Further Refined & Polished
05:56 AM EDT - KDE - KDE HIG 2024 - 18 Comments
25 July
VirtualBox 7.1 Beta Released With Modernized GUI, Wayland Support For Clipboard Sharing
03:53 PM EDT - Virtualization - VirtualBox 7.1 - 38 Comments
Linux Mint 22 Released - Built Atop Ubuntu 24.04 With Latest Cinnamon Desktop
12:12 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Linux Mint 22 - 31 Comments
AMD Working On More Precise GPU Reset Capabilities For Their Linux Driver
11:20 AM EDT - Radeon - Per Ring Resets - 12 Comments
VMware Hypercall API Makes It Into Linux 6.11 For Basis To Allow Confidential Computing
11:05 AM EDT - Virtualization - VMware Hypercall API - Add A Comment
Amazon's Graviton Has Evolved Into A Formidable CPU Contender: Graviton1 To Graviton4 Benchmarks
10:18 AM EDT - Processors - 16 Comments
Qt Creator 14 IDE Released With Support For Lua-Based Plugins
08:35 AM EDT - Qt - Qt Creator 14 - 8 Comments
AMD's Unified AI Software Stack Might Be A Boon For Other Vulkan/SPIR-V Hardware Too
06:56 AM EDT - AMD - Unified AI Software Stack + SPIR-V - 6 Comments
Fedora 41 Aims For Out-Of-The-Box Webcam Support For Newer Intel Laptops
06:35 AM EDT - Intel - Intel IPU6 Webcam Support - 6 Comments
Rust Is Ready With Robust Toolchain Handling For Linux 6.11
06:13 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.11 Rust - 4 Comments
HID-BPF Improvements & Apple Keyboard Backlight Support For Some T2 Macs In Linux 6.11
ollama v0.3 Released With Llama 3.1 Support & Mistral Large 2
05:56 AM EDT - Free Software - ollama 0.3 - 14 Comments
24 July
ASUS ROG Ally X Begins Seeing Linux Patches
08:40 PM EDT - Hardware - ASUS ROG Ally X - 8 Comments
LLVM Clang Switches MMX Intrinsics To Use SSE2 Instead
07:52 PM EDT - LLVM - SSE2 In Place Of MMX Usage - 17 Comments
AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Launch Delayed To August
04:28 PM EDT - AMD - Ryzen 9000 Series - 67 Comments
Linux 6.11 Lands Support For getrandom() In The vDSO
02:06 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - getrandom() vDSO - 17 Comments
Rust Linux Kernel Code Prepares For CPU Mitigations Handling
01:43 PM EDT - Programming - Rust CPU Mitigations - 8 Comments
Intel Graphics Compiler 1.0.17193.4 Released With Initial Battlemage Support
09:53 AM EDT - Intel - IGC 1.0.17193.4 - Add A Comment
AMD Reveals More Zen 5 CPU Core Details
09:00 AM EDT - Processors - 50 Comments
F2FS, exFAT & Btrfs File-System Changes In Linux 6.11
08:45 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Linux 6.11 File-Systems - 9 Comments
Linux 6.11 Upstream Now Defaults To A Better SATA Link Power Management Policy
06:58 AM EDT - Hardware - SATA Link Power Management - 4 Comments
Mesa 24.3 Radeon VCN Adds HDR Metadata Support For AV1 Encoder
06:42 AM EDT - Radeon - RadeonSI VCN - Add A Comment
Intel OSPRay 3.2 Further Advances This Open-Source Ray-Tracing Engine
23 July
Upstream Linux 6.11 Makes It Easy To Build A Pacman Kernel Package For Arch Linux
08:19 PM EDT - Arch Linux - Arch Linux Kernel Build - 22 Comments
Intel's Mesa Driver Upstreaming For Xe2 Support Appears Mostly Done
04:09 PM EDT - Intel - Intel Xe2 OpenGL + Vulkan - 4 Comments
Intel Xe2/Battlemage & AMD RDNA4 Lead The Graphics Driver Changes In Linux 6.11
11:33 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 6.11 Graphics Driver Updates - 5 Comments
NVIDIA 560 Linux Driver Beta Released - Defaults To Open GPU Kernel Modules
09:46 AM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA 560.28.03 Linux Beta - 67 Comments
Fedora Workstation 42 Cleared To Offer Opt-In Metrics Reporting
08:43 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 42 - 33 Comments
LLVM Clang 19 Branched, LLVM 20 Enters Development- No AMD Zen 5 "Znver5" Merged Yet
07:07 AM EDT - LLVM - LLVM Clang 19 - 2 Comments
AMD ROCm 6.2 Release Appears Imminent For Advancing Open-Source GPU Compute
06:40 AM EDT - Radeon - AMD ROCm 6.2 - 9 Comments
Linux 6.11 Begins Upstreaming Support For KEBA CP500 System FPGA
06:35 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 6.11 char/misc Updates - Add A Comment
OpenBSD Now Supports VA-API Video Acceleration
06:17 AM EDT - BSD - OpenBSD + VA-API - 10 Comments
X.Org Testing Ground Expands Its Scope To Illumos/OpenIndiana
06:00 AM EDT - X.Org - X.Org Testing Ground v0.0.4 - 29 Comments
22 July
WPA_Supplicant 2.11 Released With WiFi 7 EHT & Many Other New Features
08:42 PM EDT - Linux Networking - WPA_Supplicant 2.11 - 19 Comments
Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha With COSMIC Desktop Planned For 8 August
07:47 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha - 87 Comments
Performance Event Changes For Linux 6.11 Bring Several Additions For Intel Hardware
03:02 PM EDT - Intel - Linux Performance Events - Add A Comment
MidnightBSD 3.2 Released With Ravenports On x86_64, New AMD Features
12:53 PM EDT - BSD - MidnightBSD 3.2 - 10 Comments
X.Org Server Patches Look To Cleanup VRR Handling, Make It Xinerama-Aware
12:11 PM EDT - X.Org - Variable Refresh Rate - 38 Comments
Linux 6.11 "MM" Patches Include Many Improvements, A 10x Speedup For One Optimization
10:53 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.11 Memory Management - 1 Comment
GNU C Library 2.40 Released With New C23 Features & New Performance Tunables
08:30 AM EDT - GNU - Glibc 2.40 - 6 Comments
LZ4 v1.10 Introduces Multi-Threading Support For Major Compression Speedups
07:04 AM EDT - Free Software - LZ4 Multi-Threading - 24 Comments
systemd Talks Up Automatic Boot Assessment In Light Of The Crowdstrike-Microsoft Outage
06:52 AM EDT - systemd - systemd Automatic Boot Assessment - 149 Comments
Kalray Updates Patches For Their Linux Kernel Port To The KV3-1 "Coolidge" SoC
06:35 AM EDT - Hardware - KVX Linux Kernel Port - Add A Comment
NTFS Driver For Linux 6.11 Prepares FileAttr Support, Bug Fixes
06:26 AM EDT - Linux Storage - NTFS3 Driver Updates - 1 Comment
Intel oneAPI VPL 2024Q2 GPU Runtime Prepares For VVC Decode
06:19 AM EDT - Intel - VVC / H.266 - Add A Comment
21 July
XZ Patches For The Linux Kernel Updated, Drops "Jia Tan" As A Maintainer
03:11 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - XZ For The Linux Kernel - 39 Comments
Mesa 24.2 Enjoyed Some Last Minute Code Cleaning & Modernization
09:30 AM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 24.2 Interfaces - 63 Comments
Linux 6.11 Hardening Makes FineIBT Default Configurable At Build Time
09:08 AM EDT - Linux Security - FineIBT - 6 Comments
LXQt 2.0 Desktop Planned For Availability In Fedora 41
06:43 AM EDT - Fedora - LXQt 2.0 - 10 Comments
Initial AMD SEV-SNP KVM Guest VM Support Merged Into Linux 6.11
06:34 AM EDT - Virtualization - KVM Updates - 11 Comments
RISC-V Sees Support For New ISA Extensions In Linux 6.11
06:19 AM EDT - RISC-V - Linux 6.11 RISC-V - 9 Comments
20 July
OpenMandriva ROME 24.07 Released With KDE Plasma 6 But Wayland Not Mature Enough
07:16 PM EDT - Operating Systems - OpenMandriva ROME 24.07 - 33 Comments
USB & Thunderbolt Improvements Land In Linux 6.11
08:43 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 6.11 USB - 14 Comments
AVX-512/AVX10 & VAES Optimized AES-GCM Implementation Lands In Linux 6.11
06:46 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.11 Crypto - 4 Comments
New Linux Patches Enable The Snapdragon X1 Elite Powered Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6
06:34 AM EDT - Hardware - Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 - 26 Comments
Linux 6.11 MIPS Upstreams Realtek RTL9302C & Mobileye EyeQ6H Chips
06:09 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 6.11 MIPS - Add A Comment
KDE Developers Tackle The Five Most Common Plasma Crashes
05:58 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Changes - 62 Comments
19 July
Mesa 24.2-rc1 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Improvements
03:55 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 24.2 - Add A Comment
AMD XDNA Ryzen AI Linux Kernel Driver Posted For Review
02:30 PM EDT - AMD - AMD XDNA Linux Driver - 20 Comments
Linux 6.11 Lands Support For Snapdragon X1 Elite ASUS Vivobook S15 & Lenovo Yoga Slim7x
09:49 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 6.11 SoC Updates - 16 Comments
NVIDIA's EGL-Wayland Library v1.1.14 Adds Explicit Sync
08:27 AM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA EGL-Wayland 1.1.14 - 12 Comments
Intel Panther Lake, Realtek RT1318 & Other Sound Hardware Supported By Linux 6.11
07:02 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 6.11 Sound - 2 Comments
Vulkan 1.3.291 Published With VK_AMD_anti_lag, AMD Anti Lag Extension
06:42 AM EDT - Vulkan - VK_AMD_anti_lag - 25 Comments
Linux 6.11 Brings A Dedicated Bucket Allocator For Better Security
06:35 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.11 - 22 Comments
18 July
Freedreno Gallium3D Driver Now Enables The Snapdragon X1 Elite/Plus SoC's GPU
04:37 PM EDT - Mesa - Freedreno + Snapdragon X1 GPU - 12 Comments
Fedora 41 Proceeds With AMD SEV-SNP Virtualization Host Support For Confidential VMs
02:43 PM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 41 + AMD SEV-SNP - 20 Comments
AWS Graviton4 96-Core Performance vs. AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon CPUs
12:00 PM EDT - Processors - 21 Comments
AMD RDNA4 "GFX12" Linux Driver Support Matures To Being Enabled By Default
09:00 AM EDT - Radeon - AMD RDNA4 - 12 Comments
Sound Open Firmware 2.10 Brings Stable Support For Intel Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake
08:22 AM EDT - Intel - Sound Open Firmware 2.10 - Add A Comment
EXT4 Has A Very Nice Performance Optimization For Linux 6.11
07:45 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Faster Performance - 48 Comments
GCC On AArch64 Handles Rewriting "-march=native" To "-mcpu=native"
06:56 AM EDT - GNU - -march=native On ARM - 2 Comments
Fedora 41 Looks To Ship Upcoming AMD ROCm 6.2 For Latest AI Capabilities
06:22 AM EDT - Fedora - AMD ROCm 6.2 - 14 Comments
XFS Real-Time Enables FITRIM Support With Linux 6.11
06:12 AM EDT - Linux Storage - XFS Real-Time + FITRIM - 5 Comments
17 July
Microsoft's WSL 2.3.11 Brings "Hundreds Of New Kernel Modules" & New Features
09:00 PM EDT - Microsoft - WSL 2.3.11 - 32 Comments
Rust Safety Standard Proposed For The Linux Kernel
08:24 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Rust Safety Standard - 79 Comments
NVIDIA Promotes Their Open-Source GPU Kernel Driver Support
03:23 PM EDT - NVIDIA - Open-Source GPU Kernel Drivers - 62 Comments
RADV vs. AMDVLK Radeon Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance For Mid-2024
11:50 AM EDT - Display Drivers - 9 Comments
AMD Core Performance Boost & Fast CPPC Land In Linux 6.11, Intel Lunar Lake Improvements
09:55 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 6.11 Power Management - Add A Comment
spectre_bhi=vmexit Mitigation Merged For Linux 6.11 Cloud Use
08:41 AM EDT - Linux Security - Spectre BHI Mitigation - 7 Comments
Linux 6.11 EFI Will Fake That It's Booting Apple macOS To Fix Some Dual-GPU Macs
06:40 AM EDT - Apple - Linux 6.11 EFI Identifies As Mac OS X - 35 Comments
Linux 6.11 Sees New Wired & Wireless Networking Hardware Support
06:33 AM EDT - Linux Networking - Linux 6.11 Networking - 3 Comments
Raspberry Pi "PiSP" Driver Landing Upstream For Raspberry Pi 5 Camera System
06:14 AM EDT - Multimedia - Linux 6.11 Media Updates - 5 Comments
16 July
wlroots 0.18 Brings New Wayland Protocols & Support For GPU Reset Recovery
08:29 PM EDT - Wayland - wlroots 0.18 - 49 Comments
Fedora Will End Up Supporting The NVIDIA Driver With Secure Boot
03:37 PM EDT - Fedora - NVIDIA Driver + UEFI Secure Boot - 51 Comments
AMD Advances Confidential Computing In Linux 6.11 With SEV-SNP + SVSM Guest Support
02:50 PM EDT - AMD - Secure VM Service Module - 26 Comments
LLVM Compiler Finally Ends Support For AMD's 3DNow!
01:25 PM EDT - LLVM - Eliminating 3DNow! - 49 Comments
Linux 6.11 Adds ChromeOS EC LED Driver For The Framework Laptops
Intel FFmpeg 2024Q2 Update Enables GPU-Accelerated VVC Decoding
10:52 AM EDT - Intel - H.266 / VVC - 23 Comments
Linux 6.11 Adds Support For Rust-Based Block Drivers & Atomic Writes
10:42 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Linux 6.11 Block Changes - 10 Comments
Blender 4.2 LTS Released With GPU Accelerated Compositing, Intel OIDN On AMD GPUs
08:41 AM EDT - Free Software - Blender 4.2 - 7 Comments
Linux Patch To Disable The Snapdragon X Elite "X1E80100" GPU By Default
08:00 AM EDT - Hardware - Disabling The GPU... - 88 Comments
Intel Sub-NUMA Clustering Will Stop Clashing With Resource Director On Linux 6.11+
06:34 AM EDT - Intel - SNC + RDT - 2 Comments
GCC Git Adjusts Unaligned Load/Store Costs For AMD Zen 4 & Zen 5
06:22 AM EDT - GNU - znver4 + znver5 Tuning - 10 Comments
Linus Torvalds Begins The Linux 6.11 Merge Window By Merging Some Of His Own Code
06:00 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Torvalds Coding - 15 Comments
15 July
Solus Linux Dropping Support For AppArmor & Phasing Out Snaps
08:57 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Solus Linux - 68 Comments
New "SCALE" Software Allows Natively Compiling CUDA Apps For AMD GPUs
02:28 PM EDT - Radeon - SCALE CUDA For AMD GPUs - 72 Comments
GNU Linux-libre 6.10 Takes Aim At Intel IPU6, Panthor & Other Drivers With Blobs
10:00 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - GNU Linux-libre 6.10-gnu - 21 Comments
AMD Zen 5 Overview With Ryzen 9000 Series & Ryzen AI 300
09:00 AM EDT - Processors - 49 Comments
AMD Unified AI Software Stack Has The Potential To Be A Very Big Deal
09:00 AM EDT - AMD - AMD Unified AI Software Stack - 17 Comments
Linux 6.11 Adding Fan Speed / Temperature & Charge Control Drivers For The ChromeOS EC
07:03 AM EDT - Google - Chrome Platform Updates - Add A Comment
Fedora 41 Aims To Support Self-Encrypting Drives Within Its Installer
06:25 AM EDT - Fedora - Self-Encryping Drive Support - 17 Comments
Bcachefs For Linux 6.11 Landing Disk Accounting Rewrite & Self-Healing On Read I/O Error
05:59 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Bcachefs + Linux 6.11 - 18 Comments
Hardware Monitoring Improvements Submitted For Linux 6.11
05:44 AM EDT - Hardware - HWMON - Add A Comment
Wine 9.13 Released - Continues Rewriting The CMD.EXE Engine
12:00 AM EDT - WINE - Wine 9.13 - 16 Comments
14 July
Linux 6.10 Released With New Panthor Graphics Driver, Radeon Display Support On RISC-V
06:58 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.10 - 13 Comments
Linux 6.11 Features To Include A Lot For Intel & AMD Systems, Extensible Scheduler
04:40 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.11 Features - 1 Comment
CachyOS Rolls Out Zen 4 Optimized Repository For Maximizing Zen 4 & Zen 5 Performance
11:16 AM EDT - Arch Linux - CachyOS July 2024 - 42 Comments
Linux 6.11 To Allow Tightening Of /proc/[pid]/mem Access For Better Security
08:36 AM EDT - Linux Security - Restricting mem - 65 Comments
Fedora 42 Looks To Make Use Of The "Screen Of Death" DRM Panic Screen
06:37 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 42 + DRM Panic - 49 Comments
New Patches To Get More Qualcomm Lenovo Devices Supported By The Mainline Linux Kernel
06:26 AM EDT - Hardware - Qualcomm MSM8916 / MSM8939 - 5 Comments
The Most Interesting Linux 6.10 Features From MSEAL To Intel Xe2 Preparations
06:14 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.10 Features - 4 Comments
13 July
GNOME 47 Alpha Released With Accent Color Support & Wayland-Only Build Option
08:51 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME 47.alpha - 43 Comments
Patch Posted For Finally Reporting Intel Graphics Card Fan Speeds Under Linux
08:17 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Graphics Fan Speeds On Linux - 7 Comments
AMD Submits Final Set Of RDNA4 GPU Enablement Patches Aiming For Linux 6.11
06:55 AM EDT - Radeon - More GFX12 / RDNA4 - 2 Comments
Linux 6.11 I2C Brings Arrow Lake H Support & Completes Slave/Master Transition
06:47 AM EDT - Hardware - I2C Host Updates - 17 Comments
Pingora 0.3 Released With Support For HTTP Modules
06:17 AM EDT - Programming - Pingora 0.3 - 6 Comments
Git 2.46-rc0 Continues Preparations For Switching To SHA256 By Default WIth Git 3.0
06:12 AM EDT - Programming - Git 2.46-rc0 Released - 21 Comments
GNOME's Wild Week From Leadership Change To More STF-Driven Improvements
12:00 AM EDT - GNOME - This Week In GNOME - 16 Comments
12 July
OBS Studio 30.2 Released With Native NVENC Encode On Linux, More Shared Texture Support
08:25 PM EDT - Multimedia - OBS Studio 30.2 - 12 Comments
COSMIC Desktop Very Close To Alpha Release, Adds Compositor Multi-Threading
04:01 PM EDT - Desktop - COSMIC In July - 224 Comments
GNOME Foundation Executive Director Departing After Less Than One Year
12:54 PM EDT - GNOME - Executive Director Leaves - 62 Comments
AWS Graviton4 Benchmarks Prove To Deliver The Best ARM Cloud Server Performance
12:30 PM EDT - Processors - 16 Comments
Ubuntu Makes It Easier To Launch VMs On Windows, Authd PPA Up For Testing
12:20 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 24.10 In July - 13 Comments
Thunderbird 128 Now Available With More Rust Code & UI/UX Enhancements
12:00 PM EDT - Mozilla - Thunderbird 128 - 9 Comments
GTK 4.16 To Feature More Graphics Offloading Improvements
08:37 AM EDT - GNOME - GTK4 Offload - 19 Comments
openSUSE Aeon Prepares For Comprehensive Full Disk Encryption
08:19 AM EDT - SUSE - openSUSE Aeon + FDE - 10 Comments
libavif 1.1 Released For Improving AVIF Image Encoding
06:56 AM EDT - Free Software - libavif 1.1 - 11 Comments
ARM64 Updates Submitted For The Linux 6.11 Kernel
06:30 AM EDT - Arm - Linux 6.11 ARM64 Changes - Add A Comment
11 July
AMD Has A Crucial Linux Optimization Coming To Lower Power Use During Video Playback
03:01 PM EDT - Radeon - Lower Power Use - 77 Comments
Meta Releases IGL 1.0 As Intermediate Graphics Library Built Atop Vulkan & OpenGL
12:33 PM EDT - Free Software - IGL 1.0 - 16 Comments
Mold Linker Gains New Option To Deliver "Massively Faster" Performance
11:26 AM EDT - Programming - --separate-debug-file - 10 Comments
FreeBSD Aiming For More Predictable & Frequent Releases
11:02 AM EDT - BSD - More FreeBSD Releases - 15 Comments
XWayland 24.1.1 Brings Many Fixes
10:50 AM EDT - Wayland - XWayland 24.1.1 - 8 Comments
10 July
The State Of Text Rendering 2024 & The Future Of The Stack With Rust
07:42 PM EDT - Free Software - 2024 Text Rendering - 35 Comments
Zed Editor Now Publishing Native Linux Builds
01:24 PM EDT - Free Software - Zed Linux Builds - 168 Comments
AMD Provides Updated Zen 1/2/3/4 CPU Microcode For Linux Users
01:04 PM EDT - AMD - AMD Zen CPU Microcode Updates - 81 Comments
Intel Performance Limit Reasons Coming To Linux 6.11
11:30 AM EDT - Intel - Performance Limit Reasons - 7 Comments
LPython 0.22 Released For Ahead-Of-Time Compiler For Python
11:04 AM EDT - Programming - LPython 0.22 - 17 Comments
AMD Acquires Another AI Company To Expand Its Enterprise AI Solutions
09:37 AM EDT - AMD - AMD + Silo AI - 78 Comments
JetBrains IntelliJ-Based IDEs Offer Preview Wayland Support
09:26 AM EDT - Wayland - Wayland + IntelliJ - 32 Comments
DXVK 2.4 Released With Direct3D 8 Support, Native WSI Improvements
07:38 AM EDT - Vulkan - DXVK 2.4 - 7 Comments
9 July
Experimental Code Gets Open-Source Mesa RADV Vulkan Driver Running On Windows
05:45 PM EDT - Radeon - RADV On Windows - 51 Comments
GNOME Mutter Lands Support To Transform sRGB To HDR Outputs
02:52 PM EDT - GNOME - Color State Transform - 42 Comments
AMD vs. NVIDIA Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance On Linux With Breaking Limit
11:00 AM EDT - Display Drivers - 158 Comments
AMD FidelityFX SDK 1.1 Released With FSR 3.1 + Breadcrumbs & Brixelizer
10:00 AM EDT - Radeon - FidelityFX SDK 1.1 - 6 Comments
NVK Driver Lands New Platform Abstraction - Working Toward Allowing Other Kernel Drivers
09:00 AM EDT - Mesa - NVK Platform Abstraction - 12 Comments
Box64 v0.3 Brings Support For Emulating x86_64 Binaries With AVX/AVX2 On ARM
05:58 AM EDT - Free Software - Box64 v0.3 - 35 Comments
Hyperscalers Begin Working On CentOS Stream Hyperscale 10
05:00 AM EDT - Operating Systems - CentOS Hyperscale SIG - 13 Comments
Linux 6.11 Will Make The Keyboard Backlight Work On More Macs
04:00 AM EDT - Apple - Apple Mac Magic Keyboard Backlight - 3 Comments
Firefox 128 Now Available With A Fix For A 25 Year Old Bug Report
12:00 AM EDT - Mozilla - Firefox 128.0 - 83 Comments
Loongson 3 CPUFreq Linux Driver Being Worked On For Better Power/Performance
12:00 AM EDT - Hardware - Loongson CPUFreq Driver - 3 Comments
8 July
Fedora Workstation 41 Install Media Will Ship With Wayland-Only GNOME
08:26 PM EDT - Fedora - Wayland-Only Install Media - 30 Comments
11:02 AM EDT - Processors - 51 Comments
LXD 6.1 Released With Automatic Core Pinning Load Balancing, Fixes Hosts With 64+ CPU Cores
09:40 AM EDT - Virtualization - LXD 6.1 - 5 Comments
Device Memory TCP Nears The Finish Line For More Efficient Networked Accelerators
08:13 AM EDT - Linux Networking - Device Memory TCP - 3 Comments
Intel Continues Readying Linux For Lunar Lake's New Adaptive Sharpening Filter
06:33 AM EDT - Intel - Adaptive Sharpening DRM Property - 23 Comments
ASUS EC Sensors Linux Driver Adding Support For The ProArt X670E-CREATOR WIFI
06:22 AM EDT - Hardware - ASUS ProArt X670E-CREATOR WIFI - 10 Comments
GCC & LLVM/Clang Compilers Updated For Intel Branch Hint
06:06 AM EDT - Intel - x86 Branch Hint - Add A Comment
7 July
Linux 6.10 Is Shaping Up Well Or It Might Just Be Due To 4th Of July Week
06:44 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.10-rc7 - 2 Comments
GNU Debugger GDB 15.1 Brings Better Python Support
05:39 PM EDT - GNU - GDB 15.1 Released - 9 Comments
Direct3D 8 Support "D8VK" Merged Into DXVK
02:44 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - D3D8 In DXVK - 55 Comments
Linux Mint 22 Aims To Be Out This Month After Fixing Many Bugs
08:49 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Linux Mint 22 - 39 Comments
More HID BPF Functionality & New Drivers For Linux 6.11
08:35 AM EDT - Hardware - HID BPF - 3 Comments
Linux Seeing Improved Support For The Lenovo Yoga C630 WOS ARM Laptop After Five Years
06:44 AM EDT - Hardware - Lenovo Yoga C630 WOS - 11 Comments
Linux 6.11 To Introduce Block Atomic Writes - Including NVMe & SCSI Support
06:19 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Atomic Writes - 14 Comments
6 July
Linux 6.11 To Add Perf Support For Intel Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake
08:30 AM EDT - Intel - perf - 4 Comments
GNOME's Key Rack & Phosh Mobile Wayland Shell See New Releases
06:31 AM EDT - GNOME - This Week In GNOME - 29 Comments
KDE Plasma 6.2 To Support libinput's Auto-Scrolling Feature
05:59 AM EDT - KDE - Plasma 6.2 - 21 Comments
5 July
Intel IDXD Driver To Better Handle Accelerators In Event Of Hardware Errors
03:31 PM EDT - Intel - IDXD Reset On Hardware Errors - Add A Comment
Linux 6.11 To Upstream Support For Mobileye EyeQ 6H SoC
10:34 AM EDT - Hardware - Mobileye EyeQ6 - 5 Comments
Linux 6.11 Likely To Land DM-Verity Multi-Buffer Hashing For Big Speed Boost
09:48 AM EDT - Linux Storage - DM-Verity Multi-Buffer Hashing - 1 Comment
Linux 6.11 To Offer More Fine-Tuned Control Over Swappiness
09:12 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Swappiness - 6 Comments
Linus Torvalds Unconvinced By getrandom() In The vDSO
06:48 AM EDT - Linux Security - Random In The vDSO - 22 Comments
Raspberry Pi OS Brings Labwc Wayland Compositor As Optional Alternative To Wayfire
06:24 AM EDT - Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi OS 2024-07-04 - 30 Comments
4 July
Debian General Resolution Hopes To Move Useful "tag2upload" Forward
08:32 PM EDT - Debian - tag2upload - 9 Comments
Linux Looking To Make 5-Level Paging Support Unconditional For x86_64 Kernel Builds
03:48 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - 5-Level Paging On AMD / Intel - 32 Comments
AMD Appears To Be Aiming For Good Radeon RDNA4 GPU Support In Linux 6.11
09:07 AM EDT - Radeon - RDNA4 + Linux 6.11 - 22 Comments
Linux Kernel Patches Posted For The Radxa ROCK 5 ITX Board
08:25 AM EDT - Hardware - ROCK 5 ITX - 11 Comments
FEX 2407 Emulator For x86_64 Binaries On ARM Now Handles AVX/AVX2
06:41 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - FEX 2407 - 15 Comments
OpenMandriva ROME 24.07 RC Switches To KDE Plasma 6, Packages Proton
06:13 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Plasma 6 + OpenMandriva - 16 Comments
3 July
Oracle Rolls Out UEK-Next Kernel Based On Linux 6.9
08:38 PM EDT - Oracle - UEK-Next With Linux 6.9 - 9 Comments
getrandom() In The vDSO Aims For Linux 6.11 To Provide Faster Yet Secure User-Space RNG
04:00 PM EDT - Linux Security - Random Number Generation - Add A Comment
Linux's DRM Panic "Screen of Death" Sees Patches For QR Code Error Messages
02:05 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - DRM Panic + QR Codes - 49 Comments
Meta Sees ~5% Performance Gains To Optimizing The Linux Kernel With BOLT
01:08 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux Kernel + BOLT - 15 Comments
CentOS Stream 10 Taking Shape, Fedora-Flavored Kernels From Kmods SIG
10:48 AM EDT - Operating Systems - CentOS For June 2024 - 14 Comments
"Indirector" Attack Disclosed For Intel Alder Lake & Raptor Lake CPUs
09:30 AM EDT - Linux Security - Indirector Attack - 87 Comments
Updated GCC Patches For OpenMP Unified Shared Memory On AMD & NVIDIA GPUs
Ubuntu Developing "crypto-config" For System-Wide Cryptography Configuration
08:52 AM EDT - Ubuntu - crypto-config - 11 Comments
Debian GNU/Hurd Adds Experimental 32-bit SMP Kernel & Rust Compiler
06:51 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Hurd Progress - 20 Comments
RADV Driver Enables Device Generated Commands Task Shader Support
Microsoft Releases New Azure Linux 3.0 Preview
06:25 AM EDT - Microsoft - Azure Linux 3.0 - 4 Comments
2 July
Fedora 42 Looks To Make It Easier For Unprivileged System Flatpaks & Disk Management
05:09 PM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 42 - 7 Comments
Intel Xe Graphics Driver Squeezes In More Changes Ahead Of Linux 6.11
Arm Expands Speculative SSBS Workaround With More CPU Cores Being Affected
12:06 PM EDT - Arm - Speculative Store Bypass - 10 Comments
The Linux Kernel Matures To Having A Minimum Rust Toolchain Version
11:15 AM EDT - Programming - Multiple Rust Versions - 62 Comments
LLVM Clang 19 Adds Initial "-std=c2y" Support For The Next C Standard
Fedora 41 Looks To Finally Say Goodbye To Python 2.7
08:29 AM EDT - Fedora - Killing Python 2 - 37 Comments
Redox OS Doubles The Performance Of Its File-System & I/O Drivers
08:13 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Redox OS - 18 Comments
Miracle-WM v0.3 Released - Working Out To Daily-Drive This Mir-Based Wayland Compositor
08:01 AM EDT - Wayland - Miracle-WM 0.3 - 10 Comments
Microsoft's WSL2 Transitions To Linux 6.6 LTS Kernel
06:47 AM EDT - Microsoft - Linux 6.6 WSL Kernel - 12 Comments
Vulkan 1.3.289 Further Helps Out With Layered Driver Implementations
06:23 AM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan 1.3.289 - Add A Comment
Intel's VA-API 2.22 Library Adds VVC/H.266 Video Decode Interface
05:59 AM EDT - Intel - libva 2.22 - 41 Comments
1 July
Steam On Linux Use Stayed Above 2% In June
08:28 PM EDT - Valve - Steam On Linux - 86 Comments
Fedora Workstation 42 Looking At Adding Opt-In User Metrics Collection
04:40 PM EDT - Fedora - Fedora Workstation 42 - 28 Comments
Radeon Developer Tool Suite Migrates To Qt6
01:30 PM EDT - Radeon - Radeon Tools + Qt6 - 11 Comments
Linux Mint 22 Enters Beta, Built Atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
12:28 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Linux Mint 22 - 32 Comments
AMD Zen 4 vs. Intel Core Ultra 7 "Meteor Lake" In 400+ Benchmarks On Linux 6.10
11:33 AM EDT - Computers - 14 Comments
Qualcomm Begins Optimizing Glibc For Their Oryon CPU Core
10:49 AM EDT - GNU - oryon-1 - 6 Comments
GNOME Mutter 46.2 Rolls Out To Ubuntu 24.04 Users, Experimental VRR Remains Rough
10:32 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Mutter 46.2 - 60 Comments
Suspend To Idle Under Linux Being Worked On For Raspberry Pi
09:33 AM EDT - Raspberry Pi - s2idle Raspberry Pi - Add A Comment
RegreSSHion: Remote Code Execution Vulnerability In OpenSSH Server
08:25 AM EDT - Linux Security - CVE-2024-6387 - 102 Comments
Linux BSOD, NVIDIA Linux Excitement, Intel Sierra Forest & Other June Highlights
06:56 AM EDT - Phoronix - June 2024 Highlights - 2 Comments
AMD Landing ISP 4.x IP In Linux 6.11, Strix Point & Granite Ridge IP Versions Confirmed
06:27 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDGPU ISP 4.x - 3 Comments
Arch Linux Powered EndeavourOS Restores ARM Support
05:51 AM EDT - Operating Systems - EndeavourOS + ARM - 7 Comments
30 June
GNOME Shell & Mutter See "47.alpha" Releases With Many Big Changes
08:42 PM EDT - GNOME - GNOME 47 Alpha - 32 Comments
Linux 6.10-rc6 Arrives As A "Fairly Calm" Release
06:24 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.10 - 1 Comment
RISC-V Memory Hot Plugging To Be Introduced With Linux 6.11
09:31 AM EDT - RISC-V - Memory Hot Plugging/Unplugging - 8 Comments
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Powered ASUS Vivobook S15 Laptop Seeing Linux Patches
07:02 AM EDT - Hardware - ASUS Vivobook S15 - 61 Comments
Reverse-Engineered Vivante Driver Brings Improved Performance & Fixes For Linux 6.11
06:39 AM EDT - Hardware - Etnaviv Driver - Add A Comment
Kernel Optimizations, XZ, AMD ZLUDA, NOVA, EPYC 4004 & Other H1'2024 Highlights
06:20 AM EDT - Phoronix - H1-2024 Highlights - Add A Comment
Linux 6.10 Lands Improved Support For LG's Latest Laptops
06:13 AM EDT - Hardware - LG 2024 Laptops - 3 Comments
Debian 12.6 Released With Many Security Updates & Bug Fixes
06:05 AM EDT - Debian - Debian 12.6 - 4 Comments
29 June
Linux Prepares New Spectre BHI Mitigation Option For Cloud Environments
08:24 AM EDT - Linux Security - spectre_bhi=vmexit - 37 Comments
Chrome's Coreboot Firmware Adapting For 64-bit Boot, Prepping For Intel Panther Lake
06:39 AM EDT - Coreboot - Chrome 64-bit Firmware - 11 Comments
GNOME Ends Out June With New Libadwaita Addition, Optional Building Without X11
06:23 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME Changes - 71 Comments
Niri 0.1.7 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Adds Fractional Scaling
05:49 AM EDT - Wayland - Niri 0.1.7 - 4 Comments
KDE Developers Fix More Bugs For Plasma 6.1, Begin More Feature Work On Plasma 6.2
05:33 AM EDT - KDE - KDE This Week - 37 Comments
28 June
Wine 9.12 Lands Rewrite Of CMD.EXE Engine & Other Improvements
08:27 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 9.12 - 9 Comments
Intel Preps More eDP Panel Replay Driver Code For Linux 6.11
11:49 AM EDT - Intel - drm-intel-next - 2 Comments
Servo Web Engine Gets WebGPU Running On OpenGL ES & Other New Features
09:39 AM EDT - Free Software - Servo June 2024 - 15 Comments
DRM Panic "Screen of Death" To Gain Monochrome Logo Support In Linux 6.11
08:37 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Monochrome Logo Support - 28 Comments
Vulkan Sparse Binding Support Comes To Lavapipe Software Driver
06:34 AM EDT - Mesa - Vulkan Sparse + Lavapipe - Add A Comment
SUSE's "Agama" OS Installer Rolls Out New Web UI, Better Auto Installations
06:23 AM EDT - SUSE - Agama 9 - 5 Comments
Open-Source Vivante NPU Driver Being Extended For The NXP i.MX 8M Plus SoC
06:08 AM EDT - Hardware - VeriSilicon's VIPNano-SI+ - Add A Comment
Shotcut 24.06 Supports SVT-AV1 Encode & AVIF Images, Many Fixes
05:57 AM EDT - Free Software - Shotcut 24.06 - 3 Comments
27 June
Linux Fixing A Major Performance Issue For Intel Hybrid Systems With Buggy Firmware
08:25 PM EDT - Intel - Power Management Woes - 15 Comments
GNOME 47 Can Now Be Built With X11 Support Disabled
01:46 PM EDT - GNOME - GNOME Without X11 Support - 50 Comments
AMD's Advanced Media Framework Promotes RADV Support
01:34 PM EDT - Radeon - AMD AMF + RADV - 137 Comments
PipeWire 1.2 Released With Async Processing, Explicit Sync & Other Features
09:45 AM EDT - PipeWire - PipeWire 1.2 - 70 Comments
NVIDIA 555.58 Stable Linux Driver Brings Wayland Explicit Sync, GSP Firmware Default
09:37 AM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA 555.58 Linux Driver - 70 Comments
AMD P-State Core Performance Boost To Be Merged For Linux 6.11
07:00 AM EDT - AMD - AMD Core Performance Boost - 26 Comments
Intel Battlemage PCI IDs Being Added To Linux 6.11 For Xe Kernel Graphics Driver
06:20 AM EDT - Intel - DRM-Xe-Next - 2 Comments
AMD's AOMP 19.0-2 Compiler Brings Zero-Copy For CPU-GPU Unified Shared Memory
05:56 AM EDT - AMD - AOMP 19.0-2 - 28 Comments
Multi-Grain Timestamps Revived For Linux File-Systems
05:45 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Multi-Grain Timestamps - 7 Comments
Intel Granite Rapids Brings New "SBAF" Core Testing Capability
05:19 AM EDT - Intel - Structural Based Functional Test - Add A Comment