The Speedy Ptyxis Terminal Emulator Available On Ubuntu 24.10
06:59 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ptyxis On Ubuntu - Add A Comment
7 October
Linus Torvalds Asks Kernel Developers To Write Better Git Merge Commit Messages
06:45 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Enhancing Quality - Add A Comment
NVGRACE-GPU VFIO Driver Preparing For NVIDIA Grace Blackwell
06:39 AM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA Grace Blackwell VFIO Support - Add A Comment
Linux Thermal/Power Platform Profile Support Coming For Alienware Systems
06:23 AM EDT - Hardware - dell-wmi-awcc - Add A Comment
6 October
Linux 6.12-rc2 Released With Initial Batch Of Fixes
06:52 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.12 - 4 Comments
More Intel Diamond Rapids Enablement Landing For Linux 6.12
11:51 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Diamond Rapids - Add A Comment
Cage 0.2 Released For Wayland-Powered Kiosks With Single, Maximized Apps
10:34 AM EDT - Wayland - Cage 0.2 - 15 Comments
Mesa 24.3 Adds New Build Option To Allow Rusticl Driver Support To Be Enabled By Default
10:22 AM EDT - Mesa - Rusticl Default - Add A Comment
Wasmer 4.4 Released To Continue Pushing Universal Apps With WebAssembly
09:04 AM EDT - Programming - Wasmer 4.4 - 11 Comments
Apple Vulkan Driver "HoneyKrisp" Lands Many Fixes & Features
06:24 AM EDT - Mesa - HoneyKrisp - 15 Comments
OpenRazer 3.9 Adds Support For Many Newer Razer Devices On Linux
06:15 AM EDT - Hardware - OpenRazer 3.9 - 4 Comments
5 October
Bcachefs Fixes Pull Once Again Frustrates Linus Torvalds - Two Choices Offered
08:24 PM EDT - Linux Storage - LKML Drama - 180 Comments
The Long-Awaited GIMP 3.0 Closing In On Its First Release Candidate
01:12 PM EDT - Free Software - GIMP 3.0 RC1 Coming Soon - 34 Comments
Fedora 41 Has Working Intel IPU6 Web Camera Support With Modern Laptops
09:42 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 41 + Intel IPU6 - 9 Comments
Linux 6.12 Patches Neoverse-N3 & Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 For Speculative SSBS
08:53 AM EDT - Arm - Plus Neoverse-A715 - Add A Comment
OpenZFS 2.3-rc1 Delivers RAIDZ Expansion, Fast Dedup & Direct IO
06:35 AM EDT - Linux Storage - OpenZFS 2.3 - 29 Comments
SDL 3.1.3 Stable ABI Preview Release
06:20 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - SDL 3.1.3 - 22 Comments
KDE Plasma 6.2 Preparing For Release Next Week
06:11 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Plasma 6.2 On 8 October - 17 Comments
4 October
Wine 9.19 Brings Improved Window Positioning On Wayland
08:29 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 9.19 - 5 Comments
Qualcomm Linux Driver Prepares For New "AIC080" Lower-Cost Cloud AI Accelerator
04:10 PM EDT - Hardware - Qualcomm Cloud AI 80 - Add A Comment
Intel Panther Lake Introducing 5th Gen NPU - Initial Linux Patches Posted
01:42 PM EDT - Intel - Intel Panther Lake NPU - 2 Comments
01:30 PM EDT - Processors - 37 Comments
ZLUDA Takes On Third Life: Open-Source Multi-GPU CUDA Implementation Focused On AI
10:00 AM EDT - Free Software - ZLUDA - 36 Comments
Fwupd 2.0 Released To Drop Legacy & Deprecated Bits, Adds New Features
09:41 AM EDT - LVFS - Fwupd 2.0 - 17 Comments
Blender 4.3 Beta Delivers Experimental Vulkan UI Rendering
08:58 AM EDT - Free Software - Blender 4.3 - 8 Comments
Red Hat Engineer Working On DRM Panic Support For AMDGPU Driver
06:52 AM EDT - Radeon - DRM Panic - 23 Comments
Zink Seeing VA-API Video Acceleration Implemented Over Vulkan Video
06:39 AM EDT - Mesa - VA-API On Vulkan Video - 15 Comments
Zrythm Digital Audio Workstation Abandoning GTK For Qt6
06:31 AM EDT - Free Software - From GTK To Qt - 25 Comments
Servo Browser Adds Android Downloads, Improved Tabbing & More
06:14 AM EDT - Mozilla - Servo Browser - 15 Comments
3 October
New AMD Linux Patches Aim To Further Boost Performance For Heterogeneous CPU Designs
08:22 PM EDT - AMD - Better Performance - 3 Comments
MRDIMM 8800MT/s vs. DDR5-6400 Memory Performance With Intel Xeon 6
04:00 PM EDT - Memory - 11 Comments
Intel Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" List Prices Top Out At $17,800 USD
02:30 PM EDT - Intel - Intel Xeon 6900P Pricing - 4 Comments
Mesa 24.2.4 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes
01:58 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 24.2.4 - 2 Comments
Fedora's Kernel Build Now Enabling Sched_Ext Support
08:37 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora + sched_ext - 6 Comments
Google Updates Patches For AutoFDO+Propeller Optimized Linux Kernel
06:48 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Faster Performance - 8 Comments
Giga Computing Announces GA On Their AmpereOne Servers
06:17 AM EDT - Arm - General Availability - 4 Comments
NetworkManager 1.50 Released - Now Ensures Offensive Terms Don't Appear In Settings
06:00 AM EDT - Linux Networking - NetworkManager 1.50 - 149 Comments
UXL Foundation Hosting Virtual oneAPI DevSummit 2024 Next Week
05:46 AM EDT - Linux Events - oneAPI DevSummit - Add A Comment
2 October
Steam Remote Play Adds AV1 Video Streaming Support Plus More Linux Fixes
08:18 PM EDT - Valve - Steam Remote Play + AV1 - 27 Comments
Linux 6.12 Drops New Driver That Ended Up Breaking Laptop Touchpad Support For Many Users
Some Intel Linux Driver Maintainers Have Left The Company
02:23 PM EDT - Intel - Intel Layoffs - 18 Comments
Redox OS Making Progress On RISC-V Support, Eyes QEMU & Neovim Ports
12:54 PM EDT - Operating Systems - September Status Update - 17 Comments
Intel Xeon 6980P SNC3 vs. HEX Clustering Mode Performance
11:10 AM EDT - Processors - 2 Comments
Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Release In December
10:49 AM EDT - Desktop - Xfce 4.20 - 79 Comments
Notcurses Is Still Alive For Ramping Up "Terminal Bling" With Complex TUIs
06:47 AM EDT - Programming - Notcurses - 25 Comments
Golang Now Enables Speedier getrandom() On Linux
06:34 AM EDT - Programming - Golang + getrandom vDSO - 5 Comments
OpenVPN Kernel Driver Patches Updated For Improving VPN Performance
06:19 AM EDT - Linux Networking - OpenVPN Offload - 16 Comments
Manjaro 24.1 Released With GNOME 46, KDE Plasma 6.1 & Xfce 4.18 Desktop Options
05:53 AM EDT - Arch Linux - Manjaro 24.1 - 14 Comments
1 October
Steam On Linux Percentage Receded A Bit Further In September
08:21 PM EDT - Valve - Steam Survey - 74 Comments
Python 3.13 Sees Last Minute Delay Due To Performance Regression
01:41 PM EDT - Programming - Python 3.13-rc3 - 32 Comments
Intel Preparing New "Staging" Feature For Better Handling CPU Microcode Updates
01:17 PM EDT - Intel - Intel Staging Feature - Add A Comment
Kernel Recipes 2024 Slides & Videos Posted
11:20 AM EDT - Linux Events - Kernel Recipes 2024 - 1 Comment
Supermicro ARS-211M-NR AmpereOne Server With R13SPD Motherboard
10:34 AM EDT - Computers - 3 Comments
AMD Announces EPYC Embedded 8004 Series
09:52 AM EDT - AMD - AMD EPYC Embedded 8004 - 4 Comments
Firefox 131 Released With Tab Preview & CHIPS Support
09:44 AM EDT - Mozilla - Firefox 131 - 14 Comments
Reverse PRIME Now Works Nicely On Ubuntu 24.10
06:50 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Reverse PRIME + Ubuntu 24.10 - 14 Comments
Linux 6.13 To Bring Big/Super Pages For The Raspberry Pi Graphics Driver - Better Performance
06:25 AM EDT - Raspberry Pi - Big + Super Pages - 8 Comments
WebKitGTK 2.46 Uses Skia Rather Than Cairo, More CPU/GPU Optimizations To Come
06:17 AM EDT - GNOME - WebKitGTK 2.46 - 48 Comments
Granite Rapids, AmpereOne & PREEMPT_RT Landing Made For An Exciting September
06:07 AM EDT - Phoronix - September 2024 - Add A Comment
Busd Taking Shape As A D-Bus Broker Written In Rust
05:56 AM EDT - systemd - Busd - 45 Comments
30 September
Cinnamon Pursuing Visual Improvements, Linux Mint Continues Working On Aptkit
03:22 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Linux Mint In September - 20 Comments
DOOM Ported To Run Atop AMD ROCm + LLVM libc
11:00 AM EDT - Radeon - DOOM ROCm Port - 43 Comments
Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake Graphics Performance Disappoints On Linux
08:40 AM EDT - Graphics Cards - 50 Comments
Cpufreq_ext Being Worked On For BPF-Based CPU Frequency Scaling
07:49 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - cpufreq_ext - 9 Comments
AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Excited Linux Users The Most In Q3
06:44 AM EDT - Hardware - Q3-2024 Recap - Add A Comment
FFmpeg 7.1 Released With VVC Decoder Promoted To Stable, Vulkan H.264/H.265 Encode
06:34 AM EDT - Multimedia - FFmpeg 7.1 - 51 Comments
Sway 1.10-rc1 Adds GPU Reset Recovery, New Wayland Protocols
06:25 AM EDT - Wayland - Sway 1.10 - 16 Comments
AMDVLK 2024.Q3.3 Brings New Performance Optimizations & Pipeline Binaries
06:08 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDVLK 2024.Q3.3 - 9 Comments
29 September
Linux 6.12-rc1 Released With QR Code Panic Messages, PREEMPT_RT & Sched_ext
06:25 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.12 - 20 Comments
Linux 6.12 Features Are Super Exciting With Real-Time, Sched_ext, Intel Xe2 & Raspberry Pi 5
10:00 AM EDT - Software - 11 Comments
CachyOS Optimizing More Packages With PGO For Up To ~10% Better Performance
09:56 AM EDT - Arch Linux - CachyOS September 2024 - 25 Comments
Linux 6.12 x86 Platform Drivers Brings Improvements For Laptops Plus Intel ELC
08:48 AM EDT - Hardware - x86 Platform Drivers - Add A Comment
Linux 6.12 Hardware Monitoring Supports More OneXPlayer Gaming Handhelds
06:41 AM EDT - Hardware - HWMON - 2 Comments
Intel Panther Lake & Diamond Rapids Model IDs Added For Linux 6.12
06:16 AM EDT - Intel - Panther Lake + Diamond Rapids - Add A Comment
28 September
Systemd Looking At A Future With More Varlink & Less D-Bus For IPC
04:00 PM EDT - systemd - Systemd + Varlink - 62 Comments
KVM With Linux 6.12 Will Advertise AVX10.1 Support To Guest VMs
02:57 PM EDT - Virtualization - Kernel-Based Virtual Machine - 13 Comments
FreeBSD To See Better Laptop Support With Investment Backed By AMD, Dell & Framework
10:47 AM EDT - BSD - FreeBSD Laptop Support - 27 Comments
FUSE In Linux 6.12 Adds Idmapped Mounts & Writeback Optimization
10:32 AM EDT - Linux Storage - FUSE - Add A Comment
Blumenkrantz Proposes Workflow Improvements For Wayland Protocols
09:35 AM EDT - Wayland - Wayland Governance - 23 Comments
LoongArch Adds ACPI BGRT Support & Other Improvements For Linux 6.12
09:06 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 6.12 LoongArch - 2 Comments
More CXL Additions Arrive For Linux 6.12
08:46 AM EDT - Hardware - Compute Express Link - Add A Comment
KDE Sees Many Crash Fixes & Other Improvements Ahead Of Plasma 6.2
06:37 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Plasma Crash Fixes - 21 Comments
Valve Helping Arch Linux With Build Service Infrastructure & Secure Signing Enclave
06:22 AM EDT - Arch Linux - Valve + Arch Linux Collaboration - 28 Comments
27 September
Last Call For The 2024 Phoronix Premium Oktoberfest Promotion
AMD ROCm 6.2.2 Released To Fix Instinct MI300X Error Recovery Failure
07:08 PM EDT - Radeon - ROCm 6.2.2 - 3 Comments
Linux 6.12 Adds Driver For PixArt PS/2 Touchpad Found In Some Laptops
03:19 PM EDT - Hardware - PixArt PS/2 Driver - 2 Comments
AMD Releases AMD-135M: An Open-Source Small Language Model
02:05 PM EDT - AMD - AMD-135M - 9 Comments
Early Linux 6.12 Kernel Benchmarks Showing Some Nice Gains On AMD Zen 5
12:22 PM EDT - AMD - Linux 6.12 - 13 Comments
AmpereOne CPPC CPUFreq Schedutil vs. Performance Governor Benchmarks
11:02 AM EDT - Hardware - AmpereOne A192-32X - 2 Comments
Intel's Open PGL v0.7 Delivers New Experimental Features
10:13 AM EDT - Intel - Open PGL 0.7 - Add A Comment
CouchDB Update Brings QuickJS Engine Option - 4~5x Faster Than SpiderMonkey
08:44 AM EDT - Programming - CouchDB 3.4.1 - 8 Comments
Sound Open Firmware 2.11 Adds AMD ACP 7.0 Strix Point & Intel Panther Lake Support
06:30 AM EDT - Multimedia - Sound Open Firmware 2.11 - 2 Comments
Upstream Linux 6.12 Makes It Easier To Build A Debug Kernel For Arch Linux
06:20 AM EDT - Arch Linux - linux-debug Pacman - 16 Comments
Blumenkrantz Seeks Clear Policy How Wayland Protocol Changes Can Be Rejected
05:53 AM EDT - Wayland - NACK'ed - 17 Comments
26 September
BusyBox 1.37 Adds "getfattr" Along With Other Improvements
08:14 PM EDT - Free Software - BusyBox 1.37 - 11 Comments
Unauthenticated RCE Flaw With CVSS 9.9 Rating For Linux Systems Affects CUPS
04:10 PM EDT - Linux Security - Unauthenticated RCE Vulnerability - 59 Comments
Intel Xeon 6980P vs. AMD EPYC Power Efficiency / Performance-Per-Watt Benchmarks
01:52 PM EDT - Processors - 21 Comments
PostgreSQL 17 Released With AVX-512 Optimization & Up To 2x Better Write Throughput
10:55 AM EDT - Programming - PostgreSQL 17 - 14 Comments
System76 Releases COSMIC Alpha 2 Desktop Packages
10:19 AM EDT - Desktop - COSMIC Alpha 2 - 102 Comments
Linux 6.12 Brings 9p Network USB Gadget Driver To Ease Embedded Device Development
RISC-V Wires Up More Kernel Features With Linux 6.12
07:05 AM EDT - RISC-V - Linux 6.12 RISC-V - 4 Comments
VirtIO Vsock Performance To Improve With Linux 6.12
06:39 AM EDT - Virtualization - Faster VirtIO-Vsock - 1 Comment
DXVK 2.4.1 Released With Many Improvements, More Robust Direct3D 8
06:26 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - DXVK 2.4.1 - 30 Comments
Vulkan 1.3.296 Released With VK_EXT_device_generated_commands
25 September
Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development
04:46 PM EDT - Wayland - Experimental Protocols - 188 Comments
ChipStar 1.2 Released For Compiling & Running HIP/CUDA On SPIR-V/OpenCL Hardware
02:51 PM EDT - Programming - ChipStar 1.2 - 13 Comments
Intel Working To Improve Virtualization Handling For P/E-Core Hybrid CPUs
12:03 PM EDT - Intel - Intel Core + Virtualization - 4 Comments
Rust In Linux 6.12 Prepares For Rust Binder, Supports Sanitizers & CPU Mitigations
10:30 AM EDT - Programming - Linux 6.12 Rust - 14 Comments
Cloudflare Goes With AMD EPYC Genoa-X For Their Next-Gen Servers
09:45 AM EDT - AMD - Cloudflare Genoa-X Servers - 2 Comments
Mesa 24.3 Finishes The Years Long Effort To Phase Out The Old GLSL IR Linker
08:59 AM EDT - Mesa - Removing The Old GLSL IR Linker - 3 Comments
Linux 6.12 NFS Adds LOCALIO Protocol For "Extreme" Performance Boost
06:36 AM EDT - Linux Storage - NFS - 11 Comments
Fwupd 1.9.25 Supports Firmware Updates For A Few More Devices Under Linux
06:17 AM EDT - LVFS - Fwupd 1.9.25 - 3 Comments
Mold Linker Decides To Drop DEC Alpha Support: Likely Broken & No Actual Users
06:11 AM EDT - Programming - Mold Linker 2.34 - 37 Comments
Frog-FIFO-V1 Aims To Address Mesa's "Fundamentally Broken" Wayland Code
01:00 AM EDT - Mesa - frog-fifo-v1 - 70 Comments
Intel Lunar Lake Linux Benchmarks Are Still Forthcoming
12:00 AM EDT - Intel - Not Yet... Unfortunately - 18 Comments
24 September
NVIDIA Mellanox Linux Driver Spearheads Multi-Path PCI As "A Sign Of Things To Come"
04:30 PM EDT - NVIDIA - Linux 6.12 RDMA - 2 Comments
NVIDIA Publishes Open-Source Linux Driver Code For GPU Virtualization "vGPU" Support
01:32 PM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA GPU Virtualization - 61 Comments
Intel Xeon 6980P "Granite Rapids" Linux Benchmarks
11:00 AM EDT - Processors - 83 Comments
Intel Launches Xeon 6900P Series "Granite Rapids" Processors
11:00 AM EDT - Processors - 6 Comments
Intel Gaudi 3 Linux Driver Support Expected Next Month
11:00 AM EDT - Intel - Gaudi 3 Driver - Add A Comment
Linux 6.12 Adds A Kernel Stack Usage Histogram To Help With Optimizations
08:57 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Kernel Stack Usage Histogram - Add A Comment
Intel LPSS Driver Adds Panther Lake Support In Linux 6.12
07:07 AM EDT - Intel - Linux 6.12 - Add A Comment
Intel's LPMD "Low Power Mode Daemon" Now Identifies As The "Energy Optimizer"
06:43 AM EDT - Intel - Intel LPMD v0.0.7 - 9 Comments
Landlock Sandboxing Now Supports More Controls Around Unix Sockets
06:32 AM EDT - Linux Security - Landlock + Unix Sockets - 6 Comments
Dell-WMI-Sysman Linux Driver Being Extended For Alienware Systems
06:17 AM EDT - Hardware - Alienware Linux Driver - 3 Comments
F2FS With Linux 6.12 Converts I/O Paths To Use Folios, Other Improvements
06:11 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Flash-Friendly File-System - Add A Comment
23 September
Intel Diamond Rapids Switches To "Family 19" In Ending Intel Family 6 CPU Era
02:15 PM EDT - Intel - Intel Family 19 - 24 Comments
AMD HIP RT 2.4 Brings H-PLOC & New Graphics Architecture Support
10:20 AM EDT - Radeon - AMD HIP RT 2.4 - 5 Comments
vDSO getrandom() Ported To Five More CPU Architectures With Linux 6.12
10:04 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - vDSO getrandom() - 2 Comments
Linux 6.12 Adding HDMI CEC Driver For A 4K HDMI Splitter/Amplifier
08:47 AM EDT - Multimedia - Extron DA HD 4K Plus HDMI Splitter - 7 Comments
Linux Preparing Support For The RISC-V Framework Laptop 13
06:40 AM EDT - RISC-V - Framework 13 RISC-V - 15 Comments
Servo Browser Engine Restores Firefox Devtools Support
06:29 AM EDT - Mozilla - Servo Devtools - 19 Comments
FFmpeg Merges Implicit DRM Synchronization For Vulkan
06:20 AM EDT - Multimedia - FFmpeg Vulkan Hardware Context - 9 Comments
22 September
Linus Torvalds Adds User-Access Fast Validation Via Address Masking To Linux 6.12
04:14 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Torvalds Coding - 11 Comments
Intel TPEBS & LBR Event Logging Supported By Linux 6.12 With Perf Tools
02:45 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Intel PEBS + LBR Event Logging - Add A Comment
Bcachefs Hopes To Remove "EXPERIMENTAL" Flag In The Next Year
06:30 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Bcachefs: STABLE?! - 70 Comments
Native PCIe Enclosure Management Submitted For Linux 6.12
06:08 AM EDT - Hardware - NPEM - 2 Comments
Updated DeviceTree Gets Microsoft Windows Dev Kit 2023 Booting Linux
05:57 AM EDT - Microsoft - Windows Dev Kit 2023 - 14 Comments
Updated XZ Code Lands In Linux 6.12
12:00 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - XZ Embedded - 18 Comments
21 September
Sched_ext Merged For Linux 6.12 - Scheduling Policies As BPF Programs
01:48 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - sched_ext - 20 Comments
Firewire Maintainer Is Looking For Help Testing IEEE-1394 Devices On Linux 6.12
09:17 AM EDT - Hardware - Firewire IEEE-1394 - 8 Comments
VFS+XFS Changes Land In Linux 6.12 To Support Block Sizes Larger Than Page Size
06:42 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Bigger Blocks - 16 Comments
SDL Now Prefers Vulkan Over Direct3D 12 On Windows
06:17 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - Vulkan Preferred - 20 Comments
KDE Optimizes How It Finds Mount Points - Up To 80% Speed-Up
06:11 AM EDT - KDE - KDE This Week - 31 Comments
Oracle's UEK-Next Moves To Linux 6.10, Patches In sched_ext
05:29 AM EDT - Oracle - UEK-Next Linux 6.10 - 5 Comments
20 September
AMD Releases ROCm 6.2.1 With FBGEMM Support, Installation Improvements
08:48 PM EDT - Radeon - ROCM 6.2.1 - 25 Comments
Wine 9.18 Delivers New Desktop Control Panel Applet
08:16 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 9.18 - 11 Comments
Ubuntu 24.10 Beta Released For Testing
07:05 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 24.10 - 9 Comments
Ubuntu 24.10 Making Preparations For The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5
12:55 PM EDT - Raspberry Pi - Compute Module 5 + Ubuntu 24.10 - Add A Comment
The Fastest AArch64 Linux Distribution On The 192-Core AmpereOne
10:30 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 19 Comments
New Wacom Drawing Tablet Driver Features With Linux 6.12
09:47 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.12 HID - 4 Comments
Proposal Seeks To Replace MySQL With MariaDB By Default For Ubuntu 25.04
09:02 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 25.04 - 37 Comments
Gfxstream Merged Into Mesa For Vulkan Virtualization
06:42 AM EDT - Mesa - Mesa Gfxstream - 8 Comments
OpenZFS Merges Support For Direct IO
06:30 AM EDT - Linux Storage - OpenZFS Direct IO - 34 Comments
Haiku OS Working On USB 3 SuperSpeed Plus Support
06:20 AM EDT - Hardware - Haiku - 5 Comments
Dell XPS 9345 With Snapdragon X1 Sees Linux Patches But Not Yet Speakers & Other Features
06:11 AM EDT - Hardware - Dell XPS 9345 - 3 Comments
Real-Time "PREEMPT_RT" Support Merged For Linux 6.12
05:47 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - PREEMPT_RT - 49 Comments
19 September
Wow! Microsoft DirectX Adopting SPIR-V Moving Forward
04:19 PM EDT - Microsoft - SPIR-V Replacing DXIL - 110 Comments
Valve's Proton 9.0-3 Brings Support For More Games On Linux, Many Fixes
03:56 PM EDT - Valve - Proton 9.0-3 - 15 Comments
Ubuntu Core Desktop Seeing KDE Plasma Snap'ed Up, Other Ubuntu 24.10 Progress
02:24 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 24.10 Development - 54 Comments
AMD AGESA PI 1.2.0.2 Performance With The Ryzen 9 9950X On Linux
01:17 PM EDT - Processors - 28 Comments
Linux 6.12 Lands QR Code For DRM Panic Messages, Intel LNL & BMG Graphics Enabled
10:16 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.12 DRM - 10 Comments
Linux 6.12 Perf Updates Bring Intel Lunar Lake & Arrow Lake Additions
09:54 AM EDT - Intel - Linux 6.12 Perf - Add A Comment
OpenVINO 2024.4 Prepares For Core Ultra Series 2, New Gen AI Models
Linux 6.12 Scheduler Code Adds SCHED_DEADLINE Servers & Complete EEVDF
06:55 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.12 Scheduler - 12 Comments
Microsoft Optimizes Hyper-V Code To Boot Linux Faster When Having Many CPUs
XFS With Linux 6.12 Adds New Ioctls To Exchange Contents Of Two Files
06:35 AM EDT - Linux Storage - XFS - 31 Comments
18 September
Mesa's Zink Driver Now Supports OpenGL VR Extensions
04:50 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa OVR Extensions - 24 Comments
Autodesk Contributes Mesa Vulkan WSI Support For Apple's Metal
03:51 PM EDT - Mesa - Software Vulkan To Apple Metal - 9 Comments
H.264/H.265 Vulkan Encoder Support Merged Into FFmpeg
01:08 PM EDT - Multimedia - FFmpeg + Vulkan Video - 13 Comments
GNOME 47 Released With Accent Colors, Improved Apps & More
11:35 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME 47 - 60 Comments
NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation vs. Radeon PRO Performance On Ubuntu Linux 24.04 LTS
09:25 AM EDT - Computers - 33 Comments
Linux 6.12 Adds Build Options For Greater Control Over CPU Security Mitigations
08:00 AM EDT - Linux Security - Linux 6.12 Kconfig Options - 2 Comments
Many Intel & AMD Power Management Improvements For Linux 6.12
Intel Compute Runtime Offers "Preview" Support For Lunar Lake
06:00 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Compute Runtime - 4 Comments
Linux 6.12 Landing Integrity Policy Enforcement "IPE" Module
04:00 AM EDT - Linux Security - Linux 6.12 IPE - 1 Comment
Btrfs Sees Minor Performance Optimizations With Linux 6.12
01:11 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Linux 6.12 + Btrfs - 24 Comments
17 September
Patch Proposed For Adding x86_64 Feature Levels To The Kernel - But It's Likely D.O.A.
03:30 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - x86_64 Microarchitecture Feature Levels - 38 Comments
Initial AMD Zen 5 "Znver5" Support Merged For LLVM/Clang
02:17 PM EDT - AMD - Znver5 For LLVM Clang - 3 Comments
OpenJDK Java 23 Released With ZGC Generational Mode By Default
12:30 PM EDT - Programming - Java 23 - 29 Comments
The Printk Blocker For Upstreaming Real-Time "PREEMPT_RT" Has Been Merged
10:19 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.12 Printk Merged - 36 Comments
LLVM 19.1 Released With C++17 Support "Complete", More C & C++ Features
09:00 AM EDT - LLVM - LLVM 19.1 - 12 Comments
Fedora 41 Beta Released With Many Leading-Edge Linux Enhancements
08:00 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 41 Beta - 68 Comments
Mir 2.18 Released With Wayland Server-Side Decorations
07:44 AM EDT - Wayland - Mir 2.18 - 21 Comments
Device Memory TCP Included With The Networking Changes For Linux 6.12
04:00 AM EDT - Linux Networking - Device Memory TCP - 1 Comment
FreeBSD 13.4 Released With Many Software Updates & Driver Improvements
ARM / RISC-V / LoongArch KVM Updates Submitted For Linux 6.12
12:00 AM EDT - Virtualization - Linux 6.12 KVM - 1 Comment
16 September
AMD Publishes RDNA 3.5 ISA Documentation
06:00 PM EDT - Radeon - RDNA 3.5 ISA Guide - 11 Comments
Initial Raspberry Pi 5 Support & More Snapdragon X1 Laptops Submitted For Linux 6.12
04:00 PM EDT - Arm - ARM SoC Updates - 7 Comments
Replay Protected Memory Block "RPMB" Subsystem Submitted For Linux 6.12
03:00 PM EDT - Linux Storage - Replay Protected Memory Block - 5 Comments
A Re-Implementation Of The EROFS File-System In Rust Has Started
01:00 PM EDT - Linux Storage - EROFS + Rust - 62 Comments
Idea Raised For Reducing The Size Of The AMDGPU Driver With Its Massive Header Files
11:30 AM EDT - Radeon - Moving To External Repo - 46 Comments
AmpereOne Performance With GCC vs. LLVM Clang Compilers
09:49 AM EDT - Software - 10 Comments
GNU Linux-libre 6.11 Makes Adaptations For Rust, Warns Of Hidden Binary Bits In v6.11
09:32 AM EDT - GNU - GNU Linux-libre 6.11-gnu - 25 Comments
The File Struct Is Smaller In Linux 6.12 - May Help File Heavy Workloads
06:30 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Optimizing File Struct - 15 Comments
TamaGo Allows Executing Go Language Code Bare Metal On ARM/RISC-V SoCs
06:00 AM EDT - Programming - TamaGo - 16 Comments
Linux 6.12 EDAC Prepares For Address Translation On Future AMD Platforms
05:00 AM EDT - AMD - Linux 6.12 EDAC / RAS - Add A Comment
Linux 6.12 To Support Arm's Permission Overlay Extension
12:00 AM EDT - Arm - Arm Confidential Computing - Add A Comment
15 September
Valkey 8.0 Released As Speedy Redis Fork Achieving One Million RPS
08:25 PM EDT - Programming - Valkey 8.0 - 11 Comments
IO_uring Async Discard Submitted For Linux 6.12
03:51 PM EDT - Linux Storage - IO_uring async discard - 1 Comment
Linux 6.11 Kernel Released With Some Snapdragon X1 Laptop Support & Other New Hardware
11:12 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.11 - 8 Comments
Linux 6.11 Features Many Exciting Updates For AMD Hardware & More
09:03 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.11 Updates - 11 Comments
AMD GPU Linux Driver Becoming "Really Really Big" That It's Starting To Cause Problems
06:00 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDGPU Driver - 66 Comments
Legacy Intel Sound Driver Support Being Removed In Linux 6.12, Other Big Changes
05:00 AM EDT - Multimedia - Linux 6.12 Sound - 4 Comments
Many ACPI Updates Head To The Linux 6.12 Kernel
04:00 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 6.12 ACPI Updates - 7 Comments
Ubuntu Developers Begin Working On Snapdragon X1 Elite Support
12:00 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Snapdragon X1 + Ubuntu - 21 Comments
14 September
Linux 6.11 Adds Last Minute Addition For Intel Arrow Lake
03:57 PM EDT - Intel - Pin Control - 6 Comments
GNOME Mutter Merges XDG Session Management Wayland Protocol
10:33 AM EDT - GNOME - XDG Session Management - 23 Comments
Niri 0.1.9 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Brings New IPC Functionality
09:00 AM EDT - Wayland - Niri 0.1.9 - 9 Comments
Casilda Is A New Project As A GTK4 Wayland Compositor Widget
07:10 AM EDT - GNOME - Casilda Wayland Compositor Widget - 44 Comments
Printk Changes Submitted For Linux 6.12 Finish NBCON Console Preparations
06:53 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Printk - 10 Comments
EROFS Adding Support For File-Backed Mounts To Benefit Containers & Sandboxes
06:42 AM EDT - Linux Storage - EROFS In Linux 6.12 - Add A Comment
KDE Releases Plasma 6.2 Beta, Early Feature Work Begins For Plasma 6.3
06:30 AM EDT - KDE - KDE This Week - 18 Comments
13 September
GNOME Continues Hashing Out Individual Home Directory Encryption, Modernizing Platform
08:36 PM EDT - GNOME - This Week In GNOME - 22 Comments
Linux 6.12 Finishing The Transition For Moving Intel CPUs Past The "Family 6" Era
04:22 PM EDT - Intel - VFM Refactoring - 20 Comments
Intel Graphics Compiler Can Now Be Built For RISC-V
01:54 PM EDT - Intel - Intel IGC + RISC-V - 12 Comments
Haiku R1 Beta 5 Released With Dark Mode Theme & Support For USB Audio
01:11 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Haiku R1 Beta1 - 13 Comments
GNOME Foundation Accepting Applications For New Executive Director
10:00 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME Executive Director - 43 Comments
Ubuntu 24.10 ARM64 Installer Supports The Snapdragon-Powered Lenovo ThinkPad X13s
09:15 AM EDT - Arm - ThinkPad X13s + Ubuntu 24.10 - 7 Comments
AMD Engineer Proposes "Attack Vector Controls" To Rethink CPU Security Mitigation Handling
07:16 AM EDT - Linux Security - Attack Vector Controls - 17 Comments
Ruffle Continues Letting Adobe Flash Player Support Live On In Open-Source
06:50 AM EDT - Free Software - Ruffle + Adobe Flash Player - 20 Comments
LoongArch KVM To Speed-Up ARM/x86 Binary Translation
06:39 AM EDT - Virtualization - LoongArch KVM Changes For Linux 6.12 - Add A Comment
Chrome Adds Support For FreeDesktop Secret Service & Better Wayland Window Dragging
06:29 AM EDT - Google - Chrome Features - 5 Comments
Samba Secures A Big Investment From Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund
06:10 AM EDT - Free Software - STF + Samba - 7 Comments
12 September
Fedora 42 On 64-bit ARM Might Make It Seamless To Run x86/x86_64 Programs
04:00 PM EDT - Fedora - FEX On Fedora AArch64 - 37 Comments
AMD Publishes GC 11.5.2 Firmware For Upcoming RDNA3.5 Hardware
02:36 PM EDT - Radeon - AMD GC 11.5.2 - Add A Comment
Fedora 42 Will Try Again To Use The New Anaconda Installer's Web UI
02:15 PM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 42 Early Features - 20 Comments
KDE Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 Brings New Capabilities
01:42 PM EDT - KDE - Plasma Wayland Protocols - 12 Comments
AMD XDNA Linux Driver v3 Published For Ryzen AI Upstreaming
11:00 AM EDT - AMD - AMD XDNA Driver v3 - 4 Comments
EXT4 Extsize Hints Being Worked On As Step Toward Non-Torn/Atomic Writes
09:00 AM EDT - Linux Storage - EXT4 Extsize Hints - 2 Comments
Intel Demonstrates Up To 48% Improvement For AVX-512 Optimized PostgreSQL
07:43 AM EDT - Intel - AVX-512 + PostgreSQL - 45 Comments
Linux Mint Takes To Forking Some APT Components
07:30 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Captain + Aptkit - 21 Comments
STF Opens Up Maintainer Fellowship Application Process
07:00 AM EDT - Free Software - Sovereign Tech Fund - Add A Comment
Redis 8.0 Community Edition M1 Released With New Data Structures
06:52 AM EDT - Programming - Redis 8.0 CE M1 - 14 Comments
Mesa PanVK Vulkan Driver Sees Initial Support For Arm Mali 2nd Gen Valhall GPUs
Wine Making Improvements To Its GitLab, Eyes Contributor Covenant For CoC
06:34 AM EDT - WINE - Wine GitLab - 41 Comments
11 September
Gentoo Linux Touts Better MIPS & Alpha Platform Support
08:55 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Gentoo Linux + MIPS + Alpha - 14 Comments
VirtualBox 7.1 Released With Improved UI, Wayland Clipboard Sharing
02:04 PM EDT - Virtualization - VirtualBox 7.1 - 29 Comments
AMD Submits Initial Zen 5 Enablement For LLVM/Clang Compiler
AMD Ryzen 5 9600X & Ryzen 7 9700X Linux Performance With 105 Watt cTDP
12:25 PM EDT - Processors - 34 Comments
Ubuntu 24.10 To Enhance Snap Permissions Handling
12:00 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 24.10 Snap Permissions - 68 Comments
Linux 6.12 Kernel To Add New Features For Intel & AMD Systems, Many Other Changes Too
08:47 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.12 Feature Preview - 6 Comments
Device Tree Patches Posted For Review To Boot Linux On Apple A7 To A11 Devices
06:50 AM EDT - Apple - iPhones, iPod, iPad, Apple TV Devices - 5 Comments
Verso Taking Shape As A Servo-Powered Web Browser
06:22 AM EDT - Free Software - Verso Web Browser - 25 Comments
LLVM Makes Progress On Using ClangIR To Compile GPU Kernels
06:04 AM EDT - LLVM - LLVM + ClangIR + GPU Kernels - 2 Comments
Torvalds Inclined To Release Linux 6.11 This Coming Sunday
05:57 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - 15 September Release Date - 5 Comments
Kernel Shader Variants Merged For Mesa's Rusticl OpenCL Driver
05:46 AM EDT - Mesa - Kernel Shader Variants - Add A Comment
10 September
wolfSSL "Immediately Retired" From Fedora Linux For Failing To Follow Packaging Rules
08:11 PM EDT - Fedora - wolfSSL + Fedora - 36 Comments
CentOS Stream 10 Showing Nice Performance Uplift In Early Benchmarks On AmpereOne
04:00 PM EDT - Operating Systems - 5 Comments
Intel CPU Microcode 20240910 Fixes Two Security Issues, Various Functional Issues
02:25 PM EDT - Intel - Intel CPU Microcode 20240910 - Add A Comment
GNU C Library Tuning For AArch64 Helps Memset Performance By ~24%
01:00 PM EDT - GNU - Glibc AArch64 memset Optimization - 9 Comments
Intel Linux Graphics Driver To Finally Expose GPU Package Temperature
12:24 PM EDT - Intel - Intel GPU Temperature Reporting - 13 Comments
AlmaLinux Announces Certification SIG, Hardware Certification Program
11:27 AM EDT - Operating Systems - AlmaLinux Hardware Certification - 10 Comments
Canonical Working To Package GraalVM For Ubuntu Linux
10:42 AM EDT - Ubuntu - GraalVM For Ubuntu - 3 Comments
Intel QATlib 24.09 Improves Performance For Multi-Threaded Apps & Multi-Socket Servers
Intel Preps Native PCIe Enclosure Management "NPEM" For Standardized Storage LEDs
07:00 AM EDT - Intel - Native PCIe Enclosure Management - 4 Comments
Ubuntu 24.10 Desktop To Ship With Sysprof Profiler Pre-Installed
06:32 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 24.10 Sysprof - 6 Comments
RADV Merges Vulkan Pipeline Binary Support
06:23 AM EDT - Mesa - VK_KHR_pipeline_binary - 9 Comments
Another Arrow Lake Graphics Device ID Being Added To Intel's Linux Driver
06:00 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Arrow Lake ID - Add A Comment
Canonical Shipping Updated Intel TDX Software For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
05:42 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Intel TDX + Ubuntu - Add A Comment
9 September
Mesa 24.3 Removes Support For The Long-Abandoned OpenMAX API
08:25 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa Drops OpenMAX - 8 Comments
Intel Efficiency Latency Control "ELC" Feature Slated For Linux 6.12
04:11 PM EDT - Intel - Intel Uncore Efficiency Latency Control - 4 Comments
Latest "sched/rt" Commits Point To PREEMPT_RT Potentially Being Ready For Linux 6.12
02:38 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - PREEMPT_RT Finally?!? - 55 Comments
AWS Graviton4 vs. AmpereOne 192-Core Benchmarks For Leading AArch64 Server Performance
11:15 AM EDT - Processors - 7 Comments
Redox OS 0.9 Brings COSMIC Apps, Better Performance & Improved Linux App Compatibility
09:54 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Redox OS 0.9 - 37 Comments
KDE Plans To Enhance Application Development Experience, Recruit More Contributors
08:35 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Goals - 50 Comments
Intel Panther Lake HDMI Audio Support Coming With Linux 6.12
06:30 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Panther Lake HDMI Audio - Add A Comment
OpenJPH v0.16 Now Using AVX2 For Faster HTJ2K/JPEG2000
06:09 AM EDT - Programming - OpenJPH v0.16 - 5 Comments
Hyprland 0.43 Wayland Compositor Releases, Raises Build Requirements To C++26
05:45 AM EDT - Wayland - Hyprland 0.43 - 34 Comments
8 September
GNOME 47 Release Candidate Brings Last Minute Changes
08:40 PM EDT - GNOME - GNOME 47.rc - 32 Comments
Linux 6.11-rc7 Released: Linux 6.11 Stable Possibly Next Sunday
06:06 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.11 - 3 Comments
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X vs. Ryzen 9 7950X/7950X3D For Workstation Graphics
09:16 AM EDT - Software - 26 Comments
Linux 6.12 To Enhance The Hybrid P/E Core Experience On Intel Lunar Lake
07:07 AM EDT - Intel - Hybrid CPU + No SMT - 3 Comments
Even NVIDIA Has Jumped Big On The Open-Source OpenBMC Train
06:50 AM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA + OpenBMC - 9 Comments
RISC-V Enabling Generic CPU Vulnerabilities Reporting
06:37 AM EDT - RISC-V - RISC-V CPU Vulnerabilities Reporting - 6 Comments
FUSE Adding IDMAPPED Mounts Support In Linux 6.12
06:18 AM EDT - Linux Storage - FUSE + IDMAPPED Mounts - 1 Comment
7 September
KDE Squeezes A Few More Features Into The Plasma 6.2 Desktop
08:35 PM EDT - KDE - KDE Plasma 6.2 - 21 Comments
Hangover 9.17 Ships With Wine Wayland Support, Ubuntu 24.10 Packages
03:00 PM EDT - WINE - Hangover 9.17 - 2 Comments
Raspberry Pi Showcases Rust On The RP2350 Microcontroller
11:10 AM EDT - Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi RP2350 + Rust - 12 Comments
Slimbook KDE Plasma VI Laptop Announced - Powered By AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS
11:00 AM EDT - KDE - Slimbook Plasma VI - 27 Comments
GTK 4.16 Released With Vulkan GSK Renderer By Default On Wayland
06:50 AM EDT - GNOME - GTK 4.16 - 28 Comments
AMD Enables Per-Queue Resets For Newer GPUs & Other Linux 6.12 AMDGPU Changes
06:40 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDGPU Linux 6.12 - 3 Comments
Cairo 1.18.2 Collects A Year's Worth Of Fixes
06:30 AM EDT - Programming - Cairo 1.18.2 - 4 Comments