| AMD |
| AES-NI XTS Crypto Performance Looking Good For AMD With Linux 5.12 Fix | 01 Mar 2021 |
| The State Of ROCm For HPC In Early 2021 With CUDA Porting Via HIP, Rewriting With OpenMP | 21 Feb 2021 |
| AMD Ryzen 5000 Temperature Monitoring Support Sent In For Linux 5.12 | 15 Feb 2021 |
| AMD Is Currently Hiring More Linux Engineers | 11 Feb 2021 |
| The Latest Open-Source AMD Firmware / Coreboot Happenings In Early 2021 | 07 Feb 2021 |
| AMD Regression On Linux 5.11 Being Addressed By New CPUFreq Patches | 04 Feb 2021 |
| More AMDGPU Patches For Linux 5.12 Point To First Sign Towards PCIe 5.0, FreeSync HDMI | 04 Feb 2021 |
| A Fix Has Been Proposed For The Slower AMD Performance On Linux 5.11 | 21 Jan 2021 |
| AMD Announces Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile Processors, Previews EPYC Milan | 12 Jan 2021 |
| AMD Publishes More Zen 3 Compiler Support Patches For LLVM | 11 Jan 2021 |
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1206 Articles |
| Arm |
| Google Engineers Propose Adding Linux Kernel Option For ARM SLS Mitigation | 15 Feb 2021 |
| Some Older ARM Platforms Will Be Saved While Others On The Chopping Block For Linux | 13 Jan 2021 |
| Qualcomm To Acquire High Performance ARM SoC Startup NUVIA | 13 Jan 2021 |
| PicoXcell Support Finally Slated For Removal From The Linux Kernel | 05 Jan 2021 |
| Arm Begins Adding ARMv8.7-A Support In LLVM Clang 12 | 21 Dec 2020 |
| LLVM Adds Additional Protections For Arm's SLS Speculation Vulnerability Mitigation | 20 Dec 2020 |
| Linux 5.11 Supports The OUYA Game Console, Other New ARM Hardware Support | 17 Dec 2020 |
| Arm Neoverse V1 Support Added To LLVM Clang 12 Compiler | 09 Nov 2020 |
| GNU Toolchain Begins Adding ARMv8.7-A Support | 29 Oct 2020 |
| Linux 5.10 Has Initial Support For NVIDIA Orin, DeviceTree For Purism's Librem 5 | 24 Oct 2020 |
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236 Articles |
| BSD |
| NomadBSD 1.4 Released With GUI For Easier Chrome / Brave / Vivaldi Browser Installation | 03 Mar 2021 |
| helloSystem Releases New ISOs For This macOS-Inspired BSD Desktop OS | 14 Feb 2021 |
| FreeBSD 13 BETA2 Released With Working 32-bit Builds, Kernel TLS Offload | 13 Feb 2021 |
| helloSystem Wants To Be The "macOS of BSDs" With A Polished Desktop Experience | 09 Feb 2021 |
| FreeBSD 13.0-BETA1 Released With WireGuard, Updated ZFS, NUMA Optimizations | 06 Feb 2021 |
| OPNsense 21.1 Open-Source Firewall/Router Platform Released | 28 Jan 2021 |
| NomadBSD 1.4 Working On An Improved Installer, Better Driver Detection | 28 Jan 2021 |
| Netgate Announces pfSense Plus With Greater Divergence From pfSense | 21 Jan 2021 |
| WireGuard Is Now Available For pfSense | 19 Jan 2021 |
| PulseAudio Lands Much Better Support For FreeBSD - Audio Now Plays Correctly | 18 Jan 2021 |
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715 Articles |
| Clear Linux |
| 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 |
| Benchmarks Of Clear Linux's Native Kernel Against Current/Mainline/Preempt-RT Kernels | 08 Jan 2020 |
| Clear Linux Set To Begin Offering EarlyOOM For Better Dealing With Memory Pressure | 08 Jan 2020 |
| Clear Linux Saw New Features, New Desktop Installer + Increased Adoption In 2019 | 01 Jan 2020 |
| Clear Linux Defined Linux Performance These Past Few Years | 29 Dec 2019 |
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89 Articles |
| Coreboot |
| Motherboards + Beer: Virtual Event Addressing Coreboot / Open-Source Firmware Prospects | 18 Feb 2021 |
| Intel + Microsoft Continue Work On Replacing More SMM "Black Boxes" With PRM | 06 Dec 2020 |
| Coreboot 4.13 Adds Intel TXT, Picks Up New Boards For AMD Pollock, Intel Alder Lake | 20 Nov 2020 |
| There's An Effort By A System76 Engineer To Bring Coreboot To Newer AMD Platforms | 24 Jul 2020 |
| Coreboot Ported To A Newer Intel Server Board From Supermicro | 07 Jun 2020 |
| Coreboot 4.12 Released - Drops Older Intel / AMD Platforms | 12 May 2020 |
| Oreboot Continues Advancing For Open-Source, Rust-Based Booting On RISC-V | 05 Feb 2020 |
| Tesla Is Making Use Of The Open-Source Coreboot Within Their Electric Vehicles | 14 Jan 2020 |
| Coreboot Seeing Tigerlake + Jasperlake Activity, Experimental Razer Icelake Laptop Support | 02 Jan 2020 |
| Coreboot Had An Exciting Decade Thanks To Google's Chromebooks, Efforts Like LinuxBoot | 28 Dec 2019 |
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213 Articles |
| Debian |
| Debian Launches A Debuginfod Server For Smoother Debugging Experience | 24 Feb 2021 |
| Devuan 3.1 Released - Debian Fork Now Offers Runit Plus Sysvinit, OpenRC | 15 Feb 2021 |
| Debian 11 "Bullseye" Begins Its Soft Freeze | 13 Feb 2021 |
| Data Suggests CoC + Outreachy Hasn't Helped Increase Female Participation In Debian | 13 Feb 2021 |
| Debian 10.8 Released With Dozens Of Fixes, Switches To More Parallel Build Process | 06 Feb 2021 |
| Debian 11 Freeze Begins, Debian 12 Might Reduce Focus On i386 Support | 13 Jan 2021 |
| Debian 11 "Bullseye" KDE Stack Settling On Plasma 5.20 | 22 Dec 2020 |
| Debian Working To Modernize Its Website, Rolls Out New Homepage | 19 Dec 2020 |
| Debian Installer Bullseye Alpha 3 Switches To Linux 5.9, Larger /boot | 06 Dec 2020 |
| Debian 10.7 Released With Numerous Security Fixes | 05 Dec 2020 |
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348 Articles |
| Desktop |
| Flatpak 1.10 Released With More Efficient Repo Format | 14 Jan 2021 |
| GIMP 2.99.4 Released As One Step Closer To GIMP 3.0 | 26 Dec 2020 |
| FreeType Merges New "SDF" Renderer For High Quality Text Rendering In Games, Etc | 24 Dec 2020 |
| Xfce 4.16 Released With Numerous Improvements To This Lightweight GTK3 Desktop | 22 Dec 2020 |
| Arcan Focuses In On Surpassing Feature Parity With X.Org, Releases Durden 0.6 Desktop | 20 Dec 2020 |
| Linux Mint Continues Developing Hypnotix As New Open-Source IPTV Player | 01 Dec 2020 |
| Flatpak's New Repo Format For Greater Flathub Scalability, More Architectures To Come | 22 Nov 2020 |
| Xfce 4.16pre2 Is Another Step Forward For This Open-Source Desktop | 20 Nov 2020 |
| PAPPL 1.0 Beta Released For Ultimately Replacing CUPS Printer Driver | 12 Nov 2020 |
| GIMP 2.99.2 Released With GTK3 UI, Working Wayland Support, Other Big Changes | 06 Nov 2020 |
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388 Articles |
| Fedora |
| "Fedora Kinoite" Coming For Fedora 35 As An immutable KDE Desktop Spin | 17 Feb 2021 |
| Facebook's Linux Desktop Choice Is Fedora But Ramping Up CentOS Stream | 14 Feb 2021 |
| Fedora's "Enterprise Linux Next" Taking Flight To Experiment With Next-Gen RHEL Changes | 12 Feb 2021 |
| Fedora 34 Will See HarfBuzz-Enabled FreeType As The Latest For This Huge Feature Release | 05 Feb 2021 |
| Fedora 34 Cleared For Btrfs Zstd Compression By Default, DNF/RPM Copy-On-Write | 19 Jan 2021 |
| Fedora 34 Planning For Better Font Rendering By Enabling HarfBuzz In FreeType | 15 Jan 2021 |
| Fedora 34 To Ship An ISO With The i3 Window Manager | 13 Jan 2021 |
| Fedora Looks To Overhaul Its Community Outreach | 12 Jan 2021 |
| Facebook, Twitter Proposing CentOS Hyperscale SIG With Newer Packages + Other Changes | 12 Jan 2021 |
| Fedora 34 Looking To Tweak Default zRAM Configuration | 11 Jan 2021 |
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1020 Articles |
| Free Software |
| Chrome 89 vs. Firefox 86 Performance Benchmarks On AMD Ryzen + Ubuntu Linux | 04 Mar 2021 |
| Blender 2.92 Released With Geometry Nodes, OpenCL For Intel Iris/Xe | 25 Feb 2021 |
| Ampere Making Progress On Open-Source Firmware For Their CPUs/Platform | 24 Feb 2021 |
| Libinput 1.17 Brings New Debugging Tool, 2/3 Finger Tap-And-Drag | 23 Feb 2021 |
| The State of Apache OpenOffice As Of Early 2021 | 08 Feb 2021 |
| Apache DataSketches Promoted For Doing Big Data Analytics | 04 Feb 2021 |
| Apache ECharts Promoted To Top-Level Project For Modern Charting + Visualizations | 27 Jan 2021 |
| Apache Software Foundation Saw Assigned CVEs Up 24%, Security Issues Up 53% For 2020 | 25 Jan 2021 |
| Apple M1 Open-Source GPU Bring-Up Sees An Early Triangle | 22 Jan 2021 |
| Apache Superset Reaches Top-Level Status For Big Data Visualizations | 22 Jan 2021 |
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1661 Articles |
| General |
| The LLVM Codebase Is Moving Past C++11 This Year, Likely To C++14 | 23 Jan 2019 |
| FP64 Support Finally Lands In Mesa Git For Intel Haswell | 03 Jan 2017 |
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2 Articles |
| GNOME |
| GTK 4 Toolkit's New OpenGL Renderer Is Maturing Well | 26 Feb 2021 |
| GNOME 40 Beta Released With Many Improvements | 24 Feb 2021 |
| GNOME Shell + Mutter 40 Beta Released With Wayland Improvements, Overview Redesign | 23 Feb 2021 |
| GTK 4.2 Releasing Next Month With Likely Introducing A New OpenGL Renderer | 18 Feb 2021 |
| GNOME 40 Approaches Its UI Freeze, Easy Means To Start Testing It | 02 Feb 2021 |
| Triple Buffering Likely Not Landing Until GNOME 42 | 01 Feb 2021 |
| GNOME Shell Merges Its New Horizontal Workspaces | 30 Jan 2021 |
| GNOME 40 Alpha Released | 26 Jan 2021 |
| GTK4 Toolkit Seeing More Improvements To Its OpenGL Renderer | 24 Jan 2021 |
| The State of GNOME 40's Threaded Input | 23 Jan 2021 |
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1132 Articles |
| GNU |
| IBM Begins Adding GCC Support For Z Arch14 - Likely IBM z16 | 02 Mar 2021 |
| GNU Poke 1.0 Released For Poking At Binary Data | 26 Feb 2021 |
| Proposed GCC 12 Security Option Would Auto Initialize Automatic Variables | 24 Feb 2021 |
| GNU Linux-libre 5.11 Released With Many Peripheral Drivers Needing To Be De-Blobbed | 15 Feb 2021 |
| GRUB 2.06 Should Be Released This Year, Cooperation Increasing With Distro Vendors | 10 Feb 2021 |
| GNU Network Utilities Sees First Major Release In 9 Years (inetutils 2.0) | 05 Feb 2021 |
| GNU C Library 2.33 Released With HWCAPS To Load Optimized Libraries For Modern CPUs | 01 Feb 2021 |
| GCC 11 Beefs Up Its Static Analyzer Capabilities | 30 Jan 2021 |
| GNU C Library 2.33 Should Be Out Soon - And It's Very Exciting Due To "HWCAPS" | 29 Jan 2021 |
| GNU Parted 3.4 Released With Support For F2FS File-System | 28 Jan 2021 |
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868 Articles |
| Google |
| Chrome Moving To A 4-Week Release Cycle | 04 Mar 2021 |
| Chrome 89 Released With Various New Web APIs Deemed Stable | 02 Mar 2021 |
| Google's New Lyra Voice Codec + AV1 Aim For Video Chats Over 56kbps Modems In 2021 | 27 Feb 2021 |
| Google Provides Funding For Linux Kernel Developers To Focus On Security | 24 Feb 2021 |
| Android 12 Developer Preview Released | 18 Feb 2021 |
| Google's Pandemic-Minded GSoC Will Be A Lot Less Interesting This Year | 31 Jan 2021 |
| Chrome 89 Beta Enables WebHID By Default, Other New Web APIs | 29 Jan 2021 |
| Chrome 89 Preparing To Ship With AV1 Encoder For WebRTC Usage | 22 Jan 2021 |
| Chrome 88 Released With Security Fixes, Adobe Flash Removed | 19 Jan 2021 |
| Google Comes Up With A Metric For Gauging Critical Open-Source Projects | 10 Dec 2020 |
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450 Articles |
| Hardware |
| Apple M1 Patches For The Linux Kernel Sent Out A Third Time | 04 Mar 2021 |
| Linux 5.13 To Support HDMI CEC With The Raspberry Pi 4 | 04 Mar 2021 |
| LVFS Serves Up 25 Million Firmware/BIOS Updates To Linux Users | 03 Mar 2021 |
| Xilinx Volleys Latest Open-Source Alveo Accelerator Driver Code | 28 Feb 2021 |
| Apple Touch Bar Linux Driver Hopes For Upstream In 2021 | 28 Feb 2021 |
| Compute Express Link 2.0 Support Sent In For Linux 5.12, Enabling CXL 2.0 Memory Devices | 24 Feb 2021 |
| Linux 5.13 Should See HP Platform Profile Support | 24 Feb 2021 |
| Linux 5.12 Adds eMMC Inline Encryption For Better Performance, Lower Power Use | 23 Feb 2021 |
| RDMA Changes For Linux 5.12 Add DMA-BUF Support For Peer-To-Peer Transfers With GPUs | 22 Feb 2021 |
| Intel's Laptop Hinge Sensor Driver Sent In For Linux 5.12, Other Staging/IIO Work | 22 Feb 2021 |
More Hardware News |
1752 Articles |
| Intel |
| Intel Tiger Lake Xe Graphics On Linux 5.12 Git, Mesa 21.1-devel | 05 Mar 2021 |
| hipSYCL Sees Work-In-Progress Support For Intel oneAPI Level Zero Backend | 05 Mar 2021 |
| Even In 2021, Intel Squeezes Some Very Nice Performance Gains Out Of Their OpenGL Driver | 04 Mar 2021 |
| Intel Sends Out KVM SGX Virtualization Patches For Linux | 03 Mar 2021 |
| Intel Looking To Upstream A Proper SPIR-V Compute Back-End For LLVM | 02 Mar 2021 |
| Intel's Simple Firmware Interface Being Killed Off With Linux 5.12 | 25 Feb 2021 |
| ZLUDA v2 Released For Drop-In CUDA On Intel Graphics | 22 Feb 2021 |
| Linux 5.12 Will Avoid Prematurely Shutting Down Intel Mobile Systems When Running Hot | 19 Feb 2021 |
| Intel Releases Updated Microcode For Linux Users To Mitigate Xeon Security Issue | 17 Feb 2021 |
| Intel's oneDNN 2.1 Released With NVIDIA GPU Support, Initial Alder Lake Optimizations | 16 Feb 2021 |
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2016 Articles |
| KDE |
| KDE Rolling Out New CLI Tools, Many Crash Fixes | 27 Feb 2021 |
| VRR, Lower Latency Likely Coming For KDE's KWin Wayland Compositor | 22 Feb 2021 |
| KDE Sees More Crash Fixes Following Plasma 5.21 Release | 20 Feb 2021 |
| KDE Plasma 5.21 Released With Better Wayland Support, Desktop Improvements | 16 Feb 2021 |
| Plasma 5.21 Continues Seeing Lots Of Fixes Ahead Of Next Week's Release | 13 Feb 2021 |
| KWinFT 5.21 Beta Pushes a "Monumental Rewrite" Of The Windowing Logic | 08 Feb 2021 |
| KDE Plasma 5.22 Will Support Direct Scan-Out For Full-Screen Games / Apps | 06 Feb 2021 |
| KDE Ends Out January With A Lot Of Fixes For Plasma 5.21 | 30 Jan 2021 |
| KDE Saw Many Fixes + Improvements On Top Of Shipping Plasma 5.21 Beta | 23 Jan 2021 |
| KDE Plasma 5.21 Now In Beta With Much Improved Wayland Support | 21 Jan 2021 |
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1046 Articles |
| LibreOffice |
| Developers Continue New Push With LibreOffice In The Web Browser Via WebAssembly | 10 Feb 2021 |
| LibreOffice 7.1 "Community" Edition Released | 03 Feb 2021 |
| LibreOffice 7.1 RC2 Up For Testing This Open-Source Office Suite | 20 Jan 2021 |
| LibreOffice Drops Its Experimental, Buggy VLC Integration | 26 Dec 2020 |
| LibreOffice 7.1-RC1 Released For Testing This Open-Source Office Suite | 23 Dec 2020 |
| LibreOffice 7.1 Beta Released With Faster Spell Checking, Speedier Find And Replace | 24 Nov 2020 |
| LibreOffice 7.1 Alpha Is Up For Testing | 27 Oct 2020 |
| The Document Foundation Is Looking To Finish ODF 1.3 Support In LibreOffice | 20 Oct 2020 |
| LibreOffice 7.1 Starts Off With Presentation Improvements, Inclusive Config Options | 16 Aug 2020 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 Is Already Approaching A Half-Million Downloads | 12 Aug 2020 |
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143 Articles |
| Linux Events |
| 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 |
| Automotive Grade Linux Has Large Presence At CES 2020 | 08 Jan 2020 |
| Some Of The Interesting Open-Source Projects For Outreachy's Winter 2019 Round | 07 Dec 2019 |
| Open Source Firmware Conference 2019 Videos Posted | 04 Dec 2019 |
| OpenZFS Developer Summit 2019 Videos + Slides For The Latest On Open-Source ZFS | 10 Nov 2019 |
| The Hardware FOSDEM Uses To Carry Out Linux Video Recordings Of Their Event | 22 Sep 2019 |
| The Open-Source / Linux Highlights From OSTS 2019 | 18 May 2019 |
| Systemd-Free Debian "Devuan" Planning Their First Developer Gathering This Spring | 28 Feb 2019 |
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75 Articles |
| Linux Gaming |
| SDL2 Lands Native PipeWire Support | 02 Mar 2021 |
| DXVK 1.8.1 Released With More Performance, Game Fixes | 01 Mar 2021 |
| ET: Legacy 2.77 Released For Letting Wolfenstein Enemy Territory Live On In 2021 | 01 Mar 2021 |
| 0 A.D. Real -Time Strategy Game Sees First Release In Nearly Three Years | 20 Feb 2021 |
| DXVK 1.8 Released With Support For More Direct3D Games | 19 Feb 2021 |
| Updated FUTEX2 Patches Posted For The Linux Kernel With A Focus On Helping Games | 15 Feb 2021 |
| The Dark Mod 2.09 Released With New OpenGL Rendering Backend | 15 Feb 2021 |
| Nearly Two Decades Later, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Still Living On With ET: Legacy | 14 Feb 2021 |
| Proton 5.13-6 Released With Better PS5 Controller Handling, More Cyberpunk 2077 Fixes | 13 Feb 2021 |
| Proton 5.13-6 RC Continues With More Cyberpunk 2077 Fixes For Linux | 09 Feb 2021 |
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1763 Articles |
| Linux Kernel |
| Linux 5.12-rc2 Likely Coming Early Due To That Nasty File-System Corruption Bug | 04 Mar 2021 |
| Linux 5.10.20 Released - Fixes The Erroneous Record-Breaking AMD Clock Frequencies | 04 Mar 2021 |
| Linux 5.12 Lands Fix For File-System Corruption Caused By Swapfile Issue | 03 Mar 2021 |
| That Linux 5.12 Severe Data Corruption Bug Hits Intel CI Systems - Issue Caused By Swap File | 02 Mar 2021 |
| Linux 5.12 Coming In At Around 28.8 Million Lines, AMDGPU Driver Closing In On 3 Million | 01 Mar 2021 |
| Linux 5.12-rc1 Released As The "Frozen Wasteland" Kernel | 28 Feb 2021 |
| Broadcom VK Accelerator Driver, More Intel ACRN Code Arrives For Linux 5.12 | 27 Feb 2021 |
| Kernel Electric-Fence: Linux 5.12 Merges KFence For Low-Overhead Memory Safety Feature | 26 Feb 2021 |
| Watch Out For Possible Data Loss On Early Linux 5.12 Kernels | 26 Feb 2021 |
| More Open-Source Adreno 500 Series Support, A6xx Speedbin Sent In For Linux 5.12 | 26 Feb 2021 |
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2660 Articles |
| Linux Networking |
| Many Networking Improvements Routed To The Linux 5.12 Kernel | 18 Feb 2021 |
| Linux Patches Updated For Light-Based Networking With pureLiFi Driver | 16 Jan 2021 |
| Linux Appears Close To Supporting LiFi Light-Based Networking With pureLiFi | 06 Dec 2020 |
| The Linux Kernel Looks To Eventually Drop Support For WiMAX | 28 Oct 2020 |
| Many Networking Improvements Land In Linux 5.10 | 16 Oct 2020 |
| Mediatek MT76 WiFi Driver Seeing Nice Improvements For Linux 5.10 | 30 Sep 2020 |
| Broadcom Has 200G Ethernet Link Speed Support Coming To Its Driver For Linux 5.10 | 28 Sep 2020 |
| Facebook Still Pursuing "NetGPU" - Working On AMD GPU Support In Addition To NVIDIA | 29 Aug 2020 |
| Linux Per Thread Queues Aim For Traffic Isolation, Higher Performance Networking | 27 Aug 2020 |
| Linux 5.9 Networking Changes Are As Active As Ever | 08 Aug 2020 |
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170 Articles |
| Linux Security |
| Multiple New Security Issues Hit GRUB Bootloader Around Secure Boot | 02 Mar 2021 |
| Linux 5.12 Crypto Brings AES-NI Acceleration For CTS, Faster XTS With Retpolines | 16 Feb 2021 |
| VoltPillager: Researchers Compromise Intel SGX With Hardware-Based Undervolting Attack | 06 Feb 2021 |
| Google Proposes "Know, Prevent, Fix" Framework For Dealing With Security Vulnerabilities | 03 Feb 2021 |
| L1d Cache Flushing On Context Switch Trying Again But More Conservative In 2021 | 08 Jan 2021 |
| Google Continues Work On Linux "Restricted DMA" For Situations Like Remote WiFi Attacks | 06 Jan 2021 |
| A Look At The Big Impact To AES-XTS Encryption Performance From Spectre Retpolines | 30 Dec 2020 |
| AES-NI XTS To See 2~3x Performance Recovery After Regressing Hard From Retpolines | 29 Dec 2020 |
| SECCOMP Filters Get A Very Nice Speed-Up With Linux 5.11 | 15 Dec 2020 |
| After Years Of Work With 40+ Revisions, Intel SGX Looks Like It Will Land In Linux 5.11 | 14 Dec 2020 |
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175 Articles |
| Linux Storage |
| New NTFS Driver Misses Out On Linux 5.12 But Revved A 22nd Time | 02 Mar 2021 |
| Faster IO_uring, BFQ + BLK-MQ Improvements Among The I/O Fun For Linux 5.12 | 21 Feb 2021 |
| XFS File-System With Linux 5.12 Has "A Lot Going On This Time" | 21 Feb 2021 |
| F2FS With Linux 5.12 Lets You Configure The Zstd/LZ4 Compression Ratio | 18 Feb 2021 |
| Btrfs With Linux 5.12 Gets More Performance Improvements, Working Zoned Mode | 17 Feb 2021 |
| IO_uring Will Be Even Faster With Linux 5.12 | 13 Feb 2021 |
| Linux's Exfatprogs 1.1 Released To Fsck The Boot Region, Labeling Support | 09 Feb 2021 |
| OpenZFS 2.0.2 Released With Fixes, Compatibility Against Latest FreeBSD | 01 Feb 2021 |
| GParted 1.2 Released With Support For exFAT File-Systems | 26 Jan 2021 |
| Linux's exFAT Driver Will Soon Be Able To Delete Big Files Much Faster | 17 Jan 2021 |
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600 Articles |
| LLVM |
| Clang LTO Support Merged For Linux 5.12 Including ARM64 + x86_64 | 23 Feb 2021 |
| LLVM 11.1 Released To Deal With ABI Breakage | 17 Feb 2021 |
| Building The Linux Kernel With Clang Continues To Be Useful, New Features Pursued | 08 Feb 2021 |
| LLVM 12.0-RC1 Available For Testing This Latest Open-Source Compiler | 28 Jan 2021 |
| LLVM 12 Ends Feature Work With Better C++20 Support To Intel Sapphire Rapids + AMD Zen 3 | 27 Jan 2021 |
| Following LTO, Linux Kernel Patches Updated For PGO To Yield Faster Performance | 14 Jan 2021 |
| LLVM 11.0.1 Tagged As The Latest Stable Bits For This Open-Source Compiler | 06 Jan 2021 |
| LLVM Adds Initial Support For PowerPC LE | 03 Jan 2021 |
| AMD Zen 3 Support Published For The LLVM Clang Compiler | 08 Dec 2020 |
| C++20 Is Still Settling While LLVM Clang Already Adds Option For Starting C++2b/C++23 | 03 Dec 2020 |
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643 Articles |
| Mesa |
| Gallium Nine Still Seeing Improvements In 2021 For Direct3D 9 Within Mesa | 03 Mar 2021 |
| There's Finally An Easy Way To Track Mesa's OpenCL Support | 01 Mar 2021 |
| Mesa Flips On OpenGL Threading For Valheim To Deliver Better Performance | 27 Feb 2021 |
| Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan Ported To Windows | 25 Feb 2021 |
| Mesa Lands New Single File Cache To Help Steam's Pre-Compiled Shaders, Space Savings | 21 Feb 2021 |
| Mesa 21.0-RC5 Released For Testing This Q1'2021 OpenGL/Vulkan Driver Collection | 20 Feb 2021 |
| With OpenGL 4.6 Achieved, Zink Working CTS Fixes, Substantial Performance Gains | 19 Feb 2021 |
| Zink With Mesa 21.1 Now Advertises OpenGL 4.6 | 16 Feb 2021 |
| Zink Now Supports OpenGL 4.5 Over Vulkan With Mesa 21.1 | 11 Feb 2021 |
| Mesa's LLVMpipe Flips On ARB_gl_spirv, Help Sought For Lavapipe Windows Port | 11 Feb 2021 |
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1940 Articles |
| Microsoft |
| Microsoft Sends Out Patches For Hyper-V "Isolation VMs" With Linux | 04 Mar 2021 |
| Microsoft Contributes Integrity Improvements To Linux 5.12 | 22 Feb 2021 |
| Linux 5.12 Should Be Able To Boot As The Root Partition On Microsoft's Hypervisor | 17 Feb 2021 |
| Microsoft Makes The Extensible Storage Engine Open-Source | 01 Feb 2021 |
| 2020 Was Another Interesting Year For Microsoft Around Open-Source/Linux | 28 Dec 2020 |
| Microsoft Adds SPIR-V To DXIL Library In Mesa - With A Focus On WebGPU Support | 22 Dec 2020 |
| Microsoft Begins Landing Changes For Cross-Platform Support With Their Mesa D3D12 Code | 02 Dec 2020 |
| WireGuard For Windows Updated With Improved Installer, ARM/ARM64 Support | 24 Nov 2020 |
| Microsoft Releases .NET 5.0 With Many Performance Improvements, Continued Linux Work | 11 Nov 2020 |
| Mesa 21.0 Merges Direct3D 12 Gallium3D Driver | 10 Nov 2020 |
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235 Articles |
| Mozilla |
| Firefox 86.0 Released With Total Cookie Protection, Stack Clash Protection | 23 Feb 2021 |
| Mozilla Firefox 85.0 Now Available As First 2021 Release | 26 Jan 2021 |
| Mozilla Announces "Open Web Docs" Following Last Year's Layoffs | 25 Jan 2021 |
| Mozilla Firefox Flips On AVIF Image Decoding By Default | 08 Jan 2021 |
| Mozilla Firefox Appears Ready To Enable AVIF Image Handling Support By Default | 20 Dec 2020 |
| Firefox 84 Rolling Out With WebRender By Default Appearing For Some Linux Setups | 15 Dec 2020 |
| Firefox 84 Beta Begins Enabling WebRender By Default On Linux | 17 Nov 2020 |
| Mozilla Punts Servo Web Engine Development To The Linux Foundation | 17 Nov 2020 |
| Firefox 83 Released With Warp'ed JavaScript, HTTPS-Only Mode Option | 17 Nov 2020 |
| SpiderMonkey's Warp Upgrade Is Ready For Firefox 83 | 13 Nov 2020 |
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346 Articles |
| Multimedia |
| Zrythm DAW Sees New Release And Should Have "Almost No Crashes" | 28 Feb 2021 |
| dav1d 0.8.2 AV1 Decoder Showing Nice Uplift On Intel, AMD CPUs | 23 Feb 2021 |
| dav1d 0.8.2 Released For Speeding Up AV1 Decode On x86, ARM | 22 Feb 2021 |
| PipeWire 0.3.22 Released With Many Improvements | 21 Feb 2021 |
| Sound Updates For Linux 5.12 Include Intel Alder Lake P, Other New Hardware | 20 Feb 2021 |
| Kodi 19 Released With Python 3 Transition Complete, AV1 Software Decode | 20 Feb 2021 |
| Easier Sound Debugging With Software Audio Jack Injection Coming To Linux 5.12 | 05 Feb 2021 |
| Lightworks 2021.1 Released With UI Improvements, Other Video Editor Enhancements | 20 Jan 2021 |
| Pioneer DJM-750 DJ Mixer Handling For Linux Is En Route | 19 Jan 2021 |
| Rav1e 0.4 Released For Faster Rust AV1 Encoding - But Still Is Quite Slow | 14 Jan 2021 |
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451 Articles |
| Nouveau |
| Nouveau With Linux 5.12 Has ~5k L.O.C. Change In Preparing For Ampere | 12 Feb 2021 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA Changes Sent In For Linux 5.12 | 29 Jan 2021 |
| Open-Source "Nouveau" Driver Now Supports NVIDIA Ampere - But Without 3D Acceleration | 14 Jan 2021 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA Support For Recent GPUs Is Poor But Now You Can Fake It For Testing | 12 Jan 2021 |
| Nouveau Sees Fix To Properly Handle Mini DP Connectors - Avoids GNOME Mutter Crashing | 30 Dec 2020 |
| Nouveau NVC0 Shader Disk Cache Lands For Speeding Up Game Load Times | 25 Aug 2020 |
| Nouveau Changes For Linux 5.9 Bring Fixes, Prep For Future Improvements | 24 Jul 2020 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" CRC Support Ready For Linux 5.9 | 22 Jul 2020 |
| Open-Source 3D/Compute Finally Materializing For NVIDIA Volta / Turing GPUs | 09 Jun 2020 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA/Nouveau Changes Submitted For Linux 5.8 | 22 May 2020 |
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440 Articles |
| NVIDIA |
| NVIDIA 470 Linux Driver Series To Be "Even More Wayland-Friendly" | 05 Mar 2021 |
| NVIDIA 460.56 Linux Driver Released With GeForce RTX 3060 Support | 25 Feb 2021 |
| NVIDIA Launching "CMP" Cards For Professional Mining, Limits RTX 3060 Mining Potential | 18 Feb 2021 |
| NVIDIA Posts Patches For SVM Atomics Support With Open-Source Nouveau | 09 Feb 2021 |
| NVIDIA 460.39 Linux Driver Brings RTX 30 Laptop Enablement, Improved 5.10+ Kernel Support | 26 Jan 2021 |
| Nouveau X.Org Driver Sees First Release In Two Years | 23 Jan 2021 |
| NVIDIA Announces The GeForce RTX 3060 For $329 USD | 12 Jan 2021 |
| NVIDIA Windows/Linux Graphics Drivers Hit By A Series Of Security Vulnerabilities | 10 Jan 2021 |
| Another NVIDIA Engineer Just Made His First Contribution To Mesa | 08 Jan 2021 |
| NVIDIA 460.32.03 Linux Driver Released With Official Vulkan Ray-Tracing | 07 Jan 2021 |
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917 Articles |
| Operating Systems |
| Linux Mint's Update Manager To Encourage Users To Apply Security Updates | 28 Feb 2021 |
| Void Linux Has Been Working To Deliver Great POWER Support | 27 Feb 2021 |
| Mageia 8 Released - Flips On AMDGPU For Older GCN GPUs, Better ARM Support | 26 Feb 2021 |
| Genode OS Framework 21.02 Adds LTE Data Support, More RISC-V Work | 26 Feb 2021 |
| Netrunner 21.01 Released For Customized KDE Desktop On Debian | 20 Feb 2021 |
| Linux Mint Finds Many Of Its Users Are Running Behind On Security Updates | 20 Feb 2021 |
| Slackware 15.0 On Approach With An Early Alpha Build Available | 16 Feb 2021 |
| OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 Released For This Linux Distro Built By The Clang Compiler | 13 Feb 2021 |
| Linspire 10 Released - Claims Of "Most Meticulously Designed & Engineered FOSS Desktop" | 10 Feb 2021 |
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| Oracle |
| Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU30 Is The Biggest Update We've Seen In A While | 21 Feb 2021 |
| Oracle Releases Linux-Based Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 5 Update 5 | 18 Feb 2021 |
| GraalVM 21.0 Released With Experimental JVM On Truffle | 20 Jan 2021 |
| GraalVM 20.3 Released With Many Small Performance Optimizations | 18 Nov 2020 |
| Oracle Linux 8 U3 Released With Better NVDIMM Support, Latest RHEL8 Work | 13 Nov 2020 |
| Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R6U1 Prepares For AMD Milan, Adds WireGuard | 12 Nov 2020 |
| Oracle Continues Building DTrace For Linux Atop BPF | 30 Oct 2020 |
| Oracle To Stick With Solaris "11.4" For Continuous Delivery SRU Releases | 21 Sep 2020 |
| OpenJDK 15 Reaches GA With Garbage Collector Promotions, Tossing Out Solaris + SPARC | 15 Sep 2020 |
| VirtualBox 6.1.14 Adds Linux 5.8 Kernel Support | 04 Sep 2020 |
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| Phoronix |
| helloSystem, System76 Keyboard + Linux 5.11/5.12 Captivated Users In February | 01 Mar 2021 |
| Linux 5.11, Pyston, Wayland & Other January Excitement | 01 Feb 2021 |
| Happy New Year! A Look Back At The Most Popular Phoronix Content Of 2020 | 31 Dec 2020 |
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| AMD's Zen 3 + RDNA2 Products Dominated November Along With The Apple M1 | 01 Dec 2020 |
| AMD, Kernel Advancements & Tiger Lake Captivated Linux Readers In October | 01 Nov 2020 |
| A Last Call For The 2020 Phoronix Premium Oktoberfest Special | 09 Oct 2020 |
| 2020 "Oktoberfest" Premium Special For Supporting Linux News, Benchmarking | 05 Oct 2020 |
| Linux 5.9 Regression, NVIDIA RTX 30, GNOME 40 & Microsoft Made For A Fun September | 01 Oct 2020 |
| Intel mOS, Torvalds Commentary, Intel Gen12 Graphics, Zen 2 "XT" CPUs Topped Q3 | 29 Sep 2020 |
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| Phoronix Test Suite |
| 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 |
| Many Exciting New & Updated Benchmarks For January 2021 | 02 Feb 2021 |
| OpenBenchmarking.org / PTS Adds Automated Per-Test Analysis Of CPU Instruction Set Usage | 01 Feb 2021 |
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| Phoronix Test Suite 10.2 Milestone 3 Released For The Latest In Open-Source Benchmarking | 22 Dec 2020 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 10.2 Milestone 2 Brings More Testing Enhancements | 06 Dec 2020 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 10.2 M1 Brings Improvements For Apple Silicon M1, Altra + More | 21 Nov 2020 |
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| Premium |
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| Programming |
| PyTorch 1.8 Released With AMD ROCm Binaries | 05 Mar 2021 |
| Zstd 1.4.9 Released With ~2x Faster Performance For Long Mode | 03 Mar 2021 |
| Mercurial Revision Control System Continues Rust'ing For Better Performance | 11 Feb 2021 |
| Rust Foundation Established To Steward The Rust Programming Language | 08 Feb 2021 |
| Pyston 2.1 Is Blowing Past Python 3.8/3.9 Performance | 24 Jan 2021 |
| Pyston 2.1 Released With Striving For High Performance Python | 23 Jan 2021 |
| Eclipse OpenJ9 0.24 Released With A Ton Of Improvements | 22 Jan 2021 |
| Linux 5.12 To Add Atomics Support To The Promising eBPF | 19 Jan 2021 |
| Better Fujitsu A64FX Support Arrives For GCC, LLVM Clang Compilers | 16 Jan 2021 |
| POWER10 Adds New Instructions For Helping Fend Off ROP Exploits | 11 Jan 2021 |
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| Proprietary Software |
| 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 |
| TeamViewer 13 Now Available For Linux As A Native 64-bit Port | 04 Dec 2017 |
| Adobe Is Finally Ending Flash Support... In 2020 | 25 Jul 2017 |
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| Qt |
| Qt 5.15.3 LTS Released With 200+ Bug Fixes, But Only For Commercial Customers | 04 Mar 2021 |
| Qt 6.1 Beta Released With Porting More Modules To Qt6 | 02 Mar 2021 |
| Clazy Framework Employed To Help Port Qt 5 Code To Qt 6 | 01 Mar 2021 |
| Qt 6.1 Alpha Released | 16 Feb 2021 |
| Qt 6.0.1 Released With Over 200 Bug Fixes | 03 Feb 2021 |
| Qt 6.1 Feature Freeze Now In Effect | 01 Feb 2021 |
| Qt Open-Source Downloads Temporarily Offline Due To Severe Hardware Failure | 20 Jan 2021 |
| The Qt Company Is Tomorrow Moving Qt 5.15 To Its Commercial-Only LTS Phase | 04 Jan 2021 |
| Linux 5.11 Finally Flushes Out Its Qt4 Code For Configuring Kernel Builds UI | 23 Dec 2020 |
| Qt Design Studio 2.0, Qt Creator 4.14 Released | 18 Dec 2020 |
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| Radeon |
| VCN-Less Navi 12 SKU, RX 6000 Series BACO Runtime PM Are Extras For Linux 5.12 | 04 Mar 2021 |
| AMD Announces The Radeon RX 6700 XT For $479 | 03 Mar 2021 |
| Radeon R600 Gallium3D Flips On OpenGL 4.5 For NIR Backend | 03 Mar 2021 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Adds Option To Force Smart Access Memory Behavior | 02 Mar 2021 |
| Radeon ROCm Updates Documentation Reinforcing Focus On Headless, Non-GUI Workloads | 01 Mar 2021 |
| AMDVLK 2021.Q1.4 Brings More Performance Tuning | 25 Feb 2021 |
| AMD Radeon "Aldebaran" GPU Support Published For Next-Gen CDNA | 24 Feb 2021 |
| Radeon RADV Driver Enables Displayable DCC For Some Performance Benefit | 23 Feb 2021 |
| AMDGPU With Linux 5.12 Sees Last Minute Duty Cycle Scaling, Other Bits | 22 Feb 2021 |
| Radeon "GFX90A" Added To LLVM As Next-Gen CDNA With Full-Rate FP64 | 19 Feb 2021 |
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| Red Hat |
| Red Hat Announces Free "RHEL For Open-Source Infrastructure" | 25 Feb 2021 |
| CentOS Hyperscaler Is Sounding Quite Promising For The Modern Enterprise | 09 Feb 2021 |
| Rocky Linux Making Progress Towards Their First Release In Q2 As A Free RHEL Alternative | 20 Jan 2021 |
| Red Hat Announces No-Cost RHEL For Small Production Environments | 20 Jan 2021 |
| CentOS Hyperscaler Effort Approved With Backing From Facebook, Twitter | 15 Jan 2021 |
| RHEL9 Raises Base Target For x86_64 CPUs Plus Possible Optimized Libraries With glibc-hwcaps | 05 Jan 2021 |
| Red Hat Continues Pleading The Case For Its CentOS Changes | 19 Dec 2020 |
| Oracle Linux Looking To Attract CentOS Users Looking For Alternatives | 12 Dec 2020 |
| CentOS 8 Ending Next Year To Focus Shift On CentOS Stream | 08 Dec 2020 |
| Red Hat's "Stalld" Thread Stall Detector + Booster Sees New Updates | 06 Nov 2020 |
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| RISC-V |
| RISC-V With Linux 5.12 Begins Mainlining SiFive's FU740 Support, NUMA | 26 Feb 2021 |
| Linux 5.10 To Have Initial Support For UEFI Booting On RISC-V | 06 Oct 2020 |
| Alibaba Reports Their XT910 RISC-V Core To Be Faster Than An Arm Cortex-A73 | 18 Aug 2020 |
| RISC-V Software Support Adds More Features With Linux 5.9 | 07 Aug 2020 |
| RISC-V UEFI Linux Support Under Review | 28 Jun 2020 |
| RISC-V For Linux 5.8 Finishes Bringing Up The Kendryte K210, Adds KGDB Support | 07 Jun 2020 |
| Linux 5.7 Begins Landing Support For The Kendryte K210 Dual-Core RISC-V SoC | 09 Apr 2020 |
| UEFI Boot Support Published For RISC-V On Linux | 26 Feb 2020 |
| Linux Kernel Continues Prepping For RISC-V's Updated Supervisor Binary Interface | 12 Feb 2020 |
| Linux Kernel Preparations For RISC-V Vector ISA Support | 06 Jan 2020 |
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| Standards |
| Linux 5.12 To Expose Firmware Performance Data | 26 Feb 2021 |
| Monado 21.0 Released As An Officially Conformant OpenXR Implementation | 15 Feb 2021 |
| Khronos Releases SYCL 2020 For C++ Heterogeneous Parallel Programming | 09 Feb 2021 |
| HDMI Forum Closing Public Specification Access Is Hurting Open-Source GPU Drivers | 06 Jan 2021 |
| MIPI I3C Host Controller Interface Driver Comes To Linux 5.11 | 19 Dec 2020 |
| POCL 1.6 Released For Portable OpenCL Atop CPUs, Other Accelerators | 17 Dec 2020 |
| Khronos Brings New Physically Based Rendering Materials Support To glTF | 03 Dec 2020 |
| A Specification Is Being Discussed For Passing Firmware/Bootloader Logs To The OS | 15 Nov 2020 |
| OpenMP 5.1 Released With Better Interoperability For CUDA / AMD HIP / OpenCL | 14 Nov 2020 |
| Compute Express Link 2.0 Specification Published | 10 Nov 2020 |
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| SUSE |
| openSUSE Leap 15.3 Beta Begins | 03 Mar 2021 |
| The Unified Path Ahead For Building SUSE Linux Enterprise + openSUSE Leap | 21 Jan 2021 |
| OpenSUSE Leap 15.3 Alpha Released | 16 Dec 2020 |
| SUSE Completes Its Acquisition Of Rancher Labs | 01 Dec 2020 |
| OpenSUSE Jump Distribution Now Available For Alpha Testing | 28 Aug 2020 |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Shipping Linux 5.8 | 14 Aug 2020 |
| SUSE Acquiring Rancher Labs | 08 Jul 2020 |
| OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 Released With AI/ML Packages Added, YaST Improvements | 02 Jul 2020 |
| openSUSE Leap 15.2 Hits RC Phase With GNOME 3.34 + KDE Plasma 5.18, Sway | 29 May 2020 |
| OpenSUSE Leap + SUSE Linux Enterprise Planning To Move Closer In 2020 | 09 Apr 2020 |
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| systemd |
| systemd 248 RC1 Released With New "System Extension Images" Concept | 22 Feb 2021 |
| Systemd 248 To Allow Unlocking Encrypted Volumes Via TPM2 / FIDO2 / PKCS#11 Hardware | 13 Jan 2021 |
| Systemd Had A Pretty Big 2020 With Homed, OOMD Components Merged | 29 Dec 2020 |
| Systemd 247 Released With Experimental Out-of-Memory Daemon, New Credentials Capability | 26 Nov 2020 |
| systemd 247-RC2 Released With Experimental OOMD, Various Fixes | 12 Nov 2020 |
| Systemd 247-RC1 Released With Systemd-OOMD, Systemd-Homed Now Defaults To Btrfs | 26 Oct 2020 |
| Systemd 247 Merges Systemd-OOMD For Improving Low-Memory/Out-Of-Memory Handling | 15 Oct 2020 |
| Systemd 247 Still Aiming To Integrate systemd-oomd | 09 Sep 2020 |
| Systemd 246 Released With Many Changes | 30 Jul 2020 |
| Systemd 246 Release Is Imminent With RC2 Released | 24 Jul 2020 |
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| Ubuntu |
| Ubuntu Aims For Higher Quality LTS Point Releases | 25 Feb 2021 |
| DFI Partners With Ubuntu For IoT Hardware, OTA Updates | 25 Feb 2021 |
| Early Ubuntu 21.04 Benchmarks Point To Some Slides In Performances But Overall Flat | 23 Feb 2021 |
| Mir 2.3.2 Released With Better XWayland HiDPI, Copy/Paste Between Wayland/XWayland | 11 Feb 2021 |
| The Work Ahead For Ubuntu 21.04 To Switch To Wayland By Default | 09 Feb 2021 |
| Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS Released With New HWE Stack For Better Hardware/Graphics | 04 Feb 2021 |
| Ubuntu Core + Mir Is Powering Smart Exercise Mirrors | 04 Feb 2021 |
| Ubuntu Core 20 Released For IoT/Embedded Linux Use-Cases | 02 Feb 2021 |
| Canonical Aiming For A New Desktop Installer With Ubuntu 21.10 | 01 Feb 2021 |
| Ubuntu 21.04 To Turn On LTO Optimizations For Its Packages | 29 Jan 2021 |
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| Valve |
| Steam On Linux In February Still Residing Below 1% | 02 Mar 2021 |
| Portal 2 Sees A Vulkan Renderer Added Via DXVK | 19 Feb 2021 |
| Steam Linux Use Ticks Back Just Under 1% For Starting 2021 | 01 Feb 2021 |
| Proton 5.13-5 Now Available With Cyberpunk 2077 Fixes, Microsoft Flight Simulator VR | 15 Jan 2021 |
| Proton Experimental Update Brings Performance Work, MS Flight Simulator VR Mode | 07 Jan 2021 |
| Valve's Steam Data For December Points To A Huge Dip For Linux Gaming Marketshare | 01 Jan 2021 |
| Valve Continued Doing A Lot For Linux Gaming & Open-Source Radeon Drivers In 2020 | 30 Dec 2020 |
| VKD3D-Proton 2.1 Released With Improved GPU-Bound Performance, More Games Working | 14 Dec 2020 |
| Steam On Linux Marketshare Remained Flat For November | 02 Dec 2020 |
| 4A Games Still Working On Linux Port Of Metro Exodus | 25 Nov 2020 |
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| VIA |
| Even In 2019, A Long Road Still For Getting The VIA OpenChrome Driver In Linux | 09 Jan 2019 |
| OpenChrome DRM Driver To Go Through A GEM/TTM Code Rewrite | 05 Aug 2018 |
| It's Still Going To Be Tough Getting The OpenChrome VIA KMS Driver In The Linux Kernel | 28 May 2018 |
| VIA Joins In The AI Race, Linux/Android Support For Their New Developer Kit | 10 May 2018 |
| OpenChrome DRM Driver To Work On New GEM/TTM Code, Regression Fixes | 12 Mar 2018 |
| OpenChrome KMS Can Now Do Runtime Resolution Changes, Hopes To Go Mainline In 2018 | 11 Mar 2018 |
| OpenChrome DRM Still Aiming For Mainline Kernel, But Initially Will Lack 2D Acceleration | 02 Mar 2018 |
| OpenChrome DRM Continues To Be Developed, But It Didn't Make It Mainline This Year | 26 Dec 2017 |
| OpenChrome DRM Still Being Ported To Newer Kernel, Lengthy Process | 25 Aug 2017 |
| OpenChrome Still Pushing For DRM Kernel Driver, Updated DDX | 04 Aug 2017 |
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| Virtualization |
| VFIO Gets Batched Page Pinning For An Easy Performance Improvement With Linux 5.12 | 25 Feb 2021 |
| KVM With Linux 5.12 Allows For Userspace To Emulate Xen Hypercalls, AMD Optimization Too | 15 Feb 2021 |
| Intel's Project ACRN To Upstream More Code With Linux 5.12 | 10 Feb 2021 |
| Bareflank 2.1 Released As The Last Before A Major Rework To This Open-Source Hypervisor | 30 Jan 2021 |
| Xen Offers Up Security Fixes With Linux 5.11 | 22 Dec 2020 |
| KVM With Linux 5.11 Brings AMD SEV-ES Host Support | 20 Dec 2020 |
| QEMU 5.2 Released For Improving The Linux Open-Source Virtualization Stack | 09 Dec 2020 |
| Linux VirtIO Memory Prepares For "Big Block Mode" | 13 Nov 2020 |
| Intel's Cloud-Hypervisor 0.11 Adds Windows Guest Support | 30 Oct 2020 |
| KVM For Linux 5.10 Brings New "TDP" MMU To Help VMs With Hundreds Of vCPUs, TBs of RAM | 24 Oct 2020 |
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| Vulkan |
| Vulkan 1.2.171 Released With New Extension For BlackBerry QNX Support | 01 Mar 2021 |
| VKD3D-Proton 2.2 Released With Tier 1 Variable Rate Shading, Preps For DXR Ray-Tracing | 19 Feb 2021 |
| The Vulkan API Is Now Five Years Old And Enjoying Phenomenal Success | 16 Feb 2021 |
| Vulkan 1.2.170 Released With VK_KHR_synchronization2 | 15 Feb 2021 |
| There's Finally A Decent Vulkan Ray-Tracing Benchmark | 09 Feb 2021 |
| VKD3D-Proton Begins Working On DirectX 12 Ray-Tracing Atop Vulkan | 25 Jan 2021 |
| Vulkan 1.2.168 Released With Two New Extensions | 25 Jan 2021 |
| Vulkan Wayland Compositors Are Nearing Reality | 20 Jan 2021 |
| Vulkan SDK Now Formally Available For Apple Platforms - Including Apple Silicon Support | 13 Jan 2021 |
| Blackberry Is Bringing Vulkan To QNX | 11 Jan 2021 |
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531 Articles |
| Wayland |
| Experimental Wayland Support For Wine Now Sees More Functionality Working | 19 Feb 2021 |
| OBS Studio Merges Its EGL-Wayland Code To Natively Support Wayland | 12 Feb 2021 |
| Taiwins Wayland Compositor Switches From WLROOTS To Its Own Library | 31 Jan 2021 |
| Wayland 1.19 Released With Small Protocol Updates, Fixes | 27 Jan 2021 |
| Wayland 1.19 Alpha Released | 21 Dec 2020 |
| Better WebRTC Support Is Coming To Chrome/Chromium For Benefiting Wayland Screen Sharing | 18 Dec 2020 |
| Wayland 1.19 Is Set To Come Soon As First Update In Nearly One Year | 17 Dec 2020 |
| Sony Engineer Talks Up Using Flutter + Wayland For Their Embedded Interfaces | 28 Oct 2020 |
| The 2020 State Of Wayland Support For Chrome/Chromium - Aiming For H2'2021 Default | 27 Oct 2020 |
| NetBSD Has Some Wayland Support But X11 Is Far More Mature | 29 Sep 2020 |
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| WINE |
| Wine's Project Leader Has Given A Blessing To The Wayland Effort | 05 Mar 2021 |
| Wine-Staging 6.3 Should Fix Some Half-Decade Old Bugs For Some Installers | 27 Feb 2021 |
| Wine 6.3 Released With Several Low-Level Improvements | 26 Feb 2021 |
| Wine-Staging 6.2 Drops Down To 669 Patches | 13 Feb 2021 |
| Wine 6.2 Brings Mono 6.0 Engine, NTDLL Debugger APIs | 12 Feb 2021 |
| Wine Begins Landing PPC64 Code To Eventually Help With Windows Programs On POWER | 10 Feb 2021 |
| Wine PPC64 Revived Again For Running Windows Programs On POWER CPUs | 01 Feb 2021 |
| Wine-Staging 6.1 Released With Nearly 800 Patches Blended Into Wine | 31 Jan 2021 |
| Wine 6.1 Brings VKD3D 1.2 Support, Improvement For Apple M1 Macs With Rosetta | 29 Jan 2021 |
| Wine Developers Are Working On A New Linux Kernel Sync API To Succeed ESYNC/FSYNC | 18 Jan 2021 |
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| X.Org |
| XWayland 21.1 Release Candidate Offers Split From The X.Org Server | 17 Feb 2021 |
| XWayland 21.1 Planned For Release In Mid-March | 29 Jan 2021 |
| XWayland 21.1 Proposed In Splitting Off Releases From The X.Org Server | 18 Dec 2020 |
| X.Org Server 1.20.10 Allows For Larger Number Of Input Devices, Present Extension Fixes | 02 Dec 2020 |
| Two More X.Org Server Security Advisories Issued - Possible Privilege Escalation | 01 Dec 2020 |
| X11 Library Sees Lots Of Fixes With libX11 1.7 Release | 21 Nov 2020 |
| Adam Jackson On The State Of The X.Org Server In 2020 | 28 Oct 2020 |
| It's Time To Admit It: The X.Org Server Is Abandonware | 25 Oct 2020 |
| X.Org Is Getting Their Cloud / Continuous Integration Costs Under Control | 18 Sep 2020 |
| Microsoft Has A Large Presence At This Year's X.Org Conference | 17 Sep 2020 |
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