| AMD |
| AMD To Acquire Xilinx In $35 Billion Stock Deal | 27 Oct 2020 |
| LLVM Lands Very Basic Support For AMD Zen 3 CPUs | 25 Oct 2020 |
| Intel Core i7 1165G7 Tiger Lake vs. AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U Linux Performance | 24 Oct 2020 |
| Linux Gets Fix For AMD Zen 3 CPU Frequency Handling Stemming From 8 Year Old Workaround | 24 Oct 2020 |
| AMD SFH Driver To Land With Linux 5.11 For Better Ryzen Laptop Handling In 2021 | 23 Oct 2020 |
| AMD Sends Out Patches Adding "Znver3" Support To GNU Binutils With New Instructions | 19 Oct 2020 |
| AMD Secure Nested Paging IOMMU For SEV-SNP Lands In Linux 5.10 | 15 Oct 2020 |
| AMD SEV-ES Sent In For Linux 5.10 To Further Secure Guest VMs | 13 Oct 2020 |
| AMD Sends Out Latest SFH Linux Driver Patches | 10 Oct 2020 |
| AMD Reportedly In Talks To Acquire Xilinx | 09 Oct 2020 |
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1172 Articles |
| Arm |
| Linux 5.10 Has Initial Support For NVIDIA Orin, DeviceTree For Purism's Librem 5 | 24 Oct 2020 |
| Linux 5.10 ARM64 Has A "8~20x" Performance Optimization Forgotten About For Two Years | 22 Oct 2020 |
| Arm Memory Tagging Extension Ready For Linux 5.10 | 11 Oct 2020 |
| Ghostbusters - Linux 5.10 To Bring Rewritten Spectre Mitigations For 64-bit ARM | 01 Oct 2020 |
| Arm Begins Bringing Up Neoverse N2, Neoverse V1 Support In The GNU Toolchain | 24 Sep 2020 |
| Panfrost With Linux 5.10 To Support Mali GPU On Amlogic G12B SoCs | 22 Sep 2020 |
| NVIDIA Reportedly Near Deal To Buy Arm For $40+ Billion Dollars | 12 Sep 2020 |
| Linux 5.10 To Bring Rework To Raspberry Pi 4 USB Firmware Initialization | 22 Aug 2020 |
| Linux 5.9 Adds Intel "Keem Bay" Support, 8 Snapdragon Smartphones, AMD EthanolX BMC, Old Tegra Tablets | 04 Aug 2020 |
| Arm Backporting SLS Vulnerability Mitigation To Existing GCC Releases | 21 Jul 2020 |
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228 Articles |
| BSD |
| FreeBSD 12.2 Released - Supports Linux In Jailed Environments, Better Hardware Support | 27 Oct 2020 |
| FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transition To Git Continues | 22 Oct 2020 |
| TrueNAS 12 Released As The Marriage Of FreeNAS + TrueNAS | 21 Oct 2020 |
| NetBSD 9.1 Released With Parallelized Disk Encryption, Better ZFS, X11 Improvements | 20 Oct 2020 |
| OpenBSD Marks 25th Anniversary By Releasing OpenBSD 6.8 With POWER 64-Bit Support | 18 Oct 2020 |
| NetBSD Changes Its Default X11 Window Manager After Two Decades | 28 Sep 2020 |
| OpenSSH 8.4 Brings Better Support For FIDO/2FA Keys | 28 Sep 2020 |
| DragonFlyBSD 5.8.2 Released With Numerous Fixes | 24 Sep 2020 |
| FreeBSD 12.2 BETA2 Brings TRIM For Bhyve's VirtIO-BLK, Intel ICE Added | 19 Sep 2020 |
| FuryBSD 2020-Q3 Released For This Xfce/KDE FreeBSD Desktop Distribution | 14 Sep 2020 |
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699 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 |
| 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 |
| Open-Source Intel TXT Support Published For Coreboot | 21 Nov 2019 |
| Coreboot 4.11 Brings Many Intel Improvements, New Support For Supermicro / Lenovo Boards | 19 Nov 2019 |
| Coreboot Support Is Being Worked On For Fwupd/LVFS | 12 Nov 2019 |
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210 Articles |
| Debian |
| Debian Wants You To Vote For The Debian 11 "Bullseye" Artwork | 26 Oct 2020 |
| Debian 10.6 Released With Many Security & Bug Fixes | 26 Sep 2020 |
| The Problems Debian Is Facing In 2020 | 04 Sep 2020 |
| The Virtual DebConf20 Kicks Off With A Number Of Interesting Debian Talks This Week | 23 Aug 2020 |
| Debian's Qt Maintainers Stepping Down Ahead Of Qt 6.0 | 18 Aug 2020 |
| Debian GNU/Linux Turns 27 Years Old | 16 Aug 2020 |
| Artwork Help Is Needed For Debian 11 "Bullseye" | 12 Aug 2020 |
| Debian 10.5 Released To Address The GRUB2 BootHole Vulnerability, Other Security Fixes | 01 Aug 2020 |
| Debian 9.13 Released As The End To Stretch | 18 Jul 2020 |
| Devuan 3.0 Released For Debian 10 Without Systemd | 02 Jun 2020 |
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335 Articles |
| Desktop |
| Xfce 4.16pre1 Released As The First Step Towards This Next Desktop Update | 13 Sep 2020 |
| PipeWire Is In Increasingly Great Shape - Ready For More User Testing | 04 Sep 2020 |
| Panel Improvements Merged Ahead Of The Forthcoming Xfce 4.16 | 20 Aug 2020 |
| Enlightenment 0.24.2, Terminology 1.8 Released | 26 Jul 2020 |
| Xfce's Xfdesktop 4.15 Released | 20 Jun 2020 |
| LibVNCServer 0.9.13 Released With Better Cross-Platform Coverage | 14 Jun 2020 |
| Enlightenment 0.24 Released | 17 May 2020 |
| The Latest Pango + HarfBuzz Is Leading To A Messy Font Rendering Situation For Some | 09 May 2020 |
| FreeType 2.10.2 Released With Support For WOFF 2 Fonts | 09 May 2020 |
| Xrdesktop 0.14 Released With OpenXR Support | 08 May 2020 |
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377 Articles |
| Fedora |
| Fedora 33 Released With Workstation Using Btrfs By Default | 27 Oct 2020 |
| Fedora 34 Looking To Add An AArch64 KDE Plasma Desktop Spin | 27 Oct 2020 |
| Fedora 33 To Be Released Next Week | 23 Oct 2020 |
| Fedora 33 To Stick With systemd-resolved Following Last Minute Concerns | 01 Oct 2020 |
| Fedora 33 Beta Released With Big Changes From LTO To Btrfs | 29 Sep 2020 |
| Fedora 33 Beta To Be Released Next Week | 25 Sep 2020 |
| Fedora 34 Aims To Further Enhance Security But Will Lose Runtime Disabling Of SELinux | 24 Sep 2020 |
| Fedora 34 Change To Further Compress Install Media Rejected Due To Install Time Concerns | 15 Sep 2020 |
| Fedora 34 KDE Spin Planning Switch To Wayland | 08 Sep 2020 |
| Fedora 34 Aims To Shrink Its Install Media By Ramping Up Compression | 28 Aug 2020 |
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989 Articles |
| Free Software |
| FreeType 2.10.4 Rushed Out As Emergency Security Release | 20 Oct 2020 |
| Apache Software Foundation Celebrates Two Decades Of OpenOffice | 14 Oct 2020 |
| CUPS Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingly Dried Up | 13 Oct 2020 |
| GIMP 2.10.22 Released With AVIF Image Support | 07 Oct 2020 |
| U-Boot 2020.10 Released With Many Improvements | 06 Oct 2020 |
| Free Software Foundation Celebrates Its 35th Birthday | 05 Oct 2020 |
| PostgreSQL 13 Released With Performance Improvements | 24 Sep 2020 |
| Inkscape 1.0.1 Released With Many Fixes, Experimental Scribus PDF Export | 07 Sep 2020 |
| KDAB Releases Hotspot 1.3 For Visualizing Linux Perf Reports | 03 Sep 2020 |
| Blender 2.90 Released With Intel Embree Usage, Broader NVIDIA OptiX Support | 31 Aug 2020 |
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1638 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 |
| Pitivi 2020.09 Video Editor Released With Better Stability, Many New Features | 11 Oct 2020 |
| GNOME 3.38.1 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes | 08 Oct 2020 |
| GTK 3.99.2 Released As A Step Closer To GTK4 With Fancy GLSL Shader Capabilities | 30 Sep 2020 |
| GNOME 40 Aims To Have A Better Extensions Experience | 17 Sep 2020 |
| Succeeding GNOME 3.38 Will Be "GNOME 40" - Yes, GNOME Forty | 16 Sep 2020 |
| GNOME 3.38 Released With Many New Features, Better Performance | 16 Sep 2020 |
| GNOME DMA-BUF Screencasting Now Limited To Intel Drivers Due To Bugs Elsewhere | 14 Sep 2020 |
| GNOME 3.38 RC2 Released With Last Minute Changes | 13 Sep 2020 |
| GNOME's New Power-Profiles-Daemon Sees "v0.1" Release | 10 Sep 2020 |
| The Many Mutter + Shell Improvements Coming With GNOME 3.38 | 08 Sep 2020 |
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1106 Articles |
| GNU |
| GNU Debugger 10.1 Released With BPF Debugging, Debuginfod Support | 24 Oct 2020 |
| GCC 11 Ending Feature Development In One Month | 16 Oct 2020 |
| GNU Linux-libre 5.9-gnu Released After The Usual Deblobbing | 12 Oct 2020 |
| Oak Ridge Sponsoring GCC Compiler Improvements For NVIDIA + AMD GPU Offloading | 04 Sep 2020 |
| GCC Automatic Parallel Compilation Viability Results Help Up To 3.3x | 03 Sep 2020 |
| GCC Is Currently Faster Than LLVM's Clang At Compiling The Linux Kernel | 02 Sep 2020 |
| Is It Time To Overhaul The GNU Dynamic Linker? | 30 Aug 2020 |
| GCC 11 Compiler Might Finally Enable DWARF 5 Debugging By Default | 24 Aug 2020 |
| GCC "-fparallel-jobs" Sent Out For Compiling Individual Files In Parallel - Up To ~1.9x Speedup | 21 Aug 2020 |
| GNU Emacs 27.1 Adds HarfBuzz Text Shaping, Native JSON Parsing | 10 Aug 2020 |
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844 Articles |
| Google |
| Chrome 87 Beta Brings Further FTP Deprecation, Cookie Store API | 15 Oct 2020 |
| Android 12 Appears To Support Using WireGuard | 13 Oct 2020 |
| Chrome 86 Released With Native File-System, WebCodecs APIs | 06 Oct 2020 |
| Linux 5.10 Receiving New Driver For Chromebook "Vivaldi" Keyboards | 02 Oct 2020 |
| Android 11 Released, Now Available Via Open-Source Project | 08 Sep 2020 |
| Chrome 87 Dev Builds Trying Again With X11+Wayland Ozone Enabled | 05 Sep 2020 |
| Chrome 86 Beta Enables Native File-System API By Default, WebCodecs Added | 03 Sep 2020 |
| Android AOSP Can Boot Off Mainline Linux 5.9 With Just One Patch | 29 Aug 2020 |
| Google Using AutoFDO On Linux Meant Up To 12% Less Cycles Spent Within The Kernel | 28 Aug 2020 |
| Chrome 85 Is Clang PGO'ing Binaries For Better Performance But Linux Left Out | 25 Aug 2020 |
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436 Articles |
| Hardware |
| Linux 5.11 To Bring Early Bits Around DisplayPort 2.0, Orphans The Frame-Buffer Layer | 27 Oct 2020 |
| Fwupd 1.5 Released With Expanded Hardware Support, New Capabilities | 26 Oct 2020 |
| Corsair Power Supplies May Soon See Sensor Support Exposed Under Linux | 26 Oct 2020 |
| Laptop Touchpad Improvements, New Joystick Driver For Linux 5.10 | 23 Oct 2020 |
| Linux 5.10 Hardens Against Possible DMA Attacks By External PCIe Devices | 22 Oct 2020 |
| System76 Launches The Thelio Mega With Threadripper + Four GPUs | 20 Oct 2020 |
| Initial Support For Booting RISC-V Hardware Via EFI Sent In For Linux 5.10 | 20 Oct 2020 |
| Linux 5.10 To Play Nicely With The Matias Wireless Aluminum Keyboard | 18 Oct 2020 |
| Ingenic X2000/X2000E MIPS IoT Processor Supported By Linux 5.10 | 17 Oct 2020 |
| PowerPC 601 Support Retired In Linux 5.10 While Continuing To Bring Up POWER10 | 17 Oct 2020 |
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1670 Articles |
| Intel |
| Intel Begins Their Open-Source Driver Support For Vulkan Ray-Tracing With Xe HPG | 28 Oct 2020 |
| Alder Lake Support Published For The Open-Source Intel Compute Stack | 25 Oct 2020 |
| Integer Scaling To Come With Linux 5.11 For Intel Graphics Driver | 23 Oct 2020 |
| Intel Sends Linux Kernel Patches For VRR / Adaptive-Sync Enablement | 22 Oct 2020 |
| Linux Developers Discussing Possible Kernel Driver For Intel CPU Undervolting | 21 Oct 2020 |
| Intel Begins Adding Alder Lake Graphics Support To Their Linux Driver | 21 Oct 2020 |
| Intel OpenGL/Vulkan Linux Drivers Strike Another Optimization For Tiger Lake | 21 Oct 2020 |
| Intel Lands A Hefty Tiger Lake Graphics Optimization | 19 Oct 2020 |
| Linux 5.10 Continues Maturing The USB4 Support | 18 Oct 2020 |
| Intel Compute Runtime 20.41.18123 Flips On OpenCL 3.0 For All Hardware Back To Broadwell | 16 Oct 2020 |
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1918 Articles |
| KDE |
| KDE Seeing More Bug Fixes Following Plasma 5.20 | 24 Oct 2020 |
| More KDE Wayland Fixes Heading Into Plasma 5.20.1 | 17 Oct 2020 |
| KWinFT 5.20 With Aims For Better Wayland/X11 Experience Than KDE Plasma 5.20's KWin | 15 Oct 2020 |
| KDE Plasma 5.20 Released With Better Wayland Support, Many New Features | 13 Oct 2020 |
| Krita 4.4 Released With Multi-Threading For Fill Layers | 13 Oct 2020 |
| KDE Plasma 5.21 To Bring Multi-GPU Support For Wayland | 10 Oct 2020 |
| KDE Plasma Mobile Has Been Making Great Progress | 09 Oct 2020 |
| Kubuntu Focus M2 Launched As Latest KDE-Friendly Laptop | 08 Oct 2020 |
| KDE Begins Landing "Breeze Evolution" Refresh For Default Theme | 03 Oct 2020 |
| Systemd Startup For KDE Plasma 5.21 Has Helped Uncover Bugs, Other Improvements | 01 Oct 2020 |
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1018 Articles |
| LibreOffice |
| 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 |
| LibreOffice / The Document Foundation Generated Around One Million Dollars For 2019 | 11 Aug 2020 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 Released As The Open-Source, Vulkan-Accelerated Office Suite | 05 Aug 2020 |
| The Document Foundation Officially Drops Branding For LibreOffice 7.0 "Personal Edition" | 20 Jul 2020 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 RC2 Released For This Vulkan-Supported Open-Source Office Suite | 18 Jul 2020 |
| LibreOffice Might Delay Its "Personal Edition" Branding Or Change To "Community Edition" | 09 Jul 2020 |
| The Document Foundation Clarifies LibreOffice 7.0's "Personal Edition" Branding | 06 Jul 2020 |
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137 Articles |
| Linux Events |
| 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 |
| FOSS-North Is Coming Up In Two Months As A Leading Scandinavian Linux/Open-Source Event | 10 Feb 2019 |
| Interesting Linux.Conf.Au 2019 Videos Now Available | 26 Jan 2019 |
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73 Articles |
| Linux Gaming |
| Collabora's Work On Extending The Linux Kernel To Better Support Windows Gaming | 28 Oct 2020 |
| SDL2 Upstreams OS/2 Support | 14 Oct 2020 |
| Warzone 2100 Lands Vulkan Renderer, Adaptive V-Sync For 20+ Year Old Game | 26 Sep 2020 |
| Unity 2020.2 Bringing Some Hefty Performance Optimizations | 21 Sep 2020 |
| Unvanquished Game, Assets Are Now Fully Open-Source Compliant | 15 Sep 2020 |
| Feral's GameMode 1.6 Released For Optimizing The Linux Gaming Experience | 11 Sep 2020 |
| SuperTuxKart 1.2 Brings Better Gamepad Support, Other Features | 28 Aug 2020 |
| FUTEX2 Still Being Worked On For Benefiting Linux Gaming & Much More | 24 Aug 2020 |
| Unity Game Engine Planning For Many Improvements In 2021 | 13 Aug 2020 |
| FNA FAudio 20.08 Released With WMA Decoding Powered By GStreamer | 01 Aug 2020 |
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1731 Articles |
| Linux Kernel |
| Real-Time Patches Updated For Linux 5.9/5.10 With The Code Not Yet Mainlined | 28 Oct 2020 |
| Linux 5.10 Is The Next LTS Kernel | 26 Oct 2020 |
| Linux 5.10-rc1 Released With New Hardware Support, Security Additions | 25 Oct 2020 |
| New TTM Code Can Yield 3~5x Faster Page Allocation For AMDGPU, Other Benefits | 25 Oct 2020 |
| Linux 5.10 Adds "nosymfollow" Mount Option Security Defense | 24 Oct 2020 |
| Linux 5.10 FUSE To Allow Faster Performance With VirtIO-FS | 19 Oct 2020 |
| Linux 5.9-ck1 Released With Updated MuQSS | 19 Oct 2020 |
| Char/Misc With Linux 5.10 Brings Nitro Enclaves, Alder Lake, More Code For Gaudi | 19 Oct 2020 |
| Linux 5.10 Continues Bringing Up Support For Intel's Rocket Lake | 19 Oct 2020 |
| Linux 5.10 Staging Area Has The Usual Smorgasbord Of Changes | 18 Oct 2020 |
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2570 Articles |
| Linux Networking |
| 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 |
| Linux Quietly Makes It Harder To Guess Network RNG's Internal State | 29 Jul 2020 |
| Linux 5.9 To Support New EF100 NIC Architecture Developed By Xilinx | 29 Jul 2020 |
| Linux 5.9 To Support 6GHz WiFi With Qualcomm's Ath11k Driver | 24 Jul 2020 |
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167 Articles |
| Linux Security |
| Linux Patches Aim To Provide Fork'ing Brute Force Attack Mitigation | 26 Oct 2020 |
| Linux 5.9.1 + 6 Other Stable Kernels Out For Addressing "Bleeding Tooth" Vulnerability | 18 Oct 2020 |
| Linux 5.10 To See Static Calls For Helping Cases Where Retpolines Are Used | 12 Oct 2020 |
| Trenchboot Secure Launch Support For Linux Sees New Patches | 25 Sep 2020 |
| Linux 5.10 To Support Nitro Enclaves For Security-Critical Applications | 24 Sep 2020 |
| Security Researchers Detail New "BlindSide" Speculative Execution Attack | 11 Sep 2020 |
| Google Engineer Calls For Greater Collaboration On Speculative Execution Mitigations | 28 Aug 2020 |
| Kernel ASI Still Being Worked On For Protecting Against Hyper Threading Data Leaks | 26 Aug 2020 |
| Researchers Make More Discoveries Around L1TF/Foreshadow - It's Not Good | 06 Aug 2020 |
| BootHole Blows Hole In GRUB2 Bootloader Security, Including UEFI SecureBoot | 29 Jul 2020 |
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163 Articles |
| Linux Storage |
| Bcachefs Linux File-System Sent Out For Review With Exciting Feature Progress | 27 Oct 2020 |
| EXT4 Changes Land In Linux 5.10 With Fast Commits, Big Boost For Parallel Writes | 23 Oct 2020 |
| NFS Client With Linux 5.10 Adds "READ_PLUS" For Faster Performance | 22 Oct 2020 |
| XFS Lands More Code For Linux 5.10 - "Even More Monumental" | 20 Oct 2020 |
| OpenZFS 2.0-RC4 Released With More Fixes, Linux 5.9 Support | 19 Oct 2020 |
| New NTFS Linux Driver Spun A Ninth Time, Still Under Review | 18 Oct 2020 |
| OverlayFS Adds A "Volatile" Option - Faster Performance But All Syncs Are Omitted | 17 Oct 2020 |
| F2FS With Linux 5.10 Brings Many Improvements And A Few More Features | 15 Oct 2020 |
| XFS File-System With Linux 5.10 Punts Year 2038 Problem To The Year 2486 | 15 Oct 2020 |
| EXT4 "Fast Commits" Coming For Big Performance Boost In Ordered Mode | 09 Oct 2020 |
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559 Articles |
| LLVM |
| LLVM Adds A SPIR-V CPU Runner For Handling GPU Kernels On The CPU | 26 Oct 2020 |
| Red Hat's Tom Stellard Now Serving As LLVM Release Manager | 25 Oct 2020 |
| LLVM Clang 12 Adds Support For Vectorization Using Glibc's Vector Math Library | 23 Oct 2020 |
| LLVM Clang 12 Merges Support For x86_64 Microarchitecture Levels | 22 Oct 2020 |
| Facebook Is Looking To Upstream Their BOLT Binary Performance Optimizer Into LLVM | 21 Oct 2020 |
| LLVM 11.0 Finally Available With Flang Fortran Compiler, Continued C++20 Work | 12 Oct 2020 |
| Developers Try Again To Upstream Motorola 68000 Series Support In LLVM | 29 Sep 2020 |
| SiFive Begins Adding RISC-V "Bullet" Microarchitecture Code To LLVM | 26 Sep 2020 |
| LLVM 11.0-RC3 Released For This Big LLVM/Clang Update | 22 Sep 2020 |
| LLVM Developers Looking At Phasing Out Intel MMX Support | 02 Sep 2020 |
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630 Articles |
| Mesa |
| Mesa 20.3 Supports Intel Alder Lake Gen12 Graphics | 28 Oct 2020 |
| Zink OpenGL-Over-Vulkan At ~97% Piglit Testing Conformance | 25 Oct 2020 |
| Nouveau + LLVMpipe Drivers Enable OpenCL Image Support | 21 Oct 2020 |
| NIR-To-TGSI Support Added To Mesa 20.3 | 20 Oct 2020 |
| Open-Source RADV Vulkan Driver Is Seeing Work To Allow Building It On Windows | 19 Oct 2020 |
| Zink In Mesa 20.3 Now Hits OpenGL 3.3, Can Run Blender With This OpenGL-on-Vulkan | 17 Oct 2020 |
| Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Now Nearly At ~69% Of Intel's Native OpenGL Driver | 16 Oct 2020 |
| Mesa 20.2.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Fixes | 14 Oct 2020 |
| Raspberry Pi 4 Vulkan Driver "V3DV" Merged Into Mesa 20.3 | 13 Oct 2020 |
| RADV ACO Lands NGG Geometry Shader Support | 10 Oct 2020 |
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1875 Articles |
| Microsoft |
| Mesa 20.3 Can Now Consume SPIR-V Binaries Generated By LLVM's libclc | 26 Sep 2020 |
| Microsoft Edge Is Coming Out For Linux Next Month | 22 Sep 2020 |
| "Microsoft Wants To Create A Complete Virtualization Stack With Linux" | 14 Sep 2020 |
| WSL2 Adding Support For Mounting Physical Disks, EXT4 Access And More From Windows | 10 Sep 2020 |
| Microsoft Is Exploring LTO+PGO For A Faster Linux Kernel | 27 Aug 2020 |
| Wine-Mono Won't Bother With .NET 5.0 - The Official Microsoft Binaries Should Work Fine | 26 Aug 2020 |
| Microsoft Is Backporting WSL2 To Their Windows 10 2019 Releases | 20 Aug 2020 |
| Microsoft Doubles Their Commits To Mesa This Week | 18 Aug 2020 |
| Microsoft Engineer Proposes "TRAMPFD" For Improving Linux Security | 28 Jul 2020 |
| Microsoft Releases Its Own Open-Source Process Monitor For Linux | 17 Jul 2020 |
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224 Articles |
| Mozilla |
| Firefox 82 Released With Performance Improvements, Video Playback Enhancements | 20 Oct 2020 |
| Firefox Nightly Flips On New JIT "Warp" Code For Greater JavaScript Performance | 25 Sep 2020 |
| Firefox 81 Released With Security Fixes, PDF Viewer Enhancements | 22 Sep 2020 |
| Mozilla's GFX-RS 0.8 Released For Vulkan Portability - Brings Big Changes | 25 Aug 2020 |
| Firefox 80 Available With VA-API On X11, WebGL Parallel Shader Compile Support | 24 Aug 2020 |
| Mozilla's Incredible Speech-To-Text Engine Is At Risk Following Layoffs | 23 Aug 2020 |
| Mozilla Laying Off Around A Quarter Of Their Employees | 11 Aug 2020 |
| Firefox 79 Is Ready To Ship With Safeguard On "_blank" Links, More Wayland VA-API Work | 27 Jul 2020 |
| Thunderbird 78 Rolls Out With UI Updates, New Features | 17 Jul 2020 |
| There Finally Is Work On Shipping Mozilla's WebRender For Some Linux Environments | 11 Jul 2020 |
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335 Articles |
| Multimedia |
| JACK2 Audio Server Rolls Out Better Windows + macOS Support | 16 Oct 2020 |
| Linux 5.10 Media Changes Bring A New "Vidtv" Virtual Driver | 14 Oct 2020 |
| FFmpeg Now Supports VP9 Profile 2 VDPAU Decode (10-bit / 12-bit) | 09 Oct 2020 |
| FFmpeg Now Supports GPU Inference With Intel's OpenVINO | 20 Sep 2020 |
| Rav1e 0.4 Alpha Released With Much Faster Performance For Rust AV1 Encoding | 16 Sep 2020 |
| Lightworks Software Now Independent Of EditShare | 15 Sep 2020 |
| AOM AV1 Encoder Sees Big Boost With Additional AVX2 Optimization | 09 Sep 2020 |
| Rav1e 0.3.4 AV1 Encoder Now Running On Android, iOS | 09 Sep 2020 |
| GStreamer 1.18 Released With Better Windows Support, Intel SVT-HEVC | 08 Sep 2020 |
| AV2 Is In R&D As The Eventual Successor To The AV1 Video Codec | 07 Sep 2020 |
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426 Articles |
| Nouveau |
| 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 |
| Nouveau Display CRC Support Being Firmed Up Thanks To NVIDIA's Documentation | 18 Apr 2020 |
| ASUS Releases Graphics Card That Could Actually Be Great For Open-Source NVIDIA Fans | 13 Apr 2020 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Should Trip Less Often On Some GPUs With Linux 5.7 | 08 Apr 2020 |
| NVIDIA Posts Firmware Needed For Open-Source GeForce 16 Series Acceleration | 19 Feb 2020 |
| Nouveau Gallium3D Finally Seeing Mesa Shader Disk Cache For Faster Game Load Times | 17 Feb 2020 |
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435 Articles |
| NVIDIA |
| NVIDIA Ships Vulkan Driver Beta With Fragment Shading Rate Control | 21 Oct 2020 |
| NVIDIA Doesn't Expect To Have Linux 5.9 Driver Support For Another Month | 17 Oct 2020 |
| NVIDIA 455.28 Released As Stable Linux Driver For RTX 3080/3090 | 07 Oct 2020 |
| NVIDIA Online GTC 2020 Kicks Off Today But No Open-Source Linux Announcement Expected | 05 Oct 2020 |
| NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Moves To 455 Series For Linux | 30 Sep 2020 |
| NVIDIA CUDA 11.1 Released With RTX 30 Series Support, Better Compatibility Across Versions | 23 Sep 2020 |
| NVIDIA C++ Standard Library Now Available Via GitHub | 19 Sep 2020 |
| NVIDIA 455.23.04 Linux Beta Released With GeForce RTX 3080/3090 Support | 17 Sep 2020 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Linux Driver/Support Expectations | 15 Sep 2020 |
| NVIDIA Announces $40 Billion Deal To Acquire Arm | 13 Sep 2020 |
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899 Articles |
| Operating Systems |
| "Open-Source Windows" ReactOS To See Improved Memory Management | 26 Oct 2020 |
| Linux-Based TrueNAS SCALE Alpha Released | 22 Oct 2020 |
| Trisquel 9.0 Released - Powered By The Linux 4.15 Kernel | 19 Oct 2020 |
| Sailfish OS 3.4 Released With Experimental Rust Support, Finally Eyeing 64-bit ARM | 13 Oct 2020 |
| Arch Linux Based EndeavourOS Begins Providing ARM Builds | 23 Sep 2020 |
| Sculpt OS 20.08 Released With Redesigned GUI Stack | 19 Sep 2020 |
| Gentoo Offers Up New Easy Kernel Options | 16 Sep 2020 |
| Gentoo's Portage 3.0 Stabilized With Much Faster Dependency Calculations | 07 Sep 2020 |
| Haiku Seeing Better Rust Support Following Important Fix | 06 Sep 2020 |
| Linux From Scratch 10.0 Released For Rolling Your Own Linux Installation From Source | 01 Sep 2020 |
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842 Articles |
| Oracle |
| 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 |
| Oracle Releases Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel "R5U4" | 03 Sep 2020 |
| Oracle Linux 7 U9 Beta Bringing Updated Drivers, Wayland Tech Preview | 19 Aug 2020 |
| Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU24 Released With A Plethora Of Package Updates | 19 Aug 2020 |
| Oracle Updates Many Packages With Solaris 11.4 SRU21 | 23 May 2020 |
| Oracle Talks Up Btrfs Rather Than ZFS For Their Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6 | 21 May 2020 |
| Oracle Releases GraalVM 20.1 Virtual Machine With Some Big Improvements | 19 May 2020 |
| Oracle Working On "PKRAM" For Memory That Survives After Booting Into A New Kexec Kernel | 08 May 2020 |
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253 Articles |
| Phoronix |
| 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 |
| Intel mOS, Cachy, Mozilla Layoffs Were The Open-Source Buzz Of August | 01 Sep 2020 |
| Rust Maybe Coming To The Linux Kernel, Other Open-Source Milestones For July | 02 Aug 2020 |
| Phoronix.com Transition To New Server Complete | 04 Jul 2020 |
| Server Infrastructure Upgrade Weekend - AMD EPYC Rome Across The Board | 03 Jul 2020 |
| Raspberry Pi Vulkan, WSL2, Renoir, Linux 5.8 + PHP8 Was Exciting For June | 01 Jul 2020 |
| Intel vs. AMD, Systemd-Homed, Kernel Advancements Top H1'2020 For Linux | 30 Jun 2020 |
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616 Articles |
| Phoronix Test Suite |
| Phoronix Test Suite 10.0.1 Released | 22 Oct 2020 |
| Easier CPU/GPU Comparisons On OpenBenchmarking.org, Other New Features | 04 Oct 2020 |
| Phoronix Test Suite / OpenBenchmarking.org Now Has 600 Different Tests/Benchmarks | 25 Sep 2020 |
| New OpenBenchmarking.org Features Enhance Discovering Popular + Reliable Tests | 21 Sep 2020 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 10.0 Milestone 2 Now Available For Testing | 13 Sep 2020 |
| New/Updated Benchmarks For August From TensorFlow Lite To ASTCENC | 01 Sep 2020 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 10.0 Milestone 1 Released For Open-Source Benchmarking | 20 Aug 2020 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.8 Milestone 2 Released For Open-Source/Linux Benchmarking | 24 Jun 2020 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.8 Milestone 1 Readies Another Round Of Benchmarking Features | 04 Jun 2020 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.6.1 Released For Cross-Platform, Open-Source Benchmarking | 25 May 2020 |
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193 Articles |
| Premium |
| Showing Your Support During COVID-19 | 24 Apr 2020 |
| Showing Your Love For Open-Source + Linux Benchmarking This Valentine's Day | 14 Feb 2020 |
| A Last Call To Show Your Support In 2019 | 30 Dec 2019 |
| After 3,600 Original Articles This Year On Linux/Open-Source, Let's Have A Holiday Special | 24 Dec 2019 |
| There Is Just A Few Days Left To Go Premium For Black Friday / Cyber Monday | 29 Nov 2019 |
| It's That Time Of The Year For The Annual Phoronix Premium Sale To Show Your Support | 26 Nov 2019 |
| A Last Call For Our Phoronix Premium 2019 Autumn Special | 27 Sep 2019 |
| The Phoronix Premium Oktoberfest 2019 Deal - Support Linux/Open-Source Benchmarking | 22 Sep 2019 |
| A Last Call To Celebrate Phoronix's 15th Birthday By Going Premium | 07 Jun 2019 |
| Phoronix Turns 15 Years Old Next Week So Here's Something Special | 01 Jun 2019 |
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35 Articles |
| Programming |
| Pyston v2 Released As ~20% Faster Than Python 3.8 | 28 Oct 2020 |
| Rust Lands Experimental Cranelift-Based Code Generator - Much Faster Debug Build Times | 27 Oct 2020 |
| OpenJ9 0.23 Released As Latest Eclipse Java Virtual Machine | 24 Oct 2020 |
| Git 2.29 Released With Experimental Support For Using More Secure SHA-256 | 19 Oct 2020 |
| GCC's Ada Frontend Seeing More Work On NVIDIA CUDA Support | 19 Oct 2020 |
| OpenBLAS 0.3.11 Brings Many Changes From Zen 3 To POWER10 Support | 17 Oct 2020 |
| OpenCV 4.5 Released With Support For Multiple OpenCL Contexts, OpenVINO Backend | 12 Oct 2020 |
| Git 2.29-rc0 Released With SHA-256 In Experimental State, Restores Protocol v2 Default | 05 Oct 2020 |
| Python 3.9 Released With Multi-Processing Improvements, New Parser | 05 Oct 2020 |
| SHADERed 1.4.1 Released With Compute Shader Debugger | 04 Oct 2020 |
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339 Articles |
| 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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131 Articles |
| Qt |
| Qt 6 To Ship With Package Manager For Extra Libraries | 28 Oct 2020 |
| The Qt Company Details The Graphics Stack Changes With Qt 6.0 | 26 Oct 2020 |
| Qt 6.0 Beta Released For This Big Toolkit Update | 20 Oct 2020 |
| Qt 6.0 Alpha Released | 06 Oct 2020 |
| Qbs 1.17 Released With This Build System Still Alive | 14 Sep 2020 |
| Qt 6.0 Development Host/Target Changes Announced | 11 Sep 2020 |
| Qt 5.15.1 Released With 400+ Bug Fixes | 10 Sep 2020 |
| Qt 6.0 Now Under Feature Freeze | 01 Sep 2020 |
| Qt Creator 4.13 Release Brings Initial Meson Support, Updates C++ Code Model | 26 Aug 2020 |
| Qt Creator 4.13 RC Released With Initial Meson Integration, Updated C++ Code Model | 13 Aug 2020 |
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441 Articles |
| Radeon |
| AMDGPU Linux Driver To Finally Enable BACO For Hawaii - Allowing S4/Hibernation | 28 Oct 2020 |
| AMD Linux Driver Preparing For A Navi "Blockchain" Graphics Card | 21 Oct 2020 |
| Radeon Linux Driver Seeing "MALL" Feature For Big Navi | 20 Oct 2020 |
| AMDVLK 2020.Q4.1 Released With Various Game Fixes | 20 Oct 2020 |
| NGG Appears To Be In Good Shape For RDNA 2 / RX 6000 Series | 17 Oct 2020 |
| AMD Delivers Many Fixes For Polaris GPUs On Linux - Finally Enables ZeroRPM Fan Mode | 16 Oct 2020 |
| AMD Adds New AMDGPU LLVM Targets For Older GPUs In Cleanup | 10 Oct 2020 |
| AMD Renoir On Linux Could Soon See Lower Power Consumption During Video Playback | 08 Oct 2020 |
| AMDGPU Linux Kernel Driver Support Posted For The "Dimgrey Cavefish" | 07 Oct 2020 |
| Radeon Software for Linux 20.40 Released With RX 5300 Series Support | 05 Oct 2020 |
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1282 Articles |
| Red Hat |
| Jon Masters Leaving NUVIA, Returning To Red Hat | 05 Sep 2020 |
| Red Hat Has Been Working On "stalld" As A Thread Stall Detector + Booster | 31 Aug 2020 |
| Red Hat Bringing Multipath TCP To RHEL 8.3 As A Tech Preview | 19 Aug 2020 |
| Red Hat Begins Talking Up The New RHEL Flatpak Runtime | 12 Aug 2020 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Hits Beta With New/Updated Application Streams | 28 Jul 2020 |
| CentOS Stream Begins Seeing RHEL 8.3 Bits, Real-Time Repository | 07 Jul 2020 |
| "Project Springfield" Is Red Hat's Effort To Improve Linux File-Systems / Storage | 01 Jul 2020 |
| RHEL Deprecating The Virt-Manager UI In Favor Of The Cockpit Web Console | 26 Jun 2020 |
| Red Hat Investing In Modularity And Will Support It Where It Makes Sense For RHEL 9 | 18 Jun 2020 |
| CentOS 8 Rebased Against RHEL 8.2 | 15 Jun 2020 |
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222 Articles |
| RISC-V |
| 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 |
| Libre RISC-V Accelerator Secures 300k EUR In Grants, Still Undecided About The ISA | 29 Dec 2019 |
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55 Articles |
| Standards |
| OpenCL 3.0 Specification Released With New Khronos Open-Source OpenCL SDK | 30 Sep 2020 |
| Microsoft + Oculus Shipping First Conformant OpenXR 1.0 Implementations | 28 Jul 2020 |
| Monado Working On Positional Tracking Support Via Libsurvive To Further Open-Source AR/VR | 17 Jul 2020 |
| OpenXR Conformance Tests Open-Sourced | 07 Jul 2020 |
| H.266/VVC Standard Finalized With ~50% Lower Size Compared To H.265 | 06 Jul 2020 |
| Khronos Releases SYCL 2020 Provisional Specification | 30 Jun 2020 |
| Khronos Releases OpenVG 1.1 Lite For High Quality Vector Graphics On Mobile | 28 May 2020 |
| SD 8.0 Specification To Allow 4GB/s Transfer Rates By Leveraging PCIe 4.0 | 19 May 2020 |
| Updated Basis Universal Yields High Quality Compression, 3~4x Smaller Than JPEG/PNG | 21 Mar 2020 |
| Unicode 13.0 Released With A Plunger, Fondue & Other New Emoji | 11 Mar 2020 |
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231 Articles |
| SUSE |
| 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 |
| OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 Begins Seeing Beta Builds, Official Release Due In May | 25 Feb 2020 |
| OpenSUSE's OBS Can Now Spin Windows Subsystem for Linux Images | 13 Oct 2019 |
| OpenSUSE Expanding Encryption Options For Its Installer | 10 Oct 2019 |
| GCC 10 Likely To See "-flto=auto" Option | 24 Jul 2019 |
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234 Articles |
| systemd |
| 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 |
| systemd-oomd Looks Like It Will Come Together For systemd 247 | 13 Jul 2020 |
| systemd 246-RC1 Released | 09 Jul 2020 |
| A Microsoft Addition For systemd 246 Exposes Host OS Information To Containers | 09 Jul 2020 |
| Systemd 246 Is On The Way With Many Changes | 01 Jul 2020 |
| Dbus-Broker 23 Released For High Performance D-Bus | 11 May 2020 |
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191 Articles |
| Ubuntu |
| Ubuntu 21.04 Is The "Hirsute Hippo", Releasing On 22 April | 28 Oct 2020 |
| Canonical's Snap Packaging Switching To LZO Compression For Faster Startup Times | 27 Oct 2020 |
| Ubuntu 21.04 Installer Might Allow EXT4 Encryption Without LVM | 23 Oct 2020 |
| Ubuntu 20.10 Released With GNOME 3.38, Active Directory Installer Integration | 22 Oct 2020 |
| UBports Improving Its Installer For Deploying Ubuntu Touch On Smartphones | 14 Oct 2020 |
| Ubuntu 20.10 Beta Released For Testing | 01 Oct 2020 |
| Dell XPS With Intel Tiger Lake + Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Goes On Sale - Benchmarks Coming | 01 Oct 2020 |
| Mir 2.1 Released With Some New Protocol Support, Many Fixes | 29 Sep 2020 |
| Lenovo Announces 27 Systems To Ship With Ubuntu Pre-Installed | 23 Sep 2020 |
| Ubuntu Touch OTA-13 Released With More Phones Supported, UI Improvements | 21 Sep 2020 |
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1411 Articles |
| Valve |
| Valve/CodeWeavers Releases Proton 5.13-1 With More Windows Games Running On Linux | 15 Oct 2020 |
| Steam On Linux Ticks Closer To 1.0%, AMD CPUs Now Power A Third Of Linux Gaming Systems | 02 Oct 2020 |
| Gamescope Continues Advancing As Wayland/Vulkan Compositor Backed By Valve | 16 Sep 2020 |
| Steam On Linux Is Ending Summer 2020 At Just Under 0.9% Marketshare | 02 Sep 2020 |
| Valve's Steam July 2020 Numbers Point To A Small Dip For Linux | 01 Aug 2020 |
| Valve Hires Another Developer To Work On RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver | 28 Jul 2020 |
| Valve/CodeWeavers Rolls Out Proton 5.0-10 RC For Death Stranding, One Day After Windows Release | 15 Jul 2020 |
| Steam On Linux Is Still Bouncing Around 0.9% For Summer 2020 | 02 Jul 2020 |
| Futex2 Proposed In Latest Effort For Linux Kernel Optimization That Can Benefit Gamers | 12 Jun 2020 |
| Steam Play's Proton 5.0-9 Brings Fix For Games Requiring EA Origin Client | 11 Jun 2020 |
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510 Articles |
| 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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99 Articles |
| Virtualization |
| KVM For Linux 5.10 Brings New "TDP" MMU To Help VMs With Hundreds Of vCPUs, TBs of RAM | 24 Oct 2020 |
| Linux 5.10 Xen Brings Security Updates - Includes Fixing ARM Guests With KPTI | 20 Oct 2020 |
| XCP-ng 8.2 LTS To Bring Rewritten UEFI, Core Scheduling To Fend Off Side Channel Attacks | 03 Oct 2020 |
| Virt-Manager 3.0 Released With UI Improvements, Cloud-Init Option | 27 Sep 2020 |
| Linux 5.9 Dropping Xen 32-bit PV Guest Support | 14 Aug 2020 |
| POWER10 Virtualization, Intel SERIALIZE Come For KVM On Linux 5.9 | 12 Aug 2020 |
| QEMU 5.1 Release Brings Many Improvements To This Open-Source Virtualization Component | 12 Aug 2020 |
| Linux 5.9 Bringing Mellanox VDPA Driver For Newer ConnectX Devices | 11 Aug 2020 |
| Intel Cloud-Hypervisor 0.9 Brings io_uring Block Device Support For Faster Performance | 08 Aug 2020 |
| QEMU 5.1 Bringing Many CPU Improvements From Loongson To RISC-V To s390 | 16 Jul 2020 |
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427 Articles |
| Vulkan |
| Vulkan 1.2.158 Released With Fragment Shading Rate Extension | 19 Oct 2020 |
| DXVK 1.7.2 Released With Many Fixes For Direct3D Atop Vulkan | 07 Oct 2020 |
| Vulkan 1.2.156 Released With Device Memory Report Extension | 05 Oct 2020 |
| Mesa's Vulkan Software Implementation Now Known as Lavapipe | 01 Oct 2020 |
| MoltenVK 1.1 Update Brings Big Improvements For Vulkan On macOS | 29 Sep 2020 |
| Vulkan 1.2.155 Released With EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64 | 28 Sep 2020 |
| More Vulkan NCNN Inference Benchmarks On AMD Radeon vs. NVIDIA GeForce Under Linux | 27 Sep 2020 |
| Zink OpenGL-Over-Vulkan With Unigine Heaven Seeing Improved Performance | 25 Sep 2020 |
| VKD3D 1.2 Is Ready To Offer Better Direct3D 12 To Vulkan Support | 22 Sep 2020 |
| Vulkan Portability Extension 1.0 Now Shipping For Expanding Vulkan's Reach | 21 Sep 2020 |
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511 Articles |
| Wayland |
| 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 |
| WayVNC 0.3 Released - The Wayland VNC Server Now Supports Copy & Paste | 28 Sep 2020 |
| Taiwins 0.2 Released As Modular Wayland Compositor That Supports Lua Scripting | 18 Sep 2020 |
| Hikari 2.2 Wayland Compositor Adds Support For WayVNC, Other Features | 08 Sep 2020 |
| Wayland's Weston 9.0 Released With Kiosk Shell For Always-Fullscreen Apps | 04 Sep 2020 |
| Wayfire 0.5 Wayland Compositor Brings Latency Optimizations, More Protocols | 04 Aug 2020 |
| Libinput 1.16 Released - Ready To Warn You If Your System Is Too Slow | 03 Aug 2020 |
| Wayland-Utils 1.0 Relased As New Utility Package For Wayland Tools | 01 Aug 2020 |
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757 Articles |
| WINE |
| Wine-Staging 5.20 Released With ESYNC Support Re-Enabled | 24 Oct 2020 |
| Wine 5.20 Released With Various Improvements For Running Windows Software On Linux | 23 Oct 2020 |
| CodeWeavers Announces Rebrand With PortJump + ExecMode | 13 Oct 2020 |
| Wine-Staging 5.19 Adds Windows.Networking.Connectivity | 10 Oct 2020 |
| Wine 5.19 Released With A Variety Of Changes | 09 Oct 2020 |
| Windows x64 Binaries Can Now Run On POWER9 Under Linux With Hangover | 05 Oct 2020 |
| Wine-Staging 5.18 Adds sRGB Color Profile, Another Fix For Microsoft Flight Simulator | 28 Sep 2020 |
| Wine 5.18 Released With VKD3D 1.2's vkd3d-shader Usage | 25 Sep 2020 |
| Easier Vulkan Debugging Of Windows Applications Running Under Wine Is On The Way | 23 Sep 2020 |
| Wine-Staging 5.17 Adds More Patches For Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 | 12 Sep 2020 |
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736 Articles |
| X.Org |
| 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 |
| Arm Is Now Backing Panfrost Gallium3D As Open-Source Mali Graphics Driver | 16 Sep 2020 |
| X.Org Developers Conference 2020 Starts With Many Interesting Talks | 16 Sep 2020 |
| X.Org Server 1.20.9 Released With Numerous XWayland Fixes | 26 Aug 2020 |
| LibX11 1.6.12 Released Due To Latest Security Advisory | 25 Aug 2020 |
| X.Org's Latest Security Woes Are Bugs In LibX11, Xserver | 31 Jul 2020 |
| The Annual X.Org / Wayland / Mesa Conference Is Going Virtual Due To COVID-19 | 03 Jul 2020 |
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1049 Articles |
