| AMD |
| Linux 5.13 Will Stop Restricting CPU Power Metrics Access For AMD Energy Driver | 11 Apr 2021 |
| AMD Sends Out Linux Kernel Patches To Allow Disabling Predictive Store Forwarding (PSF) | 06 Apr 2021 |
| AMD Publishes Security Analysis Of Zen 3 "PSF" That Could Possibly Lead To A Side-Channel Attack | 02 Apr 2021 |
| AMD Zen 3 Tuning Backported To The GCC 10 Compiler | 01 Apr 2021 |
| The Most Popular AMD Linux/Open-Source News For Q1'2021 | 31 Mar 2021 |
| New AMD Zen 3 Fixes Published For The GCC 11 Compiler | 25 Mar 2021 |
| AMD Sends Out New Linux Code For SEV-SNP With EPYC 7003 Series | 24 Mar 2021 |
| Zen 3 GCC Tuning Continues With More Correct Latencies Rather Than "Random Numbers" | 18 Mar 2021 |
| AMD AOCC 3.0 Released As Zen 3 Optimized LLVM Clang 12 Based Compiler | 15 Mar 2021 |
| GCC Compiler Sees New Patch With Tuning For AMD Zen 3 (Znver3) | 15 Mar 2021 |
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1217 Articles |
| Arm |
| Arm Announces ARMv9 Architecture With SVE2 | 30 Mar 2021 |
| Arm Neoverse V1 Tuning Lands In GCC 11 Compiler | 27 Mar 2021 |
| Linux Developers Continue Discussing "SLS" Mitigation For The Kernel | 06 Mar 2021 |
| 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 |
More Arm News |
239 Articles |
| BSD |
| FreeBSD 13.0 Brings Better Performance, LLVM Clang 11, Obsolete GNU Bits Removed | 13 Apr 2021 |
| Running Steam's Linux Build On FreeBSD Is Becoming Increasingly Capable For Gaming | 07 Apr 2021 |
| FreeBSD 13.0-RC5 Released Due To Lingering Bugs | 03 Apr 2021 |
| FreeBSD 13.0-RC4 Released With POWER Fixes, Other Bugs Addressed | 29 Mar 2021 |
| FreeBSD 13.0-RC3 Released With The WireGuard Driver Removed | 20 Mar 2021 |
| FreeBSD: Sway Compositor Can Run While KDE Plasma On Wayland Is Still A Work-In-Progress | 19 Mar 2021 |
| New & Much Improved WireGuard Implementation Comes To FreeBSD | 15 Mar 2021 |
| FreeBSD 13.0-RC2 Released With ZFS Fixes, WireGuard Interface Fixes | 13 Mar 2021 |
| FreeBSD 13.0-RC1 Released With TCP Performance Improvement, Other Fixes | 06 Mar 2021 |
| NomadBSD 1.4 Released With GUI For Easier Chrome / Brave / Vivaldi Browser Installation | 03 Mar 2021 |
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724 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 |
More Clear Linux News |
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 |
More Coreboot News |
213 Articles |
| Debian |
| Devuan 4.0 Alpha Builds Begin For Debian 11 Without Systemd | 16 Apr 2021 |
| Debian 10.9 Released With FWUPD SBAT Support, Bug Fixes | 27 Mar 2021 |
| Debian 11.0 Is Now Under A Hard Freeze | 20 Mar 2021 |
| Experimental Rust-Based Coreutils Working Well Enough To Run Debian Basics | 09 Mar 2021 |
| 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 |
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352 Articles |
| Desktop |
| System76 Developing "COSMIC" Desktop Environment For Pop!_OS | 13 Apr 2021 |
| Arcan Presents "Pipeworld" Dataflow Computing Interface | 13 Apr 2021 |
| XScreenSaver 6.0 Released With Increased Security, Better EGL & GLSL/GLES 3.0 Support | 08 Apr 2021 |
| Xfce 4.18 Planning Begins With An Eye On Wayland Application Support | 23 Mar 2021 |
| Shells.com Continues Work On Supporting More Linux Distros For This "Cloud Desktop" | 23 Mar 2021 |
| 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 |
More Desktop News |
393 Articles |
| Fedora |
| Fedora 34 Adding SEVCTL Utility For Managing AMD SEV | 09 Apr 2021 |
| Fedora 35 Looking To Make Use Of Debuginfod By Default | 08 Apr 2021 |
| RPM 4.17 Planned For Fedora 35 With Better Install Failure Handling, Lua Integration | 01 Apr 2021 |
| Fedora 34 Beta Released With PipeWire In Action, GNOME 40 Desktop | 23 Mar 2021 |
| Fedora Workstation 34 Should Be Very Exciting With GNOME 40, PipeWire Default | 16 Mar 2021 |
| "Fedora Linux" Is The Latest Change Proposed For F35 | 09 Mar 2021 |
| "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 |
More Fedora News |
1026 Articles |
| Free Software |
| LuxCoreRender 2.5 Open-Source PBR Renderer Released With NVIDIA OptiX/RTX Support | 10 Apr 2021 |
| GIMP 2.10.24 Released For This Open-Source Adobe Photoshop Alternative | 31 Mar 2021 |
| Box86 Continues Quest For Running x86 Linux Programs On ARM, Other Archs | 28 Mar 2021 |
| The Linux Foundation Wants To Help Water Farms From The Cloud | 22 Mar 2021 |
| FreeCAD 0.19 Released For Advancing Open-Source CAD Software | 22 Mar 2021 |
| Software-Defined Radio Benchmarks, Other Updates This Week | 13 Mar 2021 |
| Daffodil Promoted To Being An Apache Top-Level Project | 06 Mar 2021 |
| 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 |
More Free Software News |
1668 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 |
More General News |
2 Articles |
| GNOME |
| GNOME 41 To Introduce Libadwaita For Helping To Define GNOME Apps | 31 Mar 2021 |
| GTK 4.2 Released With NGL Renderer By Default | 30 Mar 2021 |
| GNOME 40 Released With Many Improvements | 24 Mar 2021 |
| GNOME 40 Release Candidate Arrives Ahead Of Next Week's Official Debut | 19 Mar 2021 |
| The Last Minute GNOME Shell + Mutter 40 Release Candidate Changes | 16 Mar 2021 |
| GNOME 40 Introducing Headless Native Backend, Virtual Monitors | 12 Mar 2021 |
| GNOME 40 Mutter Lands Wayland Presentation-Time Support | 08 Mar 2021 |
| 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 |
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1139 Articles |
| GNU |
| GNU Assembly Launches As Collaborative Platform For GCC, Other Packages | 16 Apr 2021 |
| GnuPG 2.3 Released With New Experimental Key Database Daemon, TPM 2.0 Daemon | 08 Apr 2021 |
| GCC 10.3 Compiler Released With AMD Zen 3 Tuning Backported, Nearly 200 Bug Fixes | 08 Apr 2021 |
| GCC 10.3 Release Candidate Arrives For Testing | 02 Apr 2021 |
| IBM Lands Last Minute POWER10 Updates Into GCC 11 Compiler | 22 Mar 2021 |
| Patches Proposed So Microsoft Debuggers Can Deal With GCC-Built MinGW Executables | 21 Mar 2021 |
| GCC 11 Squeezes In Another Zen 3 Optimization | 18 Mar 2021 |
| GRUB 2.06 Release Candidate Available For Testing | 13 Mar 2021 |
| Glibc 2.34 Will Provide More Helpful Linker Diagnostics | 07 Mar 2021 |
| IBM Begins Adding GCC Support For Z Arch14 - Likely IBM z16 | 02 Mar 2021 |
More GNU News |
877 Articles |
| Google |
| Google Supports Getting Rust Into The Linux Kernel | 15 Apr 2021 |
| Chrome 90 Released With AV1 Encode, New APIs | 14 Apr 2021 |
| Google Begins Allowing Rust Code For Developing Android | 07 Apr 2021 |
| Google Proposes Multi-Generational LRU For Linux To Yield Much Better Performance | 13 Mar 2021 |
| Google Publishes "Leaky.Page" Showing Spectre In Action Within Web Browsers | 12 Mar 2021 |
| Chrome 90 Beta Released With New Origin Trials, AV1 Encode | 12 Mar 2021 |
| 200+ Open-Source Projects Involved In GSoC 2021 | 10 Mar 2021 |
| 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 |
More Google News |
457 Articles |
| Hardware |
| The Linux Kernel & GNOME Desktop Preparing For Privacy Screen Support | 14 Apr 2021 |
| Gigabyte Motherboard WMI Temperature Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.13 | 14 Apr 2021 |
| Linux 5.13 To Allow For OpenBMC Development With A Lower-Cost ASRock Rack Motherboard | 14 Apr 2021 |
| MSM DRM Driver Picks Up Initial Support For The Snapdragon SC7280 | 12 Apr 2021 |
| Initial Apple M1 SoC Support Aims For Linux 5.13 Kernel | 08 Apr 2021 |
| WMI Linux Temperature Driver Being Worked On For Gigabyte Motherboards | 06 Apr 2021 |
| Linux Finally Has A Tool For Encryption Setup With Older Logitech Wireless Keyboards | 06 Apr 2021 |
| Linux Driver Published For FSP/3Y-Power Server PSUs | 29 Mar 2021 |
| The Linux Kernel Might Finally See Proper Support For The Apple Magic Mouse 2 | 27 Mar 2021 |
| Loongson 2K1000 Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.13 | 27 Mar 2021 |
More Hardware News |
1777 Articles |
| Intel |
| Intel Compute Runtime 21.15.19533 Released With Initial Level Zero 1.1 Support | 16 Apr 2021 |
| Mesa 21.2 Begins Seeing Intel Xe-HP Graphics Driver Changes | 16 Apr 2021 |
| Patches Resubmitted For Linux With Selectable Intel Graphics Platform Support | 16 Apr 2021 |
| Intel DG1 Graphics Card Nears Working State On Linux | 12 Apr 2021 |
| Intel Rocket Lake Target Added To GCC 11 | 12 Apr 2021 |
| Linux 5.13 - Another Step In Prepping Intel Discrete Graphics, Preferring Local Memory | 06 Apr 2021 |
| GCC 11 Lands A Last Minute Optimization For Intel Skylake | 06 Apr 2021 |
| The Current State Of The Intel "Crocus" Gallium3D Driver | 05 Apr 2021 |
| Intel oneDNN 2.2 Released With More Optimizations For Alder Lake, Sapphire Rapids | 03 Apr 2021 |
| Intel's Vulkan Driver Adds Conservative Rasterization - Helps DXVK/VKD3D For Linux Gaming | 01 Apr 2021 |
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2046 Articles |
| KDE |
| KDE KWin Introducing Item-Based Scenes For Improved Wayland Support | 12 Apr 2021 |
| KDE Lands More Crash Fixes, Activities Feature Working On Wayland | 10 Apr 2021 |
| KDE Now Maintaining Their Own Set of Patches For Qt 5 | 06 Apr 2021 |
| KDE Starts April By Landing KHamburgerMenu | 03 Apr 2021 |
| KDE Introduces "Quick Settings" Page, Lands More Wayland Fixes | 27 Mar 2021 |
| KDE Saw More Wayland Fixes This Week, Other Changes | 20 Mar 2021 |
| KDE Plasma 5.22 Will Better Warn You If Your Disk Might Be Failing | 13 Mar 2021 |
| KDE Plasma 5.22 Adds Adaptive Opacity + Will Avoid Useless Rendering When Screen Is Off | 06 Mar 2021 |
| Exiv2 Looks To Team Up With The KDE Project | 06 Mar 2021 |
| KDE Rolling Out New CLI Tools, Many Crash Fixes | 27 Feb 2021 |
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1055 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 |
More Linux Events News |
75 Articles |
| Linux Gaming |
| Metro Exodus Launches For Linux But Off To Bumpy Start | 14 Apr 2021 |
| Two Decade Old RTS Game Rolls Out v4.0 Update With Vulkan Renderer | 05 Apr 2021 |
| Flax Engine 1.1 Released For This Impressive Open-Source 3D Game Engine | 28 Mar 2021 |
| Total War: Rome Remastered + Metro Exodus Coming To Linux In April | 25 Mar 2021 |
| 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 |
More Linux Gaming News |
1767 Articles |
| Linux Kernel |
| The 12 Most Interesting Changes Of Linux 5.12 - PS5, N64, Intel VRR, RDNA2 OverDrive | 15 Apr 2021 |
| Multigenerational LRU Code Updated For Enhancing Linux Kernel Performance | 13 Apr 2021 |
| Linux 5.12-rc7 Kernel Released - It's Big And Causing Some Concern | 11 Apr 2021 |
| Linux 5.12-rc6 Released - A "Positively Tiny" Easter Kernel | 04 Apr 2021 |
| Linux 5.12-rc5 Released - It's Bigger Than Average | 28 Mar 2021 |
| Linux Kernel's Preliminary Rust Code Seeing 64-bit POWER Support | 23 Mar 2021 |
| Linux 5.12-rc4 Released - The 5.12 Kernel Is Still Looking Good | 21 Mar 2021 |
| Initial Support For The Rust Language Lands In Linux-Next | 19 Mar 2021 |
| Linux 5.12-rc3 Kernel Released | 14 Mar 2021 |
| Linux 5.12 Performance Is Looking Stable, In Good Shape | 10 Mar 2021 |
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2673 Articles |
| Linux Networking |
| The Linux Kernel Continues Crafting A WWAN Subsystem | 05 Apr 2021 |
| Months After Being Deprecated, Linux Ready To Say Goodbye To WiMAX | 21 Mar 2021 |
| Linux 5.13 To Address Some Networking Overhead Caused By Retpolines | 21 Mar 2021 |
| CIFSD In-Kernel SMB3 File-Sharing Server Lands In Linux-Next | 18 Mar 2021 |
| 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 |
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174 Articles |
| Linux Security |
| Secret Memory Areas For Linux Might Finally Be Ready With memfd_secret | 13 Apr 2021 |
| Linux 5.13 Poised To Allow Randomizing Kernel Stack Offset At Each System Call | 09 Apr 2021 |
| Linux Core Scheduling Nears The Finish Line To Avoid Flipping Off HT | 25 Mar 2021 |
| Microsoft Security Researcher Proposes Unprivileged Chroot For Linux | 10 Mar 2021 |
| 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 |
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179 Articles |
| Linux Storage |
| OpenZFS 2.1-rc3 Delivers More Fixes | 15 Apr 2021 |
| EXT4 With Linux 5.13 Looks Like It Will Support Casefolding With Encryption Enabled | 11 Apr 2021 |
| Reiser4 Ported Early To The Linux 5.12 Kernel | 08 Apr 2021 |
| OpenZFS 2.1.0-rc2 Released With Bug Fixes | 07 Apr 2021 |
| READFILE System Call Rebased For More Efficient Reading Of Small Files | 03 Apr 2021 |
| OpenZFS 2.1-rc1 Released With Distributed Spare RAID "dRAID" | 30 Mar 2021 |
| Linux 5.13 To Bring A Huge Speed-Up For MD RAID10 DISCARD Handling | 26 Mar 2021 |
| Linux Looks To Finally Remove Its Legacy IDE Driver Support | 20 Mar 2021 |
| OpenZFS 2.0.4 Released With Linux 5.11 Support, Early Linux 5.12 Compatibility Updates | 09 Mar 2021 |
| Btrfs Will Finally "Strongly Discourage" You When Creating RAID5 / RAID6 Arrays | 07 Mar 2021 |
More Linux Storage News |
610 Articles |
| LLVM |
| LLVM 12.0 Released With Alder Lake + Sapphire Rapids Support, More C++20 | 15 Apr 2021 |
| HPVM 1.0 Released As LLVM-Based Compiler For CPUs / GPUs / FPGAs / Accelerators | 09 Apr 2021 |
| LLVM 12.0 Delays Drag On With RC5 Now Shipping | 08 Apr 2021 |
| LLVM 12.0-rc4 Released For Squaring Up This Open-Source Compiler | 01 Apr 2021 |
| Clang CFI Patches For The Linux Kernel Aim To Provide Better Security | 14 Mar 2021 |
| LLVM 12.0 Should Be Released Soon Following RC3 Release | 11 Mar 2021 |
| 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 |
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649 Articles |
| Mesa |
| Mesa 21.1-rc1 Released With RADV Optimizations, Faster Zink, Many Other New Features | 14 Apr 2021 |
| Mesa 21.1 Squeezes In Improvements For Direct3D 9 (Gallium Nine) | 14 Apr 2021 |
| Mesa's Virgl Straps On A Simple Disk Cache | 14 Apr 2021 |
| Google's VirtIO-GPU "Venus" Vulkan Driver Merged Into Mesa 21.1 | 08 Apr 2021 |
| Mesa 21.1's Lavapipe Now Teases Vulkan 1.1 On CPUs | 07 Apr 2021 |
| Mesa 21.0.2 Released With Lavapipe Fixes, Improved AMD L3 Cache Calculation | 07 Apr 2021 |
| VirtIO-GPU Vulkan Driver Looks To Go Upstream In Mesa | 05 Apr 2021 |
| Mesa 21.1 RADV Adds Another Performance Knob For RDNA2 Testing | 05 Apr 2021 |
| Zink Lands Threaded Context Support For A Big Speed Boost With OpenGL Over Vulkan | 02 Apr 2021 |
| The Most Exciting Open-Source Graphics Driver News From Q1'2021 | 29 Mar 2021 |
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1967 Articles |
| Microsoft |
| Linux 5.13 To Enable The Keyboard/Touchpad Of Newer Microsoft Surface Laptops | 30 Mar 2021 |
| Microsoft Surface "DTX" Driver Slated For Linux 5.13 | 24 Mar 2021 |
| 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 |
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237 Articles |
| Mozilla |
| Firefox Begins Rolling Out QUIC + HTTP/3 Support | 17 Apr 2021 |
| Firefox 87 Released With Privacy Improvements But Backs Out AVIF | 23 Mar 2021 |
| 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 |
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348 Articles |
| Multimedia |
| FFmpeg 4.4 Released With AV1 VA-API Decoder, SVT-AV1 Encoding | 09 Apr 2021 |
| Google Posts Initial Code For Lyra Speech Codec | 06 Apr 2021 |
| PulseAudio 15 Lands mSBC Codec Support To Enable Bluetooth Wideband Speech | 06 Apr 2021 |
| OBS Studio 27.0-rc1 Released With Wayland Support, Undo/Redo | 03 Apr 2021 |
| Intel's VA-API Library LibVA 2.11 Released With Support For Protected Content | 24 Mar 2021 |
| AOMedia libaom AV1 3.0 Encoder Released With Better Compression Efficiency | 24 Mar 2021 |
| AV1 Codec Library libaom 3.0-rc1 Released | 18 Mar 2021 |
| Audacity 3.0 Digital Audio Editor Released With New File Format | 17 Mar 2021 |
| 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 |
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459 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 |
More Nouveau News |
440 Articles |
| NVIDIA |
| NVIDIA CUDA 11.3 Released - Previews Better Python Support | 16 Apr 2021 |
| NVIDIA 465.24.02 Linux Driver Released As Stable | 14 Apr 2021 |
| NVIDIA Announces Grace CPU For ARM-Based AI/HPC Processor | 12 Apr 2021 |
| X.Org Server Git Lands Support For Hardware-Accelerated XWayland With NVIDIA | 09 Apr 2021 |
| NVIDIA Now Allows GeForce GPU Pass-Through For Windows VMs On Linux | 30 Mar 2021 |
| NVIDIA 465.19.01 Linux Beta Driver Released | 30 Mar 2021 |
| NVIDIA Proposes Mesa Patches To Support Alternative GBM Back-Ends | 29 Mar 2021 |
| NVIDIA's Open-Source DALI Reaches Version 1.0 | 24 Mar 2021 |
| NVIDIA 460.67 Linux Driver Brings A Few Fixes, 5.11 Kernel Compatibility | 18 Mar 2021 |
| NVIDIA 470 Series Driver Looks Like It Will Bring OpenCL 3.0 Support | 09 Mar 2021 |
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927 Articles |
| Operating Systems |
| Slackware 15 Beta Process Begins | 13 Apr 2021 |
| CentOS Hyperscale SIG Backported Newer Systemd, Preps For Experimental Repo | 05 Apr 2021 |
| Arch Linux's Install Media Adds "Archinstall" For Quick/Easy Installations | 04 Apr 2021 |
| AlmaLinux Now Available For Download As RHEL/CentOS Alternative | 31 Mar 2021 |
| Plan 9 Copyright Transferred To Foundation, MIT Licensed Code Released | 23 Mar 2021 |
| Manjaro 21.0 Released With Linux 5.10 Kernel, GNOME 3.38 + Xfce 4.16 + KDE Plasma 5.21 | 23 Mar 2021 |
| Manjaro 21.0-RC1 Brings Linux 5.10 LTS, GNOME 3.38 / KDE Plasma 5.21 | 18 Mar 2021 |
| Arch Linux Developers Discuss Idea Of Providing An x86-64-v3 Port | 16 Mar 2021 |
| Arch Linux Looking To Employ LTO By Default, Possibly Raise x86-64 Requirements | 09 Mar 2021 |
| Haiku Seeing Much Faster HTTP Code, Support For Downloading Files Larger Than 4GB | 08 Mar 2021 |
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887 Articles |
| Oracle |
| Oracle Releases UEK R6U2 Kernel With New Slab Memory Controller | 31 Mar 2021 |
| "PKRAM" Revived For Preserving Memory Pages Across Kexec'ing Kernels | 31 Mar 2021 |
| 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 |
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| Many New/Updated Benchmarks For March With New SDR/Radio Tests, More Code Compilation | 28 Mar 2021 |
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| Phoronix Test Suite 10.2.2 Released For Automated Open-Source Benchmarking | 17 Feb 2021 |
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| Rust Support In The Linux Kernel Undergoing Another Round Of Discussions | 14 Apr 2021 |
| Google Talks Up Logica As Open-Source Programming Language For Data Manipulation | 12 Apr 2021 |
| PHP 8.1 Feature Work Includes Adding Enums, Fsync Function | 04 Apr 2021 |
| PHP's Git Server Compromised, Now Switching To GitHub | 29 Mar 2021 |
| OpenBLAS 0.3.14 Released With Performance Improvements For AMD Ryzen, POWER10 | 18 Mar 2021 |
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| OpenJDK 16 Released With The JDK Source Beginning To Use C++14 Features | 16 Mar 2021 |
| Git 2.31 Released With Moving More Of The Bisecting Code To C | 15 Mar 2021 |
| Basis Universal GPU Texture Codec 1.13 Encoder Is Now Even Faster | 13 Mar 2021 |
| Upstream 7-Zip Adds Preliminary Linux Support | 12 Mar 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 |
| LXQt 0.17 Released For This Lightweight Qt5 Desktop | 15 Apr 2021 |
| Qt 6.0.3 Released With Another ~40 Bug Fixes | 31 Mar 2021 |
| Qt 6.1 Beta 2 Released, Qt-Project.org Called For Revival | 21 Mar 2021 |
| 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 |
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| Radeon |
| Mesa's Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Makes First Steps Towards Ray-Tracing | 16 Apr 2021 |
| ROCm AOMP 13.0 Released For OpenMP Offloading To Radeon GPUs | 13 Apr 2021 |
| Radeon Vulkan Driver Adds Option Of Rendering Less For ~30% Greater Performance | 10 Apr 2021 |
| AMD ROCm 4.1.1 Released To Clarify Some HIP Bits | 09 Apr 2021 |
| AMD Finally Flipping On ASPM For Navi 1x To Lower Power Consumption | 08 Apr 2021 |
| AMDVLK 2021.Q2.1 Finally Adds Navi 12 Support | 07 Apr 2021 |
| AMD Instinct MI100 "Arcturus" Bits Added To Linux-Firmware.Git | 05 Apr 2021 |
| VCN Load Balancing, LTTPR, More Aldebaran + Other Changes For Radeon In Linux 5.13 | 02 Apr 2021 |
| AMD Is Trying To Optimize Their Gallium3D Driver Even Further With Lower Overhead | 24 Mar 2021 |
| AMD Releases Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 21.Q1 for Linux | 24 Mar 2021 |
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| Red Hat |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Beta Released With New Features, Improvements | 31 Mar 2021 |
| RHEL In Your Car? Red Hat Building Out Automotive Infotainment Team | 16 Mar 2021 |
| 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 |
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| RISC-V |
| SiFive Tapes Out Their First 5nm RISC-V Processor Core | 13 Apr 2021 |
| SiFive FU740 PCIe Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.13 | 11 Apr 2021 |
| RISC-V XIP Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.13 To "eXecute In Place" | 19 Mar 2021 |
| 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 |
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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 Tumbleweed Now Offering GNOME 40 | 16 Apr 2021 |
| OpenSUSE Tumbleweed's Very Busy Week With An Entire Rebuild, Latest KDE Packages | 21 Mar 2021 |
| OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Might See Micro-Architecture Packages For Better Performance | 08 Mar 2021 |
| 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 |
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| systemd |
| Systemd 248 Released With System Extension Images Feature, More TPM2/FIDO2 Integration | 30 Mar 2021 |
| Dbus-Broker 28 Released | 17 Mar 2021 |
| systemd 248 RC3 Released With Extension Images Support, New Security Capabilities | 12 Mar 2021 |
| 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 |
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| Ubuntu |
| Ubuntu 21.04 Testing Week Continues For Taming The Hirsute Hippo | 04 Apr 2021 |
| Ubuntu 21.04 Beta Released For This Linux 5.11 Powered Update With Wayland By Default | 01 Apr 2021 |
| Canonical Releases "Ubuntu on Windows Community Preview" | 31 Mar 2021 |
| Ubuntu Figuring Out Whether To FSCK Its File-Systems At Boot | 23 Mar 2021 |
| Ubuntu 21.04 Moves Ahead With Enabling LTO Optimizations For Greater Performance | 20 Mar 2021 |
| Canonical Continues To Talk Up Google's Flutter UI Toolkit | 19 Mar 2021 |
| Standalone XWayland Makes It For Ubuntu 21.04 Along With Linux 5.11, Mesa 21.0 | 18 Mar 2021 |
| Ubuntu Touch OTA-16 Released As The Second Largest Release Ever | 16 Mar 2021 |
| Canonical Talks Up Why Ubuntu Is A Great Replacement To CentOS | 08 Mar 2021 |
| Ubuntu Aims For Higher Quality LTS Point Releases | 25 Feb 2021 |
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| Valve |
| Steam On Linux Ends Q1'2021 Still Below 1% Marketshare | 02 Apr 2021 |
| Proton 6.3-1 Released With More Windows Games Now Running On Linux / Steam Play | 01 Apr 2021 |
| Steam Adds Support For The Single-File Mesa Shader Cache | 17 Mar 2021 |
| Proton Experimental Updated, VKD3D-Proton Moving Closer With Ray-Tracing | 11 Mar 2021 |
| 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 |
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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 |
| Xen 4.15 Hypervisor Brings Live Updates To Xenstored | 08 Apr 2021 |
| VirtIO Bluetooth Driver On The Way To The Linux Kernel | 07 Apr 2021 |
| Intel's Cloud-Hypervisor 0.14 Brings Improvements For MSHV, AArch64 | 27 Mar 2021 |
| QEMU 6.0 On The Way With LTO Support, AMD SEV-ES Guests, Multi-Process Experiment | 25 Mar 2021 |
| Linux Kernel Patches Sent Out For A More Powerful Virtual M68k Machine | 24 Mar 2021 |
| VirtIO Sound Driver Coming For Linux 5.13 | 10 Mar 2021 |
| 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 |
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| Vulkan |
| Vulkan Video Arrives For New Industry-Standard Video Encode/Decode | 13 Apr 2021 |
| Vulkan 1.2.175 Published With Many New Extensions | 13 Apr 2021 |
| Vulkan 1.2.173 Comes With New Extensions For Google's Fuchsia | 22 Mar 2021 |
| GRVK 0.3 Released For Continuing To Implement AMD's Deprecated Mantle API Atop Vulkan | 14 Mar 2021 |
| 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 |
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| Wayland |
| Sway 1.6 Wayland Compositor Released With Smoother Move/Resize | 07 Apr 2021 |
| Wayland Is Driving Fragmentation Around EDID Parsing - A Call To Fix That | 07 Apr 2021 |
| OBS Studio Now Ready With Wayland Capture Support | 31 Mar 2021 |
| Sway 1.6-rc1 Released With Better Touchscreen/Tablet Support | 17 Mar 2021 |
| LABWC Is The Newest Stacking Wayland Compositor | 06 Mar 2021 |
| 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 |
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| WINE |
| Hangover 0.6.5 Released For Running Windows Software On ARM64, POWER | 15 Apr 2021 |
| Wine 6.6 Released With Better Plug & Play Driver Support | 09 Apr 2021 |
| Wine-Staging 6.5 Comes In A Bit Lighter Thanks To Upstreaming Many Patches | 28 Mar 2021 |
| Wine 6.5 Released With OpenCL 1.2 Support | 26 Mar 2021 |
| Wine-Staging 6.4 Released With 686 Patches Rebased Against Upstream | 15 Mar 2021 |
| Wine 6.4 Released With DTLS Protocol Support, 38 Bug Fixes | 12 Mar 2021 |
| 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 |
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| X.Org |
| X.Org Server 1.20.11 Released Due To New Security Advisory | 13 Apr 2021 |
| Libinput X.Org Driver 1.0 Released Following A License Mixup | 06 Apr 2021 |
| X.Org Reins In Their Cloud Costs, Switches Public Clouds | 27 Mar 2021 |
| XWayland 21.1 Standalone Released To Offer Better X11 Client On Wayland Experience | 17 Mar 2021 |
| X.Org Foundation Bows Out For Google Summer of Code 2021 | 07 Mar 2021 |
| 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 |
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