AMD |
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 |
AMD Wowed Linux Users In 2020 With Their Fantastic Zen 3 CPUs, Timely New Open-Source GPU Support | 29 Dec 2020 |
Linux 5.11 Is Looking Like A Wild And Bumpy Ride On AMD CPUs So Far | 24 Dec 2020 |
AMD S2idle Support For Linux Getting Squared Away | 23 Dec 2020 |
Linux 5.11 Drops AMD Zen Voltage/Current Reporting Over Lack Of Documentation | 22 Dec 2020 |
AMD EPYC Seeing Nice Performance Improvements With PostgreSQL On Linux 5.11 | 21 Dec 2020 |
AMD Frequency Invariance Support Comes With Linux 5.11 | 16 Dec 2020 |
AMD SB-TSI Sensor Driver Set To Appear With Linux 5.11 | 13 Dec 2020 |
More AMD News | 1199 Articles |
Arm |
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 |
Linux 5.10 ARM64 Has A "8~20x" Performance Optimization Forgotten About For Two Years | 22 Oct 2020 |
More Arm News | 235 Articles |
BSD |
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 |
FreeBSD Continues Work On Ridding Its Base Of GPL-Licensed Software | 16 Jan 2021 |
DragonFlyBSD Adds HAMMER2 Multi-Volumes Support | 27 Dec 2020 |
FreeBSD Completes Its Transition From Subversion To Git For Development | 24 Dec 2020 |
FreeBSD Merges WireGuard Support | 01 Dec 2020 |
GhostBSD 20.11.28 Released With Improved Steam On Linux Performance | 30 Nov 2020 |
Desktop BSDs: NetBSD-Based os108 9.1 + MidnightBSD 2.0 Released | 15 Nov 2020 |
FreeBSD 12.2 Released - Supports Linux In Jailed Environments, Better Hardware Support | 27 Oct 2020 |
More BSD News | 708 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 |
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 |
Open-Source Intel TXT Support Published For Coreboot | 21 Nov 2019 |
More Coreboot News | 212 Articles |
Debian |
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 |
Debian Has Been Hosting A MiniDebConf Devoted To Linux/Open-Source Gaming | 22 Nov 2020 |
Debian 11 Picks Its Default Theme | 12 Nov 2020 |
Debian 11 "Bullseye" Freezes Coming Up, Debian 13 To Be Trixie | 08 Nov 2020 |
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 |
More Debian News | 343 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 |
More Desktop News | 388 Articles |
Fedora |
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 |
Fedora 34 Approved To Enable Systemd-OOMD By Default For All Spins | 07 Jan 2021 |
Fedora 34 Looks To Sign Individual Files Within RPMs | 06 Jan 2021 |
Fedora 34 To Ship With Standalone XWayland, LLVM 12 + Other Changes Approved | 05 Jan 2021 |
Fedora 34 Planning To Offer LXQt 0.16 Desktop Packages | 05 Jan 2021 |
More Fedora News | 1016 Articles |
Free Software |
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 |
Some Linux/Open-Source Letdowns Last For Years | 01 Jan 2021 |
Darktable 3.4 Released For Leading Open-Source RAW Photography Software | 24 Dec 2020 |
CUPS' Founder Releases PAPPL 1.0 As Modern Printer Application Framework | 11 Dec 2020 |
Webboot Is Becoming Quite Useful For Quickly/Easily Booting ISOs From The Web | 07 Dec 2020 |
Dbus-Broker 25 Released With More Fixes | 03 Dec 2020 |
Outreachy Kicks Off Winter 2020 Round With Several Interesting Open-Source Projects | 02 Dec 2020 |
PAPPL 1.0 RC1 Released With A Goal To Replace CUPS Printer Drivers | 30 Nov 2020 |
Arcan 0.6 Display Server Adds Network Transparency, XWayland Client Isolation | 26 Nov 2020 |
More Free Software News | 1653 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 |
GTK4 Toolkit Seeing More Improvements To Its OpenGL Renderer | 24 Jan 2021 |
The State of GNOME 40's Threaded Input | 23 Jan 2021 |
GNOME 40's Mutter Adds Atomic Mode-Setting Support | 23 Jan 2021 |
GNOME 40 Will Now Handle XWayland On-Demand By Default | 19 Jan 2021 |
GNOME Shell Merges Port Of Extensions App + Portal To GTK4 | 14 Jan 2021 |
GNOME 40 Will Finally Show File Creation Times Within Its File Manager | 12 Jan 2021 |
GTK 4.0.1 Released With Many Bug Fixes, Better Media Acceleration | 12 Jan 2021 |
Progress On The GNOME 40 Shell Continues At Full Speed | 07 Jan 2021 |
GNOME In 2020 Saw Many Optimizations, GTK 4.0 Released, GNOME 40 In Development | 31 Dec 2020 |
GNOME Shell UX Continues Improving For GNOME 40 | 19 Dec 2020 |
More GNOME News | 1124 Articles |
GNU |
GNU Binutils 2.36 Released With Support For Intel AMX, AVX VNNI, Key Locker | 24 Jan 2021 |
GCC's JIT Library Is No Longer Considered "Alpha" Quality | 24 Jan 2021 |
GCC 11 Is On The Final Stage Of Development With 60+ High Priority Regressions | 18 Jan 2021 |
GCC's Profile Guided Optimization Performance With The Ryzen 9 5950X | 17 Jan 2021 |
GCC 11 Is Moving Closer But Still Challenged By Many Regressions | 14 Jan 2021 |
GNU Had A Busy 2020 With The GCC Toolchain Still Rocking, Finally Converted To Git | 31 Dec 2020 |
GNU's Embed-Friendly Web Server Updated With Better OS Portability, Performance | 28 Dec 2020 |
GNU Bash 5.1 Released With New "SRANDOM" Variable As A New Means Of Randomness | 08 Dec 2020 |
GNU Guix 1.2 Adds Btrfs Subvolume Booting, New GNU Hurd Options | 23 Nov 2020 |
GCC 11 Ends Feature Development While Still Waiting For AMD Znver3 Support | 16 Nov 2020 |
More GNU News | 857 Articles |
Google |
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 |
Google's Fuchsia Open-Source OS To Begin Accepting Community Contributions | 08 Dec 2020 |
Google Opens Up "Atheris" To Automatically Find Bugs In Python Code | 04 Dec 2020 |
Chrome 87 Released With More Performance Improvements | 17 Nov 2020 |
Google Is Already Experimenting With WebP2 As Successor To WebP Image Format | 15 Nov 2020 |
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 |
More Google News | 443 Articles |
Hardware |
Linux 5.12 To Allow Voltage/Temperature Reporting On Some ASRock Motherboards | 23 Jan 2021 |
Linux 5.12 Set To See Support For The Nintendo 64 | 22 Jan 2021 |
Raptor Announces Kestrel Open-Source, Open HDL/Firmware Soft BMC | 21 Jan 2021 |
Raspberry Pi Pico Announced As $4 Microcontroller | 21 Jan 2021 |
Improved Battery Reporting For Newer Logitech Devices Coming To Linux 5.12 | 18 Jan 2021 |
Linux Support Is Coming To Allow De-Authorizing Thunderbolt Devices | 18 Jan 2021 |
Itanium IA-64 Was Busted In The Upstream, Default Linux Kernel Build The Past Month | 18 Jan 2021 |
Corellium Posts Very Early Linux Port To Apple M1 Macs | 17 Jan 2021 |
Better Microsoft Surface Support Is On The Way With Linux 5.12 | 17 Jan 2021 |
AMD + Older Intel CPUs To See Much Faster AES-NI XTS Crypto Performance On Linux 5.12 | 16 Jan 2021 |
More Hardware News | 1723 Articles |
Intel |
Alder Lake S Support Added To Intel's Open-Source Media Driver | 25 Jan 2021 |
Intel Has A New Driver For Linux 5.12: Reporting Your Laptop's Hinge/Keyboard Angle | 24 Jan 2021 |
More Intel Graphics Work In Linux 5.12: Gen7 Improvements, Faster Suspend/Resume | 22 Jan 2021 |
Intel oneAPI Level Zero 1.1 Headers/Loader Released | 22 Jan 2021 |
Linux 5.12 To Allow Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigations | 14 Jan 2021 |
Intel "Compute Walker" Support Lands For Xe HP In Linux Drivers | 14 Jan 2021 |
Pat Gelsinger Is Going Back To Intel As New CEO | 13 Jan 2021 |
Intel Sends In Another Batch Of Graphics Work For Linux 5.12 - More Display Fixes | 13 Jan 2021 |
Intel Vision Processing Unit Patches Updated For The Linux Kernel | 10 Jan 2021 |
Intel Preparing New Driver Option To Disable GPU Security Mitigations | 09 Jan 2021 |
More Intel News | 1987 Articles |
KDE |
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 |
KDE Will Reflow Text In Konsole On Window Resizing, Kirigami Icons Now Use Less RAM | 16 Jan 2021 |
KDE's KWin Compositor Sees Near Total Rewrite Of Compositing Code. | 09 Jan 2021 |
Even With The New Year's Holidays, KDE Still Saw Some Improvements This Week | 02 Jan 2021 |
KDE In 2021 Should See Production-Ready Plasma Wayland, Other Improvements | 01 Jan 2021 |
KDE Saw Its Wayland Support Stabilize Nicely In 2020, Much Polishing Throughout | 30 Dec 2020 |
KDE Celebrated Christmas With KIO-FUSE Stable Release, NeoChat Matrix Chat App | 26 Dec 2020 |
KDE Sees New Features, Bug Fixes Ahead Of Christmas | 19 Dec 2020 |
KDE Plasma Mobile Drops Halium Support In Favor Of Open Devices | 14 Dec 2020 |
More KDE News | 1038 Articles |
LibreOffice |
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 |
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 |
More LibreOffice News | 141 Articles |
Linux Events |
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 |
FOSS-North Is Coming Up In Two Months As A Leading Scandinavian Linux/Open-Source Event | 10 Feb 2019 |
More Linux Events News | 74 Articles |
Linux Gaming |
The First Online Conference Is Happening Today For The Godot Game Engine | 23 Jan 2021 |
Lutris 0.5.8.2 Linux Game Manager Brings Wayland Improvements, Other Additions | 05 Jan 2021 |
Valve Revises Steam's December 2020 Linux Marketshare To 0.74% | 03 Jan 2021 |
It's 2020: Linux Kernel Sees New Port To The Nintendo 64 | 25 Dec 2020 |
FlightGear 2020.3.5 Released With Hundreds Of Bug Fixes | 22 Dec 2020 |
Cyberpunk 2077 Can Run On Linux With Steam Play's Proton 5.13-4 | 09 Dec 2020 |
SDL 2.0.14 Being Prepared With OS/2 Support, PS5 DualSense + Xbox Series X Controllers | 09 Dec 2020 |
Proton 5.13-3 Released For Powering Steam Play With DXVK 1.7.3 + Fixes | 07 Dec 2020 |
Syscall User Dispatch Appears Destined For Linux 5.11 To Help Windows Games On Linux | 02 Dec 2020 |
DXVK 1.7.3 Released With Fixes, Support For New DXGI Interfaces | 02 Dec 2020 |
More Linux Gaming News | 1749 Articles |
Linux Kernel |
Linux 5.11-rc5 Kernel Released Following A Busy Sunday | 24 Jan 2021 |
Learn To Get Involved In Linux Kernel Development This Spring | 24 Jan 2021 |
Initial Patches Posted For Bringing Up The Linux Kernel On Apple Silicon M1 Hardware | 20 Jan 2021 |
Dbus-Broker 26 Released For High Performance D-Bus | 20 Jan 2021 |
Linux 5.11-rc4 Released With NVIDIA RTX 30 Mode-Setting, Haswell GT1 Graphics Restored | 17 Jan 2021 |
Linux 5.10.8 Kernel Released - Finally Fixes That Btrfs Performance Regression | 17 Jan 2021 |
Linus Torvalds Decides To Land NVIDIA RTX 30 "Ampere" Support In Linux 5.11 | 15 Jan 2021 |
Clang LTO Support Looks Like It Could Land For Linux 5.12 | 11 Jan 2021 |
Linux 5.11-rc3 Released Following A Post-Holiday Ramp-Up | 10 Jan 2021 |
Changing One "If" To "While" Caused An Unexpected Shift In A Kernel Benchmark This Week | 10 Jan 2021 |
More Linux Kernel News | 2626 Articles |
Linux Networking |
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 |
Linux Quietly Makes It Harder To Guess Network RNG's Internal State | 29 Jul 2020 |
More Linux Networking News | 169 Articles |
Linux Security |
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 |
Oracle Proposing Change To Linux's KPTI Meltdown Mitigation | 10 Nov 2020 |
Linux Looks To Change The Default For Some Of Its Spectre Mitigations | 05 Nov 2020 |
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 |
More Linux Security News | 171 Articles |
Linux Storage |
Linux's exFAT Driver Will Soon Be Able To Delete Big Files Much Faster | 17 Jan 2021 |
F2FS With Linux 5.12 To Allow Configuring Compression Level | 12 Jan 2021 |
OpenZFS 2.0.1 Released With Linux 5.10 Support, Many Fixes | 06 Jan 2021 |
Linux No-Copy Bvec Patches Revved For The New Year As Another I/O Optimization | 02 Jan 2021 |
Paragon Publishes Latest NTFS File-System Patches For Linux | 26 Dec 2020 |
Linux 5.10 Btrfs Hitting A Performance Regression But Improving With Linux 5.11 | 25 Dec 2020 |
Reiser4 Updated For Linux 5.10 Compatibility, Reiser5 Effort One Year Old | 24 Dec 2020 |
Linux 5.11 XFS Will Flag File-Systems In Need Of Repair | 20 Dec 2020 |
FUSE, OverlayFS, Ceph Ready With Improvements For Linux 5.11 | 19 Dec 2020 |
F2FS Continues Furthering Its Encryption, Per-File Data Compression Capabilities | 19 Dec 2020 |
More Linux Storage News | 591 Articles |
LLVM |
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 |
Arm Neoverse N2 Support Added To The LLVM Clang 12 Compiler | 27 Nov 2020 |
LLVM Has Fleshed Out Its Plan For Replacing "Master" With "Main" | 14 Nov 2020 |
LLVM Clang 12 Adds Support For AVX-VNNI | 31 Oct 2020 |
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 |
More LLVM News | 638 Articles |
Mesa |
Zink OpenGL On Vulkan Now Supports OpenGL 4.2 With Mesa 21.1 | 21 Jan 2021 |
More OpenGL Threading Improvements Land For Mesa 21.1 | 21 Jan 2021 |
Mesa's Lima Driver Finally Implements OpenGL Shader Cache Support | 17 Jan 2021 |
Radeon Vulkan "RADV" Driver Saw Many Optimizations This Week For Mesa 21.0 | 16 Jan 2021 |
Mesa's RADV ACO Adds Support For Rapid Packed Math | 15 Jan 2021 |
Mesa 21.0-rc1 Released To Get The Quarterly Release Process Underway | 13 Jan 2021 |
Mesa 21.0 RadeonSI Will Run Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Faster | 11 Jan 2021 |
Mesa 21.0 Is Now Working With Haiku OS For Software OpenGL Rendering | 10 Jan 2021 |
Freedreno In Mesa 21.0 Flips On OpenGL 3.3 Support | 07 Jan 2021 |
Panfrost Gallium3D Flips On AFBC For Bifrost GPUs | 06 Jan 2021 |
More Mesa News | 1921 Articles |
Microsoft |
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 |
It's Now Even Easier Setting Up Windows Subsystem For Linux On Windows 10 | 29 Oct 2020 |
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 |
More Microsoft News | 231 Articles |
Mozilla |
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 |
Mozilla's DeepSpeech 0.9 Released For Open-Source Speech To Text Engine | 02 Nov 2020 |
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 |
More Mozilla News | 343 Articles |
Multimedia |
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 |
POWER9 + ARM64 Performance For Dav1d 0.8 AV1 Decoding | 09 Jan 2021 |
Ardour Digital Audio Workstation Finally Exploiting Intel/AMD FMA For More Performance | 04 Jan 2021 |
dav1d 0.8 Released With More Optimizations - More AMD Performance | 03 Jan 2021 |
Intel Alder Lake Sound, Other New Audio Hardware Support In Linux 5.11 | 17 Dec 2020 |
Allwinner "Cedrus" Media Driver Finally Sees Support For VP8 Decode | 14 Dec 2020 |
Zrythm Inches Closer To v1.0 As Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation | 13 Dec 2020 |
Vulkan Improvements & Fixes Land In FFmpeg | 29 Nov 2020 |
More Multimedia News | 444 Articles |
Nouveau |
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 |
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 |
More Nouveau News | 438 Articles |
NVIDIA |
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 |
NVIDIA Prepares XWayland OpenGL/Vulkan Acceleration Support | 07 Jan 2021 |
The Most Popular NVIDIA Linux News + Milestones Of 2020 | 30 Dec 2020 |
NVIDIA CUDA 11.2 Released For Further Enhancing Its Proprietary Compute Stack | 16 Dec 2020 |
NVIDIA 460.27.04 Linux Beta Driver Has Ray-Tracing, Many Other Changes | 15 Dec 2020 |
NVIDIA Is Working On DMA-BUF Passing That Should Help Improve Their Wayland Support | 01 Dec 2020 |
More NVIDIA News | 912 Articles |
Operating Systems |
Gentoo Saw Total Commits Rise By 42% In 2020, Great Progress On Wayland | 17 Jan 2021 |
Genode OS Planning For PinePhone Bring-Up, Better GPU Support In 2021 | 15 Jan 2021 |
Alpine Linux 3.13 Brings Official Cloud Images, Much Faster Node.js, Cloud-Init Support | 14 Jan 2021 |
CloudLinux Announces AlmaLinux As Their 1:1 RHEL Fork, Alternative To CentOS | 14 Jan 2021 |
Linux Mint 20.1 Released With Web Apps, IPTV Player, Cinnamon 4.8 Integrated | 08 Jan 2021 |
ReactOS Has Been Steadily Improving As An Open-Source Windows Implementation | 02 Jan 2021 |
OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 RC Released With Linux 5.10, Completed AArch64 Port | 01 Jan 2021 |
Redox OS 0.6 Released With Many Fixes, Rewritten Kernel Memory Manager | 25 Dec 2020 |
Haiku OS Gearing Up For 2021 With Improving ARM Port, Other Hardware Improvements | 22 Dec 2020 |
Linspire 10 Beta Released - Claims To Be #1 Linux Distro For New/Intermediate/Power Users | 22 Dec 2020 |
More Operating Systems News | 862 Articles |
Oracle |
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 |
Oracle Releases Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel "R5U4" | 03 Sep 2020 |
Oracle Linux 7 U9 Beta Bringing Updated Drivers, Wayland Tech Preview | 19 Aug 2020 |
More Oracle News | 258 Articles |
Phoronix |
Happy New Year! A Look Back At The Most Popular Phoronix Content Of 2020 | 31 Dec 2020 |
Happy Holidays As We End Out 2020 Plus One Last Phoronix Premium Special | 24 Dec 2020 |
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 |
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 |
More Phoronix News | 620 Articles |
Phoronix Test Suite |
New + Updated Benchmarks For December 2020 | 03 Jan 2021 |
OpenBenchmarking.org Enjoyed A Major Overhaul In 2020, Significant Growth | 31 Dec 2020 |
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 |
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 |
More Phoronix Test Suite News | 198 Articles |
Premium |
Phoronix 2020 Black Friday Reminders | 27 Nov 2020 |
The 2020 US Thanksgiving / Black Friday Phoronix Premium Special | 24 Nov 2020 |
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 |
More Premium News | 37 Articles |
Programming |
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 |
PHP 8.0 Is Too Fresh For Fedora 34 That It Will Be Punted To F35 In The Autumn | 10 Jan 2021 |
Alibaba's MNN Deep Learning Framework Continues Squeezing More Performance | 09 Jan 2021 |
Wasmer 1.0 Released As The Universal WebAssembly Runtime Outside The Browser | 05 Jan 2021 |
Rust 1.49 Released With 64-bit ARM Linux Support Rated Tier-1 | 31 Dec 2020 |
More Programming News | 360 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 |
More Proprietary Software News | 131 Articles |
Qt |
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 |
Qt 6.0 Officially Released | 08 Dec 2020 |
Qt 6.0's 3D Renderer Is Much Improved But More Work Remains | 30 Nov 2020 |
Qt 6.1, Qt 6.2 Expected To Come Sooner With Tightened Release Cycles | 27 Nov 2020 |
Qt 6.0 RC1 Takes Flight - Qt 6.0 Should Be Here By Mid-December | 25 Nov 2020 |
Qt 5.15.2 Released With Another 176 Bug Fixes | 20 Nov 2020 |
Qt Design Studio 2.0 Beta Released For Quickly + Easily Designing UIs | 18 Nov 2020 |
More Qt News | 454 Articles |
Radeon |
Mesa's R600 Driver Nears Feature Complete NIR Support For Radeon HD 5000/6000 Series | 20 Jan 2021 |
2021 Could Be The Year That AMD Radeon Graphics Can Hot Unplug Gracefully On Linux | 19 Jan 2021 |
AMD Sends In More "New Stuff" For Radeon Graphics With Linux 5.12 | 15 Jan 2021 |
AMDGPU Working On "Secure Display" Functionality | 13 Jan 2021 |
Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Adds Sparse Memory Support - Will Help Some D3D12 Games | 11 Jan 2021 |
AMD Making Progress On HMM-Based SVM Memory Manager For Open-Source Compute | 09 Jan 2021 |
AMD GPU Driver In Linux 5.12 Gets RX 6000 Series OverDrive, FP16 For More Hardware | 08 Jan 2021 |
AMDVLK 2021.Q1.1 Brings Switchable Graphics Layer, RDNA 2 Tuning | 08 Jan 2021 |
A Linux Fix Is On The Way For Some GPUs Having AMD Smart Access Memory Issue | 08 Jan 2021 |
RadeonSI Gallium3D Adds Radeon GPU Profiler Support | 07 Jan 2021 |
More Radeon News | 1333 Articles |
Red Hat |
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 |
RHEL 8.3 Released With TSX Disabled By Default To Avoid Mitigation Overhead | 29 Oct 2020 |
Jon Masters Leaving NUVIA, Returning To Red Hat | 05 Sep 2020 |
More Red Hat News | 231 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 |
More RISC-V News | 55 Articles |
Standards |
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 |
Monado Open-Source OpenXR Implementation Begins Working On Android | 03 Nov 2020 |
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 |
More Standards News | 239 Articles |
SUSE |
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 |
OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 Begins Seeing Beta Builds, Official Release Due In May | 25 Feb 2020 |
More SUSE News | 237 Articles |
systemd |
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 |
systemd-oomd Looks Like It Will Come Together For systemd 247 | 13 Jul 2020 |
More systemd News | 195 Articles |
Ubuntu |
UBports Aiming For An Exciting 2021 With Ubuntu Touch | 25 Jan 2021 |
Ubuntu 21.04 To Stick With GNOME 3.38 Desktop | 21 Jan 2021 |
Ubuntu 21.04 To Expand The Use Of Phased Package Updates | 15 Jan 2021 |
Ubuntu 21.04 Will Finally Stop Making New Home Directories World-Readable | 13 Jan 2021 |
Ubuntu Had A Stellar 2020 From Ubuntu 20.04 LTS To Continued WSL, Cloud Popularity | 29 Dec 2020 |
Ubuntu Developers Get it Up And Running On Apple's M1 With Early Parallels Desktop Build | 18 Dec 2020 |
UBports' Ubuntu Touch OTA-15 Released With New Device Support | 16 Dec 2020 |
Mir 2.2 Released With Display Wall Capabilities, Composite Bypass On GBM-KMS | 19 Nov 2020 |
Canonical Saw ~$119M Revenue In 2019 But Still Operating At A Loss | 09 Nov 2020 |
Canonical Announces ETrace As New Linux Application Tracing For Performance/Debugging | 30 Oct 2020 |
More Ubuntu News | 1421 Articles |
Valve |
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 |
Direct3D 12 Support For APITrace Pursued To Help VKD3D-Proton | 18 Nov 2020 |
Valve Is Working On Another Extension To Help In Direct3D-Over-Vulkan | 10 Nov 2020 |
Steam On Linux Ticks Lower For October 2020 | 02 Nov 2020 |
More Valve News | 520 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 |
More VIA News | 99 Articles |
Virtualization |
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 |
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 |
More Virtualization News | 432 Articles |
Vulkan |
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 |
Vulkan SDK, Tooling, Samples & Developer Guide Updated For Ray-Tracing | 15 Dec 2020 |
Vulkan Comes To Apple Silicon GPUs / M1 By Means Of MoltenVK 1.1.1 | 10 Dec 2020 |
Vulkan 1.2.164 Released With Valve's Extension For Helping Direct3D 12 Implementation | 07 Dec 2020 |
Intel Begins Landing Their Open-Source Vulkan Driver Ray-Tracing Support | 25 Nov 2020 |
Raspberry Pi V3DV Is Officially Vulkan Conformant, Lavapipe Also Nearing 1.0 Conformance | 24 Nov 2020 |
Vulkan 1.2.162 Released With Ray-Tracing Support Promoted | 23 Nov 2020 |
NVIDIA Extends Fragment Shading Rate Extension In Vulkan 1.2.160 | 09 Nov 2020 |
More Vulkan News | 524 Articles |
Wayland |
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 |
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 |
More Wayland News | 760 Articles |
WINE |
Wine Developers Are Working On A New Linux Kernel Sync API To Succeed ESYNC/FSYNC | 18 Jan 2021 |
Wine 6.0 Released With A Plethora Of Improvements For Windows Software On Linux | 14 Jan 2021 |
Wine-Staging 6.0-RC6 Fixes An 11 Year Old Bug | 09 Jan 2021 |
Wine 6.0-rc6 Released With More Fixes | 08 Jan 2021 |
Wine-Staging 6.0-RC5 Is Testing A Patch That May Hurt The Performance Of Some Games | 03 Jan 2021 |
Wine 6.0-RC5 Released With 21 Bug Fixes | 02 Jan 2021 |
Celebrate The Christmas Season With Some Wine: Wine 6.0-RC4 Released | 26 Dec 2020 |
Wine-Staging 6.0-RC3 Adds A Few Extra Patches | 20 Dec 2020 |
Wine 6.0-RC3 Released With Another 19 Fixes | 18 Dec 2020 |
There's Finally An Experimental Driver For Native Wayland Support Within Wine | 15 Dec 2020 |
More WINE News | 754 Articles |
X.Org |
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 |
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 |
More X.Org News | 1053 Articles |