| AMD |
| AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile Series "Renoir" Graphics No Longer Experimental With Linux 5.5 | 23 Jan 2020 |
| Linux k10temp Driver For AMD CPUs Updated To Better Handle Power/Temp Analysis | 23 Jan 2020 |
| AMD Zen Thermal/Power Reporting Improvements Could Hit Linux 5.6 But More Testing Needed | 20 Jan 2020 |
| AMD Zen 3 "Family 19h" Enablement Beginning With The Linux 5.6 Kernel | 20 Jan 2020 |
| The AMD Ryzen Thermal / Power Linux Reporting Improvements Working Well - V2 Up For Testing | 19 Jan 2020 |
| ASUS TUF Laptops With Ryzen Are Now Patched To Stop Overheating On Linux | 17 Jan 2020 |
| Benchmarks Of Arch Linux's Zen Kernel Flavor | 17 Jan 2020 |
| Ryzen CPUs On Linux Finally See CCD Temperatures, Current + Voltage Reporting | 16 Jan 2020 |
| LLVM/Clang 10.0 Adds AMD Zen 2 Scheduler Model For Optimized Code Generation | 14 Jan 2020 |
| AMD Finally Publishes Sensor Fusion Hub Driver For Linux | 11 Jan 2020 |
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1087 Articles |
| Arm |
| Arm Has Many Changes On Tap For Linux 5.6 From Spectre/Meltdown Bits To New RNG | 24 Jan 2020 |
| Marvell Is Plumbing Octeon TX2 Support Into The GCC Compiler | 12 Jan 2020 |
| Linaro Revives "Thermal Pressure" Code For Better Performance When CPUs Running Hot | 11 Jan 2020 |
| GCC 10 Adds ARMv8.6-A Targeting, BFloat16 + i8MM Options | 03 Jan 2020 |
| Linux 5.5 Lands Broadcom BCM2711 / Raspberry Pi 4 Bits | 06 Dec 2019 |
| Linux 5.5 Can Boot The Modem Processor On Snapdragon 835 - Needed For Cell/WiFi On Qualcomm Laptops | 02 Dec 2019 |
| 64-Bit ARM Updates Sent In Ahead Of The Linux 5.5 Cycle | 24 Nov 2019 |
| Arm Has Been Working To Boost The Chrome/Chromium Browser Performance | 22 Nov 2019 |
| Arm Porting LLVM's Hardware-Assisted Address Sanitizer To GCC | 06 Nov 2019 |
| UBports Begins Offering Ubuntu Touch 64-Bit ARM Images | 06 Nov 2019 |
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193 Articles |
| BSD |
| GhostBSD 20.01 Released For FreeBSD 12.1 + MATE 1.22.2 Desktop Experience | 22 Jan 2020 |
| DragonFlyBSD Updates Its Intel Graphics Driver From Linux 4.8.17 | 27 Dec 2019 |
| FreeBSD Along With The Other BSDs Had A Pretty Good Run This Decade | 25 Dec 2019 |
| NomadBSD 1.3 Released To Offer A Pleasant FreeBSD 12.1 Based Desktop Experience | 11 Dec 2019 |
| NetBSD 9.0 RC1 Released With 64-Bit Arm Support, Updated ZFS + Other Improvements | 02 Dec 2019 |
| FreeBSD Foundation Buying Newer Laptops To Help Improve Hardware Support | 26 Nov 2019 |
| DragonFlyBSD Pulls In AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Code From Linux 4.9 | 17 Nov 2019 |
| The FreeBSD Migration To OpenZFS Is Still Looking To Be A Great Change | 08 Nov 2019 |
| GPU Passthrough For FreeBSD's Bhyve Can Work But Is Fairly Rudimentary | 06 Nov 2019 |
| FuryBSD Is A New Attempt At A Desktop Focused BSD | 05 Nov 2019 |
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648 Articles |
| Clear Linux |
| 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 |
| Intel's Deep Learning Reference Stack 5.0 Released With Natural Language Processing Optimizations | 17 Dec 2019 |
| Video: 100+ Daily Performance Tests For Clear Linux + Intel's Other Full-Stack Optimizations | 01 Dec 2019 |
| Clear Linux Working On A New Software Store, User Bundles Arriving Before End Of Year | 21 Oct 2019 |
| Intel's Clear Linux Upgrades Its Performance-Optimized Desktop To GNOME 3.34 | 30 Sep 2019 |
| Clear Linux vs. Ubuntu 19.10 Video Encoder Performance On The Core i9 9900K | 20 Sep 2019 |
| GNOME 3.34 Should Be Hitting Clear Linux "Soon-ish" | 20 Sep 2019 |
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83 Articles |
| Coreboot |
| 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 |
| System76 Launches Two Intel Laptops With "Open-Source Firmware" Coreboot | 10 Oct 2019 |
| The Mission Of Coreboot - Is It About Open-Source Or Appeasing Hardware Vendors? | 08 Sep 2019 |
| Oreboot Is Taking Shape As Rust'ed, Purely Open-Source Focused Coreboot | 03 Sep 2019 |
| Thank The NSA For Their Ghidra Software Now Helping Firmware Reverse Engineering | 01 Sep 2019 |
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206 Articles |
| Debian |
| Debian Policy Updated Following Recent Systemd "Init System Diversity" Vote | 20 Jan 2020 |
| Debian Is Making The Process Easier To Bisect Itself Using Their Wayback Machine | 18 Jan 2020 |
| Debian Enabling Support For Booting From Root F2FS File-Systems | 11 Jan 2020 |
| Debian Developers Decide On Init System Diversity: "Proposal B" Wins | 27 Dec 2019 |
| Debian Developers Take To Voting Over Init System Diversity | 06 Dec 2019 |
| Debian Installer Bullseye Alpha 1 Released | 05 Dec 2019 |
| Devuan 2.1 Released - Still Delivering Debian 9 Without Systemd | 25 Nov 2019 |
| Debian Adds Another Option For Its Init System Diversity General Resolution | 19 Nov 2019 |
| Debian Moves Closer To Voting On Proposals Over Init System Diversity | 16 Nov 2019 |
| Debian 10.2 Released With The Latest Security Fixes | 16 Nov 2019 |
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311 Articles |
| Desktop |
| Xfce 4.16 Is Making Good Progress On Utilizing GTK3 Client-Side Decorations | 13 Jan 2020 |
| GIMP 2.99.x Development Releases Likely Starting Soon For GIMP 3.0 | 04 Jan 2020 |
| Latte Dock 0.10 Sees First Development Version For Release Next Summer | 28 Dec 2019 |
| Firefox 71 + WebRender vs. Chrome 79 Browser Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux | 15 Dec 2019 |
| Khronos + W3C Collaborating On SPIR-V Potentially Being The Shading Language For The Web | 28 Nov 2019 |
| Compiz Sees New Update Ahead Of The Holidays - But It's Mainly Bug Fixing | 28 Nov 2019 |
| Glimpse 0.1 Released As The Rebranded Fork Of The GIMP | 22 Nov 2019 |
| GIMP 2.10.14 Released With Better HEIF Support, More Filters Ported To Using GEGL | 31 Oct 2019 |
| Pango Dropping Support For Bitmap Fonts Is Frustrating Some Linux Desktop Users | 29 Oct 2019 |
| Xfce 4.16 To Drop GTK2 Support, Explore Some Client-Side Decorations | 20 Oct 2019 |
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359 Articles |
| Fedora |
| Fedora's Scientific & Audio/Music Spins Could Be On Their Last Leg | 21 Jan 2020 |
| Fedora's FESCo Has Deferred Any Decision On EarlyOOM By Default | 20 Jan 2020 |
| Fedora CoreOS Now Deemed Production Ready For Containerized Workload Experience | 17 Jan 2020 |
| Fedora 32 Greenlit For Enabling FSTRIM Support By Default | 13 Jan 2020 |
| Python Can Run Up To ~27% Faster On Fedora 32 With Optimization | 11 Jan 2020 |
| Fedora 33 To Finally Kill Off Python 2.6 Support | 09 Jan 2020 |
| Fedora 32 Aiming To Ship With The Latest Mono 6 For Microsoft .NET On Linux | 07 Jan 2020 |
| Fedora Project Leader Envisions The Project Becoming An "Operating System Factory" | 06 Jan 2020 |
| Fedora QA No Longer Needs To Test Physical CD/DVD Media As Part Of Their Formal Release Process | 06 Jan 2020 |
| Fedora 32 Looking At Turning Up SquashFS Compression For Smaller Install Media | 05 Jan 2020 |
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932 Articles |
| Free Software |
| Nextcloud Hub Announced For Offering On-Premises Content Collaboration Platform | 17 Jan 2020 |
| Darktable 3.0 Photography Software Released With Complete GUI Rework, Many New Features | 24 Dec 2019 |
| Apple Releases CUPS 2.3.1 To Fix Security Issue + Other Bugs | 14 Dec 2019 |
| Vim 8.2 Released With Support For Popup Windows | 12 Dec 2019 |
| Blender 2.81 Released With NVIDIA RTX Optix Back-End, Intel Open Image Denoise Support | 21 Nov 2019 |
| Purism Outlines Librem 5 Software Work During October - Including Battery / Thermal | 15 Nov 2019 |
| Darktable 3.0 RC1 Released With Greater Undo/Redo Support, More SSE Optimizations | 14 Nov 2019 |
| Free Software Foundation Certifies Talos II With Respecting Your Freedom | 07 Nov 2019 |
| Git 2.24 Released With Commit Graphs By Default, Adoption Of Contributor Covenant | 07 Nov 2019 |
| Darktable 3.0 Approaching With Many New Features | 04 Nov 2019 |
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1593 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 |
| Flatpak 1.6.1 Released Due To Security Issue - Special Case Of Getting Access Outside Home | 23 Jan 2020 |
| GNOME Work Is Underway For Sharper Background Images | 21 Jan 2020 |
| GNOME 3.35.3 Released As Another Step To GNOME 3.36 | 10 Jan 2020 |
| GNOME 3.34.3 Released To Offer Up More Fixes Ahead Of GNOME 3.36 | 09 Jan 2020 |
| GNOME Shell 3.35.3 Released With NVIDIA Driver Offloading, Fixes To Shell + Mutter | 05 Jan 2020 |
| Bonsai Is A New Effort For GNOME-Focused Multi-Device Cloud/Synchronization | 01 Jan 2020 |
| Flatpak 1.6 Released With Bits For Supporting Paid App Store, Better Self-Sandboxing | 20 Dec 2019 |
| GNOME Hopes To Get Most Of GTK4 Squared Away Next Year | 19 Dec 2019 |
| GNOME's Mutter Now Batches Clipping Rectangles For Better Performance | 18 Dec 2019 |
| GNOME's GLib Adds GMemoryMonitor As Another Step In Helping Cope With Linux RAM Pressure | 18 Dec 2019 |
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1034 Articles |
| GNU |
| GNU Make 4.3 Released With Performance Improvements, Newer GNU libc + Musl Support | 19 Jan 2020 |
| GNU Binutils 2.34 Branched - Bringing With It "debuginfod" HTTP Server Support | 18 Jan 2020 |
| Experimental Support For C++20 Coroutines Has Landed In GCC 10 | 18 Jan 2020 |
| GNU Guile 3.0 Released With JIT Code Generation For Up To 4x Better Performance | 16 Jan 2020 |
| GCC 10 Introduces A Static Analyzer - Static Analysis On C Code With "-fanalyzer" Option | 14 Jan 2020 |
| GCC 10 Enters Its Fourth Stage Of Development, 20 Bugs Of Highest Priority | 13 Jan 2020 |
| It's 2020 And GCC Has Finally Converted From SVN To Git | 12 Jan 2020 |
| GNU's GDB Adds Multi-Target Debugging Support | 11 Jan 2020 |
| GRUB Boot Loader Adds Support For LUKS2 Encrypted Disks | 10 Jan 2020 |
| It Looks Like GCC's Long-Awaited Git Conversion Could Happen This Weekend | 09 Jan 2020 |
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781 Articles |
| Google |
| Chrome 80 Beta Brings SVG Favicons, Further FTP Support Deprecation | 19 Dec 2019 |
| Chrome 79 Released With WebXR Improvements, Other Developer Additions | 10 Dec 2019 |
| Google Releases GraphicsFuzz 1.3 For Continuing To Fuzz GPU Drivers | 10 Dec 2019 |
| Google Reaffirms Commitment To Kotlin Programming Language For Android | 06 Dec 2019 |
| Google To Require "Designed For Chromebook" Devices Support Fwupd Firmware Updates | 18 Nov 2019 |
| Android-x86 9.0 Nearing Release - RC1 Brings Experimental Vulkan, Text-Based Installer | 15 Nov 2019 |
| Google Chrome To Begin Marking Sites That Are Slow / Fast | 11 Nov 2019 |
| Chrome 79 Beta Adds The WebXR Device API For VR On The Web | 31 Oct 2019 |
| Chrome 78 Arrives With Dark Mode Enhancements, Native File System API, SMS Receiver API | 23 Oct 2019 |
| Google Releases Bazel 1.0 Build System With Faster Build Performance | 17 Oct 2019 |
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405 Articles |
| Hardware |
| Two Decades Late: Mainline Linux Kernel Getting Keyboard / Mouse Driver For SGI Octane | 24 Jan 2020 |
| AMD vs. Intel Contributions To The Linux Kernel Over The Past Decade | 23 Jan 2020 |
| Zhaoxin 7-Series x86 CPUs Mitigated For Spectre V2 + SWAPGS | 16 Jan 2020 |
| Linux In 2020 Can Finally Provide Sane Monitoring Of SATA Drive Temperatures | 12 Jan 2020 |
| The Pine64 PineTab Could Soon Be Running Nicely Off The Mainline Kernel | 11 Jan 2020 |
| Rockchip PX30 Display Support Coming With Linux 5.6 | 07 Jan 2020 |
| Linux Kernel Preparations For RISC-V Vector ISA Support | 06 Jan 2020 |
| WiFi 6E Opens Up WiFi To 6GHz Operation | 05 Jan 2020 |
| Dell Finally Rolls Out XPS 13 Developer Edition With Ice Lake, Fingerprint Reader | 02 Jan 2020 |
| PineBook Benchmarks For The ARM Linux Laptop Starting At $99 USD | 01 Jan 2020 |
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1517 Articles |
| Intel |
| Intel's OpenSWR Rasterizer Starts Seeing Tessellation Support | 24 Jan 2020 |
| Mesa 20.0 Now Defaults To The New Intel Gallium3D Driver For Faster OpenGL | 24 Jan 2020 |
| Gutting Out Intel MPX Support To Be Finished Up In The Linux 5.6 Kernel | 23 Jan 2020 |
| Intel Continues Improving Its SYCL Stack - Now Supports Ahead-Of-Time Compilation | 22 Jan 2020 |
| Intel's Vulkan Driver Begins Making Infrastructure Changes For Multi-GPU Support | 20 Jan 2020 |
| Intel's OSPray 2.0 Ray-Tracing Engine Released | 19 Jan 2020 |
| More Details On Intel's CVE-2019-14615 Graphics Vulnerability, a.k.a. iGPU Leak | 18 Jan 2020 |
| The Linux Kernel Obsoletes The Intel Simple Firmware Interface | 18 Jan 2020 |
| More Benchmarks Of The Initial Performance Hit From CVE-2019-14615 On Intel Gen7 Graphics | 17 Jan 2020 |
| Intel Gen7 Graphics Mitigation Will Try To Avoid Performance Loss In Final Version | 17 Jan 2020 |
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1682 Articles |
| KDE |
| KDE Plasma 5.18 Seeing More Last Minute Work To Make It One Of Their Best Releases Ever | 19 Jan 2020 |
| KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS Reaches Beta With Much Better GTK App Integration | 16 Jan 2020 |
| KDE Devs Fix Several Wayland Bugs, Annoying KWin Issues Plus Easier To Toggle Night Color | 12 Jan 2020 |
| KDE Kicks Off 2020 With Landing New Feature Work | 05 Jan 2020 |
| KDE's Kate Text Editor Seeing LSP Improvements For Better Code Support | 02 Jan 2020 |
| Some Of The Features That Could Come To KDE In 2020 | 01 Jan 2020 |
| Trinity Desktop R14.0.7 Released For Keeping KDE 3 Spirit Alive In 2020 | 30 Dec 2019 |
| KDE Picked Up A Few Improvements During Christmas Week | 29 Dec 2019 |
| KDE Frameworks 6 Progresses By Porting Code Away From Deprecated Functions | 29 Dec 2019 |
| digiKam 7.0 Bringing Deep Learning Powered Faces Management | 26 Dec 2019 |
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940 Articles |
| LibreOffice |
| LibreOffice 7.0 Is The Version Now In Development With Its Skia + Vulkan Support | 23 Jan 2020 |
| Trying Out The Skia+Vulkan Powered LibreOffice 6.5 Development Build | 13 Dec 2019 |
| LibreOffice Git Lands Its Skia Drawing Code - Leading To Vulkan-Accelerated Office Suite | 30 Nov 2019 |
| LibreOffice 6.4 Branched - Beta Release Underway With QR Code Generator, Threading Improvements | 13 Nov 2019 |
| LibreOffice 6.3 Released With Better Performance, UI Enhancements | 08 Aug 2019 |
| LibreOffice 6.3 Beta Is Up For Testing | 04 Jun 2019 |
| LibreOffice 6.3 Alpha Was Tagged This Week, Stable Expected In August | 19 May 2019 |
| LibreOffice 6.2 Shipping Today With User Interface Improvements, Many New Features | 07 Feb 2019 |
| LibreOffice 6.2 Branched, The Beta Dance Begins & x86 32-bit Builds Are Deprecated | 18 Nov 2018 |
| LibreOffice Landing New Custom Widgets Theme, Powered By Cairo | 10 Nov 2018 |
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116 Articles |
| Linux Events |
| 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 |
| FOSDEM 19 Is Happening In Just Three Weeks, There Will Once Again Be A Graphics Room | 13 Jan 2019 |
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72 Articles |
| Linux Gaming |
| Feral's GameMode 1.5 Now Supports Changing The CPU Governor Differently For iGPUs | 22 Jan 2020 |
| DXVK 1.5.1 Released With D3D9 Performance Improvements, Many Game Fixes | 09 Jan 2020 |
| Linux Kernel "Zen" Downstream Pulls In A MuQSS Fix To Help Gaming Performance | 07 Jan 2020 |
| SuperTuxKart 1.1 Released With Better Online Play, UI Enhancements, New Arena | 05 Jan 2020 |
| Godot 4.0 Game Engine Aiming For Release With Vulkan In Mid-2020 | 01 Jan 2020 |
| X-Plane 11.50 Flight Simulator Preparing For Public Beta With Vulkan Rendering | 26 Dec 2019 |
| Unigine 2.10 Released With New Terrain System, Other Graphics Improvements | 26 Dec 2019 |
| SuperTuxKart 1.1 Prepping Improved Internet Multiplayer, More Polishing | 22 Dec 2019 |
| Life Is Strange 2 Released For Linux With Vulkan Rendering | 19 Dec 2019 |
| Intel iGPU Linux Gamers May Be Better Off With The "Powersave" Governor | 18 Dec 2019 |
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1686 Articles |
| Linux Kernel |
| Linux 5.5 Ready To Shine With Navi Overclocking, Raspberry Pi 4 Support, Wake-On-Voice | 24 Jan 2020 |
| New Linux System Call Proposed To Let User-Space Pin Themselves To Specific CPU Cores | 22 Jan 2020 |
| Linux 5.5-rc7 Kernel Released | 19 Jan 2020 |
| Linux 5.6 Crypto Getting AVX/AVX2/AVX-512 Optimized Poly1305 - Helps WireGuard | 16 Jan 2020 |
| The Time Namespace Appears To Finally Be On-Deck For The Mainline Linux Kernel | 14 Jan 2020 |
| Linux 5.5-rc6 Released With Some Notable Radeon Graphics Fixes Plus Other Random Work | 12 Jan 2020 |
| Amazon Engineers Introduce "DAMON" For Linux Kernel To Monitor Data Accesses | 10 Jan 2020 |
| Linux 5.6 Seeing Random Changes, New "Insecure" Option With GRND_INSECURE | 08 Jan 2020 |
| Linux 5.6 Is Going To Be A Prominent Kernel With Features From USB4 To WireGuard | 06 Jan 2020 |
| Linux 5.5-rc5 Released With "Fixes All Over" + A Big Performance Regression Fix | 05 Jan 2020 |
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2351 Articles |
| Linux Networking |
| Linux 5.6 To Bring FQ-PIE Packet Scheduler To Help Fight Bufferbloat | 23 Jan 2020 |
| Intel's ConnMan Is Ready With WireGuard Support | 19 Jan 2020 |
| Multipath TCP Support Is Working Its Upstream - First Bits Landing With Linux 5.6 | 10 Jan 2020 |
| Intel Working On "Virtual Bus" As Generic Way Of Exchanging Data Between Devices/Driver | 08 Jan 2020 |
| Intel's IGC Linux Network Driver For 2.5G Ethernet Speeds Up By ~7% | 07 Jan 2020 |
| WireGuard Issues New Module Release, 1.0 Coming With Linux 5.6 | 26 Dec 2019 |
| NetworkManager 1.22 Released With Experimental Cloud Setup Utility, New Logo | 17 Dec 2019 |
| WireGuard Lands In Net-Next While It Waits For Inclusion In Linux 5.6 | 09 Dec 2019 |
| WireGuard Sends Out Latest Patch Revision In Preparing For Linux 5.6 | 09 Dec 2019 |
| NetworkManager Adds Support For Enhanced Open / Opportunistic Wireless Encryption | 06 Dec 2019 |
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138 Articles |
| Linux Security |
| Google's Kernel Runtime Security Instrumentation (KRSI) Is Something To Look Forward To In 2020 | 31 Dec 2019 |
| Whoops: The Linux Kernel's Spectre RSB Mitigation For PowerPC Missed Covering Some CPUs | 28 Nov 2019 |
| Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer Set For Linux 5.5 To Uncover Data Race Conditions | 25 Nov 2019 |
| LinuxBoot Continues Maturing - Now Able To Boot Windows | 12 Nov 2019 |
| Kernel Address Space Isolation Is Still Being Explored For Better Security | 02 Nov 2019 |
| Landlock Revved An 11th Time For Unprivileged Yet Powerful Security Sandboxes | 30 Oct 2019 |
| LLVM "Stack Clash" Compiler Protection Is Under Review | 14 Oct 2019 |
| Following Buggy AMD RdRand, The Linux Kernel Will Begin Sanity Checking Randomness At Boot Time | 02 Oct 2019 |
| The Linux Kernel Firms Up The Process For Dealing With Nasty Hardware Vulnerabilities | 29 Sep 2019 |
| Kernel Address Space Isolation Still Baking To Limit Data Leaks From Foreshadow & Co | 14 Sep 2019 |
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131 Articles |
| Linux Storage |
| ZFS On Linux 0.8.3 Released With Many Fixes | 23 Jan 2020 |
| Samsung's Better exFAT Driver Gets Revised Ahead Of Mainline Linux Integration | 20 Jan 2020 |
| Btrfs Async Discard Support Looks To Be Ready For Linux 5.6 | 18 Jan 2020 |
| Western Digital's Zonefs File-System Looks Like It Could Be Ready To Land With Linux 5.6 | 16 Jan 2020 |
| Linus Torvalds Doesn't Recommend Using ZFS On Linux | 09 Jan 2020 |
| EXT4 Gets More Direct I/O Optimizations - Can Help Some Database Workloads Around ~140%+ | 09 Jan 2020 |
| EXT4 In Linux 5.6 To See Big Write Performance Boost For Direct I/O | 03 Jan 2020 |
| Reiser5 File-System In Development - Adds Local Volumes With Parallel Scaling Out | 31 Dec 2019 |
| Western Digital Has Been Developing A New Linux File-System: Zonefs | 25 Dec 2019 |
| FSCRYPT's Inline Encryption Support Updated For Possible Inclusion In Linux 5.6 | 24 Dec 2019 |
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435 Articles |
| LLVM |
| Merging Of Flang/F18 Fortran Compiler Support Into LLVM Has Been Delayed | 21 Jan 2020 |
| LLVM Developers Discuss Improved Decision Making Process | 16 Jan 2020 |
| The MLIR-Targeting "FC" LLVM Fortran Compiler Is Now Open-Source | 14 Jan 2020 |
| Benchmarks Of LLVM Clang 6.0 Through Clang 10.0 Compilers | 12 Jan 2020 |
| FC Is Yet Another LLVM Fortran Compiler, Now Targeting The New MLIR IR | 11 Jan 2020 |
| Flang Fortran Compiler Set To Land Next Week For LLVM 10.0 | 07 Jan 2020 |
| MLIR Lands In LLVM - Boosting LLVM For Heterogeneous Hardware, Machine Learning | 30 Dec 2019 |
| Google's IREE To Demonstrate Machine Learning Via Vulkan With MLIR | 26 Dec 2019 |
| LLVM Began Its Dominance Of The Compiler Landscape This Decade | 25 Dec 2019 |
| FLANG Fortran Compiler Preparing To Land In The LLVM Source Tree | 17 Dec 2019 |
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571 Articles |
| Mesa |
| Mesa 20.0 Feature Development Is Ending Next Week | 23 Jan 2020 |
| Raspberry Pi 4 V3D Driver Reaches OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformance | 17 Jan 2020 |
| A Slew Of ACO Optimizations For The Radeon Vulkan Driver Landed In Mesa 20.0 | 15 Jan 2020 |
| Mesa 19.3.2 Released With All The Intel + AMD Driver Fixes From Over The Holidays | 09 Jan 2020 |
| Mesa's NIR Linker Taking On More Duties - Further Enhancing Linker Speed | 08 Jan 2020 |
| Zink Is Moving Closer To OpenGL 3.0 Support Over Vulkan | 04 Jan 2020 |
| Mesa Development Activity Was Up By ~20% In 2019, Just Under 3 Million Lines Of Code | 03 Jan 2020 |
| Mesa's Radeon R600 Gallium3D Driver Now Has NIR Support Under Review | 30 Dec 2019 |
| Gallium3D's Software Rasterizers Are Close To Having OpenGL Tessellation Support | 30 Dec 2019 |
| Mesa 20.0's LLVMpipe Now Supports Running OpenCL On The CPU | 27 Dec 2019 |
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1759 Articles |
| Microsoft |
| Linux's exFAT Driver Looking To Still Be Replaced By A Newer Driver From Samsung | 30 Dec 2019 |
| Microsoft Made More Linux / Open-Source Announcements In 2019 From exFAT To WSL2 | 19 Dec 2019 |
| CERN Endorsing Microsoft Alternatives Like ownCloud, Kopano, Alt-Office Suite | 18 Dec 2019 |
| Microsoft Teams Is Now Available For Linux In Public Preview Form | 10 Dec 2019 |
| Microsoft Talks Up The Concept Of Panes, Tab Reordering For Windows Terminal | 29 Nov 2019 |
| Microsoft Will Release Their Edge Web Browser For Linux | 05 Nov 2019 |
| Microsoft's WSL2 Now Supports Memory Reclamation | 31 Oct 2019 |
| Paragon Looks To Upstream Their Microsoft exFAT Driver For The Linux Kernel | 19 Oct 2019 |
| Microsoft Developer Shows Linux Commands Seamlessly Integrated Within Windows PowerShell | 26 Sep 2019 |
| Microsoft Outs .NET Core 3.0 With Continued Linux Support & Better Performance | 23 Sep 2019 |
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199 Articles |
| Mozilla |
| Firefox 72 Released With Picture-In-Picture Video Support Working On Linux | 06 Jan 2020 |
| Mozilla Releases DeepSpeech 0.6 With Better Performance, Leaner Speech-To-Text Engine | 08 Dec 2019 |
| Firefox 71 Linux Performance Isn't Looking All That Great | 04 Dec 2019 |
| Firefox 71 Available With New Kiosk Mode, New Certificate Viewer | 03 Dec 2019 |
| Mozilla + Intel + Red Hat Form The Bytecode Alliance To Run WebAssembly Everywhere | 12 Nov 2019 |
| Firefox 71 Doesn't Do Much For Performance | 28 Oct 2019 |
| Firefox 70 Released With JavaScript Baseline Interpreter, Other Updates | 22 Oct 2019 |
| Mozilla Shifting Firefox To A Four-Week Release Cycle | 17 Sep 2019 |
| Better Flatpak Support For Firefox Appears To Be Coming | 12 Sep 2019 |
| Firefox 69 Gearing Up For Release With Linux Performance Improvements | 02 Sep 2019 |
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306 Articles |
| Multimedia |
| Dav1d AV1 Decoder Begins Adding AVX-512 Optimizations For Intel Ice Lake | 22 Jan 2020 |
| Rav1e Kicks Off 2020 With Speed Improvements For Rust-Based AV1 Encoding | 17 Jan 2020 |
| Bootlin Wraps Up Feature Development On The Allwinner Cedrus VPU Driver | 09 Jan 2020 |
| MPV 0.31 Video Player Adds Pseudo Client Side Decorations, Wayland Improvements | 28 Dec 2019 |
| A Look At How Some Video Encoders Saw Their Performance Shift This Year With SVT AV1/VP9 Ascending | 25 Dec 2019 |
| Rav1e 0.2 Rust AV1 Encoder Released With 40~70% Improvements Over Previous Release | 19 Dec 2019 |
| Rav1e Achieves Another ~20% Speed-Up For Rust-Based AV1 Video Encoding | 15 Dec 2019 |
| Ardour Digital Audio Workstation Finally Adds Native MP3 Importing Support | 06 Dec 2019 |
| Rav1e Picks Up More Speed Optimizations For Rust-Written AV1 Encoding | 29 Nov 2019 |
| Rav1e Squeezes Out More Performance For This Rust-Written AV1 Encoder | 20 Nov 2019 |
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374 Articles |
| Nouveau |
| There Is Finally Open-Source Accelerated NVIDIA Turing Graphics Support | 15 Jan 2020 |
| NVIDIA Sent Out Some Fresh Nouveau Patches Just Before Christmas | 06 Jan 2020 |
| The Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Will End Out 2019 In Poor Shape Still For Newer GPUs | 24 Nov 2019 |
| Nouveau Finally Lands SPIR-V Support As Part Of OpenCL Push | 21 Sep 2019 |
| NVIDIA Bringing Up Open-Source Volta GPU Support For Their Xavier SoC | 17 Sep 2019 |
| Nouveau's Changes Sent Out For Linux 5.4 In Fixing Up The Open-Source NVIDIA Support | 23 Aug 2019 |
| The Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Gets A Batch Of Fixes For Linux 5.3 | 19 Jul 2019 |
| Nouveau Driver Picking Up NVIDIA TU116 GPU Support For Linux 5.3 | 19 Jun 2019 |
| Linux Kernel Set To Expose Hidden NVIDIA HDA Controllers, Helping Laptop Users | 13 Jun 2019 |
| NVIDIA Firmware Blobs Get Updated To Help Some Pascal GPUs With Nouveau | 07 Jun 2019 |
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422 Articles |
| NVIDIA |
| NVIDIA Contributes Much Less To The Linux Kernel Than Intel Or AMD | 24 Jan 2020 |
| Nsight Graphics 2020.1 Released With Profiling For Vulkan+OpenGL Interop | 24 Jan 2020 |
| NVIDIA Releases 340.108 Linux Driver Providing Updated Legacy Support For GeForce 8 / 9 | 23 Dec 2019 |
| NVIDIA's Open-Source PhysX SDK Nearing 5.0 Release | 19 Dec 2019 |
| 2010 Through 2019 NVIDIA Linux News Topped By Linus Torvald's Criticism + Overclocking | 19 Dec 2019 |
| NVIDIA Announces DRIVE AGX Orin With New SoC Built On Next-Gen GPU + Arm Hercules Cores | 18 Dec 2019 |
| NVIDIA Launches Open-Source Video Processing Framework For Python | 16 Dec 2019 |
| NVIDIA 440.44 Linux Driver Brings Fixes, __GL_SYNC_DISPLAY_DEVICE Honored With Vulkan | 11 Dec 2019 |
| NVIDIA Looks To Have Some Sort Of Open-Source Driver Announcement For 2020 | 05 Dec 2019 |
| NVIDIA's Proactive Memory Compaction Work Revised For The Linux Kernel | 23 Nov 2019 |
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847 Articles |
| Operating Systems |
| Android-x86 Is Still Working Towards Its 9.0 "Pie" Release | 22 Jan 2020 |
| Genode OS Draws Up 2020 Plans Of USB Audio, A Kernel Written In Ada | 21 Jan 2020 |
| Project Trident Reaches Beta For Its ZFS-Based Void Linux Powered OS | 12 Jan 2020 |
| OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 Beta Adds Clang-Built Kernel Option, Experimental Zypper | 10 Jan 2020 |
| OpenWrt 19.07 Released With WPA3 Support, Ath79 Target | 10 Jan 2020 |
| Manjaro 19.0 Preview Images For KDE + GNOME Available For Testing | 07 Jan 2020 |
| OpenMandriva Is The Latest Linux Distribution Using Zstd To Compress Packages | 07 Jan 2020 |
| Arch's Switch To Zstd: ~0.8% Increase In Package Size For ~1300% Speedup In Decompression Time | 04 Jan 2020 |
| Bootlin Working To Boost OpenWrt Security With SELinux + DM-Verity | 03 Jan 2020 |
| Jolla Making Plans For Sailfish OS In 2020 | 31 Dec 2019 |
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782 Articles |
| Oracle |
| Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6 Is Tracking Linux 5.4 | 09 Jan 2020 |
| Oracle Pushes Out Another Solaris 11.4 Update To End Out 2019 | 18 Dec 2019 |
| VirtualBox 6.1 Released With Better 3D Support, UI Enhancements | 12 Dec 2019 |
| VirtualBox 6.1 Close To Release With 3D Improvements, Nested Hardware Virtualization | 24 Nov 2019 |
| Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU15 Has A Number Of Package Updates | 20 Nov 2019 |
| Oracle Linux 8 Update 1 Announced With Udica, Optane DCPM Support | 15 Nov 2019 |
| Rewriting Old Solaris C Code In Python Yielded A 17x Performance Improvement | 18 Oct 2019 |
| Oracle Reaffirms Supporting Solaris 11 Through Part Of The Next Decade | 28 Sep 2019 |
| Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU12 Released - Adds GCC 9.1 Compiler & Python 3.7 | 20 Aug 2019 |
| Oracle Continues Working On eBPF Support For GCC 10 | 17 Aug 2019 |
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234 Articles |
| Phoronix |
| Happy New Year + A Look Back At The Most Popular Linux Content Of 2019 | 31 Dec 2019 |
| A Christmas Gift For Phoronix Readers - Improving Graphs | 25 Dec 2019 |
| The Most Popular Linux Hardware Reviews / Benchmarks Of The Past Decade | 12 Dec 2019 |
| The Most Popular Linux / Open-Source News Of This Decade | 11 Dec 2019 |
| Ice Lake, Threadripper, New CPU Vulnerabilities + Linux 5.4 Release Dominated November | 30 Nov 2019 |
| November Is Still Bringing Many Interesting Linux Benchmarks / Milestones | 10 Nov 2019 |
| Ice Lake, Ryzen 9, Kernel Happenings & Other Highlights For An Exciting October | 01 Nov 2019 |
| AMD Dominated Q3 In Wooing Over Linux / Open-Source Fans | 03 Oct 2019 |
| Steam, Open-Source Intel & Ryzen 3000 / EPYC's Continued Domination Rocked September | 01 Oct 2019 |
| AMD EPYC 7002 & Ryzen 3000 Series Dominated Linux Interest During August | 01 Sep 2019 |
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599 Articles |
| Phoronix Test Suite |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.4 Milestone 1 Released | 13 Jan 2020 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.2.1 Released | 13 Dec 2019 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.2 Released For Open-Source, Cross-Platform Benchmarking | 03 Dec 2019 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.2 Milestone 2 Released | 13 Nov 2019 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.2 Milestone 1 Released With Updates For macOS Benchmarking | 17 Oct 2019 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.0.1 Available Along With Several New/Updated Test Profiles | 01 Oct 2019 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.0 M3 Brings Improvements Around Offline/Private Testing | 03 Sep 2019 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.0 Milestone 2 Released, OpenBenchmarking.org Serves 42 Millionth Download | 22 Aug 2019 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.0 Milestone 1 Delivers New Result Viewer, Other Features | 25 Jul 2019 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 8.8.1 Released | 30 May 2019 |
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| Premium |
| 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 |
| Celebrate Valentine's Day By Going Premium To Support Linux Benchmarking | 14 Feb 2019 |
| It's Time For The Premium 2018 Winter Sale To Show Your Linux Benchmarking Support | 22 Dec 2018 |
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33 Articles |
| Programming |
| Red Hat Developer's MIR Is A Lightweight JIT Compiler | 20 Jan 2020 |
| Git 2.25 Released As Its First Update Of 2020 | 13 Jan 2020 |
| Vim Creator Bram Moolenaar Aiming To Improve Vim Performance With Vim9 Fork | 04 Jan 2020 |
| There Are Renewed Discussions About Having Rust Language Support Within GCC | 28 Dec 2019 |
| phpMyAdmin 5.0 Released To Drop Old PHP/HHVM Support, Modernized UI | 28 Dec 2019 |
| Git 2.25 Is On The Way For Release In Early 2020 | 26 Dec 2019 |
| PHP 7.4 Released With FFI, Typed Properties, Arrow Functions, Better Performance | 28 Nov 2019 |
| PHP 5.3 To PHP 7.4 Performance Benchmarks On AMD EPYC | 22 Nov 2019 |
| Intel Releases oneAPI Base Toolkit Beta For Performance-Focused, Cross-Device Software | 17 Nov 2019 |
| Picolibc 1.1 Released With POSIX File I/O Support | 15 Nov 2019 |
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269 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 5.14 Released With Better HiDPI, Lots Of 3D Work Ahead Of Qt 6 Next Year | 12 Dec 2019 |
| Qt Shader Tools Looks To Become Official Qt6 Module | 11 Dec 2019 |
| Qt 5.14 On Track For Releasing Next Week With New Scenegraph Renderer, Better HiDPI | 04 Dec 2019 |
| The Qt Company Launches Qt Marketplace For Free + Paid Qt Extensions / Add-Ons | 02 Dec 2019 |
| Qt 3D Studio 2.5 Released With Stereoscopic Rendering, Autodesk Maya Export | 31 Oct 2019 |
| The Qt 3D Story With Vulkan Should Be Quite Compelling For Qt 6.0 | 27 Oct 2019 |
| Qt 5.14 Beta 2 Released As Another Chance To Test The Big Toolkit Update | 24 Oct 2019 |
| Qt 3D Will Still Be Improved On Alongside Qt Quick 3D | 21 Oct 2019 |
| Qt 5.14 Rolls To Beta Stage With Graphics API Independent Scenegraph Renderer | 09 Oct 2019 |
| Qt 3D Studio 2.5 Beta Brings Stereoscopic Support, Better Content Controls | 06 Oct 2019 |
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408 Articles |
| Radeon |
| Valve's ACO Shader Compiler Back-End For Radeon Vulkan Is Now In Good Shape For GCN 1.0 | 23 Jan 2020 |
| AMDVLK 2020.Q1.1 Brings Some Performance Tuning, Still On Vulkan 1.1 | 22 Jan 2020 |
| AMD Sends In A Bunch Of Fixes For Linux 5.6 Along With Pollock Support | 17 Jan 2020 |
| AMD Begins Providing PowerPC Builds Of Their "AOMP" GPU Compiler | 14 Jan 2020 |
| RADV's Next-Gen Geometry Code Continues To Be Revised For Navi GPUs | 13 Jan 2020 |
| AMD Has More Radeon Graphics Driver Code Ready For Linux 5.6 | 10 Jan 2020 |
| AMDGPU Linux 5.5 Fixes 8K / 4K120 Output, Hits Sync Object Timeline Support For Vulkan | 09 Jan 2020 |
| RadeonSI Disables SDMA For Polaris To Fix Corruption Bugs | 08 Jan 2020 |
| Radeon GPU Profiler 1.7 Released With RX 5300/5500 Support, New Visualizations | 07 Jan 2020 |
| AMD To Restore Retry Faults Behavior To Help With Raven Stability | 07 Jan 2020 |
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1155 Articles |
| Red Hat |
| RHEL 8.2 Beta Application Streams Bring GCC 9.1, Python 3.8 | 23 Jan 2020 |
| Red Hat Recommends Disabling The Intel Linux Graphics Driver Over Hardware Flaw | 16 Jan 2020 |
| Retooled CentOS Build Scripts To Help Spin New Releases Quicker, More Automation | 16 Jan 2020 |
| CentOS-8 1911 Released As Rebuild Off Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 | 15 Jan 2020 |
| Goals: Red Hat Developer Working On New Tool To Improve Upon Make | 14 Jan 2020 |
| Red Hat Is Still Hiring To Work On The Linux Desktop + Open-Source Graphics | 06 Nov 2019 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Released With Kernel Live-Patching Support | 05 Nov 2019 |
| Red Hat Provides New VirtIO Windows Driver Installer | 24 Oct 2019 |
| Red Hat's New Graphics Engineer Is A Longtime AMD/ATI Linux Developer | 12 Oct 2019 |
| CentOS 8.0 Released As Community Version Of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | 24 Sep 2019 |
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208 Articles |
| RISC-V |
| RISC-V's Linux Kernel Support Is Getting In Better Shape, Maturing On HiFive Unleashed | 08 Mar 2019 |
| Amazon Adds RISC-V Support To FreeRTOS | 26 Feb 2019 |
| RISC-V Support Added To The GRUB Bootloader | 25 Feb 2019 |
| Libre RISC-V GPU Aiming For 2.5 Watt Power Draw Continues Being Plotted | 18 Feb 2019 |
| The State Of Debian & Fedora On The RISC-V Architecture | 09 Feb 2019 |
| More Details On The Proposed Simple-V Extension To RISC-V For GPU Workloads | 04 Jan 2019 |
| The Libre RISC-V Vulkan Accelerator Will Be Targeting 25 FPS @ 720p, 5~6 GFLOPs | 05 Dec 2018 |
| Western Digital To Open-Source The "SweRV" RISC-V Core In 2019 | 05 Dec 2018 |
| The EOMA68 Libre Computer Developer Wants To Tackle A Quad-Core RISC-V Libre SoC Design | 29 Nov 2018 |
| The Linux Foundation Is Teaming Up With RISC-V To Promote The Open-Source CPU ISA | 27 Nov 2018 |
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35 Articles |
| Standards |
| Khronos Next Pursuing An Analytic Rendering API | 13 Nov 2019 |
| Khronos Rolls Out OpenVX 1.3 While Updating OpenGL 4.6 + OpenGL ES 3.2 | 22 Oct 2019 |
| The Matrix Of Software Projects Mapping Khronos APIs From DXVK To Zink & CLVK | 04 Oct 2019 |
| HIPCL Lets CUDA Run On OpenCL+SPIR-V | 17 Sep 2019 |
| USB 4.0 "USB4" Specification Published | 03 Sep 2019 |
| Vulkan Video Decoding Coming In H1'2020, Ray-Tracing Progressing | 13 Aug 2019 |
| Khronos Releases OpenCL 2.2-11 While Still Waiting For OpenCL-Next | 07 Aug 2019 |
| Khronos Officially Releases OpenXR 1.0 | 29 Jul 2019 |
| Binomial's Basis Universal To Super-Compress glTF Assets, WebGL Gets New Extensions | 26 Jul 2019 |
| Zstd 1.4.1 Further Improves Decode Speed, Other Optimizations | 19 Jul 2019 |
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217 Articles |
| SUSE |
| 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 |
| OpenSUSE Enables LTO By Default For Tumbleweed - Smaller & Faster Binaries | 17 Jul 2019 |
| openSUSE's YaST Now Supports Multi-Device Btrfs Setups | 20 Jun 2019 |
| OpenSUSE Adds Option To Installer For Toggling Performance-Hitting CPU Mitigations | 22 May 2019 |
| OpenSUSE Leap 15.1 Released - Based Off SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP1 | 22 May 2019 |
| OpenSUSE's Spectre Mitigation Approach Is One Of The Reasons For Its Slower Performance | 14 Apr 2019 |
| SUSE Marks Its New Independence Under EQT Ownership | 15 Mar 2019 |
| OpenSUSE Leap 15.1 Reaches Beta Milestone | 20 Feb 2019 |
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227 Articles |
| systemd |
| Systemd Will Be Working To Improve Out-Of-Memory Linux Handling With Facebook OOMD | 08 Jan 2020 |
| Systemd "Path Images" Feature Allows Mounting Images At Arbitrary Paths | 06 Jan 2020 |
| Systemd Is Approaching 1.3 Million Lines While Poettering Lost Top Contributor Spot For 2019 | 02 Jan 2020 |
| Systemd In Ten Years Has Redefined The Linux Landscape | 20 Dec 2019 |
| Systemd-homed Looks Like It Will Merged Soon For systemd 245 | 06 Dec 2019 |
| Systemd 244 Released With New Init System Features For Black Friday | 29 Nov 2019 |
| systemd 244-RC1 Released With Many Changes | 22 Nov 2019 |
| Systemd Has A New Logo As Other Features Build Up For The Next Release | 31 Oct 2019 |
| Trimming systemd Halved The Boot Time On A PocketBeagle ARM Linux Board | 29 Oct 2019 |
| Systemd Starts Tapping ChromeOS For USB Devices That Support Auto-Suspend Well | 04 Oct 2019 |
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175 Articles |
| Ubuntu |
| Canonical Gets Into Cloud Gaming & More With Anbox Cloud For Cloud-Based Android Apps/Gaming | 21 Jan 2020 |
| Mir 1.7 Released With Improvements For Running X11 Software | 16 Jan 2020 |
| A New Desktop Theme Is Coming For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | 14 Jan 2020 |
| Unity 8 Desktop On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Could Take A Year Before Being Usable | 14 Jan 2020 |
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Could Better Support Scanners Compliant With Apple AirScan | 08 Jan 2020 |
| With Python 2 EOL'ed, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Moves Along With Its Python 2 Removal | 06 Jan 2020 |
| Ubuntu 13.04 vs. Ubuntu 20.04 Development Performance Comparison Without Mitigations | 29 Dec 2019 |
| Ubuntu 19.10 Laptop Disk Encryption Benchmarks | 20 Dec 2019 |
| Canonical Releases Multipass 1.0 As "A Mini-Cloud On Your Workstation" | 18 Dec 2019 |
| Canonical Wants Your Feedback To Help Prepare Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | 17 Dec 2019 |
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1352 Articles |
| Valve |
| Valve's Proton 4.11-12 Released With DXVK 1.5.1, Updated SDKs | 14 Jan 2020 |
| Steam's December Numbers Point To A Lower Linux Marketshare But With More Oddities | 12 Jan 2020 |
| Proton 4.11-11 Released With DXVK 1.5, Few Game Fixes | 19 Dec 2019 |
| Proton 4.11-10 Adds Halo: Master Chief Collection Support, Integer Scaling, Other Game Improvements | 13 Dec 2019 |
| Steam Survey For November Points To Flat Linux Percentage | 02 Dec 2019 |
| Half-Life: Alyx Releasing In March 2020 With Linux Support | 21 Nov 2019 |
| Valve Announcing Half-Life: Alyx VR Game On Thursday | 18 Nov 2019 |
| Steam For Linux Beta Adds Experimental Namespaces/Containers Support | 10 Nov 2019 |
| Valve's Proton 4.11-8 Begins Bundling VKD3D, Improves Rockstar Launcher Support | 08 Nov 2019 |
| Valve's Steam Survey Numbers For October Just Point To More Inaccuracies | 01 Nov 2019 |
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481 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 |
| Red Hat Shows Off Their vDPA Kernel Patches For Better Ethernet Within VMs | 18 Jan 2020 |
| QEMU 5.0 Kicks Off For Development | 14 Dec 2019 |
| QEMU 4.2 Released With Many Improvements For Linux Virtualization | 13 Dec 2019 |
| Linux 5.5 KVM Adds POWER Support For Secure Guests/VMs | 07 Dec 2019 |
| VMs Can Finally Hibernate Under Microsoft Hyper-V With Linux 5.5 | 01 Dec 2019 |
| KVM Virtualization Updates For Linux 5.5 Are Particularly Busy On The AMD/Intel Side | 30 Nov 2019 |
| VirtIO-GPU Working Towards Vulkan Support, Other Features For Graphics In VMs | 29 Nov 2019 |
| VirtualBox SF Driver Ejected From The Linux 5.4 Kernel | 13 Nov 2019 |
| SUSE Continues Working On Linux Core Scheduling For Better Security | 11 Nov 2019 |
| QEMU 4.2 Cycle Kicks Off With Inaugural Release Candidate | 08 Nov 2019 |
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396 Articles |
| Vulkan |
| Vulkan 1.2 Comes To macOS / iOS Via Updated MoltenVK | 23 Jan 2020 |
| Vulkan 1.2.132 Released As The First Documentation Fix-Up Following Vulkan 1.2 | 22 Jan 2020 |
| Think Silicon's GLOVE OpenGL-Over-Vulkan Library Now Works On Wayland, Windows + macOS | 20 Jan 2020 |
| RenderDoc 1.6 Released, NVIDIA + AMD + Intel All Primed For Vulkan 1.2 | 15 Jan 2020 |
| CoreAVI VkCoreGL SC1 Hits Compliance For Ushering Vulkan Into Safety Critical Systems | 14 Jan 2020 |
| Vulkan 1.1.130 SDK Released - GFX Reconstruct Continues Path To Replace Vktrace/Vkreplay | 21 Dec 2019 |
| MoltenVK Updated For Providing Vulkan 1.1.130 SDK Support On Apple macOS/iOS | 17 Dec 2019 |
| D9VK Merged Into Upstream DXVK | 16 Dec 2019 |
| D9VK 0.40 Uses Async Present On All Drivers, Various Other Features + Perf Optimizations | 14 Dec 2019 |
| ChamferWM Still Appears To Be The Most Capable Vulkan-Powered X11 Tiling Window Manager | 10 Dec 2019 |
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460 Articles |
| Wayland |
| Sway 1.4 Wayland Compositor Brings VNC Support, Initial Bits For MATE Panel Support | 22 Jan 2020 |
| Wayland 1.18 Alpha Released With Meson Support, Connection Sharing | 21 Jan 2020 |
| Wayland 1.18 Planned For Release Next Month | 15 Jan 2020 |
| Wayland Adds Meson Build System Support | 14 Jan 2020 |
| Sway 1.3 Release Candidate Brings Many Changes For This i3-Inspired Wayland Compositor | 01 Jan 2020 |
| Wayland's Wild Decade From v1.0 Release To Usable GNOME/KDE Desktop Support | 29 Dec 2019 |
| Wayland's Weston 8.0 Reaches Beta With Direct-Display Extension, Partial Updates, HDCP | 21 Dec 2019 |
| Purism Making Some Progress On Convergence With Phosh Running On Desktop | 17 Dec 2019 |
| Wayland's Weston 8.0 Reaches Alpha With EGL Partial Updates, Headless OpenGL | 07 Dec 2019 |
| Chromium's Ozone Wayland Back-End Is Now Considered Beta, Aiming To Ship Next Year | 05 Dec 2019 |
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728 Articles |
| WINE |
| Wine Is Approaching Six Million Lines | 22 Jan 2020 |
| Wine 5.0 Released With Big Improvements For Gaming, Countless Application Fixes | 21 Jan 2020 |
| Wine 5.0-RC6 Released With Another 21 Fixes | 17 Jan 2020 |
| The Big Highlights Of Wine 5.0 From FAudio Integration To Vulkan 1.1 + A Ton Of Bug Fixes | 12 Jan 2020 |
| Wine-Staging 5.0-RC5 Brings Fix For Far Cry 5 Plus Sound Bug With Proton/ESYNC | 11 Jan 2020 |
| Wine 5.0-RC5 Released With Fixes For Different Games | 10 Jan 2020 |
| Wine 5.0-RC4 Released With The Stable Update Expected Later This Month | 03 Jan 2020 |
| Wine-Staging 5.0-RC3 Fixes Some Active Directory Programs Like Cisco VPN & Honeywell | 28 Dec 2019 |
| Wine 5.0-rc3 Released With Another 46 Bugs Fixed | 27 Dec 2019 |
| The 2010s Were Very Successful For Wine Thanks To CodeWeavers + Valve's Steam Play | 26 Dec 2019 |
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682 Articles |
| X.Org |
| Keith Packard Talks About The Early Politics Of X Window System + Code Licensing | 21 Jan 2020 |
| X.Org's XDC2020 May Abandon Poland Conference To Find More Welcoming European Location | 18 Jan 2020 |
| X.Org Server 1.20.7 Released With A Handful Of Fixes For GLAMOR + Modesetting | 14 Jan 2020 |
| X.Org Server Development Hits A Nearly Two Decade Low | 04 Jan 2020 |
| Libinput 1.15 Released For Improving Input On X.Org + Wayland Desktops | 03 Jan 2020 |
| X.Org Saw A Lot Of Work In The 2010s Even With Wayland Taking Off | 28 Dec 2019 |
| XWayland Gets Tidied Up Ahead Of The Holidays For The Eventual X.Org Server 1.21 | 21 Dec 2019 |
| Mir Lands Server-Side Decoration Support For XWayland | 16 Dec 2019 |
| Libinput 1.15 Is On Approach With Various Improvements/Fixes For Linux Input Handling | 05 Dec 2019 |
| Before Ending 2019, Vintage SiS X.Org Driver Sees A New Release | 04 Dec 2019 |
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1028 Articles |
