| AMD |
| AMD Zen 2 EDAC Support Being Readied, Preps For Up To 8 Memory Controllers Per Die | 28 Feb 2019 |
| AMD Zen 2 "znver2" Support Lands In LLVM Clang 9.0 | 27 Feb 2019 |
| AMD SEV Firmware Added To Linux-Firmware Tree For Easier Updating | 26 Feb 2019 |
| Noctua's NH-U9 TR4-SP3 Is Still The Best 4U EPYC / Threadripper Cooler I've Found | 17 Feb 2019 |
| Vega 10 & Newer Getting More Fine-Grained PowerPlay Controls On Linux | 21 Jan 2019 |
| AMD CES 2019 Keynote: Say Hello To Radeon 7 As 2nd Gen Vega | 09 Jan 2019 |
| AMD Announces Ryzen 3000 Series Mobile Processors, 7th Gen A-Series For Chromebooks | 06 Jan 2019 |
| The Most Popular AMD/Radeon Linux News Of 2018 | 26 Dec 2018 |
| AMD Zen 2 Temperature Monitoring Changes Sent In For Linux 4.21 | 25 Dec 2018 |
| Improved AMD CPU Microcode Handling On Deck For Linux 4.21 | 24 Dec 2018 |
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993 Articles |
| Arm |
| DragonFlyBSD Looking To Pursue 64-Bit ARM Port With Code Bounty | 19 Mar 2019 |
| With Rising Arm Core Counts, Linux 5.1+ ARM64 Images Default To 256 Cores Support | 08 Mar 2019 |
| Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ and Bitmain BM18xx Supported By Linux 5.1 | 07 Mar 2019 |
| Collabora Posts New DRM Kernel Driver For Open-Source Arm Mali Graphics | 04 Mar 2019 |
| Lima DRM Driver Strikes Version Two For Mali 400/450 Open-Source Support | 27 Feb 2019 |
| LLVM/Clang 9.0 Picks Up Support For Arm's Cortex-A76 | 26 Feb 2019 |
| Arm Talks Up Linux 5.0's Energy Aware Scheduling | 25 Feb 2019 |
| GCC 9 Compiler Picks Up Official Support For The Arm Neoverse N1 + E1 | 22 Feb 2019 |
| Arm Neoverse N1 & E1 Platforms Announced For Cloud To Edge Computing | 20 Feb 2019 |
| Arm Introduces ARMv8.1-M Architecture With New "Helium" Vector Extension | 14 Feb 2019 |
More Arm News |
157 Articles |
| BSD |
| ZFS Boot Environments Are Helping To Improve The Resilience Of FreeBSD Upgrades | 08 Feb 2019 |
| Desktop-Friendly MidnightBSD 1.1 Released | 04 Feb 2019 |
| NetBSD 9.0 Will Have Performance & Security Improvements | 04 Feb 2019 |
| Netflix Continues Experiencing Great Performance In Using FreeBSD For Their CDN | 02 Feb 2019 |
| OPNsense 19.1 Released: BSD-Based Firewall / Networking OS | 31 Jan 2019 |
| Fresh Linux vs. BSD CPU/System Benchmark Results Across Five Operating Systems | 27 Jan 2019 |
| OPNsense 19.1-RC1 Released With Many Improvements To This BSD Firewall Platform | 21 Jan 2019 |
| Wayland Support On The BSDs Continuing To Improve | 21 Jan 2019 |
| DragonFlyBSD Continues Gutting Its i386 Code | 13 Jan 2019 |
| The New ZFS on FreeBSD Implementation Can Now Be Tested With TrueOS | 05 Jan 2019 |
More BSD News |
575 Articles |
| Clear Linux |
| Intel's Clear Linux Already Forging Plans To Land GCC 9 & LLVM 8 | 01 Mar 2019 |
| Clear Linux Has A Goal To Get 3x More Upstream Components In Their Distro | 21 Feb 2019 |
| Benchmarking The Python Optimizations Of Clear Linux Against Ubuntu, Intel Python | 14 Feb 2019 |
| How Clear Linux Optimizes Python For Greater Performance | 13 Feb 2019 |
| Clear Linux Outlines How You Can Build Your Own Linux Distro In 10 Minutes | 31 Jan 2019 |
| Linux Steam Integration 0.7.3 Released With Annoyance Fixes | 15 Jan 2019 |
| Clear Linux Exploring "libSuperX11" As Newest Optimization Effort | 06 Jan 2019 |
| Intel's Clear Linux Ups Their Desktop Offering, Rolling Out New Installer | 28 Nov 2018 |
| Clear Linux Making Progress With Encrypted Installations | 20 Nov 2018 |
| Clear Linux Developers Weigh Supporting Snaps | 07 Nov 2018 |
More Clear Linux News |
53 Articles |
| Coreboot |
| Intel Working On Some Interesting Coreboot Improvements: Multi-CPU Support, SMM | 19 Mar 2019 |
| Coreboot Support For Intel TXT Is Being Brought Up | 08 Mar 2019 |
| Measured Boot Support Is Heading To Coreboot | 26 Feb 2019 |
| Purism Working On PureBoot To Secure Your Data & Fully Verify The Linux Boot Process | 25 Feb 2019 |
| Some System76 Hardware Beginning To See Coreboot Support | 08 Feb 2019 |
| At Just Over One Year Old, LinuxBoot Continues Making Inroads At Facebook & Elsewhere | 06 Feb 2019 |
| Coreboot 4.9 Released With 2,600+ Changes, Ports To 56 New Motherboards | 20 Dec 2018 |
| Coreboot Support Taking Shape For Intel Icelake | 17 Nov 2018 |
| Another Micro-ATX Haswell Era Motherboard Working With Coreboot But Needs Tiny Blob | 16 Nov 2018 |
| Coreboot's Flashrom Moves On To Flashing AMD GPUs Up Through Polaris | 22 Oct 2018 |
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184 Articles |
| Debian |
| Debian Sticking With Merged /usr Plan | 05 Mar 2019 |
| The Sway Wayland Compositor Is Now Available From Debian Experimental | 17 Feb 2019 |
| Debian 9.8 Released With Latest Security Fixes | 16 Feb 2019 |
| Debian Could See Expanded Android SDK Support & Better PHP Packaging Via GSoC 2019 | 09 Feb 2019 |
| Debian Installer Buster Alpha 5 Has Initial UEFI Secure Boot Support | 02 Feb 2019 |
| MATE On Debian Becomes Remote Desktop Aware | 24 Jan 2019 |
| Debian 9.7 Released To Address APT Security Issue | 23 Jan 2019 |
| Debian 10 Buster Enters Transition Freeze, New Theme Announced | 14 Jan 2019 |
| Debian 10 "Buster" Working To Have UEFI SecureBoot In Good Shape | 07 Jan 2019 |
| Debhelper 12 Released With Meson+Ninja Build System Support | 04 Jan 2019 |
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274 Articles |
| Desktop |
| A Quick Look At The Firefox 66.0 vs. Chrome 73.0 Performance Benchmarks | 22 Mar 2019 |
| MATE 1.22 Released - Inching Towards Wayland Support, Better Systemd Integration | 18 Mar 2019 |
| Trinity Desktop R14.0.6 Being Prepared To Let KDE 3 Continue Life In 2019 | 02 Mar 2019 |
| Google Chrome/Chromium Begins Landing POWER PPC64LE Patches | 27 Feb 2019 |
| Xfce Picking Up Support For Color Profiles | 24 Feb 2019 |
| Compiz 0.9.14 Released As First Update In Over Two Years | 16 Feb 2019 |
| Electron Apps Are Bad, So Now You Can Create Desktop Apps With HTML5 + Golang | 09 Feb 2019 |
| Awesome 4.3 Window Manager Brings Better DPI Handling, Widget Improvements | 28 Jan 2019 |
| Xfce's Catfish Search Now Faster, Better Desktop Integration | 27 Jan 2019 |
| LXQt 0.14 Brings File Manager Additions, Desktop Icon Improvements | 26 Jan 2019 |
More Desktop News |
335 Articles |
| Fedora |
| Fedora 31 Preparing To Start Removing Packages Depending Upon Python 2 | 23 Mar 2019 |
| Fedora 30 Beta Won't Be Released Next Week Due To Their Arm Images Lacking A Browser | 22 Mar 2019 |
| Firefox Wayland By Default Diverted To Fedora 31 | 18 Mar 2019 |
| Yum vs. DNF Is Still Causing Headaches For Fedora Logistics | 15 Mar 2019 |
| Fedora 31 Plans To Use GCC Security Hardening Flags By Default | 12 Mar 2019 |
| Wayland-Spun Firefox Is Being Given More Time To Get Ready For Fedora 30 | 12 Mar 2019 |
| Fedora 31 Aims To Finally Offer Mono 5 For Open-Source .NET Support | 10 Mar 2019 |
| NVIDIA's Binary Driver Now Works With Fedora Silverblue | 06 Mar 2019 |
| Fedora 31 Finally Planning To Gate Packages While Testing, More Stable Rawhide | 02 Mar 2019 |
| Fedora Forms Process For Retiring Packages With Open Security Issues | 26 Feb 2019 |
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858 Articles |
| Free Software |
| FSF Certifies A USB Microphone For Respecting Your Freedom Plus Some Network Adapters | 21 Mar 2019 |
| OpenShot 2.4.4 Released With Better SVG Rendering, Preview Performance | 21 Mar 2019 |
| Samba 4.10 Released With Pre-Fork Process Model Improvements, Full Support For Python 3 | 20 Mar 2019 |
| Orbital: A PlayStation 4 Emulator That Is Emulating The PS4's AMD GPU Using Vulkan | 19 Mar 2019 |
| NetworkManager 1.16 Brings WireGuard Support, WiFi Direct/P2P | 16 Mar 2019 |
| F5 Networks Acquiring NGINX For $670 Million | 11 Mar 2019 |
| Wireshark 3.0 Released With New Protocol Support, User Interface Improvements | 05 Mar 2019 |
| WireGuard VPN Tunnel Software Publishes New Snapshot But It Won't Be In Linux 5.1 | 28 Feb 2019 |
| OBS Studio 23.0 Released With VA-API Video Encoding, New Audio Filters | 25 Feb 2019 |
| Git 2.21 Released With Performance Improvements, Human Date Option | 24 Feb 2019 |
More Free Software News |
1530 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 |
| Some Quick Graphics/Game Tests With GNOME 3.32 On Clear Linux | 20 Mar 2019 |
| GTK4 Seeing Text Entry Improvements, Easier To Create Custom Entry Widgets | 16 Mar 2019 |
| The Faster & More Beautiful GNOME 3.32 Has Been Released | 13 Mar 2019 |
| Flatpak 1.3 Brings Support For Multiple NVIDIA GPUs, Sandboxed DConf | 13 Mar 2019 |
| A Look At The Many Improvements & New Features In GNOME 3.32 | 13 Mar 2019 |
| GNOME 3.34 Release Schedule - Next Desktop Release Due Out On 11 September | 09 Mar 2019 |
| GNOME 3.32-RC2 Released Ahead Of Official Release Next Week | 09 Mar 2019 |
| GNOME Shell + Mutter 3.31.92 Bring Fractional Scaling, Updated Screen-Casting API | 05 Mar 2019 |
| GNOME 3.32 Lands Long-Awaited Fractional Scaling Support | 01 Mar 2019 |
| More GNOME Shell / Mutter Performance Optimizations & Latency Reductions Still Coming | 25 Feb 2019 |
More GNOME News |
989 Articles |
| GNU |
| GNU Parallel 20190322 Released - Wants To Help Speed Up Single-Threaded Linux Commands | 22 Mar 2019 |
| GCC 9 libstdc++ Lands The C++17 Parallel Algorithms Implementation From Intel | 21 Mar 2019 |
| GNU Coreutils 8.31 Released With New basenc Command, Stat Prints File Creation Time | 11 Mar 2019 |
| GCC 9 Offering Up Better Error Messages, JSON Output Support | 08 Mar 2019 |
| GNU Octave 5.1 Released With HiDPI Support, Drops OSMesa Usage | 02 Mar 2019 |
| GNU Debugger GDB 8.3 Is On Approach With Many Improvements | 27 Feb 2019 |
| GNU's Gold Linker Is Stagnating, Fedora Looking To Punt It Off Into A Separate Package | 24 Feb 2019 |
| GCC 8.3 Released With 153 Bug Fixes | 22 Feb 2019 |
| GNU's RPG/Adventure Game Updated For SDL2, Defaults To OpenGL Rendering | 16 Feb 2019 |
| GCC 9 Continues Stabilizing While GCC 8.3 Will Slip In Soon | 08 Feb 2019 |
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686 Articles |
| Google |
| Chrome 74 Beta Released With CSS Media Query To Prefer Reduced Motion/Animations | 22 Mar 2019 |
| Stadia Is Google's Cloud Gaming Service Using Linux, Vulkan & A Custom AMD GPU | 19 Mar 2019 |
| Android Q Reaches Public Beta With Improved Privacy, Opus/AV1 Support, ANGLE On Vulkan | 13 Mar 2019 |
| Chrome 73 Released With HDCP Policy Check, Layout Jank API | 12 Mar 2019 |
| Google's GraphicsFuzz 1.2 Released With Support For Compute Shaders & More | 07 Mar 2019 |
| Golang 1.12 Released With Opt-In TLS 1.3, Better Modules Support & Performance Work | 26 Feb 2019 |
| Google's Chrome OS "Wilco" Driver Working Towards Mainline Linux | 12 Feb 2019 |
| Chrome 73 Rolls Out Into Beta With Linux Improvements & More | 09 Feb 2019 |
| Libvpx 1.8 Released With VP9 Encode Performance Improvements | 04 Feb 2019 |
| Chrome 72 Has Some Wayland Improvements, Eyes Deprecating FTP | 29 Jan 2019 |
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369 Articles |
| Hardware |
| Linux To Add Support For The MOTU 8Pre Digital Audio Workstation Hardware | 23 Mar 2019 |
| Xilinx Moving Ahead With Plans To Upstream Their Alveo PCIe Accelerator Driver | 23 Mar 2019 |
| SiFive Rolls Out RISC-V HiFive1 Rev B Development Platform, $49 USD With FE310-G002 SoC | 19 Mar 2019 |
| Purism Planning For Three Hardware Kill Switches With The Librem 5 | 15 Mar 2019 |
| Libinput 1.13 Is Coming But High-Resolution Scrolling & Dell Totem Support Delayed | 14 Mar 2019 |
| Open-Source Adreno Driver Gets A6xx "Zap" Shader - Lets GPU Leave Secure Mode | 12 Mar 2019 |
| More Touchscreens To Be Supported By The Linux 5.1 Kernel | 11 Mar 2019 |
| Linux 5.1 Might Pick Up Support For Using Persistent Memory As System RAM | 11 Mar 2019 |
| x86 ASM Changes For Linux 5.1 Pin Sensitive Bits To Help Fend Off Recent Exploits | 10 Mar 2019 |
| A New Effort Trying Again To Mainline Linux Kernel Support For The Lemote Yeeloong | 09 Mar 2019 |
More Hardware News |
1335 Articles |
| Intel |
| Intel Publishes Icelake "Gen 11" Graphics Architecture Overview | 21 Mar 2019 |
| Intel's Iris Gallium3D Driver Lands Support For Fast Color Clears | 21 Mar 2019 |
| SVT-AV1 Can Now Achieve 1080p @ 60 FPS AV1 Video Encoding On Select Configurations | 20 Mar 2019 |
| Intel Posts Linux Perf Support For Icelake CPUs | 20 Mar 2019 |
| Intel Xe Graphics Being Part Of The First US Exascale Supercomputer Is Great For Linux | 19 Mar 2019 |
| Intel Sends Out Initial Linux Graphics Driver Support For "Elkhart Lake" | 14 Mar 2019 |
| Intel Sends Out Comet Lake Linux Graphics Driver Support | 13 Mar 2019 |
| Intel Vulkan Driver Now Dumps More To EXT_debug_report, Used By VKpipeline-DB | 11 Mar 2019 |
| Icelake Support Added To Intel's PMC Core Driver With Linux 5.1 | 10 Mar 2019 |
| Intel's New Driver Is Now Working With Gallium's Direct3D 9 State Tracker | 09 Mar 2019 |
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1472 Articles |
| KDE |
| KDE Plasma 5.16 Will Let You Reboot Into The UEFI Setup Screen | 17 Mar 2019 |
| KDE Continues Getting Polished For Showing Off This Spring | 10 Mar 2019 |
| KDE Frameworks 5.56 Brings Another Month Worth Of Improvements | 09 Mar 2019 |
| KDE's Kate Picks Up New Features, KWin Crash Fix When Launching Games | 03 Mar 2019 |
| KDE Ending Out February With More Improvements To The Desktop | 24 Feb 2019 |
| KDE To Support Matrix Decentralized Instant Messaging | 20 Feb 2019 |
| DigiKam 6.0 Released With Video File Management, New Export/Import Options | 19 Feb 2019 |
| KDE Continues Overhauling System Settings, More Discover Improvements | 17 Feb 2019 |
| KDE Plasma 5.15 Released With Wayland Improvements, Fixes To "Annoying Problems" | 12 Feb 2019 |
| KDE Frameworks 5.55 Released With Android Notifications, KWayland Fixes | 11 Feb 2019 |
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847 Articles |
| LibreOffice |
| 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 |
| LibreOffice Lands More Qt5 Integration Improvements, LXQt Support | 13 Oct 2018 |
| LibreOffice Qt5 Integration Sees Further Improvements | 04 Oct 2018 |
| LibreOffice 6.1 Shipping Today As A Big Update For This Open-Source Office Suite | 08 Aug 2018 |
| LibreOffice 6.1 RC2 Released For Testing This Next Open-Source Office Suite Update | 25 Jul 2018 |
| LibreOffice Picks Up A Native "KDE 5" File Picker | 18 Jun 2018 |
| PDF Importing Improvements Head Into LibreOffice | 10 Jun 2018 |
| LibreOffice 6.1 Branches & Now Under Feature Freeze, LibreOffice 6.2 On Master | 25 May 2018 |
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109 Articles |
| Linux Events |
| 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 |
| Linux Plumbers Conference 2018 Videos Now Online | 05 Dec 2018 |
| David Airlie's LPC2018 Presentation On An "Open-Source CUDA" | 03 Dec 2018 |
| Akademy 2018 Videos Posted For KDE's Annual Developer Conference | 07 Sep 2018 |
| An Activision Developer Is Talking At The Open-Source Summit... About Kafka Tuning | 29 Aug 2018 |
| Tencent Joins The Linux Foundation, Open-Sources Projects | 25 Jun 2018 |
| All Systems Go! 2018 Conference Announced For The End Of September | 21 May 2018 |
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66 Articles |
| Linux Gaming |
| Lutris 0.5.1 Brings Improved GOG Integration, Various Fixes | 22 Mar 2019 |
| DeviluitionX: Enjoying The 23 Year Old Diablo Game Atop An Open-Source Engine | 22 Mar 2019 |
| You Can Now Use Your Old GameCube Controllers With SDL2 Games | 17 Mar 2019 |
| GameMode 1.3 Released For Optimizing Your Linux Gaming Experience | 15 Mar 2019 |
| Godot 3.1 Open-Source Game Engine Debuts With Many Improvements | 13 Mar 2019 |
| GameMode Working On GPU Performance Level Tuning For Linux Gaming | 08 Mar 2019 |
| Unreal Engine 4.22 Preview 1 Released With Real-Time Ray-Tracing | 12 Feb 2019 |
| GameMode Sees Patches To Allow For GPU Overclocking When Running Linux Games | 06 Feb 2019 |
| Lutris 0.5 Released With Much Improved GTK User Interface, GOG Support | 01 Feb 2019 |
| Unity 2019.1 Beta Deprecates Linux x86, Offers Up Many Vulkan & Linux Improvements | 31 Jan 2019 |
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1608 Articles |
| Linux Kernel |
| OpenChrome DRM Driver Still Inching Along, Now Connected To New TTM Code | 24 Mar 2019 |
| WireGuard Sent Out Again For Review, Might Make It Into Linux 5.2 Kernel | 22 Mar 2019 |
| Linux 5.1-rc1 Kernel Released After A "Fairly Normal" Merge Window | 17 Mar 2019 |
| Linux 5.1 Will Let You Treat PMEM Like 3DXPoint Optane NVDIMMs Back As System RAM | 16 Mar 2019 |
| ZRAM Will See Greater Performance On Linux 5.1 - It Changed Its Default Compressor | 15 Mar 2019 |
| BMQ "BitMap Queue" Is The Newest Linux CPU Scheduler, Inspired By Google's Zircon | 12 Mar 2019 |
| The Notable Changes So Far With The Linux 5.1 Kernel | 12 Mar 2019 |
| Linux 5.0-ck1 Kernel Rolls Out With MuQSS 0.190 Scheduler | 11 Mar 2019 |
| Secure Launch Boot Protocol Being Worked On For The Linux Kernel, Advancing TrenchBoot | 11 Mar 2019 |
| SIMPLE_LMK: A Low Memory Killer For Android Systems Being Worked On For Linux Kernel | 10 Mar 2019 |
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2178 Articles |
| Linux Storage |
| AFS For Linux 5.1 Would Have Pleased Firefox/SQLite But Was Rejected As Untested Crap | 16 Mar 2019 |
| F2FS Continues Getting More Fixes As It Rolls Out To More Devices | 14 Mar 2019 |
| EXT4 & Btrfs Get Additional Fixes With Linux 5.1 | 12 Mar 2019 |
| FUSE Is Fusing More Performance Improvements In Linux 5.1 | 12 Mar 2019 |
| XFS File-System Picks Up New Features With Linux 5.1 Kernel | 07 Mar 2019 |
| ZFS On Linux 0.7.13 Released With Fixes For Linux 5.0 Kernel Compatibility | 04 Mar 2019 |
| Btrfs For Linux 5.1 Brings Configurable Zstd Compression Level, A Number Of Fixes | 04 Mar 2019 |
| XFS Copy-On-Write Support Being Improved, Always CoW Option | 19 Feb 2019 |
| FS-VERITY Updated For Read-Only, File-Based Authenticity Protection On EXT4/F2FS | 19 Feb 2019 |
| EXT4 Patches Continue Working On Case-Insensitive Filenames & Encoding | 03 Feb 2019 |
More Linux Storage News |
352 Articles |
| LLVM |
| LLVM 8.0 Released With Cascade Lake Support, Better Diagnostics, More OpenMP/OpenCL | 20 Mar 2019 |
| A Big Patch Could Yield Big Performance Benefits For GPU Offloading With LLVM | 15 Mar 2019 |
| LLVM 8.0 Drags On As An RC5 Now Gets Scheduled | 11 Mar 2019 |
| Khronos Continues Working On Better OpenCL + LLVM Integration | 08 Mar 2019 |
| LLVM Drops Its Shadow Call Stack Support For x86_64 | 07 Mar 2019 |
| The New Features & Changes With The LLVM Clang 8.0 Compiler Stack | 26 Feb 2019 |
| The First Baby Step Towards Intel's SYCL Support In LLVM Clang Lands In Git/SVN | 25 Feb 2019 |
| IBM Is Looking At Adding AIX Support To LLVM / Clang | 12 Feb 2019 |
| Asm-goto Support Added To LLVM, Helping Out Clang'ing Kernel Efforts | 11 Feb 2019 |
| A Detailed Look At The Speed Advantages To LLVM's LLD Linker | 06 Feb 2019 |
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524 Articles |
| Mesa |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Gets Patches For VK_KHR_8bit_storage | 19 Mar 2019 |
| Mesa 18.3.5 Released With Intel/Radeon Vulkan Driver Fixes | 18 Mar 2019 |
| The Lima Gallium3D Driver Is Aiming To Be Merged In Mesa | 16 Mar 2019 |
| Mesa 19.0 Released With Many Improvements To The Open-Source Vulkan/OpenGL Drivers | 13 Mar 2019 |
| NIR Improvements Land In Mesa 19.1, Helping RadeonSI & Intel | 13 Mar 2019 |
| GLX_ARB_create_context_no_error Support Lands In Mesa 19.1 | 13 Mar 2019 |
| TURNIP: An Open-Source Vulkan Driver For Qualcomm Adreno Hardware Now In Mesa | 12 Mar 2019 |
| Mesa's Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Can Now Work With Its New DRM Driver | 10 Mar 2019 |
| Mesa 19.0-RC7 Released With Freedreno, Gallium Nine Fixes | 07 Mar 2019 |
| Mesa 19.1 Lands Gallium Nine Support For NIR, Opens Up Intel Iris Support | 06 Mar 2019 |
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1613 Articles |
| Microsoft |
| Microsoft Officially Announces DTrace For Windows | 11 Mar 2019 |
| Microsoft Finally Enables Retpolines For Windows 10 Version 1809, Windows Server 2019 | 01 Mar 2019 |
| Windows 10 Will Soon Let You Access WSL Linux Files From Explorer, Other Improvements | 16 Feb 2019 |
| Microsoft Developer: You Still Should Have Anti-Virus With Windows Subsystem For Linux | 14 Feb 2019 |
| FAudio Sees Its Initial Release As Microsoft XAudio Reimplementation | 01 Jan 2019 |
| Microsoft Had Another Year Of Big Open-Source Surprises | 25 Dec 2018 |
| Microsoft Announces "Project Mu" For Open-Source UEFI Alternative To TianoCore | 19 Dec 2018 |
| Microsoft Is Going Ahead And Rebuilding Edge Browser Atop Chromium | 06 Dec 2018 |
| Microsoft Makes Open-Source Windows Forms, WinUI, WPF | 04 Dec 2018 |
| Microsoft's New Open-Source Project Is "Shader Conductor" For Cross-Compiling HLSL | 13 Nov 2018 |
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173 Articles |
| Mozilla |
| Firefox 66 Arrives - Blocks Auto-Playing Sounds, Hides Title Bar By Default For Linux | 19 Mar 2019 |
| Firefox 65.0 Released With WebP Support, Better Security | 29 Jan 2019 |
| Thunderbird In 2019 To Focus On Performance & UI/UX Improvements | 02 Jan 2019 |
| Firefox 64.0 Released | 11 Dec 2018 |
| Mozilla Now Ships Firefox Nightly Builds With Wayland Enabled | 16 Nov 2018 |
| WebP Image Support Appears Ready For Firefox 65 | 01 Nov 2018 |
| WebRender Reaches Beta For GPU-Accelerated Web Rendering In Firefox | 26 Oct 2018 |
| Firefox 63.0 Available With WebExtensions On Linux Now Run In Their Own Process | 22 Oct 2018 |
| Mozilla Begins Slowly Enabling WebRender For Some Users | 13 Sep 2018 |
| Firefox Is Now Built With Clang+LTO Everywhere, Sizable Performance Wins For Linux | 12 Sep 2018 |
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285 Articles |
| Multimedia |
| SVT-AV1 Performance Continues Speeding Ahead, Xeon/EPYC Video Encode Benchmarks | 11 Mar 2019 |
| Ubuntu Studio Runs Into Troubles With None Of Their Developers Having Upload Rights | 08 Mar 2019 |
| DAV1D v0.2 AV1 Video Decoder Released With SSSE3 & NEON Optimizations | 04 Mar 2019 |
| 27 CPUs Benchmarked With AOM AV1, Intel SVT VP9/AV1/HEVC Video Encoders | 04 Mar 2019 |
| Flowblade 2.0 GTK3-Based Linux Video Editor Now Available | 05 Feb 2019 |
| VLC 4.0 Media Player Eyeing New User Interface, Better Wayland Support & VR/3D | 05 Feb 2019 |
| Kodi 18.0 Released With Reworked Wayland Platform, Retroplayer Gaming Support | 29 Jan 2019 |
| Initial Allwinner H6 Video Decode Support Posted For The Cedrus VPU Driver | 29 Jan 2019 |
| MythTV 30.0 Released With Front-End Support For Select Android TV Devices | 25 Jan 2019 |
| GStreamer 1.15.1 Released With Work On AV1, V4L HEVC Encode/Decode | 19 Jan 2019 |
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331 Articles |
| Nouveau |
| Nouveau NIR Support Lands In Mesa 19.1 Git | 17 Mar 2019 |
| Nouveau NIR Support Slated To Land In Mesa 19.1 Over The Days Ahead | 12 Mar 2019 |
| Nouveau Changes Sent In To DRM-Next For Linux 5.1 - Biggest Update In Several Releases | 18 Feb 2019 |
| Nouveau Driver Picks Up SVM Support Via HMM | 15 Feb 2019 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" DRM Changes Begin Queuing Ahead Of Linux 5.1 | 13 Feb 2019 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA X.Org Driver Updated With DP MST, DRI3 Improvements | 29 Jan 2019 |
| Nouveau Open-Source Driver Will Now Work With NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti On Linux 5.0 | 18 Jan 2019 |
| Google Devs Call Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Unstable, Nouveau Blacklisted By Chrome | 05 Jan 2019 |
| Nouveau Picks Up NV_shader_atomic_float For Fermi/Kepler GPUs | 27 Dec 2018 |
| Nouveau Lands Initial Open-Source NVIDIA Turing Support - But No GPU Acceleration | 11 Dec 2018 |
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409 Articles |
| NVIDIA |
| NVIDIA Releases Nsight Graphics 2019.2 With Vulkan Profiling Support | 23 Mar 2019 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA PhysX 4.1 Released | 21 Mar 2019 |
| NVIDIA 418.56 Linux Driver Released With GeForce MX230 / MX250 Support | 20 Mar 2019 |
| NVIDIA Shows Off Quake II Path-Traced Using Vulkan RTX/Ray-Tracing | 19 Mar 2019 |
| NVIDIA 418.49.04 Linux Driver Brings Host Query Reset & YCbCr Image Arrays | 17 Mar 2019 |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Launches - Linux Benchmarks Coming | 14 Mar 2019 |
| NVIDIA Confirms It's Acquiring Mellanox | 11 Mar 2019 |
| NVIDIA Kepler Mainline Driver Support Nears Retirement, Starting With Notebook GPUs | 09 Mar 2019 |
| NVIDIA Linux 418.42.02 Driver Fixes Vulkan Compiler Crash | 02 Mar 2019 |
| NVIDIA Has Been Working On A New Fortran "f18" Compiler It Wants To Contribute To LLVM | 01 Mar 2019 |
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791 Articles |
| Operating Systems |
| Solus 4 Officially Released With Updated Budgie Desktop, Linux 4.20 Kernel | 18 Mar 2019 |
| Knoppix 8.5 Live Linux Distro Released, Based On Linux 4.20, Adds Adriane Audio Desktop | 16 Mar 2019 |
| Haiku's USB 3.0+ Support Is Finally In Great Shape | 10 Mar 2019 |
| Purism's PureOS Proclaims Convergence Success For Mobile & Desktop Support | 06 Mar 2019 |
| Haiku OS Seeing USB3 Improvements, BFS Resizing Code Revisited | 04 Mar 2019 |
| ReactOS 0.4.11 "Open-Source Windows" Available With Big Kernel Improvements | 03 Mar 2019 |
| Genode OS 19.02 Released With Sculpt OS Improvements, Java Availability | 28 Feb 2019 |
| Mageia 7.0 Beta 2 Released - Powered By Linux 4.20, Mesa 19.0-rc | 24 Feb 2019 |
| Redox OS Exploring Coreboot Payload, Other Improvements | 23 Feb 2019 |
| Don't Look For Gentoo's CPU Optimization Options To Land In The Mainline Linux Kernel | 23 Feb 2019 |
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694 Articles |
| Oracle |
| Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 5 Update 1 Released - Improves AArch64, DTrace | 19 Dec 2018 |
| VirtualBox 6.0 Released With Better HiDPI Support, VMSVGA 3D Graphics On Linux | 18 Dec 2018 |
| VirtualBox 6.0 Beta 3 Released: Enables VMSVGA Device By Default, OCI Improvements | 01 Dec 2018 |
| Oracle Exploring DTrace With eBPF | 21 Nov 2018 |
| VirtualBox 6.0 Beta 2 Adds File Manager For Host/Guest File Copies, OS/2 Shared Folder | 15 Nov 2018 |
| Oracles Pushes VirtualBox 6.0 Into Public Beta | 23 Oct 2018 |
| VirtualBox DRM Driver Gets Patches To Go Atomic, Promote Out Of Staging | 27 Sep 2018 |
| Java 11 Released As The First Java LTS Release | 25 Sep 2018 |
| Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU1 Released | 24 Sep 2018 |
| Oracle Solaris 11.4 Officially Released | 28 Aug 2018 |
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217 Articles |
| Phoronix |
| Linux 5.0, Radeon VII, Intel Iris Driver & Other Exciting Milestones In February | 28 Feb 2019 |
| Linux 5.0, RTX 2060, ZoL & Other Topics Dominating Discussions For January | 01 Feb 2019 |
| Linux 4.20, Debian, Intel, x32, Microsft's Actions & STIBP Topics Rounded Out 2018 | 01 Jan 2019 |
| That's A Wrap For 2018 With 3,693 News Articles, 314 Linux Hardware Reviews/Benchmarks | 31 Dec 2018 |
| Happy Holidays As We Wrap Up 2018, Looking Ahead To An Exciting 2019 | 25 Dec 2018 |
| Linux's Slowdown, Raptor's Talos II, Clear Linux & Other Dominating Topics This Month | 30 Nov 2018 |
| NVIDIA RTX, AMD On Linux & Distro Performance Dominated Linux Discussions In October | 01 Nov 2018 |
| Speck, Steam Play, RTX 2080 & Linux Kernel Activity Dominated The Scene In September | 01 Oct 2018 |
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| The First Test Release Of Phoronix Test Suite 8.8 Plus Exciting New Benchmarks | 17 Mar 2019 |
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| The Many Phoronix Test Suite Improvements In 2018 For Open-Source Benchmarking | 02 Jan 2019 |
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| Programming |
| Meson 0.50 Build System Brings PGI Compiler Support, Various Fortran Improvements & CUDA | 10 Mar 2019 |
| Rust 1.33 Released With Pinning, Library Stabilizations | 28 Feb 2019 |
| Compiler Fuzzing With Prog-Fuzz Is Turning Up Bugs In GCC, Clang | 24 Jun 2018 |
| Python 3.7 Release Candidate Arrives, Final Expected At The End Of June | 13 Jun 2018 |
| Rust 1.26 Continues With Speed Improvements, Adds Support For 128-Bit Integers | 10 May 2018 |
| HHVM 3.25 Released, Now Defaults To PHP7 Mode | 16 Mar 2018 |
| Rust Gets A 2018 Roadmap, Big "Productivity" Edition Planned This Year | 12 Mar 2018 |
| C++17 Is Now Official | 04 Dec 2017 |
| PHP 7.2 Is One Step Away From Release | 12 Nov 2017 |
| uClibc Is Still Around As A Lightweight C Standard Library | 29 Oct 2017 |
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| Proprietary Software |
| 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 |
| Apple Unveils "Metal 2" Graphics API, Better Performance & Capabilities For VR | 05 Jun 2017 |
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| Qt |
| Qt 5.13 Beta Released | 19 Mar 2019 |
| Qt 5.13's Lottie Support Is Ready To Easily Play Portable Animations | 09 Mar 2019 |
| Qt Publishes A 2019 Public Roadmap: More Work On WebAssembly, Tooling | 22 Feb 2019 |
| Qt Creator 4.9 Beta Brings Expanded LSP Support, Perf Profiling, C++ Improvements | 21 Feb 2019 |
| Qt 5.13 Alpha Released With WebAssembly Preview, Qt Lottie Technical Preview | 13 Feb 2019 |
| Qt 5.12.1 LTS Released With Around 300 Bug Fixes | 01 Feb 2019 |
| Qt Design Studio 1.1 Beta Released - Now Includes Linux Packages | 01 Feb 2019 |
| Qt Is Working On An HTTP Web Server Module | 25 Jan 2019 |
| Qt 5.13 Slated To Deliver Many WebAssembly Improvements | 22 Jan 2019 |
| Qt 5.13 Might Add QTelemetry For Opt-In Anonymous Data Collection | 17 Jan 2019 |
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| Radeon |
| More AMD FreeSync Patches Likely Coming To Linux 5.2 | 23 Mar 2019 |
| AMDVLK Has A Small Weekly Code Push For GDC 2019 Week | 22 Mar 2019 |
| Radeon GPU Analyzer 2.1 Adds Vulkan Support In Its GUI, Other Debug Improvements | 20 Mar 2019 |
| xf86-video-ati / xf86-video-amdgpu 19.0.1 Released To Better Deal With DP MST Displays | 19 Mar 2019 |
| Interested In FreeSync With The RADV Vulkan Driver? Testing Help Is Needed | 18 Mar 2019 |
| AMDVLK 2019.Q1.8 Enables Six More Vulkan Extensions, Fixes Bugs | 15 Mar 2019 |
| Radeon/AMDGPU X.Org Drivers Add TILE Property Support For Tiled Monitors | 14 Mar 2019 |
| AMDGPU For Linux 5.1 Tweaks The Golden Settings For Vega, Corrects Fiji Power Reading | 14 Mar 2019 |
| Radeon ROCm 2.2 Released With Vega 20 Optimization, Caffe2 Multi-GPU Training | 13 Mar 2019 |
| Updated Vega 20 Firmware Binaries & Other AMDGPU Files Land In Linux-Firmware.Git | 12 Mar 2019 |
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| Red Hat |
| Plymouth Lands Its Tighter Integration With UEFI Flicker-Free Boot Experience | 05 Dec 2018 |
| Red Hat Developers Working Towards A Vendor-Neutral Compute Stack To Take On NVIDIA's CUDA | 17 Nov 2018 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta Released With Stratis, Yum 4, Application Streams | 15 Nov 2018 |
| Plymouth 0.9.4 Boot Splash Released, First Update In A Year & Adds DRM Preferred Mode | 06 Nov 2018 |
| IBM Announces Deal To Acquire Red Hat At $34 Billion | 28 Oct 2018 |
| Red Hat Continues Advancing GFS2 File-System Capabilities | 26 Oct 2018 |
| Red Hat & NVIDIA To Collaborate On Some Open-Source Efforts | 23 Oct 2018 |
| Red Hat's Stratis Storage Project Reaches Its 1.0 Stable Milestone | 02 Oct 2018 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Beta Updates Cockpit, Adds Podman | 22 Aug 2018 |
| Silverblue Still Aiming To Be In Great Shape By Fedora 30 Next Spring | 18 Aug 2018 |
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| 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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| Security |
| Linux 5.1 Getting A Minor Spectre V2 Retpolines Optimization For Select Instances | 08 Mar 2019 |
| Intel CPUs Reportedly Vulnerable To New "SPOILER" Speculative Attack | 05 Mar 2019 |
| WireGuard Released For macOS, WireGuard Windows Coming & Linux Kernel Bits Still Pending | 17 Feb 2019 |
| Google Details Their New Adiantum Encryption For Low-End Android Devices | 07 Feb 2019 |
| Linux Kernel Getting New Option So SSBD Isn't Over-Protective - Helping Performance | 31 Jan 2019 |
| Benchmarking The Current Spectre + Meltdown Performance Overhead For 10 GbE Networking | 26 Jan 2019 |
| Livepatching With Linux 5.1 To Support Atomic Replace & Cumulative Patches | 20 Jan 2019 |
| OPTPOLINES - Formerly Relpolines, Lower Overhead To Retpolines For Spectre Mitigation | 31 Dec 2018 |
| NXP PowerPC Processors Finally Being Mitigated Against Spectre V2 With Linux 4.21 | 27 Dec 2018 |
| University Researchers Publish Paper On GPU Side-Channel Attacks | 15 Nov 2018 |
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| Standards |
| OpenXR 0.90 Released For AR/VR Standard - Monado Is An Open-Source Implementation | 18 Mar 2019 |
| AV1 Image File Format v1.0 Finalized | 28 Feb 2019 |
| Coroutines & Modules Added For C++20 | 23 Feb 2019 |
| OpenCL 2.2-10 Released With Fixes | 19 Feb 2019 |
| Khronos Gears Up For A Busy GDC 2019 With Vulkan, OpenXR | 24 Jan 2019 |
| PortableCL Continues Marching Towards The POCL 1.3 Release | 20 Jan 2019 |
| Khronos Exploring New Industry Standard For Heterogeneous Communications | 16 Jan 2019 |
| Vulkan/OpenCL Interop Extension In Development, OpenCL-Next Continues | 02 Jan 2019 |
| Khronos Seeking Feedback On KTX2 Specification For Storing Textures For OpenGL/Vulkan | 15 Dec 2018 |
| RenderDoc 1.2 Released For This Powerful Open-Source Graphics Debugging Tool | 01 Dec 2018 |
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| SUSE |
| SUSE Marks Its New Independence Under EQT Ownership | 15 Mar 2019 |
| OpenSUSE Leap 15.1 Reaches Beta Milestone | 20 Feb 2019 |
| OpenSUSE Looking At Blacklisting Legacy & Less Secure File-Systems | 09 Feb 2019 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP1 Beta Bringing Java 11, LLVM 7, BCache Installer Support | 20 Dec 2018 |
| OpenSUSE Begins Preparing For Leap 15.1 (15 Service Pack 1) | 17 Oct 2018 |
| SUSE Continues Working On Transactional Updates With Btrfs | 02 Sep 2018 |
| OpenSUSE Kubic Shifts Focus Following Self-Reflection | 09 Aug 2018 |
| SUSE Sold Off To Swedish Private Equity Fund | 02 Jul 2018 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Officially Released | 26 Jun 2018 |
| OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Jumps On Linux 4.17, KDE Plasma 5.13 Riding Well | 20 Jun 2018 |
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| systemd |
| Systemd's Nspawn Lands OCI Runtime Support | 21 Mar 2019 |
| L2TP Tunnel Support Added To Systemd | 14 Mar 2019 |
| Systemd Lands Support For "XBOOTLDR" Extended Boot Loader | 01 Mar 2019 |
| Systemd 241 Released With Security Fixes & Other Changes | 14 Feb 2019 |
| Systemd 241 RC2 Released With Its Beefed Up Security | 30 Jan 2019 |
| Systemd 241 Release Candidate Now Available For Testing | 26 Jan 2019 |
| Systemd 241 Paired With Linux 4.19+ To Enable New Regular File & FIFO Protection | 17 Jan 2019 |
| Systemd 241 Being Prepared With "System Down" Security Fixes | 13 Jan 2019 |
| Dbus Broker 17 Released - No Longer Depends On Glib, Better Isolation With Systemd | 01 Jan 2019 |
| Systemd Hits A High Point For Number Of New Commits & Contributors During 2018 | 28 Dec 2018 |
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| Ubuntu |
| Ubuntu 14.04.6 LTS Released | 07 Mar 2019 |
| Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 Released With Browser Improvements | 06 Mar 2019 |
| Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS Released With APT Vulnerability Fix, Other Security Updates Included | 28 Feb 2019 |
| Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 Won't Move To Mir 1.1 + Unity 8 Due To Qualcomm Binary Blob Issues | 26 Feb 2019 |
| Unexpected Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS Coming Due To APT Security Issue | 23 Feb 2019 |
| It's Still Undecided Whether Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Will Support 32-bit x86 (i386) | 18 Feb 2019 |
| Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS Now Available With The New HWE Stack | 14 Feb 2019 |
| Ubuntu Developers Seem To Be Really Pursuing ZFS Root Partition Support On The Desktop | 12 Feb 2019 |
| Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS Working To Be Released This Week With New Hardware Enablement Stack | 11 Feb 2019 |
| Ubuntu's Work On New Desktop Installer Continues, Evaluating ZFS Desktop Support | 05 Feb 2019 |
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| Valve |
| Proton 3.16-8 Available With DXVK 1.0, Unity Game Fixes | 08 Mar 2019 |
| Valve's Steam Numbers For February Show A Small Dip In Linux Gaming Percentage | 01 Mar 2019 |
| Proton 3.16-7 Updates Against DXVK 0.96, New FAudio | 15 Feb 2019 |
| Valve Publishes Initial Steam Linux Figures For 2019 | 01 Feb 2019 |
| Steam Beta Update Now Allows Per-Game Enabling Of Steam Play, Other Improvements | 17 Jan 2019 |
| Steam Client Beta Updated With Many Linux Fixes, Vulkan Caching Updates | 16 Jan 2019 |
| Steam On Linux Usage Ended 2018 At Around 0.82% | 01 Jan 2019 |
| Proton 3.16-6 Beta Improves Several Windows Games On Linux During Steam's Winter Sale | 21 Dec 2018 |
| Valve's Steam Link For Raspberry Pi Now Available | 13 Dec 2018 |
| Valve Rolls Out New Steam Play Proton 3.16 Beta, 29 More Games Supported | 11 Dec 2018 |
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| VIA |
| Even In 2019, A Long Road Still For Getting The VIA OpenChrome Driver In Linux | 09 Jan 2019 |
| OpenChrome DRM Driver To Go Through A GEM/TTM Code Rewrite | 05 Aug 2018 |
| It's Still Going To Be Tough Getting The OpenChrome VIA KMS Driver In The Linux Kernel | 28 May 2018 |
| VIA Joins In The AI Race, Linux/Android Support For Their New Developer Kit | 10 May 2018 |
| OpenChrome DRM Driver To Work On New GEM/TTM Code, Regression Fixes | 12 Mar 2018 |
| OpenChrome KMS Can Now Do Runtime Resolution Changes, Hopes To Go Mainline In 2018 | 11 Mar 2018 |
| OpenChrome DRM Still Aiming For Mainline Kernel, But Initially Will Lack 2D Acceleration | 02 Mar 2018 |
| OpenChrome DRM Continues To Be Developed, But It Didn't Make It Mainline This Year | 26 Dec 2017 |
| OpenChrome DRM Still Being Ported To Newer Kernel, Lengthy Process | 25 Aug 2017 |
| OpenChrome Still Pushing For DRM Kernel Driver, Updated DDX | 04 Aug 2017 |
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| Virtualization |
| NVMe VFIO Mediated Device Support Being Hacked On For Lower Latency Storage In VMs | 22 Mar 2019 |
| The KVM Changes Aren't Too Notable For Linux 5.1, But Many x86 Cleanups | 17 Mar 2019 |
| Ubuntu Desktop To Auto-Install Necessary VM Tools/Drivers When Running On VMware | 14 Mar 2019 |
| QEMU's EDID Support Coming Together, Allowing For Eventual HiDPI Support | 09 Mar 2019 |
| Linux 5.1 Will Make It Easier To Investigate Hyper-V Performance Issues | 03 Mar 2019 |
| Preliminary Support Allows Linux KVM To Boot Xen HVM Guests | 21 Feb 2019 |
| Virgl Lands A Number Of Performance Optimizations In Mesa 19.1 | 15 Feb 2019 |
| LXD For Linux Containers Had A Very Fruitful 2018 | 04 Feb 2019 |
| VIRTIO 1.1 Standard Moving Closer To Release With GPU Device, Better Performance | 26 Jan 2019 |
| Many Linux x86_64 KVM Changes Ready To Go For Linux 4.21 | 24 Dec 2018 |
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| Vulkan |
| Primus-VK: PRIME-Style GPU Offloading For Vulkan | 23 Mar 2019 |
| vkOpenArena: The ioquake3-Powered OpenArena Game Gets Ported To Vulkan | 23 Mar 2019 |
| Vulkan 1.1.105 Adds New Extensions For Google Games Platform (Stadia) | 20 Mar 2019 |
| Qt 3D Pairs Nicely With Vulkan & NVIDIA RTX To Make A Beautiful Path Tracer | 18 Mar 2019 |
| The-Forge Rendering Framework Refactors Input, Adds Other New Features | 18 Mar 2019 |
| Vulkan 1.1.104 Brings Native HDR, Exclusive Fullscreen Extensions | 17 Mar 2019 |
| DXVK 1.0.1 Released With Various Game Fixes For Direct3D On Vulkan | 14 Mar 2019 |
| LunarG Contributes Their Vulkan SDK To The Khronos Group | 04 Mar 2019 |
| Vulkan 1.1.102 Released With Apple Metal Surface Extension | 04 Mar 2019 |
| DXVK 1.0 Released For Running Direct3D 10/11 Atop Vulkan | 25 Feb 2019 |
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| Wayland |
| Libinput 1.13 RC2 Better Detects Triple Taps | 22 Mar 2019 |
| Wayland 1.17 Released With Updated Protocol & Other Improvements | 21 Mar 2019 |
| The Greenfield Wayland Compositor Can Now Run Apps Directly In Your Web Browser | 20 Mar 2019 |
| Wayland 1.17 & Weston 6.0 Gear Up To Release Next Week | 15 Mar 2019 |
| Sway 1.0 Released For This i3-Compatible Wayland Compositor | 11 Mar 2019 |
| Wayland 1.17 + Weston 6.0 Reach Beta | 07 Mar 2019 |
| Wayland 1.17 & Weston 6.0 Reach Alpha, Officially Releasing Next Month | 19 Feb 2019 |
| Wayland's Weston 6.0 To Support XDG-Shell Stable, Helping Apps Like MPV Video Player | 16 Feb 2019 |
| Mir 1.1.1 RC1 Has Fixes For PostmarketOS, Demo Shells Using Wayland | 15 Feb 2019 |
| Sway 1.0 Close To Release For This Very Promising Wayland Compositor | 11 Feb 2019 |
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| WINE |
| CrossOver 18.5 Released - Based On Wine 4.0 While Pulling In FAudio | 21 Mar 2019 |
| Wine Has Landed The Necessary Patches For Vulkan 1.1 Support | 20 Mar 2019 |
| Wine-Staging 4.4 Down To 770 Patch Delta, Addresses Six Year Old Bug About Silverlight | 17 Mar 2019 |
| Wine 4.4 Adds More Media Foundation APIs, Tool To Manipulate MSI Databases | 15 Mar 2019 |
| Wine-Staging 4.3 Sees More Work Upstreamed While Adding In A Number Of New Patches | 03 Mar 2019 |
| Wine 4.3 Released With FAudio Implementing XAudio2, 45 Bug Fixes | 01 Mar 2019 |
| D9VK Forming As Direct3D 9 Over Vulkan Based On DXVK | 01 Mar 2019 |
| Raptor Engineering Helping To Improve POWER Support In Wine, Eyes Hangover | 26 Feb 2019 |
| FAudio Lands In Wine For New XAudio2 Re-Implementation | 25 Feb 2019 |
| Work-In-Progress "DXVK-Native" Allows For Better Wine/System Integration | 23 Feb 2019 |
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| X.Org |
| X.Org Server Gets New Option For Specifying Screen Size On Headless Systems | 07 Mar 2019 |
| X.Org Server 1.19.7 Released With A Fix For The Two Decade Old SiS 6326 | 03 Mar 2019 |
| X11 Display Manager Sees Its First Update In Seven Years | 02 Mar 2019 |
| X.Org Server 1.20.4 Released With XWayland Fixes | 26 Feb 2019 |
| X.Org "Katamari" Releases Are Officially Dead | 24 Feb 2019 |
| Waffle Is Still Cooking For X11/Wayland Agnostic OpenGL/GLES Apps | 04 Feb 2019 |
| Libinput Working On User-Space Support For High Resolution Scroll Wheels | 25 Jan 2019 |
| Is It Worth Releasing X.Org Server Updates For Old Branches To Help Vintage Hardware? | 03 Jan 2019 |
| The X.Org Server Continues Cruising Along As We Approach 2019 | 28 Dec 2018 |
| Imagine 128 & Matrox Linux X.Org Display Drivers See Updates For The 2018 Holidays | 08 Dec 2018 |
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