Phoronix News Archive

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AMD
For Now At Least AMD CPUs Are Also Reported As "Insecure"02 Jan 2018
There's One Big Feature Left For The Radeon Linux Driver Left To Tackle In 201829 Dec 2017
AMD Pushes Out Their First Post-Release Update Of AMDVLK/XGL28 Dec 2017
The Most-Viewed AMD/Radeon Linux Stories Of 201726 Dec 2017
AMD Queues More AMDKFD HSA Kernel Driver Changes For Linux 4.1625 Dec 2017
Endless Computer Is Looking Forward To Using AMDGPU DC22 Dec 2017
Radeon GPU Profiler Updated For Better Profiling Of Vulkan Games13 Dec 2017
AMD Reportedly Allows Disabling PSP Secure Processor With Latest AGESA07 Dec 2017
AMD Raven Ridge APU Firmware Added To Linux-Firmware.Git04 Dec 2017
AMD Announces The Radeon Software Adrenalin Driver30 Nov 2017

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899 Articles
BSD
Intel Coffee Lake Graphics Support Added To DragonFlyBSD03 Jan 2018
NetBSD 7.1.1 Released28 Dec 2017
FreeBSD Had A Busy Q3'2017 With AMD Zen Improvements, Intel iWARP26 Dec 2017
FreeBSD Looks At Making Wayland Support Available By Default22 Dec 2017
The BSDs Had A Wild 2017: FreeBSD 11.1, TrueOS & More18 Dec 2017
FreeBSD-Based TrueOS 17.12 Released14 Dec 2017
FreeNAS 11.1 Rolls Out With Better OpenZFS Performance, Docker Support13 Dec 2017
OpenBSD Now Officially Supports 64-bit ARM10 Dec 2017
DTrace & ZFS Being Updated On NetBSD, Moving Away From Old OpenSolaris Code08 Dec 2017
DragonFlyBSD Now Supports Up To 64TB Of RAM04 Dec 2017

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476 Articles
Coreboot
Flashrom 1.0 Officially Released For Programming BIOS/EFI/ROM Flash Chips02 Jan 2018
Intel NUC DCP847SKE Now Supported By Coreboot26 Dec 2017
Coreboot Picks Up Support For Some Older ThinkPads21 Dec 2017
Coreboot Conference 2017 Videos Now Available11 Dec 2017
Another Ivy Bridge Era Motherboard Now Supported By Coreboot - ASRock B75 Pro3-M21 Aug 2017
Coreboot Now Has Basic UEFI Support Working With TianoCore12 Aug 2017
Cannonlake Enablement Continues In Coreboot; Still No Sign Of Ryzen For Coreboot13 Jul 2017
More Librem 13 Enablement Lands In Coreboot17 Jun 2017
Librem 13 v2 Support Lands In Upstream Coreboot09 Jun 2017
Coreboot Joins The Software Freedom Conservancy01 Jun 2017

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149 Articles
Debian
Debian Salsa Is Served Out On A Beta Dish25 Dec 2017
Debian Had A Successful 2017 With The Release Of "Stretch"19 Dec 2017
Debian 9.3 Released With Bug Fixes, Security Updates09 Dec 2017
Debian Installer Buster Alpha 2 Released06 Dec 2017
Sources.Debian.Org Launches To Provide Easy Access To Debian Source Code05 Dec 2017
Debian 9.2 Released07 Oct 2017
Debian 10 "Buster" Switches GNOME Session To Wayland By Default06 Sep 2017
The First Alpha Of Debian 10 "Buster" Installer03 Sep 2017
Debian Celebrates Its 24th Birthday16 Aug 2017
Debian Buster Hopes To Drop Qt415 Aug 2017

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231 Articles
Desktop
Arcan 0.5.4 Display Server Released With Durden 0.4 Desktop31 Dec 2017
Schaller On Why The "Year Of The Linux Desktop" Hasn't Happened19 Dec 2017
GIMP 2.9.8 Released With On-Canvas Gradient Editing, Wayland Support12 Dec 2017
Darktable 2.4-RC1 Rolls Out With Windows Support, OpenCL Improvements11 Dec 2017
System76 Rolls Out Its New HiDPI Daemon10 Dec 2017
Enlightenment 0.22 Available For Download06 Nov 2017
Enlightenment 22 Is Packing Much Better Wayland Support, Meson Build System04 Nov 2017
LXQt 0.12 released With Better HiDPI Support, More Robust21 Oct 2017
Xfce Gets Notification Improvements With xfce4-notifyd 0.418 Oct 2017
QupZilla 2.2 Released As The Browser's Last09 Oct 2017

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290 Articles
Fedora
Fedora 28 To Work On Better VirtualBox Integration, Hardening Packages & Stronger Crypto04 Jan 2018
Fedora Rawhide Flips On New SATA Power Management Policy25 Dec 2017
Here's How Fedora Plans To Reapproach Their Modular Server Plans19 Dec 2017
Fedora Linux Had Another Innovative Year15 Dec 2017
Fedora 27 Modular Server Gets Canned; Fedora 27 Server Classic Released12 Dec 2017
Red Hat Plans To Deploy Next-Gen Stratis Storage For Fedora 2806 Dec 2017
Fedora 28 Looks To Improve The Initial Setup Process04 Dec 2017
Fedora 28 Gets New Features Approved, Extra Week For Bug Fixing/Testing02 Dec 2017
Mir Lands In The Fedora Repository28 Nov 2017
Fedora Rawhide Begins Offering Packaged Rust Applications27 Nov 2017

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736 Articles
Free Software
Calamares 3.2 Upgraded Linux Installer Could Be Here In March03 Jan 2018
Git 2.16 Steps Out With Its First Release Candidate29 Dec 2017
BlueZ 5.48 Brings New Features27 Dec 2017
GIMP 2.10 Steps Closer To Release With String Freeze24 Dec 2017
Darktable 2.4 Released With Many New Features, Windows Support24 Dec 2017
Blender 2.8 Is Coming In 2018 With Huge Improvements23 Dec 2017
Opus 1.3 Audio Codec Reaches Beta22 Dec 2017
POCL 1.0 Released With Experimental CUDA Backend, OpenCL 1.2 Conformance19 Dec 2017
The Smallest Server Suite 23.3 Released17 Dec 2017
Schaller On Linux In 2018: Rust Rules, Apple Declines, Linux Graphics Compete16 Dec 2017

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1375 Articles
General
FP64 Support Finally Lands In Mesa Git For Intel Haswell03 Jan 2017

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1 Articles
GNOME
GNOME's BuildStream Reaches v1.003 Jan 2018
Glade 3.21 Released For Whipping Up GTK3 Interfaces30 Dec 2017
GTK4 Picks Up More OpenGL Renderer Improvements, Glyph Cache22 Dec 2017
Builder IDE Becoming More Capable In GNOME 3.2819 Dec 2017
GNOME's Mutter Now Supports XWayland Keyboard Grabbing, XDG-Output18 Dec 2017
GIMP Picks Up Support For The New Flatpak/FreeDesktop.org Screenshot API17 Dec 2017
GNOME 3.27.3 Brings More Meson Ports, Redesign To DConf Editor16 Dec 2017
NetworkManager Picks Up Support For Intel's IWD WiFi Daemon & Meson Build System13 Dec 2017
Flatpak'ed Epiphany Browser Becomes More Useful12 Dec 2017
GTK4, GNOME's Wayland Support & Vulkan Renderer Topped GNOME In 201710 Dec 2017

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843 Articles
GNU
ARM Preps ARMv8.4-A Support For GCC Compiler04 Jan 2018
GCC 7.3 Is Being Released Next Month18 Dec 2017
Glibc 2.27 Lands Yet More Performance Optimizations17 Dec 2017
GCC Prepares For Fortran 2018 Support17 Dec 2017
GNUstep Takes Another Step Forward For Implementing Apple's Cocoa Frameworks11 Dec 2017
RMS Comments, GRUB, Libreboot & GCC Dominated GNU Talk In 201709 Dec 2017
Intel Continues Tuning Glibc's Performance: More FMA'ing08 Dec 2017
GNU Guix / Guix SD 0.14 Released: ARM Port Coming, New Services07 Dec 2017
Skylake AVX-512 Benchmarks With GCC 8.028 Nov 2017
Bye Bye Cilk Plus: GCC Lightened By 82k L.O.C.28 Nov 2017

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542 Articles
Google
Google Makes Disclosure About The CPU Vulnerability Affecting Intel / AMD / ARM03 Jan 2018
Chrome 64 Beta Brings Stronger Pop-Up Blocker, JavaScript Improvements14 Dec 2017
GAPID 1.0 Released As Google's Cross-Platform Vulkan Debugger13 Dec 2017
Chrome 63 Beta Rolls Out With Dynamic Module Imports, Device Memory API27 Oct 2017
Google Even Fear Intel ME, Reduce Their Attack Vector With NERF27 Oct 2017
Android Studio 3.0 Released With Kotlin Support, Java 8 Features25 Oct 2017
Chrome 62 Promoted To Stable18 Oct 2017
Chrome Working On JPEG Encode Accelerator With VA-API/V4L2 Support18 Oct 2017
Chromium Appears To Be Advancing Their Linux VR State29 Sep 2017
Chrome 62 Beta Released With OpenType Font Variations, DOM Media Capture20 Sep 2017

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313 Articles
Hardware
Dell Rolls Out New XPS 13 Laptop For 201804 Jan 2018
Purism Planning To Release Their Librem Tablet In 201803 Jan 2018
Talk Of VIA Getting Back Into The x86 CPU Space With Zhaoxin01 Jan 2018
Linux Should Now Work For Some Knockoff PlayStation 3 Controllers15 Dec 2017
HP & ASUS Rollout Their ARM-Powered Laptops05 Dec 2017
System76 Will Begin Disabling Intel ME In Their Linux Laptops30 Nov 2017
Coreboot Picks Up Support For CompuLab's Intense-PC30 Nov 2017
Western Digital To Begin Shipping Devices Using RISC-V28 Nov 2017
HDMI 2.1 Specification Brings [email protected] / [email protected]28 Nov 2017
UPower 0.99.7 Brings Bluetooth LE Device Battery Support28 Nov 2017

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1189 Articles
Intel
Cannonlake/Icelake Desktop CPUs Won't Have PKU Memory Protection Support28 Dec 2017
Intel's Linux & Open-Source Advancements In 201727 Dec 2017
Intel Icelake Support Gets Further Into Shape For LLVM Clang 6.027 Dec 2017
Intel Submits Last Batch Of i915 DRM Feature Updates For Linux 4.1623 Dec 2017
Intel Posts Experimental Patches For Wayland/Weston/Mesa HDR21 Dec 2017
Intel Stages More DRM Improvements For Linux 4.1619 Dec 2017
Intel Rolls Out The Stratix 10 FPGA With HBM2 Memory18 Dec 2017
Intel Rolls Out Pentium Silver & Celeron CPUs Powered By Gemini Lake11 Dec 2017
ANV Enables UBO Pushing For Another Extra Bit Of Performance09 Dec 2017
Intel Stages More Graphics DRM Changes For Linux 4.1607 Dec 2017

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1261 Articles
KDE
Better Browser-Desktop Integration Coming For KDE Plasma 5.1303 Jan 2018
Krita 4.0 Is Aiming For Release In March29 Dec 2017
You Can Experiment With KDE 2.2.2 & Qt2 This Christmas24 Dec 2017
KDE Calligra 3.1 Preparing For Release In Early 201820 Dec 2017
KDE Partition Manager 3.3 Arrives With Initial LUKS2 Support17 Dec 2017
KDE Applications 17.12 Brings HiDPI Improvements, Rest Of KDE Games Ported To KF514 Dec 2017
KWin On Wayland Without X11 Support Can Startup So Fast It Causes Problems13 Dec 2017
KDE Wayland Began Taking Shape, More Music Players & Other KDE Happenings In 201712 Dec 2017
KDE Frameworks 5.41 Released Ahead Of KDE Applications 17.1210 Dec 2017
KDE's Elisa Music Player Prepares Its First Alpha Release09 Dec 2017

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715 Articles
LibreOffice
LibreOffice 6.0 Beta Available - Huge Open-Source Office Suite Update For 201825 Nov 2017
LibreOffice Calc Is Finally Being Threaded22 Nov 2017
LibreOffice Lands An Initial Qt5 Interface Plugin06 Nov 2017
LibreOffice Gets Flicker-Free OpenGL Transitions11 Sep 2017
LibreOffice 5.4 Released With New Standard Color Palette, Improved File Handling28 Jul 2017
LibreOffice 6.0 Is In Development12 Jun 2017
LibreOffice 5.4 Beta 1 Tagged, LibreOffice 5.5 On Main18 May 2017
A Look At Some Of The Changes So Far For LibreOffice 5.418 Apr 2017
LibreOffice 5.3 Released With A Plethora Of Improvements01 Feb 2017
LibreOffice 5.3 Is Coming This Week, A Look At The New Features30 Jan 2017

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93 Articles
Linux Events
Audio Recordings Posted For Linux Plumbers Conference 201725 Nov 2017
FOSDEM 2018 Will Be Hosting A Wayland / Mesa / Mir / X.Org Developer Room19 Nov 2017
Embedded Linux Conference Europe & Open-Source Summit Wrap Up In Prague29 Oct 2017
The Graphics Talks Of The 2017 Open-Source Summit NA16 Sep 2017
Phoronix Moscow Meetup - April 201730 Mar 2017
Linaro Connect Budapest '17 Slides & Videos11 Mar 2017
Embedded Linux Conference 2017 Videos Now Online02 Mar 2017
Mesa, Vulkan & Other Driver Talks From 2017 Embedded Linux Conference25 Feb 2017
There's One Week Until FOSDEM 201728 Jan 2017
Linux.Conf.Au 2017 Videos Now Available Online20 Jan 2017

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49 Articles
Linux Gaming
The Most Popular Linux Gaming News For 201730 Dec 2017
There Still Are Some Pain Points For Linux Gaming Moving Into 201830 Dec 2017
Unigine 2.6.1 Pushes The Jaw-Dropping Visuals With This Cross-Platform Game/Sim Engine27 Dec 2017
Godot 3.0 Game Engine Preparing To Ship In Early 201824 Dec 2017
Solus Releases Updated Linux Steam Integration With Snapd Support20 Dec 2017
Unity 2017.3 Released With Renderer Improvements, Better Particle System19 Dec 2017
ScummVM 2.0 Released To Relive Some Gaming Classics17 Dec 2017
OpenMW 0.43 Continues Advancing Open-Source Morrowind For Linux04 Dec 2017
Armory Is A Very Promising 3D Game Engine With Full Blender Integration01 Dec 2017
Godot 3.0 Game Engine Reaches Beta30 Nov 2017

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1466 Articles
Linux Kernel
Etnaviv DRM Updates Roll Out For Linux 4.1604 Jan 2018
More Linux Kernel & GCC Patches Come Out In The Wake Of Spectre+Meltdown04 Jan 2018
Linux Will End Up Disabling x86 PTI For AMD Processors - Update: Now Disabled03 Jan 2018
Linux Gaming Performance Doesn't Appear Affected By The x86 PTI Work02 Jan 2018
The Linux Kernel Gained 2.5 Million Lines Of Code, 71k Commits In 201701 Jan 2018
Linux 4.15-rc6 Released To Ring In 201831 Dec 2017
Generic FBDEV Emulation Proposed For DRM Drivers31 Dec 2017
Syzbot: Google Continuously Fuzzing The Linux Kernel28 Dec 2017
Linux 4.15-rc5 Released Early For Torvalds' Christmas Festivities24 Dec 2017
Damage Rectangle Interface Proposed For Atomic DRM Drivers21 Dec 2017

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1769 Articles
Linux Storage
Btrfs Gets A RAID1/10 Speed Patch, Helping Out SSDs27 Dec 2017
ZFS On Linux 0.7.4 Brings Linux 4.14 Support, Fixes15 Dec 2017
Linux File Systems for Windows: Use EXT4 / XFS / Btrfs On Windows08 Dec 2017
Loop-AES Updated For Linux 4.14~4.15 Kernel Compatibility05 Dec 2017
A Closed-Source Apple File-System APFS Driver For Linux Announced30 Nov 2017
Reiser4 Updated For Linux 4.14 & Introduces Zstd Compression Support27 Nov 2017
Funtin SFF-8639: U.2 NVMe SSD To PCI-E Card Adapter18 Nov 2017
F2FS For Linux 4.15 Brings Some Enhancements, Changes For Android16 Nov 2017
BCache Gets New Maintainer, NVMe Improvements & More For Linux 4.1515 Nov 2017
XFS For Linux 4.15 Brings "Great Scads of New Stuff"13 Nov 2017

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263 Articles
LLVM
LLVM 7.0 / Clang 7.0 Is Now Under Development03 Jan 2018
CIB: Getting The Clang Compiler To Run In A Web Browser01 Jan 2018
Features To Look Forward To With LLVM / Clang 6.031 Dec 2017
LLVM Clang Gets Support For Configuration Files30 Dec 2017
LLVM 6.0 Is Being Branched In One Week, LLVM 7.0 Development To Begin27 Dec 2017
LLVM Continued In Its Quest For Innovative Compiler Dominance In 201726 Dec 2017
LLVM 5.0.1 Released21 Dec 2017
Skylake Server Scheduler Model Updated In LLVM 6.0 Along With Other Intel CPU Updates10 Dec 2017
LLVM Clang 6.0 Now Defaults To C++1409 Dec 2017
LLVM 5.0.1 Expected For Release Next Week08 Dec 2017

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449 Articles
Mesa
RADV Supports Android Native Buffer, Increasing Likelihood Of Chrome/Android AMD Device04 Jan 2018
Mesa 17.3.2 Being Prepped With Fixes For RADV Vulkan, Unreal Engine 4 Games04 Jan 2018
Broadcom's Open-Source VC5 OpenGL & Vulkan Support Improving04 Jan 2018
10-bit Color Visual Support Lands In Mesa04 Jan 2018
Even With An Intel Core i9 7980XE, LLVMpipe Is Still Slow02 Jan 2018
Mesa Grew By Nearly 250,000 Lines Of Code In 2017 Across 10k Commits02 Jan 2018
Marek Boosts Glxgears Performance By 20% For Christmas25 Dec 2017
Freedreno Lands Context Priority Support25 Dec 2017
Semaphores Support Updated For RadeonSI Gallium3D23 Dec 2017
Mesa 17.2.8 Released With Just Over One Dozen Fixes23 Dec 2017

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1327 Articles
Microsoft
Microsoft Brings AMD EPYC To The Cloud05 Dec 2017
Microsoft's Linux / Open-Source Actions Of 201705 Dec 2017
The Maß Is Empty: Munich Switching Back To Windows After ~14 Years With Linux24 Nov 2017
Microsoft Is Trying To Make Windows Subsystem For Linux Faster (WSL)17 Nov 2017
Mono Developing A New .NET Interpreter13 Nov 2017
Microsoft Adds GCC ARM Cross-Compilation Support To Visual Studio03 Nov 2017
Open ZFS File-System Running On Windows24 Oct 2017
Microsoft Rolls Out A Preview Of The New Skype For Linux29 Sep 2017
Microsoft's Open-Source / Linux Announcements So Far In 201728 Sep 2017
Microsoft Becomes A "Premium Sponsor" To The Open Source Initiative26 Sep 2017

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135 Articles
Mozilla
Mozilla's WebRender Making Good Progress, Can Be Tested On Firefox Nightly27 Nov 2017
Pale Moon Project Rolls Out The Basilisk Browser Project17 Nov 2017
Mozilla Still Isn't Ready To Enable OpenGL By Default In Firefox For Linux16 Nov 2017
Quantum-ized Firefox 57 Ready For Download13 Nov 2017
Firefox 56.0 Is Ready Ahead Of The Big Quantum Update28 Sep 2017
Mozilla Firefox Finally Fixes An Awkward, 11 Year Old Linux Bug05 Sep 2017
Mozilla's Servo Made Several Advancements This Summer25 Aug 2017
Mozilla's Push For Super Fast CSS With Quantum/Stylo22 Aug 2017
Firefox 55 Is Ready To Shine With Performance Improvements07 Aug 2017
Rust-Written "Stylo" Servo Style System Now Available Via Firefox Nightly25 Jul 2017

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253 Articles
Multimedia
OpenShot Video Editor Planning For Many Improvements In 201801 Jan 2018
The Next MPV Player Release Will Offer Much Better Vulkan Support26 Dec 2017
MPV Player 0.28 Adds Initial Vulkan Support25 Dec 2017
VLC 3.0-RC3 Released With Hardware Decoding That Works On All Platforms25 Dec 2017
It Looks Like VLC 3.0 Will Finally Be Released Soon13 Dec 2017
FFmpeg Lands OpenCL Improvements23 Nov 2017
FFmpeg Continues Working Its "NVDEC" NVIDIA Video Decoding Into Shape22 Nov 2017
Tegra CEC Support & Other Media Updates For Linux 4.1516 Nov 2017
FFmpeg Lands NVDEC-Accelerated H.264 Decoding11 Nov 2017
Audacity 2.2 Released With New Themes, MIDI Playback & Other Changes04 Nov 2017

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268 Articles
Nouveau
Nouveau Persevered In 2017 For Open-Source NVIDIA But 2018 Could Be Much Better31 Dec 2017
Nouveau DRM Changes Being Worked On For Linux 4.1626 Dec 2017
Nouveau Developer Working On NIR For SPIR-V Compute, Step Towards Vulkan In The Future21 Dec 2017
NVIDIA's Open-Source Christmas: Experimental Allocator Driver For Nouveau20 Dec 2017
GeForce GTX 900 Series Re-Clocking Patches Updated By Karol Herbst17 Nov 2017
Nouveau DRM Changes Queued For Linux 4.1503 Nov 2017
Projects You Can Help With For Advancing Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Graphics16 Oct 2017
Nouveau Developers Remain Blocked By NVIDIA From Advancing Open-Source Driver23 Sep 2017
Experimental Nouveau Reclocking Patches Updated, Including For Maxwell GPUs16 Sep 2017
Nouveau DRM Wires In Pascal Temperature Sensor Support06 Sep 2017

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370 Articles
NVIDIA
NVIDIA 390.12 Linux Driver Reaches Beta04 Jan 2018
NVIDIA's New Allocator Library Will Need A Lot Of Work In 201829 Dec 2017
NVIDIA May Be Trying To Prevent GeForce GPUs From Being Used In Data Centers25 Dec 2017
NVIDIA To Stop Offering 32-bit Driver Support22 Dec 2017
NVIDIA Sends Out Signed Firmware Images For GP108 Pascal GPUs21 Dec 2017
Struggling Open-Source Support, Pascal Rocking & Other NVIDIA Linux Topics Of 201716 Dec 2017
NVIDIA Pushes Out CUDA 9.1 With Compiler Optimizations, Volta Enhancements & More12 Dec 2017
NVIDIA Launches The TITAN V Graphics Card At $2,999 USD08 Dec 2017
NVIDIA's Current Linux Driver Is Hungry For vRAM This Holiday30 Nov 2017
NVIDIA's New Memory Allocator Project To Be Standalone, Undecided On Name30 Nov 2017

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674 Articles
Operating Systems
Solus Experimenting With Qt Wayland Compositor, NVIDIA EGLStreams Support04 Jan 2018
OpenWRT + LEDE Move Ahead With Their Re-Merge03 Jan 2018
Linspire Is Back From The Dead In 201802 Jan 2018
Haiku OS Ends 2017 On A High Note With Better USB 3.0 & UEFI Abilities31 Dec 2017
Slax 9.3 Is The Latest In Resurrecting This Longtime, Lightweight Linux Distribution24 Dec 2017
Eelo: The Latest Linux Mobile Attempt, Led By Mandrake's Founder22 Dec 2017
FSF Adds Purism's PureOS To Their Approved List Of Operating Systems21 Dec 2017
Manjaro 17.1 Release Candidate 1 Arrives, GNOME Session Switches To Wayland17 Dec 2017
Amazon Linux 2 Rolls Out For EC2, On-Site Virtual Machine Images15 Dec 2017
Haiku OS Is Very Close To Their Long Awaited Beta, New Repository Working10 Dec 2017

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570 Articles
Oracle
Oracle Pushes Out Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R4U614 Dec 2017
VirtualBox DDX Released As xf86-video-vboxvideo 1.029 Nov 2017
Following RHEL, Oracle Linux 7 Brought To ARM29 Nov 2017
Longtime GNOME Contributor & Oracle Principal UX Designer Leaves The Company06 Nov 2017
Oracle Releases VM VirtualBox 5.218 Oct 2017
SPARC M8 Processors Launched18 Sep 2017
Oracle Now Supports Btrfs RAID5/6 On Their Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel17 Sep 2017
Oracle Punts Java EE To The Eclipse Foundation13 Sep 2017
SPARC Sees Updates For Linux 4.1410 Sep 2017
Oracle Linux 7 Update 4 Brings UEFI SecureBoot, USBGuard Added & Btrfs Supported09 Sep 2017

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181 Articles
Phoronix
Open-Source Driver Progress & Vulkan Dominated December01 Jan 2018
The Most Popular Articles On Phoronix In 201731 Dec 2017
Happy New Year's From Phoronix & Here's To An Awesome 201831 Dec 2017
A Decade Of Phoronix Article Statistics From 2007 To 201726 Dec 2017
Happy Holidays & Here's Our Offering As We End Out 201724 Dec 2017
Linux 4.15, Distro Performance & Open-Source Radeon Excitement Ends November30 Nov 2017
Coffee Lake, AMD EPYC & AMDGPU Dominated October01 Nov 2017
AMD EPYC, Linux 4.14, Librem 5, RX Vega & The Other Linux Highlights Of September01 Oct 2017
HTTPS By Default For Everyone23 Sep 2017
Ryzen 7, Threadripper & Radeon RX Vega Generated A Ton Of Linux Buzz01 Sep 2017

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571 Articles
Phoronix Test Suite
Phoronix Test Suite 7.6 Released07 Dec 2017
Phoronix Test Suite 7.6 M4 Available For Last Minute Testing03 Dec 2017
Phoronix Test Suite 7.6 M3 Is The Last Ahead Of The Stable "Alvdal"21 Nov 2017
OpenBenchmarking.org Crosses 27 Million Test/Suite Downloads19 Nov 2017
Phoronix Test Suite 7.6 M2 Released To Up BSD Benchmarking02 Nov 2017
Phoronix Test Suite 7.6-Alvdal Milestone 1 Released10 Oct 2017
OpenBenchmarking.org Crosses 26 Million Test/Suite Downloads27 Sep 2017
Phoronix Test Suite 7.4 Officially Released19 Sep 2017
Phoronix Test Suite 7.4 M4 Released As "Tynset" Nears Final11 Sep 2017
Phoronix Test Suite 7.4 M3 Released With OpenBenchmarking Seamless/Dynamic Comparisons28 Aug 2017

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121 Articles
Premium
Phoronix Premium, Black Friday / Cyber Monday / Winter Shopping Reminders23 Nov 2017
Just A Few Days Left To The Phoronix Fest Deal11 Oct 2017
2017 "Oktoberfest" Premium: Snag A Great Deal While Supporting Our Work07 Oct 2017
Your Last Chance To Take Advantage Of Our Birthday Bargain07 Jun 2017
Celebrate Phoronix's 13th Birthday By Going Ad-Free Premium At A Great Discount01 Jun 2017
Today's The Last Day For Our Ad-Free Site Deal For Thanksgiving 201628 Nov 2016
It's Time For The Annual Thanksgiving Event To Support Our Linux Testing, Benchmarking23 Nov 2016
Today Marks Amazon's Second Prime Day12 Jul 2016
Phoronix Turns 12 Years Old This Week: Here's A Birthday Special For You30 May 2016
Writing Linux / Open-Source News & Benchmarking 365 Days Per Year02 Apr 2016

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Programming
C++17 Is Now Official04 Dec 2017
PHP 7.2 Is One Step Away From Release12 Nov 2017
uClibc Is Still Around As A Lightweight C Standard Library29 Oct 2017
Rust 1.21 Released With Minor Updates12 Oct 2017
PyPy 5.9 Released With Faster JSON Parser, Greater Compatibility05 Oct 2017
HHVM 3.21 Released With Better PHP7 Compatibility, Sodium Support03 Aug 2017
Haswell-Tuned Binaries Are Still Sometimes Faster On AMD Ryzen Than Znver1 Tuning21 Jul 2017
Valgrind 3.13 Memory Debugger Supports Larger Programs, Many Refinements18 Jun 2017
Rust 1.18 Released08 Jun 2017
HHVM 3.20 Released With Performance Improvements, Better PHP7 Compatibility07 Jun 2017

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216 Articles
Proprietary Software
Vivaldi Web Browser Now Available For Linux ARM / Raspberry Pi05 Dec 2017
TeamViewer 13 Now Available For Linux As A Native 64-bit Port04 Dec 2017
Adobe Is Finally Ending Flash Support... In 202025 Jul 2017
Apple Unveils "Metal 2" Graphics API, Better Performance & Capabilities For VR05 Jun 2017
Opera 43 Lands With "Instant Page Loading"07 Feb 2017
Lightworks 14 Steps Closer To Release, UI Updates & More15 Dec 2016
WSL-Distribution-Switcher Swaps Out Ubuntu For Other Distros On Windows20 Nov 2016
Adobe Rolls Out Flash Player 24 Beta For Linux31 Oct 2016
Opera 41 Browser Brings Performance Improvements25 Oct 2016
KernelCare Is Another Alternative To Canonical's Ubuntu Live Kernel Patching21 Oct 2016

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124 Articles
Qt
With Qt 6.0 Development To Heat Up, 2018 Should Be Exciting For Qt02 Jan 2018
Qt 5.10 Released Along With Qt Creator 4.507 Dec 2017
Otter RC3 Released As The Browser Inspired By Opera 12 & Implemented Using Qt506 Dec 2017
Qt 5.10 RC3 Released, Qt 5.10 Now Expected This Week04 Dec 2017
Qt 3D Studio 1.0 Released, Powered By NVIDIA's Open-Source Code30 Nov 2017
Qt 5.10 Release Candidate Arrives Late27 Nov 2017
Qt 5.9.3 Released With Fixes & Performance Improvements22 Nov 2017
Qt 5.10 Reaches Its Second Beta Milestone25 Oct 2017
Qt Creator 4.5 Beta Arrives With Few Changes12 Oct 2017
NVIDIA-Donated Qt 3D Studio Now Available In Pre-Release Form11 Oct 2017

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302 Articles
Radeon
RADV Vulkan Driver Picks Up Support For ETC2 Textures03 Jan 2018
Mesa 17.2.2 vs. 17.3.1 vs. 17.4-dev RadeonSI Benchmarks31 Dec 2017
AMDGPU-PRO OpenCL Compiler Hacked Into Mesa's Clover31 Dec 2017
RADV Driver Lands Support For Binning With Vega31 Dec 2017
AMDGPU Gets Its Last Feature Updates For Linux 4.1631 Dec 2017
RADV Gets A Big Performance Boost Thanks To DCC29 Dec 2017
Porting Of Changes/Fixes From AMDVLK To RADV Vulkan Driver Begins26 Dec 2017
AMDGPU DC Patches To Test This Christmas25 Dec 2017
AMDGPU Queues Up "More Stuff" For Linux 4.1620 Dec 2017
RADV Has Cleared Out Its F1 2017 Vulkan Driver Bugs19 Dec 2017

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694 Articles
Red Hat
Red Hat's Latest Project: "Bolt" To Deal With Linux Thunderbolt Security14 Dec 2017
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM Hits General Availability13 Nov 2017
NetworkManager Adds In Open vSwitch Support31 Oct 2017
Fleet Commander Now Ready To Deploy Fedora & RHEL Desktops At Scale18 Oct 2017
Red Hat Planning For A Wayland Tech Preview In RHEL 7.529 Sep 2017
oVirt 4.2 Features Redesigned Admin Portal29 Sep 2017
Red Hat Formally Rolls Out Pipewire For Being The "Video Equivalent of PulseAudio"19 Sep 2017
Red Hat Planning Fresh Work On Linux Battery Life, Testers Needed14 Sep 2017
CentOS 7.4 Now Available (CentOS Linux 7 1708)13 Sep 2017
Red Hat Is Looking For Another Developer To Work On Open-Source AMD Graphics12 Sep 2017

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158 Articles
Standards
Khronos Announces NNEF 1.0 Standard For Neural Networks20 Dec 2017
Unity Continues Crunching More Out Of Crunch Texture Compression16 Dec 2017
VESA Rolls Out DisplayHDR As Its Latest Standard12 Dec 2017
Khronos Releases SYCL 1.2.1 With TensorFlow Acceleration, C++17 Alignment06 Dec 2017
VC4CL: Bringing OpenCL To The Raspberry Pi04 Dec 2017
VESA Pushes Out DisplayID 2.0 As The Successor To EDID For Monitors & Electronics14 Nov 2017
Lizard: Yet Another Compression Algorithm Joins The Party10 Nov 2017
Slang Continues To Advance For Easing Shader Writing, Cross-Compiling Shaders29 Oct 2017
Progress Being Made On New "WebGPU" Web Graphics API15 Oct 2017
OVR_multiview Extension Completed For More Efficient OpenGL VR11 Oct 2017

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175 Articles
SUSE
OpenSUSE In 2017 Continued Rolling With Btrfs, Worked On New Boot Splash, GCC Hacking20 Dec 2017
Why SUSE Is Using FBCON Rather Than DRM/KMS For Their In-Kernel Boot Splash18 Dec 2017
SUSE Rolls Out New Version Of Their In-Kernel Boot Splash Screen14 Dec 2017
OpenSUSE Rolls Out Tumbleweed Snapshots27 Nov 2017
SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Reaches Beta: Using GNOME & Wayland, Linux 4.1228 Oct 2017
SUSE Has Been Working On An In-Kernel Boot Splash Screen For Linux25 Oct 2017
SUSE Developer Working On AMD Zen Tuning For GCC05 Oct 2017
KDE's Leaner Experience On openSUSE Tumbleweed vs. Ubuntu 17.0401 Sep 2017
SUSE Remains Committed To The Btrfs File-System24 Aug 2017
SUSE+NVIDIA Makes The Graphics Binary Driver Easier To Deploy On Tumbleweed10 Aug 2017

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systemd
systemd Breached One Million Lines Of Code In 201702 Jan 2018
Systemd 236 Brings Support For LUKS2 Encrypted Partitions, New Options14 Dec 2017
Systemd 236 Is Being Prepped For Release This Month With Many Changes01 Dec 2017
systemd's "All Systems Go" 2017 Conference Videos Now Available23 Oct 2017
systemd 235 Released06 Oct 2017
Systemd 234 Released: Meson Build System, Networkd Improvements13 Jul 2017
CVE-2017-9445: systemd Hit By New Security Vulnerability28 Jun 2017
Systemd Lands Meson Build System Support25 Apr 2017
Systemd 233 Released01 Mar 2017
systemd 233 Is Around The Corner With More Additions, Changes25 Feb 2017

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Ubuntu
Ubuntu's Reformulated Desktop Was The Talk Of 201730 Dec 2017
A Proposal To Update Ubuntu's Kernel/Mesa/GNOME Components On A Monthly Basis28 Dec 2017
Ubuntu 17.10's Laptop Issue Appears To Be Under Control, Fixable27 Dec 2017
A Look At Canonical's Financial Performance From 2009 To 201726 Dec 2017
Canonical's Mir 2018 Plans Include Some Potentially Interesting IoT Features22 Dec 2017
Canonical's FY2017 Performance: $126 Million, Nearly 600 Employees21 Dec 2017
UBports Releases Updated Ubuntu Touch (OTA-3)21 Dec 2017
Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS Dropping 32-Bit/i386 Support20 Dec 2017
Ubuntu 17.10 Temporarily Pulled Due To A BIOS Corrupting Problem20 Dec 2017
Mir Had A Wild Year From Nearly Being Killed Alongside Unity 8 To Growing With Wayland17 Dec 2017

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Valve
Steam On Linux Ended 2017 With A Slight Increase In Marketshare01 Jan 2018
Steam 2017 Winter Sale Gets Underway21 Dec 2017
It's Been Four Years Since SteamOS Began Shipping With Not Much To Show14 Dec 2017
Latest Steam Client Update Rolls Out Shader Pre-Caching For OpenGL/Vulkan14 Dec 2017
Steam To Stop Supporting Bitcoin Transactions06 Dec 2017
Valve's Timothy Arceri Lands Gallium3D NIR Optimizations03 Dec 2017
Steam Linux Usage For November: 0.27%01 Dec 2017
Valve + LunarG Open Up Their Mesa Testing Results15 Nov 2017
Valve Rolls Out A Rare Update To SteamOS Brewmaster09 Nov 2017
Steam Client Update Fixes Linux Shortcuts, Adds Vulkan Pre-Compiled Shaders07 Nov 2017

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VIA
OpenChrome DRM Continues To Be Developed, But It Didn't Make It Mainline This Year26 Dec 2017
OpenChrome DRM Still Being Ported To Newer Kernel, Lengthy Process25 Aug 2017
OpenChrome Still Pushing For DRM Kernel Driver, Updated DDX04 Aug 2017
OpenChrome Maintainer Making Some Progress On VIA DRM Driver25 Sep 2016
OpenChrome Driver Continues To Get Fixed Up, New Version Next Month10 Aug 2016
OpenChrome 0.5 Has Working Support For Multiple Monitors06 Jul 2016
VIA OpenChrome Driver Has A Roadmap, But Only One Developer27 May 2016
OpenChrome 0.4.0 DDX Driver Revives VIA Open-Source x86 Graphics01 Apr 2016
OpenChrome 0.4 Coming For Letting Open-Source VIA Support Live On29 Mar 2016
VIA OpenChrome X.Org Driver Getting Ready For First Release In Over Two Years14 Feb 2016

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Virtualization
Jailhouse v0.8 Linux Hypervisor Released28 Dec 2017
oVirt 4.2 Brings A New Admin Panel, NVIDIA vGPU Support20 Dec 2017
Intel Introduces "Hyper DMA-BUF" To Exchange Buffers Between VMs20 Dec 2017
Xen Hypervisor 4.10 Released With Centriq and ThunderX Support, New Intel Features14 Dec 2017
Looking Glass Released For KVM Frame Relay, High Performance Windows VM Gaming14 Dec 2017
VirtualBox Guest Drivers Still Working Their Way To The Mainline Linux Kernel26 Nov 2017
VirtualBox 5.2.2 Brings Linux 4.14 Fixes, HiDPI UI Improvements24 Nov 2017
KVM & Xen Don't Change Much With Linux 4.1518 Nov 2017
QEMU 2.11-RC1 Released: Drops IA64, Adds OpenRISC SMP & More15 Nov 2017
Xen 4.10 RC1 Now Available For Testing23 Oct 2017

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Vulkan
NVIDIA Appears To Still Be Experimenting With The VkHLF High Level Vulkan Framework01 Jan 2018
RADV Is Now Effectively Conformant For Vega GPUs With Vulkan 1.029 Dec 2017
The Vulkan Moments Of 2017: More Games, Better Drivers & Continued Open-Source Adoption27 Dec 2017
VK9 Gets Basic D3D9 Shaders Running On Vulkan24 Dec 2017
Vulkan Support Is In The Works For The PPSSPP Emulator19 Dec 2017
LunarG Adds New Size Option To Further Reduce Size Of SPIR-V15 Dec 2017
DXVK Is Making Some Steadfast Progress In Running Direct3D 11 Over Vulkan13 Dec 2017
Qualcomm Mentions "Vulkan2" & What I Would Suspect Of "Vulkan 2.0"12 Dec 2017
Remaining RADV Vulkan Driver Bugs for Vega Being Addressed05 Dec 2017
DXVK Is Aiming To Get Direct3D 11 Over Vulkan In Wine27 Nov 2017

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Wayland
Wayland Made More Inroads In 201729 Dec 2017
Wlroots Is A New, Modular Wayland Compositor Library28 Dec 2017
Chromium Embedded Framework Closer To Native Wayland Support23 Dec 2017
Samsung Dealing With Wayland "Zombie Apocalypse" Bug22 Dec 2017
Atomic Mode-Setting Support For Wayland's Weston Might Finally Be Ready To Land20 Dec 2017
The Architecture Of XWayland To Let X11 Apps Run On Wayland18 Dec 2017
Improved Wayland Application Redraws Coming To Enlightenment's EFL16 Dec 2017
Wayland's Weston Sees Patches For FreeBSD, Fractional HiDPI, Rust Bindings15 Dec 2017
Wayland Had An Impressive 2017 With KDE Support Maturing, Mir Switching Focus13 Dec 2017
Way-Cooler Is Still Around As An i3-Inspired Wayland Compositor Written In Rust04 Dec 2017

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WINE
Wine 2.0.4 Released While Wine 3.0 Is Just Around The Corner02 Jan 2018
Wine 3.0-RC4 Released With One Dozen Fixes29 Dec 2017
Wine 3.0-RC3 Released With Two Dozen Fixes22 Dec 2017
Wine 3.0-RC2 Released15 Dec 2017
VKD3D Is Beginning Flight As Wine's Direct3D 12 To Vulkan Library15 Dec 2017
Wine 3.0-RC1 Released, Direct3D 11 Enabled For Intel/AMD GPUs08 Dec 2017
CrossOver 17.0 Released, Lets You Run Microsoft Office 2016 On Linux05 Dec 2017
The Features To Look Forward To With Wine 3.029 Nov 2017
Wine 3.0 Will Be Entering Its Code Freeze Next Week28 Nov 2017
Wine 2.22 Brings Improved 64-bit ARM Support24 Nov 2017

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X.Org
Keith Packard Sends Out Latest Patches For RandR 1.6, Linux VR Improvements22 Dec 2017
X.Org Server 1.19.6 Released20 Dec 2017
Even With Wayland Around, X.Org Had A Busy 201711 Dec 2017
X.Org Server Patches Updated For Non-Desktop & Leases To Better VR HMD Support08 Dec 2017
Samsung Improving Cairo's OpenGL ES 3.x Support, May Eye Vulkan In Future06 Dec 2017
2017 Has Been The First Year In A Decade Without A Major X.Org Server Update05 Dec 2017
DRI3 v1.1 & DRI3 v1.2 Patches Revised07 Nov 2017
"NonDesktop" Proposed For RandR: Useful For VR & Apple Touch Bar Like Devices19 Oct 2017
DRM Leasing Support To Land For Linux 4.1519 Oct 2017
Libinput 1.9 Released With Input Improvements, Requires Meson19 Oct 2017

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