| AMD |
| AMD HSA Offloading Support Dropped From The GCC Compiler | 03 Aug 2020 |
| Google Sends Patches For AMD Zen / Zen 2 RAPL PowerCap Support | 29 Jul 2020 |
| New KDE Slimbook Released - Powered By AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | 22 Jul 2020 |
| AMD Launches Ryzen 4000 APUs - But Only For Pre-Built PCs / OEMs | 21 Jul 2020 |
| TUXEDO Computers Launches A Linux Laptop With Ryzen 7 4800H / Ryzen 5 4600H | 21 Jul 2020 |
| I've Been Running The AMD Ryzen 7 4700U + Ubuntu 20.04 As My Main System | 17 Jul 2020 |
| AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT Memory Scaling Performance Under 100 Different Tests | 14 Jul 2020 |
| Linux 5.8 Bringing Some Performance Boosts For AMD Renoir Graphics | 29 Jun 2020 |
| AMD SMM Callout Privilege Escalation Bug Disclosed For APUs | 18 Jun 2020 |
| AMD Announces The Ryzen 3000XT Series | 16 Jun 2020 |
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1151 Articles |
| Arm |
| Linux 5.9 Adds Intel "Keem Bay" Support, 8 Snapdragon Smartphones, AMD EthanolX BMC, Old Tegra Tablets | 04 Aug 2020 |
| Arm Backporting SLS Vulnerability Mitigation To Existing GCC Releases | 21 Jul 2020 |
| Linux 5.9 Set To Bring ARMv8 TTL Support | 14 Jul 2020 |
| GCC Compiler Lands Mitigation For Arm's Straight Line Speculation Vulnerability | 09 Jul 2020 |
| Linux 5.9 To Bring Arm Memory Tagging Extension Support | 06 Jul 2020 |
| Arm Cortex-A77 Support Upstreamed Finally To LLVM Clang 11 | 05 Jul 2020 |
| Some Open-Source Projects Begin Quickly Working Towards macOS ARM64 Support | 29 Jun 2020 |
| Apple Confirms Their Future Desktops + Laptops Will Use In-House CPUs | 22 Jun 2020 |
| Arm CPUs Hit By Straight Line Speculation Vulnerability, LLVM Adds Initial Mitigation | 11 Jun 2020 |
| New Arm SoCs Supported By Linux 5.8, Restructuring To Fit Android Kernel Improvements | 07 Jun 2020 |
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219 Articles |
| BSD |
| DragonFlyBSD Pulls In AMD Temperature Driver, SMN Support From FreeBSD | 02 Aug 2020 |
| DragonFlyBSD Updates Its Intel + Radeon Linux-Ported Graphics Driver Code | 27 Jul 2020 |
| NetBSD Is Making Progress On Benchmarking For Performance/Regression Testing | 26 Jul 2020 |
| DragonFlyBSD Lands New EXT2/3/4 File-System Driver | 19 Jul 2020 |
| FreeBSD Back To Seeing Progress On 802.11ac WiFi Support, Ath10k Driver | 17 Jul 2020 |
| FreeBSD Getting Close To Finally Migrating Development From Subversion To Git | 15 Jul 2020 |
| TrueNAS 12 Beta 1 Released With Much Improved ZFS, Better AMD Ryzen CPU Support | 01 Jul 2020 |
| WireGuard Support Merged Into Upstream OpenBSD | 21 Jun 2020 |
| FreeBSD 11.4 Released With Various Hardware Support Improvements, Tooling Enhancements | 17 Jun 2020 |
| FreeBSD Adopts A New Code of Conduct Based On The LLVM CoC | 09 Jun 2020 |
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686 Articles |
| Clear Linux |
| Clear Linux Preparing To Move To GNOME 3.36, Dropping Their Desktop Customizations | 26 Apr 2020 |
| Intel's Clear Linux To Divest From The Desktop, Focus On Server + Cloud Workloads | 23 Apr 2020 |
| Chrome, Skype, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, VSCode Now Unofficially Available For Clear Linux | 03 Apr 2020 |
| Is Clear Linux Just A Toy Distribution By Intel? | 18 Mar 2020 |
| Intel's Clear Linux Has Code In Place To Begin Handling Proprietary Packages Like Chrome & Steam | 13 Mar 2020 |
| F2FS Root File-System Support For Clear Linux Appears To Be Coming | 14 Feb 2020 |
| Benchmarks Of Clear Linux's Native Kernel Against Current/Mainline/Preempt-RT Kernels | 08 Jan 2020 |
| Clear Linux Set To Begin Offering EarlyOOM For Better Dealing With Memory Pressure | 08 Jan 2020 |
| Clear Linux Saw New Features, New Desktop Installer + Increased Adoption In 2019 | 01 Jan 2020 |
| Clear Linux Defined Linux Performance These Past Few Years | 29 Dec 2019 |
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89 Articles |
| Coreboot |
| There's An Effort By A System76 Engineer To Bring Coreboot To Newer AMD Platforms | 24 Jul 2020 |
| Coreboot Ported To A Newer Intel Server Board From Supermicro | 07 Jun 2020 |
| Coreboot 4.12 Released - Drops Older Intel / AMD Platforms | 12 May 2020 |
| Oreboot Continues Advancing For Open-Source, Rust-Based Booting On RISC-V | 05 Feb 2020 |
| Tesla Is Making Use Of The Open-Source Coreboot Within Their Electric Vehicles | 14 Jan 2020 |
| Coreboot Seeing Tigerlake + Jasperlake Activity, Experimental Razer Icelake Laptop Support | 02 Jan 2020 |
| Coreboot Had An Exciting Decade Thanks To Google's Chromebooks, Efforts Like LinuxBoot | 28 Dec 2019 |
| Open-Source Intel TXT Support Published For Coreboot | 21 Nov 2019 |
| 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 |
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210 Articles |
| Debian |
| Debian 10.5 Released To Address The GRUB2 BootHole Vulnerability, Other Security Fixes | 01 Aug 2020 |
| Debian 9.13 Released As The End To Stretch | 18 Jul 2020 |
| Devuan 3.0 Released For Debian 10 Without Systemd | 02 Jun 2020 |
| Debian 10.4 Released With Many Fixes, Security Updates | 09 May 2020 |
| Debian Dropping A Number Of Old Linux Drivers Is Angering Vintage Hardware Users | 21 Apr 2020 |
| Debian Elects A New Project Leader For 2020 | 19 Apr 2020 |
| Debian Community Team Delegation Announced As Replacement To The Anti-Harassment Team | 15 Apr 2020 |
| Debian To Take On COVID-19 With A Biohackathon | 28 Mar 2020 |
| Debian Testing Is Enabling WireGuard Within Their Linux Kernel Build | 21 Mar 2020 |
| Debian Looks To Go More Social From Microblogging To A Federated Image+Video Platform | 19 Mar 2020 |
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328 Articles |
| Desktop |
| Enlightenment 0.24.2, Terminology 1.8 Released | 26 Jul 2020 |
| Xfce's Xfdesktop 4.15 Released | 20 Jun 2020 |
| LibVNCServer 0.9.13 Released With Better Cross-Platform Coverage | 14 Jun 2020 |
| Enlightenment 0.24 Released | 17 May 2020 |
| The Latest Pango + HarfBuzz Is Leading To A Messy Font Rendering Situation For Some | 09 May 2020 |
| FreeType 2.10.2 Released With Support For WOFF 2 Fonts | 09 May 2020 |
| Xrdesktop 0.14 Released With OpenXR Support | 08 May 2020 |
| FreeRDP 2.1 Released Due To Multiple Security Issues | 08 May 2020 |
| Enlightenment 0.24 Alpha Released For This X11 Window Manager / Wayland Compositor | 02 May 2020 |
| FreeRDP 2.0 Released With Flatpak Support, RAP v2 Support, Font Smoothing By Default | 09 Apr 2020 |
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374 Articles |
| Fedora |
| Fedora 33 Making Progress With Their Btrfs-By-Default On The Desktop | 27 Jul 2020 |
| Ruby on Rails 6.0 Slated For Fedora 33 | 22 Jul 2020 |
| Fedora Looks To Make DXVK Their Default Back-End For Direct3D 9/10/11 On Wine | 21 Jul 2020 |
| Fedora Developers Brainstorming Options For Better Memory Testing | 21 Jul 2020 |
| Stratis 2.1 Proposed For Fedora 33 To Bring Per-Pool Encryption | 20 Jul 2020 |
| Fedora 33 Is Shaping Up To Be One Of Its Biggest Releases Ever | 16 Jul 2020 |
| Approved: Fedora 33 Desktop Variants Defaulting To Btrfs File-System | 15 Jul 2020 |
| Fedora Approves Of Making Nano The Default Terminal Text Editor, Other Features Accepted | 12 Jul 2020 |
| Fedora Developers Evaluating Compression Options For Btrfs-By-Default Proposal | 08 Jul 2020 |
| Fedora Looks To Introduce The Storage Instantiation Daemon | 30 Jun 2020 |
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971 Articles |
| Free Software |
| Apache Software Foundation Estimates Its Code Value Increased ~$600M For FY2020 | 29 Jul 2020 |
| LuxCore Open-Source Renderer v2.4 Released With CUDA Support, Better Windows Scaling | 27 Jul 2020 |
| The New OpenBenchmarking.org Is Launching Soon | 26 Jul 2020 |
| Git 2.28-rc1 Released - Continues The Transition Towards SHA256 Plus Moving Off "Master" | 18 Jul 2020 |
| Monado OpenXR Runtime Now Supports Multi-Application Rendering / Overlays | 05 Jul 2020 |
| Crust Drops Paywall For Open-Source CRM Alternative To Salesforce | 30 Jun 2020 |
| LuxCore 2.4 Beta Brings Big Changes For This Open-Source Physically Based Renderer | 27 Jun 2020 |
| Flatpak 1.8 Released For This Leading Linux App Sandboxing / Distribution Tech | 24 Jun 2020 |
| Blender 2.83 Released With OpenVDB Support, Initial OpenXR Integration | 03 Jun 2020 |
| Monado 0.2 OpenXR Runtime Brings Multi-Layer Support, New Controller Support | 29 May 2020 |
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1626 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 |
| GNOME's Mutter Adds Support For Launching "Trusted Clients" On Wayland | 04 Aug 2020 |
| Ubuntu's Prolific GNOME Developer Is Looking To Tackle Deep Color Support | 03 Aug 2020 |
| GTK 3.99 Released With The GTK4 Toolkit Finally Close To Debut | 31 Jul 2020 |
| GNOME OS Images Available For Testing | 28 Jul 2020 |
| Proposed GNOME Patches Would Switch To Triple Buffering When The GPU Is Running Behind | 28 Jul 2020 |
| GNOME-Usage Program Still Striving To Report Per-Program Power Analytics | 25 Jul 2020 |
| Proposal Raised For GNOME Software Labeling Its Carbon Cost / Environmental Impact | 23 Jul 2020 |
| GNOME OS Is Taking Shape But Its To Serve For Testing The Desktop | 22 Jul 2020 |
| GNOME Optimizations Continue In Striving For Faster 4K Experience | 13 Jul 2020 |
| GNOME 3.36.4 Released With Faster Mutter Fix Back-Ported | 08 Jul 2020 |
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1088 Articles |
| GNU |
| GCC Sees More Progress On Ability To Parallelize The Compilation Of Large Source Files | 29 Jul 2020 |
| Nano 5.0 Released As A Big Feature Update To This Easy-To-Use Terminal Text Editor | 29 Jul 2020 |
| GCC's New Ranger Infrastructure Aims To Be In Good Shape For GCC 11 | 26 Jul 2020 |
| GCC 10.2 Compiler Released With Nearly 100 Bug Fixes | 23 Jul 2020 |
| It Needs A Restart: GLIBC Drops Support For Restartable Sequences | 17 Jul 2020 |
| GCC 10.2 Gearing Up For Release Next Week - RC Available For Testing | 15 Jul 2020 |
| Synopsys DesignWare ARC HS CPUs Now Supported By GNU C Library | 11 Jul 2020 |
| GNU Guix Begins Publishing System Images Based On Hurd | 07 Jul 2020 |
| Glibc-HWCAPS To Help With AMD Zen Optimizations, Other Per-CPU Performance Bits | 07 Jul 2020 |
| GNU Binutils 2.35 Preparing For Release | 05 Jul 2020 |
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831 Articles |
| Google |
| Chrome 85 Beta Brings WebHID API For Better Gamepad Support, AVIF Image Decode | 23 Jul 2020 |
| Google Finally Begins Their Open-Source Dance Around Linux User-Space Threading | 23 Jul 2020 |
| GNU Toolchain Continues Phasing Out Native Client Support (NaCl) | 15 Jul 2020 |
| Open Usage Commons Is Google-Backed Organization For Helping With Open-Source Project Trademarks | 08 Jul 2020 |
| Chrome Is Reaching The Point Of Good X11 + Wayland Support In Same Build | 31 May 2020 |
| Chrome 84 Beta Brings Better Web Animations API, Experimental WebAssembly SIMD | 28 May 2020 |
| Android Studio 4.0 Released With Overhauled CPU Profiler, Clangd For C++ Code | 28 May 2020 |
| There Are Many Interesting Google Summer of Code 2020 Open-Source Projects | 07 May 2020 |
| Android 11 Aiming For Release In Q3 | 06 May 2020 |
| Chrome 83 Beta Rolls Out With Better Form Controls, Barcode Detection API | 17 Apr 2020 |
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426 Articles |
| Hardware |
| Linux 5.9 Dropping The Unicore 32-bit RISC Architecture | 03 Aug 2020 |
| System76 Talks Up Their Forthcoming Linux Keyboard | 30 Jul 2020 |
| MSM Open-Source Driver Continues On Qualcomm Adreno 640/650 Series Bring-Up | 30 Jul 2020 |
| Purism's Librem 5 "Dogwood" Seeing Improvements In Battery Life | 27 Jul 2020 |
| MikroBUS Patches Being Worked On For Better Supporting These Add-On Boards Under Linux | 27 Jul 2020 |
| The Linux Kernel Begins Preparing Support For SD Express Cards | 24 Jul 2020 |
| OpenRGB 0.3 Released For Open-Source RGB Lighting Control | 22 Jul 2020 |
| Linux Seeing Kernel GPU Driver Support Two Decades Later For Matrox G200 Graphics Cards | 15 Jul 2020 |
| JEDEC Publishes DDR5 Standard - Launching At 4.8 Gbps, Better Power Efficiency | 14 Jul 2020 |
| Linux 5.9 Will Finally Offer Proper Support For The ThinkPad 10 Ultrabook Keyboard | 12 Jul 2020 |
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1615 Articles |
| Intel |
| Intel's Open-Source H.265/HEVC Encoder Sees First Release Of 2020 | 04 Aug 2020 |
| Intel ISPC 1.14 Released With Initial GPU Offloading Support | 02 Aug 2020 |
| Intel Brings IBM POWER CPU Support To Their Deep Neural Network Library | 31 Jul 2020 |
| Intel PMT Framework + Tiger Lake Telemetry Support Updated For Linux | 31 Jul 2020 |
| Intel ISPC Compiler Lands GPU Code Generation Support | 30 Jul 2020 |
| Intel Prepping Bus Lock Detection For Linux To Avoid This Performance Pitfall | 30 Jul 2020 |
| Intel Making It Easier To Flash Ethernet Device Firmware On Linux | 29 Jul 2020 |
| Linux To Allow Limiting Tiger Lake SoC PL4 Package Maximum Power Limit | 28 Jul 2020 |
| Intel Rolls Out Leadership Changes Following Last Week's 7nm Delay Announcement | 27 Jul 2020 |
| Linux Kernel Prepping To Make Use Of Intel's New SERIALIZE Instruction | 27 Jul 2020 |
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1844 Articles |
| KDE |
| KDE Developers End July With More Improvements For Plasma 5.20 | 01 Aug 2020 |
| KDE Plasma 5.20 To Bring Working Screen Recording / Screencasting On Wayland | 25 Jul 2020 |
| digiKam 7.0 Open-Source Photo Manager Embraces Deep Learning, Improved HEIF Support | 24 Jul 2020 |
| KDE Developers Beating The Summer Heat By Fixing Up Recent Regressions | 18 Jul 2020 |
| KDE's Konsole Continues Seeing New Features | 16 Jul 2020 |
| Early Work On KDE Frameworks 6 Continues | 13 Jul 2020 |
| KDE Plasma 5.20 Seeing More Wayland Fixes | 11 Jul 2020 |
| KDE Seeing Fresh Improvements For HiDPI Support | 09 Jul 2020 |
| KDE Starts July With More Fixes, More QML'ing In The System Settings Area | 04 Jul 2020 |
| KDE Completes Transition To GitLab For Developer Portal | 30 Jun 2020 |
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993 Articles |
| LibreOffice |
| The Document Foundation Officially Drops Branding For LibreOffice 7.0 "Personal Edition" | 20 Jul 2020 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 RC2 Released For This Vulkan-Supported Open-Source Office Suite | 18 Jul 2020 |
| LibreOffice Might Delay Its "Personal Edition" Branding Or Change To "Community Edition" | 09 Jul 2020 |
| The Document Foundation Clarifies LibreOffice 7.0's "Personal Edition" Branding | 06 Jul 2020 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 RC1 Is Out For Testing This Skia+Vulkan Open-Source Office Suite | 06 Jul 2020 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 Beta 2 Released For This Open-Source, Vulkan-Supported Office Suite | 22 Jun 2020 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 Beta Available For Testing With Its Skia+Vulkan Support | 01 Jun 2020 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 Alpha 1 Released With Its Skia + Vulkan Rendering | 14 May 2020 |
| LibreOffice On Windows Will Now Hard Require Clang For Performance Reasons | 08 May 2020 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 Finally Retiring Its Adobe Flash Export Support | 23 Apr 2020 |
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131 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 |
| FNA FAudio 20.08 Released With WMA Decoding Powered By GStreamer | 01 Aug 2020 |
| The Beautiful + Linux-Friendly Unigine 2.12 Engine Released | 01 Aug 2020 |
| Core i3 10100 vs. Core i5 10600K vs. Ryzen 3 3300X Linux Gaming Benchmarks | 26 Jul 2020 |
| Unity 2020.1 Released With Many Fixes For Vulkan & Linux | 23 Jul 2020 |
| Lutris Updated With D3D12 DLL Provided By VKD3D-Proton | 19 Jul 2020 |
| The Dark Mod 2.08 Released As One Of The Few Games Powered By Open-Source id Tech 4 | 01 Jul 2020 |
| Godot 4.0 Is Looking Even More Impressive With SDFGI | 28 Jun 2020 |
| Proton 5.0-8 Shipping With The Latest DXVK/VKD3D, Windows Game Fixes | 06 Jun 2020 |
| Steam Linux Percentage For May Points To A New Multi-Year High | 01 Jun 2020 |
| Mozilla Sponsored The Godot Game Engine To Port Their Editor As An HTML5 Web App | 29 May 2020 |
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1722 Articles |
| Linux Kernel |
| Checkpoint/Restore Of Unprivileged Processes Sent In For Linux 5.9 | 04 Aug 2020 |
| After 5 Years, FSGSBASE Support Finally Ready For Linux To Enhance AMD/Intel Performance | 04 Aug 2020 |
| Linux 5.9 Set To Bring "Close_Range" System Call - Coordinated With FreeBSD Developers | 04 Aug 2020 |
| Intel SERIALIZE, Dropping Of SGI UV Supercomputer, i386 Clang'ing Hit Linux 5.9 | 03 Aug 2020 |
| Kernel Developers Work To Block NVIDIA "GPL Condom" Effort Around New NetGPU Code | 03 Aug 2020 |
| GNU Linux-libre 5.8 Required A Lot Of Deblobbing | 03 Aug 2020 |
| Linux 5.8 Released With AMD Energy Driver, F2FS LZO-RLE, IBM POWER10 Booting | 02 Aug 2020 |
| Facebook Engineer Improving BPF "User Programs" Support | 02 Aug 2020 |
| Changes Expected For The Linux 5.9 Kernel From Intel DG1 To AMD Navi 2 To New CPU Capabilities | 02 Aug 2020 |
| Linux 5.9 Adding New Knob To Control Default Boost Value For Real-Time Workloads | 01 Aug 2020 |
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2510 Articles |
| Linux Networking |
| Linux Quietly Makes It Harder To Guess Network RNG's Internal State | 29 Jul 2020 |
| Linux 5.9 To Support New EF100 NIC Architecture Developed By Xilinx | 29 Jul 2020 |
| Linux 5.9 To Support 6GHz WiFi With Qualcomm's Ath11k Driver | 24 Jul 2020 |
| Linux 5.9 To Allow Defaulting To FQ-PIE Queuing Discipline For Fighting Bufferbloat | 14 Jul 2020 |
| Intel's IWD 1.8 Wireless Daemon Released With WiFi P2P Support | 17 Jun 2020 |
| Linux 5.8 Networking Changes Include Introducing Cable Testing Infrastructure | 04 Jun 2020 |
| NetworkManager 1.26 Development Progressing With New Functionality | 31 May 2020 |
| Many MediaTek Wireless Driver Improvements On Deck For Linux 5.8 | 24 May 2020 |
| Freescale Ethernet Driver Unlocks A Big Performance Improvement | 04 May 2020 |
| Linux 5.8 Seeing Support For New Marvell/Aquantia Atlantic "A2" NICs | 02 May 2020 |
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160 Articles |
| Linux Security |
| BootHole Blows Hole In GRUB2 Bootloader Security, Including UEFI SecureBoot | 29 Jul 2020 |
| Sony Provides Patch To Linux 5.9 For Allowing Further Access Restrictions On DebugFS | 25 Jul 2020 |
| FGKASLR Revved For Improving Linux Kernel Security | 23 Jul 2020 |
| L1TF Cache Flushing Mode Could Soon Be Controlled Via Kconfig Build Option | 03 Jul 2020 |
| LKRG 0.8 Released For Increasing Linux Kernel Runtime Security | 26 Jun 2020 |
| Another Attack Vector Uncovered For Bypassing Linux Lockdown Via ACPI Tables | 15 Jun 2020 |
| Google Engineer Uncovers Holes In Linux's Speculative Execution Mitigations | 09 Jun 2020 |
| SELinux Sees Nice Optimizations With Linux 5.8 | 02 Jun 2020 |
| Want A More Secure Computer At The Cost Of Performance? Linux 5.8 Landing L1d Flushing | 01 Jun 2020 |
| Google Engineers Are Becoming Concerned Over Some Arm Platforms Lacking Spectre V2 Mitigations | 27 May 2020 |
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154 Articles |
| Linux Storage |
| Btrfs Seeing Some Nice Performance Improvements For Linux 5.9 | 03 Aug 2020 |
| OpenSSF Launches To Improve Open-Source Software Security | 03 Aug 2020 |
| FSCRYPT Inline Encryption Ready To Offer Better Performance On Modern SoCs | 03 Aug 2020 |
| IO_uring Has Many Improvements Set To Go Into Linux 5.9 | 03 Aug 2020 |
| Linux's exFAT File-System Driver Can Now "FSCK" As Fast As Windows | 31 Jul 2020 |
| Mount Notification Support Still Coming Together For The Linux Kernel | 25 Jul 2020 |
| Linux 5.9 To Support DM-CRYPT On Zoned Block Devices | 21 Jul 2020 |
| F2FS Preparing To Introduce New "Secure Erase" Functionality | 14 Jul 2020 |
| "ATGC" Aims To Offer Greater Garbage Collection Efficiency For F2FS | 07 Jul 2020 |
| Reiser5 Pursuing Selective File Migration For Moving Hot Files To High Performance Disks | 05 Jul 2020 |
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518 Articles |
| LLVM |
| LLVM 11.0-RC1 Now Available For Testing | 28 Jul 2020 |
| LLVM 10.0.1 Finally Ready As Latest Stable Compiler Version | 21 Jul 2020 |
| LLVM 11 Feature Development Is Over With Many Changes | 15 Jul 2020 |
| Cling C++ Interpreter Looking To Upstream More Code Into LLVM | 11 Jul 2020 |
| 5+ Years Late: LLVM's AMD Excavator Target Was Missing Two Features | 28 Jun 2020 |
| Apple's Compiler Team Starts Upstreaming Changes For macOS 11 | 23 Jun 2020 |
| LLVM Is Looking At Establishing An "Incubator" Process For Encouraging New Sub-Projects | 21 Jun 2020 |
| LLVM Developers Plotting Path Forward For Moving To A New Git Branch Name | 19 Jun 2020 |
| LLVM Moves Forward With A Security Group For Dealing With Security-Related Issues | 13 Jun 2020 |
| If Mitigations Weren't Already Bad Enough: Slow Build Times Now Lead To An Unoptimized Intel LVI Pass | 11 Jun 2020 |
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612 Articles |
| Mesa |
| LLVMpipe Gallium3D Driver Now Exposes OpenGL 4.3 | 22 Jul 2020 |
| RadeonSI Lands Bits In Mesa 20.2 For Better Dealing With GPU Virtualization | 22 Jul 2020 |
| Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Enables Working FP16 Support | 18 Jul 2020 |
| Mesa 20.2's Nouveau Enables HMM, OpenCL SVM Now Supported | 14 Jul 2020 |
| Mesa 20.1.3 Brings More Fixes To The Open-Source Vulkan / OpenGL Drivers | 09 Jul 2020 |
| Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Adds Midgard Multi-Sampling Support | 08 Jul 2020 |
| LLVMpipe Now Exposes OpenGL 4.2 For GL On CPUs | 06 Jul 2020 |
| Mesa CI Optimization Could Provide Big Bandwidth Savings | 03 Jul 2020 |
| Raspberry Pi 4's Vulkan Driver Is Now More Usable - Supporting More Features | 03 Jul 2020 |
| LLVMpipe Gallium3D Driver Now Exposes OpenGL 4.0 | 02 Jul 2020 |
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1837 Articles |
| Microsoft |
| Microsoft Engineer Proposes "TRAMPFD" For Improving Linux Security | 28 Jul 2020 |
| Microsoft Releases Its Own Open-Source Process Monitor For Linux | 17 Jul 2020 |
| Progress Being Made On OpenCL+OpenGL Over Direct3D 12 | 09 Jul 2020 |
| OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 Hops Onto The Microsoft Store For WSL/WSL2 | 09 Jul 2020 |
| Microsoft Posts Initial DRM Driver For Hyper-V Synthetic Video Device | 23 Jun 2020 |
| NVIDIA, Intel Post New Windows 10 Graphics Drivers For WSL2 Linux App Support | 17 Jun 2020 |
| Microsoft Has Now Open-Source Their BASIC Code From 1983 | 21 May 2020 |
| Microsoft Is Writing Its Own Wayland Compositor As Part Of WSL2 GUI Efforts | 20 May 2020 |
| Mainlining The Microsoft DirectX Kernel Driver For Linux Will Be An Uphill Battle | 20 May 2020 |
| Microsoft And A KDE Project Spar Over "MAUI" | 19 May 2020 |
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216 Articles |
| Mozilla |
| Firefox 79 Is Ready To Ship With Safeguard On "_blank" Links, More Wayland VA-API Work | 27 Jul 2020 |
| Thunderbird 78 Rolls Out With UI Updates, New Features | 17 Jul 2020 |
| There Finally Is Work On Shipping Mozilla's WebRender For Some Linux Environments | 11 Jul 2020 |
| Firefox 80 To Support VA-API Acceleration On X11 | 04 Jul 2020 |
| Firefox 78.0 Released - Also Serves As The Newest ESR Version | 30 Jun 2020 |
| Firefox Private Network Is Now Official As Mozilla VPN | 18 Jun 2020 |
| Firefox 77 Released With Security Fixes, AV1 Image File Support | 02 Jun 2020 |
| Firefox 76 + 77 Beta Web Browser Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux | 11 May 2020 |
| Firefox 76 Released With WebRender Improvements, Better Security | 05 May 2020 |
| Firefox 77 Nightly Adds Initial AV1 Image File Support (AVIF) | 04 May 2020 |
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328 Articles |
| Multimedia |
| FFmpeg Adds H.265 Tile Encoding Support For VA-API With Intel Icelake+ | 20 Jul 2020 |
| Zrythm Approaching Beta As An Easy-To-Use, Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation | 19 Jul 2020 |
| High-End Lightworks Video Editor Finally Says Why They Didn't Go Open-Source Yet | 18 Jul 2020 |
| WirePlumber Ready For The Linux Desktop As Replacement To PipeWire's Session Manager | 16 Jul 2020 |
| PTGui Panorama Photo Stitching Software Ported To Linux | 07 Jul 2020 |
| dav1d 0.7.1 AV1 Decoder Boosts 32-bit Arm Performance By ~28% | 21 Jun 2020 |
| VideoLAN Now Developing "libndi" For NDI Video Stream Handling | 18 Jun 2020 |
| FFmpeg 4.3 Released With AMD AMF Encoding, Vulkan Support, AV1 Encode | 16 Jun 2020 |
| Entangle 3.0 Released For Tethered Shooting With DSLR Cameras On Linux | 15 Jun 2020 |
| GIMP 2.10.20 Released With Better Adobe PSD Support | 11 Jun 2020 |
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411 Articles |
| Nouveau |
| Nouveau Changes For Linux 5.9 Bring Fixes, Prep For Future Improvements | 24 Jul 2020 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" CRC Support Ready For Linux 5.9 | 22 Jul 2020 |
| Open-Source 3D/Compute Finally Materializing For NVIDIA Volta / Turing GPUs | 09 Jun 2020 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA/Nouveau Changes Submitted For Linux 5.8 | 22 May 2020 |
| Nouveau Display CRC Support Being Firmed Up Thanks To NVIDIA's Documentation | 18 Apr 2020 |
| ASUS Releases Graphics Card That Could Actually Be Great For Open-Source NVIDIA Fans | 13 Apr 2020 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Should Trip Less Often On Some GPUs With Linux 5.7 | 08 Apr 2020 |
| NVIDIA Posts Firmware Needed For Open-Source GeForce 16 Series Acceleration | 19 Feb 2020 |
| Nouveau Gallium3D Finally Seeing Mesa Shader Disk Cache For Faster Game Load Times | 17 Feb 2020 |
| Open-Source Nouveau Extended To Support The GeForce 16 Series With Hardware Acceleration | 12 Feb 2020 |
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434 Articles |
| NVIDIA |
| NVIDIA 450.57 Linux Driver Released With Image Sharpening Option, NGX Library | 09 Jul 2020 |
| NVIDIA CUDA 11.0 Released With Ampere Support, New Programming Features | 08 Jul 2020 |
| NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 10 Brings Few Changes For This Proprietary Library | 02 Jul 2020 |
| An Early Benchmark Of The NVIDIA CUDA GPU Performance On WSL2 | 27 Jun 2020 |
| NVIDIA 450.51 Linux Driver Beta Adds NGX Library, PRIME Improvements | 24 Jun 2020 |
| NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Finally Adds External Memory Host Support | 23 Jun 2020 |
| NVIDIA A100 PCIe Accelerator Now Shipping For Servers | 22 Jun 2020 |
| NVIDIA 450 Linux Beta Driver Quietly Rolls Out With New PRIME Option, Other Improvements | 07 Jun 2020 |
| Mainline Linux Kernel Starts Seeing A NVIDIA Tegra X1 Video Input Driver | 28 May 2020 |
| NVIDIA 440.66.15 Vulkan Linux Driver Offers Up More Fixes | 26 May 2020 |
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877 Articles |
| Operating Systems |
| OPNsense 20.7 Released For This BSD-Powered Open-Source Firewall | 30 Jul 2020 |
| OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 Reaches Alpha | 28 Jul 2020 |
| Rust-Written Redox OS Now Supports GDB Debugging | 28 Jul 2020 |
| OpenMandriva Progressing On Rolling Release Version, Moving Away From i686 Repository | 18 Jul 2020 |
| ReactOS Hires Developer To Work On Their Open-Source Windows Storage Stack | 14 Jul 2020 |
| Gentoo On Android 64-Bit Sees New Release After 2+ Years | 07 Jul 2020 |
| BeOS-Inspired Haiku Working On Supporting Modern CPU Features Like AVX | 28 Jun 2020 |
| Linux Mint 20 "Ulyana" Released - Based On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | 27 Jun 2020 |
| Mageia 8 Alpha 1 Released With Better ARM Support, Linux 5.7 Kernel | 26 Jun 2020 |
| OmniOS Updates Bring Microcode Mitigation For CrossTalk/SRBDS | 22 Jun 2020 |
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829 Articles |
| Oracle |
| Oracle Updates Many Packages With Solaris 11.4 SRU21 | 23 May 2020 |
| Oracle Talks Up Btrfs Rather Than ZFS For Their Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6 | 21 May 2020 |
| Oracle Releases GraalVM 20.1 Virtual Machine With Some Big Improvements | 19 May 2020 |
| Oracle Working On "PKRAM" For Memory That Survives After Booting Into A New Kexec Kernel | 08 May 2020 |
| Oracle Linux 8 Update 2 Released, Now Defaulting To UEK R6 Kernel For New Installs | 07 May 2020 |
| OpenJDK 15 To Have Better Out-Of-The-Box Performance | 16 Apr 2020 |
| Oracle Punts Its Twentieth Update To Solaris 11.4 | 15 Apr 2020 |
| Oracle Ships Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6 - Based On Linux 5.4 + DTrace Over BPF, Etc | 31 Mar 2020 |
| Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R5U3 Released With Better ARM 64-Bit Support | 24 Mar 2020 |
| Java 14 Reaches General Availability With Garbage Collection Improvements | 17 Mar 2020 |
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| Phoronix |
| Rust Maybe Coming To The Linux Kernel, Other Open-Source Milestones For July | 02 Aug 2020 |
| Phoronix.com Transition To New Server Complete | 04 Jul 2020 |
| Server Infrastructure Upgrade Weekend - AMD EPYC Rome Across The Board | 03 Jul 2020 |
| Raspberry Pi Vulkan, WSL2, Renoir, Linux 5.8 + PHP8 Was Exciting For June | 01 Jul 2020 |
| Intel vs. AMD, Systemd-Homed, Kernel Advancements Top H1'2020 For Linux | 30 Jun 2020 |
| Phoronix Is Now 16 Years Old, Phoronix Test Suite Turns 12 | 05 Jun 2020 |
| Kernel Advancements, Microsoft Linux News Kept Open-Source Fans Entertained In May | 02 Jun 2020 |
| Phoronix Turns 16 Years Old Next Week, So Here's A Special To Celebrate | 31 May 2020 |
| Linux Gaming, Qt Drama, New Hardware Kept Open-Source Enthusiasts Entertained This Month | 30 Apr 2020 |
| Apple Using Rust, exFAT, Ryzen Laptops, Ubuntu 20.04 Advances + Other Hits From March | 31 Mar 2020 |
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| Phoronix Test Suite |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.8 Milestone 2 Released For Open-Source/Linux Benchmarking | 24 Jun 2020 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.8 Milestone 1 Readies Another Round Of Benchmarking Features | 04 Jun 2020 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.6.1 Released For Cross-Platform, Open-Source Benchmarking | 25 May 2020 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.6 Released With Many Benchmark Result Viewer Improvements | 21 Apr 2020 |
| Continuing To Improve The Benchmark Result Viewer | 12 Apr 2020 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.6 Milestone 2 Released For Latest Cross-Platform Benchmarking | 05 Apr 2020 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.6 Milestone 1 Further Enhances The Benchmark Result Viewer | 24 Mar 2020 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.4.1 Released For Automated, Cross-Platform Benchmarking | 04 Mar 2020 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.4 M3 Released With More Improvements For Benchmark Result Analysis | 18 Feb 2020 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.4 Milestone 2 Released With Result Viewer Improvements | 05 Feb 2020 |
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| Programming |
| Git 2.28 Now Shipping With Feature For Configurable Default/Main Branch Name | 27 Jul 2020 |
| Build2 v0.13 Released As C/C++ Build Toolchain Inspired By Rust's Cargo | 21 Jul 2020 |
| Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.21 Released With Many Fixes, Big Performance Improvements For AArch64 | 21 Jul 2020 |
| Lua 5.4 Released With New Garbage Collection Mode, Warning System | 29 Jun 2020 |
| PHP 8.0 Alpha 1 Released - Running Faster And With New Features | 25 Jun 2020 |
| Perl 7 Announced As Evolving Perl 5 With Modern Defaults | 24 Jun 2020 |
| Perl 5.32 Released With Unicode 13.0 Support, Performance Enhancements | 21 Jun 2020 |
| FPC 3.2 Pascal Compiler Released In 2020 - Even Adds Windows 3.0 16-bit Support | 20 Jun 2020 |
| OpenBLAS 0.3.10 Released With Initial BFloat16 Support, x86_64 Optimizations | 15 Jun 2020 |
| Git 2.27 Demotes The Recently Promoted Transport Protocol v2, Continues SHA-256 Work | 01 Jun 2020 |
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| Proprietary Software |
| DaVinci Resolve 16 Beta Video Editor Employing Deep Learning, GPU Accelerated Tools | 08 Apr 2019 |
| Lightworks Video Editor Plans For A Busy 2019 But No Signs Of The Open-Source Version | 10 Jan 2019 |
| Adobe Customer Care: There Hasn't Been Enough Demand For Linux | 10 Dec 2018 |
| Lightworks 14.5 Video Editor Released With Same-Day Linux Support But Still No Source | 17 Oct 2018 |
| DaVinci Resolve 15 Video/Effects Editor Released With Linux Support | 13 Aug 2018 |
| A VR Developer's Thoughts On The Current Mess Of APIs & Hardware | 27 May 2018 |
| Keeper Password Manager Launches New Linux Version | 26 Apr 2018 |
| Vivaldi Web Browser Now Available For Linux ARM / Raspberry Pi | 05 Dec 2017 |
| TeamViewer 13 Now Available For Linux As A Native 64-bit Port | 04 Dec 2017 |
| Adobe Is Finally Ending Flash Support... In 2020 | 25 Jul 2017 |
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| Qt |
| Qt Creator 4.13 Beta Released - Finally Offers Meson Build System Integration | 13 Jul 2020 |
| Qt 6.0 Sees Its First Development Snapshot | 15 Jun 2020 |
| KDAB Releases Qt 3D + glTF 2.0 Powered Kuesa 3D 1.2 | 08 Jun 2020 |
| Qt Updates Its Online Installer To Clarify Open-Source Obligations | 27 May 2020 |
| Qt 5.15 Released With Graphics Improvements, Preparations Ahead Of Qt 6 | 26 May 2020 |
| Qt 5.15 Aiming For Release A Week From Today | 12 May 2020 |
| Qt 5.15 Hits Release Candidate In Hopes Of Shipping Later This Month | 06 May 2020 |
| Qt 6.0 Gets A Release Date With An Initial Release Schedule Published | 27 Apr 2020 |
| LXQt 0.15 Released As First Big Update To This Lightweight Qt Desktop In A Year | 25 Apr 2020 |
| Qt Developers Discuss Theoretical Clang-Based Tool For Porting Qt5 Code To Qt6 | 23 Apr 2020 |
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431 Articles |
| Radeon |
| Defaulting Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs To Better Linux Driver Is Held Up By Analog Outputs | 04 Aug 2020 |
| ACO Radeon Shader Back-End Adds Unit Testing Framework To Help Test Optimizations | 30 Jul 2020 |
| AMD's ROCm AOMP Compiler 11.7-1 Brings OMPD Support, ROCgdb | 30 Jul 2020 |
| AMD "Navy Flounder" Support Merged Into Mesa 20.2 | 28 Jul 2020 |
| Radeon "Southern Islands" Support Continues Improving In AMDGPU Driver - GPU Reset | 28 Jul 2020 |
| AMDVLK 2020.Q3.2 Radeon Vulkan Driver Christened Early Due To Bugs | 23 Jul 2020 |
| AMDVLK 2020.Q3.1 Vulkan Driver Brings More Performance Tuning | 21 Jul 2020 |
| Radeon R600 Gallium3D NIR Backend Continues Advancing | 20 Jul 2020 |
| AMD Sends In Navy Flounder Support, More Sienna Cichlid For Linux 5.9 | 18 Jul 2020 |
| DC Display Support Continues To Be Worked On For Radeon GCN 1.0 With AMDGPU Driver | 16 Jul 2020 |
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| Red Hat |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Hits Beta With New/Updated Application Streams | 28 Jul 2020 |
| CentOS Stream Begins Seeing RHEL 8.3 Bits, Real-Time Repository | 07 Jul 2020 |
| "Project Springfield" Is Red Hat's Effort To Improve Linux File-Systems / Storage | 01 Jul 2020 |
| RHEL Deprecating The Virt-Manager UI In Favor Of The Cockpit Web Console | 26 Jun 2020 |
| Red Hat Investing In Modularity And Will Support It Where It Makes Sense For RHEL 9 | 18 Jun 2020 |
| CentOS 8 Rebased Against RHEL 8.2 | 15 Jun 2020 |
| Red Hat's Stratis Storage 2.1 Released With Encryption Support, Other Improvements | 04 Jun 2020 |
| Red Hat Tosses Its Weight Behind Quarkus | 28 May 2020 |
| Red Hat Pushing DNF 5 Into Development For Improving The Package Manager | 05 Mar 2020 |
| Red Hat's Stratis 2.0.1 Released For This Linux Storage Management Solution | 11 Feb 2020 |
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| RISC-V |
| RISC-V UEFI Linux Support Under Review | 28 Jun 2020 |
| RISC-V For Linux 5.8 Finishes Bringing Up The Kendryte K210, Adds KGDB Support | 07 Jun 2020 |
| Linux 5.7 Begins Landing Support For The Kendryte K210 Dual-Core RISC-V SoC | 09 Apr 2020 |
| UEFI Boot Support Published For RISC-V On Linux | 26 Feb 2020 |
| Linux Kernel Continues Prepping For RISC-V's Updated Supervisor Binary Interface | 12 Feb 2020 |
| Linux Kernel Preparations For RISC-V Vector ISA Support | 06 Jan 2020 |
| Libre RISC-V Accelerator Secures 300k EUR In Grants, Still Undecided About The ISA | 29 Dec 2019 |
| NEOX V Announced By Think Silicon As First RISC-V 3D GPU | 02 Dec 2019 |
| Many RISC-V Improvements Ready For Linux 5.5: M-Mode, SECCOMP, Other Features | 27 Nov 2019 |
| SiFive U8-Series To Offer Much Greater RISC-V Performance | 25 Oct 2019 |
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| Standards |
| Microsoft + Oculus Shipping First Conformant OpenXR 1.0 Implementations | 28 Jul 2020 |
| Monado Working On Positional Tracking Support Via Libsurvive To Further Open-Source AR/VR | 17 Jul 2020 |
| OpenXR Conformance Tests Open-Sourced | 07 Jul 2020 |
| H.266/VVC Standard Finalized With ~50% Lower Size Compared To H.265 | 06 Jul 2020 |
| Khronos Releases SYCL 2020 Provisional Specification | 30 Jun 2020 |
| Khronos Releases OpenVG 1.1 Lite For High Quality Vector Graphics On Mobile | 28 May 2020 |
| SD 8.0 Specification To Allow 4GB/s Transfer Rates By Leveraging PCIe 4.0 | 19 May 2020 |
| Updated Basis Universal Yields High Quality Compression, 3~4x Smaller Than JPEG/PNG | 21 Mar 2020 |
| Unicode 13.0 Released With A Plunger, Fondue & Other New Emoji | 11 Mar 2020 |
| New High Quality GPU Compression Codec Going Open-Source In The Coming Days | 09 Mar 2020 |
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| SUSE |
| SUSE Acquiring Rancher Labs | 08 Jul 2020 |
| OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 Released With AI/ML Packages Added, YaST Improvements | 02 Jul 2020 |
| openSUSE Leap 15.2 Hits RC Phase With GNOME 3.34 + KDE Plasma 5.18, Sway | 29 May 2020 |
| OpenSUSE Leap + SUSE Linux Enterprise Planning To Move Closer In 2020 | 09 Apr 2020 |
| OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 Begins Seeing Beta Builds, Official Release Due In May | 25 Feb 2020 |
| 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 |
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| systemd |
| Systemd 246 Released With Many Changes | 30 Jul 2020 |
| Systemd 246 Release Is Imminent With RC2 Released | 24 Jul 2020 |
| systemd-oomd Looks Like It Will Come Together For systemd 247 | 13 Jul 2020 |
| systemd 246-RC1 Released | 09 Jul 2020 |
| A Microsoft Addition For systemd 246 Exposes Host OS Information To Containers | 09 Jul 2020 |
| Systemd 246 Is On The Way With Many Changes | 01 Jul 2020 |
| Dbus-Broker 23 Released For High Performance D-Bus | 11 May 2020 |
| Systemd-OOMD Continues Coming Together For Better Linux Out-Of-Memory Handling | 10 Apr 2020 |
| Systemd 245 Released - First Version Including Systemd-Homed | 06 Mar 2020 |
| Systemd 245 RC2 Released With Systemd-Homed, Partitioner + More | 03 Mar 2020 |
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| Ubuntu |
| Mir 2.0 Released In Dropping Legacy Bits, New Platform Improvements | 24 Jul 2020 |
| Canonical Is Using Mir To Bring Flutter To Wayland | 12 Jul 2020 |
| Mircade Still Being Worked On As A Confined Mir + Snap Based Launcher | 04 Jul 2020 |
| Ubuntu 20.10 Moving Ahead In Restricting Access To dmesg | 03 Jul 2020 |
| EGMDE Is Still Being Hacked On As A Lightweight Mir Desktop | 26 Jun 2020 |
| Dell To Begin Shipping Ubuntu 20.04 LTS On Their Latest XPS Developer Edition | 23 Jun 2020 |
| Ubuntu 20.10 Looking At Restricting Access To Kernel Logs With dmesg | 17 Jun 2020 |
| Ubuntu 18.04's Heavily Patched Kernel Opens Door To Lockdown Bypass, Breaks Secure Boot | 14 Jun 2020 |
| Ubuntu's Ubiquity Installer Begins Adding ZFS Encryption Support | 10 Jun 2020 |
| Performing Automated Server Installs With Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | 07 Jun 2020 |
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| Valve |
| Valve's Steam July 2020 Numbers Point To A Small Dip For Linux | 01 Aug 2020 |
| Valve Hires Another Developer To Work On RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver | 28 Jul 2020 |
| Valve/CodeWeavers Rolls Out Proton 5.0-10 RC For Death Stranding, One Day After Windows Release | 15 Jul 2020 |
| Steam On Linux Is Still Bouncing Around 0.9% For Summer 2020 | 02 Jul 2020 |
| Futex2 Proposed In Latest Effort For Linux Kernel Optimization That Can Benefit Gamers | 12 Jun 2020 |
| Steam Play's Proton 5.0-9 Brings Fix For Games Requiring EA Origin Client | 11 Jun 2020 |
| Proton 5.0-8 Release Candidate Brings Game Fixes, Performance Improvements | 03 Jun 2020 |
| Steam Ironing Out Shader Pre-Caching For Helping Game Load Times, Stuttering | 30 May 2020 |
| Half-Life: Alyx Update Adds Native Linux Support, Vulkan Rendering | 15 May 2020 |
| Valve Updates Steam Survey Data For April With A Slight Linux Increase | 02 May 2020 |
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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 |
| QEMU 5.1 Bringing Many CPU Improvements From Loongson To RISC-V To s390 | 16 Jul 2020 |
| Intel's Cloud Hypervisor 0.8 Adds Experimental ARM64 Support, Snapshot/Restore | 13 Jun 2020 |
| Loongson 3 CPUs Beginning To Work With Linux KVM Virtualization | 13 Jun 2020 |
| Linux 5.8 Supports Nested AMD Live Migration With KVM | 11 Jun 2020 |
| Intel Engineer Proposes Software-Based KVM Protected Memory Extension | 24 May 2020 |
| Linux KVM Virtualization Had Mistakenly Been Applying L1TF Workaround To Unaffected CPUs | 19 May 2020 |
| Proxmox VE 6.2 Released With Zstd Backups, Live Migration With ZFS Storage Replication | 12 May 2020 |
| QEMU 5.0 Released For This Important Open-Source Emulator For Linux Virtualization | 28 Apr 2020 |
| Amazon Plumbing Nitro Enclaves Support For Linux To Isolate Highly Sensitive Data | 21 Apr 2020 |
| VirtIO-FS Support Is In QEMU 5.0 For Better File/Folder Sharing Between Hosts And VMs | 21 Apr 2020 |
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| Vulkan |
| Vulkan 1.2.149 Released With Another Extension For Helping The Likes Of DXVK | 03 Aug 2020 |
| MoltenVK Update Brings Vulkan To Apple's tvOS | 31 Jul 2020 |
| Raspberry Pi 4 "V3DV" Vulkan Driver Begins Tackling MSAA, Other Improvements | 31 Jul 2020 |
| SWVKC Is A Vulkan-Powered Wayland Compositor Focused On Performance + Correctness | 26 Jul 2020 |
| V3DV Vulkan Driver Now Running vkQuake On The Raspberry Pi | 23 Jul 2020 |
| RenderDoc 1.9 Released - The Open-Source Graphics Debugging Tool Gets Even Better | 23 Jul 2020 |
| Vulkan 1.2.148 Release Tacks On Two More Extensions | 20 Jul 2020 |
| Vulkan 1.2.146 Released With DirectFB Support, Extended Fragment Density Map | 04 Jul 2020 |
| Open-Source Qualcomm "TURNIP" Vulkan Driver Adds Tessellation Shader Support | 23 Jun 2020 |
| Vulkan 1.2.145 Released With VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state | 21 Jun 2020 |
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| Wayland |
| Wayfire 0.5 Wayland Compositor Brings Latency Optimizations, More Protocols | 04 Aug 2020 |
| Libinput 1.16 Released - Ready To Warn You If Your System Is Too Slow | 03 Aug 2020 |
| Wayland-Utils 1.0 Relased As New Utility Package For Wayland Tools | 01 Aug 2020 |
| LIBEI Yields New Effort For Emulating Input Devices In Wayland | 31 Jul 2020 |
| Wayland's Weston 9.0 Reaches Alpha | 31 Jul 2020 |
| Wayland's Weston Compositor Introduces Kiosk/Fullscreen Shell | 30 Jul 2020 |
| Cage Wayland Compositor For Kiosk Use-Cases Updated With Direct Scan-Out, New Protocols | 17 Jul 2020 |
| Sway 1.5 Wayland Compositor Released With Adaptive-Sync/VRR, New Protocols | 16 Jul 2020 |
| Libinput 1.16 Will Warn You If Your System Is Too Slow | 15 Jul 2020 |
| Wayland-Info Spun From Weston Code For Offering Wayland Helper Tool | 10 Jul 2020 |
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| WINE |
| Wine-Staging 5.14 Release In 2020 Finally Implementing... Findstr | 02 Aug 2020 |
| Wine 5.14 Brings Initial Version Of The Webdings Font | 01 Aug 2020 |
| Wine-Staging 5.13 Comes With 669 Patches Atop Upstream Wine | 19 Jul 2020 |
| Wine 5.13 Released - Fixes 15 Year Old Bug To Support Windows NT INI Files To Registry Re-Mapping | 17 Jul 2020 |
| Valve Working On A VKD3D Fork For Getting Direct3D 12 Advanced For Proton / Steam Play | 06 Jul 2020 |
| Wine-Staging 5.12 Comes In Much Lighter With Many Patches Upstreamed | 04 Jul 2020 |
| Wine 5.12 Brings WebSocket API Support, Better RawInput Handling | 03 Jul 2020 |
| Wine-Staging 5.11 Is Down To Just Over 700 Patches | 20 Jun 2020 |
| Wine 5.11 Released With Updated Mono, Initial Work On NetIO Kernel Driver | 19 Jun 2020 |
| Wine Staging 5.10 Adds Another Patch For Denuvo + A Fix For Numerous D3D11 Games | 06 Jun 2020 |
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| X.Org |
| X.Org's Latest Security Woes Are Bugs In LibX11, Xserver | 31 Jul 2020 |
| The Annual X.Org / Wayland / Mesa Conference Is Going Virtual Due To COVID-19 | 03 Jul 2020 |
| Linux 5.9 To Expose Adaptive-Sync / VRR Range Via DebugFS | 26 Jun 2020 |
| The First Batch Of DRM-Misc-Next Changes For Linux 5.9 Sent In | 20 Jun 2020 |
| Intel Developer Posts Latest Patch For Variable Refresh Rate Within X.Org Modesetting | 11 Jun 2020 |
| Adaptive-Sync/VRR Seeing Port To xf86-video-modesetting Driver | 25 May 2020 |
| XDC2020 Call For Proposals - X.Org Developers For Now Still Planning To Meet In Poland | 16 May 2020 |
| X.Org Board Elections Wrap Up For 2020 | 30 Apr 2020 |
| Pixman 0.40 Released As First Update In A Year For This Key Library For The Linux Desktop | 20 Apr 2020 |
| X.Org AutoRepeat Option Restored After 14 Year Hiatus | 13 Apr 2020 |
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