| AMD |
| AMD Publishes Latest Linux Patch To Toggle Predictive Store Forwarding (PSF) | 18 May 2021 |
| AMD SEV Code Gets Reorganized In Linux 5.13 Ahead Of SEV-SNP Landing | 16 May 2021 |
| AMD Publishes Initial Open-Source Linux Driver Code For "Beige Goby" | 12 May 2021 |
| AMD Refactors MCE Driver Code, Prepares For Future While Finally Adding DF3/Rome Support | 10 May 2021 |
| AMD Zen 3 Scheduler Model Finally Added To LLVM/Clang | 03 May 2021 |
| AMD Begins Prototyping CRIU Support For ROCm Compute | 01 May 2021 |
| AMD Energy Driver Booted From The Linux 5.13 Kernel | 29 Apr 2021 |
| AMD Energy Monitoring Driver Slated To Be Removed From The Linux Kernel | 21 Apr 2021 |
| Linux 5.13 Will Stop Restricting CPU Power Metrics Access For AMD Energy Driver | 11 Apr 2021 |
| AMD Sends Out Linux Kernel Patches To Allow Disabling Predictive Store Forwarding (PSF) | 06 Apr 2021 |
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1225 Articles |
| Arm |
| Panfrost Open-Source Mali Driver Adding Mediatek MT8183 Support With Linux 5.14 | 17 May 2021 |
| Arm Outlines More Neoverse N2 + Neoverse V1 Platform Details | 27 Apr 2021 |
| Arm Announces ARMv9 Architecture With SVE2 | 30 Mar 2021 |
| Arm Neoverse V1 Tuning Lands In GCC 11 Compiler | 27 Mar 2021 |
| Linux Developers Continue Discussing "SLS" Mitigation For The Kernel | 06 Mar 2021 |
| Google Engineers Propose Adding Linux Kernel Option For ARM SLS Mitigation | 15 Feb 2021 |
| Some Older ARM Platforms Will Be Saved While Others On The Chopping Block For Linux | 13 Jan 2021 |
| Qualcomm To Acquire High Performance ARM SoC Startup NUVIA | 13 Jan 2021 |
| PicoXcell Support Finally Slated For Removal From The Linux Kernel | 05 Jan 2021 |
| Arm Begins Adding ARMv8.7-A Support In LLVM Clang 12 | 21 Dec 2020 |
More Arm News |
241 Articles |
| BSD |
| NetBSD 9.2 Released With Many Fixes, Much Faster FREAD | 17 May 2021 |
| DragonFlyBSD 6.0 Released With Many Kernel Optimizations, Other Improvements | 10 May 2021 |
| FreeBSD Is Off To A Good 2021 Start With FreeBSD 13.0, PIE By Default, helloSystem | 07 May 2021 |
| OpenBSD 6.9 Released In Beginning To Support Apple's M1 SoC | 30 Apr 2021 |
| GhostBSD Shifts Base To FreeBSD 13.0, Improvements For OpenZFS 2.0 | 30 Apr 2021 |
| DragonFlyBSD 6.0 To Be Released Soon | 20 Apr 2021 |
| FreeBSD 13.0 Brings Better Performance, LLVM Clang 11, Obsolete GNU Bits Removed | 13 Apr 2021 |
| Running Steam's Linux Build On FreeBSD Is Becoming Increasingly Capable For Gaming | 07 Apr 2021 |
| FreeBSD 13.0-RC5 Released Due To Lingering Bugs | 03 Apr 2021 |
| FreeBSD 13.0-RC4 Released With POWER Fixes, Other Bugs Addressed | 29 Mar 2021 |
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730 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 |
| Coreboot 4.14 Released With 42 New Motherboards Added, AMD Cezanne APU Support | 10 May 2021 |
| LinuxBoot Pulls In netboot.xyz For Easily Booting Different OS Installers | 05 May 2021 |
| Motherboards + Beer: Virtual Event Addressing Coreboot / Open-Source Firmware Prospects | 18 Feb 2021 |
| Intel + Microsoft Continue Work On Replacing More SMM "Black Boxes" With PRM | 06 Dec 2020 |
| Coreboot 4.13 Adds Intel TXT, Picks Up New Boards For AMD Pollock, Intel Alder Lake | 20 Nov 2020 |
| There's An Effort By A System76 Engineer To Bring Coreboot To Newer AMD Platforms | 24 Jul 2020 |
| Coreboot Ported To A Newer Intel Server Board From Supermicro | 07 Jun 2020 |
| Coreboot 4.12 Released - Drops Older Intel / AMD Platforms | 12 May 2020 |
| Oreboot Continues Advancing For Open-Source, Rust-Based Booting On RISC-V | 05 Feb 2020 |
| Tesla Is Making Use Of The Open-Source Coreboot Within Their Electric Vehicles | 14 Jan 2020 |
More Coreboot News |
215 Articles |
| Debian |
| Debian Installer 11 "Bullseye" RC1 Released | 23 Apr 2021 |
| Jonathan Carter Re-Elected As Debian Project Leader | 18 Apr 2021 |
| Devuan 4.0 Alpha Builds Begin For Debian 11 Without Systemd | 16 Apr 2021 |
| Debian 10.9 Released With FWUPD SBAT Support, Bug Fixes | 27 Mar 2021 |
| Debian 11.0 Is Now Under A Hard Freeze | 20 Mar 2021 |
| Experimental Rust-Based Coreutils Working Well Enough To Run Debian Basics | 09 Mar 2021 |
| Debian Launches A Debuginfod Server For Smoother Debugging Experience | 24 Feb 2021 |
| Devuan 3.1 Released - Debian Fork Now Offers Runit Plus Sysvinit, OpenRC | 15 Feb 2021 |
| Debian 11 "Bullseye" Begins Its Soft Freeze | 13 Feb 2021 |
| Data Suggests CoC + Outreachy Hasn't Helped Increase Female Participation In Debian | 13 Feb 2021 |
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354 Articles |
| Desktop |
| GNUstep Releases Early Wayland Support, Many Other Improvements Too | 06 May 2021 |
| System76 Developing "COSMIC" Desktop Environment For Pop!_OS | 13 Apr 2021 |
| Arcan Presents "Pipeworld" Dataflow Computing Interface | 13 Apr 2021 |
| XScreenSaver 6.0 Released With Increased Security, Better EGL & GLSL/GLES 3.0 Support | 08 Apr 2021 |
| Xfce 4.18 Planning Begins With An Eye On Wayland Application Support | 23 Mar 2021 |
| Shells.com Continues Work On Supporting More Linux Distros For This "Cloud Desktop" | 23 Mar 2021 |
| Flatpak 1.10 Released With More Efficient Repo Format | 14 Jan 2021 |
| GIMP 2.99.4 Released As One Step Closer To GIMP 3.0 | 26 Dec 2020 |
| FreeType Merges New "SDF" Renderer For High Quality Text Rendering In Games, Etc | 24 Dec 2020 |
| Xfce 4.16 Released With Numerous Improvements To This Lightweight GTK3 Desktop | 22 Dec 2020 |
More Desktop News |
394 Articles |
| Fedora |
| Fedora 35 Aims For Better Experience Running Vintage Linux Games | 17 May 2021 |
| Fedora 35 Might Drop Installer Option To "Allow SSH Root Login With Password" | 15 May 2021 |
| Fedora 34 Released As A Hugely Exciting Update For This Linux Distribution | 27 Apr 2021 |
| Fedora 34 To Release Next Week As A Very Exciting Update | 24 Apr 2021 |
| Fedora 35 Proposal Would Allow More Packages To Be Built Using LLVM Clang | 23 Apr 2021 |
| Fedora 34 Adding SEVCTL Utility For Managing AMD SEV | 09 Apr 2021 |
| Fedora 35 Looking To Make Use Of Debuginfod By Default | 08 Apr 2021 |
| RPM 4.17 Planned For Fedora 35 With Better Install Failure Handling, Lua Integration | 01 Apr 2021 |
| Fedora 34 Beta Released With PipeWire In Action, GNOME 40 Desktop | 23 Mar 2021 |
| Fedora Workstation 34 Should Be Very Exciting With GNOME 40, PipeWire Default | 16 Mar 2021 |
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1031 Articles |
| Free Software |
| OpenPrinting Now Developing Upstream CUPS, Apple Bows Out | 17 May 2021 |
| China Is Launching A New Alternative To Google Summer of Code, Outreachy | 09 May 2021 |
| GIMP 2.99.6 Released But Still No Idea When GIMP 3.0 Will Be Ready | 08 May 2021 |
| 7-Zip 21.02 Alpha Released With Sources, More Linux Improvements | 07 May 2021 |
| Inkscape 1.1 RC1 Released For This Leading Open-Source Vector Graphics Editor | 05 May 2021 |
| Apache OpenOffice Vulnerable To One-Click Code Execution | 04 May 2021 |
| Flatpak 1.11.1 Brings Changes For Steam, Better Support For Command Line Programs | 26 Apr 2021 |
| LunarG Is Hiring Another Graphics Driver Engineer | 25 Apr 2021 |
| Blender's "Cycles X" Showing Nice Performance But Dropping OpenCL Support | 23 Apr 2021 |
| IBM Clarifies Stance On Developers Working On Open-Source Projects In Off-Hours | 22 Apr 2021 |
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1679 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 41 To Introduce Libadwaita For Helping To Define GNOME Apps | 31 Mar 2021 |
| GTK 4.2 Released With NGL Renderer By Default | 30 Mar 2021 |
| GNOME 40 Released With Many Improvements | 24 Mar 2021 |
| GNOME 40 Release Candidate Arrives Ahead Of Next Week's Official Debut | 19 Mar 2021 |
| The Last Minute GNOME Shell + Mutter 40 Release Candidate Changes | 16 Mar 2021 |
| GNOME 40 Introducing Headless Native Backend, Virtual Monitors | 12 Mar 2021 |
| GNOME 40 Mutter Lands Wayland Presentation-Time Support | 08 Mar 2021 |
| GTK 4 Toolkit's New OpenGL Renderer Is Maturing Well | 26 Feb 2021 |
| GNOME 40 Beta Released With Many Improvements | 24 Feb 2021 |
| GNOME Shell + Mutter 40 Beta Released With Wayland Improvements, Overview Redesign | 23 Feb 2021 |
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1139 Articles |
| GNU |
| GCC 8.5 Released As The Last GCC 8 Compiler | 14 May 2021 |
| GNU Guix 1.3 Released With Better User Experience, Initial POWER9 Support | 12 May 2021 |
| GCC 12 Adds Support For New #elifdef #elifndef Directives | 12 May 2021 |
| GCC, GNU Toolchain Finally Working To Establish CI/CD For Better Reliability | 05 May 2021 |
| GCC 11.1 Released With Initial Work For Intel AMX / Sapphire Rapids, More C++20/C++23 | 27 Apr 2021 |
| GNU Linux-Libre 5.12 Released After More Driver Deblobbing, Dedicated To A Cat | 26 Apr 2021 |
| GCC 11 Releasing Next Week With Intel AMX, New CPU Support, More C++20/C++23 | 25 Apr 2021 |
| GCC 11.1 RC Released, GCC 12 In Development On Trunk | 20 Apr 2021 |
| GNU Assembly Launches As Collaborative Platform For GCC, Other Packages | 16 Apr 2021 |
| GnuPG 2.3 Released With New Experimental Key Database Daemon, TPM 2.0 Daemon | 08 Apr 2021 |
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885 Articles |
| Google |
| Google Announces Some Very Interesting GSoC 2021 Projects | 17 May 2021 |
| Chrome 91 Beta Brings Experimental WebTransport, WebAssembly SIMD By Default | 22 Apr 2021 |
| Google Deprecating RenderScript In Favor Of Vulkan Compute | 19 Apr 2021 |
| Google Supports Getting Rust Into The Linux Kernel | 15 Apr 2021 |
| Chrome 90 Released With AV1 Encode, New APIs | 14 Apr 2021 |
| Google Begins Allowing Rust Code For Developing Android | 07 Apr 2021 |
| Google Proposes Multi-Generational LRU For Linux To Yield Much Better Performance | 13 Mar 2021 |
| Google Publishes "Leaky.Page" Showing Spectre In Action Within Web Browsers | 12 Mar 2021 |
| Chrome 90 Beta Released With New Origin Trials, AV1 Encode | 12 Mar 2021 |
| 200+ Open-Source Projects Involved In GSoC 2021 | 10 Mar 2021 |
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460 Articles |
| Hardware |
| Qualcomm Adreno 660 Support Published For Open-Source MSM DRM Driver | 13 May 2021 |
| AMI Is Getting Involved With Open-Source Firmware Development | 12 May 2021 |
| OpenPOWER Announces LibreBMC As POWER Open-Source BMC | 10 May 2021 |
| Loongson 2K1000 Support Merged For Linux 5.13 | 08 May 2021 |
| PowerPC Pull Brings 32-Bit Improvements For Linux 5.13 - eBPF + KFENCE | 08 May 2021 |
| Linux's Perf Tools Prepares For Intel Alder Lake, Adds New AMD Zen 3 Events | 04 May 2021 |
| New Realtek Audio Support, VirtIO Sound Driver Ready To Play On Linux 5.13 | 02 May 2021 |
| It's 2021 & The FSF Is Still Endorsing 802.11n WiFi Hardware | 30 Apr 2021 |
| Apple Magic Mouse 2, Microsoft SAM Support Added For Linux 5.13 | 29 Apr 2021 |
| AMD's Crypto Co-Processor Driver Adds Green Sardine Support In Linux 5.13 | 29 Apr 2021 |
More Hardware News |
1793 Articles |
| Intel |
| Intel Seeks More Comments From Developers On Key Locker Implementation For Linux | 14 May 2021 |
| Intel Posts Latest Linux Patches For Reporting Per-Client GPU/Media Engine Utilization | 14 May 2021 |
| Intel Launches 11th Gen Core H-Series "Tiger Lake H" | 11 May 2021 |
| Linux 5.13 Merges Support For Intel DG1 Graphics Platform Monitoring / Telemetry | 08 May 2021 |
| Intel Posts Nearly 100 Patches For GuC Submission, Works To Integrate DRM Scheduler | 07 May 2021 |
| Linux 5.13 Adds An Intel Cooling Driver To Downclock Your CPU At A Lower Threshold | 05 May 2021 |
| Intel Explores Write Protecting Page Tables Using Upcoming PKS Feature | 05 May 2021 |
| Intel's Linux Vulkan Driver Adds Fragment Shading Rate Support | 03 May 2021 |
| Intel's Cloud-Hypervisor Jumps From v0.14.1 To v15.0 To Signify Its Maturity, Stabilizing | 30 Apr 2021 |
| Intel Bus Lock Detection Merged For Linux 5.13 | 27 Apr 2021 |
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2057 Articles |
| KDE |
| KDE Still Isn't For Client-Side Decorations But Has Been Selectively Using Some D.W.D. | 16 May 2021 |
| KDE Continues Pushing More Wayland Fixes Into Plasma 5.22 | 15 May 2021 |
| KDE Plasma 5.22 Beta Ready For Testing With Much Better Wayland Experience | 14 May 2021 |
| KDE Developers Polish The Desktop Ahead Of Next Month's Plasma 5.22 | 08 May 2021 |
| Trinity Desktop R14.0.10 Released For Those Still Loving KDE 3 | 03 May 2021 |
| KDE Plasma 5.22 Now Supports FreeSync/Adaptive-Sync On Wayland, GPU Hot-Plugging | 01 May 2021 |
| KDE Sees Another Wayland Session Crash Fix, SDDM To No Longer Require Root | 24 Apr 2021 |
| KDE Will Now Let You Easily Disable Offline Updates, More KWin Crash Fixes | 17 Apr 2021 |
| KDE KWin Introducing Item-Based Scenes For Improved Wayland Support | 12 Apr 2021 |
| KDE Lands More Crash Fixes, Activities Feature Working On Wayland | 10 Apr 2021 |
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1063 Articles |
| LibreOffice |
| LibreOffice Adds A Command Popup / HUD, Inspired By Half-Decade Old Microsoft Office Feature | 12 May 2021 |
| LibreOffice Begins Landing GTK4 Support Code | 11 May 2021 |
| LibreOffice Merges Initial Support For Compiling To WebAssembly | 06 May 2021 |
| Developers Continue New Push With LibreOffice In The Web Browser Via WebAssembly | 10 Feb 2021 |
| LibreOffice 7.1 "Community" Edition Released | 03 Feb 2021 |
| LibreOffice 7.1 RC2 Up For Testing This Open-Source Office Suite | 20 Jan 2021 |
| LibreOffice Drops Its Experimental, Buggy VLC Integration | 26 Dec 2020 |
| LibreOffice 7.1-RC1 Released For Testing This Open-Source Office Suite | 23 Dec 2020 |
| LibreOffice 7.1 Beta Released With Faster Spell Checking, Speedier Find And Replace | 24 Nov 2020 |
| LibreOffice 7.1 Alpha Is Up For Testing | 27 Oct 2020 |
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146 Articles |
| Linux Events |
| IWOCL + SYCLcon 2021 Slides/Videos Published For Lots Of OpenCL, SYCL Technical Talks | 29 Apr 2021 |
| FOSDEM Online 2021 Is Happening This Weekend | 06 Feb 2021 |
| Linux App Summit 2020 Videos Now Available From Steam/Valve To GNOME Circle | 14 Nov 2020 |
| OpenPOWER Summit 2020 Was This Week With Many Interesting Hardware/Software Talks | 20 Sep 2020 |
| Automotive Grade Linux Has Large Presence At CES 2020 | 08 Jan 2020 |
| Some Of The Interesting Open-Source Projects For Outreachy's Winter 2019 Round | 07 Dec 2019 |
| Open Source Firmware Conference 2019 Videos Posted | 04 Dec 2019 |
| OpenZFS Developer Summit 2019 Videos + Slides For The Latest On Open-Source ZFS | 10 Nov 2019 |
| The Hardware FOSDEM Uses To Carry Out Linux Video Recordings Of Their Event | 22 Sep 2019 |
| The Open-Source / Linux Highlights From OSTS 2019 | 18 May 2019 |
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76 Articles |
| Linux Gaming |
| Unvanquished 0.52 Beta Released For Open-Source, First-Person RTS Game | 14 May 2021 |
| Daemon Engine 0.52 Beta Continues Advancing The id Tech 3 Open-Source Code In 2021 | 11 May 2021 |
| Linux 5.13 Adds Support For The Amazon Luna Game Controller | 06 May 2021 |
| Total War: Rome Remastered Released For Linux | 29 Apr 2021 |
| Godot 3.3 Arrives With Renderer Improvements, WebXR Support For VR Games | 21 Apr 2021 |
| Metro Exodus Launches For Linux But Off To Bumpy Start | 14 Apr 2021 |
| Two Decade Old RTS Game Rolls Out v4.0 Update With Vulkan Renderer | 05 Apr 2021 |
| Flax Engine 1.1 Released For This Impressive Open-Source 3D Game Engine | 28 Mar 2021 |
| Total War: Rome Remastered + Metro Exodus Coming To Linux In April | 25 Mar 2021 |
| SDL2 Lands Native PipeWire Support | 02 Mar 2021 |
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1772 Articles |
| Linux Kernel |
| The Growing Number Of AI Accelerator Drivers Reignites Linux Kernel Driver Debate | 17 May 2021 |
| Linux 5.13-rc2 Released With A VGA Text Mode Fix | 16 May 2021 |
| Linux 5.14 To Bring SimpleDRM Driver, VC4 HDR, Marks More AGP Code As Legacy | 13 May 2021 |
| Looking At An Early Performance Regression In Linux 5.13 - Scheduler Related | 11 May 2021 |
| Linux 5.13-rc1 Released Following "A Fairly Big Merge Window" | 09 May 2021 |
| Linux 5.10 LTS Will Be Maintained Through End Of Year 2026 | 09 May 2021 |
| Linux 5.13 Brings Simplified Retpolines Handling | 09 May 2021 |
| AMDGPU Driver Gets Initial Fixes For Linux 5.13 - Polaris 12 32-bit, Suspend/Resume Fix | 06 May 2021 |
| Turbostat For Linux 5.13 Brings AMD Zen Fix, New Intel CPU Support | 04 May 2021 |
| A Fresh Take On Speculative Page Faulting Aims For The Mainline Kernel | 04 May 2021 |
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2705 Articles |
| Linux Networking |
| Linux 5.13 Networking Includes BPF Improvements, Optimizations, WWAN + MANA | 03 May 2021 |
| Realtek RTL8156 2.5G Chips + RTL8153 To Be Supported By Linux 5.13 | 17 Apr 2021 |
| Linux 5.13 Set To Introduce A WWAN Framework | 17 Apr 2021 |
| The Linux Kernel Continues Crafting A WWAN Subsystem | 05 Apr 2021 |
| Months After Being Deprecated, Linux Ready To Say Goodbye To WiMAX | 21 Mar 2021 |
| Linux 5.13 To Address Some Networking Overhead Caused By Retpolines | 21 Mar 2021 |
| CIFSD In-Kernel SMB3 File-Sharing Server Lands In Linux-Next | 18 Mar 2021 |
| Many Networking Improvements Routed To The Linux 5.12 Kernel | 18 Feb 2021 |
| Linux Patches Updated For Light-Based Networking With pureLiFi Driver | 16 Jan 2021 |
| Linux Appears Close To Supporting LiFi Light-Based Networking With pureLiFi | 06 Dec 2020 |
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177 Articles |
| Linux Security |
| Core Scheduling Looks Like It Will Be Ready For Linux 5.14 To Avoid Disabling SMT/HT | 12 May 2021 |
| FragAttacks: New Security Vulnerabilities Affecting WiFi Devices, 12 CVEs Issued | 12 May 2021 |
| "Landlock" Lands In Linux 5.13 For Unprivileged Application Sandboxing | 02 May 2021 |
| New Spectre Variants Discovered By Exploiting Micro-op Caches | 01 May 2021 |
| Linux 5.13 Lands Support For Randomizing Stack Offsets Per Syscall | 28 Apr 2021 |
| Google Volleys Latest "Restricted DMA" Patches For Protecting IOMMU-Less Hardware | 22 Apr 2021 |
| Secret Memory Areas For Linux Might Finally Be Ready With memfd_secret | 13 Apr 2021 |
| Linux 5.13 Poised To Allow Randomizing Kernel Stack Offset At Each System Call | 09 Apr 2021 |
| Linux Core Scheduling Nears The Finish Line To Avoid Flipping Off HT | 25 Mar 2021 |
| Microsoft Security Researcher Proposes Unprivileged Chroot For Linux | 10 Mar 2021 |
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185 Articles |
| Linux Storage |
| OpenZFS 2.1-rc5 Released With Linux 5.12 Support, Many Bug Fixes | 10 May 2021 |
| Linux 5.13 Adds Support For SPI NOR One-Time Programmable Memory Regions | 09 May 2021 |
| UBIFS To Default To Zstd Compressed File-System With Linux 5.13+ | 06 May 2021 |
| Device Mapper Gets Some Nice Improvements With Linux 5.13 | 05 May 2021 |
| F2FS Adds New Mount Options With Linux 5.13, Other Improvements | 04 May 2021 |
| IO_uring Squeezes More Performance With Linux 5.13 | 03 May 2021 |
| OrangeFS Scores An "Extreme Performance Improvement" In Linux 5.13 | 02 May 2021 |
| Btrfs Continues Ironing Out Zoned Mode Support, Some Performance Work | 29 Apr 2021 |
| OpenZFS 2.1-rc4 Delivers Another Round Of Fixes | 23 Apr 2021 |
| Updated CIFSD In-Kernel SMB3 File Sharing Server Patches Published | 22 Apr 2021 |
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620 Articles |
| LLVM |
| Clang CFI Support Upstreamed For Linux 5.13 - But Only On ARM64 For Now | 30 Apr 2021 |
| LLVM 12.0 Released With Alder Lake + Sapphire Rapids Support, More C++20 | 15 Apr 2021 |
| HPVM 1.0 Released As LLVM-Based Compiler For CPUs / GPUs / FPGAs / Accelerators | 09 Apr 2021 |
| LLVM 12.0 Delays Drag On With RC5 Now Shipping | 08 Apr 2021 |
| LLVM 12.0-rc4 Released For Squaring Up This Open-Source Compiler | 01 Apr 2021 |
| Clang CFI Patches For The Linux Kernel Aim To Provide Better Security | 14 Mar 2021 |
| LLVM 12.0 Should Be Released Soon Following RC3 Release | 11 Mar 2021 |
| Clang LTO Support Merged For Linux 5.12 Including ARM64 + x86_64 | 23 Feb 2021 |
| LLVM 11.1 Released To Deal With ABI Breakage | 17 Feb 2021 |
| Building The Linux Kernel With Clang Continues To Be Useful, New Features Pursued | 08 Feb 2021 |
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650 Articles |
| Mesa |
| Virglrenderer Sees Some New Micro-Optimizations | 17 May 2021 |
| Turnip Vulkan Driver Continues Maturing, Correctly Rendering More Games | 06 May 2021 |
| Mesa 21.1 Released With RADV Variable Rate Shading, More Intel Vulkan Improvements | 05 May 2021 |
| Mesa Fixes Up The Recent L3 Cache Pinning Rework | 04 May 2021 |
| Mesa 21.x Seems To Muck Up Gamers' Trust Factor For Counter-Strike: Global Offensive | 03 May 2021 |
| Early Gallium3D Work Has Begun Around Apple's M1 GPU With New "AGX" Driver | 02 May 2021 |
| Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Now Correctly Rendering... Glxgears | 27 Apr 2021 |
| Mesa 21.0.3 + Mesa 21.1-rc2 Released | 21 Apr 2021 |
| AMD Proposing Redesign For How Linux GPU Drivers Work - Explicit Fences Everywhere | 20 Apr 2021 |
| Mesa RADV Driver Fixes Memory Leak Affecting Metro Exodus On Linux | 20 Apr 2021 |
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1979 Articles |
| Microsoft |
| Microsoft Bringing eBPF Support To Windows | 11 May 2021 |
| Microsoft Prepping Linux For Running As 64-bit ARM Hyper-V Guest | 03 May 2021 |
| Microsoft Posts WSLg Preview - GUI App Support With Windows Subsystem For Linux | 21 Apr 2021 |
| Microsoft Adding Azure "MANA" Driver To Linux | 19 Apr 2021 |
| Linux 5.13 To Enable The Keyboard/Touchpad Of Newer Microsoft Surface Laptops | 30 Mar 2021 |
| Microsoft Surface "DTX" Driver Slated For Linux 5.13 | 24 Mar 2021 |
| Microsoft Sends Out Patches For Hyper-V "Isolation VMs" With Linux | 04 Mar 2021 |
| Microsoft Contributes Integrity Improvements To Linux 5.12 | 22 Feb 2021 |
| Linux 5.12 Should Be Able To Boot As The Root Partition On Microsoft's Hypervisor | 17 Feb 2021 |
| Microsoft Makes The Extensible Storage Engine Open-Source | 01 Feb 2021 |
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241 Articles |
| Mozilla |
| Firefox 89 Beta Released With UI Changes | 20 Apr 2021 |
| Firefox 88 Released With FTP Support Disabled, Support For JavaScript In PDFs | 19 Apr 2021 |
| Firefox Begins Rolling Out QUIC + HTTP/3 Support | 17 Apr 2021 |
| Firefox 87 Released With Privacy Improvements But Backs Out AVIF | 23 Mar 2021 |
| Firefox 86.0 Released With Total Cookie Protection, Stack Clash Protection | 23 Feb 2021 |
| Mozilla Firefox 85.0 Now Available As First 2021 Release | 26 Jan 2021 |
| Mozilla Announces "Open Web Docs" Following Last Year's Layoffs | 25 Jan 2021 |
| Mozilla Firefox Flips On AVIF Image Decoding By Default | 08 Jan 2021 |
| Mozilla Firefox Appears Ready To Enable AVIF Image Handling Support By Default | 20 Dec 2020 |
| Firefox 84 Rolling Out With WebRender By Default Appearing For Some Linux Setups | 15 Dec 2020 |
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350 Articles |
| Multimedia |
| AVX2 Tuning Paying Off Big Time For Dav1d 10b/12b Video Decode | 17 May 2021 |
| Dav1d 0.9 Released With AVX2-Tuned 10b/12b Decode For Big Speed Boost | 16 May 2021 |
| The Story Of PipeWire & How It's Getting Ready To Handle Linux Audio + Video | 15 May 2021 |
| AV1 Decoder dav1d Lands 10-bit AVX2 Assembly For Big Speed-Up, Thanks Facebook + Netflix | 11 May 2021 |
| Libaom, SVT-AV1 Mark New Open-Source AV1 Encoder Releases This Week | 09 May 2021 |
| MuSE 4.0 Free Software Digital Audio Workstation Brings Redesigned UI | 26 Apr 2021 |
| PipeWire 0.3.26 Released With Better Bluetooth Support, Up To 64 Channel Devices | 22 Apr 2021 |
| FFmpeg 4.4 Released With AV1 VA-API Decoder, SVT-AV1 Encoding | 09 Apr 2021 |
| Google Posts Initial Code For Lyra Speech Codec | 06 Apr 2021 |
| PulseAudio 15 Lands mSBC Codec Support To Enable Bluetooth Wideband Speech | 06 Apr 2021 |
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466 Articles |
| Nouveau |
| Nouveau Working On Bringing Up Some OpenGL Compute Shader Support For NV50 Era GPUs | 01 May 2021 |
| Nouveau With Linux 5.12 Has ~5k L.O.C. Change In Preparing For Ampere | 12 Feb 2021 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA Changes Sent In For Linux 5.12 | 29 Jan 2021 |
| Open-Source "Nouveau" Driver Now Supports NVIDIA Ampere - But Without 3D Acceleration | 14 Jan 2021 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA Support For Recent GPUs Is Poor But Now You Can Fake It For Testing | 12 Jan 2021 |
| Nouveau Sees Fix To Properly Handle Mini DP Connectors - Avoids GNOME Mutter Crashing | 30 Dec 2020 |
| Nouveau NVC0 Shader Disk Cache Lands For Speeding Up Game Load Times | 25 Aug 2020 |
| Nouveau Changes For Linux 5.9 Bring Fixes, Prep For Future Improvements | 24 Jul 2020 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" CRC Support Ready For Linux 5.9 | 22 Jul 2020 |
| Open-Source 3D/Compute Finally Materializing For NVIDIA Volta / Turing GPUs | 09 Jun 2020 |
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441 Articles |
| NVIDIA |
| NVIDIA 460.80 Linux Driver Released With New Laptop GPU Support, Bug Fixes | 11 May 2021 |
| NVIDIA Adding Experimental Vulkan Support For Executing CUDA Binaries | 10 May 2021 |
| Linux 5.13 Yanks A NVIDIA NVLink Driver For Lack Of Open-Source User | 07 May 2021 |
| NVIDIA 465.27 Linux Driver Brings Expanded Laptop GPU Support | 29 Apr 2021 |
| NVIDIA CUDA 11.3 Released - Previews Better Python Support | 16 Apr 2021 |
| NVIDIA 465.24.02 Linux Driver Released As Stable | 14 Apr 2021 |
| NVIDIA Announces Grace CPU For ARM-Based AI/HPC Processor | 12 Apr 2021 |
| X.Org Server Git Lands Support For Hardware-Accelerated XWayland With NVIDIA | 09 Apr 2021 |
| NVIDIA Now Allows GeForce GPU Pass-Through For Windows VMs On Linux | 30 Mar 2021 |
| NVIDIA 465.19.01 Linux Beta Driver Released | 30 Mar 2021 |
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931 Articles |
| Operating Systems |
| Illumos Dropping SPARC, Allows For Newer Compiler + Eventual Use Of Rust In The Kernel | 10 May 2021 |
| OpenIndiana Hipster 2021.04 Released For This Solaris/Illumos-Based OS | 01 May 2021 |
| Rocky Linux 8.3 RC1 Released For This New RHEL Alternative | 01 May 2021 |
| T2 SDE 21.4 Released With This Linux Distribution Supporting 15 CPU Architectures | 23 Apr 2021 |
| Arch-Based Endeavour OS Spins Up April Release, Adds Sway Community Edition | 18 Apr 2021 |
| Slackware 15 Beta Process Begins | 13 Apr 2021 |
| CentOS Hyperscale SIG Backported Newer Systemd, Preps For Experimental Repo | 05 Apr 2021 |
| Arch Linux's Install Media Adds "Archinstall" For Quick/Easy Installations | 04 Apr 2021 |
| AlmaLinux Now Available For Download As RHEL/CentOS Alternative | 31 Mar 2021 |
| Plan 9 Copyright Transferred To Foundation, MIT Licensed Code Released | 23 Mar 2021 |
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892 Articles |
| Oracle |
| Oracle Continues Working On The Maple Tree For The Linux Kernel | 09 May 2021 |
| GraalVM 21.1 Released With Experimental Java 16 Support, Many Performance Improvements | 21 Apr 2021 |
| Oracle Releases UEK R6U2 Kernel With New Slab Memory Controller | 31 Mar 2021 |
| "PKRAM" Revived For Preserving Memory Pages Across Kexec'ing Kernels | 31 Mar 2021 |
| Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU30 Is The Biggest Update We've Seen In A While | 21 Feb 2021 |
| Oracle Releases Linux-Based Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 5 Update 5 | 18 Feb 2021 |
| GraalVM 21.0 Released With Experimental JVM On Truffle | 20 Jan 2021 |
| GraalVM 20.3 Released With Many Small Performance Optimizations | 18 Nov 2020 |
| Oracle Linux 8 U3 Released With Better NVDIMM Support, Latest RHEL8 Work | 13 Nov 2020 |
| Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R6U1 Prepares For AMD Milan, Adds WireGuard | 12 Nov 2020 |
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264 Articles |
| Phoronix |
| Hypocrite Commits, Rocket Lake Benchmarks, Arch's New Installer Rallied April | 01 May 2021 |
| Linux 5.12 Corruption, GNOME 40, AMD Milan, Rust In Linux-Next Made For An Exciting March | 01 Apr 2021 |
| helloSystem, System76 Keyboard + Linux 5.11/5.12 Captivated Users In February | 01 Mar 2021 |
| Linux 5.11, Pyston, Wayland & Other January Excitement | 01 Feb 2021 |
| Happy New Year! A Look Back At The Most Popular Phoronix Content Of 2020 | 31 Dec 2020 |
| Happy Holidays As We End Out 2020 Plus One Last Phoronix Premium Special | 24 Dec 2020 |
| AMD's Zen 3 + RDNA2 Products Dominated November Along With The Apple M1 | 01 Dec 2020 |
| AMD, Kernel Advancements & Tiger Lake Captivated Linux Readers In October | 01 Nov 2020 |
| A Last Call For The 2020 Phoronix Premium Oktoberfest Special | 09 Oct 2020 |
| 2020 "Oktoberfest" Premium Special For Supporting Linux News, Benchmarking | 05 Oct 2020 |
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624 Articles |
| Phoronix Test Suite |
| New, Updated Benchmarks For April From WRF To Chia + Xmrig | 02 May 2021 |
| Many New/Updated Benchmarks For March With New SDR/Radio Tests, More Code Compilation | 28 Mar 2021 |
| Vulkan Ray-Tracing Along With Other New/Updated Benchmarks For February | 28 Feb 2021 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 10.2.2 Released For Automated Open-Source Benchmarking | 17 Feb 2021 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 10.2.1 Released For Open-Source Automated Benchmarking | 02 Feb 2021 |
| Many Exciting New & Updated Benchmarks For January 2021 | 02 Feb 2021 |
| OpenBenchmarking.org / PTS Adds Automated Per-Test Analysis Of CPU Instruction Set Usage | 01 Feb 2021 |
| New + Updated Benchmarks For December 2020 | 03 Jan 2021 |
| OpenBenchmarking.org Enjoyed A Major Overhaul In 2020, Significant Growth | 31 Dec 2020 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 10.2 Milestone 3 Released For The Latest In Open-Source Benchmarking | 22 Dec 2020 |
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205 Articles |
| Premium |
| Phoronix 2020 Black Friday Reminders | 27 Nov 2020 |
| The 2020 US Thanksgiving / Black Friday Phoronix Premium Special | 24 Nov 2020 |
| Showing Your Support During COVID-19 | 24 Apr 2020 |
| Showing Your Love For Open-Source + Linux Benchmarking This Valentine's Day | 14 Feb 2020 |
| A Last Call To Show Your Support In 2019 | 30 Dec 2019 |
| After 3,600 Original Articles This Year On Linux/Open-Source, Let's Have A Holiday Special | 24 Dec 2019 |
| There Is Just A Few Days Left To Go Premium For Black Friday / Cyber Monday | 29 Nov 2019 |
| It's That Time Of The Year For The Annual Phoronix Premium Sale To Show Your Support | 26 Nov 2019 |
| A Last Call For Our Phoronix Premium 2019 Autumn Special | 27 Sep 2019 |
| The Phoronix Premium Oktoberfest 2019 Deal - Support Linux/Open-Source Benchmarking | 22 Sep 2019 |
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37 Articles |
| Programming |
| Pyston 2.2 Released For A Faster Python While Facebook Releases Cinder | 05 May 2021 |
| POCL 1.7-RC1 Up For Testing, Now Exposes OpenCL 3.0 | 19 Apr 2021 |
| Rust Support In The Linux Kernel Undergoing Another Round Of Discussions | 14 Apr 2021 |
| Google Talks Up Logica As Open-Source Programming Language For Data Manipulation | 12 Apr 2021 |
| PHP 8.1 Feature Work Includes Adding Enums, Fsync Function | 04 Apr 2021 |
| PHP's Git Server Compromised, Now Switching To GitHub | 29 Mar 2021 |
| OpenBLAS 0.3.14 Released With Performance Improvements For AMD Ryzen, POWER10 | 18 Mar 2021 |
| Zlib-ng 2.0 Released As More Performant + Modern Zlib Fork | 16 Mar 2021 |
| OpenJDK 16 Released With The JDK Source Beginning To Use C++14 Features | 16 Mar 2021 |
| Git 2.31 Released With Moving More Of The Bisecting Code To C | 15 Mar 2021 |
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379 Articles |
| Proprietary Software |
| DaVinci Resolve 16 Beta Video Editor Employing Deep Learning, GPU Accelerated Tools | 08 Apr 2019 |
| Lightworks Video Editor Plans For A Busy 2019 But No Signs Of The Open-Source Version | 10 Jan 2019 |
| Adobe Customer Care: There Hasn't Been Enough Demand For Linux | 10 Dec 2018 |
| Lightworks 14.5 Video Editor Released With Same-Day Linux Support But Still No Source | 17 Oct 2018 |
| DaVinci Resolve 15 Video/Effects Editor Released With Linux Support | 13 Aug 2018 |
| A VR Developer's Thoughts On The Current Mess Of APIs & Hardware | 27 May 2018 |
| Keeper Password Manager Launches New Linux Version | 26 Apr 2018 |
| Vivaldi Web Browser Now Available For Linux ARM / Raspberry Pi | 05 Dec 2017 |
| TeamViewer 13 Now Available For Linux As A Native 64-bit Port | 04 Dec 2017 |
| Adobe Is Finally Ending Flash Support... In 2020 | 25 Jul 2017 |
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131 Articles |
| Qt |
| Qt 6.1 Released With More Modules Ported To Qt6 | 06 May 2021 |
| Qt Creator 4.15 Released For This Qt/C++ IDE | 05 May 2021 |
| The Qt Company Publishes 2021 Roadmap | 27 Apr 2021 |
| LXQt 0.17 Released For This Lightweight Qt5 Desktop | 15 Apr 2021 |
| Qt 6.0.3 Released With Another ~40 Bug Fixes | 31 Mar 2021 |
| Qt 6.1 Beta 2 Released, Qt-Project.org Called For Revival | 21 Mar 2021 |
| Qt 5.15.3 LTS Released With 200+ Bug Fixes, But Only For Commercial Customers | 04 Mar 2021 |
| Qt 6.1 Beta Released With Porting More Modules To Qt6 | 02 Mar 2021 |
| Clazy Framework Employed To Help Port Qt 5 Code To Qt 6 | 01 Mar 2021 |
| Qt 6.1 Alpha Released | 16 Feb 2021 |
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466 Articles |
| Radeon |
| AMDVLK 2021.Q2.2 Driver Re-Released | 13 May 2021 |
| AMD Queues Initial Graphics Code For Linux 5.14 - More Aldebaran, PCIe ASPM, HMM SVM | 13 May 2021 |
| AMD Releases ROCm 4.2 Compute Stack | 12 May 2021 |
| AMD Publishes Radeon Rays 4.1 As Open-Source | 11 May 2021 |
| AMDGPU Appears Ready To Flip On ASPM For More GPUs To Help With Power Savings | 11 May 2021 |
| AMD GPU Driver Developers Pursuing New HDR Display Work For Linux | 30 Apr 2021 |
| AMDVLK 2021.Q2.2 Brings Minor Improvements But No Vulkan Ray-Tracing Yet | 28 Apr 2021 |
| Mesa Git Now Allows Building The Open-Source AMD RADV Vulkan Driver On Windows | 23 Apr 2021 |
| AMD Releases Radeon Software Linux Driver With Vulkan Ray-Tracing Support | 20 Apr 2021 |
| Mesa's Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Makes First Steps Towards Ray-Tracing | 16 Apr 2021 |
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1383 Articles |
| Red Hat |
| Red Hat Is Hiring More LLVM Compiler Engineers | 06 May 2021 |
| Stratis 2.4 Released With Multi-Threaded Daemon, Root File-System Support | 27 Apr 2021 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Beta Released With New Features, Improvements | 31 Mar 2021 |
| RHEL In Your Car? Red Hat Building Out Automotive Infotainment Team | 16 Mar 2021 |
| Red Hat Announces Free "RHEL For Open-Source Infrastructure" | 25 Feb 2021 |
| CentOS Hyperscaler Is Sounding Quite Promising For The Modern Enterprise | 09 Feb 2021 |
| Rocky Linux Making Progress Towards Their First Release In Q2 As A Free RHEL Alternative | 20 Jan 2021 |
| Red Hat Announces No-Cost RHEL For Small Production Environments | 20 Jan 2021 |
| CentOS Hyperscaler Effort Approved With Backing From Facebook, Twitter | 15 Jan 2021 |
| RHEL9 Raises Base Target For x86_64 CPUs Plus Possible Optimized Libraries With glibc-hwcaps | 05 Jan 2021 |
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237 Articles |
| RISC-V |
| A Number Of Exciting RISC-V Improvements For Linux 5.13 | 06 May 2021 |
| SiFive Tapes Out Their First 5nm RISC-V Processor Core | 13 Apr 2021 |
| SiFive FU740 PCIe Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.13 | 11 Apr 2021 |
| RISC-V XIP Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.13 To "eXecute In Place" | 19 Mar 2021 |
| RISC-V With Linux 5.12 Begins Mainlining SiFive's FU740 Support, NUMA | 26 Feb 2021 |
| Linux 5.10 To Have Initial Support For UEFI Booting On RISC-V | 06 Oct 2020 |
| Alibaba Reports Their XT910 RISC-V Core To Be Faster Than An Arm Cortex-A73 | 18 Aug 2020 |
| RISC-V Software Support Adds More Features With Linux 5.9 | 07 Aug 2020 |
| RISC-V UEFI Linux Support Under Review | 28 Jun 2020 |
| RISC-V For Linux 5.8 Finishes Bringing Up The Kendryte K210, Adds KGDB Support | 07 Jun 2020 |
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60 Articles |
| Standards |
| Zstd 1.5 Released With Big Performance Improvements | 14 May 2021 |
| CuPy 9.0 Brings AMD GPU Support To This Numpy-Compatible Library | 29 Apr 2021 |
| OpenCL 3.0.7 Released With New Extensions | 26 Apr 2021 |
| Khronos Ratifies KTX 2.0 | 20 Apr 2021 |
| Linux 5.12 To Expose Firmware Performance Data | 26 Feb 2021 |
| Monado 21.0 Released As An Officially Conformant OpenXR Implementation | 15 Feb 2021 |
| Khronos Releases SYCL 2020 For C++ Heterogeneous Parallel Programming | 09 Feb 2021 |
| HDMI Forum Closing Public Specification Access Is Hurting Open-Source GPU Drivers | 06 Jan 2021 |
| MIPI I3C Host Controller Interface Driver Comes To Linux 5.11 | 19 Dec 2020 |
| POCL 1.6 Released For Portable OpenCL Atop CPUs, Other Accelerators | 17 Dec 2020 |
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246 Articles |
| SUSE |
| openSUSE Leap 15.3 RC Available For Testing | 28 Apr 2021 |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Offering GNOME 40 | 16 Apr 2021 |
| OpenSUSE Tumbleweed's Very Busy Week With An Entire Rebuild, Latest KDE Packages | 21 Mar 2021 |
| OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Might See Micro-Architecture Packages For Better Performance | 08 Mar 2021 |
| openSUSE Leap 15.3 Beta Begins | 03 Mar 2021 |
| The Unified Path Ahead For Building SUSE Linux Enterprise + openSUSE Leap | 21 Jan 2021 |
| OpenSUSE Leap 15.3 Alpha Released | 16 Dec 2020 |
| SUSE Completes Its Acquisition Of Rancher Labs | 01 Dec 2020 |
| OpenSUSE Jump Distribution Now Available For Alpha Testing | 28 Aug 2020 |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Shipping Linux 5.8 | 14 Aug 2020 |
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242 Articles |
| systemd |
| Systemd 248 Released With System Extension Images Feature, More TPM2/FIDO2 Integration | 30 Mar 2021 |
| Dbus-Broker 28 Released | 17 Mar 2021 |
| systemd 248 RC3 Released With Extension Images Support, New Security Capabilities | 12 Mar 2021 |
| systemd 248 RC1 Released With New "System Extension Images" Concept | 22 Feb 2021 |
| Systemd 248 To Allow Unlocking Encrypted Volumes Via TPM2 / FIDO2 / PKCS#11 Hardware | 13 Jan 2021 |
| Systemd Had A Pretty Big 2020 With Homed, OOMD Components Merged | 29 Dec 2020 |
| Systemd 247 Released With Experimental Out-of-Memory Daemon, New Credentials Capability | 26 Nov 2020 |
| systemd 247-RC2 Released With Experimental OOMD, Various Fixes | 12 Nov 2020 |
| Systemd 247-RC1 Released With Systemd-OOMD, Systemd-Homed Now Defaults To Btrfs | 26 Oct 2020 |
| Systemd 247 Merges Systemd-OOMD For Improving Low-Memory/Out-Of-Memory Handling | 15 Oct 2020 |
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199 Articles |
| Ubuntu |
| Ubuntu 21.10 Begins Transition To PHP 8.0 By Default | 14 May 2021 |
| Ubuntu Touch OTA-17 Released - Still Working Toward Ubuntu 20.04 Transition | 13 May 2021 |
| Ubuntu 21.10 "Impish Indri" Development Begins | 28 Apr 2021 |
| Ubuntu 21.04 Released With Wayland By Default, New Dark Theme | 22 Apr 2021 |
| Ubuntu 21.04 Testing Week Continues For Taming The Hirsute Hippo | 04 Apr 2021 |
| Ubuntu 21.04 Beta Released For This Linux 5.11 Powered Update With Wayland By Default | 01 Apr 2021 |
| Canonical Releases "Ubuntu on Windows Community Preview" | 31 Mar 2021 |
| Ubuntu Figuring Out Whether To FSCK Its File-Systems At Boot | 23 Mar 2021 |
| Ubuntu 21.04 Moves Ahead With Enabling LTO Optimizations For Greater Performance | 20 Mar 2021 |
| Canonical Continues To Talk Up Google's Flutter UI Toolkit | 19 Mar 2021 |
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1445 Articles |
| Valve |
| Steam on Linux Gaming Marketshare Steady For April | 02 May 2021 |
| VKD3D-Proton 2.3 Released With Early DXR Support, Performance Improvements | 22 Apr 2021 |
| Steam On Linux Ends Q1'2021 Still Below 1% Marketshare | 02 Apr 2021 |
| Proton 6.3-1 Released With More Windows Games Now Running On Linux / Steam Play | 01 Apr 2021 |
| Steam Adds Support For The Single-File Mesa Shader Cache | 17 Mar 2021 |
| Proton Experimental Updated, VKD3D-Proton Moving Closer With Ray-Tracing | 11 Mar 2021 |
| Steam On Linux In February Still Residing Below 1% | 02 Mar 2021 |
| Portal 2 Sees A Vulkan Renderer Added Via DXVK | 19 Feb 2021 |
| Steam Linux Use Ticks Back Just Under 1% For Starting 2021 | 01 Feb 2021 |
| Proton 5.13-5 Now Available With Cyberpunk 2077 Fixes, Microsoft Flight Simulator VR | 15 Jan 2021 |
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529 Articles |
| VIA |
| Even In 2019, A Long Road Still For Getting The VIA OpenChrome Driver In Linux | 09 Jan 2019 |
| OpenChrome DRM Driver To Go Through A GEM/TTM Code Rewrite | 05 Aug 2018 |
| It's Still Going To Be Tough Getting The OpenChrome VIA KMS Driver In The Linux Kernel | 28 May 2018 |
| VIA Joins In The AI Race, Linux/Android Support For Their New Developer Kit | 10 May 2018 |
| OpenChrome DRM Driver To Work On New GEM/TTM Code, Regression Fixes | 12 Mar 2018 |
| OpenChrome KMS Can Now Do Runtime Resolution Changes, Hopes To Go Mainline In 2018 | 11 Mar 2018 |
| OpenChrome DRM Still Aiming For Mainline Kernel, But Initially Will Lack 2D Acceleration | 02 Mar 2018 |
| OpenChrome DRM Continues To Be Developed, But It Didn't Make It Mainline This Year | 26 Dec 2017 |
| OpenChrome DRM Still Being Ported To Newer Kernel, Lengthy Process | 25 Aug 2017 |
| OpenChrome Still Pushing For DRM Kernel Driver, Updated DDX | 04 Aug 2017 |
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99 Articles |
| Virtualization |
| Lima: Another Way Of Spinning Up Simple, Integrated Linux VMs on macOS | 17 May 2021 |
| VMware Prepares Linux Driver For Next-Gen Virtual GPU | 05 May 2021 |
| KVM With Linux 5.13 Has AMD SEV Improvements, Intel SGX For Guests | 30 Apr 2021 |
| QEMU 6.0 Released With AMD SEV-ES Encrypted Guest Support, Experimental Multi-Process | 29 Apr 2021 |
| Linux 5.13 Bringing Code For Intel SGX Within KVM Guests | 26 Apr 2021 |
| Xen 4.15 Hypervisor Brings Live Updates To Xenstored | 08 Apr 2021 |
| VirtIO Bluetooth Driver On The Way To The Linux Kernel | 07 Apr 2021 |
| Intel's Cloud-Hypervisor 0.14 Brings Improvements For MSHV, AArch64 | 27 Mar 2021 |
| QEMU 6.0 On The Way With LTO Support, AMD SEV-ES Guests, Multi-Process Experiment | 25 Mar 2021 |
| Linux Kernel Patches Sent Out For A More Powerful Virtual M68k Machine | 24 Mar 2021 |
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447 Articles |
| Vulkan |
| Intel Proposes Calibrated Timestamps As It Works Towards Vulkan Video | 02 May 2021 |
| Vulkan 1.2.177 Released To Help Graphics Translation Layers | 26 Apr 2021 |
| GRVK 0.4 Released For Running AMD's Mantle API Over Vulkan | 21 Apr 2021 |
| Vulkan 1.2.176 Released With VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state2 | 19 Apr 2021 |
| Vulkan Video Arrives For New Industry-Standard Video Encode/Decode | 13 Apr 2021 |
| Vulkan 1.2.175 Published With Many New Extensions | 13 Apr 2021 |
| Vulkan 1.2.173 Comes With New Extensions For Google's Fuchsia | 22 Mar 2021 |
| GRVK 0.3 Released For Continuing To Implement AMD's Deprecated Mantle API Atop Vulkan | 14 Mar 2021 |
| Vulkan 1.2.171 Released With New Extension For BlackBerry QNX Support | 01 Mar 2021 |
| VKD3D-Proton 2.2 Released With Tier 1 Variable Rate Shading, Preps For DXR Ray-Tracing | 19 Feb 2021 |
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539 Articles |
| Wayland |
| Taiwins 0.3 Released As Newest Wayland Compositor Release | 04 May 2021 |
| Wayland-Protocols 1.21 Released With XDG_Activation, Staging Replaces Unstable | 03 May 2021 |
| Sway 1.6 Wayland Compositor Released With Smoother Move/Resize | 07 Apr 2021 |
| Wayland Is Driving Fragmentation Around EDID Parsing - A Call To Fix That | 07 Apr 2021 |
| OBS Studio Now Ready With Wayland Capture Support | 31 Mar 2021 |
| Sway 1.6-rc1 Released With Better Touchscreen/Tablet Support | 17 Mar 2021 |
| LABWC Is The Newest Stacking Wayland Compositor | 06 Mar 2021 |
| Experimental Wayland Support For Wine Now Sees More Functionality Working | 19 Feb 2021 |
| OBS Studio Merges Its EGL-Wayland Code To Natively Support Wayland | 12 Feb 2021 |
| Taiwins Wayland Compositor Switches From WLROOTS To Its Own Library | 31 Jan 2021 |
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771 Articles |
| WINE |
| Wine 6.8 Released With Support For Loading Libraries From Arch-Specific Subdirectories | 07 May 2021 |
| Wine 6.7 Continues Work On Driver Plug & Play, Adds ES6 JavaScript Mode | 23 Apr 2021 |
| Hangover 0.6.5 Released For Running Windows Software On ARM64, POWER | 15 Apr 2021 |
| Wine 6.6 Released With Better Plug & Play Driver Support | 09 Apr 2021 |
| Wine-Staging 6.5 Comes In A Bit Lighter Thanks To Upstreaming Many Patches | 28 Mar 2021 |
| Wine 6.5 Released With OpenCL 1.2 Support | 26 Mar 2021 |
| Wine-Staging 6.4 Released With 686 Patches Rebased Against Upstream | 15 Mar 2021 |
| Wine 6.4 Released With DTLS Protocol Support, 38 Bug Fixes | 12 Mar 2021 |
| Wine's Project Leader Has Given A Blessing To The Wayland Effort | 05 Mar 2021 |
| Wine-Staging 6.3 Should Fix Some Half-Decade Old Bugs For Some Installers | 27 Feb 2021 |
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771 Articles |
| X.Org |
| X.Org Server 1.20.11 Released Due To New Security Advisory | 13 Apr 2021 |
| Libinput X.Org Driver 1.0 Released Following A License Mixup | 06 Apr 2021 |
| X.Org Reins In Their Cloud Costs, Switches Public Clouds | 27 Mar 2021 |
| XWayland 21.1 Standalone Released To Offer Better X11 Client On Wayland Experience | 17 Mar 2021 |
| X.Org Foundation Bows Out For Google Summer of Code 2021 | 07 Mar 2021 |
| XWayland 21.1 Release Candidate Offers Split From The X.Org Server | 17 Feb 2021 |
| XWayland 21.1 Planned For Release In Mid-March | 29 Jan 2021 |
| XWayland 21.1 Proposed In Splitting Off Releases From The X.Org Server | 18 Dec 2020 |
| X.Org Server 1.20.10 Allows For Larger Number Of Input Devices, Present Extension Fixes | 02 Dec 2020 |
| Two More X.Org Server Security Advisories Issued - Possible Privilege Escalation | 01 Dec 2020 |
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1060 Articles |
