| AMD |
| AMD Zen/Zen2 RAPL Support Merged In Linux 5.8 | 03 Jun 2020 |
| AMD Radeon Linux Driver Sees Patches For New "Sienna Cichlid" GPU | 01 Jun 2020 |
| AMD SPI Driver Sent In For Linux 5.8 | 01 Jun 2020 |
| The New AMD Energy Driver Is Working Out Well On Linux For Per-Socket/Core Reporting | 27 May 2020 |
| AMD Energy Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.8 For Core/Package Power Sensors | 25 May 2020 |
| Linus Torvalds Switches To AMD Ryzen Threadripper After 15 Years Of Intel Systems | 24 May 2020 |
| AMD Sensor Fusion Hub Support Is Not Coming With Linux 5.8 | 24 May 2020 |
| TUXEDO Computers Launches Their First AMD Linux Laptop | 24 May 2020 |
| AMD Renoir Temperature Monitoring To Come With Linux 5.8 | 22 May 2020 |
| Google Posts Patches Allowing AMD Zen/Zen2 CPUs To Expose Power Usage On Linux Via RAPL | 16 May 2020 |
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1137 Articles |
| Arm |
| Linux 5.8 Tightens ARM 64-Bit Security With BTI, Shadow Call Stack Support | 03 Jun 2020 |
| Arm Announces Cortex-A78, Cortex-X Custom | 26 May 2020 |
| Allwinner Preparing Their A100 SoC Support For The Upstream Linux Kernel | 22 May 2020 |
| Fedora 33 Looks To Up Its Code Hardening For 64-Bit Arm Systems | 19 May 2020 |
| Linux Thunderbolt Support Can Work On Arm Systems | 17 May 2020 |
| Linux's Lima DRM Driver For Arm Mali Finally Seeing Run-Time Power Management | 08 May 2020 |
| The Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Begins Rendering On Arm Bifrost Hardware | 23 Apr 2020 |
| Linux 5.8 To Bring An Arm CryptoCell Driver For True RNG Within TrustZone | 18 Apr 2020 |
| Linux 5.7 Adds Support For The Qualcomm Snapdragon 865, Mainline PinePhone Support | 04 Apr 2020 |
| Linux 5.7 For 64-bit ARM Brings In-Kernel Pointer Authentication, Activity Monitors | 31 Mar 2020 |
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209 Articles |
| BSD |
| iXsystems Announces TrueNAS SCALE As A Linux-Based Offering | 02 Jun 2020 |
| OpenBSD 6.7 Released With FFS2 Improvements, Better Raspberry Pi + PineBook Pro Support | 19 May 2020 |
| OpenBSD Seeing Initial Work Land On Enabling 64-bit POWER | 18 May 2020 |
| WireGuard Ported To The OpenBSD Kernel - Looking For Upstream Inclusion | 12 May 2020 |
| DragonFlyBSD 5.8.1 Released Due To HAMMER2 Bugs, Kernel Fixes | 07 May 2020 |
| GhostBSD 20.04 Released With Fixes, Updated Kernel | 01 May 2020 |
| NetBSD Working On Better OSS Compatibility / Translation Layer, Encouraging Native API Use | 27 Apr 2020 |
| FreeBSD's Network Bridge Code Scores A 500% Performance Improvement | 25 Apr 2020 |
| FreeBSD On Laptops Is Still A Big Challenge But The Slimbook Could Soon Be Running Well | 18 Apr 2020 |
| FreeBSD Is Off To A Solid Start For 2020 | 13 Apr 2020 |
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676 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 4.12 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 |
| System76 Launches Two Intel Laptops With "Open-Source Firmware" Coreboot | 10 Oct 2019 |
| The Mission Of Coreboot - Is It About Open-Source Or Appeasing Hardware Vendors? | 08 Sep 2019 |
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208 Articles |
| Debian |
| 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 |
| Devuan 3.0 "Beowulf" Reaches Beta For Debian 10 Without Systemd | 18 Mar 2020 |
| Debian Installer Bullseye Alpha 2 Released With Linux 5.4 + New Device Support | 16 Mar 2020 |
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326 Articles |
| Desktop |
| 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 |
| High Resolution Wheel Scrolling Back To Being Finished Up For The Linux Desktop | 04 Apr 2020 |
| Chrome 80 Against Firefox 74/75 Performance On Linux | 15 Mar 2020 |
| GIMP 2.10.18 Released With Many Improvements Before GIMP 3.0 | 24 Feb 2020 |
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371 Articles |
| Fedora |
| FESCo Approves Fedora 33 Switching To Systemd-Resolved | 11 May 2020 |
| Fedora 32 Officially Released With EarlyOOM, SSD TRIM Finally Flipped On, GNOME 3.36 | 28 Apr 2020 |
| Lenovo To Begin Shipping ThinkPad Laptops With Fedora Pre-Installed | 24 Apr 2020 |
| Fedora 32 Cleared For Release Next Week | 23 Apr 2020 |
| Fedora 32 Delayed From Releasing Next Week Due To Bugs | 17 Apr 2020 |
| Fedora 33 Planning To Enable Systemd-Resolved By Default | 15 Apr 2020 |
| Fedora 33's "Enterprise Linux Next" Effort Approved - Testbed For Raising CPU Requirements, Etc | 14 Apr 2020 |
| Fedora 33 Plans To Default To OpenJDK 11 As The Default Java Version | 31 Mar 2020 |
| RHEL9 Likely To Drop Older x86_64 CPUs, Fedora Can Better Prepare With "Enterprise Linux Next" | 27 Mar 2020 |
| Fedora Adopts A New Vision Statement | 25 Mar 2020 |
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953 Articles |
| Free Software |
| 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 |
| FSF Now Offering Video Conferencing Service To Its Members | 28 May 2020 |
| Zstd 1.4.5 Released With 5~10% Faster Decompression For x86_64, 15~50% For ARM64 | 22 May 2020 |
| Inkscape 1.0 Released For This Wildly Successful Vector Graphics Program | 04 May 2020 |
| Redis 6.0 Released As A Big Update For This In-Memory Key-Value Database | 30 Apr 2020 |
| BLAKE3 Cryptographic Hashing Function Sees Experimental Vulkan Implementation | 29 Apr 2020 |
| Nginx 1.18 Stable Released With Many Fixes, Improvements | 22 Apr 2020 |
| Blend2D For 2D Rendering Now Has Multi-Threaded Support | 15 Apr 2020 |
| Inkscape 1.0 Release Candidate Emerges For This Excellent Vector Graphics Editor | 13 Apr 2020 |
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1618 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 3.36.2 Released With Restoring TLS 1.0/1.1, Crash Fixes, Other Stable Updates | 04 May 2020 |
| GNOME Adds Bit To Launcher Files For Indicating Apps That Should Run On Discrete GPUs | 04 May 2020 |
| GNOME 3.37.1 Released As The First Step Towards GNOME 3.38 | 30 Apr 2020 |
| The GNOME Shell Calendar Will Stop Over-Consuming The CPU, Eating Up Battery Life | 27 Apr 2020 |
| GNOME's Mutter Lands Fullscreen Unredirect Support For Wayland | 16 Apr 2020 |
| GNOME's UX Team Working On More 2020 Improvements To The Shell | 15 Apr 2020 |
| GNOME Launching A Community Engagement Challenge With $65k+ In Cash/Prizes | 07 Apr 2020 |
| GNOME 3.36.1 Released With First Batch Of Fixes | 02 Apr 2020 |
| GTK 3.98.2 Released As Another Step Towards GTK4 | 01 Apr 2020 |
| GNOME's Mutter Working On Variable Refresh Rate Support (VRR / Adaptive-Sync / FreeSync) | 31 Mar 2020 |
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1066 Articles |
| GNU |
| GCC's JIT Library Sees Experimental Port To Windows | 25 May 2020 |
| GCC 10.1 Compiler Optimization Benchmarks | 23 May 2020 |
| GCC 11 Picks Up A New Option For Large Source Files | 18 May 2020 |
| GCC 11 Proposal Would Default To C++17 Level Features | 17 May 2020 |
| GCC 11 Enables Co-Routines Support In C++20 Mode | 16 May 2020 |
| GCC 10 Compiler Released With Radeon OpenMP/OpenACC Offload, Intel Tigerlake/Cooperlake | 07 May 2020 |
| MediaGoblin 0.10 Released With Video Subtitles Support, Other Small Improvements | 06 May 2020 |
| GNU C Library Adds Detection Support For Zhaoxin CPUs | 04 May 2020 |
| GCC 10 Has Been Branched, GCC 10.1 Stable Looking To Release In Early May | 30 Apr 2020 |
| Marvell ThunderX3 Machine Model Pending For The GCC Compiler | 24 Apr 2020 |
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818 Articles |
| Google |
| 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 |
| It's Looking Like Android Could Be Embracing WireGuard - "A Sane VPN" | 31 Mar 2020 |
| Google's OpenTelemetry Reaches Beta For Open-Source Telemetry Purposes | 30 Mar 2020 |
| Google "Moonball" Will Be Supported By Linux 5.7 | 17 Mar 2020 |
| FuzzBench: Google Gets Into Fuzzer Benchmarking | 02 Mar 2020 |
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422 Articles |
| Hardware |
| Lenovo To Certify Their Full ThinkPad/ThinkStation Line For Linux | 02 Jun 2020 |
| AMD Energy Driver Sent In For Linux 5.8 Along With Driver For Industrial/Military SBCs | 01 Jun 2020 |
| The Generic USB Display Driver Taking Shape For Linux 5.9~5.10 | 30 May 2020 |
| Linux's Hardware Monitoring "HWMON" Picking Up Notification Support | 29 May 2020 |
| 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 Launched For $75 USD | 28 May 2020 |
| BCM2711 / Raspberry Pi 4 Support Still Being Worked On For Open-Source Display Driver | 28 May 2020 |
| Linux Getting Fixed Up For Handling Pointing Sticks On Some Touchpads | 27 May 2020 |
| Qualcomm Adreno 650 + 640 GPUs To Be Supported By Mainline Linux 5.8 Kernel | 25 May 2020 |
| Linux 5.8 Picking Up A Quirk For Being Able To Reboot The 2009 MacBook Without Hangs | 25 May 2020 |
| It's About Time: MIPS Release 5 + Warrior P5600 Support Coming With Linux 5.8 | 23 May 2020 |
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1587 Articles |
| Intel |
| Linux 5.8 Supporting Intel TPAUSE Power-Optimized Delays, TSC Fix When Overclocking | 03 Jun 2020 |
| Intel's Clear Linux Working On AVX-512 Optimized Golang Container | 30 May 2020 |
| Intel ComboPHY Support Coming With Linux 5.8 For Their Gateway SoC | 23 May 2020 |
| Intel DPTF Battery Support Published For Linux | 22 May 2020 |
| Linux 5.8 Prepped To Make Use Of TPAUSE Instruction With New Intel CPUs | 21 May 2020 |
| Intel Volleys New Sandy Bridge CPU Microcode | 21 May 2020 |
| Intel's Mesa Drivers Add A Simple But Effective Helper For Dealing With Incomplete Bug Reports | 21 May 2020 |
| Intel Sends Out Patches Bringing Up The "DG1" Graphics Card Under Linux | 20 May 2020 |
| Intel Continues Prepping Initial Bits For Compute Express Link Device Support (CXL) | 20 May 2020 |
| GCC 11 Adds CPU Detection For Newer Intel Families | 18 May 2020 |
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1786 Articles |
| KDE |
| KDE Plasma 5.19 Has Better Wayland Support But Their Goal Is Not Yet Complete | 02 Jun 2020 |
| KDE Ending Out May With UI Tweaks, Bug Fixes | 30 May 2020 |
| Two More Projects Join KWinFT Fork Of KDE KWin, Beta Milestone Reached | 25 May 2020 |
| KDE Begins Its Transition To GitLab, Plasma 5.20 Seeing Early Activity | 23 May 2020 |
| KDE Developers Are Busy Polishing Plasma 5.19 | 16 May 2020 |
| KDE Plasma 5.19 Rolls Out In Beta Form With Many Improvements, Better Wayland Support | 14 May 2020 |
| KDE KWin Finally Sees An Important Fix For Addressing Visual Glitches | 09 May 2020 |
| Krita 4.3 Enters Beta For This Leading Open-Source Digital Painting Application | 04 May 2020 |
| KDE Starts May With Dolphin Improvements, Various Bug Fixes | 02 May 2020 |
| Trinity Desktop Turns 10 Years Old As A Fork Of KDE 3.5 - Celebrates With New Release | 29 Apr 2020 |
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974 Articles |
| LibreOffice |
| 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 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 Will Prefer Building Its Rendering Code With LLVM's Clang Compiler | 20 Apr 2020 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 Git Adds Skia-Based Text Rendering Support | 18 Mar 2020 |
| LibreOffice 7.0's Qt5 Support To Offer HiDPI Scaling | 10 Mar 2020 |
| LibreOffice 7 Continues Plumbing Its Vulkan Rendering Support | 19 Feb 2020 |
| We Love Performance... So We Love LibreOffice 6.4 With This Office Suite Now Running Faster | 29 Jan 2020 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 Is The Version Now In Development With Its Skia + Vulkan Support | 23 Jan 2020 |
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125 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 |
| 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 |
| EA To Open-Source Part Of Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert To Help The Mod Community | 20 May 2020 |
| Epic Games Preparing Unreal Engine 5 For Debut In 2021 With Increased Photo-Realism | 13 May 2020 |
| FlightGear 2020.1 Released For This Open-Source Flight Simulator | 12 May 2020 |
| Unigine Engine Turns 15 Years Old For Delivering First-Rate Linux Graphics | 05 May 2020 |
| The Godot Game Engine's Vulkan Support Is Getting In Increasingly Great Shape | 02 May 2020 |
| SDL2 Sees Support For A Number Of Additional Controllers, Gamepads | 24 Apr 2020 |
| DXVK 1.6.1 Brings Many Game Fixes For The Likes Of Crysis, Half-Life: Alyx, Battlefield 2 | 20 Apr 2020 |
| Lutris 0.5.6 Linux Game Manager Adds Fixes + Other Improvements | 15 Apr 2020 |
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1714 Articles |
| Linux Kernel |
| More Scheduler Optimizations Land In Linux 5.8 | 04 Jun 2020 |
| Jitter RNG Improvements, Arm CryptoCell CCTRNG Driver, AMD PSP SEV-ES For Linux 5.8 | 03 Jun 2020 |
| Linux 5.8 Sees Many Power Management Updates, Including Another Intel P-State Change | 02 Jun 2020 |
| A Number Of Intel/AMD x86 Updates Hit Linux 5.8 | 02 Jun 2020 |
| Linux 5.8 Graphics Updates Sent In With AMDGPU TMZ Support, P2P Buffers | 02 Jun 2020 |
| Torvalds Blasts "Beyond Stupid" Flushing L1d On Context Switches - Reverts Code For Now | 01 Jun 2020 |
| Linux 5.8 Adds initrdmem= Option For Cases Such As Replacing Intel ME Space With Initrd | 01 Jun 2020 |
| Linux's Pstore Picking Up A Block Device Backend For Storing Oops & Panic Messages | 01 Jun 2020 |
| Linux 5.7 Kernel Released With New Apple Driver, Official Intel Gen12 Graphics | 31 May 2020 |
| The Linux Kernel Deprecates The 80 Character Line Coding Style | 31 May 2020 |
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2453 Articles |
| Linux Networking |
| 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 |
| There Is Now A WireGuard Benchmark For Testing Linux Networking Performance | 20 Apr 2020 |
| NetworkManager 1.24 Coming Soon With VRF Support, Opportunistic Wireless Encryption | 11 Apr 2020 |
| Linux 5.7 Networking Changes Bring Qualcomm IPA, New Intel Driver Additions | 01 Apr 2020 |
| Linux 5.6 Ships With Broken Intel WiFi Driver After Network Security Fixes Go Awry | 30 Mar 2020 |
| WireGuard 1.0.0 Christened As A Modern Secure VPN Alternative To OpenVPN/IPsec | 30 Mar 2020 |
| 2020 Spring Cleaning: HP 100BaseVG AnyLAN Linux Network Driver Finally Getting Dropped | 26 Mar 2020 |
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154 Articles |
| Linux Security |
| 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 |
| Linux 5.8 Set To Optionally Flush The L1d Cache On Context Switch To Increase Security | 22 May 2020 |
| Thunderspy Is A New Vulnerability Affecting Thunderbolt Security | 11 May 2020 |
| TLB State Access Being Tightened Up On Linux For Better Security | 21 Apr 2020 |
| Linux Security Feature Revised For Randomizing The Kernel Stack Offset At Each System Call | 08 Apr 2020 |
| L1d Cache Flush On Context Switch Moves Forward For Linux In Light Of Vulnerabilities | 06 Apr 2020 |
| SELinux Seeing Performance Improvements With Linux 5.7 | 02 Apr 2020 |
| Amazon Engineer's Patch For Flushing L1 Cache On Context Switching Revved | 29 Mar 2020 |
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147 Articles |
| Linux Storage |
| Improved DAX Support Lands In Linux 5.8 - Initially Benefiting XFS + EXT4 | 03 Jun 2020 |
| Btrfs Sees A Number Of Improvements With Linux 5.8 | 02 Jun 2020 |
| Linux 5.8 Flipping On ERASE/Discard/TRIM For All MMC Hosts | 01 Jun 2020 |
| Improved EXT4 + XFS DAX Implementation Appears Ready To Go For Linux 5.8 | 29 May 2020 |
| Statsfs: A Proposed Linux File-System For Kernel Statistics | 27 May 2020 |
| Micron's HSE Open-Source Storage Engine Ticks Up To v1.7.1 | 26 May 2020 |
| Reiser5 File-System Working On New Features Like Data Tiering, Burst Buffers | 26 May 2020 |
| Linux Work Culminating On A "READFILE" Syscall For Reading Small Files Efficiently | 24 May 2020 |
| Async Buffered Reads Support Yielding Promising Results | 23 May 2020 |
| Linux 5.8 To See Faster FUSE Write Performance | 20 May 2020 |
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499 Articles |
| LLVM |
| Clang 11 Changes -O To Match GCC Behavior | 19 May 2020 |
| LLVM Lands Support For The Marvell ThunderX3 | 14 May 2020 |
| BFloat16 Support About To Land Within LLVM | 13 May 2020 |
| Intel's Load Hardening Mitigation Merged Into LLVM 11 For LVI Protection | 12 May 2020 |
| SESES Speculative Execution Pass Lands In LLVM With "Extreme Performance Implications" | 11 May 2020 |
| Rust Performance Is Getting Hurt On LLVM 10 With Noticeably Longer Build Times | 10 May 2020 |
| LLVM Clang Now Has Support For Custom-Width Integers With _ExtInt | 22 Apr 2020 |
| Linux 5.7 Makes It Very Easy To Build The Kernel With An LLVM-Based Toolchain | 12 Apr 2020 |
| F18/FLANG Merged Into LLVM 11 Codebase As Modern Fortran Compiler | 09 Apr 2020 |
| Google's Propeller Is Beginning To Be Upstreamed For Spinning Faster Program Binaries | 07 Apr 2020 |
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602 Articles |
| Mesa |
| Mesa 20.1 Released With Numerous Linux Graphics Driver Improvements | 27 May 2020 |
| Mesa 20.1 Features Include Big Improvements For Open-Source Intel, Radeon Graphics Drivers | 27 May 2020 |
| Mesa 20.1 Could Be Out Next Week If You Help Test RC4 | 20 May 2020 |
| Mesa 20.1-RC3 Released With Another Week Worth Of Fixes Plus Intel Rocket Lake Support | 14 May 2020 |
| Mesa 20.2 Picks Up A New Disk Cache: TGSI-To-NIR Caching | 13 May 2020 |
| Zink GL-Over-Vulkan Now Supports Conditional Rendering - Stepping Towards OpenGL 3.0 | 11 May 2020 |
| Con Kolivas Fixes Up GUI-Related Stalls In Mesa | 08 May 2020 |
| Mesa 20.1-RC2 Released For Vetting This Set Of Open-Source OpenGL / Vulkan Drivers | 07 May 2020 |
| Mesa's LLVMpipe Driver Adds 4x MSAA Support | 06 May 2020 |
| Mesa 20.1 Feature Development Ends With RC1 Released | 29 Apr 2020 |
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1813 Articles |
| Microsoft |
| 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 |
| Microsoft Announces Direct3D 12 For Linux / WSL2 | 19 May 2020 |
| Microsoft To Support GPU Acceleration, Linux GUI Apps On WSL2 | 19 May 2020 |
| Microsoft President Brad Smith Acknowledges They Were Previously Wrong On Open-Source | 14 May 2020 |
| Microsoft + Collabora Working To Map OpenGL/OpenCL Over DirectX 12 | 24 Mar 2020 |
| Microsoft Announces "DirectX 12 Ultimate" | 19 Mar 2020 |
| WSL2 Reaching General Availability In Windows 10 v2004 | 14 Mar 2020 |
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210 Articles |
| Mozilla |
| 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 |
| Mozilla Releases DeepSpeech 0.7 As Their Great Speech-To-Text Engine | 25 Apr 2020 |
| WebGPU Support Begins Coming Together In Firefox Nightly Builds | 23 Apr 2020 |
| Firefox 75 Released With Flatpak Support, Wayland Improvements | 07 Apr 2020 |
| Firefox 76 Enabling VA-API Wayland Acceleration For All Video Codecs | 19 Mar 2020 |
| Benchmarks Of Firefox 74 + Firefox 75 Beta On Linux | 11 Mar 2020 |
| Firefox 74 Begins Rolling Out With DNS-Over-HTTPS, Disabling TLS 1.0/1.1 | 10 Mar 2020 |
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322 Articles |
| Multimedia |
| Ardour 6.0 Digital Audio Workstation Released | 24 May 2020 |
| Dav1d 0.7 Speedups Are Looking Great On Various Intel + AMD CPUs | 23 May 2020 |
| Dav1d 0.7 Released With More Performance Optimizations | 21 May 2020 |
| AOMedia AV1 2.0 Codec Library Released With Many Improvements | 19 May 2020 |
| Rav1e Sees New Pre-Release With More Speed-Ups, Monochrome Support | 17 May 2020 |
| PipeWire Gets A Session Manager With WirePlumber | 07 May 2020 |
| Ardour 6.0-RC1 Digital Audio Workstation Released With Experimental Web Interface | 19 Apr 2020 |
| Linux 5.7 Media Updates Add H.264 / H.265 / VP9 Decode To The Meson Driver | 31 Mar 2020 |
| Ardour 6.0 Digital Audio Workstation Sees First Pre-Release | 27 Mar 2020 |
| MythTV 31 Released With Video Decode Improvements, Finally Supporting Python 3 | 23 Mar 2020 |
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400 Articles |
| Nouveau |
| 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 |
| NVIDIA Format Modifiers Coming To Nouveau In Linux 5.7 | 10 Feb 2020 |
| Nouveau Still Pushing Forward In 2020 Thanks To Red Hat But Community Developers Leaving | 01 Feb 2020 |
| There Is Finally Open-Source Accelerated NVIDIA Turing Graphics Support | 15 Jan 2020 |
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431 Articles |
| NVIDIA |
| 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 |
| NVIDIA Nsight Graphics 2020.3 Supports Profiling KHR Ray-Tracing | 24 May 2020 |
| NVIDIA Engineer Revives Work On Linux Proactive Memory Compaction | 18 May 2020 |
| NVIDIA Carmel Support Finally Mainlined In LLVM/Clang | 05 May 2020 |
| NVIDIA Gets Into Open-Source Hardware With A Ventilator Design | 01 May 2020 |
| NVIDIA 440.66.11 Linux Driver Fixes Annoying Bugs With PRIME Sync | 24 Apr 2020 |
| NVIDIA Announces MONAI Open-Source AI Project | 21 Apr 2020 |
| NVIDIA 440.66.09 Vulkan Driver Beta For Linux Brings More Fixes | 18 Apr 2020 |
| NVIDIA 440.82 Linux Driver Brings DOOM Eternal Performance Fix, Linux 5.6 Compatibility | 07 Apr 2020 |
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869 Articles |
| Operating Systems |
| Linux Mint 20 To Better Fend Off Snaps, Improve NVIDIA Optimus Support | 01 Jun 2020 |
| Alpine Linux 3.12 Released With D Language Support, MIPS64 Port | 29 May 2020 |
| Genode OS 20.05 Adds Capability-Based Security Using SECCOMP, Drops Python 2 + Rust | 28 May 2020 |
| Arch-Based EndeavourOS Sees New Release With Faster Installation, i3 Improvements | 10 May 2020 |
| OpenIndiana Hipster 2020.04 Released To Phase Out Python 2, GCC7 As Base Compiler | 05 May 2020 |
| ReactOS Upgrades Its Build Environment - Shifting To A Much Newer GCC Compiler | 02 May 2020 |
| System76 Releases Pop!_OS 20.04 | 30 Apr 2020 |
| Sailfish OS 3.3 "Rokua" Released With Many Improvements For This Mobile Linux OS | 29 Apr 2020 |
| Manjaro 20.0 Released With Its Flagship Easy-To-Use, Arch-Based Xfce Desktop Distro | 26 Apr 2020 |
| NixOS 20.03 Released Atop Linux 5.4, Various Desktop/Display Improvements | 21 Apr 2020 |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Linux 5.6, Threadripper 3990X, $199 AMD Laptop Topped Reader Interest In February | 01 Mar 2020 |
| Kernel Talk, AMD Hardware + Other Popular Linux Topics Of January | 01 Feb 2020 |
| Happy New Year + A Look Back At The Most Popular Linux Content Of 2019 | 31 Dec 2019 |
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| The Most Popular Linux Hardware Reviews / Benchmarks Of The Past Decade | 12 Dec 2019 |
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| Phoronix Test Suite |
| 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 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.4 Milestone 1 Released | 13 Jan 2020 |
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| Premium |
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| Programming |
| Git 2.27 Demotes The Recently Promoted Transport Protocol v2, Continues SHA-256 Work | 01 Jun 2020 |
| Apache Updates Subversion - SVN 1.14 LTS Released | 28 May 2020 |
| A Quick Look At GCC 10.1 PGO Optimization Benchmarks | 26 May 2020 |
| PostgreSQL 13.0 Beta 1 Released With Parallel Vacuum, Security Improvements + Benchmarks | 24 May 2020 |
| RenderDoc 1.8 Released For This Cross-Platform, Multi-API Graphics Debugger | 20 May 2020 |
| Git 2.27-rc0 Released - Still Working To Transition From SHA1 To SHA256 | 15 May 2020 |
| Google's Dart Language Reaches 2.8 Milestone With New Features | 06 May 2020 |
| Microsoft Releases Shader Conductor 0.3 For Its Shader Cross-Compiler | 29 Apr 2020 |
| Git Sees Another Round Of New Releases Due To Security Issue | 20 Apr 2020 |
| GitHub Completes Its Acquisition Of The NPM JavaScript/Node.js Package Manager | 16 Apr 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 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 |
| Qt Creator 4.12 Released For Improving Qt/C++ Development | 23 Apr 2020 |
| More Open-Source Participants Are Backing A Possible Fork Of Qt | 11 Apr 2020 |
| The Qt Company Provides A Brief Comment On Open-Source | 09 Apr 2020 |
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428 Articles |
| Radeon |
| Radeon ROCm 3.5 Released With New Features But Still No Navi Support | 03 Jun 2020 |
| RADV Enables Zero vRAM Option For All Games With VKD3D | 03 Jun 2020 |
| AMDVLK 2020.Q2.4 Released With TMZ Enabled, Improved Memory Allocation | 28 May 2020 |
| AMD Lines Up Another Batch Of Radeon Graphics Fixes For Linux 5.8 | 27 May 2020 |
| LLVM 11 Merges AMD Radeon GCN Offloading For OpenMP | 27 May 2020 |
| Linux 5.8 To Better Deal With Critical Thermal Faults For Radeon GPUs | 20 May 2020 |
| Patches Proceed For Disabling Radeon AGP GART, Deprecating TTM AGP | 16 May 2020 |
| AMD Rethinks Decision And Will Open-Source Most Of Radeon Rays 4.0 | 15 May 2020 |
| GPUOpen Celebrates Another Day Of Its Relaunch With A New Binary-Only Software Release | 14 May 2020 |
| Linux 5.7 Seeing Radeon FreeSync Fixes, Back-Ported Soft Recovery For Navi | 14 May 2020 |
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| Red Hat |
| 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 |
| RHEL 8.2 Beta Application Streams Bring GCC 9.1, Python 3.8 | 23 Jan 2020 |
| Red Hat Recommends Disabling The Intel Linux Graphics Driver Over Hardware Flaw | 16 Jan 2020 |
| Retooled CentOS Build Scripts To Help Spin New Releases Quicker, More Automation | 16 Jan 2020 |
| CentOS-8 1911 Released As Rebuild Off Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 | 15 Jan 2020 |
| Goals: Red Hat Developer Working On New Tool To Improve Upon Make | 14 Jan 2020 |
| Red Hat Is Still Hiring To Work On The Linux Desktop + Open-Source Graphics | 06 Nov 2019 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Released With Kernel Live-Patching Support | 05 Nov 2019 |
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211 Articles |
| RISC-V |
| 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 |
| Libre RISC-V Open-Source Effort Now Looking At POWER Instead Of RISC-V | 20 Oct 2019 |
| Alibaba Crafts A 16-Core RISC-V Chip @ 2.5GHz | 27 Jul 2019 |
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| Standards |
| 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 |
| MetaInfo Creator - Easily Creating AppStream Metadata For Software | 08 Mar 2020 |
| Khronos Moves Ahead With Developing "ANARI" API For Analytic Rendering | 03 Mar 2020 |
| Monado OpenXR Runtime v0.1 Released For Open-Source XR Stack | 25 Feb 2020 |
| Khronos Next Pursuing An Analytic Rendering API | 13 Nov 2019 |
| Khronos Rolls Out OpenVX 1.3 While Updating OpenGL 4.6 + OpenGL ES 3.2 | 22 Oct 2019 |
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| SUSE |
| 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 |
| OpenSUSE Adds Option To Installer For Toggling Performance-Hitting CPU Mitigations | 22 May 2019 |
| OpenSUSE Leap 15.1 Released - Based Off SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP1 | 22 May 2019 |
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| systemd |
| 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 |
| Learn More About Systemd-Homed For How Linux Home Directories Are Being Reinvented | 07 Feb 2020 |
| Systemd 245 Shipping Soon With Systemd-Homed, Systemd-Repart Partitioner | 05 Feb 2020 |
| Systemd-Homed Merged As A Fundamental Change To Linux Home Directories | 30 Jan 2020 |
| Systemd Will Be Working To Improve Out-Of-Memory Linux Handling With Facebook OOMD | 08 Jan 2020 |
| Systemd "Path Images" Feature Allows Mounting Images At Arbitrary Paths | 06 Jan 2020 |
| Systemd Is Approaching 1.3 Million Lines While Poettering Lost Top Contributor Spot For 2019 | 02 Jan 2020 |
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| Ubuntu |
| Ubuntu's ZFS Daemon Zsys 0.5 Released | 03 Jun 2020 |
| Ubuntu 20.10 Installer With ZFS Will Enable TRIM By Default | 21 May 2020 |
| Ubuntu Touch OTA-12 Released With The Switch Finally To Unity 8 / Lomiri | 13 May 2020 |
| Ubuntu's Server Installer Was Mistakenly Leaking Encrypted Storage Passphrase To Its Log | 12 May 2020 |
| Ubuntu Studio Making Good Progress On Their Transition To KDE Plasma | 09 May 2020 |
| Canonical Developers Preparing For More ZFS Improvements In Ubuntu 20.10 | 06 May 2020 |
| Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" Open For Development | 27 Apr 2020 |
| Ubuntu 20.10 Might Be The "Groovy Gorilla" | 24 Apr 2020 |
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Now Available For Download | 23 Apr 2020 |
| Ubuntu 20.04's Server Installer Sees Last Minute Work To Better Handle Linux RAID Installs | 22 Apr 2020 |
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| Valve |
| 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 |
| Proton 5.0-7 Released With New Game Support, Updated VKD3D/DXVK | 01 May 2020 |
| Proton 5.0-7 Being Prepared With Newer DXVK, Updated VKD3D Layer | 28 Apr 2020 |
| Steam Audio SDK 2.0 Beta 18 Released | 22 Apr 2020 |
| Steam Play's Proton 5.0-6 Released With DOOM Eternal Fix, Other Game Improvements | 15 Apr 2020 |
| Steam Survey Points To Tiny Uptick In Linux Percentage For March | 04 Apr 2020 |
| Proton 5.0-6 To Allow Out-Of-The-Box DOOM Eternal On Linux | 03 Apr 2020 |
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500 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 |
| 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 |
| KVM With Linux 5.7 Supporting Protected/Secure VM Guests For IBM POWER + s390 | 05 Apr 2020 |
| LXD 4.0 LTS Released For Offering The Latest Linux Containers Experience | 02 Apr 2020 |
| QEMU 5.0-rc1 Released For Linux Virtualization With The Stable Update Coming This Month | 01 Apr 2020 |
| VirtIO Video Driver Coming Together For The Mainline Linux Kernel | 26 Mar 2020 |
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414 Articles |
| Vulkan |
| X-Plane's Vulkan Renderer Maturing, More Performance Optimizations Still Coming | 17 May 2020 |
| DXVK 1.7 Released - Makes Use Of New Vulkan Extensions, Game Fixes | 16 May 2020 |
| Vulkan 1.2.140 Released With New Extensions For Private Data, Custom Border Color | 04 May 2020 |
| Vulkan 1.2.139 Released With VK_EXT_robustness2 Extension | 27 Apr 2020 |
| Mesa "Vallium" - Software/CPU-Based Vulkan Based On LLVMpipe | 24 Apr 2020 |
| Vulkan 1.2.137 Specification Brings Many Clarifications + Fixes, Faster HTML Doc Loading | 07 Apr 2020 |
| X-Plane 11.50 Flight Simulator Beta Released With Vulkan API Support | 02 Apr 2020 |
| Vulkan 1.2.135 Released With New + Promoted NVIDIA Extensions In Addition To Ray-Tracing | 17 Mar 2020 |
| FFmpeg Squaring Away Vulkan Support For Its Next Release | 13 Mar 2020 |
| Vulkan 1.2.134 Released With Many Fixes/Clarifications, New Qualcomm Extension | 07 Mar 2020 |
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475 Articles |
| Wayland |
| TAIWINS Is A Compact Wayland Compositor | 13 May 2020 |
| Experimental Linux Live OS For Showcasing Wayland Updated With Latest Desktops | 07 May 2020 |
| The Wayland Book Is Now Freely Available | 05 May 2020 |
| Mir 1.8 Released With HiDPI Improvements, Better Compatibility Outside Of Ubuntu | 16 Apr 2020 |
| Sway Wayland Compositor Seeing Adaptive-Sync/VRR Support | 04 Mar 2020 |
| Wayland-Protocols 1.19 Released With Governance Guide, Updated XDG-Shell | 29 Feb 2020 |
| LavaLauncher 1.6 Released As A Simple Dock/Launcher For Wayland | 17 Feb 2020 |
| Wayland 1.18 Released With Meson Support, Other Minor Changes | 12 Feb 2020 |
| Mir's X11 Support Is Being Promoted From Experimental | 09 Feb 2020 |
| Weston 8.0 Released With DRM HDCP Support, EGL Partial Updates, Headless OpenGL | 24 Jan 2020 |
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| WINE |
| Wine-Staging 5.9 Picks Up A Patch In The Effort To Deal With Denuvo Anti-Cheat | 23 May 2020 |
| Wine 5.9 Released With Latest WineD3D Vulkan Capabilities, DLL Improvements | 22 May 2020 |
| Wine's Direct3D Vulkan Back-End Continues Seeing An Uptick In Activity | 21 May 2020 |
| Wine-Staging 5.8 Is Smaller Thanks To Upstreaming More Patches | 09 May 2020 |
| Wine 5.8 Released With GIF Encoder, More WineD3D Vulkan Progress | 08 May 2020 |
| Wine Patches Cleaned Up, Out For Review On Very Early POWER 64-Bit Support | 26 Apr 2020 |
| Wine-Staging 5.7 Fixes Support For Applications Built Using .NET CoreRT | 25 Apr 2020 |
| Wine 5.7 Released With More Progress On D3D Vulkan Backend, USB Device Driver | 24 Apr 2020 |
| Wine's Direct3D Vulkan Backend Is Seeing Some New Activity | 17 Apr 2020 |
| Wine Finally Starting To See Work On Better USB Support | 16 Apr 2020 |
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707 Articles |
| X.Org |
| 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 |
| X.Org Server 1.20.8 Released With No Sign Of GLAMOR/XWayland-Improved X.Org Server 1.21 | 30 Mar 2020 |
| X.Org/FreeDesktop.org Is Looking For Sponsors Or May Have To Cut Continuous Integration Hosting | 27 Feb 2020 |
| X.Org Server Lands Fixes For XWayland Full-Screen Support | 24 Feb 2020 |
| Keith Packard Talks About The Early Politics Of X Window System + Code Licensing | 21 Jan 2020 |
| X.Org's XDC2020 May Abandon Poland Conference To Find More Welcoming European Location | 18 Jan 2020 |
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