| AMD |
| AMD SMCA Updates Land In Linux 5.17 For Future CPUs | 20 Jan 2022 |
| Some Older AMD Systems Can Boot Faster On Linux 5.17+ | 18 Jan 2022 |
| AMD Prepares Linux Fix For Some Laptops Not Resuming From s2idle Suspend | 05 Jan 2022 |
| AMD P-State Driver To Premiere In Linux 5.17 With Aim To Deliver Better Power Efficiency | 05 Jan 2022 |
| AMD Ryzen 6000 Series Mobile CPUs Feature Microsoft's Pluton Security | 04 Jan 2022 |
| The Most Exciting AMD Linux / Open-Source News Of 2021 | 29 Dec 2021 |
| AMD Smart Trace Buffer Support Is Ready For Linux 5.17 | 28 Dec 2021 |
| AMD P-State v7 Driver Posted For Delivering Better Ryzen Efficiency In 2022 | 25 Dec 2021 |
| New Linux Patches For AMD i2c Bus Sharing With The PSP | 23 Dec 2021 |
| Linux 5.17 Will Add Ethernet Support For AMD Yellow Carp (Rembrandt) | 21 Dec 2021 |
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1297 Articles |
| Apple |
| The End-Of-Year 2021 State Of Linux On Apple's M1 SoC | 15 Dec 2021 |
| More Apple Silicon M1 Bring-Up On The Way For Linux 5.17 | 07 Dec 2021 |
| Linux Can Boot On Apple's M1 Pro But More Work Remains | 02 Nov 2021 |
| Apple Silicon GPIO Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.16 | 27 Oct 2021 |
| Linux 5.16 To Support The 2021 Apple Magic Keyboard | 20 Oct 2021 |
| Apple Silicon PCIe Driver Queued For Linux 5.16 | 20 Oct 2021 |
| Apple Announces The M1 Pro / M1 Max, Asahi Linux Starts Eyeing Their Bring-Up | 18 Oct 2021 |
| Asahi Linux On The Apple M1: "Usable As A Basic Linux Desktop" Sans GPU Acceleration | 05 Oct 2021 |
| Apple M1 USB Type-C Linux Support Code Sent Out For Testing | 18 Sep 2021 |
| Apple M1 IOMMU Driver Merged For Linux 5.15, Intel Scalable Mode By Default | 04 Sep 2021 |
More Apple News |
72 Articles |
| Arch Linux |
| Arch Linux's Archinstall Preparing Better Btrfs Support, More Fixes | 03 Jan 2022 |
| 2021 Brought A Convenient Installer For Arch Linux, Powering The Steam Deck | 31 Dec 2021 |
| Manjaro 21.2 Released With Better Btrfs Support, Linux 5.15 LTS Powered | 22 Dec 2021 |
| Arch-Based EndeavourOS 21.4 Released With FSTRIM, Btrfs Zstd, PipeWire By Default | 03 Dec 2021 |
| Archinstall 2.3 Released For Easily Installing Arch Linux | 25 Nov 2021 |
| Arch Linux Installer Updated With Btrfs Subvolumes Support, Reworked Partitioning | 07 Nov 2021 |
| Endeavour OS ISOs Updated With Better Btrfs Support, Pacman Parallel Downloads | 30 Aug 2021 |
| Manjaro 21.1 Released With Better Btrfs Support, GNOME 40 Update | 17 Aug 2021 |
| Manjaro 21.1 Bringing Enhanced Support For Btrfs, Automatic Backups | 29 Jul 2021 |
| Archinstall 2.2 Released For Improving This Easy-To-Use Arch Linux Installer | 28 May 2021 |
More Arch Linux News |
93 Articles |
| Arm |
| Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Sees Timely Support With The Mainline Linux 5.17 Kernel | 12 Jan 2022 |
| Linux 5.17 AArch64 Code Has SME Preparations, Adds KCSAN Support | 07 Jan 2022 |
| LLVM/Clang Adds Support For ARMv9.3-A | 03 Jan 2022 |
| ARMv8.8-A Support With New MOPS Instructions Ready For GCC 12 | 14 Dec 2021 |
| Arm Cortex-A710 Support Merged Into GCC 12 Compiler | 11 Nov 2021 |
| GCC 12 Lands Support For -march=armv9-a | 09 Nov 2021 |
| Linux 5.16 Arm SoC Changes Bring-Up The Snapdragon 690, Other Hardware | 04 Nov 2021 |
| "Ampere-1" GCC Patch Posted For Ampere's Upcoming AArch64 Core Design | 02 Nov 2021 |
| Arm Begins Adding Armv9 Support To The GNU Compiler Toolchain | 01 Oct 2021 |
| Ampere Altra Max 128-Core CPU Is Priced Lower Than Flagship Xeon, EPYC CPUs | 30 Sep 2021 |
More Arm News |
261 Articles |
| BSD |
| GhostBSD 22.01.12 Released With Automatic Detection For Old AMD GPUs | 17 Jan 2022 |
| DragonFlyBSD 6.2 Released With AMD Graphics Driver, Better HAMMER2, NVMM Hypervisor | 10 Jan 2022 |
| DragonFlyBSD Now Has Working Support For Intel Whiskey Lake Graphics | 28 Dec 2021 |
| helloSystem 0.7 Released With Big Improvements For This Leading Desktop BSD OS | 20 Dec 2021 |
| FreeBSD 12.3 Released With Updated AMD & Networking Hardware, Password Protected ZIPs | 07 Dec 2021 |
| FreeBSD Improving Boot Times, Adds Hole-Punching, Better Linux Binary Compatibility | 15 Nov 2021 |
| DragonFlyBSD's makefs Adds Support For FAT | 28 Oct 2021 |
| FreeBSD 12.3 Prepares For New Release Ahead Of Christmas, Beta Starts | 23 Oct 2021 |
| OpenBSD 7.0 Released With RISC-V 64-bit Port, Better Apple Silicon Support | 14 Oct 2021 |
| DragonFlyBSD 6.0.1 Released With AMD Zen 3 Temperature Monitoring, Fixes | 13 Oct 2021 |
More BSD News |
749 Articles |
| Clear Linux |
| Using Distrobox To Augment The Package Selection On Clear Linux, Other Distributions | 09 Jan 2022 |
| 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 |
More Clear Linux News |
90 Articles |
| Coreboot |
| Another ASRock Sandy Bridge / Ivy Bridge Motherboard Ported To Open-Source Coreboot | 24 Dec 2021 |
| Open-Source Firmware Conference 2021 Videos Now Available | 04 Dec 2021 |
| Libreboot 20211122 Rebases Against Newer Coreboot, Drops "Very Bloated" TianoCore | 22 Nov 2021 |
| Star Labs StarBook Mk V Support Upstreamed In Coreboot | 22 Nov 2021 |
| Coreboot 4.15 Released With New System76 Laptops, More ASUS Motherboards | 10 Nov 2021 |
| A Number Of System76 Laptop Coreboot Ports Reach Mainline | 03 Nov 2021 |
| Coreboot Making Progress On Running More Of It In 64-bit Mode | 16 Jul 2021 |
| ASRock Rack Has One Of The Best, Most Open-Source Firmware x86 Server Motherboards | 15 Jul 2021 |
| Coreboot Is Ridding Its Need For Intel's FSP-T Blob | 25 Jun 2021 |
| Another Intel Sandy/Ivy Bridge Motherboard Now Works For Coreboot (ASUS P8Z77-V) | 14 Jun 2021 |
More Coreboot News |
226 Articles |
| Debian |
| Debian 11.2 Released With Updates For Bugs & Security Issues - Including Log4j | 18 Dec 2021 |
| The Sad State Of Web Browser Support Currently Within Debian | 08 Dec 2021 |
| Raspberry Pi OS Updated For Debian 11 Bullseye, Desktop Transitions To GTK3+Mutter | 08 Nov 2021 |
| Devuan 4.0 Released As Debian 11 Without Systemd | 14 Oct 2021 |
| Debian 11.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Fixes | 09 Oct 2021 |
| Debian 11 "Bullseye" Released | 14 Aug 2021 |
| Debian GNU/Hurd 2021 Released With Experimental Rump-Based Userland Disk Driver, Go Port | 14 Aug 2021 |
| Debian 11 Is Releasing This Weekend With Many Improvements | 14 Aug 2021 |
| Debian Improves Docs To Inform Users Their Systems Might Not Work Without Non-Free Firmware | 02 Aug 2021 |
| Debian 11.0 "Bullseye" Gets An August Release Date | 23 Jul 2021 |
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368 Articles |
| Desktop |
| Firefox 95 vs. Chrome 97 Browser Performance On Linux | 06 Jan 2022 |
| WirePlumber 0.4.6 Released For Managing PipeWire | 06 Jan 2022 |
| Enlightenment 0.25 Released With Improvements To This Lightweight Window Manager | 27 Dec 2021 |
| Lumina 1.6.2 Released For This BSD Licensed Qt-Powered Desktop | 26 Dec 2021 |
| Arcan 0.6.1 Released With More Features Added To This Open-Source Display Stack | 23 Nov 2021 |
| System76 Reportedly Developing Their Own Rust-Written Desktop, Not Based On GNOME | 07 Nov 2021 |
| LXQt 1.0 Released For Lightweight Qt5 Desktop | 05 Nov 2021 |
| Lumina Desktop 1.6.1 Released With Theme Improvements While Bigger Improvements Planned | 04 Oct 2021 |
| Firefox 92 vs. Chrome 94 Browser Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux | 26 Sep 2021 |
| HarfBuzz 3.0 Released With Unicode 14.0 Support, More APIs Considered Stable | 19 Sep 2021 |
More Desktop News |
408 Articles |
| Fedora |
| Fedora Server 36 Could Make It Easier To Manage NFS & Samba File Sharing | 20 Jan 2022 |
| GCC 12 + Glibc 2.35 Planned For Fedora 36 | 08 Jan 2022 |
| Fedora 36 Looking To Move Users Away From Legacy "ifcfg" Network Scripts | 06 Jan 2022 |
| Fedora "DIGLIM" Feature Proposal Drawing Mixed Reactions | 02 Jan 2022 |
| Fedora Had A Stellar 2021 & Continued Running At The Forefront Of Linux Innovations | 30 Dec 2021 |
| Fedora 36 Looking To Change Its Default Fonts | 29 Dec 2021 |
| Fedora 36 Planning To Use plocate As New "locate" Replacement | 14 Dec 2021 |
| Fedora 36 To Support OSTree Native Containers / CoreOS Layering | 13 Dec 2021 |
| Fedora 36 Planning To Run Wayland By Default With NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver | 07 Dec 2021 |
| Fedora 36 Establishing ELN-Extras, Fedora 37 To Retire ARMv7 | 07 Dec 2021 |
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1059 Articles |
| Free Software |
| Apache Hop Hops To Top-Level Project Status | 19 Jan 2022 |
| Mumble 1.4 Released For Open-Source Voice Chat | 16 Jan 2022 |
| OpenRGB 0.7 Released With Many More Devices Supported, Improved Settings | 30 Dec 2021 |
| LuxCoreRender 2.6 Released For This Great Open-Source, Physically Based Renderer | 26 Dec 2021 |
| KiCad 6.0 Release Imminent As A Leading Open-Source Circuit Board CAD Program | 25 Dec 2021 |
| Darktable 3.8 Released For This Great Open-Source Alternative To Adobe Lightroom | 24 Dec 2021 |
| Polychromatic 0.7.3 Released With New Razer Device Support, 8000Hz Polling | 23 Dec 2021 |
| GIMP 2.10.30 Released With Better Adobe PSD Support, Improved Portals Integration | 21 Dec 2021 |
| Zstd 1.5.1 Released With Even More Performance Improvements | 21 Dec 2021 |
| FSF Adopts A Board Member Agreement, Code of Ethics For Board Members | 16 Dec 2021 |
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1730 Articles |
| General |
| The LLVM Codebase Is Moving Past C++11 This Year, Likely To C++14 | 23 Jan 2019 |
| FP64 Support Finally Lands In Mesa Git For Intel Haswell | 03 Jan 2017 |
More General News |
2 Articles |
| GNOME |
| GNOME 42 Alpha Released With A Lot Of GTK4 Porting, Other Improvements | 17 Jan 2022 |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Aiming For GNOME 42, Avoiding GTK4 Where Possible | 13 Jan 2022 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter Prepare For GNOME 42 Alpha With Exciting Improvements | 12 Jan 2022 |
| GNOME On Wayland Lands Improved Handling For Direct Scanout Support | 08 Jan 2022 |
| GNOME 42 Lands DMA-BUF Feedback Support For Better Multi-GPU, Proper Direct Scanout | 05 Jan 2022 |
| Libadwaita 1.0 Released For Kicking Off A New Year Of GNOME App Development | 31 Dec 2021 |
| GNOME's Mutter Lands Some Fixes For Hybrid Laptop Graphics Crashes | 23 Dec 2021 |
| GNOME's Wayland Session Shows Potential For Better Battery Life Than With X.Org | 23 Dec 2021 |
| An Optimization Proposed For GNOME + NVIDIA On High Refresh Rate Displays | 16 Dec 2021 |
| GNOME 42 To Finally Allow Input Events To Happen Full-Rate | 09 Dec 2021 |
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1161 Articles |
| GNU |
| GCC 12 Moves On To Stage 4 Development With Many New Compiler Features | 17 Jan 2022 |
| GCC 12 Ready To Help Fend Off Trojan Source Attacks | 16 Jan 2022 |
| GCC 12 Shifting To Stage 4 Development - No Sign Of AMD Zen 4 Support | 12 Jan 2022 |
| GNU Linux-libre 5.16 Brings More Firmware Cleansing, Deblobbing | 10 Jan 2022 |
| GCC 12 Adds Support For Using The Mold Linker | 29 Dec 2021 |
| GNU Jami Taranis Released For Free Software Conferencing, Peer-To-Peer Communication | 24 Dec 2021 |
| Glibc 2.35 Bringing Improved Huge Pages Handling, New Tunable | 15 Dec 2021 |
| Restartable Sequences "RSEQ" Support Returning To GNU C Library | 10 Dec 2021 |
| Loongson Posts Patch Series For Bringing Up LoongArch In GCC Compiler | 27 Nov 2021 |
| Linux Prepares Straight Line Speculation "SLS" Mitigation For x86/x86_64 CPUs | 18 Nov 2021 |
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931 Articles |
| Google |
| Google Rolls Chrome 98 Into Beta With COLRv1 Font Support | 10 Jan 2022 |
| Chrome 97 Released With WebTransport API | 04 Jan 2022 |
| Google Posts Open Profile For DICE Linux Driver, Forwards Firmware Secrets To User-Space | 08 Dec 2021 |
| Chrome 97 Beta Released With WebTransport API, HDR Media Queries | 18 Nov 2021 |
| Google Releases Chrome 96 With Back-Forward Cache Enabled For The Desktop | 15 Nov 2021 |
| Google Rolls Out ClusterFuzzLite For Easy-To-Use, Continuous Fuzzing | 11 Nov 2021 |
| Google Makes Some Major Changes To Summer of Code 2022 - No Longer Limited To Students | 10 Nov 2021 |
| Google Will Now Pay $31,337 To $50,337 For New Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities | 01 Nov 2021 |
| Google Continues Work On User-Managed Concurrency Groups For Linux | 24 Oct 2021 |
| Chrome 96 Beta Begins Preparing For Chrome 100, Adds Priority Hints Feature | 21 Oct 2021 |
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492 Articles |
| Hardware |
| Linux 5.17 Lands Fix For Hanging If Ejecting A Broken Floppy | 22 Jan 2022 |
| Nintendo GameCube / Wii / Wii U Get Real-Time Clock Driver With Linux 5.17 | 21 Jan 2022 |
| Platform Firmware Runtime Update & Telemetry Feature Submitted For Linux 5.17 | 17 Jan 2022 |
| Some Tablets/Convertibles With Linux 5.17 Will Now Have Working Pen Support | 17 Jan 2022 |
| Developer Steps Up Wanting To Maintain Linux's FBDEV Subsystem | 16 Jan 2022 |
| PCI Changes For Linux 5.17 Bring Intel Raptor Lake IDs, Apple PCIe Clock Gating | 15 Jan 2022 |
| Linux 5.17 Mainlines Support For More Obsolete MIPS-Based Wireless Routers | 14 Jan 2022 |
| Fwupd 1.7.4 Supports More Hardware For Firmware Updating On Linux | 13 Jan 2022 |
| Linux Kernel Patches Posted For Bringing Up Tesla's Full Self-Driving SoC | 13 Jan 2022 |
| CXL Memory Hotplug Support Ready To Plug Into Linux 5.17 | 12 Jan 2022 |
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1842 Articles |
| Intel |
| A Look At Alder Lake Against Older CPUs Going Back To Sandy Bridge, Kaveri | 21 Jan 2022 |
| Intel Linux Driver Adds New DG2 "G12" Graphics Variant | 20 Jan 2022 |
| Intel's Unaccepted Memory Support Updated For Substantially Faster Booting Of TDX VMs | 20 Jan 2022 |
| Intel Media Driver 22 Debuts With Alchemist / ATS-M Support, ADL-N | 19 Jan 2022 |
| Intel ISPC 1.17 Compiler Released With Xe HPG, PS5 & AMD Zen Support | 15 Jan 2022 |
| Intel's Linux Graphics Driver Continues With Multi-Tile Preparations | 14 Jan 2022 |
| Intel Arc DG2 "Alchemist" Added For Mesa 22.0 But Code Disabled For Now | 13 Jan 2022 |
| One-Line Patch To Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Can Help Modern Games By A Few Percent | 12 Jan 2022 |
| Intel Lands 20~40% Performance Optimization For Arc Graphics In Mesa 22.0 | 11 Jan 2022 |
| Intel Announces New Leader Of Client Computing Group | 10 Jan 2022 |
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2245 Articles |
| KDE |
| KDE's Very Busy Week From 15 Minute Bugs To Plasma Wayland Fixes | 22 Jan 2022 |
| KDE's 15-Minute Bug Initiative Gets Underway | 19 Jan 2022 |
| KDE Caps Off Plasma 5.24 Beta Week With More Wayland Fixes | 15 Jan 2022 |
| KDE Plasma 5.24 Beta Released With Better Wayland Support | 13 Jan 2022 |
| KDE Kicks Off 2022 With New Feature Work | 08 Jan 2022 |
| KDE Gets A 2022 Roadmap - Plasma Wayland To Shine, Updated Breeze Icons | 03 Jan 2022 |
| KDE Ends 2021 With More Plasma Wayland Fixes, Root File Operations For Dolphin | 01 Jan 2022 |
| KDE's Plasma Wayland Session Achieves Better Battery Life Than With X.Org | 27 Dec 2021 |
| KDE's Bug Fixes & Other Desktop Enhancements For Christmas | 25 Dec 2021 |
| Krita 5.0 Released With Big Improvements For Open-Source Digital Painting / 2D Animation | 23 Dec 2021 |
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1116 Articles |
| LibreOffice |
| LibreOffice Sees New Activity For Compiling To WebAssembly | 19 Jan 2022 |
| LibreOffice 7.3 RC1 Available For Testing This Open-Source Office Suite | 27 Dec 2021 |
| LibreOffice 7.3 Beta Released With More Improvements For Microsoft Office Files | 01 Dec 2021 |
| LibreOffice 7.3 Alpha 1 Tagged With More Open-Source Office Suite Improvements | 30 Oct 2021 |
| LibreOffice Lands Initial Code For Qt6 Toolkit Support | 29 Sep 2021 |
| LibreOffice 7.2 Community Released For This Leading Open-Source Office Suite | 19 Aug 2021 |
| LibreOffice 7.2 RC1 Released Ahead Of Official Debut Next Month | 13 Jul 2021 |
| OpenDocument Format 1.3 Approved As OASIS Standard | 24 Jun 2021 |
| LibreOffice 7.2 Beta Arrives With Initial Command Pop-Up HUD, Better Performance | 18 Jun 2021 |
| LibreOffice 7.2 Alpha 1 Released For This Open-Source Office Suite | 25 May 2021 |
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156 Articles |
| Linux Events |
| RISC-V Summit 2021 - High Performance Processors, Other Interesting Talks | 09 Dec 2021 |
| Linux Foundation Expects Revenues Of $177 Million This Year | 07 Dec 2021 |
| DebConf21 Kicks Off Online For Annual Debian Conference | 24 Aug 2021 |
| 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 |
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79 Articles |
| Linux Gaming |
| Cemu Emulator Plans For 2022 With Going Open-Source, Aiming For Linux Support | 15 Jan 2022 |
| Godot 3.5 Beta 1 Brings Async Shader Compilation & Caching | 13 Jan 2022 |
| LatencyFleX Is An Open-Source, Vendor-Agnostic Alternative To NVIDIA Reflex | 05 Jan 2022 |
| Steam On Linux Ended 2021 At 1.11% Marketshare | 03 Jan 2022 |
| Mesa's RADV Driver Lands Workaround For Flickering Issue With F1 2021 | 01 Jan 2022 |
| OBS Studio 27.2 Beta Brings SVT-AV1 Support, Official Flatpak Support | 30 Dec 2021 |
| Ogre 2.3 Released With Vulkan Render Support, Other Engine Updates | 24 Dec 2021 |
| SuperTux 0.6.3 Brings In-Game Improvements, WebAssembly Support | 22 Dec 2021 |
| Unigine 2.15 Continues As One Of The Most Beautiful Engines, Vulkan Still W.I.P. | 18 Dec 2021 |
| Ubisoft Is Hiring A Linux Developer For An "Unannounced Project" But Don't Get Too Excited | 13 Dec 2021 |
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1829 Articles |
| Linux Kernel |
| Linux 5.17-rc1 Released A Little Bit Early But With Shiny New Features | 23 Jan 2022 |
| More Intel Raptor Lake Additions Arrive In Time For Linux 5.17 | 21 Jan 2022 |
| Linux 5.17 Making It Easier To Build A Kernel With All The Shiny Debug Features | 20 Jan 2022 |
| Folio Improvements For Linux 5.17, Large Folio Patches Posted | 18 Jan 2022 |
| Rust For Linux Kernel Patches Revised With Upgraded Rust Toolchain, Build Improvements | 17 Jan 2022 |
| New Xilinx Drivers, GNSS Reciver USB Driver & Habana Labs Updates Land In Linux 5.17 | 16 Jan 2022 |
| Page Table Check Feature Merged For Linux 5.17 To Help Fight Memory Corruption | 16 Jan 2022 |
| Initial Sound Open Firmware Support For AMD Hardware Comes With Linux 5.17 | 15 Jan 2022 |
| USB Changes For Linux 5.17: Overdue Xen pvUSB To DWC3 Multi-Stream Transfer | 14 Jan 2022 |
| Linux Preparing To Finally Remove Support For The a.out Format | 13 Jan 2022 |
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2891 Articles |
| Linux Networking |
| The Networking Changes For Linux 5.17 Are Very Exciting | 10 Jan 2022 |
| Linux 5.17 Picking Up Support For New NVIDIA Spectrum-4 Network ASIC | 07 Jan 2022 |
| Linux Patches Posted For Enabling WiFi On Apple M1/T2 Platforms | 26 Dec 2021 |
| Intel's IWD Wireless Daemon Preparing WiFi DPP Support (Wi-Fi Easy Connect) | 22 Dec 2021 |
| IO_uring Network Zero-Copy Transmit Continues Looking Great For Linux | 21 Dec 2021 |
| IO_uring Network Zero-Copy Send Is Boasting Mighty Speed-Ups | 30 Nov 2021 |
| Another Sizable Performance Optimization To Benefit Network Code With Linux 5.17 | 23 Nov 2021 |
| Linux 5.17 To Boast A Big TCP Performance Optimization | 16 Nov 2021 |
| Linux 5.16 Networking Changes Are Quite Busy From New Drivers To Intel 100G Improvements | 02 Nov 2021 |
| Realtek 802.11ax WiFi Driver "rtw89" Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.16 | 16 Oct 2021 |
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204 Articles |
| Linux Security |
| x86 Straight Line Speculation CPU Mitigation Appears For Linux 5.17 | 12 Jan 2022 |
| Linux 5.17 Patch Can Help With Systemd-Less System Security, May Break Some Old Drivers | 04 Jan 2022 |
| FGKASLR Is An Exciting Linux Kernel Improvement To Look Forward To In 2022 | 26 Dec 2021 |
| x86 Straight-Line Speculation Mitigation On Track For Linux 5.17 | 11 Dec 2021 |
| Linux Fixes Spectre V1 SWAPGS Mitigation After Being Partially Borked Since Last Year | 05 Dec 2021 |
| x86 Straight-Line Speculation Mitigation Patches Updated For Linux | 05 Dec 2021 |
| FGKASLR Appears Closer To Mainline For Improving Linux Security | 03 Dec 2021 |
| Google Proposes "Page Table Check" For Fighting Some Types Of Linux Memory Corruption | 17 Nov 2021 |
| SELinux/LSM/Smack Controls + Auditing For IO_uring Comes With Linux 5.16 | 03 Nov 2021 |
| GCC & LLVM Patches Pending To Fend Off Trojan Source Attacks | 01 Nov 2021 |
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217 Articles |
| Linux Storage |
| F2FS With Linux 5.17 Makes Some Performance Improvements | 19 Jan 2022 |
| Linux 5.17 Lands Big Rewrite To FS-Cache & CacheFiles Driver Code | 13 Jan 2022 |
| Linux 5.17: Quicker Mount Times For XFS, Few New Features For EXT4 | 12 Jan 2022 |
| Btrfs Seeing Nice Performance Improvements For Linux 5.17 | 10 Jan 2022 |
| EXT4 Finally Picking Up Support For The Common Get/Set Label Ioctls | 06 Jan 2022 |
| MDADM 4.2 Released For Managing Linux Software RAID | 03 Jan 2022 |
| Linux 5.17 To Replace SHA1 With BLAKE2s For Faster & More Secure "Random" | 30 Dec 2021 |
| FUSE Introducing Per-File DAX Option With Linux 5.17 | 19 Dec 2021 |
| Micron HSE 2.1 Open-Source Storage Engine Released | 17 Dec 2021 |
| EXT4 Prepared To Switch To Linux's New Mount API | 13 Dec 2021 |
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702 Articles |
| LLVM |
| BOLT Merged Into LLVM To Optimize Binaries For Faster Performance | 11 Jan 2022 |
| LLVM Enjoyed Record Growth In 2021, Many Exciting Compiler Advancements | 02 Jan 2022 |
| LLVM Clang Lands Initial SPIR-V Toolchain Support | 23 Dec 2021 |
| LLVM's HIPSPV Coming Together For AMD HIP To SPIR-V For OpenCL Execution | 20 Dec 2021 |
| China's Loongson Looks To Mainline LoongArch Support In LLVM | 17 Dec 2021 |
| LLVM Working On "HIPSPV" So AMD HIP Code Can Turn Into SPIR-V And Run On OpenCL | 14 Dec 2021 |
| BOLT Close To Merging Into LLVM For Optimizing Performance Of Binaries | 09 Dec 2021 |
| Intel, Arm & Khronos Feel Ready to Land SPIR-V Backend Within LLVM | 08 Dec 2021 |
| LLVM Now Has "Official" Support For Targeting NEC's Vector Engine (VE) | 07 Dec 2021 |
| LLVM Clang 14 Lands An "Amazing" Performance Optimization | 06 Dec 2021 |
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667 Articles |
| LVFS |
| LVFS Activity Going Wild Ahead Of New Security Disclosure Requiring Firmware Update | 18 Jan 2022 |
| Fwupd 1.7.3 Released With Support For Nordic Semi nRF Secure Hardware | 13 Dec 2021 |
| Linux Vendor Firmware Service Serves Up 40 Millionth Download | 01 Dec 2021 |
| FWUPD Linux Firmware Updater Prepares "Best Known Configuration" Feature | 29 Nov 2021 |
| FWUPD 1.7.2 Released With Fixes, Faster & Smaller Daemon | 19 Nov 2021 |
| FWUPD 1.7.1 Adds Support For Firmware Updates On More Devices | 01 Nov 2021 |
| FWUPD 1.7 Released With Supporting More Hardware For Firmware Updates On Linux | 06 Oct 2021 |
| LVFS Serves Up 2+ Million Firmware Downloads In The Past Month | 17 Sep 2021 |
| FWUPD 1.6.2 Released With Exciting Improvements For Hardware Firmware Updates On Linux | 02 Aug 2021 |
| Linux's FWUPD Expands Poly High-End Web Camera Support | 31 Jul 2021 |
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45 Articles |
| Mesa |
| Mesa 22.0 Gets RADV Ray-Tracing Performance Boost By Using Wave32 Mode | 21 Jan 2022 |
| Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan Now Offers Broader OpenGL Coverage Than RadeonSI, Intel | 20 Jan 2022 |
| VMware's SVGA Gallium3D Driver Lands OpenGL 4.3 Support In Mesa 22.0 | 19 Jan 2022 |
| Intel's Former Vulkan Driver Lead Dev Lands Great Role For Improving Linux Graphics | 17 Jan 2022 |
| Open-Source Raspberry Pi Graphics Drivers Add Double Buffer Mode | 14 Jan 2022 |
| Mesa's "Copper" Is A Step Closer To Being Brazed | 14 Jan 2022 |
| Mesa 22.0 Pushed Back By Three Weeks | 13 Jan 2022 |
| Radeon RADV Optimizations In Mesa 22.0 Improve PRIME/Hybrid GPU Performance | 11 Jan 2022 |
| It's 2022 But AMD's Open-Source OpenGL Driver Isn't Done Being Optimized | 05 Jan 2022 |
| Zink Working On Sparse Textures, Other Improvements To Kick Off 2022 | 05 Jan 2022 |
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2075 Articles |
| Microsoft |
| Microsoft's Director of OS Security Gets Coreboot Playing Nicely With Windows 11 | 18 Jan 2022 |
| Microsoft To Acquire Activision Blizzard | 18 Jan 2022 |
| Microsoft Reworks The "DXGKRNL" Driver It Wants To Get Into The Linux Kernel | 13 Jan 2022 |
| Microsoft Lands D3D12 Compute Support In Mesa 22.0 | 11 Jan 2022 |
| Microsoft Eyeing OpenGL Compute + GLES 3.1 For Its Mesa D3D12 Backend | 07 Jan 2022 |
| This Year Microsoft Embraced eBPF, Debuted CBL-Mariner, Continued With WSL Features | 31 Dec 2021 |
| Microsoft's Mesa D3D12 Gallium3D Code Adds Support For OpenGL SSBOs | 28 Dec 2021 |
| Microsoft Releases Updated CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution | 17 Dec 2021 |
| Microsoft To Make Windows Terminal The Default Choice On Windows 11 | 15 Dec 2021 |
| Microsoft Releases Performance Tools For Linux/Android | 08 Dec 2021 |
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266 Articles |
| Mozilla |
| Firefox Gets AV1 VA-API Acceleration Sorted Out | 18 Jan 2022 |
| Firefox 96 Yields Less Load On The Main Thread, WebP Encoder For Canvas | 11 Jan 2022 |
| Firefox 95 Ready With RLBox Sandboxing Across All Platforms | 06 Dec 2021 |
| Firefox 94.0 Released With Linux Build Using EGL For Better Performance, Power Savings | 02 Nov 2021 |
| Firefox 94 To Start Using EGL On Linux - Better Performance, Lower Power Use | 30 Oct 2021 |
| Firefox 93 Primed For Release With AVIF Image Support, Canonical Managing Official Snap | 05 Oct 2021 |
| Firefox 92 Beta Takes Flight With AVIF Image Support | 12 Aug 2021 |
| Thunderbird 91 Released With Big Improvements For This Open-Source Mail Client | 11 Aug 2021 |
| Firefox 91 Released As New ESR Base, HTTPS First Policy For Private Mode | 10 Aug 2021 |
| Thunderbird 91 Is Flying Soon As First Major Mail Client Update In A Year | 08 Aug 2021 |
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364 Articles |
| Multimedia |
| FFmpeg 5.0 Aims To Be An LTS Release | 17 Jan 2022 |
| JACK2 1.9.20 Released With Official FreeBSD Support | 16 Jan 2022 |
| FFmpeg 5.0 Released For This Popular, Open-Source Multimedia Library | 14 Jan 2022 |
| Linux 5.17 To Introduce Cirrus CS35L41 HD Audio Codec Driver | 09 Jan 2022 |
| PipeWire 0.3.43 Released With Many Fixes | 05 Jan 2022 |
| Avidemux 2.8 Released For This Simple, Open-Source Video Editor | 28 Dec 2021 |
| PipeWire 0.3.41 Offers Improved Flatpak & JACK Compatibility, Apple AirPlay Streaming | 13 Dec 2021 |
| Experimental FFmpeg Code For Vulkan Acceleration | 18 Nov 2021 |
| PipeWire 0.3.40 Released With Better JACK Compatibility | 11 Nov 2021 |
| Rav1e 0.5 Brings More Speed-Ups For This Rust AV1 Encoder | 07 Nov 2021 |
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| Nouveau |
| Nouveau Lights Up The NVIDIA RTX 3060 GPU Open-Source Support | 18 Nov 2021 |
| Open-Source Driver Flips On OpenGL ES 3.1 For Select NVIDIA GeForce 200 Series GPUs | 07 Jun 2021 |
| 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 |
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| NVIDIA |
| NVIDIA Releases Quake II RTX 1.6 With Support For AMD FidelityFX FSR | 21 Jan 2022 |
| KDE Enjoys Improvement For Much Better NVIDIA Wayland GBM Experience | 19 Jan 2022 |
| NVIDIA CUDA 11.6 Brings Convenient "-arch=native", Defaults To New "GSP" Driver Mode | 18 Jan 2022 |
| NVIDIA 510.39.01 Linux Beta Brings Vulkan Dynamic Rendering, AV1 VDPAU Decode & More | 11 Jan 2022 |
| NVIDIA Announces The GeForce RTX 3050, RTX 3090 Ti | 04 Jan 2022 |
| Experimental VA-API Implemented Over NVIDIA's NVDEC - Allows Firefox Video Acceleration | 04 Jan 2022 |
| NVIDIA NVDEC Video Decode Support Sent Out For Linux 5.17, Better Power Management | 17 Dec 2021 |
| Several Older NVIDIA Tegra Powered Tablets To Be Supported By Linux 5.17 | 26 Nov 2021 |
| NVIDIA's Open-Source Image Scaling SDK 1.0 Released | 25 Nov 2021 |
| NVIDIA 470.62.12 Vulkan Beta Driver For Linux Updates Video Support | 17 Nov 2021 |
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| Operating Systems |
| Genode OS Planning For WireGuard, Mobile Usability With The PinePhone | 20 Jan 2022 |
| Gentoo Linux Packages Up AMD ROCm, Makes Progress On RISC-V, LTO+PGO Python | 08 Jan 2022 |
| Joshua Strobl Steps Down From The Solus Project | 02 Jan 2022 |
| Astounding Progress Made In Porting Wine To Haiku For Running Windows Software | 01 Jan 2022 |
| CentOS Linux 8 Reaches End-Of-Life | 31 Dec 2021 |
| ReactOS 0.4.14 "Open-Source Windows" OS Brings Many Improvements | 18 Dec 2021 |
| System76 Releases Pop!_OS 21.10 | 14 Dec 2021 |
| OpenSolaris/Illumos-Derived OpenIndiana 2021.10 Released With Better Hardware Support | 06 Dec 2021 |
| Genode OS 21.11 Now Has Working Intel Gen9+ Graphics, Better PinePhone Support | 04 Dec 2021 |
| NixOS 21.11 Released But Its Own Package Manager Is Left Behind Due To Regressions | 01 Dec 2021 |
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| Oracle |
| Oracle Releases GraalVM 21.3 With Java 17 Support, Other Enhancements | 19 Oct 2021 |
| Java 17 / OpenJDK 17 Hits GA With Maturing Vector API, Removal Planned For Applet API | 14 Sep 2021 |
| Maple Tree v2 Patches For The Linux Kernel - 13~840% Faster For Malloc Threads Test Case | 17 Aug 2021 |
| Oracle Sends Out Newest Patches For Trenchboot / Secure Launch For The Linux Kernel | 09 Aug 2021 |
| GraalVM 21.2 Released With New Optimizations, Better Linux AArch64 Support | 21 Jul 2021 |
| Oracle Sends Out Latest Linux Patches So Trenchboot Can Securely Launch The Kernel | 19 Jun 2021 |
| Solaris 11.4 SRU33 Released - Finally Delivers Valgrind, jQuery, VirtIO Guest Support | 19 May 2021 |
| 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 |
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| Phoronix |
| Happy New Year & A Wrap On 2021 | 31 Dec 2021 |
| Happy Holidays / Merry Christmas From Phoronix & Preparing For 2022 | 24 Dec 2021 |
| Alder Lake, Kernel Optimizations & Steam Deck Happenings That Excited Linux Fans | 30 Nov 2021 |
| Linux I/O Optimizations, AMD Improvements, NVIDIA GBM Excited Linux Users Last Month | 01 Nov 2021 |
| Linux 5.15, AMD / Radeon Advancements, Intel SDSi Dominated Discussions This Month | 01 Oct 2021 |
| Debian 11, Valve Happenings, Linux 5.14 & More Excitement From August | 01 Sep 2021 |
| LE9, Canonical's Profits, Steam Deck, & Loongson 3A5000 Made For An Exciting July | 01 Aug 2021 |
| Intel Crocus, Linux 5.13, Other Vendor Happenings Made For An Exciting June | 30 Jun 2021 |
| Phoronix Turns 17 Years Old, Covering The Linux Hardware Scene Daily | 05 Jun 2021 |
| Phoronix Turns 17 Years Old This Week | 31 May 2021 |
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| Phoronix Test Suite |
| OpenBenchmarking.org In 2021 By The Numbers | 01 Jan 2022 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 10.8 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Benchmarking | 26 Dec 2021 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 10.6 Released With Various Improvements For Linux Benchmarking | 10 Oct 2021 |
| New/Updated Benchmarks For June From GravityMark To L4D2 Vulkan, Updated Neural Networks | 03 Jul 2021 |
| New + Updated Benchmarks For May 2021 - Now At 661 Tests, ~36d19h Average Total Runtime | 02 Jun 2021 |
| 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 |
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| Premium |
| The Phoronix Premium Thanksgiving / Black Friday 2021 Special | 26 Nov 2021 |
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| 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 |
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| Programming |
| Mold 1.0.2 Released For This High Performance Linker | 23 Jan 2022 |
| Linux 5.17 Picks Up A Real-Time Analysis Tool | 17 Jan 2022 |
| Mold 1.0.1 Released As Newest Version Of This High-Speed Linker | 31 Dec 2021 |
| Ruby 3.1 Released With Speedy, Experimental In-Process JIT Compiler | 25 Dec 2021 |
| Mold 1.0 Released As A Modern High-Speed Linker Alternative To GNU Gold, LLVM LLD | 21 Dec 2021 |
| OpenBLAS 0.3.19 Released With Alder Lake & Sapphire Rapids Detection | 20 Dec 2021 |
| Notcurses 3.0 Released For Adding "Bling" To Your Terminal Apps | 02 Dec 2021 |
| Wasmer 2.1 WebAssembly Implementation Adds Virtual Filesystem, Lisp + Crystal Support | 01 Dec 2021 |
| Julia 1.7 Released With Improved Threading Capabilities | 01 Dec 2021 |
| RenderDoc 1.17 Released For This Leading Open-Source Graphics Debugging Tool | 27 Nov 2021 |
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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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130 Articles |
| Qt |
| Qt Launches Digital Advertising Platform To Integrate Ads Into App UIs | 18 Jan 2022 |
| Qt 6.3 Alpha Released With New Qt Quick Compiler For Commercial Customers | 14 Jan 2022 |
| Qt Creator 6 Released For This C++ Focused IDE, Clangd Now Fully-Supported | 02 Dec 2021 |
| Qt 6.2.1 Released With 200+ Bug Fixes | 27 Oct 2021 |
| Qt Creator 6 Beta Released With Updated C++ Code Model, Binaries Built Against Qt 6.2 | 14 Oct 2021 |
| Qt 6.2 LTS Released With Qt6 Now Aiming To Be Ready For Widespread Adoption | 30 Sep 2021 |
| Qt 6.2 LTS Will Nearly Be At Feature Parity To Qt 5.15 | 02 Sep 2021 |
| Qt Creator 5.0 Released With Experimental Clangd Backend, Experimental Docker Builds | 26 Aug 2021 |
| Qt Creator 5.0 Nears With New Features | 12 Aug 2021 |
| Qt Creator 5.0 Beta Brings Experimental Support For Clangd, Building Code In Docker | 08 Jul 2021 |
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481 Articles |
| Radeon |
| Linux 5.17 Adds GPU Recovery Support For AMD Rembrandt APUs | 21 Jan 2022 |
| Radeon AOMP 14.0-1 Released Along WIth New GPUOpen Tool Updates | 20 Jan 2022 |
| AMDVLK 2022.Q1.1 Released With Radeon RX 6500 XT Support | 19 Jan 2022 |
| AMD Radeon Open-Source OpenGL Driver Expands Its Sparse Texture Capabilities | 18 Jan 2022 |
| Radeon Linux Driver Adds Option To Limit Number Of Enabled CUs | 05 Jan 2022 |
| Mesa's Radeon Vulkan Driver Lands Experimental Mesh Shaders | 31 Dec 2021 |
| Better AMD Radeon VCE Video Encode Performance Coming To Linux | 30 Dec 2021 |
| AMDVLK 2021.Q4.3 Released To Fix Poor Wayland Performance | 27 Dec 2021 |
| Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 21.Q4 Linux Driver Released | 17 Dec 2021 |
| AMD Radeon GPU Driver Code Sees More Fixes For Linux 5.17 | 17 Dec 2021 |
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| Red Hat |
| Red Hat / Fedora Anaconda Installer Shifting To A Web Based UI | 11 Jan 2022 |
| Hyperscalers Have Been Making CentOS 9 Stream More Attractive With New Features | 10 Jan 2022 |
| EPEL 9 Ready To Provide Extra Packages For RHEL 9, CentOS Stream 9 | 05 Dec 2021 |
| CentOS Stream 9 Now Available To Live On The Bleeding-Edge Of RHEL9 | 03 Dec 2021 |
| CentOS Linux 8 Updated Against RHEL 8.5 Before Going EOL | 16 Nov 2021 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Beta Released | 03 Nov 2021 |
| Red Hat Is Hiring Another Linux Developer To Work On GPU Hardware Enablement | 12 Oct 2021 |
| CentOS Kmods SIG Working On exFAT, WireGuard Additions | 05 Oct 2021 |
| Red Hat Is Hiring So Linux Can Finally Have Good HDR Display Support | 17 Sep 2021 |
| Red Hat Looking To Bolster EPEL | 03 Sep 2021 |
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257 Articles |
| RISC-V |
| Linux 5.17 Adds RISC-V sv48 Support For Being Able To Handle More Memory | 22 Jan 2022 |
| SiFive Shifting Production Focus To Next-Gen HiFive Development Board | 21 Jan 2022 |
| Linux 5.17 RISC-V Allows Rebooting Without Needing Special Driver, HiFive Unmatched Improvements | 19 Jan 2022 |
| Imagination Announces "Catapult" RISC-V CPU Family | 06 Dec 2021 |
| SiFive Details New Performance P650 RISC-V Core | 02 Dec 2021 |
| Open-Source FPGA-Based RISC-V GPGPU That Supports OpenCL 1.2 | 30 Nov 2021 |
| RISC-V With Linux 5.16 Enabling Open-Source NVIDIA Driver As Part Of Default Kernel | 13 Nov 2021 |
| GCC 12 Merges Initial Support For RISC-V's Bitmanip Extensions | 25 Oct 2021 |
| SiFive Has A New RISC-V Core To Improve Performance By 50%, Outperform Cortex-A78 | 21 Oct 2021 |
| GNU Toolchain Begins Landing RISC-V Bitmanip/Zbs Instructions Support | 07 Oct 2021 |
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| Standards |
| Khronos Establishing A Camera API Working Group | 19 Jan 2022 |
| PCIe 6.0 Specification Released With 64 GT/s Transfer Speeds | 11 Jan 2022 |
| OpenCL 3.0.10 Brings A Handful Of New Extensions | 19 Nov 2021 |
| Khronos Prepares ANARI 1.0 API For Scalable 3D Data Visualization | 02 Nov 2021 |
| Embedded DisplayPort 1.5 Specification Published | 28 Oct 2021 |
| Vendors Including NVIDIA Talk Up New OpenCL Extensions For Vulkan Interop, NN Inference | 19 Oct 2021 |
| OpenCL 3.0.9 Specification Released | 15 Oct 2021 |
| PoCL 1.8 OpenCL Implementation Coming With LLVM 13 Support, Better SPIR-V On CUDA | 01 Oct 2021 |
| Apple Patents Complicating W3C's Open Screen Protocol | 19 Aug 2021 |
| Microsoft & Others Form The eBPF Foundation | 12 Aug 2021 |
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261 Articles |
| SUSE |
| (open)SUSE Announces D-Installer: Working On A Web-Based Distro Installer | 20 Jan 2022 |
| SUSE Liberty Linux Announced For Mixed Linux Environments | 19 Jan 2022 |
| openSUSE Leap 15.4 Alpha Builds Begin For Testing | 02 Dec 2021 |
| openSUSE Leap ISOs To See Regular Respins For Integrating Latest Updates | 14 Oct 2021 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise / openSUSE Leap Pursuing x86_64-v2 Optimized Libraries | 16 Jun 2021 |
| openSUSE FrontRunner Aims To Advance The Distro's Hardware Architecture Support | 08 Jun 2021 |
| openSUSE Leap 15.3 Released - Built Using Same Binary Packages As SUSE Linux Enterprise | 02 Jun 2021 |
| 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 |
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| systemd |
| Systemd Blasts Ahead With A Record Number Of Commits In 2021 | 28 Dec 2021 |
| systemd 250 Released With A Huge Number Of New Features, Improvements | 23 Dec 2021 |
| Systemd 250 Piles On Yet More Features With New Release Candidate | 20 Dec 2021 |
| systemd 250 Is Coming For Christmas With A Boat Load Of New Features | 09 Dec 2021 |
| Lennart: Linux Comes Up Short Around Disk Encryption, Authenticated Boot Security | 23 Sep 2021 |
| systemd OOMD Maturing Nicely, Adds Support For User Services | 23 Sep 2021 |
| Systemd 249 Released With New Option For Simple Whole-File-System A/B Updates | 07 Jul 2021 |
| Systemd 249 Has Another Chance For Testing Before Release | 02 Jul 2021 |
| Linux Developers Discuss A Global Counter For Block/Disk Changes | 27 Jun 2021 |
| systemd 249-rc2 Released With New "ConditionOSRelease" Directive | 25 Jun 2021 |
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| Ubuntu |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Planning To Stick With Linux 5.15 By Default | 14 Jan 2022 |
| Canonical To Focus On A New, More Modular Snapcraft - Current Codebase Goes Legacy | 07 Jan 2022 |
| Canonical Hiring For An Ubuntu Linux Desktop Gaming Product Manager | 02 Jan 2022 |
| Ubuntu Had A Great Year In Switching To Wayland, Continued Commercial Success | 30 Dec 2021 |
| Ubuntu Developers Figuring Out Dual-Boot Changes Ahead Of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | 19 Dec 2021 |
| Canonical & Xilinx Team Up For Ubuntu On Adaptive SoCs | 14 Dec 2021 |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS To Shift Its PPC64EL Baseline To POWER9 CPUs, Dropping POWER8 | 11 Dec 2021 |
| Ubuntu Rethinking Its Initramfs Compression Strategy | 08 Dec 2021 |
| Ubuntu Maker Canonical Planning To Vastly Improve Its Documentation | 17 Nov 2021 |
| Proof-Of-Concept Work Brings systemd To Ubuntu WSL | 16 Nov 2021 |
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| Valve |
| Valve Is Sponsoring More CI Testing For The Open-Source Radeon Linux Graphics Driver | 22 Jan 2022 |
| DXVK 1.9.3 Released With NVIDIA DLSS Integration, Many Game Fixes | 11 Jan 2022 |
| Valve's Steam Winter Sale Is Now Underway | 22 Dec 2021 |
| Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Adds Experimental Vulkan Support | 14 Dec 2021 |
| Steam On Linux Marketshare Edges Tiny Bit Higher In November | 01 Dec 2021 |
| Valve Posts Updated Steam Deck FAQs To Address More Community Questions | 29 Nov 2021 |
| Proton 6.3-8 Released With More Windows Games Playable, Support For Some BattlEye Games | 24 Nov 2021 |
| Valve Shares New Steam Deck Details, Proton Update Available For Testing | 12 Nov 2021 |
| Steam Deck Release Pushed Back To February 2022 | 10 Nov 2021 |
| It's Been 9 Years Since Valve Rolled Out The Steam Linux Beta | 06 Nov 2021 |
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| VIA |
| Even In 2019, A Long Road Still For Getting The VIA OpenChrome Driver In Linux | 09 Jan 2019 |
| OpenChrome DRM Driver To Go Through A GEM/TTM Code Rewrite | 05 Aug 2018 |
| It's Still Going To Be Tough Getting The OpenChrome VIA KMS Driver In The Linux Kernel | 28 May 2018 |
| VIA Joins In The AI Race, Linux/Android Support For Their New Developer Kit | 10 May 2018 |
| OpenChrome DRM Driver To Work On New GEM/TTM Code, Regression Fixes | 12 Mar 2018 |
| OpenChrome KMS Can Now Do Runtime Resolution Changes, Hopes To Go Mainline In 2018 | 11 Mar 2018 |
| OpenChrome DRM Still Aiming For Mainline Kernel, But Initially Will Lack 2D Acceleration | 02 Mar 2018 |
| OpenChrome DRM Continues To Be Developed, But It Didn't Make It Mainline This Year | 26 Dec 2017 |
| OpenChrome DRM Still Being Ported To Newer Kernel, Lengthy Process | 25 Aug 2017 |
| OpenChrome Still Pushing For DRM Kernel Driver, Updated DDX | 04 Aug 2017 |
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| Virtualization |
| Cloud Hypervisor 21.0 Offers More Efficient Local Live Migration: 3s Down To 50ms | 23 Jan 2022 |
| Linux 5.17 KVM Updates Deliver Intel AMX Support | 15 Jan 2022 |
| libvirt 8.0 Virtualization API Released | 15 Jan 2022 |
| Oracle Working On Multi-Threaded VFIO Page Pinning For ~10x Faster QEMU Initialization | 06 Jan 2022 |
| Linux Kernel Preparing Support For A More Practical Virtual M68k Machine | 27 Dec 2021 |
| Xen pvUSB Front-End Driver Coming For Linux 5.17 | 17 Dec 2021 |
| QEMU 6.2 Released With Intel SGX VM Support, Apple Silicon Compatible For macOS Hosts | 15 Dec 2021 |
| Intel's Cloud-Hypervisor Moving To The Linux Foundation - Backed By Arm, Microsoft | 08 Dec 2021 |
| Intel's Cloud-Hypervisor 20 Released With CPU Pinning, Replacing Unsafe Rust Code | 03 Dec 2021 |
| Xen 4.16 Released With Improved Performance, Expanded Hardware Support | 02 Dec 2021 |
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| Vulkan |
| GravityMark 1.44 Released With Ray-Tracing Support | 16 Jan 2022 |
| Google Has Been Quietly Developing "GFR" To Debug Vulkan GPU Hangs/Crashes | 05 Jan 2022 |
| Vulkan 1.2.203 Released With Many Documentation Updates, New Extensions | 20 Dec 2021 |
| GRVK 0.5 Gets Battlefield 4 Running With AMD's Mantle Over Vulkan API | 06 Dec 2021 |
| Airlie Exploring Possibility Of VA-API On Top Of Vulkan Video | 24 Nov 2021 |
| Vulkan 1.2.200 Released With Two New Extensions | 23 Nov 2021 |
| Vulkan 1.2.199 Released With New Extension To Help VKD3D-Proton | 16 Nov 2021 |
| New Vulkan Extension Proposed To Help In Emulating AMD's Old Mantle API | 16 Nov 2021 |
| Vulkan Video Support Progressing For Open-Source Intel, AMD Radeon Hardware | 15 Nov 2021 |
| Vulkan 1.2.197 Released With Dynamic Rendering Extension | 02 Nov 2021 |
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568 Articles |
| Wayland |
| Sway 1.7 Released With VR Headset DRM Leasing, Renames "--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia" | 23 Jan 2022 |
| Sway 1.7 Nears Release With Less Abrasive NVIDIA Option, Zero-Copy Direct Scanout | 09 Jan 2022 |
| LABWC 0.4 Stacking Wayland Compositor Brings Fullscreen Mode, Drag & Drop | 01 Jan 2022 |
| Sway 1.7-rc1 Has Better Zero-Copy Direct Scanout, Drops "--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia" | 23 Dec 2021 |
| WXRD Is A New Wayland Compositor Focused On XR/VR Use-Cases | 20 Dec 2021 |
| Wayland's Weston 10 Alpha Brings Early Color Management Work, More Zero-Copy Scanout | 14 Dec 2021 |
| Wayland 1.20 Released With Proper FreeBSD Support, Protocol Additions | 09 Dec 2021 |
| Wayland Protocols 1.24 Released With Improvement To DMA-BUF Protocol For Multi-GPUs | 23 Nov 2021 |
| Wayland 1.20 Alpha Released With Upstreamed FreeBSD Support, Autotools Nuked | 05 Nov 2021 |
| XWayland Lands Another Performance Fix | 04 Nov 2021 |
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794 Articles |
| WINE |
| Wine 7.0 Released With Improved Theming, New WoW64 & Much More | 18 Jan 2022 |
| Wine 7.0-rc6 Released With Another 47 Fixes | 14 Jan 2022 |
| Wine 7.0-rc5 Released With Another 30 Bugs Fixed | 07 Jan 2022 |
| Wine 7.0's Many Features From Better Theming To Improved HiDPI To New Joystick Driver | 07 Jan 2022 |
| New Patches Help WineD3D Performance - Doubled FPS In Some Micro-Benchmarks | 04 Jan 2022 |
| Wine 7.0-rc4 Released With Another 38 Fixes | 02 Jan 2022 |
| Wine 7.0-rc3 Released With 22 More Fixes | 26 Dec 2021 |
| CodeWeavers Planning For A Busy 2022 With VKD3D D3D12 For CrossOver | 22 Dec 2021 |
| Wine 7.0-rc2 Released With 34 Fixes This Week | 17 Dec 2021 |
| Wine 7.0-rc1 Released With Last Minute Changes | 10 Dec 2021 |
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807 Articles |
| X.Org |
| X.Org Foundation May Find A New Organization To Join | 21 Jan 2022 |
| XWayland 22.1 RC1 Released With DRM Leasing, Other Improvements | 19 Jan 2022 |
| XWayland 22.1 Planned For Release Next Month | 10 Jan 2022 |
| X.Org Server 21.1.2 Released With Security Fixes, Back To Pretending All Displays Are 96 DPI | 15 Dec 2021 |
| X.Org Server Hit By Its Latest Batch Of Security Vulnerabilities | 14 Dec 2021 |
| XWayland Lands DRM Leasing Support To Handle VR Headsets | 07 Dec 2021 |
| XWayland Adds Support For Touchpad Gestures | 05 Dec 2021 |
| XWayland 21.1.3 Released With Support For NVIDIA's 495 Driver GBM | 08 Nov 2021 |
| X.Org Server Bids Farewell To Autotools | 29 Oct 2021 |
| X.Org Server 21.1 Released With Variable Rate Refresh In Modesetting Driver, Other Work | 27 Oct 2021 |
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