AMDGPU Gets More Features For Linux 4.19 Kernel
12:21 AM EDT - AMD - AMDGPU DRM-Next - 2 Comments
20 July
19 July
A Fresh Look At The PGO Performance With GCC 8
06:26 PM EDT - Software - 3 Comments
NVIDIA 396.45 Linux Driver Fixes Vulkan Direct-To-Display & Multi-Threaded EGL Apps
04:05 PM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA 396.45 - 3 Comments
Intel Squeezes Final Batch Of Linux 4.19 DRM Changes, Lands Icelake Display Compression
01:47 PM EDT - Intel - The Final-Final Time - Add A Comment
ROCm 1.8.2 Released For The Open-Source Radeon Linux Compute Stack
01:13 PM EDT - Radeon - ROCm 1.8.2 - 3 Comments
GCC 8.2 Release Candidate Arrives For Compiler Testing
09:37 AM EDT - GNU - GCC 8.2 - Add A Comment
Samsung Galaxy S Support With The Linux 4.19 Kernel
08:20 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Samsung Galaxy S - 7 Comments
Raven Ridge APUs Get Minor Performance Boost With Latest RADV Vulkan Driver
04:59 AM EDT - Radeon - Raven Ridge - 10 Comments
Fedora 29 Aims To Better Support FPGAs
03:30 AM EDT - Hardware - Fedora 29 Hearts FPGAs - 4 Comments
Freedreno Gallium3D Now Exposes Adreno A5xx Performance Counters
12:05 AM EDT - Mesa - Open-Source Adreno - 4 Comments
18 July
Sway 1.0 Alpha 4 Released With Real-Time Video Capture, Atomic Layout Updates
Linux 4.19 To Feature Support For HDMI CEC With DP/USB-C To HDMI Adapters
07:30 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - DisplayPort CEC-Tunneling-over-AUX - 2 Comments
GNOME Shell & Mutter Updated Ahead Of GNOME 3.29.4
07:05 PM EDT - GNOME - GNOME 3.29.4 Updates - 9 Comments
Epic Games Rolls Out Unreal Engine 4.20
01:22 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - Unreal Engine 4.20 - 19 Comments
Red Hat Continues Driving Wonderful Innovations In Fedora Workstation
12:18 PM EDT - Fedora - Fedora Workstation - 21 Comments
Red Hat Open-Sources Scanner That Checks Linux Binaries For Spectre V1 Potential
11:06 AM EDT - Red Hat - Spectre Variant One - 2 Comments
Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS Introducing Revised Server Installer, Adds Missing Features
09:23 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 18.04.1 Server Installer - 4 Comments
PTI Support To Address Meltdown Nearing The Finish Line For x86 32-bit Linux
09:07 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - x86 32-bit PTI - 6 Comments
Qt Creator 4.7 Released With Clang Code Model Turned On By Default
08:07 AM EDT - Qt - Qt Creator 4.7 - Add A Comment
REAPER 5.93 Brings New Linux-Native Builds
05:44 AM EDT - Multimedia - Digital Audio Workstation - 10 Comments
Linux To Better Protect Entropy Sent In From User-Space
04:07 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - /dev/urandom - 11 Comments
Mesa 18.2 Gets Extra Two Weeks Of Development Time
01:47 AM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 18.2 Release Slips - 5 Comments
Raspberry Pi On Linux 4.19 Will Be Able To Report Under-Voltage Issues
12:01 AM EDT - Hardware - raspberrypi-hwmon - 3 Comments
17 July
Fedora Gets An Unofficial Kernel Based On Clear Linux
07:19 PM EDT - Clear Linux - Clear Linux Kernel For Fedora - 22 Comments
System76 Moves Ahead With Preparing To Manufacture Their Own Desktop Linux PCs
05:29 PM EDT - Hardware - System76 Factory - 21 Comments
Oracle Solaris 11.4 Public Beta Updated With KPTI For Addressing Meltdown
03:55 PM EDT - Oracle - Solaris 11.4 - 3 Comments
IT87 Linux Driver For Supporting Many Motherboard Sensors Is Facing Death
02:37 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - IT87 - 26 Comments
Oracle Solaris 11.3 SRU 34 Brings GCC 7.3, Other Package Updates
12:34 PM EDT - Oracle - Solaris 11.3 SRU 34 - Add A Comment
Dell XPS 13: Windows 10 vs. Linux Distribution Benchmarks
11:18 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 13 Comments
A Proposal To Allow Python Scripting Within The GCC Compiler, Replacing AWK
09:39 AM EDT - GNU - Python In GCC - 31 Comments
An Idle Injection Framework Queued For Linux 4.19
08:32 AM EDT - Hardware - Injecting Idle - Add A Comment
AMDGPU Firmware Updated From 18.20, Vega M Blobs Added
08:17 AM EDT - Radeon - linux-firmware Git - 24 Comments
FPGA Device Feature List Framework Coming For Linux 4.19
07:42 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - FPGA Device Feature List - Add A Comment
Lubuntu Needs Help Testing For 32-bit x86 Support To Continue
05:52 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Lubuntu i386 - 17 Comments
Intel CET With Indirect Branch Tracking & Shadow Stack Land In Glibc
05:37 AM EDT - GNU - Intel CET In Glibc - 4 Comments
16 July
Librem 5 Development Boards Won't Be Shipping Now Until At Least August
05:45 PM EDT - Hardware - Purism Librem 5 Phone - 26 Comments
NVIDIA 390.77 Linux Driver Brings Updated Kernel Support, Fixes
05:35 PM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA 390.77 - Add A Comment
Yum Won't Be Dropped For Fedora 29
03:20 PM EDT - Fedora - Yum Still Around - 20 Comments
Igalia Aligns Latest Patches For Giving Intel's Mesa Driver OpenGL 4.6
11:41 AM EDT - Intel - 249 Patches - 2 Comments
The State Of The VKMS Driver, Preparations For vBlank & Page Flip Events
10:56 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - VKMS - 2 Comments
ReactOS 0.4.9 Available For Download
07:31 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Open-Source Windows - 11 Comments
Synopsys ARC HS4x Processors Now Supported By GCC
07:18 AM EDT - GNU - ARC HS4x - Add A Comment
Nouveau Gallium3D Moves Closer Towards OpenGL 4.5 Compliance
04:51 AM EDT - Nouveau - Nouveau OpenGL 4.5 - 18 Comments
GNOME's Nautilus Port To GTK4 Making Progress
01:40 AM EDT - GNOME - Nautilus FIle Manager - 20 Comments
Linux Audio Conference 2018 Videos Available For Your Enjoyment
12:03 AM EDT - Multimedia - LAC 2018 - 4 Comments
15 July
Linux 4.18-rc5 Kernel Released: Regressions Continue To Be Tackled
04:57 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 4.18 - 4 Comments
Latte Dock 0.8 Released For This KDE-Aligned Desktop Dock
02:24 PM EDT - KDE - Latte Dock 0.8 - 4 Comments
Catfish Search Utility Joins The Xfce Project
08:11 AM EDT - Desktop - Xfce Catfish - 15 Comments
PDS-MQ CPU Scheduler Revised For The Linux 4.17 Kernel With Minor Optimizations
08:01 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - PDS-MQ - 5 Comments
NIR Continues To Be Prepped For OpenCL Support
06:42 AM EDT - Nouveau - NIR OpenCL - 2 Comments
RAV1E: The "Fastest & Safest" AV1 Encoder
03:04 AM EDT - Multimedia - AOM AV1 Video Codec Encoder - 43 Comments
TxFS Linux File-System Supports ACID Transactions, Simple API
12:49 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Texas Transactional File System - 16 Comments
14 July
Flatpak 1.0 Is En Route For Linux App Sandboxing & Easy Program Distribution
06:35 PM EDT - GNOME - Flatpak 1.0 - 14 Comments
Binutils 2.31 Offers Faster DLL Linking For Cygwin/Mingw, Freescale S12Z Support
06:23 PM EDT - GNU - Binutils 2.31 - 3 Comments
Vulkan vs. OpenGL Performance For Linux Games
12:00 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - 20 Comments
Debian 9.5 Released With Security Fixes, Updated Intel Microcode For Spectre V2
KDE Frameworks 5.48 Brings KWayland Fixes & Many Other Improvements
08:16 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Frameworks 5.48 - 15 Comments
Marek Squeezes More Performance Out Of RadeonSI In CPU-Bound Scenarios
07:29 AM EDT - Radeon - More Performance - 10 Comments
DXVK 0.62 Released With Performance Improvements & Fixes For D3D11 Over Vulkan
GCC 8/9 Land Fix For "-march=native" Tuning On Modern Intel CPUs
05:48 AM EDT - GNU - Better Performance - 3 Comments
Intel Sends In A Final Batch Of DRM Feature Updates Targeting Linux 4.19
03:11 AM EDT - Intel - Intel i915 DRM - Add A Comment
Radeon RX Vega Display Regression Fix Heading To Linux 4.18 Git
12:06 AM EDT - Radeon - Vega Display Bug - Add A Comment
13 July
DragonFly BSD Lead Developer Preaches The Blessing Of SSDs
09:22 PM EDT - BSD - Solid State Drives - 19 Comments
Wine Lands Support For Vulkan On macOS Via MoltenVK
05:29 PM EDT - WINE - Winemac Vulkan - 31 Comments
Mesa 18.1.4 Released With Fixes For Intel & Radeon Drivers
03:06 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 18.1.4 - Add A Comment
Wayland 1.16 & Weston 5.0 Reach Alpha
02:50 PM EDT - Wayland - Wayland 1.16 + Weston 5.0 - 8 Comments
Mir 0.32.1 Released With Launcher For Internal Wayland Clients, Fixes
12:37 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Mir 0.32.1 - Add A Comment
Windows Server 2016 vs. FreeBSD 11.2 vs. 8 Linux Distributions Performance
10:30 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 41 Comments
More Mutter Performance Tuning Work Landing For GNOME 3.30
09:06 AM EDT - GNOME - Better Performance - 17 Comments
Speculative Load Hardening Lands In LLVM For Spectre V1 Mitigation
07:44 AM EDT - LLVM - Speculative Load Hardening - Add A Comment
Libinput Gets Reworked Trackpoint Acceleration
05:27 AM EDT - Wayland - Another Attempt At Trackpoints - 14 Comments
Raven Ridge Support Posted For AMDKFD Compute Driver
02:00 AM EDT - Radeon - Raven GFX 9 + AMDKFD Compute - 3 Comments
GCC 8.2 Compiler Will Be Releasing Soon
12:23 AM EDT - GNU - GNU Compiler Collection - Add A Comment
12 July
Vega 20 Support Added To RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver
07:18 PM EDT - Radeon - Vega 20 - 3 Comments
GCC 8 Hasn't Been Performing As Fast As It Should For Skylake With "-march=native"
05:02 PM EDT - GNU - Whoops!! - 14 Comments
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War Released With Launch-Day Linux Support
02:38 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - Warhammer - 14 Comments
Intel Xeon E-2100 Processors Released, Succeeds Xeon E3
02:27 PM EDT - Intel - Intel Xeon E-2100 - 12 Comments
NVIDIA 396.24.10 Linux Driver Brings Vulkan 8-Bit / Renderpass2 / Conditional Render
12:49 PM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA Vulkan Beta - 4 Comments
The NVIDIA/AMD Linux GPU Gaming Benchmarks & Performance-Per-Dollar For July 2018
10:54 AM EDT - Graphics Cards - 24 Comments
OpenBSD Finally Has The Ability To Auto-Join WiFi Networks
09:23 AM EDT - BSD - OpenBSD Auto-Joins WiFi - 2 Comments
GTK+ 4.0 Likely Being Released In Spring Of 2019
08:46 AM EDT - GNOME - GTK+ 4.0 - 37 Comments
AMDVLK Vulkan Driver Now Supports Direct Display Mode For VR HMDs
08:06 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDVLK Update - 4 Comments
Virtual Kernel Mode-Setting Driver Being Added To Linux 4.19
07:26 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 4.19 VKMS - 1 Comment
Networking CAKE Is Ready For Tasting With Linux 4.19
05:46 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - CAKE Qdisc - 9 Comments
11 July
VP9 & AV1 Have More Room To Improve For POWER & ARM Architectures
09:21 PM EDT - Multimedia - More Optimizations Needed - 8 Comments
Mesa 18.1.4 Being Prepared With Intel Fixes & A Couple For Radeon
08:51 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 18.1.4 - Add A Comment
Pre-AMDGPU xf86-video-ati X.Org Driver Sees A Round Of Improvements
01:43 PM EDT - Radeon - xf86-video-ati - 8 Comments
GLib 2.58 Is Looking Good With Portability Improvements, Efficient Process Launching
11:12 AM EDT - GNOME - GLib 2.58 En Route - 7 Comments
Fedora 29 Dropping GCC From Their Default Build Root Has Been Causing A Heated Debate
10:47 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 29 BuildRoot - 37 Comments
Samba 4.9 Is Working On Many Improvements, New Features
09:37 AM EDT - Free Software - Samba 4.9 - 3 Comments
NVIDIA Jetson Xavier Development Kit: Under 30 Watts, 8-Core ARMv8.2, 512 Core Volta
09:09 AM EDT - NVIDIA - Under 30 Watts - 8 Comments
How A KDE Developer Used C++17 & Boost.Python For About A 8,000x Speed-Up
08:15 AM EDT - Free Software - Bard Faster Python Program - 66 Comments
Linux Kernel Port Revised To China's C-SKY CPU Architecture
07:28 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux Kernel + C-SKY - 6 Comments
Another Big Pull Of Intel DRM Updates Submitted For Linux 4.19
12:32 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Graphics For Linux 4.19 - Add A Comment
10 July
Wine-Staging 3.12 Released With 990 Patches Atop Upstream Wine
08:24 PM EDT - WINE - Wine-Staging 3.12 - 6 Comments
Clear Linux Now Supports Kata Containers
06:55 PM EDT - Clear Linux - Clear Linux + Kata Containers - Add A Comment
A Look At The Windows 10 vs. Linux Power Consumption On A Dell XPS 13 Laptop
04:42 PM EDT - Hardware - Dell XPS Power Usage - 34 Comments
QEMU 3.0 Is Being Prepared For Release In August
02:08 PM EDT - Virtualization - QEMU 3.0 - 15 Comments
Linux 4.18 AMDGPU Tests: Vega Taking A Hit
10:17 AM EDT - Display Drivers - 30 Comments
Xen Hypervisor 4.11 Released With Many Core Improvements
09:50 AM EDT - Virtualization - Xen 4.11 - Add A Comment
Radeon ROCm 1.8.2 Compute Stack In Beta, Might Work Under Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
09:00 AM EDT - Radeon - ROCm 1.8.2 Beta - 5 Comments
Unity 2018.2 Released With Lightweight Render Pipeline, Vulkan & HiDPI Support In Editor
08:30 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - Unity 2018.2 - 2 Comments
Browsh: A Modern, Text-Based Web Browser
08:05 AM EDT - Free Software - Browsh - 22 Comments
Apple Working On New Specialized Compilers Based On LLVM
05:49 AM EDT - LLVM - Apple Is Hiring - 11 Comments
Cavium CN81xx SoCs Now Supported By Upstream Coreboot
05:35 AM EDT - Coreboot - Octeon CN81xx - Add A Comment
USB Type-C DisplayPort Alternate Mode Driver Coming To Linux 4.19
01:56 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - DisplayPort Alternate Mode - 10 Comments
Vulkan-Virgl Continues Progressing For Getting Vulkan Within VMs
12:04 AM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan-Virgl - 7 Comments
9 July
RADV Driver Gets Faster Shader LLVM Compilation
07:22 PM EDT - Radeon - RADV Shaders - 6 Comments
Wine 3.12 Brings More Glyphs To The Wingdings Font
05:13 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 3.12 - 16 Comments
FreeNAS 11.2 Beta Rolls Out With FreeBSD Bootloader, Self-Encrypting Drives
04:35 PM EDT - BSD - FreeNAS 11.2 - 7 Comments
GCC's Conversion To Git Is Being Held Up By RAM, a.k.a. Crazy DDR4 Prices
02:00 PM EDT - GNU - GCC Conversion - 70 Comments
Minimal Ubuntu Can Boot Faster, But Still Not The Fastest Booting On Amazon EC2 Cloud
01:12 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Linux Boot Times - 13 Comments
MoltenVK Gets Patches To Workaround iOS API Issue, App Store Rejection
10:29 AM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan Over Metal - 25 Comments
Minimal Ubuntu For Clouds: 50% Smaller, Up To 40% Faster Boot
10:09 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Minimal Ubuntu - 7 Comments
9-Way Linux Desktop Distribution Benchmarks With The Intel Core i7 8086K
09:49 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 10 Comments
RADV Vulkan Driver Gets Minor CPU Overhead Reductions, Conditional Rendering Patches
08:22 AM EDT - Radeon - RADV Goodness - Add A Comment
ARM Launches "Facts" Campaign Against RISC-V
07:54 AM EDT - Hardware - ARM Version Of RISC-V Facts - 150 Comments
GNOME's GLib Finally Has A Generic Reference Counting API
07:44 AM EDT - GNOME - GLib Memory Reference Counting - 14 Comments
Notes From WineConf 2018: x86 On ARM Progress, Wine-Staging Needs More Help
05:58 AM EDT - WINE - Wine Conf 2018 - 18 Comments
Google's Gasket Driver Framework Landing For Linux 4.19
02:38 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Gasket + Apex - 45 Comments
VK_KHR_8bit_storage Gets Wired Into Intel's ANV Vulkan Driver, Patches Available
12:09 AM EDT - Intel - VK_KHR_8bit_storage - Add A Comment
8 July
Linux 4.18-rc4 Kernel Released: Boring Is Good
07:58 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 4.18 - 1 Comment
Scientific Linux 6.9 vs. 6.10 vs. 7.5 Benchmarks
06:18 PM EDT - Operating Systems - 4 Comments
UHD Graphics 620: Slow But Who Is Slower? Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Graphics
03:42 PM EDT - Operating Systems - 7 Comments
Recent Nouveau Improvements Thanks To A New Contributor
11:14 AM EDT - Nouveau - Nouveau Gallium3D - 22 Comments
Intel ANV Driver Moves Forward With Vulkan 1.1.80 / KHR_create_renderpass2
10:45 AM EDT - Intel - Intel ANV - Add A Comment
Xilinx ZynqMP DisplayPort DRM/KMS Driver Could Soon Be Ready For Mainline
08:26 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - ZynqMP KMS Driver - Add A Comment
KDE's Dolphin File Manager Now Has A "Share" Menu
07:48 AM EDT - KDE - Dolphin Sharing - 29 Comments
Apple Rejects iOS App For Using MoltenVK Vulkan, Alleged Non-Public API
07:25 AM EDT - Vulkan - Non-Public API - 62 Comments
7 July
GNOME 3.30 Mutter Relieves Wayland Code From Depending Upon X11/XWayland
06:43 PM EDT - GNOME - No X11 - 13 Comments
Zstd 1.3.5 Released With Greater Dictionary Compression Performance
12:31 PM EDT - Free Software - Zstandard 1.3.5 - 14 Comments
LLVM Clang Now Supports -mcpu=native On 64-bit ARM
09:22 AM EDT - LLVM - LLVM Clang AArch64 Tuning - Add A Comment
Wayland's Weston Picks Up Force-On, Modifiers, Aspect Ratio Handling
09:10 AM EDT - Wayland - Wayland Weston DRM - Add A Comment
Vulkan 1.1.80 Released With Conditional Render, Renderpass2, 8-Bit Storage
08:07 AM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan 1.1.80 - 2 Comments
RandR Lease Support Appears Ready For AMDGPU X.Org Driver
07:21 AM EDT - Radeon - xf86-video-amdgpu - 5 Comments
GIMP 2.10.4 Moves To Asynchronous Font Loading, Horizon Straightening
07:00 AM EDT - Desktop - GIMP 2.10.4 - 2 Comments
6 July
07:21 PM EDT - LLVM - LLVM 6.0.1 - Add A Comment
Latte Dock 0.8 Is Around The Corner With Many New Features
06:45 PM EDT - KDE - Latte Dock 0.8 - 8 Comments
OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 Is Approaching With DNF/RPM4, KDE Plasma 5.13, Linux 4.17~4.18
01:55 PM EDT - Operating Systems - OpenMandriva Lx 4 - 1 Comment
Intel Core i7 8086K Linux Performance
11:52 AM EDT - Processors - 13 Comments
KDE Elisa 0.2 Released For Improving The Music Experience On The Plasma Desktop
09:53 AM EDT - KDE - Elisa 0.2 - 13 Comments
GNU Guix/GuixSD 0.15 Released, Closing In On v1.0
08:59 AM EDT - GNU - GNU Guix - 8 Comments
Feral's GameMode Is On Its Way To Fedora
07:35 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora GameMode - 14 Comments
GUADEC 2018 Kicks Off In AlmerÃa, Spain
05:35 AM EDT - GNOME - GUADEC 2018 - 6 Comments
CentOS 6.10 Released, Scientific Linux 6.10 Coming Next Week
5 July
More AMDGPU DRM Updates Sent In For The Linux 4.19 Kernel, Possible Power Savings
06:33 PM EDT - Radeon - AMDGPU + Linux 4.19 - 21 Comments
Glibc 2.28 Adds Unicode 11.0 Support, RenameAt2
02:16 PM EDT - GNU - Glibc 2.28 - Add A Comment
AMDKFD Looking To Be Merged Into AMDGPU Linux DRM Kernel Driver
10:48 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDKFD + AMDGPU - 49 Comments
Wayland-Protocols 1.15 Adds XDG-Decoration Protocol For Server-Side Window Decorations
10:34 AM EDT - Wayland - XDG-Decoration Window Decor - 53 Comments
Maxwell & Newer Now Support Multi-Sampled Images For Nouveau NVC0
10:22 AM EDT - Nouveau - Nouveau NVC0 - 2 Comments
Qt Creator 4.7 IDE Is Around The Corner After Today's RC
07:25 AM EDT - Qt - Qt Creator 4.7 - Add A Comment
07:19 AM EDT - Free Software - PHP 7 .3 - Add A Comment
4 July
Kdenlive's Significantly Refactored Video Editor Is Now Ready For Testing
10:00 AM EDT - KDE - Kdenlive 2018 - 40 Comments
Noctua NH-D9 DX-3647 4U: A High-End Xeon Scalable Heatsink
09:30 AM EDT - Peripherals - 25 Comments
Apple, Ryzen, Valve & The Evolving Linux Kernel Dominated Conversations In Q2
08:19 AM EDT - Free Software - Q2-2018 - 1 Comment
H1-2018 Was Certainly Eventful For The GCC Compiler
06:06 AM EDT - GNU - GCC H1-2018 Features + Benchmarks - 3 Comments
OpenGL 4.5 Compat Being Worked On For RadeonSI, Helping Out No Man's Sky & Others
05:43 AM EDT - Radeon - OpenGL 4.5 Compatibility Profile - 9 Comments
How To Make Use Of Wayland Screen Sharing With PipeWire & XDG Desktop Portal
05:27 AM EDT - Wayland - PipeWire + XDG Portal - 12 Comments
Fedora 29 For ARM Eyeing ZRAM Support, ARMv7 UEFI Booting
03:16 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 29 ARM - 2 Comments
Glibc Support For Statx Is Finally Under Review
12:11 AM EDT - GNU - glibc + statx - 11 Comments
3 July
Elementary OS Juno Beta 1 Released
08:14 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Elementary OS Juno - 12 Comments
Version 14 Of The D-Bus Message Broker Released
07:43 PM EDT - Free Software - dbus-broker 14 - Add A Comment
Mesa 18.0/18.1/18.2 RadeonSI + RADV Benchmark Comparison With Radeon RX 580 / R9 Fury / RX Vega 64
01:43 PM EDT - Display Drivers - 17 Comments
Dell Precision 7530/7730 Now Shipping With Ubuntu Linux Option
11:56 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Dell Precision - 17 Comments
More Intel ARB_gl_spirv Code Lands In Mesa, But Still Not Ready To Finish Up OpenGL 4.6
10:48 AM EDT - Mesa - ARB_gl_spirv - 4 Comments
09:45 AM EDT - Software - 6 Comments
Some Early Tests Of Linux 4.18 On AMD EPYC
08:11 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - AMD EPYC + Linux 4.18 - Add A Comment
Fedora 29 Might Make Change To Eliminate Unnecessary Linking
05:18 AM EDT - Fedora - Linker As-Needed - 80 Comments
2018 Isn't The Year Of The GNU Hurd
05:05 AM EDT - GNU - GNU Hurd - 25 Comments
The Linux Kernel May Soon Default To SCSI MQ Mode
04:28 AM EDT - Linux Storage - scsi-mq - 8 Comments
Benchmarks Of The Liquorix Linux 4.17 Kernel
12:32 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Liquorix Kernel - 4 Comments
2 July
Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Now Supports Automatic On-Disk Shader Cache
08:27 PM EDT - Intel - For Vulkan Code That Does Not Do It - 2 Comments
AMDVLK Driver Updated With New Extensions & More, SPVGEN Now Public
06:20 PM EDT - Radeon - AMDVLK Kicks Off July - Add A Comment
NetBSD 8.0 RC2 Released With Eager FPU Security Fix, Other Fixes
Intel NIR Optimizations Land In Mesa 18.2 That Help Skyrim With DXVK
04:18 PM EDT - Mesa - Intel NIR - 11 Comments
Mir Developers Ponder Their Approach For Supporting More Wayland Extensions
01:55 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Mir + Wayland - 4 Comments
Red Hat Making Progress On KDE/GNOME Wayland Screen-Sharing With WebRTC
12:57 PM EDT - Wayland - WebRTC Screen Sharing - 20 Comments
Haiku Continues Working On EFI Support, 32-Bit Apps With 64-Bit OS
11:33 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Haiku OS - Add A Comment
Reiser4 File-System Benchmarks With Linux 4.17
10:55 AM EDT - Storage - 15 Comments
PPC64 To Be Discontinued In Fedora 29, Favoring PPC64LE For POWER
08:51 AM EDT - Fedora - POWER - 30 Comments
SUSE Sold Off To Swedish Private Equity Fund
07:42 AM EDT - SUSE - SUSE Linux Sold, Again - 17 Comments
Fedora 29 To Change DNF's Repository Metadata Compression To Zchunk
05:55 AM EDT - Fedora - Zchunk - 6 Comments
Xubuntu 18.10 Is Landing More Xfce 4.13 Components
05:45 AM EDT - Desktop - Xfce 4.13 In Xubuntu - 5 Comments
Vulkan 1.1.79 Released, Provides Definitions For Obsoleted & Deprecated
05:36 AM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan 1.1.79 - 2 Comments
1 July
Steam Linux Use For June 2018 Comes In At 0.52%
08:40 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - Steam Survey - 40 Comments
Linux 4.18-rc3 Kernel Released
07:53 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 4.18 - 24 Comments
NetBSD Audio Improvements Are On The Way For Better Performance & Less Stuttering
02:53 PM EDT - BSD - NetBSD 8.1 Audio - 11 Comments
In 2018, RoundCube Next Remains Dead In The Water
10:28 AM EDT - Free Software - RoundCube Next - 24 Comments
SiFive To Release Code As Open-Source For Fully Initializing The RISC-V Board
10:11 AM EDT - Hardware - RISC-V Open-Source Boot - 12 Comments
Windows Comparisons, Linux 4.18, Wine & Alternate CPUs Were Very Popular In June
Linux Getting Driver For USB Type-C DisplayPort Alternate Mode
08:36 AM EDT - Intel - USB-C On DisplayPort - 9 Comments
07:57 AM EDT - Free Software - Harfbuzz + dfont - Add A Comment
KDE Finally Offers An Easy Global Shortcut To Launch The Konsole
07:04 AM EDT - KDE - Ctrl+Alt+T - 19 Comments
30 June
OpenShot 2.4.2 Released For Many Improvements To This Open-Source Linux Video Editor
09:33 PM EDT - Multimedia - OpenShot 2.4.2 - 20 Comments
FreeBSD Kernel Patch Posted For Addressing Ryzen Errata
01:45 PM EDT - AMD - FreeBSD + Ryzen Kernel Patch - 9 Comments
X-Plane 11 Working On New Physics & Other Improvements, Vulkan Taking More Time
09:35 AM EDT - Vulkan - X-Plane 11 - 7 Comments
US Senator Recommends Open-Source WireGuard To NIST For Government VPN
06:00 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - WireGuard 2018 - 23 Comments
RadeonSI Compute Shaders Now Supported By The Mesa Shader Cache
04:55 AM EDT - Radeon - Compute Shader Caching - 2 Comments
LLVM Quitter, Ryzen & Git Were Most Popular Linux News So Far This Year
04:44 AM EDT - Free Software - H1-2018 - 1 Comment
Intel Vulkan Driver Patches Make For Playable Experience With Skyrim On DXVK
02:29 AM EDT - Intel - Intel ANV + DXVK + Skyrim - 11 Comments
Three Things Exciting Clear Linux Developers With GCC 8
12:22 AM EDT - Clear Linux - GCC 8 + Clear Linux - 3 Comments
29 June
Mesa 18.2 Git Lands RadeonSI OpenGL 4.4 Compatibility Profile Support
09:10 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 18.2 - 11 Comments
Nouveau NIR Support Nears The Mesa Merging Milestone
08:02 PM EDT - Nouveau - Nouveau NIR - 4 Comments
EXT4 LUKS dm-crypt, eCryptfs, Fscrypt Encryption Benchmarks For A USB 3.0 HDD
04:32 PM EDT - Storage - 3 Comments
NetworkManager 1.12 Released With Many Linux Networking Goodies
02:41 PM EDT - GNOME - NetworkManager 1.12 - 3 Comments
A Look At Some Of The Clear Linux Performance Changes For June 2018
11:17 AM EDT - Clear Linux - Clear Linux Performance - 16 Comments
Linux Mint 19 Officially Released With Cinnamon, MATE & Xfce Editions
10:24 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Linux Mint 19 - 12 Comments
A Ton Of Wine vs. Windows 10 vs. Linux Direct3D/OpenGL Performance Data
10:03 AM EDT - WINE - Raw Wine Performance - 17 Comments
Mir 0.32 Released With Much-Improved Wayland Support
08:16 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Mir 0.32 - Add A Comment
GCC Picks Up Meaningful Bash Completion Support To Help With Compiler Options
08:04 AM EDT - GNU - GCC Bash Completion - 17 Comments
Croteam Incubator's IHRB Gets Linux Support
05:49 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - I Hate Running Backwards - 16 Comments
Raspberry Pi's Raspbian Gets New Setup Wizard, New PDF Viewer
05:45 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Raspbian - 9 Comments
LLVM Gets ARMv8.4 Enablement, GCC Gets Cortex-A76 Support
05:29 AM EDT - LLVM - ARM Compilers - 2 Comments
28 June
PostgreSQL 11 Beta 2 Released With VACUUM & XML Fixes
09:47 PM EDT - Free Software - PostgreSQL 11 - 17 Comments
Gentoo Was Compromised On GitHub
09:32 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Gentoo GitHub - 40 Comments
Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux With OpenGL/Vulkan On GTX 1060/1080 Ti & RX 580/Vega 64
12:41 PM EDT - Display Drivers - 50 Comments
DXVK 0.61 Released With Performance Improvements
11:17 AM EDT - Vulkan - DXVK 0.61 - 6 Comments
GNOME Will No Longer Crash If Attaching A Monitor While The System Is Suspended
09:13 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME Monitor Crash - 31 Comments
ARM Updates Energy Aware Scheduling For The Linux Kernel
08:20 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux EAS - Add A Comment
RadeonSI GL 4.4 Compat Patches Make Wolfenstein & Doom With OpenGL Happy In Wine
07:22 AM EDT - Mesa - Compatibility Profile - 24 Comments
Facebook Watson & Open Cellular Rotundu Get Coreboot Support
06:56 AM EDT - Coreboot - Coreboot Support - Add A Comment
Mesa 18.1.3 Is Coming This Week With Many RADV Fixes
05:44 AM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 18.1.3 - Add A Comment
KDE's 2017 Community Report Is Now Available
05:37 AM EDT - KDE - KDE e.V. - 2 Comments
Reiser4 Ported To The Linux 4.17 Kernel
05:23 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Reiser4 - 11 Comments
27 June
Python 3.7 Released With C API For Thread-Local Storage, Data Classes, Context Variables
08:42 PM EDT - Free Software - Python 3.7 - 11 Comments
Making Use Of Systemd Portable Services
05:02 PM EDT - systemd - Systemd Portable Services - 60 Comments
Debos: A New Way To Spin Up Debian OS Images
02:26 PM EDT - Debian - Debos Debian - Add A Comment
MintBox Mini 2 With Linux Mint 19 Ready To Ship
11:45 AM EDT - Hardware - MintBox Mini 2 - 12 Comments
Firefox 62.0 Beta Brings CSS Variable Fonts, "Clear Site Data & Cookies" Option
11:12 AM EDT - Mozilla - Firefox 62 - 11 Comments
FreeBSD 11.2 Ready For Release With Spectre Mitigation, Various Enhancements
09:28 AM EDT - BSD - FreeBSD 11.2 - 3 Comments
NetworkManager Now Supports 6LoWPAN Devices
09:18 AM EDT - Desktop - NetworkManager 6LoWPAN - 3 Comments
Yum Set To Be Retired In Fedora 29
07:44 AM EDT - Fedora - Bye Bye Yum - 15 Comments
GNOME's Shotwell 0.30 Is Organizing Flatpak Support, Theme Changes, Facial Recognition
06:27 AM EDT - GNOME - Shotwell 0.30 - 10 Comments
Linux 4.17-ck1 Kernel Patches Released With Newest MuQSS Scheduler
06:16 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - BFS Successor - 3 Comments
Fedora 29 Installer Will Support LUKS2 By Default, Modularity Work
06:10 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 29 - 3 Comments
OpenBenchmarking.org Crosses 32 Million Test/Suite Benchmark Downloads
06:00 AM EDT - Phoronix Test Suite - 32,000,000 - Add A Comment
Krita 4.1 Released With Support For Multi-Monitor Workspace Layouts
05:51 AM EDT - KDE - Krita 4.1 - 4 Comments
26 June
Radeon Software 18.20 vs. Mesa 18.2 RadeonSI/RADV Linux Driver Performance
08:09 PM EDT - Display Drivers - 39 Comments
GTK+ 3.94 Released As The Next Step Towards GTK4
06:01 PM EDT - GNOME - GTK+ 3.94 - 4 Comments
Google Gets DirectX Shader Compiler Working On Linux
03:31 PM EDT - Google - DirectX Shader Compiler - 18 Comments
Phoronix Test Suite 8.0.1 Released With Windows Benchmarking & Phoromatic Improvements
03:12 PM EDT - Phoronix Test Suite - Phoronix Test Suite 8.0.1 - 3 Comments
Alpine Linux 3.8 Released With ARM64 Raspberry Pi Support, Netboot On All Architectures
01:06 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Alpine Linux 3.8 - 2 Comments
Jolla's Sailfish OS Ported To The Gemini PDA
11:02 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Sailfish OS + Gemini PDA - 20 Comments
The Perl Conference 2018 Session Videos Are Now Online
10:17 AM EDT - Free Software - The Perl Conference 2018 - 7 Comments
Workarounds To Get AMD Zen/Ryzen CPUs Running Solid On FreeBSD
07:47 AM EDT - BSD - FreeBSD + Ryzen - 7 Comments
Qt 3D Studio 2.0 Officially Released, Qt Design Studio Announced For UI Designers
05:57 AM EDT - Qt - Qt 3D Studio 2.0 - 4 Comments
Firefox 61 Releasing Today With Performance Improvements, Accessibility Inspector
05:40 AM EDT - Mozilla - Firefox 61.0 - 20 Comments
More Icelake Work Queued Along With Other Graphics Driver Enhancements For Linux 4.19
03:15 AM EDT - Intel - Linux 4.19 i915 DRM - 2 Comments
SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Officially Released
12:07 AM EDT - SUSE - SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 - Add A Comment
25 June
AOMedia AV1 Codec v1.0.0 Appears Ready For Release
07:29 PM EDT - Multimedia - AV1 1.0.0 - 32 Comments
Clear Linux Working On AVX2-Optimized Qt Toolkit
07:03 PM EDT - Clear Linux - AVX2 Qt - 9 Comments
Allwinner Releases New User-Space OpenGL Mali Binary Blobs
04:07 PM EDT - Hardware - Mali Blobs - 9 Comments
Fedora 29's User PATH Will Prioritize Local User Binaries
01:11 PM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 29 PATH - 22 Comments
13-Way IBM POWER9 Talos II vs. Intel Xeon vs. AMD Linux Benchmarks On Debian
11:47 AM EDT - Processors - 79 Comments
Patches Revised Taking RadeonSI OpenGL Compatibility Profile To v4.0
08:30 AM EDT - Mesa - OpenGL 4.0 Compatibility Profile - 14 Comments
Wine-Staging 3.11 Released, Should Help Some Program Installers
06:52 AM EDT - WINE - Wine-Staging 3.11 - 3 Comments
LLVM's OpenMP Offloads Liboffload Into Oblivion
06:47 AM EDT - LLVM - liboffload No More - 3 Comments
SDL2 Wayland Now Supports XDG Shell's XDG_WM_Base
06:07 AM EDT - Wayland - xdg_wm_base - Add A Comment
Tencent Joins The Linux Foundation, Open-Sources Projects
05:48 AM EDT - Linux Events - Tencent + Linux Foundation - 9 Comments
24 June
It Turns Out RISC-V Hardware So Far Isn't Entirely Open-Source
05:44 PM EDT - Hardware - RISC-V Openness - 48 Comments
Compiler Fuzzing With Prog-Fuzz Is Turning Up Bugs In GCC, Clang
12:17 PM EDT - Programming - Compiler Fuzzing - 3 Comments
Arch-Based Manjaro 18.0 Beta 3 Available For Testing
12:07 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Manjaro 18.0 - 9 Comments
Linux 4.18-rc2 Released With A Normal Week's Worth Of Changes
09:53 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 4.18-rc2 - 7 Comments
Another Older ASUS Board Now Works With Coreboot, Can Be Found Refurbished $50~70
06:53 AM EDT - Coreboot - P8H61-M PRO - 24 Comments
23 June
GTK+ 3.24 To Deliver Some New Features While Waiting For GTK4
08:24 PM EDT - GNOME - GTK+ 3.24 - 15 Comments
Debian 8.11 Released As The End Of The Line For Jessie
02:22 PM EDT - Debian - Debian 8.11 - 13 Comments
Fedora 29 Aims To Offer Up Modules For Everyone
08:16 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 29 - Add A Comment
Ubuntu Developers Working On Improvements To GNOME Software Store
07:12 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME Software - 18 Comments
X.Org Is Looking For A North American Host For XDC2019
06:55 AM EDT - X.Org - XDC 2019 - 31 Comments
Phoronix Is Now On The Open-Source-Friendly Liberapay
06:46 AM EDT - Premium - Liberapay - 7 Comments
Oracle Linux 7 Now Ready For ARM Servers
06:13 AM EDT - Oracle - Oracle Linux 7 on ARM - Add A Comment
22 June
Wine 3.11 Brings Debugging Support For WoW64 Processes, Better Reporting Of HT CPUs
07:42 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 3.11 - 32 Comments
Freedreno Reaches OpenGL ES 3.1 Support, Not Far From OpenGL 3.3
Early Ubuntu Hardware/Software Survey Data
12:00 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu Survey Results - 23 Comments
App Launching From GNOME Shell Now More Robust Under Memory Pressure & Faster
11:49 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME Low RAM - 31 Comments
Systemd 239 Rolls Out With Portable Services, Merges Boot Loader Specification
09:28 AM EDT - systemd - systemd 239 - 19 Comments
Wine 3.10 vs. Ubuntu 18.04 vs. Windows 10 Desktop Performance
08:18 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 57 Comments
Kodi 18 Alpha 2 Released With Stability & Usability Improvements + New Wayland Code
06:42 AM EDT - Multimedia - Kodi 18 Leia - 10 Comments
RadeonSI Compatibility Profile Is Close To OpenGL 4.4 Support
05:38 AM EDT - Radeon - Compatibility Context - 22 Comments
DXVK 0.60 Released With Support For 64-Bit Floating Point Instructions, Optimizations
05:24 AM EDT - WINE - DXVK 0.60 - 15 Comments
Making Use Of Chrome's Ozone-GBM Intel Graphics Support On The Linux Desktop
01:07 AM EDT - Intel - Faster Performance - 18 Comments
The Latest Batch Of XWayland / EGLStream Improvements Merged
12:17 AM EDT - X.Org - XWayland On NVIDIA - Add A Comment
21 June
Initial AMDGPU Driver Changes Submitted For Linux 4.19
06:01 PM EDT - Radeon - AMDGPU For Linux 4.19 - 6 Comments
Rust 1.27 Released With SIMD Improvements
04:44 PM EDT - Free Software - Rust 1.27 - 33 Comments
Git 2.18 Released With Initial Version Of Its New Wire Protocol
04:28 PM EDT - Free Software - Git Protocol V2 - 11 Comments
Flatpak 1.0 Nears With Today's 0.99.1 Release
01:27 PM EDT - Free Software - Flatpak 1.0 - 71 Comments
GNU FreeDink - One Of The Few Fully Free Software Games - Now Runs On The Web
12:18 PM EDT - GNU - GNU FreeDink - 19 Comments
LVM2 Begins Work On Major Changes To Logical Volume Management
11:39 AM EDT - Linux Storage - LVM2 Overhaul - 2 Comments
Some Compiler Performance Benchmarks With The Zapcc Caching Compiler
10:33 AM EDT - LLVM - Zapcc Benchmarks - 8 Comments
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich Resigns
09:33 AM EDT - Intel - Replaced By Bob Swan - 38 Comments
PulseAudio 12.0 Released With Many Improvements
09:17 AM EDT - Free Software - PulseAudio 12 - 19 Comments
PHP 7.3 Alpha 2 Released With Many Bug Fixes
08:12 AM EDT - Free Software - PHP 7.3 - 1 Comment
Krita 4.1 Digital Painting Program Enters Beta With Multi-Monitor Workspace Layouts
08:01 AM EDT - KDE - Krita 4.1 - 13 Comments
Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R5 Now Officially Ready For x86_64 & AArch64
06:47 AM EDT - Oracle - Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R5 - 4 Comments
Equus WHITEBOX OPEN: A Line Of Coreboot/LinuxBoot-Ready Xeon Scalable Servers
06:24 AM EDT - Hardware - Equus WHITEBOX OPEN - 8 Comments
GlusterFS 4.1 Released With Performance Monitoring Improvements
06:10 AM EDT - Radeon - GlusterFS 4.1 - Add A Comment
20 June
The Qt 6 Plans For November 2020, Qt 5.15 Likely Being Last Of Qt5
07:50 PM EDT - Qt - More Qt6 Details - 11 Comments
Elisa 0.2 Beta Released For This Newest KDE Music Player
07:05 PM EDT - KDE - Elisa 0.2 - 8 Comments
AMDGPU DRM Driver To Finally Expose GPU Load Via Sysfs
03:37 PM EDT - Radeon - GPU Busy Percentage - 9 Comments
Radeon Software 18.20 Stable Released With Official Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Support
12:45 PM EDT - Radeon - Radeon Software 18.20 - 29 Comments
GNOME 3.29.3 Released As The Latest Step Towards GNOME 3.30
12:31 PM EDT - GNOME - GNOME 3.29.3 Released - 35 Comments
Fedora Core OS: The New Upstream To Red Hat's CoreOS
10:17 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora Core OS - 16 Comments
Intel Hyper Threading Performance With A Core i7 On Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
09:43 AM EDT - Computers - 45 Comments
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Jumps On Linux 4.17, KDE Plasma 5.13 Riding Well
08:12 AM EDT - SUSE - openSUSE Tumbleweed In June - 23 Comments
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 Released With Spectre/Meltdown Mitigation
Linux Gets Experimental Support For In-Kernel Hibernation Encryption
06:12 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Encrypted Hibernation Image - 8 Comments
Going In-Depth With Flatpak For Sandboxed Application Packaging
06:04 AM EDT - GNOME - Flatpak Primers - 159 Comments
X-Plane Flight Simulator Reports Linux Users At Just About 1%
05:50 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - X-Plane 11 - 28 Comments
Coreboot Now Supports Directly Booting To A Linux Kernel FIT Image
01:42 AM EDT - Coreboot - Coreboot FIT Payloads - 6 Comments