X.Org Server 1.20 Expected Around January With New Features
09:39 AM EDT - X.Org - X Server 1.20 - 3 Comments
23 September
09:26 AM EDT - Phoronix - HTTPS - 12 Comments
X.Org Foundation Has Become A Khronos Adopter
08:09 AM EDT - X.Org - Adoption - Add A Comment
Intel Prepping Support For Huge GTT Pages
07:40 AM EDT - Intel - i915 DRM - Add A Comment
Keith Packard's Work On Better Supporting VR HMDs Under Linux With X.Org/DRM
07:25 AM EDT - Valve - SteamVR HMDs - 3 Comments
22 September
Game Engine Powered Arcan Display Server With Durden Desktop Updated
04:40 PM EDT - Free Software - Arcan Durden - 4 Comments
RADV Vulkan vs. RadeonSI OpenGL Performance With Linux 4.13 + Mesa 17.3-dev
01:48 PM EDT - Display Drivers - 17 Comments
Pitivi 1.0 Release Candidate Arrives
09:59 AM EDT - Multimedia - Pitivi 1.0 - 4 Comments
Open-Source OpenCL Adoption Is Sadly An Issue In 2017
09:34 AM EDT - X.Org - Open-Source OpenCL In 2017 - 14 Comments
VIA Graphics & Other Vintage GPUs Still Interest At Least One Developer In 2017
08:42 AM EDT - Hardware - OpenChrome + More - 15 Comments
Heterogeneous Memory Management Made It For Linux 4.14
06:24 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - HMM Linux 4.14 - 4 Comments
Java JDK 9 Finally Reaches General Availability
06:13 AM EDT - Free Software - Java 9 + Java EE 8 - 14 Comments
A Set Of BFQ Improvements Ready For Testing
06:01 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - BFQ - 1 Comment
21 September
Mesa 17.1.10 Is Being Prepped As The Final 17.1 Update
08:34 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 17.1 - Add A Comment
Fedora 27 Beta Hit By A Second Delay
05:30 PM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 27 - 40 Comments
Intel's Linux Driver & Mesa Have Hit Amazing Milestones This Year
04:09 PM EDT - Intel - Intel 2017 - Add A Comment
Unreal Engine 4.18 Preview 1 Is Ready For Game Developers
02:44 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - Unreal Engine 4.18 - Add A Comment
The State Of The VC4 Driver Stack, Early Work On VC5
02:37 PM EDT - Hardware - XDC2017 - 3 Comments
NVIDIA 384.90 Linux Driver Brings Fixes, Quadro P5200 Support
12:15 PM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA 384.90 - 9 Comments
CryENGINE 5.4 Now Available With Vulkan Beta Support
11:17 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - CryENGINE 5.4 - 8 Comments
Noctua NH-U9 TR4-SP3: Keeping Threadripper Running Happy With Air Cooling
10:48 AM EDT - Peripherals - 7 Comments
PostgreSQL 10 Release Candidate 1 Arrives
09:24 AM EDT - Free Software - Postgres 10 - 13 Comments
NVIDIA Continues Prepping The Linux Desktop Stack For HDR Display Support
06:59 AM EDT - NVIDIA - HDR Desktop - 19 Comments
Beignet OpenCL Now Supports LLVM 5.0
06:37 AM EDT - Intel - LLVM 5.0 For Beignet - 4 Comments
Intel Preps Their First Batch Of Graphics Changes For Linux 4.15
06:19 AM EDT - Intel - i915 DRM - Add A Comment
Valve Is Collaborating On GPUVis For Tuning Radeon Linux VR Performance
06:04 AM EDT - X.Org - GPUVis - 5 Comments
Intel Unleashes Clear Containers 3.0, Written In Go
06:00 AM EDT - Intel - Clear Containers 3.0 - 14 Comments
20 September
Mesa Sees An Initial Meson Build System Port
07:33 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa Meson - 8 Comments
NVIDIA Offers Update On Their Proposed Unix Device Memory Allocation Library
04:15 PM EDT - NVIDIA - Unix Device Memory - 30 Comments
A New DRM Driver Is Coming For Linux 4.15
02:17 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - TVE200 - 2 Comments
XDC2017 Kicks Off With X.Org, Wayland & Graphics Talks
01:59 PM EDT - X.Org - XDC2017 - 14 Comments
Wine Staging 2.17 Released With More Direct3D 11 Functionality
11:25 AM EDT - WINE - Wine Staging 2.17 - 34 Comments
Redox OS 0.3.3 Released, Lowers RAM Usage
10:54 AM EDT - Operating Systems - RedoxOS 0.3.3 - 22 Comments
GNOME Joins The Librem 5 Party, Still Needs To Raise One Million More Dollars
10:40 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME Foundation - 26 Comments
NVIDIA Legacy Linux Drivers Updated With Newer Kernel Support
08:55 AM EDT - NVIDIA - Legacy - 8 Comments
Chrome 62 Beta Released With OpenType Font Variations, DOM Media Capture
08:10 AM EDT - Google - Chrome 62 - 3 Comments
How AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon Gold Compare To Various Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances
06:00 AM EDT - Software - 13 Comments
19 September
AMD Zen Temperature Monitoring On Linux Is Working With Hwmon-Next
03:07 PM EDT - AMD - Ryzen Temperatures - 21 Comments
Gigabyte X399 AORUS Gaming 7 Works As A Linux-Friendly Threadripper Motherboard
12:45 PM EDT - Motherboards - 15 Comments
Mir 1.0 Still Planned For Ubuntu 17.10, Wayland Support Focus
10:55 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Mir 1.0 - 17 Comments
Progress On KDE Plasma Mobile From Randa 2017
10:24 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Plasma Mobile - 19 Comments
Red Hat Formally Rolls Out Pipewire For Being The "Video Equivalent of PulseAudio"
09:44 AM EDT - Red Hat - PipeWire Launches - 115 Comments
Phoronix Test Suite 7.4 Officially Released
08:30 AM EDT - Phoronix Test Suite - Phoronix Test Suite 7.4 - Add A Comment
Early Linux 4.14 Kernel Benchmarks Are Looking Promising
06:26 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 4.14 Kernel - 53 Comments
Clang-Refactor Tool Lands In Clang Codebase
06:16 AM EDT - Compiler - Clang-Refactor - Add A Comment
06:08 AM EDT - Free Software - Scons 3.0 - 1 Comment
AMDGPU Increasing Fragment Size For Performance
05:56 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDGPU GCN - 8 Comments
18 September
Intel ANV Lands New Vulkan 1.0.61 Extensions, Android Prep Support
09:14 PM EDT - Intel - Intel Vulkan Linux - Add A Comment
Some Early Tests Of The Eclipse OpenJ9 Java Virtual Machine
05:30 PM EDT - Software - 27 Comments
Facebook's HHVM To Focus More On Hack, No Longer Focusing On PHP7 Compatibility
02:22 PM EDT - Free Software - HHVM Roadmap - 9 Comments
01:28 PM EDT - Oracle - SPARC M8 - 25 Comments
Fedora Launches The "Red Team" For Dealing With Cybersecurity
12:28 PM EDT - Fedora - Fedora Cybersecurity - 20 Comments
Opteron vs. EPYC Benchmarks & Performance-Per-Watt: How AMD Server Performance Evolved Over 10 Years
10:00 AM EDT - Processors - 32 Comments
Linux Mint Continues Working On HiDPI Improvements
08:24 AM EDT - Operating Systems - HiDPI Cinnamon - 4 Comments
IBM's Eclipse OpenJ9 Is A Promising Open-Source JVM
08:10 AM EDT - Free Software - OpenJ9 - 19 Comments
RadeonSI OoO Rasterization Lands In Mesa 17.3 For RX Vega & VI GPUs
06:26 AM EDT - Mesa - Out-of-Order - 13 Comments
Mir Now Has Initial Support For Wayland Clients
06:15 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Mir Wayland Support - 9 Comments
Banshee Engine Planning For Linux Support In Q4
05:52 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - Banshee - 2 Comments
17 September
The Exciting Features Of Linux 4.14: Zstd, Vega Hugepages, AMD SME, New Drivers
08:30 PM EDT - Software - 7 Comments
Mesa 17.2.1 Released With Restored RADV Vulkan RX Vega Support
07:28 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 17.2.1 - Add A Comment
Replicant 6.0 Free Software Android Updated To Support 12 Devices
06:47 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Replicant 6.0 - 13 Comments
Keeping Intel Core X-Series CPUs Cool With Noctua Air Cooling
02:09 PM EDT - Peripherals - 18 Comments
Librem 5 Crosses $400k In Funding After Plasma Mobile Announcement
08:55 AM EDT - Hardware - Librem 5 - 24 Comments
Ryzen & RX Vega Totally Dominated This Summer For Linux Users
Oracle Now Supports Btrfs RAID5/6 On Their Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel
07:23 AM EDT - Oracle - Btrfs UEK - 26 Comments
GCC 5.5 Will Come Before Killing Off GCC5
06:48 AM EDT - GNU - GCC 5.5 - 13 Comments
16 September
Linux 4.14-rc1 Released A Day Early
08:26 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 4.14-rc1 - 2 Comments
Linux 4.14 Gets A Driver For PWM-Controlled Vibrators
03:13 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 4.14 Input - 19 Comments
Linux RAID Performance On NVMe M.2 SSDs
12:15 PM EDT - Storage - 17 Comments
Experimental Nouveau Reclocking Patches Updated, Including For Maxwell GPUs
11:03 AM EDT - Nouveau - Nouveau Clock Code - 23 Comments
MIPS Changes Submitted For Linux 4.14: NI 169445, Omega2+, MT7628A Support
10:52 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 4.14 - 2 Comments
The Graphics Talks Of The 2017 Open-Source Summit NA
07:17 AM EDT - Linux Events - Open-Source Summit - 8 Comments
The DRM Changes For The Linux 4.14 Kernel
06:57 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 4.14 DRM - 2 Comments
Linux 4.14 Dropping In-Tree Firmware
06:38 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 4.14 Firmware - 28 Comments
15 September
NVIDIA 381.26.17 Adds Vulkan 1.0.61 Support
07:05 PM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA Beta - 19 Comments
Radeon RX Vega OpenGL Linux Performance For September 2017
03:30 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - 36 Comments
Wine 2.17 Brings DirectWrite & Virtual Memory Improvements, OpenGL 4.6
02:17 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 2.17 - 10 Comments
Today Marks 30 Years Since The Release Of X11
01:33 PM EDT - X.Org - X11 Turns 30 - 33 Comments
Mesa 17.2.1 Being Prepped For Release Next Week
12:34 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 17.2.1 - 4 Comments
GCC Finishing Up C++17 Adjustments, Preparing For C++2A
09:10 AM EDT - GNU - C++20 - 30 Comments
Vulkan 1.0.61 Introduces Four New Extensions
07:12 AM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan 1.0.61 - 3 Comments
Clear Linux & Their Love For FMV + dl_platform/dl_hwcap In The Name Of Performance
06:13 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Performance - 19 Comments
There Are Now 1,400 Vulkan Projects On GitHub
06:02 AM EDT - Vulkan - GitHub 1,400 - 4 Comments
FBDEV Is Still Seeing Improvements With Linux 4.14
05:54 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - FBDEV - 4 Comments
14 September
05:35 PM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 27 Beta - 27 Comments
Mesa GL Threading Gets Flipped On For More Linux Games
03:17 PM EDT - Mesa - mesa_glthread - 13 Comments
Initial Benchmarks Of The AMD EPYC 7601 On Ubuntu Linux
03:00 PM EDT - Processors - 41 Comments
Librem 5 Smartphone Now Plans To Ship With KDE Plasma
10:00 AM EDT - Hardware - Librem 5 KDE - 48 Comments
R600 Gallium3D To End Code Sharing With RadeonSI Driver
09:19 AM EDT - Radeon - Radeon Gallium - 18 Comments
Cairo Adds Support For OpenGL ES 3.0
08:53 AM EDT - X.Org - Cairo Library - Add A Comment
KDE Plasma 5.11 Rolls Into Beta With New System Settings, Better Wayland Support
07:08 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Plasma 5.11 Beta - 39 Comments
Red Hat Planning Fresh Work On Linux Battery Life, Testers Needed
06:20 AM EDT - Red Hat - Extending Linux Battery Life - 15 Comments
Steam Should Now Have Lower CPU Usage In The Background, DPI Scaling
05:52 AM EDT - Valve - Steam Beta - 14 Comments
BlueZ 5.47 Released, Working On Bluetooth 5.0 Support & More
05:27 AM EDT - Free Software - BlueZ 5.47 - 6 Comments
13 September
AGESA 1.0.0.6b Might Fix The Ryzen Linux Performance Marginality Problem
08:22 PM EDT - AMD - AGESA Update - 73 Comments
CentOS 7.4 Now Available (CentOS Linux 7 1708)
05:08 PM EDT - Red Hat - CentOS 7.4 - 10 Comments
A Fresh Kernel Spin For Those Wanting To Use RX Vega On Linux Or AMDGPU DC
02:42 PM EDT - Radeon - Bleeding Edge DC - 24 Comments
HAMMER2 Is Looking & Performing Good As The Future DragonFlyBSD File-System
12:06 PM EDT - Operating Systems - 5 Comments
Enlightenment 22 Alpha Strikes With Better Wayland Support, Meson Build System
11:24 AM EDT - Desktop - Enlightenment E 0.22 - 26 Comments
Oracle Punts Java EE To The Eclipse Foundation
11:07 AM EDT - Oracle - Java EE To Eclipse - 8 Comments
SilverStone Case Storage Series CS350
10:43 AM EDT - Enclosures - 7 Comments
09:46 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME 3.26.0 - 29 Comments
F2FS In Linux 4.14 Gets Better Tuning For Android
06:39 AM EDT - Linux Storage - F2FS Linux 4.14 - 7 Comments
BFQ Gets Another Notable Responsiveness Fix
06:24 AM EDT - Linux Storage - BFQ Scheduler - 10 Comments
Google's Fuchsia OS Magenta Becomes Zircon
06:16 AM EDT - Google - Fuchsia Zircon - 30 Comments
06:08 AM EDT - Qt - Qt 5.10 - 8 Comments
MPV Player 0.27 Brings Rendering Refactoring, OpenGL Improvements
05:59 AM EDT - Multimedia - MPV 0.27 - 8 Comments
12 September
Blender 2.79 Now Available With Much Faster Radeon OpenCL
08:45 PM EDT - Multimedia - Blender 2.79 - 16 Comments
RISC-V Eyeing Mainline In Time For The Linux 4.15 Kernel
08:23 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - RISC-V Linux 4.15 - 14 Comments
Core i9 7900X vs. Threadripper 1950X On Ubuntu 17.10, Antergos, Clear Linux
06:13 PM EDT - Operating Systems - 42 Comments
Linux Impacted By Information Leak & Remote Code Execution Via Bluetooth
03:38 PM EDT - Standards - Bluebourne - 27 Comments
A Quick EXT4 Run With Linux 4.14 Git
01:08 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - EXT4 - 1 Comment
KGraphViewer Brought To KDE Frameworks 5, Qt 5
12:32 PM EDT - KDE - KGraphViewer - 25 Comments
Red Hat Is Looking For Another Developer To Work On Open-Source AMD Graphics
11:28 AM EDT - Red Hat - Graphics Engineer - 58 Comments
GCC 8 Might Pursue Better, More Modern Default Options
10:43 AM EDT - GNU - GCC 8 Defaults - 4 Comments
Better Hang Detection For The RADV Vulkan Driver
08:32 AM EDT - Radeon - RADV Vulkan - 12 Comments
Apple Will Talk About Its GPU Compiler & More At LLVM 2017 Meeting
08:20 AM EDT - Compiler - LLVM Developers Meeting - 16 Comments
HAMMER2 Now Available From DragonFlyBSD Installer
05:59 AM EDT - BSD - DFly HAMMER2 - 6 Comments
digiKam 5.7 Released With Print Creator & Email Sending Support
11 September
AMDGPU DC Display Code Tacks On Another 28 Patches
07:50 PM EDT - AMD - AMDGPU DC - 60 Comments
Emacs 25.3 Released To Fix A Security Vulnerability Of Malicious Lisp Scripts
07:37 PM EDT - GNU - Emacs 25.3 - 10 Comments
LibreOffice Gets Flicker-Free OpenGL Transitions
05:36 PM EDT - LibreOffice - GTK3 Flicker-Free - 33 Comments
RadeonSI/AMDGPU Switches Over To New Command Submission API
12:04 PM EDT - Mesa - New CS API - 9 Comments
GNOME 3.26: Wayland vs. X.Org Performance - Boot Times, Power Use, Memory Use & Gaming
11:18 AM EDT - Software - 97 Comments
Meson+Ninja Showing Speedy Build Results For Shotwell
09:55 AM EDT - GNOME - Meson Build System - 18 Comments
GTK4's Vulkan Support Continues Maturing
08:37 AM EDT - GNOME - GTK4 Vulkan - 22 Comments
Phoronix Test Suite 7.4 M4 Released As "Tynset" Nears Final
06:31 AM EDT - Phoronix Test Suite - Milestone 4 - 2 Comments
Squeezing More Juice Out Of Gentoo With Graphite, LTO Optimizations
06:14 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Juicing Gentoo - 52 Comments
WebKitGTK+ 2.18.0 Brings WebDriver Support, Remote Inspector & Kinetic Scrolling
06:03 AM EDT - GNOME - WebKitGTK - Add A Comment
New ARM Board Support In Linux 4.14: Raspberry Pi Zero W, Banana Pi & More
05:56 AM EDT - Hardware - ARM + ARM64 - 10 Comments
10 September
A Look At The New Features Of GNOME 3.26
11:35 AM EDT - Software - 114 Comments
The Changes So Far For The Linux 4.14 Kernel: Zstd, Cgroup2 Threads, EXT4 Scalability
10:23 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 4.14 Features - 2 Comments
FSF To Look At RYF Certification For The POWER9 Talos II
10:03 AM EDT - Free Software - Talos 2 - 21 Comments
VLC Has Begun Working On Some 3D Video Playback Support
07:59 AM EDT - Multimedia - VLC 3D - 29 Comments
SPARC Sees Updates For Linux 4.14
07:48 AM EDT - Oracle - SPARC Linux 4.14 - 13 Comments
GNOME's Mutter Loses Some Of Its X11 Dependence
07:31 AM EDT - GNOME - Old X11 Code - 34 Comments
9 September
Jente Hidskes Continues Improving Libratbag's Piper Mouse UI, Promoted To Maintainer
06:36 PM EDT - Hardware - Mouse Configuration - 3 Comments
Is Fedora's KDE Spin Too Bloated?
03:33 PM EDT - Fedora - Fedora KDE - 66 Comments
LLVM Clang Begins Working On CUDA 9.0 Support
01:55 PM EDT - Compiler - CUDA 9 Clang - 4 Comments
FreeBSD Has A New ZFS Boot Management Tool & Library
10:39 AM EDT - BSD - FreeBSD ZFS be - Add A Comment
KVM & Xen Updates For The Linux 4.14 Kernel
10:23 AM EDT - Virtualization - KVM + Xen - Add A Comment
Out-of-Order Rasterization On RadeonSI Will Bring Better Performance In Some Games
08:30 AM EDT - Radeon - OoO Rasterization - 11 Comments
System76 Moves Ahead With Writing Their Own OS Installer
07:31 AM EDT - Operating Systems - System76 Dist Installer - 27 Comments
Oracle Linux 7 Update 4 Brings UEFI SecureBoot, USBGuard Added & Btrfs Supported
07:22 AM EDT - Oracle - Oracle Linux 7 Update 4 - 10 Comments
Kazan Begins Working On Vulkan ICD Support, More Functions
07:11 AM EDT - Vulkan - Kazan Vulkan-CPU - Add A Comment
Btrfs Gets Fixes & Prep Work In Linux 4.14
06:55 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Btrfs Linux 4.14 - 11 Comments
8 September
AMD EPYC 7601 + TYAN Transport SX TN70A-B8026 Arrives For Linux Benchmarking
05:47 PM EDT - Computers - 27 Comments
Zstd Compression For Btrfs & Squashfs Set For Linux 4.14, Already Used Within Facebook
03:50 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Zstd Compression - 13 Comments
Chromium Now Supports GPU Sandboxing With Radeon Graphics On Linux
01:58 PM EDT - Google - Chrome GPU Sandbox - 47 Comments
Elivepatch Aims To Make Live Kernel Patching Easier On Gentoo
12:33 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Elivepatch - 9 Comments
Optimizations For Microsoft's Hyper-V In Linux 4.14
09:12 AM EDT - Microsoft - Hyper-V Optimizations - Add A Comment
FFmpeg's VP9 Decoder Is Much Faster Thanks To GSoC 2017
07:26 AM EDT - Multimedia - FFmpeg VP9 - 41 Comments
Early Work Bringing VCE1 Video Encode To AMDGPU DRM
06:55 AM EDT - Radeon - VCE Video Encode - 4 Comments
BFQ & CFQ Improvements Land In Linux 4.14
06:19 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Block Updates - 17 Comments
xf86-video-amdgpu 1.4.0 / xf86-video-ati 7.10.0 Released
06:10 AM EDT - Radeon - Radeon DDX Updates - 7 Comments
Outreachy Begins Soliciting For 2017 Winter Internships
05:53 AM EDT - Free Software - Outreachy Winter - 13 Comments
7 September
Reiser4 Is Now Ready For Linux 4.13
09:36 PM EDT - Linux Storage - Reiser4 With Linux 4.13 - 10 Comments
Trying Out Ubuntu 17.10 On A Laptop One Month Ahead Of Release
06:30 PM EDT - Operating Systems - 29 Comments
Lenovo Announces New ThinkPads With AMD APUs
04:29 PM EDT - AMD - Lenovo A-Series - 37 Comments
GNOME 3.26 RC2 Released: The Final Step For This Big GNOME Update
04:09 PM EDT - GNOME - GNOME 3.25.92 - 7 Comments
LLVM 5.0 Released With C++17 Support, Ryzen Scheduler, AMDGPU Vega & Much More
03:17 PM EDT - Compiler - LLVM Clang 5.0 - 4 Comments
Purism's Librem 5 Smartphone Crosses $200k In Funding
01:33 PM EDT - Hardware - Long Ways To Go - 8 Comments
EA's Frostbite Engine Has Been Internally Up And Running On Linux
12:50 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - Linux Frostbite - 47 Comments
GNOME Mutter 3.25.92 Adds Built-In Screencast / Remote Desktop Capabilities
12:06 PM EDT - GNOME - GNOME Mutter - 11 Comments
There's Now A Patch Adding Ryzen / AMD Zen Temperature Support On Linux
11:19 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Family 17h - 16 Comments
Wine-Staging 2.16 Released With More D3D9/D3D11 Bits
10:19 AM EDT - WINE - Wine-Staging 2.16 - 29 Comments
New Media Drivers Ready For The Linux 4.14 Kernel
09:49 AM EDT - Multimedia - Linux 4.14 Media Subsystem - 1 Comment
New Intel DRM Code For Testing, Material For Linux 4.15
09:16 AM EDT - Intel - i915 DRM - 2 Comments
GNU Tools Cauldron 2017 Kicks Off Tomorrow
09:05 AM EDT - GNU - GNU Tools Cauldron - 2 Comments
FreeBSD Developers Tackle AMD Zen/Ryzen Temperature Monitoring Before Linux
08:26 AM EDT - BSD - AMD Zen CPU Temps - 15 Comments
Adreno A3xx Blobs Added To Linux-Firmware.Git
07:00 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Qualcomm Adreno - 1 Comment
GnuCOBOL 2.2 Released To Let COBOL Code Live On As C
06:30 AM EDT - GNU - GnuCOBOL 2.2 - 4 Comments
IPv10 Draft Specification Published
06:21 AM EDT - Standards - Internet Protocol v10 - 66 Comments
C++17 Formally Approved, Just Waiting On ISO Publication
06:06 AM EDT - Standards - cpp17 - 23 Comments
OpenShot 2.4 Brings Better Stability To This Open-Source Video Editor
05:55 AM EDT - Desktop - OpenShot 2.4 - 5 Comments
6 September
AMD Secure Processor Support In Linux 4.14
08:05 PM EDT - AMD - AMD Secure Processor Crypto - 20 Comments
Sound Updates Ready To Be Heard On Linux 4.14
07:17 PM EDT - Hardware - Linux 4.14 Sound Drivers - 10 Comments
Trying Out FreeBSD/TrueOS On The Xeon Scalable + Tyan GT24E-B7106 Platform
06:10 PM EDT - Operating Systems - 3 Comments
Android NDK r16: Developers Should Start Using LLVM's libc++ With GCC On The Way Out
03:45 PM EDT - Google - Native Development Kit - 27 Comments
Debian 10 "Buster" Switches GNOME Session To Wayland By Default
02:46 PM EDT - Debian - Debian Wayland - 31 Comments
Fedora 27 Enters Its Beta Freeze
01:35 PM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 27 Beta - 14 Comments
Linux 4.14 Will Indeed Be A Long-Term Support Release
01:24 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - LTS Kernel - 5 Comments
Java EE Is Now Available Via GitHub
11:52 AM EDT - Oracle - Java EE Open-Source - 22 Comments
LXC 2.1 Linux Containers Released
11:09 AM EDT - Virtualization - LXC 2.1 - Add A Comment
Intel Cache Quality Monitoring Gets Rewritten For Linux 4.14
RADV Vulkan Driver Now Has Working Support For Radeon RX Vega GPUs
06:17 AM EDT - Vulkan - RADV Vega - 25 Comments
The Usual Assortment Of HID Updates For Linux 4.14: Wacom, Multitouch, Etc
06:12 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - HID Drivers - Add A Comment
Nouveau DRM Wires In Pascal Temperature Sensor Support
06:03 AM EDT - Nouveau - gp100 temp sensor - 3 Comments
Vulkan-CPU Is Now Known As Kazan
05:59 AM EDT - Vulkan - Kazan 3D - 7 Comments
KDE System Settings UI Is Still Getting Overhauled
05:44 AM EDT - KDE - KDE System Settings - 27 Comments
5 September
Mozilla Firefox Finally Fixes An Awkward, 11 Year Old Linux Bug
08:02 PM EDT - Mozilla - Firefox - 60 Comments
Chrome 61 Brings WebUSB, JavaScript Modules & More
06:32 PM EDT - Google - Chrome 61 - 23 Comments
BCMV Driver Begins Development: Vulkan Driver For Broadcom VC5
05:44 PM EDT - Mesa - VC5 Vulkan - 4 Comments
Qbs 1.9 Released, Still Advancing To Be The Qt6 Build System
04:39 PM EDT - Qt - Qbs 1.9 - 2 Comments
Staging Changes Land In Linux 4.14 With New Realtek WiFi Driver
04:28 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 4.14 - Add A Comment
OpenRazer+Polychromatic Make It Easy To Configure Razer Keyboards/Mice On Linux
03:49 PM EDT - Peripherals - 6 Comments
Several ARM64 Changes Queued For Linux 4.14, VMAP_STACK Support
01:07 PM EDT - Hardware - ARM 64-bit - 7 Comments
Intel Preparing Sub-Group Support For Their ANV Vulkan Driver
Cgroup2 Thread Support Added For Linux 4.14
11:40 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - cgroup - 3 Comments
More Benchmarks Of AMD's Threadripper With LLVM Clang 6.0 SVN
10:00 AM EDT - AMD - Clang Compiler Tests - 8 Comments
EFI In Linux 4.14 Will Better Handle Rebooting Of Buggy Systems
09:13 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 4.14 - 15 Comments
Qt Creator 4.4 Released With New Inline Warning/Errors, CMake Improvements
08:13 AM EDT - Qt - Qt Creator 4.4 - 5 Comments
PulseAudio 11.0 Released With GNU Hurd Support, Newer Apple AirPlay Hardware
07:12 AM EDT - Free Software - PulseAudio 11 - 49 Comments
SDL 2.0.6 Gearing Up For Release With Many Changes
06:31 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - SDL 2.0.6 - 8 Comments
RadeonSI Lands Primitive Binning Support For Vega
06:25 AM EDT - Radeon - Primitive Binning - 26 Comments
WinBtrfs 1.0 Released For Supporting Btrfs On Windows
06:18 AM EDT - Linux Storage - WinBtrfs 1.0 - 29 Comments
P-State Continues Evolving, More Power Management Changes For Linux 4.14
06:11 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 4.14 Power Management - Add A Comment
EXT4 Has Scalability Improvements For Linux 4.14
05:59 AM EDT - Linux Storage - EXT4 - 3 Comments
4 September
XFS Prepares Many Fixes For Linux 4.14
08:14 PM EDT - Linux Storage - Linux 4.14 XFS - 5 Comments
04:04 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 17.2.0 - 20 Comments
ORC Unwinder For Linux 4.14, Boosts Kernel Performance By Disabling Frame Pointers
12:29 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - ORC Unwinder - 38 Comments
GNU Linux-libre 4.13-gnu Deblobs More Drivers
08:50 AM EDT - GNU - GNU Linux-libre 4.13 - 41 Comments
RADV Driver Enables Command Buffer Chaining, Boosts Dota 2 Performance
08:44 AM EDT - Radeon - batchchain - 12 Comments
Linux 4.14 To Get 5-Level Paging, AMD Secure Memory Encryption
08:39 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - AMD SME - 5 Comments
Vulkan 1.0.60 Brings A Few New Extensions
08:22 AM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan 1.0.60 - 25 Comments
WebKitGTK+ 2.17.92 Brings Improved Wayland Support
08:11 AM EDT - GNOME - WebKitGTK+ - 8 Comments
3 September
05:17 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 4.13 - 8 Comments
The First Alpha Of Debian 10 "Buster" Installer
12:47 PM EDT - Debian - Debian 10 - 42 Comments
Work-In-Progress Porting Of GCN 1.0/1.1 UVD To AMDGPU DRM Driver
07:54 AM EDT - Radeon - Southern Islands UVD - 44 Comments
Linux 4.13 Should Be Released Today With Its Many New Features
07:40 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 4.13 - 15 Comments
Manjaro Linux To Drop 32-bit Support
07:32 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Bye Bye i686 - 48 Comments
2 September
Oracle Layoffs Hit Longtime Solaris Developers Hard
03:07 PM EDT - Oracle - 1000~1500 Affected - 67 Comments
ReactOS 0.4.6 Fixes Dual Boot Issues, NFS Driver Added
02:49 PM EDT - Operating Systems - ReactOS 0.4.6 - 6 Comments
Fedora's Yum Could Soon See Retirement
10:11 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora Yum - 27 Comments
VA-API Gets Extended With Flexible Encoding Infrastructure
08:14 AM EDT - X.Org - VA-API FEI - 4 Comments
Coreutils 8.28 Released With Many Fixes, Few New Features
07:36 AM EDT - GNU - Coreutils 8.28 - Add A Comment
1 September
Steam Linux Usage Shows A Decline For August
08:16 PM EDT - Valve - 0.11% Down - 50 Comments
Btrfs Zstd Support Coming To Linux 4.14
06:13 PM EDT - Linux Storage - Not An STD - 35 Comments
02:42 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 2.16 - 4 Comments
KDE's Leaner Experience On openSUSE Tumbleweed vs. Ubuntu 17.04
01:05 PM EDT - KDE - Overweight KDE On Ubuntu - 47 Comments
It Doesn't Look Like A Ryzen/EPYC Thermal Driver Will Make It For Linux 4.14
11:19 AM EDT - AMD - Zen Thermal Driver - 15 Comments
Realtek RTL8822BE Support Coming To Linux 4.14
11:01 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux Support For RTL8822BE - 14 Comments
Ryzen 7, Threadripper & Radeon RX Vega Generated A Ton Of Linux Buzz
08:16 AM EDT - Phoronix - August 2017 Recap - 5 Comments
Linux Browser Marketshare Strikes Above 3%
08:00 AM EDT - Desktop - Linux 3% - 54 Comments
31 August
Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" Beta Released
04:33 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 17.10 Beta - 32 Comments
Intel Vulkan & OpenGL Kabylake Benchmarks With Linux 4.13, Mesa 17.3-dev
04:21 PM EDT - Vulkan - HD Graphics 620 - 2 Comments
The Sounds Of More Oracle Layoffs, SPARC Execution Could Be Near
03:48 PM EDT - Oracle - Oracle Layoffs - 16 Comments
77 More Patches For AMDGPU's DC Display Stack
02:56 PM EDT - AMD - AMDGPU DC - 13 Comments
XCOM 2: War of the Chosen Debuts For Linux
01:42 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - XCOM2 - 13 Comments
Mesa 17.2 Set For Release This Weekend
12:07 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 17.2 - 12 Comments
SDDM 0.15 Qt Display Manager Adds Elogind Support, Themed Default Cursor
11:05 AM EDT - Qt - SDDM 0.15 - 16 Comments
Updated AMD Zen Scheduler Model Lands For LLVM 6.0
10:32 AM EDT - AMD - AMD Znver1 - 15 Comments
AMD Rolls Out The Threadripper 1900X: 16 Thread, 4.0GHz Boost
09:16 AM EDT - AMD - Threadripper 1900X - 78 Comments
PHP 7.2 Release Candidate Arrives
07:25 AM EDT - Free Software - PHP 7.2 - 9 Comments
Valve Slashes The Steam Controller Again To $35, Steam Link For $15
07:15 AM EDT - Hardware - Hardware Sale - 30 Comments
macOS 10.12.6 vs. Ubuntu 17.04 Benchmarks
06:29 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 26 Comments
30 August
A Workaround To Disable Intel Management Engine 11
05:54 PM EDT - Intel - ME11 - 25 Comments
Power Use, RAM + Boot Times With Unity, Xfce, GNOME, LXDE, Budgie & KDE Plasma
04:59 PM EDT - Software - 137 Comments
QEMU 2.10 Released With Xen 9pfs Support, QCOW2 LUKS Encryption
12:17 PM EDT - Virtualization - QEMU 2.10 - 2 Comments
Razer Blade Stealth Laptop On Linux, Various Linux Laptop Performance Metrics
10:55 AM EDT - Computers - 26 Comments
Genode 17.08 Now Supports Broadwell Graphics, Xen DomU Support
07:19 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Genode OS - 3 Comments
LLVMpipe & OpenSWR OpenGL Riding Off Threadripper
06:13 AM EDT - AMD - SWR / LLVMpipe - 20 Comments
BeOS-Inspired Haiku OS Had A Successful GSoC 2017: Swift, Btrfs, Preferences GUI
05:47 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Haiku 2017 - 6 Comments
LLVM 5.0 Release Should Be Imminent
01:07 AM EDT - Compiler - LLVM 5.0 - Add A Comment
29 August
8-Way Linux Distribution Comparison On A Dual Xeon Scalable Gold Server
08:07 PM EDT - Operating Systems - 32 Comments
Cairo 1.15.8 Released With Support For Colored Emoji
01:54 PM EDT - X.Org - Cairo 1.15.8 - 29 Comments
Purism Highlights Challenges During Coreboot Development
11:14 AM EDT - Hardware - Unbootable Systems - 24 Comments
Core i7 / Core i9 / Ryzen 7 / Threadripper OpenGL+Vulkan Linux Gaming Benchmarks
09:25 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - 93 Comments
Vulkan-CPU Is Off To A Good Start Thanks To GSoC 2017
09:07 AM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan-CPU - Add A Comment
Intel Lands Vulkan External Fences Support
07:15 AM EDT - Intel - VK_KHR_external_fence - Add A Comment
NVIDIA & Co Continue Working On LLVM Fortran "Flang" Compiler
06:16 AM EDT - Compiler - Flang Getting Ready To Fling - 13 Comments
HAMMER2 File-System Continues To Stabilize For DragonFlyBSD
05:39 AM EDT - BSD - HAMMER2 - 3 Comments
DRM Synchronization Object Improvements Queued For Linux 4.14
01:49 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - syncobj - 9 Comments
28 August
Keeping The Ryzen Threadripper Busy With An Array Of Compiler Benchmarks
09:09 PM EDT - AMD - Ryzen Threadripper 1950X - 10 Comments
Phoronix Test Suite 7.4 M3 Released With OpenBenchmarking Seamless/Dynamic Comparisons
08:32 PM EDT - Phoronix Test Suite - Milestone 3 - 2 Comments
Work Begins On Kernel DRM Driver For BCM7268 With VC5
07:19 PM EDT - Hardware - Broadcom BCM7268 - Add A Comment
AmanithVG Brings Fast OpenVG To Linux, OpenGL ES Rendering
12:29 PM EDT - Free Software - AmanithVG - 11 Comments
AMD Threadripper 1950X Linux Benchmarks
11:00 AM EDT - Processors - 66 Comments
Fedora 28 Is Aiming To Be Released By Mid-May
10:21 AM EDT - Fedora - May 2018 - 9 Comments
09:13 AM EDT - GNU - GNU Privacy Guard - 5 Comments
Intel Haswell Scheduler Updated In LLVM
06:19 AM EDT - Compiler - Haswell Update - 11 Comments
Initial Vulkan SDL Integration Lands
05:50 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - Vulkan SDL - 4 Comments
27 August
Linux 4.13-rc7 Kernel Released, Linux 4.13 Likely Coming Next Week
08:43 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 4.13 - Add A Comment
Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 17.04 With Intel Kabylake Mobile Graphics
07:07 PM EDT - Operating Systems - 3 Comments
3D OpenGL Acceleration For Windows Guests On QEMU Using VirGL/VirtIO
05:39 PM EDT - Virtualization - 3D Windows Guests - 13 Comments
LLVMpipe vs. OpenSWR Software Rendering On A 40 Core / 80 Thread Tyan Server
10:00 AM EDT - Display Drivers - 34 Comments
Purism's Librem 5 Is Nearing $100k In Funding, But A Long Journey Remains
08:29 AM EDT - Hardware - Librem 5 - 50 Comments
Outreachy Summer 2017 Yielded A New Coloring Book, Wine AppDB Improvements
08:11 AM EDT - Free Software - Outreachy 2017 - 16 Comments
KDE Had Another Successful Year With Google Summer of Code
07:53 AM EDT - KDE - GSoC 2017 - 26 Comments
FFmpeg Has Seen Some AVX2 Optimizations For VP9 Decoding
07:34 AM EDT - Multimedia - VP9 AVX2 - 21 Comments
26 August
Piper Has Turned Into A Very Competent Mouse Configuration UI For Linux
12:04 PM EDT - GNOME - Linux Mouse Configuration - 22 Comments
NVIDIA Rolls Out Jetson TX1 Developer Board SE At $199 USD
09:23 AM EDT - NVIDIA - Jetson TX1 SE - 32 Comments
System76's Pop!_OS Not Using Wayland By Default, Figuring Out Default Apps
08:39 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Pop!_OS - 22 Comments
Ubuntu 17.10 Enters The Feature Freeze
08:01 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 17.10 - 22 Comments
Haiku Made Progress On Btrfs Support This Summer
07:48 AM EDT - Operating Systems - BeOS Btrfs - 1 Comment
25 August
QupZilla Web Browser Becomes KDE Falkon
03:02 PM EDT - KDE - QupZilla - 32 Comments
Only SPIR-V & KHR_no_error Are Left Blocking OpenGL 4.6 In Mesa
01:43 PM EDT - Mesa - OpenGL 4.6 Status - 7 Comments
Ubuntu 17.10 Continues Refining Its GNOME Shell Theme
12:52 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 17.10 GNOME - 94 Comments
RadeonSI May Eventually Switch To NIR Completely
12:28 PM EDT - Mesa - RadeonSI NIR - 32 Comments
11:15 AM EDT - Hardware - Sailfish X - 38 Comments
Some Early AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X Linux Benchmarks
09:49 AM EDT - Processors - 55 Comments
SDL Lands Initial Support For OpenGL KHR_no_error
06:15 AM EDT - Free Software - SDL KHR_no_error - 5 Comments
OpenChrome DRM Still Being Ported To Newer Kernel, Lengthy Process
06:10 AM EDT - VIA - VIA Graphics - 5 Comments
Go 1.9 Adds Type Aliases, Parallel Compilation
06:01 AM EDT - Google - Go 1.9 - 35 Comments
Mozilla's Servo Made Several Advancements This Summer
05:50 AM EDT - Mozilla - Servo GSoC - 12 Comments
05:39 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 26 - 12 Comments
24 August
New Ryzen Is Running Solid Under Linux, No Compiler Segmentation Fault Issue
08:19 PM EDT - Processors - 82 Comments
GIMP 2.9.6 Released With GEGL Multi-Threading & Better HiDPI Support
04:48 PM EDT - Desktop - GIMP 2.10 Stepping - 12 Comments
Intel Quietly Drops Xeon Phi 7200 Coprocessors
03:30 PM EDT - Intel - Xeon Phi 7200 - 14 Comments
16-bit Support Being Worked On For Intel ANV, Gallium3D TGSI
01:08 PM EDT - Compiler - LLVM ARC - 4 Comments
GNOME Control Center Switches To Its New Settings Layout
11:10 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME Settings - 45 Comments
SUSE Remains Committed To The Btrfs File-System
10:23 AM EDT - SUSE - SUSE + Btrfs - 59 Comments
09:00 AM EDT - Computers - 62 Comments
Mesa DRM 2.4.83 Library Released
08:12 AM EDT - Mesa - libdrm 2.4.83 - Add A Comment
Freedreno MSM Driver Updates Submitted For Linux 4.14
06:13 AM EDT - Hardware - MSM DRM - 8 Comments