XFS Is Packing Many Improvements With Linux 5.9
12:01 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Linux 5.9 + XFS - Add A Comment
10 August
9 August
Linux 5.9 Enables P2PDMA For All AMD CPUs Zen + Newer
08:41 PM EDT - AMD - Peer-To-Peer DMA - 2 Comments
Intel Emmitsburg Support Begins Appearing In Linux 5.9
01:18 PM EDT - Intel - Intel Emmitsburg - 2 Comments
NihAV Is An Experimental Multimedia Framework Written In Rust
12:08 PM EDT - Multimedia - NihAV - 24 Comments
AMD Sensor Fusion Hub Driver Under Review A Sixth Time For Linux
10:49 AM EDT - AMD - AMD Sensor Fusion Hub - 3 Comments
Linux 5.9 Brings More IBM POWER10 Support, New/Faster SCV System Call ABI
09:59 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 5.9 POWER - Add A Comment
Fedora 33 Moving Closer To LTO-Optimizing Packages
07:27 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora LTO-ed - 10 Comments
Fujitsu Begins Adding A64FX Support To GCC Compiler
04:09 AM EDT - GNU - Fujitsu A64FX + GCC - 8 Comments
Several Drivers Promoted Out Of Staging With Linux 5.9
12:01 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.9 - Add A Comment
8 August
LLVM Clang 11 Has A Nice Build Speed Improvement With New Feature For Pre-Compiled Headers
Intel Cloud-Hypervisor 0.9 Brings io_uring Block Device Support For Faster Performance
03:27 PM EDT - Virtualization - Cloud-Hypervisor 0.9 - 2 Comments
Kodi 19 Alpha 1 Released With AV1 Decoding, Many Other HTPC Improvements
10:58 AM EDT - Multimedia - Kodi 19 - 5 Comments
Linux 5.9 Supports A Lot Of New Audio Hardware, Intel Silent Stream Added
09:39 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 5.9 Sounds Better - 11 Comments
Mesa To Join Other Open-Source Projects With "Main" For Primary Code Branch
09:04 AM EDT - Mesa - Mesa Main - 71 Comments
Linux 5.9 Networking Changes Are As Active As Ever
08:40 AM EDT - Linux Networking - Linux 5.9 Networking - 4 Comments
More Wayland Fixes Pile On For KDE Plasma 5.20
06:45 AM EDT - KDE - Wayland + Plasma 5.20 - 14 Comments
Char/Misc Is Still Quite Busy With Linux 5.9 Still Lacking An "Accelerator" Subsystem
12:02 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Char/Misc For Linux 5.9 - Add A Comment
7 August
Mageia 8 Beta 1 Released With Many Improvements
06:23 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Mageia 8 - 9 Comments
ARM Now Defaulting To Schedutil Governor, Other Power Management Work For Linux 5.9
How A Raspberry Pi 4 Performs Against Intel's Latest Celeron, Pentium CPUs
01:09 PM EDT - Hardware - Raspberry Pi vs. Low-End Intel - 98 Comments
Wine 5.0.2 Released With Fixes For Various Games, Windows Applications
12:39 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 5.0.2 - Add A Comment
Linux 5.9 Exposes Device Link Details Via Sysfs, Allows Hiding DebugFS From User-Space
11:29 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Driver Core - 1 Comment
Intel Compute Runtime Preparing For The Upcoming oneAPI Level Zero 1.0
Radeon Software for Linux 20.30 Released
09:23 AM EDT - Radeon - Radeon Software 20.30 - 18 Comments
RISC-V Software Support Adds More Features With Linux 5.9
07:15 AM EDT - RISC-V - RISC-V Linux 5.9 - 3 Comments
AMDVLK 2020.Q3.3 Driver Enables Its Pipeline Cache
06:44 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDVLK 2020.Q3.3 - 2 Comments
6 August
Researchers Make More Discoveries Around L1TF/Foreshadow - It's Not Good
09:12 PM EDT - Linux Security - Reviving Foreshadow - 42 Comments
USB Cleans Up Its Terminology, Continued USB4 Work For Linux 5.9
08:52 PM EDT - Hardware - Thunderbolt + USB - 26 Comments
Open-Source GPU Driver Updates Sent In For Linux 5.9 From Sienna Cichlid To Rocket Lake
03:31 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - DRM For Linux 5.9 - 2 Comments
Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS Released With The Latest Fixes
02:59 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS - 30 Comments
Fedora IoT Looks For Promotion To Becoming Official Spin
10:31 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora IoT - Add A Comment
Perf Changes For Linux 5.9 Include Intel Arch LBR, Hygon RAPL, Comet Lake Uncore
10:09 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 5.9 Perf Events - Add A Comment
07:07 AM EDT - GNU - Glibc 2.32 - 6 Comments
PHP 8.0 Beta Released, Now Under Feature Freeze
06:58 AM EDT - Programming - PHP 8.0 - 1 Comment
Linux 5.9 Introducing A Multi-Color LED Framework
04:25 AM EDT - Hardware - Multi-Color LEDs! - 7 Comments
NVMe ZNS Makes It Into Linux 5.9 Along With MD RAID Fixes
02:52 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Zoned Namespaces - 9 Comments
Fedora 33 To Offer Stratis 2.1 For Per-Pool Encryption
12:02 AM EDT - Fedora - Stratis 2.1 - 7 Comments
5 August
Google Opens Patches For "METRICFS" That They Have Used Since 2012 For Telemetry Data
08:35 PM EDT - Linux Storage - METRICFS - 25 Comments
Mesa 20.1.5 Released For The Latest Stable Open-Source Vulkan / OpenGL Drivers
06:48 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 20.1.5 - Add A Comment
FSF Has Finally Elected A New President
05:41 PM EDT - Free Software - FSF President - 43 Comments
RadeonSI Resorts To Disabling SDMA For GFX9/Vega Due To APU Issues
04:26 PM EDT - Radeon - System DMA - 13 Comments
FS-Cache Rewritten But Even Its Developers Are Hesitant About Landing It For Linux 5.9
03:37 PM EDT - Linux Storage - FS-CACHE - 6 Comments
Intel's Clear Linux Still Outperforming Other Distributions For Mid-2020
01:00 PM EDT - Operating Systems - 25 Comments
Intel Workaround For Graphics Driver Regression: "The Platform Problem Going Crazy"
09:54 AM EDT - Intel - Rejected - 20 Comments
LibreOffice 7.0 Released As The Open-Source, Vulkan-Accelerated Office Suite
07:57 AM EDT - LibreOffice - LibreOffice 7.0 - 81 Comments
Google Engineers Propose "Machine Function Splitter" For Faster Performance
07:28 AM EDT - LLVM - Machine Function Splitter - 10 Comments
Corsair Commander Pro Driver Sent In To Linux 5.9
07:18 AM EDT - Hardware - Corsair Commander Pro - 3 Comments
Intel Tiger Lake OpenCL Support On Linux Now Considered Production Ready
01:54 AM EDT - Intel - Tiger Lake Compute - Add A Comment
GNU Debugger Adding eBPF Debugging Support
12:08 AM EDT - GNU - GDB eBPF - Add A Comment
4 August
RADV ACO Back-End Begins Tackling Navi 2 / GFX10.3 Support
08:35 PM EDT - Radeon - RADV ACO - 6 Comments
Linux 5.9 Continues Working On A Variety Of Scheduler Improvements
06:57 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.9 Scheduler - Add A Comment
Wayfire 0.5 Wayland Compositor Brings Latency Optimizations, More Protocols
03:30 PM EDT - Wayland - Wayfire 0.5 - 22 Comments
Checkpoint/Restore Of Unprivileged Processes Sent In For Linux 5.9
02:19 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.9 - 33 Comments
Defaulting Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs To Better Linux Driver Is Held Up By Analog Outputs
11:08 AM EDT - Radeon - GCN 1.0/1.1 For AMDGPU - 66 Comments
After 5 Years, FSGSBASE Support Finally Ready For Linux To Enhance AMD/Intel Performance
09:45 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - FSGSBASE For Linux 5.9 - 12 Comments
Linux 5.9 Set To Bring "Close_Range" System Call - Coordinated With FreeBSD Developers
09:17 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - close_range - 17 Comments
GNOME's Mutter Adds Support For Launching "Trusted Clients" On Wayland
06:47 AM EDT - GNOME - Wayland Trusted Clients - 29 Comments
03:39 AM EDT - Arm - Linux 5.9 ARM - 2 Comments
Intel's Open-Source H.265/HEVC Encoder Sees First Release Of 2020
12:03 AM EDT - Intel - SVT-HEVC 1.5.0 - 12 Comments
3 August
Intel SERIALIZE, Dropping Of SGI UV Supercomputer, i386 Clang'ing Hit Linux 5.9
08:48 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.9 x86 Changes - 10 Comments
AMD HSA Offloading Support Dropped From The GCC Compiler
06:47 PM EDT - AMD - AMD HSA - 25 Comments
Btrfs Seeing Some Nice Performance Improvements For Linux 5.9
03:00 PM EDT - Linux Storage - Btrfs Performance - 37 Comments
Kernel Developers Work To Block NVIDIA "GPL Condom" Effort Around New NetGPU Code
01:22 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - NVIDIA Blobs - 111 Comments
OpenSSF Launches To Improve Open-Source Software Security
12:32 PM EDT - Linux Storage - OpenSSF - Add A Comment
Vulkan 1.2.149 Released With Another Extension For Helping The Likes Of DXVK
11:00 AM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan 1.2.149 - 6 Comments
GNU Linux-libre 5.8 Required A Lot Of Deblobbing
09:51 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - GNU Linux-Libre 5.8 - 13 Comments
FSCRYPT Inline Encryption Ready To Offer Better Performance On Modern SoCs
08:00 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Inline Encryption With Linux 5.9 - 11 Comments
Ubuntu's Prolific GNOME Developer Is Looking To Tackle Deep Color Support
07:28 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME Deep Color - 28 Comments
Linux 5.9 Dropping The Unicore 32-bit RISC Architecture
07:07 AM EDT - Hardware - Bye Bye Unicore32 - 10 Comments
Libinput 1.16 Released - Ready To Warn You If Your System Is Too Slow
06:37 AM EDT - Wayland - libinput 1.16 - 32 Comments
IO_uring Has Many Improvements Set To Go Into Linux 5.9
12:00 AM EDT - Linux Storage - IO_uring + Linux 5.9 - 5 Comments
2 August
Linux 5.8 Released With AMD Energy Driver, F2FS LZO-RLE, IBM POWER10 Booting
06:21 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.8 - 11 Comments
DragonFlyBSD Pulls In AMD Temperature Driver, SMN Support From FreeBSD
04:16 PM EDT - BSD - AMD Zen - 2 Comments
Facebook Engineer Improving BPF "User Programs" Support
01:25 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - eBPF User Programs - Add A Comment
Changes Expected For The Linux 5.9 Kernel From Intel DG1 To AMD Navi 2 To New CPU Capabilities
10:48 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.9 - Add A Comment
Wine-Staging 5.14 Release In 2020 Finally Implementing... Findstr
06:47 AM EDT - WINE - Wine Findstr - 14 Comments
Intel ISPC 1.14 Released With Initial GPU Offloading Support
01:05 AM EDT - Intel - Intel SPMD Program Compiler - Add A Comment
Rust Maybe Coming To The Linux Kernel, Other Open-Source Milestones For July
12:00 AM EDT - Phoronix - July 2020 - 3 Comments
1 August
Valve's Steam July 2020 Numbers Point To A Small Dip For Linux
08:49 PM EDT - Valve - July 2020 On Steam - 32 Comments
Linux 5.9 Adding New Knob To Control Default Boost Value For Real-Time Workloads
06:19 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - sched_util_clamp_min_rt_default - 16 Comments
FNA FAudio 20.08 Released With WMA Decoding Powered By GStreamer
12:00 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - FAudio 20.08 - 1 Comment
Debian 10.5 Released To Address The GRUB2 BootHole Vulnerability, Other Security Fixes
10:07 AM EDT - Debian - Debian 10.5 - 12 Comments
KDE Developers End July With More Improvements For Plasma 5.20
08:18 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Plasma 5.20 - 18 Comments
Wayland-Utils 1.0 Relased As New Utility Package For Wayland Tools
03:03 AM EDT - Wayland - Wayland-Utils 1.0 - 7 Comments
The Beautiful + Linux-Friendly Unigine 2.12 Engine Released
12:08 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - Unigine Engine 2.12 - 3 Comments
31 July
MoltenVK Update Brings Vulkan To Apple's tvOS
08:47 PM EDT - Vulkan - MoltenVK - 7 Comments
Intel Brings IBM POWER CPU Support To Their Deep Neural Network Library
07:08 PM EDT - Intel - oneDNN + POWER - 7 Comments
Linux's exFAT File-System Driver Can Now "FSCK" As Fast As Windows
06:52 PM EDT - Linux Storage - exfatprogs-1.0.4 - 17 Comments
Eight Great Features Of Linux 5.8
01:00 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.8 Features - 23 Comments
"Speakup" Promoted Out Of Staging For Linux 5.9
11:34 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Speakup Screen Reader - 20 Comments
X.Org's Latest Security Woes Are Bugs In LibX11, Xserver
09:54 AM EDT - X.Org - CVE-2020-14344 - 39 Comments
GTK 3.99 Released With The GTK4 Toolkit Finally Close To Debut
09:14 AM EDT - GNOME - GTK 3.99 - 24 Comments
LIBEI Yields New Effort For Emulating Input Devices In Wayland
06:24 AM EDT - Wayland - Emulated Input - 10 Comments
Raspberry Pi 4 "V3DV" Vulkan Driver Begins Tackling MSAA, Other Improvements
06:10 AM EDT - Vulkan - Raspberry Pi 4 Vulkan - Add A Comment
Wayland's Weston 9.0 Reaches Alpha
03:08 AM EDT - Wayland - Weston 9.0 - 2 Comments
Intel PMT Framework + Tiger Lake Telemetry Support Updated For Linux
12:00 AM EDT - Intel - Platform Monitoring Technology - 2 Comments
30 July
Wayland's Weston Compositor Introduces Kiosk/Fullscreen Shell
08:35 PM EDT - Wayland - Kiosk Shell - 29 Comments
Systemd 246 Released With Many Changes
03:48 PM EDT - systemd - systemd 246 - 77 Comments
ACO Radeon Shader Back-End Adds Unit Testing Framework To Help Test Optimizations
03:17 PM EDT - Radeon - ACO Testing - 4 Comments
System76 Talks Up Their Forthcoming Linux Keyboard
12:06 PM EDT - Hardware - System76 Keyboard - 34 Comments
OPNsense 20.7 Released For This BSD-Powered Open-Source Firewall
11:28 AM EDT - Operating Systems - OPNsense 20.7 - 7 Comments
Intel Celeron G5900 + Pentium Gold G6400 Benchmarks - Low-Price Comet Lake CPUs
10:20 AM EDT - Processors - 12 Comments
Intel ISPC Compiler Lands GPU Code Generation Support
08:46 AM EDT - Intel - Intel ISPC - Add A Comment
AMD's ROCm AOMP Compiler 11.7-1 Brings OMPD Support, ROCgdb
05:09 AM EDT - Radeon - ROCm AOMP 11.7-1 - 6 Comments
Intel Prepping Bus Lock Detection For Linux To Avoid This Performance Pitfall
02:56 AM EDT - Intel - Bus Lock Detection - 13 Comments
MSM Open-Source Driver Continues On Qualcomm Adreno 640/650 Series Bring-Up
12:09 AM EDT - Hardware - Freedreno MSM - 3 Comments
29 July
Linux Quietly Makes It Harder To Guess Network RNG's Internal State
08:43 PM EDT - Linux Networking - Security Issue? - 7 Comments
GCC Sees More Progress On Ability To Parallelize The Compilation Of Large Source Files
06:17 PM EDT - GNU - Parallelize GCC - Add A Comment
BootHole Blows Hole In GRUB2 Bootloader Security, Including UEFI SecureBoot
03:00 PM EDT - Linux Security - BootHole - 79 Comments
Samsung 870 QVO SSD Performance On Ubuntu Linux
11:30 AM EDT - Storage - 19 Comments
Nano 5.0 Released As A Big Feature Update To This Easy-To-Use Terminal Text Editor
10:20 AM EDT - GNU - Nano 5.0 - 23 Comments
Apache Software Foundation Estimates Its Code Value Increased ~$600M For FY2020
09:55 AM EDT - Free Software - Apache Value - 30 Comments
Google Sends Patches For AMD Zen / Zen 2 RAPL PowerCap Support
08:07 AM EDT - AMD - Runtime Average Power Limiting - 3 Comments
Intel Making It Easier To Flash Ethernet Device Firmware On Linux
06:41 AM EDT - Intel - PLDM For ICE - 8 Comments
L1d Flushing Patches Revived After It Was Rejected From Linux 5.8 As "Beyond Stupid"
02:57 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - L1 Data Cache Flushing - 32 Comments
Linux 5.9 To Support New EF100 NIC Architecture Developed By Xilinx
12:06 AM EDT - Linux Networking - SFC EF100 Network Driver - 7 Comments
28 July
LLVM 11.0-RC1 Now Available For Testing
08:21 PM EDT - LLVM - LLVM 11.0-RC1 - 2 Comments
AMD "Navy Flounder" Support Merged Into Mesa 20.2
04:27 PM EDT - Radeon - Navi 2 - 4 Comments
Microsoft Engineer Proposes "TRAMPFD" For Improving Linux Security
02:00 PM EDT - Microsoft - Trampoline File Descriptor - 21 Comments
Valve Hires Another Developer To Work On RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver
12:35 PM EDT - Valve - RADV - 28 Comments
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Hits Beta With New/Updated Application Streams
11:03 AM EDT - Red Hat - RHEL 8.3 - 4 Comments
OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 Reaches Alpha
10:42 AM EDT - Operating Systems - OpenMandriva 4.2 - Add A Comment
Microsoft + Oculus Shipping First Conformant OpenXR 1.0 Implementations
09:24 AM EDT - Standards - OpenXR 1.0 - 7 Comments
GNOME OS Images Available For Testing
09:13 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME OS - 4 Comments
Proposed GNOME Patches Would Switch To Triple Buffering When The GPU Is Running Behind
07:07 AM EDT - GNOME - Ramp Up The Clocks - 36 Comments
Rust-Written Redox OS Now Supports GDB Debugging
06:39 AM EDT - Operating Systems - GNU Debugger + Redox OS - 85 Comments
Linux To Allow Limiting Tiger Lake SoC PL4 Package Maximum Power Limit
03:48 AM EDT - Intel - Power Limit4 - 4 Comments
Radeon "Southern Islands" Support Continues Improving In AMDGPU Driver - GPU Reset
12:00 AM EDT - Radeon - GCN 1.0 / SI - 30 Comments
27 July
Intel Rolls Out Leadership Changes Following Last Week's 7nm Delay Announcement
06:27 PM EDT - Intel - Changes - 21 Comments
Purism's Librem 5 "Dogwood" Seeing Improvements In Battery Life
06:17 PM EDT - Hardware - Librem 5 - 27 Comments
Fedora 33 Making Progress With Their Btrfs-By-Default On The Desktop
04:24 PM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 33 + Btrfs - 22 Comments
Git 2.28 Now Shipping With Feature For Configurable Default/Main Branch Name
01:16 PM EDT - Programming - Phasing Out "Master" - 49 Comments
Firefox 79 Is Ready To Ship With Safeguard On "_blank" Links, More Wayland VA-API Work
11:53 AM EDT - Mozilla - Firefox 79.0 - 38 Comments
GCC Benchmarks At Varying Optimization Levels With Core i9 10900K Show An Unexpected Surprise
10:07 AM EDT - Software - 51 Comments
Linux Kernel Prepping To Make Use Of Intel's New SERIALIZE Instruction
07:15 AM EDT - Intel - Stopping Speculative Execution - 18 Comments
DragonFlyBSD Updates Its Intel + Radeon Linux-Ported Graphics Driver Code
06:40 AM EDT - BSD - Linux 4.12.14 - 4 Comments
MikroBUS Patches Being Worked On For Better Supporting These Add-On Boards Under Linux
04:08 AM EDT - Hardware - MikroBUS - 9 Comments
LuxCore Open-Source Renderer v2.4 Released With CUDA Support, Better Windows Scaling
12:09 AM EDT - Free Software - LuxCore Renderer 2.4 - 8 Comments
26 July
Linux 5.8-rc7 Released - Coming In Slightly Larger Than Normal
06:21 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.8-rc7 - 3 Comments
Enlightenment 0.24.2, Terminology 1.8 Released
04:26 PM EDT - Desktop - Enlightenment Releases - 19 Comments
SWVKC Is A Vulkan-Powered Wayland Compositor Focused On Performance + Correctness
12:49 PM EDT - Vulkan - SWVKC - 28 Comments
The New OpenBenchmarking.org Is Launching Soon
10:40 AM EDT - Free Software - New OpenBenchmarking.org - 12 Comments
Core i3 10100 vs. Core i5 10600K vs. Ryzen 3 3300X Linux Gaming Benchmarks
09:30 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - Linux Gaming Performance - 27 Comments
GCC's New Ranger Infrastructure Aims To Be In Good Shape For GCC 11
05:20 AM EDT - GNU - Ranger - 5 Comments
NetBSD Is Making Progress On Benchmarking For Performance/Regression Testing
03:00 AM EDT - BSD - NetBSD Benchmarking - 2 Comments
Zstd-Compressed Linux Kernel Images Look Very Close To Mainline With Great Results
12:00 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Zstd Kernel Boot - 56 Comments
25 July
GNOME-Usage Program Still Striving To Report Per-Program Power Analytics
05:07 PM EDT - GNOME - GNOME-Usage Power - 16 Comments
Intel "Input Output Manager" Linux Driver Coming For Tiger Lake
09:47 AM EDT - Intel - Input Output Manager - 2 Comments
Following Many Patches, Linux 5.9 Finally Switching To HTTPS Links En Masse
09:25 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - About Time? - 8 Comments
Mount Notification Support Still Coming Together For The Linux Kernel
06:41 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Mount Notifications - 12 Comments
KDE Plasma 5.20 To Bring Working Screen Recording / Screencasting On Wayland
06:21 AM EDT - KDE - Plasma 5.20 Screen Recording - 40 Comments
Sony Provides Patch To Linux 5.9 For Allowing Further Access Restrictions On DebugFS
12:00 AM EDT - Linux Security - Locking Up DebugFS - 4 Comments
24 July
The Linux Kernel Begins Preparing Support For SD Express Cards
08:20 PM EDT - Hardware - SD Express - 27 Comments
Nouveau Changes For Linux 5.9 Bring Fixes, Prep For Future Improvements
03:51 PM EDT - Nouveau - Linux 5.9 Nouveau - 5 Comments
Intel Core i5 10600K Comet Lake vs. Core i5 Skylake / Haswell / Sandy Bridge
02:15 PM EDT - Processors - 14 Comments
Intel Graphics Compiler Merges New Vector Compute Backend
10:03 AM EDT - Intel - Open-Source Vector Compute Backend - 6 Comments
Mir 2.0 Released In Dropping Legacy Bits, New Platform Improvements
09:29 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Mir 2.0 - 6 Comments
There's An Effort By A System76 Engineer To Bring Coreboot To Newer AMD Platforms
08:50 AM EDT - Coreboot - AMD Coreboot - 28 Comments
Systemd 246 Release Is Imminent With RC2 Released
06:44 AM EDT - systemd - systemd 246 RC2 - 8 Comments
digiKam 7.0 Open-Source Photo Manager Embraces Deep Learning, Improved HEIF Support
06:26 AM EDT - KDE - digiKam 7.0 - 12 Comments
Linux 5.9 To Support 6GHz WiFi With Qualcomm's Ath11k Driver
03:08 AM EDT - Linux Networking - Wireless Next - 12 Comments
Linux 5.9 Bringing IBM POWER "System Call Vectored" Support
12:04 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - POWER SCV - 1 Comment
23 July
Proposal Raised For GNOME Software Labeling Its Carbon Cost / Environmental Impact
06:08 PM EDT - GNOME - GNOME Environmental Impact - 77 Comments
Chrome 85 Beta Brings WebHID API For Better Gamepad Support, AVIF Image Decode
03:27 PM EDT - Google - Chrome 85 - 9 Comments
FGKASLR Revved For Improving Linux Kernel Security
01:34 PM EDT - Linux Security - Function Granular KASLR - 10 Comments
Unity 2020.1 Released With Many Fixes For Vulkan & Linux
09:58 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - Unity 2020.1 - 9 Comments
V3DV Vulkan Driver Now Running vkQuake On The Raspberry Pi
09:18 AM EDT - Vulkan - V3DV - 3 Comments
AMDVLK 2020.Q3.2 Radeon Vulkan Driver Christened Early Due To Bugs
06:55 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDVLK 2020.Q3.2 - 3 Comments
GCC 10.2 Compiler Released With Nearly 100 Bug Fixes
06:35 AM EDT - GNU - GCC 10.2 - 13 Comments
Google Finally Begins Their Open-Source Dance Around Linux User-Space Threading
03:17 AM EDT - Google - FUTEX_SWAP - 20 Comments
RenderDoc 1.9 Released - The Open-Source Graphics Debugging Tool Gets Even Better
12:00 AM EDT - Vulkan - RenderDoc 1.9 - 2 Comments
22 July
GNOME OS Is Taking Shape But Its To Serve For Testing The Desktop
09:15 PM EDT - GNOME - GNOME OS - 113 Comments
LLVMpipe Gallium3D Driver Now Exposes OpenGL 4.3
08:55 PM EDT - Mesa - OpenGL 4.3 For LLVMpipe - 20 Comments
RadeonSI Lands Bits In Mesa 20.2 For Better Dealing With GPU Virtualization
01:13 PM EDT - Mesa - Register Shadowing - 25 Comments
AMD Ryzen "Renoir" CPU Frequency Scaling Governor Performance
10:35 AM EDT - Processors - 12 Comments
Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" CRC Support Ready For Linux 5.9
07:00 AM EDT - Nouveau - CRC Display Bits - 21 Comments
Ruby on Rails 6.0 Slated For Fedora 33
06:41 AM EDT - Fedora - Ruby on Rails 6.0 - 14 Comments
New KDE Slimbook Released - Powered By AMD Ryzen 7 4800H
04:30 AM EDT - AMD - ProX + ProX 15 - 34 Comments
LLVM Clang Should Be Able To Build Linux 5.9 x86 32-bit Kernels
12:13 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.9 i386 Clang - 2 Comments
OpenRGB 0.3 Released For Open-Source RGB Lighting Control
12:00 AM EDT - Hardware - OpenRGB - 18 Comments
21 July
Build2 v0.13 Released As C/C++ Build Toolchain Inspired By Rust's Cargo
09:02 PM EDT - Programming - Build2 - 40 Comments
LLVM 10.0.1 Finally Ready As Latest Stable Compiler Version
08:46 PM EDT - LLVM - LLVM 10.0.1 - 7 Comments
Arm Backporting SLS Vulnerability Mitigation To Existing GCC Releases
04:39 PM EDT - Arm - Arm SLS - 5 Comments
Fedora Looks To Make DXVK Their Default Back-End For Direct3D 9/10/11 On Wine
11:17 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora + DXVK - 23 Comments
AMD Launches Ryzen 4000 APUs - But Only For Pre-Built PCs / OEMs
09:06 AM EDT - AMD - AMD Ryzen 4000 - 73 Comments
TUXEDO Computers Launches A Linux Laptop With Ryzen 7 4800H / Ryzen 5 4600H
08:58 AM EDT - AMD - TUXEDO Pulse 15 - 77 Comments
AMDVLK 2020.Q3.1 Vulkan Driver Brings More Performance Tuning
06:47 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDVLK 2020.Q3.1 - 18 Comments
Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.21 Released With Many Fixes, Big Performance Improvements For AArch64
06:36 AM EDT - Programming - Eclipse OpenJ9 0.21 - 16 Comments
Latest Linux Patch Further Confirms Intel Alder Lake As A Hybrid Core Design
06:05 AM EDT - Intel - Alder Lake Hybrid - 16 Comments
Fedora Developers Brainstorming Options For Better Memory Testing
03:23 AM EDT - Fedora - memtest86+ Alternatives - 25 Comments
Linux 5.9 To Support DM-CRYPT On Zoned Block Devices
12:00 AM EDT - Linux Storage - dm-crypt + Zoned Block Devices - 1 Comment
20 July
Linux Sound Subsystem Begins Cleaning Up Its Terminology To Meet Inclusive Guidelines
08:48 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Inclusive Terminology Guidelines - 144 Comments
Stratis 2.1 Proposed For Fedora 33 To Bring Per-Pool Encryption
06:32 PM EDT - Fedora - Stratis 2.1 - 20 Comments
The Document Foundation Officially Drops Branding For LibreOffice 7.0 "Personal Edition"
01:23 PM EDT - LibreOffice - No Personal Edition - 18 Comments
Sabrent USB 3.2 Enclosure + Sabrent Rocket Q 2TB NVMe SSD On Linux Performance
12:00 PM EDT - Storage - 13 Comments
Intel Async Page-Flipping Support Revised For Benefiting Skylake Graphics And Newer
09:56 AM EDT - Intel - Asynchronous Page Flips - 2 Comments
Linux Secret Memory "secretmemfd" System Call Remains Under Review
07:21 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - secretmemfd - 14 Comments
Vulkan 1.2.148 Release Tacks On Two More Extensions
06:55 AM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan 1.2.148 - Add A Comment
Radeon R600 Gallium3D NIR Backend Continues Advancing
06:41 AM EDT - Radeon - R600g NIR - 25 Comments
FFmpeg Adds H.265 Tile Encoding Support For VA-API With Intel Icelake+
06:29 AM EDT - Multimedia - Tile Encoding - 12 Comments
19 July
Linux 5.8-rc6 Kernel Released - "Things Continue To Look Very Normal"
07:14 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.8 - 4 Comments
The Small DRM Drivers See Another Round Of Updates For Linux 5.9
09:31 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - DRM-Misc-Next - 4 Comments
Zrythm Approaching Beta As An Easy-To-Use, Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation
06:15 AM EDT - Multimedia - Zrythm 0.8.694 - 24 Comments
Wine-Staging 5.13 Comes With 669 Patches Atop Upstream Wine
05:58 AM EDT - WINE - Wine-Staging 5.13 - 9 Comments
Intel's IWD Daemon Has Been Fleshing Out WiFi Display Support
03:40 AM EDT - Intel - WFD / Miracast - 12 Comments
Lutris Updated With D3D12 DLL Provided By VKD3D-Proton
12:33 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - Lutris 0.5.7.1 - 45 Comments
DragonFlyBSD Lands New EXT2/3/4 File-System Driver
12:09 AM EDT - BSD - ext2fs - 53 Comments
18 July
OpenMandriva Progressing On Rolling Release Version, Moving Away From i686 Repository
06:35 PM EDT - Operating Systems - OpenMandriva Rolling - 9 Comments
Debian 9.13 Released As The End To Stretch
04:18 PM EDT - Debian - Debian 9.13 - 5 Comments
High-End Lightworks Video Editor Finally Says Why They Didn't Go Open-Source Yet
11:50 AM EDT - Multimedia - Lightworks - 45 Comments
AMD Sends In Navy Flounder Support, More Sienna Cichlid For Linux 5.9
06:46 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDGPU DRM-Next - 15 Comments
KDE Developers Beating The Summer Heat By Fixing Up Recent Regressions
06:35 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Changes This Week - 22 Comments
Git 2.28-rc1 Released - Continues The Transition Towards SHA256 Plus Moving Off "Master"
04:19 AM EDT - Free Software - Git 2.28 - 61 Comments
LibreOffice 7.0 RC2 Released For This Vulkan-Supported Open-Source Office Suite
01:58 AM EDT - LibreOffice - LibreOffice 7.0 - 22 Comments
Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Enables Working FP16 Support
12:02 AM EDT - Mesa - Half-Precision Floating Point - 2 Comments
17 July
Wine 5.13 Released - Fixes 15 Year Old Bug To Support Windows NT INI Files To Registry Re-Mapping
06:03 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 5.13 - 20 Comments
Monado Working On Positional Tracking Support Via Libsurvive To Further Open-Source AR/VR
01:04 PM EDT - Standards - Monado - 4 Comments
I've Been Running The AMD Ryzen 7 4700U + Ubuntu 20.04 As My Main System
10:08 AM EDT - AMD - Lenovo Ryzen 7 + Ubuntu Linux - 56 Comments
Microsoft Releases Its Own Open-Source Process Monitor For Linux
09:14 AM EDT - Microsoft - ProcMon - 63 Comments
Kernel Patch Revved For Syscall User Redirection To Help Newer Windows Games On Wine
07:15 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Syscall User Redirection - 29 Comments
It Needs A Restart: GLIBC Drops Support For Restartable Sequences
06:51 AM EDT - GNU - Restartable Sequences - 5 Comments
Thunderbird 78 Rolls Out With UI Updates, New Features
06:25 AM EDT - Mozilla - Thunderbird 78 - 34 Comments
FreeBSD Back To Seeing Progress On 802.11ac WiFi Support, Ath10k Driver
03:17 AM EDT - BSD - 802.11ac + Ath10k - 3 Comments
Cage Wayland Compositor For Kiosk Use-Cases Updated With Direct Scan-Out, New Protocols
12:09 AM EDT - Wayland - Cage 0.1.2 - 3 Comments
16 July
Fedora 33 Is Shaping Up To Be One Of Its Biggest Releases Ever
08:53 PM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 33 Features - 22 Comments
DC Display Support Continues To Be Worked On For Radeon GCN 1.0 With AMDGPU Driver
06:03 PM EDT - Radeon - AMDGPU SI DC - 22 Comments
The Linux Performance For AMD Rome vs. Intel Cascade Lake One Year After Launch
02:30 PM EDT - Processors - 7 Comments
KDE's Konsole Continues Seeing New Features
01:37 PM EDT - KDE - Konsole Terminal Emulator - 16 Comments
WirePlumber Ready For The Linux Desktop As Replacement To PipeWire's Session Manager
11:02 AM EDT - Multimedia - WirePlumber 0.3 - 7 Comments
QEMU 5.1 Bringing Many CPU Improvements From Loongson To RISC-V To s390
07:54 AM EDT - Virtualization - QEMU 5.1 - 18 Comments
Intel Gen12 Graphics Bring EU Fusion - EUs Fused In Pairs
07:01 AM EDT - Intel - EU Fusion - 12 Comments
"Navy Flounder" Is The Newest AMD Navi 2 GPU Being Added To The Linux Driver
06:10 AM EDT - Radeon - Navy Flounder - 35 Comments
Early Intel DG1 Graphics Card Enablement Sent In To DRM-Next For Linux 5.9
02:47 AM EDT - Intel - DG1 For Linux 5.9 - Add A Comment
Sway 1.5 Wayland Compositor Released With Adaptive-Sync/VRR, New Protocols
12:00 AM EDT - Wayland - Sway 1.5 - 21 Comments
15 July
Approved: Fedora 33 Desktop Variants Defaulting To Btrfs File-System
08:42 PM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 33 Btrfs - 212 Comments
Valve/CodeWeavers Rolls Out Proton 5.0-10 RC For Death Stranding, One Day After Windows Release
07:28 PM EDT - Valve - Proton 5.0-10 - 10 Comments
FreeBSD Getting Close To Finally Migrating Development From Subversion To Git
05:27 PM EDT - BSD - Plus Better Hardware Support - 33 Comments
Linux Seeing Kernel GPU Driver Support Two Decades Later For Matrox G200 Graphics Cards
12:58 PM EDT - Hardware - Matrox G200 - 45 Comments
Intel Linux Graphics Driver Scheduling Improvements In The Works
10:04 AM EDT - Intel - Ring Scheduler For Gen6/Gen7 - 3 Comments
GCC 10.2 Gearing Up For Release Next Week - RC Available For Testing
LLVM 11 Feature Development Is Over With Many Changes
07:01 AM EDT - LLVM - LLVM 11 + Clang 11 - 9 Comments
GNU Toolchain Continues Phasing Out Native Client Support (NaCl)
06:43 AM EDT - Google - GNU NaCl - 2 Comments
Intel Adds More "Elkhart Lake" IDs To Their Linux Graphics Driver Code
06:22 AM EDT - Intel - Elkhart Lake - Add A Comment
Libinput 1.16 Will Warn You If Your System Is Too Slow
05:56 AM EDT - Wayland - libinput 1.16 - 42 Comments
14 July
Ice Lake Xeons Will Ramp Up Frequencies Slower, So Linux Is Preparing A Workaround
09:14 PM EDT - Intel - Ice Lake Xeons - 16 Comments
Linux 5.9 To Allow Defaulting To FQ-PIE Queuing Discipline For Fighting Bufferbloat
08:43 PM EDT - Linux Networking - FQ_PIE Qdisc - 5 Comments
JEDEC Publishes DDR5 Standard - Launching At 4.8 Gbps, Better Power Efficiency
01:31 PM EDT - Hardware - DDR5 - 58 Comments
AMD Launches The Ryzen Threadripper PRO For Workstations
12:30 PM EDT - Processors - 71 Comments
Mesa 20.2's Nouveau Enables HMM, OpenCL SVM Now Supported
11:28 AM EDT - Mesa - Nouveau HMM - 6 Comments
ReactOS Hires Developer To Work On Their Open-Source Windows Storage Stack
10:43 AM EDT - Operating Systems - ReactOS Storage - 13 Comments
AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT Memory Scaling Performance Under 100 Different Tests
09:51 AM EDT - AMD - Ryzen 9 3900XT + DDR4 Memory Frequency - 18 Comments
Linux 5.9 To Allow For Toggling Energy Efficiency Mode On Kaby Lake CPUs
09:28 AM EDT - Intel - Kaby Lake Energy Efficiency - 3 Comments
F2FS Preparing To Introduce New "Secure Erase" Functionality
07:05 AM EDT - Linux Storage - F2FS_IOC_SEC_TRIM_FILE - 28 Comments
Linux 5.9 Set To Bring ARMv8 TTL Support
06:45 AM EDT - Arm - Translation Table Level - Add A Comment
13 July
RADV Driver Lands Support For Vulkan Extended Dynamic State
09:08 PM EDT - Radeon - VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state - 8 Comments
Radeon RADV+ACO Vulkan Performance Is In Great Shape For Mesa 20.2
10:10 AM EDT - Display Drivers - 25 Comments
systemd-oomd Looks Like It Will Come Together For systemd 247
09:39 AM EDT - systemd - systemd 247 - 86 Comments
Early Work On KDE Frameworks 6 Continues
09:04 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Frameworks 6 - 53 Comments
GNOME Optimizations Continue In Striving For Faster 4K Experience
06:45 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME 4K - 64 Comments
Qt Creator 4.13 Beta Released - Finally Offers Meson Build System Integration
06:34 AM EDT - Qt - Qt Creator 4.13 - Add A Comment
12 July
Linux 5.8-rc5 Released As A Big Kernel For This Late In The Cycle
08:45 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.8-rc5 - 8 Comments
Intel AMX Support Lands In The GNU Assembler
09:14 AM EDT - Intel - Intel AMX - 4 Comments
Intel DG1 Graphics Card Bring-Up On Linux Continues - Latest Bits For Local Memory
08:38 AM EDT - Intel - DG1 LMEM - 4 Comments
Fedora Approves Of Making Nano The Default Terminal Text Editor, Other Features Accepted
07:04 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 33 - 46 Comments
Canonical Is Using Mir To Bring Flutter To Wayland
06:48 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Flutter Wayland - 57 Comments
Linux 5.9 Will Finally Offer Proper Support For The ThinkPad 10 Ultrabook Keyboard
06:01 AM EDT - Hardware - Lenovo Keyboard Support - Add A Comment
11 July
Linus Torvalds: "I Hope AVX512 Dies A Painful Death"
08:39 PM EDT - Intel - AVX-512 - 115 Comments
Synopsys DesignWare ARC HS CPUs Now Supported By GNU C Library
11:34 AM EDT - GNU - Synopsys DesignWare ARC HS - 4 Comments
Linus Torvalds' Initial Comment On Rust Code Prospects Within The Linux Kernel
09:46 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Rust Within The Kernel - 82 Comments
There Finally Is Work On Shipping Mozilla's WebRender For Some Linux Environments
09:24 AM EDT - Mozilla - WebRender - 10 Comments
KDE Plasma 5.20 Seeing More Wayland Fixes
07:01 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Wayland - 6 Comments
Linux 5.8 Formally Adds The Inclusive Terminology Guidelines
06:38 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Inclusive Terminology - 106 Comments
Cling C++ Interpreter Looking To Upstream More Code Into LLVM
12:01 AM EDT - LLVM - CLING - 6 Comments