New Low-Memory-Monitor Project Can Help With Linux's RAM/Responsiveness Problem
07:49 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Low-Memory-Monitor - Add A Comment
21 August
Xfce 4.16 Should Be Out Next Year But Without GTK4 Or Wayland
AMD Publishes New RDNA Whitepaper
06:44 AM EDT - Radeon - RDNA Architecture - Add A Comment
Debian Guts Support For Old MIPS CPUs
06:36 AM EDT - Debian - 32-bit MIPS BE - Add A Comment
Sony Continues Tuning AMD Jaguar Support Within The LLVM Clang Compiler
04:02 AM EDT - LLVM - PlayStation Compiler - 2 Comments
Blender 2.81 To Feature Intel Open Image Denoise & Eevee Renderer Improvements
12:49 AM EDT - Free Software - Blender 2.81 - 5 Comments
Netrunner 19.08 Released For Delivering A Clean KDE Experience Atop Debian 10
12:05 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Netrunner 19.08 - 5 Comments
20 August
Mesa 19.2-RC1 Released But Intel Still Looking To Add OpenGL 4.6 Support
07:31 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 19.2 + Maybe OpenGL 4.6 - Add A Comment
Raptor Computing Systems Planning To Launch New ATX POWER9 Board With OpenCAPI
07:10 PM EDT - Hardware - Raptor + OpenCAPI - 7 Comments
CodeWeavers Reflects On The Wild Year Since Valve Introduced Steam Play / Proton
03:42 PM EDT - Valve - Windows Gaming On Linux - 23 Comments
Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU12 Released - Adds GCC 9.1 Compiler & Python 3.7
POWER ISA Contributed To Open-Source, OpenPOWER Joining The Linux Foundation
12:23 PM EDT - Hardware - Open-Source POWER - 64 Comments
Linux "Lockdown" Patches Hit Their 40th Revision
09:39 AM EDT - Linux Security - Linux Lockdown v40 - 3 Comments
GCC 10 Lands Support For -march=tigerlake & -march=cooperlake
07:49 AM EDT - GNU - GCC 10 Tigerlake / Compilerlake - Add A Comment
Chromebooks Switching Over To The BFQ I/O Scheduler
06:49 AM EDT - Google - Chromebooks + BFQ - 9 Comments
GNOME 3.34 Works Out Refined XWayland Support For X11 Apps Run Under Sudo
04:00 AM EDT - GNOME - XWayland Xauth - 34 Comments
RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Renoir APU Support In Time For Mesa 19.2
12:50 AM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 19.2 RADV - 2 Comments
DragonFlyBSD Developing DSynth As Synth Rewrite For Custom Package Building
19 August
Mesa 19.2's Feature Freeze / Release Candidate Process Beginning Tomorrow
08:13 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 19.2 Approaching - 3 Comments
OBS Studio 24.0 Will Let You Pause While Recording, Other New Options
06:01 PM EDT - Free Software - OBS Studio 24.0 RC1 - 5 Comments
Approved: Fedora 31 To Drop i686 Everything/Modular Repositories
02:00 PM EDT - Fedora - Dropping i686 Repositories - 11 Comments
AMD Posts Navi Display Stream Compression Support For Linux
12:39 PM EDT - Radeon - Display Stream Compression - 21 Comments
POWER9 & ARM Performance Against Intel Xeon Cascadelake + AMD EPYC Rome
11:26 AM EDT - Processors - 22 Comments
Qt 6 Will Bring Improvements To The Toolkit's Python Support
09:21 AM EDT - Qt - Qt For Python - 16 Comments
Intel Icelake Thunderbolt Support Still Being Squared Away For Linux - Hopefully For 5.4
08:59 AM EDT - Intel - Icelake Thunderbolt - 2 Comments
A POWER'ful Announcement Is Expected Tomorrow Changing The Open-Source Landscape
07:09 AM EDT - Hardware - Biiiiiig Announcement - 32 Comments
System76 Still Aiming To Be The Apple Of The Linux Space With Software & Hardware
06:58 AM EDT - Hardware - System76 Software + Hardware - 58 Comments
NetBSD Sees Its First Wayland Application Running
06:28 AM EDT - BSD - NetBSD + Wayland - 8 Comments
18 August
Linux 5.3-rc5 Released Following A Calm Week
05:56 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.3-rc5 - 9 Comments
AMD Ryzen 5 3600X Linux Performance
02:46 PM EDT - Processors - 19 Comments
Intel Tries Again To Auto Enable GuC/HuC Functionality For Their Linux Graphics Driver
12:02 PM EDT - Intel - GuC HuC - 13 Comments
Qt's Development Branch To Begin Forming Qt 6
07:30 AM EDT - Qt - Qt 6 On Dev Branch - 12 Comments
Warfork Letting Warsow Live On Under Steam
07:22 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - Warfork - 7 Comments
KDE Usability & Productivity Initiative Coming To An End
07:06 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Improvements - 28 Comments
Knoppix 8.6 Released - This Original Linux Live Distro Now Based On Debian Buster
12:12 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Knoppix 8.6 - 17 Comments
17 August
Vulkan 1.1.120 Released As The Newest Maintenance Release
09:08 PM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan 1.1.120 - Add A Comment
Linux 5.3 Kernel Yielding The Best Performance Yet For AMD EPYC "Rome" CPU Performance
04:52 PM EDT - AMD - AMD EPYC 7742 2P - 8 Comments
System76 Unveils Their Firmware Manager Project For Graphically Updating Firmware
10:30 AM EDT - Hardware - System76 Firmware Manager - 45 Comments
Git 2.23 Brings New Switch & Restore Sub-Commands
09:24 AM EDT - Free Software - Git 2.23 - 24 Comments
Wine Staging 4.14 Carries 841 Patches Atop Upstream Wine
09:18 AM EDT - WINE - Wine-Staging 4.14 - Add A Comment
Linux 5.4 To Expose What's Keeping The System Awake Via Sysfs
08:08 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.4 Wakeups - Add A Comment
Unigine 2.9 Further Enhances Its Stunning Visuals
07:51 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - Unigine 2.9 - 10 Comments
16 August
Wine 4.14 Released With The Latest Bits For Running Windows Games/Programs On Linux
09:11 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 4.14 - 7 Comments
Linux 5.4 Set To Remove Intel XScale IOP33X/IOP13XX CPU Support
08:54 AM EDT - Intel - XScale - 5 Comments
Radeon Software for Linux 19.30 Updated With Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS Support
07:34 AM EDT - Radeon - Radeon Software for Linux 19.30 - 8 Comments
Intel Volleys Another Batch Of Tiger Lake "Gen 12" Graphics Code
07:12 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Tiger Lake Graphics Driver - Add A Comment
QEMU 4.1 Released With Many ARM, MIPS & x86 Additions
07:03 AM EDT - Virtualization - QEMU 4.1 - 14 Comments
Etnaviv Is Packing Code For An Exciting Linux 5.4 Cycle
06:33 AM EDT - Hardware - Open-Source Vivante - 2 Comments
Kdevops Aims To Assist In Linux Kernel Testing
06:24 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Kdevops - 3 Comments
15 August
Oracle Linux 7 Update 7 Released
09:26 PM EDT - Oracle - Oracle Linux 7 - 6 Comments
Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 19.Q3 for Linux Released
09:18 AM EDT - Radeon - Radeon Pro 19.Q3 - 5 Comments
AMDVLK 2019.Q3.4 Vulkan Driver Enables Atomic Optimizer For Navi
09:00 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDVLK 2019.Q3.4 - 16 Comments
KDE Applications 19.08 Released With Dolphin Improvements, Better Konsole Tiling
08:45 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Applications 19.08 - 29 Comments
Microsoft's Component Firmware Update Is Their Latest Short-Sighted Spec
08:03 AM EDT - Microsoft - Microsoft CFU - 13 Comments
Intel SYCL Compiler/Runtimes Updated With Unified Shared Memory Support
06:43 AM EDT - Intel - Intel SYCL - Add A Comment
AMD Bulldozer/Jaguar CPUs Will No Longer Advertise RdRand Support Under Linux
04:20 AM EDT - AMD - AMD RdRand Issue With BIOS - 25 Comments
Oracle Is Working To Upstream More Of DTrace To The Linux Kernel & eBPF Implementation
LLVM 9.0-RC2 Released While LLVM 10 Switches To C++14
12:00 AM EDT - LLVM - LLVM C++14 - 3 Comments
14 August
AMD Renoir Lands In Mesa's RadeonSI - Further Pointing To Vega, Not Navi
07:55 PM EDT - Radeon - Renoir RadeonSI - 36 Comments
Clear Linux Rolls Out Revamped Documentation
05:12 PM EDT - Clear Linux - Clear Linux - 8 Comments
EPEL 8.0 Is Now Ready To Offer Up More Packages To Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Users
01:29 PM EDT - Red Hat - EPEL 8.0 - 4 Comments
Blender 2.80 Performance With Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 vs. AMD EPYC 7742
10:01 AM EDT - Computers - 15 Comments
The Qt Company Announces Its New High-Level 3D API - Qt Quick 3D
06:46 AM EDT - Qt - Qt6 3D API - 17 Comments
FreeBSD 13 Is Preparing To Finally Retire GCC 4.2
06:36 AM EDT - BSD - GCC 4.2 - 17 Comments
Building The Default x86_64 Linux Kernel In Just 16 Seconds
03:02 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux x86_64 defconfig - 52 Comments
A Script Making It Easier Turning A FreeBSD Install Into A Working Desktop
12:43 AM EDT - BSD - FreeBSD Easy Desktop - 31 Comments
Apache Software Foundation's Code-Base Valued At $20 Billion USD
12:00 AM EDT - Free Software - 2019 Report - 10 Comments
13 August
Reiser4 File-System Port Updated For The Linux 5.1 + Linux 5.2 Kernels
06:15 PM EDT - Linux Storage - Reiser4 - 17 Comments
Cooling The Raspberry Pi 4 With The Fan SHIM & FLIRC For Better Performance
03:30 PM EDT - Peripherals - 64 Comments
NVIDIA 435.17 Linux Beta Driver Adds Vulkan + OpenGL PRIME Render Offload
01:15 PM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA 435.17 Linux - 27 Comments
Vulkan Video Decoding Coming In H1'2020, Ray-Tracing Progressing
01:00 PM EDT - Standards - Vulkan Ray-Tracing - 11 Comments
NVIDIA Continues To Be Involved With Making Vulkan More Appropriate For Machine Learning
12:41 PM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan Machine Learning - 3 Comments
Fedora Developers Discuss Ways To Improve Linux Interactivity In Low-Memory Situations
09:25 AM EDT - Fedora - Better OOM Killing - 68 Comments
Oracle's Kernel Test Framework Might Be Added To The Linux Kernel Tree
08:12 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux Kernel Test Framework - 4 Comments
Mir 1.4 Released With Fix For GTK3, Support For Exclusive Zones
07:01 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Mir 1.4 - 4 Comments
Qt PDF Being Discussed For Qt 5.14
06:48 AM EDT - Qt - Qt 5.14 PDF - 3 Comments
Linux Finally Has A Fix For Crackling Audio Input On Recent AMD Systems
01:50 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Distorted Audio - 46 Comments
ROCK Pi 4 Is Becoming A Good Arm SBC With Panfrost Graphics & Wayland Support
12:02 AM EDT - Hardware - ROCK Pi 4 - 18 Comments
12 August
Intel's Linux Graphics Driver Developers Discover 3~20% Boost For Current-Gen Hardware
06:48 PM EDT - Intel - More Performance - 12 Comments
DragonFlyBSD 5.6.2 Released With Disruptive Change To Help Chromium, Ported Apps
05:47 PM EDT - BSD - DragonFlyBSD 5.6.2 - 2 Comments
TGSI To NIR Improvements Hit Mesa 19.2 For RadeonSI
05:10 PM EDT - Mesa - RadeonSI NIR - 6 Comments
AMD Ryzen 3000 Series Playing Nicely With Latest Linux Distros Following BIOS Updates
11:00 AM EDT - AMD - Systemd RdRand Issue Fixed - 21 Comments
Gentoo's 64-bit ARM Support Is Now In Good Shape With Profiles Deemed Stable
10:10 AM EDT - Operating Systems - AArch64 / ARM64 - 11 Comments
AMD EPYC Rome Still Conquering Cascadelake Even Without Mitigations
09:43 AM EDT - Processors - 16 Comments
Intel Tiger Lake Support Added To The LLVM Clang 10 Compiler
07:29 AM EDT - Intel - -march=tigerlake - 3 Comments
Stepping Towards Better VR Headset Support On Wayland
06:58 AM EDT - Wayland - DRM Leasing On Wayland - 5 Comments
GCC 9.2 Released With Bug Fixes & AMD Zen 2 Improvements
06:49 AM EDT - GNU - GCC 9.2 - Add A Comment
Xfce 4.14 Desktop Officially Released
12:09 AM EDT - Desktop - Xfce 4.14 - 55 Comments
11 August
Linux 5.3-rc4 Released With A Week Of Fixes Plus SWAPGS "Grand Schemozzle" Code
05:18 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.3-rc4 - 1 Comment
Vulkan 1.1.118 Released With New AMD Extensions
11:08 AM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan 1.1.118 - 12 Comments
Linux 4.4 & 4.9 Kernels Get Back-Ported SWAPGS Protection
10:14 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - SWAPGS Spectre V1 - 3 Comments
Linux Deprecating Wireless USB & Ultra Wideband Subsystems
09:11 AM EDT - Hardware - Obsolete - 8 Comments
Improved Fscrypt File Encryption Handling Aims For Linux 5.4
08:17 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Fscrypt - 6 Comments
KDE Frameworks 5.61 Fixes The Directory/Desktop File Security Vulnerability
08:01 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Frameworks 5.61 - 6 Comments
System76 Preparing To Roll Out Their First Coreboot-Enabled Laptop
07:58 AM EDT - Coreboot - System76 Darter Pro OSFC Edition - 27 Comments
Wave Hello To WEV - Similar To X.Org's Xev For Event Viewing On Wayland
07:37 AM EDT - Wayland - WEV - 12 Comments
KDE Picks Up Much Better GTK3 App Integration, Better Wayland Performance
07:14 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Improvements - 15 Comments
10 August
X.Org Server Gains Support For Auto-Binding Secondary GPUs To The Screen
09:30 PM EDT - X.Org - X.Org Auto-Bind Secondary - 31 Comments
A Third-Party Installer Allows Clear Linux To Run On Microsoft Windows WSL
10:34 AM EDT - Clear Linux - Windows Subsystem for Linux - 17 Comments
Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 Is Now Available For Testing
10:23 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 - 6 Comments
GNU Radio Sees Its First Release In More Than Six Years
08:03 AM EDT - GNU - GNU Radio 3.8 - 9 Comments
07:10 AM EDT - Google - Chrome 77 Beta - 6 Comments
GNOME Shell & Mutter Reach The 3.34 Beta Milestone With Last-Minute Changes
07:02 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME 3.34 Beta - 6 Comments
9 August
AMD Sends Out Initial Linux Driver Support For "Renoir" APUs
12:31 PM EDT - AMD - AMD Renoir - 40 Comments
GCC vs. LLVM Clang vs. AOCC Compiler Benchmarks On The AMD EPYC 7742
07:00 AM EDT - Software - 15 Comments
F2FS Case-Insensitive Support Is Pending Ahead Of The Linux 5.4 Kernel
06:00 AM EDT - Linux Storage - F2FS Case Insensitivity - 2 Comments
A Modern Supermicro Kabylake Xeon Motherboard Now Supports Coreboot
05:27 AM EDT - Coreboot - Coreboot Xeon Motherboard - 4 Comments
Sway 1.2-RC1 Released For The i3-Inspired Wayland Compositor
05:03 AM EDT - Wayland - Sway 1.2 - 10 Comments
Ubuntu's Yaru Desktop Theme Seeing Updates - Big Update Against GTK's Latest Adwaita
04:53 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Yaru Theme - 19 Comments
8 August
Proton 4.11-2 Pulls In Newest DXVK While Fixing High Refresh Rates For Older Games
04:12 PM EDT - Valve - Proton 4.11-2 - 9 Comments
Summing Up The AMD EPYC 7742 2P Performance In One Graphic
12:00 PM EDT - AMD - 7742 vs. 7601 vs. Xeon Platinum 8280 - 23 Comments
Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS Released - Switches To Using 19.04's Linux 5.0 HWE
10:14 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS - 19 Comments
How Can AMD EPYC "Rome" 7002 Series Be Even Better? Open-Source BIOS / Coreboot
07:00 AM EDT - AMD - Open-Sourcing Rome? - 28 Comments
LibreOffice 6.3 Released With Better Performance, UI Enhancements
06:47 AM EDT - LibreOffice - LibreOffice 6.3 - 29 Comments
Red Hat Joins The RISC-V Foundation
05:57 AM EDT - Red Hat - Red Hat + RISC-V - 18 Comments
GTK-VNC 1.0 Released With GTK3 Requirement & Other Improvements
AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler 2.0 Released With Zen 2 Support
05:37 AM EDT - AMD - AMD AOCC 2.0 - 4 Comments
Libinput 1.14 Released With Dell Canvas Totem Support, Touchpad Improvements
05:28 AM EDT - X.Org - Libinput 1.14 - 2 Comments
7 August
AMD EPYC 7502 + EPYC 7742 Linux Performance Benchmarks
07:00 PM EDT - Processors - 45 Comments
AMD EPYC 7002 Series Unveiled With Primed Linux Support & Strong Server Performance
07:00 PM EDT - Processors - 12 Comments
NVIDIA Starts Publishing GPU Hardware Documentation To Help Open-Source Drivers
02:22 PM EDT - NVIDIA - open-gpu-doc - 85 Comments
Initial Benchmarks Of The Spectre "SWAPGS" Mitigation Performance Impact
09:30 AM EDT - Software - 22 Comments
Lars Knoll Shares His Technical Vision For The Qt 6 Tool-Kit
08:33 AM EDT - Qt - Qt6 - 26 Comments
Canonical Confirms Their Experimental ZFS Plans For The Ubuntu 19.10 Desktop
07:09 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 19.10 Desktop + ZFS - 16 Comments
Khronos Releases OpenCL 2.2-11 While Still Waiting For OpenCL-Next
06:19 AM EDT - Standards - OpenCL 2.2-11 - 9 Comments
AMD Submits Navi 12/14 & Arcturus GPU Support Code For Linux 5.4 Kernel Queue
05:13 AM EDT - Radeon - New GPUs For DRM-Next - 12 Comments
RADV Driver Plumbs Navi Support For Performance-Improving DCC On Storage Images
03:33 AM EDT - Mesa - DCC For Storage Images - Add A Comment
NetworkManager 1.20 Released With WiFi Mesh Network Support, WireGuard Improvements
01:00 AM EDT - GNOME - NetworkManager 1.20 - 4 Comments
6 August
CVE-2019-1125 "SWAPGS" Is The Newest Spectre Vulnerability
07:41 PM EDT - Linux Security - CVE-2019-1125 - 25 Comments
Yes, Linux Does Bad In Low RAM / Memory Pressure Situations On The Desktop
02:15 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Not Enough RAM - 165 Comments
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Brings Cloud Improvements, Kernel Livepatching
01:45 PM EDT - Red Hat - RHEL 7.7 - Add A Comment
Intel's Iris Gallium3D Driver Gets A 1 Line Patch To Bump The Performance By ~1%
12:29 PM EDT - Intel - Intel Gallium3D - 5 Comments
KDevelop 5.4 Released With Meson Support, Scratchpad Plug-In
11:07 AM EDT - KDE - KDevelop 5.4 - 5 Comments
FFmpeg 4.2 Released With AV1 Decoding Support, GIF Parser
10:02 AM EDT - Multimedia - FFmpeg 4.2 - 9 Comments
GNOME 3.34 Beta Released - Now Under UI/Feature/API/ABI Freezes
09:12 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME 3.34 - 11 Comments
Intel Xeon Cooper Lake To Offer Up To 56 Cores Per Socket Next Year
09:00 AM EDT - Intel - Cooper Lake - 4 Comments
Google Engineers Get Windows Booting When Kexec'ed Under Linux
07:55 AM EDT - Google - Windows Under Linux - 20 Comments
AMD Posts A New Slide Deck Outlining The RDNA Architecture
07:34 AM EDT - Radeon - RDNA Architecture Look - 5 Comments
Microsoft Works On Adding More Bling To The Windows Terminal
07:02 AM EDT - Microsoft - Windows Terminal 0.3 - 28 Comments
Valve's ACO Compiler, Zink, FreeSync & Other Topics To Be Talked About At XDC 2019
06:39 AM EDT - X.Org - X.Org Developers Conference - 2 Comments
GNOME 3.34 Now Supports Starting XWayland On-Demand
06:26 AM EDT - Wayland - On-Demand XWayland - 13 Comments
5 August
DXVK 1.3.2 Released With Fixes/Improvements For The Division, World of Warcraft & More
06:20 PM EDT - Vulkan - DXVK 1.3.2 - Add A Comment
GlusterFS Planning To Drop 32-Bit Support
01:29 PM EDT - Red Hat - GlusterFS Ending 32-bit - 16 Comments
Another Look At The Maturing AMD Radeon RX 5700 Series Linux Performance
12:18 PM EDT - Display Drivers - 17 Comments
GCC 9.2 Available For Testing With Tuned AMD Zen 2 Support Back-Ported
10:24 AM EDT - GNU - GCC 9.2 - Add A Comment
Another GNOME Improvement Being Discussed To Help With Touchpad Scrolling / Tablets
08:35 AM EDT - GNOME - Scrolling Performance - 32 Comments
Haiku Developers Begin Optimizing Their BeOS-Inspired OS For Performance
07:20 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Haiku Operating System - 32 Comments
Debian 10.1 Expected For Release In One Month
06:58 AM EDT - Debian - Debian 10.1 - 17 Comments
LLVM 8.0.1 Released With Bug Fixes
06:50 AM EDT - LLVM - LLVM 8.0.1 - 5 Comments
Linux 5.3-rc3 Comes In As A Calm Release
05:45 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.3-rc3 - 9 Comments
4 August
Intel's IWD 0.19 Linux Wireless Daemon Picks Up New Features
06:53 PM EDT - Intel - Intel IWD - 9 Comments
Mesa 19.1.4: Intel Vulkan Fixes For Older Generations, Max Payne 3 Issue Fixed For RADV
Debian's DebConf 19 Slides & Video Presentations
09:02 AM EDT - Debian - Watch Now - 3 Comments
GCC 10's LTO Will Make Use Of Available CPU Cores By Default
08:26 AM EDT - GNU - GCC 10 Link-Time Optimizations - 31 Comments
Monado Open-Source OpenXR Implementation Seeing Driver Work On PSVR, OSVR, Razer Hydra
Intel's Iris Gallium3D Driver Now Has Better OpenGL Compatibility Profile Support
07:14 AM EDT - Intel - GLSL 4.60 Compat - 2 Comments
KDE System Settings Now Shows Basic Hardware/Software Details, Wayland Improvements
06:54 AM EDT - KDE - KDE August - 21 Comments
3 August
Godot Making Progress On Vulkan Support, Threaded Shader Compilation
Wine On 64-bit NetBSD Is Now In Much Better Shape Thanks To GSoC
07:46 PM EDT - BSD - NetBSD + Wine - Add A Comment
AMD Radeon GCN Offloading Support For OpenMP/OpenACC On The Way For GCC 10
02:47 PM EDT - GNU - GCC 10 GPU Offloading - 13 Comments
Radeon Vulkan Driver Now Supports Wave32 Support For More Shaders
09:08 AM EDT - Vulkan - RADV Vulkan Driver - 4 Comments
Qt Creator 4.10 RC Available With Support For Pinning Files, UI Improvements
Wine Staging 4.13 Brings Fixes For Epic Games Launcher, Cmd.exe File Association
07:54 AM EDT - WINE - Wine-Staging 4.13 - 2 Comments
Intel OpenCL Runtime 19.30.13641 Adds Elkhart Lake Support, Other Changes
07:30 AM EDT - Intel - Intel OpenCL 19.30.13641 - Add A Comment
The Smaller DRM Drivers Begin Seeing Their Improvements Queued For Linux 5.4
07:20 AM EDT - X.Org - Linux 5.4 DRM-Misc-Next - Add A Comment
2 August
Wine 4.13 Released Following Nearly Month Long Summer Holiday
04:36 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 4.13 - 4 Comments
Broadcom's VC4/V3D Driver Developer Parts Ways To Join Google
01:28 PM EDT - Mesa - VC4/V3D Driver - 22 Comments
GNOME Launches An Inclusion & Diversity Team
12:46 PM EDT - GNOME - GNOME Inclusion + Diversity Team - Add A Comment
AMD Zen 2 Performance Looking Even Better With GCC 10
10:26 AM EDT - Software - 23 Comments
Intel Sends Out First Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 5.4 With Tiger Lake Support
09:15 AM EDT - Intel - Linux 5.4 Intel DRM - 7 Comments
Firefox 68 vs. Chrome 76 Linux Web Browser Performance Benchmarks
07:38 AM EDT - Desktop - Firefox vs. Chrome - 66 Comments
The MATE Desktop Is Becoming Quite Usable On Wayland Via Mir
06:33 AM EDT - Desktop - MATE Mir - 16 Comments
Linux Mint 19.2 Officially Released
06:24 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Linux Mint 19.2 - 15 Comments
LLVM Plans To Complete Transition To Git From SVN By October
03:02 AM EDT - LLVM - LLVM SVN To Git - 11 Comments
AMD Publishes Documentation On RDNA 1.0 ISA
12:46 AM EDT - Radeon - RDNA 1.0 Instruction Set - 14 Comments
System76 To Introduce New "Adder WS" Laptop With 4K OLED Display
12:05 AM EDT - Hardware - System76 Adder WS - 28 Comments
1 August
Steam Linux Usage Slipped In July According To Valve's Current Data
08:44 PM EDT - Valve - Steam Linux Survey - 42 Comments
AMD Sends Out Linux Kernel Driver Support For Navi 12 GPUs
07:19 PM EDT - Radeon - Navi 12 AMDGPU - 13 Comments
A Look At Intel's Clear Linux Performance Over The Course Of July
11:00 AM EDT - Clear Linux - Clear Linux July - 4 Comments
Intel Launches 11 New Icelake CPUs - Still Just Laptops/2-in-1s Up To 4 Cores
09:17 AM EDT - Intel - More CPUs - 27 Comments
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X SMT Linux Performance Benchmarks
09:07 AM EDT - AMD - Ryzen 9 3900X Benchmarks - 20 Comments
Intel's Linux Graphics Driver Begins Preparing For Multi-GPU Support
07:29 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Multi-GPU Support - 8 Comments
Glibc 2.30 Released With Unicode 12.1 Support, New POSIX-Proposed Functions
06:58 AM EDT - GNU - GNU C Library 2.30 - 11 Comments
Sysprof Picks Up Profiling Support For CPU Power Consumption
06:44 AM EDT - GNOME - Sysprof - 2 Comments
Xfce 4.14 Should Finally Be Out By Mid-August - Final Testing Now With "Pre3"
06:29 AM EDT - Desktop - Xfce 4.14 - 29 Comments
AMD Dominated The Conversation Among Linux/Open-Source Fans In July
05:57 AM EDT - Phoronix - AMD On Linux - Add A Comment
Fedora Has Formed A Minimization Team To Work On Shrinking Packaged Software
12:11 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora Minimization Team - 33 Comments
31 July
The Latest GNOME Performance Issue Being Addressed Are OpenGL Pipeline Stalls
08:01 PM EDT - GNOME - GNOME OpenGL Pipeline Stalls - 24 Comments
Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver Adds Navi Wave32 Support For Compute Shaders
10:00 AM EDT - Radeon - RADV Wave32 Compute Shaders - 5 Comments
Mining Monero Cryptocurrency On The Open-Source POWER9 Raptor Blackbird
09:19 AM EDT - Hardware - Monero + Blackbird - 6 Comments
NordLynx: NordVPN Builds New Tech Around WireGuard
08:47 AM EDT - Free Software - NordLynx - 12 Comments
Intel's OpenCL "NEO" Linux Driver Stack Rolls Out The Experimental SYCL Support
NetBSD 9.0 Prepping For Release With AArch64 Support, Kernel ASLR & Better NVMe Perf
06:36 AM EDT - BSD - NetBSD 9.0 - 3 Comments
UBports Is Working On Ubuntu Touch OTA-10
05:49 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Plus PinePhone + Librem 5 Ports - Add A Comment
Systemd 243 RC1 Brings Its PStore Service, Zen2/RdRand Workaround & More
03:35 AM EDT - systemd - systemd 243 - 26 Comments
System76 Granted A Thunderbolt License To Integrate Into Their Open Firmware
01:32 AM EDT - Hardware - System76 Open Firmware - 27 Comments
Fedora Has Deferred Its Decision On Stopping Modular/Everything i686 Repositories
12:00 AM EDT - Fedora - i686 Repos Undecided - 55 Comments
30 July
Intel Uses Its SIGGRAPH "CREATE" Event To Talk Up More Software Advancements
10:00 PM EDT - Intel - CREATE 2019 - 3 Comments
Proton Re-Based To Wine 4.11, Adds D9VK Direct3D 9, Better CPU Utilization & DXVK 1.3
07:54 PM EDT - Valve - Proton 4.11 - 60 Comments
Chrome 76 Released With Flash Blocked By Default
06:08 PM EDT - Google - Chrome 76 - 26 Comments
Blender 2.80 Officially Released With Its Revamped UI, Eevee PBR Renderer
12:51 PM EDT - Free Software - Blender 2.80 - 27 Comments
Valve Funded Development Of Xrdesktop - Lets GNOME & KDE Work In VR
11:35 AM EDT - Valve - Xrdesktop - 27 Comments
How The RadeonSI Performance Has Evolved For Navi 10 Since Launch
10:36 AM EDT - Radeon - RadeonSI Then vs. Now - 11 Comments
Unity 2019.2 Released With Latest Features For This Cross-Platform Game Engine
09:33 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - Unity 2019.2 - Add A Comment
Manjaro Moving Ahead With Snap Support, Bundling Proprietary FreeOffice
09:18 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Manjaro + Snaps - 82 Comments
MoltenVK Now Supports More Vulkan Extensions, Begins Targeting Metal 3.0
07:39 AM EDT - Vulkan - MoltenVK 1.0.36-Metal-3.0 - 9 Comments
AMD Zen 2 "Znver2" Compiler Optimizations Back-Ported For GCC 9.2 Compiler
06:51 AM EDT - GNU - Znver2 + GCC 9.2 - 2 Comments
Valve's ACO AMD Shader Compiler Now Can Handle Vertex Shaders
06:09 AM EDT - Valve - ACO Compiler - 18 Comments
Linux's KVM Sees Patches For RISC-V Support
03:18 AM EDT - Virtualization - Linux + KVM + RISC-V - 5 Comments
RadeonSI Gallium3D Gets Wired For Compute-Only Arcturus To Handle Video Decode
12:57 AM EDT - Radeon - Arcturus Video Decode - 7 Comments
LLVM 9.0-RC1 Arrives For Testing
12:01 AM EDT - LLVM - LLVM 9.0 - 4 Comments
29 July
AMD's Linux Driver Gets Power Management In Order For Unreleased "Arcturus" GPU
05:03 PM EDT - Radeon - Arcturus PowerPlay - 9 Comments
NVIDIA 430.40 Linux Driver Released With RTX 2080 SUPER Support, RTX 3000 Max-Q
01:27 PM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA 430.40 Linux Driver - 4 Comments
Radeon RX 5700 / RX 5700 XT Linux Gaming Performance With AMDGPU 5.3 + Mesa 19.2-devel
12:08 PM EDT - Graphics Cards - 18 Comments
Purism Finally Announces The Firmed Up Specifications For The Librem 5 Smartphone
11:00 AM EDT - Hardware - Librem 5 Specifications - 133 Comments
Vulkan 1.1.117 Adds Line Rasterization - Helping Out CAD Applications & More
10:39 AM EDT - Vulkan - Plus ASTC HDR Compression - 2 Comments
Khronos Officially Releases OpenXR 1.0
09:15 AM EDT - Standards - OpenXR 1.0 - 41 Comments
AMDVLK 2019.Q3.3 Released With More Navi Performance Tuning, Vulkan Extensions
07:37 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDVLK 2019.Q3.3 - 9 Comments
TurboSched Is A New Linux Scheduler Focused On Maximizing Turbo Frequency Usage
07:09 AM EDT - Hardware - TurboSched - 13 Comments
PyPy JIT Now Running Well On 64-Bit ARM For Faster Performance
06:44 AM EDT - Arm - PyPy JIT For AArch64 - Add A Comment
Radeon GPU Profiler 1.6 Released With Navi/RDNA Support
06:31 AM EDT - Radeon - Radeon GPU Profiler - Add A Comment
28 July
Latte Dock 0.9 Brings Better Settings, Layout Enhancements
07:15 PM EDT - KDE - Latte Dock 0.9 - 14 Comments
Linux 5.3-rc2 Comes In As Reasonably Large Following The Big Merge Window
04:35 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.3 - 5 Comments
GNOME's Pango 1.44 Released With Many Text Rendering Improvements
09:46 AM EDT - GNOME - Pango 1.44 - 20 Comments
Linux 5.4 To Support The Buttons On Newer Microsoft Surface Laptops
09:16 AM EDT - Hardware - Surface Buttons - 4 Comments
EROFS-Utils Adds LZ4 Compression Bits, Finally Has A README
07:01 AM EDT - Linux Storage - EROFS - 3 Comments
Linux's 32-Bit Kernel Has Been Buggy Since Being Mitigated For Meltdown
06:37 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - KPTI On 32-Bit - 90 Comments
Linux k10temp Support Pending For AMD Ryzen 3000 Series Processors
06:23 AM EDT - AMD - AMD Zen 2 + k10temp - 19 Comments
KDE Ends July With Improved Widget Positioning, Faster KRunner Results
05:56 AM EDT - KDE - KDE July Enhancements - 3 Comments
27 July
Linux 5.2/5.3 Kernel Performance On The AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
07:00 AM EDT - AMD - Ryzen 9 3900X Linux Kernel Benchmarks - 12 Comments
KernelShark 1.0 Released After Switching From GTK To Qt
06:21 AM EDT - Free Software - KernelShark 1.0 - 21 Comments
X.Org SiS Driver Kept Alive In 2019 To Fix Silly Compiler Warnings
Alibaba Crafts A 16-Core RISC-V Chip @ 2.5GHz
05:59 AM EDT - Hardware - RISC-V 16-Core 2.5GHz CPU - 105 Comments
Windows' WSL2 Now Allows Localhost Access, Custom Kernels
12:10 AM EDT - Microsoft - Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 - Add A Comment
26 July
Binomial's Basis Universal To Super-Compress glTF Assets, WebGL Gets New Extensions
01:23 PM EDT - Standards - SIGGRAPH 2019 News - 9 Comments
Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Performance On AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
09:02 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 38 Comments
Ubuntu 19.10 Development Continues With Latest GNOME Updates, ZFS, Optimizations
06:52 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine - 29 Comments
NVIDIA Posts New OpenGL Extensions For Multi-GPU Rendering
06:12 AM EDT - NVIDIA - Multicast2 Extensions - 20 Comments
Collabora Still Investing In "Zink" For OpenGL Over Vulkan, But Back To GL 2.1
02:00 AM EDT - Vulkan - Zink Vulkan - 11 Comments
X.Org's S3 Graphics Driver Sees First Release In Seven Years - Still Pre-1.0
12:00 AM EDT - X.Org - xf86-video-s3 - 40 Comments
25 July
SDL 2.0.10 Released With New APIs, Drops Mir In Favor Of Wayland
07:11 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - SDL 2.0.10 - 6 Comments
Sailfish OS 3.1 Released As Jolla's Biggest Update In A Year
12:33 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Sailfish OS 3.1 - 41 Comments
XCP-ng 8.0 Hypervisor Released - Based On Xen 4.11, Embeds ZFS On Linux, Adds UEFI
12:17 PM EDT - Virtualization - XCP-ng 8.0 - 5 Comments
PHP 7.4 Reaches Feature Freeze, Beta 1 Released
08:11 AM EDT - Programming - PHP 7.4 Beta 1 - Add A Comment
Razer's Linux Laptop Plans Appear To Have Been Mothballed
07:24 AM EDT - Hardware - Razer Linux Laptop - 31 Comments
Phoronix Test Suite 9.0 Milestone 1 Delivers New Result Viewer, Other Features
07:05 AM EDT - Phoronix Test Suite - Phoronix Test Suite 9.0 - 10 Comments
Fedora's ARM SIG Is Looking At Making An AArch64 Xfce Desktop Spin
06:04 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 64-bit ARM Xfce Desktop - 10 Comments
Clear Linux Moving Ahead With Their Third-Party Packaging Support
01:41 AM EDT - Clear Linux - Clear Linux Third-Party Beta - 26 Comments
DragonFlyBSD Replacing Their 48-Core Opteron Infrastructure With Ryzen 9 3900X CPUs
12:00 AM EDT - BSD - Plus A Xeon - 33 Comments
24 July
MoltenVK 1.0.36 Released With Many Fixes & Improvements For Vulkan On MacOS
07:27 PM EDT - Vulkan - MoltenVK 1.0.36 - 11 Comments
FSF-Approved gNewSense Maintainer Parts Way With Project
03:54 PM EDT - GNU - No gNewSense Maintainer - 14 Comments
Initial Benchmarks Of Endeavour OS - The New Linux Distro Based On Arch
10:40 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 25 Comments
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Enters Beta
09:51 AM EDT - Red Hat - RHEL 8.1 Beta - 13 Comments
Deepin 15.11 Desktop Could Be On The Way To Fedora 31
09:14 AM EDT - Desktop - Deepin 15.11 - 7 Comments
GCC 10 Likely To See "-flto=auto" Option
07:51 AM EDT - SUSE - -flto=auto - 24 Comments
GNOME 3.33.4 Released As The Last Step Before The GNOME 3.34 Beta
06:30 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME 3.33.4 - 8 Comments
Fedora CoreOS Sees Its First Preview Release
06:12 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora CoreOS - 11 Comments
RADV's Navi Support Gets Patches For Vulkan Transform Feedback
12:02 AM EDT - Mesa - Navi VK_EXT_transform_feedback - 11 Comments
23 July
Fedora 31 Looking At Making It Easy To Use LLVM's LLD Linker
09:15 PM EDT - Fedora - Fedora LLD Linker Support - 7 Comments
RADV Lands Binning Support For GFX10/Navi For Faster Vulkan Performance
03:55 PM EDT - Mesa - RADV Binning - 2 Comments
Radeon Cauldron 1.0 Released As AMD's New SDK Framework
02:51 PM EDT - Radeon - Radeon Cauldron 1.0 - 15 Comments
Mesa 19.1.3 Led By Fixes For Intel & Radeon Vulkan Drivers
11:58 AM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 19.1.3 - Add A Comment
GCC vs. Clang Compiler Benchmarks On POWER9 With Raptor's Blackbird
09:39 AM EDT - Software - 6 Comments
Fedora 31 To Ship With Golang 1.13, Limiting Scriplet Usage Still Being Debated
GCC 10 Compiler Picks Up New Scheduler Model & Cost Tables For AMD Zen 2 Processors
06:54 AM EDT - AMD - GCC 10: Better Zen 2 - 3 Comments
Audio Component Support Being Worked On For The Radeon & Nouveau Drivers
06:25 AM EDT - Multimedia - Better Audio Efficiency - 4 Comments
Darling Picks Up New Contributors For Its macOS Compatibility Layer On Linux
06:17 AM EDT - Operating Systems - macOS Apps On Linux - 11 Comments
Fedora Developers Discuss Raising Base Requirement To AVX2 CPU Support
12:00 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora AVX2 Requirement - 177 Comments
22 July
Coreboot 4.10 Released With New Support For Many Chromebooks & Random Motherboards
08:54 PM EDT - Coreboot - Coreboot 4.10 - 8 Comments
GFX-RS Portability 0.7 Released With Vulkan Events, Binding Model Improvements
02:32 PM EDT - Programming - GFX-RS 0.7 - 5 Comments
Feral Brings Company of Heroes 2 Commander Update To Linux
11:00 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - Company of Heroes 2 Commander Update - 20 Comments
7-Way Linux Distribution Benchmarks For July 2019, Including LTO'ed openSUSE Tumbleweed
09:40 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 35 Comments
Should Ubuntu Use The BFQ I/O Scheduler?
06:43 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu + BFQ - 51 Comments
GTK4 Gets Smoother GPU-Accelerated Scrolling, Modern Cursor Blinking
06:25 AM EDT - GNOME - GTK 4.0 - 67 Comments
GCC 10 Lands OpenRISC Support For Floating Point Instructions
06:16 AM EDT - GNU - GCC 10 OpenRISC - Add A Comment
Linux 5.2-ck1 Released Along With MuQSS 0.193 Scheduler
12:09 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.2-ck1 + MuQSS - 15 Comments