Habana Labs Driver Drops Default Memory Scrubbing For Better Performance, Other Changes
12:00 AM EDT - Intel - Habana Labs For Linux 5.14 - Add A Comment
23 June
22 June
Intel Lands More Open-Source Vulkan Driver Changes For Ray-Tracing
07:00 PM EDT - Intel - Intel Vulkan Ray-Tracing - 4 Comments
Intel Announces New Leadership Roles, Business Unit Changes
04:13 PM EDT - Intel - Intel - 3 Comments
Intel's Latest CPU Microcode Update Isn't All That Scary
01:44 PM EDT - Intel - Intel Microcode - 10 Comments
PanVK Merged Into Mesa 21.2 For Open-Source Vulkan Driver With Arm Mali GPUs
01:13 PM EDT - Mesa - PanVK - 3 Comments
NVIDIA Posts 470 Linux Driver Beta With Better Wayland Support, DLSS + Improved PRIME
09:54 AM EDT - NVIDIA - Deep Learning Super Sampling - 23 Comments
AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution Source Code Coming Next Month
09:17 AM EDT - Radeon - AMD FXSR - 17 Comments
SiFive Announces The Performance P550 As The Fastest RISC-V Processor Yet
09:00 AM EDT - RISC-V - SiFive Performance P550 - 16 Comments
FreeBSD 13.0 vs. DragonFlyBSD 6.0 vs. Linux On AMD EPYC 7003 Series "Milan"
07:30 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 6 Comments
AMD Drops Pre-Polaris GPU Support From Their Mainline Radeon Software Driver
06:04 AM EDT - Radeon - Legacy - 39 Comments
W3C Publishes Working Draft For Web Neural Network API
05:27 AM EDT - Standards - Web Neural Network API - 5 Comments
Haiku R1 Beta 3 Aims For Release In About One Month
12:00 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Haiku R1 Beta 3 - 14 Comments
21 June
NVIDIA Releasing DLSS Support For Vulkan API Games On Linux Tomorrow
01:10 PM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA DLSS For Linux - 37 Comments
Running The New Intel OpenGL "Crocus" Gallium3D Driver On Sandy Bridge
09:30 AM EDT - Display Drivers - 17 Comments
Rocky Linux 8.4 Released For RHEL 8.4 / CentOS Alternative
09:02 AM EDT - Red Hat - Rocky Linux 8.4 - 31 Comments
Linux 5.14 To Add Driver For A $10 Open-Source Joystick For DIY Electronics Projects
Intel Graphics Compiler 1.0.7683 Ships With Many Changes
05:44 AM EDT - Intel - IGC 1.0.7683 - 2 Comments
Vulkan 1.2.182 Released With Some Prominent Extensions Added
05:20 AM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan 1.2.182 - 8 Comments
Unvanquished 0.52.1 Brings Rendering Fixes, Flatpak For This Promising Open-Source Game
12:00 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - Unvanquished 0.52.1 - 5 Comments
20 June
Linux 5.13-rc7 Released Following A Very Calm Week
06:51 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.13-rc7 - 1 Comment
AMD Continues Working To Mainline Their PTDMA Driver For Linux
03:25 PM EDT - AMD - PTMA Driver v10 - Add A Comment
Experimental Reiser5 File-System Patch Updated For Linux 5.12
11:40 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Reiser4 v5 - 25 Comments
Linux 5.13 Lands More Fixes To The Mucked Up FPU/XSTATE Handling Mess
07:23 AM EDT - Intel - Linux 5.13 XSTATE - 9 Comments
Mesa Lands Work Around Async glFlush - Should Help Workstation Performance
06:19 AM EDT - Mesa - Asynchronous glFlush - 7 Comments
KDE Akademy 2021 Video Streams As Developers Discuss Wayland, Frameworks 6, Qt
06:02 AM EDT - KDE - Akademy 2021 - 6 Comments
Surface Suspension Protocol Proposed For Wayland
12:00 AM EDT - Wayland - Wayland Surface-Suspension - 34 Comments
19 June
Debian 10.10 Released With Many Security/Bug Fixes, Updated FWUPD
01:26 PM EDT - Debian - Debian 10.10 - Add A Comment
GFX1013 Target Added To LLVM 13.0 For RDNA2 APUs
09:27 AM EDT - LLVM - GFX1013 - 20 Comments
Libzip 1.8 Released With Support For Zstd Compressed ZIP Files
07:19 AM EDT - Programming - libzip 1.8.0 - 16 Comments
KDE Gets Expandable Tooltips, Larger Clipboard, More Wayland Fixes
06:00 AM EDT - KDE - Expandable Tooltips - 28 Comments
Nearly A Decade Later, UPower Still Working Towards 1.0 Release
03:00 AM EDT - Desktop - UPower 0.99.12 - Add A Comment
Oracle Sends Out Latest Linux Patches So Trenchboot Can Securely Launch The Kernel
12:00 AM EDT - Oracle - Trenchboot Linux Kernel Patches - 4 Comments
18 June
RADV Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver Begins Landing Ray-Tracing Changes
07:05 PM EDT - Radeon - Ray-Tracing Support - 7 Comments
Wine 6.11 Released With Theming Support For All Built-In Programs
04:10 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 6.11 - 11 Comments
Proton 6.3-5 RC Allows More Windows Games To Run On Linux
03:00 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - Proton 6.3-5 - 14 Comments
Pending Patches Allow Direct3D 9 "Gallium Nine" To Run Over Mesa's Zink Vulkan
01:54 PM EDT - Mesa - Direct3D 9 On Vulkan - 28 Comments
GravityMark OpenGL/Vulkan Performance For NVIDIA RTX 30 vs. AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series
09:30 AM EDT - Display Drivers - 36 Comments
LibreOffice 7.2 Beta Arrives With Initial Command Pop-Up HUD, Better Performance
07:17 AM EDT - LibreOffice - LibreOffice 7.2 - 10 Comments
New Linux Patch To Allow Booting From Arbitrary Non-Block Device File-Systems
07:00 AM EDT - Linux Storage - VirtIO FS And More - 6 Comments
Adreno 660 GPU Support Landing For Linux 5.14
05:51 AM EDT - Hardware - A660 + More - 3 Comments
Intel i915g Mesa Driver Now Goes Goes Through NIR, Fixes Some Past Test Failures
05:19 AM EDT - Intel - i915 NIR-To-TGSI - 9 Comments
Modula-2 Programming Language Front-End Still Looking Towards Mainline GCC In 2021
02:00 AM EDT - GNU - Modula-2 GM2 - 15 Comments
17 June
OpenSSL 3.0 Release Candidate Arrives With Big Changes
06:42 PM EDT - Free Software - OpenSSL 3.0 - 18 Comments
NVIDIA Resizable BAR Performance - A Big Boost For Some Linux Games
03:00 PM EDT - Display Drivers - 18 Comments
Fedora Stakeholders Back To Discussing Raising x86_64 Requirements Or Using Glibc HWCAPS
02:07 PM EDT - Fedora - x86_64 Feature Levels - 20 Comments
Google Wants To See Rust Code In The Linux Kernel, Contracts The Main Developer
10:00 AM EDT - Google - Rust In The Kernel - 125 Comments
W3C Promotes Web Audio API To Official Standard
08:47 AM EDT - Standards - Web Audio API - 6 Comments
It's Good But Maybe Bad: LVFS Skyrockets With More Than 100k Firmware Updates In One Day
05:53 AM EDT - Hardware - Security Issue About To Drop? - 21 Comments
AMDGPU For Linux 5.14 To Report Throttler Status, Many Fixes Sent Out
05:40 AM EDT - Radeon - Linux 5.14 AMDGPU - Add A Comment
Lenovo To Support Configuring ThinkPad BIOS From Within Linux
01:44 AM EDT - Hardware - Think-LMI - 68 Comments
Intel Speed Select Driver Issue Was Hurting Performance In Some HPC Benchmarks
12:00 AM EDT - Intel - ISST - 3 Comments
16 June
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Hits Another "Massively Improved Performance" Milestone
04:29 PM EDT - Mesa - Faaaaaaster - 25 Comments
Blender 3.0 Likely Delayed 2 Months For Post-Lockdown Breather, Cycles X Might Land
02:41 PM EDT - Free Software - Blender 3.0 - Add A Comment
Wasmer 2.0 Released With Significantly Faster Runtime Performance, Quicker Deserialization
01:49 PM EDT - Programming - Wasmer 2.0 - 1 Comment
AMD EPYC 7343 / EPYC 7443 Linux Performance
09:00 AM EDT - Processors - 4 Comments
Fedora Cloud 35 Approved To Use Btrfs By Default
06:00 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Fedora Cloud 35 + Btrfs - 52 Comments
SUSE Linux Enterprise / openSUSE Leap Pursuing x86_64-v2 Optimized Libraries
05:11 AM EDT - SUSE - x86_64-v2 HWCAPS - 14 Comments
VirtIO-GPIO Guest Driver Updated For The Linux Kernel
04:00 AM EDT - Virtualization - VirtIO-GPIO - Add A Comment
GNU C Library Lands Year 2038 Handling For Legacy ABIs
12:00 AM EDT - GNU - Year 2038 - 24 Comments
15 June
Systemd 249-rc1 Released With Many New Features
08:22 PM EDT - systemd - systemd 249 - 20 Comments
Alpine Linux 3.14 Released With Many Package Updates For This Lightweight Distro
04:00 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Alpine Linux 3.14 - 4 Comments
Intel Xe Graphics Squeeze Out More Linux Performance By Flushing Less
02:26 PM EDT - Intel - Mesa 21.2 Flush Less - Add A Comment
Left 4 Dead 2 Updated With Vulkan Rendering Via DXVK, Many Other Improvements
01:46 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - L4D2 Vulkan - 24 Comments
DXVK 1.9 Brings Conservative Rasterization For Running Direct3D Games On Linux
01:09 PM EDT - Valve - DXVK 1.9 - 2 Comments
NVIDIA Launches The Jetson AGX Xavier Industrial Module
12:00 PM EDT - NVIDIA - Jetson AGX Xavier Industrial - 2 Comments
Mesa's New "Crocus" OpenGL Driver Is Performing Well For Old Intel Hardware
09:30 AM EDT - Display Drivers - 19 Comments
GravityMark Launches As Cross-API Graphics Benchmark From Former Unigine Dev
08:32 AM EDT - Free Software - Tellusim GravityMark - 10 Comments
Noctua Launches NH-P1 As High-End Passive CPU Cooler
06:42 AM EDT - Hardware - Noctua NH-P1 - 29 Comments
GNU C Library Looking To Drop FSF Copyright Assignment Policy
06:00 AM EDT - GNU - Glibc - No More Copyright Assignment? - 57 Comments
Intel Working On Updating Its GuC, Still Aiming To Transition To This Firmware-Based Scheduling
05:45 AM EDT - Intel - GuC Firmware - 2 Comments
Debian 11 "Bullseye" Installer RC2 Released
02:00 AM EDT - Debian - Debian 11 - 6 Comments
14 June
The "Memory Folios" Work Continues - Improving Linux Performance, 7% Faster Kernel Builds
08:00 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Memory Folios - 11 Comments
Intel M.2 Modem Driver "IOSM" Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.14
04:30 PM EDT - Intel - Intel M.2 Modem - 3 Comments
Intel Announces The IPU - Infrastructure Processing Unit
02:12 PM EDT - Intel - Infrastructure Processing Unit - 16 Comments
FWUPD 1.6.1 Adds FreeBSD UEFI Capsule Handling, More Hardware Now Supported
01:52 PM EDT - Hardware - fwupd 1.6.1 - 14 Comments
Google + Canonical Bring Ubuntu Pro To Google Cloud
12:00 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu Pro - 7 Comments
GCC 11 Compiler Performance Benchmarks With Various Optimization Levels, LTO
09:30 AM EDT - Software - 45 Comments
ACPI Platform Runtime Mechanism Support Is Getting Underway For Linux
08:00 AM EDT - Hardware - ACPI PRM - 4 Comments
Another Intel Sandy/Ivy Bridge Motherboard Now Works For Coreboot (ASUS P8Z77-V)
06:36 AM EDT - Coreboot - P8Z77-V - 6 Comments
Linux 5.14 Mainline Should Work With The Raspberry Pi 400
06:06 AM EDT - Hardware - Raspberry Pi 400 + Linux 5.14 - 9 Comments
Intel Publishes Latest TDX Support Patches For Linux
05:54 AM EDT - Intel - Trust Domain Extensions - Add A Comment
13 June
Intel Gallium3D Driver Merged Into Mesa 21.2 For Gen4 Through Haswell Graphics
08:18 PM EDT - Intel - Crocus - 30 Comments
Linux 5.13-rc6 Released With The Kernel Cycle Smoothing Out
06:48 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.13-rc6 - Add A Comment
KWinFT Going Through Code Refactoring, Working On WLROOTS-Based Usage
01:30 PM EDT - KDE - KWinFT 2021 - 51 Comments
Linux 5.14 To Begin Enabling The Intel Graphics TTM Memory Management Bits for dGPUs
07:07 AM EDT - Intel - Discrete Graphics - 3 Comments
Last Year's L-Shaped Desk Build Has Been Holding Up Well
06:17 AM EDT - Hardware - Butcherblock + Metal Pipes - 14 Comments
Wasmtime 0.28 Released With C++ Embedding Support
05:51 AM EDT - Programming - WebAssembly Runtime - Add A Comment
Intel's ConnMan 1.40, IWD 1.15 Released For Linux Networking
03:00 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Linux Networking - 8 Comments
12 June
XFS To Enjoy Big Scalability Boost With Linux 5.14
04:54 PM EDT - Linux Storage - Better Scalability - 29 Comments
Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) Likely Coming To Linux 5.14 For Clang
01:00 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Faster Kernel Performanc - 25 Comments
helloSystem 0.5 Released For macOS-Inspired FreeBSD Desktop
07:17 AM EDT - BSD - helloSystem 0.5 - 40 Comments
Intel's ISPC Compiler Adds Alder Lake + Sapphire Rapids Support And Apple Arm Chips
07:05 AM EDT - Intel - Intel SPMD Program Compiler - 8 Comments
F2FS Picking Up "compress_cache" Feature With Linux 5.14
05:58 AM EDT - Linux Storage - F2FS compress_cache - 2 Comments
Plasma 5.23 Picking Up Latest Breeze Evolution Style, SDDM Lands Native Wayland Support
05:41 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Excitement - 24 Comments
Transparent Hugepages Are Coming To RISC-V On Linux
02:00 AM EDT - RISC-V - THP For RISC-V - 6 Comments
11 June
NVIDIA Confirms Plans To Drop "Kepler" GPU Driver Support
06:52 PM EDT - NVIDIA - R470 Series The Last - 22 Comments
Intel Alder Lake Thunderbolt/USB4 Support For Linux 5.14
04:21 PM EDT - Intel - Alder Lake Thunderbolt - 8 Comments
Linux Kernel Prepares For Intel Xeon CPUs With On-Package HBM Memory
01:32 PM EDT - Intel - Xeon + HBM - 32 Comments
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti / RTX 3080 Ti Compute + Renderer Performance Benchmarks
09:00 AM EDT - Graphics Cards - 3 Comments
Real-Time Support "PREEMPT_RT" For Linux Held Up Due To Lack Of Funding
07:00 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - PREEMPT_RT - 27 Comments
OpenZFS 2.1 Gets More Cleanups, Better Documentation Ahead Of Release
06:02 AM EDT - Linux Storage - OpenZFS 2.1 - 9 Comments
AMDVLK 2021.Q2.5 Released As A Minor Radeon Vulkan Driver Update
05:43 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDVLK 2021.Q2.5 - 9 Comments
Intel's Cloud-Hypervisor 16 Adds ARM64 ACPI + UEFI Support, Better Live Migration
04:00 AM EDT - Intel - Cloud-Hypervisor 16.0 - 3 Comments
Old Motorola 68000 Systems Can Finally Move Away From Linux's Deprecated IDE Code
12:00 AM EDT - Hardware - M68k Onto Libata - 22 Comments
10 June
Linus Torvalds Encourages Kernel Developers & Everyone To Get Vaccinated
08:40 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Kernel Mailing List - 509 Comments
Intel Reportedly Interested In Acquiring RISC-V Firm SiFive
05:46 PM EDT - RISC-V - Intel Buying Out SiFive? - 48 Comments
Panfrost Gallium3D Driver For Open-Source Arm Mali Graphics Now Has OpenGL ES 3.1
04:11 PM EDT - Mesa - GLES 3.1 - 3 Comments
System76 Launch - A Very Well Built, Highly Configurable, Open-Source Keyboard
12:20 PM EDT - Peripherals - 47 Comments
AMD Has Yellow Carp Ready For Linux 5.14, More Smart Shift Updates + Display Fixes
09:00 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDGPU For Linux 5.14 - 2 Comments
Amazon Working On New Proactive Memory Reclamation For The Linux Kernel
07:00 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - DAMON-Based Page Reclamation - 9 Comments
GRUB 2.06 To Be Succeeded By... GRUB 2.11 Bootloader Next Year
05:16 AM EDT - GNU - 2.06 To 2.11 - 27 Comments
Intel Publishes A Bunch Of Code Samples For Helping To Optimize For Their Latest CPUs
01:00 AM EDT - Intel - Optimization Reference Manual Samples - 2 Comments
Linux 5.13 To Allow Controlling The Second Fan On The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9
12:00 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 5.13 Fan Control - 12 Comments
9 June
Google Working On Open-Sourcing Their Fibers User-Space Scheduling Framework
06:45 PM EDT - Google - Google Fibers - 22 Comments
Intel Finishes Linux 5.14 Graphics Driver Feature Work With More Alder Lake P Code
06:20 PM EDT - Intel - DRM-Next Cutoff - Add A Comment
Microsoft's Hyper-V DRM Display Driver Will Land For Linux 5.14
12:05 PM EDT - Microsoft - Hyper-V Display - 10 Comments
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Linux Performance
09:00 AM EDT - Graphics Cards - 53 Comments
Khronos Standards Group Launches Certification Program To Help You With Online Shopping
09:00 AM EDT - Standards - 3D Commerce Viewer - Add A Comment
Fedora 35 Looking To Use Yescrypt For Hashing User Passwords
07:00 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora + Yescrypt - 14 Comments
AMD Releases AOMP 13.0-3 For Their Latest Radeon OpenMP Offload Compiler
It Turns Out Windows Unconditionally Reserves The First 1MB Of RAM, Linux Was Just Late To Do So
03:00 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - The First 1MB Of RAM - 49 Comments
OnLogic Introduces New AMD Ryzen Powered Industrial Grade Mini-ITX Thin Client
12:00 AM EDT - AMD - OnLogic TM800 - 16 Comments
8 June
GRUB 2.06 Released With BootHole Fixes, LUKS2 Encrypted Volume Support
06:03 PM EDT - GNU - GRUB 2.06 - 19 Comments
Intel Continues Working On New ISA Extensions To Help Fight Speculation Vulnerabilities
02:01 PM EDT - Intel - Speculation Fight - 9 Comments
Intel Releases New CPU Microcode Due To New Security Vulnerabilities (June 2021)
01:07 PM EDT - Intel - Intel SA-00464 + SA-00465 - 14 Comments
AMD Announces The Radeon PRO W6000 Series - RDNA2 Workstation GPUs
09:57 AM EDT - Radeon - Radeon PRO W6000 Series - 34 Comments
KDE Plasma 5.22 Released With Much Better Wayland Support, Usability Enhancements
08:45 AM EDT - KDE - Plasma 5.22 - 43 Comments
openSUSE FrontRunner Aims To Advance The Distro's Hardware Architecture Support
07:21 AM EDT - SUSE - openSUSE FrontRunner - 14 Comments
Canonical's Mir 2.4 Brings Numerous X11 + Wayland Enhancements
07:09 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Mir 2.4 - 24 Comments
CentOS Looks To Deal With Deprecated Device Support, Out-Of-Tree Kernel Modules
06:14 AM EDT - Red Hat - CentOS Kmods SIG - 8 Comments
Wine 6.0.1 Pops Open Support For The Apple M1, Dozens Of Fixes
05:55 AM EDT - WINE - Wine 6.0.1 - 4 Comments
Qt 6.1.1 Released With 150+ Bug Fixes
05:44 AM EDT - Qt - Qt 6.1.1 - 9 Comments
7 June
AMD Is Hiring More Linux Engineers For The Scheduler, Memory Management, Net I/O
04:29 PM EDT - AMD - More AMD Linux Engineers - 42 Comments
Experimental Wayland Driver For Wine Now Supports Vulkan, Other Features
01:18 PM EDT - WINE - Wayland For Wine - 35 Comments
Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 P-State CPU Frequency Scaling Comparison
11:46 AM EDT - Software - 6 Comments
Open-Source Driver Flips On OpenGL ES 3.1 For Select NVIDIA GeForce 200 Series GPUs
10:06 AM EDT - Nouveau - GT21x - 18 Comments
Mesa 21.2's Direct3D 12 Driver Now Allows For Easy Multi-GPU Selection
08:29 AM EDT - Mesa - MESA_D3D12_DEFAULT_ADAPTER_NAME - 8 Comments
Qt 6.2 Enters Feature Freeze With More Qt5 Modules Ported To Qt6
06:08 AM EDT - Qt - Qt 6.2 Feature Freeze - 30 Comments
Linux 5.14 To Allow EXT4 Journal Checkpoints From User-Space For Extra Privacy
05:51 AM EDT - Linux Storage - EXT4_IOC_CHECKPOINT - 2 Comments
Vulkan 1.2.180 Released With Two New Extensions
05:11 AM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan 1.2.180 - 2 Comments
Linux 5.14 Set To Retire The Long-Deprecated RAW Driver For Direct I/O Access
03:00 AM EDT - Linux Storage - RAW_DRIVER - Add A Comment
6 June
Linux 5.13-rc5 Is Fairly Average In Size But Not Calming Down Yet
08:08 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.13-rc5 - 2 Comments
Steam Play's Proton Working To Further Lower Input Latency
05:17 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - Proton Experimental - 9 Comments
Git 2.32 Released With Numerous Improvements
09:20 AM EDT - Free Software - Git 2.32 - 7 Comments
Linux x86/x86_64 Will Now Always Reserve The First 1MB Of RAM
08:01 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Stop Clobbering - 49 Comments
GNOME's Need To Broaden Its Audience For Greater Impact & Funding
06:14 AM EDT - GNOME - More Fundraising Sources - 88 Comments
Linux Disables Intel's New ENQCMD Feature Since Kernel Code "Broken Beyond Repair"
05:55 AM EDT - Intel - ENQCMD - 5 Comments
5 June
Phoronix Turns 17 Years Old, Covering The Linux Hardware Scene Daily
11:00 PM EDT - Phoronix - Phoronix 17th Birthday - 17 Comments
Crocus Gallium3D Nears Mainline Mesa For Gallium3D i965 Through Haswell Graphics
08:24 PM EDT - Intel - Crocus WIP - 14 Comments
GNU Poke 1.3 Released For Poking At Binaries, Understanding Binary Data
12:26 PM EDT - GNU - Poke 1.3 - 3 Comments
NVMeTCP Offload Bits Coming For Linux 5.14 To Lower CPU Utilization, Better Latency
09:07 AM EDT - Linux Networking - NVMeTCP Offload - 4 Comments
-O3 Compiler Optimization Level Still Deemed Too Unsafe For The Linux Kernel
07:15 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - No -O3 For Linux - 42 Comments
Wine-Staging 6.10 Ships With Just Under 600 Patches Atop Upstream Wine
06:15 AM EDT - WINE - Wine-Staging 6.10 - 3 Comments
KDE Gears Up For The Plasma 5.22 Release Next Week
05:51 AM EDT - KDE - Plasma 5.22 Next Week - 19 Comments
4 June
Wine 6.10 Released With Newer Mono, Updated AppData Paths
03:49 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 6.10 - 7 Comments
NVIDIA 470.76 WSL Driver Released
03:25 PM EDT - NVIDIA - Windows Subsystem For Linux - 18 Comments
LLVM Clang 12 Leading Over GCC 11 Compiler Performance On Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake
11:20 AM EDT - Software - 17 Comments
Linux's USB Audio Driver Aims For Latency Reduction
09:19 AM EDT - Multimedia - Linux 5.14 USB-Audio - 16 Comments
Haiku OS Continues Making Progress On RISC-V, Adds Stack Protection
06:35 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Haiku - 15 Comments
Wasmer 2.0 WebAssembly Runtime Is Near With Much Faster Performance
05:48 AM EDT - Programming - Wasmer 2.0 - 4 Comments
Atari VCS Controller Support Added To SDL2
05:33 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - Atari VCS + SDL2 - 17 Comments
3 June
Chrome 92 Beta Released With File Handling API, Other Developer Additions
08:36 PM EDT - Google - Chrome 92 - 15 Comments
FUTEX2 Linux Patches Updated To Support Variable-Sized Futexes
05:46 PM EDT - Valve - FUTEX2 - 72 Comments
CentOS Linux 8 2105 Released As RHEL 8.4 Equivalent
05:03 PM EDT - Red Hat - CentOS 8 - 19 Comments
AMD Teasing 8 June Launch Event For New Radeon Card
04:46 PM EDT - Radeon - 8 June - 10 Comments
NVMe 2.0 Released As A Library Of Specifications With ZNS, Simple Copy + More
02:11 PM EDT - Standards - NVM Express 2.0 - 16 Comments
NVIDIA 460.84 Linux Driver Released With GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Support
09:01 AM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA 460.84 - 9 Comments
AMD Queues More Beige Goby Bring-Up, 16bpc Format For Vulkan, Smart Shift For Linux 5.14
06:29 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDGPU DRM-Next - 9 Comments
GRUB Adds Backup/Restore Safeguard, Support For Going Beyond Year 2038
06:13 AM EDT - Free Software - GRUB Bootloader Improvements - 6 Comments
WASM3 v0.5 Released With Claims To Be The Fastest WebAssembly Interpreter
05:53 AM EDT - Programming - WASM3 v0.5 - 11 Comments
Dbus-Broker 29 Released, Says Goodbye To Some Older Kernel Support
12:00 AM EDT - Free Software - Dbus-Broker 29 - 1 Comment
2 June
DXVK-NVAPI 0.3 Released For Being Able To Expose More Of NVIDIA's Public API Within Steam Play
08:14 PM EDT - Valve - DXVK-NVAPI 0.3 - 10 Comments
Mesa 21.1.2 Released - RadeonSI Now Disables DFSM For Vega To Fix Performance Drop
Blender 2.93 LTS Released With Big Changes
04:29 PM EDT - Free Software - Blender 2.93 - 13 Comments
AMD Sends Out Linux Support Patches For "Yellow Carp" GPU
01:20 PM EDT - Radeon - New RDNA2 GPU - 23 Comments
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Linux Performance
09:00 AM EDT - Graphics Cards - 29 Comments
openSUSE Leap 15.3 Released - Built Using Same Binary Packages As SUSE Linux Enterprise
08:51 AM EDT - SUSE - openSUSE Leap 15.3 - 15 Comments
Fosshost Enters Into Long-Term Partnership With Freenode
07:12 AM EDT - Free Software - Fosshost + Freenode - 13 Comments
New + Updated Benchmarks For May 2021 - Now At 661 Tests, ~36d19h Average Total Runtime
05:47 AM EDT - Phoronix Test Suite - OpenBenchmarking.org - Add A Comment
Libinput 1.18 Released With Better Gesture Detection
05:33 AM EDT - X.Org - libinput 1.18 - 14 Comments
Intel Releases HAXM 7.7 For Open-Source, Cross-Platform Virtualization Engine
05:19 AM EDT - Intel - HAXM 7.7 - 2 Comments
1 June
AMD Continues Working On SmartShift Support For Linux
08:35 PM EDT - AMD - AMD SmartShift - 11 Comments
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Sees Reworked Shader Cache So It Actually Works
06:22 PM EDT - Mesa - Zink Shader Cache - 4 Comments
OBS Studio 27.0 Released With Undo/Redo, Wayland Support
01:23 PM EDT - Free Software - OBS Studio 27.0 - 23 Comments
GCC To No Longer Require Copyright Assignment To The Free Software Foundation
12:27 PM EDT - GNU - No More Copyright Assignment Needed - 51 Comments
Firefox 89 Released With UI/UX Changes
09:32 AM EDT - Mozilla - Firefox 89.0 - 95 Comments
GCC 9.4 Compiler Released With 190+ Bug Fixes
09:16 AM EDT - GNU - GCC 9.4 - 7 Comments
Windows vs. Linux, 5.13 Kernel, FreeBSD 13, Other May Excitement
07:17 AM EDT - Free Software - May 2021 - Add A Comment
Raspberry Pi Announces RP2040 Chips For $1
06:10 AM EDT - Hardware - Raspberry Pi RP2040 - 10 Comments
AMD Introduces FidelityFX Super Resolution, NVIDIA Announces DLSS For Steam Play
05:30 AM EDT - NVIDIA - DLSS For Steam Play - 68 Comments
31 May
AMD Announces New Zen 3 Desktop APUs, FidelityFX Super Resolution + More
11:00 PM EDT - Events - 39 Comments
Experimental RADV Code Allows Vulkan Ray-Tracing On Older AMD GPUs
02:14 PM EDT - Radeon - RADV Vulkan RT For Old GPUs - 36 Comments
Phoronix Turns 17 Years Old This Week
10:26 AM EDT - Phoronix - Premium Special Too - 37 Comments
Genode OS 21.05 Released With Webcam Support, Encrypted File Vault
09:22 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Genode OS 21.05 - 10 Comments
Valve's GameNetworkingSockets 1.3 Released With Better Performance
08:05 AM EDT - Valve - GameNetworkingSockets 1.3 - 7 Comments
Linux 5.14 To Have Additional Bring-Up For Intel Alder Lake M
06:44 AM EDT - Intel - Intel ADL-M - Add A Comment
X.Org Server Git Lands Latest Patches To Help NVIDIA XWayland
06:16 AM EDT - X.Org - Load The Correct GLX Library - 28 Comments
Linux Adding New Thermal Code To Deal With Hot Tegra Devices
30 May
Intel Launches Core i5-1155G7 + Core i7-1195G7 Tiger Lake Processors
10:30 PM EDT - Intel - Plus Intel 5G Solution 5000 - 13 Comments
Linux 5.13-rc4 Releases As A "Fairly Sizable" Test Release
06:33 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.13 - 1 Comment
X.Org Server Lands X Input 2.4 Touchpad Gestures
01:51 PM EDT - X.Org - X Input 2.4 - 34 Comments
Cairo Graphics Sees Major Improvements To Its SVG Backend
07:25 AM EDT - Free Software - Better Cairo SVG - 9 Comments
NVIDIA vs. AMD Linux Gaming Performance For End Of May 2021 Drivers
06:29 AM EDT - Hardware - Latest Performance Figures - 22 Comments
After UMN Debacle, Patatt Aims To Provide Cryptographic Attestation For Patches
05:53 AM EDT - Programming - Patch-Attestation - 8 Comments
29 May
GCC Rust Front-End Continues Advancing With Plans To Eventually Upstream
09:38 AM EDT - GNU - GCC Rust - 25 Comments
Linux 5.14 To Feature Enhanced Support For MikroTik 10G/25G NIC
08:00 AM EDT - Linux Networking - MikroTik 10G/25G NIC - 2 Comments
RenderDoc 1.14 Released With Support For Vulkan's Shader Printf
KDE Plasma 5.22 Faster For NVIDIA + Wayland, More Crash Fixes
05:27 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Ends May - 30 Comments
AMDGPU To Expose More Information About GPU Throttling Status
05:00 AM EDT - Radeon - Throttling Status - 2 Comments
28 May
Raspberry Pi OS Updated With Faster OpenSSH, Software Upgrades
06:21 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Raspberry Pi OS 2021-05-07 - 34 Comments
OpenZFS 2.1-rc6 Released - Will Now Scale Worker Threads With CPU Core Count
03:00 PM EDT - Linux Storage - OpenZFS 2.1-rc6 - 5 Comments
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U - Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 21.04 Linux Benchmarks
01:19 PM EDT - Operating Systems - 3 Comments
Chrome 91 Benchmarks On Linux Showing Off Even Better Performance
09:55 AM EDT - Google - Chrome 91 Benchmarks - 51 Comments
Dell Hardware Privacy Support Slated For Linux 5.14
07:19 AM EDT - Hardware - Dell Hardware Privacy - 5 Comments
Linux 5.14 To Bring Reworked User-Space API For Intel Discrete Graphics
06:03 AM EDT - Intel - Intel uAPI Breakage - 2 Comments
Archinstall 2.2 Released For Improving This Easy-To-Use Arch Linux Installer
05:35 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Archinstall 2.2 - 4 Comments
27 May
AMD Preparing More Linux Code For The Frontier Supercomputer
08:37 PM EDT - AMD - Kernel Changes - 15 Comments
Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 21.04 On The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X
04:14 PM EDT - Operating Systems - 27 Comments
Intel's OpenGL Mesa Drivers Now In Good Shape For External Objects
10:07 AM EDT - Intel - EXT_external_objects - 2 Comments
Sailfish OS 4.1 Finally Embracing 64-bit, Android 10 App Support API Level
07:26 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Sailfish OS 4.1 - 30 Comments
Quake II RTX Performance For AMD Radeon 6000 Series vs. NVIDIA On Linux
06:14 AM EDT - NVIDIA - Quake 2 RTX - 45 Comments
Qt Multimedia Prepares For Qt 6 With Rewritten GStreamer Backend, Other Big Changes
05:54 AM EDT - Qt - Qt 6 Multimedia - 15 Comments
26 May
AlmaLinux 8.4, Oracle Linux 8 Update 4 Released
08:22 PM EDT - Operating Systems - RHEL 8.4 Rebase - 1 Comment
Linux Picks Up Fix For Latest "Confused Deputy" Weakness Going Back To 2.6.12 Kernel
01:23 PM EDT - Linux Security - Confused Deputy - 2 Comments
Unreal Engine 5 Hits Early Access, Linux Still Supported
11:58 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - Unreal Engine 5 - 40 Comments
Benchmarking AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Linux Performance With A $450 Lenovo Laptop
09:55 AM EDT - Computers - 45 Comments
AMDVLK 2021.Q2.4 Released With Two More Extensions Added
06:03 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDVLK 2021.Q2.4 - 17 Comments
M1RACLES: Apple M1 Exposed To Covert Channel Vulnerability
05:40 AM EDT - Linux Security - M1RACLES - 26 Comments
Fedora Cloud 35 Looking To Use The Btrfs File-System By Default
03:00 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora Cloud + Btrfs - 23 Comments
BLAKE3 Cryptographic Hash Implementation Preparing For v1.0 Release
12:00 AM EDT - Free Software - High Performance Hashing - 20 Comments
25 May
Chrome 91 Released With Gravity Sensor API, JSON Modules, WebAssembly SIMD
03:42 PM EDT - Google - Chrome 91 - 19 Comments
Linux 5.14 To Allow Hot Unplug Of AMD Radeon GPUs
03:18 PM EDT - Radeon - Hot Unplug - 14 Comments
Half-Double: A New DRAM Rowhammer Vulnerability
12:32 PM EDT - Hardware - Half-Double - 19 Comments
DragonFlyBSD 6.0 Is Performing Very Well Against Ubuntu Linux, FreeBSD 13.0
10:52 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 27 Comments
Linux 5.14 To Support F2FS Read-Only Feature
09:22 AM EDT - Linux Storage - F2FS RO - Add A Comment
Arm Announces The Cortex-X2 Armv9 Flagship CPU, Cortex-A710, Cortex-A510
09:06 AM EDT - Arm - Cortex-X2 - 38 Comments
Intel Protected Xe Path Code Updated, Now Defaults PXP Code To Disabled
06:25 AM EDT - Intel - Intel PXP - 2 Comments
GNOME 40's Shell Theme Code Is Rather Expensive But Optimization Pursued
06:13 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME 40 Performance - 66 Comments
LibreOffice 7.2 Alpha 1 Released For This Open-Source Office Suite
05:45 AM EDT - LibreOffice - LibreOffice 7.2 - 7 Comments
24 May
Linux 5.14 To Bring Intel IGC Driver Support For AF_XDP Zero-Copy
08:26 PM EDT - Intel - AF_XDP Zero-Copy - 2 Comments
Inkscape 1.1 Released With Command Palette Feature, More Export Options
06:48 PM EDT - Free Software - Inkscape 1.1 - 12 Comments
OpenMandriva Lx 4.3 RC Released With LLVM 12 Toolchain, Linux 5.12 Kernel
04:53 PM EDT - Operating Systems - OpenMandriva Lx 4.3 - 2 Comments
Intel P-State Driver Begins Preparing For Hybrid Processors (Alder Lake)
01:27 PM EDT - Intel - Intel Hybrid CPU Frequency Scaling - 7 Comments
Red Hat Scores A Huge DM Optimization For Linux 5.14
12:14 PM EDT - Linux Storage - DeviceMapper - 10 Comments
Intel AMX Support Continues Being Prepped For The Linux Kernel
07:07 AM EDT - Intel - Advanced Matrix Extensions - 2 Comments
Intel Open-Source Stack Enables oneAPI Level Zero For Rocket Lake, Alder Lake S
06:07 AM EDT - Intel - Level Zero Compute Runtime - 2 Comments
Raspberry Pi PoE+ HAT Announced With Greater Power Capability For $20
05:52 AM EDT - Hardware - Raspberry Pi PoE+ HAT - 12 Comments