Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" Begins Development
04:00 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 22.04 - 13 Comments
18 October
Apple Announces The M1 Pro / M1 Max, Asahi Linux Starts Eyeing Their Bring-Up
02:30 PM EDT - Apple - M1 Pro + M1 Max - 28 Comments
Valve Launches "Steam Deck Verified" Program For Games That Run Well On The Steam Deck
02:15 PM EDT - Valve - Steam Deck Verified - 14 Comments
VKD3D-Proton 2.5 Released With Experimental DXR 1.1, More Games Working
12:04 PM EDT - Valve - VKD3D-Proton 2.5 - 7 Comments
Ubuntu 21.10 Radeon Gaming With KDE Plasma vs. GNOME Shell + Wayland vs. X.Org
08:14 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - 36 Comments
Habana Labs For Linux 5.16 To Bring Peer-To-Peer Support With DMA-BUF
Mesa 22.0 Lands Some Patches Toward OpenCL Image Support
05:29 AM EDT - Mesa - OpenCL Image - 15 Comments
Linux 5.15-rc6 Ticks Up In Size, Stops Using AMD SME By Default
04:33 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.15-rc6 - 2 Comments
17 October
Linux To No Longer Enable AMD SME Usage By Default Due To Problems With Some Hardware
07:00 AM EDT - AMD - Secure Memory Encryption - 19 Comments
Vortex86 Processors Finally Seeing Work In 2021 For Proper Handling Under Linux
06:13 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Vortex86 - 13 Comments
Axboe Achieves 8M IOPS Per-Core With Newest Linux Optimization Patches
12:00 AM EDT - Linux Storage - 8M IOPS Per-Core - 55 Comments
16 October
Rust-Based Cloud-Hypervisor 19.0 Released With Improved Live Migration, Faster Boot Time
01:33 PM EDT - Virtualization - Cloud-Hypervisor 19.0 - 1 Comment
Realtek 802.11ax WiFi Driver "rtw89" Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.16
05:40 AM EDT - Linux Networking - Realtek rtw89 - 20 Comments
KDE's Plasma Wayland Session Continues Seeing More Crash Fixes
05:27 AM EDT - KDE - Plasma 5.23.1 - 30 Comments
Bareflank Hypervisor 3.0 Pre-Release Debuts With Many Changes
04:46 AM EDT - Virtualization - Bareflank 3.0 - 2 Comments
Genode-Based Sculpt OS 21.10 Adds Intel GPU Acceleration, USB Web Camera Support
03:30 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Sculpt OS 21.10 - 7 Comments
15 October
OpenCL 3.0.9 Specification Released
07:32 PM EDT - Standards - OpenCL 3.0.9 - 7 Comments
PinePhone Pro Announced As New Linux Smartphone
10:00 AM EDT - Hardware - PinePhone Pro - 98 Comments
Intel Compute-Runtime 21.41.21220 Ships Updated DG1 Support
09:30 AM EDT - Intel - Compute-Runtime 21.41.21220 - 6 Comments
AV1 Codec Library libaom v3.2 Brings More Performance Optimizations
08:31 AM EDT - Multimedia - libaom 3.2 - 22 Comments
Cluster Scheduler Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.16
06:37 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Cluster Scheduler - 2 Comments
SALSA Back In Development As A Small ALSA Library For Linux Systems
06:03 AM EDT - Multimedia - Small ALSA - 20 Comments
AMD Finally Enabling PSR By Default For Newer Hardware With Linux 5.16
05:33 AM EDT - Radeon - PSR Default - 14 Comments
The "What If" Performance Cost To Kernel Page Table Isolation On AMD CPUs
12:00 AM EDT - Software - 26 Comments
14 October
X.Org Server 21.1 RC2 Brings Fix For Mixed VRR/Non-VRR Multi-Monitor Setups
03:36 PM EDT - X.Org - xorg-server 21.1 - 14 Comments
Devuan 4.0 Released As Debian 11 Without Systemd
01:46 PM EDT - Debian - Devuan 4.0 - 80 Comments
Ubuntu 21.10 Released With GNOME 40 Desktop, Many Underlying Improvements
10:53 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 21.10 - 54 Comments
NVIDIA 495 Linux Beta Driver Released With GBM Support
09:36 AM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA 495.29.05 - 167 Comments
OpenBSD 7.0 Released With RISC-V 64-bit Port, Better Apple Silicon Support
09:00 AM EDT - BSD - OpenBSD 7.0 - 22 Comments
9-Way H2'2021 Linux OS Performance Comparison On Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake
08:30 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 4 Comments
KDE Plasma 5.23 Released In Marking 25 Years Of KDE
06:22 AM EDT - KDE - 25th Anniversary Edition - 38 Comments
Qt Creator 6 Beta Released With Updated C++ Code Model, Binaries Built Against Qt 6.2
openSUSE Leap ISOs To See Regular Respins For Integrating Latest Updates
05:27 AM EDT - SUSE - openSUSE Leap Image Rebuilds - 2 Comments
Intel Linux Driver Lands Tessellation/Geometry Distribution Feature For Xe-HPG
12:00 AM EDT - Intel - XeHPG Tessellation/Geometry Distribution - Add A Comment
13 October
Mesa 21.3-rc1 Released With Improved Zink, Radeon Ray-Tracing, RADV NGG Culling
04:26 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 21.3-rc1 - 5 Comments
Linux Patches Rewrite The Retpoline Rewrite Code - Possible Performance Benefit
02:11 PM EDT - Linux Security - Rewrite The Rewrite - 1 Comment
DragonFlyBSD 6.0.1 Released With AMD Zen 3 Temperature Monitoring, Fixes
01:20 PM EDT - BSD - DragonFlyBSD 6.0.1 - 5 Comments
AMD Radeon RX 6600 Linux Performance
09:00 AM EDT - Graphics Cards - 56 Comments
Vulkan 1.2.196 Introduces H.265 Encode Extension
07:27 AM EDT - Vulkan - VK_EXT_video_encode_h265 - 22 Comments
Mesa 21.3 Fixes Issue Of Some Games Having Transparency Issues Under Wayland
07:17 AM EDT - Mesa - EGL_EXT_present_opaque - Add A Comment
Loongson Volleys Latest Patches For LoongArch Linux Support
05:06 AM EDT - Hardware - LoongArch - 13 Comments
DAMON Extended To Offer Physical Memory Address Space Monitoring
03:45 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - DAMON - Add A Comment
12 October
Red Hat Is Hiring Another Linux Developer To Work On GPU Hardware Enablement
06:36 PM EDT - Red Hat - Linux Graphics Driver Developer - 19 Comments
Intel Contributes AVX-512 Optimizations To Numpy, Yields Massive Speedups
02:50 PM EDT - Intel - Numpy + AVX-512 - 31 Comments
GNOME's Platform Design Continues Evolving From Dark Mode To Toasts
02:35 PM EDT - GNOME - GNOME Platform Design - 51 Comments
7.4M IOPS Achieved Per-Core With Newest Linux Patches
02:14 PM EDT - Linux Storage - 7.4M IOPS - 33 Comments
Portable Computing Language 1.8 Released For OpenCL On CPUs, Other Accelerators
01:31 PM EDT - Programming - PoCL 1.8 - 1 Comment
Intel Tiger Lake Performance Across Five Autumn 2021 Linux Distributions
08:26 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 11 Comments
Glibc 2.35 Removes The Long-Deprecated Intel MPX Support
06:02 AM EDT - GNU - Memory Protection Extensions - 2 Comments
Linux x86 FPU Code Getting Reworked In Preparation For Intel AMX
05:45 AM EDT - Intel - Advanced Matrix Extensions - 16 Comments
11 October
Lutris 0.5.9 Released With Support For The Epic Games Store, New Options
03:43 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - Lutris 0.5.9 - 23 Comments
Microsoft Publishes WSL Preview Inside the Windows 11 Store
03:21 PM EDT - Microsoft - Windows Subsystem For Linux - 22 Comments
Intel Posts Latest DG2/Alchemist Linux Patches In Requiring 64K Page Size Handling
02:53 PM EDT - Intel - Plus Flat CCS - Add A Comment
Walmart Pushes Open-Source L3AF To Help Out eBPF Ecosystem
02:07 PM EDT - Linux Networking - Walmart Loves eBPF - 8 Comments
Ubuntu 19.10 To 21.10: AMD Zen 2 + Radeon Performance On Linux Over Two Years
09:12 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 32 Comments
More Optimizations Has Linux Approaching 7M IOPS Per Core
09:04 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Block Improvements - 8 Comments
Krita 5.0 Beta 2 Reworks Its GPU Accelerated Canvas
07:15 AM EDT - KDE - Krita 5.0 - 5 Comments
AMD Publishes New Linux Audio Driver Code For Yellow Carp / ACP6x Audio Co-Processor
05:49 AM EDT - AMD - ACP 6.x - 3 Comments
EROFS File-System Adding LZMA Compression Support Via New MicroLZMA
05:28 AM EDT - Linux Storage - EROFS + LZMA - 11 Comments
10 October
Linux 5.15-rc5 Released With This Cycle Running Smoothly
08:29 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.15-rc5 - 2 Comments
Phoronix Test Suite 10.6 Released With Various Improvements For Linux Benchmarking
07:19 PM EDT - Phoronix Test Suite - Phoronix Test Suite 10.6 - 4 Comments
NVIDIA Contributing Tegra NVDEC Support To Linux 5.16
06:45 AM EDT - NVIDIA - Tegra NVDEC - 18 Comments
Linux 5.15-rc5 x86 Changes Aim To Fix "Yet Another Hardware Trainwreck"
06:00 AM EDT - Intel - Linux 5.15 - 35 Comments
Red Hat Is Making It Easy To Run Bleeding-Edge LLVM/Clang On Fedora
05:53 AM EDT - Fedora - LLVM Daily On Fedora - 10 Comments
9 October
IBM Proposing A CPU Namespace For The Linux Kernel
06:56 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - CPU Namespace - 10 Comments
Intel Begins Preparing Linux Graphics Driver For Multi-Tile Hardware
10:25 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Multi-Tile Support - 14 Comments
Debian 11.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Fixes
10:07 AM EDT - Debian - Debian 11.1 - 17 Comments
It Appears FUTEX2 Will Land For Linux 5.16
06:39 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Great News For Linux Gamers - 25 Comments
KDE Moves To GitLab-Based CI, Lands More Plasma Wayland Fixes
06:13 AM EDT - KDE - Plasma 5.23 Fixes - 33 Comments
8 October
A Big Batch Of AMD Graphics Driver Updates Just Sent Out For Linux 5.16
04:50 PM EDT - Radeon - AMDGPU Updates - 14 Comments
Wine 6.19 Continues Work On HID Joystick, PE Conversion
03:25 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 6.19 - 7 Comments
Mesa 21.3 Enables NGG Culling By Default For RDNA2 GPUs
01:42 PM EDT - Radeon - Mesa 21.3 - 4 Comments
GCC 12 Enables Auto-Vectorization For -O2 Optimization Level
10:06 AM EDT - GNU - Very Cheap Model - 19 Comments
Flatpak 1.12 Released - Better Sub-Sandbox Handling To Benefit Steam
07:34 AM EDT - Free Software - Flatpak 1.12 - 38 Comments
Linux 5.16 To Add Intel Encrypted PXP, Alder Lake S Declared Stable & Ready
06:53 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Graphics - 2 Comments
X.Org Modesetting Driver Will Now Better Handle Multi-Montior Mixed-VRR Setups
06:11 AM EDT - X.Org - VRR + No-VRR Displays - 11 Comments
Intel Continues Optimizing Linux For Optane DC Persistent Memory Servers
7 October
Radeon Gallium3D Picks Up A Nice Performance Optimization For iGPU/dGPU PRIME Setups
08:19 PM EDT - Radeon - Async SDMA Copies - 37 Comments
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX / ASUS ROG Strix G15 Is A Nicer Experience On Ubuntu 21.10
09:30 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 23 Comments
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.11 Released - Increased Font Size In Help, Other Mundane Changes
09:13 AM EDT - Free Software - OpenOffice 4.1.11 - 49 Comments
Intel C For Metal Compiler Updated With Support For XeHP & DG1
06:20 AM EDT - Intel - Intel CM Compiler 1.0.97 - 23 Comments
Intel Removes ASTC Hardware From Gen12.5+ Graphics
05:49 AM EDT - Intel - Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression - 9 Comments
GNU Toolchain Begins Landing RISC-V Bitmanip/Zbs Instructions Support
05:19 AM EDT - RISC-V - RISC-V Zbs - 4 Comments
Google Trumpets The Success Of Their Chrome "RenderingNG" Performance Initiative
12:00 AM EDT - Google - Chrome RenderingNG - 40 Comments
6 October
NVIDIA 470.62.05 Beta Brings Vulkan Video Updates
07:33 PM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Update - 21 Comments
FWUPD 1.7 Released With Supporting More Hardware For Firmware Updates On Linux
03:17 PM EDT - Hardware - FWUPD 1.7 - 10 Comments
Chrome 96 To Feature Improved WebRTC Code, Better Wayland Screensharing
02:41 PM EDT - Google - New WebRTC DMA-BUF Implementation - 18 Comments
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 Now Available As Beta
02:22 PM EDT - Radeon - RHEL 8.5 Beta - 9 Comments
Canonical Announces Ubuntu Frame As A Full-Screen Shell Built On Mir
01:36 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu Frame - 23 Comments
Radeon Software 21.30 PRO vs. Mesa 21.3-devel + Linux 5.15 Gaming Performance
09:16 AM EDT - Display Drivers - 29 Comments
Raspberry Pi "V3D" Driver Landing Support For Multiple Sync Objects
08:23 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Improving Vulkan - 3 Comments
Sony Has Begun Accelerating Their Contributions To Open-Source / Linux
05:56 AM EDT - Free Software - Open-Source Sony - 43 Comments
Ampere Computing Steps Up With Monthly Open-Source Firmware Releases
03:00 AM EDT - Hardware - Open-Source Firmware - 5 Comments
ET: Legacy 2.78 Released With Better OpenAL Sound, Android Support Materializing
12:00 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - ETLegacy - 4 Comments
5 October
Asahi Linux On The Apple M1: "Usable As A Basic Linux Desktop" Sans GPU Acceleration
07:22 PM EDT - Apple - Asahi Linux Status Update - 102 Comments
Linux 5.16 Preps More Display Code For Alder Lake P & DG2/Alchemist
04:44 PM EDT - Intel - Intel Display Work - Add A Comment
Linux 5.16 KVM To Land RISC-V Hypervisor Support
02:36 PM EDT - RISC-V - KVM + RISC-V - 5 Comments
CentOS Kmods SIG Working On exFAT, WireGuard Additions
02:17 PM EDT - Red Hat - CentOS Kmods SIG - 10 Comments
Updated Zstd Planned For Linux 5.16 With Better Performance
09:10 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Zstd Update - 38 Comments
Mir 2.5 Released With Wayland Extension Updates For Better Handling On-Screen Keyboards
08:30 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Mir 2.5 - 17 Comments
Microsoft Releases September Update To CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution
Micron's HSE Storage Engine 2.0 Debuts - No Longer Relies On Linux Kernel Modifications
04:00 AM EDT - Linux Storage - HSE 2.0 - 3 Comments
Firefox 93 Primed For Release With AVIF Image Support, Canonical Managing Official Snap
12:00 AM EDT - Mozilla - Firefox 93.0 - 54 Comments
4 October
RadeonSI Lands Another Big Overhead Optimization - "Substantially" Helps In Some Cases
07:17 PM EDT - Mesa - Lower Driver Overhead - 9 Comments
Python 3.10 Released With Many Improvements
06:26 PM EDT - Programming - Python 3.10 - 6 Comments
Android 12 Now Available From The Android Open-Source Project
03:00 PM EDT - Google - Android 12 AOSP - 13 Comments
AMD Publishes Open-Source "GPUFORT" As Newest Effort To Help Transition Away From CUDA
02:30 PM EDT - Radeon - GPUFORT - 35 Comments
AMD Prepares Linux Driver Support For USB4 DP Tunneling
01:45 PM EDT - Radeon - USB4 DisplayPort - 17 Comments
Intel Tiger Lake Performance Looking Even Better With Ubuntu 21.10
09:00 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 36 Comments
Mesa 21.3 RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Ray-Tracing Support For Older AMD Radeon GPUs
08:28 AM EDT - Radeon - RADV Mesa 21.3 - 17 Comments
Lumina Desktop 1.6.1 Released With Theme Improvements While Bigger Improvements Planned
06:35 AM EDT - Desktop - Lumina Desktop - 10 Comments
GCC 12 Compiler Squaring Away Its AVX-512 FP16 Support
06:13 AM EDT - GNU - AVX-512 FP16 - 11 Comments
AMD SEV-SNP Development Continues Towards The Linux Kernel
05:45 AM EDT - AMD - AMD SEV-SNP - Add A Comment
3 October
Linux 5.15-rc4 Released - The Kernel Is Looking "Pretty Normal"
05:56 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.15-rc4 - 13 Comments
Linux 5.16 Aims For Better USB Low-Latency Audio Playback
08:57 AM EDT - Multimedia - USB Audio Low-Latency Playback - 21 Comments
Intel Sends Out 11th Revision Of Linux Kernel Patches For AMX
08:26 AM EDT - Intel - Advanced Matrix Extensions - 5 Comments
Initial Linux Kernel Patches Posted For The Fairphone 4
05:48 AM EDT - Hardware - Fairphone 4 - 35 Comments
Intel Compute-Runtime 21.39.21127 Brings Broader Alder Lake S Support
05:30 AM EDT - Intel - Compute 21.39.21127 - Add A Comment
2 October
OpenBLAS 0.3.18 Released With LoongArch64 Support, More Optimizations
03:02 PM EDT - Programming - OpenBLAS 0.3.18 - Add A Comment
Intel oneAPI 2021.4 Released With More Optimizations, Continues LLVM Adoption
01:54 PM EDT - Intel - oneAPI 2021.4 - Add A Comment
helloSystem 0.6 Released For macOS-Inspired FreeBSD
01:34 PM EDT - BSD - helloSystem 0.6 - 17 Comments
Facebook Is Aiming To Make Compilers Faster Using Machine Learning With CompilerGym
05:53 AM EDT - Programming - CompilerGym - 44 Comments
Plasma 5.23 Lands More Last-Minute Fixes To Avoid Wayland Crashes
05:31 AM EDT - KDE - Plasma 5.23 - 5 Comments
1 October
Nearly Two Decades Later, ATI Radeon R300 Linux Driver Sees Occasional Improvement
07:30 PM EDT - Radeon - R300 Gallium3D - 20 Comments
Red Hat / Fedora To Focus On Driving New Linux Video Improvements Around PipeWire
01:51 PM EDT - Multimedia - Better Video Support - 52 Comments
Fedora Server 35 Performance Looking Good - Initial Benchmarks With Intel Xeon Ice Lake
09:23 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 3 Comments
LLVM 13.0 Released With Official Flang Binary Packages, Improved OpenCL Clang Support
09:02 AM EDT - LLVM - LLVM 13.0 - 11 Comments
PoCL 1.8 OpenCL Implementation Coming With LLVM 13 Support, Better SPIR-V On CUDA
08:29 AM EDT - Standards - Portable Computing Language - 3 Comments
Arm Begins Adding Armv9 Support To The GNU Compiler Toolchain
Proton Experimental Enables NVIDIA DLSS For D3D12 Games, Proton Now Handles More Games
05:10 AM EDT - Valve - Proton Updates - 22 Comments
Linux 5.15, AMD / Radeon Advancements, Intel SDSi Dominated Discussions This Month
12:00 AM EDT - Phoronix - September 2021 - 7 Comments
30 September
Intel Exploring CPU+GPU Synchronized Priority Scheduling For Linux
03:34 PM EDT - Intel - CPU + GPU Scheduling - 4 Comments
New AMD Linux Audio Driver Patches Posted - Aimed For Enhancing Chromebook Support
02:58 PM EDT - AMD - AMD Audio - 4 Comments
Intel Announces Loihi 2, Lava Software Framework For Advancing Neuromorphic Computing
11:00 AM EDT - Intel - Loihi 2 + Lava - 13 Comments
Linux Achieves 5.1M IOPS Per-Core With AMD Zen 3 + Intel Optane
09:53 AM EDT - Linux Storage - 5.1M IOPS Per-Core - 27 Comments
PostgreSQL 14.0 Released With More Performance Improvements
09:19 AM EDT - Programming - PostgreSQL 14 - 16 Comments
Linux 5.16 To Feature More Extensible VirtIO GPU Driver With "Context Types" Addition
08:29 AM EDT - Virtualization - VirtIO-GPU Context Type - 13 Comments
Qt 6.2 LTS Released With Qt6 Now Aiming To Be Ready For Widespread Adoption
06:38 AM EDT - Qt - Qt 6.2 - 20 Comments
AMDVLK 2021.Q3.7 Driver Released With New Extensions, More Optimizations
06:09 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDVLK 2021.Q3.7 - Add A Comment
Ampere Altra Max 128-Core CPU Is Priced Lower Than Flagship Xeon, EPYC CPUs
05:55 AM EDT - Arm - Competitive Pricing - 15 Comments
29 September
Mesa 21.2.3 Released As A Small Update To This Graphics Driver Stack
07:27 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 21.2.3 - 4 Comments
"pkill_on_warn" Proposed For Killing Linux Processes That Cause A Kernel Warning
03:32 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - pkill_on_warn - 22 Comments
Libcamera Maturing Well As Open-Source Camera Stack
02:30 PM EDT - Hardware - libcamera 2021 - 12 Comments
Windows 11 WSL2 Performance Is Quite Competitive Against Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Ubuntu 21.10
09:18 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 95 Comments
AMD Aims For 30x Energy Efficiency Improvement For AI Training + HPC By 2025
09:09 AM EDT - AMD - EPYC + Instinct - 32 Comments
LibreOffice Lands Initial Code For Qt6 Toolkit Support
08:54 AM EDT - LibreOffice - LibreOffice + Qt6 VCL - 29 Comments
Updated Zstd Implementation For The Linux Kernel Coming Soon
05:45 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Zstd Update - 8 Comments
28 September
Steam Beta Improves Its Vulkan Pre-Caching System, PipeWire Capture Now Opt-In
08:51 PM EDT - Valve - Smarter Pre-Caching - 17 Comments
RadeonSI Driver Merges NGG Improvements, Other Optimizations For Mesa 21.3
06:35 PM EDT - Radeon - Mesa 21.3 Improvements - 25 Comments
Linux 5.16 To Expose AMD PSF Disable Bit To KVM Guests
02:48 PM EDT - AMD - Predictive Store Forwarding - Add A Comment
Fedora 35 Beta Released With Many New Features, Countless Package Updates
01:48 PM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 35 - 26 Comments
Ampere Altra Max M128-30 Linux Performance Preview
09:30 AM EDT - Processors - 27 Comments
Vulkan 1.2.194 Brings New Extension For Google's Fuchsia OS
09:29 AM EDT - Vulkan - VK_FUCHSIA_buffer_collection - 12 Comments
Picolibc Continues Maturing As Very Lightweight C Library For The Embedded World
09:00 AM EDT - Programming - Picolibc - 7 Comments
OmniOS Adds VirtFS File Sharing For Bhyve, Better System Console Performance
08:09 AM EDT - Operating Systems - OmniOS r151038 - 1 Comment
Fedora's Java Packages Have Fallen Into Rough Shape
05:51 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora + Java Is Not Good - 93 Comments
AMD Posts Code Enabling "Cyan Skillfish" Display Support Due To Different DCN2 Variant
12:00 AM EDT - Radeon - DCN 2.01 - 5 Comments
27 September
Linux 5.16 To Bring Initial DisplayPort 2.0 Support For AMD Radeon Driver (AMDGPU)
"Intel Software Defined Silicon" Coming To Linux For Activating Extra Licensed Hardware Features
02:45 PM EDT - Intel - Intel Software Defined Silicon - 92 Comments
Testing The New ASUS Platform Profile Support In Linux 5.15
08:15 AM EDT - Computers - 8 Comments
Bcachefs Merges Support For Btrfs-Like Snapshots
05:34 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Bcachefs Snapshots - 77 Comments
Nintendo Crypto Driver Being Worked On For Linux, Yields Much Better AES Performance
05:22 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Nintendo Wii AES Driver - 6 Comments
Lavapipe Mesa Software Driver Enables Vulkan 1.2 Support
05:10 AM EDT - Mesa - Lavapipe + Vulkan 1.2 - 5 Comments
MediaTek Hoping To Bring nanoMIPS Support Upstream Into GCC
12:00 AM EDT - Hardware - nanoMIPS For GCC - 6 Comments
26 September
Linux 5.15-rc3 Released - Looking "Pretty Normal" Plus Performance Fix
05:38 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.15-rc3 - 8 Comments
Firefox 92 vs. Chrome 94 Browser Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux
01:29 PM EDT - Desktop - Firefox 92 vs. Chrome 94 - 59 Comments
GNU Wget2 2.0 Released With HTTP2 & SSL Improvements
10:06 AM EDT - GNU - Wget2 2.0 - 20 Comments
Updated AMD P-State Driver Published For Linux
06:45 AM EDT - AMD - AMD P-State - 5 Comments
Linux IO_uring Can Now Achieve Up To ~3.8M IOPS Per-Core
06:30 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Faster I/O Throughput - 19 Comments
25 September
KDE Plasma 5.24 On Wayland To Support DRM Leasing For VR Headsets
01:34 PM EDT - KDE - Plasma 5.24 - 5 Comments
Facebook Has Been Working On BOLT'ing The Linux Kernel For Greater Performance
09:20 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - BOLTing The Linux Kernel - 17 Comments
Intel's User Interrupts With Sapphire Rapids Looking Quite Great For Faster IPC
08:32 AM EDT - Intel - x86 User Interrupts - 9 Comments
OpenZFS 2.0.6 Released With Support For Newer Kernels
06:23 AM EDT - Linux Storage - OpenZFS 2.0.6 - Add A Comment
Wine-Staging 6.18 Released With 616 Patches Atop Upstream
05:52 AM EDT - WINE - Wine-Staging 6.18 - 9 Comments
XWayland GLX Path Enables sRGB Support
03:00 AM EDT - Wayland - XWayland + OpenGL sRGB - 13 Comments
24 September
Wine 6.18 Released With HID Joystick Enabled By Default
06:01 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 6.18 - Add A Comment
BattlEye To Support Valve's Steam Deck / Proton
03:52 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - BattlEye - 48 Comments
IBM Engineer Has Been Exploring Possible Rust Modules For GRUB
02:50 PM EDT - GNU - Rust + GRUB? - 10 Comments
GNU Coreutils 9.0: cp Now Enables CoW By Default + Copy Offload, wc Now Uses AVX2
01:36 PM EDT - GNU - Coreutils 9.0 - 18 Comments
SiFive HiFive Unmatched Hands-On, Initial RISC-V Performance Benchmarks
09:22 AM EDT - Computers - 76 Comments
MidnightBSD 2.1 Released For This Desktop-Minded BSD
05:46 AM EDT - BSD - MidnightBSD 2.1 - 5 Comments
05:16 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 21.10 - 36 Comments
Chrome 95 Beta Completely Removes Deprecated FTP Support, Reduced User Agent Info Trial
12:01 AM EDT - Google - Chrome 95 Beta - 28 Comments
Linux 5.15 Lands Memcg Performance Regression Fix
12:00 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.15 - 1 Comment
23 September
BPF-Based Linux Firewall "bpfilter" Shows Impressive Performance Potential
04:00 PM EDT - Linux Networking - bpfilter - 18 Comments
Epic Games Announces Easy Anti-Cheat For Linux - Including Wine/Proton
02:40 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - EAC For Linux - 72 Comments
Updated "FUTEX2" futex_waitv Patches Posted To Address Latest Feedback
02:16 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - futex_waitv - Add A Comment
A Fix Is Pending For That Linux 5.15 Performance Regression
09:15 AM EDT - Software - 5 Comments
Microsoft's "CLOn12" Mesa Code Adds SPIR/SPIR-V Support
09:09 AM EDT - Mesa - OpenCL On DirectX 12 - 16 Comments
GCC 12 Adds Stack Variable Auto-Initialization, Other Security Improvements Forthcoming
07:17 AM EDT - GNU - GCC Security - 19 Comments
Lennart: Linux Comes Up Short Around Disk Encryption, Authenticated Boot Security
06:23 AM EDT - systemd - Improvements Needed - 117 Comments
"panel-edp" Driver On Its Way To Linux 5.16 To Make For Less Hard-Coded eDP Panel Configs
systemd OOMD Maturing Nicely, Adds Support For User Services
12:00 AM EDT - systemd - systemd-oomd - 16 Comments
22 September
Valve Publishes New Steam Deck FAQ With A Few New Details Shared
08:18 PM EDT - Valve - Steam Deck FAQ - 24 Comments
Google Finally Shifting To "Upstream First" Linux Kernel Approach For Android Features
02:38 PM EDT - Google - Upstream First - 47 Comments
Mesa Merge Pending For Vulkan Ray-Tracing On Older AMD GPUs
01:14 PM EDT - Mesa - Ray-Tracing On Older GPUs - 21 Comments
GNOME 41 Released With Wayland Improvements, More Performance Tuning
11:23 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME 41 - 76 Comments
An Early Look At The AMD P-State CPPC Driver Performance vs. ACPI CPUFreq
09:38 AM EDT - Software - 25 Comments
Better Support & Performance For OpenACC Kernels Is Coming To GCC
06:40 AM EDT - GNU - OpenACC Performance - Add A Comment
Aya Makes It Easy To Write Rust-Based eBPF Programs For The Linux Kernel
05:57 AM EDT - Linux Networking - Aya - 31 Comments
Ubuntu Touch OTA-19 Released - Still Based On Ubuntu 16.04
03:40 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu Touch OTA-19 - 14 Comments
Mesa 21.2.2 Released "Late & Very Large"
12:00 AM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 21.2 - 21 Comments
21 September
X.Org Server 21.1 RC1 Released With VRR Support For Modesetting Driver, Other Features
06:55 PM EDT - X.Org - xserver 21.1 - 29 Comments
AMDGPU Linux Driver To Overhaul Its Approach To Device Enumeration
05:00 PM EDT - Radeon - IP Discovery - 8 Comments
Cycles X Merged Into Blender 3.0 With NVIDIA CUDA/OptiX Support, AMD HIP Pending
03:33 PM EDT - Free Software - Blender 3.0 + Cycles X - 8 Comments
Chrome 94 Released With WebGPU For Testing, WebCodecs API Now Official
02:48 PM EDT - Google - Chrome 94 - 34 Comments
Oracle's Next-Generation GNU Profiler "gprofng" Is Looking Great For Developers
02:21 PM EDT - GNU - gprofng - 10 Comments
Linux Foundation To Host PaSh For Automatic Parallelizing Of Shell Scripts
01:16 PM EDT - Programming - PaSh - 14 Comments
Samba 4.15 Released With Improved CLI Experience, Modernized VFS Interface
08:40 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Samba 4.15 - Add A Comment
Canonical Extending Ubuntu 14.04/16.04 LTS Support To Ten Years
08:00 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 18.04/20.04 Unchanged - 36 Comments
Vulkan Video Decoding Still In The Early Stages For Open-Source
06:33 AM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan Video - 5 Comments
Mesa 21.3 Lands Initial Radeon Ray-Tracing Support In Open-Source RADV Vulkan Driver
05:25 AM EDT - Mesa - RADV Ray-Tracing - 10 Comments
AMD Extending DWARF To Better Handle GPU Debugging, Continues Collaborating With GCC & LLVM
12:00 AM EDT - Radeon - DWARF6 - 3 Comments
20 September
Phoronix Ad-Free/Premium Special For Oktoberfest 2021
11:59 PM EDT - Premium - Go Premium - 9 Comments
Intel Posts New Linux Patches Looking To Re-Enable ENQCMD Ahead Of Sapphire Rapids
04:25 PM EDT - Intel - Restoring ENQCMD - Add A Comment
CUPS 2.4 Coming Next Month, CUPS 2.5 + CUPS 3.0 Already In Planning
03:02 PM EDT - Free Software - CUPS Printing - 14 Comments
OpenVPN DCO Linux Kernel Module Aims To Offer Faster VPN Performance
02:31 PM EDT - Linux Networking - Data Channel Offload - 17 Comments
NVIDIA 470.74 Linux Driver Released With Several Fixes
09:47 AM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA 470.74 - 29 Comments
DXVK 1.9.2 Released With More Games In Better Shape
09:36 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - DXVK 1.9.2 - 7 Comments
Rust Lands Support For The Motorola 68000 Processors
09:02 AM EDT - Programming - M68k - 23 Comments
AMD Continues CRIU Work To Checkpoint/Restore ROCm Compute Workloads
NVIDIA Prepares The Linux Kernel For Future Laptops With EC-Driven Backlights
Red Hat's Upstream Contributions Are Making For A Great Fedora Workstation 35
06:00 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora Workstation 35 Features - 22 Comments
xf86-input-libinput 1.2 Brings Touchpad Gestures, High Resolution Scrolling
05:38 AM EDT - X.Org - xf86-input-libinput 1.2 - 9 Comments
19 September
Linux 5.15-rc2 Released With Many Fixes, Addressing Issues Raised By "-Werror"
08:48 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.15 - 23 Comments
HarfBuzz 3.0 Released With Unicode 14.0 Support, More APIs Considered Stable
04:11 PM EDT - Desktop - HarfBuzz 3.0 - 13 Comments
That Didn't Take Long: KSMBD In-Kernel File Server Already Needs Important Security Fix
01:05 PM EDT - Linux Security - SMB3 In-Kernel File Server - 33 Comments
Linux 5.16 To Support Sensor Readings On More ASUS Motherboards
06:19 AM EDT - Hardware - ASUS-WMI + nct6775 - 41 Comments
Jolla Releases Sailfish OS 4.2 For Continuing To Improve This Linux-Based Smartphone OS
05:53 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Sailfish OS 4.2 - 35 Comments
SDL Still Has A Number Of Issues To Address Before Defaulting To Wayland
05:45 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - SDL Wayland State - 2 Comments
18 September
Linux 5.15 Is Now Slightly Less Broken For The DEC Alpha "Jensen"
07:36 PM EDT - Hardware - DEC PC 150 AXP - 13 Comments
DRM Driver Posted For AI Processing Unit - Initially Focused On Mediatek SoCs
01:12 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - DRM APU - 6 Comments
Apple M1 USB Type-C Linux Support Code Sent Out For Testing
09:05 AM EDT - Apple - USB Type-C - 11 Comments
AMD + Valve Focusing On P-State / CPPC Driver With Schedutil For Better Linux Efficiency
07:26 AM EDT - AMD - AMD P-State - 29 Comments
GIMP 2.10.28 Released With More Fixes
05:56 AM EDT - Desktop - GIMP 2.10.28 - 24 Comments
KDE Sees Another Big Batch Of Plasma Wayland Improvements
05:42 AM EDT - KDE - Better Plasma Wayland - 24 Comments