Qt 6.0 Beta Released For This Big Toolkit Update
05:34 AM EDT - Qt - Qt 6.0 Beta - Add A Comment
20 October
FreeType 2.10.4 Rushed Out As Emergency Security Release
05:18 AM EDT - Free Software - FreeType 2.10.4 - Add A Comment
Initial Support For Booting RISC-V Hardware Via EFI Sent In For Linux 5.10
02:09 AM EDT - Hardware - RISC-V + (U)EFI - Add A Comment
19 October
Intel Lands A Hefty Tiger Lake Graphics Optimization
08:35 PM EDT - Intel - Tiger Lake - 2 Comments
OpenZFS 2.0-RC4 Released With More Fixes, Linux 5.9 Support
06:17 PM EDT - Linux Storage - OpenZFS 2.0 - Add A Comment
Trisquel 9.0 Released - Powered By The Linux 4.15 Kernel
04:34 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Trisquel 9.0 - 23 Comments
Linux 5.10 FUSE To Allow Faster Performance With VirtIO-FS
04:05 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.10 - 1 Comment
Git 2.29 Released With Experimental Support For Using More Secure SHA-256
02:36 PM EDT - Programming - Git 2.29 - 5 Comments
Open-Source RADV Vulkan Driver Is Seeing Work To Allow Building It On Windows
01:34 PM EDT - Mesa - RADV + Windows - 10 Comments
Further Exploring The Intel Tiger Lake Core i7-1165G7 Performance On Ubuntu Linux
10:17 AM EDT - Processors - 24 Comments
Vulkan 1.2.158 Released With Fragment Shading Rate Extension
07:33 AM EDT - Vulkan - VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate - Add A Comment
Linux 5.9-ck1 Released With Updated MuQSS
06:41 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.9-ck1 - 5 Comments
GCC's Ada Frontend Seeing More Work On NVIDIA CUDA Support
06:26 AM EDT - Programming - Ada + CUDA - Add A Comment
Char/Misc With Linux 5.10 Brings Nitro Enclaves, Alder Lake, More Code For Gaudi
03:38 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Char Misc Subsystem - Add A Comment
Linux 5.10 Continues Bringing Up Support For Intel's Rocket Lake
12:30 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.10 + Rocket Lake - 4 Comments
AMD Sends Out Patches Adding "Znver3" Support To GNU Binutils With New Instructions
12:04 AM EDT - AMD - Znver3 - 20 Comments
18 October
OpenBSD Marks 25th Anniversary By Releasing OpenBSD 6.8 With POWER 64-Bit Support
12:35 PM EDT - BSD - OpenBSD 6.8 - 25 Comments
Linux 5.10 Staging Area Has The Usual Smorgasbord Of Changes
10:12 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.10 Staging - 3 Comments
Linux 5.10 Continues Maturing The USB4 Support
08:24 AM EDT - Intel - Linux 5.10 + USB4 - Add A Comment
Linux 5.10 To Play Nicely With The Matias Wireless Aluminum Keyboard
04:20 AM EDT - Hardware - Matias Wireless Keyboard - 23 Comments
Linux 5.9.1 + 6 Other Stable Kernels Out For Addressing "Bleeding Tooth" Vulnerability
12:45 AM EDT - Linux Security - Linux Bleeding Tooth - 7 Comments
New NTFS Linux Driver Spun A Ninth Time, Still Under Review
12:03 AM EDT - Linux Storage - NTFS3 v9 - 33 Comments
17 October
Ingenic X2000/X2000E MIPS IoT Processor Supported By Linux 5.10
08:28 PM EDT - Hardware - X2000 Series - 7 Comments
OpenBLAS 0.3.11 Brings Many Changes From Zen 3 To POWER10 Support
06:20 PM EDT - Programming - OpenBLAS 0.3.11 - Add A Comment
NVIDIA Doesn't Expect To Have Linux 5.9 Driver Support For Another Month
02:39 PM EDT - NVIDIA - Whoops - 127 Comments
More KDE Wayland Fixes Heading Into Plasma 5.20.1
10:52 AM EDT - KDE - More Wayland Fixes - 25 Comments
Zink In Mesa 20.3 Now Hits OpenGL 3.3, Can Run Blender With This OpenGL-on-Vulkan
09:07 AM EDT - Mesa - Zink OpenGL 3.3 - 5 Comments
PowerPC 601 Support Retired In Linux 5.10 While Continuing To Bring Up POWER10
08:47 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 5.10 POWER - 11 Comments
Linux 5.10 Perf Adds More Reporting For Zen 1, Initial Zen 3 Support
06:46 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Perf Tool - Add A Comment
NGG Appears To Be In Good Shape For RDNA 2 / RX 6000 Series
06:21 AM EDT - Radeon - NGG Culling With Big Navi - 2 Comments
OverlayFS Adds A "Volatile" Option - Faster Performance But All Syncs Are Omitted
12:00 AM EDT - Linux Storage - OverlayFS For Linux 5.10 - 6 Comments
16 October
GCC 11 Ending Feature Development In One Month
02:42 PM EDT - GNU - GCC 11 - 15 Comments
Intel Core i7 1165G7 "Tiger Lake" Linux Performance With The Dell XPS 13 9310
10:55 AM EDT - Computers - 34 Comments
Intel Compute Runtime 20.41.18123 Flips On OpenCL 3.0 For All Hardware Back To Broadwell
08:28 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Compute Runtime - 5 Comments
AMD Delivers Many Fixes For Polaris GPUs On Linux - Finally Enables ZeroRPM Fan Mode
06:34 AM EDT - Radeon - AMD Polaris Fixes - 60 Comments
Many Networking Improvements Land In Linux 5.10
06:06 AM EDT - Linux Networking - Linux 5.10 - 5 Comments
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Now Nearly At ~69% Of Intel's Native OpenGL Driver
02:46 AM EDT - Mesa - Zink OpenGL On Vulkan - 23 Comments
JACK2 Audio Server Rolls Out Better Windows + macOS Support
12:02 AM EDT - Multimedia - JACK2 1.9.15 - 6 Comments
15 October
F2FS With Linux 5.10 Brings Many Improvements And A Few More Features
08:35 PM EDT - Linux Storage - Flash-Friendly File-System - 6 Comments
Valve/CodeWeavers Releases Proton 5.13-1 With More Windows Games Running On Linux
04:46 PM EDT - Valve - Proton 5.13-1 - 32 Comments
Chrome 87 Beta Brings Further FTP Deprecation, Cookie Store API
02:51 PM EDT - Google - Chrome 87 - 13 Comments
Intel Finally Kills Gen10/Cannonlake-Specific Graphics Code From Their Linux Driver
01:22 PM EDT - Intel - Gen10 Cannonlake - 3 Comments
KWinFT 5.20 With Aims For Better Wayland/X11 Experience Than KDE Plasma 5.20's KWin
11:24 AM EDT - KDE - KWinFT 5.20 - 29 Comments
Intel Rewrites Old Haswell-Era Audio Driver Due To Bugs, Plus DG1 Audio For Linux 5.10
10:09 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 5.10 Sound - 7 Comments
Systemd 247 Merges Systemd-OOMD For Improving Low-Memory/Out-Of-Memory Handling
08:43 AM EDT - systemd - systemd-oomd - 12 Comments
AMD Secure Nested Paging IOMMU For SEV-SNP Lands In Linux 5.10
06:39 AM EDT - AMD - AMD SNP IOMMU - 3 Comments
Linux 5.10 Graphics Driver Changes From AMDGPU DC For GCN 1.0 To Continuing RDNA 2 Push
06:06 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.10 DRM - 14 Comments
XFS File-System With Linux 5.10 Punts Year 2038 Problem To The Year 2486
12:04 AM EDT - Linux Storage - XFS Improvements For Linux 5.10 - 34 Comments
14 October
How Intel's Clear Linux Is Competing Against Late-2020 Linux Distributions
05:05 PM EDT - Operating Systems - 19 Comments
04:18 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - SDL2 + OS2 - 27 Comments
Mesa 20.2.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Fixes
03:16 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 20.2.1 - Add A Comment
Linux 5.10 Begins Landing The Long Overdue Revamp Of printk()
11:58 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.10 printk - 14 Comments
Intel Discloses New Ice Lake Xeon Security Features
09:00 AM EDT - Intel - Xeon Scalable Security - 8 Comments
Apache Software Foundation Celebrates Two Decades Of OpenOffice
07:36 AM EDT - Free Software - OpenOffice - 36 Comments
UBports Improving Its Installer For Deploying Ubuntu Touch On Smartphones
GCC Getting Wired Up For Intel's Key Locker, UINTR, HRESET, AVX-VNNI
06:21 AM EDT - Intel - New Instructions - Add A Comment
AMD Laptops With Radeon dGPU Graphics Receive Fix For Poor Linux Power Management
05:49 AM EDT - Hardware - Power Management Fix - 15 Comments
Linux 5.10 Media Changes Bring A New "Vidtv" Virtual Driver
12:00 AM EDT - Multimedia - Media Virtual Driver - 2 Comments
13 October
AMD SEV-ES Sent In For Linux 5.10 To Further Secure Guest VMs
08:42 PM EDT - AMD - AMD SEV-ES - Add A Comment
Raspberry Pi 4 Vulkan Driver "V3DV" Merged Into Mesa 20.3
07:00 PM EDT - Mesa - V3DV Mainlined - 20 Comments
Android 12 Appears To Support Using WireGuard
06:50 PM EDT - Google - WireGuard - 31 Comments
CodeWeavers Announces Rebrand With PortJump + ExecMode
01:38 PM EDT - WINE - CodeWeavers - 22 Comments
01:16 PM EDT - Software - 9 Comments
Sailfish OS 3.4 Released With Experimental Rust Support, Finally Eyeing 64-bit ARM
09:26 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Sailfish OS 3.4 - 24 Comments
KDE Plasma 5.20 Released With Better Wayland Support, Many New Features
08:46 AM EDT - KDE - Plasma 5.20 - 57 Comments
Krita 4.4 Released With Multi-Threading For Fill Layers
07:41 AM EDT - KDE - Krita 4.4 - 8 Comments
CUPS Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingly Dried Up
06:43 AM EDT - Free Software - Empty CUPS - 55 Comments
Hardware Monitoring Updates For Linux 5.10 Are Led By AMD Zen 3 Support
06:10 AM EDT - Hardware - hwmon Zen 3 - 2 Comments
New Intel / AMD Hardware Support Come With Linux 5.10 "Perf" Additions
12:00 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 5.10 Performance Events - Add A Comment
12 October
Linux 5.10 To Make One Of Its Pseudo Random Number Generators Less Predictable
08:00 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.10 prandom_u32 - 2 Comments
Btrfs With Linux 5.10 Brings Some Sizable FSync Performance Improvements
06:06 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Btrfs Performance - 17 Comments
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Linux Gaming Performance
03:46 PM EDT - Graphics Cards - 67 Comments
OpenCV 4.5 Released With Support For Multiple OpenCL Contexts, OpenVINO Backend
01:28 PM EDT - Programming - OpenCV 4.5 - Add A Comment
Linux 5.10 To See Static Calls For Helping Cases Where Retpolines Are Used
01:07 PM EDT - Linux Security - Static Calls - 2 Comments
Linux 5.10 Scheduler Updates Bring SMT Balancing Tweaks
10:19 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Scheduler - 6 Comments
Many Intel/AMD x86 Changes Kick Off Linux 5.10 Development From Zen 3 To SERIALIZE
07:11 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.10 x86 - 1 Comment
GNU Linux-libre 5.9-gnu Released After The Usual Deblobbing
06:45 AM EDT - GNU - GNU Linux-Libre 5.9 - 15 Comments
LLVM 11.0 Finally Available With Flang Fortran Compiler, Continued C++20 Work
06:27 AM EDT - LLVM - LLVM 11.0 Released - 6 Comments
11 October
Linux 5.9 Released With Initial AMD RDNA 2 GPU Enablement, Other New Hardware Support
05:37 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.9 - 15 Comments
The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% Of The Linux Kernel
03:05 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.9 Stats - 47 Comments
Pitivi 2020.09 Video Editor Released With Better Stability, Many New Features
11:49 AM EDT - GNOME - Pitivi 2020.09 - 23 Comments
There Are Many Changes To Look Forward To With The Linux 5.10 Kernel
09:55 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.10 Features - 3 Comments
Arm Memory Tagging Extension Ready For Linux 5.10
06:54 AM EDT - Arm - Arm MTE - 4 Comments
Intel Continues Prepping PKS For The Linux Kernel (Protection Keys for Supervisor)
10 October
AMD Adds New AMDGPU LLVM Targets For Older GPUs In Cleanup
08:38 PM EDT - Radeon - GFX7/GFX8 - 10 Comments
Intel Media SDK 20.3 Released With AV1 Decode, Rocket Lake + DG1/SG1 Support
KDE Plasma 5.21 To Bring Multi-GPU Support For Wayland
11:45 AM EDT - KDE - Multi-GPU KDE Plasma Wayland - 28 Comments
AMD Sends Out Latest SFH Linux Driver Patches
08:49 AM EDT - AMD - Sensor Fusion Hub - 6 Comments
RADV ACO Lands NGG Geometry Shader Support
06:27 AM EDT - Mesa - NGG GS - 13 Comments
Wine-Staging 5.19 Adds Windows.Networking.Connectivity
03:48 AM EDT - WINE - Helps Some Games / Apps - 7 Comments
Intel's Latest Compute Code Is Enabling OpenCL 3.0 For All Hardware Since Broadwell
12:00 AM EDT - Intel - OpenCL 3.0 - 11 Comments
9 October
A Last Call For The 2020 Phoronix Premium Oktoberfest Special
11:59 PM EDT - Phoronix - Wiesn Special - 3 Comments
Wine 5.19 Released With A Variety Of Changes
05:12 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 5.19 - 7 Comments
EXT4 "Fast Commits" Coming For Big Performance Boost In Ordered Mode
02:51 PM EDT - Linux Storage - EXT4 Fast Commit - 37 Comments
The Current Intel Coffee Lake Mitigation Performance Impact With Linux 5.9
02:07 PM EDT - Software - 12 Comments
Paragon Sends Out Latest NTFS Read-Write Linux Driver Patches
10:45 AM EDT - Linux Storage - NTFS Linux Driver - 23 Comments
KDE Plasma Mobile Has Been Making Great Progress
09:00 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Plasma Mobile - 21 Comments
The Linux Kernel Preparing To Take Advantage Of The Intel DSA / ENQCMD In Sapphire Rapids
FFmpeg Now Supports VP9 Profile 2 VDPAU Decode (10-bit / 12-bit)
06:19 AM EDT - Multimedia - VP9 Profile 2 - 14 Comments
AMD Reportedly In Talks To Acquire Xilinx
05:57 AM EDT - AMD - AMD + Xilinx - 28 Comments
PowerPC 601 Support Being Retired In Linux 5.10 - The First 32-bit PowerPC CPU
12:00 AM EDT - Hardware - PowerPC 601 - 19 Comments
8 October
Linux 5.10 To Fix Some HP Laptops Performing Less Than Optimally On AC Power
06:00 PM EDT - Hardware - Linux 5.10 HP WMI - 9 Comments
AMD Ryzen 5000 Series / Zen 3 Launch
12:00 PM EDT - Processors - 93 Comments
AMD Ryzen 5000 Series (Zen 3) Linux Expectations - Should Be Good But No "Znver3" Compiler Yet
11:00 AM EDT - AMD - AMD Zen 3 - 18 Comments
GNOME 3.38.1 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes
09:41 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME 3.38.1 - 15 Comments
OpenCL 1.2 Support Merged For Mesa's Gallium3D Clover While OpenCL 3.0 Is Being Tackled
08:25 AM EDT - Mesa - OpenCL 1.2 - 23 Comments
DMEMFS Is A Proposed Virtual File-System For Linux To Help Save Memory
07:00 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - DMEMFS - 10 Comments
AMD Renoir On Linux Could Soon See Lower Power Consumption During Video Playback
04:30 AM EDT - Radeon - AMD Renoir - 5 Comments
Kubuntu Focus M2 Launched As Latest KDE-Friendly Laptop
01:02 AM EDT - KDE - Kubuntu Focus M2 - 34 Comments
AMD RAPL PowerCap Patches Updated For Linux - Now Include Family 19h (Zen 3)
7 October
GIMP 2.10.22 Released With AVIF Image Support
03:32 PM EDT - Free Software - GIMP 2.10.22 - 44 Comments
AMDGPU Linux Kernel Driver Support Posted For The "Dimgrey Cavefish"
12:44 PM EDT - Radeon - Linux + Dimgrey Cavefish - 21 Comments
DXVK 1.7.2 Released With Many Fixes For Direct3D Atop Vulkan
12:21 PM EDT - Vulkan - DXVK 1.7.2 - 12 Comments
Blender 2.90 Performance With GeForce RTX 3080, 18-Way NVIDIA CUDA/OptiX Comparison
11:52 AM EDT - Graphics Cards - 9 Comments
Intel Releases OpenVINO 2021.1 With Tigerlake Support, Expanded Capabilities
NVIDIA 455.28 Released As Stable Linux Driver For RTX 3080/3090
09:22 AM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA 455.28 Linux Driver - 15 Comments
OpenZFS 2.0 Nears Release, OpenZFS 3.0 Could See macOS Support
06:34 AM EDT - Linux Storage - OpenZFS - 8 Comments
A New Linux Kernel Framework To Help Ensure You Don't Burn Yourself On Hot Devices
03:00 AM EDT - Hardware - Dynamic Thermal Power Management - 23 Comments
Better Support For Newer Synaptics Laptop Touchpads Coming To Linux 5.10
12:00 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 5.10 Synaptics - 16 Comments
6 October
ZFSOnLinux 0.8.5 Released With Support For Newer Kernels, Bug Fixes
08:32 PM EDT - Linux Storage - ZFSOnLinux 0.8.5 - 10 Comments
Linux 5.10 To Have Initial Support For UEFI Booting On RISC-V
05:15 PM EDT - RISC-V - UEFI + RISC-V - 6 Comments
Chrome 86 Released With Native File-System, WebCodecs APIs
12:32 PM EDT - Google - Chrome 86 - 23 Comments
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Offers Up Incredible Linux GPU Compute Performance
11:00 AM EDT - Graphics Cards - 38 Comments
08:38 AM EDT - Qt - Qt 6.0 - 31 Comments
Intel's Patches Discussed For Exposing Hybrid CPU Topology Via Sysfs
06:50 AM EDT - Intel - CPU Types - 5 Comments
Google Is Adding Support For Metadata Encryption To F2FS
06:30 AM EDT - Linux Storage - F2FS Metadata Encryption - 9 Comments
Intel Adds Vulkan Transform Feedback For Aging Haswell Graphics
03:36 AM EDT - Intel - VK_EXT_transform_feedback - 21 Comments
U-Boot 2020.10 Released With Many Improvements
12:00 AM EDT - Free Software - U-Boot 2020.10 - 8 Comments
5 October
2020 "Oktoberfest" Premium Special For Supporting Linux News, Benchmarking
11:59 PM EDT - Phoronix - Premium Special - 8 Comments
Git 2.29-rc0 Released With SHA-256 In Experimental State, Restores Protocol v2 Default
08:28 PM EDT - Programming - Git 2.29-rc0 - 13 Comments
Python 3.9 Released With Multi-Processing Improvements, New Parser
05:52 PM EDT - Programming - Python 3.9 - 15 Comments
Linux Could Soon Have A New Knob For Toggling Performance/Power-Profile For Laptops
05:07 PM EDT - Hardware - Performance-Profile Option - 6 Comments
Vulkan 1.2.156 Released With Device Memory Report Extension
12:14 PM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan 1.2.156 - 3 Comments
NVIDIA Online GTC 2020 Kicks Off Today But No Open-Source Linux Announcement Expected
10:07 AM EDT - NVIDIA - GTC 2020 - 25 Comments
NVIDIA Unveils $59 USD Raspberry Pi Competitor With Jetson Nano 2GB
09:00 AM EDT - Computers - 40 Comments
Radeon Software for Linux 20.40 Released With RX 5300 Series Support
08:13 AM EDT - Radeon - Radeon Software for Linux 20.40 - 4 Comments
Opportunistic Memory Reclaim Support Proposal Updated For The Linux Kernel
06:45 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Opportunistic Memory Reclaim - 3 Comments
Windows x64 Binaries Can Now Run On POWER9 Under Linux With Hangover
05:00 AM EDT - WINE - POWER9 Hangover - 15 Comments
Intel Continues Bringing Up DMA-BUF Support For RDMA
02:54 AM EDT - Intel - DMA-BUF + RDMA - 5 Comments
Free Software Foundation Celebrates Its 35th Birthday
12:00 AM EDT - Free Software - Free Software Foundation At 35 - 28 Comments
4 October
Easier CPU/GPU Comparisons On OpenBenchmarking.org, Other New Features
10:43 PM EDT - Phoronix Test Suite - Easy Comparisons - 9 Comments
Linux 5.9-rc8 Released To Provide An Extra Week Of Testing
08:25 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.9-rc8 - 3 Comments
The Failed OUYA Game Console Seeing Work For Mainline Linux Kernel Support
03:00 PM EDT - Hardware - OUYA + Linux - 21 Comments
The Most Prominent Linux 5.9 Kernel Features From AMD RDNA 2 To Battling Nefarious Shims
09:48 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.9 Features - 3 Comments
SHADERed 1.4.1 Released With Compute Shader Debugger
08:44 AM EDT - Programming - SHADERed 1.4.1 - Add A Comment
Intel MAX10 BMC Hardware Monitoring With Linux 5.10
06:54 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Intel MAX 10 BMC - Add A Comment
Linux 5.10 Will Be Able To Hibernate + Resume Much Faster
12:00 AM EDT - Hardware - Faster Hibernate + Resume - 40 Comments
3 October
EXT4 Has A Big Optimization For Linux 5.10 For File Overwrites
05:00 PM EDT - Linux Storage - EXT4 File Overwrites - 1 Comment
Intel Discloses New CPU Instructions, Enhanced Hardware Feedback Interface (EHFI)
07:00 AM EDT - Intel - New x86_64 Instructions - 14 Comments
KDE Begins Landing "Breeze Evolution" Refresh For Default Theme
06:12 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Improvements - 38 Comments
Apache's TVM Deep Learning Compiler Picks Up WebAssembly, Better Rust Support
03:43 AM EDT - Programming - Apache TVM 0.7 - Add A Comment
XCP-ng 8.2 LTS To Bring Rewritten UEFI, Core Scheduling To Fend Off Side Channel Attacks
12:35 AM EDT - Virtualization - XCP-ng 8.2 Beta - Add A Comment
2 October
Linux Kernel Sees Initial Patches For Supporting Intel Hybrid CPUs
04:27 PM EDT - Intel - Linux + Intel Hybrid CPUs - 10 Comments
AMD Sends Out Initial Linux Graphics Driver Support For The "Green Sardine"
12:15 PM EDT - AMD - AMD Green Sardine - 27 Comments
Intel Xeon vs. AMD EPYC Performance On The Linux 5.8 Kernel
11:00 AM EDT - Processors - 6 Comments
Intel Prepares Linux Kernel Support For Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX)
09:12 AM EDT - Intel - Intel AMX - 14 Comments
Mesa Developers Discuss The Possibility Of Rust Graphics Driver Code
08:24 AM EDT - Mesa - Mesa + Rust? - 38 Comments
RADV's ACO Back-End Can Be A Massive Win For Vulkan Compute - Not Just Gaming
04:37 AM EDT - Radeon - RADV+ACO For Neural Networks - 24 Comments
Linux 5.10 Receiving New Driver For Chromebook "Vivaldi" Keyboards
02:05 AM EDT - Google - New HID Driver - 4 Comments
Steam On Linux Ticks Closer To 1.0%, AMD CPUs Now Power A Third Of Linux Gaming Systems
12:00 AM EDT - Valve - Almost 1%... - 40 Comments
1 October
Ubuntu 20.10 Beta Released For Testing
08:26 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 20.10 Beta - 36 Comments
OpenZFS 2.0-RC3 Released With Bug Fixes, Intel QAT Support For Newer Kernels
06:50 PM EDT - Linux Storage - OpenZFS 2.0-RC3 - 6 Comments
05:29 PM EDT - Programming - PHP 8.0 - 1 Comment
Ghostbusters - Linux 5.10 To Bring Rewritten Spectre Mitigations For 64-bit ARM
03:00 PM EDT - Arm - Linux 5.10 + New ARM Spectre Code - 2 Comments
Another Kernel Optimization Being Worked On That Can Help IO_uring Performance
01:36 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Axboe Optimizes - 2 Comments
Dell XPS With Intel Tiger Lake + Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Goes On Sale - Benchmarks Coming
11:00 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Dell XPS - 33 Comments
Mesa's Vulkan Software Implementation Now Known as Lavapipe
07:30 AM EDT - Vulkan - Lavapipe - 22 Comments
Systemd Startup For KDE Plasma 5.21 Has Helped Uncover Bugs, Other Improvements
06:38 AM EDT - KDE - Optional Systemd - 30 Comments
Linux 5.9 Regression, NVIDIA RTX 30, GNOME 40 & Microsoft Made For A Fun September
06:22 AM EDT - Phoronix - September 2020 Highlights - Add A Comment
Intel Releases OpenCL Intercept Layer 3.0
06:01 AM EDT - Intel - OpenCL-Intercept-Layer - Add A Comment
AMDGPU Gets A Big Batch Of Fixes For Its New Driver Code Coming In Linux 5.10
Fedora 33 To Stick With systemd-resolved Following Last Minute Concerns
12:05 AM EDT - Fedora - F33 + systemd-resolved - 24 Comments
30 September
GTK 3.99.2 Released As A Step Closer To GTK4 With Fancy GLSL Shader Capabilities
08:34 PM EDT - GNOME - GTK4 - 7 Comments
Linux 5.9 Gets More Fixes For AMD RDNA2 GPUs, Promotes Navi 12
02:27 PM EDT - Radeon - Navi 12 Not Experimental - 22 Comments
Benchmarking Firefox 83 Nightly With "Warp" Against Google Chrome On Linux
01:25 PM EDT - Software - 66 Comments
Intel Media Driver 2020.3 Released With Gen12 AV1 Decode, Other Improvements
11:07 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Media Driver 2020.03 - 4 Comments
OpenCL 3.0 Specification Released With New Khronos Open-Source OpenCL SDK
09:11 AM EDT - Standards - OpenCL 3.0 - 15 Comments
Intel Sends Out Latest DG1 Linux Patches But Won't Hit Until At Least The 5.11 Kernel
08:42 AM EDT - Intel - Linux 5.11 - Add A Comment
Intel Key Locker Support Added To LLVM - Confirms Presence With Tiger Lake
07:00 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Key Locker + LLVM - 2 Comments
NVIDIA Sends Out Latest Linux Kernel Patches For 1GB THP To Help Boost Performance
03:00 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - 1GB PUD THP - 1 Comment
Mediatek MT76 WiFi Driver Seeing Nice Improvements For Linux 5.10
12:09 AM EDT - Linux Networking - MT76 Wireless - 9 Comments
29 September
Intel mOS, Torvalds Commentary, Intel Gen12 Graphics, Zen 2 "XT" CPUs Topped Q3
08:47 PM EDT - Phoronix - Q3-2020 - 3 Comments
Mali G72 Now Supported By Open-Source Panfrost Gallium3D Driver
01:14 PM EDT - Mesa - Panfrost + Mali G72 - 7 Comments
Initial Fedora 32 vs. Fedora 33 Beta Benchmarks Point To Slightly Higher Performance
11:00 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 30 Comments
Fedora 33 Beta Released With Big Changes From LTO To Btrfs
09:40 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 33 - 38 Comments
Intel's oneAPI Is Coming To AMD Radeon GPUs
09:00 AM EDT - Radeon - oneAPI + Radeon GPUs - 13 Comments
NetBSD Has Some Wayland Support But X11 Is Far More Mature
07:46 AM EDT - Wayland - NetBSD + Wayland - 16 Comments
MoltenVK 1.1 Update Brings Big Improvements For Vulkan On macOS
06:41 AM EDT - Vulkan - MoltenVK 1.1 - 6 Comments
Mesa 20.2 Released With RADV ACO By Default, Initial RDNA2 Graphics Support
06:25 AM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 20.2 - 20 Comments
Mir 2.1 Released With Some New Protocol Support, Many Fixes
03:02 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Mir 2.1 - 6 Comments
Developers Try Again To Upstream Motorola 68000 Series Support In LLVM
12:02 AM EDT - LLVM - M68k - 42 Comments
28 September
Red Hat's Stratis 2.2 Linux Storage Solution Released
08:29 PM EDT - Linux Storage - Stratis 2.2 - 16 Comments
WayVNC 0.3 Released - The Wayland VNC Server Now Supports Copy & Paste
06:33 PM EDT - Wayland - WayVNC 0.3 - Add A Comment
Micron Looks To Upstream Their Media Pool "Mpool" Object Storage To The Linux Kernel
02:40 PM EDT - Linux Storage - Micron Mpool - 9 Comments
Intel oneAPI 1.0 Officially Released
01:00 PM EDT - Software - 13 Comments
Wine-Staging 5.18 Adds sRGB Color Profile, Another Fix For Microsoft Flight Simulator
10:00 AM EDT - WINE - Wine-Staging 5.18 - 9 Comments
AMDVLK 2020.Q3.6 Vulkan Driver Brings Several Fixes
08:40 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDVLK 2020.Q3.6 - 4 Comments
LVFS/Fwupd Serve More Than 20 Million Firmware Downloads For Upgrades On Linux
07:45 AM EDT - Hardware - LVFS - 21 Comments
NetBSD Changes Its Default X11 Window Manager After Two Decades
07:00 AM EDT - BSD - CTWM - 26 Comments
OpenSSH 8.4 Brings Better Support For FIDO/2FA Keys
06:41 AM EDT - BSD - OpenSSH 8.4 - 4 Comments
Vulkan 1.2.155 Released With EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64
06:27 AM EDT - Vulkan - EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64 - Add A Comment
Broadcom Has 200G Ethernet Link Speed Support Coming To Its Driver For Linux 5.10
03:34 AM EDT - Linux Networking - bnxt_en 200G - 23 Comments
MSM Adreno DRM Driver For Linux 5.10 Has DisplayPort, Per-Process Pagetables
12:23 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - MSM DRM - 1 Comment
27 September
Linux 5.9 Stable Expected In Two Weeks, But For Now Is Linux 5.9-rc7
06:22 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.9 - 12 Comments
More Vulkan NCNN Inference Benchmarks On AMD Radeon vs. NVIDIA GeForce Under Linux
01:27 PM EDT - Vulkan - NCNN Vulkan - 7 Comments
Independent Developers Tackling Snapdragon 630/660 SoC Support For The Upstream Linux Kernel
06:44 AM EDT - Hardware - SDM630 / SDM660 - 26 Comments
DP-HDMI2.1 Protocol Converter Support Being Tackled For Intel Linux Graphics
06:24 AM EDT - Intel - DP-HDMI2.1 PCON - 12 Comments
Virt-Manager 3.0 Released With UI Improvements, Cloud-Init Option
05:57 AM EDT - Virtualization - virt-manager 3.0 - 1 Comment
After ~70% FPS Boost For Zink, The OpenGL-on-Vulkan Code Is ~50% The GL Native Speed
01:34 AM EDT - Mesa - OpenGL On Vulkan - 43 Comments
26 September
KWinFT Projects Hit Beta Ahead Of Stable Releases Aligned With KDE Plasma 5.20
08:31 PM EDT - KDE - KWinFT Beta - 36 Comments
Warzone 2100 Lands Vulkan Renderer, Adaptive V-Sync For 20+ Year Old Game
12:48 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - Plus OpenGL ES - 4 Comments
Debian 10.6 Released With Many Security & Bug Fixes
10:47 AM EDT - Debian - Debian 10.6 - 5 Comments
Mesa 20.3 Can Now Consume SPIR-V Binaries Generated By LLVM's libclc
10:02 AM EDT - Microsoft - Mesa 20.3 libclc SPIR-V - 18 Comments
KDE Plasma 5.20 Should Be Crashing A Lot Less Under Wayland
06:24 AM EDT - KDE - Wayland Fixes - 30 Comments
SiFive Begins Adding RISC-V "Bullet" Microarchitecture Code To LLVM
03:57 AM EDT - LLVM - RISC-V Bullet - Add A Comment
Apple Open-Sources Swift System, Adds Linux Support
12:00 AM EDT - Programming - Swift System - 56 Comments
25 September
AMD Sends Out Linux Kernel Support For Van Gogh APUs - Confirms DDR5 Memory, VCN3
04:37 PM EDT - Radeon - Van Gogh - 41 Comments
Wine 5.18 Released With VKD3D 1.2's vkd3d-shader Usage
04:15 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 5.18 - 12 Comments
NVIDIA GeForce vs. AMD Radeon Vulkan Neural Network Performance With NCNN
02:35 PM EDT - Display Drivers - 20 Comments
Firefox Nightly Flips On New JIT "Warp" Code For Greater JavaScript Performance
01:33 PM EDT - Mozilla - JIT WarpBuilder - 26 Comments
Linux 5.10 To See RAID10 DISCARD Improvement - From 259 Seconds To Less Than 1 Second
01:05 PM EDT - Linux Storage - RAID10 Improvements - 7 Comments
Phoronix Test Suite / OpenBenchmarking.org Now Has 600 Different Tests/Benchmarks
10:30 AM EDT - Phoronix Test Suite - 600 And Counting - Add A Comment
Trenchboot Secure Launch Support For Linux Sees New Patches
06:56 AM EDT - Linux Security - Trenchboot - 6 Comments
GraalPHP Is A PHP JIT Implementation Built On GraalVM
06:26 AM EDT - Programming - GraalPHP - 23 Comments
Zink OpenGL-Over-Vulkan With Unigine Heaven Seeing Improved Performance
03:56 AM EDT - Vulkan - Zink + Heaven - 30 Comments
Fedora 33 Beta To Be Released Next Week
12:09 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 33 - 51 Comments
24 September
Intel DG1 Sound Support Coming For Linux 5.10
08:41 PM EDT - Intel - DG1 Audio With Linux 5.10 - 5 Comments
AMD Is Hiring To Work On New Radeon Driver Tooling Written In Rust
05:07 PM EDT - Radeon - Radeon Rust - 48 Comments
AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT CPUFreq Governor Comparison With Linux 5.9
02:36 PM EDT - Software - 15 Comments
Linux 5.10 To Support Nitro Enclaves For Security-Critical Applications
01:42 PM EDT - Linux Security - Nitro Enclaves - 2 Comments
Arm Begins Bringing Up Neoverse N2, Neoverse V1 Support In The GNU Toolchain
01:15 PM EDT - Arm - Neoverse N2 + GAS - 6 Comments
PostgreSQL 13 Released With Performance Improvements
10:10 AM EDT - Free Software - PostgreSQL 13 - 9 Comments
DragonFlyBSD 5.8.2 Released With Numerous Fixes
09:59 AM EDT - BSD - DragonFlyBSD 5.8.2 - 4 Comments
Intel Engineers Begin Landing Open-Source Support For TDX, Intel Key Locker
06:47 AM EDT - Intel - Trust Domain Extensions - 4 Comments
HPE Preparing SGI UV5 Support For The Linux Kernel
03:50 AM EDT - Hardware - HPE UV5 - Add A Comment
Fedora 34 Aims To Further Enhance Security But Will Lose Runtime Disabling Of SELinux
12:07 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 34 + SELinux Hardening - 29 Comments
23 September
Disman Continues Taking Shape As Display Management Library For X11/Wayland
08:31 PM EDT - KDE - Disman - 19 Comments
NVIDIA CUDA 11.1 Released With RTX 30 Series Support, Better Compatibility Across Versions
02:57 PM EDT - NVIDIA - CUDA 11.1 - 2 Comments
Intel Announces Atom x6000E Series "Elkhart Lake", 11th Gen Core Tigerlake-UP3
09:00 AM EDT - Processors - 29 Comments
Lenovo Announces 27 Systems To Ship With Ubuntu Pre-Installed
09:00 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Lenovo + Canonical - 42 Comments
Easier Vulkan Debugging Of Windows Applications Running Under Wine Is On The Way
04:03 AM EDT - WINE - VK_EXT_debug_utils - 2 Comments
AMDGPU For Linux 5.10 Brings PCIe DPC Recovery, More RDNA2 Updates
02:53 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDGPU + Linux 5.10 - 9 Comments
Arch Linux Based EndeavourOS Begins Providing ARM Builds
12:00 AM EDT - Operating Systems - EndeavourOS ARM - 46 Comments
22 September
LLVM 11.0-RC3 Released For This Big LLVM/Clang Update
05:54 PM EDT - LLVM - LLVM 11.0-RC3 - Add A Comment
AMD Dimgrey Cavefish and VanGogh Support Lands In Radeon Linux OpenGL Driver
02:05 PM EDT - Radeon - Dimgrey Cavefish + VanGogh - 22 Comments
Microsoft Edge Is Coming Out For Linux Next Month
12:01 PM EDT - Microsoft - Edge On Linux - 100 Comments
Firefox 81 Released With Security Fixes, PDF Viewer Enhancements
09:37 AM EDT - Mozilla - Firefox 81 - 42 Comments
AMD Announces Ryzen/Athlon 3000 C-Series For Chromebooks
09:16 AM EDT - AMD - AMD 3000 C-Series - 24 Comments
ADRIConf Remains The Primary GUI Control Panel For Managing Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers
08:37 AM EDT - Mesa - ADRIConf - 41 Comments
TURNIP Vulkan Driver Up And Running On Qualcomm's KGSL
07:16 AM EDT - Mesa - TURNIP + KGSL - 3 Comments
Krita 4.4 Beta Released With Multi-Threading For Fill Layers
06:50 AM EDT - KDE - Krita 4.4 - 4 Comments
VKD3D 1.2 Is Ready To Offer Better Direct3D 12 To Vulkan Support
02:55 AM EDT - Vulkan - VKD3D 1.2 - 13 Comments
Panfrost With Linux 5.10 To Support Mali GPU On Amlogic G12B SoCs
12:09 AM EDT - Arm - Panfrost + Amlogic - 15 Comments
21 September
Radeon ROCm 3.8 Released With Hipfort For Fortran On GPUs, Data Center Tool
08:34 PM EDT - Radeon - ROCm 3.8 - 15 Comments
Ubuntu Touch OTA-13 Released With More Phones Supported, UI Improvements
06:28 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu Touch OTA-13 - 21 Comments
openSUSE Tumbleweed vs. Leap 15.2 vs. Jump Alpha Benchmarks
03:27 PM EDT - Operating Systems - 4 Comments
Oracle To Stick With Solaris "11.4" For Continuous Delivery SRU Releases
01:24 PM EDT - Oracle - Little Surprise - 14 Comments
New OpenBenchmarking.org Features Enhance Discovering Popular + Reliable Tests
12:04 PM EDT - Phoronix Test Suite - OpenBenchmarking.org - 6 Comments
Vulkan Portability Extension 1.0 Now Shipping For Expanding Vulkan's Reach
09:25 AM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan Portability - 7 Comments
Intel Platform Monitoring Telemetry Appears Destined For Linux 5.10
09:09 AM EDT - Intel - Intel PMT - 8 Comments
Open-Source Vivante Driver In Some Cases Outperforming Proprietary Driver
08:48 AM EDT - Mesa - Etnaviv 2020 - 3 Comments
Unity 2020.2 Bringing Some Hefty Performance Optimizations
08:21 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - Unity 2020.2 Beta - Add A Comment
Experiments Are Underway With Vulkan Powering The KDE Plasma Shell
06:42 AM EDT - KDE - Vulkan + Plasma Shell - 36 Comments
POWER Coregroup Support Coming With Linux 5.10
06:28 AM EDT - Hardware - Coregroup - Add A Comment
20 September
Linux 5.9-rc6 Released With Soft Scrollback Removed, Performance Regression Fixed
08:32 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.9-rc6 - 20 Comments
Linux 5.10 Adding Support For AMD Zen 3 CPU Temperature Monitoring
05:31 PM EDT - AMD - Zen 3 k10temp - 15 Comments
FFmpeg Now Supports GPU Inference With Intel's OpenVINO
09:41 AM EDT - Multimedia - OpenVINO GPU - 2 Comments
OpenPOWER Summit 2020 Was This Week With Many Interesting Hardware/Software Talks
09:17 AM EDT - Linux Events - OpenPOWER - 10 Comments
Intel SGX Enclave Support Sent Out For Linux A 38th Time
08:17 AM EDT - Intel - Intel SGX - 5 Comments
RenderDoc 1.10 Released For This Leading Cross-Platform Graphics Debugger
12:04 AM EDT - Programming - RenderDoc 1.10 - 1 Comment