DragonFlyBSD 5.8 Released For This Popular + Performant BSD Operating System
3 March
IBM To Transition Their z/OS, POWER + AIX Compilers To Being LLVM/Clang-Based
12:00 AM EST - Hardware - IBM Clang Compilers! - 2 Comments
2 March
Steam Survey Updated For February 2020 With Latest Linux Figures
08:55 PM EST - Valve - Steam Survey - Add A Comment
NVIDIA Engineer Shows Off New Linux Patches For Proactive Memory Compaction
08:00 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Proactive Memory Compaction - 1 Comment
GNOME Shell To Ship New App For Managing Extensions
07:09 PM EST - GNOME - GNOME Shell Extensions - 8 Comments
Benchmarking The Performance Overhead To The Linux Kernel Runtime Guard
03:54 PM EST - Software - Add A Comment
NVIDIA GTC Conference Turns Into Online Event Over Coronavirus Concerns
01:31 PM EST - NVIDIA - GPU Tech Conference - 8 Comments
Blender 2.83 To Be An LTS Release, Blender 3.0 Next Summer
11:15 AM EST - Free Software - Blender Release Plans - 1 Comment
DMA-BUF Explicit Sync Improvements Being Discussed To Help Vulkan, Other Modern Users
09:41 AM EST - Linux Kernel - DMA-BUF Explicit Synchronization - 3 Comments
Marvell Announces New OCTEON TX2 + OCTEON Fusion CPUs
09:00 AM EST - Arm - Marvell OCTEON - 8 Comments
Intel's Linux Media Driver Preparing For 20.1 Release, Game Streaming Optimizations
RADV SQTT Profiling Support Expanded To Support GFX10/Navi
07:19 AM EST - Radeon - RADV SQTT Navi - Add A Comment
OpenBLAS 0.3.9 Released With More AVX-512 Tuning, Arm Neoverse N1 Support
07:00 AM EST - Programming - OpenBLAS 0.3.9 - 1 Comment
SDL 2.0.12 Is On The Way For This Important Linux Gaming Library
06:50 AM EST - Linux Gaming - Simple DirectMedia Library - 9 Comments
1 March
06:24 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.6-rc4 - 1 Comment
KDE Dolphin Restoring Support For Seeing Samba Shares From Windows
10:27 AM EST - KDE - KDE Kicks Off March - 8 Comments
Linux 5.6, Threadripper 3990X, $199 AMD Laptop Topped Reader Interest In February
07:00 AM EST - Phoronix - February Recap - 3 Comments
GhostBSD 20.02 Brings Custom ZFS Partition Editor, Updater Improvements
06:43 AM EST - BSD - GhostBSD 20.02 - 3 Comments
Simple Patch Lets Amazon's EC2 Linux Network Driver Start ~90x Faster
03:00 AM EST - Virtualization - Amazon ENA Driver - 14 Comments
KDE Has Screen Rotation Now Working On Wayland
12:28 AM EST - KDE - KDE Wayland Screen Rotation - 10 Comments
GNOME 3.36 Seeing Last Minute Mutter Wayland Improvements
12:00 AM EST - GNOME - GNOME 3.36 + Mutter - 24 Comments
29 February
Wayland-Protocols 1.19 Released With Governance Guide, Updated XDG-Shell
06:24 PM EST - Wayland - Wayland-Protocols 1.19 - 25 Comments
Godot Game Engine Working Towards Native Wayland Support, EGL
12:29 PM EST - Linux Gaming - Godot Wayland + EGL - 4 Comments
DXVK 1.5.5 Released With Many Game Fixes
10:41 AM EST - Linux Gaming - DXVK 1.5.5 - 1 Comment
Wine-Staging 5.3 Fixes Online Play For Some Recent Games
07:29 AM EST - WINE - Wine-Staging 5.3 - 2 Comments
Linux Game Publishing Brought Back Online For Archival Purposes
06:57 AM EST - Linux Gaming - Linux Game Publishing - 7 Comments
Genode OS 20.02 Released With Continued Improvements To Sculpt OS
02:52 AM EST - Operating Systems - Genode OS 20.02 - 2 Comments
Qt Wayland's Maintainer Is Leaving The Company
12:05 AM EST - Qt - Qt Wayland - 31 Comments
28 February
The $199 Pinebook Pro ARM Laptop Is Closer To Running On The Mainline Linux Kernel
07:33 PM EST - Hardware - Pinebook Pro - 17 Comments
Wine 5.3 Released With Various Improvements
03:05 PM EST - WINE - Wine 5.3 - Add A Comment
Jcat: A New Alternative To Microsoft Catalog Files
11:41 AM EST - Free Software - Jcat - 6 Comments
NVIDIA 440.64 Driver Released With MX330/MX350 Support, Linux 5.6 Compatibility
10:49 AM EST - NVIDIA - NVIDIA 440.64 Linux Driver - 5 Comments
Unity 8 Desktop Renamed To Lomiri
08:45 AM EST - Ubuntu - Lomiri - 53 Comments
Radeon ROCm 3.1 Released With RAS For Vega 7nm, SLURM Support
08:38 AM EST - Radeon - Radeon Open Compute 3.1 - 41 Comments
RADV Vulkan Driver Begins Wiring Up Support For Radeon's SQ Thread Trace Block
07:47 AM EST - Radeon - RADV + SQTT - 4 Comments
LLVMpipe Tessellation Shader Support Is Now Working - Runs Unigine Heaven
07:21 AM EST - Mesa - LLVMpipe Tessellation Shader - 8 Comments
GNOME 3.36 Lands Scaled/Transformed Hardware Cursors Support
07:11 AM EST - GNOME - Hardware Cursor Improvements - 15 Comments
06:41 AM EST - Qt - Qt 5.15 Beta 1 - 10 Comments
27 February
X.Org/FreeDesktop.org Is Looking For Sponsors Or May Have To Cut Continuous Integration Hosting
04:58 PM EST - X.Org - Cloud Costs - 61 Comments
Linux 4.4.215 / 4.9.215 / 4.14.172 / 5.5.7 Kernels Bringing Intel KVM Security Fix
03:02 PM EST - Linux Kernel - The Unfinished Code Bug - 10 Comments
Linux 5.6 Tests On AMD EPYC 7742 vs. Intel Xeon 8280 2P With 100+ Benchmarks
01:57 PM EST - Hardware - EPYC vs. Xeon - 10 Comments
Red Hat's SPICE 0.14.3 Remote Display System Now Supports Microsoft Windows
12:26 PM EST - Virtualization - SPICE 0.14.3 - 18 Comments
Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Adds Experimental OpenGL ES 3.0 For Open-Source Arm Mali
11:47 AM EST - Mesa - Panfrost - 3 Comments
Android-x86 9.0-r1 Finally Released For Bringing Android 9.0 Pie To Intel/AMD Systems
09:52 AM EST - Operating Systems - Android-x86 9.0-r1 - 17 Comments
Initial Batch Of Radeon Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 5.7
09:39 AM EST - Radeon - AMDGPU Linux 5.7 - 4 Comments
RadeonSI + Gallium3D Video Code Fix Up 4:2:2 Support, YUY2
08:19 AM EST - Radeon - RadeonSI 4:2:2 - 3 Comments
The Fedora Project's One Sentence Vision
07:24 AM EST - Fedora - Fedora Vision - 20 Comments
Apache Celebrates Subversion's 20th Anniversary
07:11 AM EST - Free Software - Happy Birthday Subversion - 33 Comments
GCC 8.4 RC Compiler Released For Testing
03:07 AM EST - GNU - GCC 8.4 - Add A Comment
GDB Debugger Adds Support For Debuginfod Web Server
12:07 AM EST - GNU - GDB + debuginfod - 2 Comments
26 February
WASMtime 0.12 Released For The JIT-Style WebAssembly Runtime
07:29 PM EST - Programming - Bytecode Alliance - 9 Comments
Looking At The PHP 8.0 Performance So Far In Early 2020
05:55 PM EST - Programming - PHP 8.0 Performance Benchmarks - 10 Comments
Go 1.14 Released - Performance Improvements, Go's Module Support Production-Ready
11:34 AM EST - Programming - Golang 1.14 - 28 Comments
10:00 AM EST - Software - 2 Comments
UEFI Boot Support Published For RISC-V On Linux
07:48 AM EST - Hardware - UEFI RISC-V - 11 Comments
Intel Continues Bring-Up Of New Gateway SoC Architecture On Linux, ComboPHY Driver
07:26 AM EST - Intel - Intel Gateway SoC - 5 Comments
Game Porting Firm Feral Interactive Healthy + An Apology
06:40 AM EST - Linux Gaming - Feral Interactive - Add A Comment
SHADERed 1.3 Released For This HLSL/GLSL Shader Editor - Adds Shader Debugger
02:59 AM EST - Programming - SHADERed 1.3 - 3 Comments
Linux Kernel Seeing Patches For NVIDIA's Proprietary Tegra Partition Table
12:05 AM EST - NVIDIA - TegraPT - 13 Comments
25 February
Monado OpenXR Runtime v0.1 Released For Open-Source XR Stack
Intel Boosts Gen7 GPU Vulkan Compute Performance By ~330% For Geekbench
04:00 PM EST - Intel - Caching Is Important - 18 Comments
Intel Has Accumulated 400+ Graphics Driver Patches So Far For Linux 5.7
02:10 PM EST - Intel - Linux 5.7 DRM-Next - 2 Comments
Free Software Foundation Aims To Launch Code Hosting / Collaboration Platform This Year
12:32 PM EST - GNU - FSF Forge - 26 Comments
OnLogic Teasing EPYC Edge Servers, Rolling Out More Ryzen Mini PCs
12:12 PM EST - Hardware - OnLogic - 4 Comments
Arch-Based Manjaro 19.0 Released With Flagship Edition Using Xfce 4.14
09:30 AM EST - Operating Systems - Manjaro 19.0 - 11 Comments
Running The Linux 5.6 Kernel With AMD Radeon Graphics
07:32 AM EST - Radeon - Linux 5.6 AMDGPU - 29 Comments
OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 Begins Seeing Beta Builds, Official Release Due In May
06:46 AM EST - SUSE - openSUSE Leap 15.2 - 10 Comments
Linux Mint Debian Edition 4 Reaches Beta - Debian 10 Paired With Cinnamon
06:36 AM EST - Operating Systems - Linux Mint Debian Edition 4 - 1 Comment
Intel Adds VA-API Acceleration For HEVC REXT To FFmpeg
04:16 AM EST - Intel - HEVC Range Extensions - 18 Comments
Mir 1.7.1 Released With X11 Support Promoted Out Of "Experimental" Phase
12:05 AM EST - Ubuntu - Mir 1.7.1 - 4 Comments
24 February
Intel KVM Virtualization Hit By Vulnerability Over Unfinished Code
09:03 PM EST - Intel - CVE-2020-2732 - 8 Comments
GNOME On Wayland Screencasting Is About To Be A Heck Of A Lot More Efficient
07:30 PM EST - GNOME - Wayland Screencasting - 16 Comments
GIMP 2.10.18 Released With Many Improvements Before GIMP 3.0
05:23 PM EST - Desktop - GIMP 2.10.18 - 24 Comments
The Current RADV+ACO Mesa Driver Performance For February 2020
03:52 PM EST - Display Drivers - 9 Comments
Arch Linux Announces New Project Leader
12:15 PM EST - Operating Systems - New Arch Linux Leader - 31 Comments
VC4 DRM Driver Gets Patched For BCM2711 / Raspberry Pi 4 Support
11:54 AM EST - Hardware - Raspberry Pi 4 + VC4 DRM - 12 Comments
One Of Clear Linux's Kernel Patches To Help With Boot Time Proposed For Upstreaming
10:31 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Faster Boot - 26 Comments
Intel Launches Cascade Lake Refresh Xeon CPUs With Better Performance-Per-Dollar
09:30 AM EST - Intel - Cascade Lake Refresh - 8 Comments
Canonical's Daniel Van Vugt Continues Squeezing More Performance Out Of GNOME 3.36
09:22 AM EST - Ubuntu - GNOME 3.36 Performance - 51 Comments
27th Time The Charm? Intel SGX Enclaves Support For Linux Revved Again
06:47 AM EST - Intel - Intel SGX v27 For Linux - 16 Comments
X.Org Server Lands Fixes For XWayland Full-Screen Support
06:26 AM EST - X.Org - XWayland Full-Screen Fixes - 8 Comments
PCI Express 6.0 Reaches Version 0.5 Ahead Of Finalization Next Year
06:16 AM EST - Hardware - PCI Express 6.0 v0.5 - 33 Comments
PulseAudio 14 Is Releasing Soon With Better USB Gaming Headset Support
06:04 AM EST - Multimedia - PulseAudio 14.0 - 18 Comments
23 February
Linux 5.6-rc3 Released As A "Fairly Normal" Kernel
08:45 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.6 - 8 Comments
Netrunner 20.01 Released For Offering Latest Debian 10 + KDE Plasma Experience
07:26 PM EST - Operating Systems - Netrunner 20.01 - Add A Comment
C-SKY CPU Architecture For Linux 5.6 Picks Up Stack Protector, PCI Support
01:19 PM EST - Hardware - C-SKY - 6 Comments
Reiser5 Spun Up For The Linux 5.5.5 Kernel
11:30 AM EST - Linux Storage - Reiser5 For Linux 5.5.5 - 28 Comments
GNU Project Publishes Outline Of Its Structure & Administration
09:37 AM EST - GNU - GNU Project Structure - 5 Comments
Weekend Discussion: How Concerned Are You If Your CPU Is Completely Open?
07:44 AM EST - Hardware - NUVIA, POWER, ARM, RISC-V - 125 Comments
KDE Saw Many Bug Fixes This Week From KWin Crashes To Plasma Wayland Improvements
07:09 AM EST - KDE - KDE Fixes - 38 Comments
22 February
Linux's FSCRYPT Working On Encryption + Case-Insensitive Support
07:42 PM EST - Linux Storage - FSCRYPT - 3 Comments
Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q1.1 for Linux Released
01:33 PM EST - Radeon - Radeon Pro Software - 3 Comments
PipeWire 0.3 Released With Redesigned Scheduling Code To Offer JACK2-Like Performance
09:08 AM EST - Desktop - PipeWire 0.3 - 44 Comments
A Few More Linux Kernel Patches Floated This Week For AMD Family 19h (Zen 3)
08:04 AM EST - AMD - AMD Family 19h - 37 Comments
NVIDIA Demonstrates Porting Of DirectX Ray-Tracing To Vulkan
07:07 AM EST - NVIDIA - NVIDIA Vulkan Ray-Tracing - 11 Comments
Google Announces The 200 Open-Source Projects For GSoC 2020
06:44 AM EST - Google - GSoC 2020 Organizations - 3 Comments
AMDVLK 2020.Q1.2 Released With Vulkan 1.2 Support
06:26 AM EST - Radeon - AMDVLK 2020.Q1.2 - Add A Comment
21 February
Steam Play's Proton 5.0-3 Released With Support For Metro Exodus Direct3D 12 Mode
05:35 PM EST - Valve - Proton 5.0-3 - 14 Comments
Benchmarking OpenMandriva's AMD Ryzen Optimized Linux Distribution On The Threadripper 3970X
01:40 PM EST - Operating Systems - 16 Comments
Mesa's RADV Vulkan Driver Adding Compatibility For Use With The AMD Radeon GPU Profiler
10:49 AM EST - Mesa - RADV + Radeon GPU Profiler - 13 Comments
Intel Compute Runtime Adds OCLOC Multi-Device Compilation
07:25 AM EST - Intel - Multiple Generations - Add A Comment
Intel Ethernet E823 Support Coming To The ICE Driver In Linux 5.7
07:01 AM EST - Linux Networking - Intel E823 Support - 1 Comment
Linux EFI Going Through Spring Cleaning Before RISC-V Support Lands
06:43 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Cleaning EFI - 6 Comments
Linux 5.7 DRM Bringing New "TIDSS" Driver
06:25 AM EST - Linux Kernel - TIDSS DRM - 1 Comment
Broadcom Bringing Up Linux Support For VK Accelerators
12:01 AM EST - Hardware - Broadcom VK Accelerators - 4 Comments
20 February
RADV Vulkan Driver Adds Option For Zeroing Out Video Memory
07:23 PM EST - Mesa - Zero vRAM - 12 Comments
Linux NUMA Patches Aim To Reduce Overhead, Avoid Unnecessary Migrations
01:43 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Reconcile NUMA Balancing - 15 Comments
FreeBSD vs. Linux Scaling Up To 128 Threads With The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X
09:54 AM EST - Operating Systems - 37 Comments
GNOME Shell + Mutter See Changes For Tracking Software Rendering, VNC To Toggle Animations
07:08 AM EST - GNOME - GNOME Shell + Mutter - 45 Comments
Raptor Rolls Out New OpenBMC Firmware With Featureful Web GUI For System Management
06:46 AM EST - Hardware - OpenBMC Web - 4 Comments
Intel Gen12/Xe Graphics To Support 12-Bit HEVC/VP9 Decode
06:28 AM EST - Intel - Tiger Lake - 13 Comments
Linux Will Finally Stop Flickering With AMD Stoney Ridge On 4K Displays
02:19 AM EST - AMD - Stoney Ridge + 4K - 15 Comments
Rav1e 0.3.1 Is 25~40% Faster At Low Speed Levels For Rust-Based AV1 Encoding
12:01 AM EST - Multimedia - Rav1e 0.3.1 - 14 Comments
19 February
NVIDIA Posts Firmware Needed For Open-Source GeForce 16 Series Acceleration
08:00 PM EST - Nouveau - TU116 / TU117 - 35 Comments
Mesa 20.0 Released With Big Improvements For Intel, AMD Radeon Vulkan/OpenGL
06:15 PM EST - Mesa - Mesa 20.0 - 9 Comments
LLVM Adds MLIR-Vulkan-Runner To Run MLIR On Vulkan-Enabled GPUs
03:16 PM EST - LLVM - MLIR-Vulkan-Runner - 2 Comments
Android 11 Developer Preview Shows Off New 5G APIs, Security Hardening, HDMI Low-Latency
01:20 PM EST - Google - Android 11 DP1 - 23 Comments
GNOME 3.34.4 Released With Many Bug Fixes
01:06 PM EST - GNOME - GNOME 3.34.4 - 26 Comments
11:23 AM EST - Display Drivers - 3 Comments
Oracle Ships Solaris 11.4 SRU18 - Finally Mitigates The SWAPGS Vulnerability
10:23 AM EST - Oracle - Solaris 11.4 SRU - 8 Comments
AMD Announces EPYC 7532 + EPYC 7662 As Newest Rome Processors
09:05 AM EST - AMD - AMD EPYC 7532 + EPYC 7662 - 29 Comments
LibreOffice 7 Continues Plumbing Its Vulkan Rendering Support
06:52 AM EST - LibreOffice - LibreOffice + Vulkan - 11 Comments
LLVM Clang 11 Adds -std=c++20 Support
04:32 AM EST - LLVM - Clang Cpp20 - 3 Comments
RADV Driver Adds VK_EXT_line_rasterization In Preparing For Eventual Vulkan CAD Apps
02:00 AM EST - Vulkan - Vulkan Line Rasterization - 9 Comments
Red Hat Volleys New Patches For Exposing More File-System Info + Mount Notifications
12:05 AM EST - Linux Storage - fsinfo sys call + watch_mount - 5 Comments
18 February
Intel Sends Out Latest Patches For Mitigating Graphics Flaw On Ivybridge/Haswell
08:46 PM EST - Intel - Gen7 - 8 Comments
GNOME 3.36 Beta 2 Released With Initial Setup Parental Controls, Lock-Screen USB Disable
06:34 PM EST - GNOME - GNOME 3.35.91 - 35 Comments
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Moves Ahead With Python 2 Removal - But Sticks Around For Derivatives
03:35 PM EST - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS + Python - 17 Comments
Google Cloud Rolls Out "N2D" VMs Built Atop AMD EPYC 7002 "Rome" CPUs
01:39 PM EST - Google - Google Cloud + EPYC Rome - 5 Comments
Linux Looking To Sunset The Calxeda ARM Server Support
12:44 PM EST - Arm - Calxeda ARM Servers - 4 Comments
Phoronix Test Suite 9.4 M3 Released With More Improvements For Benchmark Result Analysis
11:36 AM EST - Phoronix Test Suite - Phoronix Test Suite 9.4 - 5 Comments
Intel Continues Optimizing Linux Memory Placement For Optane DC Persistent Memory
08:26 AM EST - Intel - Optane DCPM - 18 Comments
Linux 5.7 Picking Up Support For A High-End USB-C Audio Interface
04:54 AM EST - Hardware - Presonus Studio 1810c - 32 Comments
Intel ConnMan 1.38 Released With WireGuard Support
02:24 AM EST - Linux Networking - ConnMan 1.38 - 1 Comment
LLVM 10.0's Release Is Very Close With RC2 Available
12:54 AM EST - LLVM - LLVM Clang 10 - 8 Comments
Fedora's 32-bit ARM Xfce Image Demoted While Fedora Workstation AArch64 Gets Promoted
12:09 AM EST - Fedora - Modern ARM - 49 Comments
17 February
Nouveau Gallium3D Finally Seeing Mesa Shader Disk Cache For Faster Game Load Times
06:44 PM EST - Nouveau - OpenGL Shader Cache - 12 Comments
LLVM's Go Front-End Was Finally Dropped From The Official Source Tree
03:46 PM EST - LLVM - LLGO - 19 Comments
Windows 10 vs. Eight Linux Distributions On The Threadripper 3970X
02:38 PM EST - Operating Systems - 31 Comments
LavaLauncher 1.6 Released As A Simple Dock/Launcher For Wayland
01:39 PM EST - Wayland - LavaLauncher - 14 Comments
D-Bus Broker 22 Released With Option To Use Newer Kernel Features
10:53 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Dbus-Broker 22 - 12 Comments
Arm's ASTC Encoder Replaces Its Restrictive EULA With Apache 2.0 License
08:00 AM EST - Arm - Arm ASTC Encoder - 10 Comments
RADV Vulkan Driver Makes A Few More Improvements For GCN 1.0/1.1 Hardware
07:22 AM EST - Radeon - RADV Additions - 22 Comments
GCC 8.4 + GCC 9.3 Compilers Coming Soon
07:04 AM EST - GNU - GCC Stable - Add A Comment
Linux 5.7 Staging Will Be ~28.7k Lines Of Code Lighter Thanks To Nuking WUSB + UWB
06:49 AM EST - Linux Kernel - UWB + WUSB - 31 Comments
Lima Gallium3D Driver Picks Up Multi-Submit Optimization In Mesa 20.1
06:32 AM EST - Mesa - Lima Multi-Submit - 10 Comments
16 February
Linux 5.6-rc2 Released - Led By Documentation + Tooling Updates
05:00 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.6 - 12 Comments
Wine 5.2 With Better Handling For The Null Display Driver, UTF-8 Support
04:34 PM EST - WINE - Wine 5.2 - 6 Comments
A Quick Look At The Blender 2.82 Performance On Intel + AMD CPUs
01:47 PM EST - Free Software - Quick Blender 2.82 Benchmarks - 5 Comments
Vulkan 1.2.133 Released With VK_KHR_shader_non_semantic_info
11:55 AM EST - Vulkan - Vulkan 1.2.133 - Add A Comment
MyPaint 2.0 Released With New Features For Open-Source Drawing/Painting
07:37 AM EST - Desktop - MyPaint 2.0 - 18 Comments
NVIDIA 440.58.01 Linux Driver Fixes Vulkan Game Crashes, New Extensions
07:00 AM EST - NVIDIA - NVIDIA 440.58.01 - 10 Comments
KDE Sees Improvements For Samba Shares, Fixing Mouse Input For GTK Apps On XWayland
06:44 AM EST - KDE - KDE Fixes + Improvements - 8 Comments
GCC 10 Adds Late Support For -std=c++20 To Target C++20
04:06 AM EST - GNU - GCC 10 - 10 Comments
Apple Firmware Update For Magic Keyboards Decides To Change The Fn Key
01:39 AM EST - Hardware - F***-n Apple Fn Key - 30 Comments
Chrome 81 In Beta With Web NFC, Modern Form Controls
12:03 AM EST - Google - Chrome 81 Beta - 3 Comments
15 February
Linux 5.7 To See USB Fast Charge Support For Apple iOS Devices
11:35 PM EST - Hardware - APPLE_MFI_FASTCHARGE - 13 Comments
DragonFlyBSD 5.8-RC1 Is Ready With Many Changes From DSynth To Performance Optimizations
Reiser5 Updates For Linux 5.5 Along With Reiser4
06:21 PM EST - Linux Storage - Reiser4 + Reiser5 - 44 Comments
C++20 Being Wrapped Up, C++23 In Planning
03:17 PM EST - Programming - Prague - 37 Comments
NetBSD 9.0 Debuts As The "Best NetBSD Release Ever"
11:37 AM EST - BSD - NetBSD 9.0 - 23 Comments
Fwupd 1.3.8 Brings More Improvements For Firmware Updating On Linux Systems
09:32 AM EST - Hardware - Fwupd 1.3.8 - 17 Comments
The OpenPOWER ISA EULA Draft Published - Generous For Libre Hardware
07:44 AM EST - Hardware - OpenPOWER ISA - 44 Comments
Intel Compute Runtime 20.06.15619 Enables E2E Compression
07:30 AM EST - Intel - Engine 2 Engine Compression - Add A Comment
RISC OS Seeing SDL2 Support Brought Up
06:51 AM EST - Operating Systems - RISC OS + SDL2 - 8 Comments
Netflix Now Exploring AVIF For Image Compression
06:17 AM EST - Free Software - AVIF - 25 Comments
14 February
Showing Your Love For Open-Source + Linux Benchmarking This Valentine's Day
11:59 PM EST - Premium - Linux Benchmarking - 10 Comments
Mesa 20.0-RC3 Released Along With Mesa 19.3.4 As The Latest Of The Stable Series
03:27 PM EST - Mesa - Mesa 19.3.4 + Mesa 20.0-RC3 - 12 Comments
Blender 2.82 Released With Many Improvements, 1000+ Fixes
12:39 PM EST - Free Software - Blender 2.82 - 1 Comment
Windows vs. Linux Scaling Performance From 16 To 128 Threads With AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X
09:43 AM EST - Processors - 23 Comments
Imagination Working On A New Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Project
07:47 AM EST - Mesa - Imagination Tech - 56 Comments
Qt 5.15 Alpha Released With Various Improvements To Qt 3D, QML, Core, New Qt PDF Module
07:32 AM EST - Qt - Qt 5.15 Alpha - 16 Comments
OpenSSH 8.2 Released With FIDO/U2F Support
06:37 AM EST - Free Software - OpenSSH 8.2 - 3 Comments
PHP 7.4 Slated To Land In Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
04:55 AM EST - Ubuntu - PHP 7.4 - 5 Comments
Linux 5.7 Getting A "Tiny Power Button" Driver
03:33 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux Tiny Power Button - 4 Comments
F2FS Root File-System Support For Clear Linux Appears To Be Coming
12:34 AM EST - Clear Linux - Clear Linux + F2FS - 5 Comments
TURNIP Open-Source Adreno Vulkan Driver Adds A618 Support, Sysmem Rendering
12:00 AM EST - Mesa - Qualcomm Adreno - Add A Comment
13 February
Radeon "sisched" Scheduler Is Made Obsolete By RADV's ACO Back-End
07:16 PM EST - Radeon - RADV SISCHED - 17 Comments
Proton 5.0-2 Released To Fix Crashes For Steam Play Linux Gamers
01:52 PM EST - Valve - Proton 5.0-2 - 10 Comments
Intel Blackhole Render Support Lands In Mesa 20.1
01:41 PM EST - Intel - Mesa 20.1 Intel Blackhole - 11 Comments
Ubuntu 20.04 + Linux 5.5: Fresh Benchmarks Of AMD EPYC Rome vs. Intel Xeon Cascade Lake
11:19 AM EST - Processors - 17 Comments
Flatpak 1.6.2 Released To Fix Performance Regression Of Slow Install Times
10:34 AM EST - GNOME - Flatpak 1.6.2 - Add A Comment
New Patches: AMD Live Migration Support For VMs With Secure Encrypted Virtualization
Belated GTK 3.98 Puts GTK 4.0 One Step Closer
08:35 AM EST - GNOME - GTK 4.0 - 18 Comments
Mesa Developers Discuss LTO'ing + PGO'ing Builds For Greater Performance
06:23 AM EST - Mesa - Faster Mesa - 38 Comments
An Open-Source Bootloader For Windows Lets You Run Off Btrfs, Other Possibilities
05:47 AM EST - Operating Systems - Quibble - 47 Comments
DragonFlyBSD Improves Its TMPFS Implementation For Better Throughput Performance
03:52 AM EST - BSD - DragonFlyBSD - Add A Comment
Cavium OCTEON Driver Support For Linux Is Coming Back From The Dead
02:26 AM EST - Hardware - OCTEON Is Back - 5 Comments
Hwangsaeul Is A Collabora-Backed Open-Source Video Surveillance SRT System
12:00 AM EST - Multimedia - Hwangsaeul - 5 Comments
12 February
Firefox 73 + Firefox 74 Beta Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux
06:37 PM EST - Software - 20 Comments
Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS Released With The Newest Hardware Enablement Stack
03:04 PM EST - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS - 23 Comments
Benchmarking Linux 5.5 vs. Linux 5.6-rc1 On A Few Systems So Far
12:44 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.6-rc1 - 3 Comments
Whoops, Linux 5.5 Missed Some "Critical" Intel Graphics Driver Patches
10:38 AM EST - Intel - Linux 5.5 - 44 Comments
AMD Volleys Third Revision To Sensor Fusion Hub Linux Driver
07:01 AM EST - AMD - Sensor Fusion Hub - Add A Comment
Linux Kernel Continues Prepping For RISC-V's Updated Supervisor Binary Interface
06:30 AM EST - Hardware - Supervisor Binary Interface v0.2 - 4 Comments
Open-Source Nouveau Extended To Support The GeForce 16 Series With Hardware Acceleration
04:49 AM EST - Nouveau - Nouveau TU116 TU117 - 5 Comments
Linux Kernel Seeing Work To Implement MEMFD "Secret Memory Areas"
02:00 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Secret Memory Mappings - 19 Comments
Wayland 1.18 Released With Meson Support, Other Minor Changes
11 February
Making The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X Run Even Faster - By Loading Up Intel's Clear Linux
05:00 PM EST - Operating Systems - 29 Comments
Godot Merges Its Vulkan Renderer Ahead Of The v4.0 Game Engine
11:04 AM EST - Linux Gaming - Godot Vulkan Merged - 5 Comments
The Linux Kernel Now Seeing Patches For AMD SEV-ES "Encrypted State" Support
09:25 AM EST - AMD - SEV-ES - 9 Comments
KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS Released After A Lot Of Polishing, New Features
07:29 AM EST - KDE - KDE Plasma 5.18 - 42 Comments
Qt 5.15 Feature Development Is Over For This Last Step Of The Qt5 Series
07:21 AM EST - Qt - Qt 5.15 Features - 12 Comments
Mozilla Firefox 73 Now Available
06:42 AM EST - Mozilla - Firefox 73 - 24 Comments
Red Hat's Stratis 2.0.1 Released For This Linux Storage Management Solution
03:47 AM EST - Red Hat - Stratis 2.0.1 - 75 Comments
WebKitGTK 2.28 Seeing Flatpak Sandbox Support, WebGL + WebAudio By Default
Making Use Of Btrfs 3-Copy/4-Copy Support For RAID1 With Linux 5.5+
12:09 AM EST - Linux Storage - RAID1C3 + RAID1C4 - 17 Comments
10 February
NVIDIA Format Modifiers Coming To Nouveau In Linux 5.7
07:35 PM EST - Nouveau - NVIDIA Format Modifiers - Add A Comment
Radeon R600 Gallium3D Lands NIR Support In Mesa 20.1
04:32 PM EST - Mesa - R600 + Mesa 20.1 - 4 Comments
MATE 1.24 Released For Letting GNOME 2 Continuation Live On In 2020
03:09 PM EST - GNOME - MATE 1.24 Released - 47 Comments
Noctua NH-U9S Performance For The AMD Ryzen 9 3950X + Ondemand vs. Performance Governors
02:04 PM EST - AMD - Noctua NH-U9S - 20 Comments
Six Features Not In The Mainline Linux 5.6 Kernel
11:21 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Not In Linux 5.6 - 41 Comments
OpenBLAS 0.3.8 Brings More AVX2/AVX512 Kernels, Other Optimizations
10:04 AM EST - Programming - OpenBLAS 0.3.8 - 3 Comments
AMD Launching Navi-Based Radeon Pro W5500 For $399 USD
09:47 AM EST - Radeon - Radeon Pro W5500 - 8 Comments
Address Space Isolation For The Linux Kernel Is Still A Big Challenge In 2020
07:29 AM EST - Linux Security - Linux Kernel Address Space Isolation - 11 Comments
Two Weeks Are Left To Apply For An Outreachy Summer 2020 Open-Source Internship
07:15 AM EST - Free Software - Summer 2020 - 6 Comments
The OpenCL 2.0 CTS Can Now Run On Gallium3D Clover - But Doesn't Pass The Tests
06:50 AM EST - Mesa - clCreateCommandQueueWithProperties - 6 Comments
9 February
Linux 5.6-rc1 Released For What's Shaping To Be A Superb Kernel
08:11 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.6 - 12 Comments
OpenShot 2.5 Video Editor Brings Hardware Acceleration, SVG, Blender 2.8+ Compatibility
05:18 PM EST - Multimedia - OpenShot 2.5 - 7 Comments
Linux 5.6 Is The Most Exciting Kernel In Years With So Many New Features
02:06 PM EST - Operating Systems - 26 Comments
Western Digital Proposes Zonefs File-System For Linux 5.6
10:16 AM EST - Linux Storage - Zonefs + Linux 5.6 - 14 Comments
VirtualBox Shared Folder Driver Seeks Inclusion In Linux 5.6
07:51 AM EST - Linux Storage - VBOXSF - 32 Comments
KDE Plasma 5.18 About To Release While Plasma 5.19 Well Under Way
07:10 AM EST - KDE - KDE Development Fun - 40 Comments
Linux 5.6 Can Boot The Original Amazon Echo, But It's Not Really Practical
04:46 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.6 + Amazon Echo - 20 Comments
Fedora Users Will Soon See Linux 5.5 Made Available As A Stable Update
02:11 AM EST - Fedora - Fedora + Linux 5.5 - 2 Comments
Mir's X11 Support Is Being Promoted From Experimental
12:00 AM EST - Wayland - No Longer Experimental - 12 Comments
8 February
Linus Torvalds Just Made A Big Optimization To Help Code Compilation Times On Big CPUs
06:38 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Parallel Jobs On Linux - 53 Comments
GNOME 3.36 Beta Released With Many Changes
03:15 PM EST - GNOME - GNOME 3.36 Beta - 23 Comments
Linux 5.6 Kernel Adding Support For 1st Gen Amazon Echo, Many Other Arm Additions
11:57 AM EST - Hardware - Linux 5.6 Arm Platforms - 5 Comments
GDB 9.1 Released With Multi-Threaded Symbol Loading, Kills Off Solaris 10
11:38 AM EST - GNU - GNU Debugger 9.1 - 9 Comments
Debian 10.3 Released With Many Security + Bug Fixes
11:17 AM EST - Debian - Debian 10.3 + 9.12 Released - 6 Comments
CPUs From 2004 Against AMD's New 64-Core Threadripper 3990X + Tests Against FX-9590
08:10 AM EST - AMD - Fun Benchmarks - 63 Comments
Rav1e 0.3 Release Brings Speed Optimizations, Other AV1 Encode Enhancements
06:24 AM EST - Multimedia - Rav1e 0.3 - 3 Comments
Intel's Cloud-Hypervisor 0.5 Released With Kata Containers Support, Other Features
04:16 AM EST - Intel - Cloud-Hypervisor 0.5 - Add A Comment
Zink In Mesa For OpenGL Over Vulkan Should Be Back To Supporting OpenGL 3.0 Soon
02:10 AM EST - Mesa - Zink OpenGL 3.0 - 5 Comments
LLVM Finally Buttoning Up Its Stack-Clash Protection For x86 CPUs
12:09 AM EST - LLVM - LLVM Stack Clash Protection - Add A Comment
7 February
Proton 5.0-1 Released As Valve's Basis For Steam Play Now On Wine 5.0, Latest DXVK
06:16 PM EST - Valve - Proton 5.0-1 - 30 Comments
Linux 5.6 NFSD Adds Server-To-Server Copy Support
05:10 PM EST - Linux Storage - Linux 5.6 NFS - 3 Comments
Mesa 20.0-RC2 Brings Many Intel Vulkan + OpenGL Gallium3D Driver Fixes
04:40 PM EST - Mesa - Mesa 20.0-RC2 - 3 Comments
GNOME 3.36 Is Looking To Be Another Nice Evolutionary Upgrade To The GNOME Desktop
01:56 PM EST - GNOME - GNOME 3.36 - 22 Comments
AMDGPU Linux Driver Preparing To Better Support Modern HDR/OLED Displays
12:06 PM EST - Radeon - Backlight Changes - 23 Comments
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X Offers Incredible Linux Performance
09:00 AM EST - Processors - 71 Comments
09:00 AM EST - Computers - 16 Comments
Linux 5.6 Flipping On GPU Reset Support For AMD Renoir + Radeon Navi
06:00 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.6 AMDGPU - 8 Comments
New Raspbian Release Brings File Manager Improvements, Mesa 19.3.2 For OpenGL ES 3.1
05:47 AM EST - Operating Systems - Raspberry Pi OS - Add A Comment
DXVK 1.5.4 Brings Various Game Fixes For Direct3D Over Vulkan
05:14 AM EST - Linux Gaming - DXVK 1.5.4 - Add A Comment
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Aims To Enhance The Certified OEM Experience From Its Installer
01:30 AM EST - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 20.04 Certified OEM Experience - 9 Comments
Learn More About Systemd-Homed For How Linux Home Directories Are Being Reinvented
12:09 AM EST - systemd - systemd-homed - 59 Comments
6 February
The GNU + FSF Relationship Remains Complicated But They Are Drafting A Framework
07:17 PM EST - GNU - FSF + GNU - 22 Comments
Linux 5.6 NFS Client Adds New Option To Use Cache If NFS Server Connection Lost
06:28 PM EST - Linux Storage - Linux 5.6 NFS - 3 Comments
GNOME Shell + Mutter See Big Last Minute Improvements With The GNOME 3.36 Beta
04:24 PM EST - GNOME - GNOME 3.35.90 - 54 Comments
AMD Contributing MIGraphX/ROCm Back-End To Microsoft's ONNX Runtime For Machine Learning
12:33 PM EST - AMD - AMD MIGraphX + ROCm For ONNX - 7 Comments
Firefox 72 vs. Chrome 80 Browser Performance On Ubuntu Linux With AMD Ryzen
11:47 AM EST - Software - 33 Comments
Linux 5.6 KVM Expands AMD APIC Virtualization Support With Dynamic APICv
11:12 AM EST - AMD - APICv - 2 Comments
Mozilla Developer Talks Up WGPU As Their WebGPU Implementation In Rust
10:03 AM EST - Mozilla - Mozilla WGPU - 32 Comments
Unity 8 + Mir Is Being Packaged Up For Debian
09:06 AM EST - Debian - Unity 8 + Mir - 15 Comments
Intel Open-Source Developer Has Been Working On "FGKASLR" For Better Kernel Security
07:13 AM EST - Intel - FGKASLR - 6 Comments
VirtIO-FS Is Looking Quite Good For Shared File-System With VMs
06:58 AM EST - Virtualization - VirtIO-FS - 5 Comments
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Likely To Ship With Linux 5.4 As Opposed To 5.5
06:45 AM EST - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 20.04 + Linux 5.4 - 58 Comments
BFQ I/O Scheduler Gets Some Fixes For Linux 5.6
06:29 AM EST - Linux Storage - Budget Fair Queueing - Add A Comment
5 February
Even With A $199 Laptop, Clear Linux Can Offer Superior Performance To Fedora Or Ubuntu
03:48 PM EST - Operating Systems - 25 Comments
Linux 5.6 Continues Work On Intel VT-d Nested Mode Support
09:38 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.6 IOMMU - Add A Comment
Bareflank Hypervisor 2.0 Released With UEFI Support, New Memory Manager
07:36 AM EST - Virtualization - Bareflank 2.0 - 1 Comment
Systemd 245 Shipping Soon With Systemd-Homed, Systemd-Repart Partitioner
07:22 AM EST - systemd - systemd 245 - 112 Comments
Oreboot Continues Advancing For Open-Source, Rust-Based Booting On RISC-V
07:15 AM EST - Coreboot - Rust Oreboot - 8 Comments
Phoronix Test Suite 9.4 Milestone 2 Released With Result Viewer Improvements
06:31 AM EST - Phoronix Test Suite - Phoronix Test Suite 9.4 - 6 Comments
Red Hat Talks Up debuginfod As The New Debug Info Web Server
03:25 AM EST - Programming - debuginfod - 12 Comments
The Linux Kernel Will Be Able To Detect Split-Locks To Then Warn Or Kill Offending Apps
12:05 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux Split-Locks - 8 Comments
4 February
Google Chrome 80 Released With WebVR 1.1, Dropping FTP Support
09:27 PM EST - Google - Chrome 80 - 44 Comments
SpecFuzz Emerges To Test Code For Spectre-Style Vulnerabilities
09:01 PM EST - Linux Security - SpecFuzz - 3 Comments
The Meteoric Rise Of Fwupd+LVFS For Linux Firmware Updates
06:42 PM EST - Intel - LVFS Adoption - 24 Comments
Linux-Firmware Adds Updated Binary For Fixing Performance With RX 5600 XT vBIOS Update
02:34 PM EST - Radeon - RX 5600 XT + New vBIOS - 2 Comments
Rav1e 0.3 Is Releasing Soon For Faster Rust-Based AV1 Encoding
01:06 PM EST - Multimedia - rav1e 0.3 - 6 Comments
Gigabyte X299X DESIGNARE 10G Is A Great Intel Workstation Motherboard For Linux/BSD Systems
12:21 PM EST - Motherboards - 19 Comments
Jailhouse 0.12 Hypervisor Adds Raspberry Pi 4 Support
11:16 AM EST - Virtualization - Jailhouse 0.12 - 7 Comments
Could JPEG2000 Finally Take Off In 2020? It's A Possibility With High Throughput HTJ2K
09:56 AM EST - Multimedia - JPEG2000 - 63 Comments
Fedora 32 Install Media Unlikely To Lose Weight But Fedora 33 Could Be Zstd'ed
08:01 AM EST - Fedora - Fedora Image Compression - 8 Comments
seL4 Microkernel Being Ported To RISC-V
07:45 AM EST - Operating Systems - seL4 + RISC-V - 3 Comments
Linux 5.5-ck1 Released With Latest MuQSS Scheduler
07:11 AM EST - Linux Kernel - CK + MuQSS - 5 Comments
Early Out Of Tree Patches Let Wine Run Natively On Wayland
06:53 AM EST - WINE - winewayland.drv - 39 Comments
The Modern Flang "f18" Compiler Is The Most Exciting Fortran Compiler Of Recent Times
12:10 AM EST - LLVM - Flang F18 - 6 Comments
3 February
The Current State of AMD Zen Coreboot Support: Basically Limited To Chromebooks
07:20 PM EST - AMD - AMD + Coreboot - 7 Comments
Intel's Linux Graphics Stack Is Close To Landing A Code-Generator Generator
04:14 PM EST - Intel - Pattern-Based Code Generator - 4 Comments
The $199 Motile M141 With AMD Ryzen 3 3200U Offers Surprisingly Decent Performance
11:32 AM EST - Computers - 62 Comments
Codeplay Brings SYCL, Intel DPC++ To NVIDIA GPUs
10:38 AM EST - NVIDIA - SYCL On NVIDIA - 3 Comments
NVIDIA 440.59 Linux Driver Brings DP MST Audio, PRIME Sync For Linux 5.4+
10:08 AM EST - NVIDIA - NVIDIA 440.59 - 8 Comments
AMD's Zen 2 Scheduler Model Gets Partially Fixed Up In LLVM
09:00 AM EST - AMD - AMD Zen 2 - Add A Comment
GRUB 2.06 Planning For Release This Year - Possibly With Intel TXT + AMD SKINIT Support
07:42 AM EST - Oracle - GRUB 2.06 - 23 Comments
Hikari Is A FreeBSD-Focused X11 Window Manager + Wayland Compositor
07:27 AM EST - BSD - Hikari - 7 Comments
AMD Linux Graphics Driver To Better Handle Power Savings During Compute Workloads
02:14 AM EST - Radeon - AMDGPU BACO + KFD - 15 Comments
Haiku R1 Beta 2 Is Hopefully Not Too Far Away
12:09 AM EST - Operating Systems - Haiku R1 Beta 2 - 22 Comments
2 February
NetBSD 9.0 Coming Soon With 64-bit ARM, Updated ZFS, Hardware-Accelerated Virtualization
07:48 PM EST - BSD - NetBSD 9.0 - 16 Comments
KDevelop 5.5 Released With Better C++, PHP, Python Language Support
06:44 PM EST - KDE - KDevelop 5.5 - 8 Comments
Wine 5.1 Kicks Off The New Development Series Towards Wine 6.0
03:42 PM EST - WINE - Wine 5.1 - 8 Comments
Qt-Powered Lumina Desktop 1.6 Released For BSD/Linux Systems
01:43 PM EST - BSD - Lumina 1.6 - 48 Comments
FS-VERITY Seeing Performance Enhancements With Linux 5.6
12:27 PM EST - Linux Storage - FS-VERITY - 1 Comment
New Vulkan Extension Could Enhance Frame Timing Controls For Games
11:26 AM EST - Vulkan - VK_MESA_present_period - 7 Comments
Intel Quietly Released A Redistributable, Lightweight ME "Ignition Firmware" Binary
08:03 AM EST - Intel - ME Ignition Firmware - 16 Comments
vkBasalt 0.3 Vulkan Layer Adds Support For Using Reshade Fx Shaders
07:50 AM EST - Vulkan - vkBasalt 0.3 - 7 Comments
KDE Begins February With More Improvements In Tow
07:32 AM EST - KDE - KDE Plasma 5.19 + More - 8 Comments
Lightworks 2020.1 Beta Video Editor Brings Linux Improvements
04:00 AM EST - Multimedia - Lightworks 2020.1 - 4 Comments
LLVM 10.0 RC1 Is Available For Testing
01:54 AM EST - LLVM - LLVM 10.0 - 2 Comments
Logitech Input Device Improvements Continue Coming With Linux 5.6
12:05 AM EST - Hardware - Logitech HIDPP - 11 Comments