7 April

GNU MediaGoblin Announces They Are Still Alive

07:24 AM EDT - GNU - MediaGoblin - Add A Comment

F2FS Introduces Zstd Compression Support With The Linux 5.7 Kernel

06:33 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Zstd + F2FS - Add A Comment

6 April

LLVM's Flang/F18 Fortran Compiler Might Be Back On Track For Merging Soon

07:43 PM EDT - LLVM - LLVM Fortran - 1 Comment

Canonical Contributing Upstream Improvements To Plymouth Ahead Of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

04:38 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Better Plymouth - 31 Comments

Intel P-State Driver Shifting To "Schedutil" Governor Default With Linux 5.7

01:40 PM EDT - Intel - Powersave To Schedutil - 6 Comments

AMD's Marek Olšák Lands Even More OpenGL Threading Improvements Into Mesa 20.1

12:08 PM EDT - Mesa - GLTHREAD - 41 Comments

Linux 5.7 Changes So Far: New exFAT Driver, Tiger Lake Graphics By Default, Apple Fast Charge, Etc

11:00 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.7 Features - Add A Comment

C-SKY Architecture Gets Fix For Its Own Speculative Execution Bug In Linux 5.7

09:47 AM EDT - Hardware - C-SKY - 1 Comment

Initial Benchmarks With Intel oneAPI Level Zero Performance

08:38 AM EDT - Software - 1 Comment

L1d Cache Flush On Context Switch Moves Forward For Linux In Light Of Vulnerabilities

08:00 AM EDT - Linux Security - L1d Opt-In Flushing - 4 Comments

Linux Exec Should Be Less Deadlock Prone In Future Kernels

07:07 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - exec() Deadlock - Add A Comment

/dev/random Seeing Performance Work For Linux 5.7

06:45 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.7 random - 3 Comments

Kaidan 0.5 Released As The KDE-Focused Jabber/XMPP Chat Client

12:09 AM EDT - KDE - Kaidan 0.5 - 17 Comments

5 April

Linux 5.7 Perf Changes Include Additions For AMD Zen 3, Intel Tiger Lake

07:05 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Perf Subsystem - 2 Comments

Phoronix Test Suite 9.6 Milestone 2 Released For Latest Cross-Platform Benchmarking

04:43 PM EDT - Phoronix Test Suite - Phoronix Test Suite 9.6 - 2 Comments

Looking At The LVI Mitigation Impact On Intel Cascade Lake Refresh

12:30 PM EDT - Software - 10 Comments

KVM With Linux 5.7 Supporting Protected/Secure VM Guests For IBM POWER + s390

11:11 AM EDT - Virtualization - Secure VMs - 2 Comments

XFS Working Towards Online Repair, Many Underlying Improvements

09:10 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Linux 5.7 XFS Improvements - 30 Comments

KDE Starts April With Big Performance Jump For Local I/O + 50~95% Faster Samba Transfers

06:54 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Performance - 31 Comments

DRM TTM Hugepage Support Lands In Linux 5.7

05:57 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - DRM Hugepage - 1 Comment

Linux 5.7 To Support Spawning A Process In A Different Cgroup From Its Parent

01:48 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - clone3 + cgroup Change - 22 Comments

Loongson Improvements Land In Linux 5.7 To Improve The Chinese MIPS CPUs

12:00 AM EDT - Hardware - Loongson 3 - 13 Comments

4 April

Open-Source Unvanquished Game Aiming For A New Release Soon

07:31 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - Unvanquished - Add A Comment

The New Microsoft exFAT File-System Driver Has Landed In Linux 5.7

03:37 PM EDT - Linux Storage - Linux 5.7 exFAT - 30 Comments

Linux 5.7 Adds Support For The Qualcomm Snapdragon 865, Mainline PinePhone Support

12:18 PM EDT - Arm - Linux 5.7 ARM - 13 Comments

Dell XPS Ice Lake Taking A Wallop On Ubuntu 20.04

08:41 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 20.04 Slowdown - 10 Comments

Radeon Open Compute 3.3 Released But Still Without Official Navi Support

07:03 AM EDT - Radeon - ROCm 3.3 - 26 Comments

High Resolution Wheel Scrolling Back To Being Finished Up For The Linux Desktop

06:39 AM EDT - Desktop - High Resolution Mouse Wheel - 16 Comments

AMD ACO Backend Implements 8-bit / 16-bit Storage Capabilities - Needed For DOOM Eternal

03:25 AM EDT - Mesa - AMD ACO - 10 Comments

Steam Survey Points To Tiny Uptick In Linux Percentage For March

01:17 AM EDT - Valve - Tiny - 9 Comments

Linux 5.7's Char/Misc Brings MHI Bus, Habana Labs AI Accelerator Code Additions

12:10 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.7 char/misc - Add A Comment

3 April

Proton 5.0-6 To Allow Out-Of-The-Box DOOM Eternal On Linux

06:00 PM EDT - Valve - Proton 5.0-6 - 27 Comments

NIR Vectorization Lands In Mesa 20.1 For Big Intel Graphics Performance Boost

05:20 PM EDT - Mesa - NIR Vectorization - 1 Comment

Ada++ Wants To Make The Ada Programming Language More Accessible

03:02 PM EDT - Programming - Ada++ - 39 Comments

PCI Changes For Linux 5.7 Bring Error Disconnect Recover, P2P DMA For Skylake-E

02:17 PM EDT - Hardware - Linux 5.7 - 1 Comment

LLVM Lands Performance-Hitting Mitigation For Intel LVI Vulnerability

09:24 AM EDT - Software - 20 Comments

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Beta Released

09:18 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 20.04 Beta - 38 Comments

Linus Torvalds Questions The Not So Glorious Driver For That Funky Looking RGB Mouse

07:40 AM EDT - Hardware - Glorious Driver - 25 Comments

POCL 1.5 Released With Performance Improvements, Fixes For OpenCL On CPUs

05:57 AM EDT - Free Software - Portable CL 1.5 - 1 Comment

Intel MKL-DNN / DNNL 1.3 Released With Cooper Lake Optimizations

04:41 AM EDT - Intel - Deep Neural Network Library - 1 Comment

Plenty Of New Sound Hardware Support, Continued Sound Open Firmware Work For Linux 5.7

02:32 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 5.7 Sound Drivers - 2 Comments

Chrome, Skype, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, VSCode Now Unofficially Available For Clear Linux

12:00 AM EDT - Clear Linux - Third-Party Swupd - 4 Comments

2 April

NetBSD 8.2 Released With Fix For Ryzen USB Issues, Fix For Booting Single Core CPUs

07:07 PM EDT - BSD - NetBSD 8.2 - 2 Comments

Linux 5.7 Seeing Updates For Intel SpeedSelect Technology, Jasper Lake PMC

06:51 PM EDT - Intel - Linux 5.7 x86 - Add A Comment

System76 Thelio Major Proves To Be A Major Player For Linux Workstations

01:20 PM EDT - Computers - 7 Comments

X-Plane 11.50 Flight Simulator Beta Released With Vulkan API Support

01:05 PM EDT - Vulkan - X-Plane Vulkan - 20 Comments

GNOME 3.36.1 Released With First Batch Of Fixes

11:35 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME 3.36.1 - 34 Comments

Mesa OpenGL Threading Enabled For More Games Yielding Sizable Performance Jumps

11:02 AM EDT - Mesa - Mesa GLTHREAD - 16 Comments

LXD 4.0 LTS Released For Offering The Latest Linux Containers Experience

09:00 AM EDT - Virtualization - LXD 4.0 LTS - 9 Comments

Btrfs File-System Updates Land In Linux 5.7

08:46 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Btrfs + Linux 5.7 - 19 Comments

LLVM Plumbs Support For Intel Golden Cove's New SERIALIZE Instruction

07:07 AM EDT - LLVM - Intel SERIALIZE - 1 Comment

Linux 5.6.2 Released With Fix For The IWLWIFI Intel WiFi Driver

06:31 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.6.2 - 13 Comments

Intel 10th Gen H-Series Mobile CPUs Hit Up To 5.3GHz

06:18 AM EDT - Intel - Intel 10th Gen Mobile - 17 Comments

GCC 10 Release Candidate Likely Hitting In The Next Few Weeks

04:37 AM EDT - GNU - GCC 10.1 RC1 - 5 Comments

SELinux Seeing Performance Improvements With Linux 5.7

01:29 AM EDT - Linux Security - Linux 5.7 SELinux - 5 Comments

Mesa 20.0.3 Released With Latest Open-Source Graphics Driver Fixes

12:03 AM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 20.0.3 - 4 Comments

1 April

GNU Guix Wants To Replace The Linux-Libre Kernel With The Hurd Micro-Kernel

07:14 PM EDT - GNU - GNU Guix + Hurd - 26 Comments

GTK 3.98.2 Released As Another Step Towards GTK4

04:00 PM EDT - GNOME - GTK 3.98.2 - 29 Comments

Upstreaming LLVM's Fortran "Flang" Front-End Has Been Flung Back Further

02:27 PM EDT - LLVM - LLVM Flang - 2 Comments

Linux 5.7 Gets A Unified/User-Space-Access-Intended Accelerator Framework

01:25 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Crypto UACCE - Add A Comment

GCC 11 Will Likely Support Using LLVM's libc++

11:33 AM EDT - GNU - GCC G++ libc++ - 26 Comments

Linux 5.7 Networking Changes Bring Qualcomm IPA, New Intel Driver Additions

09:25 AM EDT - Linux Networking - Linux 5.7 - 2 Comments

Intel GCC Patches + PRM Update Adds SERIALIZE Instruction, Confirm Atom+Core Hybrid CPUs

06:48 AM EDT - Intel - New Instructions - 7 Comments

Linux 5.7 Graphics Driver Updates Enable Tiger Lake By Default, OLED Backlight Support

06:23 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.7 DRM - 2 Comments

GhostBSD 20.03 Is Out As The Latest Monthly Update To This Desktop BSD

06:07 AM EDT - BSD - GhostBSD 20.03 - 7 Comments

QEMU 5.0-rc1 Released For Linux Virtualization With The Stable Update Coming This Month

02:39 AM EDT - Virtualization - QEMU 5.0 - 2 Comments

The Linux 5.7 Scheduler Changes Bring Prominent Additions For Intel & Arm CPUs

12:00 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 5.7 Scheduler - Add A Comment

31 March

Apple Using Rust, exFAT, Ryzen Laptops, Ubuntu 20.04 Advances + Other Hits From March

08:47 PM EDT - Phoronix - March 2020 - 6 Comments

Oracle Ships Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6 - Based On Linux 5.4 + DTrace Over BPF, Etc

07:52 PM EDT - Oracle - Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R6 - 4 Comments

Linux 5.7 Media Updates Add H.264 / H.265 / VP9 Decode To The Meson Driver

06:38 PM EDT - Multimedia - Linux 5.7 - 5 Comments

Linux 5.7 For 64-bit ARM Brings In-Kernel Pointer Authentication, Activity Monitors

02:01 PM EDT - Arm - Linux 5.7 ARM64 - 5 Comments

Linux Mint 20 Doing Away With 32-Bit Support

11:57 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Bye 32-Bit x86 - 25 Comments

LLVM Clang 10.0 Compiler Performance On Intel + AMD CPUs Under Linux

10:12 AM EDT - Software - 5 Comments

Linux 5.7 Power Management Includes Fixes, Tiny Power Button Driver

09:15 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 5.7 Power - Add A Comment

GNOME's Mutter Working On Variable Refresh Rate Support (VRR / Adaptive-Sync / FreeSync)

08:08 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME VRR - 38 Comments

It's Looking Like Android Could Be Embracing WireGuard - "A Sane VPN"

06:44 AM EDT - Google - WireGuard + Android - 53 Comments

Intel Begins Prepping More Linux Code For Data Streaming Accelerator In Sapphire Rapids

06:03 AM EDT - Intel - Intel DSA - Add A Comment

Fedora 33 Plans To Default To OpenJDK 11 As The Default Java Version

05:47 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 33 - 13 Comments

Linux 5.7 EFI Changes: "The GRUB Project Is Showing Signs Of Life Again"

01:53 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 5.7 EFI - 38 Comments

Linux 5.7's USB Changes Range From Apple Fast Charging To Reporting USB-C Orientation

12:00 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 5.7 USB - 1 Comment

30 March

FSINFO System Call, Mount Notifications Sent In For Linux 5.7 To Provide Better Storage Details

08:04 PM EDT - Linux Storage - FSINFO - 1 Comment

Ubuntu 20.04 GNOME X.Org vs. Wayland Session Performance Impact For Gaming

03:05 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - 177 Comments

Split Lock Detection Sent In For Linux 5.7 To Spot Performance Issues, Unprivileged DoS

01:46 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Split Lock Detection - 1 Comment

Google's OpenTelemetry Reaches Beta For Open-Source Telemetry Purposes

01:21 PM EDT - Google - OpenTelemetry - 10 Comments

Linux 5.7 Staging's Spring Cleaning Sees Almost 30k Lines Of Code Dropped

09:10 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - -47.9k, +20.1k - Add A Comment

Linux 5.6 Ships With Broken Intel WiFi Driver After Network Security Fixes Go Awry

06:26 AM EDT - Linux Networking - Security Fix Breakage - 40 Comments

WireGuard 1.0.0 Christened As A Modern Secure VPN Alternative To OpenVPN/IPsec

05:55 AM EDT - Linux Networking - WireGuard 1.0 - 17 Comments

GNU Linux-libre 5.6-gnu Released After Deblobbing AMD Trusted Execution, Ath11k WiFi

05:41 AM EDT - GNU - GNU Linux-libre 5.6-gnu - 22 Comments

Mesa Developers Discussing Again Whether To Fork Or Drop Non-Gallium3D Drivers

03:53 AM EDT - Mesa - Killing The Old Drivers - 52 Comments

X.Org Server 1.20.8 Released With No Sign Of GLAMOR/XWayland-Improved X.Org Server 1.21

01:03 AM EDT - X.Org - xorg-server 1.20.8 - 46 Comments

IO_uring Sees More Improvements With Linux 5.7 For This Exciting I/O Tech

12:00 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Linux 5.7 IO_uring - 5 Comments

29 March

Lutris 0.5.5 Linux Game Manager Adds Humble Bundle Support, Initial VKD3D Support

08:46 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - Lutris 0.5.5 - 10 Comments

Linux 5.6 Kernel Released With WireGuard, USB4, New AMD + Intel Hardware Support

07:00 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.6 - 2 Comments

Ubuntu 18.04 vs. 20.04 LTS Performance Preview With Intel Xeon Scalable

05:15 PM EDT - Operating Systems - 3 Comments

Amazon Engineer's Patch For Flushing L1 Cache On Context Switching Revved

03:20 PM EDT - Linux Security - L1d FLushing - 2 Comments

Intel NIR I/O Vectorization Ported From The AMD ACO Back-End - ~10% Performance Boost

07:47 AM EDT - Intel - Intel NIR - 30 Comments

KDE Developers Wrap Up March By Working On Back-End Improvements

07:36 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Plasma - 6 Comments

AMD Sensor Fusion Hub Laptop Driver Unlikely To Land For Linux 5.7

04:17 AM EDT - AMD - Sensor Fusion Hub Driver - 14 Comments

HDR Display Support Coming To Some Intel Gen9 Graphics On Linux

01:42 AM EDT - Intel - Intel HDR Display - 12 Comments

Wine-Staging 5.5 Released With 850+ Patches Atop Wine

12:05 AM EDT - WINE - Wine-Staging 5.5 - 6 Comments

28 March

The Best Features Of The Linux 5.6 Kernel From WireGuard To Y2038 Compatibility To USB4

04:14 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.6 - 30 Comments

Mesa's Continuous Integration To Begin Seeing Testing Coverage For Wine / DXVK

09:48 AM EDT - Mesa - Mesa CI - 5 Comments

Kdenlive 20.04 Beta Released With Continuing To Improve The Open-Source Video Editor

08:42 AM EDT - KDE - Kdenlive 20.04 - 19 Comments

RadeonSI Experimenting With Compute-Based Culling For Navi/GFX10

07:19 AM EDT - Radeon - RadeonSI Compute-Based Culling - Add A Comment

It's Official But Sad: TrueOS Is Over As Once The Best Desktop BSD OS

04:38 AM EDT - BSD - FreeBSD TrueOS - 61 Comments

POCL 1.5-RC1 Released As The Portable OpenCL Implementation For CPUs + Other Targets

02:49 AM EDT - Free Software - POCL 1.5 - Add A Comment

Debian To Take On COVID-19 With A Biohackathon

12:00 AM EDT - Debian - Debian COVID-19 Biohackathon - 22 Comments

27 March

Wine 5.5 Released With Expanded UCRTBase C Runtime Usage, Usual Assortment Of Fixes

05:23 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 5.5 - 22 Comments

RHEL9 Likely To Drop Older x86_64 CPUs, Fedora Can Better Prepare With "Enterprise Linux Next"

03:40 PM EDT - Fedora - Fedora ELN - 64 Comments

A Curious Look At Eight Core Server CPU Performance From Intel Xeon Haswell To AMD EPYC Rome

01:00 PM EDT - Processors - 10 Comments

Some Of The Features To Look Forward To With Linux 5.7

10:52 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.7 - 8 Comments

Intel Ramping Up Their Investment In Blender Open-Source 3D Modeling Software

10:39 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Software - 17 Comments

Ardour 6.0 Digital Audio Workstation Sees First Pre-Release

06:10 AM EDT - Multimedia - Ardour 6.0-pre1 - 2 Comments

AMDVLK 2020.Q1.4 Vulkan Driver Brings Direct Display Improvements

05:39 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDVLK 2020.Q1.4 - 3 Comments

KDE Working On "Plasma Bigscreen" As TV Interface With AI Voice Assistant

05:23 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Plasma Bigscreen - 27 Comments

FSCRYPT Inline Encryption Revised For Better Encryption Performance On Modern SoCs

03:58 AM EDT - Linux Storage - FSCRYPT Inline Encryption - Add A Comment

GCC's New Static Analysis Capabilities Are Getting Into Shape For GCC 10

01:25 AM EDT - GNU - GCC 10 Static Analyzer - 12 Comments

PHP 7.4 Lands For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

12:00 AM EDT - Ubuntu - PHP 7.4 - 4 Comments

26 March

Nuvia's Jon Masters Talks Up Their Linux / Open-Source Support Plans

06:03 PM EDT - Arm - Nuvia - 9 Comments

MIPS Loongson 3 Seeing Support Improvements With Linux 5.7

03:31 PM EDT - Hardware - Loongson 3 - 3 Comments

AMD PassThru DMA Engine Driver Still Pending For The Linux Kernel

02:35 PM EDT - AMD - AMD PTDMA Driver EPYC - 11 Comments

Intel Core i9 10980XE: FreeBSD 12.1 vs. GhostBSD 12.02 vs. DragonFlyBSD vs. Ubuntu Linux Benchmarks

11:33 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 16 Comments

Radeon OpenGL Driver Lands Experimental Option To Boost Performance For CAD Software

07:39 AM EDT - Radeon - RadeonSI - 9 Comments

2020 Spring Cleaning: HP 100BaseVG AnyLAN Linux Network Driver Finally Getting Dropped

06:27 AM EDT - Linux Networking - 100BaseVG AnyLAN - 12 Comments

Apache Software Foundation Celebrates Its 21st Birthday

06:15 AM EDT - Free Software - Apache Software Foundation - 11 Comments

VirtIO Video Driver Coming Together For The Mainline Linux Kernel

03:24 AM EDT - Virtualization - VirtIO Video - 13 Comments

There Is Finally Work To Allow Sysctl Parameters To Be Set From The Linux Kernel Command Line

12:07 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Sysctl From The Kernel Command Line - Add A Comment

25 March

Oracle Engineers Send Out Linux Patches For Trenchboot Secure Late-Launch Kernel Support

06:46 PM EDT - Linux Security - Linux Trenchboot - 6 Comments

Fedora Adopts A New Vision Statement

04:30 PM EDT - Fedora - Fedora Vision - 49 Comments

OpenJDK 8/11 vs. GraalVM 20 vs. Amazon Corretto JVM Benchmarks

02:00 PM EDT - Software - 32 Comments

Cloudflare Improving Linux Disk Encryption Performance - Doubling The Throughput

11:37 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Better Disk Encryption - 23 Comments

AMD Developers Looking At GNU C Library Platform Optimizations For Zen

08:18 AM EDT - AMD - GNU libc - 48 Comments

Android-x86 9.0-r2 Released With Updated Kernel, UEFI Boot Fix

07:08 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Android-x86 9.0-r2 - 3 Comments

TTM Huge Page Table Entries Pending For Lowering Graphics Driver CPU Usage

06:39 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - TTM Huge Page Tables - 7 Comments

Intel IWD 1.6 Wireless Daemon Released With MAC Randomization, Per-Network MAC Addresses

06:07 AM EDT - Intel - IWD 1.6 - 2 Comments

LLVM Developers Are Still Debating How To Handle The Intel JCC Erratum Mitigation

04:34 AM EDT - Intel - Jump Conditional Code - 6 Comments

Glibc's Usage Of Performance-Boosting "RSEQ" Is Still Coming Together

02:09 AM EDT - GNU - RSEQ - 1 Comment

RADV Lands AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 Fix For DOOM Eternal On Linux Under Steam Play

12:03 AM EDT - Radeon - RADV GCN 1.0/1.1 - 18 Comments

24 March

Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R5U3 Released With Better ARM 64-Bit Support

05:55 PM EDT - Oracle - Release 5 Update 3 - 6 Comments

Microsoft + Collabora Working To Map OpenGL/OpenCL Over DirectX 12

11:41 AM EDT - Microsoft - OpenCL + OpenGL On DirectX - 51 Comments

Windows 10 Outperforming Linux On A ~$5000 Laptop, Ubuntu Beating Clear Linux

10:20 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 50 Comments

LLVM/Clang 10.0 Now Available With Better C++20 Support, New CPU Coverage

09:57 AM EDT - LLVM - LLVM 10.0 - Add A Comment

Phoronix Test Suite 9.6 Milestone 1 Further Enhances The Benchmark Result Viewer

06:39 AM EDT - Phoronix Test Suite - Phoronix Test Suite 9.6 - Add A Comment

Habana Labs Preps More Linux Code For Their AI Accelerators With The 5.7 Kernel

06:19 AM EDT - Hardware - Habana Labs + Linux 5.7 - Add A Comment

Intel Working On OpenGL 4.x Support For Their OpenSWR Software Rasterizer In Mesa

03:45 AM EDT - Intel - OpenSWR GL4 - Add A Comment

LLVM 11 Flips On NVIDIA CUDA Offloading From 64-Bit ARM

02:37 AM EDT - NVIDIA - OpenMP To CUDA On AArch64 - Add A Comment

Google Engineer Posts Latest Patches For MAC + Audit Policy Using eBPF

12:07 AM EDT - Linux Networking - MAC + Audit Policy With eBPF - Add A Comment

23 March

F2FS File-System Adding Zstd Compression Support In Linux 5.7

07:16 PM EDT - Linux Storage - Flash-Friendly FIle-System - 5 Comments

Trying Out Ubuntu 20.04 With ZFS + Zsys Automated APT Snapshots

03:38 PM EDT - Ubuntu - ZFS + Zsys Snapshots - 18 Comments

Valve's Half-Life: Alyx Released - Linux Build Still Coming

01:08 PM EDT - Valve - Half-Life: Alyx - 22 Comments

NVIDIA Nsight Graphics 2020.2 Adds Vulkan GPU Trace Support

12:00 PM EDT - NVIDIA - Nsight 2020.2 - 2 Comments

MythTV 31 Released With Video Decode Improvements, Finally Supporting Python 3

11:38 AM EDT - Multimedia - MythTV 31 - 3 Comments

Qt 5.15 Beta 2 Released For This Last Big Update Before Qt 6

09:30 AM EDT - Qt - Qt 5.15 - 21 Comments

Jcat 0.1 Released As Alternative To Microsoft Catalog Files

09:07 AM EDT - Free Software - Jcat 0.1 - 9 Comments

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS vs. Clear Linux On The Intel Core i9 9900KS, AMD Ryzen 9 3900X

07:13 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 13 Comments

Linux 5.7 To Improve Spreading Of Utilization, Other Scheduler Work

06:37 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.7 Scheduler - 4 Comments

Linux 5.6-rc7 Released - Looking Like A Calm Release

05:53 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.6-rc7 - 2 Comments

Git 2.26 Released With Transport Protocol V2 Default, Continued Work Towards SHA256 Hashes

01:17 AM EDT - Programming - Git 2.26 - 5 Comments

VMware Plumbing OpenGL 4.x Support For The VMWGFX Graphics Stack

12:07 AM EDT - Virtualization - VMWGFX - 5 Comments

22 March

Ubuntu 18.04/19.10/20.04 vs. Debian 10/Testing Benchmarks On AMD Ryzen

04:29 PM EDT - Operating Systems - 6 Comments

XMMS-Inspired Audacious 4.0 Released With Move From GTK To Qt5 Toolkit

02:19 PM EDT - Multimedia - Audacious 4.0 Released - 63 Comments

Linux 5.7 Adding Infrastructure To See Better Out-Of-The-Box Touchscreen Support

12:09 PM EDT - Hardware - Linux Touchscreen - 5 Comments

Mesa 20.1 So Far Contains Two PCI IDs So Far For Intel Xe Graphics Plus 9 Other Tiger Lake IDs

07:30 AM EDT - Intel - Tiger Lake Gen12 Graphics - Add A Comment

KDE Developers Still Managing Interesting Improvements Amid The World Happenings

06:42 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Features - 20 Comments

Google Engineers Have Been Working On An AMD SB-TSI Temperature Driver

04:30 AM EDT - AMD - AMD SB-TSI Linux Driver - 30 Comments

Former Linux Developer Hans Reiser To Remain Locked Up

01:46 AM EDT - Linux Storage - No Parole - 84 Comments

GNU Automake 1.16.2 Released With Zstd Support

01:14 AM EDT - GNU - Automake 1.16.2 - 2 Comments

Linux fsinfo() System Call Continues Maturing For Exposing More File-System + Mount Info

12:00 AM EDT - Linux Storage - FSINFO - 1 Comment

21 March

Facebook Planning To Ramp Up Investment In LLVM, Hire More Compiler Engineers

07:46 PM EDT - LLVM - Contributing Upstream - 12 Comments

Blender 2.82 Performance With The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Laptop Performance

02:29 PM EDT - NVIDIA - Blender 2.82 - 5 Comments

System76 May Offer AMD Ryzen Laptops When They Begin Their Own Manufacturing

12:48 PM EDT - Hardware - System76 + AMD - 30 Comments

Updated Basis Universal Yields High Quality Compression, 3~4x Smaller Than JPEG/PNG

10:52 AM EDT - Standards - Basis Universal - 22 Comments

OpenGL Threading "GLTHREAD" Seeing Improvements For Mesa 20.1

07:09 AM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 20.1 GLTHREAD - 16 Comments

Debian Testing Is Enabling WireGuard Within Their Linux Kernel Build

06:35 AM EDT - Debian - Debian + WireGuard - 2 Comments

Even Apple Is Interested In Migrating Their C Code To Rust

06:12 AM EDT - Programming - C To Rust - 70 Comments

Google Engineer Shows "SESES" For Mitigating LVI + Side-Channel Attacks - Code Runs ~7% Original Speed

06:00 AM EDT - LLVM - LLVM SESES - 41 Comments

Proton 5.0-5 Brings Support For Newer Vulkan Extensions, Fixes Game Crashes

05:49 AM EDT - Valve - Steam Play - 2 Comments

TrueNAS 12.0 CORE Supporting ZFS Async Copy-On-Write

12:49 AM EDT - BSD - TrueNAS 12.0 CORE - 9 Comments

20 March

Intel Cloud Hypervisor 0.6 Released With VFIO Device Hotplug, I/O Improvements

05:57 PM EDT - Intel - Cloud Hypervisor 0.6 - 2 Comments

DXVK 1.6 Released With D3D9 Performance Work, Various Game Fixes

11:26 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - DXVK 1.6 - 4 Comments

OpenJDK 14 Has Some Performance Improvements But OpenJDK 8 Still Strong

08:20 AM EDT - Software - 45 Comments

Linux Mint Debian Edition 4 Released - Finally Supports SecureBoot, Home Encryption

07:55 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Linux Mint Debian Edition 4 - 21 Comments

IWD Linux Wireless Daemon Adds Full MAC Randomization, Override Support

07:09 AM EDT - Linux Networking - IWD MAC Override + Randomization - 8 Comments

Intel Tiger Lake VRR Support Being Worked On For Linux, More PCI IDs Introduced

06:41 AM EDT - Intel - Variable Refresh Rate - 2 Comments

AMD Begins Focusing On Bug Fixes For Linux 5.7 Graphics Driver Code

03:47 AM EDT - Radeon - Linux 5.7 AMDGPU - 17 Comments

Mesa 20.1 Aiming For Release At The End Of May

01:15 AM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 20.1 - Add A Comment

os108 9.0 Released As One Of The Few Desktop Operating Systems Based On NetBSD

12:00 AM EDT - BSD - os108 - 29 Comments

19 March

Debian Looks To Go More Social From Microblogging To A Federated Image+Video Platform

09:03 PM EDT - Debian - Debian Social - 41 Comments

AMD Plumbing Linux Support For Reading The CPU's Protected Processor Identification Number (PPIN)

07:23 PM EDT - AMD - AMD PPIN - 21 Comments

HP ZBook 17 G6 Has The Most Impressive Mobile Workstation Performance We've Seen Yet

03:40 PM EDT - Computers - 26 Comments

Microsoft Announces "DirectX 12 Ultimate"

02:16 PM EDT - Microsoft - DirectX Ultimate - 46 Comments

LLVM 10.0 Release Pushed Back By Another Week Over Last Minute Bugs

10:26 AM EDT - LLVM - LLVM 10.0-RC5 - 5 Comments

MHI: Linux 5.7 Getting A New Bus From Qualcomm

09:00 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - MHI Bus - 5 Comments

Linux Developers Discuss Flushing L1 Cache On Context Switches In Light Of Vulnerabilities

07:10 AM EDT - Hardware - Performance Whack - 15 Comments

AMD SEV-ES Guest Support Updated With More Improvements, Rebased

06:39 AM EDT - AMD - Encrypted State - Add A Comment

Mesa 20.1 Sees Big Optimizations To Its Soft FP64 Implementation

04:00 AM EDT - Mesa - Soft FP64 - 8 Comments

LLVM Lands Build System Changes To Make It Easier For Out-Of-Tree Projects To Use MLIR

01:47 AM EDT - LLVM - MLIR - Add A Comment

Firefox 76 Enabling VA-API Wayland Acceleration For All Video Codecs

12:00 AM EDT - Mozilla - Wayland VA-API - 94 Comments

18 March

Mesa 20.0.2 Released With The Latest Fixes, Principally Helping Intel + Radeon Graphics

06:48 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 20..02 - 3 Comments

NVMe SSD Systems May Boot Slightly Quicker With Linux 5.7

05:12 PM EDT - Hardware - Faster Boot - 25 Comments

LibreOffice 7.0 Git Adds Skia-Based Text Rendering Support

02:35 PM EDT - LibreOffice - Skia Text Rendering - 18 Comments

Linux 5.7 Getting Driver To Deal With More Buggy & Funky Looking Mice

11:48 AM EDT - Hardware - Glorious - 16 Comments

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS A Nice Upgrade For AMD Ryzen Owners From 18.04 LTS

09:00 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 10 Comments

Intel P-State Driver Preparing To Migrate From "Powersave" To Passive Schedutil Default

07:25 AM EDT - Intel - P-State Schedutil - 13 Comments

Is Clear Linux Just A Toy Distribution By Intel?

06:57 AM EDT - Clear Linux - A Response - 40 Comments

Devuan 3.0 "Beowulf" Reaches Beta For Debian 10 Without Systemd

06:36 AM EDT - Debian - Devuan 3.0 - 29 Comments

IO_uring Is Maturing Well On Linux For Faster & More Flexible I/O - Benchmarks On Linux 5.6

03:00 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Linux 5.6 Benchmarks - 10 Comments

Fedora 33 Plans To Ship With Latest MinGW For Best Experience In Compiling Software For Windows

12:00 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 33 MinGW - Add A Comment

17 March

GrSecurity Linux Kernel To Focus More On Performance This Year

07:36 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - GrSecurity - 23 Comments

Java 14 Reaches General Availability With Garbage Collection Improvements

05:06 PM EDT - Oracle - JDK 14 - 45 Comments

Unity 2020.1 Beta Released With Numerous Vulkan + Linux Fixes

02:34 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - Unity 2020.1 - Add A Comment

Vulkan 1.2.135 Released With New + Promoted NVIDIA Extensions In Addition To Ray-Tracing

12:56 PM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan 1.2.135 - 13 Comments

Fedora 32 Beta Released With EarlyOOM By Default, GNOME 3.36 Desktop

10:18 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 32 - 25 Comments

Vulkan Ray-Tracing Arrives With New Khronos Extension

09:00 AM EDT - Display Drivers - 18 Comments

Intel Continues Working On Significant GPU Power Optimization For The Linux Kernel

08:08 AM EDT - Intel - Extra Battery Life! - 3 Comments

It's 2020 - Oracle Adds Meson Build System To Solaris

07:04 AM EDT - Oracle - Meson + Solaris - 7 Comments

Fedora 33 Looking To Further Tighten Its Crypto Settings

03:50 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora Cryptography - 3 Comments

GNU Debugger Lands Microsoft Windows Support Improvement

12:58 AM EDT - GNU - GDB Windows ABI - 2 Comments

Google "Moonball" Will Be Supported By Linux 5.7

12:00 AM EDT - Google - Google Moonball - 2 Comments

16 March

Zstd Compressed Linux Kernel Images Proposed Once More

09:06 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Zstd Linux - 27 Comments

PAPPL Is A New Printer Application Framework Made By The Founder Of CUPS

07:33 PM EDT - Hardware - PAPPL Framework - 21 Comments

Mesa 20.1-dev RADV vs. RADV+ACO vs. AMDVLK vs. AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan Radeon Linux Gaming Performance

03:08 PM EDT - Display Drivers - 13 Comments

Debian Installer Bullseye Alpha 2 Released With Linux 5.4 + New Device Support

12:38 PM EDT - Debian - Debian 11.0 Bullseye Installer - 9 Comments

Fedora Looking To Transition The RPM Database From Berkeley DB To SQLite

11:45 AM EDT - Fedora - RPM SQLite - 39 Comments

Linux 5.7 Positioned To Retire ARM 32-bit KVM Virtualization Support

10:00 AM EDT - Arm - Killing 32-bit ARM KVM - 17 Comments

AMD Ryzen 9 4900H Mobile Processor Announced For Top-End Laptop Performance

09:20 AM EDT - AMD - Ryzen 9 4900H - 19 Comments

Linux Kernel's Floppy Disk Code Is Seeing Improvements In 2020

07:19 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 5.7 Floppy - 45 Comments

Intel Volleys First Patches As Part Of Linux Bring-Up For Keem Bay

07:00 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Keem Bay - 3 Comments

ASpeed AST2500/AST2600 XDMA Engine Support Pending For Linux

06:30 AM EDT - Hardware - ASpeed BMC DMA To Host - 9 Comments

Linux 5.7 Netfilter To See AVX2 Optimizations For Big Performance Boost - Can Be Up To ~420%

12:00 AM EDT - Linux Networking - Netfilter + AVX2 - 16 Comments

15 March

Linux 5.6-rc6 Released With The Kernel Coming In At Just The Right Size

06:32 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.6-rc6 - 2 Comments

AMD Sensor Fusion Hub Driver Isn't Yet Queued For Linux 5.7

12:08 PM EDT - AMD - AMD Sensor Fusion Hub - 11 Comments

KDE Frameworks 5.68 Release Brought Many Fixes

11:15 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Frameworks 5.68 - 1 Comment

Chrome 80 Against Firefox 74/75 Performance On Linux

08:18 AM EDT - Desktop - Chrome vs. Firefox Benchmarks - 54 Comments

BlueZ 5.54 Linux Bluetooth Stack Released With Just-Works Repairing Policy, EATT Support

07:14 AM EDT - Free Software - BlueZ 5.54 - Add A Comment

GNOME's Mutter Finally Wires Up Middle Button Click Emulation

06:52 AM EDT - GNOME - Mouse Middle Button - 32 Comments

KDE Seeing System Tray Improvements, Much Faster Shadowed Rectangles

06:36 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Improvements - 15 Comments

Shortwave Sees First Stable Release As GNOME Internet Radio Player

12:00 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME Shortwave - 14 Comments

14 March

Linux 5.7 To Bring Mitigation For Intel Gen7 Ivybridge/Haswell "iGPU Leak"

09:28 PM EDT - Intel - Linux 5.7 - 5 Comments

Rust-Based Redox OS Working On Pkgar For Package Management

04:16 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Redox OS Pkgar - 31 Comments

Intel Tiger Lake Gen12/Xe Graphics Driver Support Considered Stable With Linux 5.7

10:21 AM EDT - Intel - Tiger Lake Stable - Add A Comment

Wine-Staging 5.4 Released With Additions Around Tasklist, XACT Audio

07:20 AM EDT - WINE - Wine-Staging 5.4 - 2 Comments

Netflix Talks Up SVT-AV1 Video Encode/Decode Effort

06:46 AM EDT - Multimedia - SVT-AV1 - 15 Comments

WSL2 Reaching General Availability In Windows 10 v2004

06:32 AM EDT - Microsoft - Windows 10 Version 2004 - 25 Comments

Fedora 32 Beta To Be Released Next Week

03:08 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 32 - 32 Comments

Fwupd+LVFS Begins Rolling Out Firmware Update Support For NVMe SSDs

12:00 AM EDT - Hardware - NVMe SSD Firmware - 10 Comments

13 March

Wine 5.4 Released With Unicode 13 Support, Text Drawing For D3DX9 To Fix 10 Year Old Bug

04:38 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 5.4 - 2 Comments

AMD AOMP 0.7-7 Released For Radeon OpenMP Offloading

03:45 PM EDT - Radeon - Radeon AOMP 0.7-7 - 6 Comments

LLVM 10.0 RC4 Released Due To Last Minute Fixes

03:25 PM EDT - LLVM - LLVM 10.0-RC4 - Add A Comment

Linux CFS Improvement Forthcoming To Help With Faster Spreading Of CPU Utilization

02:29 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux Scheduler - Add A Comment

Intel Linux Driver Getting Skylake/Gen9 Port Sync To Fix 5K Tiled Display Issues

02:02 PM EDT - Intel - Port Sync - 3 Comments

Intel Compute Runtime 20.10.16087 Released With oneAPI Level Zero Support

12:16 PM EDT - Intel - Intel Compute Runtime 20.10.16087 - Add A Comment

Intel Developer's Patch To Let SECCOMP Processes Like Web Browsers Opt Out Of Spectre V4

08:08 AM EDT - Intel - SECCOMP Handling - 11 Comments

FFmpeg Squaring Away Vulkan Support For Its Next Release

07:09 AM EDT - Vulkan - FFmpeg 4.3 Or FFmpeg Next - 24 Comments

AMDVLK 2020.Q1.3 Brings New Extensions, Performance Tuning

06:46 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDVLK 2020.Q1.3 - 1 Comment

Intel's Clear Linux Has Code In Place To Begin Handling Proprietary Packages Like Chrome & Steam

02:56 AM EDT - Clear Linux - Code But No Docs - 13 Comments

AMDGPU Driver Sees More Fixes For Linux 5.7 Development

12:00 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDGPU DRM-Next - 23 Comments

12 March

Google Bringing WebAssembly Extensions To Network Proxies

07:42 PM EDT - Programming - WASM Network Extensions? - 6 Comments

The Brutal Performance Impact From Mitigating The LVI Vulnerability

04:32 PM EDT - Software - 76 Comments

Debian 11 "Bullseye" To Begin Code Freeze In Early 2021

10:12 AM EDT - Debian - Debian 11 - 29 Comments

More AMD Family 19h (Zen 3) Code Trickling Into Linux 5.7

10:04 AM EDT - AMD - Family 19h - 2 Comments

GCC 9.3 Compiler Released With Over 150 Bug Fixes

09:16 AM EDT - GNU - GCC 9.3 - 4 Comments

Turnip Vulkan Driver Lands Transform Feedback Support

07:24 AM EDT - Mesa - Open-Source Qualcomm - 2 Comments

FreeBSD To Sponsor Work For 802.11ac Support

06:58 AM EDT - BSD - 802.11ac - 4 Comments

Intel Bay Trail Continues To See Linux Fixes In 2020 - This Time For Time Drifting

05:19 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Bay Trail - 11 Comments

Peer-To-Peer DMA-BUF Support Being Ironed Out, Patches Pending For AMDGPU

02:58 AM EDT - Radeon - P2P DMA-BUF - 6 Comments

Wasmer 0.16 Released For Running WebAssembly Programs Anywhere

12:00 AM EDT - Programming - Wasmer 0.16 - 25 Comments

11 March

Benchmarks Of Firefox 74 + Firefox 75 Beta On Linux

07:19 PM EDT - Mozilla - Firefox Benchmarks - 23 Comments

GNU Assembler Adds New Options For Mitigating Load Value Injection Attack

02:55 PM EDT - GNU - GNU Assembler - Options For LVI - 14 Comments

GNOME 3.36 Released With Latest Wayland Improvements, Parental Controls, New Lock Screen

11:28 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME 3.36 - 75 Comments

LoadLibrary: Support For Loading Windows DLLs On Linux

10:03 AM EDT - Microsoft - DLLs on Linux... Natively - 74 Comments

RADV ACO Can Now Handle More Shaders With Mesa 20.1-devel

07:28 AM EDT - Mesa - TES Control + EVAL - 26 Comments

Unicode 13.0 Released With A Plunger, Fondue & Other New Emoji

07:06 AM EDT - Standards - Unicode 13.0 - 6 Comments

GNOME 3.36 Set To Be Released Today With Ongoing Wayland + Performance Improvements

06:49 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME 3.36 - 27 Comments

SDL 2.0.12 Released For This Important Linux/Cross-Platform Gaming Library

01:25 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - SDL 2.0.12 - 7 Comments

Proton 5.0-4 Released With DXVK 1.5.5, Denuvo Fixes, Performance Work

12:00 AM EDT - Valve - Proton 5.0-4 - 12 Comments

10 March

Dav1d 0.6 AV1 Video Decoder Delivering Healthy Improvements For Intel + AMD Processors

09:17 PM EDT - Multimedia - dav1d 0.6 - 5 Comments

Amazon AWS Launches Linux-Based Bottlerocket For Hosting Containers

09:05 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Amazon Bottlerocket - 2 Comments

Intel P-State Changes Could Improve iGPU-Bound Performance - Some Cases ~15%, ~43% Perf-Per-Watt

06:28 PM EDT - Intel - P-State - 12 Comments

LVI Attack Hits Intel SGX - Defeats Existing Mitigations, More Performance Hits

01:27 PM EDT - Intel - Load Value Injection - 41 Comments

The Staging exFAT Driver Set To Be Nuked In Linux 5.7, Thanks To Samsung's New Driver

01:10 PM EDT - Linux Storage - Samsung exFAT Is Better - 9 Comments

RenderDoc 1.7 Released With Vulkan Improvements, Better D3D12 Capture Performance

12:53 PM EDT - Programming - RenderDoc 1.7 - Add A Comment

Git 2.26-rc1 Released With More Improvements For This Distributed Version Control System

11:32 AM EDT - Programming - Git 2.26 - 2 Comments

Firefox 74 Begins Rolling Out With DNS-Over-HTTPS, Disabling TLS 1.0/1.1

07:07 AM EDT - Mozilla - Firefox 74 Released - 71 Comments

Sculpt OS 20.02 Released - Built Off Genode, Now Includes File Manager + Editor

06:48 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Sculpt OS 20.02 - 3 Comments

VideoLAN's dav1d 0.6 Released With More AVX2 + AVX-512 Optimizations

06:34 AM EDT - Multimedia - Dav1d 0.6.0 - 4 Comments

LibreOffice 7.0's Qt5 Support To Offer HiDPI Scaling

02:05 AM EDT - LibreOffice - LibreOffice 7.0 - 34 Comments

AMD Is Hiring Another Lead Linux Kernel Developer To Work On Their Graphics Driver

12:02 AM EDT - AMD - AMD Linux - 34 Comments

9 March

Mesa 19.3.5 Released To End Out The Series, Time To Move To Mesa 20.0

07:32 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 19.3.5 - 7 Comments

Mozilla Making Progress With Offering Firefox As A Flatpak On Linux

02:31 PM EDT - Mozilla - Firefox Flatpak - 57 Comments

Basemark GPU 1.2 Brings Linux Support - Wins For NVIDIA, Woes For Mesa

12:00 PM EDT - Display Drivers - 45 Comments

New High Quality GPU Compression Codec Going Open-Source In The Coming Days

09:50 AM EDT - Standards - Exciting - 20 Comments

Intel's Compute Runtime Adds oneAPI Level Zero Support

07:52 AM EDT - Intel - oneAPI Level Zero - 4 Comments

Fujitsu A64FX Support Added To The LLVM Clang 11 Compiler

07:14 AM EDT - LLVM - Fujitsu A64FX - 9 Comments

Memcached 1.6 Released With Enhanced Performance For This Memory Caching System

06:52 AM EDT - Free Software - Memcached 1.6 - 1 Comment

LLVM Clang 10 Can Build Over 95% Of The Debian Package Archive

06:44 AM EDT - Debian - LLVM-Clang-10-Debian-Build - 11 Comments

8 March

Linux 5.6-rc5 Kernel Released

09:23 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.6-rc5 - 2 Comments

The New Compiler Features Of LLVM 10.0 / Clang 10.0

10:26 AM EDT - LLVM - LLVM Clang 10 - 4 Comments

AMD Radeon "SISCHED" Support Has Been Retired

08:26 AM EDT - Radeon - SI Scheduler - Add A Comment

MetaInfo Creator - Easily Creating AppStream Metadata For Software

08:08 AM EDT - Standards - MetaInfo Creator - 1 Comment

KDE Developers Fixed Many Bugs This Week

07:51 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Bug Fixing - 15 Comments