25 January

Vulkan 1.2.168 Released With Two New Extensions

06:24 AM EST - Vulkan - Vulkan 1.2.168 - Add A Comment

UBports Aiming For An Exciting 2021 With Ubuntu Touch

04:37 AM EST - Ubuntu - Ubuntu Touch 2021 - 2 Comments

Alder Lake S Support Added To Intel's Open-Source Media Driver

12:07 AM EST - Intel - Intel Alder Lake - Add A Comment

24 January

Linux 5.11-rc5 Kernel Released Following A Busy Sunday

08:27 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.11-rc5 - Add A Comment

Pyston 2.1 Is Blowing Past Python 3.8/3.9 Performance

01:38 PM EST - Programming - Pyston vs. Python - 24 Comments

GNU Binutils 2.36 Released With Support For Intel AMX, AVX VNNI, Key Locker

10:15 AM EST - GNU - Binutils 2.36 - 4 Comments

Learn To Get Involved In Linux Kernel Development This Spring

08:49 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux Mentorship - 15 Comments

Intel Has A New Driver For Linux 5.12: Reporting Your Laptop's Hinge/Keyboard Angle

06:40 AM EST - Intel - Hinge Angle - 19 Comments

GTK4 Toolkit Seeing More Improvements To Its OpenGL Renderer

03:33 AM EST - GNOME - GTK4 - 10 Comments

GCC's JIT Library Is No Longer Considered "Alpha" Quality

12:15 AM EST - GNU - libgccjit - 1 Comment

23 January

Nouveau X.Org Driver Sees First Release In Two Years

08:08 PM EST - NVIDIA - xf86-video-nouveau - 5 Comments

Linux 5.12 To Allow Voltage/Temperature Reporting On Some ASRock Motherboards

01:43 PM EST - Hardware - ASRock Boards - 29 Comments

The First Online Conference Is Happening Today For The Godot Game Engine

08:00 AM EST - Linux Gaming - GodotCon Online 2021 - Add A Comment

The State of GNOME 40's Threaded Input

07:29 AM EST - GNOME - Mutter Threaded Input - 15 Comments

KDE Saw Many Fixes + Improvements On Top Of Shipping Plasma 5.21 Beta

06:14 AM EST - KDE - KDE This Week - 14 Comments

GNOME 40's Mutter Adds Atomic Mode-Setting Support

04:06 AM EST - GNOME - GNOME 40 Atomic - 12 Comments

Pyston 2.1 Released With Striving For High Performance Python

12:02 AM EST - Programming - Pyston 2.1 - 1 Comment

22 January

Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan vs. RadeonSI OpenGL Performance As Of January 2021

03:47 PM EST - Display Drivers - 25 Comments

Apple M1 Open-Source GPU Bring-Up Sees An Early Triangle

01:36 PM EST - Free Software - Early Stage - 27 Comments

Linux 5.12 Set To See Support For The Nintendo 64

11:38 AM EST - Hardware - Linux 5.12 + Nintendo 64 - 28 Comments

More Intel Graphics Work In Linux 5.12: Gen7 Improvements, Faster Suspend/Resume

08:04 AM EST - Intel - Linux 5.12 Intel Graphics - 6 Comments

Eclipse OpenJ9 0.24 Released With A Ton Of Improvements

07:44 AM EST - Programming - OpenJ9 0.24 - 9 Comments

Chrome 89 Preparing To Ship With AV1 Encoder For WebRTC Usage

06:14 AM EST - Google - AV1 Encoding - 32 Comments

Apache Superset Reaches Top-Level Status For Big Data Visualizations

03:41 AM EST - Free Software - Superset - Add A Comment

Intel oneAPI Level Zero 1.1 Headers/Loader Released

12:00 AM EST - Intel - oneAPI Level Zero 1.1 - 2 Comments

21 January

Zink OpenGL On Vulkan Now Supports OpenGL 4.2 With Mesa 21.1

08:25 PM EST - Mesa - Zink OpenGL 4.2 - 15 Comments

Linux 5.11 Is Now Looking Great For AMD Zen 2 / Zen 3 Performance

03:00 PM EST - Processors - 16 Comments

KDE Plasma 5.21 Now In Beta With Much Improved Wayland Support

02:51 PM EST - KDE - Plasma 5.21 - 42 Comments

The Unified Path Ahead For Building SUSE Linux Enterprise + openSUSE Leap

01:06 PM EST - SUSE - SLE + Leap - 17 Comments

Netgate Announces pfSense Plus With Greater Divergence From pfSense

11:44 AM EST - BSD - pfSense Plus - 33 Comments

More OpenGL Threading Improvements Land For Mesa 21.1

08:54 AM EST - Mesa - glthread + More - 10 Comments

Ubuntu 21.04 To Stick With GNOME 3.38 Desktop

07:38 AM EST - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 21.04 + GNOME 3.38 - 37 Comments

Raptor Announces Kestrel Open-Source, Open HDL/Firmware Soft BMC

06:03 AM EST - Hardware - Raptor Kestrel - 7 Comments

Raspberry Pi Pico Announced As $4 Microcontroller

05:46 AM EST - Hardware - Raspberry Pi Pico - 33 Comments

A Fix Has Been Proposed For The Slower AMD Performance On Linux 5.11

12:00 AM EST - AMD - Frequency Invariance Indeed - 6 Comments

20 January

Lightworks 2021.1 Released With UI Improvements, Other Video Editor Enhancements

08:20 PM EST - Multimedia - Lightworks 2021.1 - Add A Comment

Vulkan Wayland Compositors Are Nearing Reality

03:29 PM EST - Vulkan - Last Piece Of The Puzzle - 40 Comments

Rocky Linux Making Progress Towards Their First Release In Q2 As A Free RHEL Alternative

02:35 PM EST - Red Hat - Rocky Linux - 1 Comment

Initial Patches Posted For Bringing Up The Linux Kernel On Apple Silicon M1 Hardware

10:09 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux Kernel + Apple M1 - 17 Comments

Red Hat Announces No-Cost RHEL For Small Production Environments

08:36 AM EST - Red Hat - Red Hat Enterprise Linux For Free - 57 Comments

Mesa's R600 Driver Nears Feature Complete NIR Support For Radeon HD 5000/6000 Series

08:18 AM EST - Radeon - R600g + NIR - 19 Comments

LibreOffice 7.1 RC2 Up For Testing This Open-Source Office Suite

07:51 AM EST - LibreOffice - LibreOffice 7.1 - 16 Comments

Qt Open-Source Downloads Temporarily Offline Due To Severe Hardware Failure

07:34 AM EST - Qt - Qt Open-Source - 17 Comments

Dbus-Broker 26 Released For High Performance D-Bus

06:16 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Dbus-Broker - 8 Comments

GraalVM 21.0 Released With Experimental JVM On Truffle

12:07 AM EST - Oracle - GraalVM 21.0 - 10 Comments

19 January

WireGuard Is Now Available For pfSense

08:18 PM EST - BSD - WireGuard + pfSense - 10 Comments

Chrome 88 Released With Security Fixes, Adobe Flash Removed

03:05 PM EST - Google - Chrome 88 - 28 Comments

Fedora 34 Cleared For Btrfs Zstd Compression By Default, DNF/RPM Copy-On-Write

02:33 PM EST - Fedora - Fedora 34 - 15 Comments

XanMod's Linux 5.10 Kernel Helping Tap Extra Performance With The AMD Ryzen 9 5900X

11:57 AM EST - Operating Systems - 21 Comments

GNOME 40 Will Now Handle XWayland On-Demand By Default

09:36 AM EST - GNOME - XWayland On-Demand - 45 Comments

Pioneer DJM-750 DJ Mixer Handling For Linux Is En Route

07:28 AM EST - Multimedia - Pioneer DJM-750 - 1 Comment

Linux 5.12 To Add Atomics Support To The Promising eBPF

05:52 AM EST - Programming - Atomics eBPF - Add A Comment

2021 Could Be The Year That AMD Radeon Graphics Can Hot Unplug Gracefully On Linux

12:19 AM EST - Radeon - AMDGPU Hot Unplug - 24 Comments

18 January

PulseAudio Lands Much Better Support For FreeBSD - Audio Now Plays Correctly

08:17 PM EST - BSD - Better PulseAudio - 41 Comments

Improved Battery Reporting For Newer Logitech Devices Coming To Linux 5.12

03:05 PM EST - Hardware - Logitech Unified Battery - 6 Comments

SiFive Helping To Teach Kids Programming With RISC-V HiFive Inventor Coding Kit

12:50 PM EST - Computers - 23 Comments

GCC 11 Is On The Final Stage Of Development With 60+ High Priority Regressions

09:22 AM EST - GNU - GCC 11 Stage 4 - 9 Comments

Linux Support Is Coming To Allow De-Authorizing Thunderbolt Devices

08:27 AM EST - Hardware - Thunderbolt De-Authorizing - 11 Comments

Itanium IA-64 Was Busted In The Upstream, Default Linux Kernel Build The Past Month

07:38 AM EST - Hardware - Itanium Broken Build - 42 Comments

Wine Developers Are Working On A New Linux Kernel Sync API To Succeed ESYNC/FSYNC

12:00 AM EST - WINE - Wine Synchronization Primitives - 72 Comments

17 January

Linux 5.11-rc4 Released With NVIDIA RTX 30 Mode-Setting, Haswell GT1 Graphics Restored

08:11 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.11-rc4 - 4 Comments

Linux 5.10.8 Kernel Released - Finally Fixes That Btrfs Performance Regression

01:24 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.10.8 - 14 Comments

Gentoo Saw Total Commits Rise By 42% In 2020, Great Progress On Wayland

10:13 AM EST - Operating Systems - Gentoo 2020 - 40 Comments

Corellium Posts Very Early Linux Port To Apple M1 Macs

08:29 AM EST - Hardware - Corellium - 23 Comments

Better Microsoft Surface Support Is On The Way With Linux 5.12

07:50 AM EST - Hardware - SAM Support - 5 Comments

GCC's Profile Guided Optimization Performance With The Ryzen 9 5950X

06:27 AM EST - GNU - GCC PGO Benchmarks - 23 Comments

Linux's exFAT Driver Will Soon Be Able To Delete Big Files Much Faster

03:37 AM EST - Linux Storage - Microsoft exFAT - 13 Comments

Mesa's Lima Driver Finally Implements OpenGL Shader Cache Support

12:21 AM EST - Mesa - Lima Shader Cache - 7 Comments

16 January

FreeBSD Continues Work On Ridding Its Base Of GPL-Licensed Software

03:12 PM EST - BSD - Q4-2020 Update - 70 Comments

Radeon Vulkan "RADV" Driver Saw Many Optimizations This Week For Mesa 21.0

10:47 AM EST - Mesa - Mesa 21.0 RADV - 16 Comments

AMD + Older Intel CPUs To See Much Faster AES-NI XTS Crypto Performance On Linux 5.12

09:41 AM EST - Hardware - AES-NI XTS - 18 Comments

Better Fujitsu A64FX Support Arrives For GCC, LLVM Clang Compilers

07:42 AM EST - Programming - Fujitsu A64FX - 8 Comments

Linux Patches Updated For Light-Based Networking With pureLiFi Driver

06:29 AM EST - Linux Networking - Linux pureLiFi Driver - 9 Comments

KDE Will Reflow Text In Konsole On Window Resizing, Kirigami Icons Now Use Less RAM

06:12 AM EST - KDE - KDE Improvements - 16 Comments

15 January

Linus Torvalds Decides To Land NVIDIA RTX 30 "Ampere" Support In Linux 5.11

05:35 PM EST - Linux Kernel - RTX 30 + Linux 5.11 - 23 Comments

CentOS Hyperscaler Effort Approved With Backing From Facebook, Twitter

12:19 PM EST - Red Hat - CentOS Hyperscale SIG - 4 Comments

The Performance Of Clear Linux vs. Fedora vs. Ubuntu Over 2020

11:10 AM EST - Operating Systems - 15 Comments

Genode OS Planning For PinePhone Bring-Up, Better GPU Support In 2021

09:09 AM EST - Operating Systems - Genode OS Framework - 7 Comments

AMD Sends In More "New Stuff" For Radeon Graphics With Linux 5.12

08:06 AM EST - Radeon - AMDGPU Linux 5.12 Changes - 14 Comments

Ubuntu 21.04 To Expand The Use Of Phased Package Updates

06:26 AM EST - Ubuntu - Phased Updates - 13 Comments

Proton 5.13-5 Now Available With Cyberpunk 2077 Fixes, Microsoft Flight Simulator VR

06:11 AM EST - Valve - Proton 5.13-5 - 15 Comments

Mesa's RADV ACO Adds Support For Rapid Packed Math

05:16 AM EST - Mesa - Rapid Packed Math - 52 Comments

Fedora 34 Planning For Better Font Rendering By Enabling HarfBuzz In FreeType

04:24 AM EST - Fedora - FreeType With HarfBuzz - 10 Comments

14 January

Open-Source "Nouveau" Driver Now Supports NVIDIA Ampere - But Without 3D Acceleration

08:20 PM EST - Nouveau - Nouveau Ampere - 57 Comments

Linux 5.12 To Allow Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigations

05:47 PM EST - Intel - i915.mitigations=off - 2 Comments

Alpine Linux 3.13 Brings Official Cloud Images, Much Faster Node.js, Cloud-Init Support

12:25 PM EST - Operating Systems - Alpine 3.13 - 3 Comments

Wine 6.0 Released With A Plethora Of Improvements For Windows Software On Linux

11:00 AM EST - WINE - Wine 6.0 - 34 Comments

CloudLinux Announces AlmaLinux As Their 1:1 RHEL Fork, Alternative To CentOS

10:19 AM EST - Operating Systems - AlmaLinux - 9 Comments

GNOME Shell Merges Port Of Extensions App + Portal To GTK4

09:56 AM EST - GNOME - GNOME Shell Getting GTK4-ed - 14 Comments

Following LTO, Linux Kernel Patches Updated For PGO To Yield Faster Performance

09:09 AM EST - LLVM - Clang PGO - 20 Comments

GCC 11 Is Moving Closer But Still Challenged By Many Regressions

07:39 AM EST - GNU - GCC 11 - 7 Comments

Flatpak 1.10 Released With More Efficient Repo Format

06:19 AM EST - Desktop - Flatpak 1.10 - 11 Comments

Rav1e 0.4 Released For Faster Rust AV1 Encoding - But Still Is Quite Slow

03:52 AM EST - Multimedia - rav1e 0.4 - 26 Comments

Intel "Compute Walker" Support Lands For Xe HP In Linux Drivers

12:00 AM EST - Intel - COMPUTE_WALKER - Add A Comment

13 January

Some Older ARM Platforms Will Be Saved While Others On The Chopping Block For Linux

08:23 PM EST - Arm - ARM Linux Support - Add A Comment

Debian 11 Freeze Begins, Debian 12 Might Reduce Focus On i386 Support

05:14 PM EST - Debian - Debian 11 - 26 Comments

Systemd 248 To Allow Unlocking Encrypted Volumes Via TPM2 / FIDO2 / PKCS#11 Hardware

03:06 PM EST - systemd - systemd 248 - 12 Comments

Mesa 21.0-rc1 Released To Get The Quarterly Release Process Underway

01:35 PM EST - Mesa - Mesa 21.0 - Add A Comment

Mesa 21.0-devel RADV vs. AMDVLK 2021.Q1.1 Vulkan Driver Performance

01:00 PM EST - Display Drivers - 20 Comments

Pat Gelsinger Is Going Back To Intel As New CEO

09:54 AM EST - Intel - New Intel CEO - 19 Comments

Qualcomm To Acquire High Performance ARM SoC Startup NUVIA

09:43 AM EST - Arm - NUVIA + Qualcomm - 19 Comments

Vulkan SDK Now Formally Available For Apple Platforms - Including Apple Silicon Support

09:17 AM EST - Vulkan - Vulkan SDK - 22 Comments

Intel Sends In Another Batch Of Graphics Work For Linux 5.12 - More Display Fixes

08:58 AM EST - Intel - Linux 5.12 i915 - 2 Comments

Ubuntu 21.04 Will Finally Stop Making New Home Directories World-Readable

08:01 AM EST - Ubuntu - Private Home Directories - 66 Comments

AMDGPU Working On "Secure Display" Functionality

07:45 AM EST - Radeon - AMDGPU Secure Display - 22 Comments

Fedora 34 To Ship An ISO With The i3 Window Manager

12:09 AM EST - Fedora - Fedora 34 i3 - 22 Comments

12 January

GNOME 40 Will Finally Show File Creation Times Within Its File Manager

08:44 PM EST - GNOME - File Creation Times In 2021... - 50 Comments

Fedora Looks To Overhaul Its Community Outreach

03:03 PM EST - Fedora - Fedora Community Outreach - 28 Comments

NVIDIA Announces The GeForce RTX 3060 For $329 USD

12:38 PM EST - NVIDIA - GeForce RTX 3060 - 28 Comments

AMD Announces Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile Processors, Previews EPYC Milan

11:51 AM EST - AMD - AMD CES 2021 - 45 Comments

CXL 2.0 Support Steps Closer To The Mainline Linux Kernel

09:28 AM EST - Hardware - CXL 2.0 - Add A Comment

Open-Source NVIDIA Support For Recent GPUs Is Poor But Now You Can Fake It For Testing

09:07 AM EST - Nouveau - Fake NVIDIA - 19 Comments

GTK 4.0.1 Released With Many Bug Fixes, Better Media Acceleration

06:16 AM EST - GNOME - GTK 4.0.1 - 40 Comments

Facebook, Twitter Proposing CentOS Hyperscale SIG With Newer Packages + Other Changes

05:32 AM EST - Fedora - CentOS Hyperscale - 48 Comments

F2FS With Linux 5.12 To Allow Configuring Compression Level

03:28 AM EST - Linux Storage - F2FS Compression Level - 7 Comments

11 January

Intel Rolls Out 10nm Pentium/Celeron CPUs, Previews Rocket Lake

04:30 PM EST - Processors - 69 Comments

Clang LTO Support Looks Like It Could Land For Linux 5.12

03:18 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Clang LTO - 21 Comments

Fedora 34 Looking To Tweak Default zRAM Configuration

02:34 PM EST - Fedora - Fedora 34 zRAM Tweak - 49 Comments

Clear Linux Squeezed Out More Open-Source Performance In 2020

12:37 PM EST - Operating Systems - 10 Comments

AMD Publishes More Zen 3 Compiler Support Patches For LLVM

10:21 AM EST - AMD - AMD Znver3 LLVM - 2 Comments

Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Adds Sparse Memory Support - Will Help Some D3D12 Games

09:05 AM EST - Radeon - RADV Sparse Memory - 2 Comments

Blackberry Is Bringing Vulkan To QNX

07:41 AM EST - Vulkan - QNX + Vulkan - 16 Comments

Mesa 21.0 RadeonSI Will Run Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Faster

06:14 AM EST - Mesa - RadeonSI + CS:GO - 24 Comments

POWER10 Adds New Instructions For Helping Fend Off ROP Exploits

12:09 AM EST - Programming - POWER10 New Instructions - 3 Comments

10 January

Linux 5.11-rc3 Released Following A Post-Holiday Ramp-Up

06:00 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.11-rc3 - 3 Comments

Changing One "If" To "While" Caused An Unexpected Shift In A Kernel Benchmark This Week

02:02 PM EST - Linux Kernel - PostgreSQL - 9 Comments

Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping A Bunch Of Old CPUs

09:12 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Dropping Old Code - 66 Comments

Mesa 21.0 Is Now Working With Haiku OS For Software OpenGL Rendering

06:29 AM EST - Mesa - Haiku OS + Mesa 21.0 - 28 Comments

NVIDIA Windows/Linux Graphics Drivers Hit By A Series Of Security Vulnerabilities

06:10 AM EST - NVIDIA - NVIDIA Security - 21 Comments

PHP 8.0 Is Too Fresh For Fedora 34 That It Will Be Punted To F35 In The Autumn

03:25 AM EST - Programming - PHP 8.0 For Fedora 35 - 5 Comments

Intel Vision Processing Unit Patches Updated For The Linux Kernel

12:16 AM EST - Intel - Keem Bay VPU - 1 Comment

9 January

Intel Preparing New Driver Option To Disable GPU Security Mitigations

02:31 PM EST - Intel - i915.mitigations=off - 13 Comments

AMD Making Progress On HMM-Based SVM Memory Manager For Open-Source Compute

09:46 AM EST - Radeon - Radeon Open eCosystem - 10 Comments

Alibaba's MNN Deep Learning Framework Continues Squeezing More Performance

09:03 AM EST - Programming - Mobile Neural Network - 2 Comments

POWER9 + ARM64 Performance For Dav1d 0.8 AV1 Decoding

07:51 AM EST - Multimedia - dav1d 0.8 - 13 Comments

KDE's KWin Compositor Sees Near Total Rewrite Of Compositing Code.

06:13 AM EST - KDE - KWin Rewrite - 79 Comments

Wine-Staging 6.0-RC6 Fixes An 11 Year Old Bug

03:35 AM EST - WINE - Wine-Staging - 4 Comments

Intel Bringing Async Page Flipping To Older Graphics Hardware

12:11 AM EST - Intel - Ironlake And Newer - 5 Comments

8 January

AMD GPU Driver In Linux 5.12 Gets RX 6000 Series OverDrive, FP16 For More Hardware

06:18 PM EST - Radeon - Linux 5.12 AMDGPU - 3 Comments

Wine 6.0-rc6 Released With More Fixes

04:17 PM EST - WINE - Wine 6.0-rc6 - Add A Comment

Mozilla Firefox Flips On AVIF Image Decoding By Default

03:48 PM EST - Mozilla - Firefox + AVIF - 30 Comments

Ampere Altra vs. Amazon Graviton2 Linux Performance Benchmarks

10:30 AM EST - Processors - 27 Comments

Another NVIDIA Engineer Just Made His First Contribution To Mesa

09:26 AM EST - NVIDIA - NVIDIA + Mesa - 35 Comments

L1d Cache Flushing On Context Switch Trying Again But More Conservative In 2021

08:10 AM EST - Linux Security - But Harder To Enable - 4 Comments

Linux Mint 20.1 Released With Web Apps, IPTV Player, Cinnamon 4.8 Integrated

07:40 AM EST - Operating Systems - Linux Mint 20.1 - 13 Comments

AMDVLK 2021.Q1.1 Brings Switchable Graphics Layer, RDNA 2 Tuning

06:05 AM EST - Radeon - AMDVLK 2021.Q1.1 - 5 Comments

A Linux Fix Is On The Way For Some GPUs Having AMD Smart Access Memory Issue

12:20 AM EST - Radeon - Resizable BAR Woe - 7 Comments

7 January

Proton Experimental Update Brings Performance Work, MS Flight Simulator VR Mode

05:22 PM EST - Valve - Proton Experimental 5.13-20210107 - 7 Comments

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X + GCC 11 Compiler Benchmarks At Varying Optimization Levels

04:14 PM EST - Software - 26 Comments

Intel Haswell GT1 Graphics Have Been Busted The Past Half-Year On Linux

02:52 PM EST - Intel - Haswell GT1 - 26 Comments

Intel Releases High Performance Computing Reference Stack 2.0

01:38 PM EST - Intel - HPC Reference Stack 2.0 - 8 Comments

Early Work Is Underway On Reverse-Engineering The Apple M1 GPU

11:52 AM EST - Hardware - Apple M1 Reverse-Engineering - 38 Comments

Progress On The GNOME 40 Shell Continues At Full Speed

11:26 AM EST - GNOME - GNOME Shell 40 - 58 Comments

NVIDIA 460.32.03 Linux Driver Released With Official Vulkan Ray-Tracing

10:37 AM EST - NVIDIA - NVIDIA 460.32.03 - 14 Comments

Intel's IWD 1.11 Released For Faster WiFi Scanning

09:00 AM EST - Intel - IWD 1.11 - 5 Comments

RadeonSI Gallium3D Adds Radeon GPU Profiler Support

07:45 AM EST - Radeon - RadeonSI Graphics Profiling - 5 Comments

NVIDIA Prepares XWayland OpenGL/Vulkan Acceleration Support

06:17 AM EST - NVIDIA - Proprietary Driver + XWayland - 22 Comments

Fedora 34 Approved To Enable Systemd-OOMD By Default For All Spins

03:05 AM EST - Fedora - Fedora 34 + systemd-oomd - 5 Comments

Freedreno In Mesa 21.0 Flips On OpenGL 3.3 Support

12:03 AM EST - Mesa - OpenGL 3.3 For Freedreno - 3 Comments

6 January

Linux 5.10.5 Released - It Disables FBCON Accelerated Scrolling

08:23 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Accelerated Console Scrolling - 8 Comments

A Look At The CPU Security Mitigation Costs Three Years After Spectre/Meltdown

03:17 PM EST - Software - 26 Comments

AMD's "AMDVLK" Vulkan Driver Making It Easier To Switch To RADV Driver

01:52 PM EST - Radeon - AMDVLK To RADV - 13 Comments

OpenZFS 2.0.1 Released With Linux 5.10 Support, Many Fixes

01:33 PM EST - Linux Storage - OpenZFS 2.0.1 - 9 Comments

Fedora 34 Looks To Sign Individual Files Within RPMs

10:39 AM EST - Fedora - Fedora 34 + IMA RPMs - 8 Comments

Raspberry Pi "VC4" DRM Driver Sees 10/12 BPC Color Depth With Linux 5.12

09:15 AM EST - Hardware - Bits Per Color - 7 Comments

Google Continues Work On Linux "Restricted DMA" For Situations Like Remote WiFi Attacks

08:48 AM EST - Linux Security - Restricted DMA - Add A Comment

HDMI Forum Closing Public Specification Access Is Hurting Open-Source GPU Drivers

07:57 AM EST - Standards - HDMI Scheisse - 101 Comments

LLVM 11.0.1 Tagged As The Latest Stable Bits For This Open-Source Compiler

06:06 AM EST - LLVM - LLVM 11.0.1 - 2 Comments

Panfrost Gallium3D Flips On AFBC For Bifrost GPUs

12:08 AM EST - Mesa - Arm Frame Buffer Compression - 4 Comments

5 January

Benchmarking OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 With Its AMD Zen Optimized Build

04:17 PM EST - Operating Systems - 8 Comments

Wasmer 1.0 Released As The Universal WebAssembly Runtime Outside The Browser

03:08 PM EST - Programming - Wasmer 1.0 - 11 Comments

Fedora 34 To Ship With Standalone XWayland, LLVM 12 + Other Changes Approved

12:06 PM EST - Fedora - Fedora 34 Approvals - 32 Comments

Zink With Mesa 21.0 Now Exposes OpenGL 4.1

09:58 AM EST - Mesa - OpenGL 3.3 To OpenGL 4.1 - 10 Comments

Phoronix Test Suite 10.2 Released For Open-Source, Cross-Platform Automated Benchmarking

09:00 AM EST - Software - 3 Comments

RHEL9 Raises Base Target For x86_64 CPUs Plus Possible Optimized Libraries With glibc-hwcaps

06:26 AM EST - Red Hat - x86-64-v2 - 23 Comments

Radeon Linux Drivers Now Only Officially Support Smart Access Memory On Zen 3 + RDNA2

06:05 AM EST - Mesa - Bugs Elsewhere - 29 Comments

Lutris 0.5.8.2 Linux Game Manager Brings Wayland Improvements, Other Additions

05:48 AM EST - Linux Gaming - Lutris 0.5.8.2 - 5 Comments

PicoXcell Support Finally Slated For Removal From The Linux Kernel

12:35 AM EST - Arm - PicoXcell - Add A Comment

Fedora 34 Planning To Offer LXQt 0.16 Desktop Packages

12:03 AM EST - Fedora - LXQt 0.16 + Fedora 34 - 4 Comments

4 January

Intel Submits Initial Batch Of Graphics Driver Updates Slated For Linux 5.12

06:17 PM EST - Intel - Linux 5.12 Intel Graphics Work - Add A Comment

Radeon FreeSync Video Mode Optimization Updated For The AMDGPU Linux Driver

04:25 PM EST - Radeon - FreeSync For Video - 14 Comments

The Qt Company Is Tomorrow Moving Qt 5.15 To Its Commercial-Only LTS Phase

11:26 AM EST - Qt - Closing The Branch To The Public - 93 Comments

AMD Performance On Linux 5.11 Remains Mixed Due To Schedutil With Frequency Invariance

10:43 AM EST - Software - 33 Comments

Intel Keem Bay Accelerated Hashing Driver Positioned For Linux 5.12

09:15 AM EST - Intel - Keem Bay Crypto - 2 Comments

RADV Vulkan Driver Begins Landing Optimizations For AMD Smart Access Memory

08:41 AM EST - Radeon - Resizable BAR - 10 Comments

Linux NVMe Simple-Copy Support Inches Closer To The Kernel

06:25 AM EST - Linux Kernel - NVMe Simple Copy - Add A Comment

Ardour Digital Audio Workstation Finally Exploiting Intel/AMD FMA For More Performance

06:02 AM EST - Multimedia - Fused Multiply Add - 1 Comment

3 January

Linux 5.11-rc2 Released - It's Tiny Due To Developers Offline With "Holiday Things"

08:12 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.11-rc2 - 4 Comments

Linus Torvalds On The Importance Of ECC RAM, Calls Out Intel's "Bad Policies" Over ECC

03:48 PM EST - Hardware - ECC RAM - 214 Comments

dav1d 0.8 Released With More Optimizations - More AMD Performance

03:16 PM EST - Multimedia - dav1d 0.8 - 15 Comments

New + Updated Benchmarks For December 2020

10:26 AM EST - Phoronix Test Suite - December 2020 OpenBenchmarking.org - Add A Comment

LLVM Adds Initial Support For PowerPC LE

10:04 AM EST - LLVM - PowerPC LE - 4 Comments

Valve Revises Steam's December 2020 Linux Marketshare To 0.74%

08:46 AM EST - Linux Gaming - Still A Dip - 46 Comments

Wine-Staging 6.0-RC5 Is Testing A Patch That May Hurt The Performance Of Some Games

06:27 AM EST - WINE - Wine-Staging 6.0-RC5 - 13 Comments

Fedora Is Looking For Help Testing Linux 5.10 Ahead Of Shipping That LTS Kernel Update

06:03 AM EST - Fedora - Fedora + Linux 5.10 - 11 Comments

2 January

DTPM "Avoid Burning Yourself" Framework Diverted From Linux 5.11

08:22 PM EST - Hardware - Dynamic Thermal Power Management - 6 Comments

Wine 6.0-RC5 Released With 21 Bug Fixes

03:40 PM EST - WINE - Wine 6.0 - Add A Comment

Linux No-Copy Bvec Patches Revved For The New Year As Another I/O Optimization

12:50 PM EST - Linux Storage - Bvec - 10 Comments

Mesa's Clover OpenCL Adds Support For Loading SPIR-V IL Programs

12:27 PM EST - Mesa - cl_khr_il_program - 1 Comment

11 Features That Didn't Make It In 2020 For Linux 5.11

10:29 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Not In Linux 5.11 - 10 Comments

ReactOS Has Been Steadily Improving As An Open-Source Windows Implementation

07:45 AM EST - Operating Systems - ReactOS Open-Source Windows - 36 Comments

Even With The New Year's Holidays, KDE Still Saw Some Improvements This Week

06:28 AM EST - KDE - KDE EOY 2020 - 5 Comments

1 January

Valve's Steam Data For December Points To A Huge Dip For Linux Gaming Marketshare

09:36 PM EST - Valve - Waaaay Lower - 88 Comments

Linux 5.11 Gets New Framework To Help Avoid Burning Your Skin On Hot Devices

04:00 PM EST - Hardware - Dynamic Thermal Power Management - 13 Comments

OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 RC Released With Linux 5.10, Completed AArch64 Port

02:02 PM EST - Operating Systems - OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 - 7 Comments

The Linux Kernel Made Terrific Strides In 2020

12:26 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 2020 - 1 Comment

KDE In 2021 Should See Production-Ready Plasma Wayland, Other Improvements

11:24 AM EST - KDE - KDE 2021 Roadmap - 36 Comments

Some Linux/Open-Source Letdowns Last For Years

09:47 AM EST - Free Software - Linux Disappointments - 40 Comments

Mesa Enjoyed A Record-Setting Year With Intel G3D Default, RADV ACO, Faster Performance

06:43 AM EST - Mesa - Mesa 2020 - 1 Comment

Panfrost Gallium3D Seeing Some Work Towards Clover OpenCL Support

06:13 AM EST - Mesa - Arm Mali + Mesa OpenCL - 3 Comments

31 December

Happy New Year! A Look Back At The Most Popular Phoronix Content Of 2020

08:34 PM EST - Phoronix - Phoronix 2020 - 8 Comments

Linux 5.12 Should See ACPI Platform Profile Support To Alter System Thermal/Power Levels

04:57 PM EST - Hardware - ACPI Platform Profile - 13 Comments

OpenBenchmarking.org Enjoyed A Major Overhaul In 2020, Significant Growth

03:03 PM EST - Phoronix Test Suite - OpenBenchmarking.org Yearly Metrics - 2 Comments

GNOME In 2020 Saw Many Optimizations, GTK 4.0 Released, GNOME 40 In Development

01:25 PM EST - GNOME - GNOME 2020 - 28 Comments

Rust 1.49 Released With 64-bit ARM Linux Support Rated Tier-1

11:37 AM EST - Programming - Rust 1.49 - 5 Comments

Intel Media VA-API Driver Update Adds EU Fused Dispatch For 8K Video Processing

10:15 AM EST - Intel - Intel Media Driver - 1 Comment

Linux To Report MIPS Vulnerabilities But They Often Go Unreported Or Dead Vendors

09:17 AM EST - Linux Kernel - MIPS Vulnerabilities - 15 Comments

Linux 5.10-ck1 Released With Updated MuQSS Scheduler

07:43 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.10-ck1 - 1 Comment

Fedora Had A Super Year From Lenovo Preloads To Btrfs To Many Other New Features

06:31 AM EST - Fedora - Fedora 2020 - Add A Comment

Fedora 34 Plans To Provide Xfce 4.16 Desktop Packages

04:39 AM EST - Fedora - Fedora 34 + Xfce 4.16 Packages - 1 Comment

GNU Had A Busy 2020 With The GCC Toolchain Still Rocking, Finally Converted To Git

02:32 AM EST - GNU - GNU 2020 - 3 Comments

Mesa 21.0 Has Finally Killed The Classic "SWRAST" Software Rasterizer

12:00 AM EST - Mesa - SWRAST - Add A Comment

30 December

The Most Popular NVIDIA Linux News + Milestones Of 2020

08:20 PM EST - NVIDIA - NVIDIA Linux - 9 Comments

Fedora Workstation 34 Looking To Employ Btrfs Zstd Transparent Compression By Default

03:06 PM EST - Fedora - Fedora Workstation 34 - 49 Comments

Intel Media SDK 20.5.1 Released

02:44 PM EST - Intel - Intel Media SDK - 3 Comments

Testing The Intel "Workload Hints" Capability Of Linux 5.11

12:30 PM EST - Software - 3 Comments

A Look At The Big Impact To AES-XTS Encryption Performance From Spectre Retpolines

12:05 PM EST - Linux Security - Default vs. mitigations=off - 5 Comments

KDE Saw Its Wayland Support Stabilize Nicely In 2020, Much Polishing Throughout

11:00 AM EST - KDE - KDE 2020 - 46 Comments

Valve Continued Doing A Lot For Linux Gaming & Open-Source Radeon Drivers In 2020

06:13 AM EST - Valve - Valve 2020 - 31 Comments

Nouveau Sees Fix To Properly Handle Mini DP Connectors - Avoids GNOME Mutter Crashing

05:54 AM EST - Nouveau - mDP - 6 Comments

New Intel Linux Features, Timely Hardware Support & More From Intel In 2020

12:08 AM EST - Intel - Intel Linux In 2020 - 1 Comment

29 December

The HSA Foundation Has Been Eerily Quiet As We Roll Into 2021

06:25 PM EST - Hardware - HSA - 13 Comments

Mesa's Freedreno Gallium3D Now Exposes OpenGL 3.2 Support

03:13 PM EST - Mesa - Open-Source Qualcomm - Add A Comment

AMD Wowed Linux Users In 2020 With Their Fantastic Zen 3 CPUs, Timely New Open-Source GPU Support

01:55 PM EST - AMD - 2020 AMD Highlights - 28 Comments

Fedora Workstation 33 Performing Very Well - Runs Past Clear Linux On Intel Tiger Lake Notebook

11:16 AM EST - Operating Systems - 24 Comments

Proposed Patches Would Enable FP16 Pixel Format Support For Older AMD GPUs

09:52 AM EST - Radeon - AMDGPU FP16 For Older GPUs - 9 Comments

Ubuntu Had A Stellar 2020 From Ubuntu 20.04 LTS To Continued WSL, Cloud Popularity

09:25 AM EST - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 2020 - 8 Comments

56 Patches Volleyed For Improving Intel Linux Graphics Driver Scheduling

08:08 AM EST - Intel - Intel Kernel Graphics Driver - 2 Comments

AES-NI XTS To See 2~3x Performance Recovery After Regressing Hard From Retpolines

06:19 AM EST - Linux Security - AES-NI - 7 Comments

Systemd Had A Pretty Big 2020 With Homed, OOMD Components Merged

12:05 AM EST - systemd - systemd 2020 - 26 Comments

28 December

GNU's Embed-Friendly Web Server Updated With Better OS Portability, Performance

05:16 PM EST - GNU - GNU libmicrohttpd 0.9.72 - 9 Comments

2020 Was Another Interesting Year For Microsoft Around Open-Source/Linux

03:46 PM EST - Microsoft - Microsoft 2020 - 15 Comments

Git 2.30 Released As More Projects Shift To "Main" As Their Default Branch Name

02:40 PM EST - Programming - Git 2.30 - 30 Comments

Linux 5.12 Could Support Intel's Proprietary HDR Backlight Interface

01:53 PM EST - Intel - HDR Backlight Interface - 7 Comments

Intel Xe Graphics Are Looking Great On Linux 5.11 With Nice Performance Uplift

10:55 AM EST - Display Drivers - 13 Comments

Linux 5.12 To Support Radeon RX 6000 Series OverDrive Overclocking

09:37 AM EST - Radeon - Linux 5.12 + Sienna Cichlid Overclocking - 12 Comments

Bootlin's Pursuit To Let 32-bit ARM NAS Devices Support More Than 16TiB Of Storage

09:09 AM EST - Hardware - Mainline Support Not Yet - 1 Comment

Intel Sends Out Latest AMX Support For The Linux Kernel

06:28 AM EST - Intel - Advanced Matrix Extensions - 1 Comment

27 December

Linux 5.11-rc1 Released - Many New Features While Dominated By AMD Header Additions

07:40 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.11 - 10 Comments

Linux 5.11 Is Heavy On New Features, Improvements For 2021

10:49 AM EST - Software - 11 Comments

Intel oneAPI DPC++ Compiler 2020-12 Released

09:13 AM EST - Intel - oneAPI Data Parallel C++ - Add A Comment

Linux 5.11 Sees Quick Fix For A Context Switching Performance Regression

07:35 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.11 - 2 Comments

Linux Developers Ponder Decade-Old Decision To Disable PCI Runtime Power Management By Default

03:28 AM EST - Hardware - PCI Runtime PM - 27 Comments

DragonFlyBSD Adds HAMMER2 Multi-Volumes Support

12:00 AM EST - BSD - HAMMER2 Multi-Volume - 9 Comments

26 December

Celebrate The Christmas Season With Some Wine: Wine 6.0-RC4 Released

02:20 PM EST - WINE - Wine 6.0 - 20 Comments

Linux 5.10.3 Released - Fixes Possibility Of Duplicate Encrypted Filenames

12:53 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.10.3 - 3 Comments

KDE Celebrated Christmas With KIO-FUSE Stable Release, NeoChat Matrix Chat App

12:12 PM EST - KDE - KDE Improvements - 21 Comments

Paragon Publishes Latest NTFS File-System Patches For Linux

09:41 AM EST - Linux Storage - Still Not Mainlined - 11 Comments

LibreOffice Drops Its Experimental, Buggy VLC Integration

06:34 AM EST - LibreOffice - AVMedia VLC - 52 Comments

GIMP 2.99.4 Released As One Step Closer To GIMP 3.0

02:09 AM EST - Desktop - GIMP 2.99.4 - 17 Comments