Linux 5.6 Kernel Adds New System Call For "openat2" - More Extensible openat()
11:48 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Openat2 - Add A Comment
29 January
There Is Experimental Patches Providing Support For DXIL Shaders With VKD3D
Mesa 20.0's RADV Driver Deems Navi/GFX10 Stable, Vulkan 1.2 In Good Shape, ACO Fixes
GTK4 Data Transfer APIs Being Modernized Around Wayland
08:49 AM EST - GNOME - GTK4 Data Transfer - 11 Comments
We Love Performance... So We Love LibreOffice 6.4 With This Office Suite Now Running Faster
07:49 AM EST - LibreOffice - Performance Optimizations - 37 Comments
Godot 3.2 Open-Source Game Engine Released With Better Documentation, New Features
07:10 AM EST - Linux Gaming - Godot 3.2 - 3 Comments
The Linux 5.6 x86 Platform Driver Changes Are Busy From Quirky Laptops To New Hardware Support
05:05 AM EST - Linux Kernel - x86-platform-drivers - Add A Comment
Clang 10 + Linux 5.6 Will Be Able To Build A Working s390 Kernel
04:06 AM EST - Linux Kernel - IBM s390 - Add A Comment
It's Finally Time: The Time Namespace Support Has Been Added To The Linux 5.6 Kernel
01:45 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Time Namespace - 2 Comments
WireGuard + Multi-Path TCP Were Merged Tonight Into Linux 5.6
12:00 AM EST - Linux Networking - Net-Next - 21 Comments
28 January
Thunderbird Mail Client Now Being Pushed Along By "MZLA Technologies Corporation"
09:04 PM EST - Mozilla - MZLA Thunderbird - 22 Comments
08:00 PM EST - Hardware - Sony-HID - 43 Comments
Ubuntu's Zsys Tool For Enhancing The ZFS On Linux Experience Now Supports Snapshots
06:25 PM EST - Ubuntu - Zsys Snapshots - Add A Comment
Godot's Vulkan Renderer Is Already Picking Up New Features In 2020
05:07 PM EST - Vulkan - Godot Vulkan - Add A Comment
Mesa 19.3.3 Released With Many Fixes
03:06 PM EST - Mesa - Mesa 19.3.3 - 15 Comments
XCP-ng 8.1 Beta Rolls Out While Becoming Part Of The Xen Project
12:50 PM EST - Virtualization - XCP-ng - 2 Comments
Google Makes It Easier To Flash Android Open-Source Project On Phones
12:12 PM EST - Google - Google Flash Tool - 25 Comments
Red Hat vs. SUSE vs. Canonical Contributions To The Mainline Linux Kernel Over The 2010s
11:52 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Kernel Contributions - 42 Comments
Many Linux 5.6 Sound Driver Updates Especially On The Intel / Sound Open Firmware Front
10:46 AM EST - Hardware - Linux 5.6 Audio Changes - 4 Comments
Linux 5.6 Crypto Code Brings The New AMD TEE Driver
07:55 AM EST - Linux Security - Trusted Execution - 5 Comments
Intel Makes Public Two More Data Leakage Disclosures
06:42 AM EST - Intel - More Vulnerabilities - 31 Comments
EFI Code Gets More Cleaning With Linux 5.6
06:06 AM EST - Linux Kernel - EFI + Linux 5.6 - 3 Comments
Fedora Stakeholders Discuss Possibility Of Using Pre-Built Initramfs Images
03:55 AM EST - Fedora - Fedora Pre-Built Initramfs - 21 Comments
9 Years After Starting, AppStream 1.0 Is Coming For Cross-Distribution Package Metadata
01:17 AM EST - Operating Systems - AppStream 1.0 Is Coming - 12 Comments
Power Management + ACPI Updates Submitted For The Linux 5.6 Kernel
12:09 AM EST - Hardware - ACPI + PM - 3 Comments
27 January
AMD Prepares Fix To Address Clicking Issue With Audio Playback On Raven APUs
SELinux For 5.6 Kernel Sees Largest Change Set In A While
05:59 PM EST - Linux Security - Security Enhanced Linux - 9 Comments
FreeBSD Had A Very Busy End Of Year 2019 With Numerous Advancements
01:48 PM EST - BSD - FreeBSD Q4-2019 - 7 Comments
Linux 5.5 SSD RAID 0/1/5/6/10 Benchmarks Of Btrfs / EXT4 / F2FS / XFS
12:00 PM EST - Software - 34 Comments
Btrfs Ready For Linux 5.6 With Async Discard For Better Efficiency + Performance
11:44 AM EST - Linux Storage - Btrfs Features - 3 Comments
Qt LTS Releases To Be Restricted To Commercial Customers, Other Commercial Changes
10:12 AM EST - Qt - Qt More Commercial - 74 Comments
LLVM Founder Chris Lattner Joins SiFive To Lead Platform Engineering
10:06 AM EST - Hardware - RISC-V SiFive - 6 Comments
Linux 5.5 Required More Deblobbing Than Usual For GNU Linux-libre 5.5
09:45 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.5 - 14 Comments
Qt 5.14.1 Released With 200+ Bug Fixes, Including Security Fixes
08:15 AM EST - Qt - Qt 5.14.1 - 10 Comments
Wine Debugger Improvements Are On The Way, Start Of LLVM LLDB Support
The Initial AMD Family 19h Support Sent In For Linux 5.6 EDAC Driver
07:09 AM EST - AMD - AMD Family 19h - Add A Comment
Habana Labs Aims To Upstream Gaudi AI Accelerator Code For Linux 5.7~5.8
06:55 AM EST - Intel - Habana Labs Gaudi - Add A Comment
Linux 5.6 "HWMON" Changes Sent In With Big AMD Improvements
02:10 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.6 HWMON - 19 Comments
The CUPS Printing System Lead Developer Has Left Apple, Begins Developing "LPrint"
12:00 AM EST - Hardware - CUPS - 27 Comments
26 January
Linux 5.5 Released With Many Hardware Support Improvements
07:48 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.5 Kernel - 18 Comments
Linux 5.6 Is Looking Like It Will Be Spectacular With A Long List Of Features
06:55 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.6 Features - 20 Comments
MPV Player 0.32 Released With RAR5 Support, Bash Completion
04:00 PM EST - Multimedia - MPV 0.32 - 40 Comments
Kubuntu Focus KDE Laptop Launches New $1,795 USD Base Model
03:45 PM EST - KDE - Kubuntu Focus Made Cheaper - 29 Comments
The Dracut Initramfs Generator Is Slow - Could Be Much Faster As Shown By Distri's Minitrd
08:23 AM EST - Operating Systems - Slow Dracut - 45 Comments
Fedora Workstation 33 Aiming To Have SWAP-On-ZRAM By Default
08:07 AM EST - Fedora - Fedora SWAP On ZRAM - 35 Comments
KDE Developers Continue Polishing Ahead Of Plasma 5.18 LTS
07:07 AM EST - KDE - KDE Plasma 5.18 - 12 Comments
SQLite 3.31 Released With Support For Generated Columns
12:02 AM EST - Programming - SQLite 3.31 - 7 Comments
25 January
Intel SST Core-Power Support Ready For Linux 5.6
08:15 PM EST - Intel - Intel SST-CP - Add A Comment
Valve's ACO Helps The Radeon RX 5600 XT Compete With NVIDIA's RTX 2060
02:42 PM EST - Linux Gaming - New vBIOS + ACO - 34 Comments
Solus 4.1 Released With Application Changes, ESYNC Support For Linux Gaming
09:27 AM EST - Operating Systems - Solus 4.1 - 20 Comments
Intel's Vulkan Driver Squeezes Another Optimization Into Mesa 20.0
07:49 AM EST - Intel - Faster Performance - Add A Comment
Firefox Is Seeing Work On Wayland VA-API Video Acceleration
07:28 AM EST - Mozilla - Firefox + Wayland + VA-API - 48 Comments
RadeonSI Introduces A Live Shader Cache With Mesa 20.0
07:19 AM EST - Mesa - RadeonSI Live Shader Cache - 3 Comments
OPNsense 20.1-RC1 Released For Popular BSD-Based Firewall / Routing OS
07:00 AM EST - BSD - OPNsense 20.1-RC1 - 12 Comments
WineD3D Vulkan Back-End Is Back In The Works Following Wine 5.0
12:06 AM EST - WINE - WineD3D + Vulkan - 28 Comments
24 January
DXVK 1.5.2 Released With Many Game Fixes
07:46 PM EST - Linux Gaming - DXVK 1.5.2 - 5 Comments
Weston 8.0 Released With DRM HDCP Support, EGL Partial Updates, Headless OpenGL
07:08 PM EST - Wayland - Weston 8.0 - 12 Comments
NVIDIA Contributes Much Less To The Linux Kernel Than Intel Or AMD
03:39 PM EST - NVIDIA - NVIDIA Contributions - 57 Comments
Radeon RX 5600 XT With New vBIOS Offering Better Linux Performance Following Fix
01:20 PM EST - Graphics Cards - 29 Comments
Linux 5.5 Ready To Shine With Navi Overclocking, Raspberry Pi 4 Support, Wake-On-Voice
09:21 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.5 Kernel - 9 Comments
Intel's OpenSWR Rasterizer Starts Seeing Tessellation Support
07:32 AM EST - Intel - OpenSWR Tessellation - 3 Comments
Nsight Graphics 2020.1 Released With Profiling For Vulkan+OpenGL Interop
Arm Has Many Changes On Tap For Linux 5.6 From Spectre/Meltdown Bits To New RNG
04:03 AM EST - Arm - Linux 5.6 ARM - 3 Comments
Two Decades Late: Mainline Linux Kernel Getting Keyboard / Mouse Driver For SGI Octane
02:03 AM EST - Hardware - SGI Octane Keyboard Driver - 41 Comments
Mesa 20.0 Now Defaults To The New Intel Gallium3D Driver For Faster OpenGL
12:00 AM EST - Intel - Mesa 20.0 Wins! - 9 Comments
23 January
ZFS On Linux 0.8.3 Released With Many Fixes
06:05 PM EST - Linux Storage - ZFS On Linux 0.8.3 - 39 Comments
AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile Series "Renoir" Graphics No Longer Experimental With Linux 5.5
03:52 PM EST - AMD - Renoir Graphics - 26 Comments
Linux 5.6 To Bring FQ-PIE Packet Scheduler To Help Fight Bufferbloat
02:06 PM EST - Linux Networking - Linux 5.6 FQ-PIE - 14 Comments
Valve's ACO Shader Compiler Back-End For Radeon Vulkan Is Now In Good Shape For GCN 1.0
12:55 PM EST - Radeon - ACO RADV - 20 Comments
AMD vs. Intel Contributions To The Linux Kernel Over The Past Decade
09:30 AM EST - Hardware - AMD vs. Intel 2010s Kernel Contributions - 19 Comments
LibreOffice 7.0 Is The Version Now In Development With Its Skia + Vulkan Support
08:20 AM EST - LibreOffice - LibreOffice 7.0 - 65 Comments
Flatpak 1.6.1 Released Due To Security Issue - Special Case Of Getting Access Outside Home
Gutting Out Intel MPX Support To Be Finished Up In The Linux 5.6 Kernel
07:38 AM EST - Intel - Memory Protection Extensions - Add A Comment
RHEL 8.2 Beta Application Streams Bring GCC 9.1, Python 3.8
07:24 AM EST - Red Hat - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 - 2 Comments
Linux k10temp Driver For AMD CPUs Updated To Better Handle Power/Temp Analysis
03:57 AM EST - AMD - k10temp - 20 Comments
Vulkan 1.2 Comes To macOS / iOS Via Updated MoltenVK
12:45 AM EST - Vulkan - Vulkan 1.2 For Apple - 4 Comments
Mesa 20.0 Feature Development Is Ending Next Week
12:09 AM EST - Mesa - Mesa 20.0 - 6 Comments
22 January
Android-x86 Is Still Working Towards Its 9.0 "Pie" Release
07:10 PM EST - Operating Systems - Android-x86 9.0-RC2 - 29 Comments
Dav1d AV1 Decoder Begins Adding AVX-512 Optimizations For Intel Ice Lake
04:45 PM EST - Multimedia - Ice Lake Optimizations - 17 Comments
Sway 1.4 Wayland Compositor Brings VNC Support, Initial Bits For MATE Panel Support
02:31 PM EST - Wayland - Sway 1.4 - 20 Comments
GhostBSD 20.01 Released For FreeBSD 12.1 + MATE 1.22.2 Desktop Experience
02:22 PM EST - BSD - GhostBSD 20.01 - 12 Comments
Debian 7 Through Debian Testing Benchmarks With/Without Mitigations
12:38 PM EST - Operating Systems - 8 Comments
AMDVLK 2020.Q1.1 Brings Some Performance Tuning, Still On Vulkan 1.1
10:53 AM EST - Radeon - AMDVLK 2020.Q1.1 - 3 Comments
Feral's GameMode 1.5 Now Supports Changing The CPU Governor Differently For iGPUs
10:02 AM EST - Linux Gaming - GameMode 1.5 Released - 13 Comments
Intel Continues Improving Its SYCL Stack - Now Supports Ahead-Of-Time Compilation
07:19 AM EST - Intel - SYCL Compiler and Runtimes 2019-12 - Add A Comment
New Linux System Call Proposed To Let User-Space Pin Themselves To Specific CPU Cores
05:23 AM EST - Linux Kernel - pin_on_cpu - 31 Comments
Wine Is Approaching Six Million Lines
04:00 AM EST - WINE - Wine Stats - 11 Comments
Vulkan 1.2.132 Released As The First Documentation Fix-Up Following Vulkan 1.2
12:14 AM EST - Vulkan - Vulkan 1.2 - 5 Comments
21 January
Keith Packard Talks About The Early Politics Of X Window System + Code Licensing
06:28 PM EST - X.Org - X History - 4 Comments
Wine 5.0 Released With Big Improvements For Gaming, Countless Application Fixes
12:20 PM EST - WINE - Wine 5.0 - 77 Comments
Wayland 1.18 Alpha Released With Meson Support, Connection Sharing
11:56 AM EST - Wayland - Wayland 1.18 - 12 Comments
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT Linux Gaming Performance
09:00 AM EST - Graphics Cards - 87 Comments
GNOME Work Is Underway For Sharper Background Images
07:24 AM EST - GNOME - Downscaling Change - 111 Comments
Canonical Gets Into Cloud Gaming & More With Anbox Cloud For Cloud-Based Android Apps/Gaming
06:48 AM EST - Ubuntu - Canonical Anbox Cloud - 10 Comments
Fedora's Scientific & Audio/Music Spins Could Be On Their Last Leg
06:12 AM EST - Fedora - Fedora Jam + Fedora Scientific - 16 Comments
Genode OS Draws Up 2020 Plans Of USB Audio, A Kernel Written In Ada
03:20 AM EST - Operating Systems - Genode OS 2020 - 12 Comments
Merging Of Flang/F18 Fortran Compiler Support Into LLVM Has Been Delayed
12:14 AM EST - LLVM - Flang Fortran - 4 Comments
20 January
Intel's Vulkan Driver Begins Making Infrastructure Changes For Multi-GPU Support
07:04 PM EST - Intel - The Xe Future - 9 Comments
Debian Policy Updated Following Recent Systemd "Init System Diversity" Vote
05:48 PM EST - Debian - Debian Policy - 28 Comments
Fedora's FESCo Has Deferred Any Decision On EarlyOOM By Default
03:36 PM EST - Fedora - Fedora Workstation + EarlyOOM? - 9 Comments
XanMod-ing Ubuntu To Perform Closer To Intel's Clear Linux
12:50 PM EST - Operating Systems - 25 Comments
Think Silicon's GLOVE OpenGL-Over-Vulkan Library Now Works On Wayland, Windows + macOS
10:34 AM EST - Vulkan - GLOVE - 13 Comments
AMD Zen Thermal/Power Reporting Improvements Could Hit Linux 5.6 But More Testing Needed
09:38 AM EST - AMD - k10temp - 21 Comments
Samsung's Better exFAT Driver Gets Revised Ahead Of Mainline Linux Integration
08:19 AM EST - Linux Storage - Samsung exFAT - 37 Comments
Red Hat Developer's MIR Is A Lightweight JIT Compiler
07:14 AM EST - Programming - Medium Internal Representation - 11 Comments
AMD Zen 3 "Family 19h" Enablement Beginning With The Linux 5.6 Kernel
06:59 AM EST - AMD - Zen 3 Starts - 15 Comments
19 January
07:27 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.5 - 27 Comments
GNU Make 4.3 Released With Performance Improvements, Newer GNU libc + Musl Support
06:44 PM EST - GNU - GNU Make 4.3 - Add A Comment
The Performance Cost To SELinux On Fedora 31
02:10 PM EST - Software - 22 Comments
Intel's ConnMan Is Ready With WireGuard Support
09:36 AM EST - Linux Networking - ConnMan - 10 Comments
Intel's OSPray 2.0 Ray-Tracing Engine Released
07:26 AM EST - Intel - Intel Ray-Tracing - 11 Comments
KDE Plasma 5.18 Seeing More Last Minute Work To Make It One Of Their Best Releases Ever
07:12 AM EST - KDE - KDE Plasma 5.18 - 37 Comments
The AMD Ryzen Thermal / Power Linux Reporting Improvements Working Well - V2 Up For Testing
12:04 AM EST - AMD - AMD k10temp - 25 Comments
18 January
X.Org's XDC2020 May Abandon Poland Conference To Find More Welcoming European Location
08:00 PM EST - X.Org - X.Org Developers Conference - Add A Comment
GNU Binutils 2.34 Branched - Bringing With It "debuginfod" HTTP Server Support
03:15 PM EST - GNU - Binutils 2.34 - Add A Comment
More Details On Intel's CVE-2019-14615 Graphics Vulnerability, a.k.a. iGPU Leak
02:52 PM EST - Intel - iGPU Leak - 9 Comments
Experimental Support For C++20 Coroutines Has Landed In GCC 10
08:16 AM EST - GNU - GCC 10 Coroutines - 30 Comments
The Linux Kernel Obsoletes The Intel Simple Firmware Interface
Btrfs Async Discard Support Looks To Be Ready For Linux 5.6
06:59 AM EST - Linux Storage - Btrfs Async Discard - 4 Comments
Red Hat Shows Off Their vDPA Kernel Patches For Better Ethernet Within VMs
05:16 AM EST - Virtualization - Virtual Data Path Acceleration - 3 Comments
Debian Is Making The Process Easier To Bisect Itself Using Their Wayback Machine
12:09 AM EST - Debian - Bisecting Debian - 2 Comments
17 January
More Benchmarks Of The Initial Performance Hit From CVE-2019-14615 On Intel Gen7 Graphics
07:25 PM EST - Intel - Intel Gen7 Hit - 21 Comments
Nextcloud Hub Announced For Offering On-Premises Content Collaboration Platform
06:16 PM EST - Free Software - Nextcloud Hub - 7 Comments
Wine 5.0-RC6 Released With Another 21 Fixes
05:29 PM EST - WINE - Wine 5.0 - 3 Comments
Fedora CoreOS Now Deemed Production Ready For Containerized Workload Experience
12:56 PM EST - Fedora - Fedora CoreOS - 7 Comments
Ryzen 9 3900X vs. Ryzen 9 3950X vs. Core i9 9900KS In Nearly 150 Benchmarks
11:46 AM EST - Processors - 38 Comments
ASUS TUF Laptops With Ryzen Are Now Patched To Stop Overheating On Linux
09:00 AM EST - AMD - ASUS TUF + Ryzen Mobile - 30 Comments
AMD Sends In A Bunch Of Fixes For Linux 5.6 Along With Pollock Support
07:29 AM EST - Radeon - AMD Pollock Enablement - 11 Comments
Intel Gen7 Graphics Mitigation Will Try To Avoid Performance Loss In Final Version
07:03 AM EST - Intel - Gen7 - 9 Comments
Raspberry Pi 4 V3D Driver Reaches OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformance
06:39 AM EST - Mesa - OpenGL ES 3.1 - 19 Comments
Benchmarks Of Arch Linux's Zen Kernel Flavor
01:09 AM EST - AMD - Arch Linux Zen Benchmarks - 16 Comments
Rav1e Kicks Off 2020 With Speed Improvements For Rust-Based AV1 Encoding
12:00 AM EST - Multimedia - rav1e p20200115 - 1 Comment
16 January
Red Hat Recommends Disabling The Intel Linux Graphics Driver Over Hardware Flaw
08:05 PM EST - Red Hat - CVE-2019-14615 - 24 Comments
Mir 1.7 Released With Improvements For Running X11 Software
06:54 PM EST - Ubuntu - Mir 1.7 - 7 Comments
Ryzen CPUs On Linux Finally See CCD Temperatures, Current + Voltage Reporting
01:39 PM EST - AMD - k10temp - 42 Comments
Retooled CentOS Build Scripts To Help Spin New Releases Quicker, More Automation
KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS Reaches Beta With Much Better GTK App Integration
10:20 AM EST - KDE - KDE Plasma 5.18 - 25 Comments
GNU Guile 3.0 Released With JIT Code Generation For Up To 4x Better Performance
09:56 AM EST - GNU - Guile 3.0 - 6 Comments
LLVM 10 Adds Option To Help Offset Intel JCC Microcode Performance Impact
09:06 AM EST - Intel - --x86-branches-within-32B-boundaries - 2 Comments
Linux 5.6 Crypto Getting AVX/AVX2/AVX-512 Optimized Poly1305 - Helps WireGuard
08:30 AM EST - Linux Kernel - AVX-ed Poly1305 - 9 Comments
Zhaoxin 7-Series x86 CPUs Mitigated For Spectre V2 + SWAPGS
06:45 AM EST - Hardware - Hardware Mitigations - 8 Comments
Western Digital's Zonefs File-System Looks Like It Could Be Ready To Land With Linux 5.6
06:27 AM EST - Linux Storage - Zonefs - 8 Comments
LLVM Developers Discuss Improved Decision Making Process
12:28 AM EST - LLVM - LLVM New Project Process - 5 Comments
15 January
Intel's Mitigation For CVE-2019-14615 Graphics Vulnerability Obliterates Gen7 iGPU Performance
09:00 PM EST - Display Drivers - 63 Comments
Kubuntu Focus Offers The Most Polished KDE Laptop Experience We've Seen Yet
03:20 PM EST - Computers - 38 Comments
CentOS-8 1911 Released As Rebuild Off Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1
11:52 AM EST - Red Hat - CentOS-8 1911 - 44 Comments
RenderDoc 1.6 Released, NVIDIA + AMD + Intel All Primed For Vulkan 1.2
09:56 AM EST - Vulkan - Vulkan 1.2 - 2 Comments
09:00 AM EST - Display Drivers - 8 Comments
There Is Finally Open-Source Accelerated NVIDIA Turing Graphics Support
06:27 AM EST - Nouveau - Nouveau Turing - 19 Comments
Intel Lands A Final Batch Of Graphics Driver Updates Ahead Of Linux 5.6
06:16 AM EST - Intel - Linux 5.6 DRM-Next - Add A Comment
A Slew Of ACO Optimizations For The Radeon Vulkan Driver Landed In Mesa 20.0
03:43 AM EST - Mesa - Valve ACO - 13 Comments
Wayland 1.18 Planned For Release Next Month
01:09 AM EST - Wayland - Wayland 1.18 - 11 Comments
Intel Sends Out Linux Patches For Speed Select Core-Power Controls
14 January
Intel Ivybridge + Haswell Require Security Mitigation For Graphics Hardware Flaw
08:23 PM EST - Intel - Intel Gen7 + Gen7.5 - 27 Comments
A New Desktop Theme Is Coming For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
07:31 PM EST - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - 46 Comments
Valve's Proton 4.11-12 Released With DXVK 1.5.1, Updated SDKs
04:48 PM EST - Valve - Proton 4.11-12 - Add A Comment
GCC 10 Introduces A Static Analyzer - Static Analysis On C Code With "-fanalyzer" Option
03:52 PM EST - GNU - GCC Static Analyzer - 38 Comments
Tesla Is Making Use Of The Open-Source Coreboot Within Their Electric Vehicles
02:00 PM EST - Coreboot - Tesla + Coreboot - 36 Comments
Intel's Linux Graphics Driver Gets Patched For A Gen9 Graphics Vulnerability
01:29 PM EST - Intel - CVE-2019-14615 - 20 Comments
The Time Namespace Appears To Finally Be On-Deck For The Mainline Linux Kernel
11:32 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux Time Namespace - 15 Comments
CoreAVI VkCoreGL SC1 Hits Compliance For Ushering Vulkan Into Safety Critical Systems
10:42 AM EST - Vulkan - Safety Critical OpenGL Over Vulkan - 8 Comments
Goals: Red Hat Developer Working On New Tool To Improve Upon Make
09:12 AM EST - Red Hat - Make Goals - 31 Comments
LLVM/Clang 10.0 Adds AMD Zen 2 Scheduler Model For Optimized Code Generation
07:40 AM EST - AMD - LLVM Znver2 Scheduler Model - 5 Comments
AMD Begins Providing PowerPC Builds Of Their "AOMP" GPU Compiler
07:07 AM EST - Radeon - AMD GPUs On POWER - 2 Comments
The MLIR-Targeting "FC" LLVM Fortran Compiler Is Now Open-Source
X.Org Server 1.20.7 Released With A Handful Of Fixes For GLAMOR + Modesetting
02:08 AM EST - X.Org - Solaris Too... - 27 Comments
Unity 8 Desktop On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Could Take A Year Before Being Usable
12:51 AM EST - Ubuntu - Unity 8 + Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - 62 Comments
Wayland Adds Meson Build System Support
12:00 AM EST - Wayland - Wayland + Meson - 30 Comments
13 January
Xfce 4.16 Is Making Good Progress On Utilizing GTK3 Client-Side Decorations
08:21 PM EST - Desktop - Xfce 4.16 + CSD - 38 Comments
Intel Uncore Frequency Driver On Linux Is Closer To Mainline With Latest Patches
06:04 PM EST - Intel - Intel Uncore Frequency - Add A Comment
Fedora 32 Greenlit For Enabling FSTRIM Support By Default
03:40 PM EST - Fedora - Fedora 32 + FSTRIM - 7 Comments
Git 2.25 Released As Its First Update Of 2020
02:41 PM EST - Programming - Git 2.25 - 7 Comments
Looking At The Linux Performance Two Years After Spectre / Meltdown Mitigations
12:10 PM EST - Software - 33 Comments
Phoronix Test Suite 9.4 Milestone 1 Released
08:30 AM EST - Phoronix Test Suite - Phoronix Test Suite 9.4 - 5 Comments
GCC 10 Enters Its Fourth Stage Of Development, 20 Bugs Of Highest Priority
07:29 AM EST - GNU - GCC 10 - 13 Comments
RADV's Next-Gen Geometry Code Continues To Be Revised For Navi GPUs
07:17 AM EST - Radeon - RADV NGG GPUs - 4 Comments
Intel Revs Linux Patches For Per-Client Engine Busyness - Allowing For Great GPU Insight
07:00 AM EST - Intel - GPU TOP-Like Experience - 6 Comments
12 January
Linux 5.5-rc6 Released With Some Notable Radeon Graphics Fixes Plus Other Random Work
08:51 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.5 - 19 Comments
Benchmarks Of LLVM Clang 6.0 Through Clang 10.0 Compilers
03:00 PM EST - LLVM - LLVM Clang Benchmarks - 5 Comments
The Big Highlights Of Wine 5.0 From FAudio Integration To Vulkan 1.1 + A Ton Of Bug Fixes
12:48 PM EST - WINE - Wine 5.0 - 30 Comments
Linux In 2020 Can Finally Provide Sane Monitoring Of SATA Drive Temperatures
12:35 PM EST - Hardware - SATA Drive Temperatures In-Kernel - 33 Comments
Project Trident Reaches Beta For Its ZFS-Based Void Linux Powered OS
11:12 AM EST - Operating Systems - Project Trident Beta - 7 Comments
Marvell Is Plumbing Octeon TX2 Support Into The GCC Compiler
08:00 AM EST - Arm - Octeon TX2 - Add A Comment
Steam's December Numbers Point To A Lower Linux Marketshare But With More Oddities
07:49 AM EST - Valve - Steam December 2019 - 48 Comments
It's 2020 And GCC Has Finally Converted From SVN To Git
07:31 AM EST - GNU - GCC Git - 32 Comments
KDE Devs Fix Several Wayland Bugs, Annoying KWin Issues Plus Easier To Toggle Night Color
07:17 AM EST - KDE - KDE Fixes - 25 Comments
11 January
Wine-Staging 5.0-RC5 Brings Fix For Far Cry 5 Plus Sound Bug With Proton/ESYNC
07:39 PM EST - WINE - Wine-Staging 5.0-RC5 - Add A Comment
FC Is Yet Another LLVM Fortran Compiler, Now Targeting The New MLIR IR
05:22 PM EST - LLVM - FC Fortran - Add A Comment
Debian Enabling Support For Booting From Root F2FS File-Systems
03:11 PM EST - Debian - Flash-Friendly File-System - 15 Comments
Linaro Revives "Thermal Pressure" Code For Better Performance When CPUs Running Hot
11:54 AM EST - Arm - Linux Thermal Pressure - 4 Comments
AMD Finally Publishes Sensor Fusion Hub Driver For Linux
10:36 AM EST - AMD - AMD Sensor Fusion Hub - 10 Comments
GNU's GDB Adds Multi-Target Debugging Support
07:41 AM EST - GNU - GDB Multi-Target - Add A Comment
Python Can Run Up To ~27% Faster On Fedora 32 With Optimization
07:09 AM EST - Fedora - Fedora 32 Python Optimized - 19 Comments
The Pine64 PineTab Could Soon Be Running Nicely Off The Mainline Kernel
06:49 AM EST - Hardware - PineTab Mainline Support - 12 Comments
10 January
Wine 5.0-RC5 Released With Fixes For Different Games
07:44 PM EST - WINE - Wine 5.0-RC5 - 2 Comments
AMD Has DP MST DSC Support Ready For The Linux 5.6 Kernel
05:26 PM EST - AMD - DP MST DSC - 14 Comments
GRUB Boot Loader Adds Support For LUKS2 Encrypted Disks
03:00 PM EST - GNU - GRUB + LUKS2 - 9 Comments
OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 Beta Adds Clang-Built Kernel Option, Experimental Zypper
11:56 AM EST - Operating Systems - OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 - 9 Comments
Amazon Engineers Introduce "DAMON" For Linux Kernel To Monitor Data Accesses
09:55 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Amazon DAMON - 8 Comments
Multipath TCP Support Is Working Its Upstream - First Bits Landing With Linux 5.6
08:00 AM EST - Linux Networking - Multipath TCP - 24 Comments
AMD Has More Radeon Graphics Driver Code Ready For Linux 5.6
07:30 AM EST - Radeon - AMDGPU Linux 5.6 - 7 Comments
GNOME 3.35.3 Released As Another Step To GNOME 3.36
07:19 AM EST - GNOME - GNOME 3.35.3 - 8 Comments
OpenWrt 19.07 Released With WPA3 Support, Ath79 Target
06:40 AM EST - Operating Systems - OpenWrt 19.07 - 24 Comments
The XanMod Kernel Is Working Well To Boost Ubuntu Desktop / Workstation Performance
12:00 AM EST - Operating Systems - 29 Comments
9 January
AMDGPU Linux Driver Adding Support For The AMD Pollock
05:41 PM EST - AMD - AMD Pollock - 10 Comments
Linus Torvalds Doesn't Recommend Using ZFS On Linux
04:49 PM EST - Linux Storage - No To ZFS - 231 Comments
DXVK 1.5.1 Released With D3D9 Performance Improvements, Many Game Fixes
03:13 PM EST - Linux Gaming - DXVK 1.5.1 - 9 Comments
Mesa 19.3.2 Released With All The Intel + AMD Driver Fixes From Over The Holidays
GNOME 3.34.3 Released To Offer Up More Fixes Ahead Of GNOME 3.36
11:06 AM EST - GNOME - GNOME 3.34.3 - Add A Comment
It Looks Like GCC's Long-Awaited Git Conversion Could Happen This Weekend
09:28 AM EST - GNU - GCC From SVN To Git - 22 Comments
EXT4 Gets More Direct I/O Optimizations - Can Help Some Database Workloads Around ~140%+
07:19 AM EST - Linux Storage - EXT4 Database Performance - 14 Comments
Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6 Is Tracking Linux 5.4
05:05 AM EST - Oracle - Oracle UEK6 Is Linux 5.4 - 10 Comments
Bootlin Wraps Up Feature Development On The Allwinner Cedrus VPU Driver
04:09 AM EST - Multimedia - Allwinner Cedrus - 22 Comments
Fedora 33 To Finally Kill Off Python 2.6 Support
02:04 AM EST - Fedora - Python 2.6 - 8 Comments
AMDGPU Linux 5.5 Fixes 8K / 4K120 Output, Hits Sync Object Timeline Support For Vulkan
12:03 AM EST - Radeon - AMDGPU Linux 5.5 - 9 Comments
8 January
Chrome 79 Is Running Past Firefox 72 Performance On Linux
08:19 PM EST - Software - 35 Comments
Linux 5.6 To Make Use Of Intel Ice Lake's Fast Short REP MOV For Faster memmove()
06:34 PM EST - Intel - Fast Short REP MOV - 9 Comments
Intel Working On "Virtual Bus" As Generic Way Of Exchanging Data Between Devices/Driver
05:32 PM EST - Linux Networking - Intel Virtual Bus - 1 Comment
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Could Better Support Scanners Compliant With Apple AirScan
01:33 PM EST - Ubuntu - AirScan Support - 2 Comments
Intel Media Driver Q4-19 Brings Tiger Lake, Jasper Lake, Better Encode/Decode
12:52 PM EST - Intel - Intel Media Driver Q4-19 - Add A Comment
Benchmarks Of Clear Linux's Native Kernel Against Current/Mainline/Preempt-RT Kernels
12:12 PM EST - Clear Linux - Clear Linux Kernels - 8 Comments
Systemd Will Be Working To Improve Out-Of-Memory Linux Handling With Facebook OOMD
08:08 AM EST - systemd - systemd + Facebook - 29 Comments
Linux 5.6 Seeing Random Changes, New "Insecure" Option With GRND_INSECURE
07:38 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Random Blocking - 12 Comments
Automotive Grade Linux Has Large Presence At CES 2020
07:05 AM EST - Linux Events - Linux Foundation AGL - 12 Comments
Clear Linux Set To Begin Offering EarlyOOM For Better Dealing With Memory Pressure
03:02 AM EST - Clear Linux - EarlyOOM Bundle - 25 Comments
RadeonSI Disables SDMA For Polaris To Fix Corruption Bugs
01:47 AM EST - Radeon - System DMA - 25 Comments
Mesa's NIR Linker Taking On More Duties - Further Enhancing Linker Speed
7 January
Manjaro 19.0 Preview Images For KDE + GNOME Available For Testing
08:00 PM EST - Operating Systems - Manjaro 19.0 - 15 Comments
Flang Fortran Compiler Set To Land Next Week For LLVM 10.0
06:44 PM EST - LLVM - LLVM 10.0 + FLANG - 5 Comments
GCC 10 Link-Time Optimization Benchmarks On AMD Threadripper
03:08 PM EST - Software - 29 Comments
Radeon GPU Profiler 1.7 Released With RX 5300/5500 Support, New Visualizations
02:37 PM EST - Radeon - Radeon GPU Profiler 1.7 - 2 Comments
Intel's IGC Linux Network Driver For 2.5G Ethernet Speeds Up By ~7%
12:28 PM EST - Linux Networking - Intel IGC - 16 Comments
OpenMandriva Is The Latest Linux Distribution Using Zstd To Compress Packages
10:59 AM EST - Operating Systems - Zstd RPMs - 9 Comments
Linux Kernel "Zen" Downstream Pulls In A MuQSS Fix To Help Gaming Performance
09:00 AM EST - Linux Gaming - Linux Zen Gaming Fix - 22 Comments
AMD To Restore Retry Faults Behavior To Help With Raven Stability
06:57 AM EST - Radeon - Retry Faults - 8 Comments
Fedora 32 Aiming To Ship With The Latest Mono 6 For Microsoft .NET On Linux
02:53 AM EST - Fedora - Mono 5 To Mono 6 - Add A Comment
AMD Drops TGSI Support From Their RadeonSI OpenGL Driver
12:16 AM EST - Radeon - NIR The Future - 11 Comments
6 January
Intel At CES 2020 Talks Up One Of Their Open-Source Projects, Shows Off Tiger Lake
08:10 PM EST - Intel - Intel + CES 2020 - 7 Comments
AMD Announcements From CES 2020: Ryzen 4000 Mobile Series, Radeon RX 5600 XT
05:42 PM EST - AMD - AMD CES 2020 - 51 Comments
Firefox 72 Released With Picture-In-Picture Video Support Working On Linux
03:59 PM EST - Mozilla - Firefox 72 - 50 Comments
Fedora Project Leader Envisions The Project Becoming An "Operating System Factory"
12:43 PM EST - Fedora - Operating System Factory - 36 Comments
Fedora QA No Longer Needs To Test Physical CD/DVD Media As Part Of Their Formal Release Process
11:55 AM EST - Fedora - Fedora CD / DVDs? - 14 Comments
With Python 2 EOL'ed, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Moves Along With Its Python 2 Removal
10:38 AM EST - Ubuntu - Python 2 + EOL - 17 Comments
Systemd "Path Images" Feature Allows Mounting Images At Arbitrary Paths
09:39 AM EST - systemd - PathImages - 26 Comments
Linux 5.6 Is Going To Be A Prominent Kernel With Features From USB4 To WireGuard
07:54 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.6 Features - 8 Comments
NVIDIA Sent Out Some Fresh Nouveau Patches Just Before Christmas
06:56 AM EST - Nouveau - 2019 Christmas Patches - 14 Comments
Linux Kernel Preparations For RISC-V Vector ISA Support
12:06 AM EST - Hardware - RISC-V Vector - 11 Comments
5 January
Linux 5.5-rc5 Released With "Fixes All Over" + A Big Performance Regression Fix
06:32 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.5-rc5 - 9 Comments
Fedora 32 Looking At Turning Up SquashFS Compression For Smaller Install Media
05:00 PM EST - Fedora - Fedora 32 Smaller Install Media - 7 Comments
GNOME Shell 3.35.3 Released With NVIDIA Driver Offloading, Fixes To Shell + Mutter
11:23 AM EST - GNOME - GNOME Shell + Mutter Updates - 23 Comments
Radeon Software for Linux 19.50 Quietly Released For Newest Enterprise-Focused Driver Support
10:32 AM EST - Radeon - Radeon Software for Linux 19.50 - 4 Comments
Linux 5.5 Lands Fix For The AppArmor Performance Regression
08:46 AM EST - Linux Kernel - AppArmor Performance Fix - 10 Comments
Torvalds' Comments On Linux Scheduler Woes: "Pure Garbage"
07:37 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Linus Torvalds - 88 Comments
KDE Kicks Off 2020 With Landing New Feature Work
07:22 AM EST - KDE - KDE 2020 Kick Off - 15 Comments
SuperTuxKart 1.1 Released With Better Online Play, UI Enhancements, New Arena
07:02 AM EST - Linux Gaming - SuperTuxKart 1.1 - 15 Comments
WiFi 6E Opens Up WiFi To 6GHz Operation
06:53 AM EST - Hardware - WiFi 6E - 30 Comments
4 January
GIMP 2.99.x Development Releases Likely Starting Soon For GIMP 3.0
07:04 PM EST - Desktop - GIMP 3.0 - 41 Comments
Arch's Switch To Zstd: ~0.8% Increase In Package Size For ~1300% Speedup In Decompression Time
04:03 PM EST - Operating Systems - XZ To Zstd - 47 Comments
Linux 5.4 vs. Liquorix Kernel Benchmarks For AMD Ryzen + Radeon Gaming On Ubuntu
10:22 AM EST - Linux Gaming - 23 Comments
AMD's Trusted Execution Environment Is Coming With Linux 5.6
08:43 AM EST - AMD - PSP + Secure Zone - 38 Comments
Vim Creator Bram Moolenaar Aiming To Improve Vim Performance With Vim9 Fork
07:14 AM EST - Programming - Vim9 - 23 Comments
Zink Is Moving Closer To OpenGL 3.0 Support Over Vulkan
04:29 AM EST - Mesa - OpenGL 3.0 Milestone - 14 Comments
X.Org Server Development Hits A Nearly Two Decade Low
01:49 AM EST - X.Org - xorg-server - 92 Comments
The Linux Kernel Code of Conduct Committee Begins Offering Regular Reports
12:00 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Code of Conduct - 35 Comments
3 January
Wine 5.0-RC4 Released With The Stable Update Expected Later This Month
04:31 PM EST - WINE - Wine 5.0-RC4 - 5 Comments
Fedora 32 Looking At Using EarlyOOM By Default To Better Deal With Low Memory Situations
03:03 PM EST - Fedora - Out Of Memory - 75 Comments
Radeon Gallium3D Fixes Up 10-Bit HEVC Video Decode Support
12:23 PM EST - Radeon - 10-Bit Video Decode - 16 Comments
Benchmarking 9 Linux Distributions On A $50 Processor
11:09 AM EST - Operating Systems - 17 Comments
Bootlin Working To Boost OpenWrt Security With SELinux + DM-Verity
09:57 AM EST - Operating Systems - OpenWrt Security - 5 Comments
EXT4 In Linux 5.6 To See Big Write Performance Boost For Direct I/O
08:28 AM EST - Linux Storage - EXT4 Performance - 33 Comments
A Possible Workaround For AMD APUs With Stability Issues On Recent Kernels
07:29 AM EST - AMD - AMDGPU APU Workaround - 17 Comments
Libinput 1.15 Released For Improving Input On X.Org + Wayland Desktops
07:11 AM EST - X.Org - libinput 1.15 - 6 Comments
Fedora 32 Goes Through Its Formalities To Land GCC 10 + Golang 1.14
03:51 AM EST - Fedora - Updated Toolchains - Add A Comment
Mesa Development Activity Was Up By ~20% In 2019, Just Under 3 Million Lines Of Code
12:06 AM EST - Mesa - 2019 vs. 2018 - 4 Comments
2 January
Fedora 32 Planning To Make Use Of systemd's sysusers.d For Declaring New Users
07:15 PM EST - Fedora - Fedora 32 + sysusers.d - 33 Comments
Dell Finally Rolls Out XPS 13 Developer Edition With Ice Lake, Fingerprint Reader
11:04 AM EST - Hardware - Dell XPS 13 With Ubuntu - 30 Comments
Coreboot Seeing Tigerlake + Jasperlake Activity, Experimental Razer Icelake Laptop Support
09:14 AM EST - Coreboot - Coreboot + Intel - 2 Comments
More Improvements Queued For The Smaller DRM Drivers In Linux 5.6
08:34 AM EST - Linux Kernel - DRM-Misc-Next - Add A Comment
Systemd Is Approaching 1.3 Million Lines While Poettering Lost Top Contributor Spot For 2019
07:34 AM EST - systemd - systemd 2019 - 55 Comments
KDE's Kate Text Editor Seeing LSP Improvements For Better Code Support
07:19 AM EST - KDE - Kate + LSP - 7 Comments
1 January
Bonsai Is A New Effort For GNOME-Focused Multi-Device Cloud/Synchronization
09:06 PM EST - GNOME - Bonsai Server-Less Cloud - 34 Comments
The Linux Kernel's Scheduler Apparently Causing Issues For Google Stadia Game Developers
04:31 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Scheduler Woes - 89 Comments
Clear Linux Saw New Features, New Desktop Installer + Increased Adoption In 2019
02:00 PM EST - Clear Linux - Clear Linux 2019 - 11 Comments
Glibc Sees End Of Year Improvements For GNU Hurd With The Microkernel Entering Its 30th Year
10:22 AM EST - GNU - Hurd + Glibc - 6 Comments
The Linux Kernel Enters 2020 At 27.8 Million Lines In Git But With Less Developers For 2019
09:14 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux Git Stats - 5 Comments
PineBook Benchmarks For The ARM Linux Laptop Starting At $99 USD
07:45 AM EST - Hardware - PineBook Benchmarks - 24 Comments
Sway 1.3 Release Candidate Brings Many Changes For This i3-Inspired Wayland Compositor
07:14 AM EST - Wayland - Sway 1.3 RC - 16 Comments
Some Of The Features That Could Come To KDE In 2020
07:06 AM EST - KDE - 2020 KDE Features - 29 Comments
Godot 4.0 Game Engine Aiming For Release With Vulkan In Mid-2020
12:05 AM EST - Linux Gaming - Godot 4 - 4 Comments
31 December
Happy New Year + A Look Back At The Most Popular Linux Content Of 2019
05:11 PM EST - Phoronix - Happy New Year - 6 Comments
Linux 5.4.7 / 4.19.92 / 4.14.161 Kernels Released To End Out 2019
02:47 PM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.4.7 + Friends - 5 Comments
Google's Kernel Runtime Security Instrumentation (KRSI) Is Something To Look Forward To In 2020
01:56 PM EST - Linux Security - Linux KRSI - 17 Comments
Ringing In 2020 By Clang'ing The Linux 5.5 Kernel - Benchmarks Of GCC vs. Clang Built Kernels
11:00 AM EST - Software - 17 Comments
Reiser5 File-System In Development - Adds Local Volumes With Parallel Scaling Out
09:15 AM EST - Linux Storage - Reiser5 - 70 Comments
The AppArmor Performance Impact In 70+ Benchmarks On Linux 5.5 Git
08:08 AM EST - Linux Kernel - AppArmor + Linux 5.5 - 9 Comments
Jolla Making Plans For Sailfish OS In 2020
07:16 AM EST - Operating Systems - Sailfish OS - 28 Comments
FSF-Approved Trisquel 9.0 Reaches Development Milestone Before Ringing In The New Year
06:57 AM EST - GNU - Trisquel 9 - Add A Comment
Power Management Improvements Could Benefit Intel Server Performance In Linux 5.6
02:37 AM EST - Intel - Linux 5.6 Power Management - 3 Comments
The Linux Kernel Highlights Of The 2010s From Torvalds' Sabbatical To Dealing With Vulnerabilities
01:09 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 2010s - 8 Comments
The Experimental GCN 1.0 GPU Support Might Be Dropped From AMDGPU Linux Driver
12:00 AM EST - Radeon - Southern Islands - 109 Comments
30 December
MLIR Lands In LLVM - Boosting LLVM For Heterogeneous Hardware, Machine Learning
07:00 PM EST - LLVM - Multi-Level Intermediate Representation - Add A Comment
Fwupd 1.3.6 Firmware Updater Released With Initial Windows Support
05:05 PM EST - Hardware - fwupd 1.3.6 - 13 Comments
How The Radeon RX 5700 XT Navi Linux Performance Has Evolved Since Launch
01:00 PM EST - Display Drivers - 33 Comments
A Last Call To Show Your Support In 2019
12:30 PM EST - Premium - Premium 2019 Winter Special - 15 Comments
Trinity Desktop R14.0.7 Released For Keeping KDE 3 Spirit Alive In 2020
11:58 AM EST - KDE - Trinity Desktop R14.0.7 - 46 Comments
Mesa's Radeon R600 Gallium3D Driver Now Has NIR Support Under Review
11:04 AM EST - Mesa - R600 NIR - 12 Comments
The Debate Over GCC's SVN-to-Git Conversion Approach Won't Be Settled This Year
08:52 AM EST - GNU - GCC Git.... - 33 Comments
Some Of The Workloads Still Seeing Lower Performance On Linux 5.5 Git
07:39 AM EST - Linux Kernel - More Regressions - 30 Comments
Gallium3D's Software Rasterizers Are Close To Having OpenGL Tessellation Support
Linux's exFAT Driver Looking To Still Be Replaced By A Newer Driver From Samsung
12:03 AM EST - Microsoft - Microsoft exFAT - 19 Comments