Gallium3D's Arm Bifrost Now Handling Most Of OpenGL ES 2.0, Runs GNOME Wayland
12:01 AM EDT - Mesa - Panfrost - Add A Comment
7 June
6 June
PCI Changes For Linux 5.8 Bring Power Savings, AMD Workarounds/Whitelisting
06:00 PM EDT - Hardware - Linux 5.8 PCI - Add A Comment
Fedora 33 Looking To Use Swap On zRAM By Default With systemd's zram-generator
08:53 AM EDT - Fedora - Swap On ZRAM - 14 Comments
SMB3 Updates For Linux 5.8 Offer Better Performance For Large I/O
07:25 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Samba - 5 Comments
KDE On Wayland Finally Supports Middle-Click Paste With Plasma 5.20
07:03 AM EDT - KDE - Plus Konsole Image Previews - 29 Comments
Proton 5.0-8 Shipping With The Latest DXVK/VKD3D, Windows Game Fixes
06:55 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - Proton 5.0-8 - 8 Comments
Wine Staging 5.10 Adds Another Patch For Denuvo + A Fix For Numerous D3D11 Games
06:17 AM EDT - WINE - Wine Staging 5.10 - 14 Comments
Vulkan SDK 1.2.141 Released With GFXReconstruct, DirectX Shader Compiler Bundled
12:00 AM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan SDK - Add A Comment
5 June
Linux 5.8 Has The Bits Needed To Begin Booting POWER10 Processors
05:22 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - POWER10 - 15 Comments
Wine 5.10 Starts Work On A Unix Library For NTDLL, More WineD3D Vulkan
03:38 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 5.10 - 21 Comments
Phoronix Is Now 16 Years Old, Phoronix Test Suite Turns 12
12:00 PM EDT - Phoronix - Birthday Party - 26 Comments
Windows 10 May 2020 vs. Linux Performance On AMD Ryzen Threadripper
11:08 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 26 Comments
EXT4 Gets A Nice Batch Of Fixes For Linux 5.8
09:29 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Linux 5.8 Fixes For EXT4 - 66 Comments
SVGA Gallium3D Now Exposes OpenGL 4.1 Support
09:10 AM EDT - Mesa - OpenGL 4.1 - 4 Comments
Intel Exposes OpenCL 3.0 For Tiger Lake Graphics
06:51 AM EDT - Intel - Gen12 OpenCL 3.0 - 6 Comments
Linux 5.8 Sound Changes Bring New AMD Renoir ACP Driver, Intel Elkhart Lake Support
12:01 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 5.8 Audio Drivers - Add A Comment
4 June
Benchmarks Of 2nd Gen AMD EPYC On Amazon EC2 Against Intel Xeon, Graviton2
09:38 PM EDT - Processors - 21 Comments
Fedora 33 Proposal To Allow Packages To Build With LLVM Clang Rather Than Requiring GCC
06:35 PM EDT - Fedora - GCC vs. Clang - 31 Comments
Linux 5.8 Networking Changes Include Introducing Cable Testing Infrastructure
04:36 PM EDT - Linux Networking - Linux 5.8 Network - Add A Comment
The AMD Ryzen 5 4500U / Ryzen 7 4700U Against Intel With 141 Benchmarks
01:49 PM EDT - Computers - 20 Comments
GNU Linux-Libre 5.7 Released - Drops Intel iGPU Security Fix Over Arrays Of Numbers
11:08 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux-Libre 5.7 - 34 Comments
Intel Atom Camera Driver Resurrected In Linux 5.8 - Benefits A Lot Of Devices
09:27 AM EDT - Multimedia - Linux 5.8 Media - 12 Comments
Red Hat's Stratis Storage 2.1 Released With Encryption Support, Other Improvements
08:52 AM EDT - Red Hat - Stratis 2.1 - 39 Comments
Linux 5.8 To Allow Swapping Fn / Ctrl Keys On Apple Keyboards
07:00 AM EDT - Hardware - Fn vs Ctrl Keys - 14 Comments
Intel oneAPI DPC++ Compiler 2020-05 Released
06:32 AM EDT - Intel - oneAPI Data Parallel C++ - Add A Comment
Phoronix Test Suite 9.8 Milestone 1 Readies Another Round Of Benchmarking Features
01:43 AM EDT - Phoronix Test Suite - Phoronix Test Suite 9.8 - Add A Comment
More Scheduler Optimizations Land In Linux 5.8
12:00 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.8 Scheduler Optimizations - 7 Comments
3 June
AMD Zen/Zen2 RAPL Support Merged In Linux 5.8
07:25 PM EDT - AMD - Runtime Average Power Limiting - Add A Comment
Radeon ROCm 3.5 Released With New Features But Still No Navi Support
02:32 PM EDT - Radeon - Radeon Open Compute 3.5 - 93 Comments
Blender 2.83 Released With OpenVDB Support, Initial OpenXR Integration
01:50 PM EDT - Free Software - Blender 2.83 LTS - 8 Comments
Linux 5.8 Supporting Intel TPAUSE Power-Optimized Delays, TSC Fix When Overclocking
12:57 PM EDT - Intel - TPAUSE Timer - Add A Comment
Proton 5.0-8 Release Candidate Brings Game Fixes, Performance Improvements
10:50 AM EDT - Valve - Proton 5.0-8 - 15 Comments
Squeezing Extra Performance Out Of The Intel Core i9 10900K With Clear Linux
10:20 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 6 Comments
Improved DAX Support Lands In Linux 5.8 - Initially Benefiting XFS + EXT4
09:11 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Direct Access Mode - Add A Comment
Jitter RNG Improvements, Arm CryptoCell CCTRNG Driver, AMD PSP SEV-ES For Linux 5.8
08:59 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.8 Crypto - 3 Comments
RADV Enables Zero vRAM Option For All Games With VKD3D
06:39 AM EDT - Radeon - Zero vRAM - 15 Comments
Linux 5.8 Tightens ARM 64-Bit Security With BTI, Shadow Call Stack Support
Ubuntu's ZFS Daemon Zsys 0.5 Released
12:03 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Zsys 0.5 - Add A Comment
2 June
Devuan 3.0 Released For Debian 10 Without Systemd
07:50 PM EDT - Debian - Devuan 3.0 - 45 Comments
SELinux Sees Nice Optimizations With Linux 5.8
07:18 PM EDT - Linux Security - SELinux For Linux 5.8 - Add A Comment
iXsystems Announces TrueNAS SCALE As A Linux-Based Offering
04:03 PM EDT - BSD - iXsystems - 32 Comments
Lenovo To Certify Their Full ThinkPad/ThinkStation Line For Linux
03:26 PM EDT - Hardware - Lenovo Linux - 41 Comments
Linux 5.8 Sees Many Power Management Updates, Including Another Intel P-State Change
01:12 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Power Management - 1 Comment
PHP 8.0 JIT Is Offering Very Compelling Performance Ahead Of Its Alpha
10:00 AM EDT - Software - 15 Comments
Firefox 77 Released With Security Fixes, AV1 Image File Support
09:28 AM EDT - Mozilla - Firefox 77 - 43 Comments
A Number Of Intel/AMD x86 Updates Hit Linux 5.8
08:45 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.8 - 6 Comments
Linux 5.8 Graphics Updates Sent In With AMDGPU TMZ Support, P2P Buffers
06:52 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.8 DRM - 1 Comment
KDE Plasma 5.19 Has Better Wayland Support But Their Goal Is Not Yet Complete
06:29 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Plasma 5.19 + Wayland - 28 Comments
Kernel Advancements, Microsoft Linux News Kept Open-Source Fans Entertained In May
Btrfs Sees A Number Of Improvements With Linux 5.8
12:00 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Linux 5.8 + Btrfs - 13 Comments
1 June
Steam Linux Percentage For May Points To A New Multi-Year High
09:21 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - Still Below 1% - 23 Comments
Torvalds Blasts "Beyond Stupid" Flushing L1d On Context Switches - Reverts Code For Now
06:03 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Crazy - 47 Comments
Linux 5.8 Adds initrdmem= Option For Cases Such As Replacing Intel ME Space With Initrd
05:36 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Initial RAM Disk - 9 Comments
AMD Radeon Linux Driver Sees Patches For New "Sienna Cichlid" GPU
02:18 PM EDT - AMD - AMD Sienna Cichlid - 38 Comments
AMD Ryzen 5 4500U Benchmarks - Previously Unimaginable Performance For Sub-$600 Laptops
02:00 PM EDT - Processors - 52 Comments
Git 2.27 Demotes The Recently Promoted Transport Protocol v2, Continues SHA-256 Work
02:00 PM EDT - Programming - Git 2.27 - 10 Comments
Want A More Secure Computer At The Cost Of Performance? Linux 5.8 Landing L1d Flushing
01:46 PM EDT - Linux Security - Flushing Per Context Switch - 15 Comments
Linux Mint 20 To Better Fend Off Snaps, Improve NVIDIA Optimus Support
12:14 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Linux Mint 20 - 30 Comments
LibreOffice 7.0 Beta Available For Testing With Its Skia+Vulkan Support
11:25 AM EDT - LibreOffice - LibreOffice 7.0 - 6 Comments
Linux 5.8 Flipping On ERASE/Discard/TRIM For All MMC Hosts
07:24 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Linux 5.8 - 2 Comments
Linux's Pstore Picking Up A Block Device Backend For Storing Oops & Panic Messages
06:52 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Pstore Block Backend - 3 Comments
AMD Energy Driver Sent In For Linux 5.8 Along With Driver For Industrial/Military SBCs
06:34 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 5.8 HWMON - Add A Comment
31 May
Linux 5.7 Kernel Released With New Apple Driver, Official Intel Gen12 Graphics
09:00 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.7 - 29 Comments
The Linux Kernel Deprecates The 80 Character Line Coding Style
02:34 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - 80 Column Lines - 91 Comments
Phoronix Turns 16 Years Old Next Week, So Here's A Special To Celebrate
02:00 PM EDT - Phoronix - Phoronix 16th Birthday - 16 Comments
A New Kernel Patch Is Being Discussed That's Needed For Newer Windows Games On Wine
09:25 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Syscall Isolation Based On Memory Areas - 39 Comments
Chrome Is Reaching The Point Of Good X11 + Wayland Support In Same Build
07:50 AM EDT - Google - Ozone + X11 - 68 Comments
NetworkManager 1.26 Development Progressing With New Functionality
06:45 AM EDT - Linux Networking - NetworkManager 1.26 - Add A Comment
Reiser4 Updated For Linux 5.6 Kernel Support
12:01 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Reiser4 + Linux 5.6 - 12 Comments
30 May
The Ongoing CPU Security Mitigation Impact On The Core i9 10900K Comet Lake
04:00 PM EDT - Computers - 15 Comments
The Generic USB Display Driver Taking Shape For Linux 5.9~5.10
07:00 AM EDT - Hardware - Generic USB Display - 11 Comments
KDE Ending Out May With UI Tweaks, Bug Fixes
06:34 AM EDT - KDE - KDE May 2020 - 7 Comments
Steam Ironing Out Shader Pre-Caching For Helping Game Load Times, Stuttering
06:29 AM EDT - Valve - Vulkan Shader Pre-Caching - 16 Comments
Intel's Clear Linux Working On AVX-512 Optimized Golang Container
12:33 AM EDT - Intel - AVX-512 Go - Add A Comment
29 May
Monado 0.2 OpenXR Runtime Brings Multi-Layer Support, New Controller Support
07:26 PM EDT - Free Software - Monado 0.2 - Add A Comment
Alpine Linux 3.12 Released With D Language Support, MIPS64 Port
05:32 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Alpine 3.12 - 17 Comments
AMD EPYC 7F72 vs. Intel Xeon Gold 6258R - Latest EPYC Rome vs. Xeon Cascade Lake Benchmarks
11:55 AM EDT - Processors - 9 Comments
Improved EXT4 + XFS DAX Implementation Appears Ready To Go For Linux 5.8
09:04 AM EDT - Linux Storage - EXT4 DAX - 6 Comments
Performance-Helping FSGSBASE Patches Spun For Linux A 13th Time
08:15 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - FSGSBASE v13 - 4 Comments
openSUSE Leap 15.2 Hits RC Phase With GNOME 3.34 + KDE Plasma 5.18, Sway
07:08 AM EDT - SUSE - OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 - 46 Comments
Mozilla Sponsored The Godot Game Engine To Port Their Editor As An HTML5 Web App
06:28 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - Editor In The Browser - 17 Comments
The Top Linux 5.7 Features From Apple Fast Charge To Official Tiger Lake Graphics
02:56 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.7 Features - 5 Comments
Linux's Hardware Monitoring "HWMON" Picking Up Notification Support
12:09 AM EDT - Hardware - HWMON Notification - 2 Comments
28 May
Mainline Linux Kernel Starts Seeing A NVIDIA Tegra X1 Video Input Driver
07:35 PM EDT - NVIDIA - Video Input Driver - Add A Comment
Chrome 84 Beta Brings Better Web Animations API, Experimental WebAssembly SIMD
05:51 PM EDT - Google - Chrome 84 - 9 Comments
FSF Now Offering Video Conferencing Service To Its Members
02:11 PM EDT - Free Software - FSF Videoconferencing - 12 Comments
Android Studio 4.0 Released With Overhauled CPU Profiler, Clangd For C++ Code
01:38 PM EDT - Google - Android Studio 4.0 - 5 Comments
Ryzen 9 3900X/3950X vs. Core i9 10900K In 380+ Benchmarks
12:10 PM EDT - Processors - 73 Comments
AMDVLK 2020.Q2.4 Released With TMZ Enabled, Improved Memory Allocation
11:59 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDVLK 2020.Q2.4 - Add A Comment
Khronos Releases OpenVG 1.1 Lite For High Quality Vector Graphics On Mobile
09:17 AM EDT - Standards - OpenVG 1.1 Lite - 8 Comments
Genode OS 20.05 Adds Capability-Based Security Using SECCOMP, Drops Python 2 + Rust
08:50 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Genode OS 20.05 - 2 Comments
Apache Updates Subversion - SVN 1.14 LTS Released
08:38 AM EDT - Programming - Subversion 1.14 - 26 Comments
8GB Raspberry Pi 4 Launched For $75 USD
07:20 AM EDT - Hardware - Raspberry Pi 4 8GB - 53 Comments
BCM2711 / Raspberry Pi 4 Support Still Being Worked On For Open-Source Display Driver
06:37 AM EDT - Hardware - BCM2711 Support - 8 Comments
Red Hat Tosses Its Weight Behind Quarkus
06:21 AM EDT - Red Hat - Quarkus Java - 12 Comments
27 May
Google Engineers Are Becoming Concerned Over Some Arm Platforms Lacking Spectre V2 Mitigations
09:00 PM EDT - Linux Security - So We Need Retpolines - 43 Comments
AMD Lines Up Another Batch Of Radeon Graphics Fixes For Linux 5.8
07:42 PM EDT - Radeon - AMDGPU Linux 5.8 - 4 Comments
Mesa 20.1 Released With Numerous Linux Graphics Driver Improvements
07:24 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 20.1.0 - 2 Comments
The New AMD Energy Driver Is Working Out Well On Linux For Per-Socket/Core Reporting
12:57 PM EDT - AMD - AMD_Energy - 13 Comments
Statsfs: A Proposed Linux File-System For Kernel Statistics
11:15 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Statsfs - 37 Comments
GraalVM 20.1, OpenJ9 0.20, OpenJDK Java Benchmarks
09:27 AM EDT - Software - 8 Comments
Mesa 20.1 Features Include Big Improvements For Open-Source Intel, Radeon Graphics Drivers
08:51 AM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 20.1 - 5 Comments
Linux Getting Fixed Up For Handling Pointing Sticks On Some Touchpads
07:09 AM EDT - Hardware - Multi-Input Devices - 5 Comments
LLVM 11 Merges AMD Radeon GCN Offloading For OpenMP
06:40 AM EDT - Radeon - LLVM OpenMP AMDGCN - Add A Comment
Qt Updates Its Online Installer To Clarify Open-Source Obligations
06:24 AM EDT - Qt - Qt Online Installer - 27 Comments
26 May
Micron's HSE Open-Source Storage Engine Ticks Up To v1.7.1
07:34 PM EDT - Linux Storage - HSE 1.7.1 - Add A Comment
NVIDIA 440.66.15 Vulkan Linux Driver Offers Up More Fixes
03:27 PM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA 440.66.15 Vulkan - 8 Comments
Linux 5.8 Feature Queue Has Multiple Performance Optimizations, Intel Rocket Lake, Other Hardware
11:00 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.8 Features - Add A Comment
Arm Announces Cortex-A78, Cortex-X Custom
09:16 AM EDT - Arm - New Arm - 25 Comments
A Quick Look At GCC 10.1 PGO Optimization Benchmarks
07:00 AM EDT - Programming - Profile Guided Optimizations - 19 Comments
Qt 5.15 Released With Graphics Improvements, Preparations Ahead Of Qt 6
06:20 AM EDT - Qt - Qt 5.15 - 35 Comments
Reiser5 File-System Working On New Features Like Data Tiering, Burst Buffers
12:09 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Reiser5 More Features - 47 Comments
25 May
Qualcomm Adreno 650 + 640 GPUs To Be Supported By Mainline Linux 5.8 Kernel
05:23 PM EDT - Hardware - Adreno MSM - 12 Comments
Linux 5.8 Picking Up A Quirk For Being Able To Reboot The 2009 MacBook Without Hangs
02:36 PM EDT - Hardware - Linux 5.8 + 2009 MacBook - 3 Comments
Adaptive-Sync/VRR Seeing Port To xf86-video-modesetting Driver
09:51 AM EDT - X.Org - FreeSync - 14 Comments
Phoronix Test Suite 9.6.1 Released For Cross-Platform, Open-Source Benchmarking
09:33 AM EDT - Phoronix Test Suite - Phoronix Test Suite 9.6.1 - Add A Comment
Two More Projects Join KWinFT Fork Of KDE KWin, Beta Milestone Reached
07:35 AM EDT - KDE - KWinFT + Wrapland - 46 Comments
AMD Energy Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.8 For Core/Package Power Sensors
07:00 AM EDT - AMD - AMD_Energy - 8 Comments
GCC's JIT Library Sees Experimental Port To Windows
06:32 AM EDT - GNU - libgccjit On Windows - Add A Comment
24 May
Linus Torvalds Switches To AMD Ryzen Threadripper After 15 Years Of Intel Systems
08:01 PM EDT - AMD - Torvalds + Threadripper - 167 Comments
Linux 5.7-rc7 Kernel Released With It Looking To Be In Good Shape
07:25 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.7-rc7 - 2 Comments
Linux Work Culminating On A "READFILE" Syscall For Reading Small Files Efficiently
06:00 PM EDT - Linux Storage - READFILE - 32 Comments
AMD Sensor Fusion Hub Support Is Not Coming With Linux 5.8
11:05 AM EDT - AMD - AMD SFH - 32 Comments
Intel Engineer Proposes Software-Based KVM Protected Memory Extension
09:00 AM EDT - Virtualization - Software Memory Protection - 8 Comments
Ardour 6.0 Digital Audio Workstation Released
07:25 AM EDT - Multimedia - Ardour 6.0 - 23 Comments
NVIDIA Nsight Graphics 2020.3 Supports Profiling KHR Ray-Tracing
07:04 AM EDT - NVIDIA - Nsight 2020.3 - Add A Comment
TUXEDO Computers Launches Their First AMD Linux Laptop
06:35 AM EDT - AMD - TUXEDO Book BA15 - 37 Comments
Many MediaTek Wireless Driver Improvements On Deck For Linux 5.8
03:02 AM EDT - Linux Networking - MediaTek WiFi - 3 Comments
PostgreSQL 13.0 Beta 1 Released With Parallel Vacuum, Security Improvements + Benchmarks
12:09 AM EDT - Programming - PostgreSQL 13 - 9 Comments
23 May
Intel ComboPHY Support Coming With Linux 5.8 For Their Gateway SoC
07:40 PM EDT - Intel - Intel ComboPHY - Add A Comment
Async Buffered Reads Support Yielding Promising Results
03:40 PM EDT - Linux Storage - Async Buffered Reads On Linux - 10 Comments
Dav1d 0.7 Speedups Are Looking Great On Various Intel + AMD CPUs
11:03 AM EDT - Multimedia - dav1d 0.7 - 9 Comments
KDE Begins Its Transition To GitLab, Plasma 5.20 Seeing Early Activity
09:29 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Happenings - 29 Comments
GCC 10.1 Compiler Optimization Benchmarks
07:00 AM EDT - GNU - GCC 10.1 - 34 Comments
Wine-Staging 5.9 Picks Up A Patch In The Effort To Deal With Denuvo Anti-Cheat
06:34 AM EDT - WINE - Wine-Staging 5.9 - 13 Comments
It's About Time: MIPS Release 5 + Warrior P5600 Support Coming With Linux 5.8
03:14 AM EDT - Hardware - MIPSr6 + Warror - 11 Comments
Oracle Updates Many Packages With Solaris 11.4 SRU21
12:09 AM EDT - Oracle - Solaris 11.4 SRU21 - Add A Comment
22 May
Intel DPTF Battery Support Published For Linux
05:59 PM EDT - Intel - DPTF Battery - Add A Comment
Wine 5.9 Released With Latest WineD3D Vulkan Capabilities, DLL Improvements
03:11 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 5.9 - 21 Comments
AMD Renoir Temperature Monitoring To Come With Linux 5.8
02:16 PM EDT - AMD - Renoir Temps - 20 Comments
100+ Benchmarks Of Amazon's Graviton2 64-Core CPU Against AMD's EPYC 7742
10:10 AM EDT - Processors - 51 Comments
Linux 5.8 Set To Optionally Flush The L1d Cache On Context Switch To Increase Security
07:49 AM EDT - Linux Security - L1d Cache Flushing - 18 Comments
Open-Source NVIDIA/Nouveau Changes Submitted For Linux 5.8
07:17 AM EDT - Nouveau - Nouveau For Linux 5.8 - 4 Comments
Allwinner Preparing Their A100 SoC Support For The Upstream Linux Kernel
07:08 AM EDT - Arm - Allwinner A100 - 19 Comments
Zstd 1.4.5 Released With 5~10% Faster Decompression For x86_64, 15~50% For ARM64
06:31 AM EDT - Free Software - Zstandard 1.4.5 - 18 Comments
Linux 5.8 To See Support For POWER10's Prefixed Instructions
01:45 AM EDT - Hardware - Prefixed Instructions - 11 Comments
21 May
Microsoft Has Now Open-Source Their BASIC Code From 1983
09:31 PM EDT - Microsoft - GW-BASIC - 55 Comments
Wine's Direct3D Vulkan Back-End Continues Seeing An Uptick In Activity
07:37 PM EDT - WINE - WineD3D Vulkan - 15 Comments
Linux 5.8 Prepped To Make Use Of TPAUSE Instruction With New Intel CPUs
05:47 PM EDT - Intel - TPAUSE - 4 Comments
Dav1d 0.7 Released With More Performance Optimizations
01:28 PM EDT - Multimedia - dav1d 0.7 - 11 Comments
Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 20.04 Linux Performance On The AMD Ryzen 7 4700U
11:30 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 81 Comments
Oracle Talks Up Btrfs Rather Than ZFS For Their Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6
07:43 AM EDT - Oracle - Oracle + Btrfs + UEK6 - 85 Comments
Intel Volleys New Sandy Bridge CPU Microcode
06:52 AM EDT - Intel - Sandy Bridge - 18 Comments
Ubuntu 20.10 Installer With ZFS Will Enable TRIM By Default
03:45 AM EDT - Ubuntu - ZFS autotrim=on - 3 Comments
Deleting A Few Lines Of Code Can Yield "Significant" Power Savings On Some Linux Systems
01:35 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 5.8 - 77 Comments
Intel's Mesa Drivers Add A Simple But Effective Helper For Dealing With Incomplete Bug Reports
01:09 AM EDT - Intel - The Darn Version - Add A Comment
20 May
Intel Sends Out Patches Bringing Up The "DG1" Graphics Card Under Linux
09:41 PM EDT - Intel - DG1 Discrete Xe Graphics - 10 Comments
Mesa 20.1 Could Be Out Next Week If You Help Test RC4
05:42 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 20.1 - 4 Comments
EA To Open-Source Part Of Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert To Help The Mod Community
03:17 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - EA Open-Source - 24 Comments
Intel Continues Prepping Initial Bits For Compute Express Link Device Support (CXL)
02:43 PM EDT - Intel - Compute Express Link - 3 Comments
RenderDoc 1.8 Released For This Cross-Platform, Multi-API Graphics Debugger
12:38 PM EDT - Programming - RenderDoc 1.8 - Add A Comment
Intel Core i5 10600K + Core i9 10900K
09:00 AM EDT - Processors - 64 Comments
Microsoft Is Writing Its Own Wayland Compositor As Part Of WSL2 GUI Efforts
07:09 AM EDT - Microsoft - Microsoft + Wayland - 193 Comments
Linux 5.8 To See Faster FUSE Write Performance
06:49 AM EDT - Linux Storage - File-Systems In User-Space - 2 Comments
Linux 5.8 To Better Deal With Critical Thermal Faults For Radeon GPUs
04:16 AM EDT - Radeon - Radeon Thermal Faults - 17 Comments
Intel's Habana Labs Mainlining Gaudi Accelerator Support In Linux 5.8
Mainlining The Microsoft DirectX Kernel Driver For Linux Will Be An Uphill Battle
12:00 AM EDT - Microsoft - DXGKRNL - 40 Comments
19 May
Microsoft And A KDE Project Spar Over "MAUI"
07:48 PM EDT - Microsoft - MAUI - 37 Comments
Oracle Releases GraalVM 20.1 Virtual Machine With Some Big Improvements
06:27 PM EDT - Oracle - GraalVM 20.1 - 20 Comments
Microsoft Announces Direct3D 12 For Linux / WSL2
12:42 PM EDT - Microsoft - DX12 - 117 Comments
Microsoft To Support GPU Acceleration, Linux GUI Apps On WSL2
12:09 PM EDT - Microsoft - Linux UI - 15 Comments
OpenBSD 6.7 Released With FFS2 Improvements, Better Raspberry Pi + PineBook Pro Support
11:55 AM EDT - BSD - OpenBSD 6.7 - 17 Comments
GCC 10 vs. Clang 10 Compiler Performance On AMD Zen 2 + Intel Cascade Lake
10:40 AM EDT - Software - 7 Comments
SD 8.0 Specification To Allow 4GB/s Transfer Rates By Leveraging PCIe 4.0
10:28 AM EDT - Standards - SD 8.0 - 30 Comments
Linux KVM Virtualization Had Mistakenly Been Applying L1TF Workaround To Unaffected CPUs
08:09 AM EDT - Virtualization - KVM L1TF Whoops! - 17 Comments
Clang 11 Changes -O To Match GCC Behavior
07:08 AM EDT - LLVM - Optimization Level - 13 Comments
AOMedia AV1 2.0 Codec Library Released With Many Improvements
06:53 AM EDT - Multimedia - libaom 2.0 - 15 Comments
Linux Kernel Seeing Workaround Revived For Buggy Micron NAND Block Erase Behavior
06:40 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Block Erase Command - 2 Comments
Fedora 33 Looks To Up Its Code Hardening For 64-Bit Arm Systems
12:08 AM EDT - Arm - Fedora 33 AArch64 Code Hardening - Add A Comment
18 May
NVIDIA Engineer Revives Work On Linux Proactive Memory Compaction
06:11 PM EDT - NVIDIA - Proactive Compaction - 2 Comments
Xeon Gold 6250 vs. EPYC 7F32 - 8-Core Server CPU Performance On Ubuntu 20.04
01:00 PM EDT - Processors - 28 Comments
OpenBSD Seeing Initial Work Land On Enabling 64-bit POWER
10:51 AM EDT - BSD - OpenBSD + POWERPC64 - 34 Comments
XSAVES Supervisor States For Linux 5.8 To Support Future Intel CPU Features
GCC 11 Picks Up A New Option For Large Source Files
06:40 AM EDT - GNU - -flarge-source-files - 9 Comments
17 May
Linux 5.7-rc6 Released - Torvalds Is Not Entirely Happy Over Its Size
08:46 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.7-rc6 - 2 Comments
05:54 PM EDT - Desktop - Enlightenment E24 - 72 Comments
Rav1e Sees New Pre-Release With More Speed-Ups, Monochrome Support
10:48 AM EDT - Multimedia - Rav1e Speed-Ups - 27 Comments
X-Plane's Vulkan Renderer Maturing, More Performance Optimizations Still Coming
08:39 AM EDT - Vulkan - X-Plane + Vulkan - 7 Comments
Intel CET Support Still Getting Squared Away For Linux In 2020
Linux Thunderbolt Support Can Work On Arm Systems
06:55 AM EDT - Arm - Arm + Thunderbolt - 24 Comments
Zstd Compression Under Review For OpenZFS
06:38 AM EDT - Linux Storage - ZFS On Linux - 19 Comments
GCC 11 Proposal Would Default To C++17 Level Features
12:09 AM EDT - GNU - GCC 11 + CPP17 - 8 Comments
16 May
Patches Proceed For Disabling Radeon AGP GART, Deprecating TTM AGP
07:33 PM EDT - Radeon - AGP GART - 36 Comments
100+ Linux Benchmarks Between The AMD Ryzen 7 4700U vs. Intel Core i7 1065G7
03:19 PM EDT - Hardware - Renoir vs. Ice Lake - 51 Comments
DXVK 1.7 Released - Makes Use Of New Vulkan Extensions, Game Fixes
11:41 AM EDT - Vulkan - DXVK 1.7 - 18 Comments
XDC2020 Call For Proposals - X.Org Developers For Now Still Planning To Meet In Poland
09:00 AM EDT - X.Org - XDC2020 CFP - 6 Comments
Intel Submits Last Batch Of Graphics Feature Code For Linux 5.8 - SAGV For Tiger Lake
08:09 AM EDT - Intel - Linux 5.8 + Intel Graphics - 2 Comments
GCC 11 Enables Co-Routines Support In C++20 Mode
06:55 AM EDT - GNU - C++20 Co-Routines - 32 Comments
KDE Developers Are Busy Polishing Plasma 5.19
06:27 AM EDT - KDE - Last Minute Work - 19 Comments
Google Posts Patches Allowing AMD Zen/Zen2 CPUs To Expose Power Usage On Linux Via RAPL
12:00 AM EDT - AMD - RAPL Support!!! - 29 Comments
15 May
AMD Rethinks Decision And Will Open-Source Most Of Radeon Rays 4.0
07:00 PM EDT - Radeon - Radeon Rays 4.0 - 49 Comments
Half-Life: Alyx Update Adds Native Linux Support, Vulkan Rendering
04:49 PM EDT - Valve - Half-Life: Alyx - 40 Comments
Intel oneAPI DPC++ Compiler Merges Its Initial CUDA Backend
02:39 PM EDT - Intel - oneAPI DPC++ Over CUDA - 4 Comments
Benchmarking Amazon's Graviton2 Performance With 64 Neoverse N1 Cores Against Intel Xeon, AMD EPYC
12:19 PM EDT - Processors - 33 Comments
Intel SGX Linux Patches Posted For Their 30th Round Of Review
08:48 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - SGX Foundations - 3 Comments
Linux 5.8's Multi-Queue Block Code Plumbed To Support Inline Encryption
07:04 AM EDT - Linux Storage - BLK-MQ + Inline Encryption - 13 Comments
Linux Driver Prepared For The Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Accelerator
02:29 AM EDT - Hardware - Qualcomm Cloud AI Driver - 2 Comments
Git 2.27-rc0 Released - Still Working To Transition From SHA1 To SHA256
12:00 AM EDT - Programming - Git 2.27 - Add A Comment
14 May
Microsoft President Brad Smith Acknowledges They Were Previously Wrong On Open-Source
07:33 PM EDT - Microsoft - Times Have Changes - 103 Comments
LibreOffice 7.0 Alpha 1 Released With Its Skia + Vulkan Rendering
04:06 PM EDT - LibreOffice - LibreOffice 7.0 - 34 Comments
AMD Renoir Graphics Beating Out Intel Icelake/Gen11 On Linux
01:27 PM EDT - Graphics Cards - 27 Comments
GPUOpen Celebrates Another Day Of Its Relaunch With A New Binary-Only Software Release
12:47 PM EDT - Radeon - GPUOpen RMV - 29 Comments
KDE Plasma 5.19 Rolls Out In Beta Form With Many Improvements, Better Wayland Support
10:32 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Plasma 5.19 - 56 Comments
NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX Developer Kit Preview
09:00 AM EDT - Computers - 4 Comments
Linux 5.7 Seeing Radeon FreeSync Fixes, Back-Ported Soft Recovery For Navi
07:19 AM EDT - Radeon - Linux 5.7 Fixes - 35 Comments
AMDVLK 2020.Q2.3 Released With New Extension, Various Fixes
06:50 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDVLK 2020.Q2.3 - 2 Comments
LLVM Lands Support For The Marvell ThunderX3
06:35 AM EDT - LLVM - ThunderX3 + LLVM Clang - 3 Comments
Mesa 20.1-RC3 Released With Another Week Worth Of Fixes Plus Intel Rocket Lake Support
12:09 AM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 20.1-RC3 - 3 Comments
13 May
Ubuntu Touch OTA-12 Released With The Switch Finally To Unity 8 / Lomiri
06:48 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu Touch + Unity 8 - 10 Comments
Mesa 20.2 Picks Up A New Disk Cache: TGSI-To-NIR Caching
04:47 PM EDT - Mesa - TTN Cache - 6 Comments
A Quick Run With The FSGSBASE Patches On Intel + AMD
11:57 AM EDT - Software - 6 Comments
Epic Games Preparing Unreal Engine 5 For Debut In 2021 With Increased Photo-Realism
11:54 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - Unreal Engine 5 - 31 Comments
Radeon Rays 4.0 Released - Adds Vulkan While Dropping OpenCL, No Longer Open-Source
10:39 AM EDT - Radeon - Radeon Rays 4.0 - 81 Comments
AMD Announces The Radeon Pro VII
09:16 AM EDT - Radeon - Radeon Pro VII - 54 Comments
Upstream Linux Developers Against "-O3" Optimizing The Kernel
08:45 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux Kernel -O3 - 23 Comments
Linux 5.8 Bringing Soft Recovery Support For GFX10/Navi
07:15 AM EDT - Radeon - Navi Soft Recovery - 5 Comments
RADV ACO Adds A Version Hack/Workaround For An Extra 2~5% Boost In SotTR
06:53 AM EDT - Radeon - LLVM Version Hack - 8 Comments
TAIWINS Is A Compact Wayland Compositor
06:29 AM EDT - Wayland - TAIWINS - 11 Comments
12 May
Initial AMD Ryzen 7 4700U Linux Performance Is Very Good
06:09 PM EDT - Computers - 75 Comments
OpenZFS 0.8.4 Released With Support Through Linux 5.6, Bug Fixes
04:37 PM EDT - Linux Storage - ZFS On Linux - 6 Comments
Coreboot 4.12 Released - Drops Older Intel / AMD Platforms
04:20 PM EDT - Coreboot - Coreboot 4.12 - 34 Comments
Ubuntu's Server Installer Was Mistakenly Leaking Encrypted Storage Passphrase To Its Log
10:18 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Subiquity - 20 Comments
Intel's Load Hardening Mitigation Merged Into LLVM 11 For LVI Protection
09:55 AM EDT - LLVM - Load Value Injection - 6 Comments
Qt 5.15 Aiming For Release A Week From Today
07:15 AM EDT - Qt - Qt 5.15 - 22 Comments
WireGuard Ported To The OpenBSD Kernel - Looking For Upstream Inclusion
07:05 AM EDT - BSD - WireGuard + OpenBSD - 14 Comments
Proxmox VE 6.2 Released With Zstd Backups, Live Migration With ZFS Storage Replication
06:43 AM EDT - Virtualization - Proxmox VE 6.2 - 2 Comments
FlightGear 2020.1 Released For This Open-Source Flight Simulator
06:30 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - FlightGear 2020.1 - 9 Comments
Wraith Master 1.0 Released For Controlling AMD RGB Fans On Linux
12:00 AM EDT - AMD - Wraith Master 1.0 - 45 Comments
11 May
SESES Speculative Execution Pass Lands In LLVM With "Extreme Performance Implications"
05:36 PM EDT - LLVM - SESES - 12 Comments
FESCo Approves Fedora 33 Switching To Systemd-Resolved
04:47 PM EDT - Fedora - Fedora + systemd-resolved - 16 Comments
AGP Graphics Card Support Proposed For Removal From Linux Radeon/NVIDIA Drivers
01:34 PM EDT - Hardware - Dropping AGP - 86 Comments
AMD Relaunches GPUOpen For Open-Source Game Development Resources
11:35 AM EDT - AMD - GPUOpen Relaunch - 29 Comments
Thunderspy Is A New Vulnerability Affecting Thunderbolt Security
11:04 AM EDT - Linux Security - Thunderspy - 26 Comments
IBM Drops The "Silliness" - POWERXX Is Indeed POWER10 With Updated Open-Source Patches
10:00 AM EDT - Hardware - POWERXX Is POWER10 - 17 Comments
Firefox 76 + 77 Beta Web Browser Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux
08:39 AM EDT - Mozilla - Firefox 76 + 77 Beta - 21 Comments
Zink GL-Over-Vulkan Now Supports Conditional Rendering - Stepping Towards OpenGL 3.0
07:38 AM EDT - Mesa - OpenGL Over Vulkan - 21 Comments
RadeonSI Driver Now Supports AMD Trusted Memory Zone
07:06 AM EDT - Radeon - RadeonSI - 20 Comments
FSGSBASE v12 Patches Published With Even Microsoft Intrigued By Its Performance
06:46 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - FSGSBASE v12 - 1 Comment
Dbus-Broker 23 Released For High Performance D-Bus
06:34 AM EDT - systemd - Dbus-Broker - 11 Comments
10 May
Intel Ice Lake "0x78" Microcode Update Having Small But Measurable Performance Hits
07:39 PM EDT - Software - 15 Comments
Linux 5.7-rc5 Released With More Changes But Not Worrying Torvalds
07:16 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 5.7-rc5 - 10 Comments
Rust Performance Is Getting Hurt On LLVM 10 With Noticeably Longer Build Times
11:23 AM EDT - LLVM - Rust LLVM Performance - 59 Comments
Arch-Based EndeavourOS Sees New Release With Faster Installation, i3 Improvements
11:02 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Endeavour OS May 2020 - 5 Comments
FSGSBASE Patches Sent Out An 11th Time For Boosting CPU Performance Back To Ivy Bridge
07:18 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - FSGSBASE 11 - 3 Comments
Intel Updates Microcode Binaries For Ice Lake On Linux
06:58 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Linux CPU Microcode Files - 3 Comments
EXT4 Seeing Work To Speed Up Mount Times For Large File-Systems
06:44 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Faster Mount Times - 25 Comments
AMDGPU Patches Under Discussion For Better External GPU Hot Unplug Handling
12:00 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDGPU eGPU - 22 Comments
9 May
Pop!_OS 20.04 vs. Ubuntu 20.04 Linux Performance
05:00 PM EDT - Operating Systems - 34 Comments
The Latest Pango + HarfBuzz Is Leading To A Messy Font Rendering Situation For Some
03:08 PM EDT - Desktop - Font Issues - 166 Comments
Intel Rocket Lake Platform Support Added To Mesa 20.2
09:06 AM EDT - Intel - Rocket Lake - 5 Comments
Debian 10.4 Released With Many Fixes, Security Updates
08:44 AM EDT - Debian - Debian 10.4 - 12 Comments
Ubuntu Studio Making Good Progress On Their Transition To KDE Plasma
06:55 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu Studio + KDE Plasma - 54 Comments
Wine-Staging 5.8 Is Smaller Thanks To Upstreaming More Patches
06:48 AM EDT - WINE - Wine-Staging 5.8 - 2 Comments
KDE KWin Finally Sees An Important Fix For Addressing Visual Glitches
06:28 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Improvements - 32 Comments
FreeType 2.10.2 Released With Support For WOFF 2 Fonts
06:06 AM EDT - Desktop - WOFF2 - 9 Comments
8 May
Crucial P2 Performance On Ubuntu Linux - An Affordable 500GB NVMe SSD
05:00 PM EDT - Storage - 9 Comments
Wine 5.8 Released With GIF Encoder, More WineD3D Vulkan Progress
04:32 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 5.8 - 11 Comments
Xrdesktop 0.14 Released With OpenXR Support
11:08 AM EDT - Desktop - Xrdesktop 0.14 - 5 Comments
LibreOffice On Windows Will Now Hard Require Clang For Performance Reasons
09:28 AM EDT - LibreOffice - LibreOffice Clang - 41 Comments
Con Kolivas Fixes Up GUI-Related Stalls In Mesa
07:25 AM EDT - Mesa - GUI Stalls - 31 Comments
Software Boosting Patches Volleyed For CPPC CPUFreq Driver (Boost / Turbo Frequency)
Oracle Working On "PKRAM" For Memory That Survives After Booting Into A New Kexec Kernel
Linux's Lima DRM Driver For Arm Mali Finally Seeing Run-Time Power Management
12:09 AM EDT - Arm - Lima Runtime PM - 5 Comments