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| Linux 6.10 Preps A Kernel Panic Screen - Sort Of A "Blue Screen of Death" | Linux Kernel | 2024-04-19 |
| Linux 6.9-rc1 Released With AMD P-State Preferred Core, Larger FB Console Fonts | Linux Kernel | 2024-03-24 |
| New Intel CPU Microcode & "RFDS" Linux Kernel Patch For New Security Vulnerabilities | Intel | 2024-03-12 |
| AMD FreeSync Video Facing Retirement In Linux 6.9 | Radeon | 2024-03-02 |
| Linux 6.9 Adding AMD MI300 Row Retirement Support For Problematic HBM Memory | AMD | 2024-02-18 |
| Wine Developers Working To Get 1997 Era "Nuclear Strike" Game Working On Linux In 2024 | WINE | 2024-01-03 |
| Plymouth Boot Splash Screen Sees First Update In Nearly Two Years | Free Software | 2023-12-22 |
| Vulkan 1.3.274 Released With Video Encode Extensions Promoted | Vulkan | 2023-12-19 |
| Intel i915 Driver Prepares Finishing Touches For Meteor Lake, More Lunar Lake Enabling | Intel | 2023-10-15 |
| GNOME Mutter 45 Release Candidate Brings Meta Toolkit Library, Other Last Minute Work | GNOME | 2023-09-06 |
| Intel Brings Up Lunar Lake Display Support For Linux | Intel | 2023-08-23 |
| Linux Reworks AMD Zen 1 Divide-By-Zero Mitigation After Original Fix Inadequate | AMD | 2023-08-14 |
| RADV Ray-Tracing To Become Much Faster With New Driver Code | Radeon | 2023-08-13 |
| Vulkan 1.3.255 Released With Cooperative Matrix Extension | Vulkan | 2023-06-26 |
| Raspberry Pi V3D Driver Adds Native ASTC Texture Compression Support | Mesa | 2023-05-31 |
| Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Enables GPL By Default While Hiding Mesh Shaders | Intel | 2023-05-10 |
| Linux 6.4 Brings Improved MSI Laptop Support, Apple GMUX Support For T2 Macs | Linux Kernel | 2023-04-26 |
| Linux 6.4 Bringing Apple M2 Additions For 2022 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac Mini | Apple | 2023-04-06 |
| Nouveau Kernel Driver Patches Begin Preparing For "NVK" Open-Source Vulkan Support | Nouveau | 2023-01-18 |
| LLVM/Clang 16 Adds Support For -mcpu=native & -mtune=native On RISC-V | RISC-V | 2022-11-09 |
| FreeBSD Re-Introduces WireGuard Support Into Its Kernel | BSD | 2022-10-29 |
| Rusticl Support For AMD RadeonSI Driver Being Worked On | Mesa | 2022-09-26 |
| NVIDIA 515.76 Driver Released With Bug Fixes, Linux 6.0 Compatibility | NVIDIA | 2022-09-20 |
| Linux 5.20 To Bring New Intel & AMD Hardware Support, IO_uring Features & Much More | Linux Kernel | 2022-07-29 |
| NVIDIA 515.57 Linux Driver Released With Fixes, NvFBC Improvements | NVIDIA | 2022-06-28 |
| Linux 5.20 To Feature Faster Console Scrolling At Boot For Old FBDEV Drivers | Linux Kernel | 2022-06-23 |
| NVIDIA's List Of Known Wayland Issues From SLI To VDPAU, VR & More | NVIDIA | 2022-05-22 |
| NVIDIA Updates Legacy 470 & 390 Series Linux Drivers, New Bump For 510 Series | NVIDIA | 2022-05-16 |
| NVIDIA 510.68.02 Released As A Minor Bug Fix Update | NVIDIA | 2022-04-26 |
| R600 Gallium3D Driver For Old Radeon GPUs To See Rewritten NIR Backend | Radeon | 2022-04-15 |
| Linux 5.18 To Fix Thermal Policy Handling For Select Newer HP Omen Laptops | Hardware | 2022-03-17 |
| Intel PECI Code To Be Mainlined With Linux 5.18 | Intel | 2022-02-10 |
| Intel Graphics Driver Has Alder Lake N & DG2/Alchemist Performance Boost For Linux 5.18 | Intel | 2022-02-09 |
| Linux 5.17-rc3 Restores FBDEV Hardware-Accelerated Scrolling, Mixed Bag of Random Stuff | Linux Kernel | 2022-02-06 |
| Valve Is Sponsoring More CI Testing For The Open-Source Radeon Linux Graphics Driver | Valve | 2022-01-22 |
| GNOME On Wayland Lands Improved Handling For Direct Scanout Support | GNOME | 2022-01-08 |
| KDE's Plasma Wayland Session Achieves Better Battery Life Than With X.Org | KDE | 2021-12-27 |
| Another ASRock Sandy Bridge / Ivy Bridge Motherboard Ported To Open-Source Coreboot | Coreboot | 2021-12-24 |
| Linux 5.17 To Finally Enable Variable Rate Refresh For Intel Ice Lake | Intel | 2021-12-01 |
| Mesa 21.3-rc3 Released With Many Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Fixes | Mesa | 2021-10-27 |
| Linux 5.15's New "-Werror" Behavior Is Causing A Lot Of Pain | Linux Kernel | 2021-09-07 |
| The New NTFS Driver Looks Like It Will Finally Be Ready With Linux 5.15 | Linux Kernel | 2021-07-31 |
| Old Motorola 68000 Systems Can Finally Move Away From Linux's Deprecated IDE Code | Hardware | 2021-06-11 |
| Mesa 21.0.3 + Mesa 21.1-rc2 Released | Mesa | 2021-04-21 |
| READFILE System Call Rebased For More Efficient Reading Of Small Files | Linux Storage | 2021-04-03 |
| GCC 11 Squeezes In Another Zen 3 Optimization | GNU | 2021-03-18 |
| Linus Torvalds Decides To Land NVIDIA RTX 30 "Ampere" Support In Linux 5.11 | Linux Kernel | 2021-01-15 |
| Linux 5.10.5 Released - It Disables FBCON Accelerated Scrolling | Linux Kernel | 2021-01-06 |
| Panfrost Gallium3D Flips On AFBC For Bifrost GPUs | Mesa | 2021-01-06 |
| Intel Submits Initial Batch Of Graphics Driver Updates Slated For Linux 5.12 | Intel | 2021-01-04 |
| AMD EPYC Seeing Nice Performance Improvements With PostgreSQL On Linux 5.11 | AMD | 2020-12-21 |
| Intel Preparing To Restore Frame-Buffer Compression For Tiger Lake | Intel | 2020-11-20 |
| Intel's Abandoned "Many Integrated Core" Architecture Being Removed With Linux 5.10 | Intel | 2020-11-01 |
| Linux Frame-Buffer Console To Drop Accelerated Scrolling Since It's Full Of Bugs | Linux Kernel | 2020-10-30 |
| LLVM Adds A SPIR-V CPU Runner For Handling GPU Kernels On The CPU | LLVM | 2020-10-26 |
| Linux 5.10 Graphics Driver Changes From AMDGPU DC For GCN 1.0 To Continuing RDNA 2 Push | Linux Kernel | 2020-10-15 |
| Linux 5.9 Dropping Soft Scrollback Support From FB + VGA Console Code | Linux Kernel | 2020-09-14 |
| Intel's Early Linux 5.10 Graphics Driver Changes Include Tiger Lake HOBL | Intel | 2020-08-27 |
| Frame-Buffer Compression Support For Vintage Intel i865 Graphics Revived | Intel | 2020-07-05 |
| Intel Rocket Lake Graphics Support Ready For Liftoff With Linux 5.9 | Intel | 2020-07-02 |
| Linux 5.9 To Expose Adaptive-Sync / VRR Range Via DebugFS | X.Org | 2020-06-26 |
| NVIDIA 450 Linux Beta Driver Quietly Rolls Out With New PRIME Option, Other Improvements | NVIDIA | 2020-06-07 |
| EXT4 Seeing Work To Speed Up Mount Times For Large File-Systems | Linux Storage | 2020-05-10 |
| 17 Years Later: Intel 865 Chipset Seeing FBC Enabled On Linux | Intel | 2020-04-29 |
| AMD Developers Looking At GNU C Library Platform Optimizations For Zen | AMD | 2020-03-25 |
| Intel Sends Out A Big Christmas Update Of Graphics Driver Changes Aiming For Linux 5.6 | Intel | 2019-12-23 |
| Better Flatpak Support For Firefox Appears To Be Coming | Mozilla | 2019-09-12 |
| Systemd Now Allows Custom BPF Programs To Be Loaded On Cgroups | systemd | 2019-06-29 |
| Intel's Linux DRM Driver To Enable PSR2 Power-Savings By Default | Intel | 2019-02-14 |
| Intel Sends Out First Batch Of Display/Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 5.1 Kernel | Intel | 2019-01-15 |
| FBDEV Is Still Alive In 2019, Picking Up A Few Minor Improvements In Linux 4.21 | Linux Kernel | 2019-01-04 |
| Plymouth 0.9.4 Boot Splash Released, First Update In A Year & Adds DRM Preferred Mode | Red Hat | 2018-11-06 |
| AMD Picasso Support Comes To The RadeonSI OpenGL Driver | AMD | 2018-09-18 |
| Linux 4.19 Adds Deferred Console Takeover Support For FBDEV - Cleaner Boot Process | Linux Kernel | 2018-08-23 |
| More Tablet Touchscreen Support & ThinkPad Calculator Key Support Come To Linux 4.19 | Linux Kernel | 2018-08-22 |
| RADV Now Supports On-Demand Compilation Of Built-In Shaders | Radeon | 2018-08-14 |
| Coreboot Picks Up Support For Another Eight Year Old Intel Motherboard | Coreboot | 2018-05-27 |
| 34 More Patches Roll Out For AMDGPU DC With Raven Ridge Fixes Plus Color Management | Radeon | 2018-02-12 |
| EPYC vs. Xeon Gold In Nearly 200 Tests With Ubuntu On Linux 4.15 | Hardware | 2018-02-12 |
| MenuLibre 2.1.5 Menu Editor Adds Budgie & KDE Plasma Support | Desktop | 2018-02-06 |
| GFS2 To Support Hole-Punching With Linux 4.16 | Linux Storage | 2018-01-22 |
| SUSE Dropping Mainline Work On Their In-Kernel Bootsplash System | Linux Kernel | 2018-01-18 |
| AMDGPU DC Patches To Test This Christmas | Radeon | 2017-12-25 |
| Why SUSE Is Using FBCON Rather Than DRM/KMS For Their In-Kernel Boot Splash | SUSE | 2017-12-18 |
| SUSE Rolls Out New Version Of Their In-Kernel Boot Splash Screen | SUSE | 2017-12-14 |
| Linux 4.15 Will Treat The HTC Vive VR Headset As "Non-Desktop" | Hardware | 2017-11-23 |
| Intel Icelake Support Added To LLVM Clang | LLVM | 2017-11-19 |
| Etnaviv Gallium3D Reaches OpenGL 2.1 | Mesa | 2017-10-30 |
| SUSE Has Been Working On An In-Kernel Boot Splash Screen For Linux | SUSE | 2017-10-25 |
| OVR_multiview Extension Completed For More Efficient OpenGL VR | Standards | 2017-10-11 |
| Some Fresh Intel Core, AMD Ryzen Benchmarks On Ubuntu 17.10 + Linux 4.13 | Hardware | 2017-10-04 |
| FBDEV Is Still Seeing Improvements With Linux 4.14 | Linux Kernel | 2017-09-15 |
| AMDGPU DC Display Code Tacks On Another 28 Patches | AMD | 2017-09-11 |
| Keeping The Ryzen Threadripper Busy With An Array Of Compiler Benchmarks | AMD | 2017-08-28 |
| DragonFlyBSD Finalizes Its Ryzen Workaround | BSD | 2017-08-12 |
| 81 Fresh Patches For AMDGPU's DC (DAL) Display Code | AMD | 2017-07-25 |
| RADV Gets More Last Minute Fixes For Mesa 17.2 | Radeon | 2017-07-24 |
| Linux 4.11 Set To Be Released Today | Linux Kernel | 2017-04-30 |
| My Favorite Features/Changes Of The Linux 4.11 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2017-04-18 |
| Core i7 6800K Linux CPU Scaling Benchmarks With Ubuntu 16.10 | Intel | 2017-03-06 |
| DRM Updates Submitted For Linux 4.11, Torvalds Explodes Over Code Quality | Linux Kernel | 2017-02-23 |
| Looking Ahead To The Linux 4.11 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2017-02-19 |
| RADV Gets More Improvements For Mesa 17.1-dev, Lower Dota 2 CPU Usage | Mesa | 2017-02-13 |
| Intel Sends In Final Batch Of DRM Features For Linux 4.11: DP MST Audio, HuC Firmware | Intel | 2017-01-26 |
| Linux 4.11 To Enable Frame-Buffer Compression By Default For Skylake+ | Intel | 2017-01-09 |
| Intel May Finally Enable Framebuffer Compression By Default For Skylake+ | Intel | 2016-12-23 |
| Steam Client Update Has Improvements For ZFS, Streaming, Controllers | Valve | 2016-12-12 |
| More Darktable GPU/CPU Benchmarks - 27 Different Setups | Free Software | 2016-11-28 |
| DRM Text Mode Proposed As Alternative To FBDEV/FBCON | Linux Kernel | 2016-07-29 |
| DragonFlyBSD Updates Its Intel Graphics Driver From Linux 4.4 | BSD | 2016-07-21 |
| Place Your Bets Now About The Power Efficiency Of The Radeon RX 480 On Linux | Radeon | 2016-06-26 |
| Faster Rendering Appears To Be Coming For LibreOffice | LibreOffice | 2016-06-18 |
| Power-Saving FBC For Intel Skylake Is Still Baking On Linux | Intel | 2016-03-24 |
| The Features That Landed So Far In The Linux 4.6 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2016-03-22 |
| GTX 900 3D Support, AMDGPU Reset & Other Exciting DRM Highlights | Linux Kernel | 2016-03-21 |
| Linux 4.5 Appears To Slightly Lower Power Use, But Linux 4.6 Will Be Even Better | Linux Kernel | 2016-03-12 |
| Some Of The Graphics Driver Improvements Coming For The Linux 4.6 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2016-03-11 |
| Intel Linux 4.6 Graphics Updates Have FBC/PSR, More Atomic Display Work | Linux Kernel | 2016-03-10 |
| Freedreno MSM Driver Lands New Support For Linux 4.6 | Linux Kernel | 2016-03-06 |
| Linux 4.6 Will Enable Intel FBC & PSR By Default To Reduce Power Consumption | Intel | 2016-03-05 |
| Some Video Acceleration Improvements Land In Gallium3D | Mesa | 2016-01-14 |
| The Intel Graphics Highlights Of The Linux 4.5 Kernel | Intel | 2016-01-11 |
| Mutter & GNOME Shell 3.19.3 Bring More Fixes | GNOME | 2015-12-16 |
| Recapping The Intel Graphics Changes Of Linux 4.4 | Intel | 2015-12-09 |
| R600 Gallium3D Gets A Little Bit Of Attention | Mesa | 2015-09-03 |
| DRI3 Support Finally Added To AMD's Radeon X.Org Driver | X.Org | 2015-03-17 |
| X.Org Server 1.17 Pre-Release "TimTam" Is Out | X.Org | 2015-01-23 |
| Another Intel Linux Power Regression Is Being Investigated | Intel | 2014-08-28 |
| AMD's Radeon DDX Enables Hawaii Acceleration By Default | Radeon | 2014-08-12 |
| More Intel DRM Improvements Aimed For Linux 3.17 | Intel | 2014-07-18 |
| Intel Might Finally Have Linux Frame-Buffer Compression Fixed-Up, On By Default | Intel | 2014-06-19 |
| Intel & Radeon DRM Drivers Get Last Minute 3.15 Fixes | Linux Kernel | 2014-05-30 |
| Open-Source DisplayPort MST Is Under Review | Hardware | 2014-05-21 |
| Nouveau & Radeon Pick-Up Stencil Texturing Support | Mesa | 2014-05-04 |
| Intel Frame-Buffer Compression Still Not On By Default | Intel | 2014-03-25 |
| Intel Broadwell Gets A Temporary DRM Branch | Intel | 2014-02-25 |
| Intel Driver Picks Up More Improvements In Linux 3.14 | Intel | 2014-01-08 |
| NVIDIA 331.20 Supports New Kernels, NvFBCOpenGL | NVIDIA | 2013-11-06 |
| Mesa 9.2 OpenGL Library Gets Further Stabilized | Mesa | 2013-10-05 |
| System76 Serval Pro vs. Gazelle Pro Linux Laptops | Hardware | 2013-08-31 |
| AMD R300/R400 Radeon Gallium3D Finally Gets MSAA | Radeon | 2013-08-27 |
| Intel Works On Intermediate Pixel Storage | Intel | 2013-05-31 |
| Intel Begins Lining Up Graphics Changes For Linux 3.11 | Linux Kernel | 2013-05-29 |
| Color Management Code Merged Into Wayland/Weston | Wayland | 2013-05-10 |
| Running Modern Linux On The CompuLab Trim-Slice | Hardware | 2013-03-05 |
| VESA BIOS Extension DRM Kernel Driver Released | Free Software | 2013-01-27 |
| Intel Begins Making Graphics Changes For Linux 3.9 | Linux Kernel | 2013-01-11 |
| Radeon R600 Back-End Merged Into LLVM | Radeon | 2012-12-13 |
| R300 Gallium3D HyperZ Is Finally In Good Shape | AMD | 2012-12-02 |
| Frame-Buffer Log Driver Wants To Go Mainline | Linux Kernel | 2012-07-15 |
