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Linux 4.17 Articles & Reviews

Linux 4.18 AMDGPU Tests: Vega Taking A Hit   Display Drivers   2018-07-10
Reiser4 File-System Benchmarks With Linux 4.17   Storage   2018-07-02
Linux 4.17 I/O Scheduler Tests On An NVMe SSD Yield Surprising Results   Storage   2018-05-30
Raven Ridge With The Ryzen 5 2400G On Mesa 18.2 + Linux 4.17 Is Finally Stable   Linux Gaming   2018-05-19
Linux 4.17 Offers Some Promising Power-Savings Improvements   Software   2018-04-15
The Many Great Features & Changes Coming For The Linux 4.17 Kernel   Software   2018-04-15

Linux 4.17 Linux & Open-Source News

New Car & Flight Controller HID Drivers Ready To Race With Linux 6.1   Hardware   2022-09-25
Andes NDS32 CPU Architecture To Be Dropped In Linux 5.18   Hardware   2022-03-23
Dbus-Broker 29 Released, Says Goodbye To Some Older Kernel Support   Free Software   2021-06-03
The Biggest Open-Source / Linux Radeon News Of The 2010s   Radeon   2019-12-18
Char/Misc Brings Habana Labs' Driver, Intel HDCP 2.2 Support   Linux Kernel   2019-03-07
Linux Fix For Issue That Prevented Some MacBook Pros From Booting On Recent Kernels   Hardware   2019-03-01
The Linux Kernel In 2018 Summed Up: Spectre/Meltdown, CoC, Speck Fears, New Features   Linux Kernel   2018-12-31
Andes NDS32 Architecture Seeing Many Additions With Linux 4.21   Hardware   2018-12-28
The Most Popular AMD/Radeon Linux News Of 2018   AMD   2018-12-26
Initial i.MX8 SoC Support & Development Board Possibly Ready For Linux 4.21   Hardware   2018-12-10
A Patch Is Still Pending For Fixing Up Newer Radeon GPUs In Older Motherboards   Radeon   2018-12-03
WattmanGTK Is A Simple GUI For Radeon Power/Performance Knobs On Linux   Radeon   2018-11-04
Intel's Guide To Achieving S0ix Low-Power States On Linux   Intel   2018-10-25
AMD EPYC Sees Some Performance Improvements With Linux 4.19   AMD   2018-10-24
Intel KVMGT 2018-Q3 Released As Their Latest Open-Source GPU Virtualization Bits   Virtualization   2018-10-19
AMD ROCm 1.9 Available With Vega 20 Support Plus Upstream Kernel Compatibility   Radeon   2018-09-15
OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 Alpha Surfaces   Operating Systems   2018-09-06
The Controversial Speck Encryption Code Will Indeed Be Dropped From The Linux Kernel   Linux Kernel   2018-09-04
KaOS 2018.08 Released As One Of The Great KDE Linux Distributions   Operating Systems   2018-09-01
AMD Posts Open-Source Vulkan Driver Code For Vega 12 GPU   Radeon   2018-08-24
Linus Torvalds On Linux 4.19: "This Merge Window Has Been Horrible"   Linux Kernel   2018-08-22
One Week Past Linux 4.18.0, The Linux 4.18.3 Kernel Is Already Out   Linux Kernel   2018-08-18
Crypto Updates Sent In For Linux 4.19 Kernel, Speck Is Still In The Kernel   Linux Kernel   2018-08-15
XArray Proposed For Merging In The Linux 4.19 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2018-08-13
Linux 4.18 Kernel Officially Released   Linux Kernel   2018-08-12
Google Decides Not To Use Speck For Disk Encryption, Instead Developing HPolyC   Linux Kernel   2018-08-06
A Look At The Clear Linux Performance For July 2018   Clear Linux   2018-08-03
NXP i.MX8 SoC Support Hasn't Yet Worked Its Way Into The Mainline Linux Kernel   Hardware   2018-07-22
NVIDIA 390.77 Linux Driver Brings Updated Kernel Support, Fixes   NVIDIA   2018-07-16
PDS-MQ CPU Scheduler Revised For The Linux 4.17 Kernel With Minor Optimizations   Linux Kernel   2018-07-15
OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 Is Approaching With DNF/RPM4, KDE Plasma 5.13, Linux 4.17~4.18   Operating Systems   2018-07-06
AMDKFD Looking To Be Merged Into AMDGPU Linux DRM Kernel Driver   Radeon   2018-07-05
Apple, Ryzen, Valve & The Evolving Linux Kernel Dominated Conversations In Q2   Free Software   2018-07-04
Benchmarks Of The Liquorix Linux 4.17 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2018-07-03
LLVM Quitter, Ryzen & Git Were Most Popular Linux News So Far This Year   Free Software   2018-06-30
A Look At Some Of The Clear Linux Performance Changes For June 2018   Clear Linux   2018-06-29
Reiser4 Ported To The Linux 4.17 Kernel   Linux Storage   2018-06-28
Linux 4.17-ck1 Kernel Patches Released With Newest MuQSS Scheduler   Linux Kernel   2018-06-27
Some Compiler Performance Benchmarks With The Zapcc Caching Compiler   LLVM   2018-06-21
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Jumps On Linux 4.17, KDE Plasma 5.13 Riding Well   SUSE   2018-06-20
Features That Didn't Make It For The Mainline Linux 4.18 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2018-06-17
AMDGPU Performance Tests With New WattMan-Like Settings, Power Capping   Radeon   2018-06-16
Intel Icelake Bringing New MIPI DSI Controller, Linux Driver Patches Posted   Intel   2018-06-15
Linux 4.17 Stable Has Been Settling Well, Coming Soon To Fedora   Linux Kernel   2018-06-14
Linux 4.17.1 Kernel Released   Linux Kernel   2018-06-12
Linux 4.18 Gets AMD Patches For Speculative Store Bypass / Spectre V4   AMD   2018-06-10
Does Forcing "High" DPM Performance Help Out Your AMDGPU Performance?   Radeon   2018-06-07
Plenty Of Sound Changes To Be Heard With Linux 4.18   Hardware   2018-06-07
EXT4/Fscrypt Changes For Linux 4.18: Speck File-System Encryption Being Added   Linux Storage   2018-06-05
Linux 4.17 Kernel Patch Brings -march=native Support   Linux Kernel   2018-06-04
GNU Linux-libre 4.17-gnu Kernel Released   Linux Kernel   2018-06-04
Linux 4.17 Kernel Released With Big Updates For AMDGPU, CPU Power-Savings   Linux Kernel   2018-06-03
The Best Features Of The Linux 4.17 Kernel: Power Savings, AMDGPU DC, ACPI TAD   Linux Kernel   2018-06-03
Linux 4.18 To Ship ARM64 SSBD For Spectre V4 Mitigation, LSE Atomics By Default   Linux Kernel   2018-06-02
AMDGPU On Linux 4.18 To Offer Greater Vega Power Savings, DisplayPort 1.4 Fixes   Radeon   2018-06-01
BPFILTER Landing For Linux 4.18 For Eventually Better Firewall / Packet Filtering   Linux Networking   2018-05-31
ARM's Spectre V4 Mitigation Updated, Speculative Store Bypass Disable   Linux Security   2018-05-29
Linux 4.17-rc7 Released: Linux 4.17.0 Might Be Out Next Week   Linux Kernel   2018-05-27
ROCm 1.9 Compute Components To Support Ubuntu 18.04 LTS   Radeon   2018-05-23
ARM64 Mitigation Posted For Spectre 4 / SSBD   Linux Security   2018-05-22
Linux 4.17 Lands Initial Spectre V4 "Speculative Store Bypass" For POWER CPUs   Linux Kernel   2018-05-22
Looking Ahead To The Linux 4.18 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2018-05-21
USB Audio Class 3.0 Improvements Coming To Linux 4.18   Hardware   2018-05-21
Linux 4.17-rc6 Kernel Released As Another "Fairly Calm" Release   Linux Kernel   2018-05-20
Linux 4.9.100, Linux 4.16.9 Bring More Spectre V1 Safeguards   Linux Kernel   2018-05-16
AMDKFD In Linux 4.18 Bringing Vega GPU Support   Radeon   2018-05-14
Linux 4.17-rc5 Released As Another Normal Weekly Test Release   Linux Kernel   2018-05-13
Linux 4.17 Gets More Spectre V1 Fixes   Linux Kernel   2018-05-13
Linux 4.17-rc4 Released As The "Merciless Moray"   Linux Kernel   2018-05-06
ROCm 1.7.2 Brings Fixes To The Open-Source Radeon Compute Stack   Radeon   2018-05-06
Linux Kernel Hardens Sound Drivers Against Spectre V1 Vulnerability   Linux Security   2018-05-05
Intel Icelake Support Added To Mesa's Libdrm   Intel   2018-05-05
It's Looking Hopeful V3D DRM Driver Will Make It Into Linux 4.18   Linux Kernel   2018-05-01
Linux 4.17, Ryzen, Valve & Apple Looking For Kernel Devs Topped April   Phoronix   2018-05-01
Vega 12/20 Added To AMDGPU LLVM, Confirms New GCN Deep Learning Instructions For Vega 20   Radeon   2018-04-30
Radeon Software for Linux 18.10 Brings Vulkan 1.1, Ubuntu 16.04.4 / SLE 12 SP3 Support   Radeon   2018-04-30
Linux 4.16.6 Brings Correct AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Temperature Monitoring   Linux Kernel   2018-04-30
Linux 4.17-rc3 Released As Another "Pretty Normal" Weekly Test Release   Linux Kernel   2018-04-29
Linux 4.17 Getting A Fix That May Help AMD Systems Conserve Power When Idling   AMD   2018-04-29
Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Adds Initial Support For Icelake   Intel   2018-04-27
AMDGPU Linux Kernel Driver Gets Patches For Vega M Support - Intel Kabylake G   Radeon   2018-04-26
Linux 4.17-rc2 Kernel Released With Mostly Routine Changes   Linux Kernel   2018-04-23
Intel KVMGT 2018-Q1 Release Offers Mediated GPU Pass-Through Improvements   Intel   2018-04-20
AMDGPU DC Fixes For Linux 4.17 Take Care Of "The Dark Screen Issue"   Linux Kernel   2018-04-20
AMDGPU DRM Gets "GFXOFF" Patches To Turn Off Graphics Engine   AMD   2018-04-19
Detailing The Idle Loop Ordering Problem & The Power Improvement In Linux 4.17   Linux Kernel   2018-04-17
Mainline Linux Kernel Almost Ready For Finally Supporting Unprivileged FUSE Mounts   Linux Storage   2018-04-16
Linux 4.17-rc1 Kernel Released: A Ton Of New Functionality While Shedding Old Code   Linux Kernel   2018-04-15
A Last Minute Linux 4.17 Pull To Help Non-PCID Systems With KPTI Meltdown Performance   Linux Kernel   2018-04-15
Remaining Subsystem Updates Land Ahead Of Linux 4.17-rc1   Linux Kernel   2018-04-14
DRM Drivers Get Fixes Ahead Of Linux 4.17-rc1   Linux Kernel   2018-04-13
Linux 4.17 Will Allow Some Systems To Lower Their Idle Power Use Up To 10%+   Linux Kernel   2018-04-11
AMD Posts KFD Support For GFX9/Vega   AMD   2018-04-10
Laptop Support Improvements Head Into Linux 4.17   Hardware   2018-04-10
Linux 4.17 To Support Microsemi Ocelot MIPS SoCs   Hardware   2018-04-10
Finally A Discussion Is Back Concerning FreeSync / Adaptive-Sync / VRR DRM Support   Radeon   2018-04-10
Linux 4.17 Change To Allow RTCs To Live Beyond Their Intended Life   Hardware   2018-04-09
x86 Chinese CPU Manufacturer Zhaoxin Has Been Working On Linux Support   Hardware   2018-04-09
KVM Updates For Linux 4.17 Bring VirtIO GPU Prep For S390, AMD Improvements   Virtualization   2018-04-09
The Big Changes Merged This Week For The Linux 4.17 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2018-04-08
POWER Updates For Linux 4.17 Drop POWER4 CPU Support   Hardware   2018-04-07
PCI, Crypto & Other Updates Head Into Linux 4.17   Linux Kernel   2018-04-07
Thunderbolt Updates Head Into Linux 4.17, Adds USB/SL4 Security Level   Hardware   2018-04-07
Work Is Underway To Upstream LLVM Clang's CUDA Toolchain For AMDGPU/HIP   AMD   2018-04-06
NVIDIA Xavier Support Being Brought Up With Linux 4.17, Other New ARM Boards Too   Arm   2018-04-06
Linux 4.17 Gets PhoenixRC Flight Controller Support & PS/2 Mouse Improvements   Hardware   2018-04-05
Razer's Blade Stealth Multi-Touch To Be Supported By Linux 4.17   Hardware   2018-04-05
F2FS File-System Gets A Lost & Found, Performance Enhancements   Linux Storage   2018-04-05
New Sound Drivers & UAC3 Ready To Play On Linux 4.17   Hardware   2018-04-05
Linux 4.17's Staging Area Loses Some Weight   Linux Kernel   2018-04-04
RISC-V Support Continues Maturing Within The Mainline Linux Kernel   RISC-V   2018-04-04
EXT4 Gets Extra Protection Against Maliciously Crafted Container Images   Linux Storage   2018-04-04
USB Type-C Improvements On The Way To The Linux 4.17 Kernel   Hardware   2018-04-04
AMDGPU DC Begins Reworking FreeSync Module   Radeon   2018-04-04
The Big DRM Pull Request Made It Into Linux 4.17   Linux Kernel   2018-04-04
SPARC ADI, SELinux SCTP & New BMC Server-Side Driver For Linux 4.17   Linux Kernel   2018-04-04
Btrfs Updates Sent In For The Linux 4.17 Kernel   Linux Storage   2018-04-03
IBM s390 Continues Working On Spectre Defense With Linux 4.17, VirtIO GPU Emulation   Linux Kernel   2018-04-03
Linux 4.17 Kicks Off Another Busy Cycle   Linux Kernel   2018-04-03
XFS Gets Lazy Time Support In Linux 4.17, Other Improvements   Linux Kernel   2018-04-03
In 2018, Linux Is Still Receiving Fixes For The Apple PowerBook 100 Series   Hardware   2018-04-02
The New ACPI TAD Driver & CPUFreq Improvements Ready For Linux 4.17 Kernel   Hardware   2018-04-02
Linux Set To Shed Nearly 500k Lines Of Code By Dropping Old CPUs   Linux Kernel   2018-04-02
Linux Kernel Memory Consistency Model Going Into The 4.17 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2018-04-02
Linux 4.17 Sees Port To Andes NDS32 CPU Architecture   Linux Kernel   2018-04-02
Linux 4.16 Kernel Officially Released With Many Driver Improvements, Performance Tuning   Linux Kernel   2018-04-01
OpenChrome DRM Fixed An Annoying Bug, Working On Better DVI Support   Linux Kernel   2018-04-01
Linux 4.16, Ubuntu 18.04 & Raspberry Pi 3 B+ Have Been Definitely Exciting   Phoronix   2018-03-31
Broadcom VC5 DRM Driver Might Make Use Of AMDGPU's Scheduler   Linux Kernel   2018-03-31
Seven Reasons To Already Get Excited For Linux 4.17, Especially For AMD/Radeon Users   Linux Kernel   2018-03-30
Some Of The Best Additions In Linux 4.16   Linux Kernel   2018-03-30
LightNVM Getting Open-Channel 2.0 Support For Linux 4.17   Hardware   2018-03-29
Phoenix RC Flight Controller Driver Coming For Linux 4.17   Linux Kernel   2018-03-29
The Big DRM Pull Request For Linux 4.17: 144,461 Insertions, 38,059 Deletions   Linux Kernel   2018-03-29
AMD Vega 12 GPU Support Lands In Mesa 18.1-devel   Mesa   2018-03-28
USB Audio Class 3.0 Support, Intel Icelake Audio Set For Linux 4.17   Hardware   2018-03-27
Linux Receiving ACPI "Time and Alarm Device" Driver   Linux Kernel   2018-03-27
Google "Hammer" HID Driver Coming To Linux 4.17   Google   2018-03-27
AMDKFD Updates For Linux 4.17 Round Out dGPU Support   Radeon   2018-03-27
Intel "ICE" Driver Landing For E800 Series Ethernet   Linux Networking   2018-03-27
ARM64 Prepping ARM v8.4 Features, KPTI Improvements For Linux 4.17   Arm   2018-03-27
AMDGPU DDX Gets Support For Non-Legacy Color Management   Radeon   2018-03-26
Vega 12 Support Now Queued In DRM-Next For Linux 4.17   Radeon   2018-03-26
Latest AMDGPU DC Plays Nicer With Raven Ridge But Still Linux Gaming Stability Issues   AMD   2018-03-24
Radeon Vega 12 Support Called For Pulling Into Linux 4.17 Kernel   Radeon   2018-03-23
LuxMark OpenCL Performance On Windows vs. Linux With Radeon/NVIDIA   Microsoft   2018-03-23
Etnaviv Now Making Use Of AMDGPU DRM Scheduler, GC7000L Support Coming For Linux 4.18   Linux Kernel   2018-03-22
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Continues Prepping With The Linux 4.15 Kernel   Ubuntu   2018-03-21
Improved VGA_Switcheroo Going Into Linux 4.17   Linux Kernel   2018-03-21
AMD Posts Open-Source Driver Patches For Vega 12   Radeon   2018-03-21