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SPI Articles & Reviews

Benchmarking Mercury As The "Fastest Firefox Fork" With AVX, AES, LTO + PGO   Storage   2023-08-22
BSD-Powered helloSystem 0.8 Performance Against Linux On AMD Zen 4   Operating Systems   2023-01-26
Running The macOS-Inspired, FreeBSD-Powered helloSystem v0.8 On AMD Zen 4   Operating Systems   2023-01-23
Raspberry Pi OS 32-bit vs. 64-bit Performance   Operating Systems   2022-02-07
XanMod's Linux 5.10 Kernel Helping Tap Extra Performance With The AMD Ryzen 9 5900X   Operating Systems   2021-01-19
Benchmarking The Performance Overhead To The Linux Kernel Runtime Guard   Software   2020-03-02
The XanMod Kernel Is Working Well To Boost Ubuntu Desktop / Workstation Performance   Operating Systems   2020-01-10
Linux 5.4 vs. Liquorix Kernel Benchmarks For AMD Ryzen + Radeon Gaming On Ubuntu   Linux Gaming   2020-01-04
Benchmarks Of OpenMandriva's AMD Zen Optimized Linux Distribution Against Ubuntu, openSUSE, Clear Linux   Operating Systems   2019-06-19
OpenSUSE Leap 15.1 Beta Is Running Well - Benchmarks On AMD EPYC Workstation   Operating Systems   2019-02-23
Running The RadeonSI NIR Back-End With Mesa 19.1 Git   Display Drivers   2019-02-10
Void Linux, Solus, Manjaro, Antergos, Sabayon & Clear Linux Put To A Performance Battle   Computers   2018-11-19
The Ubuntu Linux Performance Over The Past Six Years On An Intel Xeon Server   Operating Systems   2018-10-03
NVIDIA 396.18 Linux Benchmarks, Testing Their New Vulkan SPIR-V Compiler   Display Drivers   2018-04-11
OpenGL 4.6 Released With Vulkan/SPIR-V Ingestion, Parallel Shader Compiles & Finally AF   Software   2017-07-31
A Six Month Redux After Building A 60+ System Basement Server/Computer Room   Computers   2015-10-06
Khronos Debuts OpenGL ES 3.2 & New GL Extensions, But No Vulkan This Week   Software   2015-08-10
How KDE VDG Is Trying To Make Open-Source Software Beautiful   Software   2015-06-29
Khronos Group Announces Vulkan, OpenCL 2.1, SPIR-V   Display Drivers   2015-03-03
Updated Fedora 20 KDE Stack: Something's Funky   Operating Systems   2014-05-22
Western Digital VelociRaptor WD1500HLHX   Storage   2014-01-07
FreeBSD 10.0 Kernel Comes To Debian   Operating Systems   2013-12-16
Running Wayland: It Works, But A Lot Of Work Remains   Software   2012-08-10
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: 32-bit vs. 64-bit Performance   Operating Systems   2012-02-28
ARM Cortex-A9 PandaBoard ES Benchmarks   Computers   2011-12-27
Linux KVM vs. HandelSpielVM Virtualization   Software   2011-12-12
Initial Findings: MeeGo 1.1 Netbook vs. Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook   Operating Systems   2010-11-05
Which Is Faster: Debian Linux or FreeBSD?   Operating Systems   2010-07-23
Early Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Benchmarks   Operating Systems   2010-07-09
VIA's Linux Strategy Takes A Turn With Hidden Driver   Display Drivers   2010-05-25
Testing Out Ubuntu's Unity Desktop   Software   2010-05-10
Fedora 13 Beta Is Set To Sail   Operating Systems   2010-04-13
SilverStone Grandia GD04   Enclosures   2010-01-26
Going Beyond Just Measuring Frame Rates   Software   2009-11-17
Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Performance   Operating Systems   2009-10-23
Intel Releases New Moblin 2.1 Preview   Operating Systems   2009-10-10
Fedora 12 Alpha To Bring Many Improvements   Operating Systems   2009-08-19
Netbook Performance: Ubuntu vs. OpenSolaris   Computers   2009-07-15
Why Dell Should Upgrade Past Ubuntu 8.04 LTS   Operating Systems   2009-04-16
Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Netbook   Computers   2009-04-14
File-System Benchmarks On The Intel X25-E SSD   Storage   2009-03-16
Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and gOS Benchmarks   Operating Systems   2009-02-07
Dell Inspiron 1525 Notebook   Computers   2009-01-13
Ubuntu's Live USB Disk Creator   Software   2008-10-24
Omega 10 Desktop Linux   Operating Systems   2008-09-29
An Early Look At OpenSolaris 2008.11   Operating Systems   2008-07-15
Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" Alpha 1   Operating Systems   2008-06-28
Fedora 9 KDE Rawhide (2008-04-04)   Operating Systems   2008-04-05
AMD Radeon HD 3200 / 780G   Graphics Cards   2008-03-24
An Early Look At KDE 4.1   Software   2008-03-17
Kubuntu 8.04 KDE 4 Alpha   Operating Systems   2008-02-27
AMD Phenom 32-bit vs. 64-bit Linux   Processors   2008-02-11
Fedora 9 KDE Live Alpha   Operating Systems   2008-02-05
Fedora 9 Alpha Preview   Operating Systems   2008-02-05
Sun Solaris Express Communuty Build 81   Operating Systems   2008-01-30
AMD Phenom 9500 Linux Performance   Processors   2008-01-05
AMD 790FX Phenom Chipset On Linux   Motherboards   2008-01-01
Kubuntu + KDE 4.0 RC2   Operating Systems   2007-12-12
OpenSuSE 11.0 Alpha 0   Operating Systems   2007-12-07
Fedora 8 (2007-10-24 Rawhide)   Operating Systems   2007-10-29
Avivo vs. Fglrx Driver In GtkPerf   Display Drivers   2007-07-16
Freespire 2.0 Alpha 1   Operating Systems   2007-03-11
Fedora 7 Test 2   Operating Systems   2007-02-26
Fedora Core 6 Zod Review   Operating Systems   2006-10-24
Fedora Core 6   Operating Systems   2006-10-19
Freespire Beta 1   Operating Systems   2006-07-17
NVIDIA GeForce 6100   Graphics Cards   2006-04-30
NVIDIA 1.0-8756 Display Drivers   Display Drivers   2006-04-07
Linspire v5.1.365 Beta Italiano   Operating Systems   2006-04-01
Spire RockeTeer V SP-500W   Power Supplies   2006-03-23
NVIDIA GeForce 7900GT 256MB   Graphics Cards   2006-03-09
ATI v8.23.7 Display Drivers   Display Drivers   2006-03-08
Nonux v2.2   Operating Systems   2006-01-14
Sharkoon Rainbow TC   Peripherals   2005-12-20
Mindware Studios Cold War   Linux Gaming   2005-11-04
KickButtComputers Signature Series Preview   Enclosures   2005-08-02
Linspire Five-0 (5.0.59)   Operating Systems   2005-03-25
Speeze EEA67B4 VultureSpin 3   Peripherals   2005-03-11

SPI Linux & Open-Source News

Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Enables VK_KHR_shader_float_controls2   Intel   2024-04-25
Fedora Miracle Spin Proposed For Fedora 41   Fedora   2024-04-25
Linux AMDGPU Control Application Adds vBIOS Dumping, Fan Control Hysteresis   Radeon   2024-04-22
Acer Aspire One ARM Laptop To Have "Almost Full" Support With Linux 6.10   Arm   2024-04-21
KDE Developers Work Through More Bug Fixes & Features For Plasma 6.1   KDE   2024-04-20
Linux 6.10 Preps A Kernel Panic Screen - Sort Of A "Blue Screen of Death"   Linux Kernel   2024-04-19
Servo Driving Modularity To Support Different JavaScript Engines   Free Software   2024-04-15
Intel's Newest Software Effort For Achieving Greater Performance: Thin Layout Optimizer   Intel   2024-04-11
GCC 14 Compiler Adds AArch64 GNU/Hurd Support   GNU   2024-04-11
Gentoo Linux Now An SPI Project   Operating Systems   2024-04-10
Linux Kernel Patched For Branch History Injection "BHI" Intel CPU Vulnerability   Linux Security   2024-04-09
Google Announces Axion ARM-Based CPUs For The Cloud   Google   2024-04-09
Explicit GPU Synchronization Merged For XWayland   X.Org   2024-04-09
Raspberry Pi OS Now Shipping With Vulkan Support By Default   Raspberry Pi   2024-04-08
Fwupd 1.9.16 Adds Support For More USB Docks & Qualcomm Devices   LVFS   2024-04-05
Fedora 42 Change Proposal Wants To Make KDE Plasma The Default Over GNOME   Fedora   2024-04-02
Steam On Linux Use Increases - Moves Closer To 2%, AMD CPU Linux Use Hits 72%   Linux Gaming   2024-04-01
CachyOS Making Use Of Plymouth For Better Boot Experience, Mitigates For XZ Fiasco   Operating Systems   2024-04-01
Servo Web Engine Adds WOFF2 Web Fonts, HTML Tables By Default   Free Software   2024-03-30
Asahi AGX Gallium3D Driver Sees Big Sync For Mesa 24.1 To Improve Apple Silicon Graphics   Mesa   2024-03-30
More Efficient VirtIO DRM Driver To Import Scanout Buffers From Other Devices   Virtualization   2024-03-28
TornadoVM v1.0.3 OpenJDK/GraalVM Plug-In For Java Heterogeneous Hardware Support   Programming   2024-03-27
Linux 6.9 Will Boot Much Faster For Systems With Large Amounts Of RAM   Hardware   2024-03-25
LoongArch Enables More Kernel Functionality With Linux 6.9   Linux Kernel   2024-03-22
Linux 6.9 Adds New Build-Time Control Whether To Authorize Attached USB Devices   Hardware   2024-03-21
DXVK 2.3.1 Allows For More Efficient Shader Code Generation On NVIDIA GPUs   Linux Gaming   2024-03-20
Linux 6.9 Adds Support For Snakebyte Gamepads   Hardware   2024-03-18
Bcachefs Sees Improved Journal Pipelining & More Efficient Discard With Linux 6.9   Linux Storage   2024-03-15
Microsoft's DirectX Shader Compiler Sees Improved Linux Build Support   Microsoft   2024-03-11
Niri 0.1.3 Wayland Compositor Brings Touch Support, New Animations   Wayland   2024-03-10
Wine 9.4 Released With VKD3D 1.11 Bundled, OpenGL Support For Wayland Driver   WINE   2024-03-08
Lisa Su Says The "Team Is On It" After Tweet About Open-Source AMD GPU Firmware   AMD   2024-03-06
VKD3D 1.11 Allows Compiling Legacy Direct3D Bytecode To SPIR-V   WINE   2024-03-05
Vulkan 1.3.279 Brings New NVIDIA Extension Co-Engineered By Valve   Vulkan   2024-03-02
Steam's February Survey: AMD CPUs & GPUs Continue To Dominate For Linux Gamers   Valve   2024-03-01
CUDA On ROCm, Ryzen 8000G Series & Rust Activity Made For An Exciting February   Phoronix   2024-03-01
Mesa NVK Vulkan Driver Now Declared Vulkan 1.3 Conformant, Mesa 24.1 To Build By Default   Nouveau   2024-02-28
RADV Driver Lands Vulkan Video AV1 Decode For Mesa 24.1   Mesa   2024-02-27
Sway 1.9 Released - Using New wlroots Rendering API For Better Performance   Wayland   2024-02-24
Fedora COSMIC Desktop Spin Being Considered   Fedora   2024-02-17
GhostBSD 24.01.1 Released: Based On FreeBSD 14, Many Improvements   BSD   2024-02-15
OpenGL 4.6 + OpenGL ES 3.2 Achieved On Apple M1 With Linux Driver   Apple   2024-02-14
helloSystem Publishes New Experimental Build Based On FreeBSD 14.0   BSD   2024-02-09
MythTV 34 Released For Open-Source DVR/PVR   Multimedia   2024-02-09
Fedora Atomic Desktops Born Out Of Fedora Silverblue Success   Fedora   2024-02-09
A New Attempt At Async Device Shutdown Support For Linux   Hardware   2024-02-08
Niri 0.1.1 Wayland Compositor Adds Support For Taskbars, Output Rotation & More   Wayland   2024-02-03
ChipStar 1.1 Released For Compiling & Running HIP/CUDA On SPIR-V   Programming   2024-01-30
Niri Debuts As A Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Inspired By PaperWM   Wayland   2024-01-27
Arch-Based Endeavour OS Updates ISO With Linux 6.7 Kernel, Mesa 23.3.3   Arch Linux   2024-01-27
Sway 1.9-rc1 Supports New Wayland Extensions & Better Rendering Performance   Wayland   2024-01-26
Open-Source Intel & AMD Drivers Make Quick Progress On Vulkan Roadmap 2024 Extensions   Vulkan   2024-01-25
Serpent OS To Require x86_64-v2 CPUs While Offering x86_64-v3 Packages Too   Operating Systems   2024-01-20
openSUSE Prepares For openSUSE Leap 16 Next Year Based On ALP   SUSE   2024-01-15
Bcachefs Boasts Hefty Optimization For Linux 6.8: 4k MT Random Writes Jump ~30%   Linux Storage   2024-01-10
Vcc Announced As The Vulkan Clang Compiler   Vulkan   2024-01-10
Mesa's NVK Vulkan Driver Lands A Pipeline Shader Cache   Nouveau   2024-01-09
Linux 6.8 To Introduce New Intel Xe & PowerVR Graphics Drivers, Prepare For New AMD & Intel CPUs   Linux Kernel   2024-01-07
Patches Updated To Tackle vmap/vmalloc Lock Contention That Can Yield ~12x Throughput   Linux Kernel   2024-01-02
Linux Patch Allows For Better HP OMEN 17 Laptop Performance - But With Higher TDP   Hardware   2024-01-02
systemd In 2023 Added Windows-Inspired "Blue Screen Of Death" & macOS-Inspired T.D.M.   systemd   2024-01-02
Wayland Enjoyed Many Successes In 2023   Wayland   2024-01-01
SPI-NOR Multi-Due Erase Support Ready For Linux 6.8   Multimedia   2024-01-01
Intel Meteor Lake, Emerald Rapids & Other Popular Topics For December   Phoronix   2024-01-01
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Now Exposes Cooperative Matrix Support   Intel   2023-12-30
Valve's Linux Contributions, Wayland & Open-Source NVIDIA Milestones Topped 2023   Phoronix   2023-12-28
LoongArch KVM Support Extended To Allow LSX/LASX SIMD Support   Virtualization   2023-12-24
Lab Wayland Compositor 0.7 Released - Ported To wlroots 0.17   Wayland   2023-12-23
ASRock Launches AI QuickSet Software For Linux   Hardware   2023-12-22
Acer Aspire 1 ARM Laptop Has Nearly Complete Upstream Linux Support   Arm   2023-12-20
Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Continues Building Up Its Rust Infrastructure   Operating Systems   2023-12-20
Fedora Asahi Remix 39 Released For Apple Silicon Macs   Fedora   2023-12-19
PoCL 5.0 Released With Transparent OpenCL Over Networked Systems Capability   Standards   2023-12-19
Linux 6.7-rc6 Released: "Various Random Fixes All Over"   Linux Kernel   2023-12-17
Intel Proposing XeGPU Dialect For LLVM MLIR   LLVM   2023-12-17
Pop!_OS COSMIC Desktop Improving Multi-Monitor & Multi-Window Support   Desktop   2023-12-15
KDE Plasma Mobile 6 Porting Underway   KDE   2023-12-14
Intel Visual Sensing Controller Enablement Work Continues For Linux 6.8   Intel   2023-12-12
Unvanquished 0.54.1 Released With Rendering Fixes & Better Bots   Linux Gaming   2023-12-10
Linux Mint 21.3 Beta Released With Cinnamon 6.0 Desktop   Operating Systems   2023-12-10
Lubuntu 24.04 LTS Aiming For Optional Wayland Session, Default in 24.10   Ubuntu   2023-12-10
Canonical Releases Multipass 1.13 RC With Snapshots Support, Migrated To Qt6   Ubuntu   2023-12-08
PoCL 5.0-RC1 Released With Experimental OpenCL For Networked Systems   Hardware   2023-12-08
git.kernel.org Adds Native Dark Mode Support   Linux Kernel   2023-12-07
Raspberry Pi OS Improves Wayfire Rendering, Enhanced Raspberry Pi 5 Support   Raspberry Pi   2023-12-07
systemd 255 Released With A "Blue Screen of Death" For Linux Systems   systemd   2023-12-06
TornadoVM 1.0 Released For Running Java On Heterogeneous Hardware: CPUs, GPUs & FPGAs   Programming   2023-12-05
Fwupd 1.9.10 Adds LoongArch Support & Firmware Updating For A ~$1k USD Web Camera   LVFS   2023-12-04
Red Hat Developing New xwayland-run & wlheadless-run Utilities   Wayland   2023-11-29
AMDVLK 2023.Q4.2 Vulkan Driver Brings Ray-Tracing & SPIR-V Improvements   Radeon   2023-11-27
Archinstall 2.7 Brings Unified Kernel Image Support To The Arch Linux Installer   Arch Linux   2023-11-23
wlroots 0.17 Adds New Wayland Protocols, Continued Vulkan Renderer Work   Wayland   2023-11-22
Microsoft Enables OpenGL 4.6 Support Over Direct3D 12   Mesa   2023-11-19
KDE Addressing A Spike In Bug Reports Following The Plasma 6 Alpha   KDE   2023-11-18
AMD Talking Up Open-Source & Open Standards Ahead Of "Advancing AI" Event   AMD   2023-11-14
Intel Lunar Lake M Added To LPSS Driver In Linux 6.7   Intel   2023-11-08
Microsoft's CBL-Mariner Linux Distro Issues A Big Update For November   Microsoft   2023-11-08
systemd 255-rc1 Brings "Blue Screen of Death" Support & New Tool To Spawn VMs   systemd   2023-11-06
KDE Plasma 6.0 Approved For Fedora 40 - Including Dropping The X11 Session   Fedora   2023-11-02
OpenELA Publishes Initial Source Code For Building RHEL Derivatives   Red Hat   2023-11-02
Steam Linux Usage Dropped Lower In October But With More Questionable Data   Valve   2023-11-01
Wayland Progress, Ryzen AI & Linux Benchmarks That Made For An Exciting October   Phoronix   2023-11-01
Systemd Working On "Storage Target Mode" Feature - Inspired By Apple macOS   systemd   2023-10-31
Google Chrome To Remove Theora Video Codec Support   Google   2023-10-29
Fedora 39 Delayed To At Least 7 November   Fedora   2023-10-27
Servo Web Engine Made Some Nice Progress In October   Mozilla   2023-10-26
The Fedora 39 Release Has Been Held Up By Raspberry Pi Bugs   Fedora   2023-10-25
AMDVLK 2023.Q4.1: Polaris & Vega Support Dropped, Counter-Strike 2 Tuning   Radeon   2023-10-25
RADV Vulkan Driver Merges Cooperative Matrix Support Using RDNA3 WMMA   Radeon   2023-10-24
Zlib-ng 2.1.4 Brings LoongArch Port, New RISC-V & ARM Optimizations   Free Software   2023-10-22
Multi-Grained Timestamps Revised Following Revert From Linux 6.6   Linux Storage   2023-10-18
Intel La Jolla Cove Adapter "LJCA" Drivers Coming With Linux 6.7   Intel   2023-10-16
Linux 6.6-rc6 Released: Plan For 6.6 Stable In Two Weeks   Linux Kernel   2023-10-15
Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 ISOs Recalled Due To Malicious User Translations   Ubuntu   2023-10-12
Intel Lands A Few Noteworthy Improvements Today Into The GCC 14 Compiler   Intel   2023-10-12
O3DE 23.10 Released With Many Improvements To This Open-Source Game Engine   Linux Gaming   2023-10-10
Ferrocene Safety-Critical Rust Compiler Code Published   Programming   2023-10-05
Mobileye EyeQ 5 SoC Support Being Worked On For The Mainline Linux Kernel   Hardware   2023-10-05
Intel Comes Up With A Way For Vulkan Sparse Support On Their Existing Linux Driver   Intel   2023-10-03
Loongson Preparing LoongArch KVM Virtualization For Linux 6.7   Virtualization   2023-10-02
Raspberry Pi 5, Steam Deck & New AMD CPUs Dominated Q3   Phoronix   2023-09-30
Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver Begins Working On Pipeline Caching   Mesa   2023-09-28
Limited Support For The AMD Pensando Elba SoC Might Finally Land Upstream In Linux 6.7   AMD   2023-09-26
Compute Runtime 23.30.26918.9 Released For Intel's Open-Source GPU Compute Stack   Intel   2023-09-22
Ubuntu 23.10 Beta Released - Powered By Linux 6.5, GNOME 45 & Other Updates   Ubuntu   2023-09-22
Go Ad-Free & Single Page Articles With The Phoronix 2023 Oktoberfest Sale   Premium   2023-09-18
KDE On Wayland: "The Biggest Thing Needed Now Is Adoption By 3rd Party Apps"   KDE   2023-09-18
AMD To Enable Seamless Boot Across Modern Radeon Graphics Hardware   Radeon   2023-09-14
Ubuntu 23.10 Restores ZFS File-System Support In Its Installer   Ubuntu   2023-09-13
Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 Reaches Beta   Operating Systems   2023-09-13
LoongArch With Linux 6.6 Adds KGDB/KDB, KFence, KASAN, LBT Binary Translation   Hardware   2023-09-09
GNOME 45.rc Brings GDM Wayland Multi-Seat, More libadwaita Adoption   GNOME   2023-09-09
Manjaro 23.0 Released With GNOME 44, KDE Plasma 5.27 & Xfce 4.18 Desktop Options   Operating Systems   2023-09-05
DXVK 2.3 Brings Presentation Improvements, More Game Fixes, "hideNvidiaGpu" Option   Valve   2023-09-04
OpenColorIO 2.3 Released With New AVX/AVX2 Optimizations   Free Software   2023-09-01
Inception & Downfall, Linux 6.6 Development Kicking Off & Other August Highlights   Phoronix   2023-09-01
Intel GDS/Downfall Linux Mitigation Updated To Confirm All Skylake CPUs Are Affected   Intel   2023-08-31
Ubuntu Desktop "Charting A Course For The Future" With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Next Year   Ubuntu   2023-08-25
Vulkan 1.3.262 Rolls Out With Four New Extensions   Vulkan   2023-08-25
OpenMandriva ROME 23.08 Brings KDE Plasma 6 TP Option, Continues With AMD Zen Spin   Operating Systems   2023-08-24
Asahi Linux's Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant   Apple   2023-08-22
Firefox 117 Beta 8 vs. Google Chrome 116 Linux Browser Performance   Free Software   2023-08-18
GNOME 45 Beta Released With Many Improvements   GNOME   2023-08-18
LoongArch "Loong64" Added To Debian Ports   Debian   2023-08-16
Firefox Finally Outperforming Google Chrome In SunSpider   Mozilla   2023-08-15
Mold 2.1 Linker Brings LoongArch CPU Support   Programming   2023-08-13
Haiku OS Support Upstreamed Into GCC Compiler   GNU   2023-08-11
Upgraded GNU Compiler Toolchain Approved For Fedora 39   Fedora   2023-08-11
Microsoft's CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distro Adds DNF5, Zstd-Compressed RPMs   Microsoft   2023-08-10
Window Maker 0.96 Released For Window Manager Inspired By NeXTSTEP UI   Desktop   2023-08-07