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Summer of Code Articles & Reviews

Mesa R500 Texture Semaphore Improvements   Display Drivers   2011-10-10
Benchmarking The New Radeon R300 Register Allocator   Display Drivers   2011-03-29
Nouveau Companion 38   Display Drivers   2008-04-03

Summer of Code Linux & Open-Source News

GCC's Rust Compiler To See Improvements With GSoC 2024   GNU   2024-05-03
An Automated Gentoo Linux System Updater Developed Via GSoC   Operating Systems   2023-08-28
LibreOffice Lands APNG Export Support   LibreOffice   2023-08-13
NVK Vulkan Driver Working Toward YCbCr Support This Summer   Nouveau   2023-06-18
Google Summer of Code 2023 Organizations Announced For Students & New Developers   Google   2023-02-23
Xfce 4.18 Released - Much Improved File Manager, Better HiDPI, Adaptive Vsync With GLX   Desktop   2022-12-15
AMD Linux Graphics Driver Could See Improved Test Coverage Thanks To Google   Radeon   2022-02-18
GNOME 42 Lands New Screenshot/Screencast UI   GNOME   2022-01-29
Google Makes Some Major Changes To Summer of Code 2022 - No Longer Limited To Students   Google   2021-11-10
ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Making Progress On x86_64, Multi-Monitor   Operating Systems   2021-08-01
FreeType 2.11 Released With New Rendering Module, Smooth Rasterizer Is Faster   Free Software   2021-07-19
China's Alternative To GSoC Is Seeing Some Interesting Summer Open-Source Projects   Free Software   2021-07-11
Haiku Marching Towards R1 Beta 3, RISC-V Bring-Up, Intel Display work   Operating Systems   2021-07-11
GCC Rust Front-End Continues Advancing With Plans To Eventually Upstream   GNU   2021-05-29
Google Announces Some Very Interesting GSoC 2021 Projects   Google   2021-05-17
China Is Launching A New Alternative To Google Summer of Code, Outreachy   Free Software   2021-05-09
Plan 9 Copyright Transferred To Foundation, MIT Licensed Code Released   Operating Systems   2021-03-23
200+ Open-Source Projects Involved In GSoC 2021   Google   2021-03-10
X.Org Foundation Bows Out For Google Summer of Code 2021   X.Org   2021-03-07
Google's Pandemic-Minded GSoC Will Be A Lot Less Interesting This Year   Google   2021-01-31
GNU Had A Busy 2020 With The GCC Toolchain Still Rocking, Finally Converted To Git   GNU   2020-12-31
FreeType Merges New "SDF" Renderer For High Quality Text Rendering In Games, Etc   Desktop   2020-12-24
Outreachy Kicks Off Winter 2020 Round With Several Interesting Open-Source Projects   Free Software   2020-12-02
The FSF Is Looking To Update Its High Priority Free Software Projects List   Free Software   2020-10-29
OpenCV 4.5 Released With Support For Multiple OpenCL Contexts, OpenVINO Backend   Programming   2020-10-12
Linux 5.9 Regression, NVIDIA RTX 30, GNOME 40 & Microsoft Made For A Fun September   Phoronix   2020-10-01
GCC Automatic Parallel Compilation Viability Results Help Up To 3.3x   GNU   2020-09-03
GCC "-fparallel-jobs" Sent Out For Compiling Individual Files In Parallel - Up To ~1.9x Speedup   GNU   2020-08-21
GCC Sees More Progress On Ability To Parallelize The Compilation Of Large Source Files   GNU   2020-07-29
Rust-Written Redox OS Now Supports GDB Debugging   Operating Systems   2020-07-28
NetBSD Is Making Progress On Benchmarking For Performance/Regression Testing   BSD   2020-07-26
GNOME-Usage Program Still Striving To Report Per-Program Power Analytics   GNOME   2020-07-25
FreeType 2.10.2 Released With Support For WOFF 2 Fonts   Desktop   2020-05-09
There Are Many Interesting Google Summer of Code 2020 Open-Source Projects   Google   2020-05-07
X.Org Board Elections Wrap Up For 2020   X.Org   2020-04-30
Mesa "Vallium" - Software/CPU-Based Vulkan Based On LLVMpipe   Vulkan   2020-04-24
Git 2.26's Faster Searches Thanks To Multi-Threaded Git-Grep   Programming   2020-04-11
Linux 5.6, Threadripper 3990X, $199 AMD Laptop Topped Reader Interest In February   Phoronix   2020-03-01
Google Announces The 200 Open-Source Projects For GSoC 2020   Google   2020-02-22
Two Weeks Are Left To Apply For An Outreachy Summer 2020 Open-Source Internship   Free Software   2020-02-10
Virtual KMS Driver To Work On Virtual Refresh Rate Support (FreeSync)   X.Org   2019-11-10
Parallelizing GCC's Internals Continues To Be Worked On & Showing Promising Potential   GNU   2019-09-26
Thank The NSA For Their Ghidra Software Now Helping Firmware Reverse Engineering   Coreboot   2019-09-01
Wine Is Now In Better Shape On NetBSD Thanks To GSoC 2019   BSD   2019-08-31
Waypipe Is Successfully Working For This Network-Transparent Wayland Apps/Games Proxy   Wayland   2019-08-30
NetBSD Made Progress Thanks To GSoC In Its March Towards Steam Support   BSD   2019-08-26
Wine On 64-bit NetBSD Is Now In Much Better Shape Thanks To GSoC   BSD   2019-08-03
NetBSD Working On DRM ioctl Support, Eventually To Allow Steam On Linux Gaming Support   BSD   2019-07-10
NetBSD Is Seeing Better Wine Support Thanks To Google Summer of Code   BSD   2019-06-30
GNOME Foundation Issues 2018 Annual Report - Massive Increase In Funding   GNOME   2019-06-27
The Effort To Parallelize GCC With Threads Is Starting To Take Shape   GNU   2019-06-26
Firmware Reverse-Engineering Using NSA Software Continues   Coreboot   2019-06-11
Coreboot Project Is Leveraging NSA Software To Help With Firmware Reverse Engineering   Coreboot   2019-06-04
There Are A Ton Of Interesting GSoC Projects This Year: Dav1d GPU Compute, Wayland, Rust   Google   2019-05-06
Google Is Launching "Season of Docs" To Help Improve Open-Source Documentation   Google   2019-04-14
ADriConf Looks To Move Under The Mesa Umbrella As Linux Driver Configuration Utility   Mesa   2019-04-02
A GCC Parallelization Bottleneck Might Get Addressed This Summer   GNU   2019-04-01
GSoC 2019 Could Bring Work On A Vulkan GPU Driver Settings Utility, OpenMAX Additions   X.Org   2019-03-26
Wine Could Use Student Developers For VKD3D, Other Direct3D Enhancements   WINE   2019-02-10
Debian Could See Expanded Android SDK Support & Better PHP Packaging Via GSoC 2019   Debian   2019-02-09
GCC's Potential GSoC Projects Include Better Parallelizing The Compiler   GNU   2019-02-05
Some Radeon ROCm Packages Pending Review For Fedora   Fedora   2019-01-21
"Soft" FP64/INT64 Implementations Merged To Mesa, Intel Driver Already Making Use   Mesa   2019-01-10
The Rust-Written Kazan Vulkan Driver Lights Up Its Shader Compiler   Vulkan   2018-10-21
The Kazan Vulkan CPU/Software-Based Implementation Being Rewritten In Rust   Vulkan   2018-10-04
The Current Performance Of Virgl3D, Future Plans   Mesa   2018-10-01
There's A New Libre GPU Effort Building On RISC-V, Rust, LLVM & Vulkan   RISC-V   2018-09-28
The Long-Awaited Haiku Operating System Beta Should Be Days Away   Operating Systems   2018-09-08
Outreachy Had 41 Interns Complete Their Work This Summer   Free Software   2018-09-02
ReactOS 0.4.10 Release Candidate Available   Operating Systems   2018-08-30
VLC Saw A Lot Of Exciting Work Thanks To Google Summer of Code 2018   Multimedia   2018-08-30
Work Started This Summer On Adding System Power Information To GNOME-Usage   GNOME   2018-08-30
FFmpeg Received Support For Performing More Operations In OpenCL   Multimedia   2018-08-29
Vulkan VirGL Ends The Summer Being Able To Execute A Compute Shader   Vulkan   2018-08-28
wineSHOCK: The Automated Direct3D Game Benchmarks On Wine   WINE   2018-08-28
The DRM GPU Scheduler Got Beefed Up This Summer, More Improvements Possible   Linux Kernel   2018-08-28
VKMS Coming In Linux 4.19 Is One Of The Best GSoC & Outreachy Projects Of The Year   Linux Kernel   2018-08-15
Wine Had A Successful GSoC 2018, Better Direct3D Game Benchmarks   WINE   2018-08-13
Pitivi's User Interface Is Getting Better Thanks To GSoC, Plus Other GNOME Improvements   GNOME   2018-08-12
KDE Had A Very Successful Google Summer of Code 2018   KDE   2018-08-08
KDE Discover Gets Fwupd Integration For Handling Firmware Updates   KDE   2018-08-06
AutoDeb Still Being Worked On For Automatically Generating Debian Packages   Debian   2018-08-03
Mesa's VirGL Now Has OpenGL 4.2 Support To Offer Guest VMs   Mesa   2018-07-31
ReactOS Is Now Able To Boot From Btrfs   Operating Systems   2018-07-29
The State Of The VKMS Driver, Preparations For vBlank & Page Flip Events   Linux Kernel   2018-07-16
Virtual Kernel Mode-Setting Driver Being Added To Linux 4.19   Linux Kernel   2018-07-12
Vulkan-Virgl Continues Progressing For Getting Vulkan Within VMs   Vulkan   2018-07-10
A Session Suspension & Restoration Protocol Proposed For Wayland   KDE   2018-06-18
Better Wine Benchmarking This Summer For Windows Programs On Linux   WINE   2018-06-14
LibreOffice Now Available On Haiku OS, Mesa 18.1 With Vulkan Being Worked On   Operating Systems   2018-06-06
The Virtual KMS Module Has Begun Progressing As Part Of GSoC 2018   X.Org   2018-05-28
Vulkan Virgl Has Kicked Off For Supporting This Graphics/Compute API Within VMs   Vulkan   2018-05-27
GNOME Announces New Internship Program For Complex Projects   GNOME   2018-05-09
Google Is Working On Vulkan Over CPUs With SwiftShader   Vulkan   2018-05-02
Outreachy Announces Summer 2018 Participants   Free Software   2018-04-25
The Most Interesting Google GSoC 2018 Projects: QEMU Vulkan, Virtual KMS, Nautilus GTK4   Google   2018-04-24
X.Org 2018 Elections Yield 54% Voter Turnout, Select Four New Board Members   X.Org   2018-04-17
Student Applications For GSoC 2018 Now Open   Google   2018-03-12
OpenMAX Tizonia H.264 Encoder/Decoder Land In Mesa 18.1 Git   Mesa   2018-03-06
GSoC 2018 Could Bring Better Video Decode, Nouveau Vulkan, Wayland Improvements   X.Org   2018-02-27
X.Org, GNOME & The 200+ Other Organizations For GSoC 2018   Google   2018-02-14
GTK4, GNOME's Wayland Support & Vulkan Renderer Topped GNOME In 2017   GNOME   2017-12-10
Projects You Can Help With For Advancing Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Graphics   Nouveau   2017-10-16
Kazan Continues Making Progress As A CPU-Based Vulkan Implementation   Vulkan   2017-09-25
FreeType Improvements For The Adobe Engine   Desktop   2017-09-25
X.Org Server 1.20 Expected Around January With New Features   X.Org   2017-09-23
VLC Has Begun Working On Some 3D Video Playback Support   Multimedia   2017-09-10
GNOME's Mutter Loses Some Of Its X11 Dependence   GNOME   2017-09-10
Jente Hidskes Continues Improving Libratbag's Piper Mouse UI, Promoted To Maintainer   Hardware   2017-09-09
FreeBSD Has A New ZFS Boot Management Tool & Library   BSD   2017-09-09
Elivepatch Aims To Make Live Kernel Patching Easier On Gentoo   Operating Systems   2017-09-08
FFmpeg's VP9 Decoder Is Much Faster Thanks To GSoC 2017   Multimedia   2017-09-08
Outreachy Begins Soliciting For 2017 Winter Internships   Free Software   2017-09-08
Vulkan-CPU Is Now Known As Kazan   Vulkan   2017-09-06
BeOS-Inspired Haiku OS Had A Successful GSoC 2017: Swift, Btrfs, Preferences GUI   Operating Systems   2017-08-30
Vulkan-CPU Is Off To A Good Start Thanks To GSoC 2017   Vulkan   2017-08-29
3D OpenGL Acceleration For Windows Guests On QEMU Using VirGL/VirtIO   Virtualization   2017-08-27
Outreachy Summer 2017 Yielded A New Coloring Book, Wine AppDB Improvements   Free Software   2017-08-27
KDE Had Another Successful Year With Google Summer of Code   KDE   2017-08-27
FFmpeg Has Seen Some AVX2 Optimizations For VP9 Decoding   Multimedia   2017-08-27
GNOME Games Now Supports Controller Reassignment   GNOME   2017-08-27
Piper Has Turned Into A Very Competent Mouse Configuration UI For Linux   GNOME   2017-08-26
Haiku Made Progress On Btrfs Support This Summer   Operating Systems   2017-08-26
Mozilla's Servo Made Several Advancements This Summer   Mozilla   2017-08-25
Piper Continues To Be Tweaked For Configuring Your Gaming Mouse On Linux   Linux Gaming   2017-08-20
Vulkan-CPU Gets Working Vertex Shaders, Hopes To Have Something On-Screen Soon   Vulkan   2017-08-19
Rust-Written Redox OS Closer To Self-Hosting   Operating Systems   2017-08-18
Kodi's Wayland Support Was Successfully Revived With GSoC 2017   Multimedia   2017-08-14
Linux's New Mouse Configuration Utility Is Getting Some Spit 'n Polish   GNOME   2017-08-13
Libratbag's Piper Mouse GUI Interface Had A Successful GSoC   Hardware   2017-08-06
OpenMAX Tizonia G3D State Tracker Begins Working For H.264 Encoding   Mesa   2017-07-29
X.Org 2017 Summer Projects Continue Making Progress   X.Org   2017-07-09
KDE Brooklyn Chat Bridge Sees Its First Release   KDE   2017-06-19
The Git Repository For The Vulkan Software Renderer In Development   Vulkan   2017-06-01
Haiku's Plans For OpenGL Hardware Acceleration On Intel   Operating Systems   2017-05-05
Exciting GSoC 2017 Projects: Vulkan Software Renderer, Kodi On Wayland, Much More   Google   2017-05-04
2016 X.Org Annual Report   X.Org   2017-03-29
X.Org Has Been Accepted For The 2017 Google Summer of Code   X.Org   2017-02-28
A Soft Implementation Of ARB_gpu_shader_fp64 Is Slowly Being Tackled For Mesa   Mesa   2017-02-25
A Student Developer Wants To Write A Software Implementation Of Vulkan For Mesa   Mesa   2017-02-11
OpenCV 3.2 Computer Vision Stack Released   Free Software   2016-12-28
Former Nouveau GSoC Developer Now Working For Valve On Open-Source AMD Driver   Valve   2016-12-23
libSoftFloat 1.0 Released, Still Working Towards Emulated FP64 Support For GPUs   Mesa   2016-11-29
LibreOffice 5.3 Enables New Layout Engine By Default   LibreOffice   2016-11-01
The Student Working On "Soft" FP64 Support Is Good News For Older GPUs   X.Org   2016-09-24
Google's Continuing & Numerous Contributions To Open-Source   Google   2016-08-25
The State of Wayland's GSoC Project For Improved Output Handling   Wayland   2016-08-22
DRM Panic Handling Is Back To Being Talked About   Linux Kernel   2016-08-10
Improved File Extraction Coming To GNOME's Nautilus   GNOME   2016-07-17
The State Of The X.Org GSoC 2016 Projects   X.Org   2016-06-24