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Tonga AMDGPU Performance On Ubuntu 16.04 Has 80~90%+ Performance Of Catalyst   Display Drivers   2016-03-17
How Ubuntu 16.04 Is Performing With AMDGPU/Radeon Graphics Compared To Ubuntu 14.04 With FGLRX   Operating Systems   2016-03-15
LLVM Clang vs. GCC Compiler Comparison On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS   Software   2016-02-26
Ubuntu 15.10: KVM vs. Xen vs. VirtualBox Virtualization Performance   Software   2015-10-22
Preview: Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 In Amazon's EC2 Cloud   Operating Systems   2014-06-26
Ubuntu 14.04 On Amazon EC2: Xen PV vs. HVM   Software   2014-04-28
Intel Haswell Linux Virtualization: KVM vs. Xen vs. VirtualBox   Operating Systems   2013-07-07
Ubuntu 12.10: Linux KVM vs. Xen Virtualization Preview   Software   2012-07-16
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS KVM Virtualization Battles 8.04.4, 10.04.4 LTS   Operating Systems   2012-04-09
Ubuntu 12.04 KVM/Xen Virtualization: Intel vs. AMD   Processors   2012-03-28
Awkward Linux Power Management With Xen   Software   2011-11-21
Ubuntu 11.10: Xen vs. KVM vs. VirtualBox   Software   2011-10-31
Nexenta 3.0 Benchmarked Against PC-BSD, OpenSolaris, Ubuntu   Operating Systems   2010-09-15
The Performance Of Ubuntu KVM Virtualization   Software   2010-05-12
StormOS Enters Beta   Software   2009-06-05
OpenSolaris vs. Linux Kernel Benchmarks   Operating Systems   2009-05-14
Ubuntu 8.04 KVM Benchmarks   Operating Systems   2008-05-15
Intel Linux Firmware Developer Kit   Motherboards   2008-03-05
Virtualization Made Easy In Ubuntu 8.04   Operating Systems   2008-01-30
OpenSolaris 75 Ships GNOME 2.20, xVM   Operating Systems   2007-10-23
Linux 2.6.23-rc2 Kernel Performance   Processors   2007-08-06
Fedora 7 KVM Virtualization How-To   Operating Systems   2007-03-03
Linux Virtualization Performance   Processors   2007-01-08
Fedora Core 6 Test 3   Operating Systems   2006-09-16
Fedora Core 6 Test 2   Operating Systems   2006-08-07
Nexenta Alpha 4 Elatte   Operating Systems   2006-03-30
Red Hat Fedora Core 4   Operating Systems   2005-06-14

Xen Linux & Open-Source News

Flax Engine 1.8 Brings ASTC Textures, New UI Editor & New Vehicle Features   Linux Gaming   2024-03-30
KVM Virtualization With Linux 6.9 Brings More Optimizations For Intel & AMD   Virtualization   2024-03-24
Linux 6.9 Lowering The Overhead Of CR3 Writes   Linux Kernel   2024-03-20
Linux 6.9 Has A Big Rework To CPU Timers - Some Power/Performance Benefits   Linux Kernel   2024-03-19
Linux 6.9 Lands Reworked Topology Code For Better Hybrid CPU Support   Linux Kernel   2024-03-12
AMD Announces Automotive-Grade Ryzen Embedded V2000A Series   AMD   2024-01-04
AMD Enables VCN Region Of Interest "ROI" Video Encoder Support For Linux GPU Drivers   Radeon   2023-12-17
Xen 4.18 Hypervisor Released With Support For New AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon CPU Features   Virtualization   2023-11-22
In Development Since 2019, NetBSD 10-RC1 Released As A Huge Update   BSD   2023-11-08
Partial SMT Enablement Support Lands For Linux 6.6   Linux Kernel   2023-09-04
Linux 6.5 Patches Merged For Intel GDS/DOWNFALL, AMD INCEPTION   Linux Security   2023-08-08
Mesa TURNIP Vulkan Driver Adds VirtIO GPU Support   Mesa   2023-08-08
AMD Expands Mesa Virgl Video Acceleration For Using On Xen   Mesa   2023-07-19
AMD Improving Xen VirtIO GPU Support For In-Vehicle Infotainment, Using RADV   AMD   2023-07-05
What's Excited Open-Source Enthusiasts & Linux Users The Most So Far In 2023   Phoronix   2023-06-30
RADV Lands Fragment Shader Interlock Support - Useful For Emulators, DXVK & VKD3D   Radeon   2023-06-26
New Patches Allow LoongArch ClangBuiltLinux Builds   LLVM   2023-06-25
AMD Continues Work On Enhancing GPU Support With Xen Virtualization   Radeon   2023-06-12
Linux 6.5 VirtIO GPU DRM Driver Adding Sync Object uAPI For Vulkan   Virtualization   2023-06-07
Linux Lands Fix For Potentially Bogus Number Of Intel Hybrid CPU HT Siblings   Intel   2023-05-28
Mesa "Terakan" Driver Aims To Provide Vulkan Support For Old Radeon HD 6000 Series   Radeon   2023-05-19
QEMU 8.0 Released With 32-bit x86 Host Support Deprecated   Virtualization   2023-04-19
RADV Sees Experimental Fragment Shader Interlock - Important For Emulators, D3D12   Radeon   2023-04-04
New AMD Ryzen CPUs, Intel Sapphire Rapids, Rust Adoption & More In Q1   Phoronix   2023-03-31
XCP-ng Initating Effort To Rewrite Xen Components In Rust   Virtualization   2023-03-18
AMD Working On VirtIO GPU & Passthrough GPU Support For Xen Virtualization   Radeon   2023-03-13
Linux Landing Change To Allow STIBP When Using Legacy IBRS   Linux Security   2023-03-05
Linux 6.2, Linux 6.3 Developments, KDE Plasma 5.27 & More Made For An Exciting Month   Phoronix   2023-02-28
Linux's SystemV Filesystem Support Being Orphaned   Linux Storage   2023-02-16
systemd 253 Released With Ukify Tool, systemd-cryptenroll Unlocking Via FIDO2 Tokens   systemd   2023-02-15
systemd 253 Is Near With RC3 Out For Testing   systemd   2023-02-10
systemd 253 RC1 Released With New "ukify" Tool   systemd   2023-01-24
Linux 6.2 Brings A Big Rework To The MSI Subsystem   Linux Kernel   2022-12-25
NetBSD 10 Beta Brings Much Improved Performance, Long Overdue Hardware Support   BSD   2022-12-20
AArch64 Architecture Code Improvements Land In Linux 6.2   Arm   2022-12-15
GNU Make 4.4 Released With Numerous Improvements, Deprecates Amiga OS   GNU   2022-10-31
Linux 6.1 Xen Supports Grant-Based VirtIO For x86_64   Virtualization   2022-10-16
Linux 6.1 Cleans Up More Code For PREEMPT_RT   Linux Kernel   2022-10-05
openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 Beta Released For Lightweight, Immutable OS   SUSE   2022-09-09
NetBSD 9.3 Released With Better Support For Newer Intel & AMD Chipsets   BSD   2022-08-06
Fedora's Robotics, Games & Security Spins At Risk Of Being Dropped   Fedora   2022-07-26
Linux 5.19-rc2 Released With "Nothing Hugely Scary Going On"   Linux Kernel   2022-06-12
Linux 5.19 Frowns On x86/x86_64 Late Microcode Loading - "It's Just Lottery & Broken"   Linux Kernel   2022-06-06
LoongArch CPU Port Might Still Land For Linux 5.19   Linux Kernel   2022-05-30
Linux 5.19 KVM & Xen Changes Readied For This Next Kernel   Virtualization   2022-05-26
New Intel TSX Fixes For The Linux Kernel Queue Up, Forces Off TSX "Development Mode"   Intel   2022-04-17
Ubuntu's Zsys For OpenZFS Linux Installs Sees First Update In A Year   Ubuntu   2022-04-12
Linux 5.18 To Try Again For x86/x86_64 "WERROR" Default   Linux Kernel   2022-04-03
Linux 5.18's KVM Squeezes In AMD Nested Virtualization Improvements   Virtualization   2022-04-01
Linux 5.18 Xen USB Driver To Harden Against Malicious Hosts   Hardware   2022-03-27
Linux 5.18 Re-Enables Intel ENQCMD Usage In Time For Sapphire Rapids   Linux Kernel   2022-03-22
libvirt 8.0 Virtualization API Released   Virtualization   2022-01-15
USB Changes For Linux 5.17: Overdue Xen pvUSB To DWC3 Multi-Stream Transfer   Linux Kernel   2022-01-14
Linux 5.17 To Bring AMD P-State, Many AMD & Intel Improvements, New Optimizations   Linux Kernel   2022-01-08
Linux's CleanCache Set To Be Cleaned From The Kernel After Being Hyped Up A Decade Ago   Linux Kernel   2022-01-05
Xen pvUSB Front-End Driver Coming For Linux 5.17   Virtualization   2021-12-17
Linux Fixes Spectre V1 SWAPGS Mitigation After Being Partially Borked Since Last Year   Linux Security   2021-12-05
Xen 4.16 Released With Improved Performance, Expanded Hardware Support   Virtualization   2021-12-02
Xen pvUSB Linux Driver Patches Updated, More Than 10 Years In The Making   Virtualization   2021-11-24
Improved Retpoline Code In The Linux 5.16 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2021-11-10
Xen With Linux 5.16 Will Allow For Faster Booting Of Guests   Virtualization   2021-11-09
Cluster-Aware Scheduling Lands In Linux 5.16   Linux Kernel   2021-11-02
FUTEX2's sys_futex_waitv() Sent In For Linux 5.16 To Help Linux Gaming   Linux Gaming   2021-11-01
Linux + GCC/Clang Patches Coming For Straight-Line Speculation Mitigation On x86/x86_64   Linux Security   2021-10-28
Canonical Extending Ubuntu 14.04/16.04 LTS Support To Ten Years   Ubuntu   2021-09-21
BPF Timers To Intel Additions Lead The Networking Changes With Linux 5.15   Linux Networking   2021-09-01
Flax Engine 1.2 Brings Many Big Improvements For This Open-Source Commercial Game Engine   Linux Gaming   2021-08-06
New/Updated Benchmarks For June From GravityMark To L4D2 Vulkan, Updated Neural Networks   Phoronix Test Suite   2021-07-03
GRUB 2.06 Released With BootHole Fixes, LUKS2 Encrypted Volume Support   GNU   2021-06-08
QEMU 6.0 Released With AMD SEV-ES Encrypted Guest Support, Experimental Multi-Process   Virtualization   2021-04-29
Xen 4.15 Hypervisor Brings Live Updates To Xenstored   Virtualization   2021-04-08
Flax Engine 1.1 Released For This Impressive Open-Source 3D Game Engine   Linux Gaming   2021-03-28
Linux 5.12 Should Be Able To Boot As The Root Partition On Microsoft's Hypervisor   Microsoft   2021-02-17
KVM With Linux 5.12 Allows For Userspace To Emulate Xen Hypercalls, AMD Optimization Too   Virtualization   2021-02-15
Intel's Project ACRN To Upstream More Code With Linux 5.12   Virtualization   2021-02-10
Xen Offers Up Security Fixes With Linux 5.11   Virtualization   2020-12-22
NetBSD 9.1 Released With Parallelized Disk Encryption, Better ZFS, X11 Improvements   BSD   2020-10-20
Linux 5.10 Xen Brings Security Updates - Includes Fixing ARM Guests With KPTI   Virtualization   2020-10-20
U-Boot 2020.10 Released With Many Improvements   Free Software   2020-10-06
XCP-ng 8.2 LTS To Bring Rewritten UEFI, Core Scheduling To Fend Off Side Channel Attacks   Virtualization   2020-10-03
Intel Has Been Working On OpenCL C 3.0 Support For Clang   Intel   2020-09-29
"Microsoft Wants To Create A Complete Virtualization Stack With Linux"   Microsoft   2020-09-14
Linux 5.9-rc4 Kernel Released   Linux Kernel   2020-09-06
Linux 5.9 Dropping Xen 32-bit PV Guest Support   Virtualization   2020-08-14
openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Shipping Linux 5.8   SUSE   2020-08-14
Linux 5.9 Networking Changes Are As Active As Ever   Linux Networking   2020-08-08
RHEL Deprecating The Virt-Manager UI In Favor Of The Cockpit Web Console   Red Hat   2020-06-26
Linux 5.8 To Allow For Faster Xen 9pfs Performance   Linux Storage   2020-06-13
Noctua NH-U9S Performance For The AMD Ryzen 9 3950X + Ondemand vs. Performance Governors   AMD   2020-02-10
KVM Virtualization Adds Protections For Spectre-V1/L1TF Combination Attack   Virtualization   2020-01-31
XCP-ng 8.1 Beta Rolls Out While Becoming Part Of The Xen Project   Virtualization   2020-01-28
The Most Popular Linux Hardware Reviews / Benchmarks Of The Past Decade   Phoronix   2019-12-12
Flax Engine Ported To Linux + Vulkan Rendering Support   Linux Gaming   2019-11-19
LinuxBoot Continues Maturing - Now Able To Boot Windows   Linux Security   2019-11-12
SUSE Continues Working On Linux Core Scheduling For Better Security   Virtualization   2019-11-11
Linux 5.4-rc5 Released As The "Kleptomaniac Octopus"   Linux Kernel   2019-10-27
Linux 5.4 Officially Deprecates Xen 32-bit PV Guest Support   Virtualization   2019-10-26
Fresh Video Encode/Decode Benchmark Numbers For Xeon Platinum 8280 vs. EPYC 7742   Multimedia   2019-09-28
XCP-ng 8.0 Hypervisor Released - Based On Xen 4.11, Embeds ZFS On Linux, Adds UEFI   Virtualization   2019-07-25
Linux Kernel Looks To Remove 32-bit Xen PV Guest Support   Virtualization   2019-07-17
GRUB 2.04 Bootloader Released With RISC-V Support, Native UEFI Secure Boot, Btrfs RAID   GNU   2019-07-05
Intel GVT-g Live Migration Support Is Nearing Mainline   Virtualization   2019-06-02
Xen Developers Continue Work On CPU Core Scheduling Support   Virtualization   2019-05-20
X-Plane Making Vulkan Progress; Flax Engine Tacking On Vulkan In Road To Linux   Vulkan   2019-04-27
QEMU 4.0 Released With CPU Support Improvements, Faster Crypto, Monitor EDID   Virtualization   2019-04-23
GRUB 2.04 Release Candidate Brings Globs Of New Features   GNU   2019-04-09
Maximizing HEVC/VP9/AV1 Video Encoding On Intel Xeon Cascade Lake With SVT + Clear Linux   Intel   2019-04-06
Xen 4.12 Released With Better Security, Ability To Go HVM/PVH Or PV Only   Virtualization   2019-04-05
GNU Parallel 20190322 Released - Wants To Help Speed Up Single-Threaded Linux Commands   GNU   2019-03-22
27 CPUs Benchmarked With AOM AV1, Intel SVT VP9/AV1/HEVC Video Encoders   Multimedia   2019-03-04
Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS Released With APT Vulnerability Fix, Other Security Updates Included   Ubuntu   2019-02-28
Unexpected Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS Coming Due To APT Security Issue   Ubuntu   2019-02-23
Preliminary Support Allows Linux KVM To Boot Xen HVM Guests   Virtualization   2019-02-21
SVT-VP9 Is Intel's Latest Open-Source Video Encoder Yielding High Performance VP9   Intel   2019-02-17
GRUB 2.04 Is On The Way This Year Along With Other New Bootloader Features   GNU   2019-02-07
Intel's Linux 5.1 Graphics Driver Will Have Fastboot By Default, More Icelake Bits   Intel   2019-02-02
Debian Installer Buster Alpha 5 Has Initial UEFI Secure Boot Support   Debian   2019-02-02
Linux 5.1 Picking Up Intel Coffeelake GVT, More Icelake IDs Added   Intel   2019-01-28
VIRTIO 1.1 Standard Moving Closer To Release With GPU Device, Better Performance   Virtualization   2019-01-26
Intel Linux Graphics Driver Developers Working On More Efficient Display Presentation For GVT   Intel   2018-12-29
Intel GVT Might Introduce Coffeelake Support In Linux 4.22   Intel   2018-12-07
The AMD Zen-Based Hygon Dhyana CPU Support Landing In The Mainline Linux Kernel   AMD   2018-10-23
Intel KVMGT 2018-Q3 Released As Their Latest Open-Source GPU Virtualization Bits   Virtualization   2018-10-19
Siemens Issues An Oktoberfest Release Of Jailhouse 0.10 Hypervisor   Virtualization   2018-09-24
The "Chinese EPYC" Hygon Dhyana CPU Support Still Getting Squared Away For Linux   AMD   2018-09-23
Solus Deploys Flatpak 1.0, Prepares For X.Org Server 1.20, Better Intel GVT Support   Operating Systems   2018-08-25
Some Of The Smaller Features Hitting The Linux 4.19 Kernel This Week   Linux Kernel   2018-08-16
Patches Revised For AMD Zen Based Hygon Dhyana Server CPUs   Hardware   2018-08-11
DXVK 0.64 Released With More Game Fixes   WINE   2018-08-04
Xenko 3.0 Game Engine Released, Now Open-Source   Linux Gaming   2018-08-03
Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS Released For Those Not Yet Upgrading To Ubuntu 18.04   Ubuntu   2018-08-02
Xen Hypervisor 4.11 Released With Many Core Improvements   Virtualization   2018-07-10
Minimal Ubuntu Can Boot Faster, But Still Not The Fastest Booting On Amazon EC2 Cloud   Ubuntu   2018-07-09
Plenty Of Sound Changes To Be Heard With Linux 4.18   Hardware   2018-06-07
The Big DRM Updates For Linux 4.18: Intel Icelake, Vega M, Vega 20 & V3D   Linux Kernel   2018-06-06
UBports To Work On Unity 8 / Mir / Wayland After OTA-4   Ubuntu   2018-05-24
CVE-2018-8897 Opens Xen PV Systems Up To Exploit   Virtualization   2018-05-09
Intel KVMGT 2018-Q1 Release Offers Mediated GPU Pass-Through Improvements   Intel   2018-04-20
Xen 4.11 Hypervisor Reaches The Release Candidate Stage   Virtualization   2018-04-18
Linux 4.17 Kicks Off Another Busy Cycle   Linux Kernel   2018-04-03
UBports Continues Work On Moving From Ubuntu 15.04 Base To 16.04   Ubuntu   2018-03-18
Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS Released, Makes Use Of Ubuntu 17.10's Kernel/Mesa Stack   Ubuntu   2018-03-01
GRUB 2.04 Should Be Released Later This Year   GNU   2018-02-04
OpenSUSE Rolling Out Retpoline Support, Xen Spectre/Meltdown Mitigation   Linux Security   2018-01-28
openSUSE Tumbleweed Rolls To Mesa 17.3, Linux 4.14.13   SUSE   2018-01-19
Intel Introduces "Hyper DMA-BUF" To Exchange Buffers Between VMs   Virtualization   2017-12-20
Xen Hypervisor 4.10 Released With Centriq and ThunderX Support, New Intel Features   Virtualization   2017-12-14
Extra KVM Changes For Linux 4.15 Bring UMIP Support, AMD SEV Changes Delayed   Linux Kernel   2017-11-20
The Big Changes So Far For The Linux 4.15 Kernel - Half Million New Lines Of Code So Far   Linux Kernel   2017-11-19
KVM & Xen Don't Change Much With Linux 4.15   Virtualization   2017-11-18