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Flash Articles & Reviews

Intel Core i3 12100 Linux Performance Benchmarks   Processors   2022-07-07
NVIDIA Resizable BAR Performance - A Big Boost For Some Linux Games   Display Drivers   2021-06-17
Running The Flash-Friendly File-System On A Hard Drive? Benchmarks Of F2FS On An HDD   Computers   2019-01-28
Samsung 860 QVO SSD Linux Benchmarks: 1TB SATA 3.0 SSD For $150 USD   Storage   2018-12-23
Samsung 970 EVO NVMe SSD Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux   Storage   2018-06-12
Testing F2FS With Its Multi-Drive Capabilities   Storage   2017-04-25
Corsair USB 3.0 Flash Voyager Drives: EXT4 vs. NTFS vs. Btrfs vs. F2FS   Storage   2016-04-26
Running A Btrfs RAID Array Across Four USB 3.0 Flash Drives   Storage   2015-08-17
Trying Out Linux File-Systems With The 4.2 Kernel On A USB Flash Drive   Storage   2015-08-14
Transcend SSD370 256GB   Storage   2015-02-13
USB Flash Drive File-System Tests On Fedora 21   Storage   2014-12-29
Seagate 1TB Solid State Hybrid Drive   Storage   2013-11-26
F2FS Results Mixed Against Microsoft's exFAT On Linux   Software   2013-03-06
USB 2.0 vs. USB 3.0 Flash Drives On Linux   Storage   2013-03-04
F2FS Benchmarks From USB Flash Storage   Storage   2013-03-03
F2FS File-System Runs Great On SDHC Storage   Software   2013-02-21
F2FS File-System Shows Hope, Runs Against Btrfs & EXT4   Software   2013-02-18
Adobe Flash Player 11 Linux Performance   Software   2011-08-09
Adobe's Flash Video Acceleration For Linux Works Well   Software   2010-12-02
OCZ DDR3 PC3-12800 Black Edition   Memory   2010-04-27
Finally, Reiser4 Benchmarks Against EXT4 & Btrfs   Software   2010-03-03
How To Reverse Engineer A Motherboard BIOS   Motherboards   2010-02-06
OCZ Zee 4GB   Storage   2010-01-11
Corsair Flash Voyager GT 32GB   Storage   2009-12-04
Testing Out Linux File-Systems On A USB Flash Drive   Storage   2009-11-11
OCZ Agility SATA 2.0 SSD 120GB   Storage   2009-08-10
Super Talent MasterDrive OX SATA 2.0 SSD   Storage   2009-06-01
OCZ Vertex SATA 2.0 60GB SSD   Storage   2009-05-22
Flashing Your BIOS From The Linux Desktop   Motherboards   2009-05-04
ATP EarthDrive: A USB Flash Drive Made Of Corn   Storage   2009-01-16
Corsair Flash Voyager GT 16GB   Storage   2008-04-28
OCZ Rally 2 Turbo 4GB   Storage   2008-03-31
OtterBox 7030: Durable Notebook Case   Peripherals   2008-02-19
Myah OS 3.0 Beta 1   Operating Systems   2008-02-08
Kubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Alpha 2   Operating Systems   2007-12-21
OCZ ATV Turbo 4GB   Storage   2007-11-20
A-DATA Classic PD18 2GB   Storage   2007-11-15
A-DATA Vitesta DDR2-800 Extreme   Memory   2007-10-03
Corsair Flash PadLock 2GB   Storage   2007-09-02
Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 2   Operating Systems   2007-06-28
Corsair Flash Voyager GT 8GB   Storage   2007-06-13
Corsair Flash Survivor GT 8GB   Storage   2007-05-23
Corsair Flash Voyager 256MB   Storage   2007-04-23
Corsair 1GB SD 133x & 2GB SD 60x   Storage   2007-04-01
SAM Linux 2007   Operating Systems   2007-03-25
MCNLive Virtual City   Operating Systems   2007-02-11
Corsair Flash Voyager 8GB   Storage   2006-11-17
OCZ Mega-Kart 8GB Flash Drive   Storage   2006-11-05
ATP ProMax 150x Compact Flash   Storage   2006-06-18
OCZ Ultra-Slim Mini-Kart 1GB   Storage   2006-05-10
Seagate 5.0GB Pocket Hard Drive   Storage   2006-03-03
Corsair Secure Digital 133x   Storage   2006-01-28
Realm Systems BlackDog   Computers   2006-01-15
ATP ToughDrive 1GB   Storage   2005-12-14
Corsair Flash Voyager 4GB   Storage   2005-12-02
OCZ Rally 2GB Flash Drive   Storage   2005-09-27
Foxconn TV-544 & TP-544 ATX Towers   Enclosures   2005-08-03
Transcend 1GB JetFlash 110   Storage   2005-06-21
Transcend JetFlash MP3 128MB   Peripherals   2005-04-04
Corsair 512MB Flash Voyager   Storage   2005-01-24

Flash Linux & Open-Source News

Updated Dasharo Firmware Pulls In Raptor Lake Instability Fix, Other Enhancements   Hardware   2024-12-10
IBM Deprecating Linux Drivers For CXL Coherent Accelerators & CAPI Flash   Hardware   2024-12-10
Ubuntu flash-kernel Package Looks To Drop Support For Old ARM Hardware   Ubuntu   2024-12-08
F2FS Brings Interesting "Device Aliasing" Feature To Linux 6.13 To Carve Out Partition   Linux Storage   2024-11-26
AMD Talks Up Imminent ROCm 6.3 With Big Performance Gains, New Features   Radeon   2024-11-25
F2FS File-System Adding Device Aliasing Feature For Nifty Uses   Linux Storage   2024-11-04
Coreboot Issues Rebuttal To Recent Laptop Vendor Controversy   Coreboot   2024-10-29
New Patches Allow For Deleting Files ~54% Faster On F2FS   Linux Storage   2024-10-16
F2FS With Linux 6.12 Converts I/O Paths To Use Folios, Other Improvements   Linux Storage   2024-09-24
Ruffle Continues Letting Adobe Flash Player Support Live On In Open-Source   Free Software   2024-09-13
F2FS Inline Tail Allows For Saving Space On Small Files & Reducing I/O   Linux Storage   2024-09-03
Coreboot 24.08 Released With 31 New Motherboards, Initial Intel Panther Lake Support   Coreboot   2024-09-03
Armbian 24.8 Moves To Linux 6.10, Supports Newer ARM & RISC-V Boards   Operating Systems   2024-09-02
AMD Ryzen 9000 Series & Linux Kernel Drama Made For An Exciting August   Phoronix   2024-09-01
Google Making Progress On 16KB Page Size For Android   Google   2024-08-23
NVMe 2.1 Specifications Published With New Capabilities   Standards   2024-08-06
UBIFS File-System Being Hardened Against Power Loss Scenarios   Linux Storage   2024-07-27
Fwupd 1.9.22 Released With Framework SD Expansion Card & Raspberry Pi 5 Support   LVFS   2024-07-26
Linux 6.11 Adds ChromeOS EC LED Driver For The Framework Laptops   Hardware   2024-07-16
Linux 6.11 To Upstream Support For Mobileye EyeQ 6H SoC   Hardware   2024-07-05
Chrome's Coreboot Firmware Adapting For 64-bit Boot, Prepping For Intel Panther Lake   Coreboot   2024-06-29
AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Announced - Zen 5 Showing Big Generational Uplift   AMD   2024-06-02
F2FS With Linux 6.10 Delivers Better Performance On Zoned Storage   Linux Storage   2024-05-21
SiFive HiFive Premier P550 Announced As New RISC-V Developer Board   RISC-V   2024-04-09
F2FS Improves Zoned Block Device Support & Per-File Compression For Linux 6.9   Linux Storage   2024-03-18
Linux 6.9 Continues Clearing Out Code For Intel's Defunct "Carillo Ranch" Platform   Intel   2024-03-18
FreeBSD 13.3 Released With Better WiFi Support, LLVM objdump Added   BSD   2024-03-05
Coreboot 24.02 Released - Supporting Three New Motherboards   Coreboot   2024-03-01
Miracle-WM Announced As A Wayland Compositor Built On Mir   Wayland   2024-02-19
Fast Dedup Coming To OpenZFS For Overhauling Deduplication Capability   Linux Storage   2024-02-15
FEX 2402 Brings More Performance Improvements For x86_64 Binaries On AArch64   Linux Gaming   2024-02-13
Coreboot-Based Dasharo Firmware Updated For MSI Z690/Z790 Motherboards   Coreboot   2024-01-22
RISC-V With Linux 6.8 Restores XIP Kernel Support   RISC-V   2024-01-18
The Open-Source Community Is Still Maintaining Flash Player Support In 2024   Programming   2024-01-14
F2FS Improves Zoned Block Device Support With Linux 6.8   Linux Storage   2024-01-11
AMD CPU Use By Linux Gamers At ~70%, AMD openSIL, & AMD Laptops Topped 2023   AMD   2024-01-01
SPI-NOR Multi-Due Erase Support Ready For Linux 6.8   Multimedia   2024-01-01
Intel Fixes Up Baldur's Gate 3 On Linux With Arc Graphics   Intel   2023-12-22
KDE Receives Many Bug Fixes Ahead Of Christmas   KDE   2023-12-16
Kioxia Donates SDK To Linux Foundation For Software-Enabled Flash SDK   Hardware   2023-12-11
Armbian 23.11 Promotes Some Arm Boards, Adds Ubuntu 23.10 & Debian Trixie Daily Builds   Operating Systems   2023-12-03
Holiday Shopping 2023: FSF Endorses 802.11n WiFi, Opteron Boards & USB To Parallel Printer Cable   Free Software   2023-11-30
Imagination PowerVR Open-Source GPU Driver To Be Introduced In Linux 6.8   Linux Kernel   2023-11-23
F2FS In Linux 6.7 Supports Larger Page Size, Continued Zone Block Device Work   Linux Storage   2023-11-05
RADV Hooks Up Image Compression Control To Workaround Game Bugs   Radeon   2023-10-27
AMD-Powered Framework Laptop Now Working On Linux With Latest BIOS   Hardware   2023-10-26
More Patches For Next-Gen AMD GPU Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.7   Radeon   2023-10-15
Fwupd 1.9.6 Brings Linux Firmware Updating For AMD Graphics Cards   LVFS   2023-10-06
Mobileye EyeQ 5 SoC Support Being Worked On For The Mainline Linux Kernel   Hardware   2023-10-05
Coreboot-Based Dasharo Updated For MSI Z690-A With Raptor Lake S, MSI FLASHBIOS   Coreboot   2023-09-12
Armbian 23.08 Released With Work-In-Progress ThinkPad X13s Support, New SBCs   Operating Systems   2023-09-04
EROFS Lands DEFLATE Compression, F2FS Improves Zoned Devices In Linux 6.6   Linux Storage   2023-09-02
KDE Gear 23.08 Released With Kalendar Becoming Merkuro, Many App Improvements   KDE   2023-08-24
NVIDIA BIOS Signature Lock Broken - What Caused Open-Source Pains For Years   NVIDIA   2023-08-21
Linus Torvalds: "Let's Just Disable The Stupid [AMD] fTPM HWRND Thing"   Linux Kernel   2023-07-31
AMD Readies "New Stuff" For Linux 6.6 Graphics Driver, AMDGPU DC For RISC-V   Radeon   2023-07-28
Steam Beta Brings Fix For Linux Gamers Running Openbox, NVIDIA Crash Fix   Linux Gaming   2023-07-06
F2FS Prepares Some Minor Improvements For Linux 6.5   Linux Storage   2023-07-05
Linux 6.5 Brings WiFi & Bluetooth Support For The MIPS Creator CI20   Hardware   2023-06-28
F2FS Preparing To Land Async Buffered Write Support   Linux Storage   2023-06-19
AMDGPU Linux Driver Enabling FreeSync Video By Default, Improved Power Savings   Radeon   2023-05-31
Armbian 23.05 Brings Debian Bookworm Based Images, i3 Desktop Support   Debian   2023-05-31
Bootlin's Snagboot Aims To Recover & Reflash Embedded Platforms   Free Software   2023-05-23
Debian Installer Bookworm RC2 Released   Debian   2023-04-29
F2FS & Btrfs Enjoy Some Nice Improvements With Linux 6.4   Linux Storage   2023-04-25
Flashrom Splits Into Two For This Firmware/ROM Flashing Utility   Coreboot   2023-04-23
Libreboot Adds Support For An Old Dell Laptop That Can Be Found For ~$100 Used   Coreboot   2023-04-20
QEMU 8.0 Released With 32-bit x86 Host Support Deprecated   Virtualization   2023-04-19
Libreboot Adds Support For The Once Common HP Elite 8200 SFF PC   Coreboot   2023-04-15
Free Software Foundation Certifies A $99 Mini VPN Router   Free Software   2023-04-06
Intel Linux Improvements, AMD openSIL, Zen 4 3D V-Cache & Other March Highlights   Phoronix   2023-04-02
Intel Alder Lake Motherboard With Coreboot/Dasharo Support On Sale For $153 USD   Hardware   2023-04-02
New AMD Ryzen CPUs, Intel Sapphire Rapids, Rust Adoption & More In Q1   Phoronix   2023-03-31
Still Have A Use For Adobe Flash? Ruffle Is Working To Safely Emulate It In Rust   Free Software   2023-03-17
How Cloudflare Updates The BIOS & Firmware Across Thousands Of Servers   LVFS   2023-03-14
Linux 6.3-rc2 Introduces Stuttering Workaround For AMD Ryzen PCs Due To fTPM RNG   AMD   2023-03-12
Ubuntu Announces Official Support For The PolarFire SoC FPGA Icicle Kit RISC-V Board   Ubuntu   2023-03-08
Linux 6.2, Linux 6.3 Developments, KDE Plasma 5.27 & More Made For An Exciting Month   Phoronix   2023-02-28
F2FS Brings Minor Improvements With Linux 6.3   Linux Storage   2023-02-28
Armbian 23.02 ARM/RISC-V OS Released With Linux 6.1 LTS Kernel   Operating Systems   2023-02-27
SSDFS Is The Newest Linux Filesystem & Catering To NVMe ZNS SSDs   Linux Storage   2023-02-25
Intel PMCI Support Lands In Linux 6.3 For Their Max 10 FPGAs   Intel   2023-02-25
Fwupd 1.8.11 Released With Fixes, Firmware Updating For CalDigit Devices   LVFS   2023-02-23
Patches Posted For Enabling WiFi/Bluetooth With The Once Interesting MIPS Creator CI20   Hardware   2023-02-16
Linux Fix Coming For Recent Stuttering On AMD Ryzen Due To fTPM RNG   AMD   2023-02-14
Kalray Posts Initial Patches For Bringing Up Linux On Their KV3-1 "Coolidge" DPU SoC   Hardware   2023-01-03
exFAT With Linux 6.2 Allows Creating Files & Directories Much Faster   Linux Storage   2022-12-15
F2FS With Linux 6.2 Lands Atomic Replace, Per-Block Age-Based Extent Cache   Linux Storage   2022-12-15
Armbian 22.11 Released With RISC-V 64-bit UEFI Build Support, New Arm Boards   Operating Systems   2022-12-05
AMD EPYC Genoa, Linux 6.1 & Rust Efforts Excited Linux Users In November   Phoronix   2022-12-01
Fedora 38 To Modernize Its Live Media Creation   Fedora   2022-11-09
UFS File-Based Optimization Patches For Linux: Shot Down As "Complete & Utter Madness"   Linux Storage   2022-11-02
Linux exFAT Programs v1.2 Allows Repairing Corrupted Filesystems   Linux Storage   2022-10-28
Old & Weird Laptops Risk Seeing Broken Backlight Controls With Linux 6.1   Hardware   2022-10-27
FreeBSD 12.4-BETA1 Released, Q3-2022 Status Report Issued   BSD   2022-10-22
XFS & F2FS Changes Are Tame For Linux 6.1   Linux Storage   2022-10-16
Intel Laptop Users Should Avoid Linux 5.19.12 To Avoid Potentially Damaging The Display   Intel   2022-10-04
IceWM 3.0 Released For This Speedy & Simplicity-Minded X11 Window Manager   X.Org   2022-10-03
F2FS Preparing Support For Atomic Replace   Linux Storage   2022-09-28
F2FS Low-Memory Mode, Atomic Write Improvements For Linux 6.0   Linux Storage   2022-08-12
Zink Squeezes Some More Performance Optimizations In Mesa 22.2 For OpenGL On Vulkan   Mesa   2022-08-12
Ubuntu Working On GNOME Wayland Support For The AMD Xilinx Kria KR260   GNOME   2022-07-18
Libreboot 20220710 Released As Coreboot Downstream Focused On Boot Firmware Freedom   Coreboot   2022-07-10
MSI PRO Z690-A DDR4 WiFi Support Begins Landing In Upstream Coreboot   Coreboot   2022-07-08
F2FS File-System Driver Preparing A Low-Memory Mode   Linux Storage   2022-06-27
Patches Updated For Booting Linux On The Nintendo Wii U   Linux Kernel   2022-06-22
Fwupd 1.7.8 To Further Improve Firmware Updating On Linux   LVFS   2022-06-15
Dasharo 1.0 Open-Source Firmware Released For MSI Alder Lake Motherboard   Coreboot   2022-06-15
Linux 5.19 Adding Support For The PolarBerry RISC-V FPGA Board   RISC-V   2022-06-03
Coreboot 4.17 Brings New Motherboards, AMD PSB, Doom Game Ported To Run As A Payload   Coreboot   2022-06-02
F2FS Enhancements Land In Linux 5.19   Linux Storage   2022-06-01
Fwupd 1.8.1 Released With Firmware Updating For More HP, Corsair, PixArt, Lenovo Devices   LVFS   2022-05-27
AMD Launches Xilinx + Linux Powered Robotics Starter Kit   AMD   2022-05-18
Open-Source Firmware For The MSI Alder Lake Motherboard Taking Shape   Hardware   2022-05-11
Raspberry Pi OS Adds Experimental Wayland Support   Raspberry Pi   2022-04-08
F2FS With Linux 5.18 Boasts Performance Improvements, Faster Recovery After Power-Cut   Linux Storage   2022-03-22
New Patches Posted For Booting Linux On The Nintendo Wii U   Linux Kernel   2022-03-02
FreeDOS 1.3 Released To Advance This Open-Source MS-DOS Replacement   Operating Systems   2022-02-21
F2FS File-System Adding Support For IDMAPPED Mounts   Linux Storage   2022-02-13
Nintendo Wii U Linux Support Discussed - But Lacks GPU, Broken Multi-Core, USB Issue   Linux Gaming   2022-02-08
KDE Kicks Off February With More Bug Fixes, 30-bit Color Support For Plasma On X11   KDE   2022-02-05
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Looks To Drop Its Partner Archive In Favor Of The Snap Store   Ubuntu   2022-01-28
LVFS Exploring Alternate, Open-Source Firmware For Capable End-Of-Life Devices   LVFS   2022-01-24
F2FS With Linux 5.17 Makes Some Performance Improvements   Linux Storage   2022-01-19
LVFS Activity Going Wild Ahead Of New Security Disclosure Requiring Firmware Update   LVFS   2022-01-18
Fwupd 1.7.4 Supports More Hardware For Firmware Updating On Linux   Hardware   2022-01-13
Another ASRock Sandy Bridge / Ivy Bridge Motherboard Ported To Open-Source Coreboot   Coreboot   2021-12-24
Linux Vendor Firmware Service Serves Up 40 Millionth Download   LVFS   2021-12-01
Star Labs StarBook Mk V Support Upstreamed In Coreboot   Coreboot   2021-11-22
F2FS With Linux 5.16 Will Let You Intentionally Fragment The Disk   Linux Storage   2021-11-11
PinePhone Pro Announced As New Linux Smartphone   Hardware   2021-10-15
F2FS Sees More Performance Work For Linux 5.15   Linux Storage   2021-09-05
KDE Sees More Improvements To Plasma, Konsole, Breeze This Week   KDE   2021-08-14
SDL 2.0.16 Is On The Way With Better Wayland Support, Improved PipeWire Integration   Linux Gaming   2021-08-01
FreeBSD Working On A New Installer, Updates To Their Linux Compatibility Layer   BSD   2021-07-24
F2FS Brings Compression Improvements To Linux 5.14   Linux Storage   2021-07-07
Linux 5.14 Picks Up Support For A Tiny & Inexpensive MIPS IoT Single Board Computer   Hardware   2021-07-01
Another Intel Sandy/Ivy Bridge Motherboard Now Works For Coreboot (ASUS P8Z77-V)   Coreboot   2021-06-14
F2FS Picking Up "compress_cache" Feature With Linux 5.14   Linux Storage   2021-06-12
Linux 5.14 To Support F2FS Read-Only Feature   Linux Storage   2021-05-25
Linux 5.13 Adds Support For SPI NOR One-Time Programmable Memory Regions   Linux Storage   2021-05-09
A Number Of Exciting RISC-V Improvements For Linux 5.13   RISC-V   2021-05-06
UBIFS To Default To Zstd Compressed File-System With Linux 5.13+   Linux Storage   2021-05-06
F2FS Adds New Mount Options With Linux 5.13, Other Improvements   Linux Storage   2021-05-04
It's 2021 & The FSF Is Still Endorsing 802.11n WiFi Hardware   Hardware   2021-04-30
FWUPD 1.6 Released For Latest Linux Firmware Updating Capabilities   LVFS   2021-04-26
Debian Installer 11 "Bullseye" RC1 Released   Debian   2021-04-23
RISC-V XIP Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.13 To "eXecute In Place"   RISC-V   2021-03-19
Nintendo 64 Support Mailed In For The Linux 5.12 Kernel   Hardware   2021-02-19
F2FS With Linux 5.12 Lets You Configure The Zstd/LZ4 Compression Ratio   Linux Storage   2021-02-18