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Linux 4.2 Articles & Reviews

Linux 5.0 File-System Benchmarks: Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. F2FS vs. XFS   Storage   2019-01-07
The Many New Features & Improvements Of The Linux 5.0 Kernel   Software   2019-01-06
Radeon Software 18.50 vs. Linux 4.20 + Mesa 19 Benchmarks On The AMD RX 590   Display Drivers   2018-12-18
Linux 4.20 I/O Scheduler Benchmarks On NVMe SSD Storage   Storage   2018-12-04
The Radeon RX Vega Performance With AMDGPU DRM-Next 4.21 vs. NVIDIA Linux Gaming   Display Drivers   2018-12-02
A Look At The Linux Kernel Performance From 4.10 To 4.20   Software   2018-11-26
Benchmarking The Work-In-Progress Spectre/STIBP Code On The Way For Linux 4.20   Software   2018-11-23
The Spectre/Meltdown Performance Impact On Linux 4.20, Decimating Benchmarks With New STIBP Overhead   Software   2018-11-17
Bisected: The Unfortunate Reason Linux 4.20 Is Running Slower   Software   2018-11-16
The Many New Features of The Linux 4.20 Kernel   Software   2018-11-04
Trying Out AMDGPU DRM-Next Ahead Of Linux 4.20~5.0   Display Drivers   2018-10-02
Linux 4.2 Ubuntu 15.10 HDD Tests: XFS Leads Over EXT4, Btrfs   Software   2015-10-31
Intel Skylake Tests On Linux 4.3 Bring A Few Changes   Software   2015-10-09
Trying Out The Open-Source NVIDIA/Nouveau Driver Rework In Linux 4.3   Display Drivers   2015-09-10
Running The AMD Radeon R9 Fury With AMD's New Open-Source Linux Driver   Display Drivers   2015-08-30
Trying Out Linux File-Systems With The 4.2 Kernel On A USB Flash Drive   Storage   2015-08-14
The New AMD GPU Open-Source Driver On Linux 4.2 Works, But Still A Lot Of Work Ahead   Display Drivers   2015-07-25
Here Is Why The Linux 4.2 Kernel Is Messing Up On Some Ubuntu Systems   Software   2015-07-13
The Many New Features Of The Linux 4.2 Kernel   Software   2015-07-05

Linux 4.2 Linux & Open-Source News

The Most Popular Linux News Over The Past 20 Years   Free Software   2024-06-06
Linux 5.20 Likely To Be Called Linux 6.0   Linux Kernel   2022-08-01
Renesas H8/300 CPU Support Looks To Be Dropped Again From The Linux Kernel   Linux Kernel   2022-03-08
LLVM Backend In Development For China's C-SKY Embedded CPUs   Hardware   2020-08-21
C-SKY CPU Architecture For Linux 5.6 Picks Up Stack Protector, PCI Support   Hardware   2020-02-23
Happy New Year + A Look Back At The Most Popular Linux Content Of 2019   Phoronix   2019-12-31
The Linux Kernel Highlights Of The 2010s From Torvalds' Sabbatical To Dealing With Vulnerabilities   Linux Kernel   2019-12-31
LLVM Began Its Dominance Of The Compiler Landscape This Decade   LLVM   2019-12-25
The Most Popular Linux / Open-Source News Of This Decade   Phoronix   2019-12-11
The Allwinner "Cedrus" Video Decoder Supports H.265 On Linux 5.5   Hardware   2019-11-29
AMD Linux Driver's LRU Bulk Moves Can Be A Big Help For Demanding Linux Games   Radeon   2019-09-18
Radeon Graphics, Zombieload & Kernel Changes Intrigued Open-Source Fans In H1-2019   Phoronix   2019-07-09
High Resolution Scroll Wheel Support Being Worked On For Wayland   Wayland   2019-04-03
Gentoo-Based Sabayon 19.03 - Finally Supports Full Disk Encryption, Python 3 Default   Operating Systems   2019-04-01
Radeon VII & Linux 5.0 Excited Open-Source Enthusiasts In Q1   Free Software   2019-03-30
Solus 4 Officially Released With Updated Budgie Desktop, Linux 4.20 Kernel   Operating Systems   2019-03-18
Knoppix 8.5 Live Linux Distro Released, Based On Linux 4.20, Adds Adriane Audio Desktop   Operating Systems   2019-03-16
FUSE Is Fusing More Performance Improvements In Linux 5.1   Linux Storage   2019-03-12
Linux 5.0-ck1 Kernel Rolls Out With MuQSS 0.190 Scheduler   Linux Kernel   2019-03-11
Linux 5.0 Kernel Released With Long-Awaited FreeSync Support, Many New/Improved Features   Linux Kernel   2019-03-03
Linux 5.0, Radeon VII, Intel Iris Driver & Other Exciting Milestones In February   Phoronix   2019-02-28
Mageia 7.0 Beta 2 Released - Powered By Linux 4.20, Mesa 19.0-rc   Operating Systems   2019-02-24
The Most Interesting Highlights To The Linux 5.0 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2019-02-22
AMDGPU Has Late Fixes For Linux 5.0: Golden Register Update For Vega 20, Display Fixes   Radeon   2019-02-21
KASAN Spots Another Kernel Vulnerability From Early Linux 2.6 Through 4.20   Linux Kernel   2019-02-20
Linux-Firmware Adds Signed NVIDIA Firmware Binaries For Turing's Type-C Controller   NVIDIA   2019-02-13
OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 Beta Brings Installer Improvements, Dnfdragora GUI Package Manager   Operating Systems   2019-02-09
Binutils 2.32 Released With C-SKY Support, Linker Improvements   GNU   2019-02-02
Linux 5.0, RTX 2060, ZoL & Other Topics Dominating Discussions For January   Phoronix   2019-02-01
Glibc 2.29 Released With getcpu() On Linux, New Optimizations   GNU   2019-01-31
Initial Allwinner H6 Video Decode Support Posted For The Cedrus VPU Driver   Multimedia   2019-01-29
Linux 5.1 Picking Up Intel Coffeelake GVT, More Icelake IDs Added   Intel   2019-01-28
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Now Rolling With Linux 4.20, KDE Updates   Operating Systems   2019-01-25
AMDGPU Kernel Driver Is Working Out Well On Linux 5.0   Radeon   2019-01-22
Read-Only Apple File-System Support Is Being Worked On For The Linux Kernel (APFS)   Linux Storage   2019-01-22
Linux 4.20 Allows Overclockers To Increase The Radeon TDP Power Limit   Radeon   2019-01-18
ZOL 0.8 Nears With RC3 Release - Big Update For ZFS On Linux   Linux Storage   2019-01-14
AMD Raven 2 & Picasso AMDGPU Firmware Binaries Added To Linux-Firmware   Radeon   2019-01-14
Linux 5.0-RC2 Kernel Released   Linux Kernel   2019-01-13
The Expected Linux Driver State For The Radeon VII   Radeon   2019-01-10
Linux 4.20.1 Kernel Released With Various Fixes   Linux Kernel   2019-01-09
DRM Graphics Drivers Already Queuing Changes For Linux 5.1   Linux Kernel   2019-01-08
Aquantia Announces Multi-Gig Ethernet Controllers, Coming Soon To ASUS Boards   Hardware   2019-01-07
Linux 5.0-rc1 Debuts With New Hardware Support, FreeSync, I3C, High-Res Scrolling   Linux Kernel   2019-01-06
Linux MINCORE System Call Changed To Avoid Information Leaks   Linux Kernel   2019-01-06
Fscrypt's Adiantum Sent In For Linux 4.21 For Speedy Disk Encryption On Low-End Hardware   Linux Storage   2019-01-06
New Radeon Vega IDs & Fixes Land Ahead Of Linux 4.21-rc1   Radeon   2019-01-06
i.MX8 SoC Support Is Heading Into Linux 4.21 Along With Another ARM Platform   Arm   2019-01-05
FBDEV Is Still Alive In 2019, Picking Up A Few Minor Improvements In Linux 4.21   Linux Kernel   2019-01-04
Linux Kernel Support Revived For Hibernation Encryption & Authentication   Linux Kernel   2019-01-04
NVIDIA 410.93 Linux Driver Released With Quadro RTX 8000 Support, 4.20 Kernel Compatible   NVIDIA   2019-01-03
Logitech High Resolution Scrolling, 700K Gaming Keyboard Sent In For Linux 4.21   Hardware   2019-01-03
C-SKY CPU Architecture Port Updated For Linux 4.21   Hardware   2019-01-03
Reiser4 Patch Released For Linux 4.20 Kernel Support Plus A Few Fixes   Linux Storage   2019-01-03
Raspberry Pi Touchscreen Driver Finally Being Mainlined With Linux 4.21 Kernel   Raspberry Pi   2019-01-02
From The Linux Perspective: What I Am Most Looking Forward To In 2019   Linux Kernel   2019-01-02
Reiser4 File-System Port To The Linux 4.20 Kernel   Linux Storage   2019-01-01
Linux 4.20, Debian, Intel, x32, Microsft's Actions & STIBP Topics Rounded Out 2018   Phoronix   2019-01-01
The New ARM Hardware Support That's Now Part Of The Linux 4.21 Kernel   Arm   2019-01-01
Intel Developing New CPU Idle Governor For Tickless Systems   Intel   2019-01-01
That's A Wrap For 2018 With 3,693 News Articles, 314 Linux Hardware Reviews/Benchmarks   Phoronix   2018-12-31
Intel VT-d Scalable Mode Coming To Linux 4.21 - Makes Up Scalable I/O Virtualization   Intel   2018-12-31
Open-Source / Linux Letdowns For 2018   Free Software   2018-12-31
The Linux Kernel In 2018 Summed Up: Spectre/Meltdown, CoC, Speck Fears, New Features   Linux Kernel   2018-12-31
OPTPOLINES - Formerly Relpolines, Lower Overhead To Retpolines For Spectre Mitigation   Linux Security   2018-12-31
Linux 4.20-ck1 Released With An Updated Version Of MuQSS Scheduler   Linux Kernel   2018-12-31
NVIDIA's 2018 Linux Highlights Included Some Open-Source Milestones, But Not Many   NVIDIA   2018-12-30
Linus Torvalds' New Helper Is Working Out Well For Linux 4.21   Linux Kernel   2018-12-30
A Lot Of AMDGPU DC Fixes, New VegaM PCI ID Line Up For Linux 4.21   Radeon   2018-12-29
Linux 4.21 Staging Updates Have "Lots & Lots Of Tiny Patches"   Linux Kernel   2018-12-29
Linux 4.21 Picking Up New Console Font For HiDPI / Retina Screens   Linux Kernel   2018-12-29
F2FS Gets More Fixes In Linux 4.21 With The File-System Now Supported By Google's Pixel   Linux Storage   2018-12-28
Linux CoC, Debian, Speck & Kernel Happenings Rounded Out Q4-2018   Free Software   2018-12-28
Mesa RadeonSI Lands FreeSync / Adaptive-Sync Support That Pair With Linux 4.21   Radeon   2018-12-28
Binderfs Sent In For Linux 4.21 Plus Thunderbolt Updates, Intel Stratix10 Additions   Linux Kernel   2018-12-28
Andes NDS32 Architecture Seeing Many Additions With Linux 4.21   Hardware   2018-12-28
NXP PowerPC Processors Finally Being Mitigated Against Spectre V2 With Linux 4.21   Linux Security   2018-12-27
ECC Support For The ZynqMP DDR Controller Coming With Linux 4.21   Hardware   2018-12-27
The x86 Platform Driver Updates Land In Linux 4.21   Hardware   2018-12-27
WireGuard Is Now Available From Apple's App Store   Linux Networking   2018-12-26
Adiantum & Streebog Sent In For Linux 4.21 Along With Various Crypto Performance Boosts   Linux Kernel   2018-12-26
FreeSync Support Lands In Linux 4.21 With Other DRM Updates In Christmas Day Merge   Linux Kernel   2018-12-26
EXT4 Seeing Various Fixes For Linux 4.21   Linux Kernel   2018-12-26
ARM's big.LITTLE Energy Aware Scheduling Support Has Been Sent In For Linux 4.21   Linux Kernel   2018-12-26
AMD Zen 2 Temperature Monitoring Changes Sent In For Linux 4.21   AMD   2018-12-25
Happy Holidays As We Wrap Up 2018, Looking Ahead To An Exciting 2019   Phoronix   2018-12-25
Linux 4.21 Will Be Able To Read Hygon Dhyana CPU Temperatures, Adds PowerPC OCC   Hardware   2018-12-25
MIPS Preparing Many Changes For Linux 4.21   Hardware   2018-12-25
Improved AMD CPU Microcode Handling On Deck For Linux 4.21   AMD   2018-12-24
GNU Linux-libre 4.20-gnu Released With A Fresh Round Of Driver De-Blobbing   GNU   2018-12-24
XFS Getting More Spit & Polish With Linux 4.21 Kernel   Linux Storage   2018-12-24
Many Linux x86_64 KVM Changes Ready To Go For Linux 4.21   Virtualization   2018-12-24
Linux 4.20 Kernel Released To End The Year On A High Note   Linux Kernel   2018-12-23
AMD Platform QoS Support For Next-Gen EPYC Processors Landing In Linux 4.21   AMD   2018-12-23
Networking In The Next Kernel Yields AQtion USB Driver, Retpoline Overhead Reduction   Linux Kernel   2018-12-23
It's Time For The Premium 2018 Winter Sale To Show Your Linux Benchmarking Support   Premium   2018-12-22
Power Management Changes Prepped For Linux 4.21 With New Qualcomm CPUFreq Driver   Linux Kernel   2018-12-22
Another Year Closer, Linux 4.21 Getting More Preparations For Y2038 Problem   Linux Kernel   2018-12-22
Linux 4.21 Is Going To Be A Big Release To Jump-Start The New Year   Linux Kernel   2018-12-22
Linux Getting Driver Work To Support Tesla V100 NVLink GPUs On High-End POWER9 Servers   NVIDIA   2018-12-21
Linux DMA Mapping Updates Help Recover Losses Caused By Spectre V2 Retpolines   Linux Kernel   2018-12-21
Sound Updates Slated For Linux 4.21 Have AMD ACP3 Support, Other New Hardware Support   Hardware   2018-12-21
A Lot Of Media Driver Work For Linux 4.21 - Includes Intel IPU3, ASpeed Video Engine   Multimedia   2018-12-21
The Most Notable New Features Of The Linux 4.20 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2018-12-20
Binderfs Queued Ahead Of The Linux 4.21 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2018-12-20
WireGuard Issues New Snapshot, But Doesn't Look Like It Will Make It Into Linux 4.21   Linux Networking   2018-12-20
Btrfs Changes For Linux 4.21 Prepped With Swapfile Support, Logging Improvements   Linux Kernel   2018-12-19
The I3C Subsystem Seeks To Be Included In Linux 4.21   Hardware   2018-12-19
VirtualBox 6.0 Released With Better HiDPI Support, VMSVGA 3D Graphics On Linux   Oracle   2018-12-18
AMD Audio Co-Processor 3.x Support Coming For Linux 4.21   AMD   2018-12-18
Linux 4.14 vs. 4.20 Performance Benchmarks - The Kernel Speed Difference For 2018   Linux Kernel   2018-12-18
Enabling Intel Fastboot Support By Default Brought Up, Again   Intel   2018-12-17
Linux Networking Improvements To Mitigate Retpoline Overhead Ready For 4.21 Kernel   Linux Networking   2018-12-17
Linux 4.20-rc7 Kernel Released - Linux 4.20 Should Be Released In Time For Christmas   Linux Kernel   2018-12-16
Mainline Linux Support Getting Squared Away For $129 Intel SoC FPGA Board   Intel   2018-12-16
Vega 12 Firmware Lands Along With RX 590 Polaris Bits, Updated Zen CPU Microcode   AMD   2018-12-15
Fedora Developers Are Trying To Figure Out The Best Linux I/O Scheduler   Fedora   2018-12-14
ARM's AArch64 Adding Pointer Authentication Support To The Linux 4.21 Kernel   Arm   2018-12-14
AMD Adding STIBP "Always-On Preferred Mode" To Linux   Hardware   2018-12-14
Energy Model Management Framework Queued For Linux 4.21   Hardware   2018-12-14
AMD Squeezes In Some Final AMDGPU Changes To DRM-Next For Linux 4.21   Radeon   2018-12-13
AMDGPU For Linux 4.20 Gets The Final Radeon RX 590 Fix, Adds The New Vega PCI IDs   Radeon   2018-12-12
Linux Is Already In Good Shape For The New Features Of Intel Gen11 Graphics & Icelake   Intel   2018-12-12
NVIDIA 415.23 Driver Fixes Build Issues Against Linux 4.20 Kernel   NVIDIA   2018-12-12
Btrfs Restoring Support For Swap Files With Linux 4.21   Linux Storage   2018-12-12
Nouveau Lands Initial Open-Source NVIDIA Turing Support - But No GPU Acceleration   Nouveau   2018-12-11
Linux 4.21 Will Better Protect Against Malicious Thunderbolt Devices   Hardware   2018-12-10
Adiantum File-System Encryption Support Ready For Linux 4.21   Linux Storage   2018-12-10
Initial i.MX8 SoC Support & Development Board Possibly Ready For Linux 4.21   Hardware   2018-12-10
Linux 4.20-rc6 Kernel Released - "Looks Fairly Normal"   Linux Kernel   2018-12-09
More Radeon RX 590 Ubuntu Benchmarks - See How Your Linux GPU Performance Compares   Radeon   2018-12-09
NVIDIA Tegra X2 & Xavier Get HDMI Audio With Linux 4.21   NVIDIA   2018-12-09
High Resolution Scroll-Wheel Support Re-Added Ahead Of Linux 4.21   Hardware   2018-12-09
Linux 4.19.8 Released With BLK-MQ Fix To The Recent Data Corruption Bug   Linux Kernel   2018-12-08
AMDGPU Driver Gets Final Batch Of Features For Linux 4.21   Radeon   2018-12-08
ROE Kernel Hardening Continues To Restrict KVM VMs To Only Its Own Memory   Virtualization   2018-12-08
NVIDIA 415.22 Linux Driver Adds Mainline Support For Vulkan Transform Feedback   NVIDIA   2018-12-07
Cedrus Video Decode Driver Moving Along With Allwinner H5/A64 Support   Multimedia   2018-12-07
Intel GVT Might Introduce Coffeelake Support In Linux 4.22   Intel   2018-12-07
Linux Networking Performance To Improve Thanks To Retpoline Overhead Reduction   Linux Networking   2018-12-07
A Final Batch Of DRM-Misc-Next Updates Before Linux 4.21   Hardware   2018-12-07
The Radeon RX 590 Is Finally Running Strong On Linux   Radeon   2018-12-06
Another Linux 4.20 Performance Regression Has Now Been Addressed (THP)   Linux Kernel   2018-12-06
Revised High Resolution Scroll Wheel Support For Logitech/Microsoft Mice On Linux   Hardware   2018-12-06
The "EXT4 Corruption Issue" Has Been Fixed In Linux 4.20, Backport Pending To 4.19   Linux Storage   2018-12-05
Linux 4.20 Picks Up 6 x 4K Display Support For Vega 20, Initial RX 590 Support Fixes   Linux Kernel   2018-12-05
Linux 4.19.7 Released With Important PCI Express Fix, New & Improved STIBP   Linux Kernel   2018-12-05
It's Time To Say Farewell To MPX In The Linux Kernel   Linux Kernel   2018-12-05
It's Looking Like The EXT4 Corruption Issue On Linux 4.19 Is Caused By BLK-MQ   Linux Storage   2018-12-04
Intel Posts Final Batch Of Graphics Driver Feature Changes Ahead Of Linux 4.21   Intel   2018-12-04