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Linux 4.20 Articles & Reviews

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 4.20 Linux & Open-Source News

Linux 5.20 Likely To Be Called Linux 6.0   Linux Kernel   2022-08-01
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
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
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
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
Mageia 7.0 Beta 2 Released - Powered By Linux 4.20, Mesa 19.0-rc   Operating Systems   2019-02-24
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
That's A Wrap For 2018 With 3,693 News Articles, 314 Linux Hardware Reviews/Benchmarks   Phoronix   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
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
Linux CoC, Debian, Speck & Kernel Happenings Rounded Out Q4-2018   Free Software   2018-12-28
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
GNU Linux-libre 4.20-gnu Released With A Fresh Round Of Driver De-Blobbing   GNU   2018-12-24
Linux 4.20 Kernel Released To End The Year On A High Note   Linux Kernel   2018-12-23
It's Time For The Premium 2018 Winter Sale To Show Your Linux Benchmarking Support   Premium   2018-12-22
Linux 4.21 Is Going To Be A Big Release To Jump-Start The New Year   Linux Kernel   2018-12-22
The Most Notable New Features Of The Linux 4.20 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2018-12-20
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
Linux 4.14 vs. 4.20 Performance Benchmarks - The Kernel Speed Difference For 2018   Linux Kernel   2018-12-18
Linux 4.20-rc7 Kernel Released - Linux 4.20 Should Be Released In Time For Christmas   Linux Kernel   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
AMD Adding STIBP "Always-On Preferred Mode" To Linux   Hardware   2018-12-14
AMDGPU For Linux 4.20 Gets The Final Radeon RX 590 Fix, Adds The New Vega PCI IDs   Radeon   2018-12-12
NVIDIA 415.23 Driver Fixes Build Issues Against Linux 4.20 Kernel   NVIDIA   2018-12-12
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
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
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
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 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
Linux 4.19.7 Getting Revised STIBP Code, Important PCIe Fix For Radeon GPUs   Linux Kernel   2018-12-04
A Patch Is Still Pending For Fixing Up Newer Radeon GPUs In Older Motherboards   Radeon   2018-12-03
Linux 4.20-RC5 Released With STIBP Performance Fix, 4.20 Final Likely Around Christmas   Linux Kernel   2018-12-02
Linux 4.21 Is Sure To Be Another Exciting Kernel Upgrade: FreeSync, Adiantum & More   Linux Kernel   2018-12-02
Reworked STIBP Code Lands In Linux 4.20 To Fix The Performance   Linux Kernel   2018-12-01
VirtualBox 6.0 Beta 3 Released: Enables VMSVGA Device By Default, OCI Improvements   Oracle   2018-12-01
Linux's Slowdown, Raptor's Talos II, Clear Linux & Other Dominating Topics This Month   Phoronix   2018-11-30
5/2.5Gb Ethernet To USB Aquantia AQtion Driver Coming For Linux 4.21   Linux Networking   2018-11-29
Linux's ALSA HDA Code Finally Seeing AMD Stoney Ridge Support   AMD   2018-11-29
Linux 4.20 To Receive Fix That Prevented Some AMD Raven Ridge Systems From Booting   AMD   2018-11-28
A Look At The AMDGPU+RADV Gaming Performance Boost With Linux 4.20   Radeon   2018-11-26
Radeon Vulkan Driver Gets A Significant Performance Optimization For Pre-4.20 Kernels   Radeon   2018-11-26
Linux 4.20-RC4 Released As The "Shy Crocodile"   Linux Kernel   2018-11-25
STIBP Patches Updated One Last Time Before Heading To Linux 4.20   Linux Kernel   2018-11-25
Logitech High Resolution Scrolling Support Dropped From Linux 4.20   Hardware   2018-11-24
Linux 4.19.4 & 4.14.83 Released With STIBP Code Dropped   Linux Kernel   2018-11-24
NVIDIA Tegra194 Xavier Gets Plumbed For Open-Source Display Support   NVIDIA   2018-11-24
Allwinner "Cedrus" Driver Moving Ahead With H.264 & H.265 Video Decode Support   Multimedia   2018-11-23
Linux Stable Updates Are Dropping The Performance-Pounding STIBP   Linux Kernel   2018-11-22
Patches For The Better Spectre STIBP Approach Revised - Version 7 Under Review   Linux Kernel   2018-11-21
Linus Torvalds Comments On STIBP & He's Not Happy - STIBP Default Will End Up Changing   Linux Kernel   2018-11-19
There Is Finally A User-Space Utility To Make EROFS Linux File-Systems   Linux Storage   2018-11-19
Linux 4.20-rc3 Kernel Released   Linux Kernel   2018-11-18
Linux Gaming Performance Can Be Impaired By STIBP, But Hope May Be On The Horizon   Linux Kernel   2018-11-18
Endless OS Switching To The BFQ I/O Scheduler For More Responsive Linux Desktop   Operating Systems   2018-11-17
The Open-Source AMD Linux Driver Stack Hitting Problems With The Radeon RX 590   Radeon   2018-11-16
More Benchmarks Of The Performance Pullback In Linux 4.20   Linux Kernel   2018-11-16
Linux 4.20 Showing Some Performance Slowdowns   Linux Kernel   2018-11-15
Linux 4.20-rc2 Released With EXT4 Bug Fixes, New NVIDIA Turing USB-C Driver   Linux Kernel   2018-11-11
AMDGPU DRM-Next Driver Picks Up Support For Vega 20 "A1" Stepping   Radeon   2018-11-11
EXT4 Getting Many Fixes In Linux 4.20, Including For Some Really Old Leaks   Linux Kernel   2018-11-11
NVIDIA Open-Sources New I2C USB Type-C Turing GPU Driver In Linux 4.20   NVIDIA   2018-11-10
Better Linux Support Is Coming For The Huawei MateBook X   Hardware   2018-11-09
The Anticipated Linux Driver Requirements For The Radeon Instinct MI50 / MI60 (Vega 20)   Radeon   2018-11-08
A Big Batch Of DRM Feature Updates Line Up Ahead Of Linux 4.21   Linux Kernel   2018-11-07
WireGuard Is Now Available On Apple iOS   Linux Networking   2018-11-06
Polaris 12 & Vega 12 Support Heading To The AMDKFD Compute Kernel Code   Radeon   2018-11-06
Adiantum Is Taking Shape As Google's Speck Replacement For Low-End Device Encryption   Linux Storage   2018-11-05
Linux 4.20-rc1 Kernel Released As The Kernel Hits Its Highest Point For 2018   Linux Kernel   2018-11-04
Linux 4.19.1 Released While 4.20~5.0 Merge Window Ends Today   Linux Kernel   2018-11-04
The Linux 4.20/5.0 Kernel Is The Biggest All Year With 354+ Thousand Lines Of New Code   Linux Kernel   2018-11-04
WireGuard Didn't Make it To The Mainline Linux Kernel This Cycle   Linux Networking   2018-11-03
AMD Sends Out Linux Temperature Driver Patches For Zen 2 CPUs   AMD   2018-11-02
Google Volleys Latest FS-VERITY Code For Transparent Integrity/Authenticity Of Files   Google   2018-11-02
More Linux Kernel Code Cleaned Up - Another Step Towards Building With Clang Or ICC   Linux Kernel   2018-11-02
Linux Kernel Developers Begin Figuring Out Vendor-Specific RISC-V Code   RISC-V   2018-11-02
The Faster FUSE Has Been Fused Into Linux 4.20   Linux Storage   2018-11-01
The I3C Subsystem Won't Be Added For Linux 4.20 / 5.0   Hardware   2018-11-01
NVIDIA RTX, AMD On Linux & Distro Performance Dominated Linux Discussions In October   Phoronix   2018-11-01
LG Gram Laptop Feature Driver, Intel AtomISP2 Dummy Driver Queued For Linux 4.20   Hardware   2018-11-01
Cedrus VPU Decoder Driver Being Mainlined With New Linux Media Request API   Multimedia   2018-10-30
AMD Raven 2 Support Might Land In Time For Mesa 18.3   Mesa   2018-10-30
ARM Is Very Busy In The Next Kernel With A Lot For NVIDIA Tegra, Snapdragon 835 & More   Arm   2018-10-30
The Big Staging Pull Request Submitted With 44k Lines Of New Code, 16k Deletions   Linux Kernel   2018-10-29
C-SKY Architecture Approved For The Linux Kernel, Might Be The Last New CPU Arch   Hardware   2018-10-29
The Many Interesting Changes & Features So Far For Linux 4.20 (Or Perhaps Linux 5.0)   Linux Kernel   2018-10-29
The Linux Kernel Is Now VLA-Free: A Win For Security, Less Overhead & Better For Clang   Linux Kernel   2018-10-29
POWER9 On Linux Will See Faster Context Switching, Other Optimizations   Hardware   2018-10-28
NFS Client Changes Bring Some Optimizations For Linux 4.20~5.0   Linux Storage   2018-10-28
Linus Torvalds Shows His New Polite Side While Pointing Out Bad Kernel Code   Linux Kernel   2018-10-27
Linux MD RAID 10 Improvements/Fixes Queued For Linux 4.20~5.0   Linux Storage   2018-10-27
C-SKY 32-Bit CPUs Aim For Initial Support In Linux 4.20~5.0   Hardware   2018-10-27
Better Intel IOMMU Debugging Is On The Way, ARM IOMMU Working On Faster Performance   Virtualization   2018-10-27
The Linux Kernel Is Still Getting Ready For The Year 2038   Linux Kernel   2018-10-27
Lots Of USB & Char/Misc Driver Churn For The Linux 4.20/5.0 Kernel Cycle   Linux Kernel   2018-10-26
Linux 4.20 Scheduler To Better Deal With "Misfit" Tasks On ARM big.LITTLE Systems   Linux Kernel   2018-10-26
XFS & EXT4 Offer Up Modest Changes For Linux 4.20~5.0   Linux Storage   2018-10-25
Some Optimizations Inbound In The Linux Kernel Space For x86/x86_64   Linux Kernel   2018-10-25
The Linux Kernel Is Ready To Support A Lot More Sound Hardware   Hardware   2018-10-25
It Looks Like AMD's Linux Developers Have Begun Work On Zen 2 / EPYC 2 "Rome" Support   AMD   2018-10-25
The Big DRM Graphics Driver Pull Request Has Been Submitted For Linux 4.20~5.0   Linux Kernel   2018-10-25
KVM x86 Enabling Nested Virtualization By Default, Other Virtualization Work   Virtualization   2018-10-25
STACKLEAK Plug-In Being Reattempted For Inclusion In Linux 4.20   Linux Security   2018-10-24