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Linux 4.21 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
The Radeon RX Vega Performance With AMDGPU DRM-Next 4.21 vs. NVIDIA Linux Gaming   Display Drivers   2018-12-02

Linux 4.21 Linux & Open-Source News

Happy New Year + A Look Back At The Most Popular Linux Content Of 2019   Phoronix   2019-12-31
Radeon Graphics, Zombieload & Kernel Changes Intrigued Open-Source Fans In H1-2019   Phoronix   2019-07-09
Radeon VII & Linux 5.0 Excited Open-Source Enthusiasts In Q1   Free Software   2019-03-30
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
The Most Interesting Highlights To The Linux 5.0 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2019-02-22
Linux 5.0, RTX 2060, ZoL & Other Topics Dominating Discussions For January   Phoronix   2019-02-01
AMDGPU Kernel Driver Is Working Out Well On Linux 5.0   Radeon   2019-01-22
Linux 5.0-RC2 Kernel Released   Linux Kernel   2019-01-13
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
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
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
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
Intel VT-d Scalable Mode Coming To Linux 4.21 - Makes Up Scalable I/O Virtualization   Intel   2018-12-31
OPTPOLINES - Formerly Relpolines, Lower Overhead To Retpolines For Spectre Mitigation   Linux Security   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
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
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
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
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
AMD Audio Co-Processor 3.x Support Coming For Linux 4.21   AMD   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
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
Linux Is Already In Good Shape For The New Features Of Intel Gen11 Graphics & Icelake   Intel   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
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
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
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
Revised High Resolution Scroll Wheel Support For Logitech/Microsoft Mice On Linux   Hardware   2018-12-06
It's Time To Say Farewell To MPX In The Linux Kernel   Linux Kernel   2018-12-05
Intel Posts Final Batch Of Graphics Driver Feature Changes Ahead Of Linux 4.21   Intel   2018-12-04
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
AMDGPU Linux 4.21 Changes Queued With FreeSync, DC ABM, KFD Compute For Vega12/Polaris12   Radeon   2018-12-01
Linux's Slowdown, Raptor's Talos II, Clear Linux & Other Dominating Topics This Month   Phoronix   2018-11-30
AMDGPU FreeSync / Adaptive-Sync Is Set To Land For Linux 4.21   Radeon   2018-11-30
Linux 4.21 Positioned To Pickup Streebog Crypto Support Developed By Russia's FSB   Standards   2018-11-30
5/2.5Gb Ethernet To USB Aquantia AQtion Driver Coming For Linux 4.21   Linux Networking   2018-11-29
Adiantum Queued Ahead Of Linux 4.21 As Google's Speck Replacement   Linux Kernel   2018-11-29
Linux's ALSA HDA Code Finally Seeing AMD Stoney Ridge Support   AMD   2018-11-29
The Smaller DRM Drivers Have Another Batch Of Changes For Linux 4.21   Linux Kernel   2018-11-28
New Intel Stratix 10 FPGA Drivers Coming To Linux 4.21 Kernel   Intel   2018-11-27
Linux 4.20-RC4 Released As The "Shy Crocodile"   Linux Kernel   2018-11-25
Meson DRM Driver Getting Support For HDMI 2.0 4K   Hardware   2018-11-25
Logitech High Resolution Scrolling Support Dropped From Linux 4.20   Hardware   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
Intel Sends In A Second Batch Of DRM-Next Updates Ahead Of Linux 4.21   Intel   2018-11-23
Cougar 700K Gaming Keyboard Support Coming To Linux 4.21   Hardware   2018-11-22
More DRM Changes Queued Ahead Of Linux 4.21   Linux Kernel   2018-11-22
An Update On The Radeon RX 590 For Linux   Radeon   2018-11-20
The Open-Source AMD Linux Driver Stack Hitting Problems With The Radeon RX 590   Radeon   2018-11-16
AMD Stages Latest Radeon/AMDGPU Changes For Linux 4.21 Kernel   Radeon   2018-11-14
Radeon Linux Driver Preparing Adaptive Backlight Management (ABM)   Radeon   2018-11-13
Ubuntu 19.04 Development Starts Off With Python 3.7, Merged Usr Directories   Ubuntu   2018-11-13
AMDGPU DRM-Next Driver Picks Up Support For Vega 20 "A1" Stepping   Radeon   2018-11-11
POWER On-Chip Controller Driver Coming For Linux 4.21   Hardware   2018-11-10
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
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
Intel Already Posts First Open-Source Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 4.21~5.1   Intel   2018-11-02
AMDGPU Reset Recovery To Be Flipped On By Default For Newer Radeon GPUs   Radeon   2018-10-28
Intel 2.5G Ethernet On The Horizon With New "IGC" Driver; WireGuard Not In Net-Next   Linux Networking   2018-10-24
AMD FreeSync 2 HDR Coming To The Linux Kernel In 2019   Radeon   2018-10-21
Open-Source Qualcomm Graphics Support Continues Flourishing With Freedreno   Mesa   2018-10-18