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| Running The macOS-Inspired, FreeBSD-Powered helloSystem v0.8 On AMD Zen 4 | Operating Systems | 2023-01-23 |
| How KDE VDG Is Trying To Make Open-Source Software Beautiful | Software | 2015-06-29 |
| Freespire 2.0 Alpha 1 | Operating Systems | 2007-03-11 |
| Freespire Beta 1 | Operating Systems | 2006-07-17 |
| Linspire v5.1.365 Beta Italiano | Operating Systems | 2006-04-01 |
| Spire RockeTeer V SP-500W | Power Supplies | 2006-03-23 |
| KickButtComputers Signature Series Preview | Enclosures | 2005-08-02 |
| Linspire Five-0 (5.0.59) | Operating Systems | 2005-03-25 |
Spire Linux & Open-Source News |
| Miracle-WM 0.4 Released With i3 IPC Support | Wayland | 2024-12-11 |
| Haiku OS Developers Fixed Plenty Of Bugs In November | Operating Systems | 2024-12-11 |
| Haiku Enjoyed A Busy October Implementing More Features | Operating Systems | 2024-11-07 |
| Sway 1.10 Released With GPU Reset Recovery & Other Wayland Enhancements | Wayland | 2024-10-28 |
| Cloudflare Continues To Praise Open-Source OpenBMC | Operating Systems | 2024-10-23 |
| Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia | Linux Kernel | 2024-10-22 |
| AMD Working On GPU Compute Virtualization Support With ROCm/HIP For VMs | Radeon | 2024-10-17 |
| Llamafile 0.8.14 Introduces New CLI Chatbot Interface | Programming | 2024-10-14 |
| BeOS-Inspired Haiku Enabling More Intel Hardware & Driving Kernel Optimizations | Operating Systems | 2024-10-12 |
| Sway 1.10-rc1 Adds GPU Reset Recovery, New Wayland Protocols | Wayland | 2024-09-30 |
| Ubuntu Core Desktop Seeing KDE Plasma Snap'ed Up, Other Ubuntu 24.10 Progress | Ubuntu | 2024-09-19 |
| A Re-Implementation Of The EROFS File-System In Rust Has Started | Linux Storage | 2024-09-16 |
| Haiku R1 Beta 5 Released With Dark Mode Theme & Support For USB Audio | Operating Systems | 2024-09-13 |
| Mir-Powered Miracle-WM Continues Tacking On New Features Ahead Of Fedora Miracle | Fedora | 2024-08-27 |
| Haiku OS R1 Beta 5 Approaching Soon, New Performance Improvements | Operating Systems | 2024-08-14 |
| Mir-Based Miracle-WM Updated Ahead Of Fedora Miracle Spin | Wayland | 2024-08-13 |
| Niri 0.1.8 Compositor Implements Gradient Borders, Output Management Protocol | Wayland | 2024-08-10 |
| Sway Compositor Lands Wayland Explicit Sync Support | Wayland | 2024-08-06 |
| Limine 8.0 Bootloader Released With LoongArch Support | Free Software | 2024-08-03 |
| LoongArch Enables More Kernel Features With Linux 6.11 | Hardware | 2024-07-23 |
| New Power Sequencing Driver Subsystem Merged For Linux 6.11 | Hardware | 2024-07-16 |
| Today Marks 20 Years Since Starting Phoronix For Linux Hardware Reviews & News | Phoronix | 2024-06-05 |
| FreeBSD 14.1-RC1 Adds More Packages To The DVD Images - Including The Sway Compositor | BSD | 2024-05-27 |
| Many x86 Laptop Improvements In Linux 6.10 Plus Acer ARM Laptop | Hardware | 2024-05-20 |
| Linux 6.10 NFSD Brings Optimizations & Preps For New nfsdctl Utility | Linux Storage | 2024-05-18 |
| Niri 0.1.6 Wayland Compositor Adds Interactive Window Resizing & Mouse View Scrolling | Wayland | 2024-05-18 |
| Linux 6.10 Features Expected From The NTSYNC Driver To Performance Optimizations | Linux Kernel | 2024-05-12 |
| FreeBSD Working On Improving Its Audio Stack & Creating Graphical OS Installer | BSD | 2024-05-03 |
| Acer Aspire One ARM Laptop To Have "Almost Full" Support With Linux 6.10 | Arm | 2024-04-21 |
| Linux 6.10 Preps A Kernel Panic Screen - Sort Of A "Blue Screen of Death" | Linux Kernel | 2024-04-19 |
| Intel's Newest Software Effort For Achieving Greater Performance: Thin Layout Optimizer | Intel | 2024-04-11 |
| Linux 6.9 Will Boot Much Faster For Systems With Large Amounts Of RAM | Hardware | 2024-03-25 |
| LoongArch Enables More Kernel Functionality With Linux 6.9 | Linux Kernel | 2024-03-22 |
| Niri 0.1.3 Wayland Compositor Brings Touch Support, New Animations | Wayland | 2024-03-10 |
| RADV Driver Lands Vulkan Video AV1 Decode For Mesa 24.1 | Mesa | 2024-02-27 |
| Sway 1.9 Released - Using New wlroots Rendering API For Better Performance | Wayland | 2024-02-24 |
| GhostBSD 24.01.1 Released: Based On FreeBSD 14, Many Improvements | BSD | 2024-02-15 |
| helloSystem Publishes New Experimental Build Based On FreeBSD 14.0 | BSD | 2024-02-09 |
| A New Attempt At Async Device Shutdown Support For Linux | Hardware | 2024-02-08 |
| Niri 0.1.1 Wayland Compositor Adds Support For Taskbars, Output Rotation & More | Wayland | 2024-02-03 |
| Niri Debuts As A Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Inspired By PaperWM | Wayland | 2024-01-27 |
| Sway 1.9-rc1 Supports New Wayland Extensions & Better Rendering Performance | Wayland | 2024-01-26 |
| Mesa's NVK Vulkan Driver Lands A Pipeline Shader Cache | Nouveau | 2024-01-09 |
| systemd In 2023 Added Windows-Inspired "Blue Screen Of Death" & macOS-Inspired T.D.M. | systemd | 2024-01-02 |
| Wayland Enjoyed Many Successes In 2023 | Wayland | 2024-01-01 |
| Intel Meteor Lake, Emerald Rapids & Other Popular Topics For December | Phoronix | 2024-01-01 |
| Valve's Linux Contributions, Wayland & Open-Source NVIDIA Milestones Topped 2023 | Phoronix | 2023-12-28 |
| LoongArch KVM Support Extended To Allow LSX/LASX SIMD Support | Virtualization | 2023-12-24 |
| Lab Wayland Compositor 0.7 Released - Ported To wlroots 0.17 | Wayland | 2023-12-23 |
| Acer Aspire 1 ARM Laptop Has Nearly Complete Upstream Linux Support | Arm | 2023-12-20 |
| systemd 255 Released With A "Blue Screen of Death" For Linux Systems | systemd | 2023-12-06 |
| Fwupd 1.9.10 Adds LoongArch Support & Firmware Updating For A ~$1k USD Web Camera | LVFS | 2023-12-04 |
| Red Hat Developing New xwayland-run & wlheadless-run Utilities | Wayland | 2023-11-29 |
| wlroots 0.17 Adds New Wayland Protocols, Continued Vulkan Renderer Work | Wayland | 2023-11-22 |
| systemd 255-rc1 Brings "Blue Screen of Death" Support & New Tool To Spawn VMs | systemd | 2023-11-06 |
| Systemd Working On "Storage Target Mode" Feature - Inspired By Apple macOS | systemd | 2023-10-31 |
| Zlib-ng 2.1.4 Brings LoongArch Port, New RISC-V & ARM Optimizations | Free Software | 2023-10-22 |
| Loongson Preparing LoongArch KVM Virtualization For Linux 6.7 | Virtualization | 2023-10-02 |
| LoongArch With Linux 6.6 Adds KGDB/KDB, KFence, KASAN, LBT Binary Translation | Hardware | 2023-09-09 |
| LoongArch "Loong64" Added To Debian Ports | Debian | 2023-08-16 |
| Mold 2.1 Linker Brings LoongArch CPU Support | Programming | 2023-08-13 |
| Haiku OS Support Upstreamed Into GCC Compiler | GNU | 2023-08-11 |
| Window Maker 0.96 Released For Window Manager Inspired By NeXTSTEP UI | Desktop | 2023-08-07 |
| Alibaba T-Head TH1520 RISC-V CPU & A Few New Arm SoCs Ready For Linux 6.5 | Hardware | 2023-06-29 |
| System76 Launches Nebula PC Cases For DIY Builds | Hardware | 2023-06-29 |
| NsCDE 2.3 Released For Modern Desktop Looking Like The Old CDE | Desktop | 2023-06-16 |
| Cisco Posts Rust-Written PuzzleFS File-System Driver For Linux | Linux Storage | 2023-06-09 |
| System76 Teases New "Nebula" Linux Desktop/Workstation | Hardware | 2023-06-01 |
| LoongArch With Linux 6.4 Lands Optimizations, New Functionality | Linux Kernel | 2023-05-05 |
| Linux 6.4 Preparing DRM Deadline Hints To Help Influence GPU Frequency/Performance | Linux Kernel | 2023-03-26 |
| Lenovo Flex 5G / Qualcomm SC8180x Support Being Worked On For Mainline Linux | Arm | 2023-03-25 |
| Labwc 0.6.2 Released For Openbox-Inspired Wayland Compositor | Wayland | 2023-03-21 |
| NVIDIA Improving wlroots For Better Dual-GPU Gaming Performance | Wayland | 2023-03-16 |
| Snapdragon-Powered Acer Aspire 1 Laptop Nearing Mainline Linux Support | Hardware | 2023-03-15 |
| Mesa 23.1 Provides Improved EGL Implementation For Haiku | Mesa | 2023-03-02 |
| LoongArch With Linux 6.3 Enhances Security With KASLR | Linux Kernel | 2023-03-01 |
| Mesa 23.1 Gets Basic LoongArch Support | Mesa | 2023-02-27 |
| Sway & wl-roots Land Support For Wayland Fractional Scaling | Wayland | 2023-02-13 |
| MidnightBSD 3.0 Coming Soon For FreeBSD-Derived Desktop OS | BSD | 2023-02-05 |
| Linux 6.3 Features, Intel Sapphire Rapids & More Made For An Exciting January | Phoronix | 2023-01-31 |
| labwc 0.6.1 Released For Window-Stacking Wayland Compositor | Wayland | 2023-01-30 |
| openSUSE Making It Easier To Install H.264 Codec Support | SUSE | 2023-01-24 |
| helloSystem 0.8 Released As macOS Inspired FreeBSD Desktop OS | BSD | 2023-01-21 |
| The Linux OS Originally Known As Lindows Is Out With Linspire 12 Alpha | Operating Systems | 2023-01-06 |
| Fedora Budgie & Sway Spins Approved For Fedora 38 | Fedora | 2023-01-03 |
| Radeon RX 7900 XT/XTX, EPYC Genoa & Linux 6.2 Developments Made For An Exciting Month | Phoronix | 2023-01-01 |
| Sway 1.8 Released With More Secure Screen Locking, High Res Scroll Wheel Events | Wayland | 2022-12-25 |
| Fedora 38 Might Ship With A Sway ISO Spin | Fedora | 2022-12-02 |
| SuperTuxKart 1.4 Released With Initial Vulkan Renderer | Linux Gaming | 2022-11-01 |
| RADV PLOC BVH Builder Merged For Faster Radeon Vulkan Ray-Tracing | Mesa | 2022-10-31 |
| Proton 7.0-5 RC Gets More Windows Games Running On Linux | Valve | 2022-10-17 |
| System76's Pop!_OS COSMIC Desktop To Make Use Of Iced Rust Toolkit Rather Than GTK | Desktop | 2022-10-01 |
| Bytecode Alliance Preparing For Wasmtime 1.0 Releasing Later This Month | Programming | 2022-09-07 |
| Intel's Open-Source Driver Lands Vulkan Mesh Shader Support | Intel | 2022-09-02 |
| GCC Developers Discuss Possible -std=c++current & -std=c++future Options | GNU | 2022-09-01 |
| NsCDE 2.2 Released As Retro Desktop Inspired By Unix's CDE | Desktop | 2022-07-25 |
| Rocky Linux 9.0 Released As Free RHEL 9.0 Alternative | Red Hat | 2022-07-14 |
| Meta Developing A New IR For LLVM's Clang C/C++ Compiler With Better Speed, Security | LLVM | 2022-06-21 |
| SDL 2.23.1 Released With SDL2 Switching To A New Versioning Scheme | Linux Gaming | 2022-06-16 |
| BeOS-Inspired Haiku Makes Progress On Driver Porting, Plans For Usable RISC-V Images | Operating Systems | 2022-06-09 |
| SDL Adds Initial Support For LoongArch | Linux Gaming | 2022-06-08 |
| LoongArch CPU Support Merged For Linux 5.19 - But It Won't Work For A Booting System Yet | Linux Kernel | 2022-06-03 |
| LoongArch CPU Port Might Still Land For Linux 5.19 | Linux Kernel | 2022-05-30 |
| LoongArch Patches Updated A Tenth Time For The Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2022-05-14 |
| Haiku Had A Very Busy March Improving Hardware Support & More | Operating Systems | 2022-04-17 |
| RISC-V CPU Idle Support, Other RISC-V Improvements Merged Into Linux 5.18 | RISC-V | 2022-04-03 |
| LatencyFlex v0.1 Released As Drop-In Replacement To NVIDIA Reflex | Linux Gaming | 2022-03-04 |
| Imagination Tech Publishes Open-Source PowerVR Vulkan Driver For Mesa | Vulkan | 2022-03-04 |
| Coreboot 4.16 Released With New Motherboard Ports, AMD Sabrina SoC | Coreboot | 2022-02-27 |
| Zenwalk 15 Released For Slackware With Flatpak + AppImage Ready, Desktop Optimizations | Operating Systems | 2022-02-04 |
| airyxOS Aims To Build Upon FreeBSD With The "Finesse of macOS" | Operating Systems | 2022-01-30 |
| Sway 1.7 Released With VR Headset DRM Leasing, Renames "--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia" | Wayland | 2022-01-23 |
| Sway 1.7 Nears Release With Less Abrasive NVIDIA Option, Zero-Copy Direct Scanout | Wayland | 2022-01-09 |
| Astounding Progress Made In Porting Wine To Haiku For Running Windows Software | Operating Systems | 2022-01-01 |
| This Year Microsoft Embraced eBPF, Debuted CBL-Mariner, Continued With WSL Features | Microsoft | 2021-12-31 |
| Sway 1.7-rc1 Has Better Zero-Copy Direct Scanout, Drops "--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia" | Wayland | 2021-12-23 |
| SuperTux 0.6.3 Brings In-Game Improvements, WebAssembly Support | Linux Gaming | 2021-12-22 |
| helloSystem 0.7 Released With Big Improvements For This Leading Desktop BSD OS | BSD | 2021-12-20 |
| Microsoft To Make Windows Terminal The Default Choice On Windows 11 | Microsoft | 2021-12-15 |
| Alder Lake, Kernel Optimizations & Steam Deck Happenings That Excited Linux Fans | Phoronix | 2021-11-30 |
| Haiku OS Managing To Run Zink OpenGL Atop Radeon Vulkan Driver For 3D Acceleration | Operating Systems | 2021-11-30 |
| KDE Plasma 5.24 Adds An Overview Effect Inspired By GNOME's Activities Overview | KDE | 2021-11-20 |
| Early Progress Made On Porting Radeon Vulkan Driver To BeOS-Inspired Haiku OS | Operating Systems | 2021-10-19 |
| helloSystem 0.6 Released For macOS-Inspired FreeBSD | BSD | 2021-10-02 |
| SLUB Adapted To Be Real-Time Linux Compatible (PREEMPT_RT) | Linux Kernel | 2021-09-09 |
| Notcurses 2.4 Released - Now Works On Windows & macOS For Terminal "Bling" | Programming | 2021-09-06 |
| Haiku Upstreams Its GNU Binutils Support | GNU | 2021-09-03 |
| Linspire-Based Freespire Announces "Entirely New Direction" With Cloud Apps... | Operating Systems | 2021-07-30 |
| Systemd 249 Released With New Option For Simple Whole-File-System A/B Updates | systemd | 2021-07-07 |
| Intel Crocus, Linux 5.13, Other Vendor Happenings Made For An Exciting June | Phoronix | 2021-06-30 |
| Linux's New "randomize_kstack_offset" Security Feature Having Minimal Performance Impact | Linux Security | 2021-06-27 |
| Mesa's Exciting Milestones So Far In 2021 From Zink To Great Intel/AMD Open-Source Work | Mesa | 2021-06-27 |
| Sway 1.6.1 Wayland Compositor Released With WLROOTS 0.14 | Wayland | 2021-06-25 |
| Haiku R1 Beta 3 Aims For Release In About One Month | Operating Systems | 2021-06-22 |
| helloSystem 0.5 Released For macOS-Inspired FreeBSD Desktop | BSD | 2021-06-12 |
| Haiku OS Continues Making Progress On RISC-V, Adds Stack Protection | Operating Systems | 2021-06-04 |
| Windows vs. Linux, 5.13 Kernel, FreeBSD 13, Other May Excitement | Free Software | 2021-06-01 |
| LibreOffice Adds A Command Popup / HUD, Inspired By Half-Decade Old Microsoft Office Feature | LibreOffice | 2021-05-12 |
| FreeBSD Is Off To A Good 2021 Start With FreeBSD 13.0, PIE By Default, helloSystem | BSD | 2021-05-07 |
| "Landlock" Lands In Linux 5.13 For Unprivileged Application Sandboxing | Linux Security | 2021-05-02 |
| Linux 5.13 Lands Support For Randomizing Stack Offsets Per Syscall | Linux Security | 2021-04-28 |
| Radeon Vulkan Driver Adds Option Of Rendering Less For ~30% Greater Performance | Radeon | 2021-04-10 |
| Linux 5.13 Poised To Allow Randomizing Kernel Stack Offset At Each System Call | Linux Security | 2021-04-09 |
| Sway 1.6 Wayland Compositor Released With Smoother Move/Resize | Wayland | 2021-04-07 |
| The Most Exciting Open-Source Graphics Driver News From Q1'2021 | Mesa | 2021-03-29 |
| FreeBSD: Sway Compositor Can Run While KDE Plasma On Wayland Is Still A Work-In-Progress | BSD | 2021-03-19 |
| Sway 1.6-rc1 Released With Better Touchscreen/Tablet Support | Wayland | 2021-03-17 |
| Haiku Seeing Much Faster HTTP Code, Support For Downloading Files Larger Than 4GB | Operating Systems | 2021-03-08 |
| LABWC Is The Newest Stacking Wayland Compositor | Wayland | 2021-03-06 |
| helloSystem, System76 Keyboard + Linux 5.11/5.12 Captivated Users In February | Phoronix | 2021-03-01 |
