Xtrac Articles & Reviews |
| XTracGear Carbonic, Ripper & Ripper XXL | Peripherals | 2014-10-05 |
| Nouveau GeForce 400/500 Fermi On Linux 3.1 | Display Drivers | 2011-08-05 |
| America's Army v2.5 Direct Action | Linux Gaming | 2005-10-31 |
| Xtrac InstaGlide | Peripherals | 2005-04-11 |
| Xtrac Hybrid | Peripherals | 2005-03-22 |
Xtrac Linux & Open-Source News |
| Google Engineer Proposes "Page Detective" As New Kernel Debugging Tool | Linux Kernel | 2024-11-16 |
| Audio Firmware Upstreamed For Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 On Linux | Hardware | 2024-10-20 |
| AMDVLK 2024.Q3.3 Brings New Performance Optimizations & Pipeline Binaries | Radeon | 2024-09-30 |
| FFmpeg Merges Implicit DRM Synchronization For Vulkan | Multimedia | 2024-09-23 |
| Dell XPS 9345 With Snapdragon X1 Sees Linux Patches But Not Yet Speakers & Other Features | Hardware | 2024-09-20 |
| Fedora 42 Will Try Again To Use The New Anaconda Installer's Web UI | Fedora | 2024-09-12 |
| New Rust PHY Network Driver To Be Merged In Linux 6.12 | Linux Networking | 2024-09-02 |
| AMDVLK 2024.Q3.1 Brings Official Ubuntu 24.04 Support & New Performance Tuning | Radeon | 2024-08-13 |
| Intel TDX For Confidential VMs Causing Concern Among Fedora & Open-Source Advocates | Intel | 2024-05-15 |
| CoCo VMs On Linux Will Now Panic If RdRand Is Broken To Avoid Catastrophic Conditions | Virtualization | 2024-04-07 |
| KDE Sees A Number Of Regression Fixes & Some Crash Fixes This Week | KDE | 2024-03-23 |
| New Intel CPU Microcode & "RFDS" Linux Kernel Patch For New Security Vulnerabilities | Intel | 2024-03-12 |
| AdaptiveCpp 24.02 Released: "One Of The Best SYCL Compilers" For Performance | Programming | 2024-03-12 |
| Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.42 Released With OpenJDK 21 Java Support | Programming | 2024-01-12 |
| A Nifty Way To Access Linux Memory/RAM Information | Hardware | 2024-01-09 |
| FEX 2312 Brings More Optimizations For Running x86_64 Games/Apps On AArch64 | Free Software | 2023-12-04 |
| KDE Lands NVIDIA Hardware Cursor Support & Other Last Minute Plasma 6.0 Features | KDE | 2023-12-02 |
| NVIDIA Pushes 62MB Of GSP Binary Firmware Blobs Into Linux-Firmware.Git | NVIDIA | 2023-11-08 |
| KDE Plasma 6 Alpha Approaches Next Week With The Soft Feature Freeze | KDE | 2023-11-04 |
| "Open-Source Windows" ReactOS To See Improved GUI Setup/Installation | Operating Systems | 2023-10-01 |
| AMD AOMP 18.0-0 Compiler Brings Support For HIP Bundles, Zero Copy For MI300A | Radeon | 2023-09-12 |
| ClamAV 1.2 Now Extracts UDF Partitions, New systemd Timer | Free Software | 2023-08-29 |
| Coreboot 4.21 Brings More System76 Laptops, Star Labs & MSI Z790-P Support | Coreboot | 2023-08-25 |
| ClamAV 1.2 Adding Support For UDF Partitions, New systemd Timer | Free Software | 2023-08-04 |
| Intel Rolls Out thunderbolt-utils To Manage USB4/Thunderbolt Devices On Linux | Hardware | 2023-07-18 |
| GCC Lands AVX-512 Fully-Masked Vectorization | GNU | 2023-06-19 |
| ClamAV 1.1 Released For Advancing Open-Source Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware Software | Free Software | 2023-05-01 |
| GNOME 44.1 Released With Many Fixes | GNOME | 2023-04-26 |
| openSUSE Making It Easier To Install H.264 Codec Support | SUSE | 2023-01-24 |
| Microsoft Releases WinGet 1.4 For Improving Its Open-Source Package Manager | Microsoft | 2023-01-23 |
| Apache SpamAssassin 4.0 Released With Many Improvements For Fighting Spam | Free Software | 2022-12-17 |
| ClamAV Anti-Virus Reaches Version 1.0 With New LTS Release | Free Software | 2022-11-29 |
| Arcan Project Announces The Modern & Radically Different Cat9 Shell | Desktop | 2022-10-17 |
| Linux 6.1 To Feature Faster Intel Memory Error Decoding | Intel | 2022-10-04 |
| AMDVLK 2022.Q3.3 Brings Some Performance Tuning For Linux Gamers | Radeon | 2022-08-18 |
| Linux Driver Posted Enabling Bluetooth Support For Apple M1/M2, Some x86 Macs | Apple | 2022-08-01 |
| Initial GCC Rust Front-End Compiler Patches Submitted For Review | GNU | 2022-07-28 |
| KDE Plasma 5.26 Will Start Faster, Many Other KDE Improvements Abound | KDE | 2022-07-23 |
| Cloud Hypervisor 25.0 Released For Intel-Backed, Rust-Written Linux/Windows VMM | Virtualization | 2022-07-09 |
| Linux Patched For New Intel "MMIO Stale Data" Vulnerabilities | Intel | 2022-06-14 |
| Hertzbleed Disclosed As New Family Of Side-Channel Attacks Affecting Intel + AMD | Linux Security | 2022-06-14 |
| EROFS-Utils 1.5 Released With ZTailPacking, FSCK Extraction | Linux Storage | 2022-06-13 |
| Linux 5.19 Advances In Quest To Improve Explicit Synchronization For Graphics | Linux Kernel | 2022-06-10 |
| ARMv9 Scalable Matrix Extension Support Lands In Linux 5.19 | Arm | 2022-05-25 |
| Arm Scalable Matrix Extension Readied Ahead Of Linux 5.19 | Arm | 2022-04-26 |
| SPEC Finally Updates SPECViewPerf For Linux With SPECViewPerf 2020 v3.0 | Proprietary Software | 2022-03-03 |
| HarfBuzz 4.0 Released For This Open-Source Text Shaping Library | Free Software | 2022-03-02 |
| AMD Is Hiring Again For Their Linux - Client - Effort | AMD | 2022-02-07 |
| Radeon AOMP 14.0-1 Released Along WIth New GPUOpen Tool Updates | Radeon | 2022-01-20 |
| Apache Hop Hops To Top-Level Project Status | Free Software | 2022-01-19 |
| Linux 5.17 AArch64 Code Has SME Preparations, Adds KCSAN Support | Arm | 2022-01-07 |
| Linux 5.17 Random Number Generator Seeing Speed-Ups, Switching From SHA1 To BLAKE2s | Linux Kernel | 2022-01-07 |
| Pat Gelsinger's Open-Source Bias, Intel's Pledge To Openness | Intel | 2021-10-25 |
| OpenCL 3.0.7 Released With New Extensions | Standards | 2021-04-26 |
| LXQt 0.17 Released For This Lightweight Qt5 Desktop | Qt | 2021-04-15 |
| KDE Lands More Crash Fixes, Activities Feature Working On Wayland | KDE | 2021-04-10 |
| Radeon ROCm 4.1 Released - Still Without RDNA GPU Support | Radeon | 2021-03-23 |
| Lutris 0.5.8.2 Linux Game Manager Brings Wayland Improvements, Other Additions | Linux Gaming | 2021-01-05 |
| Fedora 34 Planning To Offer LXQt 0.16 Desktop Packages | Fedora | 2021-01-05 |
| New + Updated Benchmarks For December 2020 | Phoronix Test Suite | 2021-01-03 |
| Linux 5.10 Btrfs Hitting A Performance Regression But Improving With Linux 5.11 | Linux Storage | 2020-12-25 |
| Intel: AMD Weak On Battery-Powered Laptop Performance - But DPTF On Linux Still Sucks | Intel | 2020-11-23 |
| Radeon RX 6800 "Sienna Cichlid" Firmware Added To Linux-Firmware.Git | Radeon | 2020-11-19 |
| LXQt 0.16 Released For Lightweight Qt Linux Desktop | Desktop | 2020-11-04 |
| KDE Seeing More Bug Fixes Following Plasma 5.20 | KDE | 2020-10-24 |
| KDE Plasma 5.20 Will Alert You If Your Disk Is Failing | KDE | 2020-08-29 |
| Fedora 33 LTO Support Is Now In Good Shape For Faster, Smaller Packages | Fedora | 2020-08-19 |
| A Fix Is Out For The Intel Ice Lake Performance Drop On Linux With The Dell XPS 7390 | Intel | 2020-04-24 |
| Linux 5.7 Adding Infrastructure To See Better Out-Of-The-Box Touchscreen Support | Hardware | 2020-03-22 |
| GNU Binutils 2.34 Branched - Bringing With It "debuginfod" HTTP Server Support | GNU | 2020-01-18 |
| Whoops: The Linux Kernel's Spectre RSB Mitigation For PowerPC Missed Covering Some CPUs | Linux Security | 2019-11-28 |
| Red Hat Developers Eyeing CPU Thermal Management Improvements For Fedora 32 | Fedora | 2019-10-15 |
| Linux 5.4 Pulls In LOCKDOWN Support For Opt-In Hardware/Kernel Security Restrictions | Linux Kernel | 2019-09-28 |
| GCC's Conversion To Git: "Within The Realm Of The Practically Achievable" | GNU | 2019-09-25 |
| Ubuntu Moving Ahead With Compressing Their Kernel Image Using LZ4 | Ubuntu | 2019-06-06 |
| Darling Still Has A Goal Of Running macOS Apps On Linux | Apple | 2019-05-03 |
| A Quick Look At The Firefox 66.0 vs. Chrome 73.0 Performance Benchmarks | Desktop | 2019-03-22 |
| KDE Frameworks 5.56 Brings Another Month Worth Of Improvements | KDE | 2019-03-09 |
| GNU Tar 1.31 Released With Zstd Support | GNU | 2019-01-02 |
| Baloo, Kate & Other KDE Programs Getting Improvements Ahead Of The Holidays | KDE | 2018-12-09 |
| GCC Compiler Picks Up New Option To Help With Live Kernel Patching | GNU | 2018-11-30 |
| Intel's Clear Linux Ups Their Desktop Offering, Rolling Out New Installer | Clear Linux | 2018-11-28 |
| University Researchers Publish Paper On GPU Side-Channel Attacks | Linux Security | 2018-11-15 |
| digiKam 6.0 Beta Brings Full Video File Management, Greater Camera Coverage | KDE | 2018-08-23 |
| Ubuntu 18.10 Looking At LZ4-Compressed Initramfs Image By Default | Ubuntu | 2018-03-19 |
| Intel BayTrail Gets Minor Graphics Improvement On Coreboot, Now Supports OpRegion | Coreboot | 2018-03-15 |
| Oracle DAX Driver Landing In Linux 4.16 For SPARC Co-Processor | Linux Kernel | 2018-02-01 |
| Intel Leafhill & ThinkPad L520 Added To Coreboot | Coreboot | 2017-01-25 |
| GNOME 3.23.3 Released | GNOME | 2016-12-13 |
| GNU Tar "Pointy Feather" Vulnerability Disclosed (CVE-2016-6321) | GNU | 2016-10-27 |
| Collabora Has Been Working On A Fully-Open HTC Vive Driver | Valve | 2016-10-12 |
| Intel's GPU-Accelerated Precise Touch & Stylus Tech Still Not Mainlined For Linux | Intel | 2016-09-13 |
| DRI2 Page-Flipping Patches For The Generic Modesetting DDX | X.Org | 2016-08-18 |
| Improved File Extraction Coming To GNOME's Nautilus | GNOME | 2016-07-17 |
| AMD's Massive New DAL Display Driver Is Facing An Uphill Battle | AMD | 2016-02-12 |
| Coreboot Ported To The Librem 13 Laptop, Without Purism | Coreboot | 2016-01-17 |
| KDE Frameworks 5.13.0 Released | KDE | 2015-08-13 |
| The Phoronix Test Suite Is Running On Windows 10 | Proprietary Software | 2015-07-30 |
| The Big Features Of The Linux 4.1 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2015-06-21 |
| Coreboot Is Now Able To Build With LLVM's Clang Easier | Coreboot | 2015-06-09 |
| A Heterogeneous Execution Engine Might Make Its Way To LLVM | LLVM | 2015-06-05 |
| Interesting GSoC 2015 Projects: Wine D3DRM, GameStream, NaCL Fun | Google | 2015-05-04 |
| Nouveau: NVIDIA's New Hardware Is "VERY Open-Source Unfriendly" | Nouveau | 2015-04-15 |
| Canonical Just Made It Even Easier To Benchmark Ubuntu Linux In The Cloud | Ubuntu | 2015-03-25 |
| The GTX 970/980 Maxwell GPUs Light Up With Nouveau On Linux 3.19 | Nouveau | 2015-01-10 |
| LiveUSB-Creator Is Ready For Fedora 21 | Fedora | 2014-12-08 |
| Ubuntu's File Manager App Has A Long TODO List | Ubuntu | 2014-11-12 |
| SteelSeries' QcK Remain Great, Affordable Mouse Pads For Linux Gamers | Hardware | 2014-10-26 |
| MSI Motherboard BIOS Updating Remains A Pain For Linux Users | Hardware | 2014-08-31 |
| OS Battle: Linux Takes 1.7% Desktop Marketshare | Free Software | 2014-08-28 |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Maxwell GPUs Light Up On Linux 3.15 | Nouveau | 2014-04-14 |
| Nouveau In Linux 3.15: Maxwell Support, GPU Fault Recovery Work | Nouveau | 2014-03-26 |
| FFmpeg 2.2 Release Adds The Libx265 Encoder | Multimedia | 2014-03-23 |
| PostgreSQL Gains Support For Logical Decoding | Free Software | 2014-03-04 |
| Nouveau's Status Update For Early 2014 | Nouveau | 2014-02-05 |
| Wget 1.15 Supports Perfect-Forward Secrecy, MD5-SESS | GNU | 2014-01-19 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 5.0's GUI To Make Benchmarking Easier | Phoronix Test Suite | 2013-12-31 |
| Libbeauty: Another Reverse-Engineering Tool | Programming | 2013-12-24 |
| It's A Bit Easier Using Nouveau Video Acceleration | Nouveau | 2013-07-25 |
| FFmpeg 2.0 Released With OpenCL, Many Changes | Multimedia | 2013-07-10 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 4.6.1 Drives OS X Benchmarking | Phoronix Test Suite | 2013-06-07 |
| A New Project To Run Mac OS X Binaries On Linux | Free Software | 2012-12-08 |
| Nouveau Lights Up The GK106 Kepler | Nouveau | 2012-12-07 |
| Ubuntu Still Unsure On Using XZ Packages | Ubuntu | 2012-11-01 |
| Ubuntu 13.04 To Look At XZ-Compressed Packages | Ubuntu | 2012-10-13 |
| Linaro Introduces "Boottime" For Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2012-10-12 |
| The DRM Graphics Pull Goes In For Linux 3.7 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2012-10-04 |
| FFmpeg Reaches Version 1.0 | Multimedia | 2012-09-28 |
| Nouveau GeForce 600 "Kepler" Support Gets FUC'ed | Nouveau | 2012-09-10 |
| Linux Multi-Monitor Support Could Be Improved | Linux Gaming | 2012-09-08 |
| Nouveau Begins To Work Towards Unreleased GK110 | NVIDIA | 2012-09-07 |
| NVIDIA Releases $299 Kepler Graphics Card | NVIDIA | 2012-08-16 |
| Coreboot: Replacing Intel's Binary Video BIOS Blob | Coreboot | 2012-08-06 |
| Debian Wheezy To Take Up 73 CDs Or 11 DVDs | Debian | 2012-07-10 |
| Linux On The 2012 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro? | Hardware | 2012-06-12 |
| Wayland's Weston Now Supports Video Capturing | Wayland | 2012-05-29 |
| Intel Publishes Massive "Fastboot" Patch Set | Intel | 2012-05-26 |
| NVIDIA Ships The GeForce GTX 670 Kepler | NVIDIA | 2012-05-10 |
| DRM Changes Pooling For Linux 3.5 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2012-04-21 |
| Generic Buffer Formats, YUV For Wayland | Intel | 2012-04-20 |
| Nouveau Kepler Works, But May Fill Your Hard Drive | Nouveau | 2012-04-15 |
| FFmpeg 0.10 Gets New Filters, Decoders, Encoders | Multimedia | 2012-01-26 |
| Wargus - Open-Source Warcraft II On Linux | Linux Gaming | 2011-12-25 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 3.6-Arendal Released | Phoronix | 2011-12-13 |
| The Belated Linux 3.1 Kernel Is Released | Linux Kernel | 2011-10-24 |
| NVIDIA's OpenGL Shader Disk Cache For Linux | NVIDIA | 2011-10-23 |
| The First Milestone Of Phoronix Test Suite "Arendal" | Phoronix | 2011-10-20 |
| Linux 3.1-rc1 Kernel: A "Pretty Normal Release" | Linux Kernel | 2011-08-08 |
| The DRM Pull For The Linux 3.1 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2011-07-26 |
| Hip Hip Hurrah, Nouveau Frees Up The Fermi Microcode | Nouveau | 2011-05-25 |
