AMD EPYC 9655 Benchmarks Show The Terrific Generational Gains With 5th Gen EPYC
12:26 PM EDT - Processors - Add A Comment
31 October
AMD Formally Announces Ryzen 7 9800X3D Specs - Should Be Great For Linux Creators
09:47 AM EDT - AMD - AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D - 20 Comments
Fedora Stakeholders Debate Idea Of "-O3" Optimized Packages
09:00 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora -O3 Optimized Packages? - 30 Comments
Linus Torvalds Lands A 2.6% Performance Improvement With Minor Linux Kernel Patch
07:10 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Will It Scale? 2.6% Faster - 14 Comments
AMX-FP8 Support Upstreamed Into LLVM For Intel Diamond Rapids
06:43 AM EDT - Intel - AMX-FP8 - Add A Comment
SUSE's Agama Installer Adds QR Code To The Console & Other Improvements
SVT-AV1 2.3 Brings More Performance Improvements: AVX-512 & LTO By Default, More Tuning
06:20 AM EDT - Multimedia - SVT-AV1 2.3 - 5 Comments
30 October
AMD "Cleaner Shader" Coming For GFX11.0.3 GPUs To Help Ensure User/App Isolation
08:27 PM EDT - Radeon - AMD Cleaner Shader - 9 Comments
Ubuntu 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" Development Opens - Defaulting To -O3 Optimizations
04:02 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 25.04 - 65 Comments
Benchmarks Of Google's Axion Arm-based CPU: Competitive Performance & Compelling Value
12:00 PM EDT - Processors - 7 Comments
OpenPaX Announced As "Open-Source Alternative To GrSecurity" With Free Kernel Patch
11:00 AM EDT - Linux Security - OpenPaX - 19 Comments
DRM Panic "Screen of Death" Support Being Extended To All Recent AMD GPUs
06:23 AM EDT - Radeon - DRM_Panic - 20 Comments
RadeonSI Lands Async Video Operations For Improving FFmpeg Performance
VirtIO-GPU Vulkan Support Approaching Upstream QEMU
06:01 AM EDT - Virtualization - VirtIO-GPU Vulkan For QEMU - 19 Comments
Wasmer 5.0 WebAssembly Runtime Released With V8, WAMR & WASMI Backends
05:48 AM EDT - Programming - Wasmer 5.0 - Add A Comment
Shotcut 24.10 Open-Source Video Editor Adds Initial AI Feature
05:38 AM EDT - Free Software - Shotcut 24.10 - 14 Comments
29 October
Intel Posts Updated Raptor Lake Microcode For Linux: Fixes Voltage Issue & Other Bugs
08:36 PM EDT - Intel - Raptor Lake Microcode - 5 Comments
Coreboot Issues Rebuttal To Recent Laptop Vendor Controversy
02:30 PM EDT - Coreboot - Disputing MALIBAL Claims - 46 Comments
Linux Use On Microsoft Azure Crosses 60%, AlmaLinux Now An Endorsed Distro
02:04 PM EDT - Microsoft - Microsoft Azure + Linux - 13 Comments
Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Affecting X.Org Server For 18 Years
01:47 PM EDT - X.Org - CVE-2024-9632 - 51 Comments
Crucial Pro DDR5-6400 32GB Kit Performance With Intel Arrow Lake
10:42 AM EDT - Memory - 9 Comments
Fedora 41 Releases Today With Many Shiny New Features
07:16 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 41 - 68 Comments
RISC-V User-Space Pointer Masking Appears Ready For Linux 6.13
Linux Patches Aim To Further Lower Intel Sierra Forest Idle Power Use
RADV Vulkan Driver Merges Device Generated Commands Support
06:21 AM EDT - Mesa - VK_EXT_device_generated_commands - 11 Comments
Google's Flutter UI Toolkit Forked As Flock
06:12 AM EDT - Programming - Flutter Forked To Flock - 18 Comments
AV1 Still Picture Encoding Merged For Mesa 24.3 Radeon Driver
06:00 AM EDT - Mesa - AV1 Still Picture / AVIF - 10 Comments
28 October
KDE Plasma 6.3 To Improve XWayland Window Resizing
08:34 PM EDT - KDE - Nicer XWayland Window Resizing - 12 Comments
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Linux Memory DDR5 Performance Testing
02:28 PM EDT - Memory - 22 Comments
PCIe TPH Coming With Linux 6.13 To Further Enhance 5th Gen AMD EPYC Performance
12:56 PM EDT - AMD - TLP Processing Hints - 2 Comments
Firefox 132 Ready With Certificate Compression, Accelerated SVG Filter Primitives
11:00 AM EDT - Mozilla - Firefox 132.0 - 35 Comments
Trinity TDE R14.1.3 Lets Linux Users Still Enjoy The KDE 3.5 Desktop Experience
10:53 AM EDT - Desktop - TDE R14.1.3 - 37 Comments
Sched_ext Scheduler Idle Selection Being Extended For LLC & NUMA Awareness
10:12 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - sched_ext NUMA Awareness - 16 Comments
Raspberry Pi OS Now Using Wayland By Default On All Models
08:37 AM EDT - Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi OS - 24 Comments
Intel Preps Linux Driver For Upgraded Display Capabilities With New Hardware
08:28 AM EDT - Intel - Higher Resolution - 2 Comments
AMD STB Support Extended To Latest Ryzen 9000 Series Desktop CPUs
06:39 AM EDT - AMD - Smart Trace Buffer - Add A Comment
Intel's FFmpeg Cartwheel 2024Q3 Brings Lunar Lake & Arrow Lake Support
06:25 AM EDT - Intel - FFmpeg Cartwheel - Add A Comment
Sway 1.10 Released With GPU Reset Recovery & Other Wayland Enhancements
12:00 AM EDT - Wayland - Sway 1.10 - 32 Comments
27 October
Linux 6.12-rc5 Released With Intel LAM Disabled, ASUS Lunar Lake Laptop Performance Fix
07:31 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.12 - 6 Comments
Linux Working On A Counter To Keep Track Of The Number Of Hung Tasks Since Boot
09:24 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - hung_task_detect_count - 7 Comments
Linux 6.12-rc5 Disabling Intel's Linear Address Masking "LAM" Due To Security Concerns
07:30 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linear Address Masking - 17 Comments
Intel's PCIe Cooling Driver Ready For Linux 6.13 To Reduce Bandwidth When Running Hot
07:01 AM EDT - Hardware - PCIe Cooling Driver - 18 Comments
Linux NETFS Patches Help With CIFS Performance, Single Blob Objects
06:27 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Linux NETFS - 2 Comments
DM-INLINECRYPT Being Worked On To Leverage Inline Block Device Encryption
06:15 AM EDT - Linux Storage - dm-inlinecrypt - 3 Comments
26 October
Vulkan 1.3.300 Delivers New Cooperative Matrix Extension From NVIDIA
01:55 PM EDT - Vulkan - VK_NV_cooperative_matrix2 - 11 Comments
Initial Intel Xe3 OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Code Submitted For Mesa 24.3
09:35 AM EDT - Intel - Xe3 + Panther Lake - 2 Comments
ASUS WMI Fix Submitted For Linux 6.12-rc5 To Handle Lunar Lake Performance Issue
09:21 AM EDT - Hardware - ASUS AIPT - 2 Comments
Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns
06:41 AM EDT - Free Software - Bitwarden Update - 41 Comments
KDE Fixing Many Bugs, Prepping New Plasma 6.3 Features
06:29 AM EDT - KDE - KDE This Week - 41 Comments
25 October
Linux Adjusts "Meltdown Lite" Mitigation Handling On Newer Zen 5 CPUs
04:30 PM EDT - AMD - AMD Meltdown Lite - 15 Comments
Intel Core Ultra 5 245K Linux Performance
11:16 AM EDT - Processors - 42 Comments
AMDGPU Changes Readied For Linux 6.13: Runtime Repartitioning, Many Fixes
09:55 AM EDT - Radeon - Linux 6.13 AMDGPU - 4 Comments
Linux Support Continues For The Now-Canceled Snapdragon X Elite Dev Kit For Windows
09:00 AM EDT - Arm - Snapdragon X1 Elite - 9 Comments
DRM Client Library Code Ready Ahead Of Linux 6.13
07:05 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - DRM Client Library - 3 Comments
FUTEX2 NUMA & Small Futexes Revived For Linux
06:55 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - FUTEX2 NUMA + Small Futex - 7 Comments
Cloud Hypervisor 42 Released With SVE/SVE2 Support For AArch64 Guests
06:44 AM EDT - Virtualization - Cloud Hypervisor 42 - 2 Comments
24 October
Intel Preps OA Sync, Panther Lake Workaround & Other New Graphics Code For Linux 6.13
08:36 PM EDT - Intel - drm-xe-next - Add A Comment
Some Clarity On The Linux Kernel's "Compliance Requirements" Around Russian Sanctions
01:15 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - US Sanctions Requirements - 322 Comments
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" Delivers Strong Linux Performance
11:00 AM EDT - Processors - 86 Comments
AMD EPYC 9755 Performance On The Linux 6.11 & Linux 6.12 Kernels
Intel Media Stack Updated With Full Support For Lunar Lake, Initial Battlemage Support
06:44 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Media Driver + VPL GPU Runtime - 6 Comments
NVIDIA Shipping Around One Billion RISC-V Cores In Their 2024 Products
06:35 AM EDT - NVIDIA - RISC-V Within NVIDIA Products - 20 Comments
Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ Launches: 26 TOPS Accelerator For $110
06:16 AM EDT - Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ - 15 Comments
23 October
Intel Core Ultra 7 "Lunar Lake" Performance Up By ~22% With ASUS Linux Fix
03:00 PM EDT - Processors - 17 Comments
Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted
02:00 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - It's Staying That Way - 548 Comments
Gentoo Linux Touts DTrace 2.0 Support
10:53 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Gentoo Linux + DTrace 2.0 - 2 Comments
Significant CRC32C Throughput Optimization On The Way To The Linux Kernel
09:56 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Faster CRC32C Performance - 22 Comments
Intel Preps PXP GuC Auto-Teardown & Improvements For Old iGPUs With Linux 6.13
Linux 6.13 To Default To AMD P-State Driver For EPYC 9005 CPUs
Cloudflare Continues To Praise Open-Source OpenBMC
06:16 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Cloudflare + OpenBMC - 2 Comments
The Free Software Foundation Finally Has AI / Machine Learning Apps On Their Radar
12:00 AM EDT - Free Software - Freedom In AI/ML Models... - 39 Comments
22 October
Rust-Written Rustls Now Reportedly Outperforming OpenSSL & BoringSSL
04:36 PM EDT - Programming - Rustls Faster - 102 Comments
Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
02:22 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Russian Linux Kernel Maintainers - 200 Comments
AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 Now Available For Testing, Derived From CentOS Stream 10
12:15 PM EDT - Operating Systems - AlmaLinux 10 - 12 Comments
System76 Thelio Astra Reviewed: High-End ARM64 Developer Desktop
11:00 AM EDT - Computers - 21 Comments
NVIDIA R565 Linux Driver Beta Brings Improvements For Wayland, DMA-BUF & VKD3D
09:30 AM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA 565.57.01 Beta Driver - 8 Comments
Intel Preps GCC Compiler For New AMX & ISA Features Ahead Of Diamond Rapids
08:00 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Diamond Rapids ISA Features - 8 Comments
Intel Compute Runtime 24.39.31294.12 Fixes Lunar Lake OpenCL, Disables Ice Lake & Older
06:46 AM EDT - Intel - Intel CR 24.39.31294.12 - 11 Comments
Suggestion Raised For Using PGO + LLVM BOLT To Optimize More Fedora Packages
06:33 AM EDT - Fedora - PGO + LLVM Bolt Binaries - 11 Comments
Wasmer 5.0-rc1 Adds Experimental Support For WASMI, Interpreter Mode Support
06:16 AM EDT - Programming - Wasmer 5.0 - 5 Comments
21 October
SysVinit 3.11 Released With An "Important Feature" At Long Last
08:52 PM EDT - Free Software - SysVinit 3.11 - 76 Comments
SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Development Board Update
02:27 PM EDT - RISC-V - SiFive Premier P550 - 51 Comments
Intel Core Ultra 7 256V Lunar Lake With ASUS Zenbook Performing Better After New Linux Patch
12:00 PM EDT - Computers - 12 Comments
AMD Posts Linux Patches For EPYC To Further Enhance Performance-Per-Watt By Default
09:00 AM EDT - AMD - AMD P-State For EPYC - 3 Comments
Intel IWD 3.0 Wireless Daemon Released For Linux Systems
08:40 AM EDT - Linux Networking - Intel IWD 3.0 - 16 Comments
Linus Torvalds Growing Frustrated By Buggy Hardware & Theoretical CPU Attacks
06:55 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Frustrated Torvalds - 128 Comments
Hangover 9.20 Restores Support For Running Win64 Applications On ARM64 Wine
06:27 AM EDT - WINE - WIN64 On ARM64 - 5 Comments
Unvanquished 0.55 Released With Big Performance Optimizations For Its Engine
06:18 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - Unvanquished 0.55 - 4 Comments
Meson 1.6 Build System Adds Support For Flang & OpenXL Compilers
06:08 AM EDT - Programming - Meson 1.6 - Add A Comment
20 October
Linux 6.12-rc4 Released With MSI Claw A1M Controller Support, Intel & AMD Fixes
06:53 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.12-rc4 - Add A Comment
Intel Posts Patch For Fixing/Boosting Lunar Lake Linux Performance On ASUS Laptops
09:18 AM EDT - Intel - ASUS AIPT To Blame - 18 Comments
Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source
08:54 AM EDT - Free Software - Bitwarden Non-Open-Source? - 62 Comments
ReiserFS File-System Expected To Be Removed With Linux 6.13
06:53 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Killing ReiserFS - 31 Comments
Lightweight Guard Pages For Linux Showing 5x Speed-Up For Memory Mapping Invocations
06:38 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux Lightweight Guard Pages - 5 Comments
Audio Firmware Upstreamed For Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 On Linux
06:30 AM EDT - Hardware - X1E80100 Audio Firmware - 14 Comments
19 October
"100% Free" GNU Boot Discovers Again They Have Been Shipping Non-Free Code
03:11 PM EDT - GNU - GNU Boot - 60 Comments
GNOME Making Progress On Full-Featured USB Portal For Flatpaks
09:55 AM EDT - GNOME - Flatpaks - 36 Comments
Wine-Staging 9.20 Fixes An 11 Year Old Wine Bug Report
07:30 AM EDT - WINE - Wine-Staging 9.20 - 6 Comments
Linux Might Drop Fieldbus Support For Industrial Systems With No One Maintaining It
06:39 AM EDT - Hardware - Fieldbus - 18 Comments
Linux 6.12-rc4 Adding Controller Support For The MSI Claw A1M & 8BitDo Ultimate 2C
06:29 AM EDT - Hardware - Input Updates - 8 Comments
KDE Developers Wrapping Up Fallout From Plasma 6.2, Spinning More Plasma 6.3 Features
06:20 AM EDT - KDE - KDE This Week - 77 Comments
18 October
Intel Working On Coreboot Support For Xeon 6 Platforms
04:42 PM EDT - Intel - Intel + 9elements - 8 Comments
Wine 9.20 Released With WineDbg Now Using Capstone Disassembler
04:37 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 9.20 - 6 Comments
Ubuntu Considers Replacing initramfs-tools With Dracut
12:55 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu + Dracut? - 40 Comments
Linux 6.13 Poised To Land Prep Patches Working Toward Proxy Execution
11:26 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux Proxy Execution - 6 Comments
Linux Fixes Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier "IBPB" Handling For Older AMD CPUs
10:42 AM EDT - AMD - IBPB - 4 Comments
Laptop Vendor MALIBAL Suggests Not Supporting Coreboot
09:00 AM EDT - Coreboot - Not Supporting Coreboot?! - 89 Comments
AMD ROCm Looks Like It Will Finally Be Supporting OpenCL 3.0 Soon
06:38 AM EDT - Radeon - AMD ROCm + OpenCL 3.0 - 20 Comments
Ubuntu Snaps Up Intel's NPU User-Space Software So It's Easier To Accelerate AI
06:27 AM EDT - Ubuntu - snap install --beta intel-npu-driver - 9 Comments
Valve Contributes OpenVR Video Driver To SDL
06:14 AM EDT - Valve - SDL + OpenVR Video Driver - 10 Comments
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Has Invested Over $24.9M In Open-Source In Two Years
06:07 AM EDT - Free Software - Sovereign Tech Fund - 22 Comments
17 October
Microsoft Open-Sources Rust-Written OpenHCL For Running Confidential Intel/AMD VMs
08:28 PM EDT - Microsoft - Microsoft OpenHCL - 11 Comments
Intel NPU Driver Being Updated To Handle Larger AI Workloads
04:54 PM EDT - Intel - Intel IVPU Linux Driver - 2 Comments
Exploring The Zen 5 SMT Performance With The AMD EPYC 9755 "Turin" CPU
01:38 PM EDT - Processors - 25 Comments
PyTorch 2.5 Released With Improved Intel GPU Support
12:58 PM EDT - Programming - PyTorch 2.5 - 6 Comments
Red Hat Engineer Nikita Popov Now The Lead Maintainer For LLVM
10:27 AM EDT - LLVM - LLVM Lead Maintainer - 44 Comments
Linux 6.13 To Introduce Intel 5th Gen NPU Support For Panther Lake
The Maturing State Of Rusticl For Rust-Based OpenCL Within Mesa
06:58 AM EDT - Mesa - Rusticl 2024 Status Update - 11 Comments
AMD Working On GPU Compute Virtualization Support With ROCm/HIP For VMs
06:46 AM EDT - Radeon - ROCm VMs - 2 Comments
OGRE-Next 3.0 Released For This Open-Source 3D Engine
06:30 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - OGRE-Next 3.0 - 8 Comments
16 October
AMD Releases AOMP 20.0-0 For Radeon/Instinct Compiler Offloading
04:30 PM EDT - AMD - AOMP 20.0-0 - 2 Comments
Qualcomm Announces Mesa VCL Driver For OpenCL Acceleration Within VMs
02:01 PM EDT - Virtualization - OpenCL + VirtIO-GPU - 13 Comments
Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver "RADV" Demonstrated On Windows
01:11 PM EDT - Radeon - RADV On Windows - 37 Comments
Intel Lunar Lake vs. AMD Strix Point Platform Profile Performance Comparison
11:30 AM EDT - Computers - 8 Comments
GCC Preparing To Set C23 "GNU23" As Default C Language Version
10:15 AM EDT - GNU - -std=gnu23 - 15 Comments
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI 1.2 Brings AMD ROCm + Instinct Tech Preview
10:00 AM EDT - Red Hat - RHEL AI 1.2 - 5 Comments
AMD Linux Graphics Driver To Switch To More Aggressive Power Heuristics By Default
06:51 AM EDT - Radeon - Better Performance - 50 Comments
Intel Low Power Mode Daemon v0.0.8 Brings New Features
06:33 AM EDT - Intel - Intel LPMD v0.0.8 - 3 Comments
New Patches Allow For Deleting Files ~54% Faster On F2FS
06:24 AM EDT - Linux Storage - F2FS Faster Truncate - 13 Comments
Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0 Adds Valkey, Enables Other New Features
06:04 AM EDT - Microsoft - Azure Linux 3.0 October 2024 Update - 2 Comments
Intel ISPC 1.25 Released With New Targets For Xe2 Lunar Lake & Battlemage
05:57 AM EDT - Intel - Intel ISPC 1.25 - Add A Comment
15 October
Python 3.14 Alpha 1 Released With Early Changes
08:38 PM EDT - Programming - Python 3.14 - 3 Comments
NVIDIA Posts Linux Patches For GPU Direct RDMA For Device Private Pages
VKD3D-Proton Has Been Working On Emulating D3D12 Work Graphs, But The Tech Disappoints
02:34 PM EDT - Valve - Direct3D Work Graphs - 24 Comments
Intel & AMD Form An x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group
01:46 PM EDT - Intel - x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group - 157 Comments
Initial Benchmarks Of The AMD AOCC 5.0 Compiler On 5th Gen EPYC
11:00 AM EDT - Software - 15 Comments
Ubuntu 24.10 Developer Preview Released For Snapdragon X1 Elite Laptops
09:42 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 24.10 + Snapdragon Laptops - 20 Comments
LLVM's Modern "Flang-New" Fortran Compiler Renamed To "Flang"
08:52 AM EDT - LLVM - Flang-New Renamed - Add A Comment
Solus 4.6 Released With Continued Merged Usr Migration, Experimental Software Centers
07:02 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Solus Linux 4.6 - 10 Comments
Intel oneDNN 3.6 Improves Performance For Granite Rapids, Initial Xe2 Optimizations
06:46 AM EDT - Intel - Intel oneDNN 3.6 - Add A Comment
Unvanquished Working On OpenGL 4.6 Renderer Support
06:38 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - Unvanquished + OpenGL 4.6 - 7 Comments
LibreSSL 4.0 Released With EmScripten Support, Fixes Windows Support Past Y2038
06:06 AM EDT - Programming - LibreSSL 4.0 - 19 Comments
14 October
OpenZFS 2.3-rc2 Brings CPU Pinning & Optimized Kernel Same-Page Merging
08:11 PM EDT - Linux Storage - OpenZFS 2.3-rc2 - 6 Comments
NVIDIA Is Helping To Improve Linux's Dynamic Display Mux Support For Laptops
01:00 PM EDT - NVIDIA - Better Dynamic Display Mux - 26 Comments
AMD EPYC 9755 DDR5-4800 vs. DDR5-6000 Memory Performance
10:45 AM EDT - Memory - 3 Comments
GCC 15 "Stage 1" Feature Development Ending Next Month
09:52 AM EDT - GNU - GCC 15.0 - 4 Comments
CodeWeavers Working On Better Input Device Support For Proton Gaming
07:00 AM EDT - Valve - CodeWeavers - 12 Comments
Corsair Void Headset Driver Expected For Linux 6.13
06:40 AM EDT - Hardware - Corsair Void Headset Driver - 5 Comments
Inkscape 1.4 Brings Numerous Enhancements To This Vector Graphics Editor
06:25 AM EDT - Free Software - Inkscape 1.4 - 13 Comments
Llamafile 0.8.14 Introduces New CLI Chatbot Interface
06:14 AM EDT - Programming - Llamafile 0.8.14 - 6 Comments
13 October
Linux 6.12-rc3 Released With Some Late NTFS Driver Enhancements
05:50 PM EDT - Linux Networking - Linux 6.12-rc3 - 3 Comments
Linux 6.13 To Drop Some Old & No Longer Maintained Staging Drivers
10:13 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 6.13 Staging - 24 Comments
Improvements To The Ad Experience
10:00 AM EDT - Phoronix - Ad Tweaks - 48 Comments
Mesa 24.3 Allows Rusticl On Asahi Gallium3D By Default
06:32 AM EDT - Mesa - Rusticl OpenCL On Apple Silicon - Add A Comment
Mesa NVK Vulkan Driver Adds VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate Support
06:13 AM EDT - Nouveau - NVK + Fragment Shading Rate - Add A Comment
Microsoft's Azure Linux 2.0 Updated With Dozens Of Security Fixes
06:05 AM EDT - Microsoft - Azure Linux 2.0.20241006 - 2 Comments
12 October
Wayland Protocols 1.38 Brings System Bell, FIFO & Commit Timing Protocols
10:28 AM EDT - Wayland - Wayland Protocols 1.38 - 65 Comments
AMD XDNA Linux Driver Updated As It Nears The Upstream Kernel
09:21 AM EDT - AMD - AMDXDNA - 11 Comments
BeOS-Inspired Haiku Enabling More Intel Hardware & Driving Kernel Optimizations
09:02 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Haiku OS - 19 Comments
Intel Panther Lake H EDAC Support Posted For Linux
06:53 AM EDT - Intel - Panther Lake - Add A Comment
AMD Job Posting Confirms More Details Around Their AI GPU Compute Stack Plans
06:44 AM EDT - AMD - IREE + MLIR - 11 Comments
KDE Developers Fixing Initial Bugs From Plasma 6.2
06:13 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Plasma 6.2.1 - 51 Comments
11 October
AMD To Integrate "Project Caliptra" Into Products Beginning In 2026
08:50 PM EDT - AMD - AMD + Caliptra - 7 Comments
Arm Exploring IO_uring For Graphics Drivers For Better Performance & Synchronization
01:45 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - DRM Drivers + IO_uring - 14 Comments
AVX-512 Performance With 256-bit vs. 512-bit Data Path For AMD EPYC 9005 CPUs
10:40 AM EDT - Processors - 21 Comments
Intel Xe2 Ultra Joiner, GPU Temperature Reporting & Another Arrow Lake ID For Linux 6.13
09:28 AM EDT - Intel - Intel DRM Next - 3 Comments
DRM_Log Continues To Be Worked On As New Boot Logger For Kernel Messages
08:30 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - DRM_Log - 13 Comments
AMD AOCC 5.0 Compiler Released With Zen 5 Support, New Optimizations
06:57 AM EDT - AMD - AMD AOCC 5.0 - 7 Comments
AMD Hardware Feedback Interface "HFI" Driver Updated For Heterogeneous CPUs
Nouveau With NVK Vulkan Driver Running More Games, Increasing Feature Set
06:30 AM EDT - Nouveau - Nouveau NVK Update - 4 Comments
AMD Announces Commitment To "Open Security Technologies"
06:15 AM EDT - AMD - AMD Open Security - 5 Comments
10 October
NVIDIA Shares Wayland Driver Roadmap, Encourages Vulkan Wayland Compositors
08:34 PM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA Wayland Plans - 132 Comments
AMD EPYC 9755 / 9575F / 9965 Benchmarks Show Dominating Performance
02:00 PM EDT - Processors - 170 Comments
02:00 PM EDT - Processors - 21 Comments
AMD Launches EPYC 9005 "Turin" Server Processors
02:00 PM EDT - Processors - 2 Comments
AMD Announces Pensando Salina 400 DPU & Pollara 400 Ultra Ethernet NIC
02:00 PM EDT - AMD - AMD Networking - 4 Comments
Intel Announces Core Ultra 200S Arrow Lake CPUs
11:00 AM EDT - Computers - 25 Comments
Apple Silicon On Linux Now More Capable For Gaming With Latest Mesa + Steam On FEX
10:35 AM EDT - Apple - Asahi Gaming Toolkit - 57 Comments
Ubuntu 24.10 Now Available With Linux 6.11, GCC 14 & Other Upgrades
09:20 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 24.10 - 24 Comments
AMD 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer Driver Posted For Linux
06:38 AM EDT - AMD - AMD 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer - 31 Comments
Intel Begins Working On Next-Gen Xe3 Graphics With Linux 6.13
06:25 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Xe3 Graphics - 5 Comments
Restartable Sequences "RSEQ" Seeing Up To 16.7x Speedup With Newest Linux Patch
06:09 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - RSEQ Cache Local - 2 Comments
9 October
Open3D Engine "O3DE" 24.09 Released With Performance Improvements & More
08:25 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - O3DE 24.09 - 20 Comments
Ubuntu Server 24.10 Brings Experimental NVMe/TCP Installation Support
12:40 PM EDT - Ubuntu - NVMe/TCP Installations - 14 Comments
Vulkan 1.3.297 Introduces VK_EXT_present_mode_fifo_latest_ready
12:12 PM EDT - Vulkan - VK_EXT_present_mode_fifo_latest_ready - 2 Comments
Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24.10 Performance For Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake
09:07 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 46 Comments
GNOME Triple Buffering May Need To Be Re-Engineered - Helping NVIDIA Performance
08:55 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME Triple Buffering - 105 Comments
Microsoft Continues Working On Hyper-V Dom0 Support For Linux
08:41 AM EDT - Microsoft - Hyper-V Dom0 - 8 Comments
Intel Revs Linux Driver Patches To Fend Off PCIe Thermal Issues Via Bandwidth Reduction
06:31 AM EDT - Hardware - bwctrl - 6 Comments
GCC 15 Un-Deprecates Itanium IA-64 Linux Support
06:14 AM EDT - GNU - Itanium Sticking Around - 30 Comments
8 October
NTFS Driver Lands Some Late Feature Enhancements For Linux 6.12
03:23 PM EDT - Linux Storage - NTFS3 Driver - 42 Comments
Arm's Guarded Control Stack "GCS" Support Looks Like It Will Be Ready For Linux 6.13
02:26 PM EDT - Arm - Arm Guarded Control Stack - Add A Comment
Intel Xeon 6980P 1S Performance With DDR5-6400/MRDIMM-8800
10:40 AM EDT - Processors - 7 Comments
Intel's Rendering Toolkit Turns To More Open, Community-Welcoming Development Model
09:51 AM EDT - Intel - oneAPI Rendering Toolkit - 4 Comments
KDE Plasma 6.2 Released With More Desktop Polishing
06:58 AM EDT - KDE - Plasma 6.2 - 37 Comments
A Few Intel Xe2 Graphics Tuning Updates Found In Linux 6.12-rc2
06:43 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Xe2 Performance Tuning - Add A Comment
LunarG Exploring Vulkan To Metal Translation With Mesa
06:19 AM EDT - Mesa - Vulkan To Apple Metal - 19 Comments
Qt 6.8 LTS Released With XR Module, Lower RAM Usage & Quicker Start Times
06:05 AM EDT - Qt - Qt 6.8 LTS - 24 Comments
7 October
GNOME Foundation Announces Cost Cutting Measures Due To Budget Woes
09:00 PM EDT - GNOME - Reducing Travels + More - 151 Comments
OpenBSD 7.6 Released With AVX-512, Initial Support For Snapdragon X Elite SoCs
07:19 PM EDT - BSD - OpenBSD 7.6 - 15 Comments
FEX 2410 Released With New JIT Optimizations
04:09 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - FEX 2410 - 9 Comments
Python 3.13 Debuts With New Interactive Interpreter & Experimental JIT
01:57 PM EDT - Programming - Python 3.13 Released - 8 Comments
Git 2.47 Released With Improvements & Encouraging More Positive Code Reviews
12:45 PM EDT - Programming - Git 2.47 - 32 Comments
Gentoo Linux To See Improved ARM64 Support Thanks To An Ampere Altra Max Server
10:47 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Gentoo Linux On ARM - 1 Comment
openSUSE Leap 16.0 Pre-Alpha Available, GA Next October
08:56 AM EDT - SUSE - openSUSE Leap 16 Pre-Alpha - 9 Comments
RPM 4.20 Released With Declarative Build System Support, Public Plugin API
08:47 AM EDT - Operating Systems - RPM 4.20 - 12 Comments
The Speedy Ptyxis Terminal Emulator Available On Ubuntu 24.10
06:59 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ptyxis On Ubuntu - 30 Comments
Linus Torvalds Asks Kernel Developers To Write Better Git Merge Commit Messages
06:45 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Enhancing Quality - 31 Comments
NVGRACE-GPU VFIO Driver Preparing For NVIDIA Grace Blackwell
06:39 AM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA Grace Blackwell VFIO Support - Add A Comment
Linux Thermal/Power Platform Profile Support Coming For Alienware Systems
06:23 AM EDT - Hardware - dell-wmi-awcc - Add A Comment
6 October
Linux 6.12-rc2 Released With Initial Batch Of Fixes
06:52 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.12 - 31 Comments
More Intel Diamond Rapids Enablement Landing For Linux 6.12
11:51 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Diamond Rapids - Add A Comment
Cage 0.2 Released For Wayland-Powered Kiosks With Single, Maximized Apps
10:34 AM EDT - Wayland - Cage 0.2 - 15 Comments
Mesa 24.3 Adds New Build Option To Allow Rusticl Driver Support To Be Enabled By Default
10:22 AM EDT - Mesa - Rusticl Default - Add A Comment
Wasmer 4.4 Released To Continue Pushing Universal Apps With WebAssembly
09:04 AM EDT - Programming - Wasmer 4.4 - 11 Comments
Apple Vulkan Driver "HoneyKrisp" Lands Many Fixes & Features
06:24 AM EDT - Mesa - HoneyKrisp - 27 Comments
OpenRazer 3.9 Adds Support For Many Newer Razer Devices On Linux
06:15 AM EDT - Hardware - OpenRazer 3.9 - 17 Comments
5 October
Bcachefs Fixes Pull Once Again Frustrates Linus Torvalds - Two Choices Offered
08:24 PM EDT - Linux Storage - LKML Drama - 257 Comments
The Long-Awaited GIMP 3.0 Closing In On Its First Release Candidate
01:12 PM EDT - Free Software - GIMP 3.0 RC1 Coming Soon - 38 Comments
Fedora 41 Has Working Intel IPU6 Web Camera Support With Modern Laptops
09:42 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 41 + Intel IPU6 - 9 Comments
Linux 6.12 Patches Neoverse-N3 & Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 For Speculative SSBS
08:53 AM EDT - Arm - Plus Neoverse-A715 - Add A Comment
OpenZFS 2.3-rc1 Delivers RAIDZ Expansion, Fast Dedup & Direct IO
06:35 AM EDT - Linux Storage - OpenZFS 2.3 - 36 Comments
SDL 3.1.3 Stable ABI Preview Release
06:20 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - SDL 3.1.3 - 25 Comments
KDE Plasma 6.2 Preparing For Release Next Week
06:11 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Plasma 6.2 On 8 October - 19 Comments
4 October
Wine 9.19 Brings Improved Window Positioning On Wayland
08:29 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 9.19 - 6 Comments
Qualcomm Linux Driver Prepares For New "AIC080" Lower-Cost Cloud AI Accelerator
04:10 PM EDT - Hardware - Qualcomm Cloud AI 80 - Add A Comment
Intel Panther Lake Introducing 5th Gen NPU - Initial Linux Patches Posted
01:42 PM EDT - Intel - Intel Panther Lake NPU - 2 Comments
01:30 PM EDT - Processors - 37 Comments
ZLUDA Takes On Third Life: Open-Source Multi-GPU CUDA Implementation Focused On AI
10:00 AM EDT - Free Software - ZLUDA - 42 Comments
Fwupd 2.0 Released To Drop Legacy & Deprecated Bits, Adds New Features
09:41 AM EDT - LVFS - Fwupd 2.0 - 17 Comments
Blender 4.3 Beta Delivers Experimental Vulkan UI Rendering
08:58 AM EDT - Free Software - Blender 4.3 - 8 Comments
Red Hat Engineer Working On DRM Panic Support For AMDGPU Driver
06:52 AM EDT - Radeon - DRM Panic - 28 Comments
Zink Seeing VA-API Video Acceleration Implemented Over Vulkan Video
06:39 AM EDT - Mesa - VA-API On Vulkan Video - 15 Comments
Zrythm Digital Audio Workstation Abandoning GTK For Qt6
06:31 AM EDT - Free Software - From GTK To Qt - 27 Comments
Servo Browser Adds Android Downloads, Improved Tabbing & More
06:14 AM EDT - Mozilla - Servo Browser - 15 Comments
3 October
New AMD Linux Patches Aim To Further Boost Performance For Heterogeneous CPU Designs
08:22 PM EDT - AMD - Better Performance - 3 Comments
MRDIMM 8800MT/s vs. DDR5-6400 Memory Performance With Intel Xeon 6
04:00 PM EDT - Memory - 11 Comments
Intel Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" List Prices Top Out At $17,800 USD
02:30 PM EDT - Intel - Intel Xeon 6900P Pricing - 4 Comments
Mesa 24.2.4 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes
01:58 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 24.2.4 - 2 Comments
Fedora's Kernel Build Now Enabling Sched_Ext Support
08:37 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora + sched_ext - 6 Comments
Google Updates Patches For AutoFDO+Propeller Optimized Linux Kernel
06:48 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Faster Performance - 8 Comments
Giga Computing Announces GA On Their AmpereOne Servers
06:17 AM EDT - Arm - General Availability - 5 Comments
NetworkManager 1.50 Released - Now Ensures Offensive Terms Don't Appear In Settings
06:00 AM EDT - Linux Networking - NetworkManager 1.50 - 158 Comments
UXL Foundation Hosting Virtual oneAPI DevSummit 2024 Next Week
05:46 AM EDT - Linux Events - oneAPI DevSummit - Add A Comment
2 October
Steam Remote Play Adds AV1 Video Streaming Support Plus More Linux Fixes
08:18 PM EDT - Valve - Steam Remote Play + AV1 - 27 Comments
Linux 6.12 Drops New Driver That Ended Up Breaking Laptop Touchpad Support For Many Users
Some Intel Linux Driver Maintainers Have Left The Company
02:23 PM EDT - Intel - Intel Layoffs - 18 Comments
Redox OS Making Progress On RISC-V Support, Eyes QEMU & Neovim Ports
12:54 PM EDT - Operating Systems - September Status Update - 17 Comments
Intel Xeon 6980P SNC3 vs. HEX Clustering Mode Performance
11:10 AM EDT - Processors - 3 Comments
Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Release In December
10:49 AM EDT - Desktop - Xfce 4.20 - 79 Comments
Notcurses Is Still Alive For Ramping Up "Terminal Bling" With Complex TUIs
06:47 AM EDT - Programming - Notcurses - 25 Comments
Golang Now Enables Speedier getrandom() On Linux
06:34 AM EDT - Programming - Golang + getrandom vDSO - 5 Comments
OpenVPN Kernel Driver Patches Updated For Improving VPN Performance
06:19 AM EDT - Linux Networking - OpenVPN Offload - 16 Comments
Manjaro 24.1 Released With GNOME 46, KDE Plasma 6.1 & Xfce 4.18 Desktop Options
05:53 AM EDT - Arch Linux - Manjaro 24.1 - 14 Comments
1 October
Steam On Linux Percentage Receded A Bit Further In September
08:21 PM EDT - Valve - Steam Survey - 81 Comments
Python 3.13 Sees Last Minute Delay Due To Performance Regression
01:41 PM EDT - Programming - Python 3.13-rc3 - 32 Comments
Intel Preparing New "Staging" Feature For Better Handling CPU Microcode Updates
01:17 PM EDT - Intel - Intel Staging Feature - Add A Comment
Kernel Recipes 2024 Slides & Videos Posted
11:20 AM EDT - Linux Events - Kernel Recipes 2024 - 1 Comment
Supermicro ARS-211M-NR AmpereOne Server With R13SPD Motherboard
10:34 AM EDT - Computers - 3 Comments
AMD Announces EPYC Embedded 8004 Series
09:52 AM EDT - AMD - AMD EPYC Embedded 8004 - 4 Comments
Firefox 131 Released With Tab Preview & CHIPS Support
09:44 AM EDT - Mozilla - Firefox 131 - 14 Comments
Reverse PRIME Now Works Nicely On Ubuntu 24.10
06:50 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Reverse PRIME + Ubuntu 24.10 - 15 Comments
Linux 6.13 To Bring Big/Super Pages For The Raspberry Pi Graphics Driver - Better Performance
06:25 AM EDT - Raspberry Pi - Big + Super Pages - 8 Comments
WebKitGTK 2.46 Uses Skia Rather Than Cairo, More CPU/GPU Optimizations To Come
06:17 AM EDT - GNOME - WebKitGTK 2.46 - 65 Comments
Granite Rapids, AmpereOne & PREEMPT_RT Landing Made For An Exciting September
06:07 AM EDT - Phoronix - September 2024 - Add A Comment
Busd Taking Shape As A D-Bus Broker Written In Rust
05:56 AM EDT - systemd - Busd - 45 Comments