AMD |
GCC 14 Adds "GFX90C" For OpenMP Offloading To APUs With GFX9/Vega Graphics | 26 Apr 2024 |
New AMD Linux Patch Acknowledges More Zen 5 CPU Models | 24 Apr 2024 |
AMD Prepping Fixes & Enhancements For P-State CPUFreq Driver | 23 Apr 2024 |
AMD SEV-SNP Hypervisor Support Nears The Mainline Linux Kernel | 22 Apr 2024 |
AMD Announces Versal Gen 2 Adaptive SoCs - AI Focused & Newer Arm Cores | 09 Apr 2024 |
SolidRun Launches Bedrock R8000 As First Industrial PCs With Ryzen Embedded 8000 Series | 08 Apr 2024 |
AMD Announces Ryzen Embedded 8000 Series With Focus On Industrial AI | 02 Apr 2024 |
AMD XDNA Linux Driver For Ryzen AI, Zen 5 Compiler Support & Other AMD Q1 Highlights | 31 Mar 2024 |
Linux Fixes Botched SRSO Mitigation For AMD Zen 3 / Zen 4 | 30 Mar 2024 |
GCC Compiler Adds Support For Device Offloading With AMD RDNA3 APUs (GFX1103) | 22 Mar 2024 |
More AMD News | 1672 Articles |
Apple |
OpenGL 4.6 + OpenGL ES 3.2 Achieved On Apple M1 With Linux Driver | 14 Feb 2024 |
Asahi Linux Has Been Making Progress On Apple HDMI, EAS & GPU Features | 14 Jan 2024 |
Apple Announces The M3 / M3 Pro / M3 Max | 30 Oct 2023 |
Asahi Linux's Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant | 22 Aug 2023 |
Apple Studio Display Linux Driver Published To Control The Backlight | 01 Jul 2023 |
Experimental OpenGL 3.1 Support For Apple M1/M2 Graphics On Linux | 06 Jun 2023 |
Apple Announces The M2 Ultra SoC - 24 Core CPU, Up To 192GB Unified Memory | 05 Jun 2023 |
Apple M1/M2 Keyboard Backlight Support Set For The Linux 6.4 Kernel | 17 Apr 2023 |
Linux 6.4 Bringing Apple M2 Additions For 2022 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac Mini | 06 Apr 2023 |
Linux GMUX Support For T2 Macs On The Way For Dual-GPU Graphics Switching | 12 Mar 2023 |
More Apple News | 119 Articles |
Arch Linux |
Archinstall 2.8 Further Refines The Easy Arch Linux Installation Experience | 15 Apr 2024 |
Arch Linux Increasing Its vm.max_map_count To Help Steam Play Games & Other Software | 07 Apr 2024 |
Arch Linux's Pacman 6.1 Released With Cache Server Support | 04 Mar 2024 |
Arch-Based Endeavour OS Updates ISO With Linux 6.7 Kernel, Mesa 23.3.3 | 27 Jan 2024 |
Arch Linux Will Now Use Dbus-Broker As Its Default D-Bus Daemon | 09 Jan 2024 |
Manjaro 23.1 Released With Linux 6.6 LTS, Pipewire 1.0 & Desktop Updates | 16 Dec 2023 |
Arch Linux ALHP Adds x86-64-v4 Repository For Packages Built With AVX-512 | 14 Dec 2023 |
Archinstall 2.7 Brings Unified Kernel Image Support To The Arch Linux Installer | 23 Nov 2023 |
Arch Linux Installer Update Allows More Control Over Parallel Downloads, Ly | 23 Sep 2023 |
Archinstall 2.6 Released For Latest Easy-To-Use Arch Linux Installer | 31 Jul 2023 |
More Arch Linux News | 123 Articles |
Arm |
Acer Aspire One ARM Laptop To Have "Almost Full" Support With Linux 6.10 | 21 Apr 2024 |
Linux 6.10 To Add Script For Building ARM64 Flat Image Trees | 17 Apr 2024 |
Arm China Looking At Upstreaming Their "Zhouyi" NPU Driver Into The Linux Kernel | 28 Mar 2024 |
Panthor DRM Driver Queued For Linux 6.10 To Support Newer Arm Mali GPUs | 26 Mar 2024 |
ARM SCMI CPUFreq Driver Enabling Boost Support By Default With Linux 6.9 | 19 Mar 2024 |
ARM64 Rust Support & dpISA 2023 Extensions Merged For Linux 6.9 | 15 Mar 2024 |
Rust Kernel Support On AArch64 Ready To Go For Linux 6.9 | 12 Feb 2024 |
LLVM Adds Support For New "Ampere1B" Third-Gen Cores From Ampere Computing | 10 Feb 2024 |
Arm Lands Mali Gen10 "Panthor" Firmware Blob In Linux-Firmware.Git | 08 Feb 2024 |
Linux 6.8 Adds New Gaming Handhelds, Google Tensor & Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 + X Elite SoCs | 11 Jan 2024 |
More Arm News | 324 Articles |
BSD |
NetBSD 9.4 Released With Security & Stability Fixes | 23 Apr 2024 |
OpenBSD 7.5 Released - Faster Performance For Many-Core ARM Servers | 05 Apr 2024 |
NetBSD 10.0 Released With Much Improved Hardware Support & Faster Performance | 30 Mar 2024 |
FreeBSD 13.3 Released With Better WiFi Support, LLVM objdump Added | 05 Mar 2024 |
NetBSD 10.0 Should Be Released Soon - Likely Last RC Debuts | 29 Feb 2024 |
FreeBSD 13.3-RC1 Improves WiFi Stability, Takes Care Of Some Kernel Panics | 27 Feb 2024 |
FreeBSD Has Been Working On AMD64 SIMD libc Optimizations - Coming For FreeBSD 14.1 | 16 Feb 2024 |
GhostBSD 24.01.1 Released: Based On FreeBSD 14, Many Improvements | 15 Feb 2024 |
FreeBSD Continues Push Toward Deprecating 32-bit Platforms | 13 Feb 2024 |
helloSystem Publishes New Experimental Build Based On FreeBSD 14.0 | 09 Feb 2024 |
More BSD News | 823 Articles |
Clear Linux |
Clear Linux Will Now Handle Up To 512 CPU Cores / vCPUs | 28 Dec 2022 |
Intel's Clear Linux Taps -O3 For Its Kernel Builds | 12 Aug 2022 |
Clear Linux Container Performance Continues Showing Sizable Gains | 30 Jan 2022 |
Using Distrobox To Augment The Package Selection On Clear Linux, Other Distributions | 09 Jan 2022 |
Clear Linux Preparing To Move To GNOME 3.36, Dropping Their Desktop Customizations | 26 Apr 2020 |
Intel's Clear Linux To Divest From The Desktop, Focus On Server + Cloud Workloads | 23 Apr 2020 |
Chrome, Skype, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, VSCode Now Unofficially Available For Clear Linux | 03 Apr 2020 |
Is Clear Linux Just A Toy Distribution By Intel? | 18 Mar 2020 |
Intel's Clear Linux Has Code In Place To Begin Handling Proprietary Packages Like Chrome & Steam | 13 Mar 2020 |
F2FS Root File-System Support For Clear Linux Appears To Be Coming | 14 Feb 2020 |
More Clear Linux News | 93 Articles |
Coreboot |
NovaCustom Announces "Fastest Coreboot Laptops In The World" Built On Intel Core Ultra | 03 Apr 2024 |
Coreboot 24.02 Released - Supporting Three New Motherboards | 01 Mar 2024 |
Coreboot-Based Dasharo Firmware Updated For MSI Z690/Z790 Motherboards | 22 Jan 2024 |
Coreboot 4.22 Released: Initial AMD OpenSIL Code Added, 17 New Motherboards | 28 Nov 2023 |
Canoeboot 20231026 Released As Another Fork Of Coreboot-Downstream Libreboot | 27 Oct 2023 |
Libreboot 20231021 Brings Some Additional Laptops, Desktops / Motherboards For Testing | 21 Oct 2023 |
Coreboot-Based Dasharo Updated For MSI Z690-A With Raptor Lake S, MSI FLASHBIOS | 12 Sep 2023 |
Initial AMD EPYC Genoa Support Added To Coreboot, New Onyx Motherboard Target | 03 Sep 2023 |
Coreboot 4.21 Brings More System76 Laptops, Star Labs & MSI Z790-P Support | 25 Aug 2023 |
Coreboot Lands Support For The MSI PRO Z790-P Motherboards | 24 Aug 2023 |
More Coreboot News | 272 Articles |
Debian |
APT 2.9 Released: Debian's APT 3.0 To Have A New UI With Colors, Columnar Display & More | 13 Apr 2024 |
Debian Policy 4.7 Outlines Latest Packaging/System Guidelines | 07 Apr 2024 |
Debian 12.5 Released To Provide The Latest Security & Bug Fixes | 11 Feb 2024 |
Debian 64-bit time_t Transition Underway For Addressing Y2038 Problem On 32-bit Systems | 02 Feb 2024 |
Debian Likely Moving Away From i386 In The Near Future | 16 Dec 2023 |
Debian 12.4 Released With Dozens Of Fixes | 11 Dec 2023 |
Debian 12.3 Delayed Due To An EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Being Addressed | 10 Dec 2023 |
Debian's MIPS64EL CPU Port Is At Risk Due To Declining Hardware Access | 25 Nov 2023 |
Debian Repeals The Merged "/usr" Movement Moratorium | 17 Oct 2023 |
Debian 12.2 Released With Various Security Fixes, AMD Inception Microcode | 08 Oct 2023 |
More Debian News | 415 Articles |
Desktop |
System76's COSMIC Working On Drag & Drop, More Compositor Improvements | 17 Apr 2024 |
LXQt 2.0 Released For Qt6 Desktop Port, Greater Wayland Support | 17 Apr 2024 |
System76 Now Planning For COSMIC Desktop Alpha Release In Late May | 13 Mar 2024 |
LXQt Desktop Now "100%" Ready For Wayland | 09 Mar 2024 |
SDDM 0.21 Display Manager Released With Better Wayland Support, Qt6 Fixes | 26 Feb 2024 |
Iced Toolkit For Rust GUIs Reaches v0.12 With New Features | 16 Feb 2024 |
System76's COSMIC Desktop Nearing Alpha Release | 14 Feb 2024 |
Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Usable Wayland Support While Maintaining X11 Compatibility | 10 Feb 2024 |
Budgie 10.9 Desktop Brings Early Wayland Porting Work | 28 Jan 2024 |
The Budgie Desktop Hopes To Do A Wayland-Only Release This Year | 27 Jan 2024 |
More Desktop News | 460 Articles |
Fedora |
Fedora Miracle Spin Proposed For Fedora 41 | 25 Apr 2024 |
Fedora Linux 40 Available For Download As A Wonderful Upgrade | 23 Apr 2024 |
Fedora Linux 40 Cleared For Release Next Week | 18 Apr 2024 |
RPM 4.20 Approved For Fedora 41 To Advance Hands-Free Packaging | 17 Apr 2024 |
Fedora 41 Aims For More Reproducible Package Builds Thanks To A Rust Program | 15 Apr 2024 |
Fedora 41 Looks To "-O3" Optimizations For Its Python Build | 13 Apr 2024 |
FESCo Approves The Fedora 41 Switch To DNF5 | 08 Apr 2024 |
Fedora 42 Change Proposal Wants To Make KDE Plasma The Default Over GNOME | 02 Apr 2024 |
Fedora 41 Will Try Again To Switch To DNF5 Package Manager | 29 Mar 2024 |
Fedora 40 Beta Released With GNOME 46 & KDE Plasma 6.0 On Wayland Desktops | 26 Mar 2024 |
More Fedora News | 1198 Articles |
Free Software |
Servo Web Engine Now Passing Acid2 Layout Engine Test | 26 Apr 2024 |
Sovereign Tech Fund Makes New Investments Into GNOME & PHP, Bug Bounty For systemd | 25 Apr 2024 |
Llamafile 0.8 Releases With LLaMA3 & Grok Support, Faster F16 Performance | 25 Apr 2024 |
Nginx 1.26 Released With Experimental HTTP/3 Support | 24 Apr 2024 |
Tow-Boot 2023.07 U-Boot Distribution Released With New Board Support | 19 Apr 2024 |
Valkey Celebrates Its First Stable Release As Open-Source Redis Fork | 16 Apr 2024 |
Servo Driving Modularity To Support Different JavaScript Engines | 15 Apr 2024 |
Vim Lands XDG Base Directory Specification Support | 15 Apr 2024 |
OpenJPH 0.11 Works Toward Low-Latency High-Throughput JPEG-2000 (HTJ2K) | 14 Apr 2024 |
Dbus-Broker 36 Released For This Fastest D-Bus Implementation | 12 Apr 2024 |
More Free Software News | 1973 Articles |
GNOME |
GNOME Foundation To Focus On Fundraising After Years Running A Deficit | 26 Apr 2024 |
GNOME Mutter 46.1 Brings Explicit Sync, Better NVIDIA Hybrid GPU Acceleration | 21 Apr 2024 |
GNOME Working To Make Key Rack A Viable Password Manager, Better Printing For Flatpaks | 20 Apr 2024 |
GTK4 Continues Improving Graphics Offload & DMA-BUF Integration | 18 Apr 2024 |
GNOME Mutter Lands NVIDIA Hybrid GPU Copy Acceleration | 17 Apr 2024 |
GNOME Improving Integration With systemd-homed, Mockups For An OS Installer | 06 Apr 2024 |
GNOME's Mutter Lands DRM Sync Obj v1 Support For Explicit Sync On Wayland | 29 Mar 2024 |
LLVM BOLT Optimizations Net ~6% Improvement For GNOME's Pango | 22 Mar 2024 |
GNOME 46 Released With Improved Search, Experimental VRR & More Polish | 20 Mar 2024 |
New Gestures Code Squeezes Into GNOME 46 | 16 Mar 2024 |
More GNOME News | 1268 Articles |
GNU |
GCC 14.1 Compiler Aiming For Release Around 7 May | 26 Apr 2024 |
GNU Portability Library's Tool Rewritten In Python For 8~100x Better Performance | 21 Apr 2024 |
GCC 14 Compiler Adds AArch64 GNU/Hurd Support | 11 Apr 2024 |
GCC 14 Boasts Nice ASCII Art For Visualizing Buffer Overflows | 03 Apr 2024 |
GNU Poke 4.0 & Poke-ELF 1.0 Released For Dealing With Binary Data | 31 Mar 2024 |
GNU Coreutils 9.5 Can Yield 10~20% Throughput Boost For cp, mv & cat Commands | 28 Mar 2024 |
IBM Posts GCC Patches For -mcpu=power11 Support | 20 Mar 2024 |
GNU Linux-libre 6.8-gnu Dealing With Blobs From New Intel Drivers | 11 Mar 2024 |
GNUnet 0.21 Rolls Out New Transport Layer For Building Decentralized, Distributed Apps | 07 Mar 2024 |
GDB 14.2 Brings A Few Fixes For The GNU Debugger | 03 Mar 2024 |
More GNU News | 1076 Articles |
Google |
Google Announces Axion ARM-Based CPUs For The Cloud | 09 Apr 2024 |
Google's Jpegli Offers ~35% Compression Improvement For High Quality JPEGs | 03 Apr 2024 |
Google Making $1M USD Investment To Improve Rust & C++ Interoperability | 05 Feb 2024 |
Chrome 121 Adds New CSS & WebGPU Features | 23 Jan 2024 |
The Mainline Linux Kernel To Finally Support The Google Tensor GS101 SoC & Pixel 6 | 19 Dec 2023 |
Chrome 120 Released With Theora Support Evaporating, Adds WebGPU & CSS Improvements | 07 Dec 2023 |
Google Rewriting Android's Binder In Rust With Promising Results | 02 Nov 2023 |
Google Chrome To Remove Theora Video Codec Support | 29 Oct 2023 |
Chrome 119 Beta Released With CSS Relative Color Syntax, WebSQL Disabled | 07 Oct 2023 |
Android 14 Open-Source Project Released | 04 Oct 2023 |
More Google News | 567 Articles |
Hardware |
Polychromatic 0.9 OpenRazer GUI Frontend Released With Port To PyQt6 | 24 Apr 2024 |
Framework Raises $18M In New Funding, More Collaborations Coming With Cooler Master | 23 Apr 2024 |
Reverse Engineered MSI WMI Platform Driver Being Worked On For Linux | 22 Apr 2024 |
udev-hid-bpf To Help Enable HID-BPF Use Rather Than Kernel Drivers To Fix HID Hardware | 22 Apr 2024 |
Rockchip NPU Open-Source Driver Taking Shape, Will Aim For Upstream Accel Driver | 19 Apr 2024 |
TUXEDO Computers Launches First Linux Laptop With AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS | 12 Apr 2024 |
Microsoft Rolls Out Azure Linux 2.0.20240403 With Security Fixes & Other Patches | 10 Apr 2024 |
Intel HID Driver Ready For Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake Laptops With Linux 6.9 | 10 Apr 2024 |
UPower 1.90.4 Fixes Excessive Disk Writes & High CPU Usage | 09 Apr 2024 |
OpenSSL 3.3 Released With Many Additions For QUIC, CPU Performance Optimizations | 09 Apr 2024 |
More Hardware News | 2129 Articles |
Intel |
Linux 6.10 Adding Intel Low-Latency Hint To Aggressively Boost GT Frequency For GPU Compute | 26 Apr 2024 |
Intel Releases OpenVINO 2024.1 With More Gen AI & LLM Features | 25 Apr 2024 |
Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Enables VK_KHR_shader_float_controls2 | 25 Apr 2024 |
Intel Has Many Improvements For The Xe Graphics Driver In Linux 6.10 | 23 Apr 2024 |
Intel Enabling Linux Driver Display Support For Upcoming "Battlemage" GPUs | 22 Apr 2024 |
Intel Media Driver 2024Q1 Brings Arrow Lake H Support | 22 Apr 2024 |
Intel Compute Runtime 24.13.29138.7 Brings Improved OpenCL/OpenGL Sharing | 19 Apr 2024 |
Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime 2024Q1 Brings VP9 Fix & AV1 Refinements | 19 Apr 2024 |
Intel Preps Adaptive Sync SDP, Lunar Lake Display & More DG2 PCI IDs In Linux 6.10 | 18 Apr 2024 |
Intel Vulkan Driver Wires Up Image Compression Control For VKD3D-Proton | 16 Apr 2024 |
More Intel News | 2937 Articles |
KDE |
KDE Developers Work Through More Bug Fixes & Features For Plasma 6.1 | 20 Apr 2024 |
KDE Plasma 6.0.4 Ships With Dozens Of Bug Fixes | 16 Apr 2024 |
KDE's Busy Week With Landing Explicit Sync & Many Other Changes | 13 Apr 2024 |
KDE Frameworks 6.1 Released With Many Improvements & Fixes | 12 Apr 2024 |
KDE's KWin Merges Wayland Explicit Sync Support | 10 Apr 2024 |
KDE On The Importance Of Wayland Explicit Sync | 06 Apr 2024 |
KDE Plasma 6 Can Now Sync Your RGB-Backlit Keyboard With Your Desktop's Accent Color | 06 Apr 2024 |
KDE Introduces New Marknote App | 30 Mar 2024 |
KDE Plasma 6 Refinements Continue, Fixes 3+ Important Crashes This Week | 30 Mar 2024 |
KDE Sees A Number Of Regression Fixes & Some Crash Fixes This Week | 23 Mar 2024 |
More KDE News | 1299 Articles |
LibreOffice |
LibreOffice Enables Multi-Threaded 3D Rendering | 22 Mar 2024 |
LibreOffice 24.2 Released For This Leading Free Software Office Suite | 31 Jan 2024 |
LibreOffice 24.2 RC1 Free Software Office Suite Released | 09 Jan 2024 |
LibreOffice 24.2 Beta Released For Testing This Free Software Office Suite | 13 Dec 2023 |
LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha 1 Builds Available For Testing | 30 Nov 2023 |
LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha 1 Brings Many New Features | 23 Nov 2023 |
LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6 | 22 Aug 2023 |
LibreOffice 7.6 Now Available For This Best Free Software Office Suite | 21 Aug 2023 |
LibreOffice Lands APNG Export Support | 13 Aug 2023 |
LibreOffice 7.6 RC2 Available For Last Minute Testing Of This Open-Source Office Suite | 03 Aug 2023 |
More LibreOffice News | 184 Articles |
Linux Events |
Open-Source Firmware Conference 2022 Slides & Videos Online | 05 Oct 2022 |
Linux Plumbers Conference 2022 Livestream | 12 Sep 2022 |
FOSDEM 2022 Is Happening Online This Weekend | 05 Feb 2022 |
RISC-V Summit 2021 - High Performance Processors, Other Interesting Talks | 09 Dec 2021 |
Linux Foundation Expects Revenues Of $177 Million This Year | 07 Dec 2021 |
DebConf21 Kicks Off Online For Annual Debian Conference | 24 Aug 2021 |
IWOCL + SYCLcon 2021 Slides/Videos Published For Lots Of OpenCL, SYCL Technical Talks | 29 Apr 2021 |
FOSDEM Online 2021 Is Happening This Weekend | 06 Feb 2021 |
Linux App Summit 2020 Videos Now Available From Steam/Valve To GNOME Circle | 14 Nov 2020 |
OpenPOWER Summit 2020 Was This Week With Many Interesting Hardware/Software Talks | 20 Sep 2020 |
More Linux Events News | 82 Articles |
Linux Gaming |
Godot's Vulkan Backend Seeing Better Performance, 10~20% Reduction In Frame Times | 19 Apr 2024 |
Rust-Written LAVD Kernel Scheduler Shows Promising Results For Linux Gaming | 18 Apr 2024 |
FEX-Emu 2404 Optimization Can Take Memcpy From 2-3 GB/s To 88 GB/s | 15 Apr 2024 |
Linux 6.10 To Merge NTSYNC Driver For Emulating Windows NT Synchronization Primitives | 14 Apr 2024 |
Proposed "LibGodot" Lets You Embed Godot Game Engine Into Other Apps | 14 Apr 2024 |
OpenRazer 3.8 Brings Support For Newer Razer Devices On Linux | 14 Apr 2024 |
SDL 3.0 Will Now Prefer PipeWire Over PulseAudio | 12 Apr 2024 |
Lutris 0.5.17 Game Manager Brings Bug Fixes, Library Syncing & New Runners | 10 Apr 2024 |
SDL 2.30.2 Released Along WIth New SDL3 Preview | 02 Apr 2024 |
Steam On Linux Use Increases - Moves Closer To 2%, AMD CPU Linux Use Hits 72% | 01 Apr 2024 |
More Linux Gaming News | 1979 Articles |
Linux Kernel |
Linux 6.9-rc5 Released: The Diffstat "Looks A Bit Wonky" But Not Bad | 21 Apr 2024 |
Linux 6.9-rc5 Picking Up Fixes For Intel FRED, BHI & GFNI/VAES Checks | 21 Apr 2024 |
Linux 6.10 Preps A Kernel Panic Screen - Sort Of A "Blue Screen of Death" | 19 Apr 2024 |
Linus Torvalds Injects Tabs To Thwart Kconfig Parsers Not Correctly Handling Them | 15 Apr 2024 |
Linux 6.9-rc4 Brings More Bcachefs Fixes, Native BHI Mitigation | 14 Apr 2024 |
Linux 6.10 To Account For NUMA Node When Allocating Per-CPU Cpumasks | 13 Apr 2024 |
Linux 6.10 SLUB Optimization To Reduce Memory Consumption In Extreme Scenarios | 12 Apr 2024 |
Linux 6.8.5 & Other Stable Kernel Updates Due To Native BHI Vulnerability | 10 Apr 2024 |
Linux 6.10 AES-XTS For Disk/File Encryption As Much As ~155% Faster For AMD Zen 4 CPUs | 08 Apr 2024 |
Linux 6.9-rc3 Released With Many Bcachefs Patches | 07 Apr 2024 |
More Linux Kernel News | 3514 Articles |
Linux Networking |
Samba 4.20 Released With WSP Search Client, Service Witness Protocol | 28 Mar 2024 |
Many Networking Improvements & New Wired/Wireless Devices For Linux 6.9 | 12 Mar 2024 |
Cloudflare Makes Pingora Rust Framework Open-Source | 28 Feb 2024 |
NetworkManager 1.46 Can Now Manage Ethtool EEE Settings, IPv4 DAD Default & 2FA VPNs | 23 Feb 2024 |
Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance For Many Concurrent Connections By ~40% | 09 Jan 2024 |
The First Rust-Written Network PHY Driver Set To Land In Linux 6.8 | 17 Dec 2023 |
Linux 6.7 Networking Adds New Hardware Support, A ~20% Perf Boost For Single TCP Flow | 03 Nov 2023 |
Landlock Access Controls Extended To Networking With Linux 6.7 | 03 Nov 2023 |
Linux's Latest Plan For Removing Old WiFi Drivers | 23 Oct 2023 |
Linux Looks Toward Dropping Very Old WiFi Drivers | 13 Oct 2023 |
More Linux Networking News | 258 Articles |
Linux Security |
Linux BHI Mitigation Being Tweaked Following 12% Database Performance Hit | 20 Apr 2024 |
Linux 6.9-rc4 To Bring New Fixes For x86 Speculation Mitigations | 14 Apr 2024 |
Linux Kernel Patched For Branch History Injection "BHI" Intel CPU Vulnerability | 09 Apr 2024 |
GitHub Disables The XZ Repository Following Today's Malicious Disclosure | 29 Mar 2024 |
XZ Struck By Malicious Code That Could Allow Unauthorized Remote System Access | 29 Mar 2024 |
Linux 6.9 Sees Further Security Hardening | 24 Mar 2024 |
GhostRace Detailed - Speculative Race Conditions Affecting All Major CPUs / ISAs | 12 Mar 2024 |
Linux 6.9 Making It Easier Managing Security Mitigation Options | 11 Mar 2024 |
"SandBox Mode" Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Improve Memory Safety | 14 Feb 2024 |
New WiFi Authentication Vulnerabilities For Linux's IWD & WPA_Supplicant | 13 Feb 2024 |
More Linux Security News | 282 Articles |
Linux Storage |
CBD Proposed For The Linux Kernel: CXL Block Device | 23 Apr 2024 |
Bcachefs Sends In More Fixes For Linux 6.9: Recovery & Repair Issues Settling Down | 23 Apr 2024 |
EROFS Eyes Zstd Compression, Intel QAT/IAA Accelerator Support, & Experimental Rust Code | 21 Apr 2024 |
More Bcachefs Fixes & Recovery Improvements Land In Linux 6.9 | 15 Apr 2024 |
Bcachefs Sees More Fixes For Linux 6.9-rc4, Reiterates Its Experimental Nature | 11 Apr 2024 |
OpenZFS Merges Support For Using Multiple Task Queues To Increase Performance | 05 Apr 2024 |
Bcachefs Repair Code Reaching Complete & Robust Recovery | 03 Apr 2024 |
Bcachefs Submits Lots Of Fixes For "Extreme Filesystem Damage" With Linux 6.9 | 01 Apr 2024 |
EROFS Drops "Experimental" Warning For FSDAX With Linux 6.9 | 28 Mar 2024 |
Linux 6.9 Deprecates The EXT2 File-System Driver | 26 Mar 2024 |
More Linux Storage News | 950 Articles |
LLVM |
LLVM's BOLT Being Adapted To Analyze Security Hardening Of Binaries | 04 Apr 2024 |
LLVM/Clang 18.1 Released With Intel AVX10.1 Work, Adds Clearwater Forest & Panther Lake | 06 Mar 2024 |
Meta Continues Working On BOLT'ing The Linux Kernel For Greater Performance | 16 Feb 2024 |
LLVM/Clang Can Work Fine As A GCC Replacement For Linux Distributions | 05 Feb 2024 |
LLVM 18.1-rc1 Released For Enabling New Intel CPU Features, More C23 & C++23 | 29 Jan 2024 |
Autocheck To Check If Your C++ Code Is Safe For Automobiles & Safety Critical Systems | 18 Jan 2024 |
LLVM 18 Planned For Release In Early March | 15 Jan 2024 |
LLVM Moves To A Versioning Scheme Like GCC - N.1 Version For Stable Branch | 23 Dec 2023 |
Intel Proposing XeGPU Dialect For LLVM MLIR | 17 Dec 2023 |
LLVM Lands APX JMPABS Support, More Advanced Performance Extensions Work Landing | 26 Nov 2023 |
More LLVM News | 740 Articles |
LVFS |
Fwupd 1.9.17 Adds Firmware Updating For ASUS DC201 & Realtek RTS541x | 22 Apr 2024 |
Fwupd 1.9.16 Adds Support For More USB Docks & Qualcomm Devices | 05 Apr 2024 |
Fwupd Switches From XZ To Zstd Compression: More Trust & Slightly Better Performance | 03 Apr 2024 |
LVFS/Fwupd Ponders 2025 Plans: Servers, Desktop Motherboards & More | 13 Mar 2024 |
Fwupd 1.9.13 Adds Support For Newer Acer USB Docks | 08 Feb 2024 |
Fwupd 1.9.12 Adds Support For More Devices & AMD CPU Checks Updated | 24 Jan 2024 |
Fwupd 1.9.11 Released With Support For New Algoltek & Luxshare USB Devices | 03 Jan 2024 |
LVFS Has Supplied More Than 100 Million Firmware Updates To Linux Users | 06 Dec 2023 |
Fwupd 1.9.10 Adds LoongArch Support & Firmware Updating For A ~$1k USD Web Camera | 04 Dec 2023 |
Fwupd 1.9.8 Released With Firmware Updating For New DP Converters, Wacom Cintiq Pro | 14 Nov 2023 |
More LVFS News | 85 Articles |
Mesa |
New Patches Significantly Reduce Zink Driver Startup Time | 26 Apr 2024 |
Etnaviv NPU Optimizations Make It Into Mesa 24.1 | 25 Apr 2024 |
Mesa 24.1-rc1 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Improvements | 24 Apr 2024 |
Mesa 24.1 Now Supports Vulkan Explicit Synchronization On X11 | 16 Apr 2024 |
Mesa 24.1 Zink Lands "Super Fast" Merge Request To Optimize IO | 13 Apr 2024 |
Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Implements Ray-Tracing Pipelines | 10 Apr 2024 |
RADV Vulkan Driver Enables EXT_shader_object By Default With Mesa 24.1 | 08 Apr 2024 |
RADV Lands New Extension To Better Debug GPU Hangs | 03 Apr 2024 |
Mesa 24.1 Merges Vulkan Support For Wayland Explicit Sync | 02 Apr 2024 |
Asahi AGX Gallium3D Driver Sees Big Sync For Mesa 24.1 To Improve Apple Silicon Graphics | 30 Mar 2024 |
More Mesa News | 2401 Articles |
Microsoft |
Microsoft Open-Sources MS-DOS 4.0 Under MIT License | 26 Apr 2024 |
Microsoft Helping Out In Making The Linux Kernel Language More Inclusive | 30 Mar 2024 |
Microsoft Engineer Sends Rust Linux Kernel Patches For In-Place Module Initialization | 27 Mar 2024 |
Microsoft Enables DNS Tunneling By Default For WSL - More Reliable Networking | 22 Mar 2024 |
Microsoft Better Seeds The RNG For Hyper-V VMs In Linux 6.9 | 21 Mar 2024 |
Microsoft's DirectX Shader Compiler Sees Improved Linux Build Support | 11 Mar 2024 |
Microsoft Rebranding CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution To "Azure Linux" | 05 Mar 2024 |
Microsoft Ending Support For Windows Subsystem For Android | 05 Mar 2024 |
Microsoft Pushes Out Big February Update For CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distro | 25 Feb 2024 |
Microsoft Confirms Bringing Sudo For Windows, Is Open-Source Too | 07 Feb 2024 |
More Microsoft News | 343 Articles |
Mozilla |
Mozilla Has Been Rewriting Its Crash Reporter In Rust | 23 Apr 2024 |
Mozilla Finally Begins Offering Firefox ARM64 Linux Binaries | 19 Apr 2024 |
Firefox 125 Adds AV1 Support In Encrypted Media Extensions, Other New Features | 15 Apr 2024 |
Firefox 124 Now Available With Screen Wake Lock API | 18 Mar 2024 |
Mozilla Firefox 123.0 Available With Improved Translation Support, New Developer Features | 19 Feb 2024 |
Thunderbird Making Progress With Adopting Rust Code | 14 Feb 2024 |
Mozilla Has A New CEO To Focus On The Future | 08 Feb 2024 |
Mozilla's Latest Plan To Make Money Is Mozilla Monitor Plus | 06 Feb 2024 |
Servo Engine Updates Bring CSS Tables & Its Browser Gets Back/Forward Buttons | 26 Jan 2024 |
Firefox 122 Available With Official Debian Package, Many Web Improvements | 23 Jan 2024 |
More Mozilla News | 419 Articles |
Multimedia |
FFmpeg Makes Progress On Dolby Vision Support | 23 Apr 2024 |
Audacity 3.5 Brings Cloud Project Saving, Improved BSD Support | 22 Apr 2024 |
MPV 0.38 Media Player Released With New Options & Fixes | 17 Apr 2024 |
RNNoise 0.2 Released With AVX2 Optimizations For Neural Network Noise Suppression | 15 Apr 2024 |
FFmpeg 7.0 Released With Native VVC Decoding & Multi-Threaded CLI | 05 Apr 2024 |
Flowblade 2.14 Video Editor Released, GTK4 Port Hopefully Ready Next Year | 31 Mar 2024 |
Intel VA-API 2.21 Library Adds Intel Xe Kernel Driver Support, AV1 & Windows Fixes | 26 Mar 2024 |
Linux 6.9 Improves Speakup - Its In-Kernel Speech Synthesizer | 24 Mar 2024 |
Intel & AMD Enjoy SoundWire Updates With Linux 6.9 | 14 Mar 2024 |
OBS Studio 30.1 Released With AV1 Support For VA-API & PipeWire Video Capture | 12 Mar 2024 |
More Multimedia News | 617 Articles |
Nouveau |
NVK Vulkan Driver Adds Implicit Pipeline Caching To Boost DXVK Performance | 23 Apr 2024 |
Former Nouveau Lead Developer Joins NVIDIA, Continues Working On Open-Source Driver | 17 Apr 2024 |
Nouveau/NVK Driver Lands NIL Library Rewrite In Rust For Mesa 24.1 | 09 Apr 2024 |
Nouveau GSP Fix On The Way For Regression That Broke Ampere GPU Support | 09 Apr 2024 |
Red Hat's Long, Rust'ed Road Ahead For Nova As Nouveau Driver Successor | 20 Mar 2024 |
NVK Lands Sparse Memory Support - Enabling More Games To Run On This Open-Source Driver | 09 Mar 2024 |
Nouveau Supporting HDMI 2.1 Won't Hopefully Be Too Challenging Thanks To NVIDIA Firmware | 04 Mar 2024 |
Mesa NVK Vulkan Driver Now Declared Vulkan 1.3 Conformant, Mesa 24.1 To Build By Default | 28 Feb 2024 |
NVK Vulkan Driver Lands Shader Object & Graphics Pipeline Library | 28 Feb 2024 |
New Nouveau Patch Would Allow Optionally Enabling GSP Mode By Default | 14 Feb 2024 |
More Nouveau News | 489 Articles |
NVIDIA |
NVIDIA Developer Opens Feature Pull Request For Open-Source NVK Driver | 25 Apr 2024 |
NVIDIA 550.54.14 Release Brings R550 Series Linux Driver To Stable | 23 Feb 2024 |
NVIDIA 550 Linux Beta Driver Released With Many Fixes, VR Displays & Better (X)Wayland | 24 Jan 2024 |
NVIDIA RTX Remix 0.4 Released With Updated DXVK, Performance Improvements & Fixes | 22 Jan 2024 |
NVIDIA's Open-Source Kernel Driver & Maturing Wayland Support Were Great In 2023 | 02 Jan 2024 |
NVIDIA 545.29.06 Linux Driver Released With Source 2 Engine Fix On XWayland | 22 Nov 2023 |
NVIDIA Pushes 62MB Of GSP Binary Firmware Blobs Into Linux-Firmware.Git | 08 Nov 2023 |
NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.11 Delivers Various Fixes | 06 Nov 2023 |
NVIDIA 545.29.02 Linux Driver Released With Much Better Wayland Support | 31 Oct 2023 |
NVIDIA R545 Linux Beta Driver Brings HDMI Deep Color, Night Color & FB Consoles | 17 Oct 2023 |
More NVIDIA News | 1064 Articles |
Operating Systems |
TrueNAS SCALE 24.04 Released For A Wonderful NAS Platform | 24 Apr 2024 |
Rocky Linux To Support Upstream Stable Kernels | 18 Apr 2024 |
AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta Restores Support For Some Hardware Deprecated By RHEL | 15 Apr 2024 |
Gentoo Linux Now An SPI Project | 10 Apr 2024 |
Linux Mint Aims For More Reliable & Faster Repository Access | 09 Apr 2024 |
CachyOS Making Use Of Plymouth For Better Boot Experience, Mitigates For XZ Fiasco | 01 Apr 2024 |
Linux Mint 22 Will Use The PipeWire Sound Server, Support JPEG-XL Images | 01 Apr 2024 |
Serpent OS Hopes To Ship Pre-Alpha ISOs In The Coming Weeks | 01 Apr 2024 |
Rust-Written Redox OS Enjoys Significant Performance Improvements | 31 Mar 2024 |
Pop!_OS Upgrades To The Linux 6.8 Kernel | 27 Mar 2024 |
More Operating Systems News | 1000 Articles |
Oracle |
Oracle Releases DTrace 2.0.0-1.14 For Linux Systems | 08 Apr 2024 |
GraalVM Updated For Java/JDK 21, Great Performance Results | 20 Sep 2023 |
MySQL 8.1 Released With More JSON Additions, Other Changes | 18 Jul 2023 |
Oracle Intends To Keep Trying To Make Oracle Linux Compatible With RHEL | 10 Jul 2023 |
Oracle Developing "bpftune" For BPF-Based, Automatic Tuning Of Linux Systems | 28 Jun 2023 |
Oracle's GraalVM Native Image Now Defaults To x86-64-v3, IGV Open-Sourced | 14 Jun 2023 |
Oracle Releases GraalVM 22.3, GraalVM CE Java Code Going To OpenJDK | 25 Oct 2022 |
Oracle Linux 9 Reaches GA With Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R7 | 06 Jul 2022 |
RHEL9-Derived Oracle Linux 9 Developer Preview Released With 5.15-Based UEK Kernel | 14 Jun 2022 |
GraalVM CE 22.1 Released With Performance Improvements, Apple Silicon Support | 26 Apr 2022 |
More Oracle News | 284 Articles |
Phoronix |
Nova Driver, Linux 6.9 Features & Other Linux News From March | 01 Apr 2024 |
Drop-In CUDA On AMD, Kernel Discussions, NGINX Fork & Other Q1 Highlights | 01 Apr 2024 |
CUDA On ROCm, Ryzen 8000G Series & Rust Activity Made For An Exciting February | 01 Mar 2024 |
Framework 16, New AMD Launches & More Made For An Exciting January | 01 Feb 2024 |
Intel Meteor Lake, Emerald Rapids & Other Popular Topics For December | 01 Jan 2024 |
Valve's Linux Contributions, Wayland & Open-Source NVIDIA Milestones Topped 2023 | 28 Dec 2023 |
Raspberry Pi 5 & New AMD Ryzen CPUs Excited Linux Readers The Most In 2023 | 27 Dec 2023 |
Server Upgrades In Progress [Complete] | 03 Dec 2023 |
Threadripper 7000 Series, Wayland, Linux 6.7 & Other November Highlights | 01 Dec 2023 |
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More Phoronix News | 667 Articles |
Phoronix Test Suite |
OpenBenchmarking.org In 2021 By The Numbers | 01 Jan 2022 |
Phoronix Test Suite 10.8 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Benchmarking | 26 Dec 2021 |
Phoronix Test Suite 10.6 Released With Various Improvements For Linux Benchmarking | 10 Oct 2021 |
New/Updated Benchmarks For June From GravityMark To L4D2 Vulkan, Updated Neural Networks | 03 Jul 2021 |
New + Updated Benchmarks For May 2021 - Now At 661 Tests, ~36d19h Average Total Runtime | 02 Jun 2021 |
New, Updated Benchmarks For April From WRF To Chia + Xmrig | 02 May 2021 |
Many New/Updated Benchmarks For March With New SDR/Radio Tests, More Code Compilation | 28 Mar 2021 |
Vulkan Ray-Tracing Along With Other New/Updated Benchmarks For February | 28 Feb 2021 |
Phoronix Test Suite 10.2.2 Released For Automated Open-Source Benchmarking | 17 Feb 2021 |
Phoronix Test Suite 10.2.1 Released For Open-Source Automated Benchmarking | 02 Feb 2021 |
More Phoronix Test Suite News | 210 Articles |
PipeWire |
PipeWire To Work On Vulkan Converters & Processing Filters | 05 Feb 2024 |
PipeWire 1.0 Released For Managing Audio/Video Streams On The Linux Desktop | 26 Nov 2023 |
PipeWire 1.0 RC2 Released With Fixes, Improved Rate Switching | 13 Oct 2023 |
PipeWire 1.0 RC Available With Jackdbus By Default, Improved IRQ-Based Scheduling | 06 Oct 2023 |
PipeWire 1.0 Planned For Release Later This Year | 25 Sep 2023 |
PipeWire 0.3.80 Released With Vulkan DMA-BUF Support, Tag Param | 14 Sep 2023 |
Firefox 116 Should Have Experimental PipeWire Camera Support | 16 Jun 2023 |
PipeWire 0.3.71 Released With Performance Improvements, Zero Latency JACK D-Bus Bridge | 17 May 2023 |
PipeWire 0.3.68 Released With New RTP Session Module, Many Other Changes | 06 Apr 2023 |
PipeWire 0.3.67 Fixes Stuttering For Some Bluetooth Devices | 09 Mar 2023 |
More PipeWire News | 37 Articles |
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Programming |
Git 2.45 Begins Landing Code For SHA1 & SHA256 Interoperability For Repositories | 19 Apr 2024 |
Autodafe 0.2 Released For Freeing Your Project From Autotools | 18 Apr 2024 |
LPython 0.21 Released For Alpha-Stage Python AOT Compiler | 12 Apr 2024 |
Pingora 0.1 Released As Cloudflare's Rust Code For Reliable & Fast Networked Systems | 05 Apr 2024 |
OpenBLAS 0.3.27 Adds C-SKY Arch, Improved GEMM For AMD Zen & Sapphire Rapids Fixes | 05 Apr 2024 |
PostgreSQL Merges JSON_TABLE(), Incremental JSON Parser | 04 Apr 2024 |
Redict 7.3 Released As Fork Of Open-Source Redis | 03 Apr 2024 |
Llamafile 0.7 Brings AVX-512 Support: 10x Faster Prompt Eval Times For AMD Zen 4 | 31 Mar 2024 |
Flatpak 1.15.7 Will Now Automatically Remove Obsolete Driver Versions | 28 Mar 2024 |
TornadoVM v1.0.3 OpenJDK/GraalVM Plug-In For Java Heterogeneous Hardware Support | 27 Mar 2024 |
More Programming News | 604 Articles |
Proprietary Software |
Tellusim Core SDK Published With Linux & Vulkan Support Included | 14 May 2023 |
SPEC Finally Updates SPECViewPerf For Linux With SPECViewPerf 2020 v3.0 | 03 Mar 2022 |
DaVinci Resolve 16 Beta Video Editor Employing Deep Learning, GPU Accelerated Tools | 08 Apr 2019 |
Lightworks Video Editor Plans For A Busy 2019 But No Signs Of The Open-Source Version | 10 Jan 2019 |
Adobe Customer Care: There Hasn't Been Enough Demand For Linux | 10 Dec 2018 |
Lightworks 14.5 Video Editor Released With Same-Day Linux Support But Still No Source | 17 Oct 2018 |
DaVinci Resolve 15 Video/Effects Editor Released With Linux Support | 13 Aug 2018 |
A VR Developer's Thoughts On The Current Mess Of APIs & Hardware | 27 May 2018 |
Keeper Password Manager Launches New Linux Version | 26 Apr 2018 |
Vivaldi Web Browser Now Available For Linux ARM / Raspberry Pi | 05 Dec 2017 |
More Proprietary Software News | 132 Articles |
Qt |
KDAB Working On Embedding Servo Web Engine Within Qt | 08 Apr 2024 |
Qt Creator 13 Released For Enhancing Qt/C++ Development | 04 Apr 2024 |
Qt 6.7 Released With Many Improvements For This Cross-Platform Toolkit | 02 Apr 2024 |
Qt Creator 13 Beta Brings Improved Docking UI, Qt App Manager Support | 15 Feb 2024 |
Qt 6.5.4 LTS Released As First Commercial-Only Release In The Series | 11 Jan 2024 |
Qt 6.7 Beta Released With Variable Font Support & QRhiWidget Class | 20 Dec 2023 |
Qt 6.6.1 Fixes More Than 400 Bugs | 27 Nov 2023 |
Qt Creator 12 Released With Godbolt Compiler Explorer Integration | 23 Nov 2023 |
Qt 6.5 LTS Shifts To Its Commercial-Only Phase | 18 Oct 2023 |
Qt Creator 12 Beta Brings Integrated Compiler Explorer | 13 Oct 2023 |
More Qt News | 524 Articles |
Radeon |
AMDGPU Linux Driver Patches Enable SOC24 & MMHUB 4.1.x IP | 26 Apr 2024 |
RadeonSI Squeezes "Many Improvements Around The Whole Driver" Into Mesa 24.1 | 24 Apr 2024 |
Radeon GPU Profiler 2.1 Adds Radeon GPU Analyzer Interoperability | 24 Apr 2024 |
Linux AMDGPU Control Application Adds vBIOS Dumping, Fan Control Hysteresis | 22 Apr 2024 |
AMD: "Additional Parts Of The Radeon Stack To Be Open Sourced Throughout The Year" | 22 Apr 2024 |
AMD Posts RDNA3+ Firmware Files For Linux Users | 21 Apr 2024 |
Open-Source "Terakan" Vulkan Driver For Radeon HD 6000 Series Shown On Windows | 20 Apr 2024 |
AMD Sends In More Kernel Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 6.10 | 20 Apr 2024 |
ROCm 6.1 Released With Ubuntu 22.04.4 Support, rocDecode For AMD Video Decode | 16 Apr 2024 |
AMD Prepares More Next-Gen GPU Driver Support For Linux 6.10 | 14 Apr 2024 |
More Radeon News | 1848 Articles |
Raspberry Pi |
Raspberry Pi OS Now Shipping With Vulkan Support By Default | 08 Apr 2024 |
Raspberry Pi V3D Kernel Graphics Driver Prepares For Big & Super Pages To Boost Speed | 06 Apr 2024 |
Raspberry Pi V3D Graphics Driver Preps For Super Pages To Boost Performance | 11 Mar 2024 |
Raspberry Pi OS Improves Wayfire Rendering, Enhanced Raspberry Pi 5 Support | 07 Dec 2023 |
Raspberry Pi 5 Single Board Computers Begin Shipping | 23 Oct 2023 |
Igalia Has Been Doing A Great Job On The Raspberry Pi Graphics Drivers | 19 Oct 2023 |
Raspberry Pi OS Now Based On Debian 12 "Bookworm" + Wayland | 11 Oct 2023 |
Raspberry Pi's V3D Kernel Driver Prepares For "CPU Jobs" To Assist Vulkan | 06 Sep 2023 |
Raspberry Pi V3D Driver Gaining Per-Process GPU Usage Stats | 15 Aug 2023 |
Raspberry Pi OS Updated - Now Powered By Linux 6.1 LTS, Updated libcamera | 03 May 2023 |
More Raspberry Pi News | 136 Articles |
Red Hat |
Red Hat Offering Up To 4 Years Extra Support For RHEL7 | 25 Apr 2024 |
Red Hat Releases DNF 4.20 In Preparation For DNF5 | 24 Apr 2024 |
RHEL 9.4 Beta Brings Full Support For Intel SGX & DSA Accelerator Drivers | 27 Mar 2024 |
Red Hat Changing How They Handle Their Minor Release Betas | 20 Feb 2024 |
RHEL's Source Code Access Change Is Causing Issues For CentOS SIGs | 29 Jan 2024 |
Red Hat Updates RHEL Pricing For The Cloud - Now Scales With vCPU Count | 26 Jan 2024 |
Red Hat Developing AI Tool "Log Detective" To Help Developers | 17 Jan 2024 |
Red Hat Evaluating x86-64-v3 Requirement For RHEL 10 | 03 Jan 2024 |
OpenELA Publishes Initial Source Code For Building RHEL Derivatives | 02 Nov 2023 |
Red Hat Continues Hiring For Experienced Linux Graphics Driver Engineers | 11 Oct 2023 |
More Red Hat News | 292 Articles |
RISC-V |
SiFive HiFive Premier P550 Announced As New RISC-V Developer Board | 09 Apr 2024 |
RISC-V Adding Kernel-Mode FPU For Linux 6.10 To Enable Recent AMD Display Support | 08 Apr 2024 |
Linux 6.9 Adds New RISC-V Vector-Accelerated Crypto Routines | 22 Mar 2024 |
RISC-V With Linux 6.8 Restores XIP Kernel Support | 18 Jan 2024 |
RISC-V With Linux 6.7 Gains Optimized TLB Flushing, Software Shadow Call Stacks | 10 Nov 2023 |
Linux Patches Speed-Up Kernel Crypto Functions With RISC-V Vector Extensions | 28 Oct 2023 |
Linux RISC-V Preparing For Real-Time Kernel Support (PREEMPT_RT) | 24 Oct 2023 |
Milk-V Duo Linux Kernel Patches Submitted For This $9 RISC-V Board | 30 Sep 2023 |
RISC-V With Linux 6.6 Offers Better Kernel Security With KASLR | 10 Sep 2023 |
New RISC-V Kernel Features Ready For Linux 6.6 | 01 Sep 2023 |
More RISC-V News | 116 Articles |
Standards |
Linux Foundation, Intel & Others Launch The Open Platform for Enterprise AI | 16 Apr 2024 |
Khronos Releases OpenXR 1.1 For Cross-Platform AR/VR Development | 16 Apr 2024 |
OpenCL 3.0.16 Released With One New Extension, Semaphores & External Memory Finalized | 05 Apr 2024 |
More Organizations Join The Ultra Ethernet Consortium, v1.0 Spec In Q3 | 19 Mar 2024 |
Linux Foundation Gets Involved With Lottie To Develop Formal File Format Specification | 31 Jan 2024 |
PoCL 5.0 Released With Transparent OpenCL Over Networked Systems Capability | 19 Dec 2023 |
Intel, AMD, Red Hat / IBM, Meta & Others Launch The AI Alliance | 05 Dec 2023 |
AOMedia Announces Royalty-Free IAMF Audio Container Specification | 10 Nov 2023 |
UCIe 1.1 Specification Released For Universal Chiplet Interconnect | 08 Aug 2023 |
Khronos Releases ANARI 1.0 As Cross-Platform 3D Rendering Engine API | 02 Aug 2023 |
More Standards News | 289 Articles |
SUSE |
openSUSE Factory Achieves Bit-By-Bit Reproducible Builds | 18 Apr 2024 |
openSUSE Leap Micro 6 Reaches Alpha | 15 Apr 2024 |
openSUSE Tumbleweed Begins Rolling Out KDE Plasma 6 Desktop, But No Wayland Default Yet | 14 Mar 2024 |
openSUSE Tumbleweed Is Finding Success Moving From GRUB To systemd-boot | 05 Mar 2024 |
openSUSE's "Agama" Next-Gen Linux Installer Plans For A Busy 2024 | 16 Feb 2024 |
openSUSE Prepares For openSUSE Leap 16 Next Year Based On ALP | 15 Jan 2024 |
openSUSE Tumbleweed Trying Out systemd-boot & systemd Full Disk Encryption | 21 Dec 2023 |
openSUSE Logo Contest Concludes With Winners Selected | 14 Dec 2023 |
One Week Left To Vote On openSUSE's New Logo | 06 Dec 2023 |
openSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 Released For Lightweight Environments & Containers | 13 Oct 2023 |
More SUSE News | 293 Articles |
systemd |
Systemd 256-rc1 Brings A Huge Number Of New Features | 25 Apr 2024 |
systemd In 2023 Added Windows-Inspired "Blue Screen Of Death" & macOS-Inspired T.D.M. | 02 Jan 2024 |
systemd 255 Released With A "Blue Screen of Death" For Linux Systems | 06 Dec 2023 |
systemd 255-rc1 Brings "Blue Screen of Death" Support & New Tool To Spawn VMs | 06 Nov 2023 |
Systemd Working On "Storage Target Mode" Feature - Inspired By Apple macOS | 31 Oct 2023 |
systemd's All Systems Go Conference Returns Next Week | 06 Sep 2023 |
systemd 254 With New Soft Reboots Feature, systemd-battery-check | 28 Jul 2023 |
systemd 254-rc2 Brings A Few More Changes | 15 Jul 2023 |
systemd 254-rc1 Deprecates SysV Scripts, Adds Soft Reboots & systemd-battery-check | 06 Jul 2023 |
systemd 253 Released With Ukify Tool, systemd-cryptenroll Unlocking Via FIDO2 Tokens | 15 Feb 2023 |
More systemd News | 237 Articles |
Ubuntu |
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Downloads Now Available | 25 Apr 2024 |
Ubuntu 24.04 Supports Easy Installation Of OpenZFS Root File-System With Encryption | 16 Apr 2024 |
Ubuntu 24.04 Beta Now Available For Testing | 11 Apr 2024 |
Ubuntu Maker Canonical Announces New Collaboration With Qualcomm | 10 Apr 2024 |
Canonical Announces Ubuntu Pro For Devices | 09 Apr 2024 |
Netplan 1.0 Is Ready To Go For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | 04 Apr 2024 |
Ubuntu 24.04 Beta Delayed Due To XZ Nightmare | 03 Apr 2024 |
Canonical Continues Exploring Ubuntu x86-64-v3 Images - Now In Microsoft's Cloud | 27 Mar 2024 |
Canonical Extends Ubuntu LTS Support To 12 Years For Ubuntu Pro Customers | 25 Mar 2024 |
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Support Installs With NVMe-Over-TCP Drives | 11 Mar 2024 |
More Ubuntu News | 1658 Articles |
Valve |
Proton 9.0 RC2 Makes More Windows Games Playable On Linux, Other Fixes | 26 Apr 2024 |
Steam On Linux Changes The Default Scaling Factor For 4K Displays | 22 Apr 2024 |
Steam Deck Motion Sensors Being Worked On For Linux's HID-Steam Driver | 22 Apr 2024 |
VKD3D-Proton 2.12 Released With Initial Support For NVIDIA Reflex | 15 Mar 2024 |
Steam's February Survey: AMD CPUs & GPUs Continue To Dominate For Linux Gamers | 01 Mar 2024 |
Steam On Linux Should Stop Crashing If No OpenGL Drivers Are Found | 29 Feb 2024 |
Valve Makes All Steam Audio SDK Source Code Available Under Apache 2.0 License | 20 Feb 2024 |
Steam On Linux Falls Short Of 2% For January, AMD CPU Adoption On Linux Hits 70.5% | 01 Feb 2024 |
Steam Beta Adds VA-API DRM Video Acceleration For Remote Play | 25 Jan 2024 |
Valve Releases Proton 8.0-5 With Many Fixes, More Windows Games Now Playable | 22 Jan 2024 |
More Valve News | 659 Articles |
Virtualization |
QEMU 9.0 Released WIth True Multi-Queue Support For VirtIO Block Driver | 23 Apr 2024 |
CoCo VMs On Linux Will Now Panic If RdRand Is Broken To Avoid Catastrophic Conditions | 07 Apr 2024 |
More Efficient VirtIO DRM Driver To Import Scanout Buffers From Other Devices | 28 Mar 2024 |
KVM Virtualization With Linux 6.9 Brings More Optimizations For Intel & AMD | 24 Mar 2024 |
LXD 5.21 LTS Released With UI By Default, AMD SEV Memory Encryption For VMs | 15 Mar 2024 |
VirtualBox KVM Backend Adds Support For SR-IOV Graphics | 08 Mar 2024 |
PVM Virtualization Framework Proposed For Linux - Built Atop The KVM Hypervisor | 26 Feb 2024 |
Cloud Hypervisor 38 Brings Extended CPU Affinity, Improved VFIO Device Support | 18 Feb 2024 |
Cyberus Develops Open-Source KVM Backend For VirtualBox | 08 Feb 2024 |
Amazon Proposes Pkernfs For Better Handling Hypervisor Live Updates | 06 Feb 2024 |
More Virtualization News | 574 Articles |
Vulkan |
Vulkan 1.3.280 Released With NVIDIA Ray-Tracing Validation Extension | 08 Mar 2024 |
Vulkan 1.3.279 Brings New NVIDIA Extension Co-Engineered By Valve | 02 Mar 2024 |
SDL3 Introduces A Vulkan Renderer | 23 Feb 2024 |
Vulkan 1.3.278 Released With Two New Extensions - One Will Help Wine / Steam Play | 16 Feb 2024 |
2024 Vulkan Developer Conference Slides Posted | 09 Feb 2024 |
Vulkan Video Finally Introduces AV1 Video Decoding Extension | 01 Feb 2024 |
Open-Source Intel & AMD Drivers Make Quick Progress On Vulkan Roadmap 2024 Extensions | 25 Jan 2024 |
Vulkan Roadmap 2024 Brings Shader Quad Control, Shader Maximal Reconvergence & More | 25 Jan 2024 |
Vcc Announced As The Vulkan Clang Compiler | 10 Jan 2024 |
Vulkan 1.3.274 Released With Video Encode Extensions Promoted | 19 Dec 2023 |
More Vulkan News | 651 Articles |
Wayland |
Wayland 1.23 Alpha Released With OpenBSD Support & New APIs | 25 Apr 2024 |
Wine's Wayland Driver Will Finally Set The Window Title | 24 Apr 2024 |
Niri 0.1.5 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Adds New Animations | 20 Apr 2024 |
Miracle-WM 0.2 Released For Mir-Based Wayland Compositor | 19 Apr 2024 |
Wayland Protocols 1.35 Introduces Alpha Modifier Protocol, Tablet-V2 As Stable | 17 Apr 2024 |
XWayland 24.1 RC Released With Explicit Sync, Improved Rootful & GLAMOR Optimizations | 17 Apr 2024 |
XWayland 24.1 Planned For Release Next Month With Explicit Sync & Other Features | 12 Apr 2024 |
Wayland 1.23 Planned For Release Around The End Of May | 11 Apr 2024 |
XWayland-Run 0.0.3 Adds Support For KDE's KWin | 25 Mar 2024 |
Wayland Protocols 1.34 Introduces Better Drag & Drop, Explicit DRM Sync Objects | 21 Mar 2024 |
More Wayland News | 888 Articles |
WINE |
Wine 9.7 Works On Build System For ARM64X, Other ARM Improvements | 19 Apr 2024 |
Wine 9.6 Adds Support For Advanced AVX Features In Register Contexts | 05 Apr 2024 |
Wine Project's April Fools' Gag With Merit: Leveraging AI For Faster Code Review | 04 Apr 2024 |
Wine 9.5 Released With More Feature Work, 27 Bug Fixes | 22 Mar 2024 |
Wine 9.4 Released With VKD3D 1.11 Bundled, OpenGL Support For Wayland Driver | 08 Mar 2024 |
Basic OpenGL Support Merged For Wine's Wayland Driver | 06 Mar 2024 |
VKD3D 1.11 Allows Compiling Legacy Direct3D Bytecode To SPIR-V | 05 Mar 2024 |
Wine Code Merged To Overcome A Vulkan Performance Penalty | 03 Mar 2024 |
Wine Wayland Driver Patches Enable Basic OpenGL Support | 27 Feb 2024 |
Wine 9.3 Brings New HID Pointer Driver & Better Internet Proxy Support | 23 Feb 2024 |
More WINE News | 935 Articles |
X.Org |
X.Org Server Change Allows GLAMOR To Fallback To Software Rendering For Obsolete GPUs | 11 Apr 2024 |
Explicit GPU Synchronization Merged For XWayland | 09 Apr 2024 |
X.Org Server & XWayland Hit By Four More Security Issues | 03 Apr 2024 |
The X.Org Foundation Needs More Candidates To Hold An Election | 01 Mar 2024 |
X.Org Server Clears Out Remnants For Supporting Old Compilers | 20 Feb 2024 |
X.Org Server & XWayland Updated Due To Another Six Security Vulnerabilities | 16 Jan 2024 |
xf86-video-modesetting Driver Optimization Helps Conserve Intel Power Consumption | 16 Dec 2023 |
X.Org Server & XWayland Updated Due To Two Decade-Old Security Vulnerabilities | 13 Dec 2023 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Dropping The X.Org Server Except For XWayland | 28 Nov 2023 |
Open-Source Graphics DevRoom Returning For FOSDEM 2024 | 19 Nov 2023 |
More X.Org News | 1201 Articles |