| AMD |
| AMD "Smart Trace Buffer" Feature Being Wired Up For Linux | 21 Oct 2021 |
| Linux To No Longer Enable AMD SME Usage By Default Due To Problems With Some Hardware | 17 Oct 2021 |
| AMD Publishes New Linux Audio Driver Code For Yellow Carp / ACP6x Audio Co-Processor | 11 Oct 2021 |
| AMD SEV-SNP Development Continues Towards The Linux Kernel | 04 Oct 2021 |
| New AMD Linux Audio Driver Patches Posted - Aimed For Enhancing Chromebook Support | 30 Sep 2021 |
| AMD Aims For 30x Energy Efficiency Improvement For AI Training + HPC By 2025 | 29 Sep 2021 |
| Linux 5.16 To Expose AMD PSF Disable Bit To KVM Guests | 28 Sep 2021 |
| Updated AMD P-State Driver Published For Linux | 26 Sep 2021 |
| AMD + Valve Focusing On P-State / CPPC Driver With Schedutil For Better Linux Efficiency | 18 Sep 2021 |
| Still-Pending AMD PSF Control Patch To Be Retailored For KVM | 13 Sep 2021 |
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1271 Articles |
| Apple |
| Linux 5.16 To Support The 2021 Apple Magic Keyboard | 20 Oct 2021 |
| Apple Silicon PCIe Driver Queued For Linux 5.16 | 20 Oct 2021 |
| Apple Announces The M1 Pro / M1 Max, Asahi Linux Starts Eyeing Their Bring-Up | 18 Oct 2021 |
| Asahi Linux On The Apple M1: "Usable As A Basic Linux Desktop" Sans GPU Acceleration | 05 Oct 2021 |
| Apple M1 USB Type-C Linux Support Code Sent Out For Testing | 18 Sep 2021 |
| Apple M1 IOMMU Driver Merged For Linux 5.15, Intel Scalable Mode By Default | 04 Sep 2021 |
| Linux On The Apple M1 Can Now Boot To The GNOME Desktop But Lacking Acceleration | 23 Aug 2021 |
| Apple M1 PCIe Driver Under Review For The Linux Kernel | 15 Aug 2021 |
| Reverse Engineering & Bring-Up Of Linux On The Apple Silicon M1 Continues | 14 Aug 2021 |
| Apple Magic Mouse To Support High Resolution Scrolling With Linux 5.15 | 15 Jul 2021 |
More Apple News |
68 Articles |
| Arm |
| Arm Begins Adding Armv9 Support To The GNU Compiler Toolchain | 01 Oct 2021 |
| Ampere Altra Max 128-Core CPU Is Priced Lower Than Flagship Xeon, EPYC CPUs | 30 Sep 2021 |
| NVIDIA Jetson TX2 NX + Other ARM Platforms Now Supported By Linux 5.15 | 02 Sep 2021 |
| Arm Posts New GCC Compiler Patches Due To New Vulnerability Affecting ARMv8-M TrustZone | 24 Aug 2021 |
| Arm SMCCC TRNG Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.15 | 08 Aug 2021 |
| Arm Mali "Valhall" Reverse-Engineering Started | 20 Jul 2021 |
| New Arm Hardware Support In Linux 5.14 From Raspberry Pi 400 To Qualcomm Auto Bits | 10 Jul 2021 |
| ACPI CPPC CPUFreq Will Try Frequency Invariance Again For Linux 5.14 | 08 Jul 2021 |
| Arm Proposes ASF As Their Framework Building Off Linux's CPUFreq + CPUIdle | 07 Jul 2021 |
| Linux 5.14 ARM64 Preps For When Not All The CPU Cores Support 32-bit Execution | 02 Jul 2021 |
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253 Articles |
| BSD |
| FreeBSD 12.3 Prepares For New Release Ahead Of Christmas, Beta Starts | 23 Oct 2021 |
| OpenBSD 7.0 Released With RISC-V 64-bit Port, Better Apple Silicon Support | 14 Oct 2021 |
| DragonFlyBSD 6.0.1 Released With AMD Zen 3 Temperature Monitoring, Fixes | 13 Oct 2021 |
| helloSystem 0.6 Released For macOS-Inspired FreeBSD | 02 Oct 2021 |
| MidnightBSD 2.1 Released For This Desktop-Minded BSD | 24 Sep 2021 |
| GhostBSD 21.09.06 Released For This FreeBSD-Based Desktop OS | 07 Sep 2021 |
| NetBSD Continues Long Overdue Push To Modernize Their WiFi Drivers | 26 Aug 2021 |
| OPNsense 21.7 Released With New Installer Offering Better ZFS Support | 28 Jul 2021 |
| FreeBSD Working On A New Installer, Updates To Their Linux Compatibility Layer | 24 Jul 2021 |
| Following NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD Now Has "COVID" | 06 Jul 2021 |
More BSD News |
742 Articles |
| Clear Linux |
| 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 |
| Benchmarks Of Clear Linux's Native Kernel Against Current/Mainline/Preempt-RT Kernels | 08 Jan 2020 |
| Clear Linux Set To Begin Offering EarlyOOM For Better Dealing With Memory Pressure | 08 Jan 2020 |
| Clear Linux Saw New Features, New Desktop Installer + Increased Adoption In 2019 | 01 Jan 2020 |
| Clear Linux Defined Linux Performance These Past Few Years | 29 Dec 2019 |
More Clear Linux News |
89 Articles |
| Coreboot |
| Coreboot Making Progress On Running More Of It In 64-bit Mode | 16 Jul 2021 |
| ASRock Rack Has One Of The Best, Most Open-Source Firmware x86 Server Motherboards | 15 Jul 2021 |
| Coreboot Is Ridding Its Need For Intel's FSP-T Blob | 25 Jun 2021 |
| Another Intel Sandy/Ivy Bridge Motherboard Now Works For Coreboot (ASUS P8Z77-V) | 14 Jun 2021 |
| More Intel Alder Lake Enablement Landing For Coreboot | 06 Jun 2021 |
| Libreboot Sees First New Release In Nearly 5 Years, Supports More Old Motherboards | 23 May 2021 |
| Coreboot 4.14 Released With 42 New Motherboards Added, AMD Cezanne APU Support | 10 May 2021 |
| LinuxBoot Pulls In netboot.xyz For Easily Booting Different OS Installers | 05 May 2021 |
| Motherboards + Beer: Virtual Event Addressing Coreboot / Open-Source Firmware Prospects | 18 Feb 2021 |
| Intel + Microsoft Continue Work On Replacing More SMM "Black Boxes" With PRM | 06 Dec 2020 |
More Coreboot News |
221 Articles |
| Debian |
| Devuan 4.0 Released As Debian 11 Without Systemd | 14 Oct 2021 |
| Debian 11.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Fixes | 09 Oct 2021 |
| Debian 11 "Bullseye" Released | 14 Aug 2021 |
| Debian GNU/Hurd 2021 Released With Experimental Rump-Based Userland Disk Driver, Go Port | 14 Aug 2021 |
| Debian 11 Is Releasing This Weekend With Many Improvements | 14 Aug 2021 |
| Debian Improves Docs To Inform Users Their Systems Might Not Work Without Non-Free Firmware | 02 Aug 2021 |
| Debian 11.0 "Bullseye" Gets An August Release Date | 23 Jul 2021 |
| Devuan 4.0 Alpha Builds Updated For Debian 11 Stripped Of systemd | 19 Jul 2021 |
| Debian 11.0 "Bullseye" Is Very Close To Release - Now Under A Full Freeze | 17 Jul 2021 |
| Debian 10.10 Released With Many Security/Bug Fixes, Updated FWUPD | 19 Jun 2021 |
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365 Articles |
| Desktop |
| Lumina Desktop 1.6.1 Released With Theme Improvements While Bigger Improvements Planned | 04 Oct 2021 |
| Firefox 92 vs. Chrome 94 Browser Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux | 26 Sep 2021 |
| HarfBuzz 3.0 Released With Unicode 14.0 Support, More APIs Considered Stable | 19 Sep 2021 |
| GIMP 2.10.28 Released With More Fixes | 18 Sep 2021 |
| SixtyFPS 0.1 Released As A Rust-Focused Graphical Toolkit | 20 Aug 2021 |
| MATE 1.26 Desktop Released With Some Wayland Support, Other Improvements | 18 Aug 2021 |
| Maui 2 Released For Open-Source UI Framework | 16 Aug 2021 |
| FreeRDP 2.4 Released With Support For Multi-Threaded Decoding | 28 Jul 2021 |
| Nearly A Decade Later, UPower Still Working Towards 1.0 Release | 19 Jun 2021 |
| GNUstep Releases Early Wayland Support, Many Other Improvements Too | 06 May 2021 |
More Desktop News |
403 Articles |
| Fedora |
| Red Hat Is Making It Easy To Run Bleeding-Edge LLVM/Clang On Fedora | 10 Oct 2021 |
| Fedora 35 Beta Released With Many New Features, Countless Package Updates | 28 Sep 2021 |
| Fedora's Java Packages Have Fallen Into Rough Shape | 28 Sep 2021 |
| Red Hat's Upstream Contributions Are Making For A Great Fedora Workstation 35 | 20 Sep 2021 |
| Fedora 35 Cleared For Golang 1.17, LLVM 13 | 17 Aug 2021 |
| Fedora 35 To Support Restarting User Services On Package Upgrades | 16 Aug 2021 |
| Fedora Workstation 35 Looks To Use Power Profiles Daemon By Default | 24 Jul 2021 |
| Fedora 35 Looking To Employ WirePlumber For Managing PipeWire | 20 Jul 2021 |
| Fedora 35 Approved For Third-Party Repo Changes, More Optimal Encryption Default | 19 Jul 2021 |
| FESCo Says "Yes" To Fedora 35 Using Yescrypt For Hashing Shadow Passwords | 28 Jun 2021 |
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1044 Articles |
| Free Software |
| GIMP 2.99.8 Released As Another Step Toward The Long Overdue GIMP 3.0 | 20 Oct 2021 |
| Flatpak 1.12 Released - Better Sub-Sandbox Handling To Benefit Steam | 08 Oct 2021 |
| Apache OpenOffice 4.1.11 Released - Increased Font Size In Help, Other Mundane Changes | 07 Oct 2021 |
| Sony Has Begun Accelerating Their Contributions To Open-Source / Linux | 06 Oct 2021 |
| Cycles X Merged Into Blender 3.0 With NVIDIA CUDA/OptiX Support, AMD HIP Pending | 21 Sep 2021 |
| CUPS 2.4 Coming Next Month, CUPS 2.5 + CUPS 3.0 Already In Planning | 20 Sep 2021 |
| Orange Publishes An In-Kernel eBPF-Powered Cache - Can Speed Up Memcached By ~18x | 15 Sep 2021 |
| Apache Software Foundation Saw $3M In Revenue, ~134M Changed Lines Of Code Last Year | 12 Sep 2021 |
| OpenShot 2.6.1 Released For This Open-Source Video Editor | 11 Sep 2021 |
| Facebook Opens Up CacheLib As Their New Caching Engine | 08 Sep 2021 |
More Free Software News |
1707 Articles |
| General |
| The LLVM Codebase Is Moving Past C++11 This Year, Likely To C++14 | 23 Jan 2019 |
| FP64 Support Finally Lands In Mesa Git For Intel Haswell | 03 Jan 2017 |
More General News |
2 Articles |
| GNOME |
| GNOME's Platform Design Continues Evolving From Dark Mode To Toasts | 12 Oct 2021 |
| GNOME 41 Released With Wayland Improvements, More Performance Tuning | 22 Sep 2021 |
| GNOME 41 Release Candidate Arrives With Many Improvements | 08 Sep 2021 |
| "Apps For GNOME" Launches To Highlight GNOME Apps | 26 Aug 2021 |
| GNOME 41 Beta Released With "Calls" SIP/VoIP Support, Wayland Improvements | 23 Aug 2021 |
| GTK 4.4 Released With Continued NGL Improvements, Inspector By Default | 23 Aug 2021 |
| GNOME's Magnifier Will Now Avoid Double Painting The Desktop | 20 Aug 2021 |
| GNOME's New Human Interface Guidelines Now Official | 06 Aug 2021 |
| GNOME 41 Alpha Released With Many Desktop Changes Accumulating | 19 Jul 2021 |
| GNOME Mutter Lands New Work To Reduce Input Latency | 13 Jul 2021 |
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1153 Articles |
| GNU |
| An Early Look At The GCC 12 Compiler Performance On AMD Zen 3 | 22 Oct 2021 |
| Glibc 2.35 Removes The Long-Deprecated Intel MPX Support | 12 Oct 2021 |
| GCC 12 Enables Auto-Vectorization For -O2 Optimization Level | 08 Oct 2021 |
| GCC 12 Compiler Squaring Away Its AVX-512 FP16 Support | 04 Oct 2021 |
| GNU Wget2 2.0 Released With HTTP2 & SSL Improvements | 26 Sep 2021 |
| IBM Engineer Has Been Exploring Possible Rust Modules For GRUB | 24 Sep 2021 |
| GNU Coreutils 9.0: cp Now Enables CoW By Default + Copy Offload, wc Now Uses AVX2 | 24 Sep 2021 |
| GCC 12 Adds Stack Variable Auto-Initialization, Other Security Improvements Forthcoming | 23 Sep 2021 |
| Better Support & Performance For OpenACC Kernels Is Coming To GCC | 22 Sep 2021 |
| Oracle's Next-Generation GNU Profiler "gprofng" Is Looking Great For Developers | 21 Sep 2021 |
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919 Articles |
| Google |
| Google Continues Work On User-Managed Concurrency Groups For Linux | 24 Oct 2021 |
| Chrome 96 Beta Begins Preparing For Chrome 100, Adds Priority Hints Feature | 21 Oct 2021 |
| Chrome 95 Released With FTP Support Completely Removed, New Developer Additions | 19 Oct 2021 |
| Google Developing "SiliFuzz" For Fuzzing CPUs To Uncover Electrical Defects | 19 Oct 2021 |
| Google Trumpets The Success Of Their Chrome "RenderingNG" Performance Initiative | 07 Oct 2021 |
| Chrome 96 To Feature Improved WebRTC Code, Better Wayland Screensharing | 06 Oct 2021 |
| Android 12 Now Available From The Android Open-Source Project | 04 Oct 2021 |
| Chrome 95 Beta Completely Removes Deprecated FTP Support, Reduced User Agent Info Trial | 24 Sep 2021 |
| Google Finally Shifting To "Upstream First" Linux Kernel Approach For Android Features | 22 Sep 2021 |
| Chrome 94 Released With WebGPU For Testing, WebCodecs API Now Official | 21 Sep 2021 |
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484 Articles |
| Hardware |
| GNU Toolchain Begins Landing LoongArch Support | 24 Oct 2021 |
| Mediatek Posts 8k Lines Of New Linux Kernel Driver Code For AI Processing Unit Support | 23 Oct 2021 |
| Vortex86 Processor Detection Landing For Linux 5.16 | 23 Oct 2021 |
| System76 Laptops To See Some Useful Improvements With Linux 5.16 | 22 Oct 2021 |
| Raspberry Pi Sees Their First Price Increase Due To Supply Chain issues | 21 Oct 2021 |
| Nintendo Wii U Gamepad Linux Driver Support Still Pursuing Mainline | 20 Oct 2021 |
| PinePhone Pro Announced As New Linux Smartphone | 15 Oct 2021 |
| Loongson Volleys Latest Patches For LoongArch Linux Support | 13 Oct 2021 |
| FWUPD 1.7 Released With Supporting More Hardware For Firmware Updates On Linux | 06 Oct 2021 |
| Ampere Computing Steps Up With Monthly Open-Source Firmware Releases | 06 Oct 2021 |
More Hardware News |
1839 Articles |
| Intel |
| Pat Gelsinger's Open-Source Bias, Intel's Pledge To Openness | 25 Oct 2021 |
| Intel Posts The "Last Part" To Their AMX Bring-Up For Linux | 22 Oct 2021 |
| Intel Graphics Driver's New Parallel Submission uAPI Landing For Linux 5.16 | 22 Oct 2021 |
| Intel Makes ControlFlag Open-Source For Helping To Detect Bugs In Code | 20 Oct 2021 |
| Habana Labs For Linux 5.16 To Bring Peer-To-Peer Support With DMA-BUF | 18 Oct 2021 |
| Intel Compute-Runtime 21.41.21220 Ships Updated DG1 Support | 15 Oct 2021 |
| Intel Linux Driver Lands Tessellation/Geometry Distribution Feature For Xe-HPG | 14 Oct 2021 |
| Intel Contributes AVX-512 Optimizations To Numpy, Yields Massive Speedups | 12 Oct 2021 |
| Linux x86 FPU Code Getting Reworked In Preparation For Intel AMX | 12 Oct 2021 |
| Intel Posts Latest DG2/Alchemist Linux Patches In Requiring 64K Page Size Handling | 11 Oct 2021 |
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2183 Articles |
| KDE |
| KDE Plasma Readies Its NVIDIA GBM Support, Fingerprint Authentication Added | 23 Oct 2021 |
| KDE's Plasma Wayland Session Continues Seeing More Crash Fixes | 16 Oct 2021 |
| KDE Plasma 5.23 Released In Marking 25 Years Of KDE | 14 Oct 2021 |
| Krita 5.0 Beta 2 Reworks Its GPU Accelerated Canvas | 11 Oct 2021 |
| KDE Moves To GitLab-Based CI, Lands More Plasma Wayland Fixes | 09 Oct 2021 |
| Plasma 5.23 Lands More Last-Minute Fixes To Avoid Wayland Crashes | 02 Oct 2021 |
| KDE Plasma 5.24 On Wayland To Support DRM Leasing For VR Headsets | 25 Sep 2021 |
| KDE Sees Another Big Batch Of Plasma Wayland Improvements | 18 Sep 2021 |
| KDE Plasma 5.23 Beta Released As The 25th Anniversary Edition | 16 Sep 2021 |
| KDE Sees More Plasma Wayland Fixes As Plasma 5.23 Hits Its Soft Feature Freeze | 11 Sep 2021 |
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1096 Articles |
| LibreOffice |
| LibreOffice Lands Initial Code For Qt6 Toolkit Support | 29 Sep 2021 |
| LibreOffice 7.2 Community Released For This Leading Open-Source Office Suite | 19 Aug 2021 |
| LibreOffice 7.2 RC1 Released Ahead Of Official Debut Next Month | 13 Jul 2021 |
| OpenDocument Format 1.3 Approved As OASIS Standard | 24 Jun 2021 |
| LibreOffice 7.2 Beta Arrives With Initial Command Pop-Up HUD, Better Performance | 18 Jun 2021 |
| LibreOffice 7.2 Alpha 1 Released For This Open-Source Office Suite | 25 May 2021 |
| LibreOffice Adds A Command Popup / HUD, Inspired By Half-Decade Old Microsoft Office Feature | 12 May 2021 |
| LibreOffice Begins Landing GTK4 Support Code | 11 May 2021 |
| LibreOffice Merges Initial Support For Compiling To WebAssembly | 06 May 2021 |
| Developers Continue New Push With LibreOffice In The Web Browser Via WebAssembly | 10 Feb 2021 |
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152 Articles |
| Linux Events |
| 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 |
| Automotive Grade Linux Has Large Presence At CES 2020 | 08 Jan 2020 |
| Some Of The Interesting Open-Source Projects For Outreachy's Winter 2019 Round | 07 Dec 2019 |
| Open Source Firmware Conference 2019 Videos Posted | 04 Dec 2019 |
| OpenZFS Developer Summit 2019 Videos + Slides For The Latest On Open-Source ZFS | 10 Nov 2019 |
| The Hardware FOSDEM Uses To Carry Out Linux Video Recordings Of Their Event | 22 Sep 2019 |
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77 Articles |
| Linux Gaming |
| Lutris 0.5.9 Released With Support For The Epic Games Store, New Options | 11 Oct 2021 |
| ET: Legacy 2.78 Released With Better OpenAL Sound, Android Support Materializing | 06 Oct 2021 |
| BattlEye To Support Valve's Steam Deck / Proton | 24 Sep 2021 |
| Epic Games Announces Easy Anti-Cheat For Linux - Including Wine/Proton | 23 Sep 2021 |
| DXVK 1.9.2 Released With More Games In Better Shape | 20 Sep 2021 |
| SDL Still Has A Number Of Issues To Address Before Defaulting To Wayland | 19 Sep 2021 |
| FUTEX2 System Call Updated To Work On ARM | 13 Sep 2021 |
| FUTEX2 Revised Again For Helping Steam Play But Will Miss Out On Linux 5.15 | 05 Sep 2021 |
| SDL2 Lands Long-Sought Geometry Render API | 19 Aug 2021 |
| Zink Now Supports OpenGL Compatibility Contexts - Allowing More Games/Apps To Work | 18 Aug 2021 |
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1807 Articles |
| Linux Kernel |
| Linux 5.15-rc7 Released A Day Late Due To Travels | 25 Oct 2021 |
| Linux 5.16 Will Be A Great Christmas Gift For Open-Source Fans With Many New Features | 25 Oct 2021 |
| Linux 5.15-rc6 Ticks Up In Size, Stops Using AMD SME By Default | 18 Oct 2021 |
| Cluster Scheduler Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.16 | 15 Oct 2021 |
| DAMON Extended To Offer Physical Memory Address Space Monitoring | 13 Oct 2021 |
| Linux 5.15-rc5 Released With This Cycle Running Smoothly | 10 Oct 2021 |
| IBM Proposing A CPU Namespace For The Linux Kernel | 09 Oct 2021 |
| It Appears FUTEX2 Will Land For Linux 5.16 | 09 Oct 2021 |
| Raspberry Pi "V3D" Driver Landing Support For Multiple Sync Objects | 06 Oct 2021 |
| Updated Zstd Planned For Linux 5.16 With Better Performance | 05 Oct 2021 |
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2823 Articles |
| Linux Networking |
| Realtek 802.11ax WiFi Driver "rtw89" Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.16 | 16 Oct 2021 |
| Walmart Pushes Open-Source L3AF To Help Out eBPF Ecosystem | 11 Oct 2021 |
| BPF-Based Linux Firewall "bpfilter" Shows Impressive Performance Potential | 23 Sep 2021 |
| Aya Makes It Easy To Write Rust-Based eBPF Programs For The Linux Kernel | 22 Sep 2021 |
| OpenVPN DCO Linux Kernel Module Aims To Offer Faster VPN Performance | 20 Sep 2021 |
| Linux 5.15 Staging Replaces Its Realtek RTL8188EU WiFi Driver | 01 Sep 2021 |
| BPF Timers To Intel Additions Lead The Networking Changes With Linux 5.15 | 01 Sep 2021 |
| Netfilter Releases Nftables 1.0 | 19 Aug 2021 |
| ExpressVPN Opens Up Its Lightway VPN Protocol | 10 Aug 2021 |
| Samsung Revs Its In-Kernel SMB3 Server Focused On Fast Performance, New Features | 05 Aug 2021 |
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195 Articles |
| Linux Security |
| Linux Patches Rewrite The Retpoline Rewrite Code - Possible Performance Benefit | 13 Oct 2021 |
| That Didn't Take Long: KSMBD In-Kernel File Server Already Needs Important Security Fix | 19 Sep 2021 |
| Linux Preparing To Slightly Loosen Its Spectre Defaults | 12 Sep 2021 |
| OpenSSL 3.0 Officially Released | 07 Sep 2021 |
| Finer Grained KASLR Patches Revived For The Linux Kernel To Enhance Security | 07 Sep 2021 |
| Linux 5.15 Working Towards Comprehensive Compile-Time & Run-Time Detection Of Buffer Overflows | 03 Sep 2021 |
| Linux 5.15 Adds Another Knob To Harden Against Side Channel Attacks | 31 Aug 2021 |
| Opt-In L1 Cache Flushing To Try For Linux 5.15 To Help With The Paranoid, Future CPU Vulnerabilities | 30 Aug 2021 |
| "NAX" Linux Security Being Worked On For Helping Fend Off Fileless Malware Attacks | 21 Aug 2021 |
| "Beyond Stupid" Paranoid L1d Cache Flushing Looks Like It Will Try Again For Linux 5.15 | 28 Jul 2021 |
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204 Articles |
| Linux Storage |
| Newest Linux Optimizations Can Achieve 10M IOPS Per-Core With IO_uring | 25 Oct 2021 |
| Axboe Achieves 8M IOPS Per-Core With Newest Linux Optimization Patches | 17 Oct 2021 |
| 7.4M IOPS Achieved Per-Core With Newest Linux Patches | 12 Oct 2021 |
| More Optimizations Has Linux Approaching 7M IOPS Per Core | 11 Oct 2021 |
| EROFS File-System Adding LZMA Compression Support Via New MicroLZMA | 11 Oct 2021 |
| Micron's HSE Storage Engine 2.0 Debuts - No Longer Relies On Linux Kernel Modifications | 05 Oct 2021 |
| Linux Achieves 5.1M IOPS Per-Core With AMD Zen 3 + Intel Optane | 30 Sep 2021 |
| Bcachefs Merges Support For Btrfs-Like Snapshots | 27 Sep 2021 |
| Linux IO_uring Can Now Achieve Up To ~3.8M IOPS Per-Core | 26 Sep 2021 |
| OpenZFS 2.0.6 Released With Support For Newer Kernels | 25 Sep 2021 |
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675 Articles |
| LLVM |
| LLVM 13.0 Released With Official Flang Binary Packages, Improved OpenCL Clang Support | 01 Oct 2021 |
| LLVM Clang 14 Begins Landing Intel AVX-512 FP16 Support | 16 Aug 2021 |
| Arm Working On Clang C++ For OpenCL 2021 (OpenCL 3.0 Compatible) | 13 Aug 2021 |
| LLVM 13 Feature Development Is Over, LLVM 14 Enters Development | 03 Aug 2021 |
| LLVM 12.0.1 Released For This Open-Source Compiler Stack | 09 Jul 2021 |
| Clang PGO Shot Down For Now From The Linux Kernel | 01 Jul 2021 |
| Clang Profile Guided Optimizations Support Sent In For Linux 5.14 | 29 Jun 2021 |
| GFX1013 Target Added To LLVM 13.0 For RDNA2 APUs | 19 Jun 2021 |
| Clang CFI Support Upstreamed For Linux 5.13 - But Only On ARM64 For Now | 30 Apr 2021 |
| LLVM 12.0 Released With Alder Lake + Sapphire Rapids Support, More C++20 | 15 Apr 2021 |
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653 Articles |
| Mesa |
| V3DV Raspberry Pi Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.1 | 21 Oct 2021 |
| Mesa 22.0 Lands Some Patches Toward OpenCL Image Support | 18 Oct 2021 |
| Mesa 21.3-rc1 Released With Improved Zink, Radeon Ray-Tracing, RADV NGG Culling | 13 Oct 2021 |
| Mesa 21.3 Fixes Issue Of Some Games Having Transparency Issues Under Wayland | 13 Oct 2021 |
| RadeonSI Lands Another Big Overhead Optimization - "Substantially" Helps In Some Cases | 04 Oct 2021 |
| Mesa 21.2.3 Released As A Small Update To This Graphics Driver Stack | 29 Sep 2021 |
| Lavapipe Mesa Software Driver Enables Vulkan 1.2 Support | 27 Sep 2021 |
| Microsoft's "CLOn12" Mesa Code Adds SPIR/SPIR-V Support | 23 Sep 2021 |
| Mesa Merge Pending For Vulkan Ray-Tracing On Older AMD GPUs | 22 Sep 2021 |
| Mesa 21.2.2 Released "Late & Very Large" | 22 Sep 2021 |
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2029 Articles |
| Microsoft |
| Microsoft Publishes WSL Preview Inside the Windows 11 Store | 11 Oct 2021 |
| Microsoft Releases September Update To CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution | 05 Oct 2021 |
| Microsoft Releases Its August Update For The CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution | 09 Sep 2021 |
| Windows Server 2022 Reaches General Availability With Focusing On Hybrid Clouds, Containers | 01 Sep 2021 |
| Microsoft Releases Updated Version Of Its CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution | 17 Aug 2021 |
| Microsoft's Internal Linux Distribution "CBL-Mariner" Continues Maturing | 12 Jul 2021 |
| Microsoft Announces Windows 11 - Benchmarks Against Linux To Begin Soon | 24 Jun 2021 |
| Microsoft's Hyper-V DRM Display Driver Will Land For Linux 5.14 | 09 Jun 2021 |
| Microsoft Bringing eBPF Support To Windows | 11 May 2021 |
| Microsoft Prepping Linux For Running As 64-bit ARM Hyper-V Guest | 03 May 2021 |
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249 Articles |
| Mozilla |
| Firefox 93 Primed For Release With AVIF Image Support, Canonical Managing Official Snap | 05 Oct 2021 |
| Firefox 92 Beta Takes Flight With AVIF Image Support | 12 Aug 2021 |
| Thunderbird 91 Released With Big Improvements For This Open-Source Mail Client | 11 Aug 2021 |
| Firefox 91 Released As New ESR Base, HTTPS First Policy For Private Mode | 10 Aug 2021 |
| Thunderbird 91 Is Flying Soon As First Major Mail Client Update In A Year | 08 Aug 2021 |
| Firefox 92 To Try Again With AVIF Image Support By Default | 06 Aug 2021 |
| Firefox 90 Released With FTP Support Removed, Better WebRender Software Performance | 13 Jul 2021 |
| Firefox 89 Released With UI/UX Changes | 01 Jun 2021 |
| Firefox Making Strides On Improved Linux Stability Thanks To Better Crash Reports | 19 May 2021 |
| Firefox 89 Beta Released With UI Changes | 20 Apr 2021 |
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359 Articles |
| Multimedia |
| PipeWire 0.3.39 Brings Libcamera Plugin Improvements, Better Compatibility For JACK Apps | 22 Oct 2021 |
| AV1 Codec Library libaom v3.2 Brings More Performance Optimizations | 15 Oct 2021 |
| SALSA Back In Development As A Small ALSA Library For Linux Systems | 15 Oct 2021 |
| Linux 5.16 Aims For Better USB Low-Latency Audio Playback | 03 Oct 2021 |
| Red Hat / Fedora To Focus On Driving New Linux Video Improvements Around PipeWire | 01 Oct 2021 |
| Dav1d 0.9.2 Released With More SSSE3, SSE4, AVX2, NEON Optimizations | 05 Sep 2021 |
| AMD Van Gogh Audio Driver Lands For Linux 5.15 | 02 Sep 2021 |
| PipeWire 0.3.34 Released With Yet More Improvements, Fixes | 26 Aug 2021 |
| OpenShot 2.6 Video Editor Released With Computer Vision + AI Effects | 25 Aug 2021 |
| Ardour 6.9 Digital Audio Workstation Released | 14 Aug 2021 |
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488 Articles |
| Nouveau |
| Open-Source Driver Flips On OpenGL ES 3.1 For Select NVIDIA GeForce 200 Series GPUs | 07 Jun 2021 |
| Nouveau Working On Bringing Up Some OpenGL Compute Shader Support For NV50 Era GPUs | 01 May 2021 |
| Nouveau With Linux 5.12 Has ~5k L.O.C. Change In Preparing For Ampere | 12 Feb 2021 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA Changes Sent In For Linux 5.12 | 29 Jan 2021 |
| Open-Source "Nouveau" Driver Now Supports NVIDIA Ampere - But Without 3D Acceleration | 14 Jan 2021 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA Support For Recent GPUs Is Poor But Now You Can Fake It For Testing | 12 Jan 2021 |
| Nouveau Sees Fix To Properly Handle Mini DP Connectors - Avoids GNOME Mutter Crashing | 30 Dec 2020 |
| Nouveau NVC0 Shader Disk Cache Lands For Speeding Up Game Load Times | 25 Aug 2020 |
| Nouveau Changes For Linux 5.9 Bring Fixes, Prep For Future Improvements | 24 Jul 2020 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" CRC Support Ready For Linux 5.9 | 22 Jul 2020 |
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442 Articles |
| NVIDIA |
| CUDA-Python Reaches "GA" With NVIDIA CUDA 11.5 Release, __int128 Preview | 20 Oct 2021 |
| NVIDIA 495 Linux Beta Driver Released With GBM Support | 14 Oct 2021 |
| NVIDIA Contributing Tegra NVDEC Support To Linux 5.16 | 10 Oct 2021 |
| NVIDIA 470.62.05 Beta Brings Vulkan Video Updates | 06 Oct 2021 |
| NVIDIA 470.74 Linux Driver Released With Several Fixes | 20 Sep 2021 |
| NVIDIA Prepares The Linux Kernel For Future Laptops With EC-Driven Backlights | 20 Sep 2021 |
| NVIDIA Confirms Sway Wayland Compositor Works Fine With Their New GBM Driver Support | 04 Sep 2021 |
| NVIDIA Tegra Open-Source Graphics Driver Introducing New User-Space ABI | 13 Aug 2021 |
| NVIDIA 470.63.01 Linux Driver Brings RTX A2000, Vulkan Wayland Surface Support | 10 Aug 2021 |
| NVIDIA Releases TensorRT 8.0 With Big Performance Improvements | 20 Jul 2021 |
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955 Articles |
| Operating Systems |
| CentOS Project Chair Karanbir Singh Steps Down | 19 Oct 2021 |
| Early Progress Made On Porting Radeon Vulkan Driver To BeOS-Inspired Haiku OS | 19 Oct 2021 |
| Vortex86 Processors Finally Seeing Work In 2021 For Proper Handling Under Linux | 17 Oct 2021 |
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| Genode OS Framework 21.08 Streamlining Its Porting Of Linux Driver Code | 02 Sep 2021 |
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| Oracle Releases GraalVM 21.3 With Java 17 Support, Other Enhancements | 19 Oct 2021 |
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| Maple Tree v2 Patches For The Linux Kernel - 13~840% Faster For Malloc Threads Test Case | 17 Aug 2021 |
| Oracle Sends Out Newest Patches For Trenchboot / Secure Launch For The Linux Kernel | 09 Aug 2021 |
| GraalVM 21.2 Released With New Optimizations, Better Linux AArch64 Support | 21 Jul 2021 |
| Oracle Sends Out Latest Linux Patches So Trenchboot Can Securely Launch The Kernel | 19 Jun 2021 |
| Solaris 11.4 SRU33 Released - Finally Delivers Valgrind, jQuery, VirtIO Guest Support | 19 May 2021 |
| Oracle Continues Working On The Maple Tree For The Linux Kernel | 09 May 2021 |
| GraalVM 21.1 Released With Experimental Java 16 Support, Many Performance Improvements | 21 Apr 2021 |
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| Linux 5.15, AMD / Radeon Advancements, Intel SDSi Dominated Discussions This Month | 01 Oct 2021 |
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| Phoronix Test Suite |
| Phoronix Test Suite 10.6 Released With Various Improvements For Linux Benchmarking | 10 Oct 2021 |
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| Many Exciting New & Updated Benchmarks For January 2021 | 02 Feb 2021 |
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| Programming |
| Meson v0.60 Build System Brings Numerous Improvements | 24 Oct 2021 |
| Ruby Lands "YJIT" As A Speedy, In-Process JIT Compiler | 21 Oct 2021 |
| Eclipse OpenJ9 0.29 Released With Full AArch64 Linux Support, More Mature JITServer Tech | 20 Oct 2021 |
| Portable Computing Language 1.8 Released For OpenCL On CPUs, Other Accelerators | 12 Oct 2021 |
| Python 3.10 Released With Many Improvements | 04 Oct 2021 |
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| PostgreSQL 14.0 Released With More Performance Improvements | 30 Sep 2021 |
| Picolibc Continues Maturing As Very Lightweight C Library For The Embedded World | 28 Sep 2021 |
| Linux Foundation To Host PaSh For Automatic Parallelizing Of Shell Scripts | 21 Sep 2021 |
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| Proprietary Software |
| 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 |
| TeamViewer 13 Now Available For Linux As A Native 64-bit Port | 04 Dec 2017 |
| Adobe Is Finally Ending Flash Support... In 2020 | 25 Jul 2017 |
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| Qt |
| Qt Creator 6 Beta Released With Updated C++ Code Model, Binaries Built Against Qt 6.2 | 14 Oct 2021 |
| Qt 6.2 LTS Released With Qt6 Now Aiming To Be Ready For Widespread Adoption | 30 Sep 2021 |
| Qt 6.2 LTS Will Nearly Be At Feature Parity To Qt 5.15 | 02 Sep 2021 |
| Qt Creator 5.0 Released With Experimental Clangd Backend, Experimental Docker Builds | 26 Aug 2021 |
| Qt Creator 5.0 Nears With New Features | 12 Aug 2021 |
| Qt Creator 5.0 Beta Brings Experimental Support For Clangd, Building Code In Docker | 08 Jul 2021 |
| Qt 6.2 Beta Released As The First Qt6 LTS Release Moves Closer | 06 Jul 2021 |
| Qt 6.2 Alpha Released With Many More Modules Ported From Qt5 | 23 Jun 2021 |
| Qt 6.1.1 Released With 150+ Bug Fixes | 08 Jun 2021 |
| Qt 6.2 Enters Feature Freeze With More Qt5 Modules Ported To Qt6 | 07 Jun 2021 |
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| Radeon |
| AMD Continues Work On USB4 Support In Their Linux Graphics Driver | 24 Oct 2021 |
| AMD GPU Driver Looks To Make Use Of Intel's New Buddy Allocator Code In The Linux Kernel | 20 Oct 2021 |
| RadeonSI Lands Another "Very Large" Optimization To Further Boost SPECViewPerf | 19 Oct 2021 |
| RadeonSI Enables NGG Shader Culling For Navi 1x Consumer GPUs | 19 Oct 2021 |
| AMD Finally Enabling PSR By Default For Newer Hardware With Linux 5.16 | 15 Oct 2021 |
| A Big Batch Of AMD Graphics Driver Updates Just Sent Out For Linux 5.16 | 08 Oct 2021 |
| Mesa 21.3 Enables NGG Culling By Default For RDNA2 GPUs | 08 Oct 2021 |
| Radeon Gallium3D Picks Up A Nice Performance Optimization For iGPU/dGPU PRIME Setups | 07 Oct 2021 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 Now Available As Beta | 06 Oct 2021 |
| AMD Publishes Open-Source "GPUFORT" As Newest Effort To Help Transition Away From CUDA | 04 Oct 2021 |
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| Red Hat |
| Red Hat Is Hiring Another Linux Developer To Work On GPU Hardware Enablement | 12 Oct 2021 |
| CentOS Kmods SIG Working On exFAT, WireGuard Additions | 05 Oct 2021 |
| Red Hat Is Hiring So Linux Can Finally Have Good HDR Display Support | 17 Sep 2021 |
| Red Hat Looking To Bolster EPEL | 03 Sep 2021 |
| CentOS In Your Car? Automotive SIG Approved | 20 Jul 2021 |
| CentOS Forms A Group To Flip On Old, Deprecated Or Out-Of-Tree Kernel Modules | 11 Jul 2021 |
| CentOS Stream 9 Builds Flowing, Opened Up For Contributors | 06 Jul 2021 |
| CentOS Hyperscale Workstation Sees Experimental OS Builds, More Changes Coming | 30 Jun 2021 |
| Rocky Linux 8.4 Released For RHEL 8.4 / CentOS Alternative | 21 Jun 2021 |
| CentOS Looks To Deal With Deprecated Device Support, Out-Of-Tree Kernel Modules | 08 Jun 2021 |
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| RISC-V |
| GCC 12 Merges Initial Support For RISC-V's Bitmanip Extensions | 25 Oct 2021 |
| SiFive Has A New RISC-V Core To Improve Performance By 50%, Outperform Cortex-A78 | 21 Oct 2021 |
| GNU Toolchain Begins Landing RISC-V Bitmanip/Zbs Instructions Support | 07 Oct 2021 |
| Linux 5.16 KVM To Land RISC-V Hypervisor Support | 05 Oct 2021 |
| Linux 5.15 Further Tunes Its RISC-V Support | 06 Sep 2021 |
| Linux 5.14 Supports Some Exciting Features With RISC-V | 09 Jul 2021 |
| SiFive Announces The Performance P550 As The Fastest RISC-V Processor Yet | 22 Jun 2021 |
| Transparent Hugepages Are Coming To RISC-V On Linux | 12 Jun 2021 |
| Intel Reportedly Interested In Acquiring RISC-V Firm SiFive | 10 Jun 2021 |
| SiFive HiFive Unmatched RISC-V Developer Boards Begin Shipping | 21 May 2021 |
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| Standards |
| Vendors Including NVIDIA Talk Up New OpenCL Extensions For Vulkan Interop, NN Inference | 19 Oct 2021 |
| OpenCL 3.0.9 Specification Released | 15 Oct 2021 |
| PoCL 1.8 OpenCL Implementation Coming With LLVM 13 Support, Better SPIR-V On CUDA | 01 Oct 2021 |
| Apple Patents Complicating W3C's Open Screen Protocol | 19 Aug 2021 |
| Microsoft & Others Form The eBPF Foundation | 12 Aug 2021 |
| OpenCL 3.0.8 Released With New Extension To Help AI Inferencing | 12 Jul 2021 |
| W3C Publishes Working Draft For Web Neural Network API | 22 Jun 2021 |
| W3C Promotes Web Audio API To Official Standard | 17 Jun 2021 |
| Khronos Standards Group Launches Certification Program To Help You With Online Shopping | 09 Jun 2021 |
| NVMe 2.0 Released As A Library Of Specifications With ZNS, Simple Copy + More | 03 Jun 2021 |
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| SUSE |
| openSUSE Leap ISOs To See Regular Respins For Integrating Latest Updates | 14 Oct 2021 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise / openSUSE Leap Pursuing x86_64-v2 Optimized Libraries | 16 Jun 2021 |
| openSUSE FrontRunner Aims To Advance The Distro's Hardware Architecture Support | 08 Jun 2021 |
| openSUSE Leap 15.3 Released - Built Using Same Binary Packages As SUSE Linux Enterprise | 02 Jun 2021 |
| openSUSE Leap 15.3 RC Available For Testing | 28 Apr 2021 |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Offering GNOME 40 | 16 Apr 2021 |
| OpenSUSE Tumbleweed's Very Busy Week With An Entire Rebuild, Latest KDE Packages | 21 Mar 2021 |
| OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Might See Micro-Architecture Packages For Better Performance | 08 Mar 2021 |
| openSUSE Leap 15.3 Beta Begins | 03 Mar 2021 |
| The Unified Path Ahead For Building SUSE Linux Enterprise + openSUSE Leap | 21 Jan 2021 |
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| systemd |
| Lennart: Linux Comes Up Short Around Disk Encryption, Authenticated Boot Security | 23 Sep 2021 |
| systemd OOMD Maturing Nicely, Adds Support For User Services | 23 Sep 2021 |
| Systemd 249 Released With New Option For Simple Whole-File-System A/B Updates | 07 Jul 2021 |
| Systemd 249 Has Another Chance For Testing Before Release | 02 Jul 2021 |
| Linux Developers Discuss A Global Counter For Block/Disk Changes | 27 Jun 2021 |
| systemd 249-rc2 Released With New "ConditionOSRelease" Directive | 25 Jun 2021 |
| Systemd 249-rc1 Released With Many New Features | 15 Jun 2021 |
| Systemd 248 Released With System Extension Images Feature, More TPM2/FIDO2 Integration | 30 Mar 2021 |
| Dbus-Broker 28 Released | 17 Mar 2021 |
| systemd 248 RC3 Released With Extension Images Support, New Security Capabilities | 12 Mar 2021 |
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| Ubuntu |
| Trying Out Ubuntu's New Flutter+Curtin-Powered Desktop Installer Was Disappointing | 21 Oct 2021 |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" Begins Development | 18 Oct 2021 |
| Ubuntu 21.10 Released With GNOME 40 Desktop, Many Underlying Improvements | 14 Oct 2021 |
| Canonical Announces Ubuntu Frame As A Full-Screen Shell Built On Mir | 06 Oct 2021 |
| Mir 2.5 Released With Wayland Extension Updates For Better Handling On-Screen Keyboards | 05 Oct 2021 |
| Ubuntu 21.10 Beta Released | 24 Sep 2021 |
| Ubuntu Touch OTA-19 Released - Still Based On Ubuntu 16.04 | 22 Sep 2021 |
| Canonical Extending Ubuntu 14.04/16.04 LTS Support To Ten Years | 21 Sep 2021 |
| Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS Released To Correct Broken Install Media | 17 Sep 2021 |
| Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS Special Being Prepared To Deal With Unbootable Media | 13 Sep 2021 |
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| Valve |
| DXVK-Native 1.9.2a Released For Direct3D-Over-Vulkan With Native Games | 22 Oct 2021 |
| Steam Continues Improving Its Shader Pre-Caching Support, Other Beta Improvements | 22 Oct 2021 |
| Valve Launches "Steam Deck Verified" Program For Games That Run Well On The Steam Deck | 18 Oct 2021 |
| VKD3D-Proton 2.5 Released With Experimental DXR 1.1, More Games Working | 18 Oct 2021 |
| Proton Experimental Enables NVIDIA DLSS For D3D12 Games, Proton Now Handles More Games | 01 Oct 2021 |
| Steam Beta Improves Its Vulkan Pre-Caching System, PipeWire Capture Now Opt-In | 28 Sep 2021 |
| Valve Publishes New Steam Deck FAQ With A Few New Details Shared | 22 Sep 2021 |
| Steam On Linux Continues Hovering Around The 1% Mark | 02 Sep 2021 |
| Proton 6.3-6 Released With More Games Running, Optional NVIDIA DLSS Support | 20 Aug 2021 |
| Steam Survey Shows Linux Marketshare Hitting 1.0% | 01 Aug 2021 |
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| VIA |
| Even In 2019, A Long Road Still For Getting The VIA OpenChrome Driver In Linux | 09 Jan 2019 |
| OpenChrome DRM Driver To Go Through A GEM/TTM Code Rewrite | 05 Aug 2018 |
| It's Still Going To Be Tough Getting The OpenChrome VIA KMS Driver In The Linux Kernel | 28 May 2018 |
| VIA Joins In The AI Race, Linux/Android Support For Their New Developer Kit | 10 May 2018 |
| OpenChrome DRM Driver To Work On New GEM/TTM Code, Regression Fixes | 12 Mar 2018 |
| OpenChrome KMS Can Now Do Runtime Resolution Changes, Hopes To Go Mainline In 2018 | 11 Mar 2018 |
| OpenChrome DRM Still Aiming For Mainline Kernel, But Initially Will Lack 2D Acceleration | 02 Mar 2018 |
| OpenChrome DRM Continues To Be Developed, But It Didn't Make It Mainline This Year | 26 Dec 2017 |
| OpenChrome DRM Still Being Ported To Newer Kernel, Lengthy Process | 25 Aug 2017 |
| OpenChrome Still Pushing For DRM Kernel Driver, Updated DDX | 04 Aug 2017 |
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| Virtualization |
| Bareflank 3.0 Hypervisor Released With Microkernel Design, AMD Virtualization Support | 24 Oct 2021 |
| Rust-Based Cloud-Hypervisor 19.0 Released With Improved Live Migration, Faster Boot Time | 16 Oct 2021 |
| Bareflank Hypervisor 3.0 Pre-Release Debuts With Many Changes | 16 Oct 2021 |
| Linux 5.16 To Feature More Extensible VirtIO GPU Driver With "Context Types" Addition | 30 Sep 2021 |
| Intel's Cloud-Hypervisor 18.0 Brings AArch64 Improvements, VHDX Disk Image Support | 09 Sep 2021 |
| Linux 5.15 Adds VDUSE For vDPA Devices In User-Space | 09 Sep 2021 |
| Linux 5.15 KVM Defaults To The New x86 TDP MMU, Enables AMD SVM 5-Level Paging | 07 Sep 2021 |
| Google Working On Making VirtIO-GPU More Extensible | 26 Aug 2021 |
| QEMU 6.1 Released With RISC-V Improvements, AMD Emulation Fixes | 24 Aug 2021 |
| VMware Hits A Nasty Performance Regression With Linux 5.13 | 30 Jul 2021 |
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| Vulkan |
| Vulkanised Fall 2021 Material Available - Autodesk Has Begun Using MoltenVK | 23 Oct 2021 |
| Vulkan 1.2.196 Introduces H.265 Encode Extension | 13 Oct 2021 |
| Vulkan 1.2.195 Introduced With Three New Extensions | 05 Oct 2021 |
| Vulkan 1.2.194 Brings New Extension For Google's Fuchsia OS | 28 Sep 2021 |
| Vulkan Video Decoding Still In The Early Stages For Open-Source | 21 Sep 2021 |
| Raspberry Pi V3DV Driver Still Working On Vulkan 1.1 Conformance, More Performance | 15 Sep 2021 |
| The Khronos Group Is Hosting A Virtual Vulkan Event Next Month | 07 Sep 2021 |
| Vulkan 1.2.191 Released With New Extension To Make Wiser Memory Decisions | 07 Sep 2021 |
| Vulkan 1.2.190 Released With SPIR-V Integer Dot Product Support | 30 Aug 2021 |
| Vulkan SC 1.0 Coming For "Safety Critical" Graphics / Compute | 18 Aug 2021 |
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557 Articles |
| Wayland |
| XWayland 21.1.3 Nears With Support For NVIDIA 495 Driver's GBM | 21 Oct 2021 |
| XWayland GLX Path Enables sRGB Support | 25 Sep 2021 |
| KWinFT Continues Working On WLROOTS Render, Library Split | 17 Sep 2021 |
| Libinput 1.19 Released With Hold Gestures & High Resolution Wheel Scrolling | 14 Sep 2021 |
| Wayland Protocols 1.22 Released With DRM Object Leasing Support For VR HMDs | 01 Sep 2021 |
| DRM Lease Protocol Support Merged For Wayland For VR Headsets | 07 Aug 2021 |
| SDL2 Lands Support For Client-Side Decorations On Wayland | 26 Jul 2021 |
| XWayland 21.1.2 Released With NVIDIA Hardware Acceleration Support | 09 Jul 2021 |
| Sway 1.6.1 Wayland Compositor Released With WLROOTS 0.14 | 25 Jun 2021 |
| Surface Suspension Protocol Proposed For Wayland | 20 Jun 2021 |
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781 Articles |
| WINE |
| Wine 6.20 Released With More Modules Switching To The PE Format | 22 Oct 2021 |
| Wine 6.19 Continues Work On HID Joystick, PE Conversion | 08 Oct 2021 |
| Wine-Staging 6.18 Released With 616 Patches Atop Upstream | 25 Sep 2021 |
| Wine 6.18 Released With HID Joystick Enabled By Default | 24 Sep 2021 |
| Wine 6.17 Released With Better HiDPI Support For Built-In Apps | 10 Sep 2021 |
| Wine-Staging 6.16 Implements Two More D3DX Functions To Help Some Windows Games | 28 Aug 2021 |
| Wine 6.16 Released With Better HiDPI Theming, Initial HID-Based Joystick Backend | 27 Aug 2021 |
| Wine Reflink Support Continues To Be Worked On For Significant Space Savings | 23 Aug 2021 |
| Wine 6.15 Released With More PE Conversion Work, More 32-bit To 64-bit Thunks | 13 Aug 2021 |
| CodeWeavers Releases CrossOver 21 - Rebased On Wine 6.0 | 03 Aug 2021 |
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791 Articles |
| X.Org |
| X.Org Server 21.1 RC2 Brings Fix For Mixed VRR/Non-VRR Multi-Monitor Setups | 14 Oct 2021 |
| X.Org Modesetting Driver Will Now Better Handle Multi-Montior Mixed-VRR Setups | 08 Oct 2021 |
| X.Org Server 21.1 RC1 Released With VRR Support For Modesetting Driver, Other Features | 21 Sep 2021 |
| xf86-input-libinput 1.2 Brings Touchpad Gestures, High Resolution Scrolling | 20 Sep 2021 |
| X.Org Could Use More Help Improving & Addressing Its Security | 16 Sep 2021 |
| Reverse Engineering, Open-Source Driver Writing Continues For Apple's M1 GPU | 15 Sep 2021 |
| X.Org Server Adds "AsyncFlipSecondaries" To Deal With Crappy Multi-Monitor Experience | 09 Sep 2021 |
| X.Org DMX Dropped After More Than A Decade Of Crashes | 07 Sep 2021 |
| X.Org Looks To Drop DMX After Being Rather Broken For ~14 Years | 04 Sep 2021 |
| X.Org Server 21.1 Will Aim To Release In The Coming Weeks | 10 Aug 2021 |
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