| AMD |
| AMDVLK 2021.Q3.2 Released With New Extensions, Implicit External Sync For All GPUs | 22 Jul 2021 |
| AMD AOCC 3.1 Compiler Released - Rebased On LLVM 12.0 | 21 Jul 2021 |
| Coreboot Starts Seeing Bits For AMD Barcelo | 18 Jul 2021 |
| AMD Pushes Improvements To Help Debug S0ix Power States On Linux | 17 Jul 2021 |
| AMD Posts FidelityFX Super Resolution Source Code | 15 Jul 2021 |
| AMD Zen 3 APU Temperature Monitoring Narrowly Misses Linux 5.14 | 14 Jul 2021 |
| More AMD IOMMU Optimization Work Is On The Way For Linux | 13 Jul 2021 |
| AMD VanGogh APUs Get New Audio Driver For Linux | 09 Jul 2021 |
| AMD SEV-SNP Support Revised For Linux + Updated Hyper-V Isolation VM Code | 08 Jul 2021 |
| AMD's Linux Strides In H1'21 From FreeSync HDMI To PyTorch ROCm | 04 Jul 2021 |
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1245 Articles |
| Arm |
| 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 |
| Arm Releases ASTC Encoder 3.0 With Even Better Performance | 04 Jun 2021 |
| Arm Announces The Cortex-X2 Armv9 Flagship CPU, Cortex-A710, Cortex-A510 | 25 May 2021 |
| Panfrost Open-Source Mali Driver Adding Mediatek MT8183 Support With Linux 5.14 | 17 May 2021 |
| Arm Outlines More Neoverse N2 + Neoverse V1 Platform Details | 27 Apr 2021 |
| Arm Announces ARMv9 Architecture With SVE2 | 30 Mar 2021 |
More Arm News |
248 Articles |
| BSD |
| 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 |
| DragonFlyBSD To See Better Low-Level Lock Performance When Heavily Contested | 26 Jun 2021 |
| helloSystem 0.5 Released For macOS-Inspired FreeBSD Desktop | 12 Jun 2021 |
| NetBSD 9.2 Released With Many Fixes, Much Faster FREAD | 17 May 2021 |
| DragonFlyBSD 6.0 Released With Many Kernel Optimizations, Other Improvements | 10 May 2021 |
| FreeBSD Is Off To A Good 2021 Start With FreeBSD 13.0, PIE By Default, helloSystem | 07 May 2021 |
| OpenBSD 6.9 Released In Beginning To Support Apple's M1 SoC | 30 Apr 2021 |
| GhostBSD Shifts Base To FreeBSD 13.0, Improvements For OpenZFS 2.0 | 30 Apr 2021 |
More BSD News |
735 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 |
| 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 |
| Debian 11 "Bullseye" Installer RC2 Released | 15 Jun 2021 |
| Debian Installer 11 "Bullseye" RC1 Released | 23 Apr 2021 |
| Jonathan Carter Re-Elected As Debian Project Leader | 18 Apr 2021 |
| Devuan 4.0 Alpha Builds Begin For Debian 11 Without Systemd | 16 Apr 2021 |
| Debian 10.9 Released With FWUPD SBAT Support, Bug Fixes | 27 Mar 2021 |
| Debian 11.0 Is Now Under A Hard Freeze | 20 Mar 2021 |
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359 Articles |
| Desktop |
| 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 |
| System76 Developing "COSMIC" Desktop Environment For Pop!_OS | 13 Apr 2021 |
| Arcan Presents "Pipeworld" Dataflow Computing Interface | 13 Apr 2021 |
| XScreenSaver 6.0 Released With Increased Security, Better EGL & GLSL/GLES 3.0 Support | 08 Apr 2021 |
| Xfce 4.18 Planning Begins With An Eye On Wayland Application Support | 23 Mar 2021 |
| Shells.com Continues Work On Supporting More Linux Distros For This "Cloud Desktop" | 23 Mar 2021 |
| Flatpak 1.10 Released With More Efficient Repo Format | 14 Jan 2021 |
| GIMP 2.99.4 Released As One Step Closer To GIMP 3.0 | 26 Dec 2020 |
More Desktop News |
396 Articles |
| Fedora |
| 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 |
| Fedora 35 To Automatically Use Optimal Encryption Sector Size For Better I/O Performance | 26 Jun 2021 |
| Fedora Stakeholders Back To Discussing Raising x86_64 Requirements Or Using Glibc HWCAPS | 17 Jun 2021 |
| Fedora 35 Looking To Use Yescrypt For Hashing User Passwords | 09 Jun 2021 |
| Fedora Cloud 35 Looking To Use The Btrfs File-System By Default | 26 May 2021 |
| Fedora 35 Aims For Better Experience Running Vintage Linux Games | 17 May 2021 |
| Fedora 35 Might Drop Installer Option To "Allow SSH Root Login With Password" | 15 May 2021 |
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1039 Articles |
| Free Software |
| AMD PMC Updates, Intel Alder Lake HID, Gigabyte-WMI Patches Land In Linux 5.14 | 29 Jul 2021 |
| RenderDoc 1.15 Released For Cross-Platform/API Graphics Debugging | 29 Jul 2021 |
| The Linux Foundation's Latest Effort is Around Firefighter Safety | 27 Jul 2021 |
| Apache Cassandra 4.0 Big Data Database Management System Released | 27 Jul 2021 |
| FreeType 2.11 Released With New Rendering Module, Smooth Rasterizer Is Faster | 19 Jul 2021 |
| Hashcat 6.2.3 Introduces AMD HIP Backend | 17 Jul 2021 |
| digiKam 7.3 Brings Multi-Threaded Image Duplication Search, File Format Improvements | 12 Jul 2021 |
| China's Alternative To GSoC Is Seeing Some Interesting Summer Open-Source Projects | 11 Jul 2021 |
| Darktable 3.6 Released For This Free Alternative To Adobe Lightroom | 03 Jul 2021 |
| Canonical Partners With Blender Around Paid LTS Application Support | 23 Jun 2021 |
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1703 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 41 Alpha Released With Many Desktop Changes Accumulating | 19 Jul 2021 |
| GNOME Mutter Lands New Work To Reduce Input Latency | 13 Jul 2021 |
| Ubuntu Developer Still Pursuing Triple Buffering, Deep Color For GNOME | 12 Jul 2021 |
| GNOME's Need To Broaden Its Audience For Greater Impact & Funding | 06 Jun 2021 |
| GNOME 40's Shell Theme Code Is Rather Expensive But Optimization Pursued | 25 May 2021 |
| GNOME Human Interface Guidelines Being Updated For GTK4, Other Modern Features | 22 May 2021 |
| GNOME 41 To Introduce Libadwaita For Helping To Define GNOME Apps | 31 Mar 2021 |
| GTK 4.2 Released With NGL Renderer By Default | 30 Mar 2021 |
| GNOME 40 Released With Many Improvements | 24 Mar 2021 |
| GNOME 40 Release Candidate Arrives Ahead Of Next Week's Official Debut | 19 Mar 2021 |
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1145 Articles |
| GNU |
| GCC 11.2 Compiler Released With 95+ Bug Fixes | 28 Jul 2021 |
| GCC 11.2 RC1 Compiler Punted For Testing | 21 Jul 2021 |
| GNU Binutils 2.37 Released With Support for ARMv9's Realm Management Extension | 18 Jul 2021 |
| GNU Binutils 2.37 Is On The Way - Finally Drops ARM Symbian OS Support | 04 Jul 2021 |
| Glibc 2.34 Adds "_Fork" Function Ahead Of Future POSIX Revision | 28 Jun 2021 |
| MyGNUHealth 1.0 - GNU Looks To Get More Involved With Personal Health Records | 25 Jun 2021 |
| Modula-2 Programming Language Front-End Still Looking Towards Mainline GCC In 2021 | 18 Jun 2021 |
| GNU C Library Lands Year 2038 Handling For Legacy ABIs | 16 Jun 2021 |
| GNU C Library Looking To Drop FSF Copyright Assignment Policy | 15 Jun 2021 |
| GRUB 2.06 To Be Succeeded By... GRUB 2.11 Bootloader Next Year | 10 Jun 2021 |
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900 Articles |
| Google |
| Chrome 93 Beta Brings Multi-Screen Window Placement API, CSD-Like Overlay Option | 30 Jul 2021 |
| Chrome 92 Released With crypto.randomUUID, Security Fixes | 20 Jul 2021 |
| Google Makes New Attempt At "UMCG" As Part Of Their Open-Sourcing Effort Around Fibers | 08 Jul 2021 |
| Google's Lyra v0.0.2 Speech Codec Gets Rid Of The Binary Blob | 28 Jun 2021 |
| Google Wants To See Rust Code In The Linux Kernel, Contracts The Main Developer | 17 Jun 2021 |
| Google Working On Open-Sourcing Their Fibers User-Space Scheduling Framework | 09 Jun 2021 |
| Chrome 92 Beta Released With File Handling API, Other Developer Additions | 03 Jun 2021 |
| Chrome 91 Benchmarks On Linux Showing Off Even Better Performance | 28 May 2021 |
| Chrome 91 Released With Gravity Sensor API, JSON Modules, WebAssembly SIMD | 25 May 2021 |
| Android 12 Beta Published With Performance Enhancements, Overhauled UI | 18 May 2021 |
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470 Articles |
| Hardware |
| Linux Regressed Its Floppy Disk Driver - Someone Actually Noticed Just A Few Months Later | 26 Jul 2021 |
| Loongson 3A5000 Benchmarks For These New Chinese CPUs Built On The LoongArch ISA | 24 Jul 2021 |
| Apple Magic Mouse To Support High Resolution Scrolling With Linux 5.15 | 15 Jul 2021 |
| Libre-SOC Test ASIC Going To Fabrication, Using TSMC 180nm Process | 08 Jul 2021 |
| Linux 5.14 Now Handles The Microsoft Xbox One Select/Share Button On Its Controllers | 07 Jul 2021 |
| CXL Bring-Up Continues - More Infrastructure For Linux 5.14, "More Meat" For Linux 5.15 | 03 Jul 2021 |
| Linux 5.14 POWERs Up The Microwatt Soft CPU Core | 03 Jul 2021 |
| Linux 5.14 Picks Up Support For A Tiny & Inexpensive MIPS IoT Single Board Computer | 01 Jul 2021 |
| Linux 5.14 Ready With Light Sensor + Human Presence Detection For Newer AMD Laptops | 30 Jun 2021 |
| Intel P-State Driver Ready To Take On Alder Lake Hybrid Processors | 30 Jun 2021 |
More Hardware News |
1823 Articles |
| Intel |
| Intel's Iris Gallium3D OpenGL Driver Now Supports Threaded Shader Compilation | 28 Jul 2021 |
| Intel Accelerated: New Node Naming & Ambitious Roadmap | 26 Jul 2021 |
| Intel To Finally Remove Cannon Lake Graphics Support From Their Linux Kernel Driver | 24 Jul 2021 |
| Intel's Cloud Hypervisor 17 Released With Continued ARM64 Work, Improved SGX | 23 Jul 2021 |
| Intel Starts Bringing Up Thunder Bay Full + Prime SoC Support For Linux | 22 Jul 2021 |
| Networking Support For Intel's Lunar Lake Coming With Linux 5.15 | 22 Jul 2021 |
| Squeezing More Performance Out Of Intel Tiger Lake Xe Graphics By Using Mesa Git | 18 Jul 2021 |
| Intel Reported To Be Looking At Acquiring GlobalFoundries | 15 Jul 2021 |
| Intel Posts Revised Linux Driver Patches For DG2 Graphics, Xe_HP SDV Accelerator | 14 Jul 2021 |
| Intel Still Hasn't Gotten To Landing Per-Client Engine Busyness Reporting For Linux | 14 Jul 2021 |
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2125 Articles |
| KDE |
| KDE Making It Easy To Tune Your Laptop's Power Profile, Other Improvements Land | 24 Jul 2021 |
| KDE Plasma Mobile 21.07 Released With More Responsive Shell, Fixes | 20 Jul 2021 |
| KDE's KWin Reworks Its DRM Code, Many Other Improvements | 17 Jul 2021 |
| KWinFT Lands Code To Now Use WLROOTS For Wayland | 16 Jul 2021 |
| KDE Kicks Off July With More Plasma Wayland Fixes | 09 Jul 2021 |
| KDE Ends June With Wayland Fixes, More Responsive Plasma With Faster SVG Handling | 03 Jul 2021 |
| KDE Pushes More Plasma Wayland Improvements, Plug-in System For The Konsole | 26 Jun 2021 |
| KDE Akademy 2021 Video Streams As Developers Discuss Wayland, Frameworks 6, Qt | 20 Jun 2021 |
| KDE Gets Expandable Tooltips, Larger Clipboard, More Wayland Fixes | 19 Jun 2021 |
| KWinFT Going Through Code Refactoring, Working On WLROOTS-Based Usage | 13 Jun 2021 |
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1078 Articles |
| LibreOffice |
| 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 |
| LibreOffice 7.1 "Community" Edition Released | 03 Feb 2021 |
| LibreOffice 7.1 RC2 Up For Testing This Open-Source Office Suite | 20 Jan 2021 |
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150 Articles |
| Linux Events |
| 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 |
| The Open-Source / Linux Highlights From OSTS 2019 | 18 May 2019 |
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76 Articles |
| Linux Gaming |
| O3DE Game Engine Quickly Settling Its Linux Support | 28 Jul 2021 |
| DXVK 1.9.1 Released With Several Game Fixes | 26 Jul 2021 |
| DXVK-NVAPI 0.4 Released For Improving NVIDIA Integration Atop DXVK | 20 Jul 2021 |
| Ultra App Kit 1.1 Released As New Cross-Platform UI Toolkit | 19 Jul 2021 |
| Godot 4 Is Focusing On Vulkan + OpenGL ES 3.0, OpenGL Likely For Godot 4.1 | 18 Jul 2021 |
| O3DE Game Engine Seeing Progress On Linux Editor | 16 Jul 2021 |
| ASUS Laptop dGPU Toggling, eGPU Handling, Panel Overdrive Patches For Linux | 05 Jul 2021 |
| Steam On Linux Still Tap Dancing Around 0.9% Marketshare | 02 Jul 2021 |
| Proton 6.3-5 Released With A Number Of Improvements For Windows Games On Linux | 25 Jun 2021 |
| Unvanquished 0.52.1 Brings Rendering Fixes, Flatpak For This Promising Open-Source Game | 21 Jun 2021 |
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1788 Articles |
| Linux Kernel |
| DMA-Fence Deadline Awareness Proposed To Help Ensure GPU Drivers Render On-Time | 27 Jul 2021 |
| Google Continues Working On Suspend-Only Swap Spaces For Linux | 26 Jul 2021 |
| Linux 5.14-rc3 Released - It's In Good Shape | 25 Jul 2021 |
| Microsoft's IMA-Based Measurements For Device Mapper Slated For Linux 5.15 | 25 Jul 2021 |
| Trying Out The "Folios" Patches On An AMD Linux Server | 23 Jul 2021 |
| DRM-Misc-Next Continues Prepping More Code Ahead Of Linux 5.15 | 23 Jul 2021 |
| BPF Timers Support Set To Finally Appear With Linux 5.15 | 23 Jul 2021 |
| DAMON-Powered Proactive Reclamation Revised For Linux Memory Savings | 21 Jul 2021 |
| Linux 5.14-rc2 Released & It's Much Bigger Than Usual | 18 Jul 2021 |
| Graphics Driver Changes Begin Queuing For Linux 5.15 | 16 Jul 2021 |
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2760 Articles |
| Linux Networking |
| Firewalld 1.0 Released With Big Improvements | 22 Jul 2021 |
| Linux 5.15 To Bring More Scalable + Reliable Open vSwitch | 18 Jul 2021 |
| The Big Set Of Networking Changes For Linux 5.14 | 30 Jun 2021 |
| Firewalld Prepares For Its Major 1.0 Release For Linux Firewall Management | 29 Jun 2021 |
| NVMeTCP Offload Bits Coming For Linux 5.14 To Lower CPU Utilization, Better Latency | 05 Jun 2021 |
| Linux 5.14 To Feature Enhanced Support For MikroTik 10G/25G NIC | 29 May 2021 |
| Linux 5.13 Networking Includes BPF Improvements, Optimizations, WWAN + MANA | 03 May 2021 |
| Realtek RTL8156 2.5G Chips + RTL8153 To Be Supported By Linux 5.13 | 17 Apr 2021 |
| Linux 5.13 Set To Introduce A WWAN Framework | 17 Apr 2021 |
| The Linux Kernel Continues Crafting A WWAN Subsystem | 05 Apr 2021 |
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183 Articles |
| Linux Security |
| "Beyond Stupid" Paranoid L1d Cache Flushing Looks Like It Will Try Again For Linux 5.15 | 28 Jul 2021 |
| More Than Five Years In The Making: Creating A New Linux Random Number Generator | 14 Jul 2021 |
| Linux's New "randomize_kstack_offset" Security Feature Having Minimal Performance Impact | 27 Jun 2021 |
| Huawei Proposes In-Kernel Transactional Database For Security Purposes | 26 Jun 2021 |
| Google Proposes An Open-Source Vulnerability Interchange Schema | 24 Jun 2021 |
| Linux Kernel's BPF Fixed Up Against Spectre Vulnerability Bypass | 24 Jun 2021 |
| ~5x Faster SM4 Cipher Performance With AVX/AES-NI Tuned Linux Kernel Code | 24 Jun 2021 |
| Linux Picks Up Fix For Latest "Confused Deputy" Weakness Going Back To 2.6.12 Kernel | 26 May 2021 |
| M1RACLES: Apple M1 Exposed To Covert Channel Vulnerability | 26 May 2021 |
| Fork Brute Force Attack Detection/Mitigation Still Being Worked On For The Linux Kernel | 22 May 2021 |
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195 Articles |
| Linux Storage |
| Paragon's NTFS Driver For The Linux Kernel Spun Up A 27th Time | 29 Jul 2021 |
| Systemd/Microsoft Effort For A Global Counter On Block/Disk Changes Coming To Linux 5.15 | 29 Jul 2021 |
| Btrfs Picking Up FS-VERITY Support, Other Improvements With Linux 5.15 | 28 Jul 2021 |
| Micron Working On NVMe SSD Abrupt Shutdown Support For Linux | 27 Jul 2021 |
| SquashFS Tools 4.5 Released To Celebrate 20 Years Of SquashFS | 23 Jul 2021 |
| Linus Torvalds Calls On Paragon To Send In The New NTFS Driver | 17 Jul 2021 |
| F2FS Brings Compression Improvements To Linux 5.14 | 07 Jul 2021 |
| Samsung Posts Newest "KSMBD" Linux Patches For In-Kernel SMB3 Server | 07 Jul 2021 |
| Linux 5.14 Works Around Compatibility With Some Digital Camera exFAT File-Systems | 05 Jul 2021 |
| Linux 5.14 Improving Its Distributed Lock Manager To Allow Message Re-Transmission | 04 Jul 2021 |
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648 Articles |
| LLVM |
| 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 |
| HPVM 1.0 Released As LLVM-Based Compiler For CPUs / GPUs / FPGAs / Accelerators | 09 Apr 2021 |
| LLVM 12.0 Delays Drag On With RC5 Now Shipping | 08 Apr 2021 |
| LLVM 12.0-rc4 Released For Squaring Up This Open-Source Compiler | 01 Apr 2021 |
| Clang CFI Patches For The Linux Kernel Aim To Provide Better Security | 14 Mar 2021 |
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654 Articles |
| Mesa |
| OpenGL Drivers In 2021 Still Sadly Benefit From Faking Their Driver Name / GPU | 30 Jul 2021 |
| Lavapipe Keeps Tacking On Features, LLVMpipe Lands New Rasterizer With 2~3x Faster 2D | 29 Jul 2021 |
| Mesa 21.2-rc3 Offered For Testing, Mesa 21.1.6 Reaches Stable | 28 Jul 2021 |
| Mesa 21.2-rc2 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes | 22 Jul 2021 |
| LLVMpipe Effectively At OpenGL 4.6 With Anistropic Filtering Now Supported | 21 Jul 2021 |
| Mesa 21.2-rc1 Released With Early Apple M1 Code, Crocus Gallium3D | 14 Jul 2021 |
| RADV Radeon Driver Lands NGG Culling Support As Another Performance Win | 14 Jul 2021 |
| Adreno 660 + 635 Now Supported By The Open-Source OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers | 14 Jul 2021 |
| Raspberry Pi's V3DV Vulkan Driver Now Supports Geometry Shaders | 12 Jul 2021 |
| Zink Now Supports OpenGL ES 3.2 Over Vulkan | 09 Jul 2021 |
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2003 Articles |
| Microsoft |
| 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 |
| Microsoft Posts WSLg Preview - GUI App Support With Windows Subsystem For Linux | 21 Apr 2021 |
| Microsoft Adding Azure "MANA" Driver To Linux | 19 Apr 2021 |
| Linux 5.13 To Enable The Keyboard/Touchpad Of Newer Microsoft Surface Laptops | 30 Mar 2021 |
| Microsoft Surface "DTX" Driver Slated For Linux 5.13 | 24 Mar 2021 |
| Microsoft Sends Out Patches For Hyper-V "Isolation VMs" With Linux | 04 Mar 2021 |
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244 Articles |
| Mozilla |
| 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 |
| Firefox 88 Released With FTP Support Disabled, Support For JavaScript In PDFs | 19 Apr 2021 |
| Firefox Begins Rolling Out QUIC + HTTP/3 Support | 17 Apr 2021 |
| Firefox 87 Released With Privacy Improvements But Backs Out AVIF | 23 Mar 2021 |
| Firefox 86.0 Released With Total Cookie Protection, Stack Clash Protection | 23 Feb 2021 |
| Mozilla Firefox 85.0 Now Available As First 2021 Release | 26 Jan 2021 |
| Mozilla Announces "Open Web Docs" Following Last Year's Layoffs | 25 Jan 2021 |
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353 Articles |
| Multimedia |
| PulseAudio 15 Released With Bluetooth Improvements, Better Hardware Support | 28 Jul 2021 |
| PipeWire 0.3.32 Released With Numerous Fixes | 21 Jul 2021 |
| USB Low Latency Audio Support Re-Submitted For Linux 5.14 | 10 Jul 2021 |
| Linux 5.14 Picks Up Support For New Sound Hardware, Including Alder Lake M | 04 Jul 2021 |
| PipeWire 0.3.31 Released With Better JACK Support, More Crash Fixes | 28 Jun 2021 |
| Hantro VPU Driver With Linux 5.14 Adds G2 Decoder Support With HEVC | 28 Jun 2021 |
| Linux's USB Audio Driver Aims For Latency Reduction | 04 Jun 2021 |
| PipeWire 0.3.28 Released With More PulseAudio Modules Implemented | 20 May 2021 |
| AVX2 Tuning Paying Off Big Time For Dav1d 10b/12b Video Decode | 17 May 2021 |
| Dav1d 0.9 Released With AVX2-Tuned 10b/12b Decode For Big Speed Boost | 16 May 2021 |
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474 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 |
| NVIDIA Releases TensorRT 8.0 With Big Performance Improvements | 20 Jul 2021 |
| NVIDIA Releases More GameWorks Projects As Open-Source With Linux Support | 19 Jul 2021 |
| NVIDIA Releases 470.57.02 Linux Driver, DLSS SDK Adds Official Linux Support | 19 Jul 2021 |
| NVIDIA Talks Up RTX Capabilities On Arm - Showcased Using Arch Linux | 19 Jul 2021 |
| NVIDIA Posts 470 Linux Driver Beta With Better Wayland Support, DLSS + Improved PRIME | 22 Jun 2021 |
| NVIDIA Releasing DLSS Support For Vulkan API Games On Linux Tomorrow | 21 Jun 2021 |
| NVIDIA Launches The Jetson AGX Xavier Industrial Module | 15 Jun 2021 |
| NVIDIA Confirms Plans To Drop "Kepler" GPU Driver Support | 11 Jun 2021 |
| NVIDIA 470.76 WSL Driver Released | 04 Jun 2021 |
| NVIDIA 460.84 Linux Driver Released With GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Support | 03 Jun 2021 |
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946 Articles |
| Operating Systems |
| Manjaro 21.1 Bringing Enhanced Support For Btrfs, Automatic Backups | 29 Jul 2021 |
| Haiku R1 Beta 3 Released As Spiritual Successor To BeOS | 26 Jul 2021 |
| Gentoo Spins Up More Stage Downloads For Musl libc, Systemd Init | 20 Jul 2021 |
| Haiku Marching Towards R1 Beta 3, RISC-V Bring-Up, Intel Display work | 11 Jul 2021 |
| Linux Mint 20.2 Released With Cinnamon 5.0 Desktop | 08 Jul 2021 |
| System76 Releases Pop!_OS 21.04 With New COSMIC Desktop | 29 Jun 2021 |
| Haiku R1 Beta 3 Aims For Release In About One Month | 22 Jun 2021 |
| Alpine Linux 3.14 Released With Many Package Updates For This Lightweight Distro | 15 Jun 2021 |
| Haiku OS Continues Making Progress On RISC-V, Adds Stack Protection | 04 Jun 2021 |
| Genode OS 21.05 Released With Webcam Support, Encrypted File Vault | 31 May 2021 |
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907 Articles |
| Oracle |
| 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 |
| Oracle Releases UEK R6U2 Kernel With New Slab Memory Controller | 31 Mar 2021 |
| "PKRAM" Revived For Preserving Memory Pages Across Kexec'ing Kernels | 31 Mar 2021 |
| Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU30 Is The Biggest Update We've Seen In A While | 21 Feb 2021 |
| Oracle Releases Linux-Based Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 5 Update 5 | 18 Feb 2021 |
| GraalVM 21.0 Released With Experimental JVM On Truffle | 20 Jan 2021 |
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267 Articles |
| Phoronix |
| Intel Crocus, Linux 5.13, Other Vendor Happenings Made For An Exciting June | 30 Jun 2021 |
| Phoronix Turns 17 Years Old, Covering The Linux Hardware Scene Daily | 05 Jun 2021 |
| Phoronix Turns 17 Years Old This Week | 31 May 2021 |
| Hypocrite Commits, Rocket Lake Benchmarks, Arch's New Installer Rallied April | 01 May 2021 |
| Linux 5.12 Corruption, GNOME 40, AMD Milan, Rust In Linux-Next Made For An Exciting March | 01 Apr 2021 |
| helloSystem, System76 Keyboard + Linux 5.11/5.12 Captivated Users In February | 01 Mar 2021 |
| Linux 5.11, Pyston, Wayland & Other January Excitement | 01 Feb 2021 |
| Happy New Year! A Look Back At The Most Popular Phoronix Content Of 2020 | 31 Dec 2020 |
| Happy Holidays As We End Out 2020 Plus One Last Phoronix Premium Special | 24 Dec 2020 |
| AMD's Zen 3 + RDNA2 Products Dominated November Along With The Apple M1 | 01 Dec 2020 |
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627 Articles |
| Phoronix Test Suite |
| 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 |
| Many Exciting New & Updated Benchmarks For January 2021 | 02 Feb 2021 |
| OpenBenchmarking.org / PTS Adds Automated Per-Test Analysis Of CPU Instruction Set Usage | 01 Feb 2021 |
| New + Updated Benchmarks For December 2020 | 03 Jan 2021 |
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207 Articles |
| Premium |
| Phoronix 2020 Black Friday Reminders | 27 Nov 2020 |
| The 2020 US Thanksgiving / Black Friday Phoronix Premium Special | 24 Nov 2020 |
| Showing Your Support During COVID-19 | 24 Apr 2020 |
| Showing Your Love For Open-Source + Linux Benchmarking This Valentine's Day | 14 Feb 2020 |
| A Last Call To Show Your Support In 2019 | 30 Dec 2019 |
| After 3,600 Original Articles This Year On Linux/Open-Source, Let's Have A Holiday Special | 24 Dec 2019 |
| There Is Just A Few Days Left To Go Premium For Black Friday / Cyber Monday | 29 Nov 2019 |
| It's That Time Of The Year For The Annual Phoronix Premium Sale To Show Your Support | 26 Nov 2019 |
| A Last Call For Our Phoronix Premium 2019 Autumn Special | 27 Sep 2019 |
| The Phoronix Premium Oktoberfest 2019 Deal - Support Linux/Open-Source Benchmarking | 22 Sep 2019 |
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37 Articles |
| Programming |
| Eclipse OpenJ9 0.27 Released For OpenJDK 8/11/16 Alternative | 26 Jul 2021 |
| BLAKE3 v1.0 Released - Faster & More Secure Than SHA-1, Etc | 25 Jul 2021 |
| Meson 0.59 Build System Adds First Class Cython, Wine Resource Compiler Support | 19 Jul 2021 |
| PHP 8.1 Performance Is Continuing To Improve With Early Benchmarks | 15 Jul 2021 |
| OpenBLAS 0.3.16 Brings Various CPU Fixes, More Optimizations | 12 Jul 2021 |
| Latest Patches Sent Out For Adding Rust Support To The Linux Kernel | 04 Jul 2021 |
| PHP 8.1 Alpha Releases Get Underway With Enums, Fsync, Fibers, More Performance | 01 Jul 2021 |
| Amazon Launches AWS BugBust With A Goal To Fix One Million Software Bugs | 24 Jun 2021 |
| Libzip 1.8 Released With Support For Zstd Compressed ZIP Files | 19 Jun 2021 |
| Wasmer 2.0 Released With Significantly Faster Runtime Performance, Quicker Deserialization | 16 Jun 2021 |
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395 Articles |
| 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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131 Articles |
| Qt |
| 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 |
| Qt Multimedia Prepares For Qt 6 With Rewritten GStreamer Backend, Other Big Changes | 27 May 2021 |
| Qt 6.1 Released With More Modules Ported To Qt6 | 06 May 2021 |
| Qt Creator 4.15 Released For This Qt/C++ IDE | 05 May 2021 |
| The Qt Company Publishes 2021 Roadmap | 27 Apr 2021 |
| LXQt 0.17 Released For This Lightweight Qt5 Desktop | 15 Apr 2021 |
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472 Articles |
| Radeon |
| Radeon "Cyan Skillfish" Navi 1x APU Submitted For Linux 5.15 Plus Many Fixes | 30 Jul 2021 |
| AMD Releases AOMP 13.0-5 Radeon OpenMP Compiler | 30 Jul 2021 |
| RADV Ray-Tracing Now Rendering Quake II RTX Correctly But Very Slowly | 27 Jul 2021 |
| H.264 SVC / Temporal Encoding Wired Up For AMD's Linux Graphics Driver | 26 Jul 2021 |
| Open-Source Radeon Tools Updated With Expanded RDNA(2) Support, Other Features | 21 Jul 2021 |
| AMD Posts Linux Graphics Driver Patches For "Cyan Skillfish" | 20 Jul 2021 |
| AMD's Modern Graphics Driver In Linux 5.14 Exceeds 3.3 Million Lines Of Code | 15 Jul 2021 |
| AMD Leveraging VKMS Driver To Improve Its Virtual Display Support | 13 Jul 2021 |
| AMDVLK 2021.Q3.1 Vulkan Driver Released | 09 Jul 2021 |
| Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 21.Q2 for Linux Driver Released | 30 Jun 2021 |
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1412 Articles |
| Red Hat |
| 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 |
| CentOS Linux 8 2105 Released As RHEL 8.4 Equivalent | 03 Jun 2021 |
| CentOS SIG To Help Get Community CentOS Stream Features Into Next RHEL Releases | 22 May 2021 |
| RHEL 8.4 Released With Tiger Lake Graphics, Expanded eBPF Support | 21 May 2021 |
| Red Hat Is Hiring Even More Graphics Engineers | 20 May 2021 |
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247 Articles |
| RISC-V |
| 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 |
| A Number Of Exciting RISC-V Improvements For Linux 5.13 | 06 May 2021 |
| SiFive Tapes Out Their First 5nm RISC-V Processor Core | 13 Apr 2021 |
| SiFive FU740 PCIe Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.13 | 11 Apr 2021 |
| RISC-V XIP Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.13 To "eXecute In Place" | 19 Mar 2021 |
| RISC-V With Linux 5.12 Begins Mainlining SiFive's FU740 Support, NUMA | 26 Feb 2021 |
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65 Articles |
| Standards |
| 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 |
| POCL 1.7 Released With Better Support For SPIR-V Binaries On CPUs | 19 May 2021 |
| W3C Posts First Public Working Drafts For WebGPU, WebGPU Shading Language | 18 May 2021 |
| Zstd 1.5 Released With Big Performance Improvements | 14 May 2021 |
| CuPy 9.0 Brings AMD GPU Support To This Numpy-Compatible Library | 29 Apr 2021 |
| OpenCL 3.0.7 Released With New Extensions | 26 Apr 2021 |
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253 Articles |
| SUSE |
| 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 |
| OpenSUSE Leap 15.3 Alpha Released | 16 Dec 2020 |
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245 Articles |
| systemd |
| 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 |
| systemd 248 RC1 Released With New "System Extension Images" Concept | 22 Feb 2021 |
| Systemd 248 To Allow Unlocking Encrypted Volumes Via TPM2 / FIDO2 / PKCS#11 Hardware | 13 Jan 2021 |
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204 Articles |
| Ubuntu |
| Xubuntu 21.10 To Ship Some More GNOME Apps, Drops Pidgin | 30 Jul 2021 |
| Ubuntu Touch Planning Path For VoLTE/4G Support | 23 Jul 2021 |
| Canonical Has Been Weathering The Pandemic Well: Turned A Profit, Back Above 500 Employees | 18 Jul 2021 |
| Ubuntu Touch OTA-18 Released - Still Using Ubuntu 16.04, 20.04 Migration Ongoing | 14 Jul 2021 |
| Ubuntu 21.10 Compressing Debian Packages With Zstd | 05 Jul 2021 |
| Google + Canonical Bring Ubuntu Pro To Google Cloud | 14 Jun 2021 |
| Canonical's Mir 2.4 Brings Numerous X11 + Wayland Enhancements | 08 Jun 2021 |
| Ubuntu 21.10 Begins Transition To PHP 8.0 By Default | 14 May 2021 |
| Ubuntu Touch OTA-17 Released - Still Working Toward Ubuntu 20.04 Transition | 13 May 2021 |
| Ubuntu 21.10 "Impish Indri" Development Begins | 28 Apr 2021 |
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1452 Articles |
| Valve |
| Steam Beta Brings New Downloads Page, Linux Container Updates | 29 Jul 2021 |
| Steam Audio SDK 4.0 Released With Big Improvements | 22 Jul 2021 |
| Valve Announces Steam Deck As Portable SteamOS + AMD Powered Portable PC | 15 Jul 2021 |
| Steam Client Update Brings Numerous Linux Fixes, More Controller Additions | 13 Jul 2021 |
| VKD3D-Proton 2.4 Released With Better Performance, Sparse 3D Textures | 08 Jul 2021 |
| Valve's Dota 2 Adds AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution | 24 Jun 2021 |
| DXVK 1.9 Brings Conservative Rasterization For Running Direct3D Games On Linux | 15 Jun 2021 |
| FUTEX2 Linux Patches Updated To Support Variable-Sized Futexes | 03 Jun 2021 |
| DXVK-NVAPI 0.3 Released For Being Able To Expose More Of NVIDIA's Public API Within Steam Play | 02 Jun 2021 |
| Valve's GameNetworkingSockets 1.3 Released With Better Performance | 31 May 2021 |
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540 Articles |
| 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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99 Articles |
| Virtualization |
| VMware Hits A Nasty Performance Regression With Linux 5.13 | 30 Jul 2021 |
| RISC-V Developers Continue Working On KVM Support | 27 Jul 2021 |
| QEMU 6.1 Is On The Way For The Open-Source Linux Virtualization Stack | 22 Jul 2021 |
| NVMM Ported To DragonFlyBSD For Virtualization | 21 Jul 2021 |
| VirtualBox Shared Folder With Linux 5.14 Will Open New Files Faster, Fixes "git clone" | 13 Jul 2021 |
| VirtIO-IOMMU Comes To x86 With Linux 5.14 | 11 Jul 2021 |
| KVM With Linux 5.14 Brings ARM MTE, Hyper-V Optimizations | 28 Jun 2021 |
| Linux 5.14 To Support XMM Fast Hypercalls For Hyper-V On KVM | 24 Jun 2021 |
| VirtIO-GPIO Guest Driver Updated For The Linux Kernel | 16 Jun 2021 |
| VirtIO-GPU/Graphics Support Is Improving In QEMU But Slowly | 22 May 2021 |
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457 Articles |
| Vulkan |
| Vulkan 1.2.185 Introduces Several New Extensions - Includes Presentation Work Led By Valve | 20 Jul 2021 |
| GStreamer Making Progress On Vulkan Video Support | 10 Jul 2021 |
| Vulkan 1.2.184 Includes NVIDIA Extension For RDMA Usage | 05 Jul 2021 |
| Vulkan 1.2.182 Released With Some Prominent Extensions Added | 21 Jun 2021 |
| Vulkan 1.2.180 Released With Two New Extensions | 07 Jun 2021 |
| RenderDoc 1.14 Released With Support For Vulkan's Shader Printf | 29 May 2021 |
| The Forge Rendering Framework Adds Runtime API Switching, New Shader Translator | 23 May 2021 |
| Intel Proposes Calibrated Timestamps As It Works Towards Vulkan Video | 02 May 2021 |
| Vulkan 1.2.177 Released To Help Graphics Translation Layers | 26 Apr 2021 |
| GRVK 0.4 Released For Running AMD's Mantle API Over Vulkan | 21 Apr 2021 |
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546 Articles |
| Wayland |
| 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 |
| Taiwins 0.3 Released As Newest Wayland Compositor Release | 04 May 2021 |
| Wayland-Protocols 1.21 Released With XDG_Activation, Staging Replaces Unstable | 03 May 2021 |
| Sway 1.6 Wayland Compositor Released With Smoother Move/Resize | 07 Apr 2021 |
| Wayland Is Driving Fragmentation Around EDID Parsing - A Call To Fix That | 07 Apr 2021 |
| OBS Studio Now Ready With Wayland Capture Support | 31 Mar 2021 |
| Sway 1.6-rc1 Released With Better Touchscreen/Tablet Support | 17 Mar 2021 |
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775 Articles |
| WINE |
| Proposed Reflink Support Would Provide Big Space Savings For Wine | 25 Jul 2021 |
| Wine 6.13 Released With Proper Scrollbar Theming, More PE Conversion | 20 Jul 2021 |
| Wine 6.12 Released With More PE Conversion, New Themes | 02 Jul 2021 |
| Wine 6.11 Released With Theming Support For All Built-In Programs | 18 Jun 2021 |
| Wine 6.0.1 Pops Open Support For The Apple M1, Dozens Of Fixes | 08 Jun 2021 |
| Experimental Wayland Driver For Wine Now Supports Vulkan, Other Features | 07 Jun 2021 |
| Wine-Staging 6.10 Ships With Just Under 600 Patches Atop Upstream Wine | 05 Jun 2021 |
| Wine 6.10 Released With Newer Mono, Updated AppData Paths | 04 Jun 2021 |
| Wine 6.9 Released With More Improvements For Running Windows Apps/Games On Linux | 21 May 2021 |
| Wine 6.8 Released With Support For Loading Libraries From Arch-Specific Subdirectories | 07 May 2021 |
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780 Articles |
| X.Org |
| New X.Org Server Release While Maintaining Separate XWayland Being Discussed | 11 Jul 2021 |
| X.Org Server 21.1 Development Snapshot Released | 05 Jul 2021 |
| XWayland 21.1.2 Nears With NVIDIA Hardware Acceleration | 30 Jun 2021 |
| Libinput 1.18 Released With Better Gesture Detection | 02 Jun 2021 |
| X.Org Server Git Lands Latest Patches To Help NVIDIA XWayland | 31 May 2021 |
| X.Org Server Lands X Input 2.4 Touchpad Gestures | 30 May 2021 |
| XDC2021 Goes Virtual Again As Annual Wayland / Mesa / X.Org Summit | 20 May 2021 |
| XWayland Lands Support For Sharing Pixmaps Via MIT-SHM | 19 May 2021 |
| X.Org Server 1.20.11 Released Due To New Security Advisory | 13 Apr 2021 |
| Libinput X.Org Driver 1.0 Released Following A License Mixup | 06 Apr 2021 |
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1068 Articles |
