| AMD |
| AMD Sensor Fusion Hub Laptop Driver Unlikely To Land For Linux 5.7 | 29 Mar 2020 |
| AMD PassThru DMA Engine Driver Still Pending For The Linux Kernel | 26 Mar 2020 |
| AMD Developers Looking At GNU C Library Platform Optimizations For Zen | 25 Mar 2020 |
| Google Engineers Have Been Working On An AMD SB-TSI Temperature Driver | 22 Mar 2020 |
| AMD Plumbing Linux Support For Reading The CPU's Protected Processor Identification Number (PPIN) | 19 Mar 2020 |
| AMD SEV-ES Guest Support Updated With More Improvements, Rebased | 19 Mar 2020 |
| AMD Ryzen 9 4900H Mobile Processor Announced For Top-End Laptop Performance | 16 Mar 2020 |
| AMD Sensor Fusion Hub Driver Isn't Yet Queued For Linux 5.7 | 15 Mar 2020 |
| More AMD Family 19h (Zen 3) Code Trickling Into Linux 5.7 | 12 Mar 2020 |
| AMD Is Hiring Another Lead Linux Kernel Developer To Work On Their Graphics Driver | 10 Mar 2020 |
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1114 Articles |
| Arm |
| Linux 5.7 Adds Support For The Qualcomm Snapdragon 865, Mainline PinePhone Support | 04 Apr 2020 |
| Linux 5.7 For 64-bit ARM Brings In-Kernel Pointer Authentication, Activity Monitors | 31 Mar 2020 |
| Nuvia's Jon Masters Talks Up Their Linux / Open-Source Support Plans | 26 Mar 2020 |
| Linux 5.7 Positioned To Retire ARM 32-bit KVM Virtualization Support | 16 Mar 2020 |
| Thermal Pressure On Tap For Linux 5.7 So The Scheduler Can Be Aware Of Overheating CPUs | 07 Mar 2020 |
| Marvell Announces New OCTEON TX2 + OCTEON Fusion CPUs | 02 Mar 2020 |
| Linux Looking To Sunset The Calxeda ARM Server Support | 18 Feb 2020 |
| Arm's ASTC Encoder Replaces Its Restrictive EULA With Apache 2.0 License | 17 Feb 2020 |
| Arm Has Many Changes On Tap For Linux 5.6 From Spectre/Meltdown Bits To New RNG | 24 Jan 2020 |
| Marvell Is Plumbing Octeon TX2 Support Into The GCC Compiler | 12 Jan 2020 |
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201 Articles |
| BSD |
| NetBSD 8.2 Released With Fix For Ryzen USB Issues, Fix For Booting Single Core CPUs | 02 Apr 2020 |
| GhostBSD 20.03 Is Out As The Latest Monthly Update To This Desktop BSD | 01 Apr 2020 |
| It's Official But Sad: TrueOS Is Over As Once The Best Desktop BSD OS | 28 Mar 2020 |
| TrueNAS 12.0 CORE Supporting ZFS Async Copy-On-Write | 21 Mar 2020 |
| os108 9.0 Released As One Of The Few Desktop Operating Systems Based On NetBSD | 20 Mar 2020 |
| FreeBSD To Sponsor Work For 802.11ac Support | 12 Mar 2020 |
| FreeNAS + TrueNAS Unifying Into TrueNAS 12.0 CORE/Enterprise | 05 Mar 2020 |
| DragonFlyBSD 5.8 Released For This Popular + Performant BSD Operating System | 03 Mar 2020 |
| GhostBSD 20.02 Brings Custom ZFS Partition Editor, Updater Improvements | 01 Mar 2020 |
| DragonFlyBSD 5.8-RC1 Is Ready With Many Changes From DSynth To Performance Optimizations | 15 Feb 2020 |
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666 Articles |
| Clear Linux |
| 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 |
| Intel's Deep Learning Reference Stack 5.0 Released With Natural Language Processing Optimizations | 17 Dec 2019 |
| Video: 100+ Daily Performance Tests For Clear Linux + Intel's Other Full-Stack Optimizations | 01 Dec 2019 |
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87 Articles |
| Coreboot |
| Oreboot Continues Advancing For Open-Source, Rust-Based Booting On RISC-V | 05 Feb 2020 |
| Tesla Is Making Use Of The Open-Source Coreboot Within Their Electric Vehicles | 14 Jan 2020 |
| Coreboot Seeing Tigerlake + Jasperlake Activity, Experimental Razer Icelake Laptop Support | 02 Jan 2020 |
| Coreboot Had An Exciting Decade Thanks To Google's Chromebooks, Efforts Like LinuxBoot | 28 Dec 2019 |
| Open-Source Intel TXT Support Published For Coreboot | 21 Nov 2019 |
| Coreboot 4.11 Brings Many Intel Improvements, New Support For Supermicro / Lenovo Boards | 19 Nov 2019 |
| Coreboot Support Is Being Worked On For Fwupd/LVFS | 12 Nov 2019 |
| System76 Launches Two Intel Laptops With "Open-Source Firmware" Coreboot | 10 Oct 2019 |
| The Mission Of Coreboot - Is It About Open-Source Or Appeasing Hardware Vendors? | 08 Sep 2019 |
| Oreboot Is Taking Shape As Rust'ed, Purely Open-Source Focused Coreboot | 03 Sep 2019 |
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207 Articles |
| Debian |
| Debian To Take On COVID-19 With A Biohackathon | 28 Mar 2020 |
| Debian Testing Is Enabling WireGuard Within Their Linux Kernel Build | 21 Mar 2020 |
| Debian Looks To Go More Social From Microblogging To A Federated Image+Video Platform | 19 Mar 2020 |
| Devuan 3.0 "Beowulf" Reaches Beta For Debian 10 Without Systemd | 18 Mar 2020 |
| Debian Installer Bullseye Alpha 2 Released With Linux 5.4 + New Device Support | 16 Mar 2020 |
| Debian 11 "Bullseye" To Begin Code Freeze In Early 2021 | 12 Mar 2020 |
| LLVM Clang 10 Can Build Over 95% Of The Debian Package Archive | 09 Mar 2020 |
| APT 2.0 Released For Debian Package Management | 07 Mar 2020 |
| Debian 10.3 Released With Many Security + Bug Fixes | 08 Feb 2020 |
| Unity 8 + Mir Is Being Packaged Up For Debian | 06 Feb 2020 |
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321 Articles |
| Desktop |
| FreeRDP 2.0 Released With Flatpak Support, RAP v2 Support, Font Smoothing By Default | 09 Apr 2020 |
| High Resolution Wheel Scrolling Back To Being Finished Up For The Linux Desktop | 04 Apr 2020 |
| Chrome 80 Against Firefox 74/75 Performance On Linux | 15 Mar 2020 |
| GIMP 2.10.18 Released With Many Improvements Before GIMP 3.0 | 24 Feb 2020 |
| PipeWire 0.3 Released With Redesigned Scheduling Code To Offer JACK2-Like Performance | 22 Feb 2020 |
| MyPaint 2.0 Released With New Features For Open-Source Drawing/Painting | 16 Feb 2020 |
| Xfce 4.16 Is Making Good Progress On Utilizing GTK3 Client-Side Decorations | 13 Jan 2020 |
| GIMP 2.99.x Development Releases Likely Starting Soon For GIMP 3.0 | 04 Jan 2020 |
| Latte Dock 0.10 Sees First Development Version For Release Next Summer | 28 Dec 2019 |
| Firefox 71 + WebRender vs. Chrome 79 Browser Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux | 15 Dec 2019 |
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365 Articles |
| Fedora |
| Fedora 33 Plans To Default To OpenJDK 11 As The Default Java Version | 31 Mar 2020 |
| RHEL9 Likely To Drop Older x86_64 CPUs, Fedora Can Better Prepare With "Enterprise Linux Next" | 27 Mar 2020 |
| Fedora Adopts A New Vision Statement | 25 Mar 2020 |
| Fedora 33 Plans To Ship With Latest MinGW For Best Experience In Compiling Software For Windows | 18 Mar 2020 |
| Fedora 32 Beta Released With EarlyOOM By Default, GNOME 3.36 Desktop | 17 Mar 2020 |
| Fedora 33 Looking To Further Tighten Its Crypto Settings | 17 Mar 2020 |
| Fedora Looking To Transition The RPM Database From Berkeley DB To SQLite | 16 Mar 2020 |
| Fedora 32 Beta To Be Released Next Week | 14 Mar 2020 |
| The Fedora Project's One Sentence Vision | 27 Feb 2020 |
| Fedora's 32-bit ARM Xfce Image Demoted While Fedora Workstation AArch64 Gets Promoted | 18 Feb 2020 |
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946 Articles |
| Free Software |
| POCL 1.5 Released With Performance Improvements, Fixes For OpenCL On CPUs | 03 Apr 2020 |
| POCL 1.5-RC1 Released As The Portable OpenCL Implementation For CPUs + Other Targets | 28 Mar 2020 |
| Apache Software Foundation Celebrates Its 21st Birthday | 26 Mar 2020 |
| Jcat 0.1 Released As Alternative To Microsoft Catalog Files | 23 Mar 2020 |
| BlueZ 5.54 Linux Bluetooth Stack Released With Just-Works Repairing Policy, EATT Support | 15 Mar 2020 |
| Memcached 1.6 Released With Enhanced Performance For This Memory Caching System | 09 Mar 2020 |
| Blender 2.83 To Be An LTS Release, Blender 3.0 Next Summer | 02 Mar 2020 |
| Jcat: A New Alternative To Microsoft Catalog Files | 28 Feb 2020 |
| Apache Celebrates Subversion's 20th Anniversary | 27 Feb 2020 |
| A Quick Look At The Blender 2.82 Performance On Intel + AMD CPUs | 16 Feb 2020 |
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1608 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 |
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2 Articles |
| GNOME |
| GNOME Launching A Community Engagement Challenge With $65k+ In Cash/Prizes | 07 Apr 2020 |
| GNOME 3.36.1 Released With First Batch Of Fixes | 02 Apr 2020 |
| GTK 3.98.2 Released As Another Step Towards GTK4 | 01 Apr 2020 |
| GNOME's Mutter Working On Variable Refresh Rate Support (VRR / Adaptive-Sync / FreeSync) | 31 Mar 2020 |
| GNOME's Mutter Finally Wires Up Middle Button Click Emulation | 15 Mar 2020 |
| Shortwave Sees First Stable Release As GNOME Internet Radio Player | 15 Mar 2020 |
| GNOME 3.36 Released With Latest Wayland Improvements, Parental Controls, New Lock Screen | 11 Mar 2020 |
| GNOME 3.36 Set To Be Released Today With Ongoing Wayland + Performance Improvements | 11 Mar 2020 |
| GNOME Shell + Mutter 3.36 Released Following Last Minute Fixes | 07 Mar 2020 |
| GNOME 3.36 RC2 Released Ahead Of The Official Desktop Update Next Week | 06 Mar 2020 |
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1060 Articles |
| GNU |
| GNU MediaGoblin Announces They Are Still Alive | 07 Apr 2020 |
| GCC 10 Release Candidate Likely Hitting In The Next Few Weeks | 02 Apr 2020 |
| GNU Guix Wants To Replace The Linux-Libre Kernel With The Hurd Micro-Kernel | 01 Apr 2020 |
| GCC 11 Will Likely Support Using LLVM's libc++ | 01 Apr 2020 |
| GNU Linux-libre 5.6-gnu Released After Deblobbing AMD Trusted Execution, Ath11k WiFi | 30 Mar 2020 |
| GCC's New Static Analysis Capabilities Are Getting Into Shape For GCC 10 | 27 Mar 2020 |
| Glibc's Usage Of Performance-Boosting "RSEQ" Is Still Coming Together | 25 Mar 2020 |
| GNU Automake 1.16.2 Released With Zstd Support | 22 Mar 2020 |
| GNU Debugger Lands Microsoft Windows Support Improvement | 17 Mar 2020 |
| GCC 9.3 Compiler Released With Over 150 Bug Fixes | 12 Mar 2020 |
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804 Articles |
| Google |
| It's Looking Like Android Could Be Embracing WireGuard - "A Sane VPN" | 31 Mar 2020 |
| Google's OpenTelemetry Reaches Beta For Open-Source Telemetry Purposes | 30 Mar 2020 |
| Google "Moonball" Will Be Supported By Linux 5.7 | 17 Mar 2020 |
| FuzzBench: Google Gets Into Fuzzer Benchmarking | 02 Mar 2020 |
| Google Announces The 200 Open-Source Projects For GSoC 2020 | 22 Feb 2020 |
| Android 11 Developer Preview Shows Off New 5G APIs, Security Hardening, HDMI Low-Latency | 19 Feb 2020 |
| Google Cloud Rolls Out "N2D" VMs Built Atop AMD EPYC 7002 "Rome" CPUs | 18 Feb 2020 |
| Chrome 81 In Beta With Web NFC, Modern Form Controls | 16 Feb 2020 |
| Google Chrome 80 Released With WebVR 1.1, Dropping FTP Support | 04 Feb 2020 |
| Google's OpenSK Offers An Open-Source Rust-Written Security Key Implementation | 30 Jan 2020 |
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416 Articles |
| Hardware |
| System76 Lemur Pro Laptop Offers 14 Hour Battery Life, Coreboot Firmware For $1099+ | 09 Apr 2020 |
| C-SKY Architecture Gets Fix For Its Own Speculative Execution Bug In Linux 5.7 | 06 Apr 2020 |
| Loongson Improvements Land In Linux 5.7 To Improve The Chinese MIPS CPUs | 05 Apr 2020 |
| PCI Changes For Linux 5.7 Bring Error Disconnect Recover, P2P DMA For Skylake-E | 03 Apr 2020 |
| Linus Torvalds Questions The Not So Glorious Driver For That Funky Looking RGB Mouse | 03 Apr 2020 |
| Plenty Of New Sound Hardware Support, Continued Sound Open Firmware Work For Linux 5.7 | 03 Apr 2020 |
| The Linux 5.7 Scheduler Changes Bring Prominent Additions For Intel & Arm CPUs | 01 Apr 2020 |
| Linux 5.7 Power Management Includes Fixes, Tiny Power Button Driver | 31 Mar 2020 |
| Linux 5.7 EFI Changes: "The GRUB Project Is Showing Signs Of Life Again" | 31 Mar 2020 |
| Linux 5.7's USB Changes Range From Apple Fast Charging To Reporting USB-C Orientation | 31 Mar 2020 |
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1556 Articles |
| Intel |
| Intel Issues A Slew Of Open-Source Software Updates For oneAPI | 10 Apr 2020 |
| Intel Media Linux Driver Q1-2020 Released With Tiger Lake Features, Better VP9 Encode | 09 Apr 2020 |
| Some Older Intel Tablets Finally Seeing Working Touchscreen With Linux 5.7 | 07 Apr 2020 |
| Intel P-State Driver Shifting To "Schedutil" Governor Default With Linux 5.7 | 06 Apr 2020 |
| Intel MKL-DNN / DNNL 1.3 Released With Cooper Lake Optimizations | 03 Apr 2020 |
| Linux 5.7 Seeing Updates For Intel SpeedSelect Technology, Jasper Lake PMC | 02 Apr 2020 |
| Intel 10th Gen H-Series Mobile CPUs Hit Up To 5.3GHz | 02 Apr 2020 |
| Intel GCC Patches + PRM Update Adds SERIALIZE Instruction, Confirm Atom+Core Hybrid CPUs | 01 Apr 2020 |
| Intel Begins Prepping More Linux Code For Data Streaming Accelerator In Sapphire Rapids | 31 Mar 2020 |
| Intel NIR I/O Vectorization Ported From The AMD ACO Back-End - ~10% Performance Boost | 29 Mar 2020 |
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1742 Articles |
| KDE |
| Kaidan 0.5 Released As The KDE-Focused Jabber/XMPP Chat Client | 06 Apr 2020 |
| KDE Starts April With Big Performance Jump For Local I/O + 50~95% Faster Samba Transfers | 05 Apr 2020 |
| KDE Developers Wrap Up March By Working On Back-End Improvements | 29 Mar 2020 |
| Kdenlive 20.04 Beta Released With Continuing To Improve The Open-Source Video Editor | 28 Mar 2020 |
| KDE Working On "Plasma Bigscreen" As TV Interface With AI Voice Assistant | 27 Mar 2020 |
| KDE Developers Still Managing Interesting Improvements Amid The World Happenings | 22 Mar 2020 |
| KDE Frameworks 5.68 Release Brought Many Fixes | 15 Mar 2020 |
| KDE Seeing System Tray Improvements, Much Faster Shadowed Rectangles | 15 Mar 2020 |
| KDE Developers Fixed Many Bugs This Week | 08 Mar 2020 |
| KDE Dolphin Restoring Support For Seeing Samba Shares From Windows | 01 Mar 2020 |
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959 Articles |
| LibreOffice |
| LibreOffice 7.0 Git Adds Skia-Based Text Rendering Support | 18 Mar 2020 |
| LibreOffice 7.0's Qt5 Support To Offer HiDPI Scaling | 10 Mar 2020 |
| LibreOffice 7 Continues Plumbing Its Vulkan Rendering Support | 19 Feb 2020 |
| We Love Performance... So We Love LibreOffice 6.4 With This Office Suite Now Running Faster | 29 Jan 2020 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 Is The Version Now In Development With Its Skia + Vulkan Support | 23 Jan 2020 |
| Trying Out The Skia+Vulkan Powered LibreOffice 6.5 Development Build | 13 Dec 2019 |
| LibreOffice Git Lands Its Skia Drawing Code - Leading To Vulkan-Accelerated Office Suite | 30 Nov 2019 |
| LibreOffice 6.4 Branched - Beta Release Underway With QR Code Generator, Threading Improvements | 13 Nov 2019 |
| LibreOffice 6.3 Released With Better Performance, UI Enhancements | 08 Aug 2019 |
| LibreOffice 6.3 Beta Is Up For Testing | 04 Jun 2019 |
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120 Articles |
| Linux Events |
| 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 |
| Systemd-Free Debian "Devuan" Planning Their First Developer Gathering This Spring | 28 Feb 2019 |
| FOSS-North Is Coming Up In Two Months As A Leading Scandinavian Linux/Open-Source Event | 10 Feb 2019 |
| Interesting Linux.Conf.Au 2019 Videos Now Available | 26 Jan 2019 |
| FOSDEM 19 Is Happening In Just Three Weeks, There Will Once Again Be A Graphics Room | 13 Jan 2019 |
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72 Articles |
| Linux Gaming |
| Mesa 20.1's RADV Lands More Performance Improvements For Recent id Tech Games | 09 Apr 2020 |
| Open-Source Unvanquished Game Aiming For A New Release Soon | 04 Apr 2020 |
| Lutris 0.5.5 Linux Game Manager Adds Humble Bundle Support, Initial VKD3D Support | 29 Mar 2020 |
| DXVK 1.6 Released With D3D9 Performance Work, Various Game Fixes | 20 Mar 2020 |
| Unity 2020.1 Beta Released With Numerous Vulkan + Linux Fixes | 17 Mar 2020 |
| SDL 2.0.12 Released For This Important Linux/Cross-Platform Gaming Library | 11 Mar 2020 |
| SDL 2.0.12 Is On The Way For This Important Linux Gaming Library | 02 Mar 2020 |
| Godot Game Engine Working Towards Native Wayland Support, EGL | 29 Feb 2020 |
| DXVK 1.5.5 Released With Many Game Fixes | 29 Feb 2020 |
| Linux Game Publishing Brought Back Online For Archival Purposes | 29 Feb 2020 |
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1703 Articles |
| Linux Kernel |
| Linux 5.7 Changes So Far: New exFAT Driver, Tiger Lake Graphics By Default, Apple Fast Charge, Etc | 06 Apr 2020 |
| Linux Exec Should Be Less Deadlock Prone In Future Kernels | 06 Apr 2020 |
| /dev/random Seeing Performance Work For Linux 5.7 | 06 Apr 2020 |
| Linux 5.7 Perf Changes Include Additions For AMD Zen 3, Intel Tiger Lake | 05 Apr 2020 |
| DRM TTM Hugepage Support Lands In Linux 5.7 | 05 Apr 2020 |
| Linux 5.7 To Support Spawning A Process In A Different Cgroup From Its Parent | 05 Apr 2020 |
| Linux 5.7's Char/Misc Brings MHI Bus, Habana Labs AI Accelerator Code Additions | 04 Apr 2020 |
| Linux 5.6.2 Released With Fix For The IWLWIFI Intel WiFi Driver | 02 Apr 2020 |
| Linux 5.7 Gets A Unified/User-Space-Access-Intended Accelerator Framework | 01 Apr 2020 |
| Linux 5.7 Graphics Driver Updates Enable Tiger Lake By Default, OLED Backlight Support | 01 Apr 2020 |
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2416 Articles |
| Linux Networking |
| Linux 5.7 Networking Changes Bring Qualcomm IPA, New Intel Driver Additions | 01 Apr 2020 |
| Linux 5.6 Ships With Broken Intel WiFi Driver After Network Security Fixes Go Awry | 30 Mar 2020 |
| WireGuard 1.0.0 Christened As A Modern Secure VPN Alternative To OpenVPN/IPsec | 30 Mar 2020 |
| 2020 Spring Cleaning: HP 100BaseVG AnyLAN Linux Network Driver Finally Getting Dropped | 26 Mar 2020 |
| Google Engineer Posts Latest Patches For MAC + Audit Policy Using eBPF | 24 Mar 2020 |
| IWD Linux Wireless Daemon Adds Full MAC Randomization, Override Support | 20 Mar 2020 |
| Linux 5.7 Netfilter To See AVX2 Optimizations For Big Performance Boost - Can Be Up To ~420% | 16 Mar 2020 |
| Intel Ethernet E823 Support Coming To The ICE Driver In Linux 5.7 | 21 Feb 2020 |
| Intel ConnMan 1.38 Released With WireGuard Support | 18 Feb 2020 |
| WireGuard + Multi-Path TCP Were Merged Tonight Into Linux 5.6 | 29 Jan 2020 |
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148 Articles |
| Linux Security |
| Linux Security Feature Revised For Randomizing The Kernel Stack Offset At Each System Call | 08 Apr 2020 |
| L1d Cache Flush On Context Switch Moves Forward For Linux In Light Of Vulnerabilities | 06 Apr 2020 |
| SELinux Seeing Performance Improvements With Linux 5.7 | 02 Apr 2020 |
| Amazon Engineer's Patch For Flushing L1 Cache On Context Switching Revved | 29 Mar 2020 |
| Oracle Engineers Send Out Linux Patches For Trenchboot Secure Late-Launch Kernel Support | 25 Mar 2020 |
| Linux PPPD Has A 17 Year Old Vulnerability That Could Lead To Remote Code Execution | 06 Mar 2020 |
| Address Space Isolation For The Linux Kernel Is Still A Big Challenge In 2020 | 10 Feb 2020 |
| SpecFuzz Emerges To Test Code For Spectre-Style Vulnerabilities | 04 Feb 2020 |
| Linux 5.6 Crypto Code Brings The New AMD TEE Driver | 28 Jan 2020 |
| SELinux For 5.6 Kernel Sees Largest Change Set In A While | 27 Jan 2020 |
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141 Articles |
| Linux Storage |
| UDisks 2.9 To Support LVM's Virtual Data Optimizer For Deduplication/Compression | 10 Apr 2020 |
| XFS Has A Second Round Of Improvements For Linux 5.7 | 10 Apr 2020 |
| Samsung Releases exFAT-Utils To Format File-System, Fsck | 09 Apr 2020 |
| Ceph Sees Some Nice Performance Improvements With Linux 5.7 | 09 Apr 2020 |
| LOOPFS File-System Proposed For Linux | 08 Apr 2020 |
| OverlayFS Can Be Paired With VirtIO-FS On Linux 5.7 | 08 Apr 2020 |
| F2FS Introduces Zstd Compression Support With The Linux 5.7 Kernel | 07 Apr 2020 |
| XFS Working Towards Online Repair, Many Underlying Improvements | 05 Apr 2020 |
| The New Microsoft exFAT File-System Driver Has Landed In Linux 5.7 | 04 Apr 2020 |
| Btrfs File-System Updates Land In Linux 5.7 | 02 Apr 2020 |
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470 Articles |
| LLVM |
| F18/FLANG Merged Into LLVM 11 Codebase As Modern Fortran Compiler | 09 Apr 2020 |
| Google's Propeller Is Beginning To Be Upstreamed For Spinning Faster Program Binaries | 07 Apr 2020 |
| LLVM's Flang/F18 Fortran Compiler Might Be Back On Track For Merging Soon | 06 Apr 2020 |
| LLVM Plumbs Support For Intel Golden Cove's New SERIALIZE Instruction | 02 Apr 2020 |
| Upstreaming LLVM's Fortran "Flang" Front-End Has Been Flung Back Further | 01 Apr 2020 |
| LLVM/Clang 10.0 Now Available With Better C++20 Support, New CPU Coverage | 24 Mar 2020 |
| Facebook Planning To Ramp Up Investment In LLVM, Hire More Compiler Engineers | 21 Mar 2020 |
| Google Engineer Shows "SESES" For Mitigating LVI + Side-Channel Attacks - Code Runs ~7% Original Speed | 21 Mar 2020 |
| LLVM 10.0 Release Pushed Back By Another Week Over Last Minute Bugs | 19 Mar 2020 |
| LLVM Lands Build System Changes To Make It Easier For Out-Of-Tree Projects To Use MLIR | 19 Mar 2020 |
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594 Articles |
| Mesa |
| TURNIP Vulkan Driver Lands Initial Geometry Shader Support | 08 Apr 2020 |
| AMD ACO Begins Using Navi NGG For Tessellation + Vertex Shaders | 07 Apr 2020 |
| AMD's Marek Olšák Lands Even More OpenGL Threading Improvements Into Mesa 20.1 | 06 Apr 2020 |
| AMD ACO Backend Implements 8-bit / 16-bit Storage Capabilities - Needed For DOOM Eternal | 04 Apr 2020 |
| NIR Vectorization Lands In Mesa 20.1 For Big Intel Graphics Performance Boost | 03 Apr 2020 |
| Mesa OpenGL Threading Enabled For More Games Yielding Sizable Performance Jumps | 02 Apr 2020 |
| Mesa 20.0.3 Released With Latest Open-Source Graphics Driver Fixes | 02 Apr 2020 |
| Mesa Developers Discussing Again Whether To Fork Or Drop Non-Gallium3D Drivers | 30 Mar 2020 |
| Mesa's Continuous Integration To Begin Seeing Testing Coverage For Wine / DXVK | 28 Mar 2020 |
| OpenGL Threading "GLTHREAD" Seeing Improvements For Mesa 20.1 | 21 Mar 2020 |
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1797 Articles |
| Microsoft |
| Microsoft + Collabora Working To Map OpenGL/OpenCL Over DirectX 12 | 24 Mar 2020 |
| Microsoft Announces "DirectX 12 Ultimate" | 19 Mar 2020 |
| WSL2 Reaching General Availability In Windows 10 v2004 | 14 Mar 2020 |
| LoadLibrary: Support For Loading Windows DLLs On Linux | 11 Mar 2020 |
| Linux's exFAT Driver Looking To Still Be Replaced By A Newer Driver From Samsung | 30 Dec 2019 |
| Microsoft Made More Linux / Open-Source Announcements In 2019 From exFAT To WSL2 | 19 Dec 2019 |
| CERN Endorsing Microsoft Alternatives Like ownCloud, Kopano, Alt-Office Suite | 18 Dec 2019 |
| Microsoft Teams Is Now Available For Linux In Public Preview Form | 10 Dec 2019 |
| Microsoft Talks Up The Concept Of Panes, Tab Reordering For Windows Terminal | 29 Nov 2019 |
| Microsoft Will Release Their Edge Web Browser For Linux | 05 Nov 2019 |
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203 Articles |
| Mozilla |
| Firefox 75 Released With Flatpak Support, Wayland Improvements | 07 Apr 2020 |
| Firefox 76 Enabling VA-API Wayland Acceleration For All Video Codecs | 19 Mar 2020 |
| Benchmarks Of Firefox 74 + Firefox 75 Beta On Linux | 11 Mar 2020 |
| Firefox 74 Begins Rolling Out With DNS-Over-HTTPS, Disabling TLS 1.0/1.1 | 10 Mar 2020 |
| Mozilla Making Progress With Offering Firefox As A Flatpak On Linux | 09 Mar 2020 |
| Firefox 75 On Wayland Now To Have Full WebGL, Working VA-API Acceleration | 03 Mar 2020 |
| Mozilla Firefox 73 Now Available | 11 Feb 2020 |
| Mozilla Developer Talks Up WGPU As Their WebGPU Implementation In Rust | 06 Feb 2020 |
| Thunderbird Mail Client Now Being Pushed Along By "MZLA Technologies Corporation" | 28 Jan 2020 |
| Firefox Is Seeing Work On Wayland VA-API Video Acceleration | 25 Jan 2020 |
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316 Articles |
| Multimedia |
| Linux 5.7 Media Updates Add H.264 / H.265 / VP9 Decode To The Meson Driver | 31 Mar 2020 |
| Ardour 6.0 Digital Audio Workstation Sees First Pre-Release | 27 Mar 2020 |
| MythTV 31 Released With Video Decode Improvements, Finally Supporting Python 3 | 23 Mar 2020 |
| XMMS-Inspired Audacious 4.0 Released With Move From GTK To Qt5 Toolkit | 22 Mar 2020 |
| Netflix Talks Up SVT-AV1 Video Encode/Decode Effort | 14 Mar 2020 |
| Dav1d 0.6 AV1 Video Decoder Delivering Healthy Improvements For Intel + AMD Processors | 10 Mar 2020 |
| VideoLAN's dav1d 0.6 Released With More AVX2 + AVX-512 Optimizations | 10 Mar 2020 |
| OpenShot 2.5.1 Released With Performance Improvements | 03 Mar 2020 |
| OBS Studio 25.0 RC1 Adds Vulkan Game Capture Support, Browser Capturing | 03 Mar 2020 |
| PulseAudio 14 Is Releasing Soon With Better USB Gaming Headset Support | 24 Feb 2020 |
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393 Articles |
| Nouveau |
| Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Should Trip Less Often On Some GPUs With Linux 5.7 | 08 Apr 2020 |
| NVIDIA Posts Firmware Needed For Open-Source GeForce 16 Series Acceleration | 19 Feb 2020 |
| Nouveau Gallium3D Finally Seeing Mesa Shader Disk Cache For Faster Game Load Times | 17 Feb 2020 |
| Open-Source Nouveau Extended To Support The GeForce 16 Series With Hardware Acceleration | 12 Feb 2020 |
| NVIDIA Format Modifiers Coming To Nouveau In Linux 5.7 | 10 Feb 2020 |
| Nouveau Still Pushing Forward In 2020 Thanks To Red Hat But Community Developers Leaving | 01 Feb 2020 |
| There Is Finally Open-Source Accelerated NVIDIA Turing Graphics Support | 15 Jan 2020 |
| NVIDIA Sent Out Some Fresh Nouveau Patches Just Before Christmas | 06 Jan 2020 |
| The Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Will End Out 2019 In Poor Shape Still For Newer GPUs | 24 Nov 2019 |
| Nouveau Finally Lands SPIR-V Support As Part Of OpenCL Push | 21 Sep 2019 |
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428 Articles |
| NVIDIA |
| NVIDIA 440.82 Linux Driver Brings DOOM Eternal Performance Fix, Linux 5.6 Compatibility | 07 Apr 2020 |
| LLVM 11 Flips On NVIDIA CUDA Offloading From 64-Bit ARM | 24 Mar 2020 |
| NVIDIA Nsight Graphics 2020.2 Adds Vulkan GPU Trace Support | 23 Mar 2020 |
| Blender 2.82 Performance With The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Laptop Performance | 21 Mar 2020 |
| Blender 2.82's NVIDIA OptiX Support Is Performing Very Well | 04 Mar 2020 |
| NVIDIA GTC Conference Turns Into Online Event Over Coronavirus Concerns | 02 Mar 2020 |
| NVIDIA 440.64 Driver Released With MX330/MX350 Support, Linux 5.6 Compatibility | 28 Feb 2020 |
| Linux Kernel Seeing Patches For NVIDIA's Proprietary Tegra Partition Table | 26 Feb 2020 |
| NVIDIA Demonstrates Porting Of DirectX Ray-Tracing To Vulkan | 22 Feb 2020 |
| NVIDIA 440.58.01 Linux Driver Fixes Vulkan Game Crashes, New Extensions | 16 Feb 2020 |
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860 Articles |
| Operating Systems |
| ReactOS 0.4.13 Released With Fixes For USB Storage, Less Blue Screens of Death | 09 Apr 2020 |
| Linux Mint 20 Doing Away With 32-Bit Support | 31 Mar 2020 |
| Android-x86 9.0-r2 Released With Updated Kernel, UEFI Boot Fix | 25 Mar 2020 |
| Linux Mint Debian Edition 4 Released - Finally Supports SecureBoot, Home Encryption | 20 Mar 2020 |
| Rust-Based Redox OS Working On Pkgar For Package Management | 14 Mar 2020 |
| Amazon AWS Launches Linux-Based Bottlerocket For Hosting Containers | 10 Mar 2020 |
| Sculpt OS 20.02 Released - Built Off Genode, Now Includes File Manager + Editor | 10 Mar 2020 |
| Linspire 8.7 Trying To Lure Windows Users With Switch From KDE To MATE Desktop | 04 Mar 2020 |
| Genode OS 20.02 Released With Continued Improvements To Sculpt OS | 29 Feb 2020 |
| Android-x86 9.0-r1 Finally Released For Bringing Android 9.0 Pie To Intel/AMD Systems | 27 Feb 2020 |
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| Oracle |
| Oracle Ships Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6 - Based On Linux 5.4 + DTrace Over BPF, Etc | 31 Mar 2020 |
| Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R5U3 Released With Better ARM 64-Bit Support | 24 Mar 2020 |
| Java 14 Reaches General Availability With Garbage Collection Improvements | 17 Mar 2020 |
| It's 2020 - Oracle Adds Meson Build System To Solaris | 17 Mar 2020 |
| Oracle Ships Solaris 11.4 SRU18 - Finally Mitigates The SWAPGS Vulnerability | 19 Feb 2020 |
| GRUB 2.06 Planning For Release This Year - Possibly With Intel TXT + AMD SKINIT Support | 03 Feb 2020 |
| Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6 Is Tracking Linux 5.4 | 09 Jan 2020 |
| Oracle Pushes Out Another Solaris 11.4 Update To End Out 2019 | 18 Dec 2019 |
| VirtualBox 6.1 Released With Better 3D Support, UI Enhancements | 12 Dec 2019 |
| VirtualBox 6.1 Close To Release With 3D Improvements, Nested Hardware Virtualization | 24 Nov 2019 |
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| Phoronix |
| Apple Using Rust, exFAT, Ryzen Laptops, Ubuntu 20.04 Advances + Other Hits From March | 31 Mar 2020 |
| Linux 5.6, Threadripper 3990X, $199 AMD Laptop Topped Reader Interest In February | 01 Mar 2020 |
| Kernel Talk, AMD Hardware + Other Popular Linux Topics Of January | 01 Feb 2020 |
| Happy New Year + A Look Back At The Most Popular Linux Content Of 2019 | 31 Dec 2019 |
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| The Most Popular Linux Hardware Reviews / Benchmarks Of The Past Decade | 12 Dec 2019 |
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| Ice Lake, Threadripper, New CPU Vulnerabilities + Linux 5.4 Release Dominated November | 30 Nov 2019 |
| November Is Still Bringing Many Interesting Linux Benchmarks / Milestones | 10 Nov 2019 |
| Ice Lake, Ryzen 9, Kernel Happenings & Other Highlights For An Exciting October | 01 Nov 2019 |
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| Phoronix Test Suite |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.6 Milestone 2 Released For Latest Cross-Platform Benchmarking | 05 Apr 2020 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.6 Milestone 1 Further Enhances The Benchmark Result Viewer | 24 Mar 2020 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.4.1 Released For Automated, Cross-Platform Benchmarking | 04 Mar 2020 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.4 M3 Released With More Improvements For Benchmark Result Analysis | 18 Feb 2020 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.4 Milestone 2 Released With Result Viewer Improvements | 05 Feb 2020 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.4 Milestone 1 Released | 13 Jan 2020 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.2.1 Released | 13 Dec 2019 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.2 Released For Open-Source, Cross-Platform Benchmarking | 03 Dec 2019 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.2 Milestone 2 Released | 13 Nov 2019 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.2 Milestone 1 Released With Updates For macOS Benchmarking | 17 Oct 2019 |
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| Premium |
| Showing Your Love For Open-Source + Linux Benchmarking This Valentine's Day | 14 Feb 2020 |
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| Programming |
| Ada++ Wants To Make The Ada Programming Language More Accessible | 03 Apr 2020 |
| Git 2.26 Released With Transport Protocol V2 Default, Continued Work Towards SHA256 Hashes | 23 Mar 2020 |
| Even Apple Is Interested In Migrating Their C Code To Rust | 21 Mar 2020 |
| Google Bringing WebAssembly Extensions To Network Proxies | 12 Mar 2020 |
| Wasmer 0.16 Released For Running WebAssembly Programs Anywhere | 12 Mar 2020 |
| RenderDoc 1.7 Released With Vulkan Improvements, Better D3D12 Capture Performance | 10 Mar 2020 |
| Git 2.26-rc1 Released With More Improvements For This Distributed Version Control System | 10 Mar 2020 |
| Miguel de Icaza Talks Up WebAssembly Greatness | 03 Mar 2020 |
| OpenBLAS 0.3.9 Released With More AVX-512 Tuning, Arm Neoverse N1 Support | 02 Mar 2020 |
| WASMtime 0.12 Released For The JIT-Style WebAssembly Runtime | 26 Feb 2020 |
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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 |
| The Qt Company Provides A Brief Comment On Open-Source | 09 Apr 2020 |
| New Qt Releases Might Now Be Restricted To Paying Customers For 12 Months | 08 Apr 2020 |
| The Qt Company Publishes A 2020 Roadmap Culminating With The Qt 6.0 Release | 08 Apr 2020 |
| Qt 5.15 Beta 2 Released For This Last Big Update Before Qt 6 | 23 Mar 2020 |
| Qt Creator 4.12 Reaches Beta | 07 Mar 2020 |
| Qt Wayland's Maintainer Is Leaving The Company | 29 Feb 2020 |
| Qt 5.15 Reaches Beta | 28 Feb 2020 |
| Qt 5.15 Alpha Released With Various Improvements To Qt 3D, QML, Core, New Qt PDF Module | 14 Feb 2020 |
| Qt 5.15 Feature Development Is Over For This Last Step Of The Qt5 Series | 11 Feb 2020 |
| Qt LTS Releases To Be Restricted To Commercial Customers, Other Commercial Changes | 27 Jan 2020 |
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| Radeon |
| AMD Rebases Their OpenMP For Radeon GPUs Against LLVM 11 | 08 Apr 2020 |
| Radeon Open Compute 3.3 Released But Still Without Official Navi Support | 04 Apr 2020 |
| RadeonSI Experimenting With Compute-Based Culling For Navi/GFX10 | 28 Mar 2020 |
| AMDVLK 2020.Q1.4 Vulkan Driver Brings Direct Display Improvements | 27 Mar 2020 |
| Radeon OpenGL Driver Lands Experimental Option To Boost Performance For CAD Software | 26 Mar 2020 |
| RADV Lands AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 Fix For DOOM Eternal On Linux Under Steam Play | 25 Mar 2020 |
| AMD Begins Focusing On Bug Fixes For Linux 5.7 Graphics Driver Code | 20 Mar 2020 |
| AMD AOMP 0.7-7 Released For Radeon OpenMP Offloading | 13 Mar 2020 |
| AMDVLK 2020.Q1.3 Brings New Extensions, Performance Tuning | 13 Mar 2020 |
| AMDGPU Driver Sees More Fixes For Linux 5.7 Development | 13 Mar 2020 |
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| Red Hat |
| Red Hat Pushing DNF 5 Into Development For Improving The Package Manager | 05 Mar 2020 |
| Red Hat's Stratis 2.0.1 Released For This Linux Storage Management Solution | 11 Feb 2020 |
| RHEL 8.2 Beta Application Streams Bring GCC 9.1, Python 3.8 | 23 Jan 2020 |
| Red Hat Recommends Disabling The Intel Linux Graphics Driver Over Hardware Flaw | 16 Jan 2020 |
| Retooled CentOS Build Scripts To Help Spin New Releases Quicker, More Automation | 16 Jan 2020 |
| CentOS-8 1911 Released As Rebuild Off Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 | 15 Jan 2020 |
| Goals: Red Hat Developer Working On New Tool To Improve Upon Make | 14 Jan 2020 |
| Red Hat Is Still Hiring To Work On The Linux Desktop + Open-Source Graphics | 06 Nov 2019 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Released With Kernel Live-Patching Support | 05 Nov 2019 |
| Red Hat Provides New VirtIO Windows Driver Installer | 24 Oct 2019 |
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| RISC-V |
| Linux 5.7 Begins Landing Support For The Kendryte K210 Dual-Core RISC-V SoC | 09 Apr 2020 |
| UEFI Boot Support Published For RISC-V On Linux | 26 Feb 2020 |
| Linux Kernel Continues Prepping For RISC-V's Updated Supervisor Binary Interface | 12 Feb 2020 |
| Linux Kernel Preparations For RISC-V Vector ISA Support | 06 Jan 2020 |
| Libre RISC-V Accelerator Secures 300k EUR In Grants, Still Undecided About The ISA | 29 Dec 2019 |
| NEOX V Announced By Think Silicon As First RISC-V 3D GPU | 02 Dec 2019 |
| Many RISC-V Improvements Ready For Linux 5.5: M-Mode, SECCOMP, Other Features | 27 Nov 2019 |
| SiFive U8-Series To Offer Much Greater RISC-V Performance | 25 Oct 2019 |
| Libre RISC-V Open-Source Effort Now Looking At POWER Instead Of RISC-V | 20 Oct 2019 |
| Alibaba Crafts A 16-Core RISC-V Chip @ 2.5GHz | 27 Jul 2019 |
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| Standards |
| Updated Basis Universal Yields High Quality Compression, 3~4x Smaller Than JPEG/PNG | 21 Mar 2020 |
| Unicode 13.0 Released With A Plunger, Fondue & Other New Emoji | 11 Mar 2020 |
| New High Quality GPU Compression Codec Going Open-Source In The Coming Days | 09 Mar 2020 |
| MetaInfo Creator - Easily Creating AppStream Metadata For Software | 08 Mar 2020 |
| Khronos Moves Ahead With Developing "ANARI" API For Analytic Rendering | 03 Mar 2020 |
| Monado OpenXR Runtime v0.1 Released For Open-Source XR Stack | 25 Feb 2020 |
| Khronos Next Pursuing An Analytic Rendering API | 13 Nov 2019 |
| Khronos Rolls Out OpenVX 1.3 While Updating OpenGL 4.6 + OpenGL ES 3.2 | 22 Oct 2019 |
| The Matrix Of Software Projects Mapping Khronos APIs From DXVK To Zink & CLVK | 04 Oct 2019 |
| HIPCL Lets CUDA Run On OpenCL+SPIR-V | 17 Sep 2019 |
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| SUSE |
| OpenSUSE Leap + SUSE Linux Enterprise Planning To Move Closer In 2020 | 09 Apr 2020 |
| OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 Begins Seeing Beta Builds, Official Release Due In May | 25 Feb 2020 |
| OpenSUSE's OBS Can Now Spin Windows Subsystem for Linux Images | 13 Oct 2019 |
| OpenSUSE Expanding Encryption Options For Its Installer | 10 Oct 2019 |
| GCC 10 Likely To See "-flto=auto" Option | 24 Jul 2019 |
| OpenSUSE Enables LTO By Default For Tumbleweed - Smaller & Faster Binaries | 17 Jul 2019 |
| openSUSE's YaST Now Supports Multi-Device Btrfs Setups | 20 Jun 2019 |
| OpenSUSE Adds Option To Installer For Toggling Performance-Hitting CPU Mitigations | 22 May 2019 |
| OpenSUSE Leap 15.1 Released - Based Off SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP1 | 22 May 2019 |
| OpenSUSE's Spectre Mitigation Approach Is One Of The Reasons For Its Slower Performance | 14 Apr 2019 |
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229 Articles |
| systemd |
| Systemd 245 Released - First Version Including Systemd-Homed | 06 Mar 2020 |
| Systemd 245 RC2 Released With Systemd-Homed, Partitioner + More | 03 Mar 2020 |
| Learn More About Systemd-Homed For How Linux Home Directories Are Being Reinvented | 07 Feb 2020 |
| Systemd 245 Shipping Soon With Systemd-Homed, Systemd-Repart Partitioner | 05 Feb 2020 |
| Systemd-Homed Merged As A Fundamental Change To Linux Home Directories | 30 Jan 2020 |
| Systemd Will Be Working To Improve Out-Of-Memory Linux Handling With Facebook OOMD | 08 Jan 2020 |
| Systemd "Path Images" Feature Allows Mounting Images At Arbitrary Paths | 06 Jan 2020 |
| Systemd Is Approaching 1.3 Million Lines While Poettering Lost Top Contributor Spot For 2019 | 02 Jan 2020 |
| Systemd In Ten Years Has Redefined The Linux Landscape | 20 Dec 2019 |
| Systemd-homed Looks Like It Will Merged Soon For systemd 245 | 06 Dec 2019 |
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| Ubuntu |
| Canonical Contributing Upstream Improvements To Plymouth Ahead Of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | 06 Apr 2020 |
| Dell XPS Ice Lake Taking A Wallop On Ubuntu 20.04 | 04 Apr 2020 |
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Beta Released | 03 Apr 2020 |
| PHP 7.4 Lands For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | 27 Mar 2020 |
| Trying Out Ubuntu 20.04 With ZFS + Zsys Automated APT Snapshots | 23 Mar 2020 |
| Ubuntu 20.04 Atop ZFS+Zsys Will Take Snapshots On APT Operations | 07 Mar 2020 |
| Canonical's Multipass 1.1 Brings Proxy Support, Fixes | 04 Mar 2020 |
| Unity 8 Desktop Renamed To Lomiri | 28 Feb 2020 |
| Mir 1.7.1 Released With X11 Support Promoted Out Of "Experimental" Phase | 25 Feb 2020 |
| Canonical's Daniel Van Vugt Continues Squeezing More Performance Out Of GNOME 3.36 | 24 Feb 2020 |
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| Valve |
| Steam Survey Points To Tiny Uptick In Linux Percentage For March | 04 Apr 2020 |
| Proton 5.0-6 To Allow Out-Of-The-Box DOOM Eternal On Linux | 03 Apr 2020 |
| Valve's Half-Life: Alyx Released - Linux Build Still Coming | 23 Mar 2020 |
| Proton 5.0-5 Brings Support For Newer Vulkan Extensions, Fixes Game Crashes | 21 Mar 2020 |
| Proton 5.0-4 Released With DXVK 1.5.5, Denuvo Fixes, Performance Work | 11 Mar 2020 |
| Steam For Linux Beta Finally Fixes Post-Login Annoyance | 03 Mar 2020 |
| Steam Survey Updated For February 2020 With Latest Linux Figures | 02 Mar 2020 |
| Steam Play's Proton 5.0-3 Released With Support For Metro Exodus Direct3D 12 Mode | 21 Feb 2020 |
| Proton 5.0-2 Released To Fix Crashes For Steam Play Linux Gamers | 13 Feb 2020 |
| Proton 5.0-1 Released As Valve's Basis For Steam Play Now On Wine 5.0, Latest DXVK | 07 Feb 2020 |
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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 |
| KVM With Linux 5.7 Supporting Protected/Secure VM Guests For IBM POWER + s390 | 05 Apr 2020 |
| LXD 4.0 LTS Released For Offering The Latest Linux Containers Experience | 02 Apr 2020 |
| QEMU 5.0-rc1 Released For Linux Virtualization With The Stable Update Coming This Month | 01 Apr 2020 |
| VirtIO Video Driver Coming Together For The Mainline Linux Kernel | 26 Mar 2020 |
| VMware Plumbing OpenGL 4.x Support For The VMWGFX Graphics Stack | 23 Mar 2020 |
| Simple Patch Lets Amazon's EC2 Linux Network Driver Start ~90x Faster | 01 Mar 2020 |
| Red Hat's SPICE 0.14.3 Remote Display System Now Supports Microsoft Windows | 27 Feb 2020 |
| VirtIO-FS Is Looking Quite Good For Shared File-System With VMs | 06 Feb 2020 |
| Bareflank Hypervisor 2.0 Released With UEFI Support, New Memory Manager | 05 Feb 2020 |
| Jailhouse 0.12 Hypervisor Adds Raspberry Pi 4 Support | 04 Feb 2020 |
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408 Articles |
| Vulkan |
| Vulkan 1.2.137 Specification Brings Many Clarifications + Fixes, Faster HTML Doc Loading | 07 Apr 2020 |
| X-Plane 11.50 Flight Simulator Beta Released With Vulkan API Support | 02 Apr 2020 |
| Vulkan 1.2.135 Released With New + Promoted NVIDIA Extensions In Addition To Ray-Tracing | 17 Mar 2020 |
| FFmpeg Squaring Away Vulkan Support For Its Next Release | 13 Mar 2020 |
| Vulkan 1.2.134 Released With Many Fixes/Clarifications, New Qualcomm Extension | 07 Mar 2020 |
| RADV Driver Adds VK_EXT_line_rasterization In Preparing For Eventual Vulkan CAD Apps | 19 Feb 2020 |
| Vulkan 1.2.133 Released With VK_KHR_shader_non_semantic_info | 16 Feb 2020 |
| New Vulkan Extension Could Enhance Frame Timing Controls For Games | 02 Feb 2020 |
| vkBasalt 0.3 Vulkan Layer Adds Support For Using Reshade Fx Shaders | 02 Feb 2020 |
| Godot's Vulkan Renderer Is Already Picking Up New Features In 2020 | 28 Jan 2020 |
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| Wayland |
| Sway Wayland Compositor Seeing Adaptive-Sync/VRR Support | 04 Mar 2020 |
| Wayland-Protocols 1.19 Released With Governance Guide, Updated XDG-Shell | 29 Feb 2020 |
| LavaLauncher 1.6 Released As A Simple Dock/Launcher For Wayland | 17 Feb 2020 |
| Wayland 1.18 Released With Meson Support, Other Minor Changes | 12 Feb 2020 |
| Mir's X11 Support Is Being Promoted From Experimental | 09 Feb 2020 |
| Weston 8.0 Released With DRM HDCP Support, EGL Partial Updates, Headless OpenGL | 24 Jan 2020 |
| Sway 1.4 Wayland Compositor Brings VNC Support, Initial Bits For MATE Panel Support | 22 Jan 2020 |
| Wayland 1.18 Alpha Released With Meson Support, Connection Sharing | 21 Jan 2020 |
| Wayland 1.18 Planned For Release Next Month | 15 Jan 2020 |
| Wayland Adds Meson Build System Support | 14 Jan 2020 |
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| WINE |
| Wine-Staging 5.5 Released With 850+ Patches Atop Wine | 29 Mar 2020 |
| Wine 5.5 Released With Expanded UCRTBase C Runtime Usage, Usual Assortment Of Fixes | 27 Mar 2020 |
| Wine-Staging 5.4 Released With Additions Around Tasklist, XACT Audio | 14 Mar 2020 |
| Wine 5.4 Released With Unicode 13 Support, Text Drawing For D3DX9 To Fix 10 Year Old Bug | 13 Mar 2020 |
| Wine's Vulkan Code Seeing Performance Improvements, Further Enhancing DXVK | 05 Mar 2020 |
| Wine-Staging 5.3 Fixes Online Play For Some Recent Games | 29 Feb 2020 |
| Wine 5.3 Released With Various Improvements | 28 Feb 2020 |
| Wine 5.2 With Better Handling For The Null Display Driver, UTF-8 Support | 16 Feb 2020 |
| Early Out Of Tree Patches Let Wine Run Natively On Wayland | 04 Feb 2020 |
| Wine 5.1 Kicks Off The New Development Series Towards Wine 6.0 | 02 Feb 2020 |
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| X.Org |
| X.Org Server 1.20.8 Released With No Sign Of GLAMOR/XWayland-Improved X.Org Server 1.21 | 30 Mar 2020 |
| X.Org/FreeDesktop.org Is Looking For Sponsors Or May Have To Cut Continuous Integration Hosting | 27 Feb 2020 |
| X.Org Server Lands Fixes For XWayland Full-Screen Support | 24 Feb 2020 |
| Keith Packard Talks About The Early Politics Of X Window System + Code Licensing | 21 Jan 2020 |
| X.Org's XDC2020 May Abandon Poland Conference To Find More Welcoming European Location | 18 Jan 2020 |
| X.Org Server 1.20.7 Released With A Handful Of Fixes For GLAMOR + Modesetting | 14 Jan 2020 |
| X.Org Server Development Hits A Nearly Two Decade Low | 04 Jan 2020 |
| Libinput 1.15 Released For Improving Input On X.Org + Wayland Desktops | 03 Jan 2020 |
| X.Org Saw A Lot Of Work In The 2010s Even With Wayland Taking Off | 28 Dec 2019 |
| XWayland Gets Tidied Up Ahead Of The Holidays For The Eventual X.Org Server 1.21 | 21 Dec 2019 |
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