AMD |
AMD Zen 5 "Znver5" CPU Enablement Merged For GCC 14 | 18 Mar 2024 |
AMD Posts Updated Linux Patches For P-State Core Performance Boost | 18 Mar 2024 |
AMD Makes HIP Ray-Tracing Open-Source | 14 Mar 2024 |
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Help Further Boost AMD EPYC 9004 Series Performance | 12 Mar 2024 |
Too Many Debug Messages Were Reportedly Slowing Down Some AMD Linux Systems | 12 Mar 2024 |
AMD P-State Preferred Core Submitted For Linux 6.9 While Intel Meteor Lake Gets Tuned | 11 Mar 2024 |
AMD Posts Performance Monitoring Patches For Zen 5 CPUs | 11 Mar 2024 |
x86/cpu Change For Linux 6.9 Slightly Eases Future AMD Zen CPU Enablement | 11 Mar 2024 |
Linux 6.9 To Allow AMD P-State With ACPI CPPC V2 For Threadripper 3000 Series CPUs | 10 Mar 2024 |
Improved Debugging Of Suspend/Resume For AMD Ryzen Laptops On Linux Coming With MP2 STB | 08 Mar 2024 |
More AMD News | 1661 Articles |
Apple |
OpenGL 4.6 + OpenGL ES 3.2 Achieved On Apple M1 With Linux Driver | 14 Feb 2024 |
Asahi Linux Has Been Making Progress On Apple HDMI, EAS & GPU Features | 14 Jan 2024 |
Apple Announces The M3 / M3 Pro / M3 Max | 30 Oct 2023 |
Asahi Linux's Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant | 22 Aug 2023 |
Apple Studio Display Linux Driver Published To Control The Backlight | 01 Jul 2023 |
Experimental OpenGL 3.1 Support For Apple M1/M2 Graphics On Linux | 06 Jun 2023 |
Apple Announces The M2 Ultra SoC - 24 Core CPU, Up To 192GB Unified Memory | 05 Jun 2023 |
Apple M1/M2 Keyboard Backlight Support Set For The Linux 6.4 Kernel | 17 Apr 2023 |
Linux 6.4 Bringing Apple M2 Additions For 2022 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac Mini | 06 Apr 2023 |
Linux GMUX Support For T2 Macs On The Way For Dual-GPU Graphics Switching | 12 Mar 2023 |
More Apple News | 119 Articles |
Arch Linux |
Arch Linux's Pacman 6.1 Released With Cache Server Support | 04 Mar 2024 |
Arch-Based Endeavour OS Updates ISO With Linux 6.7 Kernel, Mesa 23.3.3 | 27 Jan 2024 |
Arch Linux Will Now Use Dbus-Broker As Its Default D-Bus Daemon | 09 Jan 2024 |
Manjaro 23.1 Released With Linux 6.6 LTS, Pipewire 1.0 & Desktop Updates | 16 Dec 2023 |
Arch Linux ALHP Adds x86-64-v4 Repository For Packages Built With AVX-512 | 14 Dec 2023 |
Archinstall 2.7 Brings Unified Kernel Image Support To The Arch Linux Installer | 23 Nov 2023 |
Arch Linux Installer Update Allows More Control Over Parallel Downloads, Ly | 23 Sep 2023 |
Archinstall 2.6 Released For Latest Easy-To-Use Arch Linux Installer | 31 Jul 2023 |
Arch Linux Installer Archinstall 2.6 Preparing New Features | 17 Jul 2023 |
Arch Linux Completes Its Git Migration | 21 May 2023 |
More Arch Linux News | 121 Articles |
Arm |
ARM64 Rust Support & dpISA 2023 Extensions Merged For Linux 6.9 | 15 Mar 2024 |
Rust Kernel Support On AArch64 Ready To Go For Linux 6.9 | 12 Feb 2024 |
LLVM Adds Support For New "Ampere1B" Third-Gen Cores From Ampere Computing | 10 Feb 2024 |
Arm Lands Mali Gen10 "Panthor" Firmware Blob In Linux-Firmware.Git | 08 Feb 2024 |
Linux 6.8 Adds New Gaming Handhelds, Google Tensor & Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 + X Elite SoCs | 11 Jan 2024 |
Linux 6.8 To Drop Old ARM11 MPCore CPU Support | 04 Jan 2024 |
Linux 6.8 To Add Support For Several Cheap ARM-Powered Handheld Game Consoles | 21 Dec 2023 |
Acer Aspire 1 ARM Laptop Has Nearly Complete Upstream Linux Support | 20 Dec 2023 |
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Will Be Able To Boot On The Mainline Linux 6.8 Kernel | 18 Dec 2023 |
Ampere Preparing The ARM64 Linux Kernel To Support Higher CPU Core Counts | 29 Nov 2023 |
More Arm News | 319 Articles |
BSD |
FreeBSD 13.3 Released With Better WiFi Support, LLVM objdump Added | 05 Mar 2024 |
NetBSD 10.0 Should Be Released Soon - Likely Last RC Debuts | 29 Feb 2024 |
FreeBSD 13.3-RC1 Improves WiFi Stability, Takes Care Of Some Kernel Panics | 27 Feb 2024 |
FreeBSD Has Been Working On AMD64 SIMD libc Optimizations - Coming For FreeBSD 14.1 | 16 Feb 2024 |
GhostBSD 24.01.1 Released: Based On FreeBSD 14, Many Improvements | 15 Feb 2024 |
FreeBSD Continues Push Toward Deprecating 32-bit Platforms | 13 Feb 2024 |
helloSystem Publishes New Experimental Build Based On FreeBSD 14.0 | 09 Feb 2024 |
WireGuard Driver Merged To DragonFlyBSD Kernel | 08 Feb 2024 |
FreeBSD 13.3 Beta Released With Various Fixes & Minor Updates | 04 Feb 2024 |
FreeBSD Considers Making Use Of Rust Within Its Base System | 22 Jan 2024 |
More BSD News | 820 Articles |
Clear Linux |
Clear Linux Will Now Handle Up To 512 CPU Cores / vCPUs | 28 Dec 2022 |
Intel's Clear Linux Taps -O3 For Its Kernel Builds | 12 Aug 2022 |
Clear Linux Container Performance Continues Showing Sizable Gains | 30 Jan 2022 |
Using Distrobox To Augment The Package Selection On Clear Linux, Other Distributions | 09 Jan 2022 |
Clear Linux Preparing To Move To GNOME 3.36, Dropping Their Desktop Customizations | 26 Apr 2020 |
Intel's Clear Linux To Divest From The Desktop, Focus On Server + Cloud Workloads | 23 Apr 2020 |
Chrome, Skype, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, VSCode Now Unofficially Available For Clear Linux | 03 Apr 2020 |
Is Clear Linux Just A Toy Distribution By Intel? | 18 Mar 2020 |
Intel's Clear Linux Has Code In Place To Begin Handling Proprietary Packages Like Chrome & Steam | 13 Mar 2020 |
F2FS Root File-System Support For Clear Linux Appears To Be Coming | 14 Feb 2020 |
More Clear Linux News | 93 Articles |
Coreboot |
Coreboot 24.02 Released - Supporting Three New Motherboards | 01 Mar 2024 |
Coreboot-Based Dasharo Firmware Updated For MSI Z690/Z790 Motherboards | 22 Jan 2024 |
Coreboot 4.22 Released: Initial AMD OpenSIL Code Added, 17 New Motherboards | 28 Nov 2023 |
Canoeboot 20231026 Released As Another Fork Of Coreboot-Downstream Libreboot | 27 Oct 2023 |
Libreboot 20231021 Brings Some Additional Laptops, Desktops / Motherboards For Testing | 21 Oct 2023 |
Coreboot-Based Dasharo Updated For MSI Z690-A With Raptor Lake S, MSI FLASHBIOS | 12 Sep 2023 |
Initial AMD EPYC Genoa Support Added To Coreboot, New Onyx Motherboard Target | 03 Sep 2023 |
Coreboot 4.21 Brings More System76 Laptops, Star Labs & MSI Z790-P Support | 25 Aug 2023 |
Coreboot Lands Support For The MSI PRO Z790-P Motherboards | 24 Aug 2023 |
Coreboot's amdfwtool Updated For EPYC Genoa | 21 Aug 2023 |
More Coreboot News | 271 Articles |
Debian |
Debian 12.5 Released To Provide The Latest Security & Bug Fixes | 11 Feb 2024 |
Debian 64-bit time_t Transition Underway For Addressing Y2038 Problem On 32-bit Systems | 02 Feb 2024 |
Debian Likely Moving Away From i386 In The Near Future | 16 Dec 2023 |
Debian 12.4 Released With Dozens Of Fixes | 11 Dec 2023 |
Debian 12.3 Delayed Due To An EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Being Addressed | 10 Dec 2023 |
Debian's MIPS64EL CPU Port Is At Risk Due To Declining Hardware Access | 25 Nov 2023 |
Debian Repeals The Merged "/usr" Movement Moratorium | 17 Oct 2023 |
Debian 12.2 Released With Various Security Fixes, AMD Inception Microcode | 08 Oct 2023 |
Debian Dropping Its 32-bit MIPS Little Endian "mipsel" Port | 02 Sep 2023 |
LoongArch "Loong64" Added To Debian Ports | 16 Aug 2023 |
More Debian News | 413 Articles |
Desktop |
System76 Now Planning For COSMIC Desktop Alpha Release In Late May | 13 Mar 2024 |
LXQt Desktop Now "100%" Ready For Wayland | 09 Mar 2024 |
SDDM 0.21 Display Manager Released With Better Wayland Support, Qt6 Fixes | 26 Feb 2024 |
Iced Toolkit For Rust GUIs Reaches v0.12 With New Features | 16 Feb 2024 |
System76's COSMIC Desktop Nearing Alpha Release | 14 Feb 2024 |
Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Usable Wayland Support While Maintaining X11 Compatibility | 10 Feb 2024 |
Budgie 10.9 Desktop Brings Early Wayland Porting Work | 28 Jan 2024 |
The Budgie Desktop Hopes To Do A Wayland-Only Release This Year | 27 Jan 2024 |
System76's COSMIC Desktop Working Toward Its Alpha Release | 11 Jan 2024 |
Enlightenment 0.26 Released With Various Improvements | 23 Dec 2023 |
More Desktop News | 458 Articles |
Fedora |
Fedora Workstation 41 To No Longer Install GNOME X.Org Session By Default | 07 Mar 2024 |
Fedora Workstation's Anaconda Web UI Installer Delayed To Fedora 41 | 19 Feb 2024 |
Fedora COSMIC Desktop Spin Being Considered | 17 Feb 2024 |
Fedora 40 Cleared To Ship AMD ROCm 6, Packages May Reintroduce KDE X11 Support | 13 Feb 2024 |
Fedora Atomic Desktops Born Out Of Fedora Silverblue Success | 09 Feb 2024 |
New Features Approved For Fedora 40, Renewed Debate Over Dropping KDE X11 Support | 01 Feb 2024 |
Fedora Linux 40 Looks To Replace iotop With iotop-c | 22 Jan 2024 |
Fedora 40 Looks To bpfman For Managing eBPF Programs | 22 Jan 2024 |
Many New Features Approved This Week For Fedora 40 | 17 Jan 2024 |
Fedora 40 Looks At Packaging Its Own PyTorch | 11 Jan 2024 |
More Fedora News | 1187 Articles |
Free Software |
CoreCtrl 1.4 Brings Radeon RX 7000 Series Fan Curve Controls, Intel CPU Temperatures | 18 Mar 2024 |
Rust Coreutils & Reproducible Builds Receives Funding From The Sovereign Tech Fund | 18 Mar 2024 |
Krita Looking More At GPU Acceleration & AI In 2024 | 14 Mar 2024 |
Servo Improves Its Experimental Support For HTML Tables, More CSS Features | 28 Feb 2024 |
KiCad 8.0 Released For Leading Open-Source EDA Software | 26 Feb 2024 |
XZ 5.6 Released: Sandboxing Improvements, Prefers -O2 Instead Of -O3 | 24 Feb 2024 |
DreamWorks Releases OpenMoonRay 1.5 Open-Source Renderer | 22 Feb 2024 |
GIMP Releases Last Development Version For GIMP 3.0 | 21 Feb 2024 |
Core NGINX Developer Forks Web Server Into Freenginx | 14 Feb 2024 |
TrenchBoot Progress For Adding More Security & Integrity To The Boot Process | 11 Feb 2024 |
More Free Software News | 1955 Articles |
GNOME |
New Gestures Code Squeezes Into GNOME 46 | 16 Mar 2024 |
GNOME 46 Release Candidate Rolls Out Last Minute Fixes, VRR & Other Refinements | 09 Mar 2024 |
GNOME Developers Continue Tweaking The Shell, Tuning For Performance | 09 Mar 2024 |
GTK 4.14 To Provide Crisper Font Rendering, Better Fractional Scaling | 07 Mar 2024 |
GNOME Shell & Mutter 46 RC Brings Modifier-Aware Screencasting, VRR & X.Org Sync Fix | 03 Mar 2024 |
Mutter Merges Experimental Variable Refresh Rate For GNOME 46 | 02 Mar 2024 |
Experimental VRR Support Might Still Land For GNOME 46 | 01 Mar 2024 |
GNOME Prompt Becomes Ptyxis | 29 Feb 2024 |
GNOME Makes Progress On GPU-Accelerated Screencasting, systemd-homed Home Encryption | 25 Feb 2024 |
WebKitGTK Moving To Skia For 2D Rendering To Yield Better Performance | 21 Feb 2024 |
More GNOME News | 1259 Articles |
GNU |
GNU Linux-libre 6.8-gnu Dealing With Blobs From New Intel Drivers | 11 Mar 2024 |
GNUnet 0.21 Rolls Out New Transport Layer For Building Decentralized, Distributed Apps | 07 Mar 2024 |
GDB 14.2 Brings A Few Fixes For The GNU Debugger | 03 Mar 2024 |
GRUB2 Working On TPM2 Automatic Disk Unlock, TrenchBoot & More | 05 Feb 2024 |
GNU libmicrohttpd 1.0 Released For Embed-Friendly Web Server | 01 Feb 2024 |
GNU C Library 2.39 Released With New Tunables, stdbit.h For ISO C2X | 31 Jan 2024 |
GNU Binutils 2.42 Brings Support For New Intel CPU Extensions: APX, AVX10.1 & More | 29 Jan 2024 |
GCC Rust Compiler "gccrs" Sees ~900 New Patches Upstreamed For GCC 14 | 16 Jan 2024 |
GNU Hurd Has Been Making Progress On Its x86_64 Support | 10 Jan 2024 |
GCC 14 Compiler Lands Initial Support For Targeting AMD RDNA3 "GFX11" GPUs | 09 Jan 2024 |
More GNU News | 1069 Articles |
Google |
Google Making $1M USD Investment To Improve Rust & C++ Interoperability | 05 Feb 2024 |
Chrome 121 Adds New CSS & WebGPU Features | 23 Jan 2024 |
The Mainline Linux Kernel To Finally Support The Google Tensor GS101 SoC & Pixel 6 | 19 Dec 2023 |
Chrome 120 Released With Theora Support Evaporating, Adds WebGPU & CSS Improvements | 07 Dec 2023 |
Google Rewriting Android's Binder In Rust With Promising Results | 02 Nov 2023 |
Google Chrome To Remove Theora Video Codec Support | 29 Oct 2023 |
Chrome 119 Beta Released With CSS Relative Color Syntax, WebSQL Disabled | 07 Oct 2023 |
Android 14 Open-Source Project Released | 04 Oct 2023 |
Google Preparing To Rollout Stable Chrome Releases Even Faster | 30 Aug 2023 |
Google Announces C3A Instances Coming, Powered By AmpereOne CPUs | 29 Aug 2023 |
More Google News | 565 Articles |
Hardware |
Improved Memory Bandwidth Throttling Behavior For Linux 6.9 | 19 Mar 2024 |
Linux 6.9 Adds Support For Several Samsung Bluetooth HID Devices | 18 Mar 2024 |
Linux 6.9 Adds Support For Snakebyte Gamepads | 18 Mar 2024 |
Many Laptop Improvements In Linux 6.9, Much Faster HP Performance At Higher TDP | 17 Mar 2024 |
CXL For Linux 6.9 Adds Error Injection, Native Memory Performance Enumeration | 17 Mar 2024 |
Linux 6.9 Change Allows Old Macs Using Firewire To Enjoy Virtualization Support | 17 Mar 2024 |
Initial IBM Power11 Enablement Begins With Linux 6.9 | 16 Mar 2024 |
An Open-Source Driver Effort Has Begun For Rockchip's NPU | 16 Mar 2024 |
Mobileye EyeQ5 SoC Support Upstreamed In Linux 6.9 | 15 Mar 2024 |
New ARM SoCs & Various Smartphones/Devices Now Supported By Linux 6.9 | 13 Mar 2024 |
More Hardware News | 2105 Articles |
Intel |
Linux 6.9 Continues Clearing Out Code For Intel's Defunct "Carillo Ranch" Platform | 18 Mar 2024 |
Intel Releases SVT-AV1 2.0 For Even Faster AV1 Encoding | 15 Mar 2024 |
Intel Launches Core i9 14900KS, Clocking Up To 6.2GHz | 14 Mar 2024 |
Mesa 24.1 Adds Support For The Intel Data Center GPU Flex 170G | 14 Mar 2024 |
Mesa 24.1 Enables Intel Xe Kernel Driver Support By Default | 13 Mar 2024 |
New Intel CPU Microcode & "RFDS" Linux Kernel Patch For New Security Vulnerabilities | 12 Mar 2024 |
Intel Continues Prepping The Linux Kernel For X86S | 12 Mar 2024 |
Intel FRED Merged For Linux 6.9 As An Important Improvement With Future CPUs | 11 Mar 2024 |
Intel Makes Continuous Profiler Open-Source To Help Improve CPU Performance | 11 Mar 2024 |
OpenVINO 2024.0 Brings More GenAI Features, New JavaScript API | 06 Mar 2024 |
More Intel News | 2912 Articles |
KDE |
KDE Continuing To Land More Fixes, Eye More Features For Plasma 6.1 | 16 Mar 2024 |
KDE Plasma 6.0.2 Delivers Another Week Worth Of Bug Fixes | 12 Mar 2024 |
KDE Developers Are Currently Seeing 150~200 Bug Reports Per Day | 09 Mar 2024 |
KDE Plasma 6.0.1 Released With First Batch Of Bug Fixes | 05 Mar 2024 |
KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Proving To Be Unlike The Rocky KDE 4 Launch | 03 Mar 2024 |
KDE MegaRelease 6 Debuts For Plasma 6.0, KF6 & Gear 24.02 | 28 Feb 2024 |
KWinFT Compositor Now Known As Theseus' Ship | 27 Feb 2024 |
KDE Plasma 6.0 Ready For Release Next Week, Plasma 6.1 Seeing Early Feature Work | 24 Feb 2024 |
KDE Slimbook V Announced: The First KDE Plasma 6 Laptop With AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS CPU | 22 Feb 2024 |
More Fixes Land Ahead Of KDE Plasma 6.0 Coming In Two Weeks | 17 Feb 2024 |
More KDE News | 1289 Articles |
LibreOffice |
LibreOffice 24.2 Released For This Leading Free Software Office Suite | 31 Jan 2024 |
LibreOffice 24.2 RC1 Free Software Office Suite Released | 09 Jan 2024 |
LibreOffice 24.2 Beta Released For Testing This Free Software Office Suite | 13 Dec 2023 |
LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha 1 Builds Available For Testing | 30 Nov 2023 |
LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha 1 Brings Many New Features | 23 Nov 2023 |
LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6 | 22 Aug 2023 |
LibreOffice 7.6 Now Available For This Best Free Software Office Suite | 21 Aug 2023 |
LibreOffice Lands APNG Export Support | 13 Aug 2023 |
LibreOffice 7.6 RC2 Available For Last Minute Testing Of This Open-Source Office Suite | 03 Aug 2023 |
LibreOffice 7.6 RC1 Available For Testing Out The New Open-Source Office Suite Features | 12 Jul 2023 |
More LibreOffice News | 183 Articles |
Linux Events |
Open-Source Firmware Conference 2022 Slides & Videos Online | 05 Oct 2022 |
Linux Plumbers Conference 2022 Livestream | 12 Sep 2022 |
FOSDEM 2022 Is Happening Online This Weekend | 05 Feb 2022 |
RISC-V Summit 2021 - High Performance Processors, Other Interesting Talks | 09 Dec 2021 |
Linux Foundation Expects Revenues Of $177 Million This Year | 07 Dec 2021 |
DebConf21 Kicks Off Online For Annual Debian Conference | 24 Aug 2021 |
IWOCL + SYCLcon 2021 Slides/Videos Published For Lots Of OpenCL, SYCL Technical Talks | 29 Apr 2021 |
FOSDEM Online 2021 Is Happening This Weekend | 06 Feb 2021 |
Linux App Summit 2020 Videos Now Available From Steam/Valve To GNOME Circle | 14 Nov 2020 |
OpenPOWER Summit 2020 Was This Week With Many Interesting Hardware/Software Talks | 20 Sep 2020 |
More Linux Events News | 82 Articles |
Linux Gaming |
SDL Storage API Merged For SDL 3.0 | 16 Mar 2024 |
FEX 2403 Fixes Steam Support, Introduces More CPU Optimizations | 05 Mar 2024 |
Proton 9.0 Beta Makes More Games Playable Under Steam Play, Updates VKD3D-Proton & DXVK | 23 Feb 2024 |
FEX 2402 Brings More Performance Improvements For x86_64 Binaries On AArch64 | 13 Feb 2024 |
Orange Pi Neo Coming As A Ryzen 7 + Linux Powered Handheld Device | 05 Feb 2024 |
SDL 2.30 Released With New API Additions For Steam Use | 02 Feb 2024 |
SDL 3.0 Adds Colorspace Concept, More Code Coming From Valve Around HDR | 29 Jan 2024 |
SDL 2.30 Release Candidate Brings Many Fixes, New Additions For The Steam API | 20 Jan 2024 |
"The Finals" Can Run With Intel Graphics On Linux When Hiding The Fact It's An Intel GPU | 15 Jan 2024 |
Lutris 0.5.15 Fixes Crashes When Using Wayland With High DPI Gaming Mice | 13 Jan 2024 |
More Linux Gaming News | 1962 Articles |
Linux Kernel |
Linux 6.9 Has A Big Rework To CPU Timers - Some Power/Performance Benefits | 19 Mar 2024 |
Linux 6.8.1 & Other Stable Kernels Released With Intel RFDS Mitigation | 15 Mar 2024 |
Linux 6.9 VFIO Updates Bring A New Driver For NVIDIA's Grace-Hopper Superchip | 14 Mar 2024 |
Linux 6.9 Makes A Change To Satisfy Microsoft For EFI x86 Shim Loader Signing | 13 Mar 2024 |
Linux 6.9 Cleans Up Printk Code While Preparing For Atomic Consoles | 13 Mar 2024 |
Linux 6.9 Graphics Drivers Prepare For RDNA3 Refresh & RDNA4, More Intel Xe Driver Work | 13 Mar 2024 |
Linux 6.9 Lands Reworked Topology Code For Better Hybrid CPU Support | 12 Mar 2024 |
Dynamic Kernel Stacks Proposed For Linux With Big Memory Savings | 12 Mar 2024 |
Linux 6.8 Released As Stable With New Intel Xe Graphics Driver | 10 Mar 2024 |
Awesome Changes Coming With Linux 6.9: Lots From Intel/AMD, FUSE Passthrough & More Rust | 10 Mar 2024 |
More Linux Kernel News | 3491 Articles |
Linux Networking |
Many Networking Improvements & New Wired/Wireless Devices For Linux 6.9 | 12 Mar 2024 |
Cloudflare Makes Pingora Rust Framework Open-Source | 28 Feb 2024 |
NetworkManager 1.46 Can Now Manage Ethtool EEE Settings, IPv4 DAD Default & 2FA VPNs | 23 Feb 2024 |
Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance For Many Concurrent Connections By ~40% | 09 Jan 2024 |
The First Rust-Written Network PHY Driver Set To Land In Linux 6.8 | 17 Dec 2023 |
Linux 6.7 Networking Adds New Hardware Support, A ~20% Perf Boost For Single TCP Flow | 03 Nov 2023 |
Landlock Access Controls Extended To Networking With Linux 6.7 | 03 Nov 2023 |
Linux's Latest Plan For Removing Old WiFi Drivers | 23 Oct 2023 |
Linux Looks Toward Dropping Very Old WiFi Drivers | 13 Oct 2023 |
Curl 8.4 Released For Addressing A Big Security Vulnerability | 11 Oct 2023 |
More Linux Networking News | 257 Articles |
Linux Security |
GhostRace Detailed - Speculative Race Conditions Affecting All Major CPUs / ISAs | 12 Mar 2024 |
Linux 6.9 Making It Easier Managing Security Mitigation Options | 11 Mar 2024 |
"SandBox Mode" Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Improve Memory Safety | 14 Feb 2024 |
New WiFi Authentication Vulnerabilities For Linux's IWD & WPA_Supplicant | 13 Feb 2024 |
AppArmor Switches To SHA256 Policy Hashes In Linux 6.8 | 19 Jan 2024 |
Linux 6.7 Introduces "make hardening.config" To Help Build A Hardened Kernel | 05 Nov 2023 |
AppArmor Adds IO_uring Mediation & Some Performance Optimizations | 03 Nov 2023 |
Curl Preps For "Probably The Worst Curl Security Flaw In A Long Time" | 09 Oct 2023 |
Linux Now Mitigating Hygon CPUs For Inception/SRSO Vulnerability | 01 Oct 2023 |
Red Hat Working On Delayed Module Signature Verification To Speed-Up Linux Boot Times | 15 Sep 2023 |
More Linux Security News | 276 Articles |
Linux Storage |
F2FS Improves Zoned Block Device Support & Per-File Compression For Linux 6.9 | 18 Mar 2024 |
XFS With Linux 6.9 Brings Online Repair Improvements | 17 Mar 2024 |
Bcachefs Multi-Device Users Should Avoid Linux 6.7: "A Really Horific Bug" | 16 Mar 2024 |
FUSE Passthrough Mode Merged For Linux 6.9 | 15 Mar 2024 |
Bcachefs Sees Improved Journal Pipelining & More Efficient Discard With Linux 6.9 | 15 Mar 2024 |
Linus Torvalds Isn't Happy With Some Of The Bcachefs Code For Linux 6.9 | 13 Mar 2024 |
DM VDO "Virtual Data Optimizer" Merged For Linux 6.9 | 13 Mar 2024 |
Btrfs Enjoys Performance Optimizations With Linux 6.9 | 11 Mar 2024 |
Improved Case-Insensitive File Handling Coming To Linux 6.9 | 08 Mar 2024 |
Linux 6.9 Set To Drop The Old NTFS File-System Driver | 08 Mar 2024 |
More Linux Storage News | 936 Articles |
LLVM |
LLVM/Clang 18.1 Released With Intel AVX10.1 Work, Adds Clearwater Forest & Panther Lake | 06 Mar 2024 |
Meta Continues Working On BOLT'ing The Linux Kernel For Greater Performance | 16 Feb 2024 |
LLVM/Clang Can Work Fine As A GCC Replacement For Linux Distributions | 05 Feb 2024 |
LLVM 18.1-rc1 Released For Enabling New Intel CPU Features, More C23 & C++23 | 29 Jan 2024 |
Autocheck To Check If Your C++ Code Is Safe For Automobiles & Safety Critical Systems | 18 Jan 2024 |
LLVM 18 Planned For Release In Early March | 15 Jan 2024 |
LLVM Moves To A Versioning Scheme Like GCC - N.1 Version For Stable Branch | 23 Dec 2023 |
Intel Proposing XeGPU Dialect For LLVM MLIR | 17 Dec 2023 |
LLVM Lands APX JMPABS Support, More Advanced Performance Extensions Work Landing | 26 Nov 2023 |
LLVM Now Using PGO For Building x86_64 Windows Release Binaries: ~22% Faster Builds | 18 Nov 2023 |
More LLVM News | 739 Articles |
LVFS |
LVFS/Fwupd Ponders 2025 Plans: Servers, Desktop Motherboards & More | 13 Mar 2024 |
Fwupd 1.9.13 Adds Support For Newer Acer USB Docks | 08 Feb 2024 |
Fwupd 1.9.12 Adds Support For More Devices & AMD CPU Checks Updated | 24 Jan 2024 |
Fwupd 1.9.11 Released With Support For New Algoltek & Luxshare USB Devices | 03 Jan 2024 |
LVFS Has Supplied More Than 100 Million Firmware Updates To Linux Users | 06 Dec 2023 |
Fwupd 1.9.10 Adds LoongArch Support & Firmware Updating For A ~$1k USD Web Camera | 04 Dec 2023 |
Fwupd 1.9.8 Released With Firmware Updating For New DP Converters, Wacom Cintiq Pro | 14 Nov 2023 |
Fwupd 1.9.7 Adds Support For More Logitech, Synaptics & Western Digital Hardware | 01 Nov 2023 |
Fwupd 1.9.6 Brings Linux Firmware Updating For AMD Graphics Cards | 06 Oct 2023 |
Fwupd 1.9.5 Released With Optional Passim Support, Firmware Updating For New Devices | 04 Sep 2023 |
More LVFS News | 82 Articles |
Mesa |
Mesa 24.0.3 Released With Many Graphics Driver Bug Fixes | 14 Mar 2024 |
Blumenkrantz Picks His Next Battle: Mesa's DRI Interfaces | 13 Mar 2024 |
Radeon Memory Visualizer Hooks Up With Qualcomm Adreno Vulkan Driver | 10 Mar 2024 |
Mesa's VDPAU State Tracker Adds Support For AV1 Decoding | 07 Mar 2024 |
Mesa's CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Now Supports Ray-Tracing | 07 Mar 2024 |
UWP'ed Mesa Running On Microsoft Xbox, Allowing For New Game Ports With OpenGL | 02 Mar 2024 |
Mesa 24.1 To Raise Limit Supporting More Than Eight Vulkan GPUs Per System | 02 Mar 2024 |
Panthor DRM Driver Set For Linux 6.9, Arm Mali Gen10 Merged To Panfrost Gallium3D | 01 Mar 2024 |
Zink Lands Support For Partial Updates / Damage Handling | 29 Feb 2024 |
Mesa 24.0.2 Brings Many Zink Fixes, More Intel Alder Lake N IDs | 29 Feb 2024 |
More Mesa News | 2388 Articles |
Microsoft |
Microsoft's DirectX Shader Compiler Sees Improved Linux Build Support | 11 Mar 2024 |
Microsoft Rebranding CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution To "Azure Linux" | 05 Mar 2024 |
Microsoft Ending Support For Windows Subsystem For Android | 05 Mar 2024 |
Microsoft Pushes Out Big February Update For CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distro | 25 Feb 2024 |
Microsoft Confirms Bringing Sudo For Windows, Is Open-Source Too | 07 Feb 2024 |
Microsoft Releases First CBL-Mariner Linux Distro Update Of 2024 | 15 Jan 2024 |
Microsoft Continued Advancing WSL2, Mesa & Its In-House Linux Distro In 2023 | 03 Jan 2024 |
Microsoft Looking To Add Windows Media Foundation Transforms "MFTs" To Mesa | 21 Nov 2023 |
Microsoft Adds Enterprise Security Features To WSL | 16 Nov 2023 |
Microsoft Gets OpenGL 4.4 Running Atop Direct3D 12 Using Mesa, OpenGL 4.5 Inbound | 14 Nov 2023 |
More Microsoft News | 338 Articles |
Mozilla |
Firefox 124 Now Available With Screen Wake Lock API | 18 Mar 2024 |
Mozilla Firefox 123.0 Available With Improved Translation Support, New Developer Features | 19 Feb 2024 |
Thunderbird Making Progress With Adopting Rust Code | 14 Feb 2024 |
Mozilla Has A New CEO To Focus On The Future | 08 Feb 2024 |
Mozilla's Latest Plan To Make Money Is Mozilla Monitor Plus | 06 Feb 2024 |
Servo Engine Updates Bring CSS Tables & Its Browser Gets Back/Forward Buttons | 26 Jan 2024 |
Firefox 122 Available With Official Debian Package, Many Web Improvements | 23 Jan 2024 |
Firefox 121 Now Available With Wayland Enabled By Default | 18 Dec 2023 |
Firefox 121 Is Looking Good For Having Wayland Enabled By Default | 25 Nov 2023 |
Firefox 120 Ready With Global Privacy Control, WebAssembly GC On By Default | 20 Nov 2023 |
More Mozilla News | 416 Articles |
Multimedia |
Intel & AMD Enjoy SoundWire Updates With Linux 6.9 | 14 Mar 2024 |
OBS Studio 30.1 Released With AV1 Support For VA-API & PipeWire Video Capture | 12 Mar 2024 |
GStreamer 1.24 Released With Vulkan H.264/H.265 Decode & Many Enhancements | 04 Mar 2024 |
Opus 1.5 Audio Codec Able To Make Extensive Use Of Machine Learning | 04 Mar 2024 |
FFmpeg Merges DVD-Video Demuxer | 03 Mar 2024 |
WavPack Lossless Audio Compression Format Adds Multi-Threaded Encode/Decode | 02 Mar 2024 |
Linux's V4L2 VP9 Codec Kernel Code Rewritten In Rust For Better Memory Safety | 27 Feb 2024 |
Ardour 8.4 Digital Audio Workstation: Still Relying On GTK2, Adds AAF Import | 22 Feb 2024 |
VVenC 1.11 Brings More Performance Improvements For H.266/VVC Encoding | 21 Feb 2024 |
dav1d 1.4 Released With More AVX-512 Optimizations, RISC-V & LoongArch CPU Support | 17 Feb 2024 |
More Multimedia News | 609 Articles |
Nouveau |
NVK Lands Sparse Memory Support - Enabling More Games To Run On This Open-Source Driver | 09 Mar 2024 |
Nouveau Supporting HDMI 2.1 Won't Hopefully Be Too Challenging Thanks To NVIDIA Firmware | 04 Mar 2024 |
Mesa NVK Vulkan Driver Now Declared Vulkan 1.3 Conformant, Mesa 24.1 To Build By Default | 28 Feb 2024 |
NVK Vulkan Driver Lands Shader Object & Graphics Pipeline Library | 28 Feb 2024 |
New Nouveau Patch Would Allow Optionally Enabling GSP Mode By Default | 14 Feb 2024 |
Mesa's NVK Vulkan Driver Lands A Pipeline Shader Cache | 09 Jan 2024 |
Nouveau Receives Last Minute GSP Fixes For Linux 6.7 | 05 Jan 2024 |
For At Least One Game, Mesa's NVK Driver Can Outperform NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver | 17 Dec 2023 |
One Line Patch Doubles Mesa NVK Performance For Talos Principle... To 18 FPS | 11 Dec 2023 |
NVK Driver Nearing Vulkan 1.1 For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 & Newer | 28 Nov 2023 |
More Nouveau News | 484 Articles |
NVIDIA |
NVIDIA 550.54.14 Release Brings R550 Series Linux Driver To Stable | 23 Feb 2024 |
NVIDIA 550 Linux Beta Driver Released With Many Fixes, VR Displays & Better (X)Wayland | 24 Jan 2024 |
NVIDIA RTX Remix 0.4 Released With Updated DXVK, Performance Improvements & Fixes | 22 Jan 2024 |
NVIDIA's Open-Source Kernel Driver & Maturing Wayland Support Were Great In 2023 | 02 Jan 2024 |
NVIDIA 545.29.06 Linux Driver Released With Source 2 Engine Fix On XWayland | 22 Nov 2023 |
NVIDIA Pushes 62MB Of GSP Binary Firmware Blobs Into Linux-Firmware.Git | 08 Nov 2023 |
NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.11 Delivers Various Fixes | 06 Nov 2023 |
NVIDIA 545.29.02 Linux Driver Released With Much Better Wayland Support | 31 Oct 2023 |
NVIDIA R545 Linux Beta Driver Brings HDMI Deep Color, Night Color & FB Consoles | 17 Oct 2023 |
NVIDIA Preparing Their Linux InfiniBand Driver For 800Gb/s XDR | 20 Sep 2023 |
More NVIDIA News | 1063 Articles |
Operating Systems |
LibreELEC 12 Beta Moves More Devices To 64-bit - Including The Raspberry Pi 5 & 4 | 17 Mar 2024 |
OpenMediaVault 7.0 Released For Debian 12 Powered NAS Platform | 03 Mar 2024 |
Redox OS Scores A Massive Performance Boost For I/O | 03 Mar 2024 |
Serpent OS Makes Progress On Packaging The GNOME 45 Desktop | 29 Feb 2024 |
Distrobox 1.7 Improves NVIDIA GPU Support, Better Wolfi Containers | 29 Feb 2024 |
CachyOS Moves To Glibc 2.39 & Other Package Upgrades For February | 24 Feb 2024 |
The Current State & Plans For Porting Linux/BSD Software To Redox OS | 13 Feb 2024 |
Gentoo Linux Begins Offering x86-64-v3 Binary Packages | 04 Feb 2024 |
Redox OS Porting More Linux Software Over, Including COSMIC Apps | 02 Feb 2024 |
ReactOS Making Progress On Its GUI-Based Installer | 31 Jan 2024 |
More Operating Systems News | 990 Articles |
Oracle |
GraalVM Updated For Java/JDK 21, Great Performance Results | 20 Sep 2023 |
MySQL 8.1 Released With More JSON Additions, Other Changes | 18 Jul 2023 |
Oracle Intends To Keep Trying To Make Oracle Linux Compatible With RHEL | 10 Jul 2023 |
Oracle Developing "bpftune" For BPF-Based, Automatic Tuning Of Linux Systems | 28 Jun 2023 |
Oracle's GraalVM Native Image Now Defaults To x86-64-v3, IGV Open-Sourced | 14 Jun 2023 |
Oracle Releases GraalVM 22.3, GraalVM CE Java Code Going To OpenJDK | 25 Oct 2022 |
Oracle Linux 9 Reaches GA With Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R7 | 06 Jul 2022 |
RHEL9-Derived Oracle Linux 9 Developer Preview Released With 5.15-Based UEK Kernel | 14 Jun 2022 |
GraalVM CE 22.1 Released With Performance Improvements, Apple Silicon Support | 26 Apr 2022 |
Oracle Releases Solaris 11.4 "CBE" Free For Open-Source Developers / Non-Production Use | 12 Apr 2022 |
More Oracle News | 283 Articles |
Phoronix |
CUDA On ROCm, Ryzen 8000G Series & Rust Activity Made For An Exciting February | 01 Mar 2024 |
Framework 16, New AMD Launches & More Made For An Exciting January | 01 Feb 2024 |
Intel Meteor Lake, Emerald Rapids & Other Popular Topics For December | 01 Jan 2024 |
Valve's Linux Contributions, Wayland & Open-Source NVIDIA Milestones Topped 2023 | 28 Dec 2023 |
Raspberry Pi 5 & New AMD Ryzen CPUs Excited Linux Readers The Most In 2023 | 27 Dec 2023 |
Server Upgrades In Progress [Complete] | 03 Dec 2023 |
Threadripper 7000 Series, Wayland, Linux 6.7 & Other November Highlights | 01 Dec 2023 |
Phoronix Premium Cyber Week Sale For Ad-Free, Single Page Articles & Native Dark Mode | 23 Nov 2023 |
Wayland Progress, Ryzen AI & Linux Benchmarks That Made For An Exciting October | 01 Nov 2023 |
Raspberry Pi 5, Steam Deck & New AMD CPUs Dominated Q3 | 30 Sep 2023 |
More Phoronix News | 665 Articles |
Phoronix Test Suite |
OpenBenchmarking.org In 2021 By The Numbers | 01 Jan 2022 |
Phoronix Test Suite 10.8 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Benchmarking | 26 Dec 2021 |
Phoronix Test Suite 10.6 Released With Various Improvements For Linux Benchmarking | 10 Oct 2021 |
New/Updated Benchmarks For June From GravityMark To L4D2 Vulkan, Updated Neural Networks | 03 Jul 2021 |
New + Updated Benchmarks For May 2021 - Now At 661 Tests, ~36d19h Average Total Runtime | 02 Jun 2021 |
New, Updated Benchmarks For April From WRF To Chia + Xmrig | 02 May 2021 |
Many New/Updated Benchmarks For March With New SDR/Radio Tests, More Code Compilation | 28 Mar 2021 |
Vulkan Ray-Tracing Along With Other New/Updated Benchmarks For February | 28 Feb 2021 |
Phoronix Test Suite 10.2.2 Released For Automated Open-Source Benchmarking | 17 Feb 2021 |
Phoronix Test Suite 10.2.1 Released For Open-Source Automated Benchmarking | 02 Feb 2021 |
More Phoronix Test Suite News | 210 Articles |
PipeWire |
PipeWire To Work On Vulkan Converters & Processing Filters | 05 Feb 2024 |
PipeWire 1.0 Released For Managing Audio/Video Streams On The Linux Desktop | 26 Nov 2023 |
PipeWire 1.0 RC2 Released With Fixes, Improved Rate Switching | 13 Oct 2023 |
PipeWire 1.0 RC Available With Jackdbus By Default, Improved IRQ-Based Scheduling | 06 Oct 2023 |
PipeWire 1.0 Planned For Release Later This Year | 25 Sep 2023 |
PipeWire 0.3.80 Released With Vulkan DMA-BUF Support, Tag Param | 14 Sep 2023 |
Firefox 116 Should Have Experimental PipeWire Camera Support | 16 Jun 2023 |
PipeWire 0.3.71 Released With Performance Improvements, Zero Latency JACK D-Bus Bridge | 17 May 2023 |
PipeWire 0.3.68 Released With New RTP Session Module, Many Other Changes | 06 Apr 2023 |
PipeWire 0.3.67 Fixes Stuttering For Some Bluetooth Devices | 09 Mar 2023 |
More PipeWire News | 37 Articles |
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Programming |
Mold Linker Jumps From v2.4.1 To v2.30 To Resolve GNU libtool Compatibility | 16 Mar 2024 |
Rust-Tailored Slint GUI Toolkit Adding Python API | 14 Mar 2024 |
AdaptiveCpp 24.02 Released: "One Of The Best SYCL Compilers" For Performance | 12 Mar 2024 |
Musl libc 1.2.5 Released With RISC-V 32-bit & LoongArch 64-bit Ports | 01 Mar 2024 |
Mold Linker Performance Remains Very Compelling In 2024 Over GNU Gold/ld, LLVM lld | 27 Feb 2024 |
GLFW 3.4 Brings Better Support For Wayland & Run-Time Platform Selection | 24 Feb 2024 |
Git 2.44 Released - Can Yield Faster Pack Generation & Faster Rebases | 24 Feb 2024 |
The Linux Kernel Prepares For Rust 1.77 Upgrade | 18 Feb 2024 |
The Mold Linker Is Great & Set To Become Even Better | 07 Feb 2024 |
Eclipse OpenJ9 0.43 Released With New Options, Updated Compilers For Release Binaries | 06 Feb 2024 |
More Programming News | 592 Articles |
Proprietary Software |
Tellusim Core SDK Published With Linux & Vulkan Support Included | 14 May 2023 |
SPEC Finally Updates SPECViewPerf For Linux With SPECViewPerf 2020 v3.0 | 03 Mar 2022 |
DaVinci Resolve 16 Beta Video Editor Employing Deep Learning, GPU Accelerated Tools | 08 Apr 2019 |
Lightworks Video Editor Plans For A Busy 2019 But No Signs Of The Open-Source Version | 10 Jan 2019 |
Adobe Customer Care: There Hasn't Been Enough Demand For Linux | 10 Dec 2018 |
Lightworks 14.5 Video Editor Released With Same-Day Linux Support But Still No Source | 17 Oct 2018 |
DaVinci Resolve 15 Video/Effects Editor Released With Linux Support | 13 Aug 2018 |
A VR Developer's Thoughts On The Current Mess Of APIs & Hardware | 27 May 2018 |
Keeper Password Manager Launches New Linux Version | 26 Apr 2018 |
Vivaldi Web Browser Now Available For Linux ARM / Raspberry Pi | 05 Dec 2017 |
More Proprietary Software News | 132 Articles |
Qt |
Qt Creator 13 Beta Brings Improved Docking UI, Qt App Manager Support | 15 Feb 2024 |
Qt 6.5.4 LTS Released As First Commercial-Only Release In The Series | 11 Jan 2024 |
Qt 6.7 Beta Released With Variable Font Support & QRhiWidget Class | 20 Dec 2023 |
Qt 6.6.1 Fixes More Than 400 Bugs | 27 Nov 2023 |
Qt Creator 12 Released With Godbolt Compiler Explorer Integration | 23 Nov 2023 |
Qt 6.5 LTS Shifts To Its Commercial-Only Phase | 18 Oct 2023 |
Qt Creator 12 Beta Brings Integrated Compiler Explorer | 13 Oct 2023 |
Qt 6.6 Toolkit Released With More Robust Wayland, Qt Graphs Module | 10 Oct 2023 |
Qt 6.6 Nears Release With RC Offered Up For Testing | 26 Sep 2023 |
Qt 6.6 Wayland Compositor Handoffs Look Promising For More Robust Experience | 11 Sep 2023 |
More Qt News | 521 Articles |
Radeon |
RadeonSI OpenGL CTS Tests Running ~30% Faster With Mesa 24.1 | 16 Mar 2024 |
AMD Squeezes In Additional GPU Enablement Code For Linux 6.9 | 08 Mar 2024 |
Tiny Corp At "70%" Confidence For AMD To Open-Source Some Relevant GPU Firmware | 06 Mar 2024 |
RADV Now Supports Experimental VK_EXT_shader_object For RDNA3 GPUs Using NGG | 06 Mar 2024 |
AMD Updates FreeSync Certification Requirements For New Monitors & TVs | 05 Mar 2024 |
AMDGPU Linux Driver No Longer Lets You Have Unlimited Control To Lower Your Power Limit | 04 Mar 2024 |
Mesa 24.1 Lands Support For GFX11.5.1 "RDNA3 Refresh" Variant | 04 Mar 2024 |
LACT 0.5.3 Released For Managing AMD Graphics Cards Under Linux | 04 Mar 2024 |
Updated AMDGPU VCN Firmware Fixes VP9 Decoding Issues | 04 Mar 2024 |
AMD FreeSync Video Facing Retirement In Linux 6.9 | 02 Mar 2024 |
More Radeon News | 1828 Articles |
Raspberry Pi |
Raspberry Pi V3D Graphics Driver Preps For Super Pages To Boost Performance | 11 Mar 2024 |
Raspberry Pi OS Improves Wayfire Rendering, Enhanced Raspberry Pi 5 Support | 07 Dec 2023 |
Raspberry Pi 5 Single Board Computers Begin Shipping | 23 Oct 2023 |
Igalia Has Been Doing A Great Job On The Raspberry Pi Graphics Drivers | 19 Oct 2023 |
Raspberry Pi OS Now Based On Debian 12 "Bookworm" + Wayland | 11 Oct 2023 |
Raspberry Pi's V3D Kernel Driver Prepares For "CPU Jobs" To Assist Vulkan | 06 Sep 2023 |
Raspberry Pi V3D Driver Gaining Per-Process GPU Usage Stats | 15 Aug 2023 |
Raspberry Pi OS Updated - Now Powered By Linux 6.1 LTS, Updated libcamera | 03 May 2023 |
Raspberry Pi Supply Chain Issues Beginning To Ease Up | 12 Dec 2022 |
Mesa's Raspberry Pi V3DV Vulkan Driver Lands New Occlusion Queries Implementation | 25 Nov 2022 |
More Raspberry Pi News | 134 Articles |
Red Hat |
Red Hat Changing How They Handle Their Minor Release Betas | 20 Feb 2024 |
RHEL's Source Code Access Change Is Causing Issues For CentOS SIGs | 29 Jan 2024 |
Red Hat Updates RHEL Pricing For The Cloud - Now Scales With vCPU Count | 26 Jan 2024 |
Red Hat Developing AI Tool "Log Detective" To Help Developers | 17 Jan 2024 |
Red Hat Evaluating x86-64-v3 Requirement For RHEL 10 | 03 Jan 2024 |
OpenELA Publishes Initial Source Code For Building RHEL Derivatives | 02 Nov 2023 |
Red Hat Continues Hiring For Experienced Linux Graphics Driver Engineers | 11 Oct 2023 |
CentOS Starts An Integration SIG To Help Products/Services Built On RHEL / CentOS Stream | 21 Sep 2023 |
Red Hat Is Hiring To Improve The Bootloader | 10 Aug 2023 |
AlmaLinux No Longer Aims For 1:1 Compatibility With RHEL | 13 Jul 2023 |
More Red Hat News | 289 Articles |
RISC-V |
RISC-V With Linux 6.8 Restores XIP Kernel Support | 18 Jan 2024 |
RISC-V With Linux 6.7 Gains Optimized TLB Flushing, Software Shadow Call Stacks | 10 Nov 2023 |
Linux Patches Speed-Up Kernel Crypto Functions With RISC-V Vector Extensions | 28 Oct 2023 |
Linux RISC-V Preparing For Real-Time Kernel Support (PREEMPT_RT) | 24 Oct 2023 |
Milk-V Duo Linux Kernel Patches Submitted For This $9 RISC-V Board | 30 Sep 2023 |
RISC-V With Linux 6.6 Offers Better Kernel Security With KASLR | 10 Sep 2023 |
New RISC-V Kernel Features Ready For Linux 6.6 | 01 Sep 2023 |
GCC 14 Adds Support For RISC-V Vector Crypto Extensions | 04 Jul 2023 |
RISC-V KASLR Support For Linux Revised Again | 12 Jun 2023 |
RISC-V Vector ISA Support Slated For Linux 6.5 | 12 Jun 2023 |
More RISC-V News | 113 Articles |
Standards |
Linux Foundation Gets Involved With Lottie To Develop Formal File Format Specification | 31 Jan 2024 |
PoCL 5.0 Released With Transparent OpenCL Over Networked Systems Capability | 19 Dec 2023 |
Intel, AMD, Red Hat / IBM, Meta & Others Launch The AI Alliance | 05 Dec 2023 |
AOMedia Announces Royalty-Free IAMF Audio Container Specification | 10 Nov 2023 |
UCIe 1.1 Specification Released For Universal Chiplet Interconnect | 08 Aug 2023 |
Khronos Releases ANARI 1.0 As Cross-Platform 3D Rendering Engine API | 02 Aug 2023 |
OpenCL 3.0.14 Released With New Extension For Command Buffer Multi-Device | 18 Apr 2023 |
Khronos Developing SYCL SC For Safety-Critical C++ Heterogeneous Compute | 15 Mar 2023 |
Mobileye Provides Khronos With An Open-Source OpenCL Tensor & Tiling Library | 22 Feb 2023 |
hipSYCL Becomes Open SYCL For Targeting All Major CPUs & GPUs | 10 Feb 2023 |
More Standards News | 285 Articles |
SUSE |
openSUSE Tumbleweed Begins Rolling Out KDE Plasma 6 Desktop, But No Wayland Default Yet | 14 Mar 2024 |
openSUSE Tumbleweed Is Finding Success Moving From GRUB To systemd-boot | 05 Mar 2024 |
openSUSE's "Agama" Next-Gen Linux Installer Plans For A Busy 2024 | 16 Feb 2024 |
openSUSE Prepares For openSUSE Leap 16 Next Year Based On ALP | 15 Jan 2024 |
openSUSE Tumbleweed Trying Out systemd-boot & systemd Full Disk Encryption | 21 Dec 2023 |
openSUSE Logo Contest Concludes With Winners Selected | 14 Dec 2023 |
One Week Left To Vote On openSUSE's New Logo | 06 Dec 2023 |
openSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 Released For Lightweight Environments & Containers | 13 Oct 2023 |
openSUSE Tumbleweed Adds systemd-boot Support | 29 Sep 2023 |
openSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 Beta Published For This Container & VM Focused Distro | 27 Sep 2023 |
More SUSE News | 291 Articles |
systemd |
systemd In 2023 Added Windows-Inspired "Blue Screen Of Death" & macOS-Inspired T.D.M. | 02 Jan 2024 |
systemd 255 Released With A "Blue Screen of Death" For Linux Systems | 06 Dec 2023 |
systemd 255-rc1 Brings "Blue Screen of Death" Support & New Tool To Spawn VMs | 06 Nov 2023 |
Systemd Working On "Storage Target Mode" Feature - Inspired By Apple macOS | 31 Oct 2023 |
systemd's All Systems Go Conference Returns Next Week | 06 Sep 2023 |
systemd 254 With New Soft Reboots Feature, systemd-battery-check | 28 Jul 2023 |
systemd 254-rc2 Brings A Few More Changes | 15 Jul 2023 |
systemd 254-rc1 Deprecates SysV Scripts, Adds Soft Reboots & systemd-battery-check | 06 Jul 2023 |
systemd 253 Released With Ukify Tool, systemd-cryptenroll Unlocking Via FIDO2 Tokens | 15 Feb 2023 |
systemd 253 Is Near With RC3 Out For Testing | 10 Feb 2023 |
More systemd News | 236 Articles |
Ubuntu |
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Support Installs With NVMe-Over-TCP Drives | 11 Mar 2024 |
Canonical Looking At Including Performance Tools In Ubuntu 24.04 By Default | 07 Mar 2024 |
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Won't Support JPEG-XL Out-Of-The-Box | 01 Mar 2024 |
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Enters Its Feature Freeze | 01 Mar 2024 |
Ubuntu Blog Talks Up Rust Schedulers, Potential For Micro-Kernel Design Future | 26 Feb 2024 |
Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS Released With Linux 6.5 HWE Kernel | 22 Feb 2024 |
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Desktop Installer Adds New Accessibility Options | 17 Feb 2024 |
Canonical Improving The Thunderbird Snap For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | 08 Feb 2024 |
Snaps & Ubuntu Core Desktop Talked Up At FOSDEM 2024 | 07 Feb 2024 |
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Leaning Toward Low-Latency Kernel Optimizations By Default | 06 Feb 2024 |
More Ubuntu News | 1649 Articles |
Valve |
VKD3D-Proton 2.12 Released With Initial Support For NVIDIA Reflex | 15 Mar 2024 |
Steam's February Survey: AMD CPUs & GPUs Continue To Dominate For Linux Gamers | 01 Mar 2024 |
Steam On Linux Should Stop Crashing If No OpenGL Drivers Are Found | 29 Feb 2024 |
Valve Makes All Steam Audio SDK Source Code Available Under Apache 2.0 License | 20 Feb 2024 |
Steam On Linux Falls Short Of 2% For January, AMD CPU Adoption On Linux Hits 70.5% | 01 Feb 2024 |
Steam Beta Adds VA-API DRM Video Acceleration For Remote Play | 25 Jan 2024 |
Valve Releases Proton 8.0-5 With Many Fixes, More Windows Games Now Playable | 22 Jan 2024 |
Steam On Linux At Nearly 2% For Ending Out 2023 | 02 Jan 2024 |
SDL Lands Rumble Support For Valve's Steam Deck | 02 Jan 2024 |
Improved Sound Open Firmware On The Way For Valve's Steam Deck OLED | 10 Dec 2023 |
More Valve News | 656 Articles |
Virtualization |
LXD 5.21 LTS Released With UI By Default, AMD SEV Memory Encryption For VMs | 15 Mar 2024 |
VirtualBox KVM Backend Adds Support For SR-IOV Graphics | 08 Mar 2024 |
PVM Virtualization Framework Proposed For Linux - Built Atop The KVM Hypervisor | 26 Feb 2024 |
Cloud Hypervisor 38 Brings Extended CPU Affinity, Improved VFIO Device Support | 18 Feb 2024 |
Cyberus Develops Open-Source KVM Backend For VirtualBox | 08 Feb 2024 |
Amazon Proposes Pkernfs For Better Handling Hypervisor Live Updates | 06 Feb 2024 |
libvirt 10.0 Released With QEMU VM Migration Improvements | 15 Jan 2024 |
KVM With Linux 6.8 Adds Intel LAM For Guests, More Confidential VMs Work | 13 Jan 2024 |
LoongArch KVM Support Extended To Allow LSX/LASX SIMD Support | 24 Dec 2023 |
QEMU 8.2 Released With New VirtIO-Sound & VirtIO-GPU "Rutabaga" Devices | 20 Dec 2023 |
More Virtualization News | 570 Articles |
Vulkan |
Vulkan 1.3.280 Released With NVIDIA Ray-Tracing Validation Extension | 08 Mar 2024 |
Vulkan 1.3.279 Brings New NVIDIA Extension Co-Engineered By Valve | 02 Mar 2024 |
SDL3 Introduces A Vulkan Renderer | 23 Feb 2024 |
Vulkan 1.3.278 Released With Two New Extensions - One Will Help Wine / Steam Play | 16 Feb 2024 |
2024 Vulkan Developer Conference Slides Posted | 09 Feb 2024 |
Vulkan Video Finally Introduces AV1 Video Decoding Extension | 01 Feb 2024 |
Open-Source Intel & AMD Drivers Make Quick Progress On Vulkan Roadmap 2024 Extensions | 25 Jan 2024 |
Vulkan Roadmap 2024 Brings Shader Quad Control, Shader Maximal Reconvergence & More | 25 Jan 2024 |
Vcc Announced As The Vulkan Clang Compiler | 10 Jan 2024 |
Vulkan 1.3.274 Released With Video Encode Extensions Promoted | 19 Dec 2023 |
More Vulkan News | 651 Articles |
Wayland |
XWayland Nukes The NVIDIA EGLStream Backend | 18 Mar 2024 |
Hyprland Wayland Compositor Celebrates Two Years With A New Release | 17 Mar 2024 |
Niri 0.1.3 Wayland Compositor Brings Touch Support, New Animations | 10 Mar 2024 |
UWSM Aims To Be A Universal Wayland Session Manager | 06 Mar 2024 |
WayVNC 0.8 Adds Auto Server-Side Resizing Of Headless Outputs, Detached Mode | 26 Feb 2024 |
Sway 1.9 Released - Using New wlroots Rendering API For Better Performance | 24 Feb 2024 |
Miracle-WM Announced As A Wayland Compositor Built On Mir | 19 Feb 2024 |
The Greenfield In-Browser Wayland Compositor Is Fast Enough For Gaming | 06 Feb 2024 |
Niri 0.1.1 Wayland Compositor Adds Support For Taskbars, Output Rotation & More | 03 Feb 2024 |
Godot 4.3 Game Engine To Feature Native Wayland Support | 31 Jan 2024 |
More Wayland News | 877 Articles |
WINE |
Wine 9.4 Released With VKD3D 1.11 Bundled, OpenGL Support For Wayland Driver | 08 Mar 2024 |
Basic OpenGL Support Merged For Wine's Wayland Driver | 06 Mar 2024 |
VKD3D 1.11 Allows Compiling Legacy Direct3D Bytecode To SPIR-V | 05 Mar 2024 |
Wine Code Merged To Overcome A Vulkan Performance Penalty | 03 Mar 2024 |
Wine Wayland Driver Patches Enable Basic OpenGL Support | 27 Feb 2024 |
Wine 9.3 Brings New HID Pointer Driver & Better Internet Proxy Support | 23 Feb 2024 |
CodeWeavers Releases CrossOver 24 Built Atop Wine 9.0 | 22 Feb 2024 |
Windows NT Synchronization Primitive Driver Updated For The Linux Kernel | 19 Feb 2024 |
Wine 9.2 Released With System Tray Fixes, Better ARM Exception Handling | 09 Feb 2024 |
Windows NT Synchronization Primitive Driver For The Linux Kernel Revised | 01 Feb 2024 |
More WINE News | 931 Articles |
X.Org |
The X.Org Foundation Needs More Candidates To Hold An Election | 01 Mar 2024 |
X.Org Server Clears Out Remnants For Supporting Old Compilers | 20 Feb 2024 |
X.Org Server & XWayland Updated Due To Another Six Security Vulnerabilities | 16 Jan 2024 |
xf86-video-modesetting Driver Optimization Helps Conserve Intel Power Consumption | 16 Dec 2023 |
X.Org Server & XWayland Updated Due To Two Decade-Old Security Vulnerabilities | 13 Dec 2023 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Dropping The X.Org Server Except For XWayland | 28 Nov 2023 |
Open-Source Graphics DevRoom Returning For FOSDEM 2024 | 19 Nov 2023 |
XWayland Now Allows For Better Choosing Between OpenGL & OpenGL ES | 02 Nov 2023 |
XWayland & X.Org Server See New Releases Due To Three More Security Vulnerabilities | 25 Oct 2023 |
X.Org Hit By New Security Vulnerabilities - Two Date Back To 1988 With X11R2 | 03 Oct 2023 |
More X.Org News | 1198 Articles |