| AMD |
| Linux 5.8 Bringing Some Performance Boosts For AMD Renoir Graphics | 29 Jun 2020 |
| AMD SMM Callout Privilege Escalation Bug Disclosed For APUs | 18 Jun 2020 |
| AMD Announces The Ryzen 3000XT Series | 16 Jun 2020 |
| AMD MCE Improvements, Renoir Temperature + EDAC Support Sent In For Linux 5. 8 | 13 Jun 2020 |
| AMD Prepping PCID/INVPCID Support For KVM Guests On Zen 3 EPYC | 12 Jun 2020 |
| AMD Publishes Video To Explain The Radeon Open Compute Stack (ROCm) | 12 Jun 2020 |
| System76 Begins Offering Serval WS Laptop With AMD Ryzen | 11 Jun 2020 |
| AMD Zen/Zen2 RAPL Support Merged In Linux 5.8 | 03 Jun 2020 |
| AMD Radeon Linux Driver Sees Patches For New "Sienna Cichlid" GPU | 01 Jun 2020 |
| AMD SPI Driver Sent In For Linux 5.8 | 01 Jun 2020 |
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1144 Articles |
| Arm |
| Some Open-Source Projects Begin Quickly Working Towards macOS ARM64 Support | 29 Jun 2020 |
| Apple Confirms Their Future Desktops + Laptops Will Use In-House CPUs | 22 Jun 2020 |
| Arm CPUs Hit By Straight Line Speculation Vulnerability, LLVM Adds Initial Mitigation | 11 Jun 2020 |
| New Arm SoCs Supported By Linux 5.8, Restructuring To Fit Android Kernel Improvements | 07 Jun 2020 |
| Linux 5.8 Tightens ARM 64-Bit Security With BTI, Shadow Call Stack Support | 03 Jun 2020 |
| Arm Announces Cortex-A78, Cortex-X Custom | 26 May 2020 |
| Allwinner Preparing Their A100 SoC Support For The Upstream Linux Kernel | 22 May 2020 |
| Fedora 33 Looks To Up Its Code Hardening For 64-Bit Arm Systems | 19 May 2020 |
| Linux Thunderbolt Support Can Work On Arm Systems | 17 May 2020 |
| Linux's Lima DRM Driver For Arm Mali Finally Seeing Run-Time Power Management | 08 May 2020 |
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213 Articles |
| BSD |
| TrueNAS 12 Beta 1 Released With Much Improved ZFS, Better AMD Ryzen CPU Support | 01 Jul 2020 |
| WireGuard Support Merged Into Upstream OpenBSD | 21 Jun 2020 |
| FreeBSD 11.4 Released With Various Hardware Support Improvements, Tooling Enhancements | 17 Jun 2020 |
| FreeBSD Adopts A New Code of Conduct Based On The LLVM CoC | 09 Jun 2020 |
| iXsystems Announces TrueNAS SCALE As A Linux-Based Offering | 02 Jun 2020 |
| OpenBSD 6.7 Released With FFS2 Improvements, Better Raspberry Pi + PineBook Pro Support | 19 May 2020 |
| OpenBSD Seeing Initial Work Land On Enabling 64-bit POWER | 18 May 2020 |
| WireGuard Ported To The OpenBSD Kernel - Looking For Upstream Inclusion | 12 May 2020 |
| DragonFlyBSD 5.8.1 Released Due To HAMMER2 Bugs, Kernel Fixes | 07 May 2020 |
| GhostBSD 20.04 Released With Fixes, Updated Kernel | 01 May 2020 |
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680 Articles |
| Clear Linux |
| Clear Linux Preparing To Move To GNOME 3.36, Dropping Their Desktop Customizations | 26 Apr 2020 |
| Intel's Clear Linux To Divest From The Desktop, Focus On Server + Cloud Workloads | 23 Apr 2020 |
| Chrome, Skype, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, VSCode Now Unofficially Available For Clear Linux | 03 Apr 2020 |
| Is Clear Linux Just A Toy Distribution By Intel? | 18 Mar 2020 |
| Intel's Clear Linux Has Code In Place To Begin Handling Proprietary Packages Like Chrome & Steam | 13 Mar 2020 |
| F2FS Root File-System Support For Clear Linux Appears To Be Coming | 14 Feb 2020 |
| Benchmarks Of Clear Linux's Native Kernel Against Current/Mainline/Preempt-RT Kernels | 08 Jan 2020 |
| Clear Linux Set To Begin Offering EarlyOOM For Better Dealing With Memory Pressure | 08 Jan 2020 |
| Clear Linux Saw New Features, New Desktop Installer + Increased Adoption In 2019 | 01 Jan 2020 |
| Clear Linux Defined Linux Performance These Past Few Years | 29 Dec 2019 |
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89 Articles |
| Coreboot |
| Coreboot Ported To A Newer Intel Server Board From Supermicro | 07 Jun 2020 |
| Coreboot 4.12 Released - Drops Older Intel / AMD Platforms | 12 May 2020 |
| 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 |
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209 Articles |
| Debian |
| Devuan 3.0 Released For Debian 10 Without Systemd | 02 Jun 2020 |
| Debian 10.4 Released With Many Fixes, Security Updates | 09 May 2020 |
| Debian Dropping A Number Of Old Linux Drivers Is Angering Vintage Hardware Users | 21 Apr 2020 |
| Debian Elects A New Project Leader For 2020 | 19 Apr 2020 |
| Debian Community Team Delegation Announced As Replacement To The Anti-Harassment Team | 15 Apr 2020 |
| 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 |
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326 Articles |
| Desktop |
| Xfce's Xfdesktop 4.15 Released | 20 Jun 2020 |
| LibVNCServer 0.9.13 Released With Better Cross-Platform Coverage | 14 Jun 2020 |
| Enlightenment 0.24 Released | 17 May 2020 |
| The Latest Pango + HarfBuzz Is Leading To A Messy Font Rendering Situation For Some | 09 May 2020 |
| FreeType 2.10.2 Released With Support For WOFF 2 Fonts | 09 May 2020 |
| Xrdesktop 0.14 Released With OpenXR Support | 08 May 2020 |
| FreeRDP 2.1 Released Due To Multiple Security Issues | 08 May 2020 |
| Enlightenment 0.24 Alpha Released For This X11 Window Manager / Wayland Compositor | 02 May 2020 |
| 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 |
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373 Articles |
| Fedora |
| Fedora Looks To Introduce The Storage Instantiation Daemon | 30 Jun 2020 |
| Fedora Developers Discussing Possibility Of Dropping Legacy BIOS Support | 30 Jun 2020 |
| Fedora Looking To Offer Better Upstream Solution For Hiding/Showing GRUB Menu | 30 Jun 2020 |
| There's A Proposal To Switch Fedora 33 On The Desktop To Using Btrfs | 26 Jun 2020 |
| Fedora Developers Restart Talk Over Using Nano As The Default Text Editor | 25 Jun 2020 |
| Fedora Developers Are Looking At Better Managing Retired Packages | 16 Jun 2020 |
| GNOME X.Org vs. Wayland Performance + Power Usage On Fedora 32 With AMD Renoir Laptop | 14 Jun 2020 |
| Fedora 33 Looking To Use Swap On zRAM By Default With systemd's zram-generator | 06 Jun 2020 |
| Fedora 33 Proposal To Allow Packages To Build With LLVM Clang Rather Than Requiring GCC | 04 Jun 2020 |
| FESCo Approves Fedora 33 Switching To Systemd-Resolved | 11 May 2020 |
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962 Articles |
| Free Software |
| Crust Drops Paywall For Open-Source CRM Alternative To Salesforce | 30 Jun 2020 |
| LuxCore 2.4 Beta Brings Big Changes For This Open-Source Physically Based Renderer | 27 Jun 2020 |
| Flatpak 1.8 Released For This Leading Linux App Sandboxing / Distribution Tech | 24 Jun 2020 |
| Blender 2.83 Released With OpenVDB Support, Initial OpenXR Integration | 03 Jun 2020 |
| Monado 0.2 OpenXR Runtime Brings Multi-Layer Support, New Controller Support | 29 May 2020 |
| FSF Now Offering Video Conferencing Service To Its Members | 28 May 2020 |
| Zstd 1.4.5 Released With 5~10% Faster Decompression For x86_64, 15~50% For ARM64 | 22 May 2020 |
| Inkscape 1.0 Released For This Wildly Successful Vector Graphics Program | 04 May 2020 |
| Redis 6.0 Released As A Big Update For This In-Memory Key-Value Database | 30 Apr 2020 |
| BLAKE3 Cryptographic Hashing Function Sees Experimental Vulkan Implementation | 29 Apr 2020 |
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1621 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 Shell's Icon Grid Could See Almost Double The Performance | 29 Jun 2020 |
| Another Intel 4K + GNOME Optimization Yields 5% Faster Render Times, 10% Lower Power Use | 26 Jun 2020 |
| GNOME Shell Continues Eyeing Improvements As It Approaches 10 Years Old | 22 Jun 2020 |
| GNOME's Window Rendering Culling Was Broken Leading To Wasted Performance | 22 Jun 2020 |
| GNOME's Mutter Sees More Cleaning That Ultimately Could Help Foster Vulkan Support | 19 Jun 2020 |
| New Patches Aim To Improve Smoothness & Latency Of NVIDIA On GNOME | 15 Jun 2020 |
| Ubuntu 20.10 / GNOME 3.38 Could See Better Intel Gen9 Graphics Performance | 08 Jun 2020 |
| GNOME 3.37.2 Released As Another Step Towards GNOME 3.38 | 07 Jun 2020 |
| GNOME 3.36.2 Released With Restoring TLS 1.0/1.1, Crash Fixes, Other Stable Updates | 04 May 2020 |
| GNOME Adds Bit To Launcher Files For Indicating Apps That Should Run On Discrete GPUs | 04 May 2020 |
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1074 Articles |
| GNU |
| GCC 11 Now Defaults To C++17 Dialect By Default | 27 Jun 2020 |
| FSF Calls Software Patents A Disease Amid COVID-19 Crisis, USPTO A Super-Spreader | 22 Jun 2020 |
| GNU's "adns" DNS Resolver Library Hit By An Array Of Security Issues | 11 Jun 2020 |
| GCC's JIT Library Sees Experimental Port To Windows | 25 May 2020 |
| GCC 10.1 Compiler Optimization Benchmarks | 23 May 2020 |
| GCC 11 Picks Up A New Option For Large Source Files | 18 May 2020 |
| GCC 11 Proposal Would Default To C++17 Level Features | 17 May 2020 |
| GCC 11 Enables Co-Routines Support In C++20 Mode | 16 May 2020 |
| GCC 10 Compiler Released With Radeon OpenMP/OpenACC Offload, Intel Tigerlake/Cooperlake | 07 May 2020 |
| MediaGoblin 0.10 Released With Video Subtitles Support, Other Small Improvements | 06 May 2020 |
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821 Articles |
| Google |
| Chrome Is Reaching The Point Of Good X11 + Wayland Support In Same Build | 31 May 2020 |
| Chrome 84 Beta Brings Better Web Animations API, Experimental WebAssembly SIMD | 28 May 2020 |
| Android Studio 4.0 Released With Overhauled CPU Profiler, Clangd For C++ Code | 28 May 2020 |
| There Are Many Interesting Google Summer of Code 2020 Open-Source Projects | 07 May 2020 |
| Android 11 Aiming For Release In Q3 | 06 May 2020 |
| Chrome 83 Beta Rolls Out With Better Form Controls, Barcode Detection API | 17 Apr 2020 |
| 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 |
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422 Articles |
| Hardware |
| LVFS Serves Up Over 17 Million Firmware Files To Linux Users | 29 Jun 2020 |
| Linux 5.9 Likely To See USB4 Support Improvements | 29 Jun 2020 |
| In 2020 The Linux Kernel Is Still Seeing Driver Work For The Macintosh II | 28 Jun 2020 |
| 55th TOP500 Supercomputer List Topped By Arm-Based Fujitsu A64FX | 22 Jun 2020 |
| Amazon Introduces AWS Snowcone: 8TB Of Storage For Edge Computing Within 9 x 6 x 3 Inches | 17 Jun 2020 |
| Linux Patches Provide Corsair Commander Pro Support For Thermal / Fan / RGB Controller | 15 Jun 2020 |
| LiteDIP: Creating Open-Source IP Blocks For Generic Linux Drivers On FPGAs | 11 Jun 2020 |
| Linux 5.8 Brings Boost Support To CPPC CPUFreq Driver | 10 Jun 2020 |
| LVFS 1.2 Released As The Project Serves Up 16 Million Firmware Downloads | 09 Jun 2020 |
| Char/Misc Additions For Linux 5.8 Headlined By Intel / Habana Labs Gaudi Support | 09 Jun 2020 |
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1601 Articles |
| Intel |
| Intel Graphics Driver Fixes Include Assembly Sources To Satisfy GNU Linux-Libre Folks | 01 Jul 2020 |
| Intel Unveils New "KMB" DRM Driver For Their New SoC With An ARM CPU + Movidius VPU | 30 Jun 2020 |
| Intel Media Driver 20.2.pre4 Brings DG1 Graphics Card Support | 28 Jun 2020 |
| Intel Begins Volleying Open-Source Patches Around Intel AMX | 27 Jun 2020 |
| Intel oneAPI DPC++ Compiler 2020-06 Released With New Features | 25 Jun 2020 |
| Intel Squaring Away "Hours of Battery Life" Feature For New Notebooks On Linux | 25 Jun 2020 |
| Intel P-State Getting Energy Efficiency Knob, EPB Knob Change | 24 Jun 2020 |
| Intel DG1 Graphics Card Support Lands In Mesa 20.2 For OpenGL / Vulkan | 23 Jun 2020 |
| It's Looking Like FSGSBASE Support Might Finally Land In Linux 5.9 | 19 Jun 2020 |
| Intel Volleys Latest Patches For Lighting Up Their DG1 Graphics Card On Linux | 18 Jun 2020 |
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1808 Articles |
| KDE |
| KDE Completes Transition To GitLab For Developer Portal | 30 Jun 2020 |
| KDE Ending Out June With Many Bug Fixes, Finally Supporting Btrfs Copy-On-Write | 27 Jun 2020 |
| Two Areas KDE Can Use Help Right Now In Porting For Plasma 6.0 | 25 Jun 2020 |
| It's Looking Unlikely KDE Will See Per-Screen Scaling On X11 This Year | 23 Jun 2020 |
| KDE Plasma 5.19 Sees Many Regression Fixes, Other Work For Plasma 5.20 | 20 Jun 2020 |
| Krita 4.3 Released For This Leading Open-Source Digital Painting Application | 18 Jun 2020 |
| QML Online Now Hosted By The KDE Project For Qt/QML On The Web | 16 Jun 2020 |
| KDE Developers Begin Working More On Plasma 5.20 Changes | 13 Jun 2020 |
| KDE Plasma 5.19 Released After Lots Of Polishing, Better Wayland Support | 09 Jun 2020 |
| KDE On Wayland Finally Supports Middle-Click Paste With Plasma 5.20 | 06 Jun 2020 |
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984 Articles |
| LibreOffice |
| LibreOffice 7.0 Beta 2 Released For This Open-Source, Vulkan-Supported Office Suite | 22 Jun 2020 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 Beta Available For Testing With Its Skia+Vulkan Support | 01 Jun 2020 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 Alpha 1 Released With Its Skia + Vulkan Rendering | 14 May 2020 |
| LibreOffice On Windows Will Now Hard Require Clang For Performance Reasons | 08 May 2020 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 Finally Retiring Its Adobe Flash Export Support | 23 Apr 2020 |
| LibreOffice 7.0 Will Prefer Building Its Rendering Code With LLVM's Clang Compiler | 20 Apr 2020 |
| 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 |
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126 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 |
| The Dark Mod 2.08 Released As One Of The Few Games Powered By Open-Source id Tech 4 | 01 Jul 2020 |
| Godot 4.0 Is Looking Even More Impressive With SDFGI | 28 Jun 2020 |
| Proton 5.0-8 Shipping With The Latest DXVK/VKD3D, Windows Game Fixes | 06 Jun 2020 |
| Steam Linux Percentage For May Points To A New Multi-Year High | 01 Jun 2020 |
| Mozilla Sponsored The Godot Game Engine To Port Their Editor As An HTML5 Web App | 29 May 2020 |
| EA To Open-Source Part Of Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert To Help The Mod Community | 20 May 2020 |
| Epic Games Preparing Unreal Engine 5 For Debut In 2021 With Increased Photo-Realism | 13 May 2020 |
| FlightGear 2020.1 Released For This Open-Source Flight Simulator | 12 May 2020 |
| Unigine Engine Turns 15 Years Old For Delivering First-Rate Linux Graphics | 05 May 2020 |
| The Godot Game Engine's Vulkan Support Is Getting In Increasingly Great Shape | 02 May 2020 |
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1717 Articles |
| Linux Kernel |
| Linux 5.8-rc3 Released - Fairly Big But Not Particularly Scary | 28 Jun 2020 |
| Linux To Begin Tightening Up Ability To Write To CPU MSRs From User-Space | 25 Jun 2020 |
| Google Posts Patches So The Linux Kernel Can Be LTO-Optimized By Clang | 24 Jun 2020 |
| FGKASLR Revised For Better Linux Security Via Enhanced Address Space Randomization | 23 Jun 2020 |
| Linux 5.8-rc2 Released For This Big Summer 2020 Kernel | 21 Jun 2020 |
| FSGSBASE Testing Is Encouraged Ahead Of Linux 5.9 | 20 Jun 2020 |
| Latest Slab Cgroup Memory Controller Patches Saving ~1GB RAM Per Host On Facebook Servers | 19 Jun 2020 |
| Eight Features Not In Linux 5.8 From The DirectX Kernel Driver To FSGSBASE & DAMON | 16 Jun 2020 |
| Linux Lands And Then Reverts Usage Of Flexible Array Members | 16 Jun 2020 |
| Running Linux 5.8-rc1 Benchmarks On The Intel Core i9 10900K + Radeon RX 5700 XT | 15 Jun 2020 |
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2475 Articles |
| Linux Networking |
| Intel's IWD 1.8 Wireless Daemon Released With WiFi P2P Support | 17 Jun 2020 |
| Linux 5.8 Networking Changes Include Introducing Cable Testing Infrastructure | 04 Jun 2020 |
| NetworkManager 1.26 Development Progressing With New Functionality | 31 May 2020 |
| Many MediaTek Wireless Driver Improvements On Deck For Linux 5.8 | 24 May 2020 |
| Freescale Ethernet Driver Unlocks A Big Performance Improvement | 04 May 2020 |
| Linux 5.8 Seeing Support For New Marvell/Aquantia Atlantic "A2" NICs | 02 May 2020 |
| There Is Now A WireGuard Benchmark For Testing Linux Networking Performance | 20 Apr 2020 |
| NetworkManager 1.24 Coming Soon With VRF Support, Opportunistic Wireless Encryption | 11 Apr 2020 |
| 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 |
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156 Articles |
| Linux Security |
| LKRG 0.8 Released For Increasing Linux Kernel Runtime Security | 26 Jun 2020 |
| Another Attack Vector Uncovered For Bypassing Linux Lockdown Via ACPI Tables | 15 Jun 2020 |
| Google Engineer Uncovers Holes In Linux's Speculative Execution Mitigations | 09 Jun 2020 |
| SELinux Sees Nice Optimizations With Linux 5.8 | 02 Jun 2020 |
| Want A More Secure Computer At The Cost Of Performance? Linux 5.8 Landing L1d Flushing | 01 Jun 2020 |
| Google Engineers Are Becoming Concerned Over Some Arm Platforms Lacking Spectre V2 Mitigations | 27 May 2020 |
| Linux 5.8 Set To Optionally Flush The L1d Cache On Context Switch To Increase Security | 22 May 2020 |
| Thunderspy Is A New Vulnerability Affecting Thunderbolt Security | 11 May 2020 |
| TLB State Access Being Tightened Up On Linux For Better Security | 21 Apr 2020 |
| Linux Security Feature Revised For Randomizing The Kernel Stack Offset At Each System Call | 08 Apr 2020 |
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150 Articles |
| Linux Storage |
| Bcachefs Linux File-System Seeing Performance Improvements, Other Progress | 28 Jun 2020 |
| EXT4 Per-Inode DAX Support Sent In As A Last Minute Linux 5.8 Addition | 14 Jun 2020 |
| Linux 5.8 To Allow For Faster Xen 9pfs Performance | 13 Jun 2020 |
| Linux 5.8 To Support Emulating MLC NAND Flash Memory As SLC | 10 Jun 2020 |
| F2FS Improvements Sent In For Linux 5.8 With LZO-RLE, New Compression Knobs | 10 Jun 2020 |
| Samsung Sends In Improvements To The exFAT File-System Driver For Linux 5.8 | 09 Jun 2020 |
| Reiser4/Reiser5 Updated For Linux 5.7 Kernel Compatibility | 08 Jun 2020 |
| SMB3 Updates For Linux 5.8 Offer Better Performance For Large I/O | 06 Jun 2020 |
| EXT4 Gets A Nice Batch Of Fixes For Linux 5.8 | 05 Jun 2020 |
| Improved DAX Support Lands In Linux 5.8 - Initially Benefiting XFS + EXT4 | 03 Jun 2020 |
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508 Articles |
| LLVM |
| 5+ Years Late: LLVM's AMD Excavator Target Was Missing Two Features | 28 Jun 2020 |
| Apple's Compiler Team Starts Upstreaming Changes For macOS 11 | 23 Jun 2020 |
| LLVM Is Looking At Establishing An "Incubator" Process For Encouraging New Sub-Projects | 21 Jun 2020 |
| LLVM Developers Plotting Path Forward For Moving To A New Git Branch Name | 19 Jun 2020 |
| LLVM Moves Forward With A Security Group For Dealing With Security-Related Issues | 13 Jun 2020 |
| If Mitigations Weren't Already Bad Enough: Slow Build Times Now Lead To An Unoptimized Intel LVI Pass | 11 Jun 2020 |
| Clang 11 Changes -O To Match GCC Behavior | 19 May 2020 |
| LLVM Lands Support For The Marvell ThunderX3 | 14 May 2020 |
| BFloat16 Support About To Land Within LLVM | 13 May 2020 |
| Intel's Load Hardening Mitigation Merged Into LLVM 11 For LVI Protection | 12 May 2020 |
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608 Articles |
| Mesa |
| Zink GL-On-Vulkan Driver Approaching OpenGL 3.1 Support | 29 Jun 2020 |
| Freedreno Lands On-Disk Shader Cache Support In Mesa 20.2 | 27 Jun 2020 |
| Mesa 20.2 RADV Driver Flips On ACO By Default For Quicker Game Load Times, Better Performance | 25 Jun 2020 |
| Mesa 20.1.2 Release Led By Radeon Driver Fixes | 24 Jun 2020 |
| RADV ACO SMEM Patches Land - Taking ACO To Feature Parity With AMDGPU LLVM | 24 Jun 2020 |
| Mesa 20.2 Gets A Release Schedule With Hopes Of Shipping By End Of August | 24 Jun 2020 |
| Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Adds Experimental Support For Sienna Cichlid | 19 Jun 2020 |
| Zink Is Now OpenGL 3.0 Complete For Generic GL Over Vulkan | 18 Jun 2020 |
| Zink OpenGL-Over-Vulkan Now Exposes GLSL 1.30 | 16 Jun 2020 |
| Mesa 20.0.8 Released To End Out The Series | 12 Jun 2020 |
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1827 Articles |
| Microsoft |
| Microsoft Posts Initial DRM Driver For Hyper-V Synthetic Video Device | 23 Jun 2020 |
| NVIDIA, Intel Post New Windows 10 Graphics Drivers For WSL2 Linux App Support | 17 Jun 2020 |
| Microsoft Has Now Open-Source Their BASIC Code From 1983 | 21 May 2020 |
| Microsoft Is Writing Its Own Wayland Compositor As Part Of WSL2 GUI Efforts | 20 May 2020 |
| Mainlining The Microsoft DirectX Kernel Driver For Linux Will Be An Uphill Battle | 20 May 2020 |
| Microsoft And A KDE Project Spar Over "MAUI" | 19 May 2020 |
| Microsoft Announces Direct3D 12 For Linux / WSL2 | 19 May 2020 |
| Microsoft To Support GPU Acceleration, Linux GUI Apps On WSL2 | 19 May 2020 |
| Microsoft President Brad Smith Acknowledges They Were Previously Wrong On Open-Source | 14 May 2020 |
| Microsoft + Collabora Working To Map OpenGL/OpenCL Over DirectX 12 | 24 Mar 2020 |
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212 Articles |
| Mozilla |
| Firefox 78.0 Released - Also Serves As The Newest ESR Version | 30 Jun 2020 |
| Firefox Private Network Is Now Official As Mozilla VPN | 18 Jun 2020 |
| Firefox 77 Released With Security Fixes, AV1 Image File Support | 02 Jun 2020 |
| Firefox 76 + 77 Beta Web Browser Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux | 11 May 2020 |
| Firefox 76 Released With WebRender Improvements, Better Security | 05 May 2020 |
| Firefox 77 Nightly Adds Initial AV1 Image File Support (AVIF) | 04 May 2020 |
| Mozilla Releases DeepSpeech 0.7 As Their Great Speech-To-Text Engine | 25 Apr 2020 |
| WebGPU Support Begins Coming Together In Firefox Nightly Builds | 23 Apr 2020 |
| 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 |
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324 Articles |
| Multimedia |
| dav1d 0.7.1 AV1 Decoder Boosts 32-bit Arm Performance By ~28% | 21 Jun 2020 |
| VideoLAN Now Developing "libndi" For NDI Video Stream Handling | 18 Jun 2020 |
| FFmpeg 4.3 Released With AMD AMF Encoding, Vulkan Support, AV1 Encode | 16 Jun 2020 |
| Entangle 3.0 Released For Tethered Shooting With DSLR Cameras On Linux | 15 Jun 2020 |
| GIMP 2.10.20 Released With Better Adobe PSD Support | 11 Jun 2020 |
| Intel Atom Camera Driver Resurrected In Linux 5.8 - Benefits A Lot Of Devices | 04 Jun 2020 |
| Ardour 6.0 Digital Audio Workstation Released | 24 May 2020 |
| Dav1d 0.7 Speedups Are Looking Great On Various Intel + AMD CPUs | 23 May 2020 |
| Dav1d 0.7 Released With More Performance Optimizations | 21 May 2020 |
| AOMedia AV1 2.0 Codec Library Released With Many Improvements | 19 May 2020 |
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406 Articles |
| Nouveau |
| Open-Source 3D/Compute Finally Materializing For NVIDIA Volta / Turing GPUs | 09 Jun 2020 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA/Nouveau Changes Submitted For Linux 5.8 | 22 May 2020 |
| Nouveau Display CRC Support Being Firmed Up Thanks To NVIDIA's Documentation | 18 Apr 2020 |
| ASUS Releases Graphics Card That Could Actually Be Great For Open-Source NVIDIA Fans | 13 Apr 2020 |
| 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 |
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432 Articles |
| NVIDIA |
| NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 10 Brings Few Changes For This Proprietary Library | 02 Jul 2020 |
| An Early Benchmark Of The NVIDIA CUDA GPU Performance On WSL2 | 27 Jun 2020 |
| NVIDIA 450.51 Linux Driver Beta Adds NGX Library, PRIME Improvements | 24 Jun 2020 |
| NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Finally Adds External Memory Host Support | 23 Jun 2020 |
| NVIDIA A100 PCIe Accelerator Now Shipping For Servers | 22 Jun 2020 |
| NVIDIA 450 Linux Beta Driver Quietly Rolls Out With New PRIME Option, Other Improvements | 07 Jun 2020 |
| Mainline Linux Kernel Starts Seeing A NVIDIA Tegra X1 Video Input Driver | 28 May 2020 |
| NVIDIA 440.66.15 Vulkan Linux Driver Offers Up More Fixes | 26 May 2020 |
| NVIDIA Nsight Graphics 2020.3 Supports Profiling KHR Ray-Tracing | 24 May 2020 |
| NVIDIA Engineer Revives Work On Linux Proactive Memory Compaction | 18 May 2020 |
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875 Articles |
| Operating Systems |
| BeOS-Inspired Haiku Working On Supporting Modern CPU Features Like AVX | 28 Jun 2020 |
| Linux Mint 20 "Ulyana" Released - Based On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | 27 Jun 2020 |
| Mageia 8 Alpha 1 Released With Better ARM Support, Linux 5.7 Kernel | 26 Jun 2020 |
| OmniOS Updates Bring Microcode Mitigation For CrossTalk/SRBDS | 22 Jun 2020 |
| Linux Mint 20 Beta Released - Based On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Introduces Warpinator | 14 Jun 2020 |
| Haiku R1 Beta 2 "Open-Source BeOS" Operating System Released | 09 Jun 2020 |
| Linux Mint 20 To Better Fend Off Snaps, Improve NVIDIA Optimus Support | 01 Jun 2020 |
| Alpine Linux 3.12 Released With D Language Support, MIPS64 Port | 29 May 2020 |
| Genode OS 20.05 Adds Capability-Based Security Using SECCOMP, Drops Python 2 + Rust | 28 May 2020 |
| Arch-Based EndeavourOS Sees New Release With Faster Installation, i3 Improvements | 10 May 2020 |
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| Oracle |
| Oracle Updates Many Packages With Solaris 11.4 SRU21 | 23 May 2020 |
| Oracle Talks Up Btrfs Rather Than ZFS For Their Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6 | 21 May 2020 |
| Oracle Releases GraalVM 20.1 Virtual Machine With Some Big Improvements | 19 May 2020 |
| Oracle Working On "PKRAM" For Memory That Survives After Booting Into A New Kexec Kernel | 08 May 2020 |
| Oracle Linux 8 Update 2 Released, Now Defaulting To UEK R6 Kernel For New Installs | 07 May 2020 |
| OpenJDK 15 To Have Better Out-Of-The-Box Performance | 16 Apr 2020 |
| Oracle Punts Its Twentieth Update To Solaris 11.4 | 15 Apr 2020 |
| 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 |
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| Phoronix |
| Raspberry Pi Vulkan, WSL2, Renoir, Linux 5.8 + PHP8 Was Exciting For June | 01 Jul 2020 |
| Intel vs. AMD, Systemd-Homed, Kernel Advancements Top H1'2020 For Linux | 30 Jun 2020 |
| Phoronix Is Now 16 Years Old, Phoronix Test Suite Turns 12 | 05 Jun 2020 |
| Kernel Advancements, Microsoft Linux News Kept Open-Source Fans Entertained In May | 02 Jun 2020 |
| Phoronix Turns 16 Years Old Next Week, So Here's A Special To Celebrate | 31 May 2020 |
| Linux Gaming, Qt Drama, New Hardware Kept Open-Source Enthusiasts Entertained This Month | 30 Apr 2020 |
| 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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| Phoronix Test Suite |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.8 Milestone 2 Released For Open-Source/Linux Benchmarking | 24 Jun 2020 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.8 Milestone 1 Readies Another Round Of Benchmarking Features | 04 Jun 2020 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.6.1 Released For Cross-Platform, Open-Source Benchmarking | 25 May 2020 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.6 Released With Many Benchmark Result Viewer Improvements | 21 Apr 2020 |
| Continuing To Improve The Benchmark Result Viewer | 12 Apr 2020 |
| 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 |
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| Premium |
| Showing Your Support During COVID-19 | 24 Apr 2020 |
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| Programming |
| Lua 5.4 Released With New Garbage Collection Mode, Warning System | 29 Jun 2020 |
| PHP 8.0 Alpha 1 Released - Running Faster And With New Features | 25 Jun 2020 |
| Perl 7 Announced As Evolving Perl 5 With Modern Defaults | 24 Jun 2020 |
| Perl 5.32 Released With Unicode 13.0 Support, Performance Enhancements | 21 Jun 2020 |
| FPC 3.2 Pascal Compiler Released In 2020 - Even Adds Windows 3.0 16-bit Support | 20 Jun 2020 |
| OpenBLAS 0.3.10 Released With Initial BFloat16 Support, x86_64 Optimizations | 15 Jun 2020 |
| Git 2.27 Demotes The Recently Promoted Transport Protocol v2, Continues SHA-256 Work | 01 Jun 2020 |
| Apache Updates Subversion - SVN 1.14 LTS Released | 28 May 2020 |
| A Quick Look At GCC 10.1 PGO Optimization Benchmarks | 26 May 2020 |
| PostgreSQL 13.0 Beta 1 Released With Parallel Vacuum, Security Improvements + Benchmarks | 24 May 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 |
| Qt 6.0 Sees Its First Development Snapshot | 15 Jun 2020 |
| KDAB Releases Qt 3D + glTF 2.0 Powered Kuesa 3D 1.2 | 08 Jun 2020 |
| Qt Updates Its Online Installer To Clarify Open-Source Obligations | 27 May 2020 |
| Qt 5.15 Released With Graphics Improvements, Preparations Ahead Of Qt 6 | 26 May 2020 |
| Qt 5.15 Aiming For Release A Week From Today | 12 May 2020 |
| Qt 5.15 Hits Release Candidate In Hopes Of Shipping Later This Month | 06 May 2020 |
| Qt 6.0 Gets A Release Date With An Initial Release Schedule Published | 27 Apr 2020 |
| LXQt 0.15 Released As First Big Update To This Lightweight Qt Desktop In A Year | 25 Apr 2020 |
| Qt Developers Discuss Theoretical Clang-Based Tool For Porting Qt5 Code To Qt6 | 23 Apr 2020 |
| Qt Creator 4.12 Released For Improving Qt/C++ Development | 23 Apr 2020 |
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430 Articles |
| Radeon |
| RadeonSI Switches To Make Greater Wave64 Use On Navi | 01 Jul 2020 |
| AMD/ROCm "AOMP" Compiler Enables OpenMP 5.0 By Default, Preps For More Upstreaming | 30 Jun 2020 |
| AMDVLK 2020.Q2.6 Brings More Performance Tuning | 30 Jun 2020 |
| AMD Publishes AMDGPU UVD Firmware For Southern Islands | 29 Jun 2020 |
| AMD Queues Its First Batch Of AMDGPU Changes For Linux 5.9: Sienna Cichlid + More | 27 Jun 2020 |
| AMDVLK 2020.Q2.5 Driver Released With Some New Bits + Bug Fixes | 24 Jun 2020 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Adds New Workaround For Path of Exile Game | 23 Jun 2020 |
| AMDGPU Patches Revived For Better Hot Device Unplug / External GPU Handling | 21 Jun 2020 |
| Radeon ROCm 3.5.1 Open-Source Compute Stack Released | 20 Jun 2020 |
| AMD Lands VCN 3.0 Video Encode Support For Navi 2 / Sienna Cichlid | 18 Jun 2020 |
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| Red Hat |
| "Project Springfield" Is Red Hat's Effort To Improve Linux File-Systems / Storage | 01 Jul 2020 |
| RHEL Deprecating The Virt-Manager UI In Favor Of The Cockpit Web Console | 26 Jun 2020 |
| Red Hat Investing In Modularity And Will Support It Where It Makes Sense For RHEL 9 | 18 Jun 2020 |
| CentOS 8 Rebased Against RHEL 8.2 | 15 Jun 2020 |
| Red Hat's Stratis Storage 2.1 Released With Encryption Support, Other Improvements | 04 Jun 2020 |
| Red Hat Tosses Its Weight Behind Quarkus | 28 May 2020 |
| 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 |
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216 Articles |
| RISC-V |
| RISC-V UEFI Linux Support Under Review | 28 Jun 2020 |
| RISC-V For Linux 5.8 Finishes Bringing Up The Kendryte K210, Adds KGDB Support | 07 Jun 2020 |
| 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 |
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| Standards |
| Khronos Releases SYCL 2020 Provisional Specification | 30 Jun 2020 |
| Khronos Releases OpenVG 1.1 Lite For High Quality Vector Graphics On Mobile | 28 May 2020 |
| SD 8.0 Specification To Allow 4GB/s Transfer Rates By Leveraging PCIe 4.0 | 19 May 2020 |
| 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 |
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| SUSE |
| openSUSE Leap 15.2 Hits RC Phase With GNOME 3.34 + KDE Plasma 5.18, Sway | 29 May 2020 |
| 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 |
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| systemd |
| Systemd 246 Is On The Way With Many Changes | 01 Jul 2020 |
| Dbus-Broker 23 Released For High Performance D-Bus | 11 May 2020 |
| Systemd-OOMD Continues Coming Together For Better Linux Out-Of-Memory Handling | 10 Apr 2020 |
| 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 |
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| Ubuntu |
| EGMDE Is Still Being Hacked On As A Lightweight Mir Desktop | 26 Jun 2020 |
| Dell To Begin Shipping Ubuntu 20.04 LTS On Their Latest XPS Developer Edition | 23 Jun 2020 |
| Ubuntu 20.10 Looking At Restricting Access To Kernel Logs With dmesg | 17 Jun 2020 |
| Ubuntu 18.04's Heavily Patched Kernel Opens Door To Lockdown Bypass, Breaks Secure Boot | 14 Jun 2020 |
| Ubuntu's Ubiquity Installer Begins Adding ZFS Encryption Support | 10 Jun 2020 |
| Performing Automated Server Installs With Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | 07 Jun 2020 |
| Ubuntu's ZFS Daemon Zsys 0.5 Released | 03 Jun 2020 |
| Ubuntu 20.10 Installer With ZFS Will Enable TRIM By Default | 21 May 2020 |
| Ubuntu Touch OTA-12 Released With The Switch Finally To Unity 8 / Lomiri | 13 May 2020 |
| Ubuntu's Server Installer Was Mistakenly Leaking Encrypted Storage Passphrase To Its Log | 12 May 2020 |
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| Valve |
| Futex2 Proposed In Latest Effort For Linux Kernel Optimization That Can Benefit Gamers | 12 Jun 2020 |
| Steam Play's Proton 5.0-9 Brings Fix For Games Requiring EA Origin Client | 11 Jun 2020 |
| Proton 5.0-8 Release Candidate Brings Game Fixes, Performance Improvements | 03 Jun 2020 |
| Steam Ironing Out Shader Pre-Caching For Helping Game Load Times, Stuttering | 30 May 2020 |
| Half-Life: Alyx Update Adds Native Linux Support, Vulkan Rendering | 15 May 2020 |
| Valve Updates Steam Survey Data For April With A Slight Linux Increase | 02 May 2020 |
| Proton 5.0-7 Released With New Game Support, Updated VKD3D/DXVK | 01 May 2020 |
| Proton 5.0-7 Being Prepared With Newer DXVK, Updated VKD3D Layer | 28 Apr 2020 |
| Steam Audio SDK 2.0 Beta 18 Released | 22 Apr 2020 |
| Steam Play's Proton 5.0-6 Released With DOOM Eternal Fix, Other Game Improvements | 15 Apr 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 |
| Intel's Cloud Hypervisor 0.8 Adds Experimental ARM64 Support, Snapshot/Restore | 13 Jun 2020 |
| Loongson 3 CPUs Beginning To Work With Linux KVM Virtualization | 13 Jun 2020 |
| Linux 5.8 Supports Nested AMD Live Migration With KVM | 11 Jun 2020 |
| Intel Engineer Proposes Software-Based KVM Protected Memory Extension | 24 May 2020 |
| Linux KVM Virtualization Had Mistakenly Been Applying L1TF Workaround To Unaffected CPUs | 19 May 2020 |
| Proxmox VE 6.2 Released With Zstd Backups, Live Migration With ZFS Storage Replication | 12 May 2020 |
| QEMU 5.0 Released For This Important Open-Source Emulator For Linux Virtualization | 28 Apr 2020 |
| Amazon Plumbing Nitro Enclaves Support For Linux To Isolate Highly Sensitive Data | 21 Apr 2020 |
| VirtIO-FS Support Is In QEMU 5.0 For Better File/Folder Sharing Between Hosts And VMs | 21 Apr 2020 |
| KVM With Linux 5.7 Supporting Protected/Secure VM Guests For IBM POWER + s390 | 05 Apr 2020 |
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417 Articles |
| Vulkan |
| Open-Source Qualcomm "TURNIP" Vulkan Driver Adds Tessellation Shader Support | 23 Jun 2020 |
| Vulkan 1.2.145 Released With VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state | 21 Jun 2020 |
| A NVIDIA Engineer In His Spare Time Wrote A Vulkan Driver That Works On Older Raspberry Pi | 20 Jun 2020 |
| New Vulkan Extension Proposed For DirectFB Support | 14 Jun 2020 |
| Raspberry Pi Vulkan Driver Making Progress But Long Road Remains | 09 Jun 2020 |
| Vulkan SDK 1.2.141 Released With GFXReconstruct, DirectX Shader Compiler Bundled | 06 Jun 2020 |
| X-Plane's Vulkan Renderer Maturing, More Performance Optimizations Still Coming | 17 May 2020 |
| DXVK 1.7 Released - Makes Use Of New Vulkan Extensions, Game Fixes | 16 May 2020 |
| Vulkan 1.2.140 Released With New Extensions For Private Data, Custom Border Color | 04 May 2020 |
| Vulkan 1.2.139 Released With VK_EXT_robustness2 Extension | 27 Apr 2020 |
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| Wayland |
| Wayland's Weston 9.0 Aims For Release In Early September | 02 Jul 2020 |
| Sway 1.5-RC1 Wayland Compositor Brings VRR / Adaptive-Sync, New Protocol Support | 25 Jun 2020 |
| TAIWINS Is A Compact Wayland Compositor | 13 May 2020 |
| Experimental Linux Live OS For Showcasing Wayland Updated With Latest Desktops | 07 May 2020 |
| The Wayland Book Is Now Freely Available | 05 May 2020 |
| Mir 1.8 Released With HiDPI Improvements, Better Compatibility Outside Of Ubuntu | 16 Apr 2020 |
| 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 |
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| WINE |
| Wine-Staging 5.11 Is Down To Just Over 700 Patches | 20 Jun 2020 |
| Wine 5.11 Released With Updated Mono, Initial Work On NetIO Kernel Driver | 19 Jun 2020 |
| Wine Staging 5.10 Adds Another Patch For Denuvo + A Fix For Numerous D3D11 Games | 06 Jun 2020 |
| Wine 5.10 Starts Work On A Unix Library For NTDLL, More WineD3D Vulkan | 05 Jun 2020 |
| Wine-Staging 5.9 Picks Up A Patch In The Effort To Deal With Denuvo Anti-Cheat | 23 May 2020 |
| Wine 5.9 Released With Latest WineD3D Vulkan Capabilities, DLL Improvements | 22 May 2020 |
| Wine's Direct3D Vulkan Back-End Continues Seeing An Uptick In Activity | 21 May 2020 |
| Wine-Staging 5.8 Is Smaller Thanks To Upstreaming More Patches | 09 May 2020 |
| Wine 5.8 Released With GIF Encoder, More WineD3D Vulkan Progress | 08 May 2020 |
| Wine Patches Cleaned Up, Out For Review On Very Early POWER 64-Bit Support | 26 Apr 2020 |
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| X.Org |
| Linux 5.9 To Expose Adaptive-Sync / VRR Range Via DebugFS | 26 Jun 2020 |
| The First Batch Of DRM-Misc-Next Changes For Linux 5.9 Sent In | 20 Jun 2020 |
| Intel Developer Posts Latest Patch For Variable Refresh Rate Within X.Org Modesetting | 11 Jun 2020 |
| Adaptive-Sync/VRR Seeing Port To xf86-video-modesetting Driver | 25 May 2020 |
| XDC2020 Call For Proposals - X.Org Developers For Now Still Planning To Meet In Poland | 16 May 2020 |
| X.Org Board Elections Wrap Up For 2020 | 30 Apr 2020 |
| Pixman 0.40 Released As First Update In A Year For This Key Library For The Linux Desktop | 20 Apr 2020 |
| X.Org AutoRepeat Option Restored After 14 Year Hiatus | 13 Apr 2020 |
| 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 |
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