AMD |
AMD Launches Ryzen V1000/R1000 Embedded Processors For Small Form Factor PCs | 03 Dec 2019 |
AMD IOMMU Driver Reworked For Linux 5.5 | 02 Dec 2019 |
Threadripper 3970X Performing Better On Windows Relative To Linux - Thanks To Microsoft Or Zen 2? | 30 Nov 2019 |
AMD's TEE Driver For Loading "Trusted Applications" On Their Secure Processor Under Linux | 26 Nov 2019 |
The Workaround To Boot Linux On AMD Threadripper 3960X/3970X Systems | 25 Nov 2019 |
AMD's Athlon 3000G Processor Begins Shipping At $49 USD | 19 Nov 2019 |
Intel's Assembler Changes For JCC Erratum Are Not Hurting AMD | 14 Nov 2019 |
AMD Details 3rd Gen Threadripper, Ryzen 9 3950X + Their New $49 USD CPU | 07 Nov 2019 |
GNU Binutils Adds Bits For AMD Zen 2's RDPRU + MCOMMIT Instructions | 07 Nov 2019 |
AMD Linux Graphics Driver Prepping "DMCUB" Support For Renoir APUs | 28 Oct 2019 |
More AMD News | 1063 Articles |
Arm |
Linux 5.5 Lands Broadcom BCM2711 / Raspberry Pi 4 Bits | 06 Dec 2019 |
Linux 5.5 Can Boot The Modem Processor On Snapdragon 835 - Needed For Cell/WiFi On Qualcomm Laptops | 02 Dec 2019 |
64-Bit ARM Updates Sent In Ahead Of The Linux 5.5 Cycle | 24 Nov 2019 |
Arm Has Been Working To Boost The Chrome/Chromium Browser Performance | 22 Nov 2019 |
Arm Porting LLVM's Hardware-Assisted Address Sanitizer To GCC | 06 Nov 2019 |
UBports Begins Offering Ubuntu Touch 64-Bit ARM Images | 06 Nov 2019 |
SDL Picks Up ARM Optimizations For Helping Games On Devices Like The Raspberry Pi | 31 Oct 2019 |
GCC 10 Switches Arm's Scheduling-Pressure Algorithm For Better Performance | 21 Oct 2019 |
ARMv8.6-A Brings BFloat16, GEMM & Other Enhancements | 25 Sep 2019 |
OLPC XO-1.75 Seeing Mainline Support With The Linux 5.4 Kernel, Seven Years After Launch | 21 Sep 2019 |
More Arm News | 189 Articles |
BSD |
NomadBSD 1.3 Released To Offer A Pleasant FreeBSD 12.1 Based Desktop Experience | 11 Dec 2019 |
NetBSD 9.0 RC1 Released With 64-Bit Arm Support, Updated ZFS + Other Improvements | 02 Dec 2019 |
FreeBSD Foundation Buying Newer Laptops To Help Improve Hardware Support | 26 Nov 2019 |
DragonFlyBSD Pulls In AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Code From Linux 4.9 | 17 Nov 2019 |
The FreeBSD Migration To OpenZFS Is Still Looking To Be A Great Change | 08 Nov 2019 |
GPU Passthrough For FreeBSD's Bhyve Can Work But Is Fairly Rudimentary | 06 Nov 2019 |
FuryBSD Is A New Attempt At A Desktop Focused BSD | 05 Nov 2019 |
Netflix Is An Example Of A Great Open-Source Corporate Patron To FreeBSD | 05 Nov 2019 |
Netflix Optimized FreeBSD's Network Stack More Than Doubled AMD EPYC Performance | 04 Nov 2019 |
FreeBSD 12.1 Released With LLD Linker On i386 By Default, Now Shipping Libomp | 04 Nov 2019 |
More BSD News | 645 Articles |
Clear Linux |
Video: 100+ Daily Performance Tests For Clear Linux + Intel's Other Full-Stack Optimizations | 01 Dec 2019 |
Clear Linux Working On A New Software Store, User Bundles Arriving Before End Of Year | 21 Oct 2019 |
Intel's Clear Linux Upgrades Its Performance-Optimized Desktop To GNOME 3.34 | 30 Sep 2019 |
Clear Linux vs. Ubuntu 19.10 Video Encoder Performance On The Core i9 9900K | 20 Sep 2019 |
GNOME 3.34 Should Be Hitting Clear Linux "Soon-ish" | 20 Sep 2019 |
A Look At The Speedy Clear Linux Boot Time Versus Ubuntu 19.10 | 16 Sep 2019 |
Clear Linux Is Being Used Within Some Automobiles | 14 Sep 2019 |
How Intel's Clear Linux Team Cut The Kernel Boot Time From 3 Seconds To 300 ms | 11 Sep 2019 |
Visual Studio Code Has Surprisingly Huge Linux Use & Other Developer Metrics | 05 Sep 2019 |
Clear Linux Releases Deep Learning Reference Stack 4.0 For Better AI Performance | 22 Aug 2019 |
More Clear Linux News | 78 Articles |
Coreboot |
Open-Source Intel TXT Support Published For Coreboot | 21 Nov 2019 |
Coreboot 4.11 Brings Many Intel Improvements, New Support For Supermicro / Lenovo Boards | 19 Nov 2019 |
Coreboot Support Is Being Worked On For Fwupd/LVFS | 12 Nov 2019 |
System76 Launches Two Intel Laptops With "Open-Source Firmware" Coreboot | 10 Oct 2019 |
The Mission Of Coreboot - Is It About Open-Source Or Appeasing Hardware Vendors? | 08 Sep 2019 |
Oreboot Is Taking Shape As Rust'ed, Purely Open-Source Focused Coreboot | 03 Sep 2019 |
Thank The NSA For Their Ghidra Software Now Helping Firmware Reverse Engineering | 01 Sep 2019 |
System76 Preparing To Roll Out Their First Coreboot-Enabled Laptop | 11 Aug 2019 |
A Modern Supermicro Kabylake Xeon Motherboard Now Supports Coreboot | 09 Aug 2019 |
Coreboot 4.10 Released With New Support For Many Chromebooks & Random Motherboards | 22 Jul 2019 |
More Coreboot News | 203 Articles |
Debian |
Debian Developers Take To Voting Over Init System Diversity | 06 Dec 2019 |
Debian Installer Bullseye Alpha 1 Released | 05 Dec 2019 |
Devuan 2.1 Released - Still Delivering Debian 9 Without Systemd | 25 Nov 2019 |
Debian Adds Another Option For Its Init System Diversity General Resolution | 19 Nov 2019 |
Debian Moves Closer To Voting On Proposals Over Init System Diversity | 16 Nov 2019 |
Debian 10.2 Released With The Latest Security Fixes | 16 Nov 2019 |
Debian To Seek A General Resolution Over Their Init System Policy | 29 Oct 2019 |
Debian 11 To Further Deprecate IPTables In Favor Of Nftables Plus Promoting Firewalld | 14 Oct 2019 |
Debian May Need To Re-Evaluate Its Interest In "Init System Diversity" | 18 Sep 2019 |
Slax 9.11 Released While Re-Base To Debian 10 Is In Development | 14 Sep 2019 |
More Debian News | 307 Articles |
Desktop |
Khronos + W3C Collaborating On SPIR-V Potentially Being The Shading Language For The Web | 28 Nov 2019 |
Compiz Sees New Update Ahead Of The Holidays - But It's Mainly Bug Fixing | 28 Nov 2019 |
Glimpse 0.1 Released As The Rebranded Fork Of The GIMP | 22 Nov 2019 |
GIMP 2.10.14 Released With Better HEIF Support, More Filters Ported To Using GEGL | 31 Oct 2019 |
Pango Dropping Support For Bitmap Fonts Is Frustrating Some Linux Desktop Users | 29 Oct 2019 |
Xfce 4.16 To Drop GTK2 Support, Explore Some Client-Side Decorations | 20 Oct 2019 |
Xfce4-Panel Adds Dark Mode Preference | 18 Oct 2019 |
Xfce's xfce4-panel Says Farewell To GTK2 Support | 30 Sep 2019 |
PulseAudio 13.0 Released With Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio Support | 16 Sep 2019 |
Enlightenment 0.23 Released With Massive Wayland Improvements | 24 Aug 2019 |
More Desktop News | 357 Articles |
Fedora |
Fedora Deciding Whether CD/DVD Installation Issues Should Still Hold Up Releases | 13 Dec 2019 |
Fedora 32 Will Feature Bleeding-Edge Compilers Again With LLVM 10 + GCC 10 | 13 Dec 2019 |
Fedora 32 Will Still Allow Empty Passwords By Default | 09 Dec 2019 |
Fedora Prepares To Roll-Out Linux 5.4 Kernel Update But Needs Help Testing | 09 Dec 2019 |
Fedora 32 Might Disallow Empty Passwords For Local Users By Default | 26 Nov 2019 |
Some Fedora Users Concerned GNOME Software Promotes Proprietary Software With Flathub | 25 Nov 2019 |
Fedora Developers Looking To Change The Default Text Editor From Vi To Nano | 18 Nov 2019 |
Fedora Stakeholders Debate Statically Linking Python For Better Performance | 08 Nov 2019 |
Fedora 31 Released For This Innovative Linux Distribution Supported By Red Hat | 29 Oct 2019 |
Fedora 31 Will Be Released Next Week Tuesday | 24 Oct 2019 |
More Fedora News | 915 Articles |
Free Software |
Apple Releases CUPS 2.3.1 To Fix Security Issue + Other Bugs | 14 Dec 2019 |
Vim 8.2 Released With Support For Popup Windows | 12 Dec 2019 |
WireGuard Could Be Mainlined Before Christmas | 27 Nov 2019 |
Blender 2.81 Released With NVIDIA RTX Optix Back-End, Intel Open Image Denoise Support | 21 Nov 2019 |
Latest WireGuard Patch Out For Review With It Looking Like It Will Land For Linux 5.6 | 21 Nov 2019 |
Purism Outlines Librem 5 Software Work During October - Including Battery / Thermal | 15 Nov 2019 |
Darktable 3.0 RC1 Released With Greater Undo/Redo Support, More SSE Optimizations | 14 Nov 2019 |
Free Software Foundation Certifies Talos II With Respecting Your Freedom | 07 Nov 2019 |
Git 2.24 Released With Commit Graphs By Default, Adoption Of Contributor Covenant | 07 Nov 2019 |
Darktable 3.0 Approaching With Many New Features | 04 Nov 2019 |
More Free Software News | 1616 Articles |
General |
The LLVM Codebase Is Moving Past C++11 This Year, Likely To C++14 | 23 Jan 2019 |
FP64 Support Finally Lands In Mesa Git For Intel Haswell | 03 Jan 2017 |
More General News | 2 Articles |
GNOME |
GNOME 3.36 Bringing Better Multi-GPU Handling With Switcheroo-Control, NVIDIA Support | 13 Dec 2019 |
Flatpak 1.5.2 Continues Work On Authentication Support In Push To Handling Paid Apps | 13 Dec 2019 |
GNOME Shell 3.35.2 Begins Launching Spawned Processes Within Systemd Scopes | 11 Dec 2019 |
GNOME Shell + Mutter Had A Busy November With Some Big Performance Optimizations | 03 Dec 2019 |
Flatpak 1.5.1 Prepares For Protected/Authenticated Downloads - Future App Purchasing | 27 Nov 2019 |
GNOME 3.35.2 Released As Another Step Towards The GNOME 3.36 Desktop | 24 Nov 2019 |
Librsvg Continues Rust Conquest, Pulls In CSS Parsing Code From Mozilla Servo | 12 Nov 2019 |
Shortwave Enters Beta As New GNOME Internet Radio Player | 11 Nov 2019 |
GNOME Mutter Adds Intermediate ShadowFB For Faster Software Rendering | 04 Nov 2019 |
GNOME's Mutter Adds XWayland Full-Screen Games Workaround | 01 Nov 2019 |
More GNOME News | 1065 Articles |
GNU |
The GCC Git Conversion Heats Up With Hopes Of Converting Over The Holidays | 08 Dec 2019 |
GCC 10's C++20 "Spaceship Operator" Support Appears To Be In Good Shape | 06 Dec 2019 |
GDB Adds Multi-Threaded Symbol Loading For Faster Debugging Performance | 01 Dec 2019 |
Motorola m68k Support Improved Upon In GCC - Saved From Being Removed In GCC 11 | 26 Nov 2019 |
GNUstep Might Deprecate Support For GNU's GCC In Favor Of LLVM Clang | 24 Nov 2019 |
GCC 10 Feature Development Is Over - Now The Focus Turns To Bug Fixing | 18 Nov 2019 |
Initial Patches Wire In C++20 Coroutines For The GCC Compiler | 18 Nov 2019 |
GCC Might Finally Have A Static Analysis Framework Thanks To Red Hat | 17 Nov 2019 |
The GCC 10 Compiler Lands OpenMP / OpenACC Offloading To AMD Radeon GPUs | 17 Nov 2019 |
GCC Developers Discuss New Option For Recording Compiler Flags / Details In Binaries | 16 Nov 2019 |
More GNU News | 764 Articles |
Google |
Chrome 79 Released With WebXR Improvements, Other Developer Additions | 10 Dec 2019 |
Google Releases GraphicsFuzz 1.3 For Continuing To Fuzz GPU Drivers | 10 Dec 2019 |
Google Reaffirms Commitment To Kotlin Programming Language For Android | 06 Dec 2019 |
Google To Require "Designed For Chromebook" Devices Support Fwupd Firmware Updates | 18 Nov 2019 |
Android-x86 9.0 Nearing Release - RC1 Brings Experimental Vulkan, Text-Based Installer | 15 Nov 2019 |
Google Chrome To Begin Marking Sites That Are Slow / Fast | 11 Nov 2019 |
Chrome 79 Beta Adds The WebXR Device API For VR On The Web | 31 Oct 2019 |
Chrome 78 Arrives With Dark Mode Enhancements, Native File System API, SMS Receiver API | 23 Oct 2019 |
WireGuard Restored In Android's Google Play Store After Brief But Controversial Removal | 18 Oct 2019 |
Google Releases Bazel 1.0 Build System With Faster Build Performance | 17 Oct 2019 |
More Google News | 405 Articles |
Hardware |
Unisoc Looking To Introduce A New DRM Display Driver For Mainline Linux | 10 Dec 2019 |
NetworkManager Adds Support For Enhanced Open / Opportunistic Wireless Encryption | 06 Dec 2019 |
Purism Announces Librem 5 "USA" Model For $1999 USD | 05 Dec 2019 |
Linux 5.5 Begins Plumbing Secure Boot Infrastructure For POWER9 | 04 Dec 2019 |
Amazon Talks Up Big Performance Gains For Their 7nm Graviton2 CPUs | 03 Dec 2019 |
Imagination Announces IMG A-Series To Deliver 2.5x Faster Performance Over Current PowerVR | 02 Dec 2019 |
NEOX V Announced By Think Silicon As First RISC-V 3D GPU | 02 Dec 2019 |
Raspberry Pi 4 Thermal Performance Is Improving With New Firmware | 30 Nov 2019 |
Linux 5.5 Brings Logitech G15 Driver, Better Windows Precision Touchpad Support | 30 Nov 2019 |
System76 ACPI Coreboot Laptop Driver, Huawei Laptop Improvements Sent In For Linux 5.5 | 30 Nov 2019 |
More Hardware News | 1511 Articles |
Intel |
Intel Releases Cloud-Hypervisor 0.4 As Its Rust-Written VMM Built Off KVM | 14 Dec 2019 |
Intel's Iris Gallium3D Driver Continuing To See Performance Optimizations On Mesa 20.0 | 12 Dec 2019 |
Intel's MKL-DNN/DNNL 2.0 Beta 3 Release Adds SYCL + Data Parallel C++ Compiler | 12 Dec 2019 |
Intel's OpenSWR OpenGL Software Rasterizer Pulls In Tessellator From Microsoft Direct3D Code | 11 Dec 2019 |
Intel Jasper Lake Support Added To Mesa 20.0 OpenGL / Vulkan Drivers | 09 Dec 2019 |
Intel Announces "Horse Ridge" 22nm FinFET Cryogenic Control Chip For Quantum Research | 09 Dec 2019 |
Intel Publishes oneAPI Level 0 Specification | 05 Dec 2019 |
The Linux Kernel Disabling HPET For More Platforms - Including Ice Lake | 29 Nov 2019 |
Linux 5.5 To Enable Intel's 5-Level Paging Support By Default | 26 Nov 2019 |
Intel's SVT-AV1 0.7.5 Released With AVX2 + AVX-512 Optimizations | 26 Nov 2019 |
More Intel News | 1662 Articles |
KDE |
KDE Frameworks 5.65 Released With KQuickCharts For Accelerated Charts | 14 Dec 2019 |
KDE Applications 19.12 Released With Big Improvements To Kdenlive + Other KDE Programs | 12 Dec 2019 |
KDE Plasma 5.18 Introducing Built-In Emoji Picker | 08 Dec 2019 |
KDE Now Deals With GTK CSD Headerbars - Improving GNOME App Integration On Plasma | 01 Dec 2019 |
KDE Got More Polishing Ahead Of The Holidays While First KDE Frameworks 6 Sprint Started | 24 Nov 2019 |
KDE Plasma 5.18 Bringing Better GTK/GNOME App Integration | 17 Nov 2019 |
KDE Frameworks 5.64 Released | 11 Nov 2019 |
KDE Packs Away New Screensaver Setting, Other Changes For First Full Week Of November | 10 Nov 2019 |
KDE's Dolphin Now Lets Users Know What's Preventing A Drive From Being Unmounted | 03 Nov 2019 |
KDE Frameworks 6 Ideas To Be Floated At A Developer Sprint This Month | 01 Nov 2019 |
More KDE News | 925 Articles |
LibreOffice |
Trying Out The Skia+Vulkan Powered LibreOffice 6.5 Development Build | 13 Dec 2019 |
LibreOffice Git Lands Its Skia Drawing Code - Leading To Vulkan-Accelerated Office Suite | 30 Nov 2019 |
LibreOffice 6.4 Branched - Beta Release Underway With QR Code Generator, Threading Improvements | 13 Nov 2019 |
LibreOffice 6.3 Released With Better Performance, UI Enhancements | 08 Aug 2019 |
LibreOffice 6.3 Beta Is Up For Testing | 04 Jun 2019 |
LibreOffice 6.3 Alpha Was Tagged This Week, Stable Expected In August | 19 May 2019 |
LibreOffice 6.2 Shipping Today With User Interface Improvements, Many New Features | 07 Feb 2019 |
LibreOffice 6.2 Branched, The Beta Dance Begins & x86 32-bit Builds Are Deprecated | 18 Nov 2018 |
LibreOffice Landing New Custom Widgets Theme, Powered By Cairo | 10 Nov 2018 |
LibreOffice Lands More Qt5 Integration Improvements, LXQt Support | 13 Oct 2018 |
More LibreOffice News | 115 Articles |
Linux Events |
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 |
Linux Plumbers Conference 2018 Videos Now Online | 05 Dec 2018 |
More Linux Events News | 71 Articles |
Linux Gaming |
Feral's Lead Vulkan Developer Leaves The Company For Sony | 13 Dec 2019 |
DXVK Reportedly Going Into "Maintenance Mode" Due To State Of Code-Base | 11 Dec 2019 |
DXVK 1.4.6 Released With More Game Fixes For Direct3D 10/11 Over Vulkan | 03 Dec 2019 |
Google's Stadia Controller Support Added To SDL2 | 27 Nov 2019 |
Lutris 0.5.4 Released For This Linux Game Management Tool | 26 Nov 2019 |
DXVK 1.4.5 Brings Async Presentation For All GPUs, Better Multi-Threading Efficiency | 19 Nov 2019 |
Flax Engine Ported To Linux + Vulkan Rendering Support | 19 Nov 2019 |
Longtime Linux-Friendly X-Plane Flight Simulator Sees v11.40 Released | 09 Nov 2019 |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider Now Officially Available For Linux | 05 Nov 2019 |
Godot 4.0 Vulkan Support Continues Progressing - GI System Overhauled | 03 Nov 2019 |
More Linux Gaming News | 1674 Articles |
Linux Kernel |
WireGuard Lands In Net-Next While It Waits For Inclusion In Linux 5.6 | 09 Dec 2019 |
Facebook's New Linux Slab Memory Controller Saving 30~40%+ Of Memory, Less Fragmentation | 09 Dec 2019 |
Linus Rejects "Size Of Member" Change From Linux 5.5 Kernel | 09 Dec 2019 |
WireGuard Sends Out Latest Patch Revision In Preparing For Linux 5.6 | 09 Dec 2019 |
Linux 5.5-rc1 Kernel Released With 12,500+ Commits | 08 Dec 2019 |
Unified sizeof_member() Re-Proposed For Linux 5.5 | 08 Dec 2019 |
SUSE Revives Patches For Exposing /proc/cpuinfo Data Over Sysfs | 07 Dec 2019 |
A General Notification Queue Was Pushed Back From Linux 5.5 Introduction | 06 Dec 2019 |
Linux 5.5 Provides Knob To Toggle ASPM Link States Individually - Better Power-Savings | 04 Dec 2019 |
Linux 5.5 Livepatching Tracks The System State For Better Patch Handling/Compatibility | 03 Dec 2019 |
More Linux Kernel News | 2349 Articles |
Linux Security |
Whoops: The Linux Kernel's Spectre RSB Mitigation For PowerPC Missed Covering Some CPUs | 28 Nov 2019 |
Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer Set For Linux 5.5 To Uncover Data Race Conditions | 25 Nov 2019 |
LinuxBoot Continues Maturing - Now Able To Boot Windows | 12 Nov 2019 |
Kernel Address Space Isolation Is Still Being Explored For Better Security | 02 Nov 2019 |
Landlock Revved An 11th Time For Unprivileged Yet Powerful Security Sandboxes | 30 Oct 2019 |
LLVM "Stack Clash" Compiler Protection Is Under Review | 14 Oct 2019 |
Following Buggy AMD RdRand, The Linux Kernel Will Begin Sanity Checking Randomness At Boot Time | 02 Oct 2019 |
The Linux Kernel Firms Up The Process For Dealing With Nasty Hardware Vulnerabilities | 29 Sep 2019 |
Kernel Address Space Isolation Still Baking To Limit Data Leaks From Foreshadow & Co | 14 Sep 2019 |
Kernel Lockdown Feature Will Try To Land For Linux 5.4 | 13 Sep 2019 |
More Linux Security News | 132 Articles |
Linux Storage |
Linux 5.5 Adds NFS Client Support For Cross-Device Offloaded Copies (Server To Server) | 07 Dec 2019 |
GRUB Now Supports Btrfs 3/4-Copy RAID1 Profiles (RAID1C3 / RAID1C4 On Linux 5.5+) | 07 Dec 2019 |
F2FS File-System Gets More Fixes With Linux 5.5 | 05 Dec 2019 |
XFS For Linux 5.5 Brings Quite A Few Changes | 03 Dec 2019 |
Linux 5.5 Block Changes Include NVMe Temperature Monitoring, Optimizations | 01 Dec 2019 |
EXT4 For Linux 5.5 Sees New Improvements For This Mature File-System | 29 Nov 2019 |
Btrfs Gets A Big Improvement For More Robust RAID1 In Linux 5.5 | 23 Nov 2019 |
EXT4 On Linux 5.5 To Support Encryption On Smaller Block Sizes | 16 Nov 2019 |
Reiser4 File-System Is Still Ticking In 2019 - Now Updated For Linux 5.3 Compatibility | 10 Nov 2019 |
OpenZFS 2.0 Out In 2020 With Unified Linux/FreeBSD Support, OpenZFS 3.0 With macOS | 09 Nov 2019 |
More Linux Storage News | 423 Articles |
LLVM |
LLVM / Clang 10.0 Should Be Out In Late February Or Early March | 10 Dec 2019 |
LLVM Developers Have Been Reviewing Work To Offset The Performance Hit From Intel JCC | 23 Nov 2019 |
LLVM Clang RISC-V Now Supports LTO | 16 Oct 2019 |
LLVM Plans To Switch From Its SVN To Git Workflow Next Week | 15 Oct 2019 |
Sony Pushes More AMD Jaguar Optimizations To Upstream LLVM 10 Compiler | 14 Oct 2019 |
AdaCore Has Been Developing A GNAT/Ada Front-End To LLVM | 06 Oct 2019 |
OpenMandriva Can Now Clang Its Linux Kernel Build For This LLVM Focused Distribution | 30 Sep 2019 |
LLVM 9.0 Released With Ability To Build The Linux x86_64 Kernel, Experimental OpenCL C++ | 19 Sep 2019 |
Intel Tightens Up Its AVX-512 Behavior For The LLVM Clang 10 Compiler | 12 Sep 2019 |
The New Features Of LLVM 9.0 & Clang 9.0 - Includes Building The Linux x86_64 Kernel | 10 Sep 2019 |
More LLVM News | 561 Articles |
Mesa |
Mesa 19.3 Released With Big Updates For Intel's Open-Source Drivers, Valve ACO Option | 12 Dec 2019 |
RadeonSI Driver Switches To NIR, Thereby Enabling OpenGL 4.6 By Default For AMD GPUs | 10 Dec 2019 |
The Open-Source Qualcomm "TURNIP" Vulkan Driver Adds Important Performance Feature | 10 Dec 2019 |
ADriConf GUI Control Panel Support For Mesa Vulkan Drivers Is Brought Up | 09 Dec 2019 |
Mesa 20.0 Now Includes Intel's Gallium3D Driver To Build By Default | 07 Dec 2019 |
Lima Gets Tiling While Vulkan Turnip Lands SSBO + Compute Shaders | 05 Dec 2019 |
Mesa Developers Weigh Renaming Gallium "State Tracker" To "API" | 05 Dec 2019 |
Mesa 19.3 Might Release Next Week But For Now There's RC6 With Several ACO+RADV Fixes | 04 Dec 2019 |
Mesa Devs Discuss Potentially Dropping Non-Gallium Drivers Or Forking Code For Gallium | 04 Dec 2019 |
Arm's Mali T720 Now Stable With Panfrost Gallium3D On Mesa 20.0 | 03 Dec 2019 |
More Mesa News | 1746 Articles |
Microsoft |
Microsoft Teams Is Now Available For Linux In Public Preview Form | 10 Dec 2019 |
Microsoft Talks Up The Concept Of Panes, Tab Reordering For Windows Terminal | 29 Nov 2019 |
Microsoft Will Release Their Edge Web Browser For Linux | 05 Nov 2019 |
Microsoft's WSL2 Now Supports Memory Reclamation | 31 Oct 2019 |
Paragon Looks To Upstream Their Microsoft exFAT Driver For The Linux Kernel | 19 Oct 2019 |
Microsoft Developer Shows Linux Commands Seamlessly Integrated Within Windows PowerShell | 26 Sep 2019 |
Microsoft Outs .NET Core 3.0 With Continued Linux Support & Better Performance | 23 Sep 2019 |
Microsoft's Latest Open-Source Contribution: A New Font For Terminals & Code Editors | 19 Sep 2019 |
Microsoft Makes Their C++ Standard Library Open-Source (STL) | 17 Sep 2019 |
Microsoft Teams Is Coming To Linux | 09 Sep 2019 |
More Microsoft News | 196 Articles |
Mozilla |
Mozilla Releases DeepSpeech 0.6 With Better Performance, Leaner Speech-To-Text Engine | 08 Dec 2019 |
Firefox 71 Linux Performance Isn't Looking All That Great | 04 Dec 2019 |
Firefox 71 Available With New Kiosk Mode, New Certificate Viewer | 03 Dec 2019 |
Mozilla + Intel + Red Hat Form The Bytecode Alliance To Run WebAssembly Everywhere | 12 Nov 2019 |
Firefox 71 Doesn't Do Much For Performance | 28 Oct 2019 |
Firefox 70 Released With JavaScript Baseline Interpreter, Other Updates | 22 Oct 2019 |
Mozilla Shifting Firefox To A Four-Week Release Cycle | 17 Sep 2019 |
Better Flatpak Support For Firefox Appears To Be Coming | 12 Sep 2019 |
Firefox 69 Gearing Up For Release With Linux Performance Improvements | 02 Sep 2019 |
Thunderbird 68.0 Released As A Big Update For The Mozilla Mail Client | 28 Aug 2019 |
More Mozilla News | 305 Articles |
Multimedia |
Ardour Digital Audio Workstation Finally Adds Native MP3 Importing Support | 06 Dec 2019 |
Rav1e Picks Up More Speed Optimizations For Rust-Written AV1 Encoding | 29 Nov 2019 |
Rav1e Squeezes Out More Performance For This Rust-Written AV1 Encoder | 20 Nov 2019 |
GStreamer Conference 2019 Videos Now Available Online | 12 Nov 2019 |
PulseAudio Adds GStreamer-Powered RTP Implementation | 09 Nov 2019 |
Rav1e 0.1 Marks This Rust-Written AV1 Encoder's First Official Release | 09 Nov 2019 |
Rav1e Begins Adding SSE4.1 Support, More x86 Assembly | 02 Nov 2019 |
dav1d 0.5.1 Boosts AV1 Video Decode For Older CPUs by 40~50% | 28 Oct 2019 |
FFmpeg Can Now Make Use Of VDPAU VP9 Video Decoding | 26 Oct 2019 |
Rav1e Rust AV1 Encoder Adds SSSE3 Support, AArch64 NEON - But It's Still Slow | 26 Oct 2019 |
More Multimedia News | 367 Articles |
Nouveau |
The Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Will End Out 2019 In Poor Shape Still For Newer GPUs | 24 Nov 2019 |
Nouveau Finally Lands SPIR-V Support As Part Of OpenCL Push | 21 Sep 2019 |
NVIDIA Bringing Up Open-Source Volta GPU Support For Their Xavier SoC | 17 Sep 2019 |
Nouveau's Changes Sent Out For Linux 5.4 In Fixing Up The Open-Source NVIDIA Support | 23 Aug 2019 |
The Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Gets A Batch Of Fixes For Linux 5.3 | 19 Jul 2019 |
Nouveau Driver Picking Up NVIDIA TU116 GPU Support For Linux 5.3 | 19 Jun 2019 |
Linux Kernel Set To Expose Hidden NVIDIA HDA Controllers, Helping Laptop Users | 13 Jun 2019 |
NVIDIA Firmware Blobs Get Updated To Help Some Pascal GPUs With Nouveau | 07 Jun 2019 |
DRM Fixes Head Into Linux 5.2 While Letting Nouveau Turing TU117 Support Slip In | 17 May 2019 |
Nouveau Gets Initial Support For NVIDIA TU117 (GeForce GTX 1650) | 10 May 2019 |
More Nouveau News | 420 Articles |
NVIDIA |
NVIDIA 440.44 Linux Driver Brings Fixes, __GL_SYNC_DISPLAY_DEVICE Honored With Vulkan | 11 Dec 2019 |
NVIDIA Looks To Have Some Sort Of Open-Source Driver Announcement For 2020 | 05 Dec 2019 |
NVIDIA's Proactive Memory Compaction Work Revised For The Linux Kernel | 23 Nov 2019 |
NVIDIA 440.36 Linux Driver Released With Official GTX 1650 SUPER Support | 22 Nov 2019 |
NVIDIA DP MST Audio To Begin Working With The Linux 5.5 Kernel | 21 Nov 2019 |
CUDA 10.2 Released With VMM APIs, libcu++ As Parallel Standard C++ Library For GPUs | 20 Nov 2019 |
NVIDIA Releasing Reference Design For Stuffing Their GPUs Into Arm Servers | 18 Nov 2019 |
NVIDIA 435.27.06 Vulkan Linux Driver Has Useful Display Improvements | 14 Nov 2019 |
NVIDIA 390.132 Linux Driver Released For Legacy Fermi Support | 08 Nov 2019 |
NVIDIA Launches Jetson Xavier NX As 70x45mm 10~15 Watt "AI Supercomputer" | 06 Nov 2019 |
More NVIDIA News | 840 Articles |
Operating Systems |
BeOS-Inspired Haiku Continues Working On 64-bit ARM, Other Hardware Improvements | 05 Dec 2019 |
Linux Mint 19.3 Enters Beta With HiDPI Support Finally Nearing Completion, New Default Apps | 03 Dec 2019 |
OmniOS Updated With Latest Intel Microcode, Better LX Zones Support For Newer Distros | 03 Dec 2019 |
Genode OS Framework 19.11 Brings Initial Block Device Encryption Code | 01 Dec 2019 |
CentOS Working To Increase Transparency, Revamp Branding | 27 Nov 2019 |
webOS Open Source Edition 2.1 Released For Continuing The Palm/HP/LG Linux Distro | 22 Nov 2019 |
AT&T Finally Opens Up dNOS "DANOS" Network Operating System Code | 19 Nov 2019 |
Arch Linux Held Their First Internal Conference Last Month In Berlin | 17 Nov 2019 |
OpenWrt 19.07 RC Offers WPA3 Configuration Support, All Targets On Same Kernel Version | 15 Nov 2019 |
Arch Linux Updates Its Kernel Installation Handling | 11 Nov 2019 |
More Operating Systems News | 766 Articles |
Oracle |
VirtualBox 6.1 Released With Better 3D Support, UI Enhancements | 12 Dec 2019 |
VirtualBox 6.1 Close To Release With 3D Improvements, Nested Hardware Virtualization | 24 Nov 2019 |
Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU15 Has A Number Of Package Updates | 20 Nov 2019 |
Oracle Linux 8 Update 1 Announced With Udica, Optane DCPM Support | 15 Nov 2019 |
Rewriting Old Solaris C Code In Python Yielded A 17x Performance Improvement | 18 Oct 2019 |
Oracle Reaffirms Supporting Solaris 11 Through Part Of The Next Decade | 28 Sep 2019 |
Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU12 Released - Adds GCC 9.1 Compiler & Python 3.7 | 20 Aug 2019 |
Oracle Continues Working On eBPF Support For GCC 10 | 17 Aug 2019 |
Oracle Linux 7 Update 7 Released | 15 Aug 2019 |
Oracle Is Working To Upstream More Of DTrace To The Linux Kernel & eBPF Implementation | 15 Aug 2019 |
More Oracle News | 232 Articles |
Phoronix |
The Most Popular Linux Hardware Reviews / Benchmarks Of The Past Decade | 12 Dec 2019 |
The Most Popular Linux / Open-Source News Of This Decade | 11 Dec 2019 |
Ice Lake, Threadripper, New CPU Vulnerabilities + Linux 5.4 Release Dominated November | 30 Nov 2019 |
November Is Still Bringing Many Interesting Linux Benchmarks / Milestones | 10 Nov 2019 |
Ice Lake, Ryzen 9, Kernel Happenings & Other Highlights For An Exciting October | 01 Nov 2019 |
AMD Dominated Q3 In Wooing Over Linux / Open-Source Fans | 03 Oct 2019 |
Steam, Open-Source Intel & Ryzen 3000 / EPYC's Continued Domination Rocked September | 01 Oct 2019 |
AMD EPYC 7002 & Ryzen 3000 Series Dominated Linux Interest During August | 01 Sep 2019 |
AMD Dominated The Conversation Among Linux/Open-Source Fans In July | 01 Aug 2019 |
Radeon Graphics, Zombieload & Kernel Changes Intrigued Open-Source Fans In H1-2019 | 09 Jul 2019 |
More Phoronix News | 597 Articles |
Phoronix Test Suite |
Phoronix Test Suite 9.2.1 Released | 13 Dec 2019 |
Phoronix Test Suite 9.2 Released For Open-Source, Cross-Platform Benchmarking | 03 Dec 2019 |
Phoronix Test Suite 9.2 Milestone 2 Released | 13 Nov 2019 |
Phoronix Test Suite 9.2 Milestone 1 Released With Updates For macOS Benchmarking | 17 Oct 2019 |
Phoronix Test Suite 9.0.1 Available Along With Several New/Updated Test Profiles | 01 Oct 2019 |
Phoronix Test Suite 9.0 M3 Brings Improvements Around Offline/Private Testing | 03 Sep 2019 |
Phoronix Test Suite 9.0 Milestone 2 Released, OpenBenchmarking.org Serves 42 Millionth Download | 22 Aug 2019 |
Phoronix Test Suite 9.0 Milestone 1 Delivers New Result Viewer, Other Features | 25 Jul 2019 |
Phoronix Test Suite 8.8.1 Released | 30 May 2019 |
Phoronix Test Suite 8.8 Officially Released | 13 May 2019 |
More Phoronix Test Suite News | 175 Articles |
Premium |
There Is Just A Few Days Left To Go Premium For Black Friday / Cyber Monday | 29 Nov 2019 |
It's That Time Of The Year For The Annual Phoronix Premium Sale To Show Your Support | 26 Nov 2019 |
A Last Call For Our Phoronix Premium 2019 Autumn Special | 27 Sep 2019 |
The Phoronix Premium Oktoberfest 2019 Deal - Support Linux/Open-Source Benchmarking | 22 Sep 2019 |
A Last Call To Celebrate Phoronix's 15th Birthday By Going Premium | 07 Jun 2019 |
Phoronix Turns 15 Years Old Next Week So Here's Something Special | 01 Jun 2019 |
Celebrate Valentine's Day By Going Premium To Support Linux Benchmarking | 14 Feb 2019 |
It's Time For The Premium 2018 Winter Sale To Show Your Linux Benchmarking Support | 22 Dec 2018 |
Black Friday Deal: Go Premium While Supporting Linux Hardware Reviews & Open-Source News | 22 Nov 2018 |
Phoronix Is Now On The Open-Source-Friendly Liberapay | 23 Jun 2018 |
More Premium News | 31 Articles |
Programming |
PHP 7.4 Released With FFI, Typed Properties, Arrow Functions, Better Performance | 28 Nov 2019 |
PHP 5.3 To PHP 7.4 Performance Benchmarks On AMD EPYC | 22 Nov 2019 |
Intel Releases oneAPI Base Toolkit Beta For Performance-Focused, Cross-Device Software | 17 Nov 2019 |
Picolibc 1.1 Released With POSIX File I/O Support | 15 Nov 2019 |
PHP 7.4 Aims For Release In Two Weeks With FFI, Performance Improvements | 14 Nov 2019 |
Rust 1.39 Released With Async-Await Support, Attributes On Function Parameters | 07 Nov 2019 |
Zstd 1.4.4 Released With Faster Compression & Decompression Support | 05 Nov 2019 |
GitLab Had Begun Planning To Track Its Users But Quickly Changed Course | 30 Oct 2019 |
PHP 7.4's FFI Support Is In Good Shape For Tapping C Functions / Structures From PHP | 25 Oct 2019 |
Imagination Getting Behind Open-Source SYCL Libraries For TensorFlow | 24 Oct 2019 |
More Programming News | 263 Articles |
Proprietary Software |
DaVinci Resolve 16 Beta Video Editor Employing Deep Learning, GPU Accelerated Tools | 08 Apr 2019 |
Lightworks Video Editor Plans For A Busy 2019 But No Signs Of The Open-Source Version | 10 Jan 2019 |
Adobe Customer Care: There Hasn't Been Enough Demand For Linux | 10 Dec 2018 |
Lightworks 14.5 Video Editor Released With Same-Day Linux Support But Still No Source | 17 Oct 2018 |
DaVinci Resolve 15 Video/Effects Editor Released With Linux Support | 13 Aug 2018 |
A VR Developer's Thoughts On The Current Mess Of APIs & Hardware | 27 May 2018 |
Keeper Password Manager Launches New Linux Version | 26 Apr 2018 |
Vivaldi Web Browser Now Available For Linux ARM / Raspberry Pi | 05 Dec 2017 |
TeamViewer 13 Now Available For Linux As A Native 64-bit Port | 04 Dec 2017 |
Adobe Is Finally Ending Flash Support... In 2020 | 25 Jul 2017 |
More Proprietary Software News | 131 Articles |
Qt |
Qt 5.14 Released With Better HiDPI, Lots Of 3D Work Ahead Of Qt 6 Next Year | 12 Dec 2019 |
Qt Shader Tools Looks To Become Official Qt6 Module | 11 Dec 2019 |
Qt 5.14 On Track For Releasing Next Week With New Scenegraph Renderer, Better HiDPI | 04 Dec 2019 |
The Qt Company Launches Qt Marketplace For Free + Paid Qt Extensions / Add-Ons | 02 Dec 2019 |
Qt 3D Studio 2.5 Released With Stereoscopic Rendering, Autodesk Maya Export | 31 Oct 2019 |
The Qt 3D Story With Vulkan Should Be Quite Compelling For Qt 6.0 | 27 Oct 2019 |
Qt 5.14 Beta 2 Released As Another Chance To Test The Big Toolkit Update | 24 Oct 2019 |
Qt 3D Will Still Be Improved On Alongside Qt Quick 3D | 21 Oct 2019 |
Qt 5.14 Rolls To Beta Stage With Graphics API Independent Scenegraph Renderer | 09 Oct 2019 |
Qt 3D Studio 2.5 Beta Brings Stereoscopic Support, Better Content Controls | 06 Oct 2019 |
More Qt News | 408 Articles |
Radeon |
AMDVLK 2019.Q4.4 Released With Navi 14 Fixes, DoW 3 Perf Optimization | 13 Dec 2019 |
AMD Pushes Updated AMDVLK Vulkan Code Following Adrenalin 2020 Unveil | 12 Dec 2019 |
AMD Publishes Vega 7nm ISA Documentation - 300 More Pages Of GPU Docs | 12 Dec 2019 |
Radeon Linux 5.6 Changes Begin Queuing - Better Power Management, Adds DMCUB Controller | 11 Dec 2019 |
Radeon OpenGL Linux Driver Gets Fix For Corruption Issues | 10 Dec 2019 |
Raptor Computing Is Working On More AMD Radeon Driver Improvements For POWER | 08 Dec 2019 |
RADV's ACO Compiler Back-End Now Supported For Older AMD "Sea Islands" GPUs | 07 Dec 2019 |
AMD's GPUOpen Releases Vulkan Memory Allocator 2.3 | 04 Dec 2019 |
RadeonSI Lands SDMA Copy Support For Vega/GFX9 | 04 Dec 2019 |
AMDGPU Fixes For Linux 5.5 Include AMDKFD For PowerPC, Fix For Old ATI R100/R200 GPUs | 03 Dec 2019 |
More Radeon News | 1136 Articles |
Red Hat |
Red Hat Is Still Hiring To Work On The Linux Desktop + Open-Source Graphics | 06 Nov 2019 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Released With Kernel Live-Patching Support | 05 Nov 2019 |
Red Hat Provides New VirtIO Windows Driver Installer | 24 Oct 2019 |
Red Hat's New Graphics Engineer Is A Longtime AMD/ATI Linux Developer | 12 Oct 2019 |
CentOS 8.0 Released As Community Version Of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | 24 Sep 2019 |
CentOS Stream Announced As Developer-Forward Distribution, Rolling Release Of RHEL | 24 Sep 2019 |
CentOS 7.7 Released As The Last Stop Before CentOS 8.0 | 17 Sep 2019 |
RHEL8-Based CentOS 8.0 Slated To Be Released Next Week | 16 Sep 2019 |
EPEL 8.0 Is Now Ready To Offer Up More Packages To Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Users | 14 Aug 2019 |
Red Hat Joins The RISC-V Foundation | 08 Aug 2019 |
More Red Hat News | 206 Articles |
RISC-V |
RISC-V's Linux Kernel Support Is Getting In Better Shape, Maturing On HiFive Unleashed | 08 Mar 2019 |
Amazon Adds RISC-V Support To FreeRTOS | 26 Feb 2019 |
RISC-V Support Added To The GRUB Bootloader | 25 Feb 2019 |
Libre RISC-V GPU Aiming For 2.5 Watt Power Draw Continues Being Plotted | 18 Feb 2019 |
The State Of Debian & Fedora On The RISC-V Architecture | 09 Feb 2019 |
More Details On The Proposed Simple-V Extension To RISC-V For GPU Workloads | 04 Jan 2019 |
The Libre RISC-V Vulkan Accelerator Will Be Targeting 25 FPS @ 720p, 5~6 GFLOPs | 05 Dec 2018 |
Western Digital To Open-Source The "SweRV" RISC-V Core In 2019 | 05 Dec 2018 |
The EOMA68 Libre Computer Developer Wants To Tackle A Quad-Core RISC-V Libre SoC Design | 29 Nov 2018 |
The Linux Foundation Is Teaming Up With RISC-V To Promote The Open-Source CPU ISA | 27 Nov 2018 |
More RISC-V News | 35 Articles |
Standards |
Khronos Next Pursuing An Analytic Rendering API | 13 Nov 2019 |
Khronos Rolls Out OpenVX 1.3 While Updating OpenGL 4.6 + OpenGL ES 3.2 | 22 Oct 2019 |
The Matrix Of Software Projects Mapping Khronos APIs From DXVK To Zink & CLVK | 04 Oct 2019 |
HIPCL Lets CUDA Run On OpenCL+SPIR-V | 17 Sep 2019 |
USB 4.0 "USB4" Specification Published | 03 Sep 2019 |
Vulkan Video Decoding Coming In H1'2020, Ray-Tracing Progressing | 13 Aug 2019 |
Khronos Releases OpenCL 2.2-11 While Still Waiting For OpenCL-Next | 07 Aug 2019 |
Khronos Officially Releases OpenXR 1.0 | 29 Jul 2019 |
Binomial's Basis Universal To Super-Compress glTF Assets, WebGL Gets New Extensions | 26 Jul 2019 |
Zstd 1.4.1 Further Improves Decode Speed, Other Optimizations | 19 Jul 2019 |
More Standards News | 217 Articles |
SUSE |
OpenSUSE's OBS Can Now Spin Windows Subsystem for Linux Images | 13 Oct 2019 |
OpenSUSE Expanding Encryption Options For Its Installer | 10 Oct 2019 |
GCC 10 Likely To See "-flto=auto" Option | 24 Jul 2019 |
OpenSUSE Enables LTO By Default For Tumbleweed - Smaller & Faster Binaries | 17 Jul 2019 |
openSUSE's YaST Now Supports Multi-Device Btrfs Setups | 20 Jun 2019 |
OpenSUSE Adds Option To Installer For Toggling Performance-Hitting CPU Mitigations | 22 May 2019 |
OpenSUSE Leap 15.1 Released - Based Off SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP1 | 22 May 2019 |
OpenSUSE's Spectre Mitigation Approach Is One Of The Reasons For Its Slower Performance | 14 Apr 2019 |
SUSE Marks Its New Independence Under EQT Ownership | 15 Mar 2019 |
OpenSUSE Leap 15.1 Reaches Beta Milestone | 20 Feb 2019 |
More SUSE News | 227 Articles |
systemd |
Systemd-homed Looks Like It Will Merged Soon For systemd 245 | 06 Dec 2019 |
Systemd 244 Released With New Init System Features For Black Friday | 29 Nov 2019 |
systemd 244-RC1 Released With Many Changes | 22 Nov 2019 |
Systemd Has A New Logo As Other Features Build Up For The Next Release | 31 Oct 2019 |
Trimming systemd Halved The Boot Time On A PocketBeagle ARM Linux Board | 29 Oct 2019 |
Systemd Starts Tapping ChromeOS For USB Devices That Support Auto-Suspend Well | 04 Oct 2019 |
Lennart Talks Up systemd's SD-Boot + Boot Loader Specification | 22 Sep 2019 |
Systemd-homed: Systemd Now Working To Improve Home Directory Handling | 20 Sep 2019 |
Systemd 243 Released With Many Changes | 03 Sep 2019 |
Systemd 243 RC2 Released | 22 Aug 2019 |
More systemd News | 171 Articles |
Ubuntu |
Ubuntu's Mir Display Stack Accomplished A Lot In 2019 For Being Discounted Two Years Ago | 14 Dec 2019 |
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Might Still End Up Shipping With WireGuard Support | 12 Dec 2019 |
Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS To Retire Their Old Debian Installer To Focus On Subiquity | 11 Dec 2019 |
Ubuntu 19.10.1 Released For Raspberry Pi | 10 Dec 2019 |
Canonical's Multipass 0.9 Released For Easily Spinning Up Ubuntu VMs | 09 Dec 2019 |
Some Of The Possible Changes Coming For The Desktop With Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | 05 Dec 2019 |
Canonical Announces "Ubuntu Pro" For AWS | 04 Dec 2019 |
Mir 1.6 Released With New Wayland, DispmanX Platform Support | 03 Dec 2019 |
Canonical Formulates The 32-Bit Support Strategy For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | 28 Nov 2019 |
UBports' Ubuntu Touch Porting Now Easier To Newer Devices | 25 Nov 2019 |
More Ubuntu News | 1342 Articles |
Valve |
Proton 4.11-10 Adds Halo: Master Chief Collection Support, Integer Scaling, Other Game Improvements | 13 Dec 2019 |
Steam Survey For November Points To Flat Linux Percentage | 02 Dec 2019 |
Half-Life: Alyx Releasing In March 2020 With Linux Support | 21 Nov 2019 |
Valve Announcing Half-Life: Alyx VR Game On Thursday | 18 Nov 2019 |
Steam For Linux Beta Adds Experimental Namespaces/Containers Support | 10 Nov 2019 |
Valve's Proton 4.11-8 Begins Bundling VKD3D, Improves Rockstar Launcher Support | 08 Nov 2019 |
Valve's Steam Survey Numbers For October Just Point To More Inaccuracies | 01 Nov 2019 |
Valve Adds RADV "Secure Compile" Support For Pre-Caching Game Shaders | 26 Oct 2019 |
Valve's SteamOS Compositor Has Begun Seeing Some Activity Recently | 23 Oct 2019 |
Valve's Radeon "ACO" Vulkan Compiler Back-End Now Supports Navi | 10 Oct 2019 |
More Valve News | 478 Articles |
VIA |
Even In 2019, A Long Road Still For Getting The VIA OpenChrome Driver In Linux | 09 Jan 2019 |
OpenChrome DRM Driver To Go Through A GEM/TTM Code Rewrite | 05 Aug 2018 |
It's Still Going To Be Tough Getting The OpenChrome VIA KMS Driver In The Linux Kernel | 28 May 2018 |
VIA Joins In The AI Race, Linux/Android Support For Their New Developer Kit | 10 May 2018 |
OpenChrome DRM Driver To Work On New GEM/TTM Code, Regression Fixes | 12 Mar 2018 |
OpenChrome KMS Can Now Do Runtime Resolution Changes, Hopes To Go Mainline In 2018 | 11 Mar 2018 |
OpenChrome DRM Still Aiming For Mainline Kernel, But Initially Will Lack 2D Acceleration | 02 Mar 2018 |
OpenChrome DRM Continues To Be Developed, But It Didn't Make It Mainline This Year | 26 Dec 2017 |
OpenChrome DRM Still Being Ported To Newer Kernel, Lengthy Process | 25 Aug 2017 |
OpenChrome Still Pushing For DRM Kernel Driver, Updated DDX | 04 Aug 2017 |
More VIA News | 99 Articles |
Virtualization |
QEMU 5.0 Kicks Off For Development | 14 Dec 2019 |
QEMU 4.2 Released With Many Improvements For Linux Virtualization | 13 Dec 2019 |
Linux 5.5 KVM Adds POWER Support For Secure Guests/VMs | 07 Dec 2019 |
VMs Can Finally Hibernate Under Microsoft Hyper-V With Linux 5.5 | 01 Dec 2019 |
KVM Virtualization Updates For Linux 5.5 Are Particularly Busy On The AMD/Intel Side | 30 Nov 2019 |
VirtIO-GPU Working Towards Vulkan Support, Other Features For Graphics In VMs | 29 Nov 2019 |
VirtualBox SF Driver Ejected From The Linux 5.4 Kernel | 13 Nov 2019 |
SUSE Continues Working On Linux Core Scheduling For Better Security | 11 Nov 2019 |
QEMU 4.2 Cycle Kicks Off With Inaugural Release Candidate | 08 Nov 2019 |
VirtualBox Guest Shared Folder Support Coming To The Mainline Linux Kernel | 31 Oct 2019 |
More Virtualization News | 395 Articles |
Vulkan |
ChamferWM Still Appears To Be The Most Capable Vulkan-Powered X11 Tiling Window Manager | 10 Dec 2019 |
Vulkan 1.1.130 Released With New Tooling Extension | 09 Dec 2019 |
Vulkan 1.1.129 Brings VK_KHR_buffer_device_address To Query Buffer Addresses | 25 Nov 2019 |
vkBasalt 0.2 Released With SMAA, Other Vulkan Post Processing Layer Enhancements | 19 Nov 2019 |
Vulkan 1.1.128 Released With Performance Query Extension | 18 Nov 2019 |
Experimental Work Allows DXVK To Be Natively Used For Direct3D 11 On Linux | 15 Nov 2019 |
The OGRE Open-Source 3D Graphics Engine Is Working On Vulkan Support | 07 Nov 2019 |
Vulkan 1.1.127 Released With Separate Depth Stencil Layout Extension | 04 Nov 2019 |
vkBasalt CAS Vulkan Layer Adds FXAA Support | 01 Nov 2019 |
Khronos Launches An Official Collection Of Vulkan Samples | 31 Oct 2019 |
More Vulkan News | 451 Articles |
Wayland |
Wayland's Weston 8.0 Reaches Alpha With EGL Partial Updates, Headless OpenGL | 07 Dec 2019 |
Chromium's Ozone Wayland Back-End Is Now Considered Beta, Aiming To Ship Next Year | 05 Dec 2019 |
Wayland's Weston 8.0 Bringing Direct-Display Extension, HDCP On DRM Back-End + More | 27 Nov 2019 |
NEMO-UX Vanishes As What Was A Wayland Shell Designed For Large, Multi-User Surfaces | 19 Nov 2019 |
WXRC Is The Wayland XR Compositor For VR Headsets | 15 Nov 2019 |
KDE Now Supports Fractional Scaling On Wayland | 08 Sep 2019 |
Waypipe Is Successfully Working For This Network-Transparent Wayland Apps/Games Proxy | 30 Aug 2019 |
Sway 1.2 Released For This Popular i3 Inspired Wayland Compositor | 27 Aug 2019 |
Wayland's Weston 7.0 Compositor Released With PipeWire Streaming Support | 23 Aug 2019 |
Stepping Towards Better VR Headset Support On Wayland | 12 Aug 2019 |
More Wayland News | 720 Articles |
WINE |
Wine 5.0-RC1 Saw A Number Of Patches Upstreamed From Staging | 14 Dec 2019 |
Wine 5.0-RC1 Released With Unicode 12.1 Support, Initial ActiveX Data Objects Library | 13 Dec 2019 |
CrossOver 19.0 Released - Ending Out 2019 With Better Microsoft Office Support On Linux | 10 Dec 2019 |
Wine 5.0 Code Freeze To Begin Next Week | 06 Dec 2019 |
Wine-Staging 4.21 Released With New Patches Up For Testing | 30 Nov 2019 |
Wine 4.21 Released As Wine 5.0 Inches Closer | 29 Nov 2019 |
Wine Patches Coming To Allow UMIP Emulation - Works Around Issues For Ryzen 3000 | 22 Nov 2019 |
CrossOver 19 Enters Beta With Better Microsoft Office Support On Linux | 18 Nov 2019 |
Wine-Staging 4.20 Adds Undocumented D3D9 Internal Function For The Sims 2 | 16 Nov 2019 |
Wine 4.20 Brings Vulkan Updates, Better LLVM MinGW Support | 15 Nov 2019 |
More WINE News | 670 Articles |
X.Org |
Libinput 1.15 Is On Approach With Various Improvements/Fixes For Linux Input Handling | 05 Dec 2019 |
Before Ending 2019, Vintage SiS X.Org Driver Sees A New Release | 04 Dec 2019 |
XWayland Multi-Buffering Lands To Avoid Stuttering / Tearing | 29 Nov 2019 |
X.Org's Modesetting Driver Gets Smarter - Queries Mesa For Which GL Driver To Use | 27 Nov 2019 |
X.Org Server 1.20.6 Released With Many Bug Fixes - Helps XWayland, PRIME + Other Bits | 23 Nov 2019 |
XWayland Work Pending To Address Game Tearing/Stuttering | 20 Nov 2019 |
Virtual KMS Driver To Work On Virtual Refresh Rate Support (FreeSync) | 10 Nov 2019 |
OpenChrome Still Aspiring For Open-Source VIA Graphics, But Not Going Mainline This Year | 23 Oct 2019 |
XDC2020 X.Org/Wayland/Mesa Conference To Be Hosted In Gdansk, Poland | 23 Oct 2019 |
A Vast Majority Of Linux's Input Improvements Are Developed By One Individual | 16 Oct 2019 |
More X.Org News | 1020 Articles |