| AMD |
| VKHR - An AMD-Backed Open-Source Hair Renderer In Vulkan | 18 Jun 2019 |
| AMD Zen 2 CPUs Come With A Few New Instructions - At Least WBNOINVD, CLWB, RDPID | 12 Jun 2019 |
| AMD Licensing RDNA Graphics IP To Samsung For Smartphones & More | 03 Jun 2019 |
| The ROCm Enablement Tool Makes It Easier To Setup AMD's Open-Source Compute Stack | 28 May 2019 |
| AMD Announces Ryzen 3000 Series, Radeon RX 5700 | 27 May 2019 |
| AMD Staging Another Fix To Try Correcting Some Raven Ridge Systems On Linux | 24 May 2019 |
| AMD GCN GPU Target Continuing To Improve For The GCC 10 Compiler | 23 May 2019 |
| Linux 5.2 To Allow P2P DMA Between Any Devices On AMD Zen Systems | 18 May 2019 |
| AMD Ryzen Threadripper Compiler Tuning/Optimization Benchmarks With GCC 9, PGO | 16 May 2019 |
| Next-Gen AMD EPYC Changes To EDAC Driver Sent In For Linux 5.2 Kernel | 08 May 2019 |
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1010 Articles |
| Arm |
| NVIDIA Delivering CUDA To Linux On Arm For HPC/Servers | 17 Jun 2019 |
| Arm Developer Provides More Glibc Optimizations - Memem & Strstr | 17 Jun 2019 |
| The ClearFog ARM ITX Workstation Performance Is Looking Very Good | 01 Jun 2019 |
| Arm Announces Cortex-A77 & Mali-G77 Valhall | 27 May 2019 |
| Arm SVE2 Support Aligning For GCC 10, LLVM Clang 9.0 | 24 May 2019 |
| Raspberry Pi Close To Seeing CPUFreq Support | 21 May 2019 |
| ARM64 To Finally Broadcast Its Spectre State Via Sysfs, Prep For Neoverse & SVE2 | 08 May 2019 |
| ThunderX2 Getting Big MEMMOVE Performance Boost With Glibc 2.30 | 05 May 2019 |
| ARM Transactional Memory Extension Support Starts Being Plumbed For Linux | 04 May 2019 |
| Panfrost DRM Driver Being Added To Linux 5.2 For Midgard / Bifrost Graphics | 20 Apr 2019 |
More Arm News |
169 Articles |
| BSD |
| HAMMER vs. HAMMER2 Benchmarks On DragonFlyBSD 5.6 | 18 Jun 2019 |
| DragonFlyBSD 5.6 Released With VM System, HAMMER2 In Good Shape | 17 Jun 2019 |
| FreeBSD 11.3 Release Candidate Brings Different Fixes | 15 Jun 2019 |
| DragonFlyBSD 5.6 RC1 Released With VM Optimizations, HAMMER2 By Default | 12 Jun 2019 |
| DragonFlyBSD Now Defaulting To HAMMER2 File-System By Default | 11 Jun 2019 |
| FreeBSD 11.3 Beta 3 Arrives With Various Fixes, Correct Battery Life Reporting | 08 Jun 2019 |
| NetBSD 8.1 Released With MDS Mitigations, Driver Improvements | 05 Jun 2019 |
| FreeBSD Had A Very Busy Q1-2019 As It Approaches Its 26th Birthday | 04 Jun 2019 |
| FreeBSD 11.3 Beta 2 Brings Virtualization Updates, Exposes MD_CLEAR MDS Bit To Guests | 01 Jun 2019 |
| DragonFlyBSD Is Seeing Better Performance Following A Big VM Rework | 26 May 2019 |
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602 Articles |
| Clear Linux |
| Benchmarks Of The Various Kernel Flavors Of Clear Linux | 06 Jun 2019 |
| Clear Linux Moving Ahead With Blocking dmesg Access For Non-Root Users | 01 Jun 2019 |
| Intel Is Hosting A Clear Linux Event Tomorrow In The Bay Area | 28 May 2019 |
| Clear Linux Is Beginning To Make Strides In The Industry From Alibaba To MontaVista | 16 May 2019 |
| Clear Linux Preparing New Kernel Options | 13 May 2019 |
| Clear Linux Further Enhances Its Desktop Installer, Launches Help Forums | 11 May 2019 |
| Clear Linux Achieved Even More Performance Improvements During April | 02 May 2019 |
| Clear Linux Preparing The LLVM 8 Switch, Including For Graphics/Compute Runtimes | 09 Apr 2019 |
| Intel's Clear Linux Already Forging Plans To Land GCC 9 & LLVM 8 | 01 Mar 2019 |
| Clear Linux Has A Goal To Get 3x More Upstream Components In Their Distro | 21 Feb 2019 |
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61 Articles |
| Coreboot |
| Firmware Reverse-Engineering Using NSA Software Continues | 11 Jun 2019 |
| Coreboot Project Is Leveraging NSA Software To Help With Firmware Reverse Engineering | 04 Jun 2019 |
| System76 Is Making Progress On Open-Source Firmware For Their Laptops | 31 May 2019 |
| AMD Zen-Derived Hygon Dhyana Appears To Be Working On Coreboot Support | 18 May 2019 |
| Coreboot Finally Sees Zen/Ryzen Support In The Form Of Picasso APU Enablement | 23 Apr 2019 |
| Purism Now Providing Pre-Built Binaries Of Coreboot For Their Laptops | 11 Apr 2019 |
| Intel Working On Some Interesting Coreboot Improvements: Multi-CPU Support, SMM | 19 Mar 2019 |
| Coreboot Support For Intel TXT Is Being Brought Up | 08 Mar 2019 |
| Measured Boot Support Is Heading To Coreboot | 26 Feb 2019 |
| Purism Working On PureBoot To Secure Your Data & Fully Verify The Linux Boot Process | 25 Feb 2019 |
More Coreboot News |
190 Articles |
| Debian |
| A Quick Look At The Debian 10.0 Buster vs. Debian 9.9 Performance | 17 Jun 2019 |
| The State Of RISC-V For Debian 10 "Buster" | 17 Jun 2019 |
| Debian 10.0 "Buster" Lining Up To Release In Early July | 11 Jun 2019 |
| Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Continues Battling Community Issues In 2019 | 05 Jun 2019 |
| Lenovo Hooks Up With Debian For DebConf 19 | 20 May 2019 |
| Debian 10 "Buster" Currently Defaults To GNOME On Wayland, But That Still Could Change | 10 May 2019 |
| Debian's New Project Leader Hits The Ground Running With Ideas | 30 Apr 2019 |
| Debian 9.9 Released With Many Security Updates | 27 Apr 2019 |
| Sam Hartman Is Debian's Newest Project Leader, Aims To "Keep Debian Fun" | 21 Apr 2019 |
| Debian 10 Buster's Installer Reaches RC Phase - Finally Offers Secure Boot Support | 15 Apr 2019 |
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285 Articles |
| Desktop |
| Xfce 4.14 Sees Its Long-Awaited Pre-Release | 19 May 2019 |
| Xfdesktop 4.13.4 Released On The Road To Xfce 4.14 Possibly This August | 18 May 2019 |
| Some Additional Chrome vs. Firefox Benchmarks With WebRender, 67 Beta / 68 Alpha | 24 Mar 2019 |
| Xfce's Screensaver Is Now Faster & Smarter About Conserving Power/Resources | 24 Mar 2019 |
| A Quick Look At The Firefox 66.0 vs. Chrome 73.0 Performance Benchmarks | 22 Mar 2019 |
| MATE 1.22 Released - Inching Towards Wayland Support, Better Systemd Integration | 18 Mar 2019 |
| Trinity Desktop R14.0.6 Being Prepared To Let KDE 3 Continue Life In 2019 | 02 Mar 2019 |
| Google Chrome/Chromium Begins Landing POWER PPC64LE Patches | 27 Feb 2019 |
| Xfce Picking Up Support For Color Profiles | 24 Feb 2019 |
| Compiz 0.9.14 Released As First Update In Over Two Years | 16 Feb 2019 |
More Desktop News |
339 Articles |
| Fedora |
| RPM 4.15 With Better Performance & New Features Will Make It Into Fedora 31 | 08 Jun 2019 |
| Fedora 31 Considers Compressing Their RPM Packages With Zstd Rather Than XZ | 30 May 2019 |
| Fedora 31 Planning To Upgrade To RPM 4.15 For Faster Builds, Other Improvements | 25 May 2019 |
| Developers Start Debating Whether To Block Password-Based Root SSH Logins For Fedora 31 | 17 May 2019 |
| Fedora 31 To Offer Updated MinGW Toolchain For Building Windows Software On Linux | 13 May 2019 |
| Fedora 30 Wayland vs. X.Org Graphics Benchmarks On GNOME Shell | 04 May 2019 |
| Fedora 30 Now Available With GNOME 3.32, Flicker-Free Boot, Zchunk Metadata | 30 Apr 2019 |
| Fedora 30 Cleared For Release Next Tuesday | 26 Apr 2019 |
| Fedora Looking At Using VESA-Based FBDEV Driver, Knocking Off Old VESA & OpenChrome | 26 Apr 2019 |
| Python 2 & Its Packages Likely To Be Dropped For Fedora 32 | 25 Apr 2019 |
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877 Articles |
| Free Software |
| GIMP 2.10.12 Released With Some Useful Improvements | 12 Jun 2019 |
| Zombieload, RHEL 8.0, Linux 5.2 & GCC Happenings Dominated May | 31 May 2019 |
| WireGuard Sees New Snapshot With Windows, Linux & BSD Updates | 31 May 2019 |
| Flatpak 1.4 Released With I/O Improvements, Other Updates For Sandboxed Linux Apps | 28 May 2019 |
| Blender 2.80 Reaches Its API & UI Freeze | 25 May 2019 |
| PostgreSQL 12 Beta Released With Performance Improvements | 23 May 2019 |
| IWD 0.18 Wireless Daemon Brings Fast Initial Link Setup | 13 May 2019 |
| Libinput 1.13.2 Released With Better Finger Detection For Apple Touchpads | 09 May 2019 |
| WireGuard Didn't Make It Into Linux 5.2 Due To Windows Port, But That Is Now Available | 09 May 2019 |
| Outreachy Summer 2019 Participants & Projects Announced | 07 May 2019 |
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1571 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 |
| NetworkManager Now Supports Making OVS DPDK Interfaces, Other Work For 1.20 | 17 Jun 2019 |
| GNOME 3.34's Mutter Adds Mouse Accessibility Support For X11/Wayland | 06 Jun 2019 |
| Running NVIDIA On GNOME's X.Org Session May Get A Lot Smoother | 02 Jun 2019 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter Can Now Be Extensively Profiled For Missed Frames, Other Metrics | 01 Jun 2019 |
| Sysprof Making Progress For Improved GNOME Profiling | 31 May 2019 |
| GParted 1.0 Released With Gtkmm 3 Port, F2FS Support | 29 May 2019 |
| GNOME Inching Closer To Better Wayland Multi-Monitor Performance | 28 May 2019 |
| GNOME 3.33.2 Released As Another Step Towards The GNOME 3.34 Desktop | 25 May 2019 |
| GNOME Developers Plot Future Improvements For Pango | 25 May 2019 |
| GNOME's Mutter Makes Another Step Towards X11-Less, Starting XWayland On-Demand | 24 May 2019 |
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1011 Articles |
| GNU |
| GCC 10 Lands Support For Targeting TI's 32-bit PRU Processor | 16 Jun 2019 |
| New "Ranger" Infrastructure On Tap For The GCC 10 Compiler | 28 May 2019 |
| Arch Linux Drops GCC 9 From Testing Due To BCache Corruption Bug | 28 May 2019 |
| Core i9 7980XE GCC 9 AVX Compiler Tuning Performance Benchmarks | 27 May 2019 |
| GNU Binutils Begins Landing eBPF Support | 24 May 2019 |
| IBM Begins Plumbing "Future" Processor Into GCC Compiler - POWER10? | 23 May 2019 |
| ESR Switches To Threadripper But His GCC SVN-To-Git Conversion Could Still Take Months | 20 May 2019 |
| GCC 10 Lands Support For Emulating MMX With SSE Instructions | 17 May 2019 |
| A Linaro Developer Has Taken Up The Effort Of Converting GCC's SVN To Git | 15 May 2019 |
| GDB 8.3 Debugger Brings RISC-V, Terminal Styling, C++ Injection, IPv6 Connections | 11 May 2019 |
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711 Articles |
| Google |
| Chrome 76 Beta Brings Dark Mode Media Query, Other Improvements | 13 Jun 2019 |
| Google Stadia's E3 Event Reveals New Details For This Linux+Vulkan Gaming Service | 06 Jun 2019 |
| Google Releases Chrome 75 With Experimental Reader Mode, More WebAssembly Work | 04 Jun 2019 |
| Google Hired Another Linux Graphics Veteran To Work On Open-Source GPU Drivers | 28 May 2019 |
| Android Q's ANGLE Offering OpenGL ES On Top Of Vulkan 1.1 | 07 May 2019 |
| There Are A Ton Of Interesting GSoC Projects This Year: Dav1d GPU Compute, Wayland, Rust | 06 May 2019 |
| Chrome 75 Beta Released With Low-Latency Canvas Contexts, RTC Improvements | 02 May 2019 |
| Chrome 74 Is Now Available Though Not Too Exciting For Linux Users | 24 Apr 2019 |
| Google's Filament Real-Time PBR Engine Updated With New Features | 24 Apr 2019 |
| Google Is Launching "Season of Docs" To Help Improve Open-Source Documentation | 14 Apr 2019 |
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379 Articles |
| Hardware |
| Libinput 1.14 Will Support Dell's Totem Input Device | 19 Jun 2019 |
| PCI Express 6.0 Announced For Release In 2021 With 64 GT/s Transfer Rates | 18 Jun 2019 |
| The Newest Wacom Intuos Pro Small Drawing Tablet To Be Supported By Linux 5.3 | 14 Jun 2019 |
| Google's New Graphics Driver Developer Flips On UBWC For Freedreno | 11 Jun 2019 |
| Purism Talks Up The Librem 5 Smartphone Boot Speed, Price Increase Coming | 05 Jun 2019 |
| Libre RISC-V Snags $50k EUR Grant To Work On Its RISC-V 3D GPU Chip | 05 Jun 2019 |
| ClearFog ARM Workstation Speed Even More Compelling But Now Called HoneyComb LX2K | 04 Jun 2019 |
| Bug Fixed: Bad Things Could Happen Unplugging Your External Backlit Keyboard On Linux | 04 Jun 2019 |
| The Linux Kernel Is Moving Closer To Saying Goodbye To A Lot Of ISDN Network Code | 31 May 2019 |
| Linux Continues Prepping EFI Special Purpose Memory Support | 31 May 2019 |
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1393 Articles |
| Intel |
| PowerCap/RAPL Code To Support Icelake Desktop / X / Xeon D With Linux 5.3 | 19 Jun 2019 |
| Linux 5.3 Could Finally See FSGSBASE - Performance Improvements Back To Ivybridge | 17 Jun 2019 |
| Intel 19.23.13131 OpenCL NEO Stack Adds Comet Lake Support | 15 Jun 2019 |
| It's Becoming Possible To Soft-Disable Intel ME 12 On Newer Motherboards | 15 Jun 2019 |
| Intel Itanium IA-64 Support To Be Deprecated By GCC 10, Planned Removal In GCC 11 | 13 Jun 2019 |
| It's The Season For Cleaning & Restructuring Within The Intel Linux Kernel Graphics Code | 13 Jun 2019 |
| The Linux Kernel Starts Prepping For Intel Ice Lake NNPI Support | 12 Jun 2019 |
| Intel Graphics Compiler 1.0.8 Released With LLVM 9 & GCC 9 Fixes | 11 Jun 2019 |
| Intel's ICE Driver Picks Up Forward Error Correction For Linux 5.3 | 03 Jun 2019 |
| Intel's Open-Source SVT-AV1 Video Encoder Ends May With Another Performance Boost | 30 May 2019 |
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1533 Articles |
| KDE |
| KDE's Konsole Seeing Improvements For Wayland | 18 Jun 2019 |
| KDE Frameworks 5.60 Bringing More Baloo Optimizations | 16 Jun 2019 |
| KDE Plasma 5.16 Released With A Lot Of Polishing, File Manager Improvements | 11 Jun 2019 |
| KDE Is Looking For Ideas On New Goals | 09 Jun 2019 |
| KDE Plasma 5.17 Development Heating Up As 5.16 Freezes | 09 Jun 2019 |
| KDE Frameworks 5.59 Brings More Fixes | 08 Jun 2019 |
| KDE Has Made Much Progress On Usability/Productivity, But They're Still Aiming For More | 05 Jun 2019 |
| KDE Plasma Now Uses Slight RGB Hinting By Default For Better Fonts | 02 Jun 2019 |
| Krita 4.2 Released With Better Drawing Tablet Support, Performance Improvements | 29 May 2019 |
| KDE Plasma 5.17 To Properly Support Screen Sharing On Wayland | 26 May 2019 |
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879 Articles |
| LibreOffice |
| 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 |
| LibreOffice Qt5 Integration Sees Further Improvements | 04 Oct 2018 |
| LibreOffice 6.1 Shipping Today As A Big Update For This Open-Source Office Suite | 08 Aug 2018 |
| LibreOffice 6.1 RC2 Released For Testing This Next Open-Source Office Suite Update | 25 Jul 2018 |
| LibreOffice Picks Up A Native "KDE 5" File Picker | 18 Jun 2018 |
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111 Articles |
| Linux Events |
| 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 |
| David Airlie's LPC2018 Presentation On An "Open-Source CUDA" | 03 Dec 2018 |
| Akademy 2018 Videos Posted For KDE's Annual Developer Conference | 07 Sep 2018 |
| An Activision Developer Is Talking At The Open-Source Summit... About Kafka Tuning | 29 Aug 2018 |
| Tencent Joins The Linux Foundation, Open-Sources Projects | 25 Jun 2018 |
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67 Articles |
| Linux Gaming |
| DXVK 1.2.2 Brings Minor CPU Overhead Optimizations, Game Fixes | 15 Jun 2019 |
| The Smach Z AMD+Linux Gaming Handheld Might Actually Ship This Year | 04 Jun 2019 |
| nCine Is An Interesting Open-Source 2D Game Engine | 01 Jun 2019 |
| Unity Tech Formally Announces Their New Unity Editor For Linux | 30 May 2019 |
| D9VK 0.12 Released With Rewritten Texture Code, Many Features | 29 May 2019 |
| Total War: Three Kingdoms Sees Same-Day Linux Release | 23 May 2019 |
| Gaming Performance Only Faintly Touched By MDS / Zombie Load Mitigations | 17 May 2019 |
| Over 100 Linux Gaming/Graphics Tests Looking At The Radeon RX 570 vs. GTX 1650 | 16 May 2019 |
| DXVK 1.2 Released With Support For Direct3D 11 Vendor-Specific Extensions | 13 May 2019 |
| D9VK 0.11 Released With Performance Improvements, D3D9 Fixes | 12 May 2019 |
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1638 Articles |
| Linux Kernel |
| Linux 5.2-rc5 Released As The End Of The Cycle Is A Few Weeks Away | 16 Jun 2019 |
| /proc/pid/arch_status Is Coming To Show Architecture-Specific Details Of A Given Task | 14 Jun 2019 |
| Zstd-Compressing The Linux Kernel Has Been Brought Up Again | 10 Jun 2019 |
| Linux 5.2-rc4 Released After A Shortened Calm Week | 09 Jun 2019 |
| After Years In The BSDs, TTY Keyboard Status Request Feature Being Proposed For Linux | 08 Jun 2019 |
| Linux 5.2-rc3 Released Following A Calm Week | 02 Jun 2019 |
| Linux Fix Pending For Borked Hibernation After Disabling Hyper Threading | 30 May 2019 |
| Linux 5.2-rc2 Kernel Released As The "Golden Lions" | 26 May 2019 |
| Linux 5.2-rc1 Kernel Released With Case-Insensitive EXT4, New Intel HW & RTW88 WiFi | 19 May 2019 |
| Linux's vmalloc Seeing "Large Performance Benefits" With 5.2 Kernel Changes | 19 May 2019 |
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2231 Articles |
| Linux Security |
| Netflix Uncovers TCP Bugs Within The Linux & FreeBSD Kernels | 18 Jun 2019 |
| ZombieLoad Mitigation Costs For Intel Haswell Xeon, Plus Overall Mitigation Impact | 23 May 2019 |
| MDS / Zombieload Mitigations Come At A Real Cost, Even If Keeping Hyper Threading On | 16 May 2019 |
| Spectre/Meltdown Mitigations Can Now Be Toggled With Convenient "mitigations=" Option | 06 May 2019 |
| IBM Developers Looking At Adding System Call Isolation To Enhance Linux Security | 26 Apr 2019 |
| In 2019, Most Linux Distributions Still Aren't Restricting Dmesg Access | 20 Apr 2019 |
| Revised Patches Out For New Kernel "mitigations=" Option For Toggling Spectre/Meltdown | 16 Apr 2019 |
| Improved Spectre/Meltdown Switches Might Finally Come To The Linux Kernel | 06 Apr 2019 |
| Linux 5.1 Getting A Minor Spectre V2 Retpolines Optimization For Select Instances | 08 Mar 2019 |
| Intel CPUs Reportedly Vulnerable To New "SPOILER" Speculative Attack | 05 Mar 2019 |
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118 Articles |
| Linux Storage |
| ZFS On Linux 0.8.1 Brings Many Fixes, Linux 5.2 Compatibility Bits | 14 Jun 2019 |
| Bcachefs Completes Core Feature Work, Could Merge Soon If Review Goes Well | 11 Jun 2019 |
| Western Digital Continues Working On SMR / Zoned Device Support For Btrfs | 09 Jun 2019 |
| SUSE Reworking Btrfs File-System's Locking Code | 07 Jun 2019 |
| Linux 5.1.5 Kernel Fixes The Latest Data Corruption Bug | 26 May 2019 |
| Linux 5.1 Hit By A Data Loss Bug Due To Overly Aggressive FSTRIM | 25 May 2019 |
| ZFS On Linux 0.8 Released With Native Encryption, TRIM, Device Removal | 23 May 2019 |
| F2FS For Linux 5.2 Sees Better SMR Drive Support, Various Fixes | 15 May 2019 |
| Watch Out For BCache Corruption Issues On Linux 5.0 & GCC 9 | 14 May 2019 |
| NixOS Takes Action After 1.2GB/s ZFS Encryption Speed Drops To 200MB/s With Linux 5.0+ | 11 May 2019 |
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373 Articles |
| LLVM |
| Clang "Interface Stubs" Merged For Offering Interface Libraries To ELF Shared Objects | 18 Jun 2019 |
| Clang-Scan-Deps Lands In Clang 9.0 For Much Faster Dependency Scanning | 16 Jun 2019 |
| LLVM Adding Support For IBM MASS Library For POWER Vectorization | 09 Jun 2019 |
| LLVM/Clang 9.0 Merges Support For Intel "Cooperlake" CPU Target | 07 Jun 2019 |
| LLVM's New Fortran Compiler Previously Called "f18" Will Take The Name Of Flang | 06 Jun 2019 |
| Compiler Support Getting Wired Up For AVX-512 VP2INTERSECT | 31 May 2019 |
| LLVM Clang 9.0 Picks Up Initial C2x Language Mode | 14 May 2019 |
| The LLVM Fortran Performance Is Beating Out GCC But Losing To PGI | 01 May 2019 |
| LLVM's New "f18" Fortran Compiler Sub-Project Likely To Be Called... Fortran | 30 Apr 2019 |
| Intel Continues Working On Their SYCL Compiler For Upstreaming To LLVM | 29 Apr 2019 |
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542 Articles |
| Mesa |
| Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Continues Speeding Ahead For Open-Source Mali Graphics | 18 Jun 2019 |
| Mesa 19.2 Picks Up The Radeon R300~R500 Series On-Disk OpenGL Shader Cache | 12 Jun 2019 |
| Mesa 19.1 Released With Experimental Intel Gallium3D, Other New GL/VLK Drivers Too | 11 Jun 2019 |
| Waffle 1.6 Released As Library Allowing GL / Windowing System Selection At Runtime | 10 Jun 2019 |
| GL_MESA_EGL_sync Extension Proposed For The Khronos OpenGL Registry | 09 Jun 2019 |
| Panfrost Making Use Of The Gallium3D I/O Vectorization For Better Performance | 09 Jun 2019 |
| Mesa 19.2's Virgl Sees Huge Performance Win Around Buffer Copy Transfers | 08 Jun 2019 |
| Mesa 19.2 RADV Driver Now Fully Supports EXT_sample_locations For Possible AA Benefits | 07 Jun 2019 |
| Mesa 19.2 Now Exposes The NVIDIA-Led EGL_EXT_platform_device Support | 06 Jun 2019 |
| Alyssa Rosenzweig Joins Collabora To Work On Panfrost Graphics Stack | 05 Jun 2019 |
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1665 Articles |
| Microsoft |
| Microsoft Begins Rolling Out Windows Subsystem For Linux 2 | 13 Jun 2019 |
| CERN Is Working To Move Further Away From Microsoft Due To License Costs Going Up By 10x | 12 Jun 2019 |
| Microsoft Confirms WSL To Co-Exist With WSL2, Other Windows Subsystem for Linux Details | 13 May 2019 |
| More Details On Microsoft's WSL2 Implementation For Running Linux Binaries On Windows 10 | 09 May 2019 |
| Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 To Offer Faster I/O Performance, Native Docker Containers | 06 May 2019 |
| Microsoft Announces "Windows Terminal" As Linux-esque Inspired Terminal For Windows 10 | 06 May 2019 |
| WinTUN: Windows Finally Gets A Good TUN Driver & It's Open-Source | 24 Mar 2019 |
| Microsoft Officially Announces DTrace For Windows | 11 Mar 2019 |
| Microsoft Finally Enables Retpolines For Windows 10 Version 1809, Windows Server 2019 | 01 Mar 2019 |
| Windows 10 Will Soon Let You Access WSL Linux Files From Explorer, Other Improvements | 16 Feb 2019 |
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180 Articles |
| Mozilla |
| Mozilla's Servo Beginning To Work On Linux Video Acceleration | 03 Jun 2019 |
| Firefox 68 Integrates BigInt Support | 26 May 2019 |
| Firefox 67.0 Released With Better Performance, Switches To Dav1d AV1 Decoder | 21 May 2019 |
| Mozilla, Cloudflare & Others Propose BinaryAST For Faster JavaScript Load Times | 17 May 2019 |
| Firefox 66.0.4 Released To Address The Broken Add-Ons Issue Due To Expired Certificate | 05 May 2019 |
| Mozilla Had A Rough Night With Add-Ons Getting Disabled Due To An Expired Certificate | 04 May 2019 |
| Mozilla "WebThings" No Longer An Experiment | 18 Apr 2019 |
| The Rapid Progress Of The AV1 Video Format Over The Past Year | 16 Apr 2019 |
| Mozilla Preparing To Test WebRender With "Qualified" Linux Users | 10 Apr 2019 |
| Firefox 66 Arrives - Blocks Auto-Playing Sounds, Hides Title Bar By Default For Linux | 19 Mar 2019 |
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294 Articles |
| Multimedia |
| Lightworks 14.6 Remains A Closed-Up Blob, But At Least The Linux Support Continues | 15 Jun 2019 |
| Amlogic Video Decode Driver Revised A Ninth Time In Pursuit Of The Linux Kernel | 07 Jun 2019 |
| SVT-AV1 0.5 Released As Intel's Speedy AV1 Video Encoder | 19 May 2019 |
| A Push Towards Firmware-less Video Decoding By Linux Kernel Media Drivers | 17 May 2019 |
| Many Media Driver Updates Land In Linux 5.2 | 10 May 2019 |
| Intel's SVT-AV1 Video Encoder Saw Yet Another Performance Boost In April | 03 May 2019 |
| DAV1D 0.3 AV1 Decoder Released With Many Performance Improvements | 30 Apr 2019 |
| Kodi 18.2 Released With VA-API Fixes, OpenGL ES Rendering Fixes | 23 Apr 2019 |
| GStreamer 1.16 Is Nearly Ready With AV1 For Matroska/MP4 Containers, V4L HEVC | 15 Apr 2019 |
| H.264 Continues To Be Worked On For Cedrus - Reverse-Engineered Allwinner Support | 04 Apr 2019 |
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341 Articles |
| Nouveau |
| 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 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Sees Few Changes For Linux 5.2 | 01 May 2019 |
| Nouveau NIR Support Lands In Mesa 19.1 Git | 17 Mar 2019 |
| Nouveau NIR Support Slated To Land In Mesa 19.1 Over The Days Ahead | 12 Mar 2019 |
| Nouveau Changes Sent In To DRM-Next For Linux 5.1 - Biggest Update In Several Releases | 18 Feb 2019 |
| Nouveau Driver Picks Up SVM Support Via HMM | 15 Feb 2019 |
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415 Articles |
| NVIDIA |
| Developers Devising Plan To Ship Newer NVIDIA Drivers On Ubuntu Stable Releases | 17 Jun 2019 |
| NVIDIA Releases 430.26 Linux Driver With New Quadro Support | 10 Jun 2019 |
| NVIDIA Releases 418.52.10 Vulkan Linux Beta Driver | 03 Jun 2019 |
| NVIDIA Releasing Quake II RTX Open-Source In Two Weeks | 27 May 2019 |
| NVIDIA 418.52.07 Linux Driver Wires In Two More Extensions | 22 May 2019 |
| NVIDIA 430.14 Linux Driver Improves Vulkan Performance For DiRT 4, Steam Play Games | 14 May 2019 |
| GeForce GTX 1650 Support Backported To Stable Linux Driver With 418.74 Update | 07 May 2019 |
| NVIDIA "AltMode" Open-Source Driver Heading To Mainline Kernel With Linux 5.2 | 27 Apr 2019 |
| NVIDIA Adds Vulkan Support To Nsight Systems | 24 Apr 2019 |
| NVIDIA 430.09 Linux Driver Brings GTX 1650 Support, Surprising VDPAU Improvements | 23 Apr 2019 |
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805 Articles |
| Operating Systems |
| EndeavourOS Is Hoping To Be The Successor To Antergos - Convenient To Use Arch Linux | 16 Jun 2019 |
| OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 Released With AMD Zen Optimized Option, Toolchain Updates | 16 Jun 2019 |
| 100+ Benchmarks Between Clear Linux vs. Arch-Based Manjaro Linux - Summer 2019 Tests | 15 Jun 2019 |
| Haiku Continues Seeing A Lot Of Driver Fixes, New Malloc & Now Built By GCC 8 | 08 Jun 2019 |
| Mageia 7 Release Candidate Ships With Linux 5.1 Kernel, KDE Plasma 5.15.4, Mesa 19.1 | 02 Jun 2019 |
| Genode OS 19.05 Adds 64-bit ARM, Uses C++17 By Default | 29 May 2019 |
| Illumos-Powered OmniOS Gets Updated Against MDS / ZombieLoad Vulnerabilities | 22 May 2019 |
| Arch-Based Antergos Linux Distribution Calls It Quits | 21 May 2019 |
| OpenIndiana Hipster 2019.04 Brings MATE 1.22, More Python 3 Porting | 12 May 2019 |
| OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 RC Released, Rebases To LLVM Clang 8, Java 12, Linux 5.1 | 12 May 2019 |
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720 Articles |
| Oracle |
| KVM/oVirt-Powered Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager Reaches GA | 12 Jun 2019 |
| Oracle Releases Linux 4.14 Based "Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R5 U2" | 03 Jun 2019 |
| Oracle Is Aiming To Contribute An eBPF Backend To The GCC 10 Compiler | 30 May 2019 |
| Oracle's Ksplice Live Kernel Patching Picks Up Known Exploit Detection | 21 Apr 2019 |
| Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 5 Update 1 Released - Improves AArch64, DTrace | 19 Dec 2018 |
| VirtualBox 6.0 Released With Better HiDPI Support, VMSVGA 3D Graphics On Linux | 18 Dec 2018 |
| VirtualBox 6.0 Beta 3 Released: Enables VMSVGA Device By Default, OCI Improvements | 01 Dec 2018 |
| Oracle Exploring DTrace With eBPF | 21 Nov 2018 |
| VirtualBox 6.0 Beta 2 Adds File Manager For Host/Guest File Copies, OS/2 Shared Folder | 15 Nov 2018 |
| Oracles Pushes VirtualBox 6.0 Into Public Beta | 23 Oct 2018 |
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221 Articles |
| Phoronix |
| Phoronix Now 15 Years Old, Phoronix Test Suite Hits 11 - A Look Back By The Numbers | 05 Jun 2019 |
| ZFS On Linux, Intel Cascadelake, Linux 5.1/5.2 Excited Phoronix Readers In April | 01 May 2019 |
| Stadia, Web Browsers, GNOME 3.32 & Jetson Nano Dominated Linux Interest In March | 01 Apr 2019 |
| Linux 5.0, Radeon VII, Intel Iris Driver & Other Exciting Milestones In February | 28 Feb 2019 |
| Linux 5.0, RTX 2060, ZoL & Other Topics Dominating Discussions For January | 01 Feb 2019 |
| Linux 4.20, Debian, Intel, x32, Microsft's Actions & STIBP Topics Rounded Out 2018 | 01 Jan 2019 |
| That's A Wrap For 2018 With 3,693 News Articles, 314 Linux Hardware Reviews/Benchmarks | 31 Dec 2018 |
| Happy Holidays As We Wrap Up 2018, Looking Ahead To An Exciting 2019 | 25 Dec 2018 |
| Linux's Slowdown, Raptor's Talos II, Clear Linux & Other Dominating Topics This Month | 30 Nov 2018 |
| NVIDIA RTX, AMD On Linux & Distro Performance Dominated Linux Discussions In October | 01 Nov 2018 |
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586 Articles |
| Phoronix Test Suite |
| Phoronix Test Suite 8.8.1 Released | 30 May 2019 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 8.8 Officially Released | 13 May 2019 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 8.8 Further Enhances Open-Source, Automated Windows Benchmarking | 12 May 2019 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 8.8 Is Near While Milestone 3 Is Now Available For Testing | 10 May 2019 |
| OpenBenchmarking.org Crosses 39 Million Test/Suite Downloads & More Tests Coming | 31 Mar 2019 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 8.8 Milestone 2 Released For Open-Source Benchmarking | 28 Mar 2019 |
| The First Test Release Of Phoronix Test Suite 8.8 Plus Exciting New Benchmarks | 17 Mar 2019 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 8.6.1 Released For Open-Source, Cross-Platform Benchmarking | 22 Feb 2019 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 8.6 Released For The Latest Open-Source, Cross-Platform Benchmarking | 05 Feb 2019 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 8.6 M3 Released With More Benchmark Analytics From The CLI | 28 Jan 2019 |
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167 Articles |
| Premium |
| 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 |
| Yes, We Like Bitcoin & Other Crypto Currencies | 13 May 2018 |
| Show Your Love For Linux Hardware & Benchmarking This Valentine's Day | 14 Feb 2018 |
| Phoronix Premium, Black Friday / Cyber Monday / Winter Shopping Reminders | 23 Nov 2017 |
| Just A Few Days Left To The Phoronix Fest Deal | 11 Oct 2017 |
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27 Articles |
| Programming |
| PHP 7.4 Alpha Released With FFI Extension, Preloading Opcache For Better Performance | 13 Jun 2019 |
| Git 2.22 Released With Improvements Around Merge Handling, Other Small Enhancements | 07 Jun 2019 |
| Bzip2 To See Revival Under New Maintainership, Experimental Porting To Rust | 05 Jun 2019 |
| Golang Gets Cheaper Context Switching | 01 Jun 2019 |
| Rust 1.35 Released With Support For Empty Debug Macro, ~4x Faster ASCII Case Conversions | 23 May 2019 |
| An Early Look At Some PHP 7.4 Performance Benchmarks | 22 May 2019 |
| hipSYCL Gets New Compilation Toolchain For Taking SYCL Directly To CUDA & ROCm | 14 May 2019 |
| LWJGL 3.2.2 Updates Against Vulkan 1.1, Other New Packages | 11 May 2019 |
| Intel's BFloat16 Support Plumbed Into GCC 10 & LLVM Clang 9 Compilers | 10 May 2019 |
| Facebook Is JIT'ing C++ Code To Treat It Like A Crazy Fast Scripting Language | 28 Apr 2019 |
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235 Articles |
| Proprietary Software |
| DaVinci Resolve 16 Beta Video Editor Employing Deep Learning, GPU Accelerated Tools | 08 Apr 2019 |
| Lightworks Video Editor Plans For A Busy 2019 But No Signs Of The Open-Source Version | 10 Jan 2019 |
| Adobe Customer Care: There Hasn't Been Enough Demand For Linux | 10 Dec 2018 |
| Lightworks 14.5 Video Editor Released With Same-Day Linux Support But Still No Source | 17 Oct 2018 |
| DaVinci Resolve 15 Video/Effects Editor Released With Linux Support | 13 Aug 2018 |
| A VR Developer's Thoughts On The Current Mess Of APIs & Hardware | 27 May 2018 |
| Keeper Password Manager Launches New Linux Version | 26 Apr 2018 |
| Vivaldi Web Browser Now Available For Linux ARM / Raspberry Pi | 05 Dec 2017 |
| TeamViewer 13 Now Available For Linux As A Native 64-bit Port | 04 Dec 2017 |
| Adobe Is Finally Ending Flash Support... In 2020 | 25 Jul 2017 |
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131 Articles |
| Qt |
| Qt 5.13 Released With glTF 2.0 Importing, Wayland Improvements, Lottie Animation Support | 19 Jun 2019 |
| QtCoAP Added To Qt 5.13 To Increase Its Relevance For Internet of Things | 06 Jun 2019 |
| Qt 5.13 Hits The Release Candidate Stage | 05 Jun 2019 |
| Qt Design Studio 1.2 Released With Sketch Integration, Complex Gradients | 03 Jun 2019 |
| Qt 5.13 Should Be Released By Mid-June With Lottie Support, WebAssembly, glTF 2.0 Import | 29 May 2019 |
| Qt Design Studio 1.2 Beta Offers Bridge With Sketch Vector Graphics Editor | 20 May 2019 |
| Qt 5.13 Will Still Try To Ship In May | 30 Apr 2019 |
| Qt 6 Might Drop Their Short-Lived Universal Windows Platform Support | 19 Apr 2019 |
| Qt 5.13 Beta 2 Available For Testing Lottie Support, WebAssembly, glTF 2.0 For Qt 3D | 16 Apr 2019 |
| Qt Creator 4.9 Released With Expanded Language Server Protocol Support | 15 Apr 2019 |
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385 Articles |
| Radeon |
| AMDVLK Still Hasn't Yet Adopted FreeSync Support | 18 Jun 2019 |
| Radeon Software for Linux 19.20 Brings RHEL 8.0 Support | 18 Jun 2019 |
| AMD Posts 459 Linux Kernel Patches Providing Navi Support - 412k+ Lines Of Code | 17 Jun 2019 |
| AMD Wires Its New Runtime Linker Into RadeonSI Gallium3D | 14 Jun 2019 |
| New GFX1011 / GFX1012 Targets Appear In AMDGPU LLVM Compiler Backend | 14 Jun 2019 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Picks Up Fixes For Vega M Hardware | 13 Jun 2019 |
| More AMDGPU Radeon Graphics Code Is Getting Ready For Linux 5.3 | 11 Jun 2019 |
| Radeon ROCm 2.6 To Support Intel Vega M Chips | 11 Jun 2019 |
| AMDVLK 2019.Q2.5 Brings Fixes For World War Z, F1 2018, Other Optimizations | 10 Jun 2019 |
| R300 Gallium3D Driver Finally Wired Up For On-Disk Shader Cache | 10 Jun 2019 |
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1030 Articles |
| Red Hat |
| CentOS 8.0 Is Looking Like It's Still Some Weeks Out | 17 Jun 2019 |
| RHEL 7.7 Beta Comes With MDS/Zombieload Mitigations | 06 Jun 2019 |
| CentOS 8.0 Is Still Aiming To Be Out Hopefully In A Month Or Two | 04 Jun 2019 |
| Plymouth Adds New Firmware Upgrade Mode For Better Fwupd Integration | 30 May 2019 |
| Red Hat Is Looking To Hire Another Experienced Open-Source Graphics Driver Developer | 14 May 2019 |
| The State of CentOS 8.0 As The Community Rebuild Of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 | 09 May 2019 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Reaches General Availability | 07 May 2019 |
| Looking Ahead To Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 News During Red Hat Summit 2019 Week | 06 May 2019 |
| Oracle Linux 8 Beta Released - Based On RHEL 8 | 01 May 2019 |
| Scientific Linux 6/7 Will Remain Supported But The Distribution Is Ending | 22 Apr 2019 |
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190 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 |
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35 Articles |
| Standards |
| UEFI 2.8 Specification Released With REST & Memory Cryptography | 04 Jun 2019 |
| EA Joins The Khronos Group, Will Collaborate On Vulkan | 30 Apr 2019 |
| POCL 1.3 Released For OpenCL On CPUs As The Portable Computing Language | 05 Apr 2019 |
| LVFS Officially Joins The Linux Foundation | 28 Mar 2019 |
| Vulkan Working To Expose Video Encode/Decode, Machine Learning | 24 Mar 2019 |
| OpenXR 0.90 Released For AR/VR Standard - Monado Is An Open-Source Implementation | 18 Mar 2019 |
| AV1 Image File Format v1.0 Finalized | 28 Feb 2019 |
| Coroutines & Modules Added For C++20 | 23 Feb 2019 |
| OpenCL 2.2-10 Released With Fixes | 19 Feb 2019 |
| Khronos Gears Up For A Busy GDC 2019 With Vulkan, OpenXR | 24 Jan 2019 |
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205 Articles |
| SUSE |
| 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 |
| OpenSUSE Looking At Blacklisting Legacy & Less Secure File-Systems | 09 Feb 2019 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP1 Beta Bringing Java 11, LLVM 7, BCache Installer Support | 20 Dec 2018 |
| OpenSUSE Begins Preparing For Leap 15.1 (15 Service Pack 1) | 17 Oct 2018 |
| SUSE Continues Working On Transactional Updates With Btrfs | 02 Sep 2018 |
| OpenSUSE Kubic Shifts Focus Following Self-Reflection | 09 Aug 2018 |
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222 Articles |
| systemd |
| Systemd Is Now Seeing Continuous Fuzzing By Fuzzit | 15 Jun 2019 |
| systemd Clocks In At More Than 1.2 Million Lines | 21 May 2019 |
| Systemd Picks Up Support For MACsec To Better Secure Ethernet Connections | 14 Apr 2019 |
| Systemd 242 Released With XBOOTLDR Support, Networkd L2TP Tunnels | 11 Apr 2019 |
| Systemd 242 Gearing Up For Release With XBOOTLDR Support, Other New Features | 03 Apr 2019 |
| Systemd's Nspawn Lands OCI Runtime Support | 21 Mar 2019 |
| L2TP Tunnel Support Added To Systemd | 14 Mar 2019 |
| Systemd Lands Support For "XBOOTLDR" Extended Boot Loader | 01 Mar 2019 |
| Systemd 241 Released With Security Fixes & Other Changes | 14 Feb 2019 |
| Systemd 241 RC2 Released With Its Beefed Up Security | 30 Jan 2019 |
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157 Articles |
| Ubuntu |
| Ubuntu 19.10 To Harden Its Compiler With Stack Clash Protection & Intel CET | 19 Jun 2019 |
| Ubuntu 19.10 To Drop 32-bit x86 Packages | 18 Jun 2019 |
| Debian's Apt 1.9 Moves To Experimental, Coming To Ubuntu 19.10 | 17 Jun 2019 |
| Inkscape Founder & X.Org Veteran, Bryce Harrington, Rejoins Canonical | 13 Jun 2019 |
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS With Latest GNOME Update Now Plays Nicely For 120~144Hz Displays | 10 Jun 2019 |
| Ubuntu Touch Nearing Updated Unity 8 + Mir, But Not Yet Full Wayland | 08 Jun 2019 |
| Ubuntu Moving Ahead With Compressing Their Kernel Image Using LZ4 | 06 Jun 2019 |
| Ubuntu 19.10's ZFS TODO List Goes Public - A Lot To Of Work Left | 04 Jun 2019 |
| Canonical Releases Multipass 0.7 With VirtualBox Windows/macOS Support | 29 May 2019 |
| Canonical Releases Mir 1.2 For Fostering Mir-Based Shells With Extra Wayland Extensions | 28 May 2019 |
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1282 Articles |
| Valve |
| Valve's Proton 4.2-7 Fixes Performance & Sound Regressions | 12 Jun 2019 |
| Proton 4.2-6 Brings DXVK 1.2.1 Rebuild, Updated FAudio, Other Fixes | 06 Jun 2019 |
| Steam's Linux Marketshare Ticks Up Ever So Slightly For May | 01 Jun 2019 |
| Valve's Proton Pulls In Latest DXVK, Steam Networking Updates, Controller Layout Fixes | 23 May 2019 |
| Valve Pushes Out Big Steam Beta Update, Linux Changes & Steam Remote Play | 15 May 2019 |
| Proton 4.2-4 Released With Fix For RAGE 2, Updated DXVK | 14 May 2019 |
| Linux DRM Adds Quirk For Dealing With Valve's Index VR Headset | 07 May 2019 |
| Steam Survey Data For April 2019 Shows Only Minor Change In Linux Use | 02 May 2019 |
| Valve Reveals Specifications For Their Index VR Headset, Controllers & Base Stations | 30 Apr 2019 |
| Valve's Proton 4.2-3 Released With Wine-Mono Integration Plus DXVK 1.0.3, Updated FAudio | 18 Apr 2019 |
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444 Articles |
| VIA |
| Even In 2019, A Long Road Still For Getting The VIA OpenChrome Driver In Linux | 09 Jan 2019 |
| OpenChrome DRM Driver To Go Through A GEM/TTM Code Rewrite | 05 Aug 2018 |
| It's Still Going To Be Tough Getting The OpenChrome VIA KMS Driver In The Linux Kernel | 28 May 2018 |
| VIA Joins In The AI Race, Linux/Android Support For Their New Developer Kit | 10 May 2018 |
| OpenChrome DRM Driver To Work On New GEM/TTM Code, Regression Fixes | 12 Mar 2018 |
| OpenChrome KMS Can Now Do Runtime Resolution Changes, Hopes To Go Mainline In 2018 | 11 Mar 2018 |
| OpenChrome DRM Still Aiming For Mainline Kernel, But Initially Will Lack 2D Acceleration | 02 Mar 2018 |
| OpenChrome DRM Continues To Be Developed, But It Didn't Make It Mainline This Year | 26 Dec 2017 |
| OpenChrome DRM Still Being Ported To Newer Kernel, Lengthy Process | 25 Aug 2017 |
| OpenChrome Still Pushing For DRM Kernel Driver, Updated DDX | 04 Aug 2017 |
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99 Articles |
| Virtualization |
| Linux 5.3 Kernel Picking Up Support For ACRN Guest Hypervisor Support | 13 Jun 2019 |
| Intel GVT-g Live Migration Support Is Nearing Mainline | 02 Jun 2019 |
| Xen Developers Continue Work On CPU Core Scheduling Support | 20 May 2019 |
| KVM Changes Make It Into Linux 5.2 With Improvements For x86, POWER, ARM | 18 May 2019 |
| Intel Linux Patches Revised For SVA/SVM Virtualization | 05 May 2019 |
| VMware Working On Emulated Coherent Graphics Memory - Needed For GL 4.4 / Vulkan | 25 Apr 2019 |
| QEMU 4.0 Released With CPU Support Improvements, Faster Crypto, Monitor EDID | 23 Apr 2019 |
| VIRTIO 1.1 Released With 2D Graphics Support, Evdev Input Device | 19 Apr 2019 |
| Proxmox VE 5.4 Released With New Installation Bits, Powered By Debian 9.8 + Linux 4.15 | 11 Apr 2019 |
| LXD 3.12 Released With Cluster Improvements, Better CPU & GPU Reporting | 06 Apr 2019 |
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370 Articles |
| Vulkan |
| MoltenVK 1.0.35 Brings Many Additions & Improvements For Vulkan On macOS | 14 Jun 2019 |
| Vulkan 1.1.111 Released With Various Fixes | 10 Jun 2019 |
| Vulkan 1.1.110 Released With EXT_fragment_shader_interlock & NV_shader_sm_builtins | 02 Jun 2019 |
| Vulkan 1.1.109 Released With Two New Intel Extensions | 24 May 2019 |
| DXVK 1.2.1 Released With Game Fixes, Some Performance Improvements | 19 May 2019 |
| Vulkan 1.1.108 Released With Two New Extensions | 13 May 2019 |
| X-Plane Making Vulkan Progress; Flax Engine Tacking On Vulkan In Road To Linux | 27 Apr 2019 |
| CLVK Still Making Progress As Experimental OpenCL Over Vulkan | 17 Apr 2019 |
| Vulkan 1.1.107 Released With Support For Headless Surfaces | 16 Apr 2019 |
| DXVK 1.0.3 Released Following The Recalled DXVK 1.1 | 15 Apr 2019 |
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402 Articles |
| Wayland |
| SDL2 Adds Wayland HiDPI Support | 12 Jun 2019 |
| Chamferwm Is Still Kicking As A Vulkan-Powered X11 Compositor | 09 Jun 2019 |
| Sway 1.1 Released With Switch Event Support, Touch Support For Swaybar | 03 Jun 2019 |
| Problems Being Investigated Under Wayland Itches Program, Including Gaming Performance | 22 May 2019 |
| Prolific Red Hat Developer Starts Up "Wayland Itches" Project | 14 May 2019 |
| Sway 1.1 Is Bringing Touch Support To Swaybar, Other Features & Fixes | 03 May 2019 |
| Wio: Plan 9's Rio Windowing System Re-Implemented As A Wayland Compositor | 01 May 2019 |
| "Cage" Sees Initial Test Release For Kiosk-Like Wayland Compositor | 24 Apr 2019 |
| Wayland Has A Color Manager Calibration Protocol In The Works | 15 Apr 2019 |
| Wayland's Current Release Manager Is Stepping Down, Following Samsung's Open-Source Drama | 05 Apr 2019 |
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699 Articles |
| WINE |
| Wine Staging 4.10 Adds EXT4 Case Insensitive Support | 12 Jun 2019 |
| Wine 4.10 Now Better Supports Installing Plug & Play Drivers | 10 Jun 2019 |
| WineD3D Optimistic In Their Yet To Be Proven Vulkan Backend, DXVK "Dead End" | 07 Jun 2019 |
| Wine-Staging 4.9 Released With A Few New & Updated Patches | 26 May 2019 |
| Wine 4.9 Released With Ability To Install Plug & Play Drivers | 24 May 2019 |
| Wine & Mingw-w64 Might Tighten Up Their Relationship - Possible "WineSDK" | 23 May 2019 |
| Wine 4.0.1 Released With 44 Fixes | 15 May 2019 |
| Wine-Staging 4.8 Brings More Joystick Improvements, 64-bit ARM Windows App Fix | 11 May 2019 |
| Wine 4.8 Pops Open With Unicode 12.0, Better Joystick Support | 10 May 2019 |
| Wine-Staging 4.7 Released & Fixes An 11 Year Old Winamp Issue | 27 Apr 2019 |
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635 Articles |
| X.Org |
| X.Org Server 1.20.5 Released With A Few XWayland & GLAMOR Fixes | 30 May 2019 |
| X.Org Server Closer To Better Handling On-Demand XWayland Startup | 26 May 2019 |
| XWayland Receive An EGL-Based GLX Provider, Helping Various Games On Linux | 24 May 2019 |
| X.Org's XDC2019 Issues Call For Proposals On Wayland, Mesa, X.Org, Etc | 21 May 2019 |
| PRIME GPU Offloading Improvement For GLXVND Merged For X.Org Server 1.21 | 18 May 2019 |
| The Process For Eventually Releasing X.Org Server 1.21 | 15 May 2019 |
| NVIDIA Working On New GLX Extension To Help PRIME GPU Offloading | 25 Apr 2019 |
| It's Time To Re-Vote Following The Botched 2019 X.Org Elections | 19 Apr 2019 |
| GLAMOR Sees More Improvements For What Will Eventually Be X.Org Server 1.21 | 18 Apr 2019 |
| X.Org To Join Forces With FreeDesktop.org While Foundation Elections Hit A Snag | 11 Apr 2019 |
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