| AMD |
| AMD Has A Nice Performance Optimization Coming With Linux 6.8 | 27 Nov 2023 |
| AMD AXI 1-Wire Driver Queued Ahead Of The Linux 6.8 Kernel | 19 Nov 2023 |
| AMD Talking Up Open-Source & Open Standards Ahead Of "Advancing AI" Event | 14 Nov 2023 |
| AMD Releases Six New EPYC 7003 "Milan" Processors | 07 Nov 2023 |
| Open-Source AMD OpenSIL Continues Making Progress To Eventually Replace AGESA | 07 Nov 2023 |
| Linux 6.7 Perf Adds Support For Zen 4 Unified Memory Controller Events | 06 Nov 2023 |
| AMD Inception / SRSO Mitigation Further Cleaned Up With Linux 6.7 | 06 Nov 2023 |
| /proc/cpuinfo Will No Longer Show AMD SVM When It's Been Disabled By The BIOS | 31 Oct 2023 |
| Linux 6.7 Makes More Preparations For The AMD Instinct MI300A APUs | 30 Oct 2023 |
| AMD Versal EDAC Driver Submitted For Linux 6.7 | 29 Oct 2023 |
More AMD News | 1613 Articles |
| Apple |
| Apple Announces The M3 / M3 Pro / M3 Max | 30 Oct 2023 |
| Asahi Linux's Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant | 22 Aug 2023 |
| Apple Studio Display Linux Driver Published To Control The Backlight | 01 Jul 2023 |
| Experimental OpenGL 3.1 Support For Apple M1/M2 Graphics On Linux | 06 Jun 2023 |
| Apple Announces The M2 Ultra SoC - 24 Core CPU, Up To 192GB Unified Memory | 05 Jun 2023 |
| Apple M1/M2 Keyboard Backlight Support Set For The Linux 6.4 Kernel | 17 Apr 2023 |
| Linux 6.4 Bringing Apple M2 Additions For 2022 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac Mini | 06 Apr 2023 |
| Linux GMUX Support For T2 Macs On The Way For Dual-GPU Graphics Switching | 12 Mar 2023 |
| Initial Rust DRM Abstractions, AGX Apple DRM Driver Posted For Review | 07 Mar 2023 |
| Asahi AGX Mesa Driver Prepares For Compute Kernels On Apple Silicon | 06 Mar 2023 |
More Apple News | 117 Articles |
| Arch Linux |
| Archinstall 2.7 Brings Unified Kernel Image Support To The Arch Linux Installer | 23 Nov 2023 |
| Arch Linux Installer Update Allows More Control Over Parallel Downloads, Ly | 23 Sep 2023 |
| Archinstall 2.6 Released For Latest Easy-To-Use Arch Linux Installer | 31 Jul 2023 |
| Arch Linux Installer Archinstall 2.6 Preparing New Features | 17 Jul 2023 |
| Arch Linux Completes Its Git Migration | 21 May 2023 |
| Arch Linux Prepares For Repository Changes, Discontinuing SVN Access | 16 May 2023 |
| Arch Linux Installer v2.5.4 Adds Initial Swapfile Support | 29 Mar 2023 |
| Arch-Powered Manjaro 22.0 Released With Xfce 4.18 Desktop, Linux 6.1 Kernel | 24 Dec 2022 |
| Archinstall 2.5.1 Released With A Number Of Fixes For The Arch Linux Installer | 25 Sep 2022 |
| Archinstall 2.5-rc1 For Easily Installing Arch Linux | 31 Aug 2022 |
More Arch Linux News | 116 Articles |
| Arm |
| Microsoft CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230924 Rebuilds AArch64 Packages Due To That Nasty GCC Bug | 01 Oct 2023 |
| Linux 6.6 Adds Support For Intel Agilex 5 FPGAs, Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 | 30 Aug 2023 |
| Ampere Computing Publishes Guide For Steam Play Games On Their AArch64 Server CPUs | 27 Aug 2023 |
| Arm Talks Up Their Open-Source Contributions, Adding Support For Panfrost | 20 Jul 2023 |
| Arm Guarded Control Stack "GCS" Patches Debut For The Linux Kernel | 18 Jul 2023 |
| Linux 6.5 On AArch64 Sees New Extensions, KPTI Cleanup | 27 Jun 2023 |
| Arm Ethos-U Linux Driver Posted For Machine Learning Processor | 16 Jun 2023 |
| LLVM 17 Lands Arm Neoverse-V2 Scheduling Model | 15 Jun 2023 |
| Arm Details The Cortex-X4 With +15% Performance, Armv9.2 ISA | 29 May 2023 |
| Initial Apple M2 Support & Other 64-bit ARM Changes For Linux 6.4 | 25 Apr 2023 |
More Arm News | 309 Articles |
| BSD |
| FreeBSD 14.0 Released: Supports Up To 1,024 CPU Cores, OpenZFS 2.2 & Adds Fwget | 20 Nov 2023 |
| FreeBSD Adding More AMD64 SIMD, Continues Improving Linux Compatibility Layer | 10 Nov 2023 |
| In Development Since 2019, NetBSD 10-RC1 Released As A Huge Update | 08 Nov 2023 |
| After A Delay, ISA Drivers Will Be Kept Around Until FreeBSD 15 | 04 Nov 2023 |
| GhostBSD 23.10.1 For FreeBSD-Based MATE Desktop OS | 30 Oct 2023 |
| FreeBSD 14.0-RC2 Pulls In OpenZFS 2.2, OpenSSH 9.5p1 | 21 Oct 2023 |
| OpenBSD 7.4 Released With New Hardware Support, Security Improvements | 16 Oct 2023 |
| FreeBSD 14 Nears Release With Support For Up To 1024 CPU Cores, Updated Drivers | 14 Oct 2023 |
| DragonFlyBSD's HAMMER2 File-System Seeing New Improvements, Initial Recovery Support | 04 Oct 2023 |
| FreeBSD 14 Beta Released - Initial WiFi 6 Support, Updated LLVM Toolchain, Fwget Utility | 09 Sep 2023 |
More BSD News | 808 Articles |
| Clear Linux |
| Clear Linux Will Now Handle Up To 512 CPU Cores / vCPUs | 28 Dec 2022 |
| Intel's Clear Linux Taps -O3 For Its Kernel Builds | 12 Aug 2022 |
| Clear Linux Container Performance Continues Showing Sizable Gains | 30 Jan 2022 |
| Using Distrobox To Augment The Package Selection On Clear Linux, Other Distributions | 09 Jan 2022 |
| Clear Linux Preparing To Move To GNOME 3.36, Dropping Their Desktop Customizations | 26 Apr 2020 |
| Intel's Clear Linux To Divest From The Desktop, Focus On Server + Cloud Workloads | 23 Apr 2020 |
| Chrome, Skype, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, VSCode Now Unofficially Available For Clear Linux | 03 Apr 2020 |
| Is Clear Linux Just A Toy Distribution By Intel? | 18 Mar 2020 |
| Intel's Clear Linux Has Code In Place To Begin Handling Proprietary Packages Like Chrome & Steam | 13 Mar 2020 |
| F2FS Root File-System Support For Clear Linux Appears To Be Coming | 14 Feb 2020 |
More Clear Linux News | 93 Articles |
| Coreboot |
| Canoeboot 20231026 Released As Another Fork Of Coreboot-Downstream Libreboot | 27 Oct 2023 |
| Libreboot 20231021 Brings Some Additional Laptops, Desktops / Motherboards For Testing | 21 Oct 2023 |
| Coreboot-Based Dasharo Updated For MSI Z690-A With Raptor Lake S, MSI FLASHBIOS | 12 Sep 2023 |
| Initial AMD EPYC Genoa Support Added To Coreboot, New Onyx Motherboard Target | 03 Sep 2023 |
| Coreboot 4.21 Brings More System76 Laptops, Star Labs & MSI Z790-P Support | 25 Aug 2023 |
| Coreboot Lands Support For The MSI PRO Z790-P Motherboards | 24 Aug 2023 |
| Coreboot's amdfwtool Updated For EPYC Genoa | 21 Aug 2023 |
| Coreboot Lands Support For The HP EliteBook 820 G2 | 05 Aug 2023 |
| System76 Darter Pro 9 / Serval WS 13 / Galago Pro 7 Land In Upstream Coreboot | 19 Jul 2023 |
| Libreboot 20230625 Released With A Few More Old Systems Added | 26 Jun 2023 |
More Coreboot News | 268 Articles |
| Debian |
| Debian's MIPS64EL CPU Port Is At Risk Due To Declining Hardware Access | 25 Nov 2023 |
| Debian Repeals The Merged "/usr" Movement Moratorium | 17 Oct 2023 |
| Debian 12.2 Released With Various Security Fixes, AMD Inception Microcode | 08 Oct 2023 |
| Debian Dropping Its 32-bit MIPS Little Endian "mipsel" Port | 02 Sep 2023 |
| LoongArch "Loong64" Added To Debian Ports | 16 Aug 2023 |
| Devuan 5.0 Released For Debian 12 Without systemd | 15 Aug 2023 |
| Building Debian For RISC-V Currently Relies Upon Nine HiFive Unmatched Boards | 31 Jul 2023 |
| RISC-V Is Now An Official Debian Architecture | 23 Jul 2023 |
| Debian 12.1 Released With Many Bug Fixes | 22 Jul 2023 |
| Debian GNU/Hurd 2023 Released | 12 Jun 2023 |
More Debian News | 408 Articles |
| Desktop |
| System76 Stuffing More Features Into COSMIC Desktop Ahead Of The Holidays | 23 Nov 2023 |
| LXQt 1.4 Debuts As Last Planned Qt5 Desktop Release | 05 Nov 2023 |
| COSMIC Desktop Rolls Out Lock/Login Screen, More Wayland Protocols | 20 Oct 2023 |
| System76's COSMIC Desktop Adds New Window-Swapping Mode, Dynamic Settings | 28 Sep 2023 |
| XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.17.1 Released With Accent Color Support | 29 Aug 2023 |
| Budgie 10.8 Linux Desktop Released | 20 Aug 2023 |
| System76 COSMIC Desktop Ironing Out Support For Themes, Application API | 12 Aug 2023 |
| Window Maker 0.96 Released For Window Manager Inspired By NeXTSTEP UI | 07 Aug 2023 |
| COSMIC Desktop Implements Fractional Scaling, Wallpaper Settings | 14 Jul 2023 |
| HarfBuzz 8.0 Released - Introduces Shaper For WebAssembly Within Font Files | 09 Jul 2023 |
More Desktop News | 445 Articles |
| Fedora |
| Fedora 40 Looking To Change Linker To Error Out On Security Issues | 15 Nov 2023 |
| Fedora Linux 39 Released As A Wonderful Upgrade For Leading Workstations & Servers | 07 Nov 2023 |
| Fedora Linux 39 To Be Released On Tuesday | 02 Nov 2023 |
| KDE Plasma 6.0 Approved For Fedora 40 - Including Dropping The X11 Session | 02 Nov 2023 |
| Fedora 39 Delayed To At Least 7 November | 27 Oct 2023 |
| The Fedora 39 Release Has Been Held Up By Raspberry Pi Bugs | 25 Oct 2023 |
| Fedora To Possibly Transition From Zlib To Zlib-NG For Better Performance | 25 Oct 2023 |
| Fedora 39 Beta Released With Faster DNF, GNOME 45 Desktop | 19 Sep 2023 |
| Fedora 40 Eyes Dropping GNOME X11 Session Support | 19 Sep 2023 |
| Fedora 40 Looks To Offer KDE Plasma 6 Desktop, Drop The KDE X11 Session | 13 Sep 2023 |
More Fedora News | 1167 Articles |
| Free Software |
| FreeRDP 3.0 Adding Relative Mouse Movement & Other Improvements | 27 Nov 2023 |
| GIMP 3.0 Is Hoping To Release In May | 24 Nov 2023 |
| OpenSSL 3.2 Released With Client-Side QUIC, SSL/TLS Security Level 2 Default | 23 Nov 2023 |
| Inkscape Celebrates 20 Years With New Release | 18 Nov 2023 |
| Blender 4.0 Released For This Incredible Open-Source 3D Modeling Software | 14 Nov 2023 |
| Linux Foundation Creating The High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF) | 13 Nov 2023 |
| OpenBLAS 0.3.25 Adds New AVX-512 Optimizations For Sapphire Rapids & More | 13 Nov 2023 |
| TuxClocker 1.3 Preparing Additional AMD GPU Voltage & Memory Controls | 09 Nov 2023 |
| FEX 2311 Brings More AVX Optimizations, Preparations For Better Performance | 08 Nov 2023 |
| GIMP 2.10.36 Released As GIMP 3.0 Might Finally Be Close | 08 Nov 2023 |
More Free Software News | 1923 Articles |
| GNOME |
| GNOME's €1M Funding Is Help Advance Work On systemd-homed Home Encryption | 25 Nov 2023 |
| GTK 4.14 Adding Graphics Offloading Capabilities Under Wayland | 15 Nov 2023 |
| GNOME Terminal Working To Migrate To GTK 4, VTE To Overcome 40 FPS Cap | 05 Nov 2023 |
| Experimental Zero-Copy Support For Nouveau With GNOME Mutter | 26 Oct 2023 |
| More Optimizations Made For Making GNOME/VTE Terminals Go Faster | 21 Oct 2023 |
| GNOME Foundation Names A New Executive Director | 17 Oct 2023 |
| Another Bug Found That Limits GNOME's Performance For Secondary GPU Setups | 10 Oct 2023 |
| GNOME Merge Requests Opened That Would Drop X.Org Session Support | 09 Oct 2023 |
| GNOME's VTE Seeing Improvements For Faster Terminal Performance | 04 Oct 2023 |
| New GNOME Code Speeds Up Performance For NVIDIA Proprietary Driver Multi-Monitor | 02 Oct 2023 |
More GNOME News | 1230 Articles |
| GNU |
| Initial Intel AVX10.1 Support Makes Its Way Into GCC 14 | 21 Nov 2023 |
| GCC 14 Shifts From Feature Development To "General Bugfixing" Mode | 20 Nov 2023 |
| GCC Patches Posted For Implementing Incremental LTO | 18 Nov 2023 |
| GCC COBOL Compiler Support Continues To Be Worked On | 15 Nov 2023 |
| GCC 14 Now Honors The -std=c23 & -std=gnu23 Compiler Options For C23 | 06 Nov 2023 |
| Zhaoxin Yongfeng CPU Support Merged For The GCC 14 Compiler | 31 Oct 2023 |
| GNU Linux-libre 6.6-gnu Released For Those Wanting A Stripped Down Kernel | 30 Oct 2023 |
| GCC 14 Feature Development Ends Next Month | 19 Oct 2023 |
| IBM Begins Posting "PowerPC Future" Compiler Patches For What Is Likely Going To Be POWER11 | 19 Oct 2023 |
| GCC Security Policy Merged To GCC Git | 05 Oct 2023 |
More GNU News | 1053 Articles |
| Google |
| Google Rewriting Android's Binder In Rust With Promising Results | 02 Nov 2023 |
| Google Chrome To Remove Theora Video Codec Support | 29 Oct 2023 |
| Chrome 119 Beta Released With CSS Relative Color Syntax, WebSQL Disabled | 07 Oct 2023 |
| Android 14 Open-Source Project Released | 04 Oct 2023 |
| Google Preparing To Rollout Stable Chrome Releases Even Faster | 30 Aug 2023 |
| Google Announces C3A Instances Coming, Powered By AmpereOne CPUs | 29 Aug 2023 |
| Linux 6.6 To Support Rumble / Force Feedback On Google Stadia Controllers | 18 Aug 2023 |
| Chrome 116 Released With Document Picture-In-Picture API | 15 Aug 2023 |
| Go 2 For "Breaking With The Past" Will Never Come | 14 Aug 2023 |
| Google May Reconsider JPEG-XL Image Support Within Chrome | 07 Aug 2023 |
More Google News | 561 Articles |
| Hardware |
| Lenovo Prepares The Linux Kernel For "Ultra-Performance Capability" On Latest ThinkPads | 21 Nov 2023 |
| Polychromatic 0.8.3 Released For Latest Open-Source Razer Experience On Linux | 19 Nov 2023 |
| PCI-SIG Announces "CopprLink" PCI Express Cable Name | 14 Nov 2023 |
| Intel's Aurora Supercomputer Debuts On TOP500 In Spot #2 | 13 Nov 2023 |
| Linux 6.7 USB/Thunderbolt Adds DP Alt Mode 2.1 Support, Intel LJCA | 12 Nov 2023 |
| Intel Atom ISP Camera Driver Continues Being Cleaned Up In The Linux Kernel | 12 Nov 2023 |
| TUXEDO Computers Launches Zen 4 Linux Laptop With 32GB RAM & 3K Display | 11 Nov 2023 |
| Dell & Lenovo Keyboard Quirks Addressed In Linux 6.7 | 07 Nov 2023 |
| ASUS Screenpad Support, More MSI Laptops & Intel IFS Gen2 Changes In Linux 6.7 | 06 Nov 2023 |
| Linux Can Now Natively Handle CXL Link Protocol Errors, Fixes For Next-Gen VH Topologies | 05 Nov 2023 |
More Hardware News | 2042 Articles |
| Intel |
| Intel Appears On The Verge Of Some Exciting Performance Optimizations For Linux Distros | 27 Nov 2023 |
| Intel Begins Readying Kernel Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.8 | 26 Nov 2023 |
| Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Overhauls Its Buffer Allocation Code | 26 Nov 2023 |
| Arrow Lake Support Added To The Intel Graphics Compiler | 24 Nov 2023 |
| Intel Software Developer Toolkits 2024 Released For Pushing AI, Python & HPC | 21 Nov 2023 |
| Intel Lands Vulkan Sparse Binding Support For ANV+i915 With Mesa 24.0 | 17 Nov 2023 |
| Intel Preparing APX PPX Support For GCC: Push-Pop Acceleration | 17 Nov 2023 |
| OpenVINO 2023.2 Released With More Generative AI Coverage & Broader LLM Support | 16 Nov 2023 |
| Intel QATlib 23.11 Brings New Crypto Support | 16 Nov 2023 |
| Intel Speeds Up ISPC Via LLVM/Clang LTO | 15 Nov 2023 |
More Intel News | 2826 Articles |
| KDE |
| KDE Is Down To Just One Wayland Showstopper Bug Remaining | 25 Nov 2023 |
| KDE Addressing A Spike In Bug Reports Following The Plasma 6 Alpha | 18 Nov 2023 |
| KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Enabling Wayland By Default, Initial Support For HDR-Capable Games | 11 Nov 2023 |
| KDE Plasma 6.0 Alpha Released With KDE Frameworks 6 & KDE Gear Updates Too | 08 Nov 2023 |
| KDE Plasma 6 Alpha Approaches Next Week With The Soft Feature Freeze | 04 Nov 2023 |
| KDE KWin Preparing Preliminary Support For Running HDR Games | 01 Nov 2023 |
| KDE 3.5 Fork Trinity Desktop 14.1.1 Released | 29 Oct 2023 |
| KDE Desktop Cube Effect Returns & Plasma Wayland Per-Screen Color Management | 28 Oct 2023 |
| File Searching On KDE Plasma 6.0 To Use Less CPU Resources & Better Usability | 26 Oct 2023 |
| KDE Plasma 6 Has New Role For "F10", Kate/KWrite Text-To-Speech & Smooth Scrolling | 14 Oct 2023 |
More KDE News | 1260 Articles |
| LibreOffice |
| LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha 1 Brings Many New Features | 23 Nov 2023 |
| LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6 | 22 Aug 2023 |
| LibreOffice 7.6 Now Available For This Best Free Software Office Suite | 21 Aug 2023 |
| LibreOffice Lands APNG Export Support | 13 Aug 2023 |
| LibreOffice 7.6 RC2 Available For Last Minute Testing Of This Open-Source Office Suite | 03 Aug 2023 |
| LibreOffice 7.6 RC1 Available For Testing Out The New Open-Source Office Suite Features | 12 Jul 2023 |
| LibreOffice 7.6 Beta Available For This Excellent Open-Source Office Suite | 14 Jun 2023 |
| LibreOffice 7.6 Alpha 1 Available For This Leading Open-Source Office Suite | 12 May 2023 |
| LibreOffice 7.5 Released With Improved Dark Mode, Better PDF Exporting | 02 Feb 2023 |
| LibreOffice Removes Support For Some Old Targets: AIX, 32-bit s390 & More | 28 Jan 2023 |
More LibreOffice News | 179 Articles |
| Linux Events |
| Open-Source Firmware Conference 2022 Slides & Videos Online | 05 Oct 2022 |
| Linux Plumbers Conference 2022 Livestream | 12 Sep 2022 |
| FOSDEM 2022 Is Happening Online This Weekend | 05 Feb 2022 |
| RISC-V Summit 2021 - High Performance Processors, Other Interesting Talks | 09 Dec 2021 |
| Linux Foundation Expects Revenues Of $177 Million This Year | 07 Dec 2021 |
| DebConf21 Kicks Off Online For Annual Debian Conference | 24 Aug 2021 |
| IWOCL + SYCLcon 2021 Slides/Videos Published For Lots Of OpenCL, SYCL Technical Talks | 29 Apr 2021 |
| FOSDEM Online 2021 Is Happening This Weekend | 06 Feb 2021 |
| Linux App Summit 2020 Videos Now Available From Steam/Valve To GNOME Circle | 14 Nov 2020 |
| OpenPOWER Summit 2020 Was This Week With Many Interesting Hardware/Software Talks | 20 Sep 2020 |
More Linux Events News | 82 Articles |
| Linux Gaming |
| PCSX2 Emulator Disables Wayland Support By Default | 26 Nov 2023 |
| TUXEDO Computers Launches First All-AMD Linux Gaming Laptop | 25 Nov 2023 |
| Valve Updates Half-Life For 25th Anniversary - Adds Official Steam Deck Support | 17 Nov 2023 |
| OpenRazer 3.7 Adds Support For Many Newer Razer Devices On Linux | 01 Nov 2023 |
| Lutris 0.5.14 Released For Better Managing Your Games On Linux | 20 Oct 2023 |
| PXN V900 Racing Wheel Support Added To Linux 6.6 | 14 Oct 2023 |
| O3DE 23.10 Released With Many Improvements To This Open-Source Game Engine | 10 Oct 2023 |
| Polychromatic 0.8.2 Released For Managing Razer Peripherals On Linux | 08 Oct 2023 |
| FEX-Emu 2310 Released With Performance Optimizations, WOW64 Wine Frontend | 06 Oct 2023 |
| Steam On Linux Percentage Dips Further In September, AMD Powers 70% Of Linux Gamers | 01 Oct 2023 |
More Linux Gaming News | 1944 Articles |
| Linux Kernel |
| Linux 6.7-rc3 Released Following A Light Holiday Week | 27 Nov 2023 |
| Linux Kernel Developers Debate Priority-Based Shutdown Support | 26 Nov 2023 |
| Atomic Async Page Flips Expected To Land For Linux 6.8 | 24 Nov 2023 |
| Real-Time "RT" Patches Updated Against Current Linux 6.7 Development | 24 Nov 2023 |
| Imagination PowerVR Open-Source GPU Driver To Be Introduced In Linux 6.8 | 23 Nov 2023 |
| The Linux Kernel Preparing To Drop Infrastructure For Old & Obsolete Graphics Drivers | 22 Nov 2023 |
| 64-bit ARM Linux Kernel Against CPU-Specific Optimizations: "Pretty Unmaintainable" | 22 Nov 2023 |
| Linux 6.8 Looks To Upgrade Its Zstd Code For Better Compression Performance | 21 Nov 2023 |
| Linux 6.7-rc2 Released: "Slightly Larger Than Average" | 19 Nov 2023 |
| Raspberry Pi 5 Kernel Graphics Driver Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.8 | 17 Nov 2023 |
More Linux Kernel News | 3417 Articles |
| Linux Networking |
| Linux 6.7 Networking Adds New Hardware Support, A ~20% Perf Boost For Single TCP Flow | 03 Nov 2023 |
| Landlock Access Controls Extended To Networking With Linux 6.7 | 03 Nov 2023 |
| Linux's Latest Plan For Removing Old WiFi Drivers | 23 Oct 2023 |
| Linux Looks Toward Dropping Very Old WiFi Drivers | 13 Oct 2023 |
| Curl 8.4 Released For Addressing A Big Security Vulnerability | 11 Oct 2023 |
| HTTP/2 "Rapid Reset" DDoS Attack Disclosed By Google, Cloudflare & AWS | 10 Oct 2023 |
| Linux 6.7 To Boast Better Performance For FQ Packet Scheduling Algorithm | 02 Oct 2023 |
| VirtIO VSOCK MSG_ZEROCOPY To Begin Landing For Linux 6.7: More Performance | 26 Sep 2023 |
| TCP Authentication Option "TCP-AO" Support Nears For The Linux Kernel | 12 Sep 2023 |
| Wget2 2.1 Brings New Options, Proxies For Non-Default Ports, Better SSL Code | 01 Sep 2023 |
More Linux Networking News | 252 Articles |
| Linux Security |
| Linux 6.7 Introduces "make hardening.config" To Help Build A Hardened Kernel | 05 Nov 2023 |
| AppArmor Adds IO_uring Mediation & Some Performance Optimizations | 03 Nov 2023 |
| Curl Preps For "Probably The Worst Curl Security Flaw In A Long Time" | 09 Oct 2023 |
| Linux Now Mitigating Hygon CPUs For Inception/SRSO Vulnerability | 01 Oct 2023 |
| Red Hat Working On Delayed Module Signature Verification To Speed-Up Linux Boot Times | 15 Sep 2023 |
| SELinux In Linux 6.6 Removes References To Its Origins At The US NSA | 29 Aug 2023 |
| Linux 6.6 Adding Randomized Kmalloc Caches For Further System Hardening | 29 Aug 2023 |
| Linux 6.5 Patches Merged For Intel GDS/DOWNFALL, AMD INCEPTION | 08 Aug 2023 |
| Linux 6.1 To 6.5 Git Quietly Patched For "StackRot" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability | 06 Jul 2023 |
| Microsoft Aims For Greater Script Execution Control On Linux | 13 May 2023 |
More Linux Security News | 271 Articles |
| Linux Storage |
| OpenZFS Is Still Battling A Data Corruption Issue | 27 Nov 2023 |
| OpenZFS 2.2.1 Released Due To A Block Cloning Bug Causing Data Corruption | 22 Nov 2023 |
| OpenZFS Lands Exciting RAIDZ Expansion Feature | 09 Nov 2023 |
| EROFS No Longer Treating MicroLZMA Compression As Experimental | 08 Nov 2023 |
| Bcachefs Lands Big Scalability Improvement, Disables Debug Option By Default | 07 Nov 2023 |
| OpenZFS Lands Sync Parallelism To Drive Big Gains For Write Performance Scalability | 07 Nov 2023 |
| F2FS In Linux 6.7 Supports Larger Page Size, Continued Zone Block Device Work | 05 Nov 2023 |
| JFS File-System Seeing Minor Stability Improvements With Linux 6.7 | 01 Nov 2023 |
| Linux 6.7 MMC To See Up To 4~5% Better 4K Random Write Performance | 01 Nov 2023 |
| Bcachefs Merged Into The Linux 6.7 Kernel | 31 Oct 2023 |
More Linux Storage News | 893 Articles |
| LLVM |
| LLVM Lands APX JMPABS Support, More Advanced Performance Extensions Work Landing | 26 Nov 2023 |
| LLVM Now Using PGO For Building x86_64 Windows Release Binaries: ~22% Faster Builds | 18 Nov 2023 |
| Initial OpenACC Code Begins Landing In The LLVM Clang Compiler | 17 Nov 2023 |
| NVIDIA Looking To Add OpenACC 3.3 Support To Upstream LLVM Clang | 29 Oct 2023 |
| LLVM Looking To Better Collaborate Around Common AI/GPU/FPGA Offloading | 23 Oct 2023 |
| Intel Proposes Adding Full SYCL Programming Model Support To Upstream LLVM | 16 Oct 2023 |
| LLVM Merges Initial Support For OpenMP Kernel Language | 06 Oct 2023 |
| LLVM 17.0 + Clang 17.0 Released With Many New Compiler Features | 19 Sep 2023 |
| LLVM Clang Now Supports -std=c23 | 11 Aug 2023 |
| LLVM 17.0-rc1 Released With Nearly 38k Commits | 29 Jul 2023 |
More LLVM News | 731 Articles |
| LVFS |
| Fwupd 1.9.8 Released With Firmware Updating For New DP Converters, Wacom Cintiq Pro | 14 Nov 2023 |
| Fwupd 1.9.7 Adds Support For More Logitech, Synaptics & Western Digital Hardware | 01 Nov 2023 |
| Fwupd 1.9.6 Brings Linux Firmware Updating For AMD Graphics Cards | 06 Oct 2023 |
| Fwupd 1.9.5 Released With Optional Passim Support, Firmware Updating For New Devices | 04 Sep 2023 |
| Fwupd 1.9.4 Released With Linux Firmware Updating For More Devices | 22 Aug 2023 |
| Fwupd 1.9.3 Adds Linux Firmware Updating Support For A Few New Devices | 11 Jul 2023 |
| Fwupd 1.9.2 Released With Support For Firmware Updating On More Hardware | 12 Jun 2023 |
| Fwupd 1.9.1 Released With Many Bug Fixes, New Capabilities | 13 May 2023 |
| Fwupd 1.8.15 Released With Support For Updating More Device Firmware Under Linux | 12 May 2023 |
| Fwupd 1.8.13 Adds Firmware Updating For Framework's Audio Card, ThinkPad TBT3-TR Gen 2 | 28 Mar 2023 |
More LVFS News | 76 Articles |
| Mesa |
| Mesh/Task Shader Queries Land For RADV With RDNA2, RDNA3 Support On The Way | 27 Nov 2023 |
| Mesa 23.3-rc5 Released With The Latest Open-Source GPU Driver Fixes | 25 Nov 2023 |
| Etnaviv NPU Open-Source Driver Now Twice As Fast For Image Classification Workloads | 20 Nov 2023 |
| Microsoft Enables OpenGL 4.6 Support Over Direct3D 12 | 19 Nov 2023 |
| Mesa 23.3-rc4 Released With More Fixes | 16 Nov 2023 |
| Mesa Radeon Vulkan Driver "RADV" Works Around Bugs For Unreal Engine 4 & 5 | 15 Nov 2023 |
| Microsoft Achieves OpenGL 4.5 Atop Direct3D 12 With Mesa | 15 Nov 2023 |
| Rust-Written NAK Compiler Merged For Nouveau/NVK In Mesa 24.0 | 14 Nov 2023 |
| Intel's Mesa Shader Compiler Backend Scheduling Now ~30% Faster | 14 Nov 2023 |
| Mesa 23.3-rc3 Released As The Stable Version Nears | 09 Nov 2023 |
More Mesa News | 2347 Articles |
| Microsoft |
| Microsoft Looking To Add Windows Media Foundation Transforms "MFTs" To Mesa | 21 Nov 2023 |
| Microsoft Adds Enterprise Security Features To WSL | 16 Nov 2023 |
| Microsoft Gets OpenGL 4.4 Running Atop Direct3D 12 Using Mesa, OpenGL 4.5 Inbound | 14 Nov 2023 |
| Microsoft's CBL-Mariner Linux Distro Issues A Big Update For November | 08 Nov 2023 |
| Microsoft Releases A Big Update To Windows Subsystem For Linux, New Experimental Options | 18 Sep 2023 |
| Microsoft Issues Updated CBL-Mariner Linux Distro With Many Security Fixes | 13 Sep 2023 |
| Microsoft's CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distro Adds DNF5, Zstd-Compressed RPMs | 10 Aug 2023 |
| Microsoft's CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distribution Adds Clippy | 03 Aug 2023 |
| Microsoft's CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230630 Ships Security Fixes, Adds In Some Extra Bits | 18 Jul 2023 |
| Microsoft Adds Direct3D 12 Powered AV1 Video Encoding To Mesa | 28 Jun 2023 |
More Microsoft News | 331 Articles |
| Mozilla |
| Firefox 121 Is Looking Good For Having Wayland Enabled By Default | 25 Nov 2023 |
| Firefox 120 Ready With Global Privacy Control, WebAssembly GC On By Default | 20 Nov 2023 |
| Firefox Is Going To Try And Ship With Wayland Enabled By Default | 13 Nov 2023 |
| Mozilla Firefox Development Finally Moving Entirely To Git | 06 Nov 2023 |
| Mozilla Eyes Removal Of Theora Support In Firefox | 01 Nov 2023 |
| Mozilla Finally Launches An APT Repository For Easy Firefox Nightly Updating | 30 Oct 2023 |
| Servo Web Engine Made Some Nice Progress In October | 26 Oct 2023 |
| Firefox 119 Available With Improved Firefox View, Expanded PDF Editing | 23 Oct 2023 |
| Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox's Wayland Backend Soon | 13 Oct 2023 |
| Firefox 118 Available With Performance Improvements, Automated Translations | 25 Sep 2023 |
More Mozilla News | 408 Articles |
| Multimedia |
| FFmpeg's ffplay Media Player Adds Vulkan Renderer | 18 Nov 2023 |
| Open-Source H.264 Video Encode Coming For Allwinner V3/V3s/S3 SoCs | 16 Nov 2023 |
| OBS Studio 30.0 Released With Intel QSV AV1 On Linux, WHIP/WebRTC Output | 11 Nov 2023 |
| FFmpeg 6.1 Released With Vulkan Video Decoding, VA-API AV1 Encode | 11 Nov 2023 |
| FFmpeg Patches Allow For "Fully Functional" Multi-Threaded CLI | 06 Nov 2023 |
| New AMD & Intel Sound Support Ready For Playback In Linux 6.7 | 04 Nov 2023 |
| Linux 6.7 Sound Code Prepares For Intel's Xe DRM Driver | 22 Oct 2023 |
| Ardour 8.0 Digital Audio Workstation Released | 11 Oct 2023 |
| Libva 2.20 Released For Video Acceleration API | 09 Oct 2023 |
| PreSonus Studio One 6.5 Music Production Software Adds Wayland-Only Linux Support | 08 Oct 2023 |
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| Nouveau |
| Open-Source NVIDIA "NVK" Driver Is Now Conformant For Vulkan 1.0 | 20 Nov 2023 |
| Nouveau NVIDIA GSP Firmware Support Merged For Linux 6.7 | 05 Nov 2023 |
| The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source "Nouveau" Linux Kernel Driver Resigns | 18 Sep 2023 |
| Nouveau Patches Posted For Running On NVIDIA GSP-RM Firmware, Initial RTX 40 Ada Support | 18 Sep 2023 |
| Nouveau Kernel Driver Changes For Supporting NVK Vulkan Submitted To DRM-Next | 10 Aug 2023 |
| NVK Merge Request Opened For Landing Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver In Mesa | 26 Jul 2023 |
| NVK Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver Progresses On Running Some Games | 26 Jun 2023 |
| NVK Vulkan Driver Working Toward YCbCr Support This Summer | 18 Jun 2023 |
| Linux 6.4 Lands Fix For Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Use-After-Free Issue | 17 Jun 2023 |
| The Nasty Linux 6.3 Nouveau Driver Bug Appears To Have Been Figured Out | 16 Jun 2023 |
More Nouveau News | 474 Articles |
| NVIDIA |
| NVIDIA 545.29.06 Linux Driver Released With Source 2 Engine Fix On XWayland | 22 Nov 2023 |
| NVIDIA Pushes 62MB Of GSP Binary Firmware Blobs Into Linux-Firmware.Git | 08 Nov 2023 |
| NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.11 Delivers Various Fixes | 06 Nov 2023 |
| NVIDIA 545.29.02 Linux Driver Released With Much Better Wayland Support | 31 Oct 2023 |
| NVIDIA R545 Linux Beta Driver Brings HDMI Deep Color, Night Color & FB Consoles | 17 Oct 2023 |
| NVIDIA Preparing Their Linux InfiniBand Driver For 800Gb/s XDR | 20 Sep 2023 |
| Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver | 29 Aug 2023 |
| NVIDIA 535.104.05 Fixes An Issue Using The Open Kernel Driver With SLI | 22 Aug 2023 |
| NVIDIA BIOS Signature Lock Broken - What Caused Open-Source Pains For Years | 21 Aug 2023 |
| NVIDIA 535.98 Linux Driver Released With Several Fixes | 08 Aug 2023 |
More NVIDIA News | 1059 Articles |
| Operating Systems |
| OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 Released: Powered By Linux 6.6 LTS, Their Last Release On Plasma 5 | 25 Nov 2023 |
| ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Improving UEFI Boot, DirectX Work & NT6+ API Prep | 05 Nov 2023 |
| Linux Mint Starts Working On Wayland For Cinnamon, Likely Not Fully Ready Until 2026 | 26 Oct 2023 |
| OpenWrt 23.05 Released With Rust Package Support, MbedTLS Replaces WolfSSL | 13 Oct 2023 |
| Redox OS Planning A Server Version, Stable ABI & Better Performance | 04 Oct 2023 |
| Linux Mint 21.2 Edge ISO Brings Linux 6.2 Kernel | 02 Oct 2023 |
| "Open-Source Windows" ReactOS To See Improved GUI Setup/Installation | 01 Oct 2023 |
| Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 Released | 27 Sep 2023 |
| ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Shown Running On Valve's Steam Deck | 14 Sep 2023 |
| Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 Reaches Beta | 13 Sep 2023 |
More Operating Systems News | 966 Articles |
| Oracle |
| GraalVM Updated For Java/JDK 21, Great Performance Results | 20 Sep 2023 |
| MySQL 8.1 Released With More JSON Additions, Other Changes | 18 Jul 2023 |
| Oracle Intends To Keep Trying To Make Oracle Linux Compatible With RHEL | 10 Jul 2023 |
| Oracle Developing "bpftune" For BPF-Based, Automatic Tuning Of Linux Systems | 28 Jun 2023 |
| Oracle's GraalVM Native Image Now Defaults To x86-64-v3, IGV Open-Sourced | 14 Jun 2023 |
| Oracle Releases GraalVM 22.3, GraalVM CE Java Code Going To OpenJDK | 25 Oct 2022 |
| Oracle Linux 9 Reaches GA With Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R7 | 06 Jul 2022 |
| RHEL9-Derived Oracle Linux 9 Developer Preview Released With 5.15-Based UEK Kernel | 14 Jun 2022 |
| GraalVM CE 22.1 Released With Performance Improvements, Apple Silicon Support | 26 Apr 2022 |
| Oracle Releases Solaris 11.4 "CBE" Free For Open-Source Developers / Non-Production Use | 12 Apr 2022 |
More Oracle News | 283 Articles |
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| Phoronix Premium Cyber Week Sale For Ad-Free, Single Page Articles & Native Dark Mode | 23 Nov 2023 |
| Wayland Progress, Ryzen AI & Linux Benchmarks That Made For An Exciting October | 01 Nov 2023 |
| Raspberry Pi 5, Steam Deck & New AMD CPUs Dominated Q3 | 30 Sep 2023 |
| Inception & Downfall, Linux 6.6 Development Kicking Off & Other August Highlights | 01 Sep 2023 |
| AMD Linux CPU Benchmarks Dominated July From The Z1 Extreme To EPYC Genoa-X & Bergamo | 01 Aug 2023 |
| What's Excited Open-Source Enthusiasts & Linux Users The Most So Far In 2023 | 30 Jun 2023 |
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| AMD RX 7600, Intel X86-S & Other Exciting Linux/Open-Source News From May | 01 Jun 2023 |
| Silly Open-Source Moves, AMD openSIL & Rust Happenings Made For An Interesting Month | 30 Apr 2023 |
More Phoronix News | 659 Articles |
| Phoronix Test Suite |
| OpenBenchmarking.org In 2021 By The Numbers | 01 Jan 2022 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 10.8 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Benchmarking | 26 Dec 2021 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 10.6 Released With Various Improvements For Linux Benchmarking | 10 Oct 2021 |
| New/Updated Benchmarks For June From GravityMark To L4D2 Vulkan, Updated Neural Networks | 03 Jul 2021 |
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| Phoronix Test Suite 10.2.2 Released For Automated Open-Source Benchmarking | 17 Feb 2021 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 10.2.1 Released For Open-Source Automated Benchmarking | 02 Feb 2021 |
More Phoronix Test Suite News | 210 Articles |
| PipeWire |
| PipeWire 1.0 Released For Managing Audio/Video Streams On The Linux Desktop | 26 Nov 2023 |
| PipeWire 1.0 RC2 Released With Fixes, Improved Rate Switching | 13 Oct 2023 |
| PipeWire 1.0 RC Available With Jackdbus By Default, Improved IRQ-Based Scheduling | 06 Oct 2023 |
| PipeWire 1.0 Planned For Release Later This Year | 25 Sep 2023 |
| PipeWire 0.3.80 Released With Vulkan DMA-BUF Support, Tag Param | 14 Sep 2023 |
| Firefox 116 Should Have Experimental PipeWire Camera Support | 16 Jun 2023 |
| PipeWire 0.3.71 Released With Performance Improvements, Zero Latency JACK D-Bus Bridge | 17 May 2023 |
| PipeWire 0.3.68 Released With New RTP Session Module, Many Other Changes | 06 Apr 2023 |
| PipeWire 0.3.67 Fixes Stuttering For Some Bluetooth Devices | 09 Mar 2023 |
| PipeWire 0.3.62 Released With Bluetooth Offloading Support | 09 Dec 2022 |
More PipeWire News | 36 Articles |
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| Programming |
| Eclipse OpenJ9 0.41 Released With OpenSSL 3.x Support & Performance Improvements | 24 Nov 2023 |
| PHP 8.3 Released With Typed Class Constants & Override Attribute | 23 Nov 2023 |
| Uutils 0.0.23 Implements More GNU Coreutils Functionality In Rust | 16 Nov 2023 |
| Rust-Written GUI Toolkit Slint 1.3 Brings Initial Android Port, Native Styles On Windows | 10 Nov 2023 |
| Rust WQ Abstractions, Rust Toolchain Upgrade & Android Kernel Builds For Linux 6.7 | 31 Oct 2023 |
| AdaptiveCpp 23.10 Alpha Released For What Was hipSYCL / OpenSYCL | 19 Oct 2023 |
| Mold 2.3 Linker Allows Removing Superfluous ENDBR64 Instructions | 18 Oct 2023 |
| Rust-Written Coreutils Increases GNU Compatibility, Adds NetBSD Support | 16 Oct 2023 |
| Python 3.13 Alpha Kicks Off The Cycle With New Deprecations | 15 Oct 2023 |
| FDBuild 0.1 Released To Make It Easier To Quickly Build Multiple Projects | 12 Oct 2023 |
More Programming News | 566 Articles |
| Proprietary Software |
| Tellusim Core SDK Published With Linux & Vulkan Support Included | 14 May 2023 |
| SPEC Finally Updates SPECViewPerf For Linux With SPECViewPerf 2020 v3.0 | 03 Mar 2022 |
| DaVinci Resolve 16 Beta Video Editor Employing Deep Learning, GPU Accelerated Tools | 08 Apr 2019 |
| Lightworks Video Editor Plans For A Busy 2019 But No Signs Of The Open-Source Version | 10 Jan 2019 |
| Adobe Customer Care: There Hasn't Been Enough Demand For Linux | 10 Dec 2018 |
| Lightworks 14.5 Video Editor Released With Same-Day Linux Support But Still No Source | 17 Oct 2018 |
| DaVinci Resolve 15 Video/Effects Editor Released With Linux Support | 13 Aug 2018 |
| A VR Developer's Thoughts On The Current Mess Of APIs & Hardware | 27 May 2018 |
| Keeper Password Manager Launches New Linux Version | 26 Apr 2018 |
| Vivaldi Web Browser Now Available For Linux ARM / Raspberry Pi | 05 Dec 2017 |
More Proprietary Software News | 132 Articles |
| Qt |
| Qt 6.6.1 Fixes More Than 400 Bugs | 27 Nov 2023 |
| Qt Creator 12 Released With Godbolt Compiler Explorer Integration | 23 Nov 2023 |
| Qt 6.5 LTS Shifts To Its Commercial-Only Phase | 18 Oct 2023 |
| Qt Creator 12 Beta Brings Integrated Compiler Explorer | 13 Oct 2023 |
| Qt 6.6 Toolkit Released With More Robust Wayland, Qt Graphs Module | 10 Oct 2023 |
| Qt 6.6 Nears Release With RC Offered Up For Testing | 26 Sep 2023 |
| Qt 6.6 Wayland Compositor Handoffs Look Promising For More Robust Experience | 11 Sep 2023 |
| Qt Creator 11 Released With Integrated Terminal, GitHub Copilot Integration | 20 Jul 2023 |
| Qt 6.6 Beta Released With New Qt Graphs Module, Text To Speech Improvements | 15 Jun 2023 |
| Qt Creator 11 Beta Brings Integrated Terminal, GitHub Copilot | 09 Jun 2023 |
More Qt News | 518 Articles |
| Radeon |
| AMDVLK 2023.Q4.2 Vulkan Driver Brings Ray-Tracing & SPIR-V Improvements | 27 Nov 2023 |
| LACT Is The Newest AMD Radeon GUI Control Panel For Linux | 24 Nov 2023 |
| AMD Begins Preparing LLVM For RDNA4 With GFX1200/GFX1201 Targets | 23 Nov 2023 |
| SiFive Gets Newer AMD Radeon GPUs Working On RISC-V | 22 Nov 2023 |
| AMD Extends PyTorch + ROCm Support To The Radeon RX 7900 XT | 21 Nov 2023 |
| RadeonSI Gallium3D Enables VCN Encoder Intra-Refresh Support | 18 Nov 2023 |
| AMD Linux Graphics Driver Preparing For Enabling New LSDMA Ring Mode | 16 Nov 2023 |
| TuxClocker 1.3 Released With New AMD GPU Tuning Capabilities | 13 Nov 2023 |
| Terakan Driver Continues Working To Bring Vulkan To The Radeon HD 6000 Series | 09 Nov 2023 |
| AMD Cleaning Up RadeonSI Linux Driver Code Ahead Of Next-Gen GPU Enablement | 08 Nov 2023 |
More Radeon News | 1780 Articles |
| Raspberry Pi |
| Raspberry Pi 5 Single Board Computers Begin Shipping | 23 Oct 2023 |
| Igalia Has Been Doing A Great Job On The Raspberry Pi Graphics Drivers | 19 Oct 2023 |
| Raspberry Pi OS Now Based On Debian 12 "Bookworm" + Wayland | 11 Oct 2023 |
| Raspberry Pi's V3D Kernel Driver Prepares For "CPU Jobs" To Assist Vulkan | 06 Sep 2023 |
| Raspberry Pi V3D Driver Gaining Per-Process GPU Usage Stats | 15 Aug 2023 |
| Raspberry Pi OS Updated - Now Powered By Linux 6.1 LTS, Updated libcamera | 03 May 2023 |
| Raspberry Pi Supply Chain Issues Beginning To Ease Up | 12 Dec 2022 |
| Mesa's Raspberry Pi V3DV Vulkan Driver Lands New Occlusion Queries Implementation | 25 Nov 2022 |
| Running The Open-Source Upstream V3D Driver On The Raspberry Pi 4 & Newer | 13 Nov 2022 |
| Linux 6.2 To Put The Raspberry Pi In Good Shape For 4K @ 60Hz Displays | 03 Nov 2022 |
More Raspberry Pi News | 132 Articles |
| Red Hat |
| OpenELA Publishes Initial Source Code For Building RHEL Derivatives | 02 Nov 2023 |
| Red Hat Continues Hiring For Experienced Linux Graphics Driver Engineers | 11 Oct 2023 |
| CentOS Starts An Integration SIG To Help Products/Services Built On RHEL / CentOS Stream | 21 Sep 2023 |
| Red Hat Is Hiring To Improve The Bootloader | 10 Aug 2023 |
| AlmaLinux No Longer Aims For 1:1 Compatibility With RHEL | 13 Jul 2023 |
| Rocky Linux Shares How They May Continue To Obtain The RHEL Source Code | 29 Jun 2023 |
| Red Hat Tries To Address Criticism Over Their Source Repository Changes | 26 Jun 2023 |
| Red Hat Now Limiting RHEL Sources To CentOS Stream | 21 Jun 2023 |
| Red Hat Aiming To Address IBRS Mitigation Still Being Too Costly On Performance | 19 Jun 2023 |
| CentOS Stream 10 Starting To Get Underway, More Activity In 2024 | 17 Jun 2023 |
More Red Hat News | 284 Articles |
| RISC-V |
| RISC-V With Linux 6.7 Gains Optimized TLB Flushing, Software Shadow Call Stacks | 10 Nov 2023 |
| Linux Patches Speed-Up Kernel Crypto Functions With RISC-V Vector Extensions | 28 Oct 2023 |
| Linux RISC-V Preparing For Real-Time Kernel Support (PREEMPT_RT) | 24 Oct 2023 |
| Milk-V Duo Linux Kernel Patches Submitted For This $9 RISC-V Board | 30 Sep 2023 |
| RISC-V With Linux 6.6 Offers Better Kernel Security With KASLR | 10 Sep 2023 |
| New RISC-V Kernel Features Ready For Linux 6.6 | 01 Sep 2023 |
| GCC 14 Adds Support For RISC-V Vector Crypto Extensions | 04 Jul 2023 |
| RISC-V KASLR Support For Linux Revised Again | 12 Jun 2023 |
| RISC-V Vector ISA Support Slated For Linux 6.5 | 12 Jun 2023 |
| Linux Foundation Launches RISC-V Software Ecosystem Project | 31 May 2023 |
More RISC-V News | 112 Articles |
| Standards |
| AOMedia Announces Royalty-Free IAMF Audio Container Specification | 10 Nov 2023 |
| UCIe 1.1 Specification Released For Universal Chiplet Interconnect | 08 Aug 2023 |
| Khronos Releases ANARI 1.0 As Cross-Platform 3D Rendering Engine API | 02 Aug 2023 |
| OpenCL 3.0.14 Released With New Extension For Command Buffer Multi-Device | 18 Apr 2023 |
| Khronos Developing SYCL SC For Safety-Critical C++ Heterogeneous Compute | 15 Mar 2023 |
| Mobileye Provides Khronos With An Open-Source OpenCL Tensor & Tiling Library | 22 Feb 2023 |
| hipSYCL Becomes Open SYCL For Targeting All Major CPUs & GPUs | 10 Feb 2023 |
| PoCL 3.1 Released - Improved SPIR-V For CPU & CUDA Drivers, WIP Vulkan Driver | 05 Dec 2022 |
| The Khronos Group Announces "Kamaros" As Their Newest Forthcoming API | 09 Nov 2022 |
| USB4 v2.0 Specification Published For Doubling The Performance | 19 Oct 2022 |
More Standards News | 282 Articles |
| SUSE |
| openSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 Released For Lightweight Environments & Containers | 13 Oct 2023 |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed Adds systemd-boot Support | 29 Sep 2023 |
| openSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 Beta Published For This Container & VM Focused Distro | 27 Sep 2023 |
| openSUSE Slowroll Released As A Slower Alternative To openSUSE Tumbleweed | 11 Sep 2023 |
| SUSE To Be Taken Private By Its Largest Shareholder | 17 Aug 2023 |
| SUSE Announces Its Forking RHEL, To Maintain A RHEL-Compatible Distro | 11 Jul 2023 |
| openSUSE Leap 15.5 Released With KDE Plasma 5.27, Updated Mesa & More | 07 Jun 2023 |
| openSUSE Leap 15.6 Now Planned To Provide More Time For ALP | 06 Jun 2023 |
| openSUSE Aeon & openSUSE Kalpa Announced For MicroOS Desktop Spins | 31 May 2023 |
| Updated SUSE ALP Prototype Focuses On Confidential Computing | 03 Apr 2023 |
More SUSE News | 284 Articles |
| systemd |
| systemd 255-rc1 Brings "Blue Screen of Death" Support & New Tool To Spawn VMs | 06 Nov 2023 |
| Systemd Working On "Storage Target Mode" Feature - Inspired By Apple macOS | 31 Oct 2023 |
| systemd's All Systems Go Conference Returns Next Week | 06 Sep 2023 |
| systemd 254 With New Soft Reboots Feature, systemd-battery-check | 28 Jul 2023 |
| systemd 254-rc2 Brings A Few More Changes | 15 Jul 2023 |
| systemd 254-rc1 Deprecates SysV Scripts, Adds Soft Reboots & systemd-battery-check | 06 Jul 2023 |
| systemd 253 Released With Ukify Tool, systemd-cryptenroll Unlocking Via FIDO2 Tokens | 15 Feb 2023 |
| systemd 253 Is Near With RC3 Out For Testing | 10 Feb 2023 |
| systemd 253-rc2 Released With More Changes To This System & Service Manager | 02 Feb 2023 |
| systemd 253 RC1 Released With New "ukify" Tool | 24 Jan 2023 |
More systemd News | 234 Articles |
| Ubuntu |
| Ubuntu's Mainline Kernel PPA Is Back To Providing The Latest Linux Kernel Builds | 17 Nov 2023 |
| Ubuntu 23.10 Is Maxing Out Zstd Compression For Its Kernel Build | 16 Nov 2023 |
| Canonical Launches MicroCloud To Deploy Your Own "Fully Functional Cloud In Minutes" | 14 Nov 2023 |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Committing Fully To Netplan For Network Configuration | 14 Nov 2023 |
| One Of Ubuntu's Great Features Has Been Broken For One Month | 13 Nov 2023 |
| Ubuntu's Miriway Maturing As A Mir-Based Wayland Compositor For Other Desktops | 07 Nov 2023 |
| Canonical Brings Intel TDX Tech Preview To Ubuntu 23.10 | 07 Nov 2023 |
| Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat" Opens For Development | 26 Oct 2023 |
| Canonical To Stick With 10 Year Support Cycle For Ubuntu LTS Releases | 24 Oct 2023 |
| Ubuntu's Mir Working On Hybrid Graphics / Multi-GPU Support | 23 Oct 2023 |
More Ubuntu News | 1622 Articles |
| Valve |
| SteamOS 3.5.5 Released To Stable With Steam Deck OLED Support & Many Other Changes | 16 Nov 2023 |
| RADV Adds Knobs To Force Shader Re-Compilation - Helping Games On The Steam Deck | 13 Nov 2023 |
| Valve Announces The Steam Deck OLED With Upgraded Display, 6nm APU & Larger Battery | 09 Nov 2023 |
| Steam Linux Usage Dropped Lower In October But With More Questionable Data | 01 Nov 2023 |
| SteamVR 2.0 Officially Released With Many Improvements | 25 Oct 2023 |
| The State Of HDR On The Steam Deck With Valve's Gamescope Compositor | 18 Oct 2023 |
| Valve Releases Proton 8.0-4 As A Big Improvement For Windows Gaming On Linux | 05 Oct 2023 |
| Mesa 23.3 Restores DCC With Mipmaps Performance Optimization For AMD RDNA3 GPUs | 01 Oct 2023 |
| Counter-Strike 2 Now Available With An Initial Linux Build | 27 Sep 2023 |
| Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community | 22 Sep 2023 |
More Valve News | 645 Articles |
| Virtualization |
| Xen 4.18 Hypervisor Released With Support For New AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon CPU Features | 22 Nov 2023 |
| Distrobox 1.6 Released For Easily Launching New Distros Within Your Terminal | 20 Nov 2023 |
| AMD Closing In On IOMMU SVA Support For Linux | 09 Nov 2023 |
| Cloud-Hypervisor 36 Brings AMD CPU Topology Support, AIO Backend For Block Devices | 09 Nov 2023 |
| KVM Virtualization With Linux 6.7 Adds LoongArch, Up To 4096 x86 vCPUs | 03 Nov 2023 |
| Linux 6.7 Adds A Cross-Vendor Solution For Confidential Computing Attestation Reports | 03 Nov 2023 |
| AMD Takes SEV-SNP Hypervisor To v10, Intel TDX Host Support Up To 14 Revisions | 17 Oct 2023 |
| Incus 0.1 Released As Linux Containers' Fork Of LXD | 08 Oct 2023 |
| Loongson Preparing LoongArch KVM Virtualization For Linux 6.7 | 02 Oct 2023 |
| Cloud Hypervisor 35 Released With Few New Features & Fixes | 22 Sep 2023 |
More Virtualization News | 557 Articles |
| Vulkan |
| VKD3D-Proton 2.11 Released With DXR Now Enabled By Default & DirectX Ultimate | 24 Nov 2023 |
| Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Adds Protected Memory Support | 17 Nov 2023 |
| Vulkan 1.3.270 Released With New Imagination Extension To Help OpenGL Emulation | 10 Nov 2023 |
| Vulkan 1.3.269 Released With New Extension For Launching CUDA Kernels | 20 Oct 2023 |
| Blender Alpha Builds Enable Experimental Vulkan Option | 13 Oct 2023 |
| Vulkan 1.3.267 Released With Nested Command Buffer Extension | 06 Oct 2023 |
| NVIDIA Introduces New Low-Latency Vulkan Extension For Gaming | 04 Oct 2023 |
| Vulkan 1.3.264 Released With Microsoft Layered Driver Extension | 08 Sep 2023 |
| Vulkan 1.3.263 Released With A New NVIDIA Extension | 02 Sep 2023 |
| Vulkan 1.3.262 Rolls Out With Four New Extensions | 25 Aug 2023 |
More Vulkan News | 639 Articles |
| Wayland |
| wlroots 0.17 Adds New Wayland Protocols, Continued Vulkan Renderer Work | 22 Nov 2023 |
| Louvre Is A New C++ Library Helping To Build Wayland Compositors | 17 Nov 2023 |
| XWayland Rootful HiDPI Support Under Review | 13 Nov 2023 |
| XWayland's Rootful Mode Is Becoming More Useful | 24 Oct 2023 |
| Weston 13 Alpha Released With New Backends, Other Improvements | 16 Oct 2023 |
| Wayland's Weston 13 Compositor Planned For Release Next Month | 10 Oct 2023 |
| WayVNC 0.7 Released As VNC Server For Wlroots-Based Wayland Compositors | 05 Oct 2023 |
| wlroots Merges Wayland Tearing Control Support | 30 Sep 2023 |
| Wayland Color Management Protocol Posted For Weston | 23 Sep 2023 |
| Xfce's Wayland Roadmap Updated | 13 Sep 2023 |
More Wayland News | 854 Articles |
| WINE |
| Wine 8.21 Released With HiDPI Scaling & Initial Vulkan Code For The Wayland Driver | 24 Nov 2023 |
| Vulkan Support Begins Landing For Wine's Wayland Driver | 17 Nov 2023 |
| Wine Wayland Driver Lands Improved HiDPI Support | 15 Nov 2023 |
| Wine 8.20 Closes 13 Year Old Bug To Register URL Protocol Handlers On Linux | 10 Nov 2023 |
| Hangover 8.19 Improves Box64 Integration For Running Windows Apps On AArch64 Wine | 06 Nov 2023 |
| Wine 8.19 Released With Updated Mono, More DirectMusic Code | 29 Oct 2023 |
| The Ongoing Work For Native Wine Wayland Support | 25 Oct 2023 |
| Wine-Staging 8.18 Brings Patch For An 8 Year Old Bug Report | 15 Oct 2023 |
| Wine 8.18 Released WIth Continued Work On Wayland Window Management | 13 Oct 2023 |
| Hangover 8.17 Released With Updated Box64 & FEX Integration | 09 Oct 2023 |
More WINE News | 907 Articles |
| X.Org |
| Open-Source Graphics DevRoom Returning For FOSDEM 2024 | 19 Nov 2023 |
| XWayland Now Allows For Better Choosing Between OpenGL & OpenGL ES | 02 Nov 2023 |
| XWayland & X.Org Server See New Releases Due To Three More Security Vulnerabilities | 25 Oct 2023 |
| X.Org Hit By New Security Vulnerabilities - Two Date Back To 1988 With X11R2 | 03 Oct 2023 |
| Silicon Motion X.Org Driver Sees First Release In Six Years | 30 Sep 2023 |
| XDC 2023 To Provide Update On AMD HDR For The Steam Deck, Rusticl & Wine Wayland | 20 Sep 2023 |
| XWayland 23.2 RC2 Restores An Optimization For Depth 24 Windows | 02 Aug 2023 |
| Twitter's New "X" Logo Is Reminding Plenty Of People Around X.Org | 24 Jul 2023 |
| XWayland 23.2 RC1 Brings Tearing Control, Resizable Rootful, Emulated Input | 19 Jul 2023 |
| X.Org Foundation To Become Part Of The SFC | 04 May 2023 |
More X.Org News | 1192 Articles |