| AMD |
| AMD Address Translation Library "ATL" Coming With Linux 6.8 | 03 Jan 2024 |
| AMD CPU Use By Linux Gamers At ~70%, AMD openSIL, & AMD Laptops Topped 2023 | 01 Jan 2024 |
| AMD Ends Out 2023 Still Working To Get The Rest Of SEV-SNP Upstream In Linux | 31 Dec 2023 |
| AMD PMC Linux Driver Being Updated For Zen 5 CPUs | 26 Dec 2023 |
| AMD PMF Policy Binary Support Queued For Linux 6.8 | 26 Dec 2023 |
| AMD AXI 1-Wire Host Driver Submitted For Linux 6.8 | 24 Dec 2023 |
| Framework 13 AMD Workaround Prepared For Linux To Deal With A Suspend Issue | 15 Dec 2023 |
| It Looks Like AMD Zen 5 SoCs Will Support ACPI PHAT | 13 Dec 2023 |
| AMD WBRF Ready For Linux 6.8 To Mitigate WiFi Radio Interference | 11 Dec 2023 |
| AMD Posts Linux Patches For QoS RMID Pinning / ABMC | 04 Dec 2023 |
More AMD News | 1624 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 |
| Manjaro 23.1 Released With Linux 6.6 LTS, Pipewire 1.0 & Desktop Updates | 16 Dec 2023 |
| Arch Linux ALHP Adds x86-64-v4 Repository For Packages Built With AVX-512 | 14 Dec 2023 |
| Archinstall 2.7 Brings Unified Kernel Image Support To The Arch Linux Installer | 23 Nov 2023 |
| Arch Linux Installer Update Allows More Control Over Parallel Downloads, Ly | 23 Sep 2023 |
| Archinstall 2.6 Released For Latest Easy-To-Use Arch Linux Installer | 31 Jul 2023 |
| Arch Linux Installer Archinstall 2.6 Preparing New Features | 17 Jul 2023 |
| Arch Linux Completes Its Git Migration | 21 May 2023 |
| 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 |
More Arch Linux News | 118 Articles |
| Arm |
| Linux 6.8 To Add Support For Several Cheap ARM-Powered Handheld Game Consoles | 21 Dec 2023 |
| Acer Aspire 1 ARM Laptop Has Nearly Complete Upstream Linux Support | 20 Dec 2023 |
| Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Will Be Able To Boot On The Mainline Linux 6.8 Kernel | 18 Dec 2023 |
| Ampere Preparing The ARM64 Linux Kernel To Support Higher CPU Core Counts | 29 Nov 2023 |
| 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 |
More Arm News | 313 Articles |
| BSD |
| NetBSD 10.0-RC2 Released For Testing This Big BSD Release | 03 Jan 2024 |
| 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 |
More BSD News | 809 Articles |
| Clear Linux |
| Clear Linux Will Now Handle Up To 512 CPU Cores / vCPUs | 28 Dec 2022 |
| Intel's Clear Linux Taps -O3 For Its Kernel Builds | 12 Aug 2022 |
| Clear Linux Container Performance Continues Showing Sizable Gains | 30 Jan 2022 |
| Using Distrobox To Augment The Package Selection On Clear Linux, Other Distributions | 09 Jan 2022 |
| Clear Linux Preparing To Move To GNOME 3.36, Dropping Their Desktop Customizations | 26 Apr 2020 |
| Intel's Clear Linux To Divest From The Desktop, Focus On Server + Cloud Workloads | 23 Apr 2020 |
| Chrome, Skype, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, VSCode Now Unofficially Available For Clear Linux | 03 Apr 2020 |
| Is Clear Linux Just A Toy Distribution By Intel? | 18 Mar 2020 |
| Intel's Clear Linux Has Code In Place To Begin Handling Proprietary Packages Like Chrome & Steam | 13 Mar 2020 |
| F2FS Root File-System Support For Clear Linux Appears To Be Coming | 14 Feb 2020 |
More Clear Linux News | 93 Articles |
| Coreboot |
| Coreboot 4.22 Released: Initial AMD OpenSIL Code Added, 17 New Motherboards | 28 Nov 2023 |
| Canoeboot 20231026 Released As Another Fork Of Coreboot-Downstream Libreboot | 27 Oct 2023 |
| Libreboot 20231021 Brings Some Additional Laptops, Desktops / Motherboards For Testing | 21 Oct 2023 |
| Coreboot-Based Dasharo Updated For MSI Z690-A With Raptor Lake S, MSI FLASHBIOS | 12 Sep 2023 |
| Initial AMD EPYC Genoa Support Added To Coreboot, New Onyx Motherboard Target | 03 Sep 2023 |
| Coreboot 4.21 Brings More System76 Laptops, Star Labs & MSI Z790-P Support | 25 Aug 2023 |
| Coreboot Lands Support For The MSI PRO Z790-P Motherboards | 24 Aug 2023 |
| Coreboot's amdfwtool Updated For EPYC Genoa | 21 Aug 2023 |
| 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 |
More Coreboot News | 269 Articles |
| Debian |
| Debian Likely Moving Away From i386 In The Near Future | 16 Dec 2023 |
| Debian 12.4 Released With Dozens Of Fixes | 11 Dec 2023 |
| Debian 12.3 Delayed Due To An EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Being Addressed | 10 Dec 2023 |
| Debian's MIPS64EL CPU Port Is At Risk Due To Declining Hardware Access | 25 Nov 2023 |
| Debian Repeals The Merged "/usr" Movement Moratorium | 17 Oct 2023 |
| Debian 12.2 Released With Various Security Fixes, AMD Inception Microcode | 08 Oct 2023 |
| Debian Dropping Its 32-bit MIPS Little Endian "mipsel" Port | 02 Sep 2023 |
| LoongArch "Loong64" Added To Debian Ports | 16 Aug 2023 |
| 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 |
More Debian News | 411 Articles |
| Desktop |
| Enlightenment 0.26 Released With Various Improvements | 23 Dec 2023 |
| Arcan Display Framework Receives Funding As Innovative Wayland Alternative | 19 Dec 2023 |
| Pop!_OS COSMIC Desktop Improving Multi-Monitor & Multi-Window Support | 15 Dec 2023 |
| Linux Mint's Cinnamon 6.0 Brings Initial -- Still Experimental -- Wayland Session | 29 Nov 2023 |
| 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 |
More Desktop News | 449 Articles |
| Fedora |
| Fedora 40 Looks To Provide Optimized x86_64 Binaries For Different HWCAPs | 30 Dec 2023 |
| Nobara 39 Released - Customized Version Of Fedora Catering To Gamers/Enthusiasts | 26 Dec 2023 |
| Fedora 40 Plans To Unify /usr/bin & /usr/sbin | 24 Dec 2023 |
| Fedora 40 Looks To Utilize WiFi MAC Address Randomization For Better Privacy | 21 Dec 2023 |
| Fedora Asahi Remix 39 Released For Apple Silicon Macs | 19 Dec 2023 |
| Fedora 40's Linker Will Now Error Out On Security Issues | 15 Dec 2023 |
| Fedora 40 To Apply Systemd Security Hardening | 14 Dec 2023 |
| Fedora 40 Eyes The Ability To Boot Unified Kernel Images Directly | 06 Dec 2023 |
| Fedora Workstation 39 Delivers Some Nice Gains For AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Graphics | 05 Dec 2023 |
| Fedora 40 Looking To Change Linker To Error Out On Security Issues | 15 Nov 2023 |
More Fedora News | 1176 Articles |
| Free Software |
| Vim 9.1 Released With Smooth Scrolling, Support For Vim9 Classes | 02 Jan 2024 |
| Alacritty 0.13 Released For This OpenGL-Powered Terminal Emulator | 31 Dec 2023 |
| LuxCoreRender 2.8 Alpha Released With Initial Blender 4.x Integration | 30 Dec 2023 |
| Doxygen 1.10 Documentation Generator Released With Many Fixes | 25 Dec 2023 |
| Plymouth Boot Splash Screen Sees First Update In Nearly Two Years | 22 Dec 2023 |
| PostgreSQL Lands Support For Incremental Backups | 21 Dec 2023 |
| Box64 v0.2.6 Brings Support For More CPU Extensions, Better Syscall Emulation | 16 Dec 2023 |
| Dbus-Broker 34 Released For High Performance D-Bus Message Broker | 14 Dec 2023 |
| FreeRDP 3.0 Released With WebSocket Transport, Relative Mouse Movement & More | 13 Dec 2023 |
| ONNX Releases TurnkeyML In Collaboration With AMD For An "AI Insights Toolchain" | 12 Dec 2023 |
More Free Software News | 1940 Articles |
| GNOME |
| GNOME Gets A New Terminal Choice: Prompt | 15 Dec 2023 |
| GNOME Developers Working On USB Portal Integration, Updated Phosh | 09 Dec 2023 |
| GNOME's Dynamic Triple Buffering "Ready To Merge" | 08 Dec 2023 |
| GNOME Shell Lands Improved Icon & Text Scaling | 05 Dec 2023 |
| 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 |
More GNOME News | 1234 Articles |
| GNU |
| Glibc 2.39 Should Be Out On 1 February & Might Drop Itanium IA64 Linux Support | 03 Jan 2024 |
| Glibc Updated For Recent Linux CET Shadow Stack Support | 03 Jan 2024 |
| GNU Boot Drops Some Motherboards & CPU Code After Discovering Non-Free Bits | 31 Dec 2023 |
| GRUB 2.12 Bootloader Brings SDL2 Support, Boot Loader Interface | 20 Dec 2023 |
| Glibc Is The Latest Open-Source Project Adopting A Code of Conduct | 13 Dec 2023 |
| GDB 14.1 Adds Support For DAP - Debugger Adapter Protocol | 03 Dec 2023 |
| 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 |
More GNU News | 1059 Articles |
| Google |
| The Mainline Linux Kernel To Finally Support The Google Tensor GS101 SoC & Pixel 6 | 19 Dec 2023 |
| Chrome 120 Released With Theora Support Evaporating, Adds WebGPU & CSS Improvements | 07 Dec 2023 |
| Google Rewriting Android's Binder In Rust With Promising Results | 02 Nov 2023 |
| Google Chrome To Remove Theora Video Codec Support | 29 Oct 2023 |
| Chrome 119 Beta Released With CSS Relative Color Syntax, WebSQL Disabled | 07 Oct 2023 |
| Android 14 Open-Source Project Released | 04 Oct 2023 |
| Google Preparing To Rollout Stable Chrome Releases Even Faster | 30 Aug 2023 |
| Google Announces C3A Instances Coming, Powered By AmpereOne CPUs | 29 Aug 2023 |
| 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 |
More Google News | 563 Articles |
| Hardware |
| Linux Patch Allows For Better HP OMEN 17 Laptop Performance - But With Higher TDP | 02 Jan 2024 |
| Zhaoxin Preparing Preferred Core Support For Their CPUs On Linux | 28 Dec 2023 |
| More CXL Feature Code Prepped Ahead Of Linux 6.8 | 26 Dec 2023 |
| ASRock Launches AI QuickSet Software For Linux | 22 Dec 2023 |
| TUXEDO Computers Updates Its Linux Control Center Software | 22 Dec 2023 |
| The Linux Kernel Looks To Drop Much Of The Remaining SPARC 32-bit CPU Support | 20 Dec 2023 |
| Gigabyte Waterforce AIO Cooler Driver Set To Premiere In Linux 6.8 | 18 Dec 2023 |
| Sophgo SG2380 RISC-V SoC To Now Support Up To 96GB RAM, Additional PCIe & 25 GbE | 17 Dec 2023 |
| Power Management Bugs Hold Up Some Linux Laptops Due To Regulatory Requirements | 13 Dec 2023 |
| Cold Trip Points Proposed For The Linux Kernel's Thermal Handling | 13 Dec 2023 |
More Hardware News | 2062 Articles |
| Intel |
| Intel Launches A New Independent Enterprise GenAI Company: Articul8 | 03 Jan 2024 |
| Intel Media Driver 2023Q4 Improves Video Acceleration For Meteor Lake & Arrow Lake | 03 Jan 2024 |
| Linux 6.8 To Support Next-Gen Intel Accelerators (QAT 420xx): More Engines, More Algos | 02 Jan 2024 |
| Intel's Open-Source Contributions & Upstream Performance Optimizations Top 2023 | 01 Jan 2024 |
| RAO-INT Instructions Will No Longer Premiere With Intel Grand Ridge | 30 Dec 2023 |
| Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Now Exposes Cooperative Matrix Support | 30 Dec 2023 |
| Trying Out Meteor Lake's Arc Graphics With The New Intel Xe Driver Was A Bust | 25 Dec 2023 |
| Intel Arrow Lake Sound Support Ready For Linux 6.8 | 25 Dec 2023 |
| Intel Wires Up Dual-SIMD8 Dispatch For Mesa Drivers | 24 Dec 2023 |
| Intel Is Hosting An Open-Source Community Survey For Developers | 22 Dec 2023 |
More Intel News | 2855 Articles |
| KDE |
| KDE's Nate Graham On X11 Being A Bad Platform & The Wayland Future | 27 Dec 2023 |
| KDE KWin Merge Request Opened For Dynamic Triple Buffering | 26 Dec 2023 |
| KDE Developers Prepare For Christmas With More Bug Fixes & Qt 6 Porting | 23 Dec 2023 |
| KDE Plasma 6 Beta 2 Released For Testing | 20 Dec 2023 |
| It's Looking Like 2024 Could Be The Year Of HDR On The Linux Desktop | 18 Dec 2023 |
| KDE Receives Many Bug Fixes Ahead Of Christmas | 16 Dec 2023 |
| KDE Plasma Mobile 6 Porting Underway | 14 Dec 2023 |
| KDE Developers Continue On Bug Fixing Spree Ahead Of Plasma 6.0 | 09 Dec 2023 |
| KDE's KWin Adds DMA-Fence Deadline Support | 07 Dec 2023 |
| KDE Lands NVIDIA Hardware Cursor Support & Other Last Minute Plasma 6.0 Features | 02 Dec 2023 |
More KDE News | 1271 Articles |
| LibreOffice |
| LibreOffice 24.2 Beta Released For Testing This Free Software Office Suite | 13 Dec 2023 |
| LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha 1 Builds Available For Testing | 30 Nov 2023 |
| LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha 1 Brings Many New Features | 23 Nov 2023 |
| LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6 | 22 Aug 2023 |
| LibreOffice 7.6 Now Available For This Best Free Software Office Suite | 21 Aug 2023 |
| LibreOffice Lands APNG Export Support | 13 Aug 2023 |
| LibreOffice 7.6 RC2 Available For Last Minute Testing Of This Open-Source Office Suite | 03 Aug 2023 |
| LibreOffice 7.6 RC1 Available For Testing Out The New Open-Source Office Suite Features | 12 Jul 2023 |
| 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 |
More LibreOffice News | 181 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 |
| ScummVM 2.8 Gets More Games Running | 30 Dec 2023 |
| Razer Wolverine V2 Controller Support Coming With Linux 6.7 | 23 Dec 2023 |
| Godot 4.3 Dev 1 Released With Rendering System Refactor, D3D12 | 21 Dec 2023 |
| Nintendo Switch Online Controller Support Coming With Linux 6.8 | 18 Dec 2023 |
| Unvanquished 0.54.1 Released With Rendering Fixes & Better Bots | 10 Dec 2023 |
| W4 Games Raises $15M To Help Push Open-Source Video Game Development With Godot | 09 Dec 2023 |
| Feral's GameMode 1.8 Adds CPU Core Pinning & Parking | 06 Dec 2023 |
| Godot 4.2 Released With More Stability Improvements, Improved Rendering & AMD FSR 2.2 | 30 Nov 2023 |
| PCSX2 Emulator Disables Wayland Support By Default | 26 Nov 2023 |
| TUXEDO Computers Launches First All-AMD Linux Gaming Laptop | 25 Nov 2023 |
More Linux Gaming News | 1952 Articles |
| Linux Kernel |
| Patches Updated To Tackle vmap/vmalloc Lock Contention That Can Yield ~12x Throughput | 02 Jan 2024 |
| Linux 6.7-rc8 Released: A Light Holiday Release With A Couple Fixes | 31 Dec 2023 |
| Linux 6.7-rc7 Released Early Ahead Of Christmas Eve Festivities | 23 Dec 2023 |
| Linux 6.7 Won't Be Out For New Year's Eve | 21 Dec 2023 |
| Linux 6.7-rc6 Released: "Various Random Fixes All Over" | 17 Dec 2023 |
| Linux 6.8 Will Make It More Clear When x86 32-bit Support Is Disabled | 12 Dec 2023 |
| Linux 6.6.6 Released Due To WiFi Regression | 11 Dec 2023 |
| Linux 6.7-rc5 Released: "Nothing Looks Particularly Scary" | 10 Dec 2023 |
| Linux 6.8 Dropping Support For Very Old Graphics Drivers | 07 Dec 2023 |
| git.kernel.org Adds Native Dark Mode Support | 07 Dec 2023 |
More Linux Kernel News | 3433 Articles |
| Linux Networking |
| The First Rust-Written Network PHY Driver Set To Land In Linux 6.8 | 17 Dec 2023 |
| Linux 6.7 Networking Adds New Hardware Support, A ~20% Perf Boost For Single TCP Flow | 03 Nov 2023 |
| Landlock Access Controls Extended To Networking With Linux 6.7 | 03 Nov 2023 |
| Linux's Latest Plan For Removing Old WiFi Drivers | 23 Oct 2023 |
| Linux Looks Toward Dropping Very Old WiFi Drivers | 13 Oct 2023 |
| Curl 8.4 Released For Addressing A Big Security Vulnerability | 11 Oct 2023 |
| 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 |
More Linux Networking News | 253 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 |
| Bcachefs Prepares Last Minute Fixes For Linux 6.7 | 02 Jan 2024 |
| Bcachefs Lands More Fixes Ahead Of Linux 6.7 Stable Debut | 21 Dec 2023 |
| Red Hat Looks For Feedback On Its New Initoverlayfs File-System Proposal | 12 Dec 2023 |
| More Bcachefs Fixes Land In Linux 6.7 | 11 Dec 2023 |
| Bcachefs Lands Another Round Of Fixes For Linux 6.7 | 02 Dec 2023 |
| OpenZFS 2.2.2 & OpenZFS 2.1.14 Released To Fix Data Corruption Issue | 01 Dec 2023 |
| Btrfs Slated To Make Use Of New Mount API In Linux 6.8 | 29 Nov 2023 |
| 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 |
More Linux Storage News | 900 Articles |
| LLVM |
| LLVM Moves To A Versioning Scheme Like GCC - N.1 Version For Stable Branch | 23 Dec 2023 |
| Intel Proposing XeGPU Dialect For LLVM MLIR | 17 Dec 2023 |
| LLVM Lands APX JMPABS Support, More Advanced Performance Extensions Work Landing | 26 Nov 2023 |
| LLVM Now Using PGO For Building x86_64 Windows Release Binaries: ~22% Faster Builds | 18 Nov 2023 |
| 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 |
More LLVM News | 733 Articles |
| LVFS |
| Fwupd 1.9.11 Released With Support For New Algoltek & Luxshare USB Devices | 03 Jan 2024 |
| LVFS Has Supplied More Than 100 Million Firmware Updates To Linux Users | 06 Dec 2023 |
| Fwupd 1.9.10 Adds LoongArch Support & Firmware Updating For A ~$1k USD Web Camera | 04 Dec 2023 |
| Fwupd 1.9.8 Released With Firmware Updating For New DP Converters, Wacom Cintiq Pro | 14 Nov 2023 |
| Fwupd 1.9.7 Adds Support For More Logitech, Synaptics & Western Digital Hardware | 01 Nov 2023 |
| Fwupd 1.9.6 Brings Linux Firmware Updating For AMD Graphics Cards | 06 Oct 2023 |
| Fwupd 1.9.5 Released With Optional Passim Support, Firmware Updating For New Devices | 04 Sep 2023 |
| 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 |
More LVFS News | 79 Articles |
| Mesa |
| Freedreno Now Supports The Qualcomm Adreno 644 GPU | 31 Dec 2023 |
| Mesa 23.3.2 Released With Plenty Of Bug Fixes For Closing Out 2023 | 27 Dec 2023 |
| RADV Vulkan Video Encoding Still Being Worked On | 18 Dec 2023 |
| Mesa 23.3.1 Rolls Out Fixes From D3D12 To RADV | 15 Dec 2023 |
| Mesa Enables S3TC Support For 3D Textures | 12 Dec 2023 |
| Mesa 24.0 PVR Vulkan Driver Adds Support For New PowerVR Kernel Driver | 02 Dec 2023 |
| Mesa 23.3 Released With Initial NVK Vulkan Driver, AMD RDNA3 Refresh & Raspberry Pi 5 | 29 Nov 2023 |
| 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 |
More Mesa News | 2354 Articles |
| Microsoft |
| Microsoft Continued Advancing WSL2, Mesa & Its In-House Linux Distro In 2023 | 03 Jan 2024 |
| Microsoft Looking To Add Windows Media Foundation Transforms "MFTs" To Mesa | 21 Nov 2023 |
| Microsoft Adds Enterprise Security Features To WSL | 16 Nov 2023 |
| Microsoft Gets OpenGL 4.4 Running Atop Direct3D 12 Using Mesa, OpenGL 4.5 Inbound | 14 Nov 2023 |
| 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 |
More Microsoft News | 332 Articles |
| Mozilla |
| Firefox 121 Now Available With Wayland Enabled By Default | 18 Dec 2023 |
| Firefox 121 Is Looking Good For Having Wayland Enabled By Default | 25 Nov 2023 |
| Firefox 120 Ready With Global Privacy Control, WebAssembly GC On By Default | 20 Nov 2023 |
| 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 |
More Mozilla News | 409 Articles |
| Multimedia |
| SPI-NOR Multi-Due Erase Support Ready For Linux 6.8 | 01 Jan 2024 |
| Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 & Other Scarlett Audio Mixers To Be Supported By Linux 6.8 | 01 Jan 2024 |
| Rav1e 0.7.0 Released For Xiph.Org's Latest Rust-Based AV1 Encoding | 31 Dec 2023 |
| Sound Open Firmware 2.8 Released With New Intel & AMD Bits | 20 Dec 2023 |
| FFmpeg Begins Landing Support For AOMedia's IAMF - Immersive Audio Model and Formats | 19 Dec 2023 |
| Shotcut 23.12 Released With Wayland Crash Fix, Upgraded AV1 Encode/Decode | 18 Dec 2023 |
| SVT-AV1 1.8 Brings More Performance Improvements Plus ARM Neon SIMD Optimizations | 13 Dec 2023 |
| FFmpeg Lands CLI Multi-Threading As Its "Most Complex Refactoring" In Decades | 12 Dec 2023 |
| Flowblade 2.12 Video Editor Brings Faster Proxy Rendering, Continued GTK4 Porting | 04 Dec 2023 |
| FFmpeg's ffplay Media Player Adds Vulkan Renderer | 18 Nov 2023 |
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| Nouveau |
| For At Least One Game, Mesa's NVK Driver Can Outperform NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver | 17 Dec 2023 |
| One Line Patch Doubles Mesa NVK Performance For Talos Principle... To 18 FPS | 11 Dec 2023 |
| NVK Driver Nearing Vulkan 1.1 For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 & Newer | 28 Nov 2023 |
| 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 |
More Nouveau News | 477 Articles |
| NVIDIA |
| NVIDIA's Open-Source Kernel Driver & Maturing Wayland Support Were Great In 2023 | 02 Jan 2024 |
| NVIDIA 545.29.06 Linux Driver Released With Source 2 Engine Fix On XWayland | 22 Nov 2023 |
| NVIDIA Pushes 62MB Of GSP Binary Firmware Blobs Into Linux-Firmware.Git | 08 Nov 2023 |
| NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.11 Delivers Various Fixes | 06 Nov 2023 |
| NVIDIA 545.29.02 Linux Driver Released With Much Better Wayland Support | 31 Oct 2023 |
| NVIDIA R545 Linux Beta Driver Brings HDMI Deep Color, Night Color & FB Consoles | 17 Oct 2023 |
| NVIDIA Preparing Their Linux InfiniBand Driver For 800Gb/s XDR | 20 Sep 2023 |
| 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 |
More NVIDIA News | 1060 Articles |
| Operating Systems |
| Linux Mint 21.3 EDGE Moving To Linux 6.2 Due To Hardware Issues | 03 Jan 2024 |
| Gentoo Ends Out 2023 By Offering Up Binary Packages For Direct Installation | 29 Dec 2023 |
| Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Continues Building Up Its Rust Infrastructure | 20 Dec 2023 |
| Linux Mint 21.3 Beta Released With Cinnamon 6.0 Desktop | 10 Dec 2023 |
| Alpine Linux 3.19 Released - Now Powered By Linux 6.6 LTS | 07 Dec 2023 |
| AlmaLinux's ELevate Begins Handling EPEL Repositories | 06 Dec 2023 |
| Armbian 23.11 Promotes Some Arm Boards, Adds Ubuntu 23.10 & Debian Trixie Daily Builds | 03 Dec 2023 |
| 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 |
More Operating Systems News | 973 Articles |
| Oracle |
| GraalVM Updated For Java/JDK 21, Great Performance Results | 20 Sep 2023 |
| MySQL 8.1 Released With More JSON Additions, Other Changes | 18 Jul 2023 |
| Oracle Intends To Keep Trying To Make Oracle Linux Compatible With RHEL | 10 Jul 2023 |
| Oracle Developing "bpftune" For BPF-Based, Automatic Tuning Of Linux Systems | 28 Jun 2023 |
| Oracle's GraalVM Native Image Now Defaults To x86-64-v3, IGV Open-Sourced | 14 Jun 2023 |
| Oracle Releases GraalVM 22.3, GraalVM CE Java Code Going To OpenJDK | 25 Oct 2022 |
| Oracle Linux 9 Reaches GA With Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R7 | 06 Jul 2022 |
| RHEL9-Derived Oracle Linux 9 Developer Preview Released With 5.15-Based UEK Kernel | 14 Jun 2022 |
| GraalVM CE 22.1 Released With Performance Improvements, Apple Silicon Support | 26 Apr 2022 |
| Oracle Releases Solaris 11.4 "CBE" Free For Open-Source Developers / Non-Production Use | 12 Apr 2022 |
More Oracle News | 283 Articles |
| Phoronix |
| Intel Meteor Lake, Emerald Rapids & Other Popular Topics For December | 01 Jan 2024 |
| Valve's Linux Contributions, Wayland & Open-Source NVIDIA Milestones Topped 2023 | 28 Dec 2023 |
| Raspberry Pi 5 & New AMD Ryzen CPUs Excited Linux Readers The Most In 2023 | 27 Dec 2023 |
| Server Upgrades In Progress [Complete] | 03 Dec 2023 |
| Threadripper 7000 Series, Wayland, Linux 6.7 & Other November Highlights | 01 Dec 2023 |
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| 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 |
More Phoronix News | 664 Articles |
| Phoronix Test Suite |
| OpenBenchmarking.org In 2021 By The Numbers | 01 Jan 2022 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 10.8 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Benchmarking | 26 Dec 2021 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 10.6 Released With Various Improvements For Linux Benchmarking | 10 Oct 2021 |
| New/Updated Benchmarks For June From GravityMark To L4D2 Vulkan, Updated Neural Networks | 03 Jul 2021 |
| New + Updated Benchmarks For May 2021 - Now At 661 Tests, ~36d19h Average Total Runtime | 02 Jun 2021 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| Programming |
| OpenCV 4.9 Brings DNN Module Enhancements, Orbbec Gemini 2 Camera Support | 31 Dec 2023 |
| Ruby 3.3 Released With New "Prism" Parser & Pure-Ruby JIT Compiler | 25 Dec 2023 |
| Autoconf 2.72 Released With C23 Support, New Year 2038 Safety Option | 23 Dec 2023 |
| Cling 1.0 Released For Interactive C++ Interpreter | 12 Dec 2023 |
| SQLite Lands JSONB For Much Faster JSON Functions | 06 Dec 2023 |
| TornadoVM 1.0 Released For Running Java On Heterogeneous Hardware: CPUs, GPUs & FPGAs | 05 Dec 2023 |
| 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 |
More Programming News | 572 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 6.7 Beta Released With Variable Font Support & QRhiWidget Class | 20 Dec 2023 |
| Qt 6.6.1 Fixes More Than 400 Bugs | 27 Nov 2023 |
| Qt Creator 12 Released With Godbolt Compiler Explorer Integration | 23 Nov 2023 |
| Qt 6.5 LTS Shifts To Its Commercial-Only Phase | 18 Oct 2023 |
| Qt Creator 12 Beta Brings Integrated Compiler Explorer | 13 Oct 2023 |
| Qt 6.6 Toolkit Released With More Robust Wayland, Qt Graphs Module | 10 Oct 2023 |
| Qt 6.6 Nears Release With RC Offered Up For Testing | 26 Sep 2023 |
| Qt 6.6 Wayland Compositor Handoffs Look Promising For More Robust Experience | 11 Sep 2023 |
| 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 |
More Qt News | 519 Articles |
| Radeon |
| AMDVLK 2023.Q4.3 Released With Counter-Strike 2 Optimization, VKD3D Change | 02 Jan 2024 |
| Mesa 24.0 Receives Further TGSI-To-NIR Conversion Work For AMD RadeonSI | 02 Jan 2024 |
| AMD Enables VCN Region Of Interest "ROI" Video Encoder Support For Linux GPU Drivers | 17 Dec 2023 |
| AMD Stages The Radeon Graphics Color Management Code For Linux 6.8 | 16 Dec 2023 |
| AMD ROCm 6.0 Now Available To Download With MI300 Support, PyTorch FP8 & More AI | 15 Dec 2023 |
| AMD Publishes FSR 3 Source Code | 14 Dec 2023 |
| AMD Lands More Graphics Updates For Linux 6.8: More MI300 & RDNA3 Refresh Work | 09 Dec 2023 |
| AMD Releases Radeon GPU Profiler 2.0, RGA 2.9 & Other GPUOpen Tools | 07 Dec 2023 |
| More AMD GFX12 Additions Land In LLVM Git For RDNA4 GPUs | 06 Dec 2023 |
| AMD Graphics Driver Changes Being Queuing For Linux 6.8 | 03 Dec 2023 |
More Radeon News | 1790 Articles |
| Raspberry Pi |
| Raspberry Pi OS Improves Wayfire Rendering, Enhanced Raspberry Pi 5 Support | 07 Dec 2023 |
| Raspberry Pi 5 Single Board Computers Begin Shipping | 23 Oct 2023 |
| Igalia Has Been Doing A Great Job On The Raspberry Pi Graphics Drivers | 19 Oct 2023 |
| Raspberry Pi OS Now Based On Debian 12 "Bookworm" + Wayland | 11 Oct 2023 |
| Raspberry Pi's V3D Kernel Driver Prepares For "CPU Jobs" To Assist Vulkan | 06 Sep 2023 |
| Raspberry Pi V3D Driver Gaining Per-Process GPU Usage Stats | 15 Aug 2023 |
| Raspberry Pi OS Updated - Now Powered By Linux 6.1 LTS, Updated libcamera | 03 May 2023 |
| Raspberry Pi Supply Chain Issues Beginning To Ease Up | 12 Dec 2022 |
| Mesa's Raspberry Pi V3DV Vulkan Driver Lands New Occlusion Queries Implementation | 25 Nov 2022 |
| Running The Open-Source Upstream V3D Driver On The Raspberry Pi 4 & Newer | 13 Nov 2022 |
More Raspberry Pi News | 133 Articles |
| Red Hat |
| Red Hat Evaluating x86-64-v3 Requirement For RHEL 10 | 03 Jan 2024 |
| OpenELA Publishes Initial Source Code For Building RHEL Derivatives | 02 Nov 2023 |
| Red Hat Continues Hiring For Experienced Linux Graphics Driver Engineers | 11 Oct 2023 |
| CentOS Starts An Integration SIG To Help Products/Services Built On RHEL / CentOS Stream | 21 Sep 2023 |
| Red Hat Is Hiring To Improve The Bootloader | 10 Aug 2023 |
| AlmaLinux No Longer Aims For 1:1 Compatibility With RHEL | 13 Jul 2023 |
| 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 |
More Red Hat News | 285 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 |
| PoCL 5.0 Released With Transparent OpenCL Over Networked Systems Capability | 19 Dec 2023 |
| Intel, AMD, Red Hat / IBM, Meta & Others Launch The AI Alliance | 05 Dec 2023 |
| AOMedia Announces Royalty-Free IAMF Audio Container Specification | 10 Nov 2023 |
| UCIe 1.1 Specification Released For Universal Chiplet Interconnect | 08 Aug 2023 |
| Khronos Releases ANARI 1.0 As Cross-Platform 3D Rendering Engine API | 02 Aug 2023 |
| OpenCL 3.0.14 Released With New Extension For Command Buffer Multi-Device | 18 Apr 2023 |
| Khronos Developing SYCL SC For Safety-Critical C++ Heterogeneous Compute | 15 Mar 2023 |
| Mobileye Provides Khronos With An Open-Source OpenCL Tensor & Tiling Library | 22 Feb 2023 |
| hipSYCL Becomes Open SYCL For Targeting All Major CPUs & GPUs | 10 Feb 2023 |
| PoCL 3.1 Released - Improved SPIR-V For CPU & CUDA Drivers, WIP Vulkan Driver | 05 Dec 2022 |
More Standards News | 284 Articles |
| SUSE |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed Trying Out systemd-boot & systemd Full Disk Encryption | 21 Dec 2023 |
| openSUSE Logo Contest Concludes With Winners Selected | 14 Dec 2023 |
| One Week Left To Vote On openSUSE's New Logo | 06 Dec 2023 |
| openSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 Released For Lightweight Environments & Containers | 13 Oct 2023 |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed Adds systemd-boot Support | 29 Sep 2023 |
| openSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 Beta Published For This Container & VM Focused Distro | 27 Sep 2023 |
| 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 |
More SUSE News | 287 Articles |
| systemd |
| systemd In 2023 Added Windows-Inspired "Blue Screen Of Death" & macOS-Inspired T.D.M. | 02 Jan 2024 |
| systemd 255 Released With A "Blue Screen of Death" For Linux Systems | 06 Dec 2023 |
| systemd 255-rc1 Brings "Blue Screen of Death" Support & New Tool To Spawn VMs | 06 Nov 2023 |
| Systemd Working On "Storage Target Mode" Feature - Inspired By Apple macOS | 31 Oct 2023 |
| systemd's All Systems Go Conference Returns Next Week | 06 Sep 2023 |
| systemd 254 With New Soft Reboots Feature, systemd-battery-check | 28 Jul 2023 |
| systemd 254-rc2 Brings A Few More Changes | 15 Jul 2023 |
| systemd 254-rc1 Deprecates SysV Scripts, Adds Soft Reboots & systemd-battery-check | 06 Jul 2023 |
| systemd 253 Released With Ukify Tool, systemd-cryptenroll Unlocking Via FIDO2 Tokens | 15 Feb 2023 |
| systemd 253 Is Near With RC3 Out For Testing | 10 Feb 2023 |
More systemd News | 236 Articles |
| Ubuntu |
| Ubuntu Touch OTA-3 Focal Brings PinePhone Images, Initial Snap Support | 29 Dec 2023 |
| Canonical Details Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop Plans + Ongoing X11 Sunsetting Discussions | 15 Dec 2023 |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Enable Frame Pointers By Default For Better Profiling/Debugging | 13 Dec 2023 |
| Ubuntu Linux Evaluating x86-64-v3 Based Build - AVX & Newer Intel/AMD CPUs | 12 Dec 2023 |
| LXD 5.20 Released With Canonical Changing It To AGPLv3 Licensing | 12 Dec 2023 |
| Lubuntu 24.04 LTS Aiming For Optional Wayland Session, Default in 24.10 | 10 Dec 2023 |
| Canonical Releases Multipass 1.13 RC With Snapshots Support, Migrated To Qt6 | 08 Dec 2023 |
| Mir 2.16 Released With Seamless Boot Integration, Improved X11 Client Support | 28 Nov 2023 |
| 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 |
More Ubuntu News | 1630 Articles |
| Valve |
| Steam On Linux At Nearly 2% For Ending Out 2023 | 02 Jan 2024 |
| SDL Lands Rumble Support For Valve's Steam Deck | 02 Jan 2024 |
| Improved Sound Open Firmware On The Way For Valve's Steam Deck OLED | 10 Dec 2023 |
| Steam Linux Marketshare Surges To Nearly 2% In November | 01 Dec 2023 |
| 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 |
More Valve News | 649 Articles |
| Virtualization |
| LoongArch KVM Support Extended To Allow LSX/LASX SIMD Support | 24 Dec 2023 |
| QEMU 8.2 Released With New VirtIO-Sound & VirtIO-GPU "Rutabaga" Devices | 20 Dec 2023 |
| Cloud Hypervisor 37 LTS Released With Faster VM Restoration From Snapshots | 17 Dec 2023 |
| Linux Dealing With x86 32-bit Software Security Issue For Intel TDX & AMD SEV | 08 Dec 2023 |
| AWS Nitro Secure Module Driver Going Upstream For Linux 6.8 | 04 Dec 2023 |
| 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 |
More Virtualization News | 562 Articles |
| Vulkan |
| Vulkan 1.3.274 Released With Video Encode Extensions Promoted | 19 Dec 2023 |
| Vulkan 1.3.273 Released With KHR Calibrated Timestamps Extension | 08 Dec 2023 |
| Vulkan 1.3.272 Published With Two New Extensions | 02 Dec 2023 |
| 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 |
More Vulkan News | 642 Articles |
| Wayland |
| Wayland Enjoyed Many Successes In 2023 | 01 Jan 2024 |
| Lab Wayland Compositor 0.7 Released - Ported To wlroots 0.17 | 23 Dec 2023 |
| Wayland-Proxy Load Balancer Helping Firefox Cope With Wayland Issues | 22 Dec 2023 |
| WayVNC 0.8 Preparing Transient Seats, Automatic Server-Side Resizing & Detached Mode | 11 Dec 2023 |
| Using Miriway For Empowering Xfce / MATE / LXQt & Other Desktops With Wayland | 01 Dec 2023 |
| Red Hat Developing New xwayland-run & wlheadless-run Utilities | 29 Nov 2023 |
| Wayland's Weston 13.0 Released With Multi-Backend Support & Overlapping Outputs | 28 Nov 2023 |
| 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 |
More Wayland News | 861 Articles |
| WINE |
| Wine Developers Working To Get 1997 Era "Nuclear Strike" Game Working On Linux In 2024 | 03 Jan 2024 |
| Wine 9.0-rc3 Released With 35 Fixes In Total, Some Wayland Driver Fixes | 22 Dec 2023 |
| Wine 9.0-rc2 Released With 33 More Fixes - Including Wine Wayland Fixes | 15 Dec 2023 |
| Wine 9.0-rc1 Released With Upgraded VKD3D, Wine Wayland Improvements | 08 Dec 2023 |
| Wine Wayland Driver Lands Mouselook Support, Relative Cursor Motion | 07 Dec 2023 |
| Wine Wayland Driver's Vulkan Support Is Now Usable | 30 Nov 2023 |
| 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 |
More WINE News | 913 Articles |
| X.Org |
| xf86-video-modesetting Driver Optimization Helps Conserve Intel Power Consumption | 16 Dec 2023 |
| X.Org Server & XWayland Updated Due To Two Decade-Old Security Vulnerabilities | 13 Dec 2023 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Dropping The X.Org Server Except For XWayland | 28 Nov 2023 |
| Open-Source Graphics DevRoom Returning For FOSDEM 2024 | 19 Nov 2023 |
| XWayland Now Allows For Better Choosing Between OpenGL & OpenGL ES | 02 Nov 2023 |
| XWayland & X.Org Server See New Releases Due To Three More Security Vulnerabilities | 25 Oct 2023 |
| X.Org Hit By New Security Vulnerabilities - Two Date Back To 1988 With X11R2 | 03 Oct 2023 |
| 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 |
More X.Org News | 1195 Articles |