| AMD |
| AMD Announces Versal Gen 2 Adaptive SoCs - AI Focused & Newer Arm Cores | 09 Apr 2024 |
| SolidRun Launches Bedrock R8000 As First Industrial PCs With Ryzen Embedded 8000 Series | 08 Apr 2024 |
| AMD Announces Ryzen Embedded 8000 Series With Focus On Industrial AI | 02 Apr 2024 |
| AMD XDNA Linux Driver For Ryzen AI, Zen 5 Compiler Support & Other AMD Q1 Highlights | 31 Mar 2024 |
| Linux Fixes Botched SRSO Mitigation For AMD Zen 3 / Zen 4 | 30 Mar 2024 |
| GCC Compiler Adds Support For Device Offloading With AMD RDNA3 APUs (GFX1103) | 22 Mar 2024 |
| AMD With Upstream Linux Nears "The Ultimate Goal Of Confidential Computing" | 19 Mar 2024 |
| AMD Zen 5 "Znver5" CPU Enablement Merged For GCC 14 | 18 Mar 2024 |
| AMD Posts Updated Linux Patches For P-State Core Performance Boost | 18 Mar 2024 |
| AMD Makes HIP Ray-Tracing Open-Source | 14 Mar 2024 |
More AMD News | 1668 Articles |
| Apple |
| OpenGL 4.6 + OpenGL ES 3.2 Achieved On Apple M1 With Linux Driver | 14 Feb 2024 |
| Asahi Linux Has Been Making Progress On Apple HDMI, EAS & GPU Features | 14 Jan 2024 |
| 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 |
More Apple News | 119 Articles |
| Arch Linux |
| Arch Linux Increasing Its vm.max_map_count To Help Steam Play Games & Other Software | 07 Apr 2024 |
| Arch Linux's Pacman 6.1 Released With Cache Server Support | 04 Mar 2024 |
| Arch-Based Endeavour OS Updates ISO With Linux 6.7 Kernel, Mesa 23.3.3 | 27 Jan 2024 |
| Arch Linux Will Now Use Dbus-Broker As Its Default D-Bus Daemon | 09 Jan 2024 |
| 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 |
More Arch Linux News | 122 Articles |
| Arm |
| Arm China Looking At Upstreaming Their "Zhouyi" NPU Driver Into The Linux Kernel | 28 Mar 2024 |
| Panthor DRM Driver Queued For Linux 6.10 To Support Newer Arm Mali GPUs | 26 Mar 2024 |
| ARM SCMI CPUFreq Driver Enabling Boost Support By Default With Linux 6.9 | 19 Mar 2024 |
| ARM64 Rust Support & dpISA 2023 Extensions Merged For Linux 6.9 | 15 Mar 2024 |
| Rust Kernel Support On AArch64 Ready To Go For Linux 6.9 | 12 Feb 2024 |
| LLVM Adds Support For New "Ampere1B" Third-Gen Cores From Ampere Computing | 10 Feb 2024 |
| Arm Lands Mali Gen10 "Panthor" Firmware Blob In Linux-Firmware.Git | 08 Feb 2024 |
| Linux 6.8 Adds New Gaming Handhelds, Google Tensor & Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 + X Elite SoCs | 11 Jan 2024 |
| Linux 6.8 To Drop Old ARM11 MPCore CPU Support | 04 Jan 2024 |
| Linux 6.8 To Add Support For Several Cheap ARM-Powered Handheld Game Consoles | 21 Dec 2023 |
More Arm News | 322 Articles |
| BSD |
| OpenBSD 7.5 Released - Faster Performance For Many-Core ARM Servers | 05 Apr 2024 |
| NetBSD 10.0 Released With Much Improved Hardware Support & Faster Performance | 30 Mar 2024 |
| FreeBSD 13.3 Released With Better WiFi Support, LLVM objdump Added | 05 Mar 2024 |
| NetBSD 10.0 Should Be Released Soon - Likely Last RC Debuts | 29 Feb 2024 |
| FreeBSD 13.3-RC1 Improves WiFi Stability, Takes Care Of Some Kernel Panics | 27 Feb 2024 |
| FreeBSD Has Been Working On AMD64 SIMD libc Optimizations - Coming For FreeBSD 14.1 | 16 Feb 2024 |
| GhostBSD 24.01.1 Released: Based On FreeBSD 14, Many Improvements | 15 Feb 2024 |
| FreeBSD Continues Push Toward Deprecating 32-bit Platforms | 13 Feb 2024 |
| helloSystem Publishes New Experimental Build Based On FreeBSD 14.0 | 09 Feb 2024 |
| WireGuard Driver Merged To DragonFlyBSD Kernel | 08 Feb 2024 |
More BSD News | 822 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 |
| NovaCustom Announces "Fastest Coreboot Laptops In The World" Built On Intel Core Ultra | 03 Apr 2024 |
| Coreboot 24.02 Released - Supporting Three New Motherboards | 01 Mar 2024 |
| Coreboot-Based Dasharo Firmware Updated For MSI Z690/Z790 Motherboards | 22 Jan 2024 |
| 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 |
More Coreboot News | 272 Articles |
| Debian |
| Debian Policy 4.7 Outlines Latest Packaging/System Guidelines | 07 Apr 2024 |
| Debian 12.5 Released To Provide The Latest Security & Bug Fixes | 11 Feb 2024 |
| Debian 64-bit time_t Transition Underway For Addressing Y2038 Problem On 32-bit Systems | 02 Feb 2024 |
| 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 |
More Debian News | 414 Articles |
| Desktop |
| System76 Now Planning For COSMIC Desktop Alpha Release In Late May | 13 Mar 2024 |
| LXQt Desktop Now "100%" Ready For Wayland | 09 Mar 2024 |
| SDDM 0.21 Display Manager Released With Better Wayland Support, Qt6 Fixes | 26 Feb 2024 |
| Iced Toolkit For Rust GUIs Reaches v0.12 With New Features | 16 Feb 2024 |
| System76's COSMIC Desktop Nearing Alpha Release | 14 Feb 2024 |
| Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Usable Wayland Support While Maintaining X11 Compatibility | 10 Feb 2024 |
| Budgie 10.9 Desktop Brings Early Wayland Porting Work | 28 Jan 2024 |
| The Budgie Desktop Hopes To Do A Wayland-Only Release This Year | 27 Jan 2024 |
| System76's COSMIC Desktop Working Toward Its Alpha Release | 11 Jan 2024 |
| Enlightenment 0.26 Released With Various Improvements | 23 Dec 2023 |
More Desktop News | 458 Articles |
| Fedora |
| FESCo Approves The Fedora 41 Switch To DNF5 | 08 Apr 2024 |
| Fedora 42 Change Proposal Wants To Make KDE Plasma The Default Over GNOME | 02 Apr 2024 |
| Fedora 41 Will Try Again To Switch To DNF5 Package Manager | 29 Mar 2024 |
| Fedora 40 Beta Released With GNOME 46 & KDE Plasma 6.0 On Wayland Desktops | 26 Mar 2024 |
| Fedora Linux 40 Beta Cleared For Release Next Week | 21 Mar 2024 |
| Fedora Workstation 41 To No Longer Install GNOME X.Org Session By Default | 07 Mar 2024 |
| Fedora Workstation's Anaconda Web UI Installer Delayed To Fedora 41 | 19 Feb 2024 |
| Fedora COSMIC Desktop Spin Being Considered | 17 Feb 2024 |
| Fedora 40 Cleared To Ship AMD ROCm 6, Packages May Reintroduce KDE X11 Support | 13 Feb 2024 |
| Fedora Atomic Desktops Born Out Of Fedora Silverblue Success | 09 Feb 2024 |
More Fedora News | 1192 Articles |
| Free Software |
| Sound Open Firmware 2.9 Released With Major Performance Optimizations | 03 Apr 2024 |
| Servo Web Engine Adds WOFF2 Web Fonts, HTML Tables By Default | 30 Mar 2024 |
| Linux Foundation Launches Valkey As A Redis Fork | 28 Mar 2024 |
| Blender 4.1 Benchmarks Confirm Even Faster CPU Render Times Under Linux | 27 Mar 2024 |
| Zstd 1.5.6 Released - Celebrating Google Chrome Support For Zstandard Encoding | 26 Mar 2024 |
| Blender 4.1 Released With Faster Linux CPU Rendering & AMD RDNA3 APU Support | 26 Mar 2024 |
| Inkscape Development Version Switches To Using GTK4 | 25 Mar 2024 |
| SysVinit 3.09 Now Allows Building With musl C Library, Passing Boot Messages To Firmware | 25 Mar 2024 |
| CoreCtrl 1.4 Brings Radeon RX 7000 Series Fan Curve Controls, Intel CPU Temperatures | 18 Mar 2024 |
| Rust Coreutils & Reproducible Builds Receives Funding From The Sovereign Tech Fund | 18 Mar 2024 |
More Free Software News | 1963 Articles |
| GNOME |
| GNOME Improving Integration With systemd-homed, Mockups For An OS Installer | 06 Apr 2024 |
| GNOME's Mutter Lands DRM Sync Obj v1 Support For Explicit Sync On Wayland | 29 Mar 2024 |
| LLVM BOLT Optimizations Net ~6% Improvement For GNOME's Pango | 22 Mar 2024 |
| GNOME 46 Released With Improved Search, Experimental VRR & More Polish | 20 Mar 2024 |
| New Gestures Code Squeezes Into GNOME 46 | 16 Mar 2024 |
| GNOME 46 Release Candidate Rolls Out Last Minute Fixes, VRR & Other Refinements | 09 Mar 2024 |
| GNOME Developers Continue Tweaking The Shell, Tuning For Performance | 09 Mar 2024 |
| GTK 4.14 To Provide Crisper Font Rendering, Better Fractional Scaling | 07 Mar 2024 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter 46 RC Brings Modifier-Aware Screencasting, VRR & X.Org Sync Fix | 03 Mar 2024 |
| Mutter Merges Experimental Variable Refresh Rate For GNOME 46 | 02 Mar 2024 |
More GNOME News | 1263 Articles |
| GNU |
| GCC 14 Boasts Nice ASCII Art For Visualizing Buffer Overflows | 03 Apr 2024 |
| GNU Poke 4.0 & Poke-ELF 1.0 Released For Dealing With Binary Data | 31 Mar 2024 |
| GNU Coreutils 9.5 Can Yield 10~20% Throughput Boost For cp, mv & cat Commands | 28 Mar 2024 |
| IBM Posts GCC Patches For -mcpu=power11 Support | 20 Mar 2024 |
| GNU Linux-libre 6.8-gnu Dealing With Blobs From New Intel Drivers | 11 Mar 2024 |
| GNUnet 0.21 Rolls Out New Transport Layer For Building Decentralized, Distributed Apps | 07 Mar 2024 |
| GDB 14.2 Brings A Few Fixes For The GNU Debugger | 03 Mar 2024 |
| GRUB2 Working On TPM2 Automatic Disk Unlock, TrenchBoot & More | 05 Feb 2024 |
| GNU libmicrohttpd 1.0 Released For Embed-Friendly Web Server | 01 Feb 2024 |
| GNU C Library 2.39 Released With New Tunables, stdbit.h For ISO C2X | 31 Jan 2024 |
More GNU News | 1073 Articles |
| Google |
| Google Announces Axion ARM-Based CPUs For The Cloud | 09 Apr 2024 |
| Google's Jpegli Offers ~35% Compression Improvement For High Quality JPEGs | 03 Apr 2024 |
| Google Making $1M USD Investment To Improve Rust & C++ Interoperability | 05 Feb 2024 |
| Chrome 121 Adds New CSS & WebGPU Features | 23 Jan 2024 |
| 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 |
More Google News | 567 Articles |
| Hardware |
| OpenSSL 3.3 Released With Many Additions For QUIC, CPU Performance Optimizations | 09 Apr 2024 |
| x86-64-v5? Questions Arise Over The Future Of x86-64 Micro-Architecture Feature Levels | 07 Apr 2024 |
| Framework Hiring For Open-Source Firmware Development | 07 Apr 2024 |
| Rust Bindings Are Being Worked On For Linux CPUFreq Drivers | 07 Apr 2024 |
| UPower Power Profiles Daemon v0.21 Automatically Adapts For Linux Laptop Battery Use | 04 Apr 2024 |
| PCIe 7.0 Specification v0.5 Published - Full Spec Next Year | 02 Apr 2024 |
| ASUS WMI Driver For Linux Preps New Features For Recent ASUS Laptops | 02 Apr 2024 |
| Tiny Corp Details More Of Their Planned Tinybox System Specs | 30 Mar 2024 |
| Reverse-Engineered Rockchip NPU Driver Hitting Same Performance As Proprietary Driver | 28 Mar 2024 |
| Linux 6.9 Will Boot Much Faster For Systems With Large Amounts Of RAM | 25 Mar 2024 |
More Hardware News | 2120 Articles |
| Intel |
| Mesa Adds PCI IDs For Intel Arc Graphics A580E & A750E | 05 Apr 2024 |
| Intel QAT Driver Preps Live Migration Support For Linux 6.10 | 04 Apr 2024 |
| Intel HFI Driver Will Quit Wasting CPU Cycles With Linux 6.10 | 01 Apr 2024 |
| Intel Continued Upstreaming A Lot Of Great Linux/Open-Source Code This Quarter | 31 Mar 2024 |
| Intel Releases Its March 2024 Open-Source Linux GPU Compute Stack Update | 29 Mar 2024 |
| Intel "Family 6" CPU Era Coming To An End Soon: Code Suggests Cooper Forest & Adams Lake | 28 Mar 2024 |
| Intel Xe Developers Begin Looking At Cross-Device & Cross-Driver HMM | 27 Mar 2024 |
| Intel Adds Linux Driver PCI IDs For Arc Graphics A750E & A580E | 26 Mar 2024 |
| Intel NPU Linux Driver 1.2 Released | 25 Mar 2024 |
| DIRT 5 Now Runs On Intel Arc Graphics Under Linux With Driver Workaround | 23 Mar 2024 |
More Intel News | 2922 Articles |
| KDE |
| KDE On The Importance Of Wayland Explicit Sync | 06 Apr 2024 |
| KDE Plasma 6 Can Now Sync Your RGB-Backlit Keyboard With Your Desktop's Accent Color | 06 Apr 2024 |
| KDE Introduces New Marknote App | 30 Mar 2024 |
| KDE Plasma 6 Refinements Continue, Fixes 3+ Important Crashes This Week | 30 Mar 2024 |
| KDE Sees A Number Of Regression Fixes & Some Crash Fixes This Week | 23 Mar 2024 |
| KDE Continuing To Land More Fixes, Eye More Features For Plasma 6.1 | 16 Mar 2024 |
| KDE Plasma 6.0.2 Delivers Another Week Worth Of Bug Fixes | 12 Mar 2024 |
| KDE Developers Are Currently Seeing 150~200 Bug Reports Per Day | 09 Mar 2024 |
| KDE Plasma 6.0.1 Released With First Batch Of Bug Fixes | 05 Mar 2024 |
| KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Proving To Be Unlike The Rocky KDE 4 Launch | 03 Mar 2024 |
More KDE News | 1294 Articles |
| LibreOffice |
| LibreOffice Enables Multi-Threaded 3D Rendering | 22 Mar 2024 |
| LibreOffice 24.2 Released For This Leading Free Software Office Suite | 31 Jan 2024 |
| LibreOffice 24.2 RC1 Free Software Office Suite Released | 09 Jan 2024 |
| 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 |
More LibreOffice News | 184 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 |
| SDL 2.30.2 Released Along WIth New SDL3 Preview | 02 Apr 2024 |
| Steam On Linux Use Increases - Moves Closer To 2%, AMD CPU Linux Use Hits 72% | 01 Apr 2024 |
| Flax Engine 1.8 Brings ASTC Textures, New UI Editor & New Vehicle Features | 30 Mar 2024 |
| Updated Windows NT Sync Driver Posted For The Linux Kernel | 29 Mar 2024 |
| SDL3 Will Keep Wayland Default At Least For The Time Being | 27 Mar 2024 |
| SDL Developers Weigh Reverting Wayland Over X11 For SDL 3.0 | 26 Mar 2024 |
| SDL3 Preview Release Aims To Help Test The New SDL 3.0 API | 24 Mar 2024 |
| A Game Is Finally Announced For The Open 3D Engine | 20 Mar 2024 |
| DXVK 2.3.1 Allows For More Efficient Shader Code Generation On NVIDIA GPUs | 20 Mar 2024 |
| SDL Storage API Merged For SDL 3.0 | 16 Mar 2024 |
More Linux Gaming News | 1971 Articles |
| Linux Kernel |
| Linux 6.10 AES-XTS For Disk/File Encryption As Much As ~155% Faster For AMD Zen 4 CPUs | 08 Apr 2024 |
| Linux 6.9-rc3 Released With Many Bcachefs Patches | 07 Apr 2024 |
| New EEVDF Linux Scheduler Patches Make It Functionally "Complete" | 05 Apr 2024 |
| The Linux Kernel Begins Preparing For Rust 1.78 Upgrade | 02 Apr 2024 |
| Linux 6.10 To Correct The CCD/CCX Topology Information For Some AMD CPUs | 01 Apr 2024 |
| Linux 6.9 To Allow Building s390 Kernel With The Full LLVM/Clang Compiler | 01 Apr 2024 |
| Linux 6.9-rc2 Released As An Easter Test Kernel | 31 Mar 2024 |
| Linux Enabling Shadow Stack Support For x32 | 26 Mar 2024 |
| Linux 6.9-rc1 Released With AMD P-State Preferred Core, Larger FB Console Fonts | 24 Mar 2024 |
| Linux 6.9 Delivers More Improvements To The SLUB Allocator | 24 Mar 2024 |
More Linux Kernel News | 3506 Articles |
| Linux Networking |
| Samba 4.20 Released With WSP Search Client, Service Witness Protocol | 28 Mar 2024 |
| Many Networking Improvements & New Wired/Wireless Devices For Linux 6.9 | 12 Mar 2024 |
| Cloudflare Makes Pingora Rust Framework Open-Source | 28 Feb 2024 |
| NetworkManager 1.46 Can Now Manage Ethtool EEE Settings, IPv4 DAD Default & 2FA VPNs | 23 Feb 2024 |
| Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance For Many Concurrent Connections By ~40% | 09 Jan 2024 |
| 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 |
More Linux Networking News | 258 Articles |
| Linux Security |
| Linux Kernel Patched For Branch History Injection "BHI" Intel CPU Vulnerability | 09 Apr 2024 |
| GitHub Disables The XZ Repository Following Today's Malicious Disclosure | 29 Mar 2024 |
| XZ Struck By Malicious Code That Could Allow Unauthorized Remote System Access | 29 Mar 2024 |
| Linux 6.9 Sees Further Security Hardening | 24 Mar 2024 |
| GhostRace Detailed - Speculative Race Conditions Affecting All Major CPUs / ISAs | 12 Mar 2024 |
| Linux 6.9 Making It Easier Managing Security Mitigation Options | 11 Mar 2024 |
| "SandBox Mode" Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Improve Memory Safety | 14 Feb 2024 |
| New WiFi Authentication Vulnerabilities For Linux's IWD & WPA_Supplicant | 13 Feb 2024 |
| AppArmor Switches To SHA256 Policy Hashes In Linux 6.8 | 19 Jan 2024 |
| Linux 6.7 Introduces "make hardening.config" To Help Build A Hardened Kernel | 05 Nov 2023 |
More Linux Security News | 280 Articles |
| Linux Storage |
| OpenZFS Merges Support For Using Multiple Task Queues To Increase Performance | 05 Apr 2024 |
| Bcachefs Repair Code Reaching Complete & Robust Recovery | 03 Apr 2024 |
| Bcachefs Submits Lots Of Fixes For "Extreme Filesystem Damage" With Linux 6.9 | 01 Apr 2024 |
| EROFS Drops "Experimental" Warning For FSDAX With Linux 6.9 | 28 Mar 2024 |
| Linux 6.9 Deprecates The EXT2 File-System Driver | 26 Mar 2024 |
| IO_uring With Linux 6.9 Gains Truncate Support, Per-Ring NAPI | 24 Mar 2024 |
| KSMBD Now Implements Durable File Handles With Linux 6.9 | 21 Mar 2024 |
| exFAT Driver Boasts Much Faster "dirsync" Performance With Linux 6.9 | 21 Mar 2024 |
| Bcachefs Fixes Deadlock In Recovery, More Fixes Coming | 20 Mar 2024 |
| F2FS Improves Zoned Block Device Support & Per-File Compression For Linux 6.9 | 18 Mar 2024 |
More Linux Storage News | 945 Articles |
| LLVM |
| LLVM's BOLT Being Adapted To Analyze Security Hardening Of Binaries | 04 Apr 2024 |
| LLVM/Clang 18.1 Released With Intel AVX10.1 Work, Adds Clearwater Forest & Panther Lake | 06 Mar 2024 |
| Meta Continues Working On BOLT'ing The Linux Kernel For Greater Performance | 16 Feb 2024 |
| LLVM/Clang Can Work Fine As A GCC Replacement For Linux Distributions | 05 Feb 2024 |
| LLVM 18.1-rc1 Released For Enabling New Intel CPU Features, More C23 & C++23 | 29 Jan 2024 |
| Autocheck To Check If Your C++ Code Is Safe For Automobiles & Safety Critical Systems | 18 Jan 2024 |
| LLVM 18 Planned For Release In Early March | 15 Jan 2024 |
| 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 |
More LLVM News | 740 Articles |
| LVFS |
| Fwupd 1.9.16 Adds Support For More USB Docks & Qualcomm Devices | 05 Apr 2024 |
| Fwupd Switches From XZ To Zstd Compression: More Trust & Slightly Better Performance | 03 Apr 2024 |
| LVFS/Fwupd Ponders 2025 Plans: Servers, Desktop Motherboards & More | 13 Mar 2024 |
| Fwupd 1.9.13 Adds Support For Newer Acer USB Docks | 08 Feb 2024 |
| Fwupd 1.9.12 Adds Support For More Devices & AMD CPU Checks Updated | 24 Jan 2024 |
| 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 |
More LVFS News | 84 Articles |
| Mesa |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Enables EXT_shader_object By Default With Mesa 24.1 | 08 Apr 2024 |
| RADV Lands New Extension To Better Debug GPU Hangs | 03 Apr 2024 |
| Mesa 24.1 Merges Vulkan Support For Wayland Explicit Sync | 02 Apr 2024 |
| Asahi AGX Gallium3D Driver Sees Big Sync For Mesa 24.1 To Improve Apple Silicon Graphics | 30 Mar 2024 |
| NVK Driver Adds Vendor ID Workaround For Games Expecting NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver | 22 Mar 2024 |
| Raspberry Pi "V3DV" Vulkan Driver Now Supports Dynamic Rendering | 21 Mar 2024 |
| The Significant Corporate Importance & Pressure Around Mesa Open-Source Linux 3D Drivers | 19 Mar 2024 |
| Mesa 24.0.3 Released With Many Graphics Driver Bug Fixes | 14 Mar 2024 |
| Blumenkrantz Picks His Next Battle: Mesa's DRI Interfaces | 13 Mar 2024 |
| Radeon Memory Visualizer Hooks Up With Qualcomm Adreno Vulkan Driver | 10 Mar 2024 |
More Mesa News | 2395 Articles |
| Microsoft |
| Microsoft Helping Out In Making The Linux Kernel Language More Inclusive | 30 Mar 2024 |
| Microsoft Engineer Sends Rust Linux Kernel Patches For In-Place Module Initialization | 27 Mar 2024 |
| Microsoft Enables DNS Tunneling By Default For WSL - More Reliable Networking | 22 Mar 2024 |
| Microsoft Better Seeds The RNG For Hyper-V VMs In Linux 6.9 | 21 Mar 2024 |
| Microsoft's DirectX Shader Compiler Sees Improved Linux Build Support | 11 Mar 2024 |
| Microsoft Rebranding CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution To "Azure Linux" | 05 Mar 2024 |
| Microsoft Ending Support For Windows Subsystem For Android | 05 Mar 2024 |
| Microsoft Pushes Out Big February Update For CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distro | 25 Feb 2024 |
| Microsoft Confirms Bringing Sudo For Windows, Is Open-Source Too | 07 Feb 2024 |
| Microsoft Releases First CBL-Mariner Linux Distro Update Of 2024 | 15 Jan 2024 |
More Microsoft News | 342 Articles |
| Mozilla |
| Firefox 124 Now Available With Screen Wake Lock API | 18 Mar 2024 |
| Mozilla Firefox 123.0 Available With Improved Translation Support, New Developer Features | 19 Feb 2024 |
| Thunderbird Making Progress With Adopting Rust Code | 14 Feb 2024 |
| Mozilla Has A New CEO To Focus On The Future | 08 Feb 2024 |
| Mozilla's Latest Plan To Make Money Is Mozilla Monitor Plus | 06 Feb 2024 |
| Servo Engine Updates Bring CSS Tables & Its Browser Gets Back/Forward Buttons | 26 Jan 2024 |
| Firefox 122 Available With Official Debian Package, Many Web Improvements | 23 Jan 2024 |
| 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 |
More Mozilla News | 416 Articles |
| Multimedia |
| FFmpeg 7.0 Released With Native VVC Decoding & Multi-Threaded CLI | 05 Apr 2024 |
| Flowblade 2.14 Video Editor Released, GTK4 Port Hopefully Ready Next Year | 31 Mar 2024 |
| Intel VA-API 2.21 Library Adds Intel Xe Kernel Driver Support, AV1 & Windows Fixes | 26 Mar 2024 |
| Linux 6.9 Improves Speakup - Its In-Kernel Speech Synthesizer | 24 Mar 2024 |
| Intel & AMD Enjoy SoundWire Updates With Linux 6.9 | 14 Mar 2024 |
| OBS Studio 30.1 Released With AV1 Support For VA-API & PipeWire Video Capture | 12 Mar 2024 |
| GStreamer 1.24 Released With Vulkan H.264/H.265 Decode & Many Enhancements | 04 Mar 2024 |
| Opus 1.5 Audio Codec Able To Make Extensive Use Of Machine Learning | 04 Mar 2024 |
| FFmpeg Merges DVD-Video Demuxer | 03 Mar 2024 |
| WavPack Lossless Audio Compression Format Adds Multi-Threaded Encode/Decode | 02 Mar 2024 |
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| Nouveau |
| Nouveau/NVK Driver Lands NIL Library Rewrite In Rust For Mesa 24.1 | 09 Apr 2024 |
| Nouveau GSP Fix On The Way For Regression That Broke Ampere GPU Support | 09 Apr 2024 |
| Red Hat's Long, Rust'ed Road Ahead For Nova As Nouveau Driver Successor | 20 Mar 2024 |
| NVK Lands Sparse Memory Support - Enabling More Games To Run On This Open-Source Driver | 09 Mar 2024 |
| Nouveau Supporting HDMI 2.1 Won't Hopefully Be Too Challenging Thanks To NVIDIA Firmware | 04 Mar 2024 |
| Mesa NVK Vulkan Driver Now Declared Vulkan 1.3 Conformant, Mesa 24.1 To Build By Default | 28 Feb 2024 |
| NVK Vulkan Driver Lands Shader Object & Graphics Pipeline Library | 28 Feb 2024 |
| New Nouveau Patch Would Allow Optionally Enabling GSP Mode By Default | 14 Feb 2024 |
| Mesa's NVK Vulkan Driver Lands A Pipeline Shader Cache | 09 Jan 2024 |
| Nouveau Receives Last Minute GSP Fixes For Linux 6.7 | 05 Jan 2024 |
More Nouveau News | 487 Articles |
| NVIDIA |
| NVIDIA 550.54.14 Release Brings R550 Series Linux Driver To Stable | 23 Feb 2024 |
| NVIDIA 550 Linux Beta Driver Released With Many Fixes, VR Displays & Better (X)Wayland | 24 Jan 2024 |
| NVIDIA RTX Remix 0.4 Released With Updated DXVK, Performance Improvements & Fixes | 22 Jan 2024 |
| 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 |
More NVIDIA News | 1063 Articles |
| Operating Systems |
| Linux Mint Aims For More Reliable & Faster Repository Access | 09 Apr 2024 |
| CachyOS Making Use Of Plymouth For Better Boot Experience, Mitigates For XZ Fiasco | 01 Apr 2024 |
| Linux Mint 22 Will Use The PipeWire Sound Server, Support JPEG-XL Images | 01 Apr 2024 |
| Serpent OS Hopes To Ship Pre-Alpha ISOs In The Coming Weeks | 01 Apr 2024 |
| Rust-Written Redox OS Enjoys Significant Performance Improvements | 31 Mar 2024 |
| Pop!_OS Upgrades To The Linux 6.8 Kernel | 27 Mar 2024 |
| LibreELEC 12 Beta Moves More Devices To 64-bit - Including The Raspberry Pi 5 & 4 | 17 Mar 2024 |
| OpenMediaVault 7.0 Released For Debian 12 Powered NAS Platform | 03 Mar 2024 |
| Redox OS Scores A Massive Performance Boost For I/O | 03 Mar 2024 |
| Serpent OS Makes Progress On Packaging The GNOME 45 Desktop | 29 Feb 2024 |
More Operating Systems News | 996 Articles |
| Oracle |
| Oracle Releases DTrace 2.0.0-1.14 For Linux Systems | 08 Apr 2024 |
| 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 |
More Oracle News | 284 Articles |
| Phoronix |
| Nova Driver, Linux 6.9 Features & Other Linux News From March | 01 Apr 2024 |
| Drop-In CUDA On AMD, Kernel Discussions, NGINX Fork & Other Q1 Highlights | 01 Apr 2024 |
| CUDA On ROCm, Ryzen 8000G Series & Rust Activity Made For An Exciting February | 01 Mar 2024 |
| Framework 16, New AMD Launches & More Made For An Exciting January | 01 Feb 2024 |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
More Phoronix Test Suite News | 210 Articles |
| PipeWire |
| PipeWire To Work On Vulkan Converters & Processing Filters | 05 Feb 2024 |
| 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 |
More PipeWire News | 37 Articles |
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| Programming |
| Pingora 0.1 Released As Cloudflare's Rust Code For Reliable & Fast Networked Systems | 05 Apr 2024 |
| OpenBLAS 0.3.27 Adds C-SKY Arch, Improved GEMM For AMD Zen & Sapphire Rapids Fixes | 05 Apr 2024 |
| PostgreSQL Merges JSON_TABLE(), Incremental JSON Parser | 04 Apr 2024 |
| Redict 7.3 Released As Fork Of Open-Source Redis | 03 Apr 2024 |
| Llamafile 0.7 Brings AVX-512 Support: 10x Faster Prompt Eval Times For AMD Zen 4 | 31 Mar 2024 |
| Flatpak 1.15.7 Will Now Automatically Remove Obsolete Driver Versions | 28 Mar 2024 |
| TornadoVM v1.0.3 OpenJDK/GraalVM Plug-In For Java Heterogeneous Hardware Support | 27 Mar 2024 |
| Rust-Written Coreutils 0.0.25 With Improved GNU Compatibility | 24 Mar 2024 |
| OpenJDK Java 22 Rolls Into GA With New Features | 19 Mar 2024 |
| Mold Linker Jumps From v2.4.1 To v2.30 To Resolve GNU libtool Compatibility | 16 Mar 2024 |
More Programming News | 601 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 |
| KDAB Working On Embedding Servo Web Engine Within Qt | 08 Apr 2024 |
| Qt Creator 13 Released For Enhancing Qt/C++ Development | 04 Apr 2024 |
| Qt 6.7 Released With Many Improvements For This Cross-Platform Toolkit | 02 Apr 2024 |
| Qt Creator 13 Beta Brings Improved Docking UI, Qt App Manager Support | 15 Feb 2024 |
| Qt 6.5.4 LTS Released As First Commercial-Only Release In The Series | 11 Jan 2024 |
| 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 |
More Qt News | 524 Articles |
| Radeon |
| AMD Working To Release MES Documentation & Source Code | 04 Apr 2024 |
| AMD Says They'll Be Open-Sourcing More Of Their GPU Software Stack & Hardware Docs | 02 Apr 2024 |
| AMD's Longtime Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Advocate Retires | 02 Apr 2024 |
| AMD Releases Orochi 2.0 With More CUDA/HIP Functions Implemented For Better Portability | 29 Mar 2024 |
| AMDVLK 2024.Q1.3 Released With Fixes | 26 Mar 2024 |
| Mesa 24.1 Merges AMD Radeon VPE 1.1 Engine Support | 25 Mar 2024 |
| Tiny Corp Changes Course Yet Again With Plans To Offer AMD Radeon GPUs | 25 Mar 2024 |
| AOMP 19.0-0 Released For AMD's OpenMP Offloading Compiler | 22 Mar 2024 |
| AMD FSR 3.1 Announced With Vulkan Support | 20 Mar 2024 |
| RadeonSI OpenGL CTS Tests Running ~30% Faster With Mesa 24.1 | 16 Mar 2024 |
More Radeon News | 1837 Articles |
| Raspberry Pi |
| Raspberry Pi OS Now Shipping With Vulkan Support By Default | 08 Apr 2024 |
| Raspberry Pi V3D Kernel Graphics Driver Prepares For Big & Super Pages To Boost Speed | 06 Apr 2024 |
| Raspberry Pi V3D Graphics Driver Preps For Super Pages To Boost Performance | 11 Mar 2024 |
| 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 |
More Raspberry Pi News | 136 Articles |
| Red Hat |
| RHEL 9.4 Beta Brings Full Support For Intel SGX & DSA Accelerator Drivers | 27 Mar 2024 |
| Red Hat Changing How They Handle Their Minor Release Betas | 20 Feb 2024 |
| RHEL's Source Code Access Change Is Causing Issues For CentOS SIGs | 29 Jan 2024 |
| Red Hat Updates RHEL Pricing For The Cloud - Now Scales With vCPU Count | 26 Jan 2024 |
| Red Hat Developing AI Tool "Log Detective" To Help Developers | 17 Jan 2024 |
| 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 |
More Red Hat News | 290 Articles |
| RISC-V |
| SiFive HiFive Premier P550 Announced As New RISC-V Developer Board | 09 Apr 2024 |
| RISC-V Adding Kernel-Mode FPU For Linux 6.10 To Enable Recent AMD Display Support | 08 Apr 2024 |
| Linux 6.9 Adds New RISC-V Vector-Accelerated Crypto Routines | 22 Mar 2024 |
| RISC-V With Linux 6.8 Restores XIP Kernel Support | 18 Jan 2024 |
| 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 |
More RISC-V News | 116 Articles |
| Standards |
| OpenCL 3.0.16 Released With One New Extension, Semaphores & External Memory Finalized | 05 Apr 2024 |
| More Organizations Join The Ultra Ethernet Consortium, v1.0 Spec In Q3 | 19 Mar 2024 |
| Linux Foundation Gets Involved With Lottie To Develop Formal File Format Specification | 31 Jan 2024 |
| 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 |
More Standards News | 287 Articles |
| SUSE |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed Begins Rolling Out KDE Plasma 6 Desktop, But No Wayland Default Yet | 14 Mar 2024 |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed Is Finding Success Moving From GRUB To systemd-boot | 05 Mar 2024 |
| openSUSE's "Agama" Next-Gen Linux Installer Plans For A Busy 2024 | 16 Feb 2024 |
| openSUSE Prepares For openSUSE Leap 16 Next Year Based On ALP | 15 Jan 2024 |
| 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 |
More SUSE News | 291 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 |
| Canonical Announces Ubuntu Pro For Devices | 09 Apr 2024 |
| Netplan 1.0 Is Ready To Go For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | 04 Apr 2024 |
| Ubuntu 24.04 Beta Delayed Due To XZ Nightmare | 03 Apr 2024 |
| Canonical Continues Exploring Ubuntu x86-64-v3 Images - Now In Microsoft's Cloud | 27 Mar 2024 |
| Canonical Extends Ubuntu LTS Support To 12 Years For Ubuntu Pro Customers | 25 Mar 2024 |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Support Installs With NVMe-Over-TCP Drives | 11 Mar 2024 |
| Canonical Looking At Including Performance Tools In Ubuntu 24.04 By Default | 07 Mar 2024 |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Won't Support JPEG-XL Out-Of-The-Box | 01 Mar 2024 |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Enters Its Feature Freeze | 01 Mar 2024 |
| Ubuntu Blog Talks Up Rust Schedulers, Potential For Micro-Kernel Design Future | 26 Feb 2024 |
More Ubuntu News | 1654 Articles |
| Valve |
| VKD3D-Proton 2.12 Released With Initial Support For NVIDIA Reflex | 15 Mar 2024 |
| Steam's February Survey: AMD CPUs & GPUs Continue To Dominate For Linux Gamers | 01 Mar 2024 |
| Steam On Linux Should Stop Crashing If No OpenGL Drivers Are Found | 29 Feb 2024 |
| Valve Makes All Steam Audio SDK Source Code Available Under Apache 2.0 License | 20 Feb 2024 |
| Steam On Linux Falls Short Of 2% For January, AMD CPU Adoption On Linux Hits 70.5% | 01 Feb 2024 |
| Steam Beta Adds VA-API DRM Video Acceleration For Remote Play | 25 Jan 2024 |
| Valve Releases Proton 8.0-5 With Many Fixes, More Windows Games Now Playable | 22 Jan 2024 |
| 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 |
More Valve News | 656 Articles |
| Virtualization |
| CoCo VMs On Linux Will Now Panic If RdRand Is Broken To Avoid Catastrophic Conditions | 07 Apr 2024 |
| More Efficient VirtIO DRM Driver To Import Scanout Buffers From Other Devices | 28 Mar 2024 |
| KVM Virtualization With Linux 6.9 Brings More Optimizations For Intel & AMD | 24 Mar 2024 |
| LXD 5.21 LTS Released With UI By Default, AMD SEV Memory Encryption For VMs | 15 Mar 2024 |
| VirtualBox KVM Backend Adds Support For SR-IOV Graphics | 08 Mar 2024 |
| PVM Virtualization Framework Proposed For Linux - Built Atop The KVM Hypervisor | 26 Feb 2024 |
| Cloud Hypervisor 38 Brings Extended CPU Affinity, Improved VFIO Device Support | 18 Feb 2024 |
| Cyberus Develops Open-Source KVM Backend For VirtualBox | 08 Feb 2024 |
| Amazon Proposes Pkernfs For Better Handling Hypervisor Live Updates | 06 Feb 2024 |
| libvirt 10.0 Released With QEMU VM Migration Improvements | 15 Jan 2024 |
More Virtualization News | 573 Articles |
| Vulkan |
| Vulkan 1.3.280 Released With NVIDIA Ray-Tracing Validation Extension | 08 Mar 2024 |
| Vulkan 1.3.279 Brings New NVIDIA Extension Co-Engineered By Valve | 02 Mar 2024 |
| SDL3 Introduces A Vulkan Renderer | 23 Feb 2024 |
| Vulkan 1.3.278 Released With Two New Extensions - One Will Help Wine / Steam Play | 16 Feb 2024 |
| 2024 Vulkan Developer Conference Slides Posted | 09 Feb 2024 |
| Vulkan Video Finally Introduces AV1 Video Decoding Extension | 01 Feb 2024 |
| Open-Source Intel & AMD Drivers Make Quick Progress On Vulkan Roadmap 2024 Extensions | 25 Jan 2024 |
| Vulkan Roadmap 2024 Brings Shader Quad Control, Shader Maximal Reconvergence & More | 25 Jan 2024 |
| Vcc Announced As The Vulkan Clang Compiler | 10 Jan 2024 |
| Vulkan 1.3.274 Released With Video Encode Extensions Promoted | 19 Dec 2023 |
More Vulkan News | 651 Articles |
| Wayland |
| XWayland-Run 0.0.3 Adds Support For KDE's KWin | 25 Mar 2024 |
| Wayland Protocols 1.34 Introduces Better Drag & Drop, Explicit DRM Sync Objects | 21 Mar 2024 |
| XWayland Rootful Lands HiDPI / Fractional Scaling Support | 20 Mar 2024 |
| XWayland Nukes The NVIDIA EGLStream Backend | 18 Mar 2024 |
| Hyprland Wayland Compositor Celebrates Two Years With A New Release | 17 Mar 2024 |
| Niri 0.1.3 Wayland Compositor Brings Touch Support, New Animations | 10 Mar 2024 |
| UWSM Aims To Be A Universal Wayland Session Manager | 06 Mar 2024 |
| WayVNC 0.8 Adds Auto Server-Side Resizing Of Headless Outputs, Detached Mode | 26 Feb 2024 |
| Sway 1.9 Released - Using New wlroots Rendering API For Better Performance | 24 Feb 2024 |
| Miracle-WM Announced As A Wayland Compositor Built On Mir | 19 Feb 2024 |
More Wayland News | 880 Articles |
| WINE |
| Wine 9.6 Adds Support For Advanced AVX Features In Register Contexts | 05 Apr 2024 |
| Wine Project's April Fools' Gag With Merit: Leveraging AI For Faster Code Review | 04 Apr 2024 |
| Wine 9.5 Released With More Feature Work, 27 Bug Fixes | 22 Mar 2024 |
| Wine 9.4 Released With VKD3D 1.11 Bundled, OpenGL Support For Wayland Driver | 08 Mar 2024 |
| Basic OpenGL Support Merged For Wine's Wayland Driver | 06 Mar 2024 |
| VKD3D 1.11 Allows Compiling Legacy Direct3D Bytecode To SPIR-V | 05 Mar 2024 |
| Wine Code Merged To Overcome A Vulkan Performance Penalty | 03 Mar 2024 |
| Wine Wayland Driver Patches Enable Basic OpenGL Support | 27 Feb 2024 |
| Wine 9.3 Brings New HID Pointer Driver & Better Internet Proxy Support | 23 Feb 2024 |
| CodeWeavers Releases CrossOver 24 Built Atop Wine 9.0 | 22 Feb 2024 |
More WINE News | 934 Articles |
| X.Org |
| Explicit GPU Synchronization Merged For XWayland | 09 Apr 2024 |
| X.Org Server & XWayland Hit By Four More Security Issues | 03 Apr 2024 |
| The X.Org Foundation Needs More Candidates To Hold An Election | 01 Mar 2024 |
| X.Org Server Clears Out Remnants For Supporting Old Compilers | 20 Feb 2024 |
| X.Org Server & XWayland Updated Due To Another Six Security Vulnerabilities | 16 Jan 2024 |
| 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 |
More X.Org News | 1200 Articles |