| AMD |
| Initial AMD Zen 5 "Znver5" Support Merged For LLVM/Clang | 17 Sep 2024 |
| Linux 6.12 EDAC Prepares For Address Translation On Future AMD Platforms | 16 Sep 2024 |
| AMD Posts Linux Patches For New Secure AVIC Guest Feature | 13 Sep 2024 |
| AMD XDNA Linux Driver v3 Published For Ryzen AI Upstreaming | 12 Sep 2024 |
| AMD Submits Initial Zen 5 Enablement For LLVM/Clang Compiler | 11 Sep 2024 |
| AMD Reveals Latest Plans For Open-Source openSIL With Replacing AGESA, Zen 6 Milestone | 05 Sep 2024 |
| More AMD Zen 5 Tuning/Optimizations Merged For The GCC 15 Compiler | 04 Sep 2024 |
| AMD Zen 5 Tuning "Part Two" Merged For GCC Compiler | 03 Sep 2024 |
| AMD Preferred Core Fix Lands Ahead Of Linux 6.11-rc6 | 31 Aug 2024 |
| AMD PMC Driver Patches Submitted To Linux 6.11 Prepare For More Upcoming Zen 5 SoCs | 28 Aug 2024 |
More AMD News | 1734 Articles |
| Apple |
| Device Tree Patches Posted For Review To Boot Linux On Apple A7 To A11 Devices | 11 Sep 2024 |
| In 2024 Another Attempt To Get The Apple Touch Bar In Good Shape For Linux On x86 Macs | 07 Aug 2024 |
| Linux 6.11 EFI Will Fake That It's Booting Apple macOS To Fix Some Dual-GPU Macs | 17 Jul 2024 |
| Linux 6.11 Will Make The Keyboard Backlight Work On More Macs | 09 Jul 2024 |
| "Honeykrisp" Is A New Vulkan Driver For Apple M1 On Linux - Derived From The NVK Driver | 05 Jun 2024 |
| Apple Announces The M4 Chip With Up To 10 CPU Cores | 07 May 2024 |
| 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 |
More Apple News | 125 Articles |
| Arch Linux |
| Archinstall 2.8.3 Arch Linux Installer Adds COSMIC Desktop Option | 25 Aug 2024 |
| Arch Linux Based CachyOS Switches To Open NVIDIA Kernel Modules, COSMIC Desktop Option | 18 Aug 2024 |
| Archinstall 2.8.2 To Speed Up Arch Linux Installations, Other Fixes | 17 Aug 2024 |
| Immutable Version Of Arch-Based Manjaro Linux Available For Testing | 03 Aug 2024 |
| Upstream Linux 6.11 Makes It Easy To Build A Pacman Kernel Package For Arch Linux | 23 Jul 2024 |
| CachyOS Rolls Out Zen 4 Optimized Repository For Maximizing Zen 4 & Zen 5 Performance | 14 Jul 2024 |
| Arch Linux Installer "Archinstall" 2.8.1 Adds Experimental LVM Support | 26 Jun 2024 |
| Arch Linux Powered CachyOS Adds Bcachefs Installer Support | 13 May 2024 |
| Archinstall 2.8 Further Refines The Easy Arch Linux Installation Experience | 15 Apr 2024 |
| Arch Linux Increasing Its vm.max_map_count To Help Steam Play Games & Other Software | 07 Apr 2024 |
More Arch Linux News | 131 Articles |
| Arm |
| Initial Raspberry Pi 5 Support & More Snapdragon X1 Laptops Submitted For Linux 6.12 | 16 Sep 2024 |
| Linux 6.12 To Support Arm's Permission Overlay Extension | 16 Sep 2024 |
| Ubuntu 24.10 ARM64 Installer Supports The Snapdragon-Powered Lenovo ThinkPad X13s | 13 Sep 2024 |
| Panthor DRM Driver For Arm Mali Graphics Working On User Submission Handling | 01 Sep 2024 |
| ARM Linux Maintainer Drafts Deprecation Timeline For Old Boards/Features | 31 Jul 2024 |
| Linus Torvalds Addresses His Latest ARM64 Annoyance: Installing Compressed Kernel Images | 26 Jul 2024 |
| ARM64 Updates Submitted For The Linux 6.11 Kernel | 12 Jul 2024 |
| Arm Expands Speculative SSBS Workaround With More CPU Cores Being Affected | 02 Jul 2024 |
| NUMA Emulation Yields "Significant Performance Uplift" To Raspberry Pi 5 | 25 Jun 2024 |
| The Two Year Journey Funded By Arm/Qualcomm For Improving ARM Linux Laptop Support | 14 Jun 2024 |
More Arm News | 339 Articles |
| BSD |
| FreeBSD 13.4 Released With Many Software Updates & Driver Improvements | 17 Sep 2024 |
| FreeBSD 15 Might Drop Its AGP Driver For Old Graphics Cards | 05 Sep 2024 |
| FreeBSD 13.4-RC2 Brings Improvements For AMD Phoenix SoCs | 01 Sep 2024 |
| Sovereign Tech Fund Announces Significant Investment Into FreeBSD | 26 Aug 2024 |
| FreeBSD 13.4 Nears Release With Modernized DVD Package Set, Driver Updates | 24 Aug 2024 |
| AMD & FreeBSD Begin Collaborating Over OS Improvements | 19 Aug 2024 |
| OpenBSD Now Supports VA-API Video Acceleration | 23 Jul 2024 |
| MidnightBSD 3.2 Released With Ravenports On x86_64, New AMD Features | 22 Jul 2024 |
| FreeBSD Aiming For More Predictable & Frequent Releases | 11 Jul 2024 |
| FreeBSD Community Survey Confirms ZFS Is Their Most Valued Server Feature | 12 Jun 2024 |
More BSD News | 838 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 24.08 Released With 31 New Motherboards, Initial Intel Panther Lake Support | 03 Sep 2024 |
| Chrome's Coreboot Firmware Adapting For 64-bit Boot, Prepping For Intel Panther Lake | 29 Jun 2024 |
| Coreboot To Be Shown Today With An Intel Meteor Lake Laptop | 13 Jun 2024 |
| Coreboot 24.05 Released With 25 More Platforms - Including The Framework 13 AMD | 23 May 2024 |
| 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 |
More Coreboot News | 276 Articles |
| Debian |
| Debian Developers Figuring Out Plan For Removing More Unmaintained Packages | 03 Sep 2024 |
| Debian 12.7 Released With Many Security Updates | 31 Aug 2024 |
| Debian Orphans Bcachefs-Tools: "Impossible To Maintain In Debian Stable" | 29 Aug 2024 |
| Debian General Resolution Hopes To Move Useful "tag2upload" Forward | 04 Jul 2024 |
| Debian 12.6 Released With Many Security Updates & Bug Fixes | 30 Jun 2024 |
| Debian Seeing Work To Support systemd-boot | 03 Jun 2024 |
| Debian Has Yet To Establish Firm Stance On The Use Of AI | 01 Jun 2024 |
| Debian Releases APT 2.9.3 With New Package Solver | 14 May 2024 |
| APT 2.9 Released: Debian's APT 3.0 To Have A New UI With Colors, Columnar Display & More | 13 Apr 2024 |
| Debian Policy 4.7 Outlines Latest Packaging/System Guidelines | 07 Apr 2024 |
More Debian News | 423 Articles |
| Desktop |
| System76 Releases COSMIC Alpha Desktop - It's Looking Quite Interesting | 08 Aug 2024 |
| COSMIC Desktop Very Close To Alpha Release, Adds Compositor Multi-Threading | 12 Jul 2024 |
| COSMIC Alpha Desktop Release Still Planned For Late July | 26 Jun 2024 |
| IceWM 3.6 Released With A Few New Features & Fixes | 16 Jun 2024 |
| Pop!_OS' COSMIC Desktop Finishing Up Work On App Store | 09 May 2024 |
| System76's COSMIC Working On Drag & Drop, More Compositor Improvements | 17 Apr 2024 |
| LXQt 2.0 Released For Qt6 Desktop Port, Greater Wayland Support | 17 Apr 2024 |
| 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 |
More Desktop News | 465 Articles |
| Fedora |
| Fedora 41 Beta Released With Many Leading-Edge Linux Enhancements | 17 Sep 2024 |
| Fedora 42 On 64-bit ARM Might Make It Seamless To Run x86/x86_64 Programs | 12 Sep 2024 |
| Fedora 42 Will Try Again To Use The New Anaconda Installer's Web UI | 12 Sep 2024 |
| wolfSSL "Immediately Retired" From Fedora Linux For Failing To Follow Packaging Rules | 10 Sep 2024 |
| Raspberry Pi Bugs Currently Make Up Half Of The Fedora 41 Blocker Bugs | 04 Sep 2024 |
| Mir-Powered Miracle-WM Continues Tacking On New Features Ahead Of Fedora Miracle | 27 Aug 2024 |
| Btrfs Stakeholders In Fedora Eye Bootable Snapshots & Transparent Encryption | 04 Aug 2024 |
| Fedora Workstation 42 Cleared To Offer Opt-In Metrics Reporting | 23 Jul 2024 |
| LXQt 2.0 Desktop Planned For Availability In Fedora 41 | 21 Jul 2024 |
| Fedora 41 Proceeds With AMD SEV-SNP Virtualization Host Support For Confidential VMs | 18 Jul 2024 |
More Fedora News | 1229 Articles |
| Free Software |
| Ruffle Continues Letting Adobe Flash Player Support Live On In Open-Source | 13 Sep 2024 |
| Samba Secures A Big Investment From Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund | 13 Sep 2024 |
| STF Opens Up Maintainer Fellowship Application Process | 12 Sep 2024 |
| Verso Taking Shape As A Servo-Powered Web Browser | 11 Sep 2024 |
| FEX 2409 Highlights Some Of The Challenges Of Emulating x86 On RISC-V | 06 Sep 2024 |
| OpenSSL 3.4 Alpha 1 Released With New Features | 05 Sep 2024 |
| Samba 4.21 Released With LDAP TLS/SASL Channel Binding, Other Improvements | 03 Sep 2024 |
| Servo Browser Now Supports Tabbed Browsing, WAV Audio Files | 31 Aug 2024 |
| GIMP 3.0 Enters String Freeze, Inching Closer To Release | 20 Aug 2024 |
| Canonical's Netplan 1.1 Improves Compatibility With Proton VPN & Microsoft's Azure Linux | 15 Aug 2024 |
More Free Software News | 2023 Articles |
| GNOME |
| GNOME 47 Released With Accent Colors, Improved Apps & More | 18 Sep 2024 |
| GNOME Mutter Merges XDG Session Management Wayland Protocol | 14 Sep 2024 |
| Casilda Is A New Project As A GTK4 Wayland Compositor Widget | 14 Sep 2024 |
| GNOME Continues Hashing Out Individual Home Directory Encryption, Modernizing Platform | 13 Sep 2024 |
| GNOME Foundation Accepting Applications For New Executive Director | 13 Sep 2024 |
| GNOME 47 Release Candidate Brings Last Minute Changes | 08 Sep 2024 |
| GTK 4.16 Released With Vulkan GSK Renderer By Default On Wayland | 07 Sep 2024 |
| GNOME Mutter 47.rc Ships Experimental Color Management Protocol | 02 Sep 2024 |
| GNOME Session & GDM Can Now Be Built Without X11 Support | 17 Aug 2024 |
| GNOME Developers New Code Takes On Cursor Stutters | 12 Aug 2024 |
More GNOME News | 1308 Articles |
| GNU |
| GNU Linux-libre 6.11 Makes Adaptations For Rust, Warns Of Hidden Binary Bits In v6.11 | 16 Sep 2024 |
| GNU C Library Tuning For AArch64 Helps Memset Performance By ~24% | 10 Sep 2024 |
| AMD GCN3 / Fiji Support Being Retired From The GCC Compiler | 02 Sep 2024 |
| GNU Screen 5.0 Released With Rewritten Authentication Mechanism | 28 Aug 2024 |
| GNU DDD 3.4.1 Released As GUI Front-End To GDB | 24 Aug 2024 |
| GCC 15 Merges Initial Support For Intel AVX10.2 Support | 12 Aug 2024 |
| GNU Binutils 2.43 Released With Intel APX Assembler Preparations & More | 04 Aug 2024 |
| GCC 14.2 Compiler Brings Latest Fixes - Including Adjustments For AMD Zen 4 / Zen 5 | 01 Aug 2024 |
| GNU C Library 2.40 Released With New C23 Features & New Performance Tunables | 22 Jul 2024 |
| GCC On AArch64 Handles Rewriting "-march=native" To "-mcpu=native" | 18 Jul 2024 |
More GNU News | 1101 Articles |
| Google |
| Chrome Adds Support For FreeDesktop Secret Service & Better Wayland Window Dragging | 13 Sep 2024 |
| Android 15 Released To The Android Open-Source Project | 03 Sep 2024 |
| Google Increases AVIF Image Format Support With Google Search Support | 03 Sep 2024 |
| Google Making Progress On 16KB Page Size For Android | 23 Aug 2024 |
| Chrome 128 Released With Isolated Web Apps, Standardized CSS Zoom | 21 Aug 2024 |
| Google's AutoFDO & Propeller For The Linux Kernel Helps With Up To 5~10% Faster Performance | 30 Jul 2024 |
| Linux 6.11 Adding Fan Speed / Temperature & Charge Control Drivers For The ChromeOS EC | 15 Jul 2024 |
| Chrome 127 Should Provide PipeWire Camera Capture Support | 28 May 2024 |
| 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 |
More Google News | 575 Articles |
| Hardware |
| Native PCIe Enclosure Management Submitted For Linux 6.12 | 22 Sep 2024 |
| Firewire Maintainer Is Looking For Help Testing IEEE-1394 Devices On Linux 6.12 | 21 Sep 2024 |
| Haiku OS Working On USB 3 SuperSpeed Plus Support | 20 Sep 2024 |
| Dell XPS 9345 With Snapdragon X1 Sees Linux Patches But Not Yet Speakers & Other Features | 20 Sep 2024 |
| Many Intel & AMD Power Management Improvements For Linux 6.12 | 18 Sep 2024 |
| Many ACPI Updates Head To The Linux 6.12 Kernel | 15 Sep 2024 |
| Pre-Ordered The ASUS Zenbook S 14 For Intel Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" Linux Testing | 06 Sep 2024 |
| Linux Patches Enable Partially-Working, Snapdragon-Powered Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G | 04 Sep 2024 |
| Power Profiles Daemon 0.22 Released With Several AMD Improvements | 03 Sep 2024 |
| Several Newer Gaming Handheld Devices To See Linux Sensor Monitoring Support | 22 Aug 2024 |
More Hardware News | 2233 Articles |
| Intel |
| Linux 6.12 Perf Updates Bring Intel Lunar Lake & Arrow Lake Additions | 19 Sep 2024 |
| OpenVINO 2024.4 Prepares For Core Ultra Series 2, New Gen AI Models | 19 Sep 2024 |
| Intel Compute Runtime Offers "Preview" Support For Lunar Lake | 18 Sep 2024 |
| Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.8 Released Ahead Of Lunar Lake | 17 Sep 2024 |
| Linux 6.11 Adds Last Minute Addition For Intel Arrow Lake | 14 Sep 2024 |
| Linux 6.12 Finishing The Transition For Moving Intel CPUs Past The "Family 6" Era | 13 Sep 2024 |
| Intel Graphics Compiler Can Now Be Built For RISC-V | 13 Sep 2024 |
| Intel Demonstrates Up To 48% Improvement For AVX-512 Optimized PostgreSQL | 12 Sep 2024 |
| Intel CPU Microcode 20240910 Fixes Two Security Issues, Various Functional Issues | 10 Sep 2024 |
| Intel Linux Graphics Driver To Finally Expose GPU Package Temperature | 10 Sep 2024 |
More Intel News | 3062 Articles |
| KDE |
| KDE Optimizes How It Finds Mount Points - Up To 80% Speed-Up | 21 Sep 2024 |
| KDE Releases Plasma 6.2 Beta, Early Feature Work Begins For Plasma 6.3 | 14 Sep 2024 |
| KDE Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 Brings New Capabilities | 12 Sep 2024 |
| KDE Plans To Enhance Application Development Experience, Recruit More Contributors | 09 Sep 2024 |
| KDE Squeezes A Few More Features Into The Plasma 6.2 Desktop | 07 Sep 2024 |
| Slimbook KDE Plasma VI Laptop Announced - Powered By AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS | 07 Sep 2024 |
| KDE Again Operated At A Loss During 2023 | 05 Sep 2024 |
| Kdenlive 24.08 Video Editor Offers UI Improvements, Better Performance | 02 Sep 2024 |
| KDE Desktop Will Remind You Yearly For Donations, Other Changes For Plasma 6.2 | 31 Aug 2024 |
| KDE's Calligra 4.0 Office/Graphics Suite Released With Improved UI & Qt6 Port | 27 Aug 2024 |
More KDE News | 1339 Articles |
| LibreOffice |
| LibreOffice 24.8 Delivers Many Advancements To This Free Software Office Suite | 22 Aug 2024 |
| LibreOffice 24.8 Beta Now Available For Testing This Free Software Office Suite | 14 Jun 2024 |
| LibreOffice 24.8 Alpha 1 Open-Source Office Suite Released | 21 May 2024 |
| 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 |
More LibreOffice News | 187 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 Now Prefers Vulkan Over Direct3D 12 On Windows | 21 Sep 2024 |
| Godot 4.4 Dev 1 Brings Renderer Improvements, Betsy Texture Compression | 26 Aug 2024 |
| Cemu 2.1 Emulator Released With Flatpaks & AppImage For Linux, Initial Wayland Support | 26 Aug 2024 |
| Unigine 2.19 Rolls Out OpenXR Support, Multi-Threaded Renderer | 20 Aug 2024 |
| Feral's GameMode 1.8.2 Fixes Hybrid CPU Core Pinning | 19 Aug 2024 |
| SDL3 Library Adds A Built-In Snake Game | 31 Jul 2024 |
| Direct3D 8 Support "D8VK" Merged Into DXVK | 07 Jul 2024 |
| FEX 2407 Emulator For x86_64 Binaries On ARM Now Handles AVX/AVX2 | 04 Jul 2024 |
| Linux Shoots Past The 2% Threshold For The Steam Survey, AMD CPU Use Breaks 75% | 01 Jun 2024 |
| Godot 4.3 Beta 1 Released With Native Wayland Support | 31 May 2024 |
More Linux Gaming News | 1996 Articles |
| Linux Kernel |
| Updated XZ Code Lands In Linux 6.12 | 22 Sep 2024 |
| Sched_ext Merged For Linux 6.12 - Scheduling Policies As BPF Programs | 21 Sep 2024 |
| VFS+XFS Changes Land In Linux 6.12 To Support Block Sizes Larger Than Page Size | 21 Sep 2024 |
| New Wacom Drawing Tablet Driver Features With Linux 6.12 | 20 Sep 2024 |
| Real-Time "PREEMPT_RT" Support Merged For Linux 6.12 | 20 Sep 2024 |
| Linux 6.12 Lands QR Code For DRM Panic Messages, Intel LNL & BMG Graphics Enabled | 19 Sep 2024 |
| Linux 6.12 Scheduler Code Adds SCHED_DEADLINE Servers & Complete EEVDF | 19 Sep 2024 |
| Patch Proposed For Adding x86_64 Feature Levels To The Kernel - But It's Likely D.O.A. | 17 Sep 2024 |
| The Printk Blocker For Upstreaming Real-Time "PREEMPT_RT" Has Been Merged | 17 Sep 2024 |
| The File Struct Is Smaller In Linux 6.12 - May Help File Heavy Workloads | 16 Sep 2024 |
More Linux Kernel News | 3616 Articles |
| Linux Networking |
| Device Memory TCP Included With The Networking Changes For Linux 6.12 | 17 Sep 2024 |
| New Rust PHY Network Driver To Be Merged In Linux 6.12 | 02 Sep 2024 |
| WPA_Supplicant 2.11 Released With WiFi 7 EHT & Many Other New Features | 22 Jul 2024 |
| Linux 6.11 Sees New Wired & Wireless Networking Hardware Support | 17 Jul 2024 |
| Device Memory TCP Nears The Finish Line For More Efficient Networked Accelerators | 08 Jul 2024 |
| Longtime Linux Wireless Developer Passes Away | 23 Jun 2024 |
| Linux 6.10 Networking Adds New Intel Hardware Support, More WiFi 7 Enablement | 15 May 2024 |
| 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 |
More Linux Networking News | 265 Articles |
| Linux Security |
| Linux 6.12 Adds Build Options For Greater Control Over CPU Security Mitigations | 18 Sep 2024 |
| Linux 6.12 Landing Integrity Policy Enforcement "IPE" Module | 18 Sep 2024 |
| AMD Engineer Proposes "Attack Vector Controls" To Rethink CPU Security Mitigation Handling | 13 Sep 2024 |
| Linux 6.12 To Add New Build Options For More Fine-Grained Control Over CPU Mitigations | 05 Aug 2024 |
| Linux's Landlock Sandboxed Apps Could Remove Restrictions On Itself | 28 Jul 2024 |
| Linux 6.11 Hardening Makes FineIBT Default Configurable At Build Time | 21 Jul 2024 |
| spectre_bhi=vmexit Mitigation Merged For Linux 6.11 Cloud Use | 17 Jul 2024 |
| Linux 6.11 To Allow Tightening Of /proc/[pid]/mem Access For Better Security | 14 Jul 2024 |
| Linus Torvalds Unconvinced By getrandom() In The vDSO | 05 Jul 2024 |
| getrandom() In The vDSO Aims For Linux 6.11 To Provide Faster Yet Secure User-Space RNG | 03 Jul 2024 |
More Linux Security News | 299 Articles |
| Linux Storage |
| Bcachefs Hopes To Remove "EXPERIMENTAL" Flag In The Next Year | 22 Sep 2024 |
| OpenZFS Merges Support For Direct IO | 20 Sep 2024 |
| XFS With Linux 6.12 Adds New Ioctls To Exchange Contents Of Two Files | 19 Sep 2024 |
| Btrfs Sees Minor Performance Optimizations With Linux 6.12 | 18 Sep 2024 |
| Replay Protected Memory Block "RPMB" Subsystem Submitted For Linux 6.12 | 16 Sep 2024 |
| A Re-Implementation Of The EROFS File-System In Rust Has Started | 16 Sep 2024 |
| IO_uring Async Discard Submitted For Linux 6.12 | 15 Sep 2024 |
| EROFS Adding Support For File-Backed Mounts To Benefit Containers & Sandboxes | 14 Sep 2024 |
| EXT4 Extsize Hints Being Worked On As Step Toward Non-Torn/Atomic Writes | 12 Sep 2024 |
| FUSE Adding IDMAPPED Mounts Support In Linux 6.12 | 08 Sep 2024 |
More Linux Storage News | 1006 Articles |
| LLVM |
| LLVM 19.1 Released With C++17 Support "Complete", More C & C++ Features | 17 Sep 2024 |
| LLVM Makes Progress On Using ClangIR To Compile GPU Kernels | 11 Sep 2024 |
| LLVM's Modern Fortran Compiler "Flang-New" Is Looking Good | 28 Aug 2024 |
| LLVM OpenMP Runtime Lands Improvements For Intel Meteor Lake | 05 Aug 2024 |
| LLVM/Clang 20 Compiler Begins Seeing Intel AVX10.2 Support | 05 Aug 2024 |
| LLVM 19.1-rc1 Compiler Released With More C23 / C++23 & New Intel Extensions | 26 Jul 2024 |
| LLVM Clang Switches MMX Intrinsics To Use SSE2 Instead | 24 Jul 2024 |
| LLVM Clang 19 Branched, LLVM 20 Enters Development- No AMD Zen 5 "Znver5" Merged Yet | 23 Jul 2024 |
| LLVM Compiler Finally Ends Support For AMD's 3DNow! | 16 Jul 2024 |
| LLVM Clang 19 Adds Initial "-std=c2y" Support For The Next C Standard | 02 Jul 2024 |
More LLVM News | 756 Articles |
| LVFS |
| Fwupd 1.9.24 Adds Support For More Mediatek & Parade Tech Devices | 22 Aug 2024 |
| Over 9 Years LVFS Has Served Over 110 Million Firmware Files To Linux Systems | 21 Aug 2024 |
| Fwupd 1.9.22 Released With Framework SD Expansion Card & Raspberry Pi 5 Support | 26 Jul 2024 |
| Fwupd 1.9.21 Released With Synaptics Carrera & Wacom Movink Support | 13 Jun 2024 |
| Fwupd 1.9.20 Released With Updated FPC Fingerprint Reader Support | 20 May 2024 |
| Fwupd 1.9.19 Supports New Docks, Incorporates More Fixes | 03 May 2024 |
| Fwupd 1.9.17 Adds Firmware Updating For ASUS DC201 & Realtek RTS541x | 22 Apr 2024 |
| 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 |
More LVFS News | 91 Articles |
| Mesa |
| Gfxstream Merged Into Mesa For Vulkan Virtualization | 20 Sep 2024 |
| Mesa's Zink Driver Now Supports OpenGL VR Extensions | 18 Sep 2024 |
| Autodesk Contributes Mesa Vulkan WSI Support For Apple's Metal | 18 Sep 2024 |
| Mesa PanVK Vulkan Driver Sees Initial Support For Arm Mali 2nd Gen Valhall GPUs | 12 Sep 2024 |
| Kernel Shader Variants Merged For Mesa's Rusticl OpenCL Driver | 11 Sep 2024 |
| RADV Merges Vulkan Pipeline Binary Support | 10 Sep 2024 |
| Mesa 24.3 Removes Support For The Long-Abandoned OpenMAX API | 09 Sep 2024 |
| Mesa 24.2.2 Enables Intel Lunar Lake & Battlemage Xe2 Graphics Out-Of-The-Box | 05 Sep 2024 |
| Mesa's Gallium3D Direct3D 9 "Nine" State Tracker To Be Retired | 29 Aug 2024 |
| Mesa 24.2.1 Released, Mesa 24.1 Series Comes To An End | 29 Aug 2024 |
More Mesa News | 2446 Articles |
| Microsoft |
| Updated DeviceTree Gets Microsoft Windows Dev Kit 2023 Booting Linux | 22 Sep 2024 |
| Wow! Microsoft DirectX Adopting SPIR-V Moving Forward | 19 Sep 2024 |
| Microsoft Optimizes Hyper-V Code To Boot Linux Faster When Having Many CPUs | 19 Sep 2024 |
| Microsoft Further Improves D3D12 Video Acceleration In Mesa | 30 Aug 2024 |
| Microsoft Advances Its Open-Source Font For Developers With "Cascadia Next" | 28 Aug 2024 |
| Microsoft Azure Linux 3.0.20240824 Enables More Kernel Features, Adds XWayland | 28 Aug 2024 |
| LinkedIn Migrates Their Servers From CentOS To Azure Linux | 27 Aug 2024 |
| Linux On The Snapdragon X1 Microsoft Surface Laptop 7, But Critical Features Missing | 09 Aug 2024 |
| Microsoft Promotes Azure Linux 3.0 To General Availability | 01 Aug 2024 |
| Microsoft's WSL 2.3.11 Brings "Hundreds Of New Kernel Modules" & New Features | 17 Jul 2024 |
More Microsoft News | 361 Articles |
| Mozilla |
| Mozilla Is Interested In A Rust JPEG-XL Decoder For Firefox & Google Might Develop It | 04 Sep 2024 |
| Firefox 130 Now Available With WebCodecs API Enabled On The Desktop | 02 Sep 2024 |
| Mozilla Developing Whisperfile For Local Audio-To-Text Translation | 22 Aug 2024 |
| Firefox 129 Now Available With HTTPS Replacing HTTP As Default Protocol | 05 Aug 2024 |
| Thunderbird 128 Now Available With More Rust Code & UI/UX Enhancements | 12 Jul 2024 |
| Firefox 128 Now Available With A Fix For A 25 Year Old Bug Report | 09 Jul 2024 |
| Llamafile 0.8.7 Brings Fixes, Better ARM Performance & Preps For New Server | 24 Jun 2024 |
| Firefox 127 With 32-bit x86 Linux Pretending To Be "x86_64" To Reduce Fingerprinting | 10 Jun 2024 |
| Firefox 126 Available - Adds "Linux" To The Android User Agent String | 13 May 2024 |
| Mozilla's Llamafile 0.8.2 Scores Big With New AVX2 Performance Optimizations | 09 May 2024 |
More Mozilla News | 429 Articles |
| Multimedia |
| H.264/H.265 Vulkan Encoder Support Merged Into FFmpeg | 18 Sep 2024 |
| Legacy Intel Sound Driver Support Being Removed In Linux 6.12, Other Big Changes | 15 Sep 2024 |
| New AVX2 Code Helps FFmpeg With VVC Decoding Performance | 31 Aug 2024 |
| SVT-AV1 2.2 Delivers More Performance Improvements | 21 Aug 2024 |
| Raspberry Pi "PiSP" Driver Landing Upstream For Raspberry Pi 5 Camera System | 17 Jul 2024 |
| OBS Studio 30.2 Released With Native NVENC Encode On Linux, More Shared Texture Support | 12 Jul 2024 |
| Dav1d 1.4.2 Provides More AVX2 & AVX-512 Performance Optimizations | 31 May 2024 |
| Flowblade 2.16 Open-Source Video Editor Released | 29 May 2024 |
| SVT-AV1 2.1 Released With Yet More Performance Improvements | 28 May 2024 |
| Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Now Supporting FFmpeg | 16 May 2024 |
More Multimedia News | 629 Articles |
| Nouveau |
| More NVK Driver Improvements Merged For Mesa 24.3 | 18 Aug 2024 |
| NVIDIA Exploring Ways To Better Support An Upstream Kernel Driver | 13 Jun 2024 |
| Nouveau DRM_Panic Being Worked On For Linux "Blue Screen Of Death" Type Situations | 26 May 2024 |
| RFC Patches Posted For Rust-Written NVIDIA "Nova" GPU Driver | 20 May 2024 |
| NVK Vulkan Driver Lands DRM Format Modifiers Support | 14 May 2024 |
| Valve Working On Explicit Sync Support For "NVK" NVIDIA Vulkan Driver | 04 May 2024 |
| NVK Vulkan Driver Adds Implicit Pipeline Caching To Boost DXVK Performance | 23 Apr 2024 |
| Former Nouveau Lead Developer Joins NVIDIA, Continues Working On Open-Source Driver | 17 Apr 2024 |
| 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 |
More Nouveau News | 495 Articles |
| NVIDIA |
| Even NVIDIA Has Jumped Big On The Open-Source OpenBMC Train | 08 Sep 2024 |
| NVIDIA 560.35.03 Linux Driver Released With More Wayland Fixes | 21 Aug 2024 |
| NVIDIA EGL-Wayland 1.15 Brings Stability Fixes For Explicit Sync | 11 Aug 2024 |
| NVIDIA 560.31.02 Linux Driver Delivers Various Fixes | 06 Aug 2024 |
| NVIDIA 560 Linux Driver Beta Released - Defaults To Open GPU Kernel Modules | 23 Jul 2024 |
| NVIDIA's EGL-Wayland Library v1.1.14 Adds Explicit Sync | 19 Jul 2024 |
| NVIDIA Promotes Their Open-Source GPU Kernel Driver Support | 17 Jul 2024 |
| NVIDIA 555.58 Stable Linux Driver Brings Wayland Explicit Sync, GSP Firmware Default | 27 Jun 2024 |
| GCC 15 Adds NVIDIA Grace CPU Support With "-mcpu=grace" Option | 26 Jun 2024 |
| NVIDIA 555.52.04 Beta Linux Driver Brings Fixes | 05 Jun 2024 |
More NVIDIA News | 1077 Articles |
| Operating Systems |
| Haiku R1 Beta 5 Released With Dark Mode Theme & Support For USB Audio | 13 Sep 2024 |
| Linux Mint Takes To Forking Some APT Components | 12 Sep 2024 |
| Gentoo Linux Touts Better MIPS & Alpha Platform Support | 11 Sep 2024 |
| AlmaLinux Announces Certification SIG, Hardware Certification Program | 10 Sep 2024 |
| Redox OS 0.9 Brings COSMIC Apps, Better Performance & Improved Linux App Compatibility | 09 Sep 2024 |
| Redox OS Unlocks Faster VM Performance, "Slightly Faster" Than Linux In Some Benchmarks | 04 Sep 2024 |
| Armbian 24.8 Moves To Linux 6.10, Supports Newer ARM & RISC-V Boards | 02 Sep 2024 |
| System76 Pop!_OS Scheduler Now Detects Hyprland, Lands Various Fixes | 23 Aug 2024 |
| Gentoo Linux Ending Itanium IA-64 Support | 14 Aug 2024 |
| Haiku OS R1 Beta 5 Approaching Soon, New Performance Improvements | 14 Aug 2024 |
More Operating Systems News | 1043 Articles |
| Oracle |
| Oracle's UEK-Next Moves To Linux 6.10, Patches In sched_ext | 21 Sep 2024 |
| Oracle Rewrites Libresource For Standardized API Of Linux System Resource Information | 06 Sep 2024 |
| Oracle Updates TrenchBoot For The Linux Kernel To Advance Boot Security & Integrity | 27 Aug 2024 |
| Oracle Rolls Out UEK-Next Kernel Based On Linux 6.9 | 03 Jul 2024 |
| 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 |
More Oracle News | 288 Articles |
| Phoronix |
| AMD Ryzen 9000 Series & Linux Kernel Drama Made For An Exciting August | 01 Sep 2024 |
| Linux 6.11, Ryzen AI 300 Series, Open-Source NVIDIA Kernel Driver & Other July News | 01 Aug 2024 |
| Linux BSOD, NVIDIA Linux Excitement, Intel Sierra Forest & Other June Highlights | 01 Jul 2024 |
| Kernel Optimizations, XZ, AMD ZLUDA, NOVA, EPYC 4004 & Other H1'2024 Highlights | 30 Jun 2024 |
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| NVIDIA Open Kernel Driver News, AMD EPYC 4004 & Linux 6.10 Made For A Fun May | 01 Jun 2024 |
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| Nova Driver, Linux 6.9 Features & Other Linux News From March | 01 Apr 2024 |
More Phoronix News | 676 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 |
More Phoronix Test Suite News | 210 Articles |
| PipeWire |
| Fedora 41 To Rely On PipeWire By Default For Firefox Camera Handling | 19 Aug 2024 |
| PipeWire 1.2 Released With Async Processing, Explicit Sync & Other Features | 27 Jun 2024 |
| PipeWire 1.2 Can Stream To Snapcast Servers For Multi-Room Audio | 24 May 2024 |
| PipeWire 1.2 Preps For Async Processing, Snap Support & Explicit Sync | 16 May 2024 |
| 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 |
More PipeWire News | 41 Articles |
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| Programming |
| OpenJDK Java 23 Released With ZGC Generational Mode By Default | 17 Sep 2024 |
| TamaGo Allows Executing Go Language Code Bare Metal On ARM/RISC-V SoCs | 16 Sep 2024 |
| Valkey 8.0 Released As Speedy Redis Fork Achieving One Million RPS | 15 Sep 2024 |
| Redis 8.0 Community Edition M1 Released With New Data Structures | 12 Sep 2024 |
| OpenJPH v0.16 Now Using AVX2 For Faster HTJ2K/JPEG2000 | 09 Sep 2024 |
| Cairo 1.18.2 Collects A Year's Worth Of Fixes | 07 Sep 2024 |
| Wireshark 4.4 Released For This Leading Network Protocol Analyzer | 28 Aug 2024 |
| Codon 0.17 Released For LLVM-Based Python Implementation For 10~100x Speedups | 25 Aug 2024 |
| Zed Code Editor Begins Adding AI Features Powered By Anthropic's Claude | 21 Aug 2024 |
| Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.46 Released For High Performance JVM | 12 Aug 2024 |
More Programming News | 646 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 Creator 14 IDE Released With Support For Lua-Based Plugins | 25 Jul 2024 |
| Qt 6.8 Beta Released With Multi-View Rendering, Better GNOME Wayland Experience | 14 Jun 2024 |
| Qt 6.7.1 Released With 400+ Fixes - Including Several Wayland Fixes | 21 May 2024 |
| 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 |
More Qt News | 527 Articles |
| Radeon |
| AMD Releases ROCm 6.2.1 With FBGEMM Support, Installation Improvements | 20 Sep 2024 |
| AMD Publishes RDNA 3.5 ISA Documentation | 16 Sep 2024 |
| Idea Raised For Reducing The Size Of The AMDGPU Driver With Its Massive Header Files | 16 Sep 2024 |
| AMD GPU Linux Driver Becoming "Really Really Big" That It's Starting To Cause Problems | 15 Sep 2024 |
| AMD Publishes GC 11.5.2 Firmware For Upcoming RDNA3.5 Hardware | 12 Sep 2024 |
| AMD Enables Per-Queue Resets For Newer GPUs & Other Linux 6.12 AMDGPU Changes | 07 Sep 2024 |
| Linux 6.11-rc7 To Fix A "Massive Performance Regression" For AMD Graphics | 06 Sep 2024 |
| AMDVLK 2024.Q3.2 Brings "Strix 1" Support & Performance Tuning | 29 Aug 2024 |
| AMD Graphics Driver Prepares For Per-Queue Resets & Process Isolation In Linux 6.12 | 27 Aug 2024 |
| RADV Enables Vulkan Video By Default For RDNA3 / VCN4 GPUs | 27 Aug 2024 |
More Radeon News | 1912 Articles |
| Raspberry Pi |
| Ubuntu 24.10 Making Preparations For The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 | 20 Sep 2024 |
| Raspberry Pi Showcases Rust On The RP2350 Microcontroller | 07 Sep 2024 |
| Linux Patches Work To Upstream Raspberry Pi's RP1 PCI Device Support | 20 Aug 2024 |
| Raspberry Pi 5 2GB Launches At $50 USD | 19 Aug 2024 |
| Raspberry Pi OS Brings Labwc Wayland Compositor As Optional Alternative To Wayfire | 05 Jul 2024 |
| Suspend To Idle Under Linux Being Worked On For Raspberry Pi | 01 Jul 2024 |
| Raspberry Pi Connect Adds Remote Shell Access, Support For Older Raspberry Pi SBCs | 25 Jun 2024 |
| Raspberry Pi 5 Kernel Graphics Driver Support Will Hopefully Be Upstreamed Soon | 20 Jun 2024 |
| SUSE Working To Upstream RP1 Southbridge Linux Driver For The Raspberry Pi 5 | 11 Jun 2024 |
| AlmaLinux Now Available For The Raspberry Pi 5 | 11 Jun 2024 |
More Raspberry Pi News | 152 Articles |
| Red Hat |
| Red Hat Developing Ramalama To "Make AI Boring" By Offering Great AI Simplicity & Ease Of Use | 15 Aug 2024 |
| Red Hat Developing "eu-stacktrace" For Profiling Without Frame Pointers | 11 Jun 2024 |
| Red Hat Announces RHEL AI | 07 May 2024 |
| Red Hat Offering Up To 4 Years Extra Support For RHEL7 | 25 Apr 2024 |
| Red Hat Releases DNF 4.20 In Preparation For DNF5 | 24 Apr 2024 |
| 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 |
More Red Hat News | 295 Articles |
| RISC-V |
| RISC-V Enabling Generic CPU Vulnerabilities Reporting | 08 Sep 2024 |
| SiFive Announces P870-D For Up To 256 RISC-V Cores | 14 Aug 2024 |
| GhostWrite Vulnerability Affects RISC-V CPU, Mitigating Takes A ~77% Performance Hit | 07 Aug 2024 |
| Thanks Intel: RISC-V Sees NUMA Support For ACPI-Based Systems In Linux 6.11 | 28 Jul 2024 |
| RISC-V Sees Support For New ISA Extensions In Linux 6.11 | 21 Jul 2024 |
| RISC-V Memory Hot Plugging To Be Introduced With Linux 6.11 | 30 Jun 2024 |
| Ubuntu Talks Up A RISC-V Octa-Core Laptop | 13 Jun 2024 |
| Linux Patches Posted For Enabling A 22 x 35 mm RISC-V / ARM Board | 27 May 2024 |
| Linux 6.10 On RISC-V Allows Configurable Boot Image Compression | 25 May 2024 |
| RISC-V Now Supports Rust In The Linux Kernel | 22 May 2024 |
More RISC-V News | 126 Articles |
| Standards |
| Linux Foundation Looks To Become More Involved With AI Models, Welcomes OMI | 12 Aug 2024 |
| NVMe 2.1 Specifications Published With New Capabilities | 06 Aug 2024 |
| oneAPI-Focused UXL Foundation Now Collaborating With The Khronos Group | 10 Jun 2024 |
| AMD & Intel Team Up For UALink As Open Alternative To NVIDIA's NVLink | 30 May 2024 |
| Linux Foundation, Intel & Others Launch The Open Platform for Enterprise AI | 16 Apr 2024 |
| Khronos Releases OpenXR 1.1 For Cross-Platform AR/VR Development | 16 Apr 2024 |
| 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 |
More Standards News | 293 Articles |
| SUSE |
| openSUSE's Aeon RC3 Released With Full Disk Encryption By Default | 27 Jul 2024 |
| openSUSE Aeon Prepares For Comprehensive Full Disk Encryption | 12 Jul 2024 |
| SUSE's "Agama" OS Installer Rolls Out New Web UI, Better Auto Installations | 28 Jun 2024 |
| openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 Now Available For Container & VM Needs | 26 Jun 2024 |
| openSUSE Leap 15.6 Release - Adds Cockpit, Linux 6.4 & Other Updates | 12 Jun 2024 |
| openSUSE Aeon RC2 Released With Btrfs Compression Default, ZRAM & Tik | 28 May 2024 |
| SUSE's YaST Team Drops Cockpit With New Installer Code | 18 May 2024 |
| Intel's OpenVINO Now Available In openSUSE | 17 May 2024 |
| openSUSE Leap 15.6 RC Brings Cockpit Web Based Server Management | 29 Apr 2024 |
| openSUSE Factory Achieves Bit-By-Bit Reproducible Builds | 18 Apr 2024 |
More SUSE News | 302 Articles |
| systemd |
| systemd Talks Up Automatic Boot Assessment In Light Of The Crowdstrike-Microsoft Outage | 22 Jul 2024 |
| Systemd 256.1 Fixes "systemd-tmpfiles" Unexpectedly Deleting Your /home Directory | 19 Jun 2024 |
| systemd 256 Released With run0, systemd-vpick, importctl & Other New Features | 11 Jun 2024 |
| systemd 256 Nears Release With run0, systemd-vpick, importctl & More | 22 May 2024 |
| systemd 256-rc2 Released With A Few More Features | 14 May 2024 |
| systemd Rolling Out "run0" As sudo Alternative | 30 Apr 2024 |
| Systemd 256-rc1 Brings A Huge Number Of New Features | 25 Apr 2024 |
| 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 |
More systemd News | 243 Articles |
| Ubuntu |
| Ubuntu 24.10 Beta Released For Testing | 20 Sep 2024 |
| Proposal Seeks To Replace MySQL With MariaDB By Default For Ubuntu 25.04 | 20 Sep 2024 |
| Ubuntu Core Desktop Seeing KDE Plasma Snap'ed Up, Other Ubuntu 24.10 Progress | 19 Sep 2024 |
| Ubuntu Developers Begin Working On Snapdragon X1 Elite Support | 15 Sep 2024 |
| Ubuntu 24.10 To Enhance Snap Permissions Handling | 11 Sep 2024 |
| Canonical Working To Package GraalVM For Ubuntu Linux | 10 Sep 2024 |
| Ubuntu 24.10 Desktop To Ship With Sysprof Profiler Pre-Installed | 10 Sep 2024 |
| Canonical Shipping Updated Intel TDX Software For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | 10 Sep 2024 |
| Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS Released With All Stable Release Updates Included | 29 Aug 2024 |
| Ubuntu 24.10 Prepares To Employ The Linux 6.11 Kernel | 28 Aug 2024 |
More Ubuntu News | 1693 Articles |
| Valve |
| Valve's Proton 9.0-3 Brings Support For More Games On Linux, Many Fixes | 19 Sep 2024 |
| Steam On Linux Drops Below 2% For August 2024 Survey | 01 Sep 2024 |
| Steam On Linux Usage Flat For July At Just Above 2% | 01 Aug 2024 |
| Steam On Linux Use Stayed Above 2% In June | 01 Jul 2024 |
| VKD3D-Proton 2.13 Brings OpenVR/OpenXR Interop & Performance Improvements | 21 Jun 2024 |
| Valve Rolls Out Proton 9.0-2 With Many Fixes For Running More Games On Steam Play | 12 Jun 2024 |
| Steam Deck Platform Driver In No Apparent Rush For Upstreaming Into The Linux Kernel | 22 May 2024 |
| SteamOS 3.6 Preview Released With Linux 6.5, Updated Arch Linux & Mesa 24.1 | 09 May 2024 |
| Valve Publishes Steam Survey Numbers For April 2024 | 01 May 2024 |
| Proton 9.0 RC2 Makes More Windows Games Playable On Linux, Other Fixes | 26 Apr 2024 |
More Valve News | 668 Articles |
| Virtualization |
| ARM / RISC-V / LoongArch KVM Updates Submitted For Linux 6.12 | 17 Sep 2024 |
| LoongArch KVM To Speed-Up ARM/x86 Binary Translation | 13 Sep 2024 |
| VirtualBox 7.1 Released With Improved UI, Wayland Clipboard Sharing | 11 Sep 2024 |
| QEMU 9.1 Released With AMD SEV-SNP Support & Intel IAA Acceleration During VM Migrations | 04 Sep 2024 |
| Bochs DRM Linux Driver Being Modernized - Better Performance For QEMU Display | 23 Aug 2024 |
| VirtualBox 7.1 Beta 2 Released For This Big Oracle Virtualization Update | 21 Aug 2024 |
| Cloud Hypervisor 41 Brings Performance Improvements & Landlock Sandboxing | 16 Aug 2024 |
| Xen 4.19 Released With New 9pfs Backend, Scales Up To 16,383 CPUs | 31 Jul 2024 |
| VirtualBox 7.1 Beta Released With Modernized GUI, Wayland Support For Clipboard Sharing | 25 Jul 2024 |
| VMware Hypercall API Makes It Into Linux 6.11 For Basis To Allow Confidential Computing | 25 Jul 2024 |
More Virtualization News | 592 Articles |
| Vulkan |
| Vulkan 1.3.295 Released With Compute Shader Derivatives Extension | 30 Aug 2024 |
| Vulkan 1.3.294 Introduces New Pipeline Binary Extension | 23 Aug 2024 |
| Proposed Vulkan Extension To Improve Memory Sharing With Apple's Metal | 20 Aug 2024 |
| Vulkan 1.3.293 Released With NVIDIA Command Buffer Inheritance Extension | 17 Aug 2024 |
| FFmpeg Merges Vulkan Video Encode Support | 11 Aug 2024 |
| Raspberry Pi Driver Updated With Vulkan 1.3 Support | 05 Aug 2024 |
| Vulkan 1.3.291 Published With VK_AMD_anti_lag, AMD Anti Lag Extension | 19 Jul 2024 |
| DXVK 2.4 Released With Direct3D 8 Support, Native WSI Improvements | 10 Jul 2024 |
| Vulkan 1.3.289 Further Helps Out With Layered Driver Implementations | 02 Jul 2024 |
| Vulkan 1.3.286 Released With One New Extension | 31 May 2024 |
More Vulkan News | 664 Articles |
| Wayland |
| Mir 2.18 Released With Wayland Server-Side Decorations | 17 Sep 2024 |
| Niri 0.1.9 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Brings New IPC Functionality | 14 Sep 2024 |
| Mir-based Miracle-WM Adds Optional Systemd Integration | 09 Sep 2024 |
| Hyprland 0.43 Wayland Compositor Releases, Raises Build Requirements To C++26 | 09 Sep 2024 |
| Wayland's Weston 14.0 Compositor Released | 04 Sep 2024 |
| Wayland Protocols 1.37 Introduces Three New Protocols | 31 Aug 2024 |
| Lab Wayland Compositor 0.8 Released, Ported To wlroots 0.18 | 17 Aug 2024 |
| Weston 14.0 Alpha Brings New Wayland Compositor Features | 14 Aug 2024 |
| Mir-Based Miracle-WM Updated Ahead Of Fedora Miracle Spin | 13 Aug 2024 |
| Wayland Merges New Screen Capture Protocols | 11 Aug 2024 |
More Wayland News | 911 Articles |
| WINE |
| Wine 9.18 Delivers New Desktop Control Panel Applet | 20 Sep 2024 |
| Wine Making Improvements To Its GitLab, Eyes Contributor Covenant For CoC | 12 Sep 2024 |
| Hangover 9.17 Ships With Wine Wayland Support, Ubuntu 24.10 Packages | 07 Sep 2024 |
| Wine 9.17 Released With Better ARM64 CPU Detection, HiDPI Window Surface Scaling | 06 Sep 2024 |
| VKD3D 1.13 Improves Direct3D 12 API Support Atop Vulkan | 30 Aug 2024 |
| Microsoft Offloads The Mono Project To Wine | 27 Aug 2024 |
| Wine 9.16 Begins Working On Driver Store Implementation, Pbuffer Support For Wayland | 23 Aug 2024 |
| Wine-Staging 9.15 Adds Fixes For Lotus Approach & Need For Speed: Underground | 11 Aug 2024 |
| Wine 9.15 Brings A Lot Of Work On MSHTML, More Windows ODBC Driver Support | 10 Aug 2024 |
| Wine 9.14 Continues Working On ODBC Windows Driver Support, Fixes For AOL | 29 Jul 2024 |
More WINE News | 955 Articles |
| X.Org |
| It's Taken Until 2024 To Add FreeBSD To X.Org Continuous Integration Testing | 06 Sep 2024 |
| libX11 1.8.10 Brings Memory Safety Fixes | 29 Jul 2024 |
| X.Org Testing Ground Expands Its Scope To Illumos/OpenIndiana | 23 Jul 2024 |
| X.Org Server Patches Look To Cleanup VRR Handling, Make It Xinerama-Aware | 22 Jul 2024 |
| X.Org Testing Ground Toolkit v0.0.2 Adds NetBSD & FreeBSD Support | 18 Jun 2024 |
| X.Org Testing Ground Toolkit: Making It Less Difficult To Compile The X Server In 2024 | 13 Jun 2024 |
| NetBSD On The State & Future Of X.Org/X11 | 04 May 2024 |
| xconsole 1.1 Released - Preparing For Post-Y2038 Support, 18 Years After v1.0 | 29 Apr 2024 |
| X.Org Server Change Allows GLAMOR To Fallback To Software Rendering For Obsolete GPUs | 11 Apr 2024 |
| Explicit GPU Synchronization Merged For XWayland | 09 Apr 2024 |
More X.Org News | 1209 Articles |