Meta Developing Compressed RAM "CRAM" For Linux: Better Than ZRAM & Zswap
06:23 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Compressed RAM - Add A Comment
6 October
Windows Subsystem For Linux Can Now Run On Very Large Servers, Experimental Sparse VHD
06:05 AM EDT - Microsoft - WSL2 - Add A Comment
Intel Compiler Engineer Shares Latest Project Gains For APX
05:54 AM EDT - GNU - Advanced Performance Extensions - Add A Comment
YSERVER 1.7 Rust X11 Server Narrows Memory Usage Difference With X.Org Server
05:39 AM EDT - X.Org - YSERVER 1.7 - Add A Comment
5 October
TrueNAS 27 RC.1 Released: Linux 6.18 LTS + OpenZFS 2.4
08:25 PM EDT - Operating Systems - TrueNAS 27 - Add A Comment
Linux 7.4 To Land New BTB CTX Isolation Feature Of AMD Zen 6
02:47 PM EDT - AMD - AMD BTB CTX Isolation - Add A Comment
Auto-CPUFreq 3.2 Adds Configurable HWP Dynamic Boost, Platform Profile Reporting
11:36 AM EDT - Free Software - Auto-CPUFreq 3.2 - 6 Comments
AMD ROCm vs. Vulkan Performance For Lemonade Local AI Server With Llama.cpp
09:50 AM EDT - Display Drivers - 10 Comments
Mesa Developers Looking At A Formal Governance Model
09:04 AM EDT - Mesa - Mesa Governance Model - 15 Comments
Linux's ZRAM Reworked For Greater Memory Savings, Better Performance
08:44 AM EDT - Hardware - ZRAM - 32 Comments
Linux 7.4 To Mainline Support For The Google Tensor G5, Pixel 10 Devices
07:33 AM EDT - Google - Google Tensor G5 - 3 Comments
Mold 3.0 High Speed Linker Released Following Rust Rewrite
06:29 AM EDT - Programming - Mold 3.0 - 17 Comments
Linux 7.4 Continues Preparing For Intel's Rugged Panther Lake
06:23 AM EDT - Intel - Rugged Panther Lake - 2 Comments
Qualcomm Patching Linux For Hardware Thermal Binning To Benefit Snapdragon X Laptops
06:04 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux Patches - Add A Comment
Linux 7.4 AMD P-State Driver Will Be Ready For Ryzen Zen 6 CPUs
05:45 AM EDT - AMD - Ryzen Zen 6 AMD P-State - Add A Comment
4 October
Linux 7.3-rc6 Released: Normal For The New "AI Normal"
05:04 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 7.3 - 7 Comments
OpenCourant: Rocky Linux Developers Create Community Fork Of OpenRadioss
01:51 PM EDT - Free Software - OpenCourant - 10 Comments
MGLRU-FG Delivering Up To 10~40% Higher Performance For Linux In Some Tests
11:16 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - MGLRU-FG - 5 Comments
NVIDIA's Results Of Conducting Wayland vs. X.Org Latency Testing
07:03 AM EDT - NVIDIA - Wayland vs. X.Org Latency - 91 Comments
Linux Begins Seeing Workarounds For Fujitsu MONAKA CPU Bugs
06:31 AM EDT - Hardware - MONAKA Workarounds - 13 Comments
AMD Sends In More New GPU Hardware Enablement For Linux 7.4, Bug Fixes
06:14 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDGPU - 2 Comments
openSUSE Turns To ZUPT For Post-Quantum Backups
05:59 AM EDT - SUSE - ZUPT - Add A Comment
3 October
Arm Working On "TLBID" For Linux To Increase Performance On High Core Count CPUs
The Amazing Work By Valve's Timur Kristóf On Improving Old AMD GPUs On Linux
02:56 PM EDT - Radeon - XDC 2026 Presentation - 22 Comments
Linux Patches Show Promising Results For Lower Latency Of Short Slice Tasks
01:25 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Short Slice Latency Improvements - Add A Comment
Moose: GNOME Gains Another Local AI App Option
07:47 AM EDT - GNOME - Moose - 9 Comments
KosmicKrisp Now Conformant To Vulkan 1.4, Improving Performance Against Apple's Metal
07:24 AM EDT - Vulkan - KosmicKrisp - 10 Comments
Linux 7.4 To Support The Raspberry Pi 10-Inch Touch Display 2
06:33 AM EDT - Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi 10 Touch Display 2 - 3 Comments
Linux 7.3 To Better Support The High-End Turtle Beach VelocityOne Race
06:18 AM EDT - Hardware - Turtle Beach VelocityOne Race - 6 Comments
KDE Plasma 6.8 Now Makes Tiled Windows Fit Together More Nicely
06:07 AM EDT - KDE - Plasma 6.8 - 15 Comments
2 October
Wine 11.19 Released With Wayland Color Management For Vulkan, DNS Query Caching
08:29 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 11.19 - 13 Comments
Linux 7.4 To Introduce Initial Device Trees For Apple M4, A18 Pro For MacBook Neo
04:32 PM EDT - Apple - Linux 7.4 Apple Device Trees - 2 Comments
Intel Ready With A Big Improvement For Battlemage With Linux 7.4
02:34 PM EDT - Intel - CPU Binds + ULLS On Migration Queue - 3 Comments
Ubuntu Working On SHA3 For Debian's APT For If/When SHA2 Is Broken
02:10 PM EDT - Debian - SHA3 + APT - 11 Comments
AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform OS Updated With ROCm 10.0, Linux 7.2
10:25 AM EDT - AMD - Ryzen AI Developer Platform - Add A Comment
systemd-appd Out For Review To Centralize Tracking Of User's Apps
09:29 AM EDT - systemd - systemd-appd - 37 Comments
Imagination Talks Up Their Open-Source Vulkan Driver, Volcanic Architecture Plans
09:00 AM EDT - Mesa - PVR Mesa Vulkan Driver - 16 Comments
Intel Iris Open-Source Driver Now Supports Efficient 64-bit Addressing Mode
07:46 AM EDT - Intel - Efficient 64-bit - Add A Comment
Ubuntu's Next Rust Effort May See OpenPGP Replaced By Sequoia PGP
06:27 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Rust-Based Sequoia PGP - 37 Comments
Apex Compute Developing Open-Source Mesa Vulkan Driver For Their Hardware
06:17 AM EDT - Mesa - Apex Compute + Mesa - 19 Comments
Coreboot 26.09 Released With Framework Laptop 12 Support, AI Review Comment Policy
06:06 AM EDT - Coreboot - Coreboot 26.09 - 3 Comments
KDE Nearing Decision Point On BuildStream-Based KDE Linux
05:54 AM EDT - KDE - BuildStream Based KDE Linux - 21 Comments
1 October
Siemens Slams The Door Shut On Promising Open-Source Radioss Project
09:00 PM EDT - Free Software - OpenRadioss Project - 31 Comments
Steam On Linux Dives Down To 3.05% For September
08:18 PM EDT - Valve - Steam Survey Stats - 44 Comments
Fedora 45 Beta Performance: The Satisfyingly Boring Benchmarks
04:57 PM EDT - Operating Systems - 8 Comments
Mesa Drops Its Poorly Maintained & Rarely Used Direct3D 10 User-Mode Driver
Ubuntu 26.10 Beta Released With Linux 7.3 Kernel, GNOME 51 Desktop
Nearing A 10 Second Kernel Build, Xeon 600 & Other September Excitement On Phoronix
01:07 PM EDT - Phoronix - September Recap - Add A Comment
Some Networking Fixes Being Diverted To Linux 7.4, AI/LLM Activity Still Increasing
12:24 PM EDT - Linux Networking - Linux Networkign - Add A Comment
Qt Creator 21 IDE Beta Enables More AI Functionality By Default
10:10 AM EDT - Qt - Qt Creator 21 Beta - 8 Comments
AMD RMPOPT Optimization Queued Ahead Of Linux 7.4
08:52 AM EDT - AMD - AMD RMPOPT - 2 Comments
Clearing Out Linux's Old 32-bit ARM Platform Code Is Itself A Challenge
08:04 AM EDT - Arm - Clearing Out Old Code - 5 Comments
Intel Optimization Zone 1.2 Released With New Guides & Recommendations
07:06 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Optimization Zone - Add A Comment
NVIDIA Olympus SMT Optimizations For Vera CPU Showing 3~6% Performance Gains
Qualcomm Continues Doing More For Their Open-Source Linux Graphics Drivers
New Linux Patches Trying To Mainline Renesas SH7305 CPU Support
05:55 AM EDT - Hardware - Renesas SH7305 - 12 Comments
Raspberry Pi 5 2GB Price Increases To $77.50 USD
05:29 AM EDT - Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Price Increase - 11 Comments
30 September
OpenMandriva ROME 26.09 Released With More AI Apps, Snaps & PGO + LTO Optimizations
09:36 PM EDT - Operating Systems - OpenMandriva ROME 26.09 - 6 Comments
Valve's Work On Foveated Rendering For The Open-Source Turnip Driver On The Steam Frame
08:18 PM EDT - Valve - Steam Frame + Turnip - 17 Comments
More AI In Open-Source, CachyOS, Ryzen AI Halo, Framework Laptop 13 Pro & Other Q3 Hits
02:57 PM EDT - Phoronix - Q3 2026 - Add A Comment
EDG C/C++ Front-End Open-Sourced
01:53 PM EDT - Programming - EDG C++ - 13 Comments
Framework Desktop With AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 Starts Out At $6799 USD
11:15 AM EDT - Hardware - Ryzen AI Max+ 495 Pre-Order - 48 Comments
OpenJDK vs. GraalVM vs. Eclipse Temurin vs. Semeru Java Performance
10:42 AM EDT - Software - 20 Comments
Qt 6.12 LTS Released With QML Hot Reloading, StyleKit In Experimental Form
09:20 AM EDT - Qt - Qt 6.12 - 9 Comments
Rusticl Had A Great Year For Rust OpenCL In Mesa With 3.1 Support, More Drivers
09:03 AM EDT - Mesa - Rusticl - 6 Comments
Linux 7.4 To Support The NPU On AMD Ryzen AI Max 400 Series "Gorgon Halo"
08:20 AM EDT - AMD - Gorgon Halo NPU - 7 Comments
Proposal To Set ARM64 Kernel Stack Size At Boot Time To Reduce Memory Consumption
06:27 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - RAM Usage - 3 Comments
Intel Media Driver 2026Q3 Introduces Crescent Island Support
06:11 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Video Acceleration For CRI - Add A Comment
29 September
Archinstall 4.5 For Arch Linux Brings AArch64 Improvements, RT Kernel Options
08:25 PM EDT - Arch Linux - Archinstall 4.5 - 4 Comments
AMD Boosting AI/LLM Performance For Radeon iGPUs As Much As 18~23% With Linux 7.4
02:57 PM EDT - Display Drivers - 23 Comments
Microsoft Announces General Availability Of WSLC: Linux Containers On Windows
01:09 PM EDT - Microsoft - WSL Containers - 33 Comments
Branch Target Reuse, BTR: New Spectre V2 Attack Targeting JIT Compilers
01:00 PM EDT - Linux Security - Branch Target Reuse - 10 Comments
New Ubuntu Concept ISO For Snapdragon Laptops Brings First X2 Laptop Support
Meta Releases OpenZL 0.3 With Decompression Speed 144% Faster Than Zstd
12:06 PM EDT - Programming - OpenZL 0.3 - 10 Comments
hw-monitor 0.6 Released With Per-Process GPU Usage & Memory Reporting
10:23 AM EDT - Desktop - hw-monitor 0.6 - 25 Comments
NOCL Making Progress As Mesa Gallium/OpenCL Atop NVIDIA CUDA
09:53 AM EDT - Mesa - NOCL - 8 Comments
08:31 AM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 26.3 - 15 Comments
BPF-Based Display Panel Drivers Being Explored For Linux
08:10 AM EDT - Hardware - BPF Panel Drivers - 9 Comments
D7VK Reaches Maturity For Older Direct3D APIs Atop Vulkan
07:43 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - D7VK 2.3 - 21 Comments
Large Folios Able To Deliver Big Performance Gains For FUSE With Linux 7.4
06:30 AM EDT - Linux Storage - FUSE Performance - Add A Comment
Igalia Improving The Firefox Experience For Valve's Steam Deck
06:15 AM EDT - Valve - Firefox + Steam Deck - 13 Comments
AMD Ryzen Zen 6 CPU Power Values Being Further Tuned For Linux
05:59 AM EDT - AMD - AMD Zen 6 Client Tuning - 5 Comments
28 September
"Shiva" Being Developed For Mesa Vulkan Drivers, Akin To Gallium3D
08:32 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa Shiva - 53 Comments
NVIDIA Developing "Display Config Server" To Improve Linux/Wayland On Display Walls
03:22 PM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA Display Walls - 20 Comments
SIMDjson 5.0 Released: Still Making JSON Parsing Even Faster
03:01 PM EDT - Programming - SIMDjson - 12 Comments
Fedora 45 To Feature Smoother Experience For Snapdragon X1 Laptops
12:07 PM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 45 + Snapdragon X1 - 6 Comments
Firefox 157 Now Available With Visual Refresh, WebRTC Hardware AV1 Decode
10:46 AM EDT - Mozilla - Firefox 157 - 66 Comments
Flatpak 1.18.4 Released With Important Security Fixes
09:20 AM EDT - Desktop - Flatpak 1.18.4 - 24 Comments
NVIDIA Vera SMT Performance Benchmarks
08:54 AM EDT - Processors - 25 Comments
AMD PerfOpt To Deliver New Performance Optimization For AMD iGPUs With Linux 7.4
openSUSE Leap 16.1 RC Released With New Immutable Mode
06:20 AM EDT - SUSE - openSUSE Leap 16.1 - 7 Comments
Linux 7.4 To Introduce The Steal Governor For Helping Virtualized Workloads
06:12 AM EDT - Virtualization - Steal Governor - 7 Comments
Shotcut 26.9 Video Editor Brings UI Improvements, Automatic Audio Ducking
05:44 AM EDT - Free Software - Shotcut 26.9 - 3 Comments
27 September
Linux 7.3-rc5 Released: "Another Week, Another Large RC"
05:17 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 7.3 - 1 Comment
Budgie 10.10.3 Released With Favorites In Budgie Menu, Labwc Bridge Improvements
01:37 PM EDT - Desktop - Budgie 10.10.3 - 16 Comments
Linux Kernel's LZ4 Compression Code Being Resynced For Better Performance & Cleanliness
09:16 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux LZ4 - 12 Comments
Intel Delivers A Significant Memory Hotplugging Performance Optimization For Linux
06:49 AM EDT - Intel - Faster Memory Hotplugging - 4 Comments
New Linux Patches For Supporting Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon G14's Second Camera
06:33 AM EDT - Hardware - ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 - Add A Comment
New Patch Series Working Toward DRBD 9 Support In The Linux Kernel
06:23 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Distributed Replicated Block Device - 16 Comments
26 September
Improved GPU Reset Coming For Raspberry Pi Boards With Linux 7.4
08:45 PM EDT - Raspberry Pi - drm-misc-next - 8 Comments
"Toolpak" Being Devised By GNOME OS Developers, Akin To Flatpak For Tools
12:50 PM EDT - GNOME - Toolpak - 49 Comments
MM Change Slated For Linux 7.4 Yields +22904539.81% In One Metric, More Modest Wins In Others
11:07 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Sheaves - 16 Comments
AI Bug Fixes, Crescent Island Power Brake & Nouveau Fixes For Linux 7.3-rc5 DRM
07:13 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - DRM Fixes - 5 Comments
Wisp Makes It Easier To Manage Btrfs Snapshots From The GNOME Desktop
06:45 AM EDT - GNOME - Wisp - 6 Comments
AMDXDNA Linux Driver Being Enhanced For Current NPU3 Hardware
KDE Plasma 6.8 Continues With Last Minute Tweaks & Fixes
05:56 AM EDT - KDE - Plasma 6.8 - 14 Comments
25 September
Last Call For The Autumn Special For Ad-Free Viewing & Supporting Linux Hardware Testing
09:00 PM EDT - Phoronix - Autumn Special - 5 Comments
New FUTEX Syscalls Back To Being Worked On For Helping Valve's ARM64 Gaming Ambitions
06:42 PM EDT - Valve - get_robust_list2 / set_robust_list2 - 3 Comments
GDB 18.1 Debugger Brings Better Windows Support
12:47 PM EDT - GNU - GNU Debugger 18.1 - Add A Comment
Redox OS Adds IO_uring-Like API, NUMA & Gets QEMU Working
11:51 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Redox OS Improvements - 41 Comments
Approaching A 10 Second Linux Kernel Build
10:46 AM EDT - Software - 32 Comments
Patches Posted For Enabling NVMe On All Apple M3 Based SoCs With Linux
06:27 AM EDT - Apple - NVMe For Apple M3 - 12 Comments
AMD Sends Out New Linux Patches Further Enhancing HDMI 2.1 Reliability
06:12 AM EDT - Radeon - HDMI 2.1 Reliability - 9 Comments
Go's Improving SIMD Support, Platform-Independent SIMD Interface
05:50 AM EDT - Programming - Go SIMD - 5 Comments
Samba 4.25 Released With Experimental SMB3 Persistent Handles
05:38 AM EDT - Free Software - Samba 4.25 - 2 Comments
24 September
Linux Kernel Developers Consider Adding AGENTS.md To Help Guide AI/LLM Agents
08:53 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - AGENTS.md - 48 Comments
Qualcomm Posts Patches For Enabling GPU Support In Their Snapdragon X2 Mahua SoC
ReactOS Lands Significant DirectX Stack Update From Wine For Enabling More Games
05:43 PM EDT - Operating Systems - ReactOS - 71 Comments
Ubuntu 26.10 Delivers Some Nice Gains For Intel Panther Lake / Framework Laptop 13 Pro
02:46 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Add A Comment
COSMIC Epoch 1.9 Brings New Image Viewer & On-Screen Keyboard
01:11 PM EDT - Desktop - COSMIC Epoch 1.9 - 15 Comments
Fedora Discussion Raises The Idea Of Replacing LibreOffice With Collabora Office
09:39 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora + Collabora Office? - 95 Comments
KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2 Released With Union Theming Engine Maturing
09:27 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta - 5 Comments
AlmaLinux Rolls Out New Software/Hardware Certification Portal, Self-Certify App
09:02 AM EDT - Operating Systems - AlmaLinux Certification Program - Add A Comment
Linux Kernel Introducing New Taint Due To Fuzzing Bots Yielding Impractical Bug Reports
08:08 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - TAINT_FORCED_BIND - 11 Comments
Mir 2.30 Released Now With Rust Required, Mir Roadmap Published
07:51 AM EDT - Wayland - Mir 2.30 - 8 Comments
Fwupd 2.1.8 Released With New Hardware Support From ASUS, Lenovo & Others
06:23 AM EDT - LVFS - Fwupd 2.1.8 - 4 Comments
"slab_tiny" Boot Option Proposed For Tiny Linux Systems With Very Limited RAM
06:10 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - slab_tiny - 5 Comments
Linux 7.4 DRM Infrastructure Better Supporting HDMI 2.0 With New Helpers
05:49 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 7.4 DRM Helpers For HDMI 2.0 - 3 Comments
23 September
Debian Inference Portal Launches To Provide Free AI/LLM Inferencing To Debian Developers
05:08 PM EDT - Debian - Debian Inference Portal - 28 Comments
Qualcomm Talks Up Linux On Snapdragon X2 Laptops
04:49 PM EDT - Hardware - Linux On Snapdragon X2 - 26 Comments
Promotion Reminder For Ad-Free Viewing, Multi-Page Articles On A Single Page
04:00 PM EDT - Phoronix - Autumn Promotion - 13 Comments
Lemonade Fixes AMD APU Model Streaming, Drops OpenMOSS ROCm As ~40x Slower Than Vulkan
03:41 PM EDT - AI - Lemonade 2026.40 - 24 Comments
Intel Developing Their DXVK-IGDEXT For Improved Linux Gaming On Arc Graphics
10:54 AM EDT - Intel - DXVK-IGDEXT - 5 Comments
Benchmarking Java Performance Of JDK 8 Through OpenJDK 27
10:17 AM EDT - Software - 40 Comments
NTFS-3G Update Brings Many Security Fixes
08:27 AM EDT - Linux Storage - NTFS-3G 2026.9.18 - 5 Comments
Qualcomm Posts Open-Source GPU Driver Patches For Adreno 850 One Day After Announcement
07:45 AM EDT - Hardware - Adreno 845 + Adreno 850 - 12 Comments
AMD Upstreams AVX10_V2_AUX Support Into LLVM Clang 24
06:25 AM EDT - LLVM - AVX10_V2_AUX - Add A Comment
Linux 7.3 Reverting Logitech Bolt Receiver HID++ After Too Many Bugs Encountered
06:15 AM EDT - Hardware - Logitech Bolt USB Receiver - 8 Comments
22 September
Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Sees Patches For HDMI Deep Color Support
08:54 PM EDT - Nouveau - Nouveau Deep Color - 15 Comments
Linux 7.2 vs. Linux 7.3 Shows A Few Improvements With AMD Strix Halo
03:23 PM EDT - AMD - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ - Add A Comment
Ubuntu Linux Maker Canonical Achieved $345M USD In Revenue For 2025
02:26 PM EDT - Ubuntu - 89% Gross Margin - 16 Comments
Variable Refresh Rate "VRR" Target Limiter Proposed For Linux Graphics Drivers
11:29 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - VRR Target Rate Limiter - 16 Comments
SPEC Releases SPECviewperf 15.0.1 For Linux
10:36 AM EDT - Hardware - SPECviewperf 15.0.1 - Add A Comment
systemd 262 Released With AI/LLM Canary For Unreviewed Code, LUO Integration
09:35 AM EDT - systemd - systemd 262 - 17 Comments
Vibe Coded YSERVER Adds XDMCP Support For Multi-User Shared Desktops
09:28 AM EDT - X.Org - YSERVER 1.6 - 33 Comments
Alibaba Contributing $3M USD To Omarchy To Work On Making "Ideal" Agentic OS
08:24 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Omarchy - 107 Comments
Linux 7.3 Adding Logitech G502 X Lightspeed USB Support, ELECOM M-XT4DRBK
08:10 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 7.3 HID - 2 Comments
Cache Aware Scheduling Fixes Queued For Submission To Linux 7.3, Backporting To 7.2
Linux Adding New Interface For Reporting AMD SEV Status
06:21 AM EDT - Virtualization - /sys/devices/system/cpu/sev/sev_status - Add A Comment
ZLUDA Now Implements Some NVIDIA cuFFT APIs With hipFFT
06:03 AM EDT - Free Software - ZLUDA With cuFFT - 2 Comments
21 September
Valve Introduces Pyrowave Video Codec In Beta For Low Latency Streaming
09:00 PM EDT - Valve - Pyrowave - 40 Comments
AMD Begins Preparing Open-Source Linux Driver For Graphics Cards With GDDR7
04:52 PM EDT - Radeon - GDDR7 - 9 Comments
Gravity Linux Aims To Provide A Nice Experience For Apple M4 & Newer
03:58 PM EDT - Apple - Gravity Linux - 19 Comments
Patches Posted For Enabling Apple Silicon Mac Speaker & Headset Jack Support On Linux
02:03 PM EDT - Apple - Apple Speaker + Headset Support On Linux - 3 Comments
Nebula Matrix Network Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 7.4
01:23 PM EDT - Linux Networking - Nebula Matrix - 2 Comments
AMD EPYC Server Performance Up ~8% Geo Mean For 2026 With Linux Kernel Improvements
11:00 AM EDT - Software - 7 Comments
Patches Posted With Aim To Mainline Linux Kernel Support For The Amazon Kindle 4
09:05 AM EDT - Hardware - A Bit Late... - 5 Comments
Orphaned VMs: Running VMs Uninterrupted While Host Kernel Is Offline For Reboots/Updates
07:38 AM EDT - Virtualization - Orphaned VMs - 15 Comments
GNU Wget 2.3 Released With --progress=dot, OS/2 Improvements
07:26 AM EDT - GNU - wget2 - 8 Comments
AMD BC-250 Continues Being Improved Under Linux With Patches Now Enabling The PSP
Igalia Celebrates 25 Years Of Advancing Linux & Open-Source
06:07 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Igalia - 6 Comments
Linux's Perf Script Command Much Faster With Overhaul As Python Module
05:57 AM EDT - Programming - Perf Command - 8 Comments
20 September
Linux 7.3-rc4 Released: More Fixes Caught By LLMs, But Nothing Too Scary
05:25 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 7.3 - 6 Comments
Important x86 Fixes Merged Ahead Of Linux 7.3-rc4
02:19 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - x86 Fixes - Add A Comment
Gzip 1.15 Released With Many Bug Fixes For Issues Present Since Its Inception
10:32 AM EDT - GNU - Gzip 1.15 - 21 Comments
KDE To Focus On Next-Gen Styling, Better Documentation & KDE For Enterprise
08:32 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Goals - 34 Comments
AI-Assisted Starling Desktop Introduces 3D View With "Walkable 3D Waterfront City"
06:49 AM EDT - Desktop - Starling 3D Desktop - 19 Comments
Vulkan 1.4.363 Released With New VK_INTEL_device_info Extension
06:33 AM EDT - Vulkan - VK_INTEL_device_info - Add A Comment
Linux 7.3 Adds Support For Victrix Pro BFG & Azeron Controllers
06:21 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - Linux 7.3-rc4 Input Changes - 2 Comments
19 September
Help Linux Hardware Testing & Reviews Continue While Enjoying Phoronix Without Ads
09:00 PM EDT - Phoronix - Phoronix Premium Oktoberfest Sale - 14 Comments
Linux 7.3-rc4 To Address Two Unfortunate Bugs With Btrfs
08:26 PM EDT - Linux Storage - Two Major Btrfs Fixes - 26 Comments
Simple Optimization For Linux 7.4 Can Open Files For Reading ~39% Faster
12:28 PM EDT - Linux Storage - do_open - 32 Comments
Wine-Staging 11.18 Adds New Patches To Further Improve WoW64
09:22 AM EDT - WINE - Wine-Staging 11.18 - 5 Comments
GNOME OS Turns To Zswap To Deal With OOM Issues, Progress On Geary Email Client Fork
06:38 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME OS + Zswap - 28 Comments
Intel Xe Driver For Linux 7.4 Adds vRAM Health Check, Degraded Memory Handling
06:24 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Xe - 12 Comments
KDE Plasma 6.8 Seeing More Polishing & Fixes, Plasma 6.9 Begins Seeing More Activity
06:10 AM EDT - KDE - Plasma This Week - 22 Comments
18 September
Ubuntu 26.10 Switches To The Linux 7.3 Kernel
08:50 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 26.10 - 21 Comments
Wine 11.18 Continues Building Out Its NTOSKRNL Implementation
05:24 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 11.18 - 30 Comments
Steam Frame Making Use Of Zink For OpenGL On Vulkan
04:13 PM EDT - Valve - Steam Frame + Zink - 35 Comments
Google's "Painful To Maintain" Binder C Linux Driver Being Removed In Favor Of Rust
12:26 PM EDT - Google - Binder C Driver Being Removed - 83 Comments
Apple Video Decode Driver Posted For Upstream Linux Kernel Review
11:52 AM EDT - Apple - AVD - Apple Video Decode - 12 Comments
AMD Strix Halo Enjoys Some Performance Gains On Ubuntu 26.10, Especially With amd64v3
10:00 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 4 Comments
Linux Ready With Fix For Intel's FRED Crashing Some Games Under Wine / Steam Play
09:03 AM EDT - Intel - FRED Issue - 2 Comments
Ubuntu 26.10 Desktop Adjusting Its Behavior Under Memory Pressure
06:40 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Out Of Memory Tuning - 34 Comments
Linux Kernel Build Times Ready To Be Significantly Reduced With Latest Patches
06:26 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux Kbuild Enhancements - 14 Comments
AMD Sends In More HDMI FRL Updates For Linux 7.4, Fixes For Upcoming Hardware
06:06 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDGPU Updates - 3 Comments
Intel Appears To End Its Bug Bounty Program
05:54 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Bug Bounty Program - 5 Comments
17 September
OpenCL 3.1.2 Released With cl_khr_command_buffer Promoted
08:33 PM EDT - Standards - OpenCL 3.1.2 - Add A Comment
Jemalloc 5.4 Released With Portability Improvements, Code Cleanups
06:37 PM EDT - Programming - Jemalloc 5.4 - Add A Comment
Intel Granite Rapids WS vs. AMD Threadripper Zen 5 SMT Performance
03:14 PM EDT - Processors - 4 Comments
Rust Issues Warning Over Key Developers Being Targeted For Compromise
02:11 PM EDT - Programming - Rust Developers Targeted - 30 Comments
Mojo 1.1 Released, Now Accepting Community Contributions To The Compiler
12:26 PM EDT - Programming - Mojo - Add A Comment
Proposal Raised To Finally Standardize Video Memory Stats Reporting Under Linux
11:17 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Video Memory Stats - 9 Comments
Fujitsu Formally Announces Their MONAKA 144 Core CPU
09:42 AM EDT - Hardware - Fujitsu MONAKA - 15 Comments
Intel Compute Stack Enables LEO For Nova Lake, Introduces Intel Portable ISA "PISA"
New Linux Driver Coming To Improve ASUS Zenbook Snapdragon X2 Support
08:04 AM EDT - Hardware - ASUS Zenbook + Snapdragon X2 - 2 Comments
Intel NPU Linux Driver Adding Command-Queue Priority ioctl For Linux 7.4
06:25 AM EDT - Intel - Intel IVPU - Add A Comment
Rust Coreutils 0.12 Released With Fixes Sought By Ubuntu
06:14 AM EDT - Programming - Rust Coreutils 0.12 - 45 Comments
Dragonfly 2.0 Delivers More Performance For This Modern Replacement To Redis & Memcached
06:02 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Dragonfly 2.0 - Add A Comment
libinput 1.32 Released With Circular Scrolling Support For Circular Touchpads
05:51 AM EDT - Hardware - libinput 1.32 - 6 Comments
16 September
Mir/Wayland-Powered Miracle-WM 0.11 Released With New Overview Mode, Window Urgency
Mesa 26.2.3 Released With AMD GFX1171 Support, Other Fixes
05:18 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 26.2.3 - Add A Comment
Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Can Provide A Nice Boost For Low-End/Budget Hardware
01:37 PM EDT - Operating Systems - 38 Comments
GNOME 51 Released With Improved Frame Scheduling, Many App Improvements
12:25 PM EDT - GNOME - GNOME 51 - 8 Comments
Crash-Safe & Copy-On-Write GEFS As The "Good Enough File-System" For OpenBSD
09:42 AM EDT - BSD - GEFS - 20 Comments
Linux Randomly Picking Idle CPU Cores Shows Modest Win On High Core Count Systems
09:30 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Equally Shallow Idle CPU Cores - 10 Comments
AMD Sends Out Linux Patches For Enabling SEV-TIO TDISP With PCIe 6.0
Ubuntu 26.10 Moves cp, mv & rm Over To Rust Coreutils For 100% Transition
08:26 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 26.10 Rust Coreutils Transition - 45 Comments
Linux's Yogafan Driver Prepares Support For Newer Lenovo Laptops
AMD's GAIA Local AI Now Able To Transcribe & Summarize Meeting Recordings
OpenVDB Introduces SIMD Framework With Some 2~4x Performance Improvements
06:05 AM EDT - Free Software - OpenVDB - Add A Comment
15 September
Linux 7.4 Slated To Land The AVX-512 Optimized xor_gen For A Big Performance Win
08:53 PM EDT - Hardware - AVX-512 xor_gen - 16 Comments
AMD P-State Driver For Linux 7.4 Will Tune For Zen 6 Client CPUs
03:03 PM EDT - AMD - Linux 7.4 - Add A Comment
SDL3 Ported To HarmonyOS / OpenHarmony
12:54 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - Upstream SDL3 Support - 17 Comments
Ubuntu 26.10 Set To Deliver Better Performance For Intel Core 3 Wildcat Lake
11:34 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Add A Comment
Fedora 45 Beta Released With KMSCON Console, GNOME 51 & Other Updates
10:30 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 45 Beta - 9 Comments
Java 27 Reaches GA With The G1 Garbage Collector By Default Everywhere
09:39 AM EDT - Oracle - JDK 27 - 17 Comments
Sound Open Firmware 2.15 Released With AMD ACP 7.x Support, Intel UAOL
09:04 AM EDT - Multimedia - Sound Open Firmware 2.15 - 4 Comments
Firefox 157 Beta Released With Latest Enhancements
08:31 AM EDT - Mozilla - Firefox 157 - 15 Comments
New Linux Patches Improving Hibernation Speed In 2026
06:30 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Faster Hibernation - 29 Comments
Raspberry Pi Desktop Overhauled On Raspberry Pi OS, Adds Icon Dock
06:14 AM EDT - Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Desktop - 9 Comments
Linux Patch Coming To Fix Under-Reported AMD Zen 5 TLB Sizes
06:05 AM EDT - AMD - Off By 32x - 2 Comments
OpenAPV Sees Big Update For Advancing The Advanced Professional Video Codec
05:56 AM EDT - Multimedia - OpenAPV 1.1.1 - 3 Comments
14 September
AMD Preparing Linux For Enhanced SMT Protection "ESMTP" For EPYC VMs
02:03 PM EDT - AMD - AMD Enhanced SMT Protection - 5 Comments
GNU Coreutils 9.12 Released With Performance Optimizations, New uname Option
01:45 PM EDT - GNU - GNU Coreutils 9.12 - 5 Comments
Valve's Steam Frame Now Available At $1059+ USD
01:05 PM EDT - Valve - Steam Frame - 41 Comments
Rustls 0.23.45 Released To Fix Two Year Old Security Issue
11:35 AM EDT - Programming - Rustls 0.23.45 - 21 Comments
Firefox 156 Available With Its Built-In PDF Viewer Starting Up To 45% Faster
11:09 AM EDT - Mozilla - Firefox 156 - 30 Comments
Linux 7.3 Delivering Some Performance Gains On Intel Panther Lake / Framework Laptop 13 Pro
10:42 AM EDT - Software - 3 Comments
Removing Drivers For Outdated ARM Platforms Will Lighten The Kernel By ~247k Lines
09:32 AM EDT - Arm - Quarter Million Lines Of Code - 3 Comments
Linux 7.4 Could End Up Seeing Kernel Builds ~36% Faster, Incremental Builds ~70% Faster
06:31 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Faster Kernel Builds - 16 Comments
Linux Patched For Silent User-Space Data Loss Bug That's Existed Since 2023
06:13 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Silent Data Loss - 1 Comment
13 September
Linux 7.3-rc3 Released: "Another Fairly Large RC"
06:00 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 7. - 3 Comments
Zstd Improvement For Linux 7.4 To Avoid Redundant Initialization
10:04 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Zstd Redundant Initialization - 4 Comments
BFS File-System Being Removed For Linux 7.4
07:03 AM EDT - Linux Storage - BFS - 18 Comments
ARCTIC's Fan Controller Driver For Linux Being Dual-Licensed With BSD-2-Clause
06:54 AM EDT - Hardware - ARCTIC Fan Controller - 5 Comments
GNOME Shotwell 33 Photo Manager Released With GTK4 Port
06:40 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME Shotwell - 10 Comments
12 September
EROFS Disables LZ4 Rolling Decompression Due To Data Corruption Possibility
08:33 PM EDT - Linux Storage - EROFS + LZ4 Rolling Decompression - Add A Comment
Debian 13.7 Released With Many Bug Fixes
01:06 PM EDT - Debian - Debian 13.7 - 16 Comments
Void Linux Maintainer Orphans 100+ Packages Over AI Policy Dispute
11:11 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Void Linux - 72 Comments
Intel Reverses Decision To Cancel Their Open-Source Font Project
09:45 AM EDT - Intel - Intel One Mono - 18 Comments
GTK 4.24 Released With Better Fractional Scaling, More Precise GDK Frame-Clock
06:52 AM EDT - GNOME - GTK 4.24 - 30 Comments
Intel Linux NPU Driver Only Now Officially Supports Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
06:34 AM EDT - Intel - Intel NPU + Ubuntu 26.04 - Add A Comment
Ubuntu Developers Contemplate Linux Firmware HWE Package
06:25 AM EDT - Ubuntu - linux-firmware-hwe - 3 Comments
KDE Plasma 6.8 Remote Desktop To Enjoy Lower Latency Performance
06:07 AM EDT - KDE - This Week in Plasma - 21 Comments
11 September
Gitte As Git Client For GNOME Continues Maturing Quite Nicely
08:35 PM EDT - GNOME - Gitte 0.10 - 14 Comments
New Cache Aware Scheduling Fixes Out For Testing
02:00 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Cache Aware Scheduling - 2 Comments
Linux's IO_uring Sees Some "Crazy" Patches That Deliver Very Nice Improvements
12:21 PM EDT - Linux Storage - Linux IO_uring - 5 Comments
CachyOS vs. Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS On Intel Wildcat Lake + 8GB RAM
11:08 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 22 Comments
Mold High Speed Linker Being Rewritten In Rust, Hopes To Be The Default Linker On Linux
09:21 AM EDT - Programming - Mold Linker In Rust - 55 Comments
Prominent Mesa Developer Now Working For Arm On PanVK & Panfrost Code
Linux Mint Debuts Xepub As New EPUB Reader, Clockenstein Calendar App
08:20 AM EDT - Desktop - Linux Mint - 21 Comments
Patches Ready For AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Enabled By Default With Linux 7.4 With FreeSync, VRR & ALLM
06:39 AM EDT - Radeon - Linux 7.4 + AMDGPU + HDMI 2.1 - 10 Comments
Git 2.56-rc0 Released With Updated Contribution Guidelines, Improvements For Swift
06:20 AM EDT - Programming - Git 2.56-rc0 - 5 Comments
Intel Thermald 2.5.13 Restores Accidentally Deleted Wildcat Lake Support
06:01 AM EDT - Intel - Thermald 2.5.13 - Add A Comment
GCC 13.5 Released With 265+ Bug Fixes
05:47 AM EDT - GNU - GCC 13.5 - Add A Comment
10 September
BeOS-Inspired Haiku Now Supports Changing Audio Outputs Live, Other Improvements
08:55 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Haiku In August - 2 Comments
GIMP 3.2.6 Released With Some Early Preparations Toward Eventual GTK4 Port
06:12 PM EDT - Free Software - GIMP + GTK4... Eventually - 26 Comments
Mesa 26.3 RADV + RadeonSI Ready With DRM Format Modifiers For Older AMD GPUs
05:19 PM EDT - Radeon - GFX6 To GFX8 GPUs - 15 Comments
Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS Released With Linux 7.0 HWE Stack
01:49 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS - 2 Comments
Intel Xeon 600 Workstation Performance vs. AMD Threadripper 9000 In Nearly 400 Benchmarks
12:43 PM EDT - Processors - 10 Comments
KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta Released With Many Great Improvements, Kup Backup Scheduler
12:39 PM EDT - KDE - KDE Plasma 6.8 - 15 Comments
Intel BFF Driver Slated For Linux 7.4 Introduction
08:54 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Bitfix Filter Driver - 3 Comments
NVIDIA NVK Driver Lands Improvement To Help With Valve's Gamescope
X.Org Server 26.1 Moves Closer To Release As Half-Decade Update
06:29 AM EDT - X.Org - xorg-serveer 26.1 - 176 Comments
GNOME 51 Adds Support For Custom Pointer Acceleration Profiles
06:16 AM EDT - GNOME - Custom Mouse Acceleration Profiles - 3 Comments
COSMIC Epoch 1.8 Provides Latest Fixes & Minor Improvements For This Rust Desktop
06:04 AM EDT - Desktop - COSMIC 1.8 - 16 Comments
GNU Automake 1.19 Released With More Than One Year Worth Of Fixes
05:50 AM EDT - GNU - Automake 1.19 - 14 Comments
9 September
Steam Client Beta Improves Big Picture Mode, Several Linux Enhancements
08:27 PM EDT - Valve - Steam Client Beta - 10 Comments
ReactOS Dev Gets FEX Running For x86_64 Games On This "Open-Source Windows" OS Under ARM
04:15 PM EDT - Operating Systems - ReactOS + FEX - 11 Comments
Running AMD openSIL + Coreboot On The First Available Ryzen AM5 Motherboard
12:10 PM EDT - Motherboards - 20 Comments
XWayland 26.1 RC2 Released For Testing With More Fixes
11:52 AM EDT - Wayland - XWayland 26.1 - Add A Comment
System76 Launches The Thelio Mira AI With AMD Ryzen + NVIDIA Or AMD Graphics
10:57 AM EDT - Hardware - Thelio Mira AI - 6 Comments
OpenSSL 4.1 Alpha 1 Released With DTLS 1.3, GREASE & More AVX-512 Optimizations
10:46 AM EDT - Programming - OpenSSL 4.1 - 5 Comments
NVIDIA 615.71.09 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Improvements
10:02 AM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA 615.71.09 - 5 Comments
A Nice Improvement Coming For Faster Btrfs Zstd Decompression
08:52 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Btrfs Zstd Faster Decompression - 17 Comments
AMD Posts New GCC Compiler Patch For Extended Load Optimization
06:26 AM EDT - GNU - AMD Extended Load Optimization - 2 Comments
Experimental Patches Get Nouveau+NVK Working On NVIDIA DGX Spark GB10
06:13 AM EDT - Nouveau - Open-Source NVIDIA Driver - Add A Comment
YSERVER 1.5 Released With Reverse PRIME Support & Other New Features
06:03 AM EDT - X.Org - YSERVER 1.5 - 30 Comments
8 September
AI Made A Lot Of "Hideous" Code But Found Major Bottlenecks For Faster Linux Compilation
08:49 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Faster Kernel Compilaton - 23 Comments
systemd 262-rc2 Adds An AI Canary For Detecting Unreviewed AI/LLM Code Contributions
06:30 PM EDT - systemd - systemd 262 - 17 Comments
DLSS5VKLayer Wires Up NVIDIA DLSS 5 For Native Linux Games & Steam Play
03:31 PM EDT - NVIDIA - DLSS5VKLayer - 25 Comments
KDE's KWin Merges Wayland Commit-Timing Protocol Support
12:55 PM EDT - KDE - Wayland Commit Timing - 23 Comments
The Linux Kernel Planning To Remove Around ~55k Lines Of Old ARM Platform Code
12:06 PM EDT - Arm - Dropping Old ARM Code - 17 Comments
CHUWI UniBook With Intel Wildcat Lake For A $449 Linux-Friendly Laptop
10:05 AM EDT - Computers - 13 Comments
DaVinci Resolve 21.1 Released - Now With AI Assistant Integration
09:58 AM EDT - Multimedia - DaVinci Resolve 21.1 - 17 Comments
New Patches Provide HDMI 1.4 3D Mode Support For AMD Radeon Graphics On Linux
09:11 AM EDT - Radeon - HDMI 1.4 3D Mode Support - 6 Comments
Linux 7.4 To Support Realtek RTL8127atf & RTL8116af Networking
06:41 AM EDT - Linux Networking - RTL8127atf + RTL8116af - 7 Comments
DirectX Support Promoted To Official Target Within LLVM
06:21 AM EDT - LLVM - DirectX Official - 4 Comments
FEX 2609 Released With Speedier JIT Performance, JIT Disk Cache Option
06:09 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - FEX Emulator - 2 Comments
LLVM Merges Support For AMD's RMPCHKD, RMPREAD & RMPOPT Instructions
7 September
FreeBSD 14.5 Released With Hardware Support Improvements, Many Bug & Security Fixes
08:35 PM EDT - BSD - FreeBSD 14.5 - Add A Comment
Mysterious x86 CPU Already Has APX, x86S Where Intel Left Off For Legacy-Free x86
03:54 PM EDT - Hardware - Super Interesting - 59 Comments
Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Daily ISOs Now Being Published
09:36 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 - 20 Comments
Linux Preps For New AMD Zen 6 BTB CTX Isolation Security Feature
07:55 AM EDT - AMD - BTB CTX - Add A Comment
Nouveau Preparations For HDMI 2.1 DSC, AMD HDMI FreeSync Fixes For Linux 7.4
06:48 AM EDT - Hardware - DRM-Misc-Next - 6 Comments
Intel's Dynamic PAMT Appears Ready For Linux 7.4 To Help With TDX Memory Overhead
Rustls 0.23.44 Released With ML-DSA Certificates Enabled By Default
05:59 AM EDT - Programming - Rustls 0.23.44 - 1 Comment
6 September
Linux 7.3-rc2 Released Following Another Busy Week
06:22 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 7.3-rc2 - Add A Comment
Shotcut 26.9 Video Editor Beta Brings UI Improvements, Better Audio Quality
03:58 PM EDT - Multimedia - Shotcut 26.9 - 3 Comments
NetBSD 9.5 Released To Cap Off The Series
01:52 PM EDT - BSD - NetBSD 9.5 - Add A Comment
Linux 7.3-rc2 Scheduler Fix For Cache Aware Load Scheduling Misfits On Hybrid CPUs
09:32 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 7.3-rc2 Scheduler - 1 Comment
Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs - With Caveats
06:53 AM EDT - Apple - Asahi Linux On M3 - 42 Comments
LLVM Developers Discuss Enabling ClangIR Build By Default
06:43 AM EDT - LLVM - LLVM With ClangIR Built By Default? - 3 Comments
Linux 7.3-rc2 Transitions More kmalloc Calls To The Superior kmalloc_obj
06:28 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - kmalloc_obj Conversion - 8 Comments
Slackware 16 Alpha 1 Available Following GCC 16.2, Glibc 2.44 & Binutils 2.47 Upgrade
06:16 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Slackware 16 - 9 Comments