| AI |
| Linux Foundation's Latest AI Effort Is Around AI Asset & Data Exchange | 10 Jun 2026 |
| Linux Firmware Repository Preps For AI Coding Agents | 10 Jun 2026 |
| Microsoft Announces Open-Source "Intelligent Terminal" | 02 Jun 2026 |
| G7 Agrees On Shared Language Around Open-Source AI, Open Weights AI | 30 May 2026 |
| GitHub Copilot & Claude Code Helped With Graphics, WiFi Linux Driver Issues This Week | 24 May 2026 |
| AMD's Lemonade SDK For AI Promotes macOS To GA Status, ROCm 7.13 Integrated | 18 May 2026 |
| gkh_clanker_t1000 & gkh_clanker_2000 Continue Uncovering Linux Kernel Bugs | 18 May 2026 |
| The New Linux Kernel AI Bot Uncovering Bugs Is A Local LLM On Framework Desktop + AMD Ryzen AI Max | 26 Apr 2026 |
| Linux May Drop Old Network Drivers Now That AI-Driven Bug Reports Are Causing A Burden | 21 Apr 2026 |
| The Good & The Bad When Using LLMs To Write Spack Packages | 13 Apr 2026 |
More AI News | 117 Articles |
| AMD |
| AMD's Lemonade AI Server Now Much More Useful With MCP Server Integration | 17 Jun 2026 |
| AMD Opens Pre-Orders For The Linux-Friendly Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform | 12 Jun 2026 |
| AMD's Lemonade SDK For Local AI Adds NVIDIA CUDA Support | 10 Jun 2026 |
| AMD Support Being Added To UFS Host Controller PCI Driver In Linux 7.2 | 08 Jun 2026 |
| Linux 7.1-rc7 Adding More AMD Zen 6 CPU Models | 07 Jun 2026 |
| AMD's GAIA Finally Has A Nice Multi-Device Experience For AI | 04 Jun 2026 |
| GCC Git Enables Additional Tuning For AMD Zen 6 | 04 Jun 2026 |
| AMD Expands The Range Of Zen 6 CPUs Detected By The Linux Kernel | 30 May 2026 |
| AMD ROCm 7.2.4 Released With Performance & Stability Fixes | 29 May 2026 |
| AMD PMC Linux Driver Preps For Zen 6 CPUs | 22 May 2026 |
More AMD News | 2058 Articles |
| Apple |
| Linux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol Support | 17 Jun 2026 |
| macOS 27 Beta Breaks The Ability To Boot Asahi Linux | 09 Jun 2026 |
| Linux 7.2 Will Be Able To Boot On Apple M3 Macs - But Far From Useful For End-Users | 04 Jun 2026 |
| Apple M3 Support On Asahi Linux Is Approaching The Original Alpha Quality Of The M1 | 26 Apr 2026 |
| Linux 7.1 Lands The Apple SMC Power Driver For Reporting Battery Metrics On MacBooks | 23 Apr 2026 |
| Apple HFS / HFS+ File-System Support Seeing Many Fixes For Linux 7.1 | 13 Apr 2026 |
| Patches Sent Out For Booting Linux On Apple M3 But Without Much Functionality | 20 Mar 2026 |
| Linux 7.0 Fixes Battery Reporting For The Apple Magic Trackpad 2 | 08 Mar 2026 |
| Apple Announces "Fusion Architecture" With M5 Pro & M5 Max | 03 Mar 2026 |
| Apple M3 With Asahi Linux Continues Making Progress, No ETA Yet For Shipping | 18 Feb 2026 |
More Apple News | 184 Articles |
| Arch Linux |
| Russian Spam & Profanities Are Now Plaguing The Arch Linux AUR | 15 Jun 2026 |
| Arch Linux AUR Hit By Another Wave Of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack | 14 Jun 2026 |
| Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages | 12 Jun 2026 |
| Arch Linux's AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware | 12 Jun 2026 |
| Manjaro 26.1 Preview Released With GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6 & Xfce 4.20 Options | 05 May 2026 |
| CachyOS Introduces New Default GUI Package Manager, Kyber For NVMe I/O Scheduler | 26 Apr 2026 |
| CachyOS Rolls Out A Super-Charged Linux 7.0 Kernel | 19 Apr 2026 |
| Arch Linux's Archinstall 4.2 Fixes Botched Disk Encryption Security | 15 Apr 2026 |
| Archinstall 4.0 Released For Improved Arch Linux Installer Using Textual UI | 30 Mar 2026 |
| EndeavourOS Titan Released With Linux 6.19, Improved GPU Driver Integration | 12 Mar 2026 |
More Arch Linux News | 170 Articles |
| Arm |
| Linux Sees Patches For "Critical" Vulnerability Affecting Many Arm CPUs | 09 Jun 2026 |
| Qualcomm Gets The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 Snapdragon X2 Laptop Working On Linux | 04 Jun 2026 |
| Arm Announces Metis: Agentic AI Security Framework | 28 May 2026 |
| Arm Preparing The Linux Kernel For 128-bit Page Table Entries "FEAT_D128" | 13 May 2026 |
| With Linux 7.1 The Mainline Kernel Now Supports Real-Time "RT" On ARM | 27 Apr 2026 |
| Arm C1-Ultra Scheduling Model Merged For LLVM/Clang 23 | 24 Apr 2026 |
| Linux 7.1 Lands Workaround For Arm C1-Pro Erratum | 21 Apr 2026 |
| GCC Compiler Adds Arm AGI CPU Target | 17 Apr 2026 |
| Linux 7.1 Lands ARM64 NEON-Accelerated CRC64-NVMe For ~6x Improvement | 14 Apr 2026 |
| IBM Collaborating With Arm For Dual-Architecture Hardware | 02 Apr 2026 |
More Arm News | 395 Articles |
| BSD |
| FreeBSD Updates Its Graphics Driver Port From Linux 6.12 LTS | 17 Jun 2026 |
| FreeBSD 15.1 Released With Updated WiFi Drivers, Better C23 Support & Other Improvements | 15 Jun 2026 |
| FreeBSD Receives Funding To Launch AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery | 15 Jun 2026 |
| FreeBSD 15.1 Delayed To Mid-June Due To Critical x86 Bug Fixes | 06 Jun 2026 |
| FreeBSD 15.1-RC2 Restores PadLock RNG For VIA & Zhaoxin CPUs | 01 Jun 2026 |
| FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD On Laptop | 24 May 2026 |
| FreeBSD 15.1-RC1 Released: Fixes With Now Seeing More AI-Discovered Security Issues | 22 May 2026 |
| OpenBSD 7.9 Released With Support For Up To 255 x86_64 CPU Cores, WiFi 6 | 19 May 2026 |
| FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 3 Updates OpenZFS, Ensures Cloud Images Up-To-Date On First Boot | 17 May 2026 |
| NetBSD 11.0-RC4 Comes As Hopefully The Last Release Candidate | 13 May 2026 |
More BSD News | 935 Articles |
| Clear Linux |
| Intel's Clear Linux Website No Longer Online | 01 Mar 2026 |
| The Most Popular Clear Linux Benchmarks & Intel's Software Innovations Over Its History | 21 Jul 2025 |
| Intel's Clear Linux Rolls Out Software Packaging Bundle Improvements | 07 Jun 2025 |
| 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 |
More Clear Linux News | 96 Articles |
| Coreboot |
| Framework Computer Making Progress On Coreboot For Their Modern Intel-Powered Laptops | 15 Jun 2026 |
| 3mdeb Keeps Making Progress On Their Coreboot + AMD openSIL Port To Ryzen MSI Board | 03 Jun 2026 |
| 3mdeb Gets More Bits Of AMD openSIL & Coreboot Working On Ryzen AM5 Motherboard | 30 Apr 2026 |
| Coreboot Comes To AMD Ryzen Powered Star Labs StarBook MK VI After 3+ Year Wait | 13 Apr 2026 |
| Coreboot 26.03 Released With Support For Intel Panther Lake | 30 Mar 2026 |
| 3mdeb Making Progress On AMD Ryzen AM5 Motherboard Port With Coreboot + openSIL | 07 Mar 2026 |
| Framework 16 Gen1 Seeing Coreboot + AMD openSIL Port, Framework 13 AMD Gen1 To Follow | 02 Mar 2026 |
| Coreboot 25.12 Released With Qualcomm X1 Plus Platform Support, AMD Turin PoC | 26 Dec 2025 |
| Libreboot 26.01-rc1 Released To Support A Few More Systems | 24 Dec 2025 |
| 3mdeb Ports Their Dasharo Firmware To A Recent ASRock Rack Motherboard | 02 Dec 2025 |
More Coreboot News | 294 Articles |
| Debian |
| Debian 13.5 Released To Ship The Latest Linux Security Fixes | 16 May 2026 |
| Debian Release Team: Debian Must Now Ship Reproducible Packages | 10 May 2026 |
| New Debian Project Leader Elected For 2026 | 19 Apr 2026 |
| Debian Is Figuring Out How Age Verification Laws Will Impact It | 04 Apr 2026 |
| Debian 13.4 Released With Dozens Of Fixes | 14 Mar 2026 |
| debauit Announced As Debian Source Package Auditor | 13 Mar 2026 |
| Debian Still Debating AI Contributions Plus A Need For More Diverse Contributors | 05 Mar 2026 |
| Debian's tag2upload Reaches GA For Improving Packaging Workflow | 09 Feb 2026 |
| Debian's CI Data No Longer Publicly Browseable Due To LLM Scrapers / Bot Traffic | 05 Feb 2026 |
| Debian's Challenge When Its Developers Quietly Drift Away | 04 Feb 2026 |
More Debian News | 480 Articles |
| Desktop |
| Flatpak 1.18 Released With Integration For AMD ROCm | 08 Jun 2026 |
| Widely-Used libinput Updated Due To Arbitrary Root Code Execution | 03 Jun 2026 |
| COSMIC Now Implements Wayland Pointer Constraints For Better Gaming Experience | 03 Jun 2026 |
| COSMIC Desktop's Frosted Glass Is Giving Windows Aero Vibes | 02 Jun 2026 |
| FreeRDP 3.25 Adds Experimental AV1 Support | 23 Apr 2026 |
| LXQt 2.4 Released With More Wayland Fixes/Improvements | 20 Apr 2026 |
| XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.20.4 Released To Protect Against Apps Trashing Arbitrary Host Files | 07 Apr 2026 |
| Libinput Hit By Worrying Security Issues With Its Lua Plug-In System | 02 Apr 2026 |
| FreeRDP 3.24 Released With Security Fixes & Improved X11 Client Support | 13 Mar 2026 |
| Budgie 10.10.2 Brings Improved Labwc Wayland Compositor Integration | 07 Mar 2026 |
More Desktop News | 517 Articles |
| Fedora |
| Fedora 45 Considering A Lightened GRUB Bootloader For Confidential Compute | 13 Jun 2026 |
| Fedora 44 RISC-V Images Released, Including New "Omni" Kernel For Broader RISC-V Hardware Support | 08 Jun 2026 |
| Fedora 45 Considering Use Of PURL Metadata For Uniquely Identifying Software Packages | 29 May 2026 |
| Fedora Retiring Its Deepin Desktop Packages | 19 May 2026 |
| Fedora Yet To Decide On x86_64-v3 Packages For Fedora Linux 45 | 05 May 2026 |
| Fedora 44 Released For Living On The Leading-Edge Of Linux Innovations | 28 Apr 2026 |
| Fedora 44 Releasing Next Week | 25 Apr 2026 |
| Fedora 44 Will Not Be Released Next Week | 17 Apr 2026 |
| Fedora 45 To Consider Building x86_64-v3 Packages | 15 Apr 2026 |
| Mesa Granted Permanent Updates Exception For Fedora Linux | 07 Apr 2026 |
More Fedora News | 1332 Articles |
| Free Software |
| pkgcli As PackageKit's Modern, Nicer Command Line Interface | 14 Jun 2026 |
| OpenJPH 0.28 Up To 1.9x Faster With New AVX2 Optimizations For High-Throughput JPEG2000 | 11 Jun 2026 |
| OpenCV 5.0 Released With Rewritten DNN Engine, Built-In LLM & VLM Support | 06 Jun 2026 |
| Blender 5.2 LTS Enters Beta With New Features | 04 Jun 2026 |
| AI-Driven Security Disclosures, NVIDIA Vera & Linux 7.1 Features That Made An Exciting May | 01 Jun 2026 |
| Servo 0.2 Released With Revamped Android Browser UI | 31 May 2026 |
| Rust Coreutils 0.9 Released With Additional Security Hardening, Zero-Copy I/O | 30 May 2026 |
| Meta's CacheLib Sees New Release After Two Year Hiatus For Helping With High DRAM Prices | 26 May 2026 |
| California's Age Verification Law May End Up Exempting Most Linux Distributions | 25 May 2026 |
| Boot-Time Wizard Aims To Help Reduce Linux Boot Times | 24 May 2026 |
More Free Software News | 2242 Articles |
| GNOME |
| GNOME Foundation Announces First Participants Of Fellowship Program | 11 Jun 2026 |
| GNOME File Previewer Finally Switches To GTK4, Adds Dark Mode | 06 Jun 2026 |
| GNOME Circle Takes Stand Against AI Slop, Resources App Makes It Into GNOME Incubator | 30 May 2026 |
| GTK Introduces Snapping Feature For Better Fractional Scaling Experience | 28 May 2026 |
| GNOME Commander 2.0 Released Following Rewrite In Rust & GTK4 | 22 May 2026 |
| GNOME 51 Could End Up Replacing System Tools With "Resources" App | 16 May 2026 |
| GNOME's Help Viewer Updated Due To Flatpak Sandbox Escape Vulnerability | 11 May 2026 |
| Nocturne Is The Latest Music Player For GNOME To Hit v1.0 | 09 May 2026 |
| The GNOME-Aligned RustConn Connection Manager Continues Piling On More Features | 03 May 2026 |
| GNOME Fixes Screencasting Issue With H.264 Recordings Being ~18x Larger Than VP8 | 19 Apr 2026 |
More GNOME News | 1455 Articles |
| GNU |
| GCC 17 Lands Initial Infrastructure For C++29 | 17 Jun 2026 |
| GCC Steering Committee Supports Inclusion Of WebAssembly Backend | 15 Jun 2026 |
| GNU Linux-libre 7.1-gnu Released With More Driver Deblobbing, Unhappy With i486 Removal | 15 Jun 2026 |
| GCC 17 Merges Function Multi-Versioning For APX & AVX10.2 | 13 Jun 2026 |
| GCC 15.3 Compiler Brings Nearly A Year Worth Of Bug Fixes | 12 Jun 2026 |
| NVIDIA Engineer Devises Patch To Significantly Reduce GCC Bootstrap Time | 10 Jun 2026 |
| GNU Gets Back Into Nutrition Software After 14 Year Hiatus | 06 Jun 2026 |
| New GCC Back-End Proposed For WebAssembly | 07 May 2026 |
| GCC 16.1 Released With AMD Zen 6 Support, Algol 68 & Many C++ Improvements | 30 Apr 2026 |
| Hygon C86-4G CPU Support Added To The GCC 17 Compiler | 29 Apr 2026 |
More GNU News | 1225 Articles |
| Google |
| Many Exciting Google Summer of Code 2026 Projects & A Lot Of AI | 03 May 2026 |
| Chrome 147 Stable Released With New Restrictions, Web Printing API | 08 Apr 2026 |
| Google Now Using AutoFDO To Enhance Android's Linux Kernel Performance | 14 Mar 2026 |
| Google To Finally Provide Chrome ARM64 Binaries For Linux | 12 Mar 2026 |
| Google Chrome Moving To A Two-Week Release Cycle | 03 Mar 2026 |
| Chrome 146 Now In Beta With WebNN Origin Trial For Neural Networks In The Browser | 11 Feb 2026 |
| Google Chrome 145 Released With JPEG-XL Image Support | 10 Feb 2026 |
| JPEG-XL Image Support Returns To Latest Chrome / Chromium Code | 13 Jan 2026 |
| Google Taps More Performance Out Of AMD Zen CPUs With BPF-CCX Scheduling | 22 Dec 2025 |
| Chrome/Chromium Add Support For Printing Via XDG Portal | 19 Dec 2025 |
More Google News | 605 Articles |
| Hardware |
| Experimental, Reverse-Engineered & AI Assisted Rust Driver Targets Modern DisplayLink Hardware | 17 Jun 2026 |
| Linux 7.2 Power Management Adds New Hardware Support While Dropping AMD Elan | 16 Jun 2026 |
| Linux 7.2 Drops Driver For The 40+ Year Old Hercules Monochrome ISA Graphics Card | 16 Jun 2026 |
| Framework Laptop 13 Pro To Begin Shipping In July | 10 Jun 2026 |
| Linux's CrOS EC Driver To Support Custom Fan Curves - Useful For Framework Laptops | 10 Jun 2026 |
| Vortex 3.0 Released As Full-Stack, Open-Source RISC-V GPU Now With 3D Pipeline | 09 Jun 2026 |
| Some Broadcom V3D Graphics Support On Path For Removed Over Lack Of Testing | 07 Jun 2026 |
| ASUS ZenVision Laptop Lid Screen Reverse Engineered & Now Able To Work On Linux | 02 Jun 2026 |
| Dell Uses Intel Wildcat Lake To Deliver Their Cheapest XPS 13 Ever | 31 May 2026 |
| Linux 7.1-rc6 To Support The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II & Nova 2 Lite Controllers | 31 May 2026 |
More Hardware News | 2619 Articles |
| Intel |
| Intel Compute Runtime Now Advertises Early Support For Nova Lake, Introduces Experimental "LEO" | 16 Jun 2026 |
| Intel Performance Skills: New Open-Source Project Leveraging AI For Linux Performance Optimizations | 15 Jun 2026 |
| Intel Ending Development Of BigDL: An Open-Source AI/LLM Effort Getting Axed | 13 Jun 2026 |
| Intel Thermald 2.5.12 Released... With Initial Support For ARM | 13 Jun 2026 |
| Intel's Open Image Denoise 2.5 Delivers Solid Performance Improvements For GPUs | 11 Jun 2026 |
| Intel XPU Manager 2.0 Overhauls Windows & Linux Management For Arc Pro GPUs | 10 Jun 2026 |
| Linux 7.2 Preparing Intel Key Protection Technology "KPT" For Next-Gen QAT | 09 Jun 2026 |
| Intel Preps GCC Function Multi-Versioning To Support APX & AVX10.2 | 03 Jun 2026 |
| Intel XPU Manager Adds Support For Arc Pro B65 + Arc Pro B70 | 03 Jun 2026 |
| Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids EDAC Driver Changes Readied For Linux 7.2 | 01 Jun 2026 |
More Intel News | 3600 Articles |
| KDE |
| KDE Plasma 6.7 Released With Per-Screen Virtual Desktops, Wayland Improvements | 16 Jun 2026 |
| KDE Plasma 6.7 Sees Last Minute Fixes Ahead Of Next Week's Release | 13 Jun 2026 |
| KDE KWin Patches Aiming To Optimize Gaming Latency To Better Compete With Windows | 10 Jun 2026 |
| KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Make Sure You Don't Miss Your Low Battery Notifications While Gaming | 06 Jun 2026 |
| KDE Plasma 6.8 Still Planning To End X11 Support, 95% Of Plasma 6.6 Users Are On Wayland | 02 Jun 2026 |
| KDE Linux Prunes Its Insecure & Unused Software | 31 May 2026 |
| Plasma 6.6, 6.7 & 6.8 See Plenty Of Bug Fixing This Week | 30 May 2026 |
| KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 Released With More Bug Fixes | 28 May 2026 |
| KDE Plasma 6.8 To Support System Monitor With Intel Xe, Plasma 6.7 Sees More Crash Fixes | 23 May 2026 |
| Plasma 6.7 Improves Its Built-In Remote Desktop Server, Enhances Plasma Notifications | 16 May 2026 |
More KDE News | 1495 Articles |
| LibreOffice |
| LibreOffice 26.8 To Add A Donation Banner To Its Start Center | 21 Mar 2026 |
| LibreOffice 26.2 Released With Many Refinements To This Open-Source Office Suite | 04 Feb 2026 |
| LibreOffice 26.2 Gets Rid Of The "Community" Edition Branding | 23 Dec 2025 |
| LibreOffice 26.2 Beta 1 Now Available For This Free Software Office Suite | 11 Dec 2025 |
| LibreOffice 26.2 Alpha 1 Released For Testing | 03 Dec 2025 |
| "Rustmaker" Merged For LibreOffice 26.2 Development As Latest Rust Integration | 15 Sep 2025 |
| LibreOffice 25.8 Released With UI Enhancements, Better Performance | 20 Aug 2025 |
| LibreOffice 26.2 To Better Handle Documents With Restricted Embedded Fonts | 14 Aug 2025 |
| LibreOffice Office Suite Lands Built-In Support For Bitcoin Currency | 15 Jul 2025 |
| LibreOffice 25.8 RC1 Released With Various File Performance Improvements | 10 Jul 2025 |
More LibreOffice News | 207 Articles |
| Linux Events |
| Linux Foundation Expects To Break $300M In Revenue This Year | 18 Dec 2025 |
| Linux Foundation Forms The Developer Relations Foundation, DocumentDB Joins The LF | 25 Aug 2025 |
| Very Promising Linux Patch Optimizes TLB Flushes During Page Reclamation | 22 Jan 2025 |
| UXL Foundation Hosting Virtual oneAPI DevSummit 2024 Next Week | 03 Oct 2024 |
| Kernel Recipes 2024 Slides & Videos Posted | 01 Oct 2024 |
| 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 |
More Linux Events News | 87 Articles |
| Linux Gaming |
| Crown Engine 0.63 Restores Its OpenGL Renderer For Legacy Hardware Support | 04 Jun 2026 |
| O3DE 26.05 Released With New Open Particle System, Other Engine Improvements | 28 May 2026 |
| Open-Source "low_latency_layer" Brings Reflex & Anti-Lag 2 To AMD & Intel GPUs On Linux | 17 May 2026 |
| FEX 2605 Brings Performance Improvements, Initial Snapdragon X2 Elite Fixes | 09 May 2026 |
| Linux Support Coming For The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II: A $160 High-End Gaming Controller | 01 May 2026 |
| Proton 11.0 Beta 2 Updates VKD3D-Proton | 28 Apr 2026 |
| D7VK v1.8 Continues Improving Legacy Direct3D Atop The Vulkan API | 27 Apr 2026 |
| Godot 4.7 Reaches Beta With HDR Output, Ray-Tracing Improvements & Editor Enhancements | 25 Apr 2026 |
| Godot 4.7 Will Finally Have HDR Output, Including On Linux With Wayland | 23 Apr 2026 |
| Box64 0.4.2 Begins Working On POWER PPC64LE Backend, Support For SteamRT3 + Proton 11 | 20 Apr 2026 |
More Linux Gaming News | 2094 Articles |
| Linux Kernel |
| Linux 7.2 Slab Changes Include More Performance Optimizations | 17 Jun 2026 |
| Initial AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL Support Successfully Merged For Linux 7.2 | 17 Jun 2026 |
| Linux 7.2 Improves Anonymous/Unnamed Pipe Performance For Shell Pipelines & More | 16 Jun 2026 |
| Linux 7.2 Continues Removing Old i486 Code Remnants, Adds Rugged Panther Lake | 16 Jun 2026 |
| Cache Aware Scheduling Merged For Linux 7.2 For Boosting Modern Intel & AMD CPUs | 15 Jun 2026 |
| Linux 7.2 Introducing The Rust Zerocopy Library To Eliminate More "Unsafe" Code | 15 Jun 2026 |
| Linux 7.2 To Raise LLVM/Clang Compiler Requirement, Add Support For Distributed ThinLTO | 14 Jun 2026 |
| Linux 7.1 Released: New NTFS Driver, Intel FRED For Panther Lake, Faster Arc Graphics | 14 Jun 2026 |
| Linux 7.2 Features Expected: Apple M3, Initial AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL, USB4STREAM, Cache Aware Scheduling | 12 Jun 2026 |
| The Best Features Of Linux 7.1: FRED, New NTFS Driver & More Performance | 12 Jun 2026 |
More Linux Kernel News | 4234 Articles |
| Linux Networking |
| Airoha AN8801R Gigabit Ethernet PHY Driver Coming To Linux 7.2 | 11 Jun 2026 |
| Linux 7.2 Proceeding To Deprecate AF_ALG Due To "Massive Attack Surface", Drops Offloading | 01 Jun 2026 |
| Linux Might Finally Disable The Microsoft RNDIS Protocol Drivers In 2026 | 31 May 2026 |
| Linux Networking Still Seeing "Significantly Bigger" Pull Requests Due To AI | 29 May 2026 |
| Linux To Drop ARCnet Support For Old ISA & PCMCIA Hardware | 25 May 2026 |
| Today's Linux Networking Fixes: "Craziness Continues With No End In Sight" | 21 May 2026 |
| Linux 7.2 To Support Realtek RTL8159 10GbE USB Ethernet | 07 May 2026 |
| Farewell ISDN, Ham Radio & Old Network Drivers: Linus Torvalds Merges 138k L.O.C. Removal | 24 Apr 2026 |
| Pull Request For Linux To Remove Old Network Drivers, ISDN Subsystem Due To AI/LLM Noise | 24 Apr 2026 |
| Many Great Networking Improvements Arrive In Linux 7.1 | 22 Apr 2026 |
More Linux Networking News | 342 Articles |
| Linux Security |
| ML-KEM + X-Wing Patches Posted For Linux To Help With Post-Quantum Security | 26 May 2026 |
| Linux AF_ALG Crypto Code Removing Zero-Copy Support Out Of Security Concerns | 18 May 2026 |
| Dirty Frag Vulnerability Made Public Early: Root Privilege On All Distributions | 07 May 2026 |
| Linux Out-Of-Bounds Access Fixed For Unprivileged Users With Specially Crafted Certs | 12 Apr 2026 |
| AppArmor Enhancements Merged For Linux 7.0 | 21 Feb 2026 |
| Linux 7.0 Lands ML-DSA Quantum-Resistant Signature Support | 13 Feb 2026 |
| CVE-2026-0915: GNU C Library Fixes A Security Issue Present Since 1996 | 17 Jan 2026 |
| Torvalds On Linux Security Modules: "I Already Think We Have Too Many Of Those Pointless Things" | 15 Dec 2025 |
| Linux 6.19 Will Allow Enforcing IPE Security Checks On Indirectly Executed Scripts | 04 Dec 2025 |
| Scoped User Access In Linux 6.19 To Reduce Speculation Barriers & Its Performance Hit | 03 Dec 2025 |
More Linux Security News | 340 Articles |
| Linux Storage |
| Bcachefs Tools 1.38.6 Brings Many Performance Improvements | 17 Jun 2026 |
| IO_uring, NVMe & Other Block + Device Mapper Changes Merged For Linux 7.2 | 17 Jun 2026 |
| Linux Enacts Guidance To Tighten Acceptance Of New File-Systems Into The Kernel | 16 Jun 2026 |
| Btrfs Now Enables Large Folios By Default, Lands Huge Folios With Linux 7.2 | 16 Jun 2026 |
| Linux 7.2 Can Significantly Lower Container Exit/Unmount Latency | 16 Jun 2026 |
| Linux 7.2 Adds Ability To Limit Programs To Only Open Regular Files, Avoid Being Tricked Or Doing Silly Things | 16 Jun 2026 |
| XFS Zone Allocator No Longer Experimental With Linux 7.2 | 16 Jun 2026 |
| Linux 7.2 Optimization Shows +5% IOPS For EXT4 & XFS After Moving Around Two Lines Of Code | 15 Jun 2026 |
| Reading /proc/filesystems Is Surprisingly Done Very Often & Now As Much As 444% Faster | 15 Jun 2026 |
| Linux 7.2 To Better Communicate File-System Casefolding For Helping Windows NFS & More | 15 Jun 2026 |
More Linux Storage News | 1285 Articles |
| LLVM |
| LLVM/Clang Lands Initial Compiler Targeting For Hygon x86 CPUs | 09 Jun 2026 |
| LLVM To Begin Offering Zstd-Compressed Binaries For "Significantly Reduced" Downloads | 04 Jun 2026 |
| Proposed Multi-Thread Parallel Compilation "MTPC" For LLVM Is Great News | 22 May 2026 |
| Google Proposes JSIR As A High-Level IR For JavaScript | 06 Apr 2026 |
| RVCC Proposed As An LLVM Incubator For High Performance RISC-V Optimizations | 30 Mar 2026 |
| LLVM's DTLTO Now More Efficiently Adding Files To The Link For Much Better Performance | 28 Mar 2026 |
| AMD's HIP Moves To Using LLVM's New Offload Driver By Default | 24 Feb 2026 |
| LLVM/Clang 22 Compiler Officially Released With Many Improvements | 24 Feb 2026 |
| LLVM 22.1-rc3 Released - LLVM To Provide Windows ARM Release Binaries Moving Forward | 10 Feb 2026 |
| LLVM Adopts "Human In The Loop" Policy For AI/Tool-Assisted Contributions | 20 Jan 2026 |
More LLVM News | 810 Articles |
| LVFS |
| Fwupd 2.1.4 Brings Many Fixes For Bugs Spotted By Anthrophic's Mythos, Firmware Update Support For Intel Arc Pro B65/B70 | 29 May 2026 |
| HP Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service / Fwupd | 20 May 2026 |
| Fwupd 2.1.3 Brings Firmware Updating To Modular Smartphones | 12 May 2026 |
| Dell & Lenovo Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service | 06 May 2026 |
| Fwupd 2.1.2 Brings Support For Firmware Updates On More Hardware | 24 Apr 2026 |
| The Next LVFS Actions Begin Tomorrow To Encourage More Hardware Vendors To Step Up | 31 Mar 2026 |
| Fwupd 2.1.1 Released With Lots Of New Hardware Support | 12 Mar 2026 |
| Fwupd 2.0.20 Brings New Hardware Support | 26 Feb 2026 |
| Fwupd 2.0.18 Enables Linux Firmware Updating For More Hardware | 01 Dec 2025 |
| Fwupd 2.0.17 Released With More Hardware Support & Features | 05 Nov 2025 |
More LVFS News | 119 Articles |
| Mesa |
| Mesa 26.2 Lands VK_GOOGLE_display_timing Support For Direct Display Mode | 07 Jun 2026 |
| New "KRAID" Compiler Merged To Mesa For Panfrost/PanVK Drivers | 03 Jun 2026 |
| KRAID Being Developed As New Compiler For Modern Arm Mali Graphics | 28 May 2026 |
| Mesa 26.0.8 Released To End Out The Series | 27 May 2026 |
| Arm Mali G1 Pro Now Working With Open-Source PanVK & Panfrost Drivers | 13 May 2026 |
| Mesa 26.1 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Vulkan Drivers | 06 May 2026 |
| Rusticl Driver Ready To Go With OpenCL 3.1 Working On Radeon, Intel Iris & Zink/Vulkan | 05 May 2026 |
| Mesa Developers Consider Branching Off Some Older GPU Drivers - Including AMD R300/R600 | 01 May 2026 |
| Mesa 26.1-rc1 Released For Testing With Many New Vulkan Extensions & Optimizations | 15 Apr 2026 |
| RADV Lands Support For Vulkan's New Primitive Restart Index Extension | 09 Apr 2026 |
More Mesa News | 2629 Articles |
| Microsoft |
| Microsoft Announces Coreutils For Windows: Derived From Rust Coreutils | 03 Jun 2026 |
| New Patches Allow The Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G To Be More Useful Under Linux | 21 May 2026 |
| Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 With Many Security Fixes | 09 May 2026 |
| WireGuard For Windows Reaches v1.0 | 18 Apr 2026 |
| Microsoft Upgrades Its WSL2 Kernel Against Linux 6.18 LTS | 11 Apr 2026 |
| Microsoft's Newest Open-Source Project: Runtime Security For AI Agents | 02 Apr 2026 |
| Microsoft's DXGKRNL Driver Updated For Linux - Many Changes After Four Years | 19 Mar 2026 |
| Azure Linux 3.0 Enables Core Scheduling, More Tracing Capabilities | 11 Mar 2026 |
| Microsoft Updates DirectX Shader Compiler With Improved Vulkan Driver Interoperability | 26 Feb 2026 |
| Microsoft Hyper-V Lands Some Useful Improvements In Linux 7.0 | 22 Feb 2026 |
More Microsoft News | 419 Articles |
| Mozilla |
| Mozilla Firefox Usage Of zlib-rs For Better Safety & Performance | 16 Jun 2026 |
| Firefox 152 Now Available With JPEG-XL Support Built By Default, Modernized Settings UI | 15 Jun 2026 |
| Firefox Merges Support For Vulkan Video Decoding | 07 Jun 2026 |
| Firefox 153 Nightly Rolls Out New Settings UI | 20 May 2026 |
| Firefox 151 Now Available With Document Picture-in-Picture API | 18 May 2026 |
| Firefox 150 Available With GTK Emoji Picker, CSS Media Element Pseudo-Classes | 20 Apr 2026 |
| Mozilla Announces "Thunderbolt" As An Open-Source, Enterprise AI Client | 16 Apr 2026 |
| Firefox 149 Now Available With XDG Portal File Picker | 23 Mar 2026 |
| Thunderbird Looks To Finalize Its Exchange Support, Refresh The Calendar UI | 19 Mar 2026 |
| Firefox 149 Beta Released With Convenient Split-View Mode | 25 Feb 2026 |
More Mozilla News | 474 Articles |
| Multimedia |
| Shotcut 26.6 Beta Brings Many Fixes, OpenFX & VST2 Plugin Support | 02 Jun 2026 |
| Zrythm 2.0 Alpha Released For Rewriting The Digital Audio Workstation In C++ & Qt/QML | 31 May 2026 |
| Linux Sound Subsystem Also Seeing Many Fixes Driven By AI/LLMs | 22 May 2026 |
| FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan Accelerated Decoding For APV Video | 20 May 2026 |
| FFmpeg Introduces Apple ProRes RAW Vulkan-Powered Video Acceleration | 17 May 2026 |
| Turtle Beach WaveFront ISA Sound Cards Seeing Suspend/Resume Support On Linux In 2026 | 03 May 2026 |
| VideoLAN Publishes Dav2d For Open-Source AV2 Decoder | 02 May 2026 |
| Shotcut 26.4 Released With Timeline Improvements, Vulkan Accelerated Speech-To-Text | 30 Apr 2026 |
| Libcamera 0.7.1 Released With Improved Software ISP | 29 Apr 2026 |
| Linux 7.1 Brings Audio Support For The Line6 POD HD PRO & NexiGo N930W Webcam | 25 Apr 2026 |
More Multimedia News | 746 Articles |
| Nouveau |
| Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Merges Mesh Shader Support | 02 Jun 2026 |
| Linux 7.2's Open-Source Nouveau Driver To Finally Support The NVIDIA GA100 | 28 May 2026 |
| HDMI FRL Support Achieved With Open-Source Nouveau For NVIDIA GPUs | 23 Apr 2026 |
| ZCULL Support For Nouveau + NVK Brings Some Small Performance Gains | 26 Feb 2026 |
| Linux 7.0 Should Fix Nouveau For The Large Pages Support For Better NVK Performance | 05 Feb 2026 |
| Mesa NVK Driver Temporarily Disabling Support For Larger Pages Due To Bug | 28 Jan 2026 |
| Mesa 26.0 NVK Driver Lands Improvement For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 "Turing" GPUs | 20 Dec 2025 |
| Mesa NVK Driver Merges Compression Support For Better Performance | 18 Dec 2025 |
| Linux 6.19 Nova Driver Landing Boot42 Support For Next-Gen NVIDIA GPUs | 20 Nov 2025 |
| NVK Still Working Toward Ray-Tracing, Vulkan Video & More Performance | 18 Nov 2025 |
More Nouveau News | 530 Articles |
| NVIDIA |
| Linux 7.2 To Add ACPI CPPC v4 Support Authored By NVIDIA | 08 Jun 2026 |
| CUDA-Oxide 0.2 Brings Early Improvements To Pure Rust CUDA Kernels | 05 Jun 2026 |
| GNOME 51 Retires Legacy NVIDIA Driver Support With Removing EGLStreams | 05 Jun 2026 |
| NVIDIA Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support Moves Closer For Open-Source Nova Driver | 03 Jun 2026 |
| NBD-VRAM Provides Swap Space On Your NVIDIA GeForce GPUs | 01 Jun 2026 |
| NVIDIA Announces RTX Spark Superchip For Laptops & Desktops | 01 Jun 2026 |
| NVIDIA CUDA 13.3 Rolls Out CUDA Python 1.0, CUDA Tile For C++ | 27 May 2026 |
| NVIDIA 610.43.02 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Improvements, DRM Color Pipeline API | 26 May 2026 |
| DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.2 Further Improves NVIDIA Integration For Steam Play Linux Gaming | 12 May 2026 |
| NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.17 Fixes Support For GB10 Powered Systems | 09 May 2026 |
More NVIDIA News | 1182 Articles |
| Operating Systems |
| KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Finally Comes To Slackware | 16 Jun 2026 |
| Haiku OS Now Enables AVX-512 Support, Other Hardware Improvements | 13 Jun 2026 |
| ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Reaches The Milestone Of Being Able To Run Half-Life | 10 Jun 2026 |
| Alpine Linux 3.24 Improves Installer Experience, Adds COSMIC Desktop Option | 09 Jun 2026 |
| Asterinas 0.18 Released For Rust-Written, Memory Safe Linux Alternative OS | 09 Jun 2026 |
| Running CachyOS With The BORE Scheduler While Disabling Ananicy-CPP | 08 Jun 2026 |
| Xfce Ported To Rust-Written Redox OS For Better X11 Experience | 08 Jun 2026 |
| NixOS 26.05 Released With 20,442 New Packages, Stage 1 Now Based On systemd By Default | 30 May 2026 |
| Genode OS 26.05 Released, Finishes Moving From GitHub To Codeberg | 30 May 2026 |
| ReactOS Now Running On ARM64 In Experimental Form | 26 May 2026 |
More Operating Systems News | 1248 Articles |
| Oracle |
| Oracle To Reduce The Frequency Of Solaris 11.4 Updates | 23 Apr 2026 |
| Oracle Releases Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8.2 - Still On Linux 6.12 LTS Base | 24 Mar 2026 |
| Oracle Updates Free Solaris CBE For Open-Source Developers / Non-Production Uses | 06 Mar 2026 |
| Oracles Releases Updated "bpftune" For BPF-Based Auto-Tuning Of Linux Systems | 13 Dec 2025 |
| Solaris 11.4 SRU 87 Released With New Security Features, GCC 15 | 06 Dec 2025 |
| Oracle's GraalVM To Shift Focus To Non-Java Languages Like Python & JavaScript | 28 Sep 2025 |
| VirtualBox 7.2 Released With Windows 11 ARM Support, Linux 6.16 Compatibility | 14 Aug 2025 |
| Oracle Linux 10 Reaches GA, Available With Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8.1 | 26 Jun 2025 |
| VirtualBox 7.2 Beta Brings Windows 11 Arm Support, Source Code On GitHub | 28 May 2025 |
| Oracle Talks Up Its Adaptived Daemon For Linux Systems | 14 May 2025 |
More Oracle News | 303 Articles |
| Phoronix |
| Today Marks 22 Years Of Phoronix For Linux Hardware Testing & Benchmarking | 05 Jun 2026 |
| Phoronix Marking 22 Years Of Linux Hardware Coverage This Week | 01 Jun 2026 |
| Linux 7.0 Release, Age Verification Laws, Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 & Other April Happenings | 01 May 2026 |
| Intel Panther Lake & Linux AI/LLM Debates Dominated Q1 For Linux Users | 31 Mar 2026 |
| Notice: Brief Downtime Expected Overnight | 04 Mar 2026 |
| Linux 7.0 Development & Intel Panther Lake Proved Most Popular In February | 01 Mar 2026 |
| Linux Kernel AI Chatter, ReactOS Developments & AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Topped January | 01 Feb 2026 |
| Radeon Linux Driver Enhancements, Linux 6.19 Activity & Other December Highlights | 02 Jan 2026 |
| Valve's Linux Efforts, Kernel Improvements & KDE Plasma Wayland Advancements Topped 2025 | 01 Jan 2026 |
| AMD Ryzen AI Max, Intel Graphics & Other Linux Benchmarks That Commanded 2025 | 31 Dec 2025 |
More Phoronix News | 716 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 |
| New, Updated Benchmarks For April From WRF To Chia + Xmrig | 02 May 2021 |
| Many New/Updated Benchmarks For March With New SDR/Radio Tests, More Code Compilation | 28 Mar 2021 |
| Vulkan Ray-Tracing Along With Other New/Updated Benchmarks For February | 28 Feb 2021 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 10.2.2 Released For Automated Open-Source Benchmarking | 17 Feb 2021 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 10.2.1 Released For Open-Source Automated Benchmarking | 02 Feb 2021 |
More Phoronix Test Suite News | 210 Articles |
| PipeWire |
| PipeWire 1.6 Released With Many New Features | 19 Feb 2026 |
| PipeWire 1.4.8 Improves Compatibility With Apple Home Pod Mini Speakers | 11 Sep 2025 |
| PipeWire 1.4 Released With MIDI 2.0 Support & Other New Features | 06 Mar 2025 |
| PipeWire Is Doing An Excellent Job Handling Audio/Video Streams On The Linux Desktop | 06 Feb 2025 |
| 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 |
More PipeWire News | 45 Articles |
| Premium |
| Phoronix Premium Cyber Week "Black Friday" Deal To Help Enable Linux Hardware Reviews | 24 Nov 2025 |
| Last Call For The 2024 Phoronix Premium Oktoberfest Promotion | 27 Sep 2024 |
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| Happy Holidays & A Year End Phoronix Premium Special | 25 Dec 2023 |
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More Premium News | 52 Articles |
| Programming |
| Epic Games Announces Lore Open-Source Version Control System | 17 Jun 2026 |
| Git 2.55-rc0 Released With Rust Enabled By Default | 11 Jun 2026 |
| Lightweight Pragtical Code Editor Adds SDL GPU Backend | 09 Jun 2026 |
| Redis 8.8 Released With New Array Data Structure, More Performance Optimizations | 25 May 2026 |
| KernelScript: A Programming Language For Kernel Customization & App Optimizations | 24 May 2026 |
| Rust-Based Wild Linker 0.9 Brings New Platform Coverage, Linker Plugin API | 23 May 2026 |
| chipStar 1.3 Released For Running HIP/CUDA Code On SPIR-V With OpenCL | 21 May 2026 |
| Vim Merges GTK4 Toolkit Support, Co-Authored-By Claude | 19 May 2026 |
| Brush v0.4 Released As "Significant" Release For This Rust-Based Shell | 03 May 2026 |
| OpenCL Introducing Cooperative Matrix Extensions For Machine Learning | 29 Apr 2026 |
More Programming News | 824 Articles |
| Proprietary Software |
| Discord Touts "Year Of The Linux Desktop" With Linux Client Improvements | 13 May 2026 |
| Opera GX Browser Gets Flatpak'ed & Snap'ed On Linux | 23 Apr 2026 |
| Opera GX Web Browser Released For Linux | 19 Mar 2026 |
| Kaspersky Brings Its Anti-Virus Software To Linux For Home Users | 11 Nov 2025 |
| 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 |
More Proprietary Software News | 136 Articles |
| Qt |
| Qt Creator 20 IDE Released With AI Agent Support | 17 Jun 2026 |
| Qt 6.12 Beta Released With Qt Quick 3D XR Apps Now Able To Run On 2D AR Glasses | 12 Jun 2026 |
| Qt Creator 20 Beta Expands AI Integration | 08 May 2026 |
| Qt's Latest AI Push Is Letting AI Agents Deal With Performance Profiling | 05 May 2026 |
| Qt 6.11 Toolkit Released With "The Same 3D Capabilities As A Game Engine" | 23 Mar 2026 |
| Qt Creator 19 IDE Released With Minimap, Built-In MCP Server For AI / LLMs | 12 Mar 2026 |
| Qt 6.11 Beta Released With New Canvas Painter, OpenAPI & TaskTree Modules | 18 Dec 2025 |
| Qt Toolkit Lands IO_uring Abstraction | 10 Dec 2025 |
| Qt Moves Away From Direct RDRAND/RDSEED Usage For Better Performance & Less Bugs | 16 Nov 2025 |
| Qt Merges Wayland Color Management "color-management-v1" | 08 Nov 2025 |
More Qt News | 550 Articles |
| Radeon |
| Mesa 26.2 Preps For AMD GFX1156 For New, Post-Strix-Halo RDNA 3.5 Graphics | 11 Jun 2026 |
| AMDGPU Linux Driver Preps For HDMI 2.1 Compliance Testing | 10 Jun 2026 |
| RADV Driver Now Leveraging RDNA3+ Hardware Feature For Better Instruction Cache Prefetching | 10 Jun 2026 |
| Vintage AMD R600 Graphics Driver Sees Code Cleanups Thanks To GitHub Copilot | 08 Jun 2026 |
| Linux 7.2 Continues Improving AMDGPU Support On POWER, ARM | 05 Jun 2026 |
| Linux 7.1 + Mesa 26.1 Performance With The Radeon RX 9070 GRE, RX 9070 XT | 04 Jun 2026 |
| AMD Submits Its Long-Awaited HDMI 2.1 FRL Support For Linux 7.2 AMDGPU | 04 Jun 2026 |
| Marek Olšák Scores Up To 100% Pixel Throughput Optimization For RADV Driver | 02 Jun 2026 |
| AMD Submits More Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.2 | 30 May 2026 |
| Radeon Software For Linux 26.12 Brings Ubuntu 26.04 Support | 29 May 2026 |
More Radeon News | 2128 Articles |
| Raspberry Pi |
| Linux Driver To Expose Voltage Inputs For Raspberry Pi SBCs | 27 May 2026 |
| Raspberry Pi 4 3GB Launches, Raspberry Pi Prices Go Up Again Due To RAM | 01 Apr 2026 |
| Raspberry Pi Raises Prices As Much As $60 Due To Memory Demand | 02 Feb 2026 |
| Raspberry Pi Preparing To Introduce A Smart Display Module | 28 Jan 2026 |
| Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 Released & Designed For Running GenAI Models | 15 Jan 2026 |
| Raspberry Pi Announces Price Hikes Due To RAM Demand, 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 Launched | 01 Dec 2025 |
| Raspberry Pi OS 2025-11-24 Brings HiDPI Improvements, Wayland Enhancements | 24 Nov 2025 |
| Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0 Released To Make It Easier Creating OS Media | 24 Nov 2025 |
| SUSE Provides U-Boot Support For The Raspberry Pi 5 | 04 Nov 2025 |
| Raspberry Pi OS Updated Against Debian 13 Trixie | 02 Oct 2025 |
More Raspberry Pi News | 189 Articles |
| Red Hat |
| Red Hat Releases Second Developer Preview Of RHEL 10 For RISC-V | 12 Jun 2026 |
| RHEL 10.2 Released With New AI Command Line Assistance | 20 May 2026 |
| Red Hat Releases Tuned 2.27 For Adaptively Tuning Linux To Different Workloads | 23 Feb 2026 |
| Red Hat Acquires Another AI Company | 16 Dec 2025 |
| CentOS Kmods SIG Providing NVIDIA Linux Open GPU Kernel Modules For RHEL/CentOS Users | 14 Dec 2025 |
| Red Hat Losing Another Longtime & Prominent Linux Kernel Engineer | 17 Nov 2025 |
| Red Hat's RHEL 10.1 Released With systemd Soft-Reboots, Easier AI Accelerator Drivers | 12 Nov 2025 |
| Red Hat Affirms Plans To Distribute NVIDIA CUDA Across RHEL, Red Hat AI & OpenShift | 28 Oct 2025 |
| RPM 6.0 Released With OpenPGP Improvements & Enforces Signature Checking By Default | 22 Sep 2025 |
| Linux Hardware Enablement Leader Hans de Goede Leaving Red Hat | 03 Sep 2025 |
More Red Hat News | 319 Articles |
| RISC-V |
| Linux 7.2 To Enable ESWIN SoC Support By Default For RISC-V Kernel Builds | 10 Jun 2026 |
| BeagleV Ahead & Lichee Pi 4a RISC-V Boards To See Working WiFi With Linux 7.2 | 08 Jun 2026 |
| More SpacemiT K3 & K1 Support Landing In Upstream Linux 7.2 | 05 Jun 2026 |
| RISC-V BeagleV Ahead Single Board Computer To See Working HDMI With Linux 7.1 | 11 Apr 2026 |
| More SpacemiT K3 RVA23 SoC Functionality Expected For Linux 7.1 | 10 Apr 2026 |
| SiFive Raises $400M To Double Down On High Performance RISC-V For Data Centers | 09 Apr 2026 |
| RISC-V Optimized strnlen Implementation For Linux 7.1 Yields Big Speed-Up | 09 Apr 2026 |
| RISC-V XIP Linux Feature Being Removed After It Keeps Breaking For Months At A Time | 07 Apr 2026 |
| Current RISC-V CPUs Being Too Slow Causes Headaches For Fedora: ~5x Slower Builds | 10 Mar 2026 |
| RISC-V In Linux 7.0 Brings User-Space CFI & Optimized strlen Assembly | 16 Feb 2026 |
More RISC-V News | 175 Articles |
| Standards |
| Khronos Releases glTF 2.1 To Make This 3D Asset Standard Work Well For Large Scenes | 11 Jun 2026 |
| AV2 v1.0 Specification Released For Next-Gen Video Coding | 31 May 2026 |
| OpenCL 3.1.1 Released To Address A Possible Performance Regression | 22 May 2026 |
| Flattened Image Tree 1.0 Specification For Embedded Linux Systems | 07 May 2026 |
| PCIe 8.0 Spec Draft 0.5 Released For 1TB/s Bi-Directional x16 Bandwidth | 06 May 2026 |
| OpenCL 3.1 Released To Bolster AI & HPC Workloads | 05 May 2026 |
| CPPC v4 Support Being Worked On NVIDIA For The Linux ACPI Driver | 30 Apr 2026 |
| Arm & Linaro Launch New "CoreCollective" Consortium - With Backing From AMD & Others | 25 Feb 2026 |
| Linux Begins Seeing Early Preparations For PCIe 7.0 | 20 Feb 2026 |
| OpenGL Sees New Extensions Added To The Registry | 24 Oct 2025 |
More Standards News | 315 Articles |
| SUSE |
| SUSE/openSUSE Agama Installer Now Warns For No-Desktop Installs, Supports systemd-boot | 21 May 2026 |
| SUSE's Agama Installer Sees Architectural Revamp | 21 Mar 2026 |
| Myrlyn 1.0 Released For Package Manager GUI Spawned By SUSE's Hack Week | 19 Jan 2026 |
| openSUSE Begins Rolling Out Intel NPU Support | 02 Dec 2025 |
| SUSE's Agama 18 OS Installer Released - i586 Support Dropped | 18 Nov 2025 |
| SUSE Developer Working To Reimplement SSH Using The Zig Programming Language | 17 Nov 2025 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 Announced: "Enterprise Linux That Integrates Agentic AI" | 29 Oct 2025 |
| openSUSE Leap 16 Released - Requires x86-64-v2 CPUs, No x86 32-bit Support By Default | 01 Oct 2025 |
| openSUSE Disabling Bcachefs Support For Its Linux 6.17+ Kernel Builds | 10 Sep 2025 |
| openSUSE Leap 16 To Provide 24 Months Of Maintenance Updates / Community Support | 03 Sep 2025 |
More SUSE News | 327 Articles |
| systemd |
| systemd 261-rc3 Released With Individual Binaries Now Embedding dlopen ELF Metadata Note | 04 Jun 2026 |
| systemd 261-rc1 Released With OS Installer, IMDS Subsystem & New storagectl | 22 May 2026 |
| systemd 260 Released: mstack, SysV Service Scripts Removed & AI Agents Documentation | 17 Mar 2026 |
| systemd 260-rc3 Released With AI Agents Documentation Added | 12 Mar 2026 |
| systemd 260-rc2 Released With More Changes | 04 Mar 2026 |
| systemd 260-rc1 Released: New "mstack" Feature, System V Service Scripts No Longer Supported | 25 Feb 2026 |
| Systemd Founder Lennart Poettering Announces Amutable Company | 27 Jan 2026 |
| Systemd 259 Released With Experimental Musl libc Support, More Features | 17 Dec 2025 |
| systemd 259-rc1 Released With Musl libc Support, New run0 "Empower" Mode | 17 Nov 2025 |
| systemd Lands Experimental Support For musl libc | 17 Nov 2025 |
More systemd News | 270 Articles |
| Ubuntu |
| Myna Announced As Speech-To-Text Solution For The Ubuntu Desktop | 17 Jun 2026 |
| Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 Beta Now Properly Handles Notches & Rounded Corners | 15 Jun 2026 |
| Ubuntu 26.10 Reaffirms Plans For Switching To Dbus-Broker | 12 Jun 2026 |
| Ubuntu MATE Is Continuing Despite No Ubuntu MATE 26.04 Release | 08 Jun 2026 |
| Canonical Experimenting With x86-64-v3 Packages For Ubuntu 26.10 | 08 Jun 2026 |
| Ubuntu 26.10 To Begin Laying Foundation For Context-Aware Desktop, Other New Features | 05 Jun 2026 |
| Ubuntu To Ship Newer AMD ROCm Updates Via SRUs | 03 Jun 2026 |
| Canonical Now Considers Their Steam Snap For ARM64 To Be Stable | 02 Jun 2026 |
| Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 1 Released For Testing | 29 May 2026 |
| Ubuntu 26.10 Planning To Ship With The Linux 7.2 Kernel | 27 May 2026 |
More Ubuntu News | 1864 Articles |
| Valve |
| Valve Developer Posts New AMD Anti-Lag Implementation For RADV Driver | 06 Jun 2026 |
| Steam Survey For May 2026 After Delay: Linux Just Under 4% | 04 Jun 2026 |
| SteamOS 3.8.6 Beta Released With Initial Native Support For AMD HDMI VRR | 29 May 2026 |
| VKD3D-Proton Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap Support | 27 May 2026 |
| Longtime Leading AMD Linux GPU Driver Developer Now Working For Valve | 16 May 2026 |
| Steam Controller Mapping Merged To SDL Library | 16 May 2026 |
| SDL Library Adds Support For The New Steam Controller Without Depending On Steam | 14 May 2026 |
| Valve's Steam Controller Now Shipping | 04 May 2026 |
| Linux 7.1 Fixes Audio For The Steam Deck OLED After Being Broken 2 Years On The Upstream Kernel | 02 May 2026 |
| Steam On Linux In April Pulled Back From Its Record High Marketshare | 01 May 2026 |
More Valve News | 736 Articles |
| Virtualization |
| Linux's KVM Preps For APX Support In VMs | 10 Jun 2026 |
| QEMU Shifting On AI Policy To Allow Some AI/LLM-Generated Contributions | 28 May 2026 |
| Cloud Hypervisor 52 Now Supports Launching AMD SEV-SNP Confidential VMs With KVM | 15 May 2026 |
| Linux's KVM With CET Virtualization Is Causing Some Hosts To Hang | 14 May 2026 |
| IBM Updates Linux Patches For Introducing ARM64 KVM Virtualization On s390 | 28 Apr 2026 |
| QEMU 11.0 Released With CET Virtualization Support, Native Nitro Enclaves | 22 Apr 2026 |
| Linux 7.1 KVM Adds "Very Experimental" Support For pKVM Protected Guests | 20 Apr 2026 |
| Linux 7.1 To Expose AMD Zen 6's AVX-512 BMM For Guest VMs | 04 Apr 2026 |
| IBM Lays Out Patches For ARM Virtualization Acceleration On IBM Z Servers | 02 Apr 2026 |
| Linux's KVM Virtualization Preparing For Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) | 11 Mar 2026 |
More Virtualization News | 660 Articles |
| Vulkan |
| Ape: A New Vulkan Driver Written In The Zig Programming Language | 06 Jun 2026 |
| Vulkan 1.4.353 Released With Three New Extensions | 05 Jun 2026 |
| Vulkan 1.4.352 Introduces VK_NV_cooperative_matrix_decode_vector | 15 May 2026 |
| Vulkan 1.4.351 Brings Six New Extensions, Including A Ray-Tracing Improvement | 11 May 2026 |
| D7VK 1.9 Brings Some Hefty Performance Improvements | 06 May 2026 |
| Vulkan SC SDK Released For Safety-Critical Graphics / Compute | 06 May 2026 |
| VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 Brings More Improvements For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan | 06 May 2026 |
| Vulkan 1.4.350 Released With Three New Extensions | 01 May 2026 |
| Vulkan 1.4.349 Released With Data Graph Optical Flow Extension | 10 Apr 2026 |
| Vulkan 1.4.348 Ships Four New Extensions - Including One To Help OpenGL Emulation | 03 Apr 2026 |
More Vulkan News | 725 Articles |
| Wayland |
| Wayland's Weston 16 Alpha Brings HDR Improvements, Vulkan Renderer Fixes | 16 Jun 2026 |
| Wine Wayland Driver Lands Alpha Modifier Support For Opacity Handling | 12 Jun 2026 |
| Wayland Protocols 1.49 Released With Improved Multi-GPU Support, Windows BT.2100 | 07 Jun 2026 |
| Mir 2.27 Released With More Wayland Rust Code | 02 Jun 2026 |
| Google's ANGLE Merges Wayland Support, Unblocking Chromium Embedded Framework On Wayland | 26 May 2026 |
| Labwc 0.20 Wayland Compositor Released With Numerous New Features | 25 May 2026 |
| Sway 1.12 Released With HDR Support On Vulkan Renderer, New Protocols | 25 May 2026 |
| Hyprland 0.55 Released With Lua-Based Configuration, User-Defined Layouts | 09 May 2026 |
| Wayland Developers Target June For Weston 16 Release | 29 Apr 2026 |
| WayVNC 0.10 Released For Advancing This Leading VNC Server For Wayland | 28 Apr 2026 |
More Wayland News | 1007 Articles |
| WINE |
| Wine Wayland Lands Fractional Scaling Support | 16 Jun 2026 |
| Wine-Staging 11.11 Released With 289 Patches Atop Upstream | 13 Jun 2026 |
| Wine 11.11 Released With Wayland Improvements | 12 Jun 2026 |
| Wine-Staging 11.10 Fixes 14 Year Old Bug, Also Fixes Issue Of Some Games Being Too Dark | 31 May 2026 |
| Wine 11.10 Released With VKD3D 2.0, Improved VBScript Compatibility | 29 May 2026 |
| VKD3D 2.0 Released For Wine's Direct3D 12 Implementation Atop Vulkan | 21 May 2026 |
| Claude Code Did The Heavy Lifting To Get Adobe Lightroom CC Running On Linux | 17 May 2026 |
| Wine 11.9 Released With Wayland Pointer Warp, Initial Support For System Threads | 15 May 2026 |
| Wine Wayland Driver Merges Pointer Warp Support | 12 May 2026 |
| Wine 11.8 Improves VBScript Compatibility, Finally Fixes Microsoft Golf 1999 | 01 May 2026 |
More WINE News | 1047 Articles |
| X.Org |
| YSERVER: Modern X11 Server Written In Rust With The Help Of Claude Code | 11 Jun 2026 |
| X.Org Server Starts June With Nine New Security Vulnerabilities Discovered Via AI | 01 Jun 2026 |
| X.Org Server 21.1.22 Released Due To Five New Security Vulnerabilities | 14 Apr 2026 |
| X.Org Server's "Master" Branch Now Closed With Cleaned Up State On "Main" | 14 Feb 2026 |
| X.Org Developers Conference 2026 Being Hosted By Arm In Toronto | 03 Feb 2026 |
| Several New X.Org Libraries See 2026 Releases | 25 Jan 2026 |
| X.Org Server May Create A New Selective Git Branch With Hopes Of A New Release This Year | 19 Jan 2026 |
| X.Org IMAKE Updated For Those Not Yet Transitioned To Autoconf/Automake Or Meson | 30 Dec 2025 |
| XWayland Gets Patched For Incorrect Pointer Coordinates | 30 Dec 2025 |
| Phoenix: A New X Server Written From Scratch With Zig | 25 Dec 2025 |
More X.Org News | 1241 Articles |