GSoC Linux & Open-Source News |
| Many Exciting Google Summer of Code 2026 Projects & A Lot Of AI | Google | 2026-05-03 |
| Valve Updates GameNetworkingSockets After Nearly Four Year Hiatus | Valve | 2026-04-28 |
| GCC Rust Compiler Continues Quest To Compile The Linux Kernel Crate | GNU | 2025-09-11 |
| GSoC 2025 Projects: AI-Powered Log Analyzer For Fedora, Better AMD ROCm On Debian | Google | 2025-05-11 |
| FreeBSD Reduces OS Support From 5 To 4 Years, Continues Collaboration With AMD | BSD | 2024-11-07 |
| LLVM Makes Progress On Using ClangIR To Compile GPU Kernels | LLVM | 2024-09-11 |
| GCC's Rust Compiler To See Improvements With GSoC 2024 | GNU | 2024-05-03 |
| An Automated Gentoo Linux System Updater Developed Via GSoC | Operating Systems | 2023-08-28 |
| LibreOffice Lands APNG Export Support | LibreOffice | 2023-08-13 |
| NVK Merge Request Opened For Landing Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver In Mesa | Nouveau | 2023-07-26 |
| NVK Vulkan Driver Working Toward YCbCr Support This Summer | Nouveau | 2023-06-18 |
| RADV Optimized By Valve For An Upcoming Game - Nearly Matching The Windows Performance | Valve | 2023-04-20 |
| Google Summer of Code 2023 Organizations Announced For Students & New Developers | Google | 2023-02-23 |
| AMD Linux Graphics Driver Could See Improved Test Coverage Thanks To Google | Radeon | 2022-02-18 |
| GNOME 42 Lands New Screenshot/Screencast UI | GNOME | 2022-01-29 |
| Google Makes Some Major Changes To Summer of Code 2022 - No Longer Limited To Students | Google | 2021-11-10 |
| Steam Client Update Brings Numerous Linux Fixes, More Controller Additions | Valve | 2021-07-13 |
| China's Alternative To GSoC Is Seeing Some Interesting Summer Open-Source Projects | Free Software | 2021-07-11 |
| Valve's GameNetworkingSockets 1.3 Released With Better Performance | Valve | 2021-05-31 |
| Google Announces Some Very Interesting GSoC 2021 Projects | Google | 2021-05-17 |
| 200+ Open-Source Projects Involved In GSoC 2021 | Google | 2021-03-10 |
| X.Org Foundation Bows Out For Google Summer of Code 2021 | X.Org | 2021-03-07 |
| Google's Pandemic-Minded GSoC Will Be A Lot Less Interesting This Year | Google | 2021-01-31 |
| GNU Had A Busy 2020 With The GCC Toolchain Still Rocking, Finally Converted To Git | GNU | 2020-12-31 |
| FreeType Merges New "SDF" Renderer For High Quality Text Rendering In Games, Etc | Desktop | 2020-12-24 |
| Red Hat's Tom Stellard Now Serving As LLVM Release Manager | LLVM | 2020-10-25 |
| Linux 5.9 Regression, NVIDIA RTX 30, GNOME 40 & Microsoft Made For A Fun September | Phoronix | 2020-10-01 |
| GCC Automatic Parallel Compilation Viability Results Help Up To 3.3x | GNU | 2020-09-03 |
| The Virtual DebConf20 Kicks Off With A Number Of Interesting Debian Talks This Week | Debian | 2020-08-23 |
| GCC "-fparallel-jobs" Sent Out For Compiling Individual Files In Parallel - Up To ~1.9x Speedup | GNU | 2020-08-21 |
| GCC Sees More Progress On Ability To Parallelize The Compilation Of Large Source Files | GNU | 2020-07-29 |
| NetBSD Is Making Progress On Benchmarking For Performance/Regression Testing | BSD | 2020-07-26 |
| GNOME-Usage Program Still Striving To Report Per-Program Power Analytics | GNOME | 2020-07-25 |
| ReactOS Hires Developer To Work On Their Open-Source Windows Storage Stack | Operating Systems | 2020-07-14 |
| There Are Many Interesting Google Summer of Code 2020 Open-Source Projects | Google | 2020-05-07 |
| Git 2.26's Faster Searches Thanks To Multi-Threaded Git-Grep | Programming | 2020-04-11 |
| Linux 5.6, Threadripper 3990X, $199 AMD Laptop Topped Reader Interest In February | Phoronix | 2020-03-01 |
| Google Announces The 200 Open-Source Projects For GSoC 2020 | Google | 2020-02-22 |
| Two Weeks Are Left To Apply For An Outreachy Summer 2020 Open-Source Internship | Free Software | 2020-02-10 |
| Some Of The Interesting Open-Source Projects For Outreachy's Winter 2019 Round | Linux Events | 2019-12-07 |
| Parallelizing GCC's Internals Continues To Be Worked On & Showing Promising Potential | GNU | 2019-09-26 |
| Thank The NSA For Their Ghidra Software Now Helping Firmware Reverse Engineering | Coreboot | 2019-09-01 |
| Wine Is Now In Better Shape On NetBSD Thanks To GSoC 2019 | BSD | 2019-08-31 |
| Waypipe Is Successfully Working For This Network-Transparent Wayland Apps/Games Proxy | Wayland | 2019-08-30 |
| NetBSD Made Progress Thanks To GSoC In Its March Towards Steam Support | BSD | 2019-08-26 |
| NetBSD Sees Its First Wayland Application Running | BSD | 2019-08-19 |
| Wine On 64-bit NetBSD Is Now In Much Better Shape Thanks To GSoC | BSD | 2019-08-03 |
| NetBSD Is Seeing Better Wine Support Thanks To Google Summer of Code | BSD | 2019-06-30 |
| The Effort To Parallelize GCC With Threads Is Starting To Take Shape | GNU | 2019-06-26 |
| Firmware Reverse-Engineering Using NSA Software Continues | Coreboot | 2019-06-11 |
| Coreboot Project Is Leveraging NSA Software To Help With Firmware Reverse Engineering | Coreboot | 2019-06-04 |
| Outreachy Summer 2019 Participants & Projects Announced | Free Software | 2019-05-07 |
| There Are A Ton Of Interesting GSoC Projects This Year: Dav1d GPU Compute, Wayland, Rust | Google | 2019-05-06 |
| "Cage" Sees Initial Test Release For Kiosk-Like Wayland Compositor | Wayland | 2019-04-24 |
| A GCC Parallelization Bottleneck Might Get Addressed This Summer | GNU | 2019-04-01 |
| GSoC 2019 Could Bring Work On A Vulkan GPU Driver Settings Utility, OpenMAX Additions | X.Org | 2019-03-26 |
| Haiku OS Seeing USB3 Improvements, BFS Resizing Code Revisited | Operating Systems | 2019-03-04 |
| Wine Could Use Student Developers For VKD3D, Other Direct3D Enhancements | WINE | 2019-02-10 |
| Debian Could See Expanded Android SDK Support & Better PHP Packaging Via GSoC 2019 | Debian | 2019-02-09 |
| GCC's Potential GSoC Projects Include Better Parallelizing The Compiler | GNU | 2019-02-05 |
| "Soft" FP64/INT64 Implementations Merged To Mesa, Intel Driver Already Making Use | Mesa | 2019-01-10 |
| Cage Is A New Wayland Compositor For Kiosk/Full-Screen-One-App Deployments | Wayland | 2018-12-27 |
| The Libre RISC-V Vulkan Accelerator Will Be Targeting 25 FPS @ 720p, 5~6 GFLOPs | RISC-V | 2018-12-05 |
| Elivepatch Progressing For Live Kernel Patching On Gentoo, Rolling To Other Distros | Operating Systems | 2018-11-22 |
| The Kazan Vulkan CPU/Software-Based Implementation Being Rewritten In Rust | Vulkan | 2018-10-04 |
| Virtual KMS Is Working On Wayland Support Plus Other Additions | X.Org | 2018-10-02 |
| Outreachy Opens Applications For Open-Source Winter 2018 Internship Program | Free Software | 2018-09-22 |
| VKMS Driver Getting Cursor Support In The Next Kernel Cycle | Linux Kernel | 2018-09-14 |
| Outreachy Had 41 Interns Complete Their Work This Summer | Free Software | 2018-09-02 |
| VLC Saw A Lot Of Exciting Work Thanks To Google Summer of Code 2018 | Multimedia | 2018-08-30 |
| Work Started This Summer On Adding System Power Information To GNOME-Usage | GNOME | 2018-08-30 |
| Nebulet: A Rust Microkernel Running WebAssembly In Ring 0 | Mozilla | 2018-08-29 |
| FFmpeg Received Support For Performing More Operations In OpenCL | Multimedia | 2018-08-29 |
| wineSHOCK: The Automated Direct3D Game Benchmarks On Wine | WINE | 2018-08-28 |
| The DRM GPU Scheduler Got Beefed Up This Summer, More Improvements Possible | Linux Kernel | 2018-08-28 |
| Linux 4.19 Had A Very Exciting First Week Of New Features | Linux Kernel | 2018-08-19 |
| VKMS Coming In Linux 4.19 Is One Of The Best GSoC & Outreachy Projects Of The Year | Linux Kernel | 2018-08-15 |
| DXVK Merges Direct3D 10 API Support | Vulkan | 2018-08-13 |
| Wine Had A Successful GSoC 2018, Better Direct3D Game Benchmarks | WINE | 2018-08-13 |
| Pitivi's User Interface Is Getting Better Thanks To GSoC, Plus Other GNOME Improvements | GNOME | 2018-08-12 |
| KDE Had A Very Successful Google Summer of Code 2018 | KDE | 2018-08-08 |
| KDE Discover Gets Fwupd Integration For Handling Firmware Updates | KDE | 2018-08-06 |
| AutoDeb Still Being Worked On For Automatically Generating Debian Packages | Debian | 2018-08-03 |
| Mesa's VirGL Now Has OpenGL 4.2 Support To Offer Guest VMs | Mesa | 2018-07-31 |
| ReactOS Is Now Able To Boot From Btrfs | Operating Systems | 2018-07-29 |
| Virtual Kernel Mode-Setting Driver Being Added To Linux 4.19 | Linux Kernel | 2018-07-12 |
| Vulkan-Virgl Continues Progressing For Getting Vulkan Within VMs | Vulkan | 2018-07-10 |
| GNOME 3.30 Mutter Relieves Wayland Code From Depending Upon X11/XWayland | GNOME | 2018-07-07 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 8.0.1 Released With Windows Benchmarking & Phoromatic Improvements | Phoronix Test Suite | 2018-06-26 |
| Kodi 18 Alpha 2 Released With Stability & Usability Improvements + New Wayland Code | Multimedia | 2018-06-22 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 8.0.1 Is Coming Next Week | Phoronix Test Suite | 2018-06-18 |
| Better Wine Benchmarking This Summer For Windows Programs On Linux | WINE | 2018-06-14 |
| LibreOffice Now Available On Haiku OS, Mesa 18.1 With Vulkan Being Worked On | Operating Systems | 2018-06-06 |
| The Virtual KMS Module Has Begun Progressing As Part Of GSoC 2018 | X.Org | 2018-05-28 |
| Vulkan Virgl Has Kicked Off For Supporting This Graphics/Compute API Within VMs | Vulkan | 2018-05-27 |
| Collabora Working On VirGL OpenGL ES Improvements, OpenGL ES For QEMU | Virtualization | 2018-05-09 |
| The New Features Coming In Mesa 18.1: Intel Cache By Default, Many Vulkan Strides | Mesa | 2018-05-04 |
| Outreachy Announces Summer 2018 Participants | Free Software | 2018-04-25 |
| The Most Interesting Google GSoC 2018 Projects: QEMU Vulkan, Virtual KMS, Nautilus GTK4 | Google | 2018-04-24 |
| Valve Publishes The Source To Their Game Networking Sockets Library | Valve | 2018-03-31 |
| Valve To Open-Source Their Steam Networking Sockets Library | Valve | 2018-03-27 |
| digiKam 5.9 Released While 6.0 Is Planned For Release Later In The Year | KDE | 2018-03-25 |
| Six Candidates Are Vying For This Year's X.Org Foundation Board | X.Org | 2018-03-17 |
| Per-Window Flipping In Present With XWayland Support Revised | X.Org | 2018-03-13 |
| Airlie Moves Ahead With His Plan For Soft FP64 For Mesa, OpenGL 4.3 For Evergreen GPUs | Mesa | 2018-03-13 |
| Student Applications For GSoC 2018 Now Open | Google | 2018-03-12 |
| OpenMAX Tizonia H.264 Encoder/Decoder Land In Mesa 18.1 Git | Mesa | 2018-03-06 |
| GSoC 2018 Could Bring Better Video Decode, Nouveau Vulkan, Wayland Improvements | X.Org | 2018-02-27 |
| Outreachy Is Now Accepting Applications For Their Summer 2018 Internships | Free Software | 2018-02-17 |
| X.Org, GNOME & The 200+ Other Organizations For GSoC 2018 | Google | 2018-02-14 |
| Wayland Made More Inroads In 2017 | Wayland | 2017-12-29 |
| Wayland Had An Impressive 2017 With KDE Support Maturing, Mir Switching Focus | Wayland | 2017-12-13 |
| GTK4, GNOME's Wayland Support & Vulkan Renderer Topped GNOME In 2017 | GNOME | 2017-12-10 |
| FreeType Improvements For The Adobe Engine | Desktop | 2017-09-25 |
| XFree KWin: Ridding KDE's Wayland Compositor Of X11 Dependencies | KDE | 2017-09-24 |
| VLC Has Begun Working On Some 3D Video Playback Support | Multimedia | 2017-09-10 |
| GNOME's Mutter Loses Some Of Its X11 Dependence | GNOME | 2017-09-10 |
| Jente Hidskes Continues Improving Libratbag's Piper Mouse UI, Promoted To Maintainer | Hardware | 2017-09-09 |
| FreeBSD Has A New ZFS Boot Management Tool & Library | BSD | 2017-09-09 |
| Kazan Begins Working On Vulkan ICD Support, More Functions | Vulkan | 2017-09-09 |
| Elivepatch Aims To Make Live Kernel Patching Easier On Gentoo | Operating Systems | 2017-09-08 |
| FFmpeg's VP9 Decoder Is Much Faster Thanks To GSoC 2017 | Multimedia | 2017-09-08 |
| Vulkan-CPU Is Now Known As Kazan | Vulkan | 2017-09-06 |
| KDE System Settings UI Is Still Getting Overhauled | KDE | 2017-09-06 |
| BeOS-Inspired Haiku OS Had A Successful GSoC 2017: Swift, Btrfs, Preferences GUI | Operating Systems | 2017-08-30 |
| Vulkan-CPU Is Off To A Good Start Thanks To GSoC 2017 | Vulkan | 2017-08-29 |
| 3D OpenGL Acceleration For Windows Guests On QEMU Using VirGL/VirtIO | Virtualization | 2017-08-27 |
| Outreachy Summer 2017 Yielded A New Coloring Book, Wine AppDB Improvements | Free Software | 2017-08-27 |
| KDE Had Another Successful Year With Google Summer of Code | KDE | 2017-08-27 |
| FFmpeg Has Seen Some AVX2 Optimizations For VP9 Decoding | Multimedia | 2017-08-27 |
| GNOME Games Now Supports Controller Reassignment | GNOME | 2017-08-27 |
| Piper Has Turned Into A Very Competent Mouse Configuration UI For Linux | GNOME | 2017-08-26 |
| Haiku Made Progress On Btrfs Support This Summer | Operating Systems | 2017-08-26 |
| Mozilla's Servo Made Several Advancements This Summer | Mozilla | 2017-08-25 |
| Piper Continues To Be Tweaked For Configuring Your Gaming Mouse On Linux | Linux Gaming | 2017-08-20 |
| Vulkan-CPU Gets Working Vertex Shaders, Hopes To Have Something On-Screen Soon | Vulkan | 2017-08-19 |
| Rust-Written Redox OS Closer To Self-Hosting | Operating Systems | 2017-08-18 |
| Kodi's Wayland Support Was Successfully Revived With GSoC 2017 | Multimedia | 2017-08-14 |
| Linux's New Mouse Configuration Utility Is Getting Some Spit 'n Polish | GNOME | 2017-08-13 |
| OMX Tizonia Gallium3D State Tracker Sent Out For Review | Mesa | 2017-08-13 |
| Vulkan-CPU Begins Working On The Graphics Pipeline | Vulkan | 2017-08-12 |
| KDE Brooklyn Chat Bridge Declared Production-Ready | KDE | 2017-08-08 |
| OpenMAX Tizonia Gallium State Tracker Working On EGLImage Support | Mesa | 2017-08-08 |
| Libratbag's Piper Mouse GUI Interface Had A Successful GSoC | Hardware | 2017-08-06 |
| Vulkan-CPU Has Working SPIR-V To LLVM IR Translation, x86 Code Almost Working | Vulkan | 2017-07-29 |
| OpenMAX Tizonia G3D State Tracker Begins Working For H.264 Encoding | Mesa | 2017-07-29 |
| Libratbag-Powered Piper Is Looking Good For Configuring Gaming Mice On Linux | Linux Gaming | 2017-07-28 |
| Vulkan CPU Implementation Still Working On LLVM Code Generation | Vulkan | 2017-07-25 |
| Fedora 27 Is Hoping For A Unified Database For DNF | Fedora | 2017-07-13 |
| X.Org 2017 Summer Projects Continue Making Progress | X.Org | 2017-07-09 |
