Windows 8 Articles & Reviews |
| Intel Broadwell HD Graphics 5500: Windows 8.1 vs. Linux | Operating Systems | 2015-01-24 |
| AMD's Windows Catalyst Driver Remains Largely Faster Than Linux Drivers | Display Drivers | 2014-11-04 |
| NVIDIA's Linux Driver Can Deliver Better OpenGL Performance Than Windows 8.1 | Operating Systems | 2014-10-31 |
| Windows 8.1 vs. Ubuntu 14.10 With Intel HD Graphics | Operating Systems | 2014-10-30 |
| Intel Bay Trail Graphics On Linux Are Slower Than Windows | Operating Systems | 2014-06-02 |
| High-End NVIDIA GeForce vs. AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Comparison | Graphics Cards | 2014-05-26 |
| Catalyst On Ubuntu 14.04 Linux Competes Well With Windows 8.1 | Display Drivers | 2014-05-23 |
| NVIDIA On Ubuntu 14.04 Has Some New Advantages Over Windows 8.1 | Operating Systems | 2014-05-21 |
| Windows 8.1 Still Outperforms Linux With Latest Intel GPU Drivers | Operating Systems | 2014-05-20 |
| AMD Radeon R9 290 On Ubuntu 14.04 With Catalyst Can Beat Windows 8.1 | Display Drivers | 2014-05-18 |
| NVIDIA's GeForce Driver On Ubuntu 14.04 Runs The Same As Windows 8.1 | Operating Systems | 2014-03-30 |
| AMD Radeon: Windows Catalyst vs. Linux Gallium3D vs. Linux Catalyst | Display Drivers | 2014-03-27 |
| Ubuntu 14.04: Intel's Haswell Linux Driver Comes Up Short Of Windows | Operating Systems | 2014-03-25 |
| Intel Iris Graphics 5100: Windows 8.1 vs. Ubuntu 14.04 Linux | Graphics Cards | 2014-03-13 |
| Ubuntu Now Often Leads Windows 7 On Intel SNB Graphics Performance | Operating Systems | 2014-01-29 |
| AMD Kaveri: Gallium3D vs. Catalyst Drivers | Display Drivers | 2014-01-19 |
| AMD A10-7850K vs. Intel/AMD CPU/APU Comparison | Processors | 2014-01-16 |
| AMD A10-7850K Kaveri: Windows 8.1 vs. Ubuntu Linux | Processors | 2014-01-14 |
| ASUS Zenbook Prime Linux Benchmarks | Computers | 2013-12-28 |
| SteamOS vs. Ubuntu 13.10 Linux Benchmarks | Linux Gaming | 2013-12-20 |
| NVIDIA Optimus On Ubuntu 13.10 Linux vs. Windows 8.1 | Graphics Cards | 2013-12-17 |
| SteamOS vs. Windows 8.1 NVIDIA Performance | Linux Gaming | 2013-12-16 |
| Intel Linux Driver Almost Neck-And-Neck With Windows 8.1 | Operating Systems | 2013-11-28 |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN: Windows 8.1 vs. Ubuntu 13.10 | Graphics Cards | 2013-11-25 |
| Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Linux vs. NVIDIA Windows 8.1 | Display Drivers | 2013-10-31 |
| Intel Performance With Ubuntu Linux vs. Windows 8.1 Is A Mixed Bag | Operating Systems | 2013-10-30 |
| Ubuntu Linux Gaming Performance Mostly On Par With Windows 8.1 | Operating Systems | 2013-10-27 |
| Intel Iris Pro 5200: Windows 8 vs. Ubuntu Linux Redux | Display Drivers | 2013-09-30 |
| Intel Iris Pro Linux Graphics Yield Some Wins Against Windows | Graphics Cards | 2013-09-19 |
| Intel Haswell Linux Performance Remains Mixed Against Windows | Operating Systems | 2013-08-28 |
| AMD Gallium3D & Catalyst Drivers Compete Against Windows | Display Drivers | 2013-08-02 |
| FreeBSD Can Compete With Ubuntu Linux, Windows 8 | Operating Systems | 2013-07-31 |
| NVIDIA's Linux Driver On Ubuntu Is Very Competitive With Windows 8 | Graphics Cards | 2013-07-30 |
| R600 Gallium3D Loses To AMD Catalyst Legacy Driver On Windows 8 | Display Drivers | 2013-07-26 |
| Windows 8 Beats Ubuntu Linux For Intel "Haswell" OpenGL | Operating Systems | 2013-07-24 |
| Ubuntu 13.04 Linux Can Outperform Apple OS X 10.8.3 | Operating Systems | 2013-04-09 |
| Windows 7 & Windows 8 vs. Ubuntu 13.04 & Fedora 18 | Operating Systems | 2013-04-05 |
| KDE & Xfce Don't Lead To Performance Wins Over Windows 8 | Operating Systems | 2013-03-22 |
| Windows 8 Outperforming Ubuntu Linux With Intel OpenGL Graphics | Operating Systems | 2013-03-21 |
| ASUS Radeon HD 7850 DirectCU | Graphics Cards | 2013-03-12 |
| Microsoft Windows 8: Mostly A Crap Wreck | Operating Systems | 2012-05-04 |
Windows 8 Linux & Open-Source News |
| Open-Source RadeonSI+Rusticl Nearing Formal OpenCL 3.0 Conformance | Radeon | 2026-03-30 |
| LibreOffice 25.8 RC1 Released With Various File Performance Improvements | LibreOffice | 2025-07-10 |
| LibreOffice 25.8 Beta Released For Testing | LibreOffice | 2025-06-13 |
| LibreOffice 25.8 Alpha 1 Released With Performance Optimizations | LibreOffice | 2025-05-20 |
| LibreOffice 25.2 RC2 For Last Minute Testing This Updated Free Software Office Suite | LibreOffice | 2025-01-17 |
| LibreOffice 25.2 RC1 Brings Many Open-Source Office Suite Improvements | LibreOffice | 2025-01-03 |
| Steam Remote Play Adds AV1 Video Streaming Support Plus More Linux Fixes | Valve | 2024-10-02 |
| LibreOffice 24.8 Delivers Many Advancements To This Free Software Office Suite | LibreOffice | 2024-08-22 |
| LibreOffice 24.8 Beta Now Available For Testing This Free Software Office Suite | LibreOffice | 2024-06-14 |
| LibreOffice 24.8 Alpha 1 Open-Source Office Suite Released | LibreOffice | 2024-05-21 |
| Aquacomputer OCTO Fan Controller To Be Supported By Linux 5.19 | Hardware | 2022-04-08 |
| Wine-Staging 6.16 Implements Two More D3DX Functions To Help Some Windows Games | WINE | 2021-08-28 |
| Qt 6.0 Development Host/Target Changes Announced | Qt | 2020-09-11 |
| Linux Getting Fixed Up For Handling Pointing Sticks On Some Touchpads | Hardware | 2020-05-27 |
| The Most Popular Linux Hardware Reviews / Benchmarks Of The Past Decade | Phoronix | 2019-12-12 |
| The First Test Release Of Phoronix Test Suite 8.8 Plus Exciting New Benchmarks | Phoronix Test Suite | 2019-03-17 |
| Qt 5.12 Alpha Released With OpenGL ES 3.1 Renderer, Several Wayland Improvements | Qt | 2018-09-18 |
| HID Updates For Linux 4.18 Add The Valve Steam Controller Kernel Driver | Linux Kernel | 2018-06-08 |
| The Usual Assortment Of HID Updates For Linux 4.14: Wacom, Multitouch, Etc | Linux Kernel | 2017-09-06 |
| HID Changes Submitted For Linux 4.13 | Hardware | 2017-07-10 |
| Intel KVMGT/XenGT GVT-g Updated For 2017-Q2 | Intel | 2017-06-21 |
| Bareflank Hypervisor 1.1 Brings Windows Support | Virtualization | 2017-05-03 |
| Bareflank Hypervisor Advances With VMM Isolation, Windows Support | Virtualization | 2016-12-15 |
| Unity Stats Show Linux Gamers Are Well Below 1% Of Their Customer Base | Linux Gaming | 2016-03-31 |
| Epic Games' Tim Sweeney Is Warning Of Microsoft's Closed Gaming Ecosystem | Microsoft | 2016-03-04 |
| Windows 10 Reportedly On 200+ Million Devices | Proprietary Software | 2015-12-30 |
| The Most Popular Linux Articles This Year: Windows 10, OS X, Linux Graphics | Phoronix | 2015-12-19 |
| The Most Popular Linux News So Far This Year | Phoronix | 2015-12-13 |
| KDE Developer Working On Windows 8 Inspired Look | KDE | 2015-11-26 |
| Features Published So Far In The Linux 4.4 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2015-11-09 |
| Linux 4.4 HID: Better Skylake Touchpads, Corsair K90 & Logitech G29 Support | Linux Kernel | 2015-11-07 |
| Windows 10 Reportedly On 67+ Million PCs Already | Proprietary Software | 2015-07-31 |
| The Phoronix Test Suite Is Running On Windows 10 | Proprietary Software | 2015-07-30 |
| The Less-Powerful Intel Compute Stick With Ubuntu Will Soon Ship | Intel | 2015-07-02 |
| Linux 4, GCC v. Clang & Vulkan Were Among The Hot Stories So Far This Year | Free Software | 2015-07-02 |
| New Logitech Mouse & Sony Motion/Navigation Controller Support In Linux 4.2 | Linux Kernel | 2015-06-22 |
| Running Linux On The Intel Compute Stick | Intel | 2015-05-28 |
| The Most Popular Linux News & Milestones From This Winter | Phoronix | 2015-03-20 |
| Valve Developed An Intel Linux Vulkan GPU Driver | Intel | 2015-03-05 |
| Android-Based Console OS Available For Download | Operating Systems | 2015-02-24 |
| A Five Year Old NVIDIA GPU Can Still Beat Broadwell HD Graphics 5500 | Intel | 2015-02-03 |
| Windows 10, PS4, C4 & Systemd News Kicked Off 2015 | Phoronix | 2015-02-01 |
| My Initial Intel Broadwell Linux Experience With The ThinkPad X1 Carbon | Hardware | 2015-01-23 |
| Windows 10 To Be A Free Upgrade: What Linux Users Need To Know | Proprietary Software | 2015-01-21 |
| My Next Linux Ultrabook: Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Carbon With Core i7-5600U | Hardware | 2015-01-13 |
| Linux Tests Are Coming Of The New Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Broadwell) | Hardware | 2015-01-11 |
| The Most Viewed Phoronix Articles & Linux News In 2014 | Phoronix | 2014-12-31 |
| The Top Linux Graphics Articles Of 2014: Testing Lots Of GPUs | Hardware | 2014-12-31 |
| November Was Great For Linux Users, But December Will Be Especially Interesting | Phoronix | 2014-11-30 |
| Gizmo 2 Development Board Powered By AMD SoC | Hardware | 2014-11-11 |
| Major Performance Breakthrough Discovered For Intel's Mesa Driver | Intel | 2014-11-05 |
| AMD On Linux & Systemd Were Very Popular This Month | Phoronix | 2014-10-31 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Released - Supports MariaDB, Systemd & Btrfs | SUSE | 2014-10-27 |
| Operating System U Fails To Live Up To Its Goals | Operating Systems | 2014-09-29 |
| The Widely-Criticized New Commercial Linux Distro Is Now On Kickstarter | Operating Systems | 2014-08-22 |
| Intel Starts Shipping Core M Broadwell-Y 14nm Chips | Intel | 2014-08-11 |
| Ext2Fsd: EXT3/EXT4 Support Now Works On Windows 8 | Free Software | 2014-06-18 |
| Many ACPI & Power Management Changes Head Into Linux 3.16 | Linux Kernel | 2014-06-06 |
| NVIDIA's Tegra K1 & Linux Gaming Were Popular In May | Phoronix | 2014-05-31 |
| TrueCrypt Has Been Potentially Compromised | Free Software | 2014-05-28 |
| Features You Will Not Find In Mesa 10.2 | Mesa | 2014-05-27 |
| Many Interesting Tests Are Coming For The Phoronix 10th Birthday | Phoronix | 2014-05-26 |
| Gigabyte's Z97-HD3 Z97 Motherboard Is Running Well On Linux | Intel | 2014-05-24 |
| Other Ways To Optimize Your Linux Battery Life | Hardware | 2014-05-21 |
| AmazonBasics External USB 2.0 DVD Writer For Linux | Hardware | 2014-04-20 |
| ReactOS Working On A Community Windows OS | Operating Systems | 2014-04-19 |
| Linux 3.15 Supports The Dualshock 4, Win 8.1 Multi-Touch Protocol | Hardware | 2014-04-02 |
| Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Dominated March | Phoronix | 2014-03-31 |
| The Most Popular Linux Stories So Far In 2014 | Phoronix | 2014-03-30 |
| Qt 5.3 Beta Released -- Improves Android, Adds WebSockets | Qt | 2014-03-25 |
| OS X Is No Longer On My Main System, But I Already Have Regrets | Ubuntu | 2014-03-12 |
| Eurocom Begins Offering Linux High Performance Laptops | Hardware | 2014-03-11 |
| Lots Of Linux Hardware Reviews Coming Up, San Diego Meet-Up | Hardware | 2014-03-09 |
| My New Linux Ultrabook: The ASUS Zenbook UX301LA-DH71T | Hardware | 2014-03-08 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 5.0 M3 Plays With Windows 8.1 & More | Phoronix Test Suite | 2014-03-04 |
| NVIDIA Quietly Launches The GTX TITAN Black | NVIDIA | 2014-02-18 |
| Recapping The AMD Kaveri Linux Experience | AMD | 2014-02-09 |
| Wine 1.7.12: Windows Media Player Interfaces Support | WINE | 2014-02-07 |
| Valve Continues Dominating & Kaveri Excited Linux Users | Valve | 2014-01-31 |
| More AMD A10-7850K Kaveri APU Linux Benchmarks | AMD | 2014-01-15 |
| AMD Will Post A New Catalyst Linux Driver Today | AMD | 2014-01-14 |
| SteamOS Update Now Officially Supports Intel | Linux Gaming | 2014-01-07 |
| Steam Linux Usage Still Roughly Around 1% | Valve | 2014-01-01 |
| SteamOS, Linux Graphics Made An Exciting Holiday | Phoronix | 2013-12-31 |
| NVIDIA Optimus Linux Power Battery Tests | Hardware | 2013-12-22 |
| Valve Releases New SteamOS Beta With Updated Drivers | Valve | 2013-12-21 |
| AMD Radeon Catalyst Benchmarks On SteamOS | Linux Gaming | 2013-12-19 |
| It's Easy Getting Intel Graphics To Work On SteamOS | Linux Gaming | 2013-12-15 |
| Exciting Upcoming Linux Hardware Reviews, Articles | Hardware | 2013-12-12 |
| NVIDIA (Optimus) PRIME Update Lands In Ubuntu 14.04 | NVIDIA | 2013-12-10 |
| Defeating Secure Boot With Linux Kexec | Linux Kernel | 2013-12-04 |
| New Linux Benchmarks To Run This Weekend | Phoronix | 2013-12-01 |
| Linux 3.13, NVIDIA GPUs Won Over November | Phoronix | 2013-11-30 |
| Choosing A 2013 Laptop/Ultrabook For Linux | Intel | 2013-11-30 |
| Intel's GL Windows Driver Pushes Further Ahead Of Linux | Intel | 2013-11-25 |
| NVIDIA GeForce 700 Series On Linux Run Excellent | NVIDIA | 2013-11-20 |
| Nouveau Publishes New Power Management, Re-Clocking Code | Nouveau | 2013-11-08 |
| Linux 3.12, Ubuntu Spooked Users This Month | Phoronix | 2013-10-31 |
| The ASUS "Bay Trail" T100 Is Not Linux Friendly | Hardware | 2013-10-27 |
| Windows 8.1 vs. Linux Benchmark Results Are Coming | Hardware | 2013-10-25 |
| Ubuntu 13.10 Now Available For Download | Ubuntu | 2013-10-17 |
| Linux Won't Get Aura UI Stack Until Google Chrome 33 | Google | 2013-10-16 |
| VirtualBox 4.3 Supports Multi-Touch, New OSes | Virtualization | 2013-10-15 |
| Intel Hardware & Linux 3.12 Dominated September | Phoronix | 2013-09-30 |
| VirtualBox 4.3 Beta 3 Fixes 3D, Modern Kernels | Virtualization | 2013-09-20 |
| Valve's Gabe Newell Talks Up Linux For Gaming | Valve | 2013-09-16 |
| VMware Fusion 6.0.0 Linux Virtualization Benchmarks | Virtualization | 2013-09-16 |
| Intel Bay Trail / Silvermont Linux Hardware Support | Intel | 2013-09-12 |
| VMware Workstation 10 Brings In New Features | Virtualization | 2013-09-10 |
| System76 Gazelle Pro: A High Performance Linux Laptop | Phoronix | 2013-09-05 |
| Pipelight, X.Org, exFAT & Wayland Topped This Month | Phoronix | 2013-08-31 |
| Digia Looking At Windows WinRT Support In Qt 5.2 | Qt | 2013-08-28 |
| Performance Overview Of Mesa 9.2 | Mesa | 2013-08-21 |
| July Was An Incredible Month For Linux Users | Phoronix | 2013-07-31 |
| Running PC-BSD/FreeBSD 9.1 On Intel's Core i7 Haswell | Intel | 2013-07-30 |
| Oz Improves Linux, Windows Guest Installation | Operating Systems | 2013-07-29 |
| Windows 8 vs. Linux Graphics, Source Benchmarks Coming | Phoronix | 2013-07-23 |
| Linux 3.11-rc2 Kernel Packs In Mostly Normal Changes | Linux Kernel | 2013-07-21 |
| Windows 8 Hardware Has Another Problem For Linux | Hardware | 2013-05-29 |
| What Was Striking On Phoronix Last Month | Phoronix | 2013-05-01 |
| Intel Ultrabook: Fedora 18 vs. Ubuntu 13.04 Tests | Hardware | 2013-04-04 |
| Ubuntu 13.04 To Axe The Wubi Windows Installer | Ubuntu | 2013-04-01 |
| Mir, ARM & Valve Excite Linux Users This Month | Valve | 2013-03-31 |
| Valve Has Been Working Hard On Linux For One Year | Valve | 2013-03-30 |
| Linux Group Files Complaint With EU Over SecureBoot | Free Software | 2013-03-26 |
| PTS 4.4.1 Arrives, Benchmark Windows 8 vs. Ubuntu | Phoronix | 2013-03-14 |
| Intel Delivers Innovations Atop Google's Android | Intel | 2013-03-12 |
| Linux 3.9 Kernel To Support Google's Goldfish | Linux Kernel | 2013-02-19 |
| Support For Running Windows Apps On ARM With Wine | WINE | 2013-02-05 |
| Three PC Brands Where SecureBoot On Linux Is Botched | Hardware | 2013-02-01 |
| Valve Confirms Linux Steam Box Will Be Open Platform | Valve | 2013-01-08 |
| Blizzard Entertainment Planning A Linux Game For 2013 | Linux Gaming | 2013-01-06 |
| Free Software Foundation Thinks It Can Stop SecureBoot | GNU | 2012-12-29 |
| The State Of Linux Distributions Handling SecureBoot | Operating Systems | 2012-12-28 |
| The Feature Overview For The Linux 3.8 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2012-12-24 |
| The 3.8 Kernel Is An Amazing Gift To Linux Users | Linux Kernel | 2012-12-15 |
| Linux Begins To Support Windows 8 Multi-Touch | Hardware | 2012-12-13 |
| Ryan Gordon On Valve's Steam, Linux Porting | Valve | 2012-12-01 |
| LF: There's Less Concern About ARM UEFI SecureBoot | Linux Kernel | 2012-11-27 |
| Valve's Steam License Causes Linux Packaging Concerns | Valve | 2012-11-15 |
| Valve Talks Linux Gaming At The Ubuntu Summit | Valve | 2012-10-29 |
| A Linux User's Perspective Of Microsoft Windows 8 | Microsoft | 2012-10-28 |
| September Brought Good Valve, ARM, Linux News | Valve | 2012-10-02 |
| VMware Fusion 5.0 Benchmarks With Ubuntu 12.04 | Virtualization | 2012-09-16 |
| AMD "Hondo" APUs May Not Be Too Linux Friendly | AMD | 2012-09-14 |
| Intel Shafting Linux Users With Clover Trail: No Support | Intel | 2012-09-13 |
| Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.2 Officially Released | Virtualization | 2012-09-13 |
| Oracle Still Working On VirtualBox 4.2 | Virtualization | 2012-09-01 |
| Linux Kernel: "Drop Support For x86-32" | Linux Kernel | 2012-08-23 |
| Valve Releases New CS: Global Offensive Trailer | Valve | 2012-08-18 |
