FOSDEM is the Free Open-Source Developers' European Meeting that happens every February in Belgium for open-source and Linux/BSD enthusiasts.

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FOSDEM Articles & Reviews

An Open-Source, Reverse-Engineered Mali GPU Driver   Display Drivers   2012-01-21
Cleaning Up The Linux Graphics Driver Stack   Display Drivers   2010-02-07
How To Reverse Engineer A Motherboard BIOS   Motherboards   2010-02-06
Nouveau Companion 43   Display Drivers   2009-03-19
Embedding A Code Compiler With GPU Drivers   Display Drivers   2009-02-14
Intel On Rebuilding The X.Org Linux Desktop   Display Drivers   2009-02-09
RandR 1.3 Explained, Demonstrated   Display Drivers   2009-02-08
Keith Packard Talks X.Org At OSCON 2008   Events   2008-07-23
AMD Releases R300 3D Register Guide   Display Drivers   2008-03-14
Nouveau Companion 36   Display Drivers   2008-03-05
Extending Ubuntu's Battery Life   Operating Systems   2008-02-29
Gallium3D Status Update Q1'08   Display Drivers   2008-02-24
ATI/AMD's Open-Source Plans   Display Drivers   2008-02-23
Nouveau Companion 35   Display Drivers   2008-02-14

FOSDEM Linux & Open-Source News

Intel Panther Lake & Linux AI/LLM Debates Dominated Q1 For Linux Users   Phoronix   2026-03-31
Linux 7.0 Development & Intel Panther Lake Proved Most Popular In February   Phoronix   2026-03-01
PipeWire 1.6 Released With Many New Features   PipeWire   2026-02-19
AMD openSIL + Coreboot Being Ported To A Modern AM5 Consumer Motherboard   AMD   2026-02-09
Microsoft On QEMU 10.2's New MSHV Accelerator For Hyper-V Guests   Microsoft   2026-02-08
GNOME's Glycin 2.1 Beta Enables JPEG 2000 Support By Default   GNOME   2026-02-07
Toyota Developing A Console-Grade, Open-Source Game Engine - Using Flutter & Dart   Linux Gaming   2026-02-06
GTK Developers Working On Session Saving Support & Better Accessibility This Year   GNOME   2026-02-06
3mdeb Talks Up AMD openSIL & Open-Source Firmware Efforts For Confidential Compute   AMD   2026-02-05
GIMP Post-3.2 Will Be Looking At Hardware Acceleration, Full CMYK & More   Free Software   2026-02-04
Leveraging urunc For Efficiently Running BSD Applications In Linux Environments   BSD   2026-02-03
OpenIndiana Is Porting Solaris' IPS Package Management To Rust   Operating Systems   2026-02-03
Rust Coreutils 0.6 Brings Increased Compatibility, Removing Some Unsafe Code & More Perf   Programming   2026-02-02
Security Researchers Find Current RISC-V CPU Implementations Coming Up Short   RISC-V   2026-02-02
Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility, Proving Trolls Wrong   Programming   2026-02-02
GNU Hurd Is "Almost There" With x86_64, SMP & ~75% Of Debian Packages Building   GNU   2026-02-01
smolBSD Builds On The NetBSD-MicroVM Kernel For Booting To Service VMs In Milliseconds   BSD   2026-02-01
Phosh Mobile Phone UI Making Progress On GTK4 Port   GNOME   2026-01-31
Linuxulator-Steam-Utils To Enjoy Steam Play Gaming On FreeBSD & Other Options   BSD   2026-01-31
GTK Developers Plot Improvements To Tackle This Year - Possible Opt-In Unstable API   GNOME   2026-01-31
GCC & The GNU Toolchain's Exciting 2025 With New Languages, More Optimizations   GNU   2025-12-31
Rust Coreutils 0.0.30 Enhances GNU Compatibility, Uutils To Port More Common Unix Tools   Programming   2025-03-08
PipeWire 1.4 Released With MIDI 2.0 Support & Other New Features   PipeWire   2025-03-06
NVIDIA Blackwell, Continued AMD Zen 5 Benchmarking & Rust Drama Dominated February   Phoronix   2025-03-01
Firefox ForkServer Getting Ready To Enhance Linux Browser Performance   Mozilla   2025-02-10
AMD Talks Up IREE/MLIR Programming For Ryzen AI NPUs   AMD   2025-02-06
PipeWire Is Doing An Excellent Job Handling Audio/Video Streams On The Linux Desktop   PipeWire   2025-02-06
NVIDIA Engineer Talks Up sched_ext Linux Scheduler Possibilities At FOSDEM   NVIDIA   2025-02-05
Red Hat Developing "F-UKI" As Their Newest Open-Source Project   Red Hat   2025-02-05
GRUB Continues Working Toward Its Next Release In 2025   GNU   2025-02-04
Optimizing The Linux Kernel With PGO Can Yield ~3% Benefit For HPC Workloads   Programming   2025-02-04
Igalia's Optimizations Juicing More Graphics Performance Out Of The Raspberry Pi   Raspberry Pi   2025-02-04
GEICO Insurance Company Developing TuxTape - A New Linux Kernel Livepatching Solution   Linux Kernel   2025-02-03
FreeBSD Working On S0ix Sleep State Support For Newer Laptops   BSD   2025-02-03
GTK's X11 Backend Now Deprecated, Planned For Removal In GTK 5   GNOME   2025-02-01
Canonical Makes More Snap Improvements Ahead Of Ubuntu 24.10   Ubuntu   2024-08-16
Kernel Optimizations, XZ, AMD ZLUDA, NOVA, EPYC 4004 & Other H1'2024 Highlights   Phoronix   2024-06-30
AMD's Longtime Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Advocate Retires   Radeon   2024-04-02
Drop-In CUDA On AMD, Kernel Discussions, NGINX Fork & Other Q1 Highlights   Phoronix   2024-04-01
CUDA On ROCm, Ryzen 8000G Series & Rust Activity Made For An Exciting February   Phoronix   2024-03-01
Thunderbird Making Progress With Adopting Rust Code   Mozilla   2024-02-14
TrenchBoot Progress For Adding More Security & Integrity To The Boot Process   Free Software   2024-02-11
Qualcomm Hardware Support Increasingly In Good Shape On The Mainline Linux Kernel   Hardware   2024-02-10
The Ongoing Open-Source Work To Enable Webcam Support On Recent Intel Laptops   Intel   2024-02-09
Canonical Improving The Thunderbird Snap For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS   Ubuntu   2024-02-08
Snaps & Ubuntu Core Desktop Talked Up At FOSDEM 2024   Ubuntu   2024-02-07
The Mold Linker Is Great & Set To Become Even Better   Programming   2024-02-07
The Greenfield In-Browser Wayland Compositor Is Fast Enough For Gaming   Wayland   2024-02-06
The 2024 State Of Open-Source AMD Firmware   AMD   2024-02-06
Rust-Written Stateless Codec Drivers Make A Lot Of Sense   Multimedia   2024-02-06
GRUB2 Working On TPM2 Automatic Disk Unlock, TrenchBoot & More   GNU   2024-02-05
Orange Pi Neo Coming As A Ryzen 7 + Linux Powered Handheld Device   Linux Gaming   2024-02-05
LLVM/Clang Can Work Fine As A GCC Replacement For Linux Distributions   LLVM   2024-02-05
PipeWire To Work On Vulkan Converters & Processing Filters   PipeWire   2024-02-05
LXD Fork Incus Looking At Bcachefs Storage Driver & Upcoming LTS Release   Linux Storage   2024-02-05
Cassia Aims To Pair Wine/DXVK/VKD3D-Proton/FEX For Windows Games On Android   Mesa   2024-02-04
AMD's Work On Upstreaming AMDGPU/ROCm Debugging Support Into GDB   AMD   2024-02-04
It's Becoming Possible To Use The Webcam On Newer Intel Laptops With Open-Source Linux   Intel   2024-01-26
GNU Hurd Has Been Making Progress On Its x86_64 Support   GNU   2024-01-10
NVIDIA's Open-Source Kernel Driver & Maturing Wayland Support Were Great In 2023   NVIDIA   2024-01-02
Open-Source Graphics DevRoom Returning For FOSDEM 2024   X.Org   2023-11-19
WineConf Likely Over But There May Be A Proton / Gaming Developer Conference   WINE   2023-07-22
uutils 0.0.20 Improves GNU Coreutils Compatibility For This Rust-Written Replacement   Programming   2023-07-14
Rust-Written Coreutils Replacement uutils 0.0.19 Released   Programming   2023-06-05
FFmpeg's Next Release Will Be Exciting With Vulkan Video Decode, More Vulkan Filters   Multimedia   2023-05-31
Rust-Written Coreutils v0.0.18 Released With Improved GNU Compatibility   Programming   2023-04-03
Linux 6.2, Linux 6.3 Developments, KDE Plasma 5.27 & More Made For An Exciting Month   Phoronix   2023-02-28
FFmpeg 6.0 Released With NVIDIA NVENC AV1, VA-API Improvements   Multimedia   2023-02-28
More Than 100 Rust Patches Merged Today For GCC 13   GNU   2023-02-21
The Current State Of GCC 13's Rust Language Front-End   GNU   2023-02-13
Open-Source Software Encode/Decode For H.266/VVC Progressing   Multimedia   2023-02-11
FFmpeg Is Ripe For More AVX-512 Optimizations   Multimedia   2023-02-11
LLVM's Fortran Compiler "Flang" Makes Significant Progress But Not Yet Production Ready   LLVM   2023-02-10
Fedora's New Web-Based Installer UI Is Shaping Up Nicely   Red Hat   2023-02-10
GTK5 Development Likely To Heat Up Following GTK 4.12   GNOME   2023-02-09
A Call For More Collaboration & Harmony Among BSD Hardware Drivers   BSD   2023-02-09
The Rust Implementation Of GNU Coreutils Is Becoming Remarkably Robust   Programming   2023-02-08
Fedora Asahi Aims To Provide The Fedora Workstation Experience For Apple Silicon Systems   Apple   2023-02-07
Intel Developing Rust-Based TD-Shim Firmware For Confidential Containers   Intel   2023-02-07
FFmpeg 6.0 Will Be Big With AV1 Hardware Decoding, Many Other Features   Multimedia   2023-02-06
The Current State Of Coreboot & Open-Source Firmware For AMD Hardware In 2023   AMD   2023-02-06
A Non-GNU Linux Distribution Built With LLVM & BSD Software Aims For Alpha Next Month   Operating Systems   2023-02-06
RustyHermit Delivers A Rust-Based, Modular Unikernel For MicroVMs   Operating Systems   2023-02-05
Ubuntu 22.10 Adds Debuginfod Integration   Ubuntu   2022-09-12
LLVM Adds An HTTP Server For Debuginfod   LLVM   2022-07-11
Steam Deck, GNOME 42 Advancements & AMD Linux Updates Excited Readers In February   Phoronix   2022-03-01
Raspberry Pi's Vulkan Driver Likely To See Better Performance This Year   Mesa   2022-02-14
Researcher Talks Of Possible CPU Security Mitigations With No Performance Cost   Linux Security   2022-02-11
DirectFB2 Is Modernizing DirectFB With Meson, Modularizing The Sources   Desktop   2022-02-10
GRUB 2.12 Planned For Release This Year, Continues Improving Boot Security   Free Software   2022-02-10
Europe's AMD-Powered LUMI Supercomputer Continues With Code Porting, Open-Source Tuning   AMD   2022-02-09
Qualcomm Open-Source Vulkan Driver Aims To Run More Windows Games Via Wine / Proton   Mesa   2022-02-09
Chimera Linux Pushes Ahead For FreeBSD User-Space Atop Linux, Built Using LLVM   Operating Systems   2022-02-08
OpenMandriva Lx 4.3 Released With Completed Arm 64-bit Port, Sticks To Using LLVM   Operating Systems   2022-02-07
FEX-Emu Is Working On Speedy x86/x86_64 Games Support On AArch64, Including Proton   Linux Gaming   2022-02-06
GNU/Hurd Continues Effort To Use NetBSD's Drivers For Better Hardware Support   GNU   2022-02-06
The Less Than Ideal State Of AMD Open-Source Firmware Support In 2022   AMD   2022-02-05
FOSDEM 2022 Is Happening Online This Weekend   Linux Events   2022-02-05
Arch Linux Now Provides Debug Packages, Debuginfod Integration   Arch Linux   2022-02-03
DirectFB2 Aims To Resurrect DirectFB For Embedded Systems   Free Software   2022-01-27
Btrfs Set To Land Support For IDMAPPED Mounts In Linux 5.15   Linux Storage   2021-08-12
Fedora 35 Looking To Make Use Of Debuginfod By Default   Fedora   2021-04-08
Box86 Continues Quest For Running x86 Linux Programs On ARM, Other Archs   Free Software   2021-03-28
helloSystem, System76 Keyboard + Linux 5.11/5.12 Captivated Users In February   Phoronix   2021-03-01
Void Linux Has Been Working To Deliver Great POWER Support   Operating Systems   2021-02-27
Compute Express Link 2.0 Support Sent In For Linux 5.12, Enabling CXL 2.0 Memory Devices   Hardware   2021-02-24
Ampere Making Progress On Open-Source Firmware For Their CPUs/Platform   Free Software   2021-02-24
Debian Launches A Debuginfod Server For Smoother Debugging Experience   Debian   2021-02-24
The State Of ROCm For HPC In Early 2021 With CUDA Porting Via HIP, Rewriting With OpenMP   AMD   2021-02-21
Facebook's Linux Desktop Choice Is Fedora But Ramping Up CentOS Stream   Fedora   2021-02-14
helloSystem Releases New ISOs For This macOS-Inspired BSD Desktop OS   BSD   2021-02-14
Mercurial Revision Control System Continues Rust'ing For Better Performance   Programming   2021-02-11
GRUB 2.06 Should Be Released This Year, Cooperation Increasing With Distro Vendors   GNU   2021-02-10
Developers Continue New Push With LibreOffice In The Web Browser Via WebAssembly   LibreOffice   2021-02-10
CentOS Hyperscaler Is Sounding Quite Promising For The Modern Enterprise   Red Hat   2021-02-09
helloSystem Wants To Be The "macOS of BSDs" With A Polished Desktop Experience   BSD   2021-02-09
The State of Apache OpenOffice As Of Early 2021   Free Software   2021-02-08
The Latest Open-Source AMD Firmware / Coreboot Happenings In Early 2021   AMD   2021-02-07
FWUPD Is Being Ported To The BSDs To Handle Firmware Updating   LVFS   2021-02-07
LibreSOC Still Striving To Produce An Open-Source Hybrid CPU/GPU Built On OpenPOWER   Hardware   2021-02-06
VoltPillager: Researchers Compromise Intel SGX With Hardware-Based Undervolting Attack   Linux Security   2021-02-06
seL4 Micro-Kernel Working Towards A General-Purpose, Multi-Server OS   Operating Systems   2021-02-06
FOSDEM Online 2021 Is Happening This Weekend   Linux Events   2021-02-06
Raspberry Pi's V3DV Vulkan Driver Has Been Picking Up More Extensions, Wayland WSI   Mesa   2021-02-03
Systemd Had A Pretty Big 2020 With Homed, OOMD Components Merged   systemd   2020-12-29
GNOME Foundation Planning For More Initiatives In 2021   GNOME   2020-11-17
Linux 5.6, Threadripper 3990X, $199 AMD Laptop Topped Reader Interest In February   Phoronix   2020-03-01
GDB Debugger Adds Support For Debuginfod Web Server   GNU   2020-02-27
Address Space Isolation For The Linux Kernel Is Still A Big Challenge In 2020   Linux Security   2020-02-10
Zink In Mesa For OpenGL Over Vulkan Should Be Back To Supporting OpenGL 3.0 Soon   Mesa   2020-02-08
Learn More About Systemd-Homed For How Linux Home Directories Are Being Reinvented   systemd   2020-02-07
Mozilla Developer Talks Up WGPU As Their WebGPU Implementation In Rust   Mozilla   2020-02-06
VirtIO-FS Is Looking Quite Good For Shared File-System With VMs   Virtualization   2020-02-06
Oreboot Continues Advancing For Open-Source, Rust-Based Booting On RISC-V   Coreboot   2020-02-05
Red Hat Talks Up debuginfod As The New Debug Info Web Server   Programming   2020-02-05
SpecFuzz Emerges To Test Code For Spectre-Style Vulnerabilities   Linux Security   2020-02-04
The Meteoric Rise Of Fwupd+LVFS For Linux Firmware Updates   LVFS   2020-02-04
Rav1e 0.3 Is Releasing Soon For Faster Rust-Based AV1 Encoding   Multimedia   2020-02-04
Could JPEG2000 Finally Take Off In 2020? It's A Possibility With High Throughput HTJ2K   Multimedia   2020-02-04
seL4 Microkernel Being Ported To RISC-V   Operating Systems   2020-02-04
The Modern Flang "f18" Compiler Is The Most Exciting Fortran Compiler Of Recent Times   LLVM   2020-02-04
The Current State of AMD Zen Coreboot Support: Basically Limited To Chromebooks   AMD   2020-02-03
Intel's Linux Graphics Stack Is Close To Landing A Code-Generator Generator   Intel   2020-02-03
GRUB 2.06 Planning For Release This Year - Possibly With Intel TXT + AMD SKINIT Support   Oracle   2020-02-03
Hikari Is A FreeBSD-Focused X11 Window Manager + Wayland Compositor   BSD   2020-02-03
Haiku R1 Beta 2 Is Hopefully Not Too Far Away   Operating Systems   2020-02-03
Intel Quietly Released A Redistributable, Lightweight ME "Ignition Firmware" Binary   Intel   2020-02-02
OpenMandriva 4.1 Released With Clang'ed LTO+PGO Packages, Linux 5.5 + More   Operating Systems   2020-02-01
Nouveau Still Pushing Forward In 2020 Thanks To Red Hat But Community Developers Leaving   Nouveau   2020-02-01
Wayland's Wild Decade From v1.0 Release To Usable GNOME/KDE Desktop Support   Wayland   2019-12-29