Linux 5.8 Articles & Reviews |
| Intel Xeon vs. AMD EPYC Performance On The Linux 5.8 Kernel | Processors | 2020-10-02 |
| XFS / EXT4 / Btrfs / F2FS / NILFS2 Performance On Linux 5.8 | Storage | 2020-07-03 |
| Linux 5.8 Kernel Features Include New Intel/AMD Capabilities, Security Improvements, Optimizations | Software | 2020-06-14 |
Linux 5.8 Linux & Open-Source News |
| Linux Lands Fix For Its "Subtly Wrong" Page Fault Handling Code For The Past 5 Years | Linux Kernel | 2026-01-23 |
| Mediatek Gains Stateless AV1/HEVC Codecs, Intel Atom ISP Driver Getting Fit | Multimedia | 2023-07-07 |
| Intel i219-LM Had Only Been Running At ~60% Of Maximum Speed Due To Linux Driver Bug | Intel | 2023-04-20 |
| DragonFlyBSD Now Has Working Support For Intel Whiskey Lake Graphics | BSD | 2021-12-28 |
| Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 21.Q3 Released For Linux | Radeon | 2021-09-15 |
| Opt-In L1 Cache Flushing To Try For Linux 5.15 To Help With The Paranoid, Future CPU Vulnerabilities | Linux Security | 2021-08-30 |
| Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS Released With Fixes, Newer Hardware Enablement Stack | Ubuntu | 2021-08-26 |
| Mesa 21.0, Linux 5.11 Prepared For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Updates | Ubuntu | 2021-08-09 |
| Linspire 10 Released - Claims Of "Most Meticulously Designed & Engineered FOSS Desktop" | Operating Systems | 2021-02-10 |
| L1d Cache Flushing On Context Switch Trying Again But More Conservative In 2021 | Linux Security | 2021-01-08 |
| The Linux Kernel Made Terrific Strides In 2020 | Linux Kernel | 2021-01-01 |
| Happy New Year! A Look Back At The Most Popular Phoronix Content Of 2020 | Phoronix | 2020-12-31 |
| QEMU 5.2 Released For Improving The Linux Open-Source Virtualization Stack | Virtualization | 2020-12-09 |
| The 10 Most Interesting Features Of Linux 5.10 | Linux Kernel | 2020-12-08 |
| A Look At Linux 5.10 + Mesa 21.0-dev On Intel "Tiger Lake" Xe Graphics | Intel | 2020-12-07 |
| EPYC Zen 3 CPU Support Coming To Linux's AMD_Energy Driver | AMD | 2020-12-04 |
| AMD Zen1/Zen2/Zen3 PowerCap RAPL Support Queued For Linux 5.11 | AMD | 2020-11-16 |
| Tiger Lake H Thunderbolt Support Comes To Linux 5.10 | Intel | 2020-11-15 |
| AMD, Kernel Advancements & Tiger Lake Captivated Linux Readers In October | Phoronix | 2020-11-01 |
| Intel's Cloud-Hypervisor 0.11 Adds Windows Guest Support | Virtualization | 2020-10-30 |
| Fedora 33 Released With Workstation Using Btrfs By Default | Fedora | 2020-10-27 |
| Linux 5.10 Is The Next LTS Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2020-10-26 |
| Linux 5.10-rc1 Released With New Hardware Support, Security Additions | Linux Kernel | 2020-10-25 |
| Intel Core i7 1165G7 Tiger Lake vs. AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U Linux Performance | AMD | 2020-10-24 |
| Ubuntu 20.10 Released With GNOME 3.38, Active Directory Installer Integration | Ubuntu | 2020-10-22 |
| OpenZFS 2.0-RC4 Released With More Fixes, Linux 5.9 Support | Linux Storage | 2020-10-19 |
| NVIDIA Doesn't Expect To Have Linux 5.9 Driver Support For Another Month | NVIDIA | 2020-10-17 |
| PowerPC 601 Support Retired In Linux 5.10 While Continuing To Bring Up POWER10 | Hardware | 2020-10-17 |
| ZFSOnLinux 0.8.5 Released With Support For Newer Kernels, Bug Fixes | Linux Storage | 2020-10-06 |
| Ubuntu 20.10 Beta Released For Testing | Ubuntu | 2020-10-01 |
| Intel mOS, Torvalds Commentary, Intel Gen12 Graphics, Zen 2 "XT" CPUs Topped Q3 | Phoronix | 2020-09-29 |
| Fedora 33 Beta Released With Big Changes From LTO To Btrfs | Fedora | 2020-09-29 |
| Fedora 33 Beta To Be Released Next Week | Fedora | 2020-09-25 |
| Arch Linux Based EndeavourOS Begins Providing ARM Builds | Arch Linux | 2020-09-23 |
| Linux 5.9-rc6 Released With Soft Scrollback Removed, Performance Regression Fixed | Linux Kernel | 2020-09-20 |
| Optional L1d Flushing On Context Switching Looks Like It Will Try Again For Linux 5.10 | Intel | 2020-09-16 |
| Habana Labs' Gaudi NIC Support Being Worked On For Linux Kernel | Intel | 2020-09-13 |
| Ubuntu 20.10 Adding Active Directory Support To The Installer | Ubuntu | 2020-09-07 |
| VirtualBox 6.1.14 Adds Linux 5.8 Kernel Support | Oracle | 2020-09-04 |
| Linux From Scratch 10.0 Released For Rolling Your Own Linux Installation From Source | Operating Systems | 2020-09-01 |
| Real-Time / PREEMPT_RT Support Should Finally Be Mainlined Soon In The Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2020-08-26 |
| OpenZFS 2.0-RC1 Released With Unified Linux/BSD Support, Zstd Compression & Much More | Linux Storage | 2020-08-25 |
| Linux 5.9-rc2 Released With EXT4 Updates, More POWER10 Bits | Linux Kernel | 2020-08-23 |
| MuQSS/CK's Con Kolivas Becoming Concerned Over The Increasing Size Of The Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2020-08-20 |
| Reiser4/Reiser5 Updated For Linux 5.8 | Linux Storage | 2020-08-18 |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Shipping Linux 5.8 | SUSE | 2020-08-14 |
| FUSE Read/Write Passthrough Updated For Much Better File-System Performance | Linux Storage | 2020-08-13 |
| POWER10 Virtualization, Intel SERIALIZE Come For KVM On Linux 5.9 | Virtualization | 2020-08-12 |
| Linux 5.9 Brings More IBM POWER10 Support, New/Faster SCV System Call ABI | Hardware | 2020-08-09 |
| Char/Misc Is Still Quite Busy With Linux 5.9 Still Lacking An "Accelerator" Subsystem | Linux Kernel | 2020-08-08 |
| Intel Workaround For Graphics Driver Regression: "The Platform Problem Going Crazy" | Intel | 2020-08-05 |
| GNU Linux-libre 5.8 Required A Lot Of Deblobbing | Linux Kernel | 2020-08-03 |
| IO_uring Has Many Improvements Set To Go Into Linux 5.9 | Linux Storage | 2020-08-03 |
| Linux 5.8 Released With AMD Energy Driver, F2FS LZO-RLE, IBM POWER10 Booting | Linux Kernel | 2020-08-02 |
| Changes Expected For The Linux 5.9 Kernel From Intel DG1 To AMD Navi 2 To New CPU Capabilities | Linux Kernel | 2020-08-02 |
| Rust Maybe Coming To The Linux Kernel, Other Open-Source Milestones For July | Phoronix | 2020-08-02 |
| Eight Great Features Of Linux 5.8 | Linux Kernel | 2020-07-31 |
| MSM Open-Source Driver Continues On Qualcomm Adreno 640/650 Series Bring-Up | Hardware | 2020-07-30 |
| Linux Quietly Makes It Harder To Guess Network RNG's Internal State | Linux Networking | 2020-07-29 |
| Google Sends Patches For AMD Zen / Zen 2 RAPL PowerCap Support | AMD | 2020-07-29 |
| L1d Flushing Patches Revived After It Was Rejected From Linux 5.8 As "Beyond Stupid" | Linux Kernel | 2020-07-29 |
| DragonFlyBSD Updates Its Intel + Radeon Linux-Ported Graphics Driver Code | BSD | 2020-07-27 |
| Linux 5.8-rc7 Released - Coming In Slightly Larger Than Normal | Linux Kernel | 2020-07-26 |
| GNOME-Usage Program Still Striving To Report Per-Program Power Analytics | GNOME | 2020-07-25 |
| Intel "Input Output Manager" Linux Driver Coming For Tiger Lake | Intel | 2020-07-25 |
| Linux 5.8-rc6 Kernel Released - "Things Continue To Look Very Normal" | Linux Kernel | 2020-07-19 |
| I've Been Running The AMD Ryzen 7 4700U + Ubuntu 20.04 As My Main System | AMD | 2020-07-17 |
| Linux 5.8-rc5 Released As A Big Kernel For This Late In The Cycle | Linux Kernel | 2020-07-12 |
| Linux 5.8 Formally Adds The Inclusive Terminology Guidelines | Linux Kernel | 2020-07-11 |
| Linux Kernel Raising Compiler Build Requirement To GCC 4.9 | Linux Kernel | 2020-07-08 |
| Linux 5.8-rc4 Released Following A Calm Week | Linux Kernel | 2020-07-05 |
| Intel Rocket Lake Graphics Support Ready For Liftoff With Linux 5.9 | Intel | 2020-07-02 |
| Intel Graphics Driver Fixes Include Assembly Sources To Satisfy GNU Linux-Libre Folks | Intel | 2020-07-01 |
| Raspberry Pi Vulkan, WSL2, Renoir, Linux 5.8 + PHP8 Was Exciting For June | Phoronix | 2020-07-01 |
| Intel vs. AMD, Systemd-Homed, Kernel Advancements Top H1'2020 For Linux | Phoronix | 2020-06-30 |
| Linux 5.8 Bringing Some Performance Boosts For AMD Renoir Graphics | AMD | 2020-06-29 |
| Linux 5.8-rc3 Released - Fairly Big But Not Particularly Scary | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-28 |
| FGKASLR Revised For Better Linux Security Via Enhanced Address Space Randomization | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-23 |
| Intel DG1 Graphics Card Support Lands In Mesa 20.2 For OpenGL / Vulkan | Intel | 2020-06-23 |
| Linux 5.8-rc2 Released For This Big Summer 2020 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-21 |
| The First Batch Of DRM-Misc-Next Changes For Linux 5.9 Sent In | X.Org | 2020-06-20 |
| Intel Volleys Latest Patches For Lighting Up Their DG1 Graphics Card On Linux | Intel | 2020-06-18 |
| Eight Features Not In Linux 5.8 From The DirectX Kernel Driver To FSGSBASE & DAMON | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-16 |
| Linux Lands And Then Reverts Usage Of Flexible Array Members | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-16 |
| Running Linux 5.8-rc1 Benchmarks On The Intel Core i9 10900K + Radeon RX 5700 XT | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-15 |
| Linux Patches Provide Corsair Commander Pro Support For Thermal / Fan / RGB Controller | Hardware | 2020-06-15 |
| Linux 5.8-rc1 Arrives As One Of The Biggest Releases Of All Time | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-14 |
| EXT4 Per-Inode DAX Support Sent In As A Last Minute Linux 5.8 Addition | Linux Storage | 2020-06-14 |
| Linux 5.8 Lands A General Notification Queue | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-13 |
| AMD MCE Improvements, Renoir Temperature + EDAC Support Sent In For Linux 5. 8 | AMD | 2020-06-13 |
| Loongson 3 CPUs Beginning To Work With Linux KVM Virtualization | Virtualization | 2020-06-13 |
| Linux 5.8 To Allow For Faster Xen 9pfs Performance | Linux Storage | 2020-06-13 |
| Futex2 Proposed In Latest Effort For Linux Kernel Optimization That Can Benefit Gamers | Valve | 2020-06-12 |
| Linux 5.8 Lands The Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer To Spot Race Conditions | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-12 |
| AMD Prepping PCID/INVPCID Support For KVM Guests On Zen 3 EPYC | AMD | 2020-06-12 |
| x86/urgent Updates Sent In To Linux 5.8 With The Speculation Mitigation Fixes | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-12 |
| Linux 5.8 Supports Nested AMD Live Migration With KVM | Virtualization | 2020-06-11 |
| Linux 5.8 To Support Emulating MLC NAND Flash Memory As SLC | Linux Storage | 2020-06-10 |
| Linux 5.8 Brings Boost Support To CPPC CPUFreq Driver | Hardware | 2020-06-10 |
| F2FS Improvements Sent In For Linux 5.8 With LZO-RLE, New Compression Knobs | Linux Storage | 2020-06-10 |
| Samsung Sends In Improvements To The exFAT File-System Driver For Linux 5.8 | Linux Storage | 2020-06-09 |
| Char/Misc Additions For Linux 5.8 Headlined By Intel / Habana Labs Gaudi Support | Hardware | 2020-06-09 |
| Ubuntu Is Working On Much Faster Hibernation/Resume Support | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-08 |
| Staging/IIO Changes For Linux 5.8 Are The Most Boring We Have Seen In A While | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-08 |
| USB Improvements Land In Linux 5.8 With Intel Additions, Non-x86 Thunderbolt | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-08 |
| Linux 5.8 Will Light Up The Adreno 405 / 640 / 650 GPUs On Open-Source | Hardware | 2020-06-08 |
| Linux 5.8 Adding NTB Support For Upcoming Ice Lake Xeon CPUs | Intel | 2020-06-08 |
| Linux 5.8 Brings Modernization Work To Procfs | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-07 |
| Linux 5.7.1 Releases As A Benign First Point Release | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-07 |
| RISC-V For Linux 5.8 Finishes Bringing Up The Kendryte K210, Adds KGDB Support | RISC-V | 2020-06-07 |
| New Arm SoCs Supported By Linux 5.8, Restructuring To Fit Android Kernel Improvements | Arm | 2020-06-07 |
| PCI Changes For Linux 5.8 Bring Power Savings, AMD Workarounds/Whitelisting | Hardware | 2020-06-06 |
| SMB3 Updates For Linux 5.8 Offer Better Performance For Large I/O | Linux Storage | 2020-06-06 |
| Linux 5.8 Has The Bits Needed To Begin Booting POWER10 Processors | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-05 |
| EXT4 Gets A Nice Batch Of Fixes For Linux 5.8 | Linux Storage | 2020-06-05 |
| Linux 5.8 Sound Changes Bring New AMD Renoir ACP Driver, Intel Elkhart Lake Support | Hardware | 2020-06-05 |
| Linux 5.8 Networking Changes Include Introducing Cable Testing Infrastructure | Linux Networking | 2020-06-04 |
| Intel Atom Camera Driver Resurrected In Linux 5.8 - Benefits A Lot Of Devices | Multimedia | 2020-06-04 |
| Linux 5.8 To Allow Swapping Fn / Ctrl Keys On Apple Keyboards | Hardware | 2020-06-04 |
| Phoronix Test Suite 9.8 Milestone 1 Readies Another Round Of Benchmarking Features | Phoronix Test Suite | 2020-06-04 |
| More Scheduler Optimizations Land In Linux 5.8 | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-04 |
| AMD Zen/Zen2 RAPL Support Merged In Linux 5.8 | AMD | 2020-06-03 |
| Linux 5.8 Supporting Intel TPAUSE Power-Optimized Delays, TSC Fix When Overclocking | Intel | 2020-06-03 |
| Improved DAX Support Lands In Linux 5.8 - Initially Benefiting XFS + EXT4 | Linux Storage | 2020-06-03 |
| Jitter RNG Improvements, Arm CryptoCell CCTRNG Driver, AMD PSP SEV-ES For Linux 5.8 | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-03 |
| Linux 5.8 Tightens ARM 64-Bit Security With BTI, Shadow Call Stack Support | Arm | 2020-06-03 |
| SELinux Sees Nice Optimizations With Linux 5.8 | Linux Security | 2020-06-02 |
| Linux 5.8 Sees Many Power Management Updates, Including Another Intel P-State Change | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-02 |
| A Number Of Intel/AMD x86 Updates Hit Linux 5.8 | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-02 |
| Linux 5.8 Graphics Updates Sent In With AMDGPU TMZ Support, P2P Buffers | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-02 |
| Kernel Advancements, Microsoft Linux News Kept Open-Source Fans Entertained In May | Phoronix | 2020-06-02 |
| Btrfs Sees A Number Of Improvements With Linux 5.8 | Linux Storage | 2020-06-02 |
| Torvalds Blasts "Beyond Stupid" Flushing L1d On Context Switches - Reverts Code For Now | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-01 |
| Linux 5.8 Adds initrdmem= Option For Cases Such As Replacing Intel ME Space With Initrd | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-01 |
| Want A More Secure Computer At The Cost Of Performance? Linux 5.8 Landing L1d Flushing | Linux Security | 2020-06-01 |
| AMD SPI Driver Sent In For Linux 5.8 | AMD | 2020-06-01 |
| Linux 5.8 Flipping On ERASE/Discard/TRIM For All MMC Hosts | Linux Storage | 2020-06-01 |
| Linux's Pstore Picking Up A Block Device Backend For Storing Oops & Panic Messages | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-01 |
| AMD Energy Driver Sent In For Linux 5.8 Along With Driver For Industrial/Military SBCs | Hardware | 2020-06-01 |
| Linux 5.7 Kernel Released With New Apple Driver, Official Intel Gen12 Graphics | Linux Kernel | 2020-05-31 |
| Improved EXT4 + XFS DAX Implementation Appears Ready To Go For Linux 5.8 | Linux Storage | 2020-05-29 |
| Performance-Helping FSGSBASE Patches Spun For Linux A 13th Time | Linux Kernel | 2020-05-29 |
| The Top Linux 5.7 Features From Apple Fast Charge To Official Tiger Lake Graphics | Linux Kernel | 2020-05-29 |
| Linux's Hardware Monitoring "HWMON" Picking Up Notification Support | Hardware | 2020-05-29 |
| Mainline Linux Kernel Starts Seeing A NVIDIA Tegra X1 Video Input Driver | NVIDIA | 2020-05-28 |
| BCM2711 / Raspberry Pi 4 Support Still Being Worked On For Open-Source Display Driver | Raspberry Pi | 2020-05-28 |
| AMD Lines Up Another Batch Of Radeon Graphics Fixes For Linux 5.8 | Radeon | 2020-05-27 |
| The New AMD Energy Driver Is Working Out Well On Linux For Per-Socket/Core Reporting | AMD | 2020-05-27 |
| Linux Getting Fixed Up For Handling Pointing Sticks On Some Touchpads | Hardware | 2020-05-27 |
| Linux 5.8 Feature Queue Has Multiple Performance Optimizations, Intel Rocket Lake, Other Hardware | Linux Kernel | 2020-05-26 |
