Clear Linux Saw New Features, New Desktop Installer + Increased Adoption In 2019
In addition to Clear Linux seeing more performance optimizations in 2019 (more so than Fedora and Ubuntu during the year), it also benefited from a new desktop installer, new help forums, and more of Intel's partners talking about their current or planned usage of Clear Linux...
Glibc Sees End Of Year Improvements For GNU Hurd With The Microkernel Entering Its 30th Year
There hasn't been a new GNU Hurd release since the microkernel's 0.9 release back in 2016, but at least other areas of the stack continue inching further. Glibc as an important piece to the GNU toolchain saw some improvements for Hurd during December...
The Linux Kernel Enters 2020 At 27.8 Million Lines In Git But With Less Developers For 2019
As of this morning in the Linux kernel Git source tree, the kernel weighs in at 27.8 million lines!..
PineBook Benchmarks For The ARM Linux Laptop Starting At $99 USD
For those interested in benchmarks of the $99+ PineBook ARM Linux laptop, more results continue to be uploaded on OpenBenchmarking.org...
Sway 1.3 Release Candidate Brings Many Changes For This i3-Inspired Wayland Compositor
Drew DeVault released Sway 1.3 RC1 on New Year's Eve as the latest test release for this increasingly popular i3-inspired Wayland compositor built off his WLROOTS library...
Some Of The Features That Could Come To KDE In 2020
KDE developer Nate Graham who is well known for his weekly development summaries in the KDE space has shared his opinions on the desktop's features he expects to see materialize this year as well as some of the less likely bits...
Godot 4.0 Game Engine Aiming For Release With Vulkan In Mid-2020
Godot lead developer Juan Linietsky provided a New Year's Eve look at the origins of this wildly successful open-source game engine from their beginnings, the technical advancements of this open-source game engine, the big step forward with Godot 3.0, and what's on the horizon with Godot 4.0...
Happy New Year + A Look Back At The Most Popular Linux Content Of 2019
Happy New Year to all Phoronix readers...
Linux 5.4.7 / 4.19.92 / 4.14.161 Kernels Released To End Out 2019
Greg Kroah-Hartman took time out of his New Year's Eve festivities to release Linux 5.4.7, 4.19.92, and 4.14.161 as the newest supported stable releases of the Linux kernel...
Google's Kernel Runtime Security Instrumentation (KRSI) Is Something To Look Forward To In 2020
Back in September was an initial "request for comments" by Google on some kernel work they are doing with Kernel Runtime Security Instrumentation (KRSI) for providing eBPF-powered security helpers, ultimately for creating dynamic MAC and audit policies. Just before Christmas the first official version of this new eBPF-based instrumentation was sent out and is being prepared for deployment within Google...