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There are a few noteworthy ARM64 (64-bit ARM) architecture updates worth noting for the ongoing Linux 4.14 merge window...

While the Vulkan SPIR-V subgroups extensions aren't yet ready for public consumption, it looks like Intel is planning for punctually supporting the sub-groups feature within their open-source Vulkan driver...

Tejun Heo has submitted the control group changes for the Linux 4.14 kernel...

With AMD a few days ago having landed an updated scheduler model for Zen CPUs within LLVM, I ran some fresh compiler benchmarks to see how the performance compares...

There are a few notable EFI fixes to find for the in-development Linux 4.14 kernel...

The Qt Company has announced the immediate availability of the Qt Creator 4.4 integrated development environment focused on Qt/C++ development...

PulseAudio 11.0 is now available as the latest feature release of this widely-used, cross-platform sound server...

It's looking like SDL 2.0.6 will be released in the very near future as this important cross-platform library commonly used by game developers...

With a goal of increasing performance, AMD developers have added support for primitive binning to the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver. However, it's not yet known if it will actually help the RX Vega performance...

Mark Harmstone has released version 1.0 of his custom Windows driver for supporting Linux's Btrfs file-system under Windows 7 and newer...

Rafael Wysocki of Intel submitted the power management updates on Monday for continuing to improve this area of the Linux kernel. This time around there was a lot of focus as usual on bettering the Intel P-State driver as well as improving system suspend for some hardware...

Ted Ts'o has submitted the EXT4 file-system feature updates for the Linux 4.14 kernel merge window...

Darrick Wong has submitted the XFS file-system feature updates targeting the Linux 4.14 merge window...

Mesa 17.2 is now officially available as the latest quarterly update to Mesa 3D after running a few weeks behind schedule...

Ingo Molnar submitted the Linux x86 Assembly updates today for the 4.14 merge window. What's interesting with the x86/asm code changes is the introduction of the ORC Unwinder...

Immediately following Linus Torvalds' release on Sunday of Linux 4.13, the GNU Linux-libre 4.13-gnu was outted for those wanting a fully-free system with driver binary blob support removed and eliminating other code that could depend upon non-open microcode/firmware support or the loading of binary kernel drivers...

The RADV Radeon Vulkan driver has now enabled command buffer chaining "batchchain" by default in the name of performance...

Ingo Molnar has sent in his many pull requests of new feature work targeting the Linux 4.14 merge window...

Vulkan 1.0.60 was released today as the newest version of the Khronos Group's high-performance graphics API...

The WebKitGTK+ build of the WebKit rendering engine for GNOME desktop applications has seen measurable Wayland improvements ahead of this month's GNOME 3.28 debut...

Linus Torvalds has gone ahead and released the Linux 4.13 kernel...

While it will be quite some time before Debian 10 "Buster" is released, the first alpha of its installer is now available...

With the experimental AMDGPU DRM driver's support for GCN 1.0 "Southern Islands" and GCN 1.1 "Sea Islands" graphics processors as an alternative to the default Radeon DRM driver, one of the disadvantages of that experimental kernel driver is losing out on UVD video decoding. But a port is in the works...

Unless there is a last minute hiccup, the Linux 4.13 kernel should be officially released before the day is through...

The Arch-based Manjaro Linux distribution is deciding to retire their x86 32-bit support...

It looks like the Oracle layoffs just before the US Labor Day indeed hit the SPARC and Solaris groups hard...

ReactOS 0.4.6 is now available as the latest version of this "open-source Windows" operating system still striving for API/ABI compatibility...

With the DNF package manager working out well on recent Fedora releases, Yum could soon see retirement on the Fedora front...

Intel added a new extension to the VA-API video acceleration API over the summer called the Flexible Encoding Infrastructure...

Chad Versace, the former Intel Linux graphics driver developer now working at Google, has posted a set of 23 patches for bringing Android support to the Intel open-source Vulkan driver...

Coreutils 8.28 is now available as the collection of core components found on GNU/Linux systems from cp, mv, df, tail, and many other common commands to command-line users...

While the Linux browser/desktop market-share rose above 3% in August, the Linux gaming marketshare made a measurable decline...

Queued in the btrfs-next tree for Linux 4.14 is Zstd compression support...

Wine 2.16 is now available as the latest bi-weekly development release for running Windows games and applications on Linux and other operating systems...

With the Power Use, RAM + Boot Times With Unity, Xfce, GNOME, LXDE, Budgie and KDE Plasma tests this week, many expressed frustration over the heavy KDE packaging on Ubuntu leading to the inflated results for the Plasma 5 desktop tests. For some additional reference, here is how KDE Plasma (and GNOME Shell) compare when running on Ubuntu 17.04 vs. openSUSE Tumbleweed...

While the Ryzen CPUs have been available for a few months now and the higher-wattage Threadripper and EPYC processors are now available too, the Linux thermal driver remains missing in action and it's looking less likely that it will materialize for Linux 4.14...

For those with a system containing the new Realtek RTL8822BE wireless chipset, initial support for it will be found with the upcoming Linux 4.14 LTS kernel...

The debut of the Radeon RX Vega graphics cards as well as the launch of the Ryzen Threadripper and getting more information on the Ryzen "performance marginality problem" occupied most of August...

According to Net Applications' Netmarketshare, the Linux market share on the desktop as judged by browser interactions may now be above 3%...

Following the AMD Threadripper Linux tests of this week today I finally had a chance to try out some of the BSDs with this 16 core / 32 thread system...

The first beta is available today for the Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" release for the flavors opting in to participate in this development milestone ahead of the official launch in October...

With the Razer Blade laptop on Linux I've been playing with the past few days, here are some fresh OpenGL vs. Vulkan benchmarks using this Kabylake laptop/ultrabook with its HD Graphics 620...

Oracle is celebrating Labor Day in America this weekend by reportedly doing a fresh round of layoffs and it's sounding like it could affect a number of heads...

Seventy-seven new patches were posted today for the AMDGPU DC (formerly DAL) display code that reworks around six thousand lines of this massive codebase...

Feral Interactive has delivered a punctual release of XCOM 2: War of the Chosen for Linux and macOS gamers...

Mesa 17.2 was supposed to be released earlier this month but the release process has been extended and we're now up to the sixth release candidate for testing...

It's been a while since last having anything to report on the Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) but that changed with today's v0.15 release of this Qt5-powered log-in/display manager...

With the soon-to-be-released LLVM 5.0 there is the initial AMD Zen scheduler model for the compiler to benefit Ryzen / EPYC processors. But now already hitting the LLVM development code for LLVM 6.0 is a revised scheduler model...

Following the rumors of an eight-core / sixteen-thread Threadripper, the 1900X is now officially available beginning today...

PHP 7.2 has matured past the alpha and beta stages and is now out with its first release candidate...