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It's that time again to go over what was the most interesting/viewed content on Phoronix for the month. In May, your's truly wrote 290 original news articles and 26 featured articles / Linux hardware reviews...
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Valve has ended out May by issuing a new Steam beta client...
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Last week Khronos UK hosted an event in Cambridge all about Vulkan, including talks by some game developers from the likes of Feral and Croteam. For those that didn't catch the livestream, the slide decks and video recordings are now available...
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With having powered up the Core i5 6600K "Skylake" test rig that I haven't run many benchmarks on recent in the days of Kabylake, I ran some fresh HD Graphics 530 tests with Linux 4.12 and Mesa 17.2-dev to see if these upgrades are worthwhile for Skylake Linux users...
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Besides confirming the RX Vega launch for SIGGRAPH, AMD also announced today from Computex Taipei that their AMD EPYC launch is happening on 20 June...
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Version 17.05 of the Genode OS research/experimental operating system project is now available...
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On Monday I posted a 28-way NVIDIA GeForce Linux GPU comparison for fun going from the GeForce 8 series through the high-end GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. For those not interested in OpenGL but more into OpenCL compute, these benchmarks are for you. With the GPUs I had available for testing from Fermi and newer, some fresh OpenCL benchmarks were carried out.
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Andres Rodriguez of Valve's Linux GPU driver team is looking at "exclusive GPU access" support in order to boost the AMDGPU+RADV SteamVR performance...
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A new version of the visually-advanced, multi-platform Unigine Engine is now available for those licensing this game/simulation engine...
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While last week was the ambitious proposal to drop older GPU drivers from Mesa including the likes of i915 and R300g -- and possibly branching them off to their own Git branch for continued maintenance by interested individuals -- that proposal isn't going to fly...
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Qt 5.9.0 has made it out on time as the newest Qt5 tool-kit Long-Term Support (LTS) release...
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With more HDR monitors hitting the market, Intel developers are working on plumbing support for High Dynamic Range displays into the Linux kernel's DRM layer...
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While there had been much rumor and speculations about the highly anticipated Radeon RX Vega launch happening at Computex Taipei this week, it isn't happening and it's now been reported that the consumer Vega launch has been postponed to SIGGRAPH...
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Valve developer Samuel Pitoiset has updated his massive patch-set for implementing OpenGL's ARB_bindless_texture extension within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...
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With Debian 9.0 "Stretch" being released in a few weeks, you can expect to find a number of Debian GNU/Linux comparisons coming up on Phoronix in June. For those curious how the performance of Debian Stretch is looking now that it's nearly finalized, here are some initial benchmarks compared to the current stable Debian 8.8 release as well as Ubuntu 17.04, CentOS 7, and Clear Linux.
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The Portable Native Client (PNaCl) ecosystem hasn't been too vibrant for executing native code in web-browsers given its lack of adoption outside of Google/Chrome and other factors. With WebAssembly seeing much broader adoption and inroads, Google is planning to end PNaCl...
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A semi-common question that's come up in recent years has been a request to be able to access Phoronix Test Suite test profiles via GitHub. That's now possible...
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The release of Xfce 4.14 continues getting closer as their transitional step for getting the lightweight desktop environment up and running with the GTK3 tool-kit...
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There is an easy way to try out today's release of KDE Plasma 5.10...
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WhiteEgret is the name of a new Linux Security Module (LSM) in-development by Toshiba for being able to limit what your system can execute via a whitelist...
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If you are bound to dealing with Microsoft's ReFS file-system, Paragon Software has added write support to its proprietary ReFS Linux file-system driver...
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Intel developers have landed more code into DRM-Next of feature material in turn targeting the Linux 4.13 kernel cycle...
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The KDE community has released Plasma 5.10 as their newest desktop release...
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The Linux state for HDMI CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) continues to improve and several drivers are in the works...
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Keith Packard's latest hacking in the open-source world has been around DRM leases support as part of his work under contract with Valve for better supporting VR HMDs on Linux...
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Adding patches atop last week's Wine 2.9 is the new Wine-Staging release with a few noteworthy additions...
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As was widely expected, Intel used Computex today to announce the Core X-Series / Skylake-X CPUs...
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Emil Velikov is preparing to release Mesa 17.0.7 this week, which will serve as the final point release to the Mesa 17.0 series...
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After finishing up the tests last week for the GeForce GT 1030 Linux review of this $70 USD passively-cooled graphics card, I ended up getting carried away running more NVIDIA Linux benchmarks and ended up making a much larger comparison -- in part for the pre-celebrations with Phoronix turning 13 next week. Here's a 28-way GeForce graphics card comparison on Ubuntu with GPUs ranging from the GeForce 8600/8800 series through the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti.
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It seems Google is working on a new Go language compiler that's making use of the LLVM compiler infrastructure...
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GPS-Share made its first release today, a GNOME-aligned project for sharing a GPS device on a LAN...
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One week from today marks Phoronix's 13th birthday and for the occasion will be a number of recap articles plus a number of new, large hardware comparisons, some special benchmarks, and more. But for getting things kicked off this week, let's begin by looking back at the most popular articles in the past 13 years on Phoronix...
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Besides releasing Qt 5.9 RC2, The Qt Company is kicking off this new week by the release of Qbs 1.8 as their new build system...
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KDE/Qt applications will now look better on GNOME desktops when sandboxed using Flatpak...
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The openSUSE project has announced "Kubic" as a new initiative around making their Linux operating system more container-friendly...
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The Qt Company has released their second and final release candidate for the big Qt 5.9 tool-kit update...
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Linus Torvalds has announced the third weekly test candidate for the upcoming Linux 4.12 kernel debut...
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A new release is now available of libmicrohttpd, the GNU project making it easy to run an HTTP web server as part of another application...
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A set of 13 patches amounting to nearly 800k lines of new code were sent out Sunday morning for adding a D language front-end to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)...
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Enlightenment 0.21.8 was released this week as the latest stable point release to the E21 series...
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It looks like support for fractional scaling might be working in time for GNOME 3.26 to help out HiDPI users where integer-based scaling may be less than ideal...
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This week FreeBSD has finally merged the fruits of the ino64 project: 64-bit inodes support...
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GNOME 3.25.2 is now available as the latest test snapshot leading up to this September's GNOME 3.26 stable debut...
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The fourth release candidate of the installer for the upcoming Debian 9.0 "Stretch" release is now available...
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A few days ago I wrote about David Airlie's work on a new "r600-rats" branch where he's working on bringing up OpenGL 4.2 support to more Radeon HD 5000/6000 series hardware on R600g that's currently limited to OpenGL 3.3. Some questions arose about the FP64 support...
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While the ROCm OpenCL code was recently open-sourced, that new Radeon OpenCL code only supports newer GPUs like Fiji and Polaris and experimental support for "GFX7" GPUs like Hawaii. Due to this newer OpenCL stack, AMD hasn't been investing in the "Clover" Gallium3D state tracker for providing OpenCL within Mesa. But there are at least some independent developers interested in still working on this older OpenCL code for previous Radeon GPUs, including pre-GCN hardware with R600g...
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The openSUSE Conference 2017 kicked off yesterday in the beautiful Nürnberg, Bavaria. The event runs through Sunday but if you are sadly missing out on the event, there are video live streams and recordings available...
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TrueOS, the FreeBSD-derived operating system originally known as PC-BSD, has changed its -STABLE cycle practices...
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Debian 9.0 now has an official release date...
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Purism is preparing to ship their updated Librem 13 and Librem 15 laptops with Coreboot...