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While Fedora 27 did away with alpha releases, now it's time for the beta but it is yet another release setback by at least one delay...
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on (#325FQ)
The mesa_glthread functionality has now been whitelisted for more Linux games...
on (#325CV)
Last week we received the AMD EPYC 7601 32 core / 64 thread processor for testing at Phoronix with the Tyan Transport SX TN70A-B8026 2U server. Since then I've had the pleasure of putting this Zen server processor through its paces. I am still early in the testing process with many more interesting benchmarks to come, but today are some initial numbers of the AMD EPYC 7601 compared to various Intel Xeon CPUs while running Ubuntu Linux.
on (#32434)
There's a big shift in course for Purism's proposed Librem 5 smartphone, what was originally proposed as a GNU/Linux smartphone running GNOME and HTML5 Web Apps will now be working on KDE Plasma Mobile support...
on (#3246A)
While the R600g and RadeonSI drivers are two distinct Gallium3D drivers for R600 (HD 2000) through Northern Islands (HD 6000) and GCN and newer, respectively, they have up until now shared some code via gallium/radeon. But that will now be ending...
on (#32435)
The Cairo 2D vector graphics library used by GTK, Firefox, WebKit, and many other programs finally has an OpenGL ES 3.0 back-end merged...
on (#323WE)
The beta is now available of the upcoming KDE Plasma 5.11. There have been many changes baking for the Plasma 5.11 milestone...
on (#323S2)
Hans de Goede's latest assignment at Red Hat is working to improve Linux laptop battery life...
on (#323QN)
Valve pushed out a new Steam beta overnight and it's a bit heavier on the feature side...
on (#323S3)
BlueZ 5.47 has been released as the latest user-space components to the Linux Bluetooth stack...
on (#322W4)
Motherboard vendors have begun pushing out BIOS updates for Ryzen motherboards using the AMD AGESA 1.0.0.6b revision and it's reported that it does resolve the "Performance Marginality Problem" affecting early Ryzen Linux customers...
on (#322EW)
For those waiting on the CentOS rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4, it's now available...
on (#3222N)
For those running Ubuntu/Debian and wanting a kernel with the very latest AMDGPU DRM support along with the very bleeding edge DC display code patches, I've done a fresh spin today in preparation for my latest RadeonSI/RADV Vega benchmarking...
on (#321JG)
With this week DragonFlyBSD seeing HAMMER2 support added to the installer in preparation for this file-system being an option in the next DragonFly release due out in a few weeks, I've been testing out the state of this HAMMER file-system successor as well as running some benchmarks.
on (#321BT)
Enlightenment 0.22 is now available in alpha form with a variety of improvements, including continued progress on Wayland...
on (#321BV)
Since last month's announcement by Oracle that they were essentially looking to offload Java EE to a new foundation, that new steward has now been named...
on (#32197)
While we have tested dozens of SilverStone computer cases over the years at Phoronix, they have generally been phenomenal desktop cases, but not until now have we had a chance to see what innovations the company can drive into server/workstation-focused 4U enclosures. In this article is a look at the SilverStone Case Storage Series CS350.
on (#320KE)
Jaegeuk Kim has submitted the F2FS Flash-Friendly File-System updates for the Linux 4.14 kernel merge window...
on (#320HK)
In addition to the BFQ improvements already staged for Linux 4.14, it looks like another fix will be on the way...
on (#320HM)
For those looking to follow the development of Google's Fuchsia operating system that is written from scratch, it's low-level Magenta core has been renamed to Zircon...
on (#320HN)
It's arriving a bit late but the first alpha release of Qt 5.10 is now available for testing...
on (#320HP)
For fans of the MPlayer-forked MPV Player, it's time to upgrade to version 0.27...
on (#31ZN4)
Today marks the long-awaited debut of the Blender 2.79 3D modeling software release. Especially for those using OpenCL acceleration, Blender 2.79 is quite an exciting update...
on (#31ZN5)
RISC-V developers have been preparing their kernel port for the mainline Linux tree while it's looking like for Linux 4.15 that goal may finally be realized...
on (#31ZAS)
While we have already compared the Threadripper 1950X to the current top-end Core i9 7900X processor, today we are taking things a step further with our Threadripper Linux benchmarks by doing a side-by-side showdown when each system is tested across three different Linux distributions.
on (#31YXM)
Armis Labs has gone public today with "Bluebourne", an IoT-focused attack vector via Bluetooth. This Bluetooth attack does not require the targeted device to even be paired with the attacker or on discoverable mode, making it more frightening...
on (#31YAR)
After the Linux 4.14 merge window is over, I'll begin with a lot of fresh Linux kernel benchmarks from this in-development release. But I/O and EXT4 changes already have me running some preliminary tests...
on (#31Y7A)
For those relying upon KGraphViewer as a Graphviz dot graph viewer, it's the latest package ported to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5...
on (#31Y0C)
Red Hat is looking for another senior software engineer to join their Desktop Graphics Team where in particular they will be working on the open-source Radeon support, including Vulkan and compute...
on (#31XSM)
Motivated by the 2017 GNU Tools Cauldron, an ARM developer is looking for feedback on improving the options enabled by default for the GCC 8 compiler...
on (#31XCE)
Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's latest work on the open-source Radeon driver stack has been figuring out better GPU hang detection for the RADV Vulkan driver...
on (#31XA9)
The LLVM Foundation has announced their program for the 2017 US Developers' Meeting...
on (#31X21)
Intel's open-source ANV Vulkan driver now supports the VK_EXT_debug_report extension...
on (#31WZX)
Matthew Dillon has been very busy the past few weeks getting his HAMMER2 file-system ready for an experimental debut in the next DragonFlyBSD release...
on (#31WZY)
For fans of the Qt-powered Digikam photo management software, the 5.7 release is out today with many bug fixes and underlying improvements along with some new user features...
on (#31VYN)
The big undertaking of the rewriting/modernizing of the AMDGPU DRM driver's display code stack has out now another 28 patches...
on (#31VYP)
Emacs 25.3 is now available, but it doesn't offer major new features, rather it fixes a security vulnerability...
on (#31VPW)
Caolán McNamara's hacking around GTK3 support in LibreOffice continues. This time, he's managed flicker-free OpenGL transitions...
on (#31TT5)
Landing today within Mesa Git is a switchover for the AMDGPU winsys layer to using the new command submission (CS) API...
on (#31TM1)
While testing out the near-final GNOME 3.26 this weekend I also ran some benchmarks of it comparing the boot time, memory use, power consumption, and gaming performance when comparing GNOME Shell / Mutter running on Wayland and then an X.Org session.
on (#31TAX)
The Shotwell GNOME photo manager is among the components that added Meson build system support for the GNOME 3.26 cycle...
on (#31T60)
One of the questions that came up following our GNOME 3.26 feature overview was how GTK4's Vulkan renderer is coming along...
on (#31SX3)
The last planned test/development release of Phoronix Test Suite 7.4-Tynset is now available ahead of the planned stable release in the days to come...
on (#31SVG)
Developer Shane Peelar has come up with a Gentoo Portage configuration for building out the distribution with aggressive compiler optimizations in the name of performance...
on (#31SVH)
Adding to the new features of GNOME 3.26 are many additions found within WebKitGTK+ 2.18, the GNOME port of the WebKit rendering engine used by Epiphany and other GNOME web projects...
on (#31SST)
Olof Johansson has submitted the pull requests of ARM/ARM64 board/SoC updates for the Linux 4.14 merge window...
on (#31QTR)
With GNOME 3.26 due to be officially released on Wednesday, 13 September, here is a look at the new features to be found in this major desktop update and screenshots from testing the latest GNOME 3.26 packages via Fedora 27's development images.
on (#31QMF)
We are now through week one of the two week kernel merge window for Linux 4.14. Here is a look at the most prominent changes and new features queued so far for the Linux 4.14 kernel...
on (#31QMG)
Last month Raptor Engineering announced the Talos II POWER9-powered workstation that is cheaper than the original Talos Workstation while still aiming to be very free software friendly. The Free Software Foundation will be exploring the possibility of "Respect Your Freedom" certification on this hardware when it's ready to ship...