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Chrome's Ozone abstraction layer has added support for gamepads...

The initial work towards ARB_bindless_texture support for Mesa has been merged to master...

The XFS file-system changes have been submitted for Linux 4.12 and includes one main feature change...

While waiting for the upcoming Debian 9.0 "Stretch" release, Debian 8.8 has shipped this weekend as the latest stable update...

Thomas Hellstrom of VMware has sent out a series of patches to correct the performance when DRI3 (Direct Rendering Infrastructure 3) is enabled for virtual drivers such as their VMWGFX Gallium3D driver...

Greg KH has submitted the staging changes for the Linux 4.12 kernel...

DragonFlyBSD has updated their port of the Radeon DRM Linux driver code to provide better open-source AMD graphics support...

While Intel is working on 5-level paging support to allow a virtual address space up to 128 PiB and physical address space of 4 PiB, the PowerPC guys are working on upping their address space capabilities too...

The ARM64 architecture (AArch64) updates have been queued for the Linux 4.12 kernel...

The media subsystem updates were submitted earlier today for the Linux 4.12 development cycle...

For those curious how AMD's sub-$100 "Polaris 12" graphics processors perform in the context of the recently-launched Radeon RX 550, here are some benchmarks of this low-end graphics card.

Fedora Workstation last year enabled support for MP3 decoding on this Red Hat Linux distribution while now they are enabling MP3 encoding support too...

One of the interesting 2017 Google Summer of Code projects is a student developer attempting to enable hardware OpenGL/3D acceleration support under the BeOS-inspired Haiku OS...

Earlier this week David Airlie sent in the big DRM pull request of new feature material for the Linux 4.12 kernel. That main pull request added in 457,052 lines of new code to the kernel while now a secondary pull request has been submitted that adds just 11 new lines...

Just a short time after last month's Devuan 1.0 RC1 debut, the second release candidate of this systemd-free version of Debian is now available...

For those looking toward a new NAS (Network Attached Storage) operating system, the FreeBSD-powered FreeNAS 11.0 is nearing release...

As expected, the Linux 4.12 kernel will finally have a USB Type-C port manager...

Clement Lefebvre has tagged the Cinnamon 3.4.0 release ahead of the Linux Mint 18.2 "Sonya" OS update...

KDE e.V. has issued their 2016 community report detailing their various accomplishments and events over the past year...

NVIDIA has released the 375.66 proprietary driver update as their latest in the long-lived driver series branch...

This week I decided to pick up the Gigabyte Radeon RX 550 2GB graphics card for Linux testing at Phoronix, a $90 USD graphics card that was recently launched as part of the "Polaris Evolved" line-up. It's not working on the upstream open-source code-base at the moment, but at least does function with the latest AMDGPU-PRO 17.10 driver for the RX 500 series...

The open-source Radeon Vulkan driver, RADV, has now passed another important milestone...

Just two days ago GCC 7.1 was released as the first stable release of GCC 7 as the annual update to this GNU code compiler. If you are looking for a Linux rolling-release distribution already using GCC 7 by default, Intel's open-source Clear Linux appears to be one of the first.

In addition to today marking the announcement of the accepted Outreachy 2017 summer projects, Google also announced today the participants for this year's Google Summer of Code...

Outreachy has announced their accepted participants for the summer 2017 internship period to work on various open-source projects...

GStreamer 1.12 is now the latest stable release of this widely-used, open-source multimedia framework...

While there have been Rust bindings and other Rust-Wayland projects in the past, they have ended up relying upon C language components. With a new project dubbed "Skylane", there's a full Wayland protocol implementation written within Rust...

When NVIDIA-owned PGI released the PGI 17.4 compiler this week there was interest expressed by some Phoronix readers in seeing comparison benchmarks to GCC and Clang...

It's been several weeks since last having any interesting new Linux game news to talk about, but Feral Interactive seems to be getting closer to announcing something new for gamers...

The second development milestone release of Phoronix Test Suite 7.2-Trysil is now available for your open-source, cross-platform benchmarking needs...

David Howells of Red Hat has requested Linus Torvalds pull his hardware module parameter annotation branch into the Linux 4.12 kernel. This is a needed step as part of his work on the "Kernel Lockdown" series for restricting access for allowing hardware resources be modified when in UEFI Secure Boot or other restricted mode...

The Xen virtualization changes have been submitted for the Linux 4.12 merge window...

Independent developer Pierre Moreau who has contributed to the open-source Nouveau driver in the past has published a rather interesting patch series today: SPIR-V support for the Clover Gallium3D OpenCL state tracker...

The VK_KHX_multiview Vulkan extension that's important for VR use-cases is now found in Mesa 17.2-devel for the Intel ANV driver...

The platform-drivers-x86 updates were submitted this afternoon for the Linux 4.12 kernel and it's on the heavier side with a lot of new material for benefiting Intel-powered laptops/ultrabooks...

The GTK+ tool-kit is the latest GNOME component being brought over to the Meson build system...

ROCm 1.5 is now available from the Radeon Open Compute effort...

More of Intel's enablement work for supporting five-level paging is being sent into the Linux 4.12 kernel...

While it's been a number of Qt releases already since the Chromium-based WebEngine component replaced QtWebKit, some developers are still maintaining out-of-tree code for supporting QtWebKit...

For those with an Intel Edison computer module, the mainline Linux kernel should be supporting its integrated Bluetooth capabilities as of the 4.12 kernel...

With GRUB 2.02 released after five years in development, this GNU bootloader code has now been bumped for GRUB 2.03 as development begins with new features...

Bareflank 1.1 is now available as the newest release of this open-source lightweight hypervisor written in C++...

The OpenIndiana crew maintaining this open-source Solaris/Illumos operating system is out with their first release of 2017 and it comes with new features and updated packages...

David Airlie has submitted the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) feature changes for the Linux 4.12 kernel. The DRM changes this time around are particularly massive, driven by the addition of the initial Radeon RX Vega support...

Takashi Iwai has submitted the sound driver updates slated for the Linux 4.12 kernel...

Building off last week's Wine 2.7 release is now an updated Wine-Staging...

Version 0.7 of the Jailhouse Linux hypervisor has been released...

For those making use of the Linux kernel's integrated livepatch functionality, the time to load patched modules will be faster in some instances with the in-development Linux 4.12 kernel...

The GNU Compiler Collection 7 (GCC 7) stable release is now available with today's announcement of GCC 7.1...

Another pull request worth mentioning for Linux 4.12 are the MD (Multiple Device) Software RAID changes...