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The Huge DRM Driver Update Submitted For Linux 4.12: Vega, Atomic & Co
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...
Many Intel Sound Driver Fixes Slated For Linux 4.12
Takashi Iwai has submitted the sound driver updates slated for the Linux 4.12 kernel...
Wine-Staging 2.7 Released With Latest Experimental Patches
Building off last week's Wine 2.7 release is now an updated Wine-Staging...
Jailhouse 0.7 Hypervisor Released
Version 0.7 of the Jailhouse Linux hypervisor has been released...
Livepatching With Linux 4.12 Will Be Faster For Some Modules
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...
GCC 7.1 Compiler Released
The GNU Compiler Collection 7 (GCC 7) stable release is now available with today's announcement of GCC 7.1...
MD RAID Optimizations For Linux 4.12
Another pull request worth mentioning for Linux 4.12 are the MD (Multiple Device) Software RAID changes...
Intel P-State, Schedutil Get Updated For Linux 4.12 Kernel
Intel's P-State CPU frequency scaling driver continues getting in shape with the latest mainline Linux Git code and the CPUFreq Schedutil governor also received some tuning, among other power management and ACPI changes vetted for Linux 4.12...
Nextcloud 12 Beta Released, Focuses On Collaboration Possibilities
The public beta of the ownCloud-forked Nextcloud 12 software is now available for testing as this "open source Enterprise File Sync and Share" now begins to work on collaboration features...
NeoVim Hits v0.2 Milestone
NeoVim, the effort to rewrite and modernize Vim, is out with its latest feature release...
Intel Memory Bandwidth Allocation Coming To Linux 4.12
Intel Memory Bandwidth Allocation (MBA) support is coming to the Linux 4.12 kernel for allocating defined bandwidth between CPU cores...
April's Steam Survey Shows Their Linux Users At 0.76%, macOS Drops Below 3%
With the start of a new month brings us new figures from Valve with regard to their controversial Steam Survey...
Qt 5.9 Beta 3 Now Available
For those looking forward to the upcoming Qt 5.9 tool-kit release, the third beta is now shipping...
BFQ I/O Scheduler Lands Along With New Kyber Scheduler
We previously reported on the BFQ I/O scheduler finally set to land with the Linux 4.12 mainline kernel. That's now happened along with another new I/O scheduler...
Intel Confirms Vulnerability In Intel AMT/ME
Many of you already have expressed your displeasure over Intel's Active Management Technology (AMT) and Management Engine (ME) for various reasons in the past and now it's been disclosed that for years there has been a vulnerability in this business-oriented feature that could open your Intel systems up to attackers...
PGI 2017 v17.4 Compiler Released
Yesterday marked an updated release of a community edition build for the NVIDIA-owned PGI code compiler that focuses on code compilation for CPU and GPU execution...
Linux 4.12 To Enable KASLR By Default
The Linux 4.12 kernel is to enable KASLR support by default for x86-based systems to further improve the security...
Btrfs vs. F2FS Multi-SSD Performance On Linux 4.11
Last week I posted benchmarks showing off F2FS performance with its multi-drive feature that isn't formal RAID but can still yield better I/O performance. For additional context, here are some results on that same system and with the Linux 4.11 kernel when using Btrfs with its native RAID capabilities.
Mesa 17.1 RC3 Released To Kick Off May
The third weekly release candidate to Mesa 17.1 is now available for testing...
GNU Linux-Libre 4.11 Kernel Released
Freshly derived from the Linux 4.11 kernel release less than 24 hours ago, GNU Linux-libre 4.11 is available with additional "deblogging" to make the kernel more free software friendly...
Khronos Releases OpenVX 1.2
Khronos has today unveiled the OpenVX 1.2 specification from this week's Embeded Vision Alliance Summit (EVS)...
SPIR-V Support For LLVM Is Moving Forward
While the original SPIR intermediate representation from the Khronos Group was derived from LLVM IR, SPIR-V that's used by OpenCL 2.1+ and Vulkan is not. But there is still work underway on being able to translate from LLVM IR into SPIR-V via a new back-end...
AVR32 Architecture Called For Removal From Mainline Linux Kernel
It looks like the mainline Linux kernel will support one less CPU architecture come Linux 4.12...
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Now Supported By Coreboot
For those with a first-generation Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon laptop, it's now supported by mainline Coreboot...
Linux 4.11 Kernel Officially Released
Linus Torvalds has announced the Linux 4.11 stable kernel release as anticipated...
Haiku OS Is Stepping Closer To Its Beta
The open-source Haiku operating system still maintaining compatibility with BeOS is nearing its first beta milestone...
Unity 8 Abandonment, Windows 10 vs. Linux Tests Dominated April
It was another busy month on Phoronix with publishing 31 featured articles/reviews and 285 news items. Here's a look back at what readers found most interesting for April...
Some Of The Features Coming To Linux Mint's Cinnamon 3.4 Desktop
In the latest monthly progress report on Linux Mint, some of the upcoming changes for the GNOME3-forked Cinnamon Desktop Environment were shared...
VSXu 0.6 Audio Visualizer & Visual Programming Language Released
VSXu, the OpenGL-accelerated audio/music visualizer combined with a visual programming language, released their v0.6 release to end out April. The VSXu 0.6 milestone incorporates more than two years of work...
Intel HD Graphics 630: Windows 10 Creators vs. Ubuntu 17.04 vs. Clear Linux
Our latest Windows 10 Creator Update versus Linux benchmarking is taking a quick look at the Intel HD Graphics 630 Kabylake performance with Windows 10 on the latest Intel driver compared to Ubuntu 17.04 and Clear Linux.
DirectFB Is Back To Being Dormant
Back in August of 2015, DirectFB disappeared with its project site and code vanishing. Last November DirectFB re-appeared along with a new site and renewed focus on the project. Unfortunately, it's once again gone silent...
QNX 7 Can Be Fitted With A Qt5 Desktop
While QNX remains targeted as an operating system for mobile/embedded solutions, a BlackBerry developer in his spare time has fitted QNX 7 with a Qt5 desktop...
Linux 4.11 Set To Be Released Today
After it was postponed last weekend, the Linux 4.11 kernel is set to be officially released in a matter of hours...
GNOME's JavaScript Component Will Be Seeing More Improvements For 3.26
GJS -- the GNOME JavaScript system that allows for GObject introspection and other capabilities via JavaScript on the desktop -- is planning for further improvements with GNOME 3.26...
USB Type-C Port Manager Coming To Linux 4.12
Another feature to look forward to with the Linux 4.12 kernel for those using newer hardware featuring USB Type-C is a port manager...
Sway Wayland Compositor Adding Proprietary NVIDIA Driver Support
The Sway Wayland compositor that aims to be i3-compatible continues picking up new features...
Benchmarking Various Linux Distributions With Amazon's EC2 Cloud In 2017
After carrying out the recent Amazon EC2 Cloud benchmarks vs. Intel/AMD CPUs I also decided to run some Linux distribution tests in the Elastic Compute Cloud with not having done any such comparisons in a long time. So for those wondering how different Linux distributions compare in Amazon's cloud, this article is for you.
Linux 4.12 To Begin Supporting TrustZone CryptoCell
The upcoming Linux 4.12 kernel cycle plans to introduce support for CryptoCell hardware within ARM's TrustZone...
KDE Kirigami 2.1 Released To Help Build Convergent Linux Apps
While convergence may be dead at Ubuntu/Canonical, KDE developers continue working on Plasma Mobile and their convergence vision driven in part by the Kirigami user-interface framework...
New ARM Support Going Into The Linux 4.12 Kernel
The ARM changes for the mainline Linux kernel are usually quite extensive each cycle and with the Linux 4.12 merge window likely opening on Sunday evening it will be no different this time around...
AMDGPU Gets More Fixes For Linux 4.12
While the DRM-Next merge window is over for new feature material ahead of the Linux 4.12 merge window opening tomorrow, some AMDGPU fixes have been sent out for this next kernel cycle...
Unreal Engine 4.16 Enters Public Preview State
Epic Games on Friday released the first public preview of the upcoming Unreal Engine 4.16...
GNOME 3.25.1 Released
GNOME 3.25.1 is now available as the first development milestone in the road to this September's GNOME 3.26...
Chromium Now Enables GTK3 For 32-Bit Builds
The Chromium/Chrome web-browser should now be seeing GTK3 support flipped on for those relying upon 32-bit builds...
Mesa 17.0.5 Is Now Available With 40+ Fixes
Mesa 17.0.5 is now available as the newest stable release on the Mesa 17.0 series...
Wine 2.7 Has HiDPI Improvements, Direct3D 11 Shader Work
Wine 2.7 has been released as the newest bi-weekly development release of Wine...
Windows 10 Creators WSL vs. Clear Linux vs. Ubuntu 17.04
Windows 10 Creators Update was released earlier this month by Microsoft as the latest installment to Windows 10. Since it's been a few months since last benchmarking the "Windows Subsystem for Linux" (WSL), a.k.a. "Bash for Windows", here are some fresh benchmarks of Ubuntu atop Windows 10 Creators Update vs. Intel's Clear Linux vs. Ubuntu 17.04.
XWayland Picks Up Tablet Pad Support
More feature work landed today in xserver Git for what will eventually become X.Org Server 1.20...
Features To Look Forward To In Next Month's KDE Plasma 5.10
We are just one month away from seeing the next KDE Plasma 5 desktop release...
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti: Windows 10 Creators Update vs. Ubuntu Linux Gaming
Earlier this week I posted some fresh AMD Radeon Windows vs. Linux gaming benchmarks using the newly-released Windows 10 Creator Update and Ubuntu 17.04. For your viewing pleasure today are some fresh NVIDIA Windows vs. Linux benchmarks using a high-end GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card.
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