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There are a number of Btrfs fixes/clean-ups for the Linux 4.12 kernel...

NVIDIA has released a new short-lived Linux binary driver update that jumps it ahead to the 381 release series...

Olof Johansson has sent in his large set of pull requests for the ARM SoC/platform updates slated for the in-development Linux 4.12 kernel...

While there are still a few days left until the Linux 4.12 merge window closes and the 4.12 release candidates for the next two months, the Qualcomm-backed CodeAurora already has lined up some new code for the reverse-engineered, community-driven Freedreno MSM DRM driver for Adreno hardware...

Lars Knoll has made some interesting remarks regarding the future of Qt 5 as well as Qt 6...

Cockpit, the open-source project providing a pleasant web-based administrative interface to Linux systems and developed significantly by Red Hat / Fedora developers, is now officially available in Ubuntu and Debian...

A Phoronix reader pointed out a performance regression fix now available for GCC 6 and GCC 7 that could help some rather trivial C code perform much better...

The first release candidate for the upcoming Qt Creator 4.3 integrated development environment (IDE) Is now available for testing...

There are a number of IOMMU optimizations queued for Linux 4.12...

The release of MINIX 3.4 is inching closer with the availability now of its sixth release candidate...

Valve continues maturing their SteamVR Linux support...

Coreboot 4.6 has been released as the project's first official release of 2017...

The latest Linux 4.12 merge window pull request worth talking about is that of the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates...

This week is NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) where the graphics giant will be unveiling a number of software updates and more...

The Kernel-based Virtual Machine changes have been submitted for the Linux 4.12 kernel merge window...

Among the many new features for Linux 4.12 are two new I/O schedulers in mainline: the long-standing BFQ (Budget Fair Queueing) and Kyber, a new I/O scheduler developed at Facebook. Here are some initial benchmarks of these I/O schedulers on the Linux Git code as of this past week.

Last week Azul Systems released a new version of its Zing runtime for Java. With the new version of Zing comes a new JIT compiler dubbed "Falcon" for offering faster Java performance...

Emil Velikov has announced the Mesa 17.1-rc4 test release and plans to officially release Mesa 17.1 tomorrow if no further issues come about...

Ted Ts'o has sent in the EXT4 file-system updates targeting the Linux 4.12 kernel merge window...

Earlier this week I posted a number of Radeon RX 550 Linux benchmarks making use of AMD's popular open-source driver stack. For those wondering how the open-source driver compares to the AMDGPU-PRO hybrid proprietary driver for this sub-$100 Polaris GPU, these benchmarks will interest you.

We are through week one of two for the Linux 4.12 kernel merge window. It's been a busy first week of 4.12, so for your viewing pleasure this weekend is a recap of some of the changes that landed over the past seven days...

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...