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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...

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...

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, the effort to rewrite and modernize Vim, is out with its latest feature release...

Intel Memory Bandwidth Allocation (MBA) support is coming to the Linux 4.12 kernel for allocating defined bandwidth between CPU cores...

With the start of a new month brings us new figures from Valve with regard to their controversial Steam Survey...

For those looking forward to the upcoming Qt 5.9 tool-kit release, the third beta is now shipping...

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...

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...

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...

The Linux 4.12 kernel is to enable KASLR support by default for x86-based systems to further improve the security...

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.

The third weekly release candidate to Mesa 17.1 is now available for testing...

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 has today unveiled the OpenVX 1.2 specification from this week's Embeded Vision Alliance Summit (EVS)...

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...

It looks like the mainline Linux kernel will support one less CPU architecture come Linux 4.12...

For those with a first-generation Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon laptop, it's now supported by mainline Coreboot...

Linus Torvalds has announced the Linux 4.11 stable kernel release as anticipated...

The open-source Haiku operating system still maintaining compatibility with BeOS is nearing its first beta milestone...

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...

In the latest monthly progress report on Linux Mint, some of the upcoming changes for the GNOME3-forked Cinnamon Desktop Environment were shared...

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...

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.

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...

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...

After it was postponed last weekend, the Linux 4.11 kernel is set to be officially released in a matter of hours...

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...

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...

The Sway Wayland compositor that aims to be i3-compatible continues picking up new features...