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The fourth release candidate of the installer for the upcoming Debian 9.0 "Stretch" release is now available...

A few days ago I wrote about David Airlie's work on a new "r600-rats" branch where he's working on bringing up OpenGL 4.2 support to more Radeon HD 5000/6000 series hardware on R600g that's currently limited to OpenGL 3.3. Some questions arose about the FP64 support...

While the ROCm OpenCL code was recently open-sourced, that new Radeon OpenCL code only supports newer GPUs like Fiji and Polaris and experimental support for "GFX7" GPUs like Hawaii. Due to this newer OpenCL stack, AMD hasn't been investing in the "Clover" Gallium3D state tracker for providing OpenCL within Mesa. But there are at least some independent developers interested in still working on this older OpenCL code for previous Radeon GPUs, including pre-GCN hardware with R600g...

The openSUSE Conference 2017 kicked off yesterday in the beautiful Nürnberg, Bavaria. The event runs through Sunday but if you are sadly missing out on the event, there are video live streams and recordings available...

TrueOS, the FreeBSD-derived operating system originally known as PC-BSD, has changed its -STABLE cycle practices...

Debian 9.0 now has an official release date...

Purism is preparing to ship their updated Librem 13 and Librem 15 laptops with Coreboot...

Earlier this month we reported on patch work done to bring Intel's BLORP blitting framework to older Intel graphics hardware and now that work has landed in Git for Mesa 17.2...

In yesterday's GeForce GT 1030 Linux review, a $70 USD graphics card that's low-profile and passively-cooled, I featured a number of NVIDIA VDPAU video acceleration benchmarks. But a question came up about Radeon VDPAU performance, so here are some benchmarks on that front, but they are far from ideal.

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

Days ago was a discussion about dropping older Mesa drivers from mainline while issued now is a more formal proposal for branching off older drivers, including i915g and R300g, among others...

Feral Interactive has announced next month's Dawn of War III Linux port will see both OpenGL and Vulkan renderers...

Wine 2.9 is now the newest bi-weekly snapshot of this open-source program for running Windows binaries/games on Linux...

If you are looking for a low-profile, passively-cooled graphics card, the GeForce GT 1030 launched last week and MSI is out the door with such a capable graphics card while only costing around $70~80 USD. Here are some Linux OpenGL, Vulkan, OpenCL, and VDPAU video acceleration benchmarks of the MSI GeForce GT 1030 compared to various other Radeon and GeForce graphics cards under Ubuntu.

Valve pushed out a new SteamVR update today and for Linux/SteamOS users it brings experimental SteamVR Home support...

Fedora is continuing in their common release theme of delays.....

Devuan 1.0 is now officially available, the fork of Debian aiming for "init freedom" and shipping without systemd...

AMD developers have landed their work on supporting VCN video decoding in Mesa. VCN is the new video decode engine with the upcoming Raven Ridge APUs (Zen CPU + Vega Graphics) that apparently succeeds the UVD video decoding block...

More code for supporting the OpenACC 2.5 specification has been landing in mainline GCC...

Intel's 01.org has open-sourced a new Compute Library for Deep Neural Networks (clDNN)...

Emil Velikov has announced the availability of Mesa 17.1.1 as the first point release to this quarter's big Mesa 17.1 package...

ARM and Khronos UK are hosting a series of technical sessions today about the Vulkan graphics API and porting games to it...

The lightweight Alpine Linux 3.6 distribution is now available as the newest stable version for summer 2017...

Simon Steinbeiß has announced the debut of the first GTK+3 release of the xfce4-panel package...

After being challenged by set backs, Mageia 6 is out in release candidate form...

Florian Müllner has pushed out an updated Mutter 3.25.2 window manager / compositor release in time for the GNOME 3.25.2 milestone in the road to this September's GNOME 3.26 release...

It's been a while since hearing much about the royalty-free, open-source Opus audio codec but three updates are out today...

Arcan 0.5.2 has been released as the newest version of the open-source display server project built in part using a game engine that has also been working on X.Org and Wayland compatibility...

The Intel-developed high-performance Clear Linux operating system has decided to shift their desktop focus from Xfce to GNOME.

Intel is looking to make Thunderbolt more widely-adopted by industry players...

Epic Games has announced the release of Unreal Engine 4.16 as the latest feature release to the UE4 game engine...

David Airlie is breathing some new open-source life into older Radeon GPUs with his "R600g-Rats" branch where he's bringing OpenGL 4.2 and other features to this older driver...

Richard Hughes of Red Hat has managed to support firmware updating of Logitech devices under Linux with fwupd...

Just a short time after issuing the Qt 5.9 release candidate, The Qt Company has now unveiled the final release of Qt Creator 4.3...

It was just with GCC 6 that MPX support was flipped on with Intel's Memory Protection Extensions (MPX) just premiering with Skylake CPUs. But now GCC developers are thinking about potentially deprecating this feature...

Running just slightly behind schedule, the Qt 5.9 release candidate is now available for last-minute testing of this next tool-kit update...

Wayland developer Jonas Ã…dahl is preparing to promote the XDG-Shell interface from unstable to stable...

Kodi 17.2 has been released and all users of this HTPC software are encouraged to upgrade due to a security fix...

Freedreno Gallium3D as the open-source, reverse-engineered driver for Qualcomm Adreno graphics hardware has switched to using NIR by default...

Merged last month into Mesa Git and improved since then with follow-up commits has been KHR_no_error support for reducing the overhead of the OpenGL drivers by disabling certain error handling for OpenGL games/applications. This in turn can free up some CPU utilization and possibly lead to power-savings too...

With Btrfs RAID 5/6 seeing fixes in Linux 4.12, if you are re-evaluating the setup of a Btrfs native RAID array, here are some fresh benchmarks using four solid-state drives.

AMD's Harry Wentland has sent out the latest round of patches to the yet-to-be-merged DC display stack (formerly known as "DAL") for the AMDGPU kernel driver...

Igalia developers have been working on improvements to better supporting Google's Chromium/Chrome web-browser under Wayland and should eventually be upstreamed...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 is now available as a beta for the next installment of RHEL7...

Six years after the Windows release of Total War: SHOGUN 2, the Linux port has been released by Feral Interactive...

Nicolai Hähnle is looking at adding support for ARB_gl_spirv to the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver and as part of that support for the NIR intermediate representation...

Heterogeneous Memory Management sadly didn't make it for Linux 4.12 as developer Jerome Glisse was aiming for, but now he's out with an updated version to these important HMM patches...

RISC-V developers believe that while their Linux kernel port isn't yet fully complete, they are hoping to get it mainlined now for this open-source CPU ISA...

GTK+ 3.91 is now available as the latest test release on the road to the GTK4 tool-kit...

Intel Broxton graphics hardware can now benefit from ASTC HDR texture compression in Mesa Git...