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TrueOS Making Use Of OpenRC Init System, Faster Boot Times
For those still looking to escape systemd, the BSDs remain free and the FreeBSD-based TrueOS is currently working on making use of OpenRC...
ARB_gpu_shader_int64 Lands For Intel Mesa Git
There's some early feature development work that's landed in Mesa Git this Friday as the initial feature development towards Mesa 17.1...
Wine 2.0-RC6 Has 21 Bug Fixes, v2.0 Stable Expected Next Week
The sixth and likely final release candidate of Wine 2.0 is now available for testing...
Beignet 1.3 Released With OpenCL 2.0 Support
Intel developers today announced the release of Beignet 1.3 and it's by far their most significant release yet for this open-source OpenCL implementation for Intel graphics hardware...
ARB_transform_feedback_overflow_query For Intel's Mesa Driver
Intel's Mesa driver is at OpenGL 4.5 compliance but there are many extensions still left to be implemented that haven't appeared in a formal OpenGL specification. One of those extensions now being implemented is ARB_transform_feedback_overflow_query...
Mesa's Libdrm Gets USB DRM/KMS Device Detection
Libdrm has some new patches this morning from a NVIDIA developer...
Intel Kabylake: Windows 10 vs. Linux OpenGL Performance
For those curious about the current Kabylake graphics performance between Windows 10 and Linux, here are some OpenGL benchmark results under each operating system. Windows 10 Pro x64 was tested and the Linux distributions for comparison were Ubuntu 16.10, Clear Linux, Antergos, Fedora 25 Xfce, and openSUSE Tumbleweed.
GCC 7 Moves Onto Only Regression/Doc Fixes, But Will Accept RISC-V & HSA's BRIG
The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is entering its "stage four" development for GCC 7 with the stable GCC 7.1 release expected in March or April...
More Radeon & AMDGPU Fixes Line-Up For Linux 4.10
Alex Deucher has sent in another batch of fixes for the Radeon and AMDGPU DRM drivers for the Linux 4.10 kernel...
Mesa 17.0 Saw Less Code Changes Than Earlier Releases, But More Notable Features
With Mesa 17.0 up to its release candidates and being under a feature freeze, I explored this morning how the size of the changes for Mesa 17.0 compare to earlier Mesa milestones...
Linux.Conf.Au 2017 Videos Now Available Online
For those that were interested in Linux.Conf.Au 2017 in Hobart, Tasmania, the videos are now available online...
Chrome Further Optimizes Its OpenH264 Encoder With More Assembly x86
Chrome/Chromium users on x86 dealing with H.264 encoding from the browser should notice faster performance coming down the pipe...
GNOME 3.23.4 Released
The latest development release is now available of the work leading up to the GNOME 3.24 desktop in March...
RADV Vulkan Driver Has Geometry Shader Support For Testing
David Airlie has published a set of 31 patches for testing that provide initial support for geometry shaders within the RADV Radeon Vulkan driver...
Text To Speech Goes In As A Tech Preview For Qt 5.8
With Qt 5.8 that's due to be released next week there is the new Qt Speech as a "tech preview" of text-to-speech for this tool-kit...
Libinput 1.6 Released With New Touchpad Acceleration
Peter Hutterer has announced the latest stable version of libinput, the input handling library commonly used across modern X.Org / Wayland / Mir systems...
Steam's Recent Linux Changes Have Been Promoted To Stable
At the beginning of 2017 Valve released a Steam client beta with noteworthy Linux improvements. With today's Steam stable client update, all of those changes are included...
Librecore: Aiming To Be A Better Libre Spin Of Coreboot
Librecore is a new project aiming to be a new Coreboot downstream with a focus remaining on providing fully-free system firmware. Separately, Minifree/Libreboot has been accused (and admitted by Leah Rowe) to not paying a vendor for a completed contract...
CompuLab Has Upgraded Their Small Form Factor "IPC" Line To Kabylake
Our friends and Linux-friendly PC vendor, CompuLab, have announced a new "IPC" line-up of their small form factor computers now with Intel Kabylake processors...
NVIDIA Linux OpenCL Performance vs. Radeon ROCm / AMDGPU-PRO
Earlier this week I posted some benchmarks of GPUOpen's new Radeon Open Compute ROCm OpenCL stack that premiered last month and they are working to make completely open-source. In those initial benchmarks I compared the ROCm 1.4 OpenCL performance to the existing AMDGPU-PRO OpenCL implementation on Linux. For those wondering how these two Radeon OpenCL stacks compare to NVIDIA, here are some fresh benchmarks.
Yes, Linux 4.9 Is A Long-Term Kernel Release
It was widely expected that Linux 4.9 would be a "LTS" (Long Term Support) kernel release while now it's been made official...
Mesa 17.0-RC1 Released
The first release candidate of Mesa 17.0 (formerly known as Mesa 13.1) is now available for testing...
The End Of An Era: A Look Back At The Most Popular Solaris Milestones & News
With it looking certain now that Oracle is ending Solaris feature development with the cancelling of Solaris 12, here's a look back at the most popular Solaris news and milestones for the project over the years on Phoronix...
Expanded Turbo Boost Max 3.0 Support Is Being Worked On For Linux
With the forthcoming Linux 4.10 kernel there is finally support for Turbo Boost Max 3.0 as featured in some newer Intel CPUs. But, unfortunately, the code in Linux 4.10 doesn't work for all TBM3-capable systems out there, but a new kernel patch is being worked on for Linux 4.11 or later to make it work with more hardware...
XWayland Initial Window Positioning Merged For Wayland's Weston
Pekka Paalanen of Collabora has merged his patch-set into Weston for supporting initially positioned windows with XWayland, a feature that some X11 apps rely upon for correct functionality...
Experimental HDMI Stereo 3D Support For AMDGPU
Coincidentally, yesterday Stereoscopic 3D patches emerged not only for the Nouveau driver but also the AMDGPU driver too...
RadeonTop 1.0 Released For Viewing AMD Linux GPU Utilization
With AMD having not yet opened up their Catalyst Control Center / Radeon Software Center for AMDGPU Linux, using RadeonTop is one of the third-party ways to see your GPU utilization...
Mesa 17.0 Has Been Branched
After a very exciting development cycle, Mesa 17.0 was branched yesterday, officially marking the end of feature development for this next Mesa release due out in February...
PulseAudio 10.0 Officially Released
Well, that happened sooner than anticipated...
Etnaviv Gallium3D Implements Enough To Expose OpenGL 2, Run Ioquake3
Adding to the list of Mesa 17.0 features is enough functionality in the reverse-engineered Etnaviv Gallium3D driver for running OpenGL 2.0 games...
Fedora vs. Ubuntu vs. openSUSE vs. Clear Linux For Intel Steam Gaming Performance
With this week Clear Linux now being able to run Steam, I was excited to see how this performance-minded Linux distribution out of Intel's Open-Source Technology Center would compare to other more popular Linux distributions when it comes to Intel Linux gaming performance. Here are some benchmarks of this traditionally workstation/server-oriented Intel Linux distribution running some Steam Linux games.
NVIDIA 378.09 Driver Adds Multi-Threaded GLSL Shader Compilation, Vulkan Extensions
As reported a few hours ago, it's the day for a new NVIDIA Linux driver beta series. Meet the NVIDIA 378.09 driver release and it's pretty darn exciting for both OpenGL and Vulkan...
Oracle Finally Confirms It's Canning Solaris 12
At the beginning of December there were rumors of Oracle canning Solaris and now that's finally been confirmed by Oracle more or less as they will not be delivering Solaris 12...
NVIDIA Publishes EGL External Platform Interface & Wayland Library
NVIDIA today is releasing their first Linux 378.xx driver series beta and alongside that new beta driver they are publishing their EGL External Platform interface and Wayland library...
RISC-V Accepted For Inclusion To GCC
The GCC Steering Committee has approved of the RISC-V port being included in GCC...
LLVM 4.0 Release Candidate 1
Hans Wennborg of Google, serving as the LLVM release manager, has announced the tagging of the first release candidate of the forthcoming LLVM 4.0...
PulseAudio 10 Coming Soon, Using Memfd Shared Memory By Default
It's been a half year since the debut of PulseAudio 9.0 while the release of PulseAudio 10 is coming soon...
Nouveau Gets Patches For HDMI Stereoscopic 3D Output
Nouveau continues advancing on the display front: beyond getting DP MST and atomic mode-setting support in the Linux 4.10 kernel, there are now patches available for wiring this open-source NVIDIA Linux driver up to supporting stereoscopic 3D output via HDMI...
Experimenting With Virtual GPU Support On Linux 4.10 + Libvirt
With the Linux 4.10 kernel having initial but limited Intel Graphics Virtualization Tech support, you can begin playing with the experimental virtual GPU support using the upstream kernel and libvirt...
Lots Of Vulkan To Be Had At GDC 2017
The Khronos Group has published their booth information and sessions that will happen at this year's Game Developers Conference (GDC 17) at the start of March in San Francisco...
Genode OS Framework Planning For Async I/O, App ABI, Qt5 Plans For 2017
The Genode Operating System Framework has announced their planned roadmap for this year as the involved developers continue working on this original OS initiative...
KDE Support For Flatpak Portals Progressing
While GNOME / Red Hat developers have been leading the Flatpak app sandboxing initiative, KDE developers are making progress too with embracing Flatpak as a more convenient and secure way of securely packaging Linux desktop apps...
Several Old DDX Drivers Got Updated For X.Org Server 1.19, Even Voodoo Graphics
X.Org Server 1.19 was released last November while today there was finally an X.Org developer giving some love to the older DDX drivers for those still with vintage GPUs and wanting to run the modern xorg-server...
Gabe Newell's 2017 Reddit AMA: VR, Source 2 Engine, No Linux Answers
Gabe Newell of Valve wrapped up his latest Reddit "Ask Me Anything" where he faced a variety of questions. There were a number of users asking various SteamOS / Linux questions, but not much in the way of answers...
Google Developers Working On Gaming Protocol For Wayland
Google developers are proposing the addition of a Gaming Input Protocol to Wayland...
Benchmarking Radeon Open Compute ROCm 1.4 OpenCL
Last month with AMD/GPUOpen's ROCm 1.4 release they delivered on OpenCL support, albeit for this initial release all of the code is not yet open-source. I tried out ROCm 1.4 with the currently supported GPUs to see how the OpenCL performance compares to just using the AMDGPU-PRO OpenCL implementation.
FSF New "High Priority Projects" List: Phone OS, Security, Drivers, More Inclusivity
For more than the past decade, the Free Software Foundation has been maintaining a list of high priority projects. Today they have a brand new list...
Here's How To Setup Clear Linux For Intel Steam Linux Gaming
A few weeks back we learned of Intel's Clear Linux distribution working towards Steam support. While Clear Linux is a performance-oriented workstation/server/cloud distribution, repeatedly in our tests it performs among the top Linux distributions even when it comes to Intel OpenGL Linux gaming, so being able to game with it isn't a far stretch with Steam support -- there is also Vulkan support now too...
Mesa 17.0 Delayed To Allow For Ivy Bridge OpenGL 4.0
Mesa 17.0 (formerly known as Mesa 13.1) was supposed to enter its feature freeze last weekend, but that milestone and branching of the code-base didn't happen due to last minute feature work...
Ubuntu Still Planning For Mir 1.0 In 2017
Alan Griffiths of Canonical today posted a year-in-review for Mir during 2016 and a look ahead to this year...
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