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Additional web browser news this week is Mozilla's launch today of Firefox 54...
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Following last week's Chrome 59 debut, Chrome 60 is now in beta...
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Building off last week's Wine 2.10 release is now the adjoining Wine-Staging 2.10 release with various experimental/testing features tacked on...
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Following the retirement of Valve's Steam Greenlight program, Steam Direct is now available as the streamlined, transparent, and accessible method for game developers to bring their games to Steam...
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Georges Stavracas has been hacking away on better half-tiling support in GNOME Shell / Mutter and is working towards quarter-tiling functionality...
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After multiple delays, the first beta of Fedora 26 is now officially available...
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Following last week's news about PCI Express 4.0 and 5.0, a Phoronix Premium member had requested some graphics card benchmarks when comparing PCI Express 1.0 vs. 2.0 vs. 3.0 performance under Linux.
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Marek Olšák at AMD has published his latest patch series: 24 patches providing further clean-ups and micro-optimizations to Gallium3D's Mesa state tracker...
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Feral Interactive has announced that they will be bringing XCOM2's War of the Chosen DLC expansion to Linux and macOS...
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There haven't been too many interesting game announcements at E3 2017 so far this week where Linux support has been explicitly mentioned, but Tropico 6 is now confirmed for 2018 and will be supported on Linux...
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The Solus Linux distribution and its Budgie desktop continue moving on strong and they've added another developer to their team while the project leader Ikey Doherty will be working on the project full-time...
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In prepping for the Debian 9.0 release in a few days, developers have uploaded Debian Installer Stretch RC5 that also serves as the installer's final release candidate...
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The Oculus Rift CV1 head mounted display should play nicer with the Linux 4.12 kernel...
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Last week I posted some fresh macOS vs. Linux Intel OpenGL benchmarks while for those curious about the CPU performance, here are some additional benchmarks from that Mac Mini system.
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Rspamd 1.6 is now available as the newest version of this widely-used, open-source spam filtering software...
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Following last week's Linux Mint 18.2 "Sonya" beta releases of the MATE and Cinnamon spins, the KDE and Xfce versions are also now available for testing...
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LibreOffice 6.0 will be the version that succeeds this summer's release of LibreOffice 5.4...
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While there didn't end up being any point/patch releases to Qt 5.8, The Qt Company is making good on their word for improving the release flow with Qt 5.9 and maintaining it as an LTS release...
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Xfdesktop 4.13.1 was released this weekend as another baby step towards the long-awaited Xfce 4.14...
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The UDisks project that provides a D-Bus interface for querying and manipulating storage devices issued a big release earlier this month...
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Linus Torvalds has released the Linux 4.12-rc5 kernel as the fifth weekly test candidate for what will become Linux 4.12 stable later this month...
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Version 2.0 is the next major release of GNOME's Tracker software for file meta-data indexing and searching...
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The Xfce desktop has integrated hybrid sleep support...
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Connor Abbott, who is now working for Valve over the summer, has posted a set of 17 patches on Friday for the RADV open-source Vulkan driver...
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While Qt 5.10 has queued initial Vulkan support, it isn't too much right now beyond some helpers and allowing Vulkan inside a QWindow as well as a new QVulkanWindow sub-class. I.e. Vulkan isn't being used to render Qt, but there is a Vulkan renderer now in-development for Qt 3D...
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KDE Frameworks 5.35 is now available as the newest version of these add-on libraries to complement Qt5...
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The VK9 open-source project working to implement the Direct3D 9 API over Vulkan has hit its 14th, 15th, and 16th self-set milestones...
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Google's newest open-source project is called Lullaby...
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With Chrome 59's stable release this week, Google's attention is shifting to Chrome 60 that is currently in beta and then Chrome 61 that is in development...
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The first beta for FreeBSD 11.1 is out right on schedule...
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The latest Mesa 17.2-dev code has initial support for Intel's next-generation Cannonlake hardware...
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NVIDIA has today issued a new public Vulkan beta driver for Windows and Linux...
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Another set of 27 patches were posted today for AMDGPU's DC (formerly DAL) display stack, but it's looking increasingly unlikely that this code will be merged for Linux 4.13...
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The PCI-SIG has announced the finalized PCI Express 4.0 specifications and has laid out early details about PCI Express 5.0...
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Wine 2.10 is now available as the project's latest bi-weekly release...
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For those following the progress on Purism's new inventory of Librem 13 v2 and 15 laptops shipping with Coreboot, the Librem 13 v2 laptop code is now in upstream Coreboot...
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KDE and Qt 5.8 didn't jive so smoothly, but the KDE Neon crew seem positive about Qt 5.9 and have moved forth in making it available in testing to Neon Developer Unstable users...
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Google is looking at potentially supporting Btrfs on Android devices...
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Samuel Pitoiset working for Valve has published his third -- and expected to be final revision -- of his massive patch-set readying Mesa and specifically the RadeonSI driver for OpenGL ARB_bindless_texture support...
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The "vboxvideo" kernel driver providing DRM/KMS display support for VirtualBox guest virtual machines has been going through a rework with plans to mainline this driver in the Linux kernel...
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Etnaviv contributor Christian Gmeiner has posted a set of 21 patches for implementing support for performance counters within this reverse-engineered Vivante DRM graphics driver...
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Collabora, under sponsorship from Intel, has been working on "DRI3 v1.1" as the first major update to the Direct Rendering Infrastructure 3...
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SDL2 now has initial support for the JACK Audio Connection Kit sound server...
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Just weeks after the Opus 1.2 beta, the release candidate for this forthcoming audio codec update / library has been released...
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Valve has hired another prominent open-source graphics driver contributor...
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In April, Canonical's longtime CEO Jane Silber announced she was stepping down and that Mark Shuttleworth would be returning to the role as CEO...
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Version 1.18 of the Rust programming language implementation is now available...
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AMD developers have submitted their first round of Radeon/AMDGPU feature updates to DRM-Next for in turn targeting the Linux 4.13 kernel...
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Just days after celebrating nine years since the Phoronix Test Suite 1.0 release, Phoronix Test Suite 7.2-Trysil is now officially available...
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Keeping in mind that Intel graphics are not officially supported for Dawn of War III on Linux, I couldn't help but to see if/how it ran with Kabylake HD Graphics.....