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Raspberry Pi's Desktop Likely Switching To Compton For Better Performance
Raspberry Pi's Raspbian Debian-based Linux distribution had been using xcompmgr as its compositing window manager on the desktop, but now they will likely be switching to the Compton fork for better performance...
A Very Basic Ubuntu Online Developer Summit Is Happening Now
Today and tomorrow is a very basic Ubuntu Online Summit (UOS) where the developers are plotting their work for Ubuntu 17.04, the Zesty Zapus...
Feral Releasing Total War: WARHAMMER For Linux Next Week
Feral Interactive announced a few minutes ago on Twitter that they will be releasing Total War: WARHAMMER for Linux on 22 November...
Mozilla Firefox 50 Readied For Release
Mozilla has uploaded the final Firefox 50.0 binaries to their servers for all supported operating systems...
Ubuntu vs. Fedora vs. openSUSE vs. Clear Linux On Intel Kabylake
After running my initial Intel Kaby Lake Linux tests last week using a Core i5 MSI Cubi 2 with new "KBL" processor, which was done under Ubuntu 16.10, I turned my focus to testing a few other distributions with this newest-generation Intel processor...
Radeon Open Compute 1.3 Platform Brings Polaris & Other Features
AMD used the SC16 super-computing conference today announce version 1.3 of the Radeon Open Compute platform...
GCC 7 Feature Development Ends
GCC 7 feature development is officially over with the development phase entering stage three now where the focus is on bug-fixing...
Talk Of An ARM Vendor Open-Sourcing Their 3D Driver?
While we have seen a number of ARM vendors in recent years open-source and mainline DRM/KMS drivers in the Linux kernel for supporting their display blocks on modern SoCs, there has been little activity in the open-source 3D space still for ARM SoCs...
X.Org Foundation Moving Ahead With Becoming A Khronos Adopter For Mesa
While there were initially concerns by users over OpenGL 4.4~4.5 support being exposed for open-source Mesa drivers due to the Khronos OpenGL conformance test suite for these newer versions and the associated costs, those concerns were laid to rest and the X.Org Foundation is moving ahead with becoming an official Khronos adopter for Mesa...
Ilia Mirkin Takes To Hacking On SWR Gallium3D, Fixes ~600 Piglit Bugs
Ilia Mirkin, the prolific independent contributor to Mesa who started off on improvements to the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA driver a few years ago and has also contributed to Freedreno, has now turned to Intel's SWR Gallium3D software rasterizer as his latest target...
A Word Of Warning When Using AMDGPU-PRO On An Unsupported Kernel
The recent slowdowns seen with AMDGPU-PRO 16.40 on my test systems may be attributed to the Linux 4.8 kernel being not properly supported by this hybrid kernel driver...
Running Enemy Territory With OpenGL 3 In 2016
When finding out a few days back about the ETLegacy 2.75 open-source update with the improvements made around its OpenGL 3.2 renderer, I couldn't help but try it out to relive the original Enemy Territory on Linux with this modernized engine work...
TOP500 SC16 Super Computer List Published, Linux Still Dominating
With the SuperComputing '16 event taking place in Salt Lake City, the latest TOP500 list of super-computers has been published...
FreeBSD Q3'2016 Status Report Shares Many Highlights
For those wanting a concise look at how FreeBSD's development has evolved recently, their third quarter 2016 status report was published this weekend to offer a glimpse at the latest development projects...
Siemens Is Buying Out Mentor Graphics
German conglomerate Siemens has announced they are acquiring Mentor Graphics, a company that's involved with Linux in several areas...
Mesa 13.0.1 Released
Mesa 13.0.1 is now available as the first point release to the massive Mesa 13.0 that brought OpenGL 4.5 to Intel, the RADV Radeon Vulkan driver, and much more...
Debian 9.0 Stretch Installer Updated WIth Better ARM EFI Support, Merged-/usr
Out this weekend is the eighth alpha release of the Debian Installer for the upcoming Debian 9.0 "Stretch" release due out in 2017...
Linux 4.9-rc5 Released, 4.9 On Track For Possible Release In Three Weeks
Linus Torvalds released Linux 4.9-rc5 a few minutes ago as the latest weekly test release of the forthcoming Linux 4.9...
Project Darling Is Still Trying To Run macOS/OSX Software On Linux
Back in 2012 I wrote about Project Darling as an effort to run Mac OS X software on Linux -- to Wine is for Windows software on Linux, Darling is for Mac software on Linux. Work on Darling seems to have picked up recently after a brief hiatus...
Vulkan 1.0.33 Has More Documentation Fixes, New Scripts
Vulkan 1.0.33 is now the latest version of the Vulkan 1.0 API specification from The Khronos Group...
ETLegacy Continues Advancing Enemy Territory With OpenGL 3, OpenAL Surround Sound
One of my favorite Linux-native games of all time would definitely be Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. Wonderful memories of that excellent id Tech 3 game and back when I had time to game on Linux, when not being challenged by early Linux GPU driver issues. This game continues to live on via the community ETLegacy open-source project and recently did issue a major update...
It's Been Five Years Since The Open64 5.0 Compiler Release
This week marked five years since the release of the Open64 5.0 compiler in what is the latest and likely last-ever release of this once-promising code compiler...
FP16 Half-Precision Support Added To AMDGPU LLVM Back-End
The AMDGPU backend within LLVM that's used by the open-source Radeon graphics driver stack has landed half-precision / FP16 support...
Threading Support Is In The Works For Raspberry Pi's VC4 Open-Source GPU Driver
The VC4 open-source graphics driver stack for notably supporting the Raspberry Pi Broadcom SoCs is nearing support for threading as another potential performance win...
PyPy2.7 v5.6 Brings C API Compatibility Layer Improvements, Other Benefits
Today's PyPy2.7 v5.6 release as a Python interpreter alternative to CPython 2.7 while offering better performance has added some new functionality...
The Current RadeonSI Benefits Of Switching To Mesa 13.1-dev Git On Ubuntu 16.10
For those wondering the current benefits of switching over to Mesa Git (13.1-devel) on Ubuntu 16.10 compared to the stock Mesa 12 drivers, here are some benchmark comparisons for RadeonSI Gallium3D using an R9 Fury. There are also tests when moving to Linux 4.9 from the Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" Linux 4,8 kernel...
OpenACC Routines Support Coming To GCC
En route to the mainline GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is support for OpenACC routines...
GNOME 3.22.2 Released
The second and final planned point release to GNOME 3.22 is now available...
Mesa 13.0.1 Is Being Prepped For Release, Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes
For those that wait for the first point release to a new Mesa stable series before switching over to the latest open-source graphics driver stack, Mesa 13.0.1 is just around the corner...
LLVM Clang Lands -Og Optimization Level
The LLVM Clang compiler now has a -Og optimization level inspired by GCC...
CMake 3.7 Adds Cross-Compiling For Android, Drops Official i386 Binaries
Version 3.7 of the CMake build system is now available...
Wine 1.9.23 Adds More Color Format Support For Direct3D
Wine 1.9.23 is now available as the newest development version of this popular program for running Windows applications/games on Linux and other operating systems...
Turbo Boost Max 3.0 Patches Updated, Now On By Default For Multi-Socket Systems
Intel's Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 (ITMT) patches for the Linux kernel have been pushed to their eighth revision as it prepares for mainline integration...
AMDGPU+RadeonSI With Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, One Week Later
Last week marked the highly anticipated release of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided for Linux. At launch it only offered official support for NVIDIA GPUs on Linux with the AMD support being less than stellar. While the open-source Linux graphics driver Git code is quick to move along and adapt for new games, a new Phoronix Premium member requested some tests for seeing how the latest code is now working for this demanding AAA Linux game ported by Feral Interactive.
NVIDIA Introduces VK_NVX_device_generated_commands Extension To Vulkan
NVIDIA this week announced the introduction of the VK_NVX_device_generated_commands Vulkan extension for allowing the GPU to generate rendering commands on its own...
Croteam Updates Talos Principle With Better Vulkan Performance & Stability
In time for any weekend Linux gaming you might do or Linux GPU driver testing, The Talos Principle has a new public beta available and it offers improvements to its Vulkan renderer...
Tumblr Is The Latest Company Boasting About PHP7 Performance
We've talked a lot on Phoronix about PHP 7 due to the mighty impressive performance improvements found in this major update that was released at the end of last year. Many companies have blogged about their positive performance experiences in upgrading to PHP7, many of which we've shared on Phoronix, and Tumblr is now the latest company to boast about their migration from PHP5 to PHP7...
A Number Of KDE Apps Will Be Dropped If They Don't Get Ported To KF5
Around three dozen apps from the KDE Applications suite could be dropped if they don't see a port from kdelibs4 to KDE Frameworks 5 within the next year...
Intel Stages More DRM Driver Changes For Linux 4.10
Two weeks back Intel submitted their first set of feature changes for Linux 4.10 to DRM-Next so that they can be staged for this next major kernel cycle. Coming in now is a second set of feature additions and other changes/improvements...
Fedora Looks At Changing The Default Hostname For F26 & Beyond
One of the most discussed items this week on the Fedora developers' mailing list is in regards to changing the hostname on Fedora 26 and future versions...
The Code To Intel's New Linux Wireless Daemon Is Now Public
During this year's systemd conference there was talk of A New Wireless Daemon Is In Development To Potentially Replace wpa_supplicant. At that time the code wasn't yet public to this new open-source WiFi daemon developed by Intel, but since then the code has now opened up...
After 18 Years, KWave Sound Editor Is Working Its Way Into KDE Multimedia
KWave is a graphical sound editor that's been in development since 1998 and is finally working its way into KDE Multimedia for becoming a proper part of KDE...
Mesa 12.0.4 Released With Dozens Of Fixes
For those sticking to the Mesa 12.0 stable series until the huge Mesa 13.0 has further stabilized, Mesa 12.0.4 is now available as the latest point release...
Fedora 25 Has Been Delayed To 22 November
Fedora 25 is not coming out next week as planned but has been pushed back to 22 November...
Nouveau Exposes Performance Counters For Maxwell
Samuel Pitoiset, one of the few significant contributors to the open-source NVIDIA Linux graphics stack particularly when it comes to the area of performance counters, has now enabled MP performance counters in the NVC0 Gallium3D driver for NVIDIA GTX 750/900 series Maxwell hardware...
Fedora 25 Finally Makes MP3 Playback Easy, Fedora 26 Might Ship It By Default
Fedora 25 has a lot going for it and yet another benefit for Fedora Workstation users on the desktop is finally having an easy, official path for MP3 playback support. It's 2016 and there's finally good MP3 support coming through official channels, after in Fedora 24 they were able to finally provide H.264 support via OpenH264...
Rust 1.13 Brings ? Operator, Better Performance
Rust 1.13 is now available as the latest implementation of this popular and growing programming language...
Cutelyst 1.0 Qt Web Framework Released
It's been three works that Cutelyst has been in development as a Qt/C++ web framework while today marks the v1.0 release with an ABI/API guarantee...
Igalia Joins The Khronos Group
The well known Linux/open-source focused consulting firm Igalia has joined The Khronos Group as a contributing member...
Fedora 25 Is Quite Possibly My Most Favorite Release Yet
Fedora 25 is nearly complete and this afternoon we should hear whether it will be formally released next week or will be pushed back one week due to lingering blocker bugs. Nevertheless, I've been carrying out more tests on Fedora 25 on multiple test systems in recent days and have been very pleased with this Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution release...
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