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We've known Nouveau DRM maintainer Ben Skeggs of Red Hat has been working on atomic mode-setting and DisplayPort Multi-Stream Transport (DP MST) for this open-source NVIDIA Linux driver as that what led to Nouveau having no feature additions for Linux 4.9. Some of this code is now having the Nouveau kernel development tree...

If you are still using old Intel Ironlake-era hardware and have been waiting for video playback improvements via VA-API, you might as well stop waiting...

If you are a Linux gamer and our 13-way GPU comparison of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided made you realize your system isn't strong enough for this newest AAA Linux game title, perhaps you'll be interested in the just-released Football Manager 2017 with day-one Linux support...

The official Vulkan programming guide book has finally begun shipping. This is one of the "definitive guides" to programming with this new high-performance Khronos graphics API and the book is authored by industry veterans Graham Sellers and John Kessenich...

The Qt Company is ending off their work week by releasing the much-anticipated Qt 5.8 beta...

Intel's open-source team has announced the release of Beignet 1.2.1 as the newest version of their OpenCL GPU hardware implementation for Linux...

The GLSL/OpenGL 4.50 version is now exposed by the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

For those that couldn't make it to last month's Steam Dev Days hosted by Valve, all of the video presentations are now available online...

Libopus 1.2 is now in alpha, the library for the Opus royalty-free audio codec that's designed for interactive speed and music on the web while being derived from Skype SILC and Xiph CELT technologies...

Just a few months after the Windows release of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, the Linux port to OpenGL carried out by Feral Interactive was released this morning. Here are many different GPU benchmarks of Deus Ex: Mankind Divded if you are wondering whether or not your system will perform well with this game under Linux, given that the requirements are stiffer than the Windows build. For this launch-day comparison are thirteen NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards tested. The AMD Radeon cards were left to rest this time around since the current open-source Mesa stack struggles currently for this game and is not officially supported yet by Feral.

Lennart Poettering has announced the release of systemd 232 and as usual this new release is packing a significant amount of new features...

Pardon for being a bit late with this news due to being busy testing Deus Ex on a wide range of GPUs, but Canonical this morning announced the release of Ubuntu Core 16...

Version 4.13 of RPM package manager is now available...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 (RHEL 7.3) is shipping today...

When it was found out only NVIDIA GPUs are supported by Deus Ex: Mankind Divided on Linux many were disappointed that the Mesa drivers aren't supported. Now that the game was released a short time ago, I have some details to share about the Radeon support for this AAA game title for Linux...

Feral Interactive has just released Deus Ex: Mankind Divided for Linux!..

DRM subsystem maintainer David Airlie submitted on Wednesday quite a number of fixes for the Direct Rendering Manager drivers. There's been fixes queueing up for a while that are now ready to go in after the nasty PAT regression fix has landed...

Fujitsu subsidiary PFU has announced Linux support for their SP Series scanners (SP-1120, SP-1125, SP-1130). Sadly, even in 2016, binary-only drivers are still a thing for printers/scanners...

AMD developer Nicolai Hähnle landed a number of commits today within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver as he's been working on getting this open-source AMD GCN OpenGL driver to pass the Khronos GL 4.4/4.5 conformance tests...

Over one year after the DirectFB project site disappeared and the code just appearing on GitHub, they have a project site restored but the development still appears rather dormant...

Following last week's benchmarks of the GeForce GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti has been a request to see some fresh Blender benchmarks with CUDA acceleration of the Pascal line-up. Now having more time with these latest GTX 1000 series cards, here are such benchmarks.

The RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver in Mesa has added support for anisotropic filtering (AF) for Volcanic Islands (GCN 1.2) hardware and newer...

The second and final release candidate of openSUSE 42.2 Leap is now available for last-minute testing ahead of the official Linux distribution release later this month...

A trivial priority scheduler is being worked on for Intel's i915 Direct Rendering Manager driver for the Linux kernel...

A feature now possible for GTK+ 4 thanks to the recent merging of the GTK Scene Kit (GSK) is frame-by-frame recording and replaying...

Jamey Sharp, the developer known for some of his past contributions to X.Org, has been hacking a lot lately on his latest project: Corrode. This project is about automatically converting C source files into Rust...

For those interested in embedded Linux or Internet of Things (IoT) topics, all of the videos from this year's Embedded Linux Conference 2016 and OpenIOT Summit are now online...

Earlier this week I published fresh RadeonSI OpenGL Mesa 13.1-dev vs. AMDGPU-PRO results for these two AMD OpenGL Linux drivers given last week's hybrid driver update. Here are some Radeon RX 480 results for Dota 2 with Vulkan using Mesa 13.1-dev RADV and the AMDGPU-PRO 16.40 release...

For future Chromebooks/Chromeboxes, Google appears to be building an open-source TPM 2.0 implementation that's possibly backed by open hardware...

Just in case anyone is thinking about the new (late-2016) MacBook Pro recently announced by Apple, I found out this morning we'll be receiving one for Phoronix Test Suite Linux benchmarking in the next week or two and should be interesting to see how this (expensive/over-priced) modern laptop runs with Linux...

While Fedora 25 is shaping up to be an excellent release, there are two separate but related disappointments: it won't be shipping this month with Mesa 13.0 drivers and also it's not enabling any Vulkan support out-of-the-box...

Feral Interactive has published the system requirements for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. As usual, it's the GPU/driver requirements that are always most interesting...

The Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) was updated this past weekend to offer the latest functionality for Java game developers...

cURL 7.51.0 was released today and while it does add some new features it does contain a number of active CVEs...

With our past Intel Vulkan benchmarks the Vulkan driver was slower than the mature OpenGL driver but this is about to change with an important patch-set published today: a big performance boost is in store...

With the start of a new month comes updated figures from Valve about their Steam hardware/software survey statistics...

I haven't seen Google announce any Intel Kabylake powered Chromebooks yet, but activity indicates that they may not be too far out with now having mainlined Coreboot support for a new device codenamed "Eve"...

GStreamer 1.10 is now available as the latest significant update to this leading open-source multimedia framework...

When Fedora 25 ships in (hopefully) two weeks it will contain much better support for hybrid graphics / Optimus systems thanks to improvements led by Red Hat...

Released as a Halloween treat yesterday was Minoca, a new open-source (GPLv3) operating system designed for general purpose tasks, features a POSIX-like interface, and takes a modern design approach...

Mesa 13.0 was released today as what is likely the most significant release to this 3D graphics driver/library implementation ever! Mesa 13 is huge for open-source driver uses particularly with Intel, Radeon, and GeForce hardware driver improvements. During development this release was known as Mesa 12.1

During October on Phoronix were 262 original news articles and 20 featured articles/reviews written by your's truly with many exciting announcements, new hardware launches, and more having happened last month...

LibreOffice in Git master (what will become LO 5.3 next year) has enabled its new layout engine by default for providing better rendering on all platforms...

GIMP is taking another step towards the long overdue GIMP 2.10 image program update with a new milestone release being on the horizon...

For those with a NVIDIA Optimus laptop or other dual-GPU system, Fedora QA has organized a test day this week for testing the switchable graphics support for Fedora 25 that will be shipping later this month...

There are a lot of operating system updates to end out October and begin November... Even the "open-source Windows" ReactOS is out with a new test release...

A new version of the Arch-based Manjaro Linux distribution is available and continues with its Xfce desktop choice while a KDE Plasma 5.8 version is also available...

The latest version of OpenIndiana, the Illumos-powered Solaris distribution letting OpenSolaris live on in community form, is now available...

Valve released a Steam client beta for Halloween 2016, but without any apparent spooks...

For fans of FreeDOS as an alternative to MS-DOS, the 1.2 Release Candidate is now available...