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Updated 2025-07-13 08:00
Stable Linux Kernel Updates Roll Out To Address "Dirty COW" CVE
The supported Linux 4.8/4.7/4.4 kernel series have seen stable point releases today to address a new CVE security issue nicknamed "Dirty COW" that is a local privilege escalation issue and could allow attackers to overwrite files to which they don't own write access...
MPV 0.21 Player Adds CUDA, Better Raspberry Pi Support
MPV Player 0.21 is now available as the latest version of this popular fork of MPlayer/MPlayer2...
Mad Max Appears To Work Fine With RadeonSI Gallium3D
This morning's release of the Mad Max game for Linux lists only NVIDIA graphics as supported, but it does turn out at least for newer AMD GPUs using the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver things should work -- well, assuming you are using the latest open-source driver code...
Fedora 26 Planning To Drop The Synaptics X.Org Driver
Another early feature being talked about for Fedora 26 is no longer installing the Syntaptics X.Org driver by default...
RadeonSI Got Another Optimization After The 13.0 Branching
A short time after Mesa 13.0 was branched in Git yesterday, well known AMD open-source developer Marek Olšák was landing new work in master...
SDL 2.0.5 Released With Many Improvements
SDL 2.0.5 is now available as the latest version of this library used by many cross-platform games and is part of the Steam Runtime. SDL 2.0.5 brings many new features and improvements...
DragonFlyBSD Continues LibreSSL Push, OpenSSL To Be Dropped
DragonFlyBSD is now defaulting to LibreSSL throughout its operating system stack and is planning to completely remove OpenSSL in the near future...
Mad Max Launches For Linux
Feral Interactive's port of Mad Max to Linux (and macOS) is now officially out and can be found on Steam...
Mesa 13.0 Release Candidate 1 Arrives With Intel OpenGL 4.5 Complete
Now that release manager Emil Velikov has worked through his LLVM issue, Mesa 13.0 Release Candidate 1 is now officially available as the first development release that has core OpenGL 4.4/4.5 support in Mesa...
Linux 4.9 Is Showing Some Performance Improvements On A Core i7 6800K
Now that Linux 4.9-rc1 is out, it's onward to testing this new Linux kernel on the dozens of test systems at Phoronix. With some early testing on a Core i7 6800K Broadwell-E box, there are some promising improvements...
Fedora 26 Anaconda Installer Likely To Get Blivet-GUI
The Anaconda installer is never done evolving... The Anaconda installer will be updated, again, with Fedora 26 but hopefully won't see the major fallout during one of its earlier reworks when it was in very bad shape. This time around they are just looking to add Blivet-GUI...
Mesa Hasn't Been Branched Yet Due To LLVM Issues
The Mesa 12.1/13.0 release dragged out a bit to allow the RADV Radeon Vulkan driver to be merged and then some Gallium3D Nine fixes, which have landed. The branching / feature freeze didn't happen last week though as planned, but Emil Velikov the release manager has now provided an update...
VC4 Gallium3D Driver Now Has Better Texture Upload Performance
Stemming from an issue of slow performance inside LXDE's file manager, the Raspberry Pi VC4 Gallium3D driver has received an optimization for better texture upload performance...
Linux 4.10 To Expose EFI Framebuffer Configuration
While Linux 4.9-rc1 was only released this past weekend, the EFI subsystem changes are already being staged for the next kernel cycle...
Intel OpenGL vs. Vulkan Linux Benchmarks - Mesa Git + Linux 4.9
With having delivered a number of RADV Radeon Vulkan benchmarks recently, time to turn the tables to see how the Intel Vulkan driver stack is comparing to its i965 classic Mesa DRI driver. Dota 2 benchmarks up today under Ubuntu 16.10 while using Mesa 12.10-dev and Linux 4.9...
Features You Won't Find In The Linux 4.9 Mainline Kernel
While there are many new features in Linux 4.9, there is some functionality we've been looking forward to that sadly isn't yet in the mainline kernel tree...
Solus 1.2.1 Released With Budgie Desktop Updates, Ships RADV Driver
Version 1.2.1 of the promising Solus Linux distribution is now available and also premieres a MATE edition ISO to complement its original Budgie desktop...
Ubuntu 16.10 Desktop Gaming Benchmarks: Unity, GNOME, Xfce, LXDE, KDE, Openbox, MATE
As usual when there's a new Ubuntu Linux, the requests come in for running OpenGL graphics/game benchmarks under the different desktop options. For some Ubuntu 16.10 on Intel Mesa graphics tests are results for GNOME Shell, Xfce, LXDE, KDE Plasma, Openbox, MATE, and Unity running atop X.Org.
Raspberry Pi Finally Well Supported By Fedora With 25 Beta
While Fedora has always supported ARM/AArch64 hardware well, they've missed out on the whole Raspberry Pi craze even as the ARMv7 hardware has been shipping for a while and there are plenty of Pi-focused Linux distributions out there. With Fedora 25, there's finally going to be good support for the Raspberry Pi 2 and 3 devices...
Canonical Rolls Out Its Own Kernel Livepatching Service For Ubuntu
Canonical has formally moved forward with its enterprise kernel livepatching service, which it's making free to the Ubuntu community -- assuming you have three Ubuntu installations or less. Like the other approaches, this is about applying in real-time critical security fixes to the kernel without rebooting...
Java JDK 9 Firmed Up For A Late July Release
The JDK 9 release schedule is indeed being pushed back by four months and now will be released in late July...
GStreamer Conference 2016 Videos, Vulkan Support Was Among The Talks
The annual GStreamer Conference took place last week in Berlin alongside the Linux Foundation's Embedded Linux Conference Europe. The videos from this multimedia open-source conference are now available...
Wine-Staging 1.9.21 Improves Its Vulkan Wrapper
Re-basing to last week's Wine 1.9.21 release is a new version of Wine-Staging that incorporates various experimental/testing patches atop this code-base for running Windows binaries on Linux and other operating systems...
NVIDIA Announces The GeForce GTX 1050 Series
NVIDIA this morning is expanding the Pascal family with the announcement of the GeForce GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti lower-cost graphics cards...
KDE Plasma Looking At Global Menu, Wayland & Mobile For 2017
KDE Plasma developers talked this week about their plans for the new development cycle and what they want the desktop to look like moving into 2017 and further ahead into 2018...
Linux 4.9 Kernel Tacks On Over 200k Lines Of Code
With all the new features in Linux 4.9, obviously Tux put on a bit of weight this kernel cycle... Here's some numbers...
OpenSUSE Leap 42.2 Release Candidate Published
There is less than one month to go until openSUSE Leap 42.2 will be officially released while today marks the RC1 availability...
GTK Scene Kit Merged For GTK4
The GTK+ Scene Graph Kit (GSK) has landed in mainline GTK+ Git as the "spiritual successor to Clutter" and now providing a scene graph for this GNOME toolkit...
Clear Linux Now Riding On Linux 4.8.1, Ships AVX2-Optimized Python
Intel's Clear Linux open-source operating system continues advancing as one of the less heard of but highly performant rolling-release distributions for servers, cloud, containers, and other applications...
More GCC Patches To Get OpenMP Offloading To NVIDIA NVPTX Working
Fresh patches are available for GCC to get OpenMP offloading to the NVIDIA PTX ISA working for accelerating OpenMP on NVIDIA GPUs with the GNU Compiler Collection...
The Exciting Features Of The Linux 4.9 Kernel
This weekend was the release of Linux 4.9-rc1 to mark the end of the 4.9 kernel merge window. As such, here's our usual feature overview recapping all of the changes to Linux 4.9 that have us excited about the next version of this open-source kernel.
PHP 8.0 Likely To Have A New JIT Engine
Zend has begun developing a new JIT (Just-In-Time) Engine for PHP and is expecting it will likely be ready for PHP 8.0...
Ubuntu 17.04 ZZ Codename Announced
Ending out the alphabet, Ubuntu 17.04 is.....
ALLVM: Forthcoming Project to Ship All Software As LLVM IR
Interest is growing around shipping software as LLVM IR and will be discussed at this year's LLVM Developers' Meeting...
GTK4 Development Code Just Received 100+ Commits Dropping Old Stuff
Development on the GTK+ 4.0 tool-kit continues moving along and this weekend has seen 100+ commits dropping various deprecated and outdated code...
Dota 2 Radeon OpenGL vs. Vulkan Performance With Mesa Git, Linux 4.9-rc1
Now that the RADV Radeon Vulkan driver has landed in Mesa Git and Linux 4.9-rc1 is out, I figured it was time for some fresh benchmarks of the Radeon Vulkan driver against the RadeonSI Gallium3D OpenGL driver. Here is the first of that new data.
Debian Testing Wayland Live CD Updated With Latest Support
The Live CD Linux distribution focused on showcasing the potential of Wayland across different desktops, toolkits, and applications is out with a new ISO release...
Lighttpd 1.4.42 Brings New Modules, Rewritten Authentication Framework
Lighttpd 1.4.42 was released this Sunday morning as the newest version of this open-source, lightweight HTTP web-server...
Mesa Benchmarks Post-ReZ RadeonSI Change, Another Game Jumps Up By ~20%
Earlier this week was a discovery of a "serious performance fix" For the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver by disabling ReZ. That change landed in Mesa Git already so I ran some before/after benchmarks...
VK9: Still Pursuing Direct3D 9 Over Vulkan
VK9 is the project formerly known as SchaeferGL as an open-source project implementing Direct3D 9 over Vulkan...
Linux 4.9-rc1 Kernel Released Early
Linus Torvalds decided to release the Linux 4.9-rc1 kernel today as opposed to tomorrow (Sunday) to fend off any subsystem maintainers from submitting last minute feature pull requests...
Khronos, Mesa, Standards & Conformance / Certification: Open Source, Open Standards
The past week or two in our forums and elsewhere there's been a lot of comments about Khronos' conformance testing for OpenGL 4.4/4.5 with the Mesa drivers finally reaching that point, concern over Khronos' fees being prohibitive for open-source projects (particularly in cases like Nouveau where it's community driven without a main corporate backer), and some FUD related to this matter. I've now received some clarification from The Khronos Group to lay these concerns to rest...
EGL_MESA_platform_surfaceless Firmed Up In Mesa For ChromeOS
Chad Versace, the Intel OTC developer turned Googler who is part of the Chrome OS driver team, has been baking the EGL_MESA_platform_surfaceless extension and its implementation inside Mesa...
POWER8 Workstation Launches On Crowdfunding: $4k For Motherboard, $18k For System
The Talos Secure Workstation that we previously have covered on Phoronix has now launched on crowd-funding where they hope to raise close to four million dollars to make this POWER8 system that's free down to the firmware a reality...
Fedora 25 Wayland Tests A Success, On Track For Stable
Fedora 25 has been on track for using Wayland by default and that was better firmed up this week. It's looking almost definitive next month's Fedora 25 release will be the first tier-one desktop Linux distribution using Wayland by default on supported systems in place of the X.Org Server...
Intel's Mesa Driver Now Enables OpenGL 4.5
Intel's Mesa OpenGL driver now officially enables OpenGL 4.5 support for Broadwell "Gen 8" hardware and newer...
Wine 1.9.21 Released With HID Minidriver, System Tray Improvements
Wine 1.9.21 is available this Friday as the latest bi-weekly release of this software for running Windows programs on Linux and other operating systems...
Additional P-State Change For Linux 4.9 May Boost Intel Atom Performance
Rafael Wysocki sent in a secondary pull request today of more power management updates for the Linux 4.9 kernel...
Nouveau Linux 4.8 + Mesa 12.1-dev vs. NVIDIA OpenGL Performance
It's been a while since last delivering any open-source NVIDIA (Nouveau) Gallium3D driver benchmarks but for your viewing pleasure this Friday are some fresh Kepler and Maxwell test results for this reverse-engineered NVIDIA Linux driver code against the proprietary NVIDIA driver in various OpenGL test cases.
SQLite 3.15 Reduces CPU Usage, Adds Support For Row Values (Vectors)
SQLite 3.15.0 is now available as the latest feature release of this widely-used, embed-able SQL database library...
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