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The fourth and last planned development milestone release of Phoronix Test Suite 7.2-Trysil is now available ahead of the official release in the days ahead...

Prolific Wayland contributor Pekka Paalanen is requesting comments on the possible protocol addition for Wayland's Weston designed for easing the debugging experience...

Red Hat's Lyude has enabled the ARB_post_depth_coverage within the Nouveau NVC0 driver and the associated work for bringing it up within Gallium3D / Mesa state tracker...

OpenBenchmarking.org, our "cloud" component to the Phoronix Test Suite for centralized result aggregation by those opting to publicly upload their test results and also serving as the repository for all test profiles and test suites so they can ship independent of the PTS version, has hit 24 million test/suite downloads...

I haven't encountered this issue myself on any of my Ryzen Linux boxes, but it seems there are a number of Ryzen Linux users who are facing segmentation faults and sometimes crashes when running concurrent compilation loads on these Zen CPUs...

Last week Fedora 26's beta was delayed and today they have needed to still postpone this beta release due to bugs...

It's that time of the year where we see how the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver stack is working on past and present hardware in a large GPU comparison with various OpenGL games and workloads. This year we go from the new Radeon RX 580 all the way back to the Radeon HD 2900XT, looking at how the mature Radeon DRM kernel driver and R600 Gallium3D driver is working for aging ATI/AMD graphics hardware. In total there were 51 graphics cards tested for this comparison of Radeon cards as well as NVIDIA GeForce hardware for reference.

TrueOS, the FreeBSD-derived operating system formerly known as PC-BSD, is out with a six-month stable release update...

For those that have been longing to run Windows applications/games on Android using Wine, that day is finally getting closer with mainline Wine...

If you have been waiting to pick up an AMD Ryzen CPU until the prices drop, they are beginning to do so...

For those riding the stable Mesa 17.1 release train, the 17.1.2 update is expected this weekend...

While LZ4 can be very fast with its compression and decompression speeds, there's a new kid on the block that appears to be even faster: LZ4m...

With the start of a new month comes updated Steam usage figures for the month prior...

Coreboot has joined the Software Freedom Conservancy as a member project...

Virtual Programming has revealed their latest noteworthy Linux game port: Micro Machines World Series...

After posting a number of NVIDIA GPU Linux benchmarks this week using their latest drivers, here is similar treatment on the Radeon side using their newest open-source driver code.

On 5 June we celebrate the 13th birthday of Phoronix.com as well as 9 years since the release of Phoronix Test Suite 1.0. In celebration, for the next week we are running a great deal on our ad-free, multi-page-articles-on-a-single-page, while supporting our site "Premium" subscription...

It's now been nearly two months since Canonical announced they were abandoning their Unity 8 / Ubuntu Phone dreams and about the same amount of time since the forks started around Unity 8, Mir, and Ubuntu Touch itself...

Valve's developers working on the Mesa / Linux graphics driver stack continue tuning KHR_no_error for helping lower the CPU utilization in OpenGL bug-free games...

It looks like RADV developers are working on getting their driver ready for bringing up Radeon RX Vega support on their unofficial, open-source Vulkan driver...

With all of AMD's excitement these days about their Zen-based Ryzen/EPYC processors and forthcoming Vega GPUs, you probably forgot about their ARM efforts that they appear to have pretty much abandoned. But it looks like some of those who pre-ordered the AMD Seattle powered LeMaker Cello board are finally receiving their kits...

Mesa 17.0.7 is now available as the latest bug-fix release to Mesa 17.0 and is also the last planned release for the Mesa 17.0 series that debuted earlier this year...

One of the most exciting projects for this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) if successful is a Vulkan software renderer...

openSUSE's Tumbleweed rolling-release Linux distribution has now switched over to using GCC7 as its default code compiler...

It's that time again to go over what was the most interesting/viewed content on Phoronix for the month. In May, your's truly wrote 290 original news articles and 26 featured articles / Linux hardware reviews...

Valve has ended out May by issuing a new Steam beta client...

Last week Khronos UK hosted an event in Cambridge all about Vulkan, including talks by some game developers from the likes of Feral and Croteam. For those that didn't catch the livestream, the slide decks and video recordings are now available...

With having powered up the Core i5 6600K "Skylake" test rig that I haven't run many benchmarks on recent in the days of Kabylake, I ran some fresh HD Graphics 530 tests with Linux 4.12 and Mesa 17.2-dev to see if these upgrades are worthwhile for Skylake Linux users...

Besides confirming the RX Vega launch for SIGGRAPH, AMD also announced today from Computex Taipei that their AMD EPYC launch is happening on 20 June...

Version 17.05 of the Genode OS research/experimental operating system project is now available...

On Monday I posted a 28-way NVIDIA GeForce Linux GPU comparison for fun going from the GeForce 8 series through the high-end GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. For those not interested in OpenGL but more into OpenCL compute, these benchmarks are for you. With the GPUs I had available for testing from Fermi and newer, some fresh OpenCL benchmarks were carried out.

Andres Rodriguez of Valve's Linux GPU driver team is looking at "exclusive GPU access" support in order to boost the AMDGPU+RADV SteamVR performance...

A new version of the visually-advanced, multi-platform Unigine Engine is now available for those licensing this game/simulation engine...

While last week was the ambitious proposal to drop older GPU drivers from Mesa including the likes of i915 and R300g -- and possibly branching them off to their own Git branch for continued maintenance by interested individuals -- that proposal isn't going to fly...

Qt 5.9.0 has made it out on time as the newest Qt5 tool-kit Long-Term Support (LTS) release...

With more HDR monitors hitting the market, Intel developers are working on plumbing support for High Dynamic Range displays into the Linux kernel's DRM layer...

While there had been much rumor and speculations about the highly anticipated Radeon RX Vega launch happening at Computex Taipei this week, it isn't happening and it's now been reported that the consumer Vega launch has been postponed to SIGGRAPH...

Valve developer Samuel Pitoiset has updated his massive patch-set for implementing OpenGL's ARB_bindless_texture extension within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

With Debian 9.0 "Stretch" being released in a few weeks, you can expect to find a number of Debian GNU/Linux comparisons coming up on Phoronix in June. For those curious how the performance of Debian Stretch is looking now that it's nearly finalized, here are some initial benchmarks compared to the current stable Debian 8.8 release as well as Ubuntu 17.04, CentOS 7, and Clear Linux.

The Portable Native Client (PNaCl) ecosystem hasn't been too vibrant for executing native code in web-browsers given its lack of adoption outside of Google/Chrome and other factors. With WebAssembly seeing much broader adoption and inroads, Google is planning to end PNaCl...

A semi-common question that's come up in recent years has been a request to be able to access Phoronix Test Suite test profiles via GitHub. That's now possible...

The release of Xfce 4.14 continues getting closer as their transitional step for getting the lightweight desktop environment up and running with the GTK3 tool-kit...

There is an easy way to try out today's release of KDE Plasma 5.10...

WhiteEgret is the name of a new Linux Security Module (LSM) in-development by Toshiba for being able to limit what your system can execute via a whitelist...

If you are bound to dealing with Microsoft's ReFS file-system, Paragon Software has added write support to its proprietary ReFS Linux file-system driver...

Intel developers have landed more code into DRM-Next of feature material in turn targeting the Linux 4.13 kernel cycle...

The KDE community has released Plasma 5.10 as their newest desktop release...

The Linux state for HDMI CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) continues to improve and several drivers are in the works...

Keith Packard's latest hacking in the open-source world has been around DRM leases support as part of his work under contract with Valve for better supporting VR HMDs on Linux...

Adding patches atop last week's Wine 2.9 is the new Wine-Staging release with a few noteworthy additions...