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Mesa 12.0.3 Is An Emergency Release For Intel Users
Emil Velikov announced the "emergency release" this morning of Mesa 12.0.3 as the latest stable installment for the Mesa 12.0 series...
Feral's New Linux Port Is Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
The "massive" new Linux game teased yesterday by porting house Feral Interactive is Deus Ex: Mankind Divided...
XDC2016 Will Be One Of The Largest X.Org Conferences In A Long Time
Next week's XDC2016 conference in Finland will be one of the largest X.Org Developers' Conferences, if not the largest ever...
Feral Interactive Said To Be Announcing "Massive" New Game For Linux Tomorrow
The Mac/Linux game porters at Feral Interactive are teasing that tomorrow they will be announcing a "massive" game...
Landlock LSM Still Tackling Unprivileged Sandboxing For Linux
The "Landlock" Linux security module continues to be developed as an effort to let any progress -- even unprivileged processes -- create "powerful security" sandboxes...
Linux+Mesa Git Remains Problematic For Some Regressed R9 290 GPUs
Last week a Mesa fix landed to target the Radeon R9 290/390 performance regression that's been covered a few time on Phoronix since the issue was originally noticed. While the Mesa fix is working for some users, it didn't fix all problems, including with my Hawaii test card...
Greybus Subsystem Proposed For Linux 4.9 Kernel
Greg Kroah-Hartman is looking to land the Greybus driver subsystem into the upcoming Linux 4.9 kernel subsystem. Greybus was a central piece to Google's recently cancelled Project Ara modular smartphone...
KDE Wayland Is Not Yet Interested In NVIDIA's EGLStreams Approach
KDE's Wayland approach is interested in only supporting one code path and as such is not interested in supporting NVIDIA's binary driver approach of using EGLStreams for supporting Wayland on their driver...
Systemd 232 Coming Soon With Numerous New Features
Systemd 232 is right around the corner to succeed the systemd 231 release from July...
VC4 Raspberry Pi Driver Gets Job Shuffling For Faster OpenGL
Those making use of the VC4 Gallium3D driver for open-source Raspberry Pi OpenGL support will want to pull down the latest Mesa Git code if you are interested in double-digit performance improvements for at least some OpenGL workloads...
Wayland 1.12 RC2 Released, Libinput 1.5.0 Is Out
Ahead of the GNOME 3.22 release with much better Wayland support and Fedora 25 potentially using Wayland by default, there's a new Wayland/Weston release candidate to report on today along with the libinput 1.5 release...
Apple Releases CUPS 2.2 Printing System
Apple developers have announced the release of the CUPS 2.2 open-source printing system...
LLVM Clang 3.9 Mostly Trails GCC In Compiler Performance
Following yesterday's GCC 5 vs. 6 vs. early 7 benchmarks, to no surprise LLVM's Clang compiler was brought up in the comments. I had already been running some fresh LLVM Clang benchmarks on this same Intel Xeon system and have those results to share now with Clang 3.8 and the newly-released Clang 3.9.
NetBeans Java IDE Might Become An Apache Incubator Project
A proposal posted today is looking to shift the NetBeans integrated development environment from being an Oracle project to one within the Apache incubator space...
Steam Client Beta Adds Radial Menu Mode, Other Steam Controller Improvements
Linux gamers making use of a Steam Controller will want to try out the latest Steam Client Beta...
Last Minute Wayland Fixes For GNOME 3.22
It looks like running the GNOME desktop environment natively on Wayland should be in pretty good shape after a round of last-minute improvements...
Modesetting, PRIME Cursor Improvements Land In X.Org Server
With X.Org Server 1.19 being quickly scheduled for release next month, the merge window's closure is imminent (in fact, already a few days past the original proposal). Today some last minute xf86-video-modesetting and cursor changes landed...
NVIDIA Doubles TX1 Deep Learning Speed & Efficiency With Software Upgrade
For those making use of the exciting Jetson TX1 platform, NVIDIA is reporting they've now managed to"make it twice as fast and efficient" with their JetPack developer tools upgrade...
Intel's GPU-Accelerated Precise Touch & Stylus Tech Still Not Mainlined For Linux
Intel's Precise Touch and Stylus (IPTS) technology offers GPU-accelerated multi-touch/stylus handling using OpenCL. While there have been kernel patches for a few months floating around, this support has yet to be merged into the mainline Linux kernel...
Raspberry Pi VC4 DRM To Get Lower Memory/CPU Overhead On Linux 4.9
The latest Raspberry Pi VC4 DRM driver changes have now landed in DRM-Next for in turn landing in the mainline kernel when the Linux 4.9 merge window opens in a few weeks...
VirtualBox 5.1.6 Brings Many Fixes
VirtualBox 5.1.6 was released on Monday with many fixes and minor improvements for this Oracle cross-platform virtualization tech...
Kernel NET Policy Still Being Tackled For Simplified, Better Networking Performance
An Intel developer continues working on the "Kernel NET Policy" as a step towards better and simplified network configuration for better performance...
Improvements, New Extension Hit Mesa
There has already been more improvements hitting Mesa Git this week...
AMD's GPUOpen HIP Project Made Progress Over The Summer
The HIP project has made good progress over the summer. HIP from AMD's GPUOpen project is part of the puzzle for converting CUDA to portable C++ code. That source code can then run on AMD GPUs while having little to no performance impact, at least according to AMD...
MySQL Hit By "Critical" Remote Code Execution 0-Day
The latest high-profile open-source software project having a bad security day is MySQL... MySQL 5.5/5.6/5.7 has a nasty zero-day vulnerability...
Btrfs Finally Has A Concise Status Page
The Btrfs file-system finally has a concise status page so users can quickly and easily know the status of various features...
Early GCC 7 Compiler Benchmarks On Linux: Some Performance Improvements
While GCC 7 is still under heavy development and the GCC 7.1 stable release will not come until a few months into 2017, here are some early benchmarks of GCC 7.0 compared to GCC 6.2 and GCC 5.4 on an Ubuntu Linux x86_64 system.
Vim 8.0 Released With GTK3 Support, Async I/O & DirectX Support
Vi IMproved has been further improved with today's Vim 8.0 release. In fact, this is the first major release of Vim in the past decade!..
Intel OpenCL Beignet 1.2 Was Quitely Released, No Sign Of OpenCL 2.0 In Sight
Intel China developers quietly announced the release of their open-source Beignet 1.2 OpenCL implementation at the end of August for HD/Iris Graphics hardware. Beignet 1.2 continues supporting OpenCL 1.x while sadly their experimental OpenCL 2.0 branch hasn't been touched now in three months...
More AMD PowerPlay Code Is Being Refactored
Rex Zhu of AMD published his latest set of 16 patches for refactoring PowerPlay code within the open-source DRM driver space. This is a big refactoring: nearly 19,000 new lines of code and 34,000 deleted lines of code...
FreeType 2.7 Released With A Big Font Rendering Change
FreeType 2.7 has been officially released and it's actually a big deal as it aims to bring font rendering that's better in line with what's offered by DirectWrite and ClearType on other operating systems...
Videos From The LLVM Cauldron 2016
Videos from last week's LLVM Cauldron are now available if you wish to learn more about a variety of compiler happenings...
Linux 4.8-rc6 Kernel Released
Just minutes ago the Linux 4.8-rc6 kernel was released...
Allwinner A33 DRM Support Coming In Linux 4.9
Maxime Ripard of Free Electrons has sent in the Allwinner DRM driver pull request that will ultimately land for the Linux 4.9 kernel merge window...
Wine-Staging Adds 1D Textures For D3D10/D3D11
There is finally a new Wine-Staging version with release notes to talk about for this more-experimental version of Wine...
RoundCube-Next Is Woefully Behind Schedule
After raising more than $103,000 USD last year via crowd-funding the RoundCube-Next web-based email client doesn't really appear to be going anywhere...
Ioquake3 Is Finally Moving To Its New OpenGL Renderer By Default
The ioquake3 open-source game engine project that's built around the Quake III: Arena code-base is finally moving to its new renderer by default and abandoning the original 17-year-old renderer...
TrueOS vs. DragonFlyBSD vs. GhostBSD vs. FreeBSD vs. PacBSD Benchmarks
For your viewing pleasure this weekend are benchmarks of TrueOS 20160831 (the rolling-release distribution formerly known as PC-BSD), DragonFlyBSD 4.6, GhostBSD 10.3, FreeBSD 11.0-RC2, and PacBSD 20160809 (formerly known as Arch BSD) all benchmarked from the same system! Plus for reference to the Linux numbers are Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS and Clear Linux 10040 being compared to these BSDs on the same tests and hardware.
It's Been Another Exciting Week Of RADV Development (Radeon Vulkan)
The RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver continues to look promising and there's been a lot more code being merged the past few days...
KDE Frameworks 5.26 Released
KDE Frameworks 5.26 was released this weekend as the newest version of these KDE add-on libraries to complement Qt...
Memfd Transport Now Enabled By Default For PulseAudio
With this summer's PulseAudio 9.0 release was support for Memfd-based transport. That support is now enabled by default in time for PulseAudio 10...
ZFSOnLinux 0.6.5.8 Now Supports The Latest Linux Kernels
ZFS On Linux 0.6.5.8 was released on Friday as the newest version of this OpenZFS file-system implementation...
Trying Out & Failing With OpenIndiana, Solaris 11.3 On The Broadwell-EP System
After testing seven Linux distributions and eight BSDs on the new Xeon E5-2609 v4 Broadwell-EP + MSI X99A WORKSTATION system, I next decided to try getting some fresh Solaris-based results...
Elementary OS 0.4 "Loki" Released
More than one year after the last Elementary OS Linux distribution update that focuses upon design elegance, v0.4 "Loki" was released today...
Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 Broadwell-EP Linux Benchmarks
Recently I purchased a Xeon E5-2609 v4 Broadwell-EP processor as a $300 Xeon with eight physical cores but clocked at just 1.7GHz and without any Turbo Boost while the TDP is 85 Watts. Here are some benchmarks compared to other LGA-2011 v3 CPUs in my possession under Linux along with an AMD FX reference point too and followed by some Skylake Xeon benchmarks.
SLPC-Based Power Management Still Being Worked On For Intel's DRM Driver
The Single Loop Power Controller (SLPC) was an interesting addition to Skylake hardware but even with Skylake processors being out more than one year and the SLPC patches for the Intel DRM Linux driver having been out for a number of months, this GuC-based SLPC support has yet to be merged. The latest version of the patches was just published...
V8 JavaScript Engine 5.4 Brings More Performance Improvements
Version 5.4 of the V8 JavaScript Engine has been released. This is another hefty update to V8 and it brings the favorite kind of work we like talking about: more performance improvements...
The Threaded Input Support In X.Org Server 1.19
As covered previously, threaded input finally landed in the X.Org Server. It's 2016, and these patches had even been sitting around for a few years with no action, while finally this beneficial feature will be shipping with next month's X.Org Server 1.19 release...
Sailfish OS Update "Aurajoki" Released
It's been a while since last having a Sailfish OS update from Jolla to talk about, but that's changed with the "Aurajoki" release finally hitting supported devices...
Mesa & AMDGPU-PRO Appear To Run Fine With Rocket League On Linux
With many Linux gamers having looked forward to the Linux release of Rocket League, I tested out the Linux port of the game when using Mesa RadeonSI Gallium3D as well as the AMDGPU-PRO blob...
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