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Playing With Vulkan Through Python, Basic Performance Figures To C++
The language bindings for the Vulkan high-performance graphics API have exploded since the debut of Vulkan 1.0 earlier this year. There's support from Rust to Java for interacting with this Khronos graphics API, including support for Python...
The TORCS Racing Car Simulator Should Now Be Slightly Faster With Gallium3D
For those playing TORCS, The Open Racing Simulator, its performance for this driving game simulator should be slightly faster if using one of Mesa's Gallium3D drivers...
A Detailed Look At The Failed GPLGPU Open-Source GPU
A few years ago was the Kickstarter-backed effort to open-source a real GPU hardware design albeit from a late 90's design. That effort ultimately failed just raising $12k of a $200k USD goal, but the GPU design was released under the GPLv3 anyways...
The Upgradeable Allwinner Dev Board That's Laptop-Compatible Raises $50k So Far
At the beginning of the month I wrote about That Open, Upgradeable ARM Dev Board Is Trying To Make A Comeback, the EOMA68-spec'ed project formerly known as the Improv Dev Board. It's still using the same (rather slow) Allwinner SoC but has since seen some improvements and there's also a laptop compatible route too. The project has now raised more than $50k USD, but their goal is still three times that at $150k they are trying to raise over the next month...
The State of GIMP & Its Future
GIMP core developer Jehan Pagès has written a blog post about the recent work done on GIMP 2.9.4 as well as a look at its future...
SteamOS Brewmaster 2.87 Released With NVIDIA Pascal Support
Valve released SteamOS 2.87 this week as the latest "Brewmaster" release of their Debian 8 based Linux gaming distribution...
More Last Minute AMDGPU/Radeon Changes For Linux 4.8
There already have been the main pull requests for the AMDGPU/Radeon DRM drivers for DRM-Next that in turn will land in Linux 4.8 next week. However, today there's been a last-minute update of more open-source AMD driver changes for this next kernel release...
Overlord II Now Available For Linux Gamers
One week after Overlord was released for Linux (anc macOS), Virtual Programming has released Overlord II for Linux...
Sailfish OS 2.0.2 In Early Access With Variety Of Improvements
Jolla announced today that their Sailfish OS 2.0.2 "Aurajoki" mobile operating system release is available as early access...
DRM Text Mode Proposed As Alternative To FBDEV/FBCON
There's long been talk on killing FBDEV and getting rid of CONFIG_VT with a modern replacement making more use of DRM/KMS drivers, but so far none of those efforts have fully panned out. The latest proposal is a "DRM text mode" as an alternative to FBDEV/FBCON...
Some of The Other Pull Requests Arriving For Linux 4.8 This Week
I've already written more than a dozen various bits of information about the Linux 4.8 kernel this week covering the big pull requests / subsystem updates. Here's a collection of some of the other PRs that have arrived this week...
Git-Series Helps You Track Changes To Patches Over Time
Kernel developer Josh Triplett has announced the work he's been doing recently on developing git-series, a way to track changes to a patch series over time...
Igalia's Work On The Intel Mesa Driver The Past Year
Consulting firm Igalia who was contracted by Intel to help work on their open-source Mesa driver has written a blog post about some of the progress they've made the past year...
The OpenGL / Vulkan Slides From Khronos @ SIGGRAPH 2016
Yesterday were The Khronos Group sessions at SIGGRAPH 2016. I already covered the OpenCL session while now here are my notes from the OpenGL/Vulkan BoF along with the presentation material...
Possible Items On The OpenCL Roadmap: Improved Vulkan Interop, Arbitrary Precision
There was an OpenCL BoF during the Khronos Group day at SIGGRAPH 2016. At this session yesterday they did comment on OpenCL roadmap discussions taking place...
More AMD Iceland PowerPlay Patches Appear
Huang Rui of AMD today published another 15 patches surrounding Iceland PowerPlay support...
pfSense/m0n0wall-Forked OPNsense 16.7 Released
The latest major release is out of OPNsense, a BSD open-source firewall OS project derived from pfSense and m0n0wall...
Unity 5.4 Arrives With Better Multi-Threaded Rendering, Other Rendering Improvements
Unity 5.4 was released this morning as the latest version of this popular cross-platform game engine...
Pithos 1.2 Improves The Open-Source/Linux Pandora Desktop Experience
Chances are if you've ever dealt with Pandora music streaming from the Linux desktop you've encountered Pithos as the main open-source solution that works out quite well. Released today was Pithos 1.2 and it ships with numerous enhancements for this GPLv3-licensed Pandora desktop client...
Tresorit For Linux Released To Provide End-To-End Encrypted File Sharing
Tresorit is an end-to-end encrypted file sharing service aimed at sharing files among team members. Tresorit has supported Windows, OS X, iOS, Android, and even Blackberry and Windows Phone while now they are finally supporting the Linux desktop...
Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" Alpha 2 Released
Today marks the second alpha release for Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" flavors participating in these early development releases...
FreeBSD Q2'2016: EFI Improvements, Prepping For FreeBSD 11.0, Package Updates
For FreeBSD fans not closely following its development on a daily basis, the FreeBSD project has released their Q2'2016 quarterly status report that covers various activities going on around this BSD operating system project...
Microsoft Surface 3 Touchscreen & Other Input Improvements For Linux 4.8
The input updates for Linux 4.8 bring support for the Microsoft Surface 3 touchscreen controller, among other improvements...
"Vulkan Next" Is In Active Development
The Khronos Group is having their day at SIGGRAPH 2016. No major API announcements with availability today to talk about, at least not yet. But "Vulkan Next" was commented on...
BFQ Still Trying To Replace The CFQ I/O Scheduler In Linux
For a number of months there's been an effort to replace the CFQ I/O scheduler with BFQ inside the Linux kernel. That isn't happening for the current Linux 4.8 cycle, but new patches were published today in pursuing this goal...
Khronos Livestream SIGGRAPH 2016 Is Now Happening
If you have the next few hours to spare, The Khronos Group sessions from SIGGRAPH 2016 in Anaheim are being livestreamed...
Khronos Expands Focus On Safety Critical APIs
Today is the Khronos day at SIGGRAPH 2016 with several announcements being expected...
LibreOffice 5.2 Is Being Released Next Wednesday
One week from today will mark the release of LibreOffice 5.2 as the open-source office suite's latest major update...
F2FS & XFS See Changes For Linux 4.8
Following the EXT4 updates for Linux 4.8, the F2FS (Flash Friendly File-System) and XFS file-systems now have their feature updates ready for this next kernel cycle...
Ubuntu OTA-12 Bringing More Features & Improvements To Mobile Ubuntu
Ubuntu OTA-12 is being released today by Canonical as the latest over-the-air update for Ubuntu tablet/phone users...
The "Intel Virtual Button" Driver Is Coming For Linux 4.8
Already sent in less than half-way into the two week merge window for Linux 4.8 were all of the platform-drivers-x86 updates for enhancing Intel laptop support under Linux. This time around there's the new intel-vbtn driver...
Linux 4.8 Bringing ACPI Low-Power Idle, Intel Denverton Support
Rafael Wysocki on Tuesday submitted his power management and ACPI pull request feature updates for the Linux 4.8 kernel...
The Chromium Browser Is Finally Working Its Way Into Fedora
A sharp-eyed Phoronix reader noticed that Google's Chromium web-browser is finally in the process of appearing in Fedora's production repositories...
Nouveau Patches Round Out OpenGL 4.1 Support For Maxwell/Pascal
Samuel Pitoiset continues being one of the most prolific Nouveau driver developers in recent times and today posted support for OpenGL tessellation on NVIDIA Maxwell GPUs and newer...
Hardened Usercopy Protection Sent In For Linux 4.8
The usercopy protection was sent in today for pulling into the Linux 4.8 kernel...
SMR Drive Support In Linux 4.8 To Be Further Improved
With the Linux 4.7 kernel came initial work on SMR drives, a.k.a. Shingled Magnetic Recording. With Linux 4.8 the SMR drive support continues to be improved...
Clear Linux Already Jumps Onto The Linux 4.7 Kernel
The Linux 4.7 kernel may be just two days old, but already it's being shipped as the default kernel to Intel's Clear Linux operating system...
Relative Pointer Protocol, Pointer Locking & Confinement Land In Wayland's Weston
Wayland's Weston reference compositor picked up support for some new features this morning...
NVIDIA Is Building Its Next-Gen Falcon Controller Using RISC-V
For the past decade NVIDIA GPUs have shipped with a proprietary micro-controller they've called Falcon (also for Nouveau users you may recall it through "FUC" for the Falcon micro-controller), but a next-gen controller is being built now for future NVIDIA GPUs and it's going to utilize the RISC-V ISA...
NVMe Over Fabrics (NVMeF) & Other Block Improvements For Linux 4.8
Jens Axboe submitted his Linux 4.8 block driver and core block changes on Monday for this next kernel development cycle...
NVIDIA "OpenGL 2016" Driver Leaks Out Early, Adds GLSL SPIR-V Extension
The Khronos BOFs for SIGGRAPH 2016 aren't until tomorrow, but NVIDIA posted today their development driver with support for the "OpenGL 2016" extensions...
HDMI CEC Framework Finally Queued For Linux 4.8
Four years after Linux kernel work originally got underway for supporting HDMI CEC and after many patch revisions of the rebooted CEC effort over the past year, the Linux 4.8 media pull request is finally set to land this new framework...
Radeon Pro SSG Packs 1TB Of SSD Storage On The Graphics Card
Last night after writing about the Radeon Pro WX series I immediately fell asleep, but it turns out AMD continued with their SIGGRAPH 2016 announcements by rolling out the Radeon Pro SSG, a graphics card with onboard solid-state storage...
Linux 4.8 Bringing Intel MPX Enhancements, Work Towards Virtually Mapped Kernel Stacks
Ingo Molnar sent in his pull requests on Monday for the Linux 4.8 kernel. Among the interesting material this cycle were the x86/mm changes with some notable commits...
AMD Introduces The Radeon Pro WX Series
NVIDIA used SIGGRAPH 2016 as a launching ground for their Pascal-powered Quadro GPUs while AMD this evening used the event in Anaheim for announcing their new Radeon Pro WX series...
NWM: An X11 Window Manager Written In Node.js
In case you ever wanted to have a Node.js window manager, there's now one that works for X11 environments that works on Chrome OS, Debian, and friends...
OpenVZ 7.0 Becomes A Complete Linux Distribution, Based On VzLinux
OpenVZ, a long-standing Linux virtualization technology and similar to LXC and Solaris Containers, is out with their major 7.0 release...
Systemd 231 Officially Released
Just as expected, systemd 231 is now official!..
NVIDIA Unveils The Quadro P6000, The "World's Fastest GPU"
Just days after NVIDIA announced the new GTX TITAN X powered by Pascal that clocks in at 11 TFLOPS, NVIDIA unveiled at SIGGRAPH today what they call "the world's fastest GPU" and is capable of 12 TFLOPS...
Servo Is Planning For More GPU-Accelerated WebRender Improvements
As mentioned in today's This Week in Servo newsletter, their Q3 roadmap plans have been published...
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