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It's been fun benchmarking Vulkan vs. OpenGL with Mad Max, Feral's first Linux game port featuring a beta Vulkan renderer. With the Radeon benchmarks and many NVIDIA Pascal tests yesterday an Intel Core i7 Kabylake CPU was used while for this article is a Mad Max run with AMD's Ryzen 7 1800X.

With the upcoming Linux 4.11 kernel release there is better support for Intel Turbo Boost Max 3.0 after originally it didn't look like this feature would be available for Linux. Under Linux 4.11, my Core i7 6800K + MSI X99A WORKSTATION box is now working with "ITMT" enabled, so here are some quick benchmarks...

One of the many new features for the upcoming Qt 5.9 is an OpenVG renderer for hardware acceleration on some embedded platforms that lack OpenGL capabilities...

The Kdenlive video editor project in the KDE camp has published a new status update concerning the health of the project...

SQLite 3.18 is now available as the newest feature release to this open-source embedded database library...

After entering public beta last November, X-Plane 11 is now officially available...

As reported yesterday, the Radeon RX Vega AMDGPU code was staged for pulling into DRM-Next along with other features that amount to 398,656 lines of new code in the kernel. David Airlie has honored that pull request and that feature work is now residing in DRM-Next...

Linux input expert Peter Hutterer of Red Hat has published a draft proposal for a new Wayland protocol simply dubbed Inputfd...

Version 2.3 of the OpenShot open-source non-linear video editor is now available for all supported platforms...

Hours ago I posted some RADV vs. RadeonSI results on Mad Max which showed much progress for this first Feral Interactive Vulkan Linux game while the NVIDIA results do show much more impressive performance capabilities with this new graphics API. Here are some of my initial NVIDIA GeForce results for OpenGL vs. Vulkan with Mad Max on Linux while additional tests are on the way.

It's been a while since last having any Phoronix meet-ups due to not really traveling in the past few years due to various constraints, but next month on business will be available for a Russian Phoronix reader meet-up...

Alex Deucher has submitted a big pull request to DRM-Next for additional Radeon and AMDGPU updates for DRM-Next...

Earlier this week NVIDIA quietly released a new version of their Vulkan beta driver for Windows and Linux...

Feral Interactive today released their first Linux ported game into public beta that features a Vulkan renderer. Mad Max on Linux now supports Vulkan and OpenGL, making for some fun driver/GPU benchmarking. Up first are some Radeon RX 480 and R9 Fury Vulkan vs. OpenGL benchmarks for Mad Max when using Mesa 17.1-dev Git.

Intel has published a series of patches today adding FPGA device drivers to their Linux kernel for their selection of FPGA hardware...

Andres Gomez of Igalia has stepped up to the plate to manage Mesa 17.0.3 as the newest Mesa stable update. The plan is to release it officially by the end of week while today the release candidate is available...

Feral Interactive has pushed a Vulkan renderer for their recent Mad Max Linux port into public beta...

Sure enough, following yesterday's libdrm 2.4.76, the hardware enablement patches for the upcoming Radeon RX Vega (Vega10) launch is now in Mesa Git...

For Linux GPU driver junkies, here are some fresh NVIDIA vs. RadeonSI test results using Linux 4.11 and Mesa 17.1-dev as of this week...

The Qt Company has today rolled out the first public beta for the upcoming Qt Creator integrated development environment release...

Nicolai Hähnle has been working on support for some newer OpenGL extensions not currently implemented in the RadeonSI driver...

Ilia Mirkin has landed support for Pascal graphics processors within the xf86-video-nouveau X.Org DDX driver...

For those wishing to relive a past fond moment for Linux gaming or weren't reading Phoronix five years ago, today marks five years since receiving an interesting message from GabeN...

RADV co-founder David Airlie is staging another important feature for this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver: tessellation support...

This week MSI finally released an updated BIOS for the X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM that we've been using for a majority of our Ryzen Linux benchmarks. With that motherboard improving memory compatibility and allowing us to finally run the board at higher DDR4 memory clock frequencies, I've run some fresh AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Ubuntu Linux benchmarks at various memory frequencies.

Libdrm 2.4.76 is now available with among the changes being the updates needed for AMDGPU Vega10 support...

The release schedule for GNOME 3.26, the next six-month update to this open-source desktop environment, has now been firmed up...

Thanks to collaboration between Collabora and Google's Chrome OS team, Android is now able to interface with the mainline Linux graphics stack...

With Q1'2017 wrapping up this week, here are some fresh Mesa Git statistics showing how the development of this important OpenGL/Vulkan implementation is pacing for the year...

NVIDIA has published the initial hardware enablement patches for bringing up the Pascal GPU found in the Tegra X2 SoC under the open-source Nouveau driver...

The 2016 X.Org Treasurer's Annual Report was recently released concerning the state of the foundation and expenses incurred for the 2016 fiscal year...

Those testing the experimental DC/DAL support had long been using a Linux ~4.9 Git tree maintained by Alex Deucher while now the 4.12 work-in-progress kernel has the latest DC code along with the Vega10 enablement...

Alastair Bridgewater has revised his work on HDMI 3D/Stereoscopy support for the open-source NVIDIA (Nouveau) Linux kernel driver...

The open-source community-based "RADV" Radeon Vulkan driver has now enabled the sparseBinding feature...

If you are a registered member of the X.Org Foundation, you have until 11 April to cast your ballot for this year's elections...

Earlier this month it was revealed that Keith Packard had begun working with Valve to address DRM changes for Linux VR. He's now commented a bit on the technical approach he's pursuing for better dealing with virtual reality head-mounted displays (HMDs) with the open-source Linux drivers...

Last week I published a number of Radeon and NVIDIA Vulkan/OpenGL Serious Sam 2017 benchmarks while those curious about Intel graphics performance for the updated Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter have some data to look at today.

Epic Games has rolled out their March update to the still-in-development Unreal Tournament game built atop Unreal Engine 4...

AMD developers continue working on improving the performance of the open-source Linux graphics driver stack. The latest is a small patch to fix the performance when under video memory pressure...

With DragonFlyBSD 4.8 making its debut yesterday, I was excited to give this updated BSD operating system a try now that it has UEFI support and some performance improvements. Here are some early benchmark results of DragonFlyBSD 4.8 compared to 4.6 and Intel's Clear Linux for some additional reference points.

The first and only planned point release to Phoronix Test Suite 7.0-Ringsaker is now available as a minor update to this cross-platform, open-source benchmarking software...

Ubuntu 12.04/14.04/16.04/16.10 is affected by a new medium priority CVE this morning that could allow a local attacker to execute code as root...

The latest DRM driver going atomic is VMware's vmwgfx driver used by VMware virtualized guests...

Last week I wrote about Intel's Rafael Wysocki working on P-State improvements for Linux 4.12 and today he has published yet more clean-up and optimization patches for this Intel CPU frequency scaling driver alternative to ACPI CPUfreq...

AMD's Nicolai Hähnle has published his revised set of 25 patches for implementing OpenGL sparse buffer support within the RadeonSI driver...

There's a new Linux-friendly game launching today that's powered by the demanding Unigine Game Engine...

Longtime X.Org developer Eric Anholt who previously worked for Intel and is now working for Broadcom on the open-source VC4 driver stack is working to add the Meson build system support for the xorg-server...

Valve issued a new Steam client beta this afternoon where the sole listed change are the internal changes for supporting SteamVR 360 video playback...

Last week AMD began publishing the open-source driver enablement patches for the upcoming Vega graphics hardware. Today the libdrm support began to land...

For those curious about the impact of GCC compiler optimization levels, a variety of benchmarks were carried out using GCC 6.3 on Intel's Clear Linux platform.