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For those following the progress of the RISC-V open-source and royalty-free processor ISA, a new port of the GNU Compiler Collection for this architecture is now available...

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) approved more features for Fedora 26 at Friday's meeting...

Wayland 1.13 has been in development since September while the plans today were firmed up for releasing it in February...

It looks like Valve may be moving closer to debut their Linux VR support, which they demonstrated at the 2016 Dev Days and we've known they've been working on further -- including improvements to AMDGPU/RadeonSI/RADV...

The latest weekly test release of Wine 2.0 ahead of its official release planned for the end of January...

Not to be confused with Rustlang, the game called Rust now has a Vulkan renderer enabled...

A Mesa update coming down the pipe for Fedora 25 Linux users will see GLVND support enabled by default...

Google's Chrome Media team has developed Draco as an open-source compression library designed for 3D graphics...

With the Etnaviv driver bringing the Gallium3D "renderonly" library to Mesa Git, Alexandre Courbot of NVIDIA has sent out an updated patch for adding renderonly support to Tegra/Nouveau...

Some more exciting last minute work landing in Mesa Git before this weekend's Mesa 17.0 branching are the potentially performance-improving HiZ work within the Intel Vulkan driver...

For those using Laptop-Mode-Tools to conserve power consumption when running on battery or using it to be more power efficient on your desktop or server, a new version is now available...

Qt 5.8.0 will hopefully be released in the days ahead...

In time for this weekend's feature freeze of Mesa 17.0, the Etnaviv Gallium3D driver has landed in Mesa Git after years of work on this reverse-engineered, open-source driver stack...

LLVM and its sub-projects like Clang were branched today for next month's 4.0 release...

KDE developers are having a busy day with not only releasing the feature-packed Plasma 5.9 Beta but also publishing the KDE Kirigami UI 2.0...

Jerome Glisse published his sixteenth version of the patches for implementing Heterogeneous Memory Management within the Linux kernel...

Many free software advocates have been concerned by Intel's binary-only Management Engine (ME) built into the motherboards on newer generations of Intel motherboards. The good news is there is now a working, third-party approach for disabling the ME and reducing the risk of its binary blobs...

The first beta release of the upcoming Plasma 5.9 is now available for testing...

GStreamer 1.11.1 is now available as the first unstable release of this multimedia framework for their 1.11 development series, which will culminate with GStreamer 1.12...

It should be a busy end of week for Mesa with the Mesa 17.0 feature freeze being this weekend. In addition to Haswell hitting OpenGL 4.2, Nouveau's NVC0 Gallium3D driver has enabled OpenGL 4.3 support for newer Maxwell and Pascal hardware...

Yesterday we noted the new open-source AMD GPU debugging tool being developed by a Valve engineer as part of their work on the open-source RADV/RadeonSI/AMDGPU code. It turns out AMD has officially been working on a GPU debugging tool too...

At the end of December I posted a number of Linux workstation/server distribution benchmarks while this article has the results from the more desktop-focused (non-graphics) Linux distribution benchmarks. Up for benchmarking off a Skylake NUC in this article was Antergos, Fedora 25, Ubuntu 16.10, openSUSE Tumbleweed, Debian 9 Testing, and Intel's Clear Linux.

Days ago we mentioned the patches were lining up to get Intel's Haswell to OpenGL 4.2 and this morning those patches have landed in Mesa Git ahead of the branching for the Mesa 17.0 release...

Harry Wentland of AMD on Wednesday posted updated DC (DAL) display patches for the AMDGPU code-base...

The first development release is now available of the upcoming Phoronix Test Suite 7.0 benchmarking software release...

More than two months after RHEL 7.3 was released and a month past the updated CentOS, the Scientific Linux folks are working to release their updated Enterprise Linux distribution later this month...

For those looking at other new uses for the Rust programming language, there is now a Rust implementation of the popular Emacs editor...

Another Valve developer has begun contributing to the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver stack. Besides posting some RADV Vulkan patches last week, today he's announced a new GPU debugging tool he's been working on for AMD's driver/hardware...

The proliferation of Vulkan abstraction libraries continues...

X.Org Server 1.19.1 was released today with a couple regression fixes...

After ordering a Core i5 7600K Kaby Lake CPU last week, I've been spending the past few days trying it out under Ubuntu Linux. If you happened to pick up an early Kaby Lake CPU and seeing low performance, I wanted to pass along a little PSA while I am still working on additional tests.

With word of Fedora switching away from using the Intel X.Org driver in favor of the generic xf86-video-modesetting driver, following in the steps laid by Debian/Ubuntu, there is fresh discussions over features and any performance impact of xf86-video-modesetting vs. xf86-video-intel DDX drivers. As such, here are some fresh 2D and 3D benchmarks.

While a lot of OpenGL improvements, Vulkan driver advancements, and performance optimizations can be found in Mesa Git for the forthcoming release as Mesa 17.0, one big feature that's still missing as of today is the OpenGL on-disk shader cache...

Fedora 26 will likely be using GCC 7 as its default compiler...

Three weeks from today should mark a new release of the GNU C Library, glibc 2.25, and it's coming with many feature additions...

Matthew Dillon's latest work on the DragonFlyBSD kernel includes steps towards supporting NUMA-awareness, locking, and other memory allocation related changes...

The MIPI Alliance this week announced the release of the I3C Sensor Interface specification, the Improved Inter-Integrated Circuit, and successor to the long-standing I2C...

In addition to Mesa's "ANV" Intel Vulkan driver getting Float64 shader support this week, another important addition has made it into the latest Mesa Git code...

The first release candidate of Google's Go 1.8 programming language is now available ahead of the official launch expected next month...

The latest code being opened up by NVIDIA for Vulkan is a new framework: VkHLF...

Chris Lattner who is known most recently for starting the Swift programming language while most profoundly he is the original creator of LLVM/Clang, is leaving his job at Apple...

We previously talked of the open-source Banshee 3D engine working on Vulkan support while now it's official, but the Linux client remains a work in progress...

A big update to Synfig is now available, an open-source 2D animation software package for Linux / Windows / macOS...

For those curious about the performance difference if upgrading to third-party PPAs from Ubuntu 16.10 when using a modern AMD Radeon graphics card with the open-source driver stack, here are some fresh numbers.

Fedora is the latest Linux distribution abandoning the xf86-video-intel driver in favor of the generic xf86-video-modesetting DDX driver...

The latest LLVM and Clang compiler code as of this morning now has support for Zen (AMD Ryzen) processors...

Radeon developers have issued updated patches for their AMD GPU virtualization support...

Version 4.0 of mdadm is out, the tool for managing MD "Soft RAID" on Linux...

Peter Hutterer announced the first release candidate for the upcoming libinput 1.6 release, the input handling library supported on X.Org / Wayland / Mir systems...

For those of you running Wine-Staging for its extra patches like the ability to run DOOM, Direct3D Command-Stream Multi-Threading, or other work that hasn't yet found its way into mainline Wine, the Wine-Staging 2.0-RC4 update is now available...