on (#23W8T)
With Wine having moved to annual, time-based releases, the code freeze is indeed imminent for the next stable release, Wine 2.0...
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on (#23SH3)
When benchmarking Intel's Clear Linux distribution earlier this year we found its Intel graphics performance to be quite good and slightly faster than other Linux distributions even when Clear was using an older version of Mesa. Now with Clear Linux having switched to Mesa 13, I decided to run some fresh Intel OpenGL benchmarks on it compared to other distributions.
on (#23SCR)
With today's PHP 7.1 release, performance isn't highlighted as much as language improvements to this first major update to PHP7, but I decided to run some PHP 7.1, PHP 7.0, PHP 5.6, PHP 5.5, and HHVM benchmarks of our open-source Phoronix Test Suite code-base...
on (#23S6W)
A new version of MirAL is now available, the Ubuntu project for making it easier to develop new Mir servers by offering a stable ABI and other shared/common components...
on (#23RH0)
Jolla engineers have spent the past few weeks porting Sailfish OS to an Android smartwatch as they feel their Linux-based OS is particularly suited for small screens...
on (#23REA)
Earlier this week I wrote about a release schedule coming out for Mesa 13.1 that culminates with this next big Mesa update being out in February. Some Mesa developers have now shared the work they still hope to see in this next release...
on (#23RBG)
Rob Clark has landed his code for supporting EGL_ANDROID_native_fence_sync in Mesa and his Freedreno Gallium3D driver is the first in-tree Mesa/Gallium3D driver to support the native fence FD support, even beating out the Intel driver...
on (#23R9Z)
Mark Shuttleworth has written a new blog post where he's outlining a dispute Canonical is having with a European cloud provider over a breach of contract and "publishing insecure, broken images of Ubuntu" for its cloud customers...
on (#23R8N)
A set of 27 patches published this week for GBM and the Intel Mesa driver provide for significant bandwidth savings...
on (#23PJ5)
With the start of the new month comes updated statistics from Valve with their Steam Survey...
on (#23P89)
Gtkmm, the project providing the de facto C++ interface for GTK+, is preparing for the GTK+ 4.0 era...
on (#23NP0)
AMD's big display abstraction layer (DAL) code-base that's used by AMDGPU-PRO but not yet mainlined in the Linux kernel for providing HDMI 2.0, future FreeSync/Adaptive-Sync, HDMI/DP audio, and other modern display features is DAL no more...
on (#23NK4)
Last month I shared that Linux tests of the 2016 MacBook Pro would be coming and now I've finally managed to complete a few, but I highly encourage you not to get the new MacBook Pro if you plan on using anything other than macOS as the experience is a wreck. This is one laptop I don't mind seeing returned!
on (#23NAT)
Oracle might be pulling the plug on the Solaris operating system, at least according to some new rumors...
on (#23N8K)
Google today is rolling out a public beta of OSS-Fuzz, their new program to provide continuous fuzzing of core open-source software code-bases...
on (#23MN3)
Razer is the latest company looking to promote open, cross-platform industry standards by joining The Khronos Group...
on (#23M5S)
Just a few notes to get December kicked off on Phoronix, including good news for Phoronix Forums participants...
on (#23M5T)
A new release of Ardour is available, the widely-praised, open-source digital audio workstation software...
on (#23KTR)
The Haiku OS developer community have issued their latest activity report to cover what's going on with this open-source BeOS-compatible operating system...
on (#23KTS)
A new DRM driver is being baked for supporting the video processing unit for Amlogic Meson SoCs...
on (#23KSG)
Intel developers are proposing the introduction of a new pseudo file-system intended as a better fit for Direct Rendering Manager drivers rather than the mix of sysfs/debugfs usage currently used...
on (#23HMS)
Mesa release manager Emil Velikov has laid out his draft of a release schedule for the next major Mesa release...
on (#23HAW)
Unity 5.5 is now available and one of its big features is something that won't be too interesting to Linux folks: Microsoft HoloLens is now officially support...
on (#23H3C)
Amazon Web Services today revealed more information about their EC2 Elastic GPUs support they are working to implement in the cloud...
on (#23GG7)
The latest installment of the ten-year-old Genode open-source operating system framework is now available with low-level improvements, support for smart cards, and kernel improvements to the NOVA hypervisor...
on (#23GG8)
Two days ago we brought up Devuan, the systemd-free fork of Debian turned two years old, and now it seems they are celebrating the anniversary by the release of the second beta...
on (#23G4A)
Fresh from the libdrm 2.4.74 release that had some Etnaviv API changes, the Etnaviv Gallium3D driver has been proposed for mainline Mesa as the open-source, reverse-engineered 3D effort for Vivante graphics cores...
on (#23G0T)
The Qt Company today issued the first release candidate for the Qt Creator 4.2 integrated development environment release...
on (#23FT7)
With having published some Darktable OpenCL benchmarks at the beginning of the week with 20 different GPUs (plus more follow-up benchmarks), it didn't take long before requests came in to see some fresh OpenCL Blender benchmarks.
on (#23FE8)
Collabora's latest patch series for Wayland/Weston is implementing support for initial XWayland window positioning with the Weston compositor...
on (#23FE9)
On Tuesday was the MSM-Next submission by Red Hat developer Rob Clark of these Freedreno MSM changes to be sent to mainline for the Linux 4.10 kernel...
on (#23E67)
Mesa DRM library updates aren't usually too notable, but that's different with this evening's libdrm 2.4.74 release...
on (#23E10)
Ubuntu's kernel team will likely be targeting the Linux 4.10 kernel for April's release of Ubuntu 17.04...
on (#23DNM)
Git 2.11 has been released as the newest version of this most widely used open-source version control system by free software projects...
on (#23DGP)
Earlier this year the LibRetro crew unveiled their work on a Vulkan renderer for their Nintendo 64 emulator while now they have been working on a Vulkan renderer for a PlayStation One emulator, and it's already working...
on (#23DF5)
Earlier this month ARM announced an updated Mali Graphics Debugger that includes Vulkan 1.0 tracing support on Linux...
on (#23CVY)
A growing number of GNOME projects have been exploring Meson as a next-gen build system with one of the benefits being much faster build times. Now Daniel Stone at Collabora is exploring using Meson for Wayland and its Weston Weston compositor...
on (#23CEX)
Last week marked the release of libSoftFloat 1.0, the library working to implement double-precision operations in pure GLSL 1.30 via bit twiddling operations and integer math. This is the most hopeful effort yet for getting OpenGL FP64 support exposed for older GPUs that lack native support...
on (#23BZG)
The latest target of our Linux benchmarking at Phoronix are running various performance benchmarks under different Docker operating system images. The images used for benchmarking were the latest of Ubuntu, Clear Linux, CentOS, Debian, and Alpine while comparing the benchmark results to running on the bare metal host.
on (#23BNK)
Eric Anholt at Broadcom has been focusing his latest VC4 driver efforts on performance tuning...
on (#23BM7)
In addition to the big Mesa shader cache patch series hitting the mailing list over night, Ian Romanick at Intel sent out another big patch series: his revised work on ARB_gpu_shader_int64 support...
on (#23BDD)
Intel's high-performance Clear Linux distribution is now auto-updating by default, including for packages like Mesa and the X.Org Server...
on (#23B8C)
Intel had already sent in two feature pull requests of new features/changes improvements to their DRM driver for Linux 4.10 (pull requests one and two) while now another feature pull has been submitted and there's also expected to be a last-minute fourth pull request...
on (#23B8D)
Timothy Arceri of Collabora has now revised the massive patch-set implementing an on-disk shader cache for Mesa with the work nearing completion, at least for the Intel i965 driver...
on (#23B6S)
Last week I published some fresh Vulkan vs. OpenGL benchmarks of AMD/NVIDIA GPUs in AMDGPU-PRO vs. NVIDIA On Linux With OpenGL and Vulkan, but for those wanting some fresh Intel OpenGL vs. Vulkan Linux numbers, I have some fresh data to share this evening...
on (#239VE)
Similar to past Ubuntu LTS (Long Term Support) releases, Ubuntu 16.04.2 and beyond will feature hardware enablement kernels back-ported from newer Ubuntu releases in order to allow new hardware to work on these older LTS releases, but now the Xenial Xerus is switching to a concept of a "rolling HWE kernel."..
on (#2395M)
There's now patches for bringing up open-source graphics driver support in the Freedreno stack for Qualcomm's latest-generation Adreno graphics hardware...
on (#238RZ)
This morning I posted a 20-way Darktable OpenCL comparison for this open-source digital photography workflow software that can make great use of GPUs. Those results were well-received and there were requests for more CPU data, so here are some Darktable benchmarks on more Linux boxes...
on (#2388X)
For those riding the stable Mesa release train, Mesa 13.0.2 is now available as the newest Mesa 13.0 point release...