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Tuxera has published a new stable version of their NTFS read-write driver for Linux...

There hasn't been much to report on regarding Edubuntu, the education spin of Ubuntu, in quite some time. Edubuntu had moved to doing only LTS releases every two years, but now it's been confirmed they will not be able to make an Edubuntu 16.04 LTS release to succeed Edubuntu 14.04...

NVIDIA's 364 Linux driver series is now available and it's pretty darn exciting!..

While still working on some AMD vs. NVIDIA Vulkan Linux driver benchmarks using AMD's new hybrid driver with Vulkan support, for your viewing pleasure this morning are some benchmarks comparing the new AMD GPU-PRO driver with its binary OpenGL driver against the pure open-source driver stack with the Ubuntu 16.04 AMDGPU driver and RadeonSI Gallium3D from Mesa 11.2 + LLVM 3.8.

The super exciting DRM subsystem updates for Linux 4.6 have been mailed in and it's one of the most exciting open-source DRM display/graphics driver updates in recent releases...

Linus Torvalds has honored the request to land the "objtool" stack frame validation support for the Linux 4.6 kernel...

Many XFS file-system changes can be found in the upcoming Linux 4.6 kernel release...

The ARM SoC updates were mailed out on Sunday afternoon for the Linux 4.6 kernel and it provides mainline support for thirteen new SoCs!..

Intel MPX memory protection aims to safeguard against buffer overflows in programs assuming you have a supported processor and software stack. Over at Intel's Open-Source Technology Center they published a guide this week on making use of Intel MPX under Linux...

The USB changes were made known this week for the Linux 4.6 kernel cycle...

While F2FS still doesn't seem to have been utilized yet by any large, wide-scale deployments as the flash file-system of choice, this Linux file-system continues to mature...

Several Phoronix readers have been writing in recently about Redox OS, a new project aiming to be a "next-gen" operating system...

New firmware blobs have been updated in linux-firmware Git this morning for Skylake affecting both audio and graphics...

Blender 2.77 was released this weekend as the newest version of this wildly popular, cross-platform, open-source 3D animation program...

Here is another big feature coming for the Linux 4.6 kernel...

New wireless hardware support and other networking improvements will be present in the Linux 4.6 kernel...

On Friday night to much surprise, AMD published the beta version of their new hybrid Linux driver stack with Vulkan support alongside OpenCL, OpenGL, and VDPAU support. Here's some more details from my initial testing of this new driver that AMD is currently calling the Radeon Software AMD GPU-PRO Beta Driver for Linux.

Upstream GCC developer Jan Hubička has written about his experience compiling LibreOffice with GCC6 -- while also making use of Link-Time Optimizations (LTO) -- and comparing various criteria against that of other GCC and LLVM/Clang compiler versions...

There are a number of input driver improvements en route for the Linux 4.6 kernel...

The inaugural release of UbuntuBSD is now available, which the developers have codenamed "Escape From SystemD", and pairs the Ubuntu userspace with the FreeBSD kernel...

The Vulkan support code is beginning to appear for those leveraging the Unreal Engine 4...

For the majority of you reading this relying upon Serial ATA (SATA) drives, the upcoming Linux 4.6 kernel will support runtime power management of the AHCI host controller for saving more power on your system when idling...

Debian's annual conference, DebConf, is taking place in July this year in Cape Town, South Africa. Valve is among the sponsors for this year's Debian conference...

Just one week after the initial public release of Gneural Network to provide a GNU project for programmable neural networks, version 0.5 has been made available and it's a big release...

Well, AMD has just sent out a pleasant surprise before the weekend: an initial AMD Hybrid Linux driver build! It's AMDGPU-based providing OpenGL and Vulkan support on the new stack!..

This week we showed how the new AMDGPU driver stack is performing on Ubuntu 16.04 and that the recent generations of Radeon graphics cards are commonly seeing 80~90% the performance of Catalyst. However, it's important to keep in mind that aside from Catalyst being more buggy than the proprietary NVIDIA driver, the NVIDIA binary driver also tends to be more performant. So for putting the Ubuntu 16.04 open-source Radeon numbers into perspective, here are results putting them against the GeForce Kepler and Maxwell graphics cards.

Wine 1.9.6 was released this morning as the latest bi-weekly development release of Wine...

The IBM POWER architecture updates were sent in today for Linux 4.6 and includes the first early bit of work on supporting the next-generation POWER9 processors...

Greg Kroah-Hartman on Thursday submitted his pull request of the staging area changes for targeting the Linux 4.6 kernel...

While DragonFlyBSD's TCP code getting a per-CPU LPORT cache for listen sockets may not sound like an exciting change, it's a huge performance win...

Coming two months past the Slackware 14.2 beta is now the release candidate for this next major Linux distribution update...

While Skylake systems have been in the marketplace for several months already, the Skylake audio support continues to be refined after the initial support landed rather late relative to Skylake's launch last year...

Fedora 24 is continuing in Fedora Linux's trend of being delayed multiple times during the release cycle...

While Game Developers Conference is happening this week, there's already been the Unity 5.4 beta, CRYENGINE V, and the open-sourcing of Atomic Game Engine. The latest engine news this week is the debut of Unigine 2.2...

There are a number of ARM64/AArch64 architectural improvements heading in for the Linux 4.6 kernel...

Jiri Kosina submitted the HID driver subsystem updates today for the Linux 4.6 merge window and come with some noteworthy changes for mobile/desktop users...

Earlier this week was the How Ubuntu 16.04 Is Performing With AMDGPU/Radeon Graphics Compared To Ubuntu 14.04 With FGLRX, which showed off some interesting open-source Radeon Linux driver results but the Radeon R9 285 "Tonga" graphics card at the time couldn't be tested on Ubuntu 16.04's kernel due to a regression. That issue is fortunately now resolved in the latest Xenial Xerus kernel so here are those numbers.

Google developers have announced the beta release of the Chrome 50 web-browser...

The Khronos Group has begun uploading their videos from this week's Game Developers Conference where they talked about the next-generation Vulkan API and more...

The GNOME 3.20 release candidate is now available...

In continuation of the results earlier this week looking at How Ubuntu 16.04 Is Performing With AMDGPU/Radeon Graphics Compared To Ubuntu 14.04 With FGLRX, here is an extra run with the Radeon/AMDGPU results while enabling DRI3 rendering support...

Red Hat's Alexander Larsson today announced the release of XDG-App v0.5...

Support for Memory Protection Keys (PKeys/MPK) that will be found on future Intel CPUs is being proposed for inclusion into Linux 4.6...

The cross-platform Atomic Game Engine has been open-sourced under the MIT license...

EFI-enabled systems will see some nice improvements with the upcoming Linux 4.6 kernel...

The EXT4 file-system updates for the in-development Linux 4.6 kernel are varied, but there are some notable enhancements...

Making the rounds on the Internet today is a rumor that NVIDIA Corp is allegedly working on their own Linux distribution...

Fedora developers have decided this summer's release of Fedora 24 will ship with the recently released Linux 4.5 kernel...

As an update to this past weekend's The Linux Benchmarking Test Farm Is Down For A Few Days, two of the racks are back to being powered up as of this morning...

The Linux kernel's ACPI and power management subsystem maintainer, Rafael Wysocki, today sent out the latest patches on a new governor for the CPUFreq CPU frequency scaling driver for the Linux kernel...