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A new release of ZOL is available for running the ZFS file-system natively on Linux. This ZFS On Linux v0.7 update does bring a number of new features...

Ahead of the Radeon RX Vega launch next week, AMD has rolled out a big update to their Windows Crimson ReLive driver. Linux users also get a version bump with the AMDGPU-PRO hybrid driver...

The first alpha release of the big revamp to the Godot 3.0 game engine is now available for game developers to test...

With Fedora not yet officially supporting the EGLStreams code-path for GNOME Mutter on Wayland, NVIDIA has created their own third-party Copr repository with said support...

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 release is now available, the build based off SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3...

The Valve-led work on implementing EXT_external_objects support inside Mesa should soon be landing. This is good news as it's one of the last remaining bits for seeing mainline RadeonSI/RADV working out well for SteamVR on Linux...

QEMU 2.10 is under development as the next step for this important piece of the open-source Linux virtualization stack...

Bryce Harrington has tagged the beta releases of the upcoming Wayland 1.14 and Weston 3.0...

Thanks to work ongoing to GNOME Disks and UDisks, there should soon be support within this disk/file-system management program for resizing partitions as well as running a file-system repair...

FreeBSD 11.1 is now available as the first point release to FreeBSD 11...

SteamOS 2.121 is now available as the latest release of Valve's Linux distribution for gaming...

Wine-Staging 2.13 is now available as the newest release of this experimental / "testing grounds" built around Wine with additional patches added...

The Mesa OpenGL threading support has been expanded to five more Linux games...

AMD has published another set of DC/DAL display patches today, this time amounting to 81 patches touching around four thousand lines of code...

Adobe has confirmed they will be ending their support for Flash by the end of the year 2020...

Developers on KDE's Plasma team have constructed a vision statement for what they view as their direction and focus for this open-source desktop...

Jacob Lifshay is the GSoC student developer spending his summer working on a Vulkan software renderer to basically serve as a CPU-based implementation of Vulkan using LLVM. He continues hard at work on trying to make this a working reality...

Richard Biener has shared plans to release GCC 7.2 in about two weeks as the newest point release to the GCC 7 compiler...

Stylo, the new style system written for Servo in the Rust programming language, can be enabled in the latest Firefox Nightly desktop builds...

VC5 is the new DRM/Gallium3D driver for an upcoming Broadcom GPU and the successor to the VC4 as is mostly known for being the graphics found on current Raspberry Pi models. Broadcom developer Eric Anholt has been making progress on the driver and that hasn't let up...

Say hello to Fedora Boltron...

While Ubuntu's desktop future now rests with GNOME Shell for Ubuntu 17.10 and beyond, developers are still working on some Unity 7 refinements for existing Ubuntu desktop users...

While AMD's new Epyc processors have a new "Secure Encrypted Virtualization" feature, the support isn't yet mainlined in the Linux kernel but is getting closer...

David Malcom of Red Hat today published an interesting patch series that includes an implementation of Microsoft's Language Server Protocol (LSP)...

NVIDIA's Unix graphics team has today released some updated binary display drivers...

Following this morning's Mesa 17.2 branching, the first release candidate of this quarterly update to Mesa 3D is now available...

For those with NVIDIA Jetson TX1/TX2 developer boards, the JetPack 3.1 software bundle is now available with NVIDIA's latest compute bits paired with the Linux 4.4 LTS kernel...

The last update to UPower -- what was formerly known as DeviceKit-Power for serving as an abstraction library to battery/power devices -- was in February of 2016 but that finally changed today...

With Akademy 2017 happening this week, Qt consulting firm KDAB has released version 1.2 of Clazy, its Clang-based static analyzer geared for showing Qt coding mistakes and inefficiencies...

Mesa release manager Emil Velikov went ahead and branched Mesa 17.2 from Git master with new developments now being for Mesa 17.3...

Mesa Git is usually relatively sane for Linux gamers wanting the bleeding-edge open-source driver experience for best OpenGL/Vulkan features and performance, but at the moment it's a bit of a headache with what in effect are two blocker bugs for Mesa 17.2...

David Airlie and Bas Nieuwenhuizen have been landing some more last minute RADV Vulkan driver fixes ahead of the Mesa 17.2 branching...

NVIDIA and Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new open-source shading language in step with a new compiler framework...

The Boost C++ libraries is planning for a new build system, but they aren't going for Meson that's been the recent trend among open-source projects...

The second release candidate of the Linux 4.13 kernel is now available for testing...

A few days back I posted some fresh AMD Ryzen compiler benchmarks of LLVM Clang now that it has its new Znver1 scheduler model, which helps out the performance of Ryzen on Linux with some of the generated binaries tested. But it was found still that Haswell-tuned binaries are sometimes still faster on Ryzen than the Zen "znver1" tuning itself. For continuing our fresh compiler benchmarks from AMD's new Ryzen platform, here are the latest GCC numbers.

Those using Radeon graphics for your Steam VR Linux gaming experience will soon be able to use the mainline Mesa stack with the necessary RADV changes almost all being in place...

Here are some numbers about how much weight the kernel gained during the Linux 4.13 merge window that closed last week...

Mattia Rizzolo has written a status update concerning Debian's Reproducible Builds project for ensuring the package archive can be rebuilt bit-for-bit in a verified and reproducible path from source code to binary...

It's been a while since last reporting on VK9 as the independent effort to run Direct3D 9.0 over the Vulkan graphics API while this weekend the lead developer of this open-source project has issued a new update...

Debian GNU/Linux 9.1 and 8.9 were both released today...

Community developer and Phoronix reader Aaron Watry has continued providing some much needed attention to Clover, the Gallium3D state tracker implementing OpenCL, notably for R600g/RadeonSI hardware not receiving ROCm OpenCL support...

PHP 7.2 Beta 1 was released yesterday as the next step towards this next refinement to PHP7 that is expected to be officially released in November. I couldn't help but to run some initial benchmarks...

At Friday's Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) there were yet more features approved for the current Fedora Linux development cycle...

With my recent tests of Intel Kabylake graphics on Linux 4.13 showing no change in performance, it was asked whether the Intel Linux graphics driver has plateaued for reaching maximum performance. It hasn't...

It looks like Chrome on the Linux desktop could finally be seeing Intel GPU video acceleration support with the web browser having patches pending for VA-API...

Khronos' SIGGRAPH announcements are coming up in just over one week but today we have the Vulkan 1.0.56 release...

Nouveau re-clocking/power expert Karol Herbst has published a set of patches today implementing thermal throttling support for this open-source NVIDIA DRM driver...

The merging fun for Mesa 17.2 will continue through the weekend...

Honoring another request of a Phoronix Premium supporter is looking at the performance impact of full-disk encryption using LUKS when using an AMD Ryzen processor. For this round of testing I used an AMD Ryzen 5 1400 running Fedora 26 and backed by an Intel 545s 512GB SATA 3.0 SSD.