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Today marks the release of the infrequent updates to the xf86-video-amdgpu and xf86-video-ati X.Org display drivers...
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on (#1TTPY)
GNOME 3.21.92 was announced this morning as GNOME 3.22 RC2, which serves as the final development milestone prior to next week's official GNOME 3.22.0 official desktop debut...
on (#1TTPZ)
Emil Velikov announced the "emergency release" this morning of Mesa 12.0.3 as the latest stable installment for the Mesa 12.0 series...
on (#1TTMF)
The "massive" new Linux game teased yesterday by porting house Feral Interactive is Deus Ex: Mankind Divided...
on (#1TSCX)
Next week's XDC2016 conference in Finland will be one of the largest X.Org Developers' Conferences, if not the largest ever...
on (#1TR78)
The Mac/Linux game porters at Feral Interactive are teasing that tomorrow they will be announcing a "massive" game...
on (#1TQJT)
The "Landlock" Linux security module continues to be developed as an effort to let any progress -- even unprivileged processes -- create "powerful security" sandboxes...
on (#1TQEB)
Last week a Mesa fix landed to target the Radeon R9 290/390 performance regression that's been covered a few time on Phoronix since the issue was originally noticed. While the Mesa fix is working for some users, it didn't fix all problems, including with my Hawaii test card...
on (#1TQ9J)
Greg Kroah-Hartman is looking to land the Greybus driver subsystem into the upcoming Linux 4.9 kernel subsystem. Greybus was a central piece to Google's recently cancelled Project Ara modular smartphone...
on (#1TQ7K)
KDE's Wayland approach is interested in only supporting one code path and as such is not interested in supporting NVIDIA's binary driver approach of using EGLStreams for supporting Wayland on their driver...
on (#1TQ3X)
Systemd 232 is right around the corner to succeed the systemd 231 release from July...
on (#1TQ2D)
Those making use of the VC4 Gallium3D driver for open-source Raspberry Pi OpenGL support will want to pull down the latest Mesa Git code if you are interested in double-digit performance improvements for at least some OpenGL workloads...
on (#1TQ2E)
Ahead of the GNOME 3.22 release with much better Wayland support and Fedora 25 potentially using Wayland by default, there's a new Wayland/Weston release candidate to report on today along with the libinput 1.5 release...
on (#1TNFD)
Apple developers have announced the release of the CUPS 2.2 open-source printing system...
on (#1TND7)
Following yesterday's GCC 5 vs. 6 vs. early 7 benchmarks, to no surprise LLVM's Clang compiler was brought up in the comments. I had already been running some fresh LLVM Clang benchmarks on this same Intel Xeon system and have those results to share now with Clang 3.8 and the newly-released Clang 3.9.
on (#1TMWG)
A proposal posted today is looking to shift the NetBeans integrated development environment from being an Oracle project to one within the Apache incubator space...
on (#1TMV7)
Linux gamers making use of a Steam Controller will want to try out the latest Steam Client Beta...
on (#1TMV8)
It looks like running the GNOME desktop environment natively on Wayland should be in pretty good shape after a round of last-minute improvements...
on (#1TMV9)
With X.Org Server 1.19 being quickly scheduled for release next month, the merge window's closure is imminent (in fact, already a few days past the original proposal). Today some last minute xf86-video-modesetting and cursor changes landed...
on (#1TMVA)
For those making use of the exciting Jetson TX1 platform, NVIDIA is reporting they've now managed to"make it twice as fast and efficient" with their JetPack developer tools upgrade...
on (#1TMVB)
Intel's Precise Touch and Stylus (IPTS) technology offers GPU-accelerated multi-touch/stylus handling using OpenCL. While there have been kernel patches for a few months floating around, this support has yet to be merged into the mainline Linux kernel...
on (#1TK9R)
The latest Raspberry Pi VC4 DRM driver changes have now landed in DRM-Next for in turn landing in the mainline kernel when the Linux 4.9 merge window opens in a few weeks...
on (#1TK9S)
VirtualBox 5.1.6 was released on Monday with many fixes and minor improvements for this Oracle cross-platform virtualization tech...
on (#1TK7P)
An Intel developer continues working on the "Kernel NET Policy" as a step towards better and simplified network configuration for better performance...
on (#1TK7Q)
There has already been more improvements hitting Mesa Git this week...
on (#1TH3Q)
The HIP project has made good progress over the summer. HIP from AMD's GPUOpen project is part of the puzzle for converting CUDA to portable C++ code. That source code can then run on AMD GPUs while having little to no performance impact, at least according to AMD...
on (#1TGSF)
The latest high-profile open-source software project having a bad security day is MySQL... MySQL 5.5/5.6/5.7 has a nasty zero-day vulnerability...
on (#1TGQV)
The Btrfs file-system finally has a concise status page so users can quickly and easily know the status of various features...
on (#1TFW6)
While GCC 7 is still under heavy development and the GCC 7.1 stable release will not come until a few months into 2017, here are some early benchmarks of GCC 7.0 compared to GCC 6.2 and GCC 5.4 on an Ubuntu Linux x86_64 system.
on (#1TFFW)
Vi IMproved has been further improved with today's Vim 8.0 release. In fact, this is the first major release of Vim in the past decade!..
on (#1TFCM)
Intel China developers quietly announced the release of their open-source Beignet 1.2 OpenCL implementation at the end of August for HD/Iris Graphics hardware. Beignet 1.2 continues supporting OpenCL 1.x while sadly their experimental OpenCL 2.0 branch hasn't been touched now in three months...
on (#1TFAS)
Rex Zhu of AMD published his latest set of 16 patches for refactoring PowerPlay code within the open-source DRM driver space. This is a big refactoring: nearly 19,000 new lines of code and 34,000 deleted lines of code...
on (#1TF93)
FreeType 2.7 has been officially released and it's actually a big deal as it aims to bring font rendering that's better in line with what's offered by DirectWrite and ClearType on other operating systems...
on (#1TF7G)
Videos from last week's LLVM Cauldron are now available if you wish to learn more about a variety of compiler happenings...
on (#1TDPA)
Maxime Ripard of Free Electrons has sent in the Allwinner DRM driver pull request that will ultimately land for the Linux 4.9 kernel merge window...
on (#1TD0Z)
There is finally a new Wine-Staging version with release notes to talk about for this more-experimental version of Wine...
on (#1TC6R)
After raising more than $103,000 USD last year via crowd-funding the RoundCube-Next web-based email client doesn't really appear to be going anywhere...
on (#1TC4B)
The ioquake3 open-source game engine project that's built around the Quake III: Arena code-base is finally moving to its new renderer by default and abandoning the original 17-year-old renderer...
on (#1TAV7)
For your viewing pleasure this weekend are benchmarks of TrueOS 20160831 (the rolling-release distribution formerly known as PC-BSD), DragonFlyBSD 4.6, GhostBSD 10.3, FreeBSD 11.0-RC2, and PacBSD 20160809 (formerly known as Arch BSD) all benchmarked from the same system! Plus for reference to the Linux numbers are Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS and Clear Linux 10040 being compared to these BSDs on the same tests and hardware.
on (#1T9EV)
The RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver continues to look promising and there's been a lot more code being merged the past few days...
on (#1T9DS)
KDE Frameworks 5.26 was released this weekend as the newest version of these KDE add-on libraries to complement Qt...
on (#1T9BJ)
With this summer's PulseAudio 9.0 release was support for Memfd-based transport. That support is now enabled by default in time for PulseAudio 10...
on (#1T9BK)
ZFS On Linux 0.6.5.8 was released on Friday as the newest version of this OpenZFS file-system implementation...
on (#1T7X9)
After testing seven Linux distributions and eight BSDs on the new Xeon E5-2609 v4 Broadwell-EP + MSI X99A WORKSTATION system, I next decided to try getting some fresh Solaris-based results...
on (#1T7Y9)
More than one year after the last Elementary OS Linux distribution update that focuses upon design elegance, v0.4 "Loki" was released today...
on (#1T6YV)
Recently I purchased a Xeon E5-2609 v4 Broadwell-EP processor as a $300 Xeon with eight physical cores but clocked at just 1.7GHz and without any Turbo Boost while the TDP is 85 Watts. Here are some benchmarks compared to other LGA-2011 v3 CPUs in my possession under Linux along with an AMD FX reference point too and followed by some Skylake Xeon benchmarks.
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The Single Loop Power Controller (SLPC) was an interesting addition to Skylake hardware but even with Skylake processors being out more than one year and the SLPC patches for the Intel DRM Linux driver having been out for a number of months, this GuC-based SLPC support has yet to be merged. The latest version of the patches was just published...
on (#1T61T)
Version 5.4 of the V8 JavaScript Engine has been released. This is another hefty update to V8 and it brings the favorite kind of work we like talking about: more performance improvements...
on (#1T60M)
As covered previously, threaded input finally landed in the X.Org Server. It's 2016, and these patches had even been sitting around for a few years with no action, while finally this beneficial feature will be shipping with next month's X.Org Server 1.19 release...