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With LLVM Clang 3.7 came full support for OpenMP 3.1 at long last but with OpenMP 4.5 being the latest spec, Intel and others involved with the Clang OpenMP initiative haven't let up and continue working towards supporting the latest OpenMP 4.x interfaces...

The latest feature addition ahead of the upcoming release of NetworkManager 1.2 is proper DHCPv6 support for IPv6 users...

The Vulkan 1.0 specification is less than one month old and NVIDIA has already released their third Linux driver beta. Meanwhile, sadly, AMD hasn't made public their proprietary Vulkan Linux driver...

Intel's OpenSWR high-performance software rasterizer that's an alternative to LLVMpipe has landed in mainline Mesa...

The KDE community has banded together to release the Plasma 5.6 beta today...

With Clear Linux continuing to outperform other Linux distributions on Intel hardware, I was curious to see how the Intel OTC Linux distribution was performing when trying it with one of the new Xeon CPUs at our disposal for testing...

AMD's Marek Olšák sent out a set of 26 patches this morning for preparing the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver to have interoperability support between OpenGL and HSA/OpenCL...

For your viewing pleasure to get our March 2016 Linux benchmarking started is a Linux 4.1 through Linux 4.5 kernel benchmark comparison when testing with a 4GHz Intel Xeon E3 v5 Skylake CPU and using a RadeonSI-supported graphics card and SSD for storage.

The latest fruits of AMD's GPUOpen initiative is the open-sourcing of a beta of AMDOVX...

KDE's Martin Gräßlin has provided a status update concerning KWin/Wayland support with the latest KDE stack...

Solus, one of the most talked about newcomer Linux distributions, is out with their 1.1 Shannon update...

If you are using an ASUS motherboard with Linux and run into a issue like a UEFI/BIOS bug or another Linux compatibility problem with the board, hopefully your motherboard and distribution/version are part of this list...

Coreboot received some new Intel feature work yesterday for improving the state of initializing some newer hardware with this open-source alternative to proprietary UEFI/BIOS...

Mozilla's Virtual Reality team working in conjunction with the Google Chrome team is ready to release a proposal for a new web API for handling VR devices: meet the WebVR 1.0 proposal...

While more Steam Linux games continue to appear, the overall market-share still hasn't been trending upwards in the Linux battle against Windows and OS X...

Genode OS 16.02 has been released as the newest version of this popular, open-source operating system framework...

Jonathan Riddell has updated his spin of (K)Ubuntu that comes with the latest Git code of KDE's KWin and other packages via the new KDE Neon initiative for making it easy to try out KDE Plasma on Wayland...

VESA has published the DisplayPort 1.4 standard version today...

Consulting firm Igalia has been working on FP64 support within the Mesa i965 driver on the behalf of Intel. It looks like they'll soon be wrapped up with this support and that in turn means there will be OpenGL 4.0+ compliance!..

KDE Plasma 5.5.5 was released this morning as the latest monthly point release to the KDE Plasma 5.5 software stack...

The second beta of the upcoming NetworkManager 1.2 major release is now available...

A major vulnerability was made public this morning that concerns SSLv2...

wxWidgets 3.1.0 was released yesterday as a new development release for this cross-platform toolkit...

While traditionally Wayland summer projects have been tucked into the X.Org umbrella with their longtime involvement in Google's Summer of Code, for GSoC 2016 there is now Wayland as its own organization alongside the X.Org Foundation...

The RadeonSI Gallium3D driver now utilizes Re-Z...

While the Raspberry Pi 3 should be much more powerful than its predecessors thanks to finally having a ARMv8 processor (and quad-core Cortex-A53 at that), it's not for everyone...

Linux input expert Peter Hutterer has written a blog post about the state of graphics tablet support inside the libinput input landing library...

As of this evening on Steam, there are 1,900 released games available for download with native Linux support...

Vulkan was easily the most talked about subject matter this month on Phoronix, but aside from that there was also a whole lot of other exciting Linux and open-source content for your viewing pleasure...

The latest X.Org Server code's XWayland support path now is able to run some older Linux games...

Since the Airtop PC was announced back in January there has been a lot of interest in this passively-cooled, high-performance line of PCs by the folks at CompuLab. The Airtop isn't some low-end, passively cooled PC but rather can be equipped with a Core i7 or Xeon CPU and a discrete graphics card to deliver very capable performance while having a completely silent PC. Some have been skeptical about the cooling and performance claims of the Airtop PC, but our review sample arrived this morning and have begun testing out this very interesting PC.

After writing this morning about Mono bringing Vulkan bindings to C# / .NET, a Phoronix reader pointed out that Vulkan bindings for Java are also now available...

For C# developers wishing to take advantage of The Khronos Group's new Vulkan high-performance graphics API, bindings are forthcoming via the Mono crew...

Just two days after OpenBenchmarking.org turned five years old, there are two exciting milestones reached today...

While Firefox, WebKit, and other browsers / layout engines have supported APNG (Animated PNGs) for some time in hopes of finally unseating GIFs for being a modern animated image file format, it doesn't look like that will happen with Google's Chrome/Chromium being among the few still resisting support for that file format...

Spring RTS 101.0 has been released with performance improvements, bug fixes, and new features...

While not much of a surprise since leaks began coming at the end of last week, but the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B has been announced with immediate availability. The Raspberry Pi 3 is ARM64!..

Transmission 2.90 was released today as the newest version of this popular open-source Bit Torrent client...

With it being trivial to deploy new benchmark test cases with the Phoronix Test Suite and it being fully-automated, the latest results of our Xeon E3 v5 Skylake CPUs are some GCC reference benchmarks with various optimization levels to see the impact on the performance of the generated binaries as well as build time...

There's even more progress now to report on with LibreOffice's GTK3 tool-kit support...

Another year, another simulation game from S.C.S Software. I should preface this article by saying I am not usually a fan of simulation game-- whether they be truck, plane, bus, or anything else. That being said... I might be a convert after this...

Linus Torvalds just did an early Sunday morning release of the sixth weekly release candidate for the Linux 4.5 kernel...

After the tests this weekend of Intel Hyper Threading and core scaling with the new Intel Xeon E3 "Skylake" processor, I proceeded to do some Turbo Boost benchmarking...

Back in January we covered the launch of the CompuLab Airtop as one of the coolest Linux-friendly PCs ever for entusiasts. This radically designed PC is arriving next week at Phoronix for testing so we'll be able to share more about its design and performance...

The third beta of the upcoming FreeBSD 10.3 is now available for testing...

As some extra benchmarks following this week's 9-Way Intel Xeon E3 v5 Skylake Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux, some Phoronix Premium readers wanted to see how well Hyper Threading worked for these latest-generation Xeon E3 processors and the core scaling efficiency of Skylake...

Last week was the news about openSUSE making it easier to try out the very latest KDE packages. They've now upped that up a notch by making it easier to try out the KDE on Wayland experience using their Linux distribution...

Samuel Pitoiset continues carrying out compute miracles for the open-source Nouveau NVIDIA Linux graphics driver stack...

Junio Hamano released Git 2.8 Release Candidate 0 on Friday for showcasing the newest features and improvements for this distributed version control system...

Here is one more item that can be crossed off the list of what needs to happen for Fedora 24 to use Wayland by default...