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Ethan Lee who has ported dozens of games to Linux (mostly indie titles like FEZ, VVVVVV, Waveform, and others) while also leading the development of FNA as a Microsoft XNA re-implementation presented at this year's MAGFest conference in Maryland about Linux/SteamOS gaming...

As I've written about a few times now, I've been working towards eliminating the all-in-one water cooling setups from our Linux benchmarking lab since the performance of these aging water cooling loops hasn't been too incredible and they've been blocking me from migrating the last of my systems in ATX cases over to 4U enclosures. This weekend I finally phased out the last two water cooling systems in favor of well-performing ~$20 USD heatsinks...

For the past two years WebKit has had an LLVM JIT back-end for its JavaScript engine, but now with the latest upstream code, Mac x86_64 users of WebKit have a new compiler implementation not based on LLVM...

The Android-x86 open-source project is partnering up with Jide Technology, the company behind Remix OS...

LDC 0.17.0 was released this past week as the newest version of this LLVM-based compiler for the D programming language...

A Phoronix reader wrote in with the work he's done on implementing a full-functioning Btrfs file-system driver for Windows...

While playing around with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS this weekend in its current development state, I was a bit surprised to see that this next Ubuntu release still isn't shipping with VDPAU, VA-API, or OpenCL support by default...

Samsung kicked off their Mobile World Congress presence by launching the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. While we don't generally cover new Android phone launches, making us excited about the S7 launch today is that it's the first post-Vulkan 1.0 launch and Samsung has made a big deal about supporting Vulkan...

Most often when running GCC vs. LLVM Clang compiler benchmark comparisons it's done on Intel/AMD x86 hardware or occasionally on ARM when benchmarking an interesting ARMv7/ARMv8 system. However, in having remote access last weekend to the prototype of the Talos Secure Workstation powered by a POWER8 design, I was very anxious to run some compiler benchmarks to see how these open-source compilers compete on the alternative architecture.

XDG-App is the GNOME-backed design for sandboxed applications to allow third-party applications to better work across multiple distributions and for running applications with minimal access to the host...

Shashlik is the KDE-aligned project for running Android apps on Linux outside of a traditional Android environment. A new version of this open-source project is now available...

Samuel Pitoiset has landed his latest Mesa/Gallium3D work concerning compute shaders...

Fedora 24 is set to feature a new Live USB Creator and it will become a primary download method for those wishing to download a new Fedora release...

We have already covered AMD Linux 4.5 graphics tests and Nouveau graphics tests from this latest in-development version of the Linux kernel. If you've been wondering about any Intel HD Graphics performance changes out of Linux 4.5, here are some benchmarks...

Intel is prepping Cannonlake processor support inside the LLVM Clang compiler...

For those wanting to upgrade their Home Theater PC software, Kodi 16, formerly known as XBMC, has been officially released...

Linus Torvalds ended up doing a Saturday release of the latest Linux 4.5 development kernel...

While DRI3 appears to be in good shape with the latest X.Org Server series and Direct Rendering Infrastructure 3 is even mandated by the Intel Mesa Vulkan driver, DRI2 is still the default with the xf86-video-intel DDX driver, similar to the situation in the Radeon DDX driver as well.

The POWER8 architectural code and initial motherboard port have landed in Coreboot...

There isn't much a better joy in life than unexpectedly finding nine Intel latest-generation (Skylake) Xeon processors at your doorstep...

For those currently running Ubuntu 15.10 or other similar Linux distributions powered off Mesa 11.0, here are some performance benchmarks comparing that release to the about-to-be-branched Mesa 11.2...

Back in January was a look at How Close Fedora Is To Switching To Wayland By Default while this week is an update about the issues still blocking Wayland from becoming the default for the next Fedora Linux release...

Now that with a workaround it's possible getting Talos Principle playing fine on Linux with the Vulkan renderer, here are the first OpenGL vs. Vulkan benchmarks atop Ubuntu and tests done with the NVIDIA beta driver on a few graphics cards as well as attempted trying an Intel Skylake system with the open-source Mesa Vulkan/Anvil code.

It looks like the Talos Principle Linux build on Steam has been publicly updated with support for the 64-bit build and the Vulkan renderer option...

Being released a bit late today past the official GNOME 3.20 Beta is the v3.19.90 releases for the GNOME Shell and Mutter...

Earlier this month I posted Radeon Gallium3D open-source graphics driver benchmarks from Fedora 18 to Fedora 23 while in this article are the complementary F18 to F23 tests looking at other areas of the system performance.

For those still craving to learn more about Vulkan 1.0 with this week's exciting launch and our lengthy overview of it, The Khronos Group's Vulkan webinar from yesterday is now available for viewing...

Outreachy, the project formerly known as the GNOME Outreach Program for Women, has opened up their application process for their 2016 summer period...

Wine 1.9.4 was released today as the latest bi-weekly Wine development release...

We now have some official information about X.Org going down, as in the project's one-letter domain...

For users of Fedora 23 you will soon be able to enjoy Linux 4.4 as a stable release upgrade...

While KDE Neon was recently announced as an effort providing bleeding-edge KDE packages for Ubuntu, openSUSE developers have launched Krypton and Argon as their own similar initiatives...

While glibc is getting a lot of heat at the moment for a big security woe, glibc 2.23 has been released that besides having the getaddrinfo() changes also has other alterations to this critical free software library...

LLVM 3.8 was supposed to be tagged today, but it doesn't look like that is going to happen...

Alongside today's SteamOS Brewmaster update adding the NVIDIA Vulkan driver, Valve has put out an interesting Steam client beta update...

SteamOS 2.0 "Brewmaster" saw a new update today...

Mozilla's experimental Servo web layout engine written in Rust has landed its new "WebRender" back-end that leverages GPU rendering...

Ubuntu 14.04.4 was released today as the newest point release in the Trusty Tahr LTS series...

Coreboot users have generally relied upon the SeaBIOS or TianoCore payloads for booting up into a Linux distribution, but now a U-Boot payload is supported as another option...

AMD's Alex Deucher has sent in the initial updates of the Radeon and AMDGPU DRM drivers for DRM-Next that in turn will target the upcoming Linux 4.6 kernel cycle...

GNOME 3.19.90 is available today as the beta for the upcoming GNOME 3.20...

The latest development release of Clutter graphics toolkit is now available...

BitTorrent Sync, the P2P file synchronization tool for many different platforms, finally has official Linux packages...

Upstream projects associated with the X.Org Foundation should begin thinking of possible summer project ideas for GSoC 2016 while students can begin figuring out their proposals if wanting to get involved with open-source graphics/compute development over the summer...

If all goes well, LLVM 3.8 and Clang 3.8 could be officially released within the next day or so. Here is a look at some of the new features of LLVM/Clang 3.8...

Tomb Raider along with other Square Enix games are coming to NVIDIA's SHIELD platform via GeForce NOW, which should be as exciting to you as a Linux gamer...

The X.Org project has its latest server embarrassment...

SQLite 3.11.0 was released this week as the newest version of this widely-used, embedded SQL database library...

Intel engineers have put out their latest OpenSWR patch series for providing Mesa with a high-performance, scalable software rasterizer...

For fans of Google's Go programming language, version 1.6 was released today...