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The third development milestone release of Phoronix Test Suite 7.0-Ringsaker is now available for your open-source, cross-platform benchmarking needs...
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Qt WebEngine remains the primary module on modern Qt5 tool-kit versions for having web capabilities provided by Chromium. The migration from Qt WebKit to WebEngine happened around four years ago but there still are some developers pursuing out-of-tree support for Qt WebKit...
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Freedreno founder Rob Clark has sent in the MSM DRM driver changes to DRM-Next for Linux 4.11. Separately, Qualcomm's Code Aurora is prepping more contributions for this open-source Qualcomm Adreno driver for Linux...
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The open-source RADV Radeon Vulkan driver is going to be flipping on fast clears by default...
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OpenSUSE's Tumbleweed rolling-release distribution continues rolling forward with new package updates and other features...
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Last month the RISC-V GCC port was approved for landing in GCC 7 while today that merge finally happened...
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Back in December marked the release of CrossOver 16.0 and powered by Wine 2.0. Shipping today is CrossOver 16.1...
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Intel's open-source Mesa DRI driver has passed The Khronos Group's process for certifying it as a conformant OpenGL 4.5 implementation. This now rounds out the Intel open-source Linux stack with OpenGL 4.5, OpenGL ES 3.2, and Vulkan 1.0 certification...
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Aspyr Media announced earlier today that Civilization VI for Linux is finally shipping this week...
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Five years ago we wrote about a project to run Mac OS X binaries on Linux, for what Wine is for allowing Windows programs on Linux/macOS/etc, Darling wants to let Mac binaries run under Linux. It's been a while since last having anything to report on for the project, but they are making new progress in 2017...
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Emil Velikov has kicked off the new release by announcing the third release candidate to the upcoming Mesa 17.0...
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Last week Feral Interactive announced DiRT Rally is coming to Linux while now they've announced the system requirements...
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While Linux is the most prominent operating system each year at the Free Open-Source Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM), it's not a conference limited to just Linux. Once again there was a developer room dedicated to other operating systems like the Rust-written Redox OS...
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With the Linux benchmarks at Phoronix there is a wide-range of Linux distributions (as well as BSDs, macOS, and the occasional Solaris and Windows) tested, but the operating system I end up running on my most-important production system is still Fedora Workstation. Recently I was interviewed by Fedora Magazine about my thoughts on the Red Hat backed distribution and more...
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GNU ddrescue continues work on being a capable data recovery tool for copying data from a file or block device to another, doing more than just the dd command. GNU ddrescue 1.22 was released over the weekend as the newest version of this tool...
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Ilia Mirkin's weekend hacking on the Nouveau NVC0 Gallium3D driver has led to ARB_gpu_shader_int64 support coming for this open-source NVIDIA Linux driver...
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Debian 9.0 "Stretch" is now frozen for its anticipated release later this year...
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Four years ago Intel developers were working on a threaded OpenGL dispatch mechanism for Mesa, but it never ended up being merged. Now, prolific Mesa contributor and AMD developer Marek Olšák is looking to merge this code and clean it up...
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There's a Vulkan implementation being worked on for the original Unreal Engine, what was released back in 1998 to power Unreal and Unreal Tournament games...
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The Linux 4.10 kernel is getting close to release with this Sunday's release of Linux 4.10-rc7...
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Kodi, the project formerly known as XBMC and is one of the leading free software options for assembling a modern HTPC/PVR system, is out with its version 17 "Krypton" release...
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Gentoo Linux developer Hanno Böck, who also writes for Golem and runs The Fuzzing Project as a software fuzzing initiative to find issues in software, presented today at FOSDEM 2017 over some Linux desktop security shortcomings and how Microsoft Windows 10 is arguably more secure out-of-the-box...
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The Alliance for Open Media continues working hard on their first video codec, dubbed AV1, that started off with the VP9 libvpx code-base and are pursuing to do for free video codecs what the Opus codec has done for audio...
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Glibc 2.25 was tagged this Sunday in Git as the newest feature release to the GNU C Library...
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There's another open-source game engine in town that's been under development since last year but received more exposure this weekend via the FOSDEM 2017 conference in Brussels...
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Free software developer Jamey Sharp continues working on his "Corrode" project for being able to automatically convert C code into Rust...
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On Saturday at this year's FOSDEM conference there was a BSD developer room where various talks were had for European BSD fans...
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Development on the Godot 3.0 game engine continues marching forward at full-speed as it works on an overhaul to its 3D renderer along with other significant changes...
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Bas Nieuwenhuizen's driver hacking this weekend has led to support of Vulkan's sparseBinding feature within this open-source Radeon Vulkan Linux driver...
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In our Intel Kabylake benchmarks we have shown how Intel's P-State CPU frequency scaling driver used by most Linux distributions can lead to much lower performance with their latest-generation processors compared to the ACPI CPUFreq scaling driver. Fortunately, action is taking place for improving the P-State performance with Kabylake...
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AMD has just announced the release of their awaited AMDGPU open-source debugger...
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When writing this week about ILO Gallium3D being dropped from mainline Mesa, a Phoronix reader asked if LunarGLASS would be the next thing to be removed from Mesa... But LunarGLASS never made it to mainline Mesa, though it still is in development...
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The drm-misc-next tree is done with new feature material for the Linux 4.11 kernel cycle as the work is now being queued in DRM-next for this next kernel version...
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The decision to switch Mesa to enabling GLVND support in Fedora 25 as a post-release change has been causing headaches for some users...
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It's been a while since we last had anything to report on Enlightenment's Wayland compositor work, but that changed as we begin February...
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Developers working on GNOME's Web Browser, Epiphany, have prepared the v3.23.5 release as their latest development version in the road towards GNOME 3.24...
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Last week we reported that Collabora developer Timothy Arceri would be trying to support Mesa's OpenGL shader cache with RadeonSI while since then work has begun to materialize...
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Developers working on Intel's Clear Linux distribution have taken to performance tuning of their stock PHP packages during their migration from PHP5 to PHP7...
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Coincidentally on the same day as Microsoft announcing the Git Virtual File-System, upstream Git developers have announced their first release candidate of the upcoming Git 2.12 milestone...
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There have been ways to get Steam running on FreeBSD using Wine and efforts as well with using the operating system's Linux binary compatibility layer, but now it's become much easier for users of TrueOS, formerly known as PC-BSD...
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Wine 2.1 is now available as the first development release in the road toward next year's Wine 3.0 release, per the new Wine versioning scheme...
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The Intel open-source developers working on their Clear Linux distribution have set their sights on better PHP performance as their latest area of focusing on better Linux performance...
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Here's a brief update on the latest feature development for Phoronix Test Suite 7.0...
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Microsoft's latest open-source project is the Git Virtual File-System...
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For developers packaging their software in Snaps for Ubuntu and other supported operating systems, Snapcraft 2.26 is now available...
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Firefox 51 was released last week and like clock work there was a new Firefox beta for the next release issued shortly thereafter...
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Yesterday I published Linux benchmarks of the Celeron G3930, Intel's lowest-end Celeron CPU at the moment in the Kabylake family. This CPU goes for about $40 USD and you get a dual-core 2.9GHz processor with HD Graphics 610 (GT1). I had published a few OpenGL benchmarks in that review while for this article are some OpenCL compute numbers...
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Waking up this morning, Mesa has been trimmed up by over 58,000 lines of code...
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Canonical's Mir developers are working to get Mir 1.0 released in 2017 and in preparation for that stable milestone they have just landed a number of API changes...
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Fresh off last week's release of Chrome 56 with WebGL 2.0 by default, FLAC audio support, and more, is now the Chrome 57 beta...