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It looks like one of the latest test targets for well known AMD open-source developer Marek Olšák is Unigine Superposition...
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Last year Valve showed off a prototype of their new "knuckles" controllers for Steam VR while now it appears they are getting to the stage of shipping dev kits to VR developers...
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CryENGINE 5.4 is slated for release next month and will finally roll out a Vulkan renderer...
on (#2TN9F)
OpenSUSE's Tumbleweed rolling-release distribution continues picking up new functionality in a very punctual manner...
on (#2TN5P)
digiKam 5.6 is now available as the latest version of this open-source photo management software aligned with KDE/Qt...
on (#2TMXN)
Following countless rumors about PowerVR-maker Imagination Technologies, the company has formally announced today it's selling itself...
on (#2TMVT)
GNOME 3.25.3 is now available as the latest stepping stone towards September's release of GNOME 3.26...
on (#2TMQM)
The Steam Summer Sale will begin today and already Valve is offering up discounts on their Steam Link and Steam Controller hardware devices...
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The second alpha release of the upcoming PHP 7.2 is now available for testing...
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Cossacks 3, a real-time strategy game from GSC Game World and a remake of the Cossacks: European Wars from 2001, is now available for Linux...
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GNOME's Mutter 3.25.3 window manager / compositor is now available as the newest release in the path towards GNOME 3.26...
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For those curious about the state of the Radeon Vulkan (RADV) vs. OpenGL (RadeonSI) performance with different Intel and AMD CPUs, here are some fresh benchmark results with the current Vulkan-supported prominent Linux game titles of Dota 2, Mad Max, Talos Principle, and Dawn of War III. During this opportunity for the tests across Core i5 / Core i7 / Ryzen 7 hardware were also CPU usage analytics.
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The GCC Steering Committee has approved of allowing the D language front-end and runtime to be included as part of the GNU Compiler Collection...
on (#2THZH)
Khronos members have been working on code that could allow OpenCL code to be converted for execution by Vulkan drivers...
on (#2THXA)
Intel developers have issued their quarterly official update to their GVT-g graphics virtualization technology stack for Linux KVM and Xen virtualization...
on (#2THTH)
Last year Intel published a research whitepaper for Control-Flow Enforcement Technology (CET) while they have now posted a set of GCC patches for implementing this safeguard within the GCC compiler...
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Not only is AMD getting ready to take on Intel in the server space with their just-launched EPYC 7000 series, they are looking to battle NVIDIA now in the GPU server arena. Following their announcement at the end of last year, Radeon Instinct accelerators for GPU compute servers are getting ready to ship...
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ARM's Cortex A55 and A75 processors have received their initial tuning support within the GCC 8 compiler code...
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One year after Ubuntu developers announced their Netplan project for consolidated networking configuration across platforms, they are now planning to use Netplan by default in Ubuntu 17.10 across all editions...
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Running the Doom (2016) game under Wine with Vulkan may now yield better success if using the Intel ANV or Radeon RADV Vulkan drivers due to a fix in Mesa's SPIR-V common code...
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OpenMandriva Lx 3.02 is now available as the latest version of this Mandriva/Mandrake-derived Linux distribution...
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The KTechLab integrated development environment focused on micro-controller circuit design and simulation is back to being under development after not seeing a major release since 2009...
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Marek Olšák has posted a set of five patches for fixing up one of the remaining rendering issues affecting RadeonSI and the other Gallium3D drivers in being able to correctly render the popular Rocket League game on Linux...
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Mentioned in the weekly Ubuntu Kernel Newsletter are the developers reiterating their plans to ship Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" with the Linux 4.13 kernel...
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Following the earlier development releases, Opus 1.2 is now official...
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AMD has formally announced today their EPYC 7000 series line-up of processors, their server/workstation offerings based on Zen to finally battle Intel's multi-year dominance with Xeon and AMD's long-awaited successor to the Opteron family...
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Intel has queued up another round of feature changes slated for the Linux 4.13 kernel...
on (#2TFKQ)
GNOME's Shotwell photo manager is out today with a new testing release as it ushers in the v0.27 development series...
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Following his work on PulseAudio, Avahi, and systemd, Lennart Poettering has a new project to announce: casync...
on (#2TF32)
The Raspberry Pi software stack and particularly its open-source VC4 graphics driver stack continues getting better along with the mainline support for this popular ARM SBC...
on (#2TEW7)
It's 2017 and Ubuntu is finally looking at shipping GPU-accelerated video playback support out-of-the-box on the Ubuntu desktop...
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Christian Schaller of Red Hat has provided an update on some of the feature work that's coming around the corner with Fedora Workstation 26 and other work to land in the future...
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Valve's Linux developers continue working on lowering the CPU overhead of the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...
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A new feature proposal would ensure Fedora 27 ships with the latest PHP release at the time...
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The VK9 project has hit its seventeenth milestone for Direct3D 9 implemented over Vulkan...
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GNU's Automake 1.15.1 release is now available, which isn't too big on new work but comes after a lack of activity on Automake...
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Alex Deucher today submitted what is likely the final set of Radeon/AMDGPU feature updates to be queued in DRM-Next for the upcoming Linux 4.13 kernel cycle...
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Student open-source developer Boyan Ding has been working this summer on an instruction scheduler for the Nouveau driver in order to achieve greater performance with more efficient shader code...
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Due to Linus Torvalds' travels, he's released the 4.12-rc6 kernel off of his weekly Sunday release cadence...
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Brooklyn is a new project within the KDE camp that's being developed this summer via Google Summer of Code...
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Last week AMD released an updated AMDGPU-PRO hybrid driver with performance fixes so I've now carried out a fresh comparison of this updated 17.10-429170 driver compared to the latest open-source stack of Mesa 17.2-dev Git plus the Linux 4.12 development kernel.
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Last month at Computex Intel announced the Core-X series with up to 18 core configurations. The first of these new processors are preparing to ship and the embargo has just lifted concerning reviews and performance details...
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Mesa 17.1.3 is now available as the latest stable point release to this important 3D user-space graphics stack...
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AMD's GPUOpen initiative has posted a number of Vulkan open-source projects over time from the Anvil Vulkan framework to a Vulkan-supproted CodeXL and various code samples. Their latest open-source project is a Vulkan memory allocator...
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Another Xfce component saw a new development release in the slow road towards Xfce 4.14...
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Red Hat's Peter Hutterer has announced the first release candidate of the upcoming libinput 1.8 input handling library release that's now widely used by X.Org and Wayland systems...
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Valgrind 3.13 is now available as the newest feature update to this widely-used tool for memory debugging and profiling...
on (#2T9AX)
Not only is Debian 9.0 released as the main GNU/Linux OS, but also Debian GNU/Hurd is now out with a major release as their pairing of the GNU user-land with Hurd in place of the Linux kernel...
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For those looking to run Steam in a more isolated/sandboxed environment, Valve's game distribution service can now be easily run in a Flatpak environment...