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OPNsense, the open-source firewall project powered by FreeBSD that began as a fork of pfSense, is out with a new release...
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Jolla published a blog post today entitled "Jolla Tablet: Aiming for Closure" and it doesn't deliver much in the way of good news...
on (#1252B)
Debuting in 2006, Medieval II: Total War, and its Kingdoms expansion, were the final Total War game to use the second version of the Total War Engine. It is also, arguably, the last game in a generation for the series. The follow-up to this game was Empire: Total War (also available on Linux), which changed the game engine, user-interface, as well as several of the gameplay mechanics-- such as adding naval battles.
on (#124KP)
For KDE Ubuntu users wanting to run the latest upstream KDE software components without switching over to the 16.04 "Xenial Xerus" development repository, backports of the new packages have taken place for Kubuntu 15.10...
on (#124JC)
Our latest Intel Skylake processor to benchmark is a Xeon E3-1270 v5 processor that boasts a boost speed of 4.0GHz...
on (#124DZ)
Last week I had plans to run some fresh FreeBSD vs. Linux gaming benchmarks using the FreeBSD's Linux software binary compatibility layer...
on (#124AN)
With yesterday's Linux 4.5 AMDGPU/Radeon vs. Catalyst OpenGL Performance testing, the loser was the R9 Fury "Fiji" graphics card on the AMDGPU open-source driver with the performance still being miserable. Even with PowerPlay enabled on Linux 4.5, the performance was still poor. But if forcing to a high performance state via sysfs, is the performance any better?..
on (#1248S)
The libinput 1.2 release candidate was released this morning as the newest development version of this input handling library used primarily by Wayland systems and now as well with Ubuntu's Mir and then X.Org when using the xf86-input-libinput driver...
on (#1234D)
The first release candidate is now available for the Go 1.6 programming language...
on (#1234E)
The Black Mesa third-party remake of Half-Life is confirmed for being ported to Linux...
on (#122NW)
We are just over one month away until GDC 2016 kicks off in San Francisco where there will be many Vulkan API talks by different Khronos members...
on (#122MQ)
For anyone still relying upon Java web-plugins in their browser, they are going to be deprecated with the upcoming Java 9...
on (#121YH)
A new test release of Android-x86 6.0-Marshmallow is now available for those wanting to deploy the latest version of Android on their Intel/AMD hardware...
on (#121YJ)
The xf86-video-intel 3.0 DDX driver has been in development the past two and a half years without seeing an official release...
on (#121VK)
The Video Electronics Standards Association announced Display Stream Compression 1.2 today as the newest DSC standard...
on (#1211H)
With the first test release out this week for the Linux 4.5 kernel I have carried out some fresh benchmarks on different AMD Radeon graphics cards for comparing the very latest open-source driver performance against that of the proprietary AMD Linux driver. Here are how the competing AMD OpenGL Linux stacks are comparing to one another for starting off 2016.
on (#120KZ)
Ubuntu Phone OTA-9 has begun rolling out to owners of Ubuntu Phones. This is yet another big feature update but plenty of bug fixing...
on (#120GT)
GNU Binutils 2.26 has been released as the first major release in more than one year since Binutils 2.25...
on (#120C0)
Intel has released their first new versions of XenGT and KVMGT for 2016 for GPU virtualization solutions for Xen and KVM, respectively...
on (#11ZWY)
While the AMDGPU DRM driver doesn't enable the necessary Kconfig option by default, it's supposed to be possible to use this new DRM driver with the AMD GCN "Sea Islands" (CIK) graphics cards rather than just Tonga and Fiji when it comes to the currently shipping discrete GPUs...
on (#11ZFV)
The Linux 4.4 kernel is now effectively just one step away from landing within Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial Xerus" LTS...
on (#11ZC4)
The fourth development release of the Phoronix Test Suite 6.2-Gamvik cycle is now available for your bleeding-edge benchmarking needs...
on (#11Z0T)
A number of GLAMOR commits landed today within the X.Org Server Git repository...
on (#11YV2)
LLVM/Clang is the latest high-profile project to abandon its Autoconf build system...
on (#11YPF)
KDE Plasma 5.5.4 was released today as a bug-fix update to Plasma 5.5 as released in December. With this new point release there are fixes primarily for multi-screen users receiving notifications...
on (#11YEY)
Fresh off this morning's launch of GPUOpen, Radeon Technologies Group has announced the Radeon Open Compute initial release...
on (#11Y0Q)
Samba 4.4 Release Candidate 1 was tagged today in getting ready the next major version of this open-source SMB/CIFS implementation...
on (#11XNT)
Adding to the list of game studios with plans to support Vulkan is Croteam with a few of their modern games going to receive the Vulkan treatment...
on (#11X8A)
Earlier this month Valve released the Steam Link SDK for opening up this Linux-powered $50 device with Qt, SDL, and OpenGL ES support.While the Steam Link is a device intended for streaming Steam games to your television, one of the interesting ports so far with this SDK is aiming to get the Kodi HTPC software running on the Link...
on (#11X6W)
A Zsun WiFi SD Card Reader that sells for $13~19 USD has been hacked to run OpenWRT for turning it into a wireless access point or using it for other fun tasks...
on (#11X0B)
If you are looking for a low-cost 2.5-inch disk enclosure that plays fine under Linux, here's one I recently picked up and has been working fine...
on (#11WVZ)
A number of AMDGPU LLVM back-end changes have been hitting the mainline LLVM SVN/Git code-base in recent days...
on (#11WRA)
While Ubuntu itself hasn't participated in the alpha releases now for a few years in favor of focusing on high-quality daily ISOs, Ubuntu derivatives such as Kubuntu and Xubuntu have long been pushing out alpha releases to help with testing by the community. However, for lack of people stepping up to manage these releases, it's looking like they may not happen or with fewer alpha releases...
on (#11WRB)
Giuseppe D'Angelo of the Qt consulting firm KDAB has written another post in his series about integrating OpenGL code with Qt Quick 2 applications...
on (#11VBD)
Firefox 44.0 is now available via FTP and other sources ahead of the planned Mozilla announcement in the hours ahead...
on (#11V5X)
While we frequently cover Beignet as Intel's open-source OpenCL driver effort for their graphics hardware, they do still continue maintaining a concurrent proprietary driver as well for their Linux customers...
on (#11V2A)
This afternoon at Phoronix we celebrating the crossing of 14 million test downloads on OpenBenchmarking.org...
on (#11V04)
It's been a while since last having anything to report on with the Zenwalk Linux distribution originally derived from Slackware. However, I was pleasantly surprised to see this afternoon that Zenwalk 8.0 is now in beta...
on (#11TNW)
If you are interested in learning about Intel's GEN Assembly for being able to optimize and debug OpenCL kernels running on Intel's graphics hardware, there's a new Intel Developer Zone post explaining their Assembly...
on (#11TC6)
Here's a fresh kernel spin of the brand new Linux 4.5-rc1 kernel with the latest AMDGPU PowerPlay bits enabled...
on (#11SVV)
Last week I carried out tests of the Linux 3.5 through Linux 4.4 kernels. Those benchmarks were fairly interesting in looking at the evolution of the Linux kernel performance over the past three and a half years. With Linux 4.5-rc1 now out, here are benchmarks with this latest kernel version that's currently under development.
on (#11SJS)
2015 was filled with many interesting Linux/open-source announcements by Microsoft and it looks like 2016 will not be any different. Today they announced the open-sourcing of a new project...
on (#11S8K)
Peter Hutterer this weekend announced the release of libinput 1.1.5 as the newest version of this input handling library used by Wayland, X.Org Server (if using xf86-input-libinput), and Mir systems...
on (#11S8M)
For those that didn't notice yet, the first release candidate for LLVM 3.8 and Clang 3.8 are now available...
on (#11QM9)
For those out there still using MPlayer, the latest stable release is now available...
on (#11QHM)
Linus Torvalds has announced the first weekly release candidate to the Linux 4.5 kernel...
on (#11QDV)
Samuel Pitoiset sent out a set of 17 patches today that add the core of the compute shaders support to the Mesa state tracker as needed by Gallium3D drivers...
on (#11QCM)
While Linus Torvalds tends to get angry about last-minute pull requests by subsystem maintainers at the end of a kernel cycle's merge window, he ended up honoring a few of them today for Linux 4.5..
on (#11PTS)
As most Phoronix readers know, a new version of OpenBenchmarking.org has been in development for a few months now and it will finally make its official premiere next month alongside Phoronix Test Suite 6.2-Gamvik...