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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..

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...

It's been about two years since last seeing any Xen PV vs. PVHVM benchmarks, but back then Xen PVHVM was smacking Xen PV's performance. Since then, with newly-published benchmarks, the lead has only expanded...

Trojitá version 0.6 was released today of this lightweight, Qt-based, IMAP email client...

For whatever reason it didn't come for many months until after Skylake CPUs shipped, but LLVM Git/SVN now has Skylake and its features added to the x86 target list...

Intel Open-Source Technology Center developer Ben Widawsky has written a blog post about frequency handling within the i915 DRM driver...

With Linux 4.5-rc1 expected for release today that will mark the end of this cycle's merge window, here is a look at the new features and improved functionality present for this major Linux kernel release that will then be officially christened in about two months time.

The DragonFlyBSD Intel DRM graphics driver sure is getting close to catching up against the upstream Intel Linux graphics driver with the mainline kernel...

The Android-x86 project has announced their fourth stable release of Android KitKat for Intel/AMD architectures and this may be their last release for this branch...

Recent releases of NVIDIA's proprietary Linux driver support creating OpenGL contexts outside of the X Server...

Debian 8.3 was released this morning as the third stable update to Jessie...

Earlier this week I carried out an OpenGL performance comparison of NVIDIA GPUs going back 10 years that included 27 different graphics cards from the GeForce 8 series through the latest-generation GeForce 900 Maxwell graphics cards. In this weekend article are some complementary tests from this comparison with the OpenGL benchmarks at 1920 x 1080.

A new Intel driver for the Linux 4.5 kernel is for the Volume Management Device...

Beyond always thinking about cooling improvements and energy efficiency enhancements for the room where the 60+ systems are carrying out daily Linux benchmarks, I also tend to toy around with ways to minimize dust and ensure clean air. Here's the latest air cleaner I deployed...

The default browser choice for Fedora Linux has once again come up again with some no longer even wanting Mozilla Firefox within the package repository...

Last week was the big input driver updates sent in for the Linux 4.5 kernel while ending out this week was another update that included some work to the XPad driver that supports the Xbox controllers and more on Linux...

For any NVIDIA Tegra users out there, a ton of exciting support work is finally being mainlined with the Linux 4.5 kernel...

While a lot of new functionality has been merged for Linux 4.5, there isn't KDBUS or any other new in-kernel IPC mechanism...

One year after X.Org members voted to join the SPI, which failed over not enough votes, that vote is expected to come up again next month...

At today's FESCo meeting, aside from working on the Fedora 25 release schedule, was also the approval of some new Fedora 24 features...

The EXT4 file-system updates aren't terribly exciting for the Linux 4.5 kernel merge window...

While Fedora 24 isn't even out the door for a few months, due to the recent delay they have decided to already begin plotting the Fedora 25 schedule...

AMD's upcoming "Stoney" APUs has support for ETC2 texture compression...

With Firefox 44 and newer it will be possible to move the WebGL rendering work off the main processing thread...

Matthias Clasen has written a status update concerning the state of GNOME 3.20 on Wayland...

What better way to spend a cold Friday morning than looking at some kernel benchmarks, so up for your viewing pleasure today are benchmarks of every kernel major release going from the Linux 3.5 kernel up through the latest Linux 4.4 stable kernel release. All the tests were done on the same system and there are actually some interesting performance changes to note with these Linux kernel tests going back to the summer of 2012.

A few days ago it was pointed out that The Linux Foundation updated their by-laws and no longer allows individual members to elect directors. That news obviously caused a fair bit of controversy in the online community for several reasons...

Wine 1.9.2 was released this morning as the newest bi-weekly Wine development release...

Linux input expert Peter Hutterer at Red Hat has followed up with another blog post since his X.Org project vs. X.Org Foundation post from a few days ago. Today he looks at the question of "is Wayland ready yet?"..

GNOME 3.19.4 was released over the night as the latest development snapshot leading up to the March release of GNOME 3.20...

For users of Emacs, the long-maintained XWidget branch that provides support for embedding GTK+ widgets into Emacs, has been merged to master and will be present for Emacs 25.1...

PulseAudio 8.0 has been released as the latest version of this open-source sound server...

The Mozilla-backed crew working on the Rust programming language announced the release today of Rust v1.6 as their first new version of 2016...

The Qualcomm Adreno 430 is now supported by the Freedreno Gallium3D driver...

A second feature pull has been submitted of ACPI and power management material for the Linux 4.5 kernel merge window...

With having out most of my NVIDIA graphics cards earlier this week due to running the 27-way OpenGL and performance-per-Watt comparison on NVIDIA graphics cards going back a decade, I took the opportunity to also run a smaller, fresh OpenCL/CUDA GPU compute comparison on various recent NVIDIA GPUs.

Feral Interactive announced that next week Company of Heroes 2: The Western Front Armies will be released for Linux and OS X...

With the Linux 4.5 kernel the ARMv6/ARMv7 platforms are now multi-platform after five years of work...

An Intel engineer yesterday published the initial experimental patch-set for implementing GuC-based Single Loop Power Controller (SLPC) support...

Google is planning to enable support for Brotli compression within the next release of the Chrome web-browser. Brotli offers much better compression rates over other alternatives...

The first release candidate is out today for the Kodi 16.0 "Jarvis" home theater PC software...

A popular graphics benchmark particularly for iOS and Android users has been GFXBench to measure the performance of the graphics processor. GFXBench supports OpenGL and OpenGL ES, but while it has long supported Android, only today is the company now supporting non-Android Linux platforms...

Today was another busy day in the Coreboot world for freeing systems of their proprietary BIOS/firmware...

Today a new batch of improvements were committed to LinuxBenchmarking.com while more UI/UX improvements and other functionality is still landing in the days ahead...

The Linux Foundation has quietly changed their stance concerning individual members being allowed to vote for directors of the foundation...

Google announced today the stable release of their Chrome 48 web-browser for Linux, OS X, and Windows...

NVIDIA yesterday hosted a Vulkan Developers Day at their campus for graphics developers to learn more about the next-generation Khronos API...

Our latest benchmarking fun from the freshly minted Linux 4.4 kernel is testing all of the popular built-in Linux file-systems plus the recently updated ZFS On Linux. File-systems tested for this comparison were Btrfs, XFS, EXT4, F2FS, ReiserFS, NTFS, and ZFS.

This morning marks 1,800 Linux-native games being available via Valve's Steam service...

With yesterday's merging of AMD HSA support into GCC 6, questions have been raised by readers in taking advantage of this acceleration support for AMD APUs and related items...