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The sole new driver in the kernel's staging area for Linux 4.8 is for some SDIO WiFi cards...
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The power supply updates for Linux 4.8 adds a "reboot mode" driver to the kernel...
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Being mid-way through Ubuntu 16.10's development cycle, here are some fresh benchmarks showing how its performance has changed (if at all) compared to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as well as compared to Intel's high-performance Clear Linux distribution as a reference point...
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The second beta of the upcoming PHP 7.1 major release is now available for testing...
on (#1PN2S)
Wine 1.9.16 is now available as the latest bi-weekly release of Wine for running Windows programs on Linux and other operating systems...
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Collabora's Timothy Arceri, one of the firm's open-source graphics driver developers, has written a blog post about recent work they've done to the open-source Intel Mesa driver stack...
on (#1PKDC)
It turns out the RAID5 and RAID6 code for the Btrfs file-system's built-in RAID support is faulty and users should not be making use of it if you care about your data...
on (#1PK6X)
FreeBSD 11.0 has seen a very minor set-back in getting its release out the door...
on (#1PJYN)
Version 6.2 of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is expected to come quite soon...
on (#1PJYP)
There is a second round of Btrfs file-system updates for the Linux 4.8 merge window...
on (#1PJVK)
The visually stunning and longtime Linux-friendly Unigine Engine is up to version 2.3 with a number of new features...
on (#1PHEN)
Continuing on from yesterday's Linux 4.4 To 4.7 - EXT4 vs. F2FS vs. Btrfs Benchmarks comparison, here is a wider look at mainline file-systems on the Linux 4.7. File-systems tested on the NVMe SSD included Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, XFS, and NTFS...
on (#1PHCS)
Glibc 2.24 was released today as the newest version of the GNU C Library...
on (#1PH08)
AMD's RadeonSI Gallium3D driver could soon be down to just two GL extensions left before seeing OpenGL 4.4 compliance...
on (#1PGAF)
The latest open-source AMDGPU DRM patches posted by AMD developers is for providing virtual display functionality...
on (#1PFSK)
There's a new AMDGPU-PRO driver update now available for Ubuntu users...
on (#1PFQC)
An independent developer is attempting to restore work on the SimpleDRM driver and potentially see it through to getting mainlined...
on (#1PFNC)
Linux OpenGL/OpenCL/Vulkan benchmarks of the AMD Radeon RX 470 will be published on Phoronix in the days ahead...
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The open-source SCST project continues to be developed as an alternative SCSI target stack for the Linux kernel. This out-of-tree kernel code is preparing for its next release...
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GCC 6.1.1 is now the default compiler for Debian unstable as the developers work to get this major GNU Compiler Collection update ready for the next Debian release...
on (#1PE1J)
I've been a bit behind on my file-system benchmarking the past few months but for your viewing pleasure today are some EXT4 vs. Btrfs vs. F2FS file-system tests on an NVMe SSD when testing the Linux 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, and 4.7 kernels.
on (#1PDT3)
The latest work on RAD Game Tools' Oodle data compression with new compression codecs have it handily beating the open-source alternatives...
on (#1PCAF)
AMD published a patch this week for prepping its X.Org driver for supporting FreeSync...
on (#1PC99)
GNU Guix 0.11 has been released along with an update to GuixSD, the Guix System Distribution using the Linux-Libre kernel with GNU Shepherd init system...
on (#1PC00)
WebRender, the GPU-accelerated back-end for Mozilla's Servo browser layout engine, has seen a large number of improvements with WebRender2...
on (#1PBWY)
There's some improvements to talk about in GNU Hurd land...
on (#1PBWZ)
Version 4.9.4 of the GNU Compiler Collection is now available and it closes out the GCC 4.9 compiler series...
on (#1PBVK)
A number of months after the ALSA 1.1.1 release, a new version of the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture is now available...
on (#1PBT7)
The Document Foundation announced the release this morning of LibreOffice 5.2, the latest feature update to this open-source office suite...
on (#1PAHN)
DragonFlyBSD 4.6 has been officially released as the latest version of this popular BSD operating system...
on (#1P987)
While it has been three years since the last stable xf86-video-intel DDX driver release, almost two years since the last development release, and distributions/users beginning to get fed up by this DDX driver release management, Intel remains mum on the manner...
on (#1P8ZV)
The Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) changes were sent in today as the new feature work for Linux 4.8...
on (#1P8NY)
The Khronos Group has now uploaded all of their session videos from last week's SIGGRAPH 2016 conference to YouTube...
on (#1P84S)
There's golden register setting updates available for newer GCN hardware on the AMDGPU kernel driver, but it's not immediately clear if these changes will mean any performance or stability improvements for owners of Tonga, Iceland, Polaris, Carrizo, and Stoney hardware...
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Marek Olšák at AMD continues optimizing the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for offering much better Linux gaming performance when using this open-source AMD graphics driver code. The latest are double-digit gains for at least the BioShock Infinite game...
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Just over one month after the MATE and Cinnamon editions of Linux Mint 18 "Sarah", the Xfce edition is now available...
on (#1P7XZ)
Firefox 48.0 is officially available this morning for all supported platforms...
on (#1P6YJ)
David Airlie sent in the main DRM feature update a short time ago for the Linux 4.8 kernel. The code has already landed while Linus Torvalds was quick to note he's encountered some Intel DRM driver troubles...
on (#1P6HY)
Valve has published their monthly Steam Hardware/Software Survey results, including the Linux vs. macOS vs. Windows breakdown...
on (#1P6G3)
ARM platform enablement continues in Linux 4.8 with several new targets being supported by the mainline Linux kernel. The most notable ARM Linux 4.8 addition is support for the Broadcom SoC used by the Raspberry Pi 3...
on (#1P6CK)
Introduced in the Linux 4.6 kernel was the OrangeFS file-system while for the upcoming Linux 4.8 kernel it's picking up a new feature...
on (#1P5XJ)
Released two weeks ago was the NVIDIA 367.35 Linux driver as the latest stable binary driver for NVIDIA hardware. Here are some performance tests to see if it upped the NVIDIA Pascal Linux performance at all...
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With writing this weekend about switching to an S7 Edge powered by Android as my primary smartphone, it generated a flurry of comments in the forums and elsewhere with people wanting to share their two cents. A surprising number of people have contacted me to ask why I didn't buy an Ubuntu Phone or to try to fault me for not buying an Ubuntu Phone...
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David Miller submitted the networking subsystem updates last week for the Linux 4.8 kernel...
on (#1P4TM)
OpenSSH 7.3 was released today by the OpenBSD camp with some security fixes while also providing a few new options and other features...
on (#1P4FP)
We've now started the back-half of the two week merge window for the Linux 4.8 kernel. Here's a recap of all the pull requests I covered during the first week of this yet another exciting kernel cycle...
on (#1P4CY)
The third alpha release of Kodi 17 "Krypton" is now available and it has continued landing new/improved functionality...
on (#1P3QV)
While still in early form and won't be merged for this next kernel cycle (v4.8), a series of patches were published on Sunday to improve CPU frequency selection under Linux, including an algorithm change for the Intel P-State scaling driver...
on (#1P3ET)
Flatpak 0.6.8 was released this weekend as the newest feature release of this GNOME sandboxing tech formerly known as XDG-App...