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PostgreSQL 9.5 was officially released this morning with several exciting new features...
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Linksys has gone ahead and is finally providing open-source DD-WRT support for their latest WRT routers...
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With the Linux 4.2 kernel there was no feature update for Nouveau and it's looking like it might be that way too for Linux 4.5...
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New patches have been posted by an AMD engineer for exposing accumulated power reporting...
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Some patches from 2014 have been revived in hopes of addressing the Year 2038 problem for Linux file-systems...
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Intel has committed all of the PCI IDs to Mesa and libdrm for the graphics processors of their next-generation Kabylake hardware...
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The KDE development team has announced their first Plasma 5 update of 2016...
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While the Tegra X1 is the latest and greatest NVIDIA SoC out there currently, the Tegra K1 is still a beauty and still blows many other ARM boards out of the water. If you happen to have a Tegra K1 Chromebook, it's possible to get Fedora 23 Linux running on there with a bit of hacking...
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SQLite 3.10 has been released today as the latest version of this widely-used SQL database engine library...
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Imagination has announced the PowerVR Series7XT Plus graphics processor from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas...
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Oculus Rift pre-orders opened up this morning for $599 USD and an anticipated ship date of April. However, the Facebook-owned company isn't yet back to providing Linux support...
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If you are very tight on space, Inteset Technologies sells a computer case that is rackmount compatible where you're able to fit two complete systems within a 1U slot.
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When running the tests recently for the NVIDIA Linux Driver 2015 Year-in-Review and How AMD's Proprietary Linux Driver Evolved In 2015, I also ran some extra tests comparing the AMD Radeon Software 15.12 and NVIDIA 358.16 proprietary drivers when looking at their CPU usage, memory consumption, and other system sensors...
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With for at least Android devices it's possible to import WiFi network settings via QR codes / barcodes rather than manually having to input a lot of information manually...
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Tom Stellard of AMD's open-source graphics team and continuing to serve as LLVM's point release manager has announced the long-awaited LLVM 3.7.1 release...
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Hyperion Entertainment confirmed that at the end of December the source code to AmigaOS 3.1 was leaked, which is now causing problems for the company continuing to develop this proprietary operating system...
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NVIDIA's Unix graphics driver team is starting off the new year by releasing their first public beta in the 361 Linux driver series...
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While the Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L is a motherboard from nearly a decade ago and is powered by the Intel G41 + ICH7 chipset combination, as of today it now has support in Libreboot for being able to initialize the hardware without any binary blobs...
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Red Hat's Christian Schaller has written a blog post today about Fedora Workstation and the quest for stability and robustness...
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For the past few months a Samsung developer has been working on VA-API support for Nouveau. After a few patch revisions, that work is finally hitting mainline Mesa...
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Kevin Martin of the Fedora Project has written a status update and plan around the "Wayland-by-default" effort for Fedora 24...
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Released a few days back was a modified Linux kernel that can run on the PlayStation 4. With a Sony PlayStation 4 hack by "fail0verflow", it's possible to run a Linux desktop on this latest-generation game console. Now these device hackers have managed to get the PlayStation 4 working with the Radeon Gallium3D driver...
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Samsung has contributed core tuning support for their new Exynos M1 "Mongoose" core...
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A few more features have been proposed for the May release of Fedora 24...
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The Wayland primary selection protocol was published nearly one month ago and continues to be reviewed and further refined by developers. This new protocol is one of the keys to whether Fedora 24 will enable Wayland by default...
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The Debian project has today published a longer tribute in honor of Ian Murdock after briefly announcing his passing last week...
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At NVIDIA's CES press conference last night they announced the DRIVE PX2 as a "in-car super-computer" that's "as powerful as 150 MacBook Pros", while this SC is powered by a yet-to-be-announced SoC...
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With today's Ubuntu 16.04 Alpha 1 milestone, Lubuntu put out their first "Xenial Xerus" Alpha 1 build, but it's not terribly exciting...
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Junio Hamano announced the release this afternoon of Git 2.7.0, the latest stable version of this extremely popular, open-source version control system...
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The WiFi Alliance has announced the new HaLow technology in preparation for this week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES)...
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Last month I showed how AMD's open-source driver performance evolved in 2015 while today's article is looking at how the closed-source AMD / Radeon Technologies Group proprietary driver has evolved over the course of the year.
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The first alpha release is now available for Ubuntu flavors opting-in to do their first 16.04 "Xenial Xerus" development release...
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As another recent Firefox Nightly change besides enabling WebGL 2 by default is that Firefox's just-in-time compiler supports W^X protection...
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DNF 1.1.5 is available today to mark the new year and provide a number of bug fixes for this package manager used on modern versions of Fedora Linux...
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With Linux 4.4 expected next weekend, here's a look at some of the early features we've already been talking about on Phoronix that should be on the table for the Linux 4.5 merge window...
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Just ahead of CES, AMD/RTG is allowing more details on their next-generation Polaris GPU architecture to be revealed...
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The maturing of Wayland (and Mir) as well as external projects like libinput have clearly had an impact on the X.Org Server's development... In 2015 there were fewer xorg-server commits than any year since 2003. Other indicators also point to dramatically slower X Server development...
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There is just four weeks to go until the annual Free Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM)...
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While GNOME's Outreachy program for this term just began in December and will be running through March, the under-represented participants are already making progress on the GNOME Maps program...
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Linus Torvalds tagged the release a short time ago of the Linux 4.4-rc8 kernel...
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For those relying upon PlayOnLinux for playing various Windows games on Linux rather than using CodeWeavers' CrossOver or interacting with Wine directly, the newest version of this open-source program is now available...
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For those that didn't hear, Python developers will be abandoning their Mercurial-based repository and development workflow in favor of using a Git repository via GitHub...
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In 2015 there was 5,466 commits to the systemd repository, which was noticeably more than any year in the past...
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It's been nearly one year now that we've been getting excited over VLC 3.0. While we haven't heard any major updates recently and the release has yet to take place, progress continues to be made...
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Volvox features the Trimoebas, who are triangular shaped unicellular organisms living in the primordial soup. They have but one goal in life: build the first multicellular organism. Simple, right?
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While Jolla was saved last month by a fresh round of financing, even now not everyone who backed the Jolla Tablet project on IndieGoGo will be receiving a tablet...
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Fedora Rawhide -- the unstable, nightly grounds of Fedora Linux -- had enjoyed improvements in 2015 to ensure users of it have a better experience while more improvements are still planned for the year ahead...
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While there will be many Android-powered devices, various appliances powered by Linux from drones to kitchen appliances, and other products internally relying upon Linux and open-source software, don't expect to find much with regard to the Linux desktop and even Steam Machines will seem to be rather low-key...
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If you are just a casual user of the Linux virtualization stack with the open-source virt-manager, you might not know that for months they have already been supporting UEFI-based installations inside virtual machines...
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Arch Linux is now shipping PHP 7.0 via their stable repositories for those relying upon it for web servers or other purposes from an installation of this rolling-release distribution...