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Rust 1.8 has been declared stable by the team working on this increasingly popular programming language focused on safety, speed, and concurrency...

Saints Row 2 and Saints Row: The Third have been officially released today for Linux and SteamOS...

With GCC 6.1 due out soon with its plethora of new features and improvements, I decided to run some fresh benchmarks this week of GCC 4.9.3 vs. GCC 5.3 vs. GCC 6.0.0 on a Debian stable system...

One of the new set of patches published this week for the Intel DRM kernel graphics driver is for engine reset and recovery support for Broadwell "Gen8" graphics hardware and newer under Linux...

For those that have been following NVIDIA's work on PRIME synchronization, the fifth version of these patches were mailed out on Wednesday...

For those making use of DPI panels with the Raspberry Pi but haven't been able to try out the open-source VC4 driver stack rather than the binary blob due to its lack of DPI support, that is changing in Linux 4.7...

For fans of Coreboot, the Lenovo ThinkPad T420 has been ported to this open-source BIOS/UEFI alternative and is one of the more recent laptops to be independently ported to this code-base formerly known as LinuxBIOS...

For those anxious to see compute shaders for then having OpenGL 4.3 support by the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for GCN GPUs, the latest patches have been published...

Well known Linux kernel developer Matthew Garrett who has led the charge for a number of years about UEFI/SecureBoot issues, poorly secured devices, and more, has taken aim now at Intel's latest-generation "Skylake" systems...

The exciting day has continued of open-source/Linux news with Google now releasing Chrome 50...

One month after publishing the first developer preview of the upcoming Android N, Google today announced Android N Developer Preview 2 with exciting changes...

Thunderbird 45.0 is now available as the latest version of the Gecko-powered open-source email client...

Well this is surprising and unfortunate: it appears that AMD's next-generation Polaris GPUs don't support the royalty-free ETC2 texture compression...

Croteam has published a new public beta this morning of The Talos Principle that improves the game's Vulkan API support...

For the past month and a half I've been battering the MSI C236A Workstation motherboard with an arsenal of benchmarks and various workloads on Linux and BSD. This MSI motherboard for Xeon E3 v5 "Skylake" processors has been working out great.

For those still using the FFmpeg-forked Libav project for your multimedia needs, the latest Git code has landed H.264 and MPEG4 encoders using OpenMAX IL...

While many games are running on Wayland either natively or through XWayland (the most likely scenario right now), not all of them offer a great experience due to functional issues. One of the functionality problems right now for games being piped through XWayland is the lack of pointer/mouse warping...

Vim 7.4 is still the latest stable series for this popular text editor, but Vim 8.0 development is being worked on and as implied by the version number will see a lot of new functionality...

For those that are members of the X.Org Foundation, the elections commenced this morning so it's time to cast your vote!..

We've known Canonical has been planning to support Snap packages alongside Debian packages on the Ubuntu desktop for the 16.04 LTS milestone and today they reaffirmed their commitment...

As the last update of the day from AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D Is Now Incredibly Close To OpenGL 4.3, things are looking great with RadeonSI soon hitting OpenGL 4.3 but today the latest commits have now verified the OpenGL 4.2 compliance...

Mike Blumenkrantz of Samsung today tagged Enlightenment 0.21 (E21) Alpha...

What an exciting afternoon for open-source AMD Linux fans! OpenGL 4.3's robust buffer access extension landed for RadeonSI and now two more extensions have landed. Now there are no more extensions left for RadeonSI hitting OpenGL 4.2 and the OpenGL 4.3 support is deadly close...

There is another OpenGL 4.3 extension crossed off the TODO list of the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for GCN GPUs...

PfSense 2.3 was released today as the newest version of this popular FreeBSD-based firewall/router OS appliance software...

With having a clean Windows 10 installation around for the benchmarking of Ubuntu Bash on Windows 10 and Windows vs. Linux Vulkan benchmarking, I also took the opportunity to run a number of OpenGL benchmarks on both Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 Linux with the same hardware and set of graphics cards. In this article are benchmarks of Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 16.04 with various NVIDIA GeForce GTX 900 series graphics cards.

It will likely be quite some time before the Xfce 4.14 desktop environment is released while the main focus this development cycle is on porting to the GTK+ 3.x tool-kit...

For those sticking to Wine 1.8 stable releases rather than the bi-weekly Wine 1.9 development releases, Wine 1.8.2 was released this morning...

While the DRI3/Present support remains disabled by default in the xf86-video-ati X.Org driver, those making use of it will now have support for async page-flipping with the Present extension...

There's been grumblings about a growing fork of OpenELEC the past few weeks while today two Phoronix readers wrote in with news of LibreELEC, the new fork of OpenELEC as a Kodi/XBMC appliance Linux distribution that has a number of the original OpenELEC developers involved...

Stéphane Graber has announced the release of the LXD 2.0 container hypervisor. LXD was announced at the end of 2014 and today's 2.0 release is now the project's first production-ready release...

Daniel Vetter of Intel OTC has sent out an announcement about another round of i915 DRM kernel driver code that's ready for testing by developers and the community...

Many Phoronix readers have been inquiring about any Linux hardware review and benchmarks of the Dell XPS 15 (9550) Skylake laptop. Here are some Linux benchmark resources...

The Free Software Foundation has issued a fresh statement today concerning the recent ZFS file-system efforts on Linux, driven in large part by Canonical's plans for shipping ZFS support in Ubuntu 16.04...

It's been a while since the last major update to the MythTV HTPC software, but out today is version 0.28...

Sasha Levin of Oracle has announced the formation of the Linux-Stable Security Tree...

At the end of March was the surprising news about Microsoft bringing Bash and Ubuntu's user-space to Windows 10 via a new "Linux subsystem" for natively dealing with Linux ELF binaries atop Windows. Since last week the latest Windows Insider update now ships with said support for being able to run Bash and other Ubuntu user-space programs on Windows 10. I've been benchmarking the performance of Ubuntu/Linux software on Windows 10 and have some results to share comparing it to a clean Ubuntu installation.

As GCC 6 should be officially released soon, here's a quick overview of the improvements and new features for this yearly free software compiler update...

The videos from last month's EuroLLVM compiler conference in Barcelona are now available for all to enjoy...

Linus Torvalds has done his usual Sunday dance and released the Linux 4.6-rc3 kernel...

Last week I wrote about some improvements made to Open-Source Stress Testing + Torturing Your Linux Software/Hardware while this weekend some more improvements have landed...

With having my first Skylake motherboard fail on me recently, a sub-$60 Gigabyte H110 motherboard, for its replacement I decided to spend a few bucks more and ended up going for a nicer MSI Skylake motherboard. For those curious, here are a few words I wanted to share this weekend about my experience so far with the MSI B150M Mortar.

While many were commenting on my article this week about being burned out and frustrated with ads that I should take the weekend off, I did not, but I've been having a surprisingly stress-free time playing with Ubuntu Bash on Windows...

A Phoronix reader pointed out that at last month's general shareholder meeting for Digia, the company's demerger plans with Qt were approved and will be registered on 1 May 2016...

A Qt user brought up a mailing list discussion over Vulkan usage within Qt. A few interesting remarks were made by upstream developers...

The KDE community today announced the release of KDE Frameworks 5.21.0 as the latest version of these building blocks for building KDE and other Qt applications...

Krita 3.0 has made another step closer to being released with this weekend's alpha release...

On Friday I posted Some Early Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux Vulkan Tests With NVIDIA Graphics while today the tables have turned to show The Talos Principle on Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 Linux under AMD Radeon graphics...

There was a Khronos Munich Chapter Meeting yesterday where developer Sascha Willems presented on "From OpenGL To Vulkan" with various remarks about the new, high-performance graphics API...

While NVIDIA mainlined their Vulkan driver support in the NVIDIA 364 driver series, they issued another Vulkan-focused driver update yesterday for Linux and Windows for developers and enthusiasts wanting to try out the latest support for this high-performance graphics API...