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Five years ago was work on threaded input for the X.Org Server, but it never ended up being merged. Now, Keith Packard has revised the patches and is looking to land the support...

Francisco Jerez just landed his massive set of Intel Mesa driver patches for enabling L3 atomics, the L3 partitioning state atom, and other code pertaining to L3 cache management...

Ubuntu's kernel team has temporarily moved up to the Linux 4.3 kernel in the archive, but it will be short-lived...

Daniel Vetter of Intel's Open-Source Technology Center has done his usual recap of the i915 DRM graphics driver changes to be found in Linux 4.4...

AMD's R600 Gallium3D driver just made it up to OpenGL 4.1 support (for the few select GPUs that provide the necessary capabilities), but things aren't stopping there with another OpenGL 4.3 extension now landing...

It looks like the Direct Rendering Infrastructure 1 (DRI1) might have met its death sentence in the X.Org Server...

While many gamers have been looking forward to the HTC Vive as the VR device developed in cooperation with Valve, there still is more time to go until the retail units ship...

Mozilla made the announcement earlier today that they are ending Firefox OS. However, there is some unrelated bright news today for Firefox fans...

Back during E3 in June, CodeWeavers was talking about "support for DirectX 11 [in the coming months]." It's been nearly six months and it looks like we're still a ways out from seeing support in Wine...

Unity 5.3 was released today as the latest version of this popular, cross-platform game engine...

Mozilla has announced they will stop selling Firefox OS smart-phones and are putting an end to its development...

Beyond all the recent kernel work with landing the initial Raspberry Pi KMS driver for the Linux 4.4 kernel, Eric Anholt at Broadcom has remained busy in user-space too with more improvements to the VC4 Gallium3D driver...

With the open-source Wine 1.8 release just around the corner, CodeWeavers announced this morning the immediate release of CrossOver 15.0 for Linux and OS X systems for running the latest Windows applications...

KDE Plasma 5.5 has been officially released!..

After starting to run some Raspberry Pi Zero benchmarks this weekend, I'm back today with more benchmarks. In this article is also an interesting comparison showing the performance of the Raspberry Pi Zero and Raspberry Pi 2 against old "Northwood" Pentium 4 and Celeron processors from the Socket 478 NetBurst days. The many results in this article also include power consumption and performance-per-Watt metrics for this $5 ARM single board computer.

If you want to run the very latest Wayland and Weston code along with Libinput on an Ubuntu system, it's now increasingly easy...

Rich Geldreich, the compression expert formerly employed by Valve and now working for Unity, has written a blog post covering the future of GPU texture compression...

Ben Skeggs went ahead today and tagged version 1.0.12 of the Nouveau X.Org display driver...

The third release candidate to Mesa 11.1 is now available for testing...

QEMU 2.5-RC3 was released today as the last final release candidate scheduled before the official release of QEMU 2.5...

With the upcoming Unity 5.3 game engine update, WebGL will become an official build target after being in a preview state since Unity 5.0...

The lead developer of GNUstep, a GPL-licensed implementation of Apple's Cocoa frameworks and toolkit, is considering a fork of the project...

GStreamer VA-API Plugins 0.7.0 has been released as the newest version of thsi set of GStreamer plug-ins for interfacing with video encode/decode accelerated by VA-API, the Video Acceleration API largely backed by Intel...

Andrey Ponomarenko has announced his work on ABI-Tracker, a new open-source tool for tracking ABI changes of C/C++ software projects...

The second beta release of the major digiKam 5.0 overhaul is now ready for testing...

Microsoft announced that they've developed support in Microsoft Visual Studio for making use of LLVM's Clang parser but to then use the optimizers and code generators from Microsoft Visual C++ rather than LLVM...

Martin Jambor at SUSE has sent out the latest set of patches for implementing support for the AMD-backed Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) inside the GNU Compiler Collection...

This forthcoming week will surely mark 1,700 Linux games being able natively via Steam...

Just one week after talking about progress being made with AMD tessellation support for pre-GCN GPUs, the support has been finally added to Mesa Git!..

The fourth weekly release candidate to the Linux 4.4 kernel is now available...

The Zapcc compiler stack is proving to be faster than LLVM/Clang at compiling C++ codes, which in turn is much faster already than GCC. The performance of the generated binaries from this LLVM-based compiler stack is on-par with what's offered by Clang...

Kodi continues to subscribe to the "release early, release often" philosophy with today announcing the latest test release for Kodi 16...

Next week I'm building my first Intel Xeon Skylake system and will be running a number of tests of this processor prior to commissioning it for a new LinuxBenchmarking.com performance tracker...

The Linux 4.4-rc4 test kernel, which should be released later today, has a number of DRM driver fixes...

For roughly the past week on my primary development box I've been running Fedora 23 using the GNOME Wayland desktop...

Samuel Pitoiset who for years now has been working on the Nouveau driver and its performance counters support to be exact, has landed improved performance metrics handling for GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" graphics cards...

Microsoft has announced that in January they will be open-sourcing their JavaScript engine used by their Edge and Internet Explorer web browsers...

For those curious about the performance of the $5 Raspberry Pi Zero, here are some benchmarks I've just finished up for this low-end, low-power ARM development board compared to other ARM, MIPS, and x86 hardware.

Alex Deucher on Friday sent out the latest patches for implementing ASoC support for AMD APUs. These patches provide i2s audio support via a new driver and integrates with the AMDGPU DRM...

Matthias Clasen has announced the release of GTK+ 3.19.4, the latest development snapshot for the toolkit in the road to GNOME 3.20...

Garry Newman, the developer behind the Garry's Mod and Rust games along with other titles in development, has made some fresh comments this week about the outlook for their games on Linux...

SeaBIOS 1.9 has been out since last month as the latest version of this open-source implementation of a 16-bit x86 BIOS widely used by Coreboot, QEMU, and other projects...

While PHP 7 was just released, the nightly builds of Facebook's HHVM are already supporting the latest language features of PHP 7.0 if you wish to take advantage of them in this alternate run-time...

Version 5.3 of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is now available...

Building off the OS X 10.11 "El Capitan" vs. Fedora 23 Linux results from earlier this week, here are benchmark results that add in Ubuntu 15.10 as well as the Arch-based Antergos Linux distribution.

DragonFlyBSD 4.4 is ready for release with a number of exciting improvements and new features...

The third release candidate is now available for Wine 1.8 as a weekly update to take care of more bugs...

It's been a while since hearing anything new on Etnaviv, the open-source reverse-engineered DRM driver for supporting the ARM-based Vivante GPUs. That changed this morning with revised patches being sent out for this driver as it looks to be pulled into the mainline Linux kernel...

With having returned the Toshiba Carrizo-powered laptop due to its faulty heatsink fan, I decided on a different laptop to pickup for some extra budget laptop benchmarks this holiday season...

First up, I'm currently in the process of running benchmarks on the Raspberry Pi Zero and expect to have those initial results later today or tomorrow for this $5 USD ARM development board...