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Developers at Intel are working on Miracast support for X.Org and Wayland on Linux to transmit HDMI signals over wireless for desktop mirroring, etc...

Following this week's release of Chrome 47, Google has announced the beta release of Chrome 48...

The KDE community has today announced the release candidate for KDE Applications 15.12...

For those excited to see some AMD A10-8700P "Carrizo" notebook benchmarks on Linux, here are a few numbers...

We've been waiting since this summer for Apple to open-source their Swift programming language and provide Linux support. This week they've done their initial release and stuck to their word...

New mock-ups of the KDE Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) for mobile devices are now available...

For those looking toward some fresh comparison numbers of EXT4, F2FS, XFS, and Btrfs on solid-state storage, here you go...

The OpenSSL project made public today four new security advisories. Three of the issues are considered of moderate severity while one is low...

Here are a few parts recommendations I have if you are looking to build a low-cost Intel Skylake system while achieving decent performance on Linux this holiday season.

It doesn't look like this proposal will end up panning out, but Fedora stakeholders are discussing the prospects of dropping Grubby in favor of just using grub2-mkconfig...

Intel has finally published a new patch series for implementing the OpenGL 4.0 tessellation shader support within their Mesa DRI driver. It looks like this code is about ready to be finally mainlined!..

The Free Software Foundation has updated its annual "Ethical Tech Giving Guide" for buying technology products their holiday season...

The official announcement has yet to come down the wire, but PHP 7.0.0 is ready for release...

Karol Herbst has sent out the latest version of his patches to further stabilize the re-clocking of GeForce 600/700 "Kepler" graphics cards...

A new version of intel-gpu-tools has been released, the package used to assist in debugging Intel Linux graphics driver issues...

Since writing a few days ago about buying an AMD Carrizo-powered laptop for Linux benchmarking, many Phoronix readers have been asking how it's going in testing out this Toshiba Satellite L55D-C5269 laptop. Well, very unpleasant so far...

There's just over one month to go until the change checkpoint for Fedora 24. New features continue to be proposed...

FreeIPMI 1.5.1 has been released as the latest version of this GNU project for supporting the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) specification...

We are just under two months away from the 2016 FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium! The X.Org Development Room for FOSDEM 2016 will just be a one-day event, but there are interesting talks scheduled to happen...

This week there's been some new Intel motherboard support added to Coreboot...

The ARM Cortex-A35 processor cores are now supported by upstream LLVM...

Last week I wrote about the in-development, build-it-yourself 64-bit ARM open-source laptop. That generated a fair amount of interest by the community in Olimex's work and now some more details have emerged...

Version 1.1.1 of the Opus audio codec was released this past week...

While Steam Machines began shipping a few weeks ago, so far it hasn't made much of a dent into Steam's Windows market-share...

Genode OS 15.11 has been released and it continues making progress as being a day-to-day desktop OS...

A lot of new code was pushed into X.Org Server Git today...

Developers on GUPC, the GNU UPC project for extending GCC to support the Unified Parallel C language dialect, are hoping they can get their code merged for GCC 6...

Today marks the end-of-life for Fedora 21, the project's first release under the Fedora.Next initiative...

Adobe has announced they'll be renaming Flash To Animate CC...

The open-source community working on OpenMW as an engine re-implementation of Elderscrolls III: Morrowind have announced the release of OpenMW v0.37...

The first batch of Intel DRM graphics driver changes targeting the Linux 4.5 kernel have landed into DRM-Next...

It's been a while since the last Warsow game release, but that changed yesterday with the release of the Warsow 2.0 open-source first person shooter release...

November was another particularly exciting month for open-source and Linux advocates with a lot of exciting news and other announcements...

It's coming a few days late, but Mesa 11.1 Release Candidate 2 was officially released today...

Today marks the surprise release of Enlightenment 0.20! The E20 development cycle has taken more than a year and saw more than 1,890 patches merged...

A Phoronix reader pointed out an interesting slide deck that's gone relatively unnoticed up until now about a game developer "Hacking GCN via OpenGL" for allowing some interesting possibilities...

It's been several months since talking about blivet-gui as a Fedora-focused UI for Linux storage management while with Fedora 23 is now blivet-gui v1.0 and other post-1.0 progress is also being made...

The LLVM project has announced they've developed a new ELF linker by rewriting the ELF support within LLVM's LLD...

The latest extra benchmarks done this weekend as thanks to those Phoronix readers taking advantage of our holiday premium deal are some fresh OS X vs. Linux benchmarks. As it's been a while since last running any cross-OS comparison benchmarks between Apple and Linux distributions, I've started running a fresh comparison using OS X 10.11.1 "El Capitan" and the initial Linux distribution for reference is Fedora 23.

Olimex Ltd is hoping to make it possible to sell a Do-It-Yourself laptop powered by a 64-bit ARM SoC...

FreeType 2.6.2 was released this weekend as the newest version of this widely-used, open-source library for text/font rendering...

After failing to build working kernels for the past few weeks, the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA is finally offering working daily Linux kernel builds...

Thanks to work by Red Hat's David Airlie, the R600 Gallium3D driver is very close to having OpenGL tessellation support, which will then allow this pre-GCN AMD open-source driver to expose OpenGL 4.1 compliance...

The developers behind the Deepin Linux distribution announced their 15 Alpha 2 release this weekend, which they've tagged "a different Deepin for you."..

If you are wanting to buy an AMD Radeon or NVIDIA GeForce graphics card this holiday season, here is a fresh round-up of thirteen different graphics cards using the latest AMD/NVIDIA drivers. Beyond just running several Linux OpenGL game tests -- including some Steam tests -- these results also have the performance-per-dollar benchmark results computed too for finding the best value for 1080p Linux gaming this season.

Today is the last day (30 November) for taking advantage of the Phoronix Premium Black Friday deal that yields a savings of nearly 30% to utilize our service ad-free, viewing multi-page articles on a single page, and more...

Linus Torvalds has continued his Sunday evening tradition of releasing new Linux kernel test builds: meet Linux 4.4-rc3...

Ubuntu's Mir display server has gained support for the KHR_fence_sync EGL extension in order to eliminate some cases of graphics corruption...

The latest Linux benchmarks I ran this weekend in welcoming the new Phoronix Premium subscribers participating in our Black Friday deal are some MacBook Air benchmarks on Fedora 21, Fedora 22, and Fedora 23...

When recently buying the Intel Pentium G4400, a ~$60 Skylake dual-core processor, for Linux testing I was also looking for a Skylake motherboard that wouldn't cost an arm and a leg. The motherboard I ended up pairing for this Pentium G4400 in the test lab was the Gigabyte GA-H110M-A, a micro-ATX board using Intel's H110 chipset.