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The default browser choice for Fedora Linux has once again come up again with some no longer even wanting Mozilla Firefox within the package repository...

Last week was the big input driver updates sent in for the Linux 4.5 kernel while ending out this week was another update that included some work to the XPad driver that supports the Xbox controllers and more on Linux...

For any NVIDIA Tegra users out there, a ton of exciting support work is finally being mainlined with the Linux 4.5 kernel...

While a lot of new functionality has been merged for Linux 4.5, there isn't KDBUS or any other new in-kernel IPC mechanism...

One year after X.Org members voted to join the SPI, which failed over not enough votes, that vote is expected to come up again next month...

At today's FESCo meeting, aside from working on the Fedora 25 release schedule, was also the approval of some new Fedora 24 features...

The EXT4 file-system updates aren't terribly exciting for the Linux 4.5 kernel merge window...

While Fedora 24 isn't even out the door for a few months, due to the recent delay they have decided to already begin plotting the Fedora 25 schedule...

AMD's upcoming "Stoney" APUs has support for ETC2 texture compression...

With Firefox 44 and newer it will be possible to move the WebGL rendering work off the main processing thread...

Matthias Clasen has written a status update concerning the state of GNOME 3.20 on Wayland...

What better way to spend a cold Friday morning than looking at some kernel benchmarks, so up for your viewing pleasure today are benchmarks of every kernel major release going from the Linux 3.5 kernel up through the latest Linux 4.4 stable kernel release. All the tests were done on the same system and there are actually some interesting performance changes to note with these Linux kernel tests going back to the summer of 2012.

A few days ago it was pointed out that The Linux Foundation updated their by-laws and no longer allows individual members to elect directors. That news obviously caused a fair bit of controversy in the online community for several reasons...

Wine 1.9.2 was released this morning as the newest bi-weekly Wine development release...

Linux input expert Peter Hutterer at Red Hat has followed up with another blog post since his X.Org project vs. X.Org Foundation post from a few days ago. Today he looks at the question of "is Wayland ready yet?"..

GNOME 3.19.4 was released over the night as the latest development snapshot leading up to the March release of GNOME 3.20...

For users of Emacs, the long-maintained XWidget branch that provides support for embedding GTK+ widgets into Emacs, has been merged to master and will be present for Emacs 25.1...

PulseAudio 8.0 has been released as the latest version of this open-source sound server...

The Mozilla-backed crew working on the Rust programming language announced the release today of Rust v1.6 as their first new version of 2016...

The Qualcomm Adreno 430 is now supported by the Freedreno Gallium3D driver...

A second feature pull has been submitted of ACPI and power management material for the Linux 4.5 kernel merge window...

With having out most of my NVIDIA graphics cards earlier this week due to running the 27-way OpenGL and performance-per-Watt comparison on NVIDIA graphics cards going back a decade, I took the opportunity to also run a smaller, fresh OpenCL/CUDA GPU compute comparison on various recent NVIDIA GPUs.

Feral Interactive announced that next week Company of Heroes 2: The Western Front Armies will be released for Linux and OS X...

With the Linux 4.5 kernel the ARMv6/ARMv7 platforms are now multi-platform after five years of work...

An Intel engineer yesterday published the initial experimental patch-set for implementing GuC-based Single Loop Power Controller (SLPC) support...

Google is planning to enable support for Brotli compression within the next release of the Chrome web-browser. Brotli offers much better compression rates over other alternatives...

The first release candidate is out today for the Kodi 16.0 "Jarvis" home theater PC software...

A popular graphics benchmark particularly for iOS and Android users has been GFXBench to measure the performance of the graphics processor. GFXBench supports OpenGL and OpenGL ES, but while it has long supported Android, only today is the company now supporting non-Android Linux platforms...

Today was another busy day in the Coreboot world for freeing systems of their proprietary BIOS/firmware...

Today a new batch of improvements were committed to LinuxBenchmarking.com while more UI/UX improvements and other functionality is still landing in the days ahead...

The Linux Foundation has quietly changed their stance concerning individual members being allowed to vote for directors of the foundation...

Google announced today the stable release of their Chrome 48 web-browser for Linux, OS X, and Windows...

NVIDIA yesterday hosted a Vulkan Developers Day at their campus for graphics developers to learn more about the next-generation Khronos API...

Our latest benchmarking fun from the freshly minted Linux 4.4 kernel is testing all of the popular built-in Linux file-systems plus the recently updated ZFS On Linux. File-systems tested for this comparison were Btrfs, XFS, EXT4, F2FS, ReiserFS, NTFS, and ZFS.

This morning marks 1,800 Linux-native games being available via Valve's Steam service...

With yesterday's merging of AMD HSA support into GCC 6, questions have been raised by readers in taking advantage of this acceleration support for AMD APUs and related items...

Bryce Harrington at Samsung announced the release last night of Wayland 1.10 Alpha along with the adjoining Weston reference compositor update...

GNOME developer Lubomir Rintel announced the release today of the NetworkManager 1.1.90 development snapshot in the road towards NetworkManager 1.2 for Linux network management...

Coming with Linux 4.5 is an eventful x86 platform drivers update...

The user-space side of semaphore support is getting taken care of for the new AMDGPU driver...

Beginning with Skylake and Broxton hardware, Intel began requiring firmware blobs as part of their open-source graphics driver stack. This binary firmware is continuing forward with the next-generation Kabylake processors...

With having pushed out an interesting 27-way NVIDIA Linux graphics card comparison that follows off the recent large AMD Linux graphics comparison, I decided it time to run another premium special if you'd like to show your support and help allow for future, in-depth comparisons and other Linux hardware tests...

While there's been various weird Ubuntu Tablet initiatives, it looks like next month will be the first official Ubuntu Tablet announcement that will usher in the long talked about convergence support...

While today's 0-day local privilege escalation bug is making the news rounds on the Internet, there were many other security vulnerabilities discovered within the Linux kernel last year -- many of which didn't receive as much attention and some of them are even yet to be resolved...

Sixty-three patches were published on the Mesa mailing list this morning for wiring up the ARB_internalformat_query2 extension as needed by OpenGL 4.3...

GNOME developers have released the latest development version of the GTK+ tool-kit in the approach towards GNOME 3.20...

Curious how the raw OpenGL performance and power efficiency has improved going back a decade to the GeForce 8 days? In this article is a 27-way graphics card comparison testing graphics cards from each generation going from the GeForce 8 series through the GeForce GTX 900 series and ending with the $999 GeForce GTX TITAN X. If you are interested in how graphics card performance has evolved, this is a fun must-read article.

CVE-2016-0728 is being made public today: a 0-day local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel that's been present now for over three years...

Just a few days ago the Wayland Drag-n-Drop actions support patches were published and they've now already ended up within the Weston repository...

Since last month Intel has offered compute shader support via their open-source Linux graphics driver. The ARB_compute_shader support is needed for OpenGL 4.3 but so far Intel is the only Mesa/Gallium3D driver having support for this important extension...