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Version 4.13 of RPM package manager is now available...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 (RHEL 7.3) is shipping today...

When it was found out only NVIDIA GPUs are supported by Deus Ex: Mankind Divided on Linux many were disappointed that the Mesa drivers aren't supported. Now that the game was released a short time ago, I have some details to share about the Radeon support for this AAA game title for Linux...

Feral Interactive has just released Deus Ex: Mankind Divided for Linux!..

DRM subsystem maintainer David Airlie submitted on Wednesday quite a number of fixes for the Direct Rendering Manager drivers. There's been fixes queueing up for a while that are now ready to go in after the nasty PAT regression fix has landed...

Fujitsu subsidiary PFU has announced Linux support for their SP Series scanners (SP-1120, SP-1125, SP-1130). Sadly, even in 2016, binary-only drivers are still a thing for printers/scanners...

AMD developer Nicolai Hähnle landed a number of commits today within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver as he's been working on getting this open-source AMD GCN OpenGL driver to pass the Khronos GL 4.4/4.5 conformance tests...

Over one year after the DirectFB project site disappeared and the code just appearing on GitHub, they have a project site restored but the development still appears rather dormant...

Following last week's benchmarks of the GeForce GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti has been a request to see some fresh Blender benchmarks with CUDA acceleration of the Pascal line-up. Now having more time with these latest GTX 1000 series cards, here are such benchmarks.

The RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver in Mesa has added support for anisotropic filtering (AF) for Volcanic Islands (GCN 1.2) hardware and newer...

The second and final release candidate of openSUSE 42.2 Leap is now available for last-minute testing ahead of the official Linux distribution release later this month...

A trivial priority scheduler is being worked on for Intel's i915 Direct Rendering Manager driver for the Linux kernel...

A feature now possible for GTK+ 4 thanks to the recent merging of the GTK Scene Kit (GSK) is frame-by-frame recording and replaying...

Jamey Sharp, the developer known for some of his past contributions to X.Org, has been hacking a lot lately on his latest project: Corrode. This project is about automatically converting C source files into Rust...

For those interested in embedded Linux or Internet of Things (IoT) topics, all of the videos from this year's Embedded Linux Conference 2016 and OpenIOT Summit are now online...

Earlier this week I published fresh RadeonSI OpenGL Mesa 13.1-dev vs. AMDGPU-PRO results for these two AMD OpenGL Linux drivers given last week's hybrid driver update. Here are some Radeon RX 480 results for Dota 2 with Vulkan using Mesa 13.1-dev RADV and the AMDGPU-PRO 16.40 release...

For future Chromebooks/Chromeboxes, Google appears to be building an open-source TPM 2.0 implementation that's possibly backed by open hardware...

Just in case anyone is thinking about the new (late-2016) MacBook Pro recently announced by Apple, I found out this morning we'll be receiving one for Phoronix Test Suite Linux benchmarking in the next week or two and should be interesting to see how this (expensive/over-priced) modern laptop runs with Linux...

While Fedora 25 is shaping up to be an excellent release, there are two separate but related disappointments: it won't be shipping this month with Mesa 13.0 drivers and also it's not enabling any Vulkan support out-of-the-box...

Feral Interactive has published the system requirements for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. As usual, it's the GPU/driver requirements that are always most interesting...

The Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) was updated this past weekend to offer the latest functionality for Java game developers...

cURL 7.51.0 was released today and while it does add some new features it does contain a number of active CVEs...

With our past Intel Vulkan benchmarks the Vulkan driver was slower than the mature OpenGL driver but this is about to change with an important patch-set published today: a big performance boost is in store...

With the start of a new month comes updated figures from Valve about their Steam hardware/software survey statistics...

I haven't seen Google announce any Intel Kabylake powered Chromebooks yet, but activity indicates that they may not be too far out with now having mainlined Coreboot support for a new device codenamed "Eve"...

GStreamer 1.10 is now available as the latest significant update to this leading open-source multimedia framework...

When Fedora 25 ships in (hopefully) two weeks it will contain much better support for hybrid graphics / Optimus systems thanks to improvements led by Red Hat...

Released as a Halloween treat yesterday was Minoca, a new open-source (GPLv3) operating system designed for general purpose tasks, features a POSIX-like interface, and takes a modern design approach...

Mesa 13.0 was released today as what is likely the most significant release to this 3D graphics driver/library implementation ever! Mesa 13 is huge for open-source driver uses particularly with Intel, Radeon, and GeForce hardware driver improvements. During development this release was known as Mesa 12.1

During October on Phoronix were 262 original news articles and 20 featured articles/reviews written by your's truly with many exciting announcements, new hardware launches, and more having happened last month...

LibreOffice in Git master (what will become LO 5.3 next year) has enabled its new layout engine by default for providing better rendering on all platforms...

GIMP is taking another step towards the long overdue GIMP 2.10 image program update with a new milestone release being on the horizon...

For those with a NVIDIA Optimus laptop or other dual-GPU system, Fedora QA has organized a test day this week for testing the switchable graphics support for Fedora 25 that will be shipping later this month...

There are a lot of operating system updates to end out October and begin November... Even the "open-source Windows" ReactOS is out with a new test release...

A new version of the Arch-based Manjaro Linux distribution is available and continues with its Xfce desktop choice while a KDE Plasma 5.8 version is also available...

The latest version of OpenIndiana, the Illumos-powered Solaris distribution letting OpenSolaris live on in community form, is now available...

Valve released a Steam client beta for Halloween 2016, but without any apparent spooks...

For fans of FreeDOS as an alternative to MS-DOS, the 1.2 Release Candidate is now available...

Last week marked the release of the AMDGPU-PRO 16.40 driver as AMD's first hybrid driver since the 16.30 driver series over the summer that rolled out Polaris GPU support. With this first AMDGPU-PRO update in a few months, here are some fresh benchmarks comparing the performance to the latest open-source driver code.

Last month Adobe returned to updating their NPAPI Linux Flash plug-in after they went four years without updating it. In September was Flash Player 23 for Linux while available now is the Flash Player 24 beta...

Collabora employee and Mesa release manager Emil Velikov has announced the availability of Mesa 13.0-RC3 and he expects to do the final Mesa 13 release in a matter of hours...

There's talk of potentially using more Rust code within the GNOME desktop environment as opposed to C/Vala code...

The Phoronix Test Suite has offered basic Linux perf subsystem integration for being able to record automatically various perf metrics when running any of the hundreds of benchmarks available via our open-source benchmarking software/framework. Now with the latest development code, there is support for generating CPU Flame Graphs (FlameGraph) for each of the tests still in a fully-automated manner while benchmarking with PTS...

The Debian Release Team has decided upon the official release architectures for next year's Debian 9.0 "Stretch" release...

Now having had the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti graphics cards in my possession for a few days I have some more interesting data to share today compared to just last week's raw OpenGL/OpenCL/Vulkan raw Linux performance data. In this article is a look at the power use and performance-per-Watt of the GeForce GTX 650, GTX 750, GTX 750 Ti, GTX 950, GTX 1050, and GTX 1050 Ti compared to the AMD Radeon RX 460 and RX 470. Additionally, for the newer cards still relevant, there is also performance-per-dollar metrics too.

Trailing this weekend's release of GNOME 3.23.1 is the first development update for the GNOME Shell in the road to GNOME 3.24...

Nothing is set in stone yet but since Friday there's been an active discussion on the LLVM mailing list about having Clang default to LLVM's LLD sub-project linker...

If you've been wondering how the AMDGPU+RadeonSI open-source driver stack has evolved since the hardware publicly launched, I ran some fresh benchmarks this weekend comparing my current driver numbers to that of my original Radeon RX 470 Linux review...

Not directly Linux related, but if you haven't heard about the Tesla Solar Roof since Elon Musk announced it on Friday night, I'd recommend you check it out...

While in 2016 one wouldn't think that a USB disk enclosure would be much of an issue under Linux when they have generally worked well going back more than one decade, but this week I encountered a popular 2.5-inch SSD enclosure from Amazon that doesn't seem to work well...