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Following yesterday's tests of the Liquorix 4.3 kernel, a Phoronix reader pointed out another customized kernel I previously hadn't heard of: XanMod...

While it was looking like Nouveau might not have any big updates for Linux 4.5, a last-minute pull request was honored for DRM-Next that will provide some new/improved functionality to this open-source NVIDIA Linux kernel driver...

The fifth alpha release of the Debian Installer being prepared for the 9.0 "Stretch" release is now available...

As anticipated, the Linux 4.4 kernel has been officially released...

KDE Frameworks 5.18.0 was released this weekend with the latest add-on components for complementing Qt 5...

With the recent news of X.Org possibly losing its valuable domain, many have commented in our forums and elsewhere how this could have possibly happened... However, in reality, it is sadly not much of a surprise...

PHP 7 was just released over one month ago but there is already much work going into PHP 7.1, the next major update to this widely-used web programming language...

GNOME developer Bastien Nocera has landed support in GNOME Settings Daemon for supporting the airplane (WiFi and Bluetooth) hot-keys with small notification overlays...

A Phoronix Premium supporter has again inquired about some fresh Liquorix kernel tests, so ask and you shall receive.

As reminded this weekend by Red Hat developer Mark Wielaard, GCC 6 will warn you about misleading code indentations...

More changes are inbound for GNOME 3.20...

This year we should finally see the release of the highly anticipated AMD Zen processors that will hopefully better position their processors to compete with Intel. However, one of the unanswered questions about this next-gen platform is whether it will support Coreboot as an optional open-source firmware to replace the proprietary UEFI/BIOS...

Released last weekend to not much fanfare was SDL 2.0.4, a significant update to the Simple DirectMedia Library, which is commonly used by cross-platform games...

The crew working on the open-source Unvanquished game powered by their Daemon Engine announced their Alpha 47 release last weekend...

The Free Software Foundation is more than 30 years old now and in charting a potential new course for the organization, they are looking for your help by filling out a survey...

With this morning's article about New AMDGPU Details and Looking Forward To Major Radeon Linux Improvements In 2016, there is much to be excited about with the new driver model finally set to roll-out and other open-source projects coming about. However, if you are a relatively new Linux users, you may not know how this whole process began...

When ending out 2015 I wrote about some of the open-source Linux letdowns of the year while since then Phoronix readers have suggested more items that they were sad to see not materialize this year...

The Wine project's first development release of 2016 is now available...

Friday afternoon I had a call with a few AMD representatives talking about their Linux driver plans for 2016. Here's the details for those wondering about AMDGPU, Vulkan, GPUOpen, and more.

Thanks to work done by Netflix and NGINX, a new, drop-in-replacement sendfile syscall has been written for FreeBSD that is much faster...

While the KDE Akonadi PIM storage service has been criticized as being slow, among other complaints, it's continuing to be developed and improved upon in the Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5 world...

Matthias Clasen has released GTK+ 3.19.6 in the road towards the GNOME 3.20 release in March...

Yesterday we wrote that it looked like Fedora 24 would be delayed and today FESCo has indeed decided to delay the release and all milestones by two weeks, but it might be dragged out to at least three weeks...

Canonical's Colin King has looked at the number of FIXME and TODO comments within the Linux kernel tree...

Ken Vermette has written a lengthy article for us about his thoughts on the state of the KDE Plasma 5 desktop as of the recent 5.5 release. If you are curious how KDE Plasma 5 is panning out, how it works on Wayland, and much more, this article is a definite must-read.

Unless there's a miracle, the X.Org Foundation stands to lose one of its biggest assets: its single-letter domain name...

The latest feature work on Libinput is for supporting three and four finger pinch gestures...

Ilia Mirkin has landed some more notable feature code into Mesa this evening...

Valve today rolled out some nice updates for gamers of Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, including Linux-specific improvements...

With the merge window expected to open next week for the Linux 4.5 kernel, AMD's Alex Deucher has sent some more last-minute work into DRM-Next...

Thanks to work that landed today by GNOME's Carlos Garnacho, there is now support on the GNOME desktop for supporting screen rotation on Wayland...

If you are into retro gaming, there's a Quake 2 game mod that might now see a Linux port...

While Intel has already supported OpenCL 2.0 on Windows, under Linux the current Beignet project for open-source OpenCL is still limited to the 1.2 specification. Fortunately, in recent weeks the OpenCL 2.0 branch has seen some new activity...

While we are not even up to the alpha release yet of Fedora 24, there's a call to already push back the entire schedule by up to a few weeks...

Clement Lefebvre has revealed more details about Linux Mint 18, the next major release of this popular, Ubuntu-derived Linux distribution...

PostgreSQL 9.5 was officially released this morning with several exciting new features...

Linksys has gone ahead and is finally providing open-source DD-WRT support for their latest WRT routers...

With the Linux 4.2 kernel there was no feature update for Nouveau and it's looking like it might be that way too for Linux 4.5...

New patches have been posted by an AMD engineer for exposing accumulated power reporting...

Some patches from 2014 have been revived in hopes of addressing the Year 2038 problem for Linux file-systems...

Intel has committed all of the PCI IDs to Mesa and libdrm for the graphics processors of their next-generation Kabylake hardware...

The KDE development team has announced their first Plasma 5 update of 2016...

While the Tegra X1 is the latest and greatest NVIDIA SoC out there currently, the Tegra K1 is still a beauty and still blows many other ARM boards out of the water. If you happen to have a Tegra K1 Chromebook, it's possible to get Fedora 23 Linux running on there with a bit of hacking...

SQLite 3.10 has been released today as the latest version of this widely-used SQL database engine library...

Imagination has announced the PowerVR Series7XT Plus graphics processor from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas...

Oculus Rift pre-orders opened up this morning for $599 USD and an anticipated ship date of April. However, the Facebook-owned company isn't yet back to providing Linux support...

If you are very tight on space, Inteset Technologies sells a computer case that is rackmount compatible where you're able to fit two complete systems within a 1U slot.

When running the tests recently for the NVIDIA Linux Driver 2015 Year-in-Review and How AMD's Proprietary Linux Driver Evolved In 2015, I also ran some extra tests comparing the AMD Radeon Software 15.12 and NVIDIA 358.16 proprietary drivers when looking at their CPU usage, memory consumption, and other system sensors...

With for at least Android devices it's possible to import WiFi network settings via QR codes / barcodes rather than manually having to input a lot of information manually...

Tom Stellard of AMD's open-source graphics team and continuing to serve as LLVM's point release manager has announced the long-awaited LLVM 3.7.1 release...