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Ubuntu Community Council + Kubuntu Issue Joint Statement
Following Kubuntu release manager Jonathan Riddell leaving the project, the Ubuntu Communuity Council and Kubuntu have issued a joint statement...
X.Org Server 1.18 RC2 "Amontillado" Released
Adam Jackson at Red Hat announced today the release of X.Org Server 1.18 RC2 as the newest version of the xorg-server leading up to the final release...
NVIDIA GPU Offloading Support For GCC Is Still Up & Coming
It's been nearly two years that there's been work going on for OpenACC 2.0 with GPU offloading for GCC, primarily geared for NVIDIA GPUs. That work continues taking shape and hopefully for GCC 6 the support will be in better standing...
Is Upgrading To Mesa 11.1-devel Worthwhile For Radeon R600g Users?
With last week's release of Ubuntu 15.10, Mesa 11.0 is part of the open-source graphics stack. Unfortunate for those with an AMD GCN GPU that uses the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, Mesa 11.0 on Ubuntu 15.10 is built against an older version of LLVM that doesn't allow the OpenGL 4.1 support to be exposed. For RadeonSI users, I'd say switching to Mesa 11.1-devel + LLVM 3.8 SVN is almost a must once installing Ubuntu 15.10, but is it worthwhile for R600g users?..
Kubuntu 15.10 Gaming Impact With KDE Plasma 5 Compositing For R600 Gallium3D
With yesterday's Fedora 23: KDE vs. Xfce vs. GNOME vs. LXDE vs. MATE article that looked at the OpenGL graphics impact of different desktop environments on the new Fedora Linux release, what most people were talking about were the KDE results...
4K AMD/NVIDIA High-End GPU Comparison On SteamOS Linux
Continuing on from Friday's article that was a 22-way comparison of AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards on SteamOS for Steam Linux gaming, which tested the hardware at the common TV resolution of 1080p, here are results for the higher-end Radeon and GeForce graphics cards at 4K.
LLVM Developers Discuss Relicensing Code To Apache License
Over the past week LLVM developers have been discussing potentially relicensing their code-base under the Apache 2.0 license...
Phoronix Test Suite 6.0 Milestone 4 Released, Rolling Out New PTS Site
The latest development release of Phoronix Test Suite 6.0-Hammerfest is now available for your open-source benchmarking needs. Additionally, we've begun rolling out the new Phoronix Test Suite web-site...
Libinput 1.1.0 Released, Brings Pointer Acceleration Profiles
Peter Hutterer announced the release of libinput 1.1.0 as the newest feature update to this display-server/protocol-agnostic Linux input handling library...
FreeBSD Makes Strides On Bhyve, UEFI+ZFS, Open-Source OpenCL
The FreeBSD 2015'Q3 quarterly report has been issued to recap the latest activity happening for this popular BSD project...
Years After Wayland 1.0, Will 2016 Be The Year Of The Wayland Desktop?
This past week marked three years since the release of Wayland 1.0 while finally next year it's looking like the Wayland-powered Linux desktop landscape could be much more complete...
The Latest Fun In Mesa 3D This Weekend
A number of prominent changes have landed within Mesa in the past few days. If you haven't updated to the latest Git lately, here's some of what you're missing out on...
Fedora 23: KDE vs. Xfce vs. GNOME vs. LXDE vs. MATE
As mentioned earlier some benchmarks to share this weekend are comparing the out-of-the-box OpenGL graphics performance on Fedora 23 when running some benchmarks under KDE Plasma, Xfce, GNOME, LXDE, and MATE.
The Exciting Linux Benchmarks Coming Up Before The End Of October
While there's just one week left to the month, there are a lot of exciting Linux hardware/software benchmarks coming up on Phoronix over the next week. Here's a preview...
Mesa 11.0.4 Is Scattered With Fixes
For those not riding Mesa Git master for all of the latest open-source 3D driver functionality, Mesa 11.0.4 is now the latest stable release...
Linux 4.3-rc7 Released: Linux 4.3 Final Likely Next Week
Linus Torvalds released the Linux 4.3-rc7 kernel hours earlier than normal due to traveling to Korea for the Linux Kernel Summit...
Fresh Fedora 23 GNOME Shell Wayland Tests
Here are some weekend follow-up tests to last month's GNOME 3.18 On Fedora 23: X.Org vs. Wayland Performance article...
External Screen Support For Unity 8 On Ubuntu Phone Is Finally Near
Developers continue making progress on maturing the Ubuntu Phone software stack, including Unity 8 atop Mir...
Arch Linux With The FreeBSD Kernel Seems To Have Somewhat Stalled
From the Phoronix home-page this morning I noticed the most popular article two years ago today was about the state of Arch BSD. As it's been a while since last hearing about Arch BSD (now known as PacBSD), I decided to see what was up with the project...
AMD Does First Release Of HSAKMT Library As Part Of Open-Source HSA
Oded Gabbay of Red Hat has announced today the first official release of HSAKMT, an important piece of their open-source HSA Linux stack...
Improved Touchpad & Mouse Configuration Coming To GNOME 3.20
GNOME developers are working towards redesigning the GNOME Control Center and as one of the steps towards that is rolling out a new Mouse and Touchpad panel...
Facebook Decides Against Rolling Their LLVM Back-End For HHVM Into Production
We've known about HHVM developers working on LLVM support for their PHP/Hack interpreter, but now the Facebook developers have shared they've decided against rolling out their new LLVM support into production...
Pixman 0.33.4 Brings New ARMv6 & POWER Fast-Paths
It's been a while since last having anything to report on with the Pixman pixel manipulation library, but released yesterday was a new release candidate (v0.33.4) leading up to the Pixman 0.34 debut...
Opera 33 In Beta With Linux Proprietary Codecs Support
Opera made available a new beta update to their Opera 33 web-browser this week with some updated branding and other changes for Linux users...
Intel Adds Skylake GT4 Support, Presumably Skylake Iris Pro
Intel's open-source Linux developers have filed their patches adding the Skylake GT4 PCI IDs so that the high-end Skylake graphics will be supported by the open-source driver...
22-Way Comparison Of NVIDIA & AMD Graphics Cards On SteamOS For Steam Linux Gaming
With Steam Machines set to begin shipping next month and SteamOS beginning to interest more gamers as an alternative to Windows for building a living room gaming PC, in this article I've carried out a twenty-two graphics card comparison with various NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon GPUs while testing them on the Debian Linux-based SteamOS 2.0 "Brewmaster" operating system using a variety of Steam Linux games.
Libav Lands Kvazaar HEVC/H.265 Encoder
The Libav FFmpeg fork has added the Kvazaar HEVC encoder as its latest work in the H.265 realm...
VirGL VirtIO 3D GPU Driver Added To Gallium3D
The open-souce QEMU/KVM stack with VirtIO will finally be able to have guest 3D/OpenGL acceleration that's backed by the GPU/driver of the host system! While VMware and VirtualBox have long had guest 3D support backed by the host's hardware, it's taken a while for the open-source Linux virtualization stack to gain this functionality...
Linux 4.4 MSM DRM Will Add Snapdragon 820 Support
Rob Clark with Freedreno's MSM DRM driver is the latest to be updated in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 4.4 merge window...
Kubuntu's Release Manager Calls It Quits
After Jonathan Riddell lost his leadership roles relating to Ubuntu, the future of Kubuntu became quite vague for after Kubuntu 15.10. Riddell has announced now that he's leaving Kubuntu...
GNOME 3.20 Release Schedule Published
The release schedule for the GNOME 3.19/3.20 series has now been firmed up...
Many Changes Coming To The Next Version Of SDL2, Wayland/Mir By Default
It's been over two years since the release of SDL 2.0 and 19 months since the debut of the last SDL 2.0 point release, SDL 2.0.3. However, a lot of new activity continues piling in the Git code for whenever the next Simple Directmedia Layer release might happen to benefit cross-platform gamers and other users of this library...
Fedora 23 Has Just Been Delayed By One Week
While Fedora 23 was looking good for doing an on-time release compared to some of their notorious delays of past releases, at the final go/no-go meeting it was decided to postpone the official release...
AMD Publishes Open-Source "Stoney" APU Graphics Support
AMD has published their initial open-source driver support for the "Stoney" APU graphics...
Ubuntu 15.10: KVM vs. Xen vs. VirtualBox Virtualization Performance
Our latest benchmarks of Ubuntu 15.10 are looking at the performance of this latest Linux distribution release when comparing the performance of guests using KVM, Xen, and VirtualBox virtualization from the same system.
Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 Ships With Experimental Wayland Session
Alongside this morning's release of Ubuntu 15.10 and the other *buntu derivatives is also the latest version of Ubuntu GNOME...
Chrome 47 Beta Brings Cooperative Multi-Tasking, Splash Screens On Android
Google rolled out the Chrome 47 Beta web browser today for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, OS X, and Windows...
GNOME Lands GtkShortcutsWindow, New Help Overlay GTK Widget
One of the new additions so far in the GTK+ 3.19 development code in the road leading to the March release of GTK+ 3.20 is a new GtkShortcutsWindow widget that landed in Git yesterday...
Source-Powered Insurgency FPS Game Now Available On Linux
The Insurgency first person shooter game powered by Valve's Source Engine is now natively available for SteamOS/Linux gamers...
PDF Digital Signatures/Verification Finally Coming To Open-Source Linux
The Poppler PDF rendering library that's widely used by Linux programs like GNOME's Evince, LibreOffice, Inkscape, Okular, and countless other programs for PDF handling, is finally nearing support for full digital signatures and verification support...
Ubuntu 15.10 Is Now Available For Download
Today's the Wily Werewolf day! Ubuntu 15.10 is now available for download...
Raspberry Pi KMS Driver Will Indeed Land For Linux 4.4
Yesterday I wrote about the Raspberry Pi KMS driver being prepared for DRM-Next and since then that code has in fact landed, making it a new driver for the upcoming Linux 4.4 kernel cycle...
Intel Skylake On Mesa Now Supports ARB_shader_stencil_export
The latest OpenGL extension implemented for the Intel Mesa DRI driver is ARB_shader_stencil_export...
Wine-Staging 1.7.53 Has Experimental Fix For Steam, Other Additions
Following last week's release of Wine 1.7.53 as the newest bi-weekly development release, Wine-Staging 1.7.53 is available for the more ambitious users needing to run their Windows programs on Linux...
Mono-Focused Xamarin Buys Out RoboVM
Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman's Xamarin company, which continues to focus on Mono solutions especially for C# apps iOS and Android, has acquired RoboVM...
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Is Codenamed The Xenial Xerus
Mark Shuttleworth has announced the codename for the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS release!..
HHVM 3.10 Brings More Performance Improvements, Improved Reflection
HHVM 3.10 was released today as the newest version of Facebook's interpreter for PHP and their Hack programming languages...
A Massive SteamOS Graphics Card Comparison Is Coming
With Steam Machines shipping next month and more gamers potentially giving SteamOS a shot on their system or custom-built living room PC, a large AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics comparison with SteamOS 2.0 "Brewmaster" is in the works. Here's the details...
A Modern Server Motherboard Is Now Supported By Coreboot/Libreboot
One of the frequent complaints about Coreboot/Libreboot when ported to new hardware (sans Chromebooks) is that it's often for rather old laptops or motherboards that are a number of years old and generally not even being still manufactured. To much pleasure, there's now a (AMD) server motherboard that's still in production and will work with Libreboot for initializing the system without requiring any proprietary blobs...
SMAF Aims To Provide Secure Memory Allocation For DMA-BUF
SMAF, short for the Secure Memory Allocation Framework, is the newest framework in development for the mainline Linux kernel. SMAF is designed to allocate and secure memory by DMA_BUF...
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