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Trying Out DRM-Next With Radeon/AMDGPU Drivers Ahead Of Linux 4.4
With AMD having recently submitted their first batch of Radeon and AMDGPU changes into DRM-Next for then landing into the Linux 4.4 kernel, I decided to run some benchmarks seeing how well this new, experimental open-source AMD Linux kernel graphics driver code is working out.
AMD Announces New R-Series Embedded SoCs
After teasing them for a few days, AMD today officially announced their new high-end embedded R-Series SoC processors. These new R-Series SoCs feature Excavator CPU cores and third-generation GCN GPUs...
Mozilla Lands GTK3 Touch Event Support In Firefox
Mozilla developers continue moving along with their support for the GTK3 tool-kit inside the Firefox web-browser...
Raspberry Pi KMS Driver Pull Request Sent For Linux 4.4
Eric Anholt at Broadcom has sent in his Git pull request to land the Raspberry Pi KMS/DRM driver into DRM-Next for in turn entering the mainline Linux 4.4 kernel...
It's Time To Apply For Outreachy Winter 2015
There's less than two weeks ago for those identifying as women or belonging to certain ethnic groups within the United States to apply for this winter's Outreachy program to get paid to be involved with free/open-source software communities...
GNOME Games 3.18: A New App To Organize Your Linux Games
There's a new GNOME application called Games -- not to be confused with the few GNOME games out there like Sudoku and Solitaire. GNOME Games is not a game itself but intended as a tool for managing your game library...
Libinput 1.0.2 Brings Fixes
Peter Hutterer announced the release of libinput 1.0.2, as the newest version of this input handling library used by Wayland compositors as well as optionally by the X.Org Server and forthcoming to Mir...
The Impact Of Switching To Linux 4.3 + Mesa-11.1/LLVM-3.8 On Ubuntu 15.10
Yesterday I posted some performance results of a Radeon R9 290 tested on Ubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu 15.10 out-of-the-box. In this article are some numbers when upgrading the Ubuntu 15.10 installation to use the non-standard Linux 4.3 Git kernel as well as Mesa 11.1-devel Git that's built against LLVM 3.8 SVN for the newest open-source AMD Linux experience...
Microsoft Publishes Early OpenSSH For Windows Code
As the next step after announcing their intentions to support SSH on Windows and making a sizable donation to OpenBSD/OpenSSH, Microsoft has now released early code for implementing OpenSSH on Windows within PowerShell...
Intel Is Making A High-Performance Software Rasterizer For Mesa
While Mesa currently has the swrast, LLVMpipe, and Softpipe drivers as software rasterizers that run OpenGL on the CPU rather than any dedicated GPU, a team at Intel has been developing a new, high-performance software rasterizer. This Intel team hopes to upstream their new "OpenSWR" project into Mesa as offering fast, CPU-rendered graphics...
Imagination Tech Is Still Looking For A Linux Graphics Driver Developer
Back in July I wrote about how Imagination Technologies was looking for a Linux graphics driver developer that would include working on portions of their yet-to-be-public open-source driver. Well, with developers having experience with Linux graphics drivers being in short supply, Imagination has yet to fill this position...
System76 Releases The Wild Dog Pro, Their First Skylake Linux PC
Our friends at System76 today announced the release of their first Skylake system. This first computer using Intel's latest-generation processors is a desktop that's part of the Wild Dog Pro family...
Ubuntu Turns 11, 15.10 In Final Testing & UOS-X Is Coming Soon
Today marks eleven years since the release of Ubuntu 4.10, the Warty Warthog! Ubuntu's birthday is coming just two days before the release of Ubuntu 15.10, the Wily Werewolf...
D-Link DCS-2630L: 180 Degree, HD WiFi 802.11ac Camera
D-Link this morning announced the release of the full-HD DCS-2630L WiFi camera. This 802.11ac WiFi security/monitoring camera features a 180 degree field of view and full 1080p video support. D-Link sent out the camera to us last week as a review sample and I've been trying it out and happy with the results as a new indoor security camera.
Gnuspeech Does Its First Official Release For Free Speech Synthesis
The Gnuspeech project has announced its first official release as a speech synthesis from text free software system...
Cinnamon 2.8 Gears Up For Release
Clement Lefebvre of LinuxMint tagged the Cinnamon 2.8 desktop this morning...
OwnCloud Server 8.2 Released
The next version of ownCloud, a popular open-source alternative to Dropbox for file hosting, has been released. Meet ownCloud 8.2...
Ubuntu 15.10 + GCC 5.2: -O3, March=Native, FLTO Tests
A Phoronix Premium subscriber requested some fresh GCC compiler optimization tests, so here's some current results using GCC 5.2 on Ubuntu 15.10 64-bit...
LibreOffice 5.1 Is Working On New Features For A February Debut
The Document Foundation has kicked off their first bug hunting season for LibreOffice 5.1, the next major release of the popular, open-source, cross-platform office suite...
Imagination Announces First Details On Their New MIPS Development Board
Imagination Technologies has just lifted the embargo on their new Creator CI40 development board as the successor to the MIPS Creator CI20...
AMD Radeon R9 290: Ubuntu 15.04 vs. 15.10 - Don't Expect Much Better Performance
While thwarted by some open-source Radeon DRM issues, here are some Radeon R9 290 "Hawaii" graphics card benchmarks between Ubuntu 15.04 vs. 15.10 for those curious...
Imagination Continues Talking Up Vulkan
Besides launching a free webinar/video series devoted to the Vulkan API, Imagination Technologies has put out another blog post about this forthcoming low-level graphics API...
Experimental Patches Add NIR As Alternate IR To Gallium3D
Rob Clark has published a set of eight patches for review that add support for NIR as an alternate intermediate representation (IR) under Gallium3D...
SuperTuxKart 0.9.1 Brings Track Updates, Improved Audio Handling
As the first update since the huge SuperTuxKart 0.9 release back in April that ushered in its OpenGL 3 engine, SuperTuxKart 0.9.1 is now available...
Ubuntu 15.10 Is Coming This Week & AMD's Catalyst Chokes On Its Kernel
Ubuntu 15.10 is set to be released on Thursday, but those dependent upon the AMD Catalyst proprietary graphics driver for Linux gaming or the like might want to hold off on upgrading... While there is the latest Catalyst driver packaged and it's been patched to work against the Wily Werewolf's default Linux 4.2 kernel, it doesn't seem to work reliably...
Google Continues Working On CUDA Compiler Optimizations In LLVM
While it will offend some that Google continues to be investing in NVIDIA's CUDA GPGPU language rather than an open standard like OpenCL, the Google engineers continue making progress on a speedy, open-source CUDA with LLVM...
Is KDE 5 Stable? It's Complex
Last week was the much-viewed blog post asking whether KDE 5 is stable enough for normal users. There were lots of responses in our forums and elsewhere. Now, KWin developer Martin Gräßlin has come out with a blog post with a rebuttal to some of the complaints regarding KDE 5...
Khronos Finalizes The GL Transmission Format 1.0
The Khronos Group has announced this morning that they've finalized the 1.0 specification for glTF, the GL Transmission Format...
Microsoft's .NET Team Continues Making Progress On An LLVM Compiler
Earlier this year Microsoft announced an LLVM-based .NET compiler was entering development, LLILC. Six months later, LLILC continues making progress...
Ubuntu Phone Hit By Its First Exploit
Last week an application was pushed into the Ubuntu Phone Software Store that when installed would give an intruder root access and modify the boot splash screen...
Linux 4.3-rc6: The New Kernel Remains Calm
Linus Torvalds released the Linux 4.3-rc6 kernel a short time ago...
Ubuntu 15.10's Kernel Is Biting Some Radeon Hardware
While Ubuntu 15.10 is set to ship next week and has passed its final freeze a few days ago, the default kernel of Ubuntu 15.10 is running into some troubles with select Radeon GPUs on the open-source driver...
Blob Added To Linux-Firmware For The New MwlWiFi Driver
The two firmware binary blobs for the mwlwifi driver (88W8864 and 88W8897) have been added to the linux-firmware Git tree. The mwlwifi driver is used by the WRT1900AC router, the device inspired by the WRT54G...
Some Noticeable Slowdowns Spotted In Ubuntu 15.10, At Least For A Haswell-E
Last week I posted some Ubuntu 15.04 vs. Ubuntu 15.10 benchmarks when comparing the data to FreeBSD 10.2. Enclosed in this article are some more 15.04 Vivid Vervet vs. 15.10 Wily Werewolf performance benchmarks from another system...
Using Valve's Steam Controller On Ubuntu Linux
Valve's Steam Controller has begun shipping to those who pre-ordered the device earlier this year. Phoronix reader Thomas Frech (a.k.a. Qaridarium) has shared some of his thoughts about using the controller for some Linux gaming on Ubuntu...
OpenBSD 5.8 Released, Marks 20 Years Of OpenBSD
OpenBSD 5.8 was released today and its release happens to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the OpenBSD project...
DragonFlyBSD 4.2 vs. Ubuntu 15.10 CPU Performance
In this article are benchmarks comparing the performance of DragonFlyBSD 4.2 to that of Ubuntu 15.10. With these CPU-focused benchmarks, the core scaling performance was also looked at in going from two cores through four cores plus Hyper Threading.
Phoronix Forums Log-In Should Be Fixed
For those that have emailed in, tweeted, and otherwise contacted me about problems logging into the Phoronix Forums this weekend, that issue should be resolved...
OpenBenchmarking.org: Now Powered By PTS 6.0-Hammerfest
While a brand new interface to OpenBenchmarking.org is set to launch later this year in tandem with the Phoronix Test Suite 6.0 debut, a big underlying step forward was made this weekend...
Progress On SPIR-V For The Nouveau Driver Is Moving Slow
Back in July I wrote about someone working on a SPIR-V to NV50 IR Nouveau translator so that this intermediate representation for Vulkan and OpenCL 2.1+ could then be fed into this open-source NVIDIA driver. A brief, indirect update was shared this weekend and so far it appears the work is progressing slowly...
LibreOffice Is Working On Redoing Their Toolbar Layout
LibreOffice developers have begun working on a new toolbar layout that at least for now is optional and should provide a better user experience with some desktops...
R600/RadeonSI Get Patches For Another OpenGL 4.3 Extension In Mesa
While the Intel, Nouveau NV50/NVC0, and LLVMpipe/Softpipe drivers have already supported OpenGL 4.3's ARB_texture_view extension, the AMD R600g and RadeonSI drivers have not. However, that's looking to soon change...
With Linux 4.4, TPM 2.0 Gets Into Shape For Distributions
Adding to the feature list for Linux 4.4 is more complete TPM 2.0 support...
New SVGA Gallium3D HUD Options Added For VMWare Users
For those that don't know or may have forgot, Gallium3D has a Heads-Up Display (HUD) for showing various driver metrics while running OpenGL games/applications. If you're an SVGA VMware user, there's some new HUD queries available...
An Article About Systemd's Architecture
There's a lengthy article out that goes through the innards of systemd's architecture...
GNOME 3.18.1 Released
The first update to GNOME 3.18 was released yesterday...
Performance Counter Improvements On The Way For Nouveau Users
Samuel Pitoiset has published a new set of sixteen patches for improving the MP counters support for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 400/500 "Fermi" graphics processors...
Intel Skylake Performing Better With CPUFreq Than P-State For Linux Gaming
While the latest Linux kernel has Intel P-State driver support for CPU frequency scaling being done by this Intel-specific driver rather than the common ACPI CPUFreq driver, for some common tests -- especially Linux gaming -- the latest-generation Intel CPUs perform noticeably better using the CPUFreq driver. Here are some CPUFreq vs. P-State drivers when testing the available scaling governors.
Mir 0.17.0 Brings Cookies, MirBlob
Canonical developers released Mir 0.17.0 yesterday in time for the final freeze of Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf...
OpenMP 4.1 Morphs Into OpenMP 4.5
While there's been a draft specification of OpenMP 4.1 out for public review since July and compiler developers have already been implementing OpenMP 4.1 support, this next version of the API for parallel programming is now going to be called OpenMP 4.5...
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