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Linux Should Soon Start Receiving "Make WiFi Fast" Improvements
In the months ahead the Linux kernel should start receiving the work out of the "make-wifi-fast" initiative for improving WiFi reliability and performance...
NetBeans 8.2 Released With PHP 7 Support, ECMAScript 6/7
NetBeans 8.2 was released today as the newest version of the Java-focused integrated development environment currently developed by Oracle but still pursuing to become an Apache project...
Linux 4.9 On x86_64 To Support Vmapped Stacks
With the forthcoming Linux 4.9 kernel, x86_64 builds will support CONFIG_VMAP_STACK where kernel stacks are allocated with vmalloc_node for greater security...
DNF 2.0 Released For Improved Package Management On Fedora
Version 2.0 of the DNF package manager is now available in release candidate form as a major update to this Yum successor. Meanwhile, DNF-Plugins-Core reached version 1.0 for testing...
EFI Test Driver Added To The Mainline Linux 4.9 Kernel
The EFI material is one of the early pull requests for the Linux 4.9 kernel and its bringing a new driver via EFI_TEST...
Linux 4.9's CPUFreq To Make Greater Use Of Scheduler Info, IOWait Boosting
The past few kernel releases there's been a redesign of CPUFreq and P-State code for being able to make use of the kernel's scheduler utilization data by these CPU frequency scaling drivers. That work also led to the introduction of the Schedutil governor. Work along this line has continued for Linux 4.9...
GNU Linux-libre 4.8-gnu Released, Deblobs More Drivers
Hot off the release of the official upstream Linux 4.8 kernel, the GNU Linux-libre 4.8-gnu kernel is now available as the deblobbed code that strips out support for loading non-free firmware and other references to non-free kernel support...
Linux 4.8 Kernel Released
The Linux 4.8 kernel is now officially available...
The Best Features Of The Linux 4.8 Kernel
If all goes according to plan, the Linux 4.8 kernel will be officially released this afternoon by Linus Torvalds...
Mesa May Move To A Date-Based Versioning System
Beginning next year, Mesa developers so far appear favorable to moving towards a date-based versioning concept...
October Should Be Very Exciting For Linux Enthusiasts
While September was very exciting for Linux users, October is looking to be even more exciting with several open-source/Linux milestones expected before month's end...
Lennart's Look At Systemd This Year, What's Going To Happen In 2017
We have already covered some of the interesting talks from this year's systemd conference including how to use it for application sandboxing, a new wireless daemon coming to replace wpa_supplicant, and BUS1 is on the way. But saving the best for last in another presentation to watch this weekend for those interested in systemd: Lennart Poettering's state of the union address for systemd and a look ahead to 2017 features...
Steam Survey Linux Data Updated For September (2016)
The start of a new month means the ritual of looking at the latest Steam survey data. September 2016 brought a small increase to the number of Linux gamers...
Mozilla's Project Mortar Wants Pepper API Flash & PDFium In Firefox
This week word of Mozilla's "Project Mortar" surfaced, which aims to explore the possibility of bringing the PDFium library and Pepper API based Flash plugin into Firefox. This project is being led by various Mozilla engineers...
Wine 1.9.20 Has New Clipboard API Reimplementation
Wine 1.9.20 is now available as the latest bi-weekly development release of this cross-platform program to run Windows programs/games on other operating systems...
Dolphin GameCube/Wii Emulator Lands Its Vulkan Backend
The past few months we've written a few times about the Dolphin Emulator working on a Vulkan back-end. Dolphin is an open-source project providing cross-platform emulation for Nintendo's GameCube and Wii games. That back-end has now been merged to the mainline code-base...
How To Use Systemd For Application Sandboxing & How To Easily Crash Systemd
Another one of the interesting systemd.conf 2016 presentations in Berlin was a talk by Djalal Harouni of EndoCode for using systemd to carry out application sandboxing...
We Might Never See A New OpenGL Version, At Least Not For A Long Time
During past Khronos press briefings about OpenGL/Vulkan and in other communications, while Vulkan is the organization's big graphics API focus, it was implied during these conversations that OpenGL would continue to march to its own beat and evolve as needed. While OpenGL continues to be significantly used by cross-platform graphics application/game developers, it turns out there might not be a new official version for a long time - if ever...
Experimental Unity Vulkan Demos For Linux
Some of the exciting news this week was Unity releasing their Vulkan renderer in preview form and this initial debut did contain Linux support. There are now some unofficial Unity demos built for Linux with the Vulkan renderer enabled...
Vim 8.0, macOS Sierra, Libreboot, & GCC Were Popular In September
September was another busy month and here's a look at the most popular articles on Phoronix for the month of my 267 original news items and 17 featured Linux reviews/articles...
A New Wireless Daemon Is In Development To Potentially Replace wpa_supplicant
In addition to the BUS1 presentation, also exciting from the systemd.conf 2016 conference is a thorough walkthrough of a new wireless daemon for Linux being developed by Intel's Open-Source Technology Center...
BUS1, The Successor To KDBUS, Formally Unveiled -- Aiming For Mainline Linux Kernel
BUS1 has been in development as an in-kernel IPC mechanism building off the failed KDBUS project. An "RFC" will soon be sent out to Linux kernel developers about BUS1 and the subject will be discussed at next month's Kernel Summit...
Early Benchmarks Of The Linux 4.9 DRM-Next Radeon/AMDGPU Drivers
While Linux 4.9 will not officially open for development until next week, the DRM-Next code is ready to roll with all major feature work having been committed by the different open-source Direct Rendering Manager drivers. In this article is some preliminary testing of this DRM-Next code as of 29 September when testing various AMD GPUs with the Radeon and AMDGPU DRM drivers.
Purism Is Still Hoping To Build A GNU/Linux Free Software Librem Smartphone
Purism, the startup behind the Librem laptops with a focus on free software and user privacy/freedom, still has their minds set on coming up with a GNU/Linux smartphone...
An Easy Way To Try Intel & RADV Vulkan Drivers On Fedora 24
Fedora 25 should have good support for the open-source Vulkan Linux drivers (particularly if it lands the next Mesa release) while Fedora 24 users can now more easily play with the latest Mesa Git RADV and Intel ANV Vulkan drivers via a new repository...
Blender 2.78 Released: Works On VR Support, Adds Grease Pencil
Blender 2.78 is now officially released to end out September for this open-source, cross-platform 3D/animation program...
How Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 Performance Compares To Some Other Linux Distros
The final Ubuntu 16.10 Beta for "Yakkety Yak" was released this week and we found its performance doesn't differ much from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (with the exception of the newer graphics stack) while here are some results comparing it to other modern Linux distributions...
New Qt 3D Functionality Is Being Worked On
Sean Harmer of KDAB is organizing work around some upcoming "major Qt 3D features" for the open-source toolkit...
It's Been Three Years Since Valve Announced SteamOS, Steam Machines
This week marks three years since Valve publicly announced Steam Machines, SteamOS, and the Steam Controller...
Libinput X.Org Driver Updated For X.Org Server 1.19
Peter Hutterer has announced the release of a new version of xf86-input-libinput, the X.Org DDX driver that makes use of libinput for input handling on the X.Org Server...
Mesa 13.0 Planning For Release At End Of October, Might Include RADV Vulkan
Following the mailing list talk over the past two days about doing the next Mesa release, plans are being discussed for releasing at the end of October and it might have just got a whole lot more exciting...
FreeBSD 11.0 Comes Up Short In Ubuntu 16.04 vs. macOS Sierra Benchmarks
Yesterday I published some macOS 10.2 vs. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS benchmarks from a Mac Mini and MacBook Air systems. For those curious if BSDs can outperform macOS Sierra on Apple hardware, I tested the MacBook Air with FreeBSD 11.0 compared to the Linux and macOS results on that Core i5 system. Here are those results.
Budgie-Remix Makes Progress With Ubuntu 16.10 Base, Beta 2 Released
Budgie-Remix, the unofficial Ubuntu spin making use of the Budgie Desktop, has released its 16.10 Beta 2 milestone following this week's Yakkety Yak Beta 2 release...
Nmap 7.30 Released As Stable With Many Additions
Nmap 7.30 is now available as the project's latest stable release after a long run of beta versions incorporating new features into this open-source network mapper...
Rust 1.12 Programming Language Released
Rust 1.12 has been released as the newest version of this popular programming language with a focus on "fast, reliable, productive: pick three."..
Phoronix Test Suite 6.6.1 Released
Building off Phoronix Test Suite 6.6 that was officially released earlier this month, shipping today is the first and only planned point release to the 6.6-Loppa series...
DDR4 Memory Speed Tests With The Core i7 6800K On Ubuntu Linux
A few days ago I posted my first Core i7 6800K benchmarks under Ubuntu Linux compared to various other CPUs. Out of requests from some premium members, here are some straight-forward memory clocking tests of the i7-6800K on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with the Linux 4.8 kernel. Tests were done from dual-channel DDR4 up through quad-channel DDR4 at DDR4-3000MHz.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II Rolls Out To Linux Gamers, Will Run Fine On Mesa
Seven years after Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II launched on Windows, the game is rolling out today to Linux along with Chaos Rising and Retribution...
Unity Rolls Out Vulkan Renderer In Preview Form
Unity today rolled out their first public preview of their Vulkan renderer for this popular cross-platform game engine...
PostgreSQL 9.6 Officially Released With Parallel Query Support
The PostgreSQL 9.6 database server is now officially released as the project's latest feature release...
Mesa Looks At Switching To Jemalloc For Faster Performance
Marek Olšák is looking at using the jemalloc memory allocator for faster GLSL compilation and ultimately could redirect all malloc/calloc/realloc/free calls in Mesa to using jemalloc...
Ubuntu 16.10 Doesn't Change Much With Performance, Clear Linux Still Leads In Most Tests
Given yesterday's Ubuntu 16.10 final beta release ahead of the official "Yakkety Yak" debut in two weeks, I decided to run some benchmarks of Ubuntu 16.10 compared to Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS on the same system plus also throwing in the Intel Clear Linux distribution given it tends to be one of the most performant...
There's Talk Of Doing The Next Mesa Release, Albeit Belated
AMD developer Marek Olšák initiated the discussion about calling for the next Mesa release to succeed version 12.0. Regardless, it's looking like it will be another release off their three-month cadence...
SDL 2.0.5 Is Readying For Release: Relative Mouse Mode For Wayland/Mir, Audio Capture
SDL 2.0 point releases have ranged from being a few months apart to as much as two years apart. Fortunately, SDL 2.0.5 is now being put together for release just nine months after SDL 2.0.4...
RadeonSI Gallium3D Is Now One Extension Away From OpenGL 4.4 Compliance
Landing over night in Mesa Git is support for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver with the ARB_query_buffer_object extension. Now on Mesa Git that means there is just one extension away before this AMD GCN OpenGL driver supports the 4.4 specification...
Valve's Steam Controller With SteamOS/Linux Support Is Now Listed For Just $35
If you have been put off from ordering a Steam Controller for your SteamOS/Linux gaming system due to the $50 USD price-tag, it's been marked down to $35...
Servo Web Engine Now Supports Promises, Continues Churning Along
It's been nearly two months since last writing about Mozilla's Servo web layout engine (in early August, back when WebRender2 landed) but development has kept up and they continue enabling more features for this next-generation alternative to Gecko...
OpenBSD Founder Calling For LLVM To Face A Cataclysm Over Its Re-Licensing
For over one year there's been talk of LLVM pursuing a mass relicensing from its University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License, which is similar to the three-clause BSD license, to the Apache 2.0 license with explicit mention of GPLv2 compatibility. As mentioned in that aforelinked article, this re-licensing is moving ahead. OpenBSD leader Theo de Raadt is predicting this could cause a major problem and is in fact hoping for it...
FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE Needs To Be Respun Due To Security Issues
The delayed FreeBSD 11.0 release just suffered another last-minute set-back. While "FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE images" were distributed to FTP mirrors and the official announcement expected today, these images need to be re-spun to contain some security fixes and thus pushing back the official release...
Raspberry Pi Announces PIXEL Desktop Environment
Today the Raspberry Pi Foundation formally announced the Raspberry Pi PIXEL, their own desktop that will be used in future Raspbian spins...
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