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Andrey Ponomarenko has announced his work on ABI-Tracker, a new open-source tool for tracking ABI changes of C/C++ software projects...

The second beta release of the major digiKam 5.0 overhaul is now ready for testing...

Microsoft announced that they've developed support in Microsoft Visual Studio for making use of LLVM's Clang parser but to then use the optimizers and code generators from Microsoft Visual C++ rather than LLVM...

Martin Jambor at SUSE has sent out the latest set of patches for implementing support for the AMD-backed Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) inside the GNU Compiler Collection...

This forthcoming week will surely mark 1,700 Linux games being able natively via Steam...

Just one week after talking about progress being made with AMD tessellation support for pre-GCN GPUs, the support has been finally added to Mesa Git!..

The fourth weekly release candidate to the Linux 4.4 kernel is now available...

The Zapcc compiler stack is proving to be faster than LLVM/Clang at compiling C++ codes, which in turn is much faster already than GCC. The performance of the generated binaries from this LLVM-based compiler stack is on-par with what's offered by Clang...

Kodi continues to subscribe to the "release early, release often" philosophy with today announcing the latest test release for Kodi 16...

Next week I'm building my first Intel Xeon Skylake system and will be running a number of tests of this processor prior to commissioning it for a new LinuxBenchmarking.com performance tracker...

The Linux 4.4-rc4 test kernel, which should be released later today, has a number of DRM driver fixes...

For roughly the past week on my primary development box I've been running Fedora 23 using the GNOME Wayland desktop...

Samuel Pitoiset who for years now has been working on the Nouveau driver and its performance counters support to be exact, has landed improved performance metrics handling for GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" graphics cards...

Microsoft has announced that in January they will be open-sourcing their JavaScript engine used by their Edge and Internet Explorer web browsers...

For those curious about the performance of the $5 Raspberry Pi Zero, here are some benchmarks I've just finished up for this low-end, low-power ARM development board compared to other ARM, MIPS, and x86 hardware.

Alex Deucher on Friday sent out the latest patches for implementing ASoC support for AMD APUs. These patches provide i2s audio support via a new driver and integrates with the AMDGPU DRM...

Matthias Clasen has announced the release of GTK+ 3.19.4, the latest development snapshot for the toolkit in the road to GNOME 3.20...

Garry Newman, the developer behind the Garry's Mod and Rust games along with other titles in development, has made some fresh comments this week about the outlook for their games on Linux...

SeaBIOS 1.9 has been out since last month as the latest version of this open-source implementation of a 16-bit x86 BIOS widely used by Coreboot, QEMU, and other projects...

While PHP 7 was just released, the nightly builds of Facebook's HHVM are already supporting the latest language features of PHP 7.0 if you wish to take advantage of them in this alternate run-time...

Version 5.3 of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is now available...

Building off the OS X 10.11 "El Capitan" vs. Fedora 23 Linux results from earlier this week, here are benchmark results that add in Ubuntu 15.10 as well as the Arch-based Antergos Linux distribution.

DragonFlyBSD 4.4 is ready for release with a number of exciting improvements and new features...

The third release candidate is now available for Wine 1.8 as a weekly update to take care of more bugs...

It's been a while since hearing anything new on Etnaviv, the open-source reverse-engineered DRM driver for supporting the ARM-based Vivante GPUs. That changed this morning with revised patches being sent out for this driver as it looks to be pulled into the mainline Linux kernel...

With having returned the Toshiba Carrizo-powered laptop due to its faulty heatsink fan, I decided on a different laptop to pickup for some extra budget laptop benchmarks this holiday season...

First up, I'm currently in the process of running benchmarks on the Raspberry Pi Zero and expect to have those initial results later today or tomorrow for this $5 USD ARM development board...

Developers at Intel are working on Miracast support for X.Org and Wayland on Linux to transmit HDMI signals over wireless for desktop mirroring, etc...

Following this week's release of Chrome 47, Google has announced the beta release of Chrome 48...

The KDE community has today announced the release candidate for KDE Applications 15.12...

For those excited to see some AMD A10-8700P "Carrizo" notebook benchmarks on Linux, here are a few numbers...

We've been waiting since this summer for Apple to open-source their Swift programming language and provide Linux support. This week they've done their initial release and stuck to their word...

New mock-ups of the KDE Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) for mobile devices are now available...

For those looking toward some fresh comparison numbers of EXT4, F2FS, XFS, and Btrfs on solid-state storage, here you go...

The OpenSSL project made public today four new security advisories. Three of the issues are considered of moderate severity while one is low...

Here are a few parts recommendations I have if you are looking to build a low-cost Intel Skylake system while achieving decent performance on Linux this holiday season.

It doesn't look like this proposal will end up panning out, but Fedora stakeholders are discussing the prospects of dropping Grubby in favor of just using grub2-mkconfig...

Intel has finally published a new patch series for implementing the OpenGL 4.0 tessellation shader support within their Mesa DRI driver. It looks like this code is about ready to be finally mainlined!..

The Free Software Foundation has updated its annual "Ethical Tech Giving Guide" for buying technology products their holiday season...

The official announcement has yet to come down the wire, but PHP 7.0.0 is ready for release...

Karol Herbst has sent out the latest version of his patches to further stabilize the re-clocking of GeForce 600/700 "Kepler" graphics cards...

A new version of intel-gpu-tools has been released, the package used to assist in debugging Intel Linux graphics driver issues...

Since writing a few days ago about buying an AMD Carrizo-powered laptop for Linux benchmarking, many Phoronix readers have been asking how it's going in testing out this Toshiba Satellite L55D-C5269 laptop. Well, very unpleasant so far...

There's just over one month to go until the change checkpoint for Fedora 24. New features continue to be proposed...

FreeIPMI 1.5.1 has been released as the latest version of this GNU project for supporting the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) specification...

We are just under two months away from the 2016 FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium! The X.Org Development Room for FOSDEM 2016 will just be a one-day event, but there are interesting talks scheduled to happen...

This week there's been some new Intel motherboard support added to Coreboot...

The ARM Cortex-A35 processor cores are now supported by upstream LLVM...

Last week I wrote about the in-development, build-it-yourself 64-bit ARM open-source laptop. That generated a fair amount of interest by the community in Olimex's work and now some more details have emerged...

Version 1.1.1 of the Opus audio codec was released this past week...