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Valve has finally released the SDK for their Steam Link device that began shipping late last year for playing Steam games on any TV in a house as long as there is a computer running Steam on your network...

The F2FS file-system pull request is quite exciting while the XFS churn for the Linux 4.5 merge window isn't as meaty...

How would you like a powerful PC that is all passively cooled -- thanks to a special design, able to naturally dissipate 200 Watts -- that can drive four 4K displays, four hard disks, multiple Ethernet ports, can handle a discrete graphics card, and is made of aluminum? Oh yeah, and is from a Linux-friendly company...

Last month Microsoft announced they would open-source their JavaScript engine and this week they've honored their word by releasing CharkaCore on GitHub...

NVIDIA released yesterday the second Linux driver beta in the 361.xx series...

Bryce Harrington of Samsung's Open-Source Group has announced a plan to release Wayland 1.10 in February...

OpenDesktop.org, the network of sites like KDE-Look, KDE-Apps.org, GNOME-Look.org, and others, has been acquired by Blue Systems...

It looks like the merging of AMD HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) support into the GCC compiler is imminent...

Qt will be introducing a "start-up license" to help small companies make use of the Qt tool-kit for commercial desktop and mobile applications. The Qt open-source licenses have also now been updated...

LLVM Clang 3.8 has been branched from trunk, thus making LLVM Clang 3.9 the new version under development...

AMD appears poised to announce their long-awaited A1100 "Seattle" ARMv8 processor tomorrow...

Patches have been posted several times now, but the Btrfs file-system is unlikely to offer support for LZ4 transparent file-system compression...

Emil Velikov announced the release this morning of Mesa 11.1.1 as the first big point release over Mesa 11.1...

For those interested in small, low-power ARM single-board computers, up for your viewing pleasure today are benchmarks of several different boards from the Raspberry Pi Zero to the Banana Pi M2.

Debian/Ubuntu developer Matthias Klose has run a test rebuild of Ubuntu Linux re-compiled under the in-development GCC 6 compiler...

Allan Day has written a blog post today about some of the improvements that are being worked on for GNOME's settings area...

Karol Herbst, the independent open-source developer who has been focusing upon Nouveau re-clocking support in recent months, has made a new proposal and patch series concerning NVIDIA GeForce GTX 400/500 "Fermi" re-clocking on this open-source driver...

Months after Axel Davy originally posted his patch-set for the SI machine scheduler to enhance the performance of AMD GCN GPUs on the open-source driver, it looks like the code will soon land in the AMDGPU LLVM back-end...

Greg Kroah-Hartman sent in his pull requests today for the various kernel subsystems he maintains, including the kernel's staging area...

Patrick Volkerding is kicking off 2016 by announcing the first beta release of Slackware 14.2...

Intel's Rafael Wysocki has sent in the refreshed ACPI and power management code that's targeting the Linux 4.5 kernel merge window...

It looks like a miracle happened just in time for X.Org...

While the OpenSolaris-derived OpenIndiana operating system doesn't come to mind as a HTPC/multimedia operating system, the Kodi software was just ported to it...

If you still are relying upon a PS/2 mouse, it really is time to think about upgrading to a USB mouse, but keep reading as there are some changes with Linux 4.5...

Ittiam has announced an OpenCL-based VP9 encoder for high performance, power efficient HD video encoding...

Paolo Bonzini sent in the first pull request this morning for KVM (Kernel-Based Virtual Machine) changes for Linux 4.5...

As our first multi-way Linux distribution comparison of 2016, I took ten different modern Linux distribution releases and benchmarked them on the same Intel Haswell system. Being benchmarked were various releases of Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Debian, Clear Linux, Fedora, Antergos, and CentOS.

Debian's PHP package maintainers are preparing for PHP 7.0 packages for Debian Stretch that will also contain some changes compared to how they packaged PHP5...

The media updates for the Linux 4.5 kernel merge window are very heavy...

Up to now the LLVMpipe Gallium3D-based software rasterizer has been one of the GPU drivers to be black-listed by Google's Chrome/Chromium web-browser, but that may soon change...

As of a few days ago in the latest LLVM development code is support in the AMDGPU back-end for using the new linker...

The latest proposed feature for Fedora 24 is support for Google's Go 1.6 programming language...

Five years ago Mozilla launched Persona.org as a decentralized authentication system focused on privacy and utilizing the BrowserID protocol, but given its limited use, Mozilla will be putting an end to the server...

For those enjoying Synaptic as a lightweight GUI package manager alternative to Ubuntu Software Center, GNOME Software Center, and others, the version 0.83 release is now available via Debian unstable...

For those using Ardour as their open-source digital audio workstation on Linux and OS X systems, the Ardour 4.6 release is now available as the latest major version of the program...

The cgroup v2 interface will be made official with the in-development Linux 4.5 kernel...

Now that Skylake Xeon processors are appearing at major Internet retailers in sufficient quantities (such as the recently reviewed Intel Xeon E3 1245 v5), prices on older-generation Xeon CPUs are falling further. With prices on DDR3, SSDs, and Haswell-compatible motherboards also continuing to fall, it's possible to build a sufficiently powerful yet cheap Haswell Xeon system.

While Plasma 5.5 was just released last month with many improvements and appears to be in great shape -- as outlined by Ken Vermette's big review of Plasma 5.5 -- even more great stuff is coming for Plasma 5.6...

While we've already been writing at length about the DRM graphics driver changes you will be able to find with the Linux 4.5 kernel, here's a nice overview of the Intel-specific i915 DRM graphics changes for this next version of the Linux kernel...

A new spin and a new SIG of Fedora Linux have been proposed for the upcoming Fedora 24 release...

Ingo Molnar has already been sending in his many Git pull requests for the newly-opened Linux 4.5 merge window...

Feral Interactive just announced that the Medieval II: Total War Collection will be released for Linux (and OS X) this week...

The latest Linux-libre kernel is now available for those wanting a fully de-blobbed Linux kernel that doesn't support drivers depending upon proprietary firmware/microcode or other non-free code...

Here's another GNU project I never knew exist until now: GNU Health...

With the Linux 4.5 merge window's hwmon subsystem pull request is an update for new AMD Family 15h processors to support power monitoring...

What a surprise waking up to find that at long-last the OpenShot 2.0 beta is now available to early-backers of this open-source video editor's Kickstarter project...

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...