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If you've been curious how WebGL works in Chromium or other modern web browsers prior to hitting the graphics driver, here's a lengthy explanation...

We've been looking forward to GStreamer 1.6 and now it's been released...

Besides switching to yearly, time-based releases, the upstream Wine developers have decided to make Wine-Staging an official part of the project...

One of the latest solid-state drives at Phoronix that's been up for testing is the Crucial BX100, a mid-range SSD with the 120GB version retailing for around $60 USD.

It was decided at WineConf 2015 last week in Vienna to shake-up how the stable Wine releases are handled...

Since earlier this year the Etnaviv DRM driver has been under review for eventual inclusion into the mainline Linux kernel. The second version of the Etnaviv patches have now been published for review...

Intel is getting quite close to having OpenGL ES 3.1 support with their Mesa Linux graphics driver...

This year has been interesting watching Microsoft from the Linux/open-source world for several reasons, among them has been for their growing adoption of LLVM's Clang C/C++ compiler...

Ubuntu 15.10 final beta is now available along with this being a second beta release for the opt-in flavors participating in the earlier development milestones...

Released one day after the big GNOME 3.18 release is now the GNOME Flashback update...

Just shy of one month since the first Phoronix Test Suite 6.0 development release is now milestone 2 for Phoronix Test Suite 6.0-Hammerfest...

In case you missed it, earlier this year I reported on Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver to require binary-only firmware blobs beginning with Skylake and Broxton hardware...

Ubuntu developers working on Mir have been making measurable progress recently on using libinput for their input handling, similar to Wayland and in the X.Org world where libinput is also being used via the xf86-input-libinput driver...

With GNOME 3.18 having many Wayland improvements, I decided to test out the GNOME 3.18 stack on Fedora 23 Beta when running GNOME on a conventional X.Org Server and then using GNOME on Wayland while running various OpenGL games.

Back in 2012 was a call for deprecating Linux FBDEV drivers in a move to try to kill off the FBDEV subsystem in favor of modern DRM drivers. As I've brought up several times since, FBDEV drivers are still kicking in the Linux kernel. Sent out today thought was another call to try to encourage developers to stop developing FBDEV drivers...

Boudewijn Rempt has written a blog post today announcing that the Krita team is "done porting!" and "technically" finished with bringing the Krita drawing program to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5...

With Wayland 1.10 now open for development it's time to start looking out for interesting new patches providing new functionality for Wayland and Weston. One of the new patches so far is for making use of systemd notifications in the Wayland compositor...

The Insurgency first person shooter game, which started out as a Half-Life 2 mod and evolved into its own game by New World Interactive, is in the process of being ported to Linux...

PulseAudio 7.0 was released today as the once-controversial open-source sound server common to Linux systems...

Announced this morning was the much anticipated beta of openSUSE 42.1 "Leap"...

It's been a while since last talking about MPV, the MPlayer/MPlayer2 forked open-source video player, but a new version is now available...

The OpenBSD crew has released version 2.3.0 of their forked OpenSSL project, the widely-known LibreSSL...

One month after the Gallium3D drivers gained support for this extension, the Intel i965 driver now handles OpenGL 4.5's ARB_texture_barrier...

Jolla has begun fulfilling their orders on the crowd-funded Jolla Tablet...

ASoC audio support patches have been published for AMD GPUs...

Developers behind the high-performance Nginx web server project have announced nginScript, a JavaScript-derived scripting language to do more with this open-source web server...

While those drawn up plans for GNOME 4.0 have yet to materialize, GNOME 3.18 was just officially released!..

Mesa 11.0 has landed within Ubuntu 15.10 for providing the latest open-source graphics drivers, primarily with exciting updates for the Intel, Radeon, and DRM drivers...

For server/web administrators, phpMyAdmin 4.5.0 is now available as the software for managing MySQL databases from the web browser...

It seems that Nintendo quietly joined The Khronos Group this month...

Progress is being made on getting the Unity 8 Greeter working on the Ubuntu Desktop, which will work too even if logging into a Unity 7 session...

The two extensions still blocking the Intel open-source Linux driver from OpenGL 4.0 compliance is ARB_gpu_shader_fp64 and ARB_tessellation shader. It looks like Intel might be getting closer to landing their tessellation enablement...

With the feature-rich and polished GNOME 3.18 arriving tomorrow, GNOME 3.19 development will quickly kick off in leading up to the GNOME 3.20 release next March...

With yesterday's release of Wayland 1.9, Wayland 1.10 is now under immediate development along with the Weston 1.10 reference compositor...

GNOME 3.18 is set to be released tomorrow. If you've fallen behind in your Phoronix reading, here's a list of some the changes and new features to look forward to with this significant desktop environment update...

Google has announced today Brotli, "a new compression algorithm for the Internet" that easily defeats other compression algorithms...

Mozilla Firefox 41 has been released today with a variety of (mostly small) improvements...

In one hour from right now, Neil Trevett, the President of the Khronos Group, will be keynoting the Linaro Conference and this talk will be live-streamed...

Shashank Sharma of Intel's Open-Source Technology Center recently published a set of twenty-three patches for implementing color management support within the DRM driver layer...

Dennis Gilmore has just announced the on-time release of the Fedora 23 Beta...

With this morning's announcement of Alien Isolation coming to Linux next week, Phoronix readers quickly pointed out something silly...

The Fedora 23 Beta is scheduled to be released this morning while GNOME 3.18 is supposed to come tomorrow. Both these important free software projects are in great shape and from my experiences with GNOME 3.18 on Fedora 23 Beta is doing well and I'm looking forward to the stable releases.

Stunt Rally 2.6 was released today as the newest version of this open-source racing game based on VDrift and the OGRE engine...

Feral Interactive Games has shared that they'll be releasing Alien Isolation for Linux next week...

Bryce Harrington at Samsung has gone ahead and tagged for release Wayland 1.9.0 and Weston 1.9.0 as the reference compositor update...

Pkg 1.6.0 is coming in the days ahead to FreeBSD as the latest updates to their package manager for this BSD distribution and other platforms...

Here's a way that you can be part of the select few Phoronix readers who are proud Phoronix Premium lifetime members... Particularly if you will be at Oktoberfest/Wiesn 2015 or traveling to/from Germany in the next few weeks...

Last week I published The Best, Most Efficient Graphics Cards For 1080p Linux Gamers while today are some complementary results with an assortment of NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon graphics cards while running all tests at 2560 x 1440 as a more demanding scenario than last week's results.

If you're lucky enough to find some capable 64-bit ARM (AArch64) hardware, the latest open-source Linux packages are working out well in the 64-bit ARM world for providing a decent Linux desktop experience...

At last week's XDC2015 Toronto conference there was an update shared on the X.Org Foundation, which was nice to see since there hasn't been an "annual" report published since 2013, so this would be the next best thing.....