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As expected, AMD Catalyst 15.9 has been released this afternoon for Linux desktop users!..
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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS shipping next April on the desktop will be using Unity 7 by default along with the Compiz window manager atop an X.Org Server. While this isn't as big of a change as switching to Unity 8 on the desktop with Mir, there's still thousands of outstanding bugs...
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A long overdue Catalyst Linux update should be out soon, in fact, potentially before the day is through...
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It's time for another call-out for requests for comments on how to better enhance the appearance/presentation of information on our benchmark result graphs seen on Phoronix as well as OpenBenchmarking.org and LinuxBenchmarking.com, etc...
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With the release of GNOME 3.18 just around the corner, Emmanuele Bassi has shared some interesting statistics behind the development of the GTK+ 3.18 tool-kit as well as GLib...
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While we routinely run performance comparisons at Phoronix looking at the OpenGL performance on the latest open-source Linux drivers with a variety of different graphics cards, in this article we're not focusing only on the raw performance but also what graphics cards on the latest Radeon/Nouveau drivers deliver the best power efficiency and value (performance-per-dollar). Here's a look at a mixture of modern AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards with Mesa 11.1-devel, LLVM 3.8 SVN, and the Linux 4.3 development kernel.
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It was decided at this year's DebConf to stop producing new CD ISOs/images for future Debian updates onward...
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Qualcomm's Innovation Center (QuIC) sent out patches this morning for providing open-source hardware enablement for their new Snapdragon 820 (MSM8996) via the free software MSM DRM/KMS driver...
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KDE's Breeze icon package is finished in the sense that every Oxygen icon from their repository has been made available within Breeze...
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Mozilla's Project Candle is getting lit up as an effort to reduce the power consumption of Firefox on desktop and mobile devices...
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Clutter 1.24.0 was released today in time for the upcoming release of GNOME 3.18.0...
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The crew still working on the Opera web-browser has released version 32 of the cross-platform, Chromium-powered web browser...
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Landing within Google's open-source Chromium browser and Chrome is initial GTK3 support for theme integration...
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Version 1.20 of ddrescue was released today as the latest version of this GNU recovery tool for trying to rescue good parts of a file or block device in case of read errors...
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More atomic mode-setting work is being queued up for eventual integration into what will become Linux 4.4 a few months down the road...
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Developers behind Antergos, the Arch-based Linux distribution designed for an easy desktop experience, are working on a new package manager UI/assistant codenamed Poodle...
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Imagination Technologies has released a Debian 8 release candidate for their MIPS Creator CI20 single-board computer...
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Alejandro Piñeiro and others at Igalia have been working on adding a NIR to Vec4 pass to the Intel i965 driver back-end along with making other optimizations around NIR, the new intermediate representation for Mesa to replace GLSL IR...
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Dell is reportedly shipping an Ubuntu-based Kylin Linux OS on 42% of their PCs in China...
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The newest open-source service/init manager trying to compete with systemd is System XVI...
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Jean-François Fortin Tam has written a blog post about the GNOME Outreach program and how their cash flow problem last year came down to a business accounting mistake and how they're still looking to expand this program for getting women and other under-represented groups involved with free software...
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The xf86-video-nouveau DDX driver has dropped support for GLAMOR hardware acceleration and in the process eliminated the support for the Maxwell GPUs...
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Linus Torvalds released Linux 4.3-rc1 yesterday, a day earlier than planned, to ward off any subsystem/driver maintainers from sending in last-day pull requests. With the merge window now closed for Linux 4.3, here's a look at our highlights for the new and improved functionality of this next Linux kernel release.
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Python 3.5.0 was released this morning with a number of major new features and other changes...
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Besides getting a number of stitches to my foot this weekend in the hospital, equally as painful was receiving the latest electric bill for our mass open-source / Linux benchmarking efforts. The power use over the past month was the second highest electrical use of the year...
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For those riding Mesa Git master rather than the newly-released Mesa 11.0, there's now FP64 support in the R600 Gallium3D driver for select GPUs...
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ZFS On Linux 0.6.5 was released this week with support for the new Linux 4.2 kernel and a variety of new features...
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KDE developers at Randa have made some progress on working to port KDE applications and libraries to Android...
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While it will be quite some time before seeing Debian 9.0 "Stretch", the Debian Installer has put out their third alpha release already for Stretch...
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While Mesa developers are still working towards OpenGL ES 3.1 support, they also have to start thinking about their jobs ahead with supporting the latest OpenGL ES 3.2 specification...
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Linus Torvalds decided to release the first release candidate for the Linux 4.3 kernel today...
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Mesa 11.0 has been officially released this morning! Mesa 11.0 is a huge, unbelievable upgrade for open-source graphics drivers...
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Johan Andersson, the technical director on Frostbite at Electronic Arts, has made it seem unlikely any of their popular games will be ported to Linux...
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Thomas Wood at Intel has announced intel-gpu-tools 1.12 as this quarter's update to this open-source project comprised of various test cases and developer tools for the open-source Intel Linux graphics driver...
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Earlier this week we took a look at the AMD Radeon R600 Gallium3D performance over two years by benchmarking every Ubuntu Linux release since early 2013 with a Radeon HD 6000 series graphics card. Today up for your viewing pleasure are the results from a similar test but using a Radeon Rx 200 series graphics card with the newer RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for open-source AMD GCN GPUs.
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KDE developers part of the Visual Design Group (VDG) who are meeting in Randa, Switzerland right now have made more progress on beautifying the KDE desktop...
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A number of Fedora developers have been spending the past several months working on the Fedora Developer Portal...
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Version 15.05 of OpenWRT, the Linux distribution popular with network routers and other embedded devices, has been officially released. OpenWRT 15.05 is codenamed after the Chaos Calmer cocktail...
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It was just a week ago that the big DRM pull request was mailed in for the Linux 4.3 kernel and now some fixes for the DRM drivers have already been sent in...
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One of the late pull requests in for the Linux 4.3 merge window is the thermal driver updates...
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While for many Phoronix readers it's been many years since being required to fiddle around with the X.Org Server's xorg.conf in order to configure your graphics adapter / monitor to get the X Server up and running, for 64-bit ARM (AArch64) a manual configuration may still be needed...
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Ilia Mirkin, the independent developer known for his contributions to the open-source Nouveau and Freedreno graphics drivers, has implemented another OpenGL 4.5 extension in core Mesa and exposed it for the Intel i965 graphics driver...
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Tom Stellard, the organizer of this year's X.Org Developers' Conference, has passed along word that the tentative schedule for next week's conference is now available...
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With next week's bi-weekly Wine development update will see more Direct3D 11 functions implemented...
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With the forthcoming Linux 4.3 kernel is a big rework to the open-source NVIDIA (Nouveau) driver. Here are our first tests of NVIDIA GeForce hardware under Linux 4.2 stable and then the Linux 4.3 Git code with this reworked driver.
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Landing in the Linux 4.2 kernel was the new VirtIO GPU driver to be used with the open-source Linux virtualization stack as the first step towards having open-source GPU hardware acceleration in guest VMs. While that initial code drop didn't hook up any 3D rendering support, there's now patches for doing just that...
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At the end of August AMD paper-launched the Radeon R9 Nano with a $650+ USD price-tag for this high-performance graphics card aimed at mini-ITX owners. The review embargo lifted this morning on the R9 Nano so there's a lot of people talking about it this morning, under Windows...
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Following this week's Qt 5.6 Alpha release is some more exciting news for this open-source toolkit...
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With the forthcoming GNOME 3.18 release, yet another one of the features is proper Google Drive integration...
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For those that haven't heard yet, AMD has formed the Radeon Technologies Group for focusing on their graphics division...