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The Reiser4 file-system now has support for the latest stable Linux kernel series, Linux 4.7...
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Today marks the Fedora 25 Alpha release that also means it's time for the software string freeze and Bodhi activation point. If all goes well, Fedora 25 will be released three months from yesterday...
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One of the latest initiatives worked on by Eric Anholt at Broadcom for the VC4 Gallium3D driver -- the open-source driver used most famously by the Raspberry Pi hardware -- is lower memory use...
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The PC-BSD/TrueOS developers have announced the release of the Lumina Desktop Environment 1.0...
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Google engineers today put out the first public beta of the upcoming Chrome/Chromium 53 web-browser update...
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Pitivi 0.97 was released today as the newest development release of this open-source non-linear video editing software followed quickly by a 0.97.1 point release just for a fix to show the correct version string...
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SQLite 3.14 is now available as the newest version of this popular, cross-platform, embed-able SQL database software...
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Earlier this year AMD made CodeXL 2.0 open-source as a developer tool with GUI centered around profiling/optimizing D3D, OpenGL, and Vulkan (since CodeXL 2.1) under Windows and Linux. Today marks the release of CodeXL 2.2...
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With Microsoft having recently released the Windows 10 Anniversary update I've been running some fresh Windows vs. Linux performance comparisons. The first of these comparisons for your viewing pleasure is looking at the latest Windows 10 build with the latest Intel driver compared to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS while also comparing the performance when manually upgrading to the Linux 4.7 kernel and Mesa 12.1-dev for delivering the latest OpenGL performance potential.
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Just days after the Radeon RX 470 began shipping, the Radeon RX 460 is shipping this morning and the embargo concerning the RX 460 has expired...
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Qt developers are preparing for the feature-freeze of the upcoming Qt 5.8 tool-kit...
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ELLCC, the embedded cross-compiler toolchain that's powered by LLVM, is out with a new release...
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Just like clockwork, the first release candidate / development version of the Linux 4.8 kernel is now available for testing...
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AMD developer Marek Olšák continues leading their recent charge on looking to boost the performance potential out of Mesa / Gallium3D...
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Today marks the closure of the Linux 4.8 kernel merge window so as usual here is our recap of all the features we've been monitoring over the past two weeks. Among the highlights for Linux 4.8 are AMD GPU OverDrive overclocking, initial NVIDIA Pascal support, a new ARM Mali display driver, mainline support for the Raspberry Pi 3 BCM SoC, HDMI CEC support, big reworks to Btrfs and XFS file-system code, and a number of new security features, among other changes.
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The second development release of Phoronix Test Suite 6.6-Loppa is now available for your cross-platform, open-source benchmarking needs...
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With a new script, it's possible to get Valve's Steam Linux game client running relatively well on FreeBSD...
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Last week was the main XFS feature pull for Linux 4.8 while one day before the 4.8 merge window is expected to close, XFS maintainer Dave Chinner is hoping to land a big new feature...
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With DragonFlyBSD 4.6 having been released this week, here are benchmarks comparing its performance to that of the previous DragonFlyBSD 4.4 release as well as seeing how it compares to some Linux distributions.
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Going along with the recent Linux 4.7 file-system benchmarks, here are some tests of Btrfs' built-in RAID functionality when tested on the Linux 4.7 kernel across four SATA SSDs.
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The sole new driver in the kernel's staging area for Linux 4.8 is for some SDIO WiFi cards...
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The power supply updates for Linux 4.8 adds a "reboot mode" driver to the kernel...
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Being mid-way through Ubuntu 16.10's development cycle, here are some fresh benchmarks showing how its performance has changed (if at all) compared to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as well as compared to Intel's high-performance Clear Linux distribution as a reference point...
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The second beta of the upcoming PHP 7.1 major release is now available for testing...
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Wine 1.9.16 is now available as the latest bi-weekly release of Wine for running Windows programs on Linux and other operating systems...
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Collabora's Timothy Arceri, one of the firm's open-source graphics driver developers, has written a blog post about recent work they've done to the open-source Intel Mesa driver stack...
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It turns out the RAID5 and RAID6 code for the Btrfs file-system's built-in RAID support is faulty and users should not be making use of it if you care about your data...
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FreeBSD 11.0 has seen a very minor set-back in getting its release out the door...
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Version 6.2 of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is expected to come quite soon...
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There is a second round of Btrfs file-system updates for the Linux 4.8 merge window...
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The visually stunning and longtime Linux-friendly Unigine Engine is up to version 2.3 with a number of new features...
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Continuing on from yesterday's Linux 4.4 To 4.7 - EXT4 vs. F2FS vs. Btrfs Benchmarks comparison, here is a wider look at mainline file-systems on the Linux 4.7. File-systems tested on the NVMe SSD included Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, XFS, and NTFS...
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Glibc 2.24 was released today as the newest version of the GNU C Library...
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AMD's RadeonSI Gallium3D driver could soon be down to just two GL extensions left before seeing OpenGL 4.4 compliance...
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The latest open-source AMDGPU DRM patches posted by AMD developers is for providing virtual display functionality...
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There's a new AMDGPU-PRO driver update now available for Ubuntu users...
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An independent developer is attempting to restore work on the SimpleDRM driver and potentially see it through to getting mainlined...
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Linux OpenGL/OpenCL/Vulkan benchmarks of the AMD Radeon RX 470 will be published on Phoronix in the days ahead...
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The open-source SCST project continues to be developed as an alternative SCSI target stack for the Linux kernel. This out-of-tree kernel code is preparing for its next release...
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GCC 6.1.1 is now the default compiler for Debian unstable as the developers work to get this major GNU Compiler Collection update ready for the next Debian release...
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I've been a bit behind on my file-system benchmarking the past few months but for your viewing pleasure today are some EXT4 vs. Btrfs vs. F2FS file-system tests on an NVMe SSD when testing the Linux 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, and 4.7 kernels.
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The latest work on RAD Game Tools' Oodle data compression with new compression codecs have it handily beating the open-source alternatives...
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AMD published a patch this week for prepping its X.Org driver for supporting FreeSync...
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GNU Guix 0.11 has been released along with an update to GuixSD, the Guix System Distribution using the Linux-Libre kernel with GNU Shepherd init system...
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WebRender, the GPU-accelerated back-end for Mozilla's Servo browser layout engine, has seen a large number of improvements with WebRender2...
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There's some improvements to talk about in GNU Hurd land...
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Version 4.9.4 of the GNU Compiler Collection is now available and it closes out the GCC 4.9 compiler series...
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A number of months after the ALSA 1.1.1 release, a new version of the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture is now available...
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The Document Foundation announced the release this morning of LibreOffice 5.2, the latest feature update to this open-source office suite...