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To complement Google's Summer of Code, the X.Org Foundation has long held the Endless Vacation of Code (EVoC) as a year-round, passive event where the foundation would fund students to get involved with X.Org/Wayland/Mesa projects. Sadly, however, it's not been panning out and the rules are being tightened up even more due to past failures...

Epic Games has announced they've made their entire Infiltrator project available for free to download and utilize within Unreal Engine 4 projects...

With the recent call for comments on improving result graphs, one of the requests that's also been iterated before is for on bar graphs to color them to match the brand of, e.g. the graphics card being tested...

Out of the dozen plus systems at Phoronix devoted to running the latest Linux kernel Git code on a daily basis with the latest Fedora/Ubuntu packages, only 3~4 of them have hit regressions so far on the new, in-development Linux 4.3 kernel...

With this week's release of Catalyst 15.9 for Linux the change-log mentioned a fix for Alien: Isolation... The only problem is, it's not publicly released yet for Linux...

Over the past few months on Phoronix there's been many stories about fwupd, ESRT, and other components related to running UEFI system firmware updates from the Linux desktop. But what's the current status?..

Frederic Peters announced GNOME 3.17.92 this morning, a.k.a. the release candidate to GNOME 3.18...

Fedora's latest AMD issues aren't about some Catalyst graphics driver problem, but rather for the few still left using a 32-bit USB installation on an AMD processor...

A portion of today at XDC2015 Toronto was devoted to Linux input matters...

There's an update on the state of atomic mode-setting for Linux, for those that didn't hear it earlier today at XDC2015 in Toronto...

Taking some time away from preparing the upcoming Wayland/Weston 1.9 release, Bryce Harrington at Samsung's Open-Source Group has written a blog post about the state of Wayland features and other ongoing work...

If you've been reading Phoronix any length of time for open-source graphics news, you'll know the most difficult challenge facing open-source NVIDIA (Nouveau) driver developers is the re-clocking / power management situation. It's been slow and re-clocking still leaves a lot to be desired...

Today's release of Mutter 3.17.92 has an important change for HiDPI users in time for GNOME 3.18...

Wayland and its Weston reference compositor are up to their 1.9 release candidate...

XDC2015 Toronto is officially getting underway this morning as the annual conference about all things Linux graphics, input, Wayland, Mesa, and DRM!..

With yesterday's Catalyst 15.9 Linux driver release bringing fixes for a number of Steam Linux games, it's been a busy night benchmarking this latest Catalyst Linux driver release. Here are some initial numbers.

The beta of Fedora 23 is coming up quite quickly!..

While not quite as much as the funding achieved for the Librem 15, the smaller Librem 13 crowd-funding campaign is set to close soon and has just passed its $250k USD funding goal for "a laptop that respects your rights", but there's still a lot of yet to be fulfilled hopes riding on this x86 laptop...

Being half-way through the month, here's a look at the most interesting open-source/Linux news so far in September...

With Libinput 1.0 having been released, Peter Hutterer has found himself working on another open-source Linux input project: libratbag. This new library is for interacting with configurable mice on Linux, as is common to gaming systems...

As expected, AMD Catalyst 15.9 has been released this afternoon for Linux desktop users!..

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...

A long overdue Catalyst Linux update should be out soon, in fact, potentially before the day is through...

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...

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...

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.

It was decided at this year's DebConf to stop producing new CD ISOs/images for future Debian updates onward...

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...

KDE's Breeze icon package is finished in the sense that every Oxygen icon from their repository has been made available within Breeze...

Mozilla's Project Candle is getting lit up as an effort to reduce the power consumption of Firefox on desktop and mobile devices...

Clutter 1.24.0 was released today in time for the upcoming release of GNOME 3.18.0...

The crew still working on the Opera web-browser has released version 32 of the cross-platform, Chromium-powered web browser...

Landing within Google's open-source Chromium browser and Chrome is initial GTK3 support for theme integration...

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...

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...

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...

Imagination Technologies has released a Debian 8 release candidate for their MIPS Creator CI20 single-board computer...

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...

Dell is reportedly shipping an Ubuntu-based Kylin Linux OS on 42% of their PCs in China...

The newest open-source service/init manager trying to compete with systemd is System XVI...

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...

The xf86-video-nouveau DDX driver has dropped support for GLAMOR hardware acceleration and in the process eliminated the support for the Maxwell GPUs...

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.

Python 3.5.0 was released this morning with a number of major new features and other changes...

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...

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...

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...

KDE developers at Randa have made some progress on working to port KDE applications and libraries to Android...

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...

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...