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Aspyr's New Linux Port Is A Decade-Old Game
Yesterday Aspyr Media was teasing a new Linux game launch and today they've indeed ported over another game now available from the Steam Linux store...
Radeon R9 Fury In Stock & Ordered, Linux Tests Are Imminent
In the middle of the night I got an auto-notification... The Radeon R9 Fury is finally in-stock! Few minutes later, this Fiji HBM graphics card was ordered for some Linux testing. We'll have out the first major AMD Fury graphics card tests under Linux in the next few days...
LibreOffice Should Now Be Working Okay On Wayland
A few days ago was the milestone of LibreOffice starting to work on Wayland and now it seems the support seems good enough for day-to-day use...
KDE Plasma 5.4 Getting New Wallpaper, Some New Icons
There's some new artwork coming to the next KDE Plasma update due out next month, including a new wallpaper...
GTK+ 3.17.5 Brings Mir Improvements
GTK+ 3.17.5 has been released today as the newest version of the toolkit to coincide with GNOME 3.18 in just a few more months...
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 980 Ti Is Running Strong Under Linux
The GeForce GTX 980 Ti as NVIDIA's current highest-end desktop GPU is running great under Linux, assuming you don't mind running the proprietary graphics drivers...
GCC 5 Is One Week Away From Landing In Ubuntu 15.10
Debian unstable is switching to GCC 5 and so is Ubuntu 15.10. Here's the latest update on the planned transition from GCC 4.9 to GCC 5.2 by month's end...
HTTPS Is Now Enabled For OpenBenchmarking.org Embedded Graphics
For those viewing the HTTPS version of Phoronix, the embedded Phoronix performance result graphs embedded from OpenBenchmarking.org will now work...
Intel's Haswell Iris Graphics vs. Broadwell Iris Pro
This past weekend I posted an open-source Linux graphics driver comparison with an A10-7870K Godavari vs. i7-4790K Haswell vs. i7-5775C Broadwell. Beyond the already-published discrete AMD/NVIDIA GPU results to see how Intel's socketed Broadwell with Iris Pro 6200 Graphics stack up, there were also requests from readers for seeing some Haswell Iris results...
MSI Radeon R7 370 GAMING 4G
The latest graphics card we've been testing the past few weeks under Linux is the MSI Radeon R7 370 GAMING 4G. This mid-range graphics card is equipped with a very quiet heatsink fan and will work on both the latest open and closed-source AMD Linux graphics drivers. Of interest to many Linux enthusiasts who are concerned about noise is that with MSI's ZERO FROZR feature, the fans will stop completely while the system is idling or just engaging in light gaming or multimedia tasks.
Plugins, Plugins, Plugins: Supporting Them On Wayland
Long time Kwin maintainer Martin Graesslin penned another blog post today, this time discussing his work getting KGlobalAccel, KIdleTime, and KWindowSystem to play nicely under a Wayland session, rather than an X11 based session...
Aspyr Media Is Launching A New Linux Game Tomorrow
Aspyr Media, the company that's ported games like Civilization V: Beyond Earth to Linux and Borderlands 2, will be launching a new Linux game port on Tuesday...
NVIDIA's Latest Open-Source Tegra Work Focuses On VIC Support
The latest work that NVIDIA's been working on for the open-source Nouveau driver is to enable VIC support...
Doing Fedora Snapshots/Rollbacks With Btrfs & Snapper
All the way back to Fedora 13 has been work on supporting Btrfs system snapshots / rollbacks using this Linux next-generation file-system's CoW snapshot abilities. Those abilities were tied into a Yum plug-in for making a Btrfs snapshot whenever a Yum transaction would take place. Another alternative for Btrfs system snapshots on Fedora is by using Snapper...
Visual Studio 2015 Launches With Its Linux Targeting Support
Microsoft formally launched its Visual Studio 2015 integrated development environment today. While there isn't a Linux version of the client, from VS 2015 there is support for targeting Linux...
Pyston Continues Working On Performance Optimizations
Pyston, the Dropbox-backed open-source Python implementation that leverages LLVM for greater performance, is continuing to tweak its implementation for maximum performance potential...
DragonFlyBSD Finally Has Working Valley View / Bay Trail Graphics Support
The upstream Linux kernel has had its upstream Valley View DRM graphics support for a few years now for the HD Graphics found within Intel's Atom/Celeron "Bay Trail" SoCs. The DragonFlyBSD kernel as of today has finally managed to put its Linux-ported Intel DRM driver into a state that it too can support Valley View...
Dgit 1.0 Released: Making A Debian Archive Like A Git Repository
Ian Jackson announced the release of dgit 1.0 this weekend...
Mesa 10.5 vs. 10.7 Git, Linux 4.2 Kernel For Intel Iris Graphics 5100
This weekend I had out the ASUS Zenbook ultrabook with Core i7 4558 "Haswell" processor that boasts Iris Graphics 5100. I figured I'd run some Mesa 10.5 vs. 10.7-devel and Linux 4.0 vs. 4.1 vs. 4.2 kernel graphics tests...
Kdenlive 15.08 Being Cleaned Up For Next KDE Apps Release
Kdenlive 15.08 will be part of KDE Applications 15.08 and this non-linear video editor's second release as part of the KDE Apps stack following its port to Qt5/KF5 earlier in the year...
Linux 4.2-rc3 Kernel Released, Just Another Sunday
Linus Torvalds has announced the release of the Linux 4.2-rc3 kernel version...
Wishlist Items For OpenBenchmarking.org
Now that the new Phoronix site is rolled out and tweaking on that almost complete, one of my next work items on the list are some improvements to OpenBenchmarking.org...
The OCZ Trion 100 SSD Is Running Well On Linux
Recently you may have heard of OCZ launching their new Trion 100 series, which is the latest example of low-cost solid-state storage. The OCZ Trion 240GB costs just $90 USD and the larger capacities are also around $0.375 per GB. In having picked up one of these cheap SSDs for another Linux test system recently, I ran some basic open-source Linux benchmarks on the Trion 100...
A Few Months With A Das Keyboard Model 4
A few months ago, after moving into my new apartment, I decided that I was ready for an upgrade to my PC. New CPU? Nope. New graphics card? Nope. More RAM? Nah. I decided to try my hand at my first ever mechanical keyboard. After doing some Google research and attempting to sort through what others thought the best 'starter' mechanical keyboard was as far as reliability and quality one name continued to come up: Das.
Btrfs Seems To Finally Have Failed Me On A Production System
In the Phoronix server room for our Linux hardware testing and the LinuxBenchmarking.com daily performance tracker there are 16 of the 56 systems running Btrfs as their root file-system. While those systems have been chugging along for months and many of them running the latest daily Git kernel, I've finally had one of the systems run into some apparent Btrfs file-system issues...
Fiber: Yet Another Web Browser For Qt/KDE
Ken Vermette has been developing a new open-source web browser for KDE that he's calling Fiber...
Open Document Format 1.2 Makes It As Latest ISO/IEC Standard
The Document Foundation announced this week that ODF (Open Document Format) v1.2 has been published as an international standard by the ISO/IEC...
Android-x86 4.4-r3 Adds Nouveau Hardware Acceleration
While Android 5.0 Lollipop has been available since November of last year, Android-x86 stable is still currently based on 4.4 KitKat. Nevertheless, this independent effort for bettering Android support on Intel/AMD x86 systems is continuing to improve...
How To Make CS:GO Run Much Faster On AMD Catalyst For Linux
Should you be using a Radeon graphics card with the AMD Catalyst Linux driver and are disappointed by the poor performance, there is a very easy workaround for gaining much better performance under Linux... In some cases a simple tweak will yield around 40% better performance!
Haiku OS Working On A Systemd-Inspired Boot Daemon
Haiku OS, the BeOS-inspired open-source operating system, has reached the point of being feature-complete for launch_daemon, their new boot/service manager partially inspired by systemd...
Paying For Phoronix Premium, Tips With Bitcoin
Recently there have been a number of inquiries about alternative forms of payment for Phoronix Premium...
Open-Source Linux Graphics: A10-7870K Godavari vs. i7-4790K Haswell vs. i7-5775C Broadwell
Earlier this week I posted some interesting Linux graphics benchmarks comparing the open-source Mesa/Gallium3D drivers for the Iris Pro 6200 Graphics on the Intel Core i7-5775C "Broadwell" CPU compared to several discrete graphics cards. Those results were quite interesting with this new socketed Intel CPU able to blow discrete mid-range AMD Radeon graphics cards out of the water on the open-source Linux drivers. Here's the next part of the testing in showing how the Iris Pro 6200 graphics compare to Haswell HD Graphics 4600 and the current top-end APU, the AMD A10-7870K Godavari.
It's Time To Start Testing LLVM 3.7
It's time to start testing out LLVM 3.7 with the first release candidate having been tagged this week...
Canonical/Ubuntu Developers Start Looking At The Vulkan Graphics API
Developers at Canonical working on the Mir Display Server for Ubuntu Linux have publicly confirmed for the first time they're starting to look at the Vulkan graphics API...
Clang Gets Basic AMDGPU Toolchain Support
AMD's Tom Stellard has added a basic AMDGPU toolchain driver to the Clang compiler...
Pixar Presents A Blender To Renderman Plugin
Earlier this year pixar released a free, non-commercial version of Renderman, their photo-realistic 3D rendering software used within the company's animated movies. Coming out now thanks to work by Pixar and the community is a Blender-to-Renderman exporter plug-in...
The Linux 4.2 Mainline Kernel From Ubuntu Is Finally Working Again
After the Linux Git kernel built by the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA failed to work for the past two weeks, the kernel should now be bootable again...
X.Org Server 1.18 Will Require Updated Video Drivers
The in-development X.Org Server 1.18 once again breaks the video driver ABI. Rebuilding the driver for compatibility isn't much of an issue for the open-source DDX drivers or the frequently-updated NVIDIA proprietary driver, but it could spell out months of waiting for those depending on the AMD Catalyst driver and wanting to use xorg-server 1.18...
Heterogeneous Memory Management Is Still Baking For Linux
Jerome Glisse continues hacking on the very lengthy feature work item of adding Heterogeneous Memory Management (HMM) to the Linux kernel...
Intel Adds Skylake/Braswell Boards To Coreboot: Kunimitsu, Cyan, RPV3, Strago
Skylake is around the corner and now after an Intel engineer added Skylake SoC support to Coreboot, that work has been extended by adding support for the first Skylake motherboards in Coreboot...
Red Hat Makes Progress On Firefox Native For Wayland
Besides LibreOffice running natively on Wayland, progress has been made this week on running Mozilla's Firefox web-browser natively on Wayland...
Nouveau X.Org Driver To Drop Maxwell & GLAMOR Support
Patches are pending to remove GLAMOR support from the xf86-video-nouveau DDX driver and as a result to also drop the Maxwell hardware support...
LibreOffice GTK3 On Wayland Starts To Work
The recent efforts of the LibreOffice GTK3 port is starting to pay off with this open-source office suite beginning to run on Wayland...
Intel Celeron N3050 Braswell Linux Performance
This week has been fun testing out the Braswell-powered NUC5CPYH. This NUC features the Celeron N3050 SoC and in this article are some of the first benchmarks of this new Intel design when testing under Linux.
FreeBSD Developers Arguing Over Their New Code of Conduct
The latest drama in the FreeBSD world are over differing views with the project's new code of conduct...
AMD Had Another Tough Quarter; It's Still Hard Finding A Radeon R9 Fury
AMD reported their 2015 second quarter results yesterday. As expected, they didn't look good...
Jolla Finds A Device Partner In India
Recently there was the news about Jolla splitting up and focusing on Sailfish OS licensing. Yesterday it's been announced that they've landed a device partner in India for expanding their presence in that booming region for mobile users...
QEMU 2.4-rc1 Brings More Fixes
A new release candidate came out yesterday for QEMU 2.4, the next release of this important piece to open-source Linux virtualization. With QEMU 2.4 comes several new features...
Shashlik: A New Way To Run Android Apps On Linux
Shashlik is an "Android Simulated Environment" to serve as a launcher for running Android applications on a conventional GNU/Linux distribution...
LLVM 3.6.2 Released With AMD GPU, OpenCL Fixes
While LLVM 3.7 is coming for release at the end of August, LLVM 3.6.2 is available as of today for being the newest stable point release...
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