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Microsoft Looks To Bring Hyper-V VM Sockets To Linux
The latest patch-set that Microsoft is proposing for the mainline Linux kernel is Hyper-V VM Sockets (Hvsock) that is a byte-stream based communication mechanism for Windows 10 and later for communication between hosts and VM guests...
It's Now Easier Managing Systemd In KDE
For those running KDE on a systemd-based Linux system, the KDE Control Module for controlling this init system and its options has been updated...
The Start Of WebAssembly Support Lands In LLVM
As mentioned in this week's LLVM Weekly, the initial WebAssembly back-end was committed to the mainline LLVM code-base but it is not yet functional...
Off-Main-Thread Compositing Is Coming With Firefox 40 For Linux
At the end of last week the first beta of Firefox 40 was released, now that Firefox 39 shipped. With Firefox 40 comes some exciting changes for Linux users...
Libinput 0.19 Brings Improved Pointer Acceleration
Peter Hutterer released version 0.19 of Libinput, the input handling library relied upon by Wayland compositors and optionally by the X.Org Server via the specialized xf86-input-libinput driver...
See How Your Linux PC Compares To The Core i7 5775C With Iris 6200 Graphics
Now that I seem to have found a workaround for my Core i7 5775C Broadwell Linux issue that resulted in very frequent kernel panics, it's off to the benchmark races. Here are some preliminary Linux benchmark figures for this first socketed Intel Broadwell LGA-1150 desktop CPU with Iris 6200 graphics...
It's Been Five Months Since I Left Ubuntu For Fedora On My Main Workstation
It's been five months since I quit using Ubuntu Linux on my main production system and switched over to Fedora Workstation. Looking back, it was a fantastic decision...
Linux 4.2-rc1 Released: One Of The Biggest Ones Ever
Right on schedule Linus Torvalds declared the first release candidate to the Linux 4.2 kernel...
Working Around The Intel Core i7 5775C Broadwell Stability Issue On Linux
On Friday I mentioned I was running into stability issues on Linux with the Core i7 5775C, Intel's new socketed, high-end Broadwell processor with Iris 6200 graphics. The issue was quite perplexing, but I seem to have finally figured out a workaround for this problem that seems to be plaguing other early i7-5775C Linux users too...
The Many New Features Of The Linux 4.2 Kernel
If all goes according to plan, the Linux 4.2 kernel merge window will close this afternoon followed by the immediate release of the Linux 4.2-rc1 test version. With all major pull requests having already been submitted for Linux 4.2, here's an overview of the exciting new features and changed functionality to look forward to with this kernel version to officially debut later this summer!
Systemd 222 Will Do Away With Its Accelerometer
For the past four years in systemd there's been a Udev accelerometer helper for exposing the device orientation as a property. With the upcoming systemd 222 release, that will change and instead users taking advantage of device orientation information should switch to iio-sensor-proxy 1.0+...
For New Developers There Are A Lot Of Ways To Help Nouveau
For developers that may be experienced with advanced C/C++ programming, dealing with graphics drivers is a very different beast, and thus for individuals wanting to get involved there are often lots of questions simply about how to get started...
Thanks Valve, Xbox Wireless Controller LEDs Work On Linux 4.2
A few more input driver updates were mailed in this morning for the Linux 4.2 kernel. This second input update for this next kernel version has better Xbox Wireless Controller support thanks to a patch from Valve...
Linux 4.2 Offers Performance Improvements For Non-Transparent Bridging
One of the later pull requests for the Linux 4.2 kernel merge window is a big rework to the NTB (Non-Transparent Bridge) core code...
Introducing s2n, An Open-Source TLS implementation from Amazon
A few days ago Amazon revealed a project that they had been working on over the last few months: s2n. s2n is a new, open source, implementation of the TLS protocol...
Torque 3D 3.7 Brings Linux & OpenGL Improvements
Torque 3D 3.7 was released last week as the new version of this advanced game engine that's been open-source for the past three years...
Freedreno Driver Continues Working For Open-Source Qualcomm Driver Independence
Rob Clark has shared a new blog post today about "happy (gpu) independence day" with his work on the open-source Freedreno driver for freeing Qualcomm Linux users of the Adreno binary blob...
THE NEW PHORONIX SITE IS LIVE
For those in the US not busy celebrating Independence Day, come check out the brand new, completely redesigned Phoronix.com site. This new site is in beta but is publicly available and should yield a much better experience, particularly for smartphone and tablet readers...
OpenLDAP Gains Time-Based One Time Password Support
There's been various one-time password features in the works for OpenLDAP -- the popular open-source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol -- in various code-bases while now within their mainline Git tree they have time-based one-time password (TOTP) support...
Intel Has More Graphics Code For Testing, Plans For Linux 4.3
While the Linux 4.2 kernel merge window isn't even over yet, Intel developers already have new code ready for testing that will be merged eventually for Linux 4.3...
GTK+ File Chooser Receiving Many Improvements
In working toward GNOME 3.17.4 later this month, the next version of the GTK+ tool-kit will receive a number of file chooser improvements and other work...
Mesa 10.5.9 Is The Last Of The Series
Emil Velikov rolled out Mesa 10.5.9 this morning as the last planned release of the Mesa 10.5 series...
Trying To Run The Intel Core i7 5775C On Linux
A few days ago I received the Intel Core i7 5775C for Linux testing, one of the first Broadwell desktop/socketed chips featuring Iris 6200 graphics. In the days since, I've been trying to test it under Linux...
VirtualBox 5.0 RC3 Brings VMM Fixes, Takes Care Of Some KDE DnD Problems
The third release candidate is available today for the long overdue VirtualBox 5.0...
Ubuntu Is Finally Fixing Its Annoying GRUB Setting
An annoying setting of Ubuntu's GRUB configuration is going to be finally addressed in Ubuntu 15.10 and will be addressed in current Ubuntu releases via a stable release update...
Firefox 39.0 Brings New Features, HTML5 Changes
Firefox 39.0 is available this morning before the 4th of July weekend holiday in the US...
OPNsense 15.7 Released As Fork Of Pfsense
As a fork of pfSense, the OPNsense project that's a FreeBSD-based open-source firewall distribution did its first production-ready release this week...
The Less-Powerful Intel Compute Stick With Ubuntu Will Soon Ship
Canonical confirmed today that the Intel Compute Stick preloaded with Ubuntu will go on sale next week at $110...
Kodi 15.0 Release Candidate 1 Arrives
The first release candidate for Kodi 15 has arrived...
6-Way File-System Comparison On The Linux 4.1 Kernel
With the Linux 4.1 kernel having recently been released, I decided to conduct a fresh round of file-system comparisons on this new kernel using a solid-state drive. The file-systems tested in this article were the in-tree EXT4, Btrfs, XFS, F2FS, ReiserFS, and NILFS2 file-systems while a follow-up article will take a look at the out-of-tree contenders like Reiser4 and ZFS atop Linux 4.1.
Fedora 23: Python 3 Default Approved; Netizen Spin Rejected
At this week's Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee they evaluated the latest batch of proposed features for Fedora 23...
GNOME Shell & Mutter Just Landed More Wayland Improvements
GNOME Shell and Mutter didn't see new 3.17.3 releases for last week's GNOME 3.17.3 development release, but today they've released the new package versions...
Ubuntu MATE Announces A Partnership With A PC Hardware Vendor
Ubuntu MATE, the spin of Ubuntu that ships with the popular fork of the GNOME 2 desktop environment, has announced a hardware partnership in shipping their distribution pre-loaded on a "free software friendly and 100% blobless Linux driver" PC...
Linux 4, GCC v. Clang & Vulkan Were Among The Hot Stories So Far This Year
Now being half-way through the year, here's a look back at the most popular open-source/Linux news so far this year. There's been a lot of interesting events and releases happening so far in 2015 with Phoronix having published 1,577 original news stories (an average of nine per day) and 98 Linux hardware reviews / featured-length articles...
FUSE Starts Working On Scalability Improvements With Linux 4.2
Yet another exciting change coming with Linux 4.2 is the start of scalability improvements for FUSE, the implementation allowing for File-Systems in User-Space...
Steam Linux Usage Continued Falling In June
With the start of a new month comes Valve's Steam Survey results for hardware/software information of their gaming customers. Sadly, this is yet another month with the Linux usage continuing to erode...
Blender 2.75 Released With AMD OpenCL Support, Multi-View/Stereo 3D Pipeline
The huge release of the open-source Blender v2.75 3D modeling software is now available for all supported platforms...
Radeon & AMDGPU DRM Fixes Queue Up For Linux 4.2
While the Linux 4.2 kernel merge window isn't yet over, AMD developers already have amassed a collection of fixes for the Radeon and AMDGPU DRM drivers following the big DRM pull...
KDE Applications 15.04.3 Fixes Bugs
Hot off the release of KDE Plasma 5.3.2, the KDE development community has announced the release of Applications 15.04.3...
Benchmarks Of 54 Different Intel/AMD Linux Systems
Last month for the Phoronix 11th birthday we ran Benchmarks Of 45 Linux Systems From Atoms, Athlons and Phenoms To Xeons. This week in celebrating 200,000 benchmark results in our LinuxBenchmarking.com test lab, I ran another large comparison against the latest spectrum of hardware/software in the automated performance test lab...
Linux 4.2 Bringing Support For ARCv2, HS38 CPU Cores
The ARC architecture updates for the Linux 4.2 kernel have landed...
Libdrm 2.4.62 Is An Important Update For Open-Source GPU Drivers
Libdrm 2.4.62 was released this week as a significant update to this DRM library for interfacing between the kernel DRM drivers and user-space...
The State of Unity 3D Game Engine, Editor On Linux
After the recent article about the state of the Unity Editor's porting to Linux, the Unity team has put out a more concise post on the company's official blog...
ZFS On Linux 0.6.4.2 Brings Linux 4.1 Support, Fixes
ZFS On Linux, a native port of the ZFS file-system to the Linux kernel via out-of-tree modules, was updated last week...
OpenSSH 6.9 Released, Prepares For OpenSSH 7.0
OpenSSH 6.9 was released yesterday as the final step before the expected OpenSSH 7.0 release in late July...
Old Net Burst Tests, Ubuntu Phone & Assembly x86 Were Popular Topics Last Month
Here are our highlights on Phoronix for the month of June...
Qt 5.5 Officially Released
After several delays, Qt 5.5 was officially released this morning...
Fedora Is Still Looking For A Diversity Advisor
Back in March there was the announcement of Fedora looking for a diversity advisor as a volunteer position to help promote diversity within this popular Linux distribution. Unfortunately it looks like their initial search didn't yield any suitable applicants so they're back to looking for more people interested in that position...
Global Shortcuts In KDE Plasma Under Wayland
Just on the heels of his last blogpost about four years in porting KDE to Wayland, Martin Gräßlin, the long-time Kwin maintainer, has put out another blog post detailing some of the troubles that he and the KDE crew have encountered in their prepping for Wayland...
LLVMpipe FP64 Support Knocks Off Some GL4 Extensions
While LLVMpipe tends to be an afterthought in supporting new OpenGL extensions within Mesa/Gallium3D and is in need of some help, David Airlie managed to land some improvements for it today in Mesa by adding support for double-precision floating-points...
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