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The third release candidate to Mesa 11.0 is now available...

Darren Hart sent in the x86 platform driver updates today for the Linux 4.3 kernel...

Last month was the much-viewed article about losing trust in the Nest Protect following an obnoxious false alarm and the device not silencing, which resulted in me taking a sledgehammer to the offending unit. Since then, I've decided to give the Nest Protect a second shot as they sent out replacements for all of my devices with the second-generation design.

While most everyone would agree Mesa could benefit from more developers of this important piece of the open-source Linux desktop stack for providing OpenGL/3D graphics drivers, it seems slow patch review times are frustrating at least some casual developers wanting to contribute...

Version 14.0.1 of the Trinity Desktop Environment is now available, a fork of the KDE 3 Desktop Environment...

SDDM, the QML-based display manager popular with KDE distributions/desktops, is up to version 0.12...

The second point release to Debian 8 "Jessie" is now available...

With PHP 7.0 RC2 having just been released, I've been testing it out thoroughly across a range of Linux systems at Phoronix. To the say the least, the performance claims made by PHP developers about the upcoming PHP7 release are very accurate: it's pretty darn fast and about twice as fast as PHP 5.6. Here are some benchmarks I did on Ubuntu Linux x86_64 comparing the performance of PHP 7.0 RC2 to PHP 5.3/5.4/5.5/5.6, along with some HHVM results tossed in at the end.

We're about half-way through the Linux 4.3 kernel merge window so here's a look at the features that have got me excited over the past week as new features and improved/changed functionality for this next major update to the Linux kernel...

The latest Mesa 10.6 point release is now available for those sticking to stable updates until the official release of Mesa 11.0 in a week or so...

Systemd developers plan to release systemd 226 next week and with this release will come new features...

David Airlie has sent in the main pull request of the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver updates for the Linux 4.3 kernel merge window...

Alex Deucher of AMD has sent in yet more AMDGPU DRM driver updates for targeting the Linux 4.3 kernel merge window...

While the F2FS and EXT4 updates for Linux 4.3 weren't too meaty, there's a bit more going on in the Btrfs camp...

The latest pull request to talk about for the Linux 4.3 kernel are the input driver updates...

The proprietary firmware files for Carrizo, Fiji, Tonga, and Topaz graphics processors from AMD have been added to the linux-firmware tree...

KDE developers continue making progress on porting to Wayland...

Continuing in our compiler benchmarks this week are some GCC vs. Clang C/C++ compiler performance benchmarks on Intel's new Skylake processor while testing from Ubuntu Linux 64-bit.

The latest bi-weekly development release of Wine is now available...

Linux audio driver developers are still working on Skylake-related support, but all of that initial code is now present for Linux 4.3 in conjunction with the latest Intel processors...

Just two weeks after releasing PHP 7.0 RC1, the second release candidate is now available for this gigantic update to PHP...

Already mailed in for the Linux 4.3 kernel merge window this week were the numerous ARM SoC updates while being sent in over the night were the ARM64/AArch64 architectural changes for this next version of the Linux kernel...

Released today is the second development milestone of Leap, the next major version of openSUSE that is more closely aligned with SUSE Linux Enterprise...

Released today is the second development milestone of Leap, the next major version of openSUSE that is more closely aligned with SUSE Linux Enterprise...

With GNOME 3.18 quickly approaching its release, our attention will soon turn towards GNOME 3.20 for release in March of next year...

If you've found yourself in need of fully analyzing the performance and power of modern Linux systems, there's a great new resource, assuming you have some time on your hands for some reading...

The MIPS architecture updates have landed in the kernel Git code for Linux 4.3...

Earlier this year we learned of Facebook's plans for HHVM to integrate LLVM support into their PHP interpreter that also powers their Hack programming language. That work is now bearing some public progress...

For those users of the Kodi multimedia software formerly known as XBMC, the upcoming version 16 release will bring some significant changes...

GNOME 3.17.91 was released today with the plans standing to officially release GNOME 3.18 later this month...

A few days ago I posted some LLVM Clang 3.7 vs. GCC compiler benchmarks on Linux in time for the release of LLVM 3.7. While LLVM/Clang 3.7 brings full support for OpenMP 3.1, OMP tests were omitted from the original article due to running into some issues. In this article are some reference tests for Clang OpenMP performance with the latest mainline SVN code compared to GCC.

The EXT4 file-system updates have been sent in for the Linux 4.3 kernel...

The XDC2015 conference is coming up in two weeks in Toronto, Canada, where there will be a wide-range of Linux graphics discussions...

With the upcoming Mesa 11.0 release there is OpenGL 4.1 support on the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for Radeon HD 7000 series and newer, but no OpenGL 4.0/4.1 support for the R600g driver, which was disappointing to some R600g users within our forums...

Just days after the release of libinput 1.0 there is now out the first point release...

Bryce Harrington announced the 1.9 beta releases of Wayland and Weston today...

For those interested in F2FS as a Linux file-system to use on solid-state drives and other flash storage devices, here's the latest updates for it with Linux 4.3...

Due to the Linux scheduler changes that already landed in Linux Git having a rework that potentially affects every SMP workload out there and some power management changes that affect Skylake, I decided to run some early Linux 4.3 kernel code as of Git this morning on the Core i5 6600K "Skylake" system...

Last month VMware started publishing DRM kernel patches for handling OpenGL 3.3 inside their guest VMs, then released VMware Workstation 12 with the OpenGL 3 support, and now they've published the necessary Gallium3D driver changes...

Cristian Parrino, the former Vice President of Mobile at Canonical where he was the team leader for the Ubuntu Phone project, has left the company...

NVIDIA has shared some details on their Vulkan driver that will be released later in the year...

Realizing that H.265 licensing is expensive, software patents make things a mess, and all the other negatives about proprietary video codecs, a number of large organizations today announced an Alliance For Open Media...

Since last December we've been receiving emails from a company working on an Ubuntu Tablet inspired by the failed Ubuntu Edge campaign. That company is apparently going to start accepting pre-orders for their device soon with hopes of shipping this unofficial Ubuntu Tablet in January...

Red Hat announced this morning the public beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2...

Viewing the results from our daily performance-tracking benchmarks of the Linux kernel, GCC, Clang, and Mesa should now be much faster...

While back in January, Keith Packard talked about X.Org Server 1.18 being a quicker release, it's turned out to be far from it...

Xonotic, the successor to Nexuiz and one of the best open-source games in recent years (certainly my favorite, since it's a great open-source game benchmark), is out with a new release...

Statistics published by Valve show Steam's Linux usage still at under 1%...

Rafael Wysocki mailed in the power management and ACPI updates this evening for the Linux 4.3 kernel merge window...

Google released the Chrome 45 web-browser today and as expected it pauses "less important" Flash content by default, including ads...