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With Nouveau Kepler re-clocking beginning to work better on the in-development Linux 4.4 kernel, here are some fresh benchmarks comparing the open-source NVIDIA driver on the Git kernel compared to some AMD Radeon graphics cards on its open-source driver.

For the past month Imagination has been sharing details on their Creator CI40 development board. Today this "IoT-In-A-Box" has officially launched in the form of a Kickstarter campaign...

Last week I spun an early Linux 4.1-rc1+ kernel for Ubuntu testing with the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA failing. With the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA still down, here's a spin of Linux 4.4-rc2...

One of the most interesting presentations from this year's Embedded Linux Conference Europe was how-to boot Linux in under one second!..

Earlier this month I wrote about using a Tjernlund 530CFM fan for ventilation of the warm air from the basement computer/server room for Linux benchmarking into my office and the rest of the house for warm air in the winter. After some tweaks last week, I'm quite content with the design and is sufficiently heating the rest of the house so far this winter...

Martin Gräßlin has written a new blog post about the state of security when using KWin/Plasma atop Wayland...

The DragonFlyBSD operating system continues to move along...

Clasp is a Common Lisp compiler based on LLVM that also provies seamless interoperation with C++ libraries. Clasp 0.4 has been released with some big improvements...

Linus Torvalds has just released the second weekly test build for the Linux 4.4 kernel...

Our poll on Twitter this weekend was: Do you think Mesa will catch up to supporting the latest Khronos OpenGL specification (OpenGL 4.5+) next year?..

This week marks twenty years since the start of the GIMP open-source image editing program...

Slides and videos from this year's European Embedded Linux conference are now available in full...

LILO 24.2 was released today as the first version of this bootloader alternative to GRUB in thirteen months...

Just under one week ago I wrote at length about the NVIDIA Jetson TX1 development board performance. It's a phenomenal ARM development board and quite powerful thanks to the Tegra X1 SoC with the Maxwell GPU and Cortex-A57 processor cores. My only gripes with the Jetson TX1 were around some issues with setting up the software as noted in the article, but it turns out there's already been some improvements in that front...

In addition to the recent Radeon X.Org DDX stable update, Michel Dänzer of AMD had a few days ago put out AMDGPU v1.0.0 as the DDX driver's first declared release...

Just one week after the first beta of Kodi 16 "Jarvis", the second beta is now available...

A few months back Intel enabled ASTC texture compression support in their open-source drivers while Mesa's Gallium3D drivers have yet to see such treatment...

Available this weekend is the latest version of Knoppix, version 7.6...

If you are after a 4K / Ultra HD display this holiday season, the Dell P2415Q is a great monitor that can be found for just over $400 USD while not running into any compatibility troubles under Linux.

As a follow up to this morning's article about The Next Mesa Release Doesn't Have Any Major OpenGL Breakthrough, Mesa 11.1 has now been branched and the first release candidate has been sent off...

Mesa won't end out 2015 with reaching any new OpenGL support level, at least as far as Mesa in released form is concerned...

Unigine 2 was officially released after a lengthy development period in October while just over one month later is now the Unigine 2.1 update...

Mesa 11.0.6 was released this morning as the latest stable, bug-fix release for this important open-source 3D driver component to the Linux desktop...

Ian Romanick has landed support for the GL_EXT_shader_samples_identical extension within Mesa. This is a new OpenGL extension worked on by this member of Intel's Open-Source Technology Center team...

Just one day after the KDE Plasma 5.5 Beta is now the beta release of KDE Applications 15.12...

Just days after the NVIDIA 358.13 Linux driver release, the 358.16 Linux stable driver is now available...

Vendetta: Curse of Raven's Cry was released today by TopWare on Steam. Alongside the OS X and Windows binaries is same-day Linux support...

Months after Jolla announced its split and intent to focus on Sailfish OS licensing, its financial situation has not improved. Jolla's latest financing round has been delayed and so they've had to file for debt restructuring in Finland. As part of that, they are temporarily laying off "a big part" of its personnel...

With the in-development Linux 4.4 kernel, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600/700 series (Kepler) graphics cards are manually re-clocking a lot better to allow better performance on this unofficial NVIDIA Linux driver.

Now with being under a code freeze for Wine 1.8, the first release candidate of this first major Wine update in two years is now available...

Red Hat developer Hans de Goede was tasked earlier this year with working on the Nouveau driver for bettering the open-source NVIDIA Linux graphics driver. His latest focus has been on an LLVM TGSI back-end...

While GCC 6 is the next major feature release of the GNU Compiler Collection that will come out in 2016, GCC 5.3 will be here in likely about two weeks...

Lennart Poettering has put out a new blog post today to better explain sd-event, the systemd Event Loop API...

GTK+ 3.19.2 was released today as the newest development version of the toolkit in the road to GNOME 3.20...

A new version is out of HarfBuzz, the widey depended upon, open-source text shaping library...

The Freedreno Gallium3D driver as the community-based, open-source 3D driver for Qualcomm Adreno graphics hardware will have OpenGL 3.1 support with the upcoming Mesa 11.1 release...

Pitiv 0.95 has been released today as a significant update to the GNOME-aligned open-source, non-linear video editor...

The beta was released today for KDE's Plasma 5.5 in preparation for the official update due out in December...

With Wine now under a code freeze for v1.8, here's a look at the new features coming to this next stable version of the Wine software...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 reached its general availability status this morning...

AMD this morning officially launched the Radeon R9 380X, a graphics card using an Antigua GPU, which is a re-brand of the year-old Tonga graphics processor. The R9 380X pricing starts out at $229 USD...

Opera rolled out a developer update to their web-browser update yesterday. Opera's Debian packages are finally being complemented by RPMs...

Intel quietly released the XenGT 2015-Q3 release at the end of October as the newest quarterly update to their mediated graphics passthrough solution for virtualization customers...

An unheard of independent developer has proclaimed designing a new, fast, and unbreakable encryption algorithm. While he admits to not being a mathematician or cryptoanalyst, he's wanting to get this encryption algorithm in the mainline Linux kernel and distributions...

Intel's X.Org DDX driver has now been patched with the PCI IDs for Kabylake, the successor to Skylake that's due out in 2016...

Wireshark, the well known open-source network packet analyzer, has finally reached version 2.0!..

It was announced today via WWN 402 that last week's Wine 1.7.55 is the last development freeze with now going into a code freeze for version 1.8...

It's already been a surprising year with Microsoft's many open-source/Linux-related announcements and 2015 isn't even over yet! There's another interesting announcement today...

Now that Linux 4.4-rc1 was released this weekend as the first development release towards Linux 4.4 with its many new features, I'm onto benchmarking it at Phoronix for articles looking at the Nouveau Kepler re-clocking changes, Radeon/Intel graphics performance too, file-system tests, and more...

Following Monday's NVIDIA Jetson TX1 performance overview one of the first follow-up tests I wanted to carry out was to see how the performance would evolve if using a newer compiler than what's shipped in Ubuntu 14.04. This current long-term support release ships GCC 4.8 while out since then was GCC 4.9 and now GCC 5.2.1 with GCC 6 coming in just a few months.