Phoronix

Samuel Pitoiset has continued reverse-engineering NVIDIA's hardware performance counters and implementing them for use under Linux by the open-source Nouveau driver. His latest "RFC" patches are for exposing the NV50 global performance counters...

Phoronix Test Suite 5.8.1 was released today as the first point release to Phoronix Test Suite 5.8 that was officially released earlier this month...

With Linux 4.1 having been released this week and being mid-way through 2015, here's some Git development statistics for the newest kernel code...

With the Qt 5.5 release candidate finally having made it out the door yesterday, The Qt Company has revised the final release date for Qt 5.5...

Open-source developers for a while have been working on ACPI 6 support for Linux with 64-bit ARM support, ACPI 6 NV-DIMM support, and other functionality. With the Linux 4.2 kernel that's now in-development, more ACPI 6 code will be landing...

With Unicode 8.0 having been released last week, Fedora developers are planning on incorporating it into Fedora 23...

Last year work started on making libweston and now that work is being picked back up on making the Weston code-base useful to other Wayland compositors...

Alongside his many other pull requests, Ingo Molnar sent in the scheduler changes on Monday for the Linux 4.2 kernel...

A pre-alpha is out of Kexi 3, the port of the visual database creator to KDE Frameworks 5 and Qt 5.4...

Trailing last night's release of the Linux 4.1 kernel is the release of the GNU Linux-Libre 4.1 kernel via the Free Software Foundation of Latin America. This re-base against the upstream Linux 4.1 kernel takes care of "de-blobbing" more non-free areas of the open-source Linux kernel...

Last week the beta of the Dota 2 Reborn that's powered by Valve's Source 2 Engine began rolling out but was initially limited to Windows. The Dota 2 Reborn for Linux has now started rolling out today for those wanting to experience this big update to Dota 2 and Valve's underlying game engine...

Hans Wennborg of Google's Chromium team is taking up the release management roles for LLVM 3.7 and has laid out his plans for releasing it at the end of August...

Jiri Kosina of SUSE has sent in the HID driver updates for the Linux 4.2 kernel and with it comes new device support...

The "x86 core" pull request for Linux 4.2 is quite hearty...

A new version of libinput is now available, the input handling library used by Wayland compositors, is being toyed around within the Mir world, and is also optionally used by the X.Org Server via its specialized DDX input driver...

The x86 EFI changes for Linux 4.2 were mailed in this morning and indeed they offer the EFI System Resource Table support as necessary for supporting UEFI 2.5+ system firmware updates...

Daniel Stone at Collabora has been working on atomic mode-setting support for Wayland's Weston compositor...

CodeWeavers has shared their plans for adding DirectX11 support for their Wine-based CrossOver software along with delivering on performance improvements...

Waiman Long of HP has been spearheading qspinlocks now for the past several months and with Linux 4.2 the queue spinlocks support will be merged...

Mark Shuttleworth this morning announced Fan: their solution to container-to-container networking...

The release candidate to Qt 5.5 is now available with The Qt Company hoping to officially ship this tool-kit update soon...

For Raspberry Pi users out there, the default firmware branch has changed to using the

The Linux 4.1 kernel was released over the night by Linus Torvalds...

NetBSD 7.0 Release Candidate 1 was made available today with some mighty big improvements...

In trying to reduce the amount of dust, pet dander, etc, in the basement server room, here's the air purifier and ionizers I've been using for reducing the elements to clean in the big home Linux server room...

Version 4.11 of the digiKam Software COllection is now available and in the process of this release its BugZilla has seen more than 250 closures due to being duplicated/invalid/fixed. With digiKam 4.11 also comes improved OS X support...

This week marked five years since the release of OpenCL 1.1. While much time has passed, the open-source OpenCL drivers and free software adoption of the Open Computing Language remains arguably poor...

If all goes well, the Linux 4.1 kernel will be released before the day is over. Linux 4.1 is yet another exciting update and here's a look at some of the most prominent work found in this new kernel version...

While it doesn't have the backing of Intel Corp, the ILO Gallium3D driver continues to advance on its own for bringing HD/Iris Graphics to Gallium3D as an alternative open-source driver to the i965 Mesa DRI driver...

Developers at Samsung's open-source group have been working on a simple unit/integration test framework and test program. This new tool is dubbed "Waycheck" and will hopefully lead to promptly catching functional regressions/bugs...

For those still living on the Mesa 10.5 release train rather than the latest Mesa 10.6 stable or even Git, there's the 10.5.8 update out this weekend...

This past week the Ubuntu 15.10 desktop updated many of their GNOME packages to the GNOME 3.16.x series. There's also been other improvements on the desktop front...

Another test system has been deployed for adding to more daily testing and performance benchmarking of the open-source AMD RadeonSI Linux graphics stack...

David Airlie has been adding output master support to the xf86-video-modesetting generic DDX as well as reverse PRIME support and other changes to benefit USB display adapters...

Back in 2013 Timothy Arceri sought crowd-funding to work on another OpenGL extension for Mesa: GL_ARB_arrays_of_arrays. While progress was made on this OpenGL 4.3 extension, the "AoA" support has yet to be merged to mainline but progress is being made...

KDE developer Alexander Mezin was looking at the Qt Wayland compositor code and rather than building yet another Wayland compositor decided to build something similar for X11. Mezin ended up building "qmlcompmgr", a compositing manager for X11 written in Qt Quick / QML...

Last month we found out Crytek was finally moving along with their Linux support and now with yesterday's release of CryENGINE 3.8.1, the Linux and OpenGL rendering support is in place...

More than one year since the last release, Mageia 5 is officially out today after being delayed...

With today's release of systemd 221 besides enabling KDBUS support being compiled in unconditionally, it also stabilizes the new SD-BUS...

According to an exclusive report by Reuters, AMD is reportedly looking at splitting itself up or spinning off one of its business units...

The Qt Company revealed today their work-in-progress port of Qt to Chrome / Google Native Client...

The past few months has seen lots of work on adding GTK3 support to LibreOffice. That work is slowly but surely getting accomplished...

One month after the huge systemd 220 update, systemd 221 is out and primarily geared for fixing bugs...

Russia has named various open-source mobile, desktop, and server operating systems to substitute for vendor lock-in / proprietary software currently in use. Interestingly, besides Linux dominating the list, Russia has been evaluating ReactOS -- the project that's long been seeking to be an open-source implementation of Windows...

AMD will be talking about Vulkan and DirectX 12 -- and what they have in common as next-gen graphics APIs -- during GDC Europe in Cologne, Germany...

While Jono Bacon is no longer working for Canonical, he hasn't stopped thinking about Ubuntu or being involved with the community. Over the night he wrote a lengthy blog post with his idea for rebasing the Ubuntu Phone off Android...

LLVM's Clang C/C++ compiler now has initial Kernel Address Sanitizer support...

More of the Linux kernel's complicated and poorly maintained x86 Assembly code continues to be rewritten in modern and clean C...

While the LLVMpipe driver is commonly used these days as a software fall-back driver on numerous Linux distributions in cases where no hardware GPU driver is available or working, the LLVMpipe state leaves a lot to be desired. In addition to it benefiting from any speed improvements, there's also lots of help it could use on implementing newer OpenGL support...

Over the past few weeks I've been testing out the CompuLab Fitlet as a neat little Linux PC powered by an AMD A10 Micro-6700T APU with Radeon R6 Graphics. The model I've been testing features 4GB of RAM and a 64GB SSD with the mentioned A10 Micro APU all while being fanless and being smaller than an Intel NUC. The performance out of this tiny computer is quite impressive and reinforces that good things can come out of small packages.