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While the level of performance out of the Raspberry Pi devices have had me less than interested, I decided to finally pick up a Raspberry Pi 2 anyways for some benchmarking and testing of the VC4 DRM+Gallium3D driver stack...

Here's the third installment of our Windows vs. Linux OpenGL benchmarking this week... This is a look at how the AMD Catalyst closed-source driver on Windows compares to AMD's latest open-source driver code on Linux.

While the highly anticipated PHP 7 release was supposed to happen today, it hasn't as instead it's been replaced by another release candidate...

Kubuntu is moving on in the absence of Jonathan Riddell who left the project and his longtime role as the release manager...

Dave Chinner has now sent in the XFS file-system updates for the Linux 4.4 kernel...

AMD has finally published patches for providing preliminary PowerPlay support for the AMDGPU DRM driver, which will eventually replace the current DPM (Dynamic Power Management) support for Volcanic Islands hardware. This PowerPlay support comes with compatibility for Tonga, Fiji, and the rest of the VI line-up!..

KDE's Sebastian Kügler has been blogging about KDE Plasma on Wayland lately and some of the ongoing work. Today he shared some interesting performance numbers...

Mozilla this week released Firefox OS 2.5 as well as a Firefox OS 2.5 Developer Preview that can be downloaded to Android devices...

Michel Dänzer has released the xf86-video-ati 7.6.0 DDX driver as a long overdue update to AMD's X.Org driver for pre-AMDGPU hardware...

The open-source Nouveau Gallium3D drivers have tacked on support for another OpenGL 4.4 extension...

LunarG, the consulting company built around open-source graphics driver work that's long been involved within Mesa/Gallium3D, has announced they've split into two...

With having just added some new OpenCL/CUDA benchmarks to the Phoronix Test Suite and OpenBenchmarking.org, I took this opportunity to run a variety of OpenCL/CUDA GPGPU tests on a wide-range of NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards.

Last month Qualcomm announced they made big advancements with its server ecosystem by showing off a Server Development Platform with a 24-core ARMv8 SoC. This work is now being followed close behind with open-source enablement patches...

For PostgreSQL users, the next 9.6 release should be particularly exciting as the parallel sequential scan / parallel query support has been committed...

For a number of months now there's been several NVIDIA developers working on improving the open-source Nouveau driver particularly around the Tegra series...

Epic Games has officially released Unreal Engine 4.10 today, which includes 53 improvements done by the community on GitHub along with a lot of other exciting in-house improvements...

All of the videos from this year's LLVM Developers' Meeting in California are now available online...

Coreboot developers are taking to their Git tree and dropping support for old motherboards and chipsets...

If you have been wondering how to compile CUDA C/C++ code with LLVM rather than NVIDIA's nvcc compiler, an official guide has been written...

It's usually not worth mentioning Kconfig changes for each new Linux kernel release, but this time around there is actually new functionality to point out...

Mesa 11.0.5 was released this morning as the newest stable version of this critical open-source user-space 3D graphics library...

Libvpx 1.5.0 was released yesterday as the newest version of Google's VP9 encoder/decoder...

There are a couple new OpenCL/CUDA tests now present via the Phoronix Test Suite and OpenBenchmarking.org...

NVIDIA's embargo has just expired on the Jetson TX1: a 64-bit ARM development board that's worth getting excited about for Linux enthusiasts, those wishing to build their own ARM-powered devices, or just wanting a powerful ARM Linux desktop. The Jetson TX1 powered by the Tegra X1 is shaping up to be a splendid device; NVIDIA is even comparing the performance of the JTX1 to that of an Intel Core i7 6700K in certain tasks.

Thanks to Glenn Kennard, the R600 Gallium3D driver now supports another OpenGL 4.3 extension that was already available for RadeonSI, Intel i965, Nouveau NV50/NVC0, and even the Softpipe and LLVMpipe drivers...

Seven years after announcing Wayland and three years since Wayland 1.0, Fedora developers are preparing to be the first tier-one desktop Linux distribution to use it by default for supported drivers/hardware...

With today being the date of the Steam Machines official launch along with the Steam Controller and Steam Link, Valve is running a big promotion of Steam Machines capable games...

Today while setting up some CUDA benchmarks, I noticed that CUDA 7.5 is now officially available for SteamOS...

Ubuntu Make, the command-line tool to assist in deploying the latest version of various developer tools on Ubuntu Linux, has added support for Rust...

The Khronos Group has made public their slides from the 2015 SIGGRAPH ASIA conference that took place earlier this month...

Olof Johansson sent in all of the ARM SoC/platform updates today for the Linux 4.4 kernel merge window...

First and foremost, with the release of GCC 6 the default C++ mode will now be GNU++14/C++14 rather than GNU++98!..

With Linux 4.4 bringing important fixes for EXT4's native file-system-level encryption, several Phoronix readers have inquired about how to actually use this new functionality...

If by chance you have a Sun Ultra 40 M2, it's now supported by upstream Coreboot for freeing your BIOS...

With Sunday's DRM graphics subsystem pull request for the Linux 4.4 kernel was an interesting extra comment by DRM maintainer David Airlie at Red Hat...

Beignet, the Intel Open-Source Technology Center project for implementing OpenCL on Linux for Intel HD/Iris Graphics, has gained some new functionality this week...

X.Org Server 1.18 was supposed to be a quick release but ended up being drawn out into a longer release cycle than normal. However, today xorg-server 1.18.0 is now available under the "Moussaka" codename...

Published yesterday was a test of Intel Skylake graphics on Ubuntu 15.10 vs. Windows 10 with a focus on the OpenGL performance. In today's article is a similar cross-operating-system comparison but this time being featured are three NVIDIA graphics cards to see how the latest NVIDIA drivers are running.

We're half-way through the Linux 4.4 kernel merge window so here's a recap of the features that have made it thus far for this next open-source kernel cycle...

Systemd.conf, the inaugural systemd conference for developers, has successfully concluded in Berlin...

60% of the Phoronix readers that participated in our weekend survey feel that SteamOS / Steam Machines will lead to a significantly greater market-share for Linux...

It doesn't look like KDBUS will be ready for merging into the mainline Linux kernel anytime soon...

This week is the last chance for developers to land new features into the GCC 6 compiler stack before it moves onto the next stage of development...

The Enlightenment developers at Samsung have announced the release of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) 1.16 along with updates to Elementary, Evas GL, and Eo...

It's been the better part of the year since the last ALSA update while out today is version 1.1 of the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture...

David Airlie sent in the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem update today for the Linux 4.4 merge window...

Thanks to work done by AMD, the Gallium3D "OMX" OpenMAX state tracker will now support headless operation for video decoding/encoding/transcoding...

Plasma 5.5 is due out next month and with this update will come many new features...

As it's been a while since my last Windows vs. Linux graphics comparison and haven't yet done such a comparison for Intel's latest-generation Skylake HD Graphics, the past few days I was running Windows 10 Pro x64 versus Ubuntu 15.10 graphics benchmarks with a Core i5 6600K sporting HD Graphics 530.

With having an Arch-based Manjaro Linux installation around from the recent large Linux distribution comparison / performance showdown I carried out some extra tests this weekend...