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The IBM POWER architecture updates were sent in today for Linux 4.6 and includes the first early bit of work on supporting the next-generation POWER9 processors...

Greg Kroah-Hartman on Thursday submitted his pull request of the staging area changes for targeting the Linux 4.6 kernel...

While DragonFlyBSD's TCP code getting a per-CPU LPORT cache for listen sockets may not sound like an exciting change, it's a huge performance win...

Coming two months past the Slackware 14.2 beta is now the release candidate for this next major Linux distribution update...

While Skylake systems have been in the marketplace for several months already, the Skylake audio support continues to be refined after the initial support landed rather late relative to Skylake's launch last year...

Fedora 24 is continuing in Fedora Linux's trend of being delayed multiple times during the release cycle...

While Game Developers Conference is happening this week, there's already been the Unity 5.4 beta, CRYENGINE V, and the open-sourcing of Atomic Game Engine. The latest engine news this week is the debut of Unigine 2.2...

There are a number of ARM64/AArch64 architectural improvements heading in for the Linux 4.6 kernel...

Jiri Kosina submitted the HID driver subsystem updates today for the Linux 4.6 merge window and come with some noteworthy changes for mobile/desktop users...

Earlier this week was the How Ubuntu 16.04 Is Performing With AMDGPU/Radeon Graphics Compared To Ubuntu 14.04 With FGLRX, which showed off some interesting open-source Radeon Linux driver results but the Radeon R9 285 "Tonga" graphics card at the time couldn't be tested on Ubuntu 16.04's kernel due to a regression. That issue is fortunately now resolved in the latest Xenial Xerus kernel so here are those numbers.

Google developers have announced the beta release of the Chrome 50 web-browser...

The Khronos Group has begun uploading their videos from this week's Game Developers Conference where they talked about the next-generation Vulkan API and more...

The GNOME 3.20 release candidate is now available...

In continuation of the results earlier this week looking at How Ubuntu 16.04 Is Performing With AMDGPU/Radeon Graphics Compared To Ubuntu 14.04 With FGLRX, here is an extra run with the Radeon/AMDGPU results while enabling DRI3 rendering support...

Red Hat's Alexander Larsson today announced the release of XDG-App v0.5...

Support for Memory Protection Keys (PKeys/MPK) that will be found on future Intel CPUs is being proposed for inclusion into Linux 4.6...

The cross-platform Atomic Game Engine has been open-sourced under the MIT license...

EFI-enabled systems will see some nice improvements with the upcoming Linux 4.6 kernel...

The EXT4 file-system updates for the in-development Linux 4.6 kernel are varied, but there are some notable enhancements...

Making the rounds on the Internet today is a rumor that NVIDIA Corp is allegedly working on their own Linux distribution...

Fedora developers have decided this summer's release of Fedora 24 will ship with the recently released Linux 4.5 kernel...

As an update to this past weekend's The Linux Benchmarking Test Farm Is Down For A Few Days, two of the racks are back to being powered up as of this morning...

The Linux kernel's ACPI and power management subsystem maintainer, Rafael Wysocki, today sent out the latest patches on a new governor for the CPUFreq CPU frequency scaling driver for the Linux kernel...

New Linux kernel patches were posted today for introducing a "tinydrm" module for making it simpler to write DRM drivers against simplified displays...

As covered already in a few articles and in our forums, Mesa 11.2 isn't yet found by default on Ubuntu 16.04 but the developers have a feature freeze exception for still landing this feature update to the Mesa 3D user-space drivers and currently have it staged via a Personal Package Archive...

With GDC happening this week, besides Crytek announcing CRYENGINE V, Unity Technologies announced the Unity 5.4 beta engine...

Support for running Vulkan Windows programs/games under Wine is currently being developed...

Fedora developers are trying to ensure that Qt applications still integrate well with the Fedora Workstation desktop, which is powered by GNOME with the GTK tool-kit...

The X.Org Board of Directors has needed to delay the X.Org 2016 elections by another two weeks...

CyanogenMod 13 Release 1 is now available as the Android community's first release based off Google's 6.0 Marshmallow release...

Crytek used the Game Developers Conference this week to launch CryENGINE V...

Qt 5.6 has finally cleared the door...

Timothy Arceri of Collabora has posted another big patch series for implementing another part of OpenGL 4 within Mesa...

Building off Sunday's release of the Linux 4.5 kernel is GNU Linux-libre 4.5-gnu as the newest version of this kernel provided for 100% free software GNU/Linux distributions...

With Ubuntu dropping support for the AMD fglrx/Catalyst driver in their upcoming 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" release and manually installing the driver doesn't sound like an option, many have renewed interest in how the open-source Radeon driver stack is performing for Ubuntu 16.04 that's due out next month. In this article are benchmarks comparing the performance of Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS (on both the open and closed drivers) to that of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with the sole AMD Linux driver option on a variety of graphics cards.

WebAssembly, the year-old effort for creating a low-level programming language for in-browser client-side scripting with cross-browser support is making more progress...

In recent kernel cycles we've seen more and more x86 Assembly code get rewritten in C and for Linux 4.6 this process has continued...

The Chrome 50 web-browser will usher in the stable build of V8 5.0 as its JavaScript engine...

The power management updates for Linux 4.6 are quite hearty...

If Linus Torvalds agrees to honor the pull, the Linux 4.6 kernel will feature an in-kernel debugger with full x86/x86_64 disassembler support...

Released a few days back was the newest version of AMD/RTG's HIP compiler as part of their Boltzmann initiative in porting CUDA code to run on Radeon hardware with their new software stack...

Paul Rouget of Mozilla has shared plans for making an initial alpha release of their next-generation Servo Engine and Servo-based Browser.html web browser release for this summer...

With an effort led by John Stultz at Linaro, developers have managed to get a Google Nexus 7 tablet running on a mainline Linux kernel...

With GDC happening this week, AMD took the opportunity tonight to announced the Radeon Pro Duo, a dual Fiji GPU graphics card...

Intel OTC's PowerTOP utility has been around for nearly a decade for making it easy to carry out power optimization tweaks on Intel Linux systems. However, is this program still useful or are modern Linux distributions and upstream code now better optimized by default for delivering an ideal power-savings experience? As it's been a while since the last time I tried PowerTOP, I fired it up today on an Intel Haswell ultrabook running a development snapshot of Ubuntu 16.04...

The crew behind the incredible Krita KDE drawing program has today announced they've gone into a feature freeze for Krita 3.0 and have decided to release 3.0 Pre-Alpha 3...

Broadcom's Eric Anholt sent in the VC4 DRM driver updates today for DRM-Next merging to in turn get into the Linux 4.6 kernel merge window...

OpenBSD 5.9 is gearing up for release at the start of May as the next feature release of this BSD operating system...

Paolo Bonzini has sent in the KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) changes for the Linux 4.6 kernel merge window, which he describes as "one of the largest releases for KVM."..

It looks like Qt 5.6 is finally ready to be released...