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Besides the 4.6 scheduler updates, another interesting pull request today by Ingo Molnar are the mm updates...

Ingo Molnar is once again very punctual with sending his pull requests in right away for the next Linux kernel merge window for the numerous areas he oversees as the maintainer. One of his interesting pull requests this morning is of the scheduler updates...

The latest monthly alpha release for the Unvanquished open-source first person shooter game is now available. This release also marks four years since these releases began by this project derived from Tremulous...

The Nouveau driver updates for the Linux 4.6 merge window were staged on Sunday into the DRM-Next tree...

Today only you can get a quad-core ARMv7 development board for less than $15 USD...

Linus Torvalds went ahead and released Linux 4.5 over the night...

For those sticking to Mozilla's stable channel, following this week's release of Firefox 45 was the public beta of Firefox 46.0...

While waiting on the new tile in the server room to dry, I figured I would share a brief update on the state of the air cleaning systems being used...

GNOME Games, a game manager/organizer for the GNOME desktop, has added support for MAME and Neo-Geo Pocket...

After writing yesterday about F2FS support being worked on for GRUB2, I decided to explore what features are coming for their GRUB 2.02 release...

AMD's Nicolai Hähnle on Sunday posted another large Mesa patch series, this time more preparation work for shader images support within Gallium3D...

There is still time if you wish to nominate yourself or someone else to run in the elections for this year's X.Org Foundation Board of Directors...

If you purchase computer hardware or anything else at NewEgg, you can now (once again) easily support us by clicking our link before making your purchase...

In preparation for the anticipated FreeBSD 10.3 release later this month, 10.3-RC2 is now available...

Our 60+ Linux test systems will be down for a few days due to aforementioned plans for hopefully increasing the cooling efficiency of the basement server room, etc...

Besides Linux 4.5 expected this weekend, the release of Mesa 11.2 is also imminent...

The inaugural release of Gneural Network is now available, a new GNU Project to implement programmable neural networks...

Another week, another minor revision to the public Vulkan API specification. Vulkan 1.0.6 is now available to succeed Vulkan 1.0.5...

If you are a student looking to participate in this year's Google Summer of Code or a woman or other under-represented group in tech, the Outreachy deadline is too coming up...

With Linux 4.5 expected this weekend, I've been running some more, one-off tests of this new kernel. One of the latest test runs was looking at the power use of the kernel on an Intel Haswell ultrabook...

Samuel Pitoiset has been continuing in his performance counters / compute support quest for the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA driver. Samuel's latest accomplishment is landing MP performance counters for the GK110 GPUs...

Following the recent news of KDE's Partition Manager adding F2FS support, a Phoronix reader reminded us that F2FS support for GRUB is still being addressed...

Intel's Mesa-based Vulkan driver is now making use of the X.Org Server's modern Present Extension...

While there is nothing to report yet on the release of X.Org Server 1.19 even though we're nearing a half-year since the 1.18.0 debut, the latest xorg-server 1.18 point release is now available...

A new Steam client beta is out today for those planning on doing some Linux / OS X / Windows gaming this weekend...

Every year or two we run >32-bit vs. 64-bit Linux benchmarks. While x86_64 Intel/AMD hardware has been extremely common for quite some time, we continue to be amazed at the number of people still running an i686 Linux distribution on x86_64 hardware.

This is some surprising but welcoming news today... Croteam's latest open-source/Linux greatness is the open-sourcing of the Serious Engine...

GNOME developers working on NetworkManager are hoping to further improve this important networking component of the Linux desktop. In particular, they are hoping to make the command-line NetworkManager (nmcli) more useful...

For those using the KDE Partition Manager as a KDE/Qt alternative to GParted, the version 2.1.0 release is out along with an update to its underlying KPMcore 2.1.0 library...

A new open-source driver patch series was published today by an engineer at NVIDIA...

With Linux 4.5 likely coming out this weekend, here's a look at some of the new features/functionality coming for Linux 4.6 -- with this article looking at a portion of the expected DRM driver changes...

Earlier this week was the news that Catalyst/fglrx was being deprecated in Ubuntu 16.04. While there was some hope that one could simply install the driver manually on Ubuntu 16.04, it doesn't look like that will be supported as it sounds like there won't be any new Catalyst / Radeon Software release to support X.Org Server 1.18...

There is a quick update to the XWayland Gets GLAMOR X-Video Support story...

Back in 2001, Steve Ballmer who was leading Microsoft at the time called Linux a "cancer", but now he no longer has those views...

The Free Software Foundation has certified ThinkPenguin's latest mini-router as a device that "respects your freedom" per their standards...

AMD this morning unveiled their XConnect technology to connect an external, high-performance Radeon graphics card to a notebook or 2-in-1 device...

With Ubuntu 16.04 LTS due for release next month, I found it time to do my occasional 32-bit vs. 64-bit Linux OS comparison for showcasing the performance difference of using the 64-bit software on supported hardware. This time around, at a premium member's request, I also did some power consumption monitoring between the 32-bit and 64-bit builds of Ubuntu 16.04 on an Intel laptop/ultrabook...

PyPy 5.0 has been released today as the alternative Python interpreter and JIT compiler focused on performance and efficiency...

While the main AMDGPU pull request for Linux 4.6 happened back in February, another pull request was sent in today with more AMDGPU DRM fixes into DRM-Next that in turn will make it for Linux 4.6...

Google developers are looking at starting a new LLVM sub-project around parallel runtime and support libraries for GPUs, CPUs, and other platforms. As part of it, they are also looking to open-source their StreamExecutor that wraps around the CUDA and OpenCL runtimes...

Longtime GCC developer Richard Biener shared a status update today concerning the state of the GNU Compiler Collection 6...

X.Org Server 1.18 is now available via the Xenial Xerus archive for users of the upcoming Ubuntu 16.04...

With Linux 4.5 expected this weekend, Daniel Vetter of Intel's Open-Source Technology Center has offered a glimpse of what's coming with the i915 graphics driver changes of Linux 4.6...

To many users, Intel's codename of Bay Trail for the recent Atom SoCs would be more accurate if it was named Bay Fail...

It's been less than one week since the Wayland-Protocols 1.2 release while out now is Wayland-Protocols 1.3...

Today AMD released the Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.3 driver (formerly known as Catalyst), but sadly the Linux driver update is not in tandem with this new driver update which now provides official Vulkan support...

AMD's Daniel Rakos has written a blog post for GPUOpen concerning Vulkan's validation layers and making use of them for debugging and testing your code using this new high-performance graphics API...

In a surprise move and while Android Marshmallow adoption isn't yet too great, the first developer preview release of Android N is now available...

Ubuntu developers have deprecated the fglrx / Catalyst Linux display stack for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Users of this upcoming Ubuntu release are now encouraged to use the open-source Radeon display stack...

Phoronix Test Suite 6.2.2 has been released as the last planned point release in the Phoronix Test Suite 6.2-Gamvik series...