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Wine 1.9.5 was released today and it's a rather exciting bi-weekly update to the Wine stack...
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Engineers at Intel's Open-Source Technology Center have implemented native, one-copy texture uploads for Chrome/Chromium OS when using Intel graphics processors...
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Epic Games' Tim Sweeny has written a lengthy op-ed coming out against Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform (UWP) effort that would close up the Windows gaming ecosystem as "a closed platform-within-a-platform into Windows 10."..
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The sources are now available for download of the Qt 5.7 alpha release...
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The PRIME synchronization patches being contributed to the open-source Linux graphics stack by NVIDIA is now up to its fourth revision...
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Prolific GNOME developer Matthias Clasen has announced the release of the GNOME 3.20 Beta 2 (v3.19.91) Milestone...
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For those interested in the performance of Fedora Linux, here are some recent curiosity-driven benchmarks I completed this week...
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It isn't often we hear much these days about Plymouth, the modern Linux boot splash screen that's now almost universally used by Linux distributions, given that the project is rather mature. However, for those utilizing modern HiDPI displays, the latest Plymouth code should work out better...
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With the Raspberry Pi 3 64-bit ARM $35 development board that launched earlier this week, there is working open-source kernel code for this new board powered by the Broadcom BCM2837 and it's looking like it hopefully won't be too long before the support is mainlined...
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The Debian release team has decided that the freeze for 9.0 "Stretch" will be slightly delayed...
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While the open-source Intel Mesa Linux graphics driver yet doesn't expose OpenGL 4.0 compliance for missing out on FP64 support, as written earlier this week, that code is about ready for its review and could land in Mesa soon. Once that's out of the way, Intel's Mesa driver is stomping very close to OpenGL 4.3 compliance and another GL 4.3 extension was enabled today...
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Last week I posted various LLVM Clang and GCC compiler benchmarks using packages available on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and with the testing from a Xeon Skylake system. Today are some complementary tests when benchmarking GCC 5.3.1 and LLVM Clang 3.8 while testing each compiler with a variety of different optimization levels.
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A technical marketing representative of AMD / Radeon Technologies Group is participating in a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" today where he's been answering a few Linux questions...
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For those running Fedora 23, the Linux 4.4 kernel has been pushed down as a stable update for the operating system...
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Just ahead of this month's GNOME 3.20 release is now the Mutter 3.19.91 development release...
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Last summer we reported on America's Army being ported to Linux and that it was trailing the renewed Mac OS X port. Today is some new information on America's Army coming to Linux...
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With the Plasma 5.6 beta out the door, the KDE development community has today announced the formation of a Distribution Outreach Program...
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For those wondering whether the open-source VC4 graphics driver stack would work out-of-the-box on the new Raspberry Pi 3.....
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Last month was word of Android-x86 joining the company behind Remix OS, an Android-based OS designed for PCs and laptops. Out now is the Remix OS Beta that's leveraging the Android-x86 project...
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With LLVM Clang 3.7 came full support for OpenMP 3.1 at long last but with OpenMP 4.5 being the latest spec, Intel and others involved with the Clang OpenMP initiative haven't let up and continue working towards supporting the latest OpenMP 4.x interfaces...
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The latest feature addition ahead of the upcoming release of NetworkManager 1.2 is proper DHCPv6 support for IPv6 users...
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The Vulkan 1.0 specification is less than one month old and NVIDIA has already released their third Linux driver beta. Meanwhile, sadly, AMD hasn't made public their proprietary Vulkan Linux driver...
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Intel's OpenSWR high-performance software rasterizer that's an alternative to LLVMpipe has landed in mainline Mesa...
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The KDE community has banded together to release the Plasma 5.6 beta today...
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With Clear Linux continuing to outperform other Linux distributions on Intel hardware, I was curious to see how the Intel OTC Linux distribution was performing when trying it with one of the new Xeon CPUs at our disposal for testing...
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AMD's Marek Olšák sent out a set of 26 patches this morning for preparing the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver to have interoperability support between OpenGL and HSA/OpenCL...
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For your viewing pleasure to get our March 2016 Linux benchmarking started is a Linux 4.1 through Linux 4.5 kernel benchmark comparison when testing with a 4GHz Intel Xeon E3 v5 Skylake CPU and using a RadeonSI-supported graphics card and SSD for storage.
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The latest fruits of AMD's GPUOpen initiative is the open-sourcing of a beta of AMDOVX...
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KDE's Martin Gräßlin has provided a status update concerning KWin/Wayland support with the latest KDE stack...
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Solus, one of the most talked about newcomer Linux distributions, is out with their 1.1 Shannon update...
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If you are using an ASUS motherboard with Linux and run into a issue like a UEFI/BIOS bug or another Linux compatibility problem with the board, hopefully your motherboard and distribution/version are part of this list...
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Coreboot received some new Intel feature work yesterday for improving the state of initializing some newer hardware with this open-source alternative to proprietary UEFI/BIOS...
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Mozilla's Virtual Reality team working in conjunction with the Google Chrome team is ready to release a proposal for a new web API for handling VR devices: meet the WebVR 1.0 proposal...
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While more Steam Linux games continue to appear, the overall market-share still hasn't been trending upwards in the Linux battle against Windows and OS X...
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Genode OS 16.02 has been released as the newest version of this popular, open-source operating system framework...
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Jonathan Riddell has updated his spin of (K)Ubuntu that comes with the latest Git code of KDE's KWin and other packages via the new KDE Neon initiative for making it easy to try out KDE Plasma on Wayland...
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VESA has published the DisplayPort 1.4 standard version today...
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Consulting firm Igalia has been working on FP64 support within the Mesa i965 driver on the behalf of Intel. It looks like they'll soon be wrapped up with this support and that in turn means there will be OpenGL 4.0+ compliance!..
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KDE Plasma 5.5.5 was released this morning as the latest monthly point release to the KDE Plasma 5.5 software stack...
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The second beta of the upcoming NetworkManager 1.2 major release is now available...
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A major vulnerability was made public this morning that concerns SSLv2...
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wxWidgets 3.1.0 was released yesterday as a new development release for this cross-platform toolkit...
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While traditionally Wayland summer projects have been tucked into the X.Org umbrella with their longtime involvement in Google's Summer of Code, for GSoC 2016 there is now Wayland as its own organization alongside the X.Org Foundation...
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The RadeonSI Gallium3D driver now utilizes Re-Z...
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While the Raspberry Pi 3 should be much more powerful than its predecessors thanks to finally having a ARMv8 processor (and quad-core Cortex-A53 at that), it's not for everyone...
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Linux input expert Peter Hutterer has written a blog post about the state of graphics tablet support inside the libinput input landing library...
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As of this evening on Steam, there are 1,900 released games available for download with native Linux support...
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Vulkan was easily the most talked about subject matter this month on Phoronix, but aside from that there was also a whole lot of other exciting Linux and open-source content for your viewing pleasure...
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The latest X.Org Server code's XWayland support path now is able to run some older Linux games...
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Since the Airtop PC was announced back in January there has been a lot of interest in this passively-cooled, high-performance line of PCs by the folks at CompuLab. The Airtop isn't some low-end, passively cooled PC but rather can be equipped with a Core i7 or Xeon CPU and a discrete graphics card to deliver very capable performance while having a completely silent PC. Some have been skeptical about the cooling and performance claims of the Airtop PC, but our review sample arrived this morning and have begun testing out this very interesting PC.