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Samuel Pitoiset for the past few years has been on what seems like a one-man mission to implement NVIDIA's hardware performance counters inside the open-source Nouveau driver. He continues making much progress and it's starting to become a reality for developers who wish to profile their apps/workloads with Nouveau under Linux...

For those that haven't yet moved to Mesa 11.0 and aren't riding on Mesa 11.1-devel Git, Mesa 10.6.8 is now the next best thing...

One week after ARB_shader_texture_image_samples OpenGL 4.5 was added to core Mesa and the Intel driver, Ilia Mirkin has extended the support to include the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

Now within the latest Phoronix-Test-Suite on GitHub the new graphing code is utilized by default. This will directly benefit Phoronix Test Suite users but will also be beneficial to those simply reading Phoronix articles or visiting OpenBenchmarking.org and LinuxBenchmarking.com...

Randy Fishel of Oracle presented at this week's XDC2015 conference about the state of the DRM/KMS graphics drivers on Solaris...

The Tizen Project has announced the Tizen 3.0 first milestone release for TV and Mobile devices...

Today marks a huge milestone for Steam on Linux: 1,500 games are natively available! This is quite significant while Windows is at 6,464 and OS X is at 2,323.

The proprietary NVIDIA Linux driver has a slider within its nvidia-settings utility for adjusting the OpenGL image settings, but do those settings have much of an affect on performance?..

KDE on Wayland has been making a lot of progress recently to the point that it's becoming usable and with KDE Plasma 5.5 it looks like it will be in very good shape...

While AMD's forthcoming Zen CPU architecture has high hopes and was made more exciting when Jim Keller joined back AMD to work on its design, this successful CPU designer has left AMD once more...

Peter Hutterer shared with the X.Org Foundation members today that a new secretary has been elected...

Microsoft has made public the fact they actually have their own Linux distribution... Azure Cloud Switch. They developed this Linux distribution to do networking within their Azure data centers...

Prolific Mesa contributor and AMD open-source developer, Marek Olšák, talked about handling shader recompiles in the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

While many users and developers out there are looking for a time when Wayland rules the Linux desktop, Keith Packard remains focused on bettering X11/X.Org and keeping it going...

For those that weren't in Canada yesterday for XDC2015, the video is now online with the AMDGPU progress update and the initial talk about their Vulkan Linux work...

Besides the highly sought after Nouveau status update and AMDGPU/Vulkan update, Lucas Stach talked today at XDC2015 Toronto about his work on the Etnaviv reverse-engineered driver...

Besides AMD talking about their Vulkan Linux driver and other AMDGPU driver plans, an update on the open-source NVIDIA (Nouveau) driver was shared today at XDC2015...

One of the most anticipated talks of XDC2015 Toronto was the update on AMDGPU / the open-source Linux driver strategy... Vulkan details were revealed!

Earlier this week I posted a graphics card comparison using the open-source drivers and looking at the best value and power efficiency. In today's article is a larger range of AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards being tested under a variety of modern Linux OpenGL games/demos while using the proprietary AMD/NVIDIA Linux graphics drivers to see how not only the raw performance compares but also the performance-per-Watt, overall power consumption, and performance-per-dollar metrics.

Yeppp! is a very fast vector math library that works with a variety of programming languages, designed to work on a vast array of hardware across multiple architectures, and with that is designed to be super fast...

For those interested in the Rust programming language, Rust 1.3 was released today...

With the latest-generation graphics on Skylake processors, open-source Intel developers are working right now to expose 16x multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) inside the Linux Mesa driver...

To complement Google's Summer of Code, the X.Org Foundation has long held the Endless Vacation of Code (EVoC) as a year-round, passive event where the foundation would fund students to get involved with X.Org/Wayland/Mesa projects. Sadly, however, it's not been panning out and the rules are being tightened up even more due to past failures...

Epic Games has announced they've made their entire Infiltrator project available for free to download and utilize within Unreal Engine 4 projects...

With the recent call for comments on improving result graphs, one of the requests that's also been iterated before is for on bar graphs to color them to match the brand of, e.g. the graphics card being tested...

Out of the dozen plus systems at Phoronix devoted to running the latest Linux kernel Git code on a daily basis with the latest Fedora/Ubuntu packages, only 3~4 of them have hit regressions so far on the new, in-development Linux 4.3 kernel...

With this week's release of Catalyst 15.9 for Linux the change-log mentioned a fix for Alien: Isolation... The only problem is, it's not publicly released yet for Linux...

Over the past few months on Phoronix there's been many stories about fwupd, ESRT, and other components related to running UEFI system firmware updates from the Linux desktop. But what's the current status?..

Frederic Peters announced GNOME 3.17.92 this morning, a.k.a. the release candidate to GNOME 3.18...

Fedora's latest AMD issues aren't about some Catalyst graphics driver problem, but rather for the few still left using a 32-bit USB installation on an AMD processor...

A portion of today at XDC2015 Toronto was devoted to Linux input matters...

There's an update on the state of atomic mode-setting for Linux, for those that didn't hear it earlier today at XDC2015 in Toronto...

Taking some time away from preparing the upcoming Wayland/Weston 1.9 release, Bryce Harrington at Samsung's Open-Source Group has written a blog post about the state of Wayland features and other ongoing work...

If you've been reading Phoronix any length of time for open-source graphics news, you'll know the most difficult challenge facing open-source NVIDIA (Nouveau) driver developers is the re-clocking / power management situation. It's been slow and re-clocking still leaves a lot to be desired...

Today's release of Mutter 3.17.92 has an important change for HiDPI users in time for GNOME 3.18...

Wayland and its Weston reference compositor are up to their 1.9 release candidate...

XDC2015 Toronto is officially getting underway this morning as the annual conference about all things Linux graphics, input, Wayland, Mesa, and DRM!..

With yesterday's Catalyst 15.9 Linux driver release bringing fixes for a number of Steam Linux games, it's been a busy night benchmarking this latest Catalyst Linux driver release. Here are some initial numbers.

The beta of Fedora 23 is coming up quite quickly!..

While not quite as much as the funding achieved for the Librem 15, the smaller Librem 13 crowd-funding campaign is set to close soon and has just passed its $250k USD funding goal for "a laptop that respects your rights", but there's still a lot of yet to be fulfilled hopes riding on this x86 laptop...

Being half-way through the month, here's a look at the most interesting open-source/Linux news so far in September...

With Libinput 1.0 having been released, Peter Hutterer has found himself working on another open-source Linux input project: libratbag. This new library is for interacting with configurable mice on Linux, as is common to gaming systems...

As expected, AMD Catalyst 15.9 has been released this afternoon for Linux desktop users!..

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS shipping next April on the desktop will be using Unity 7 by default along with the Compiz window manager atop an X.Org Server. While this isn't as big of a change as switching to Unity 8 on the desktop with Mir, there's still thousands of outstanding bugs...

A long overdue Catalyst Linux update should be out soon, in fact, potentially before the day is through...

It's time for another call-out for requests for comments on how to better enhance the appearance/presentation of information on our benchmark result graphs seen on Phoronix as well as OpenBenchmarking.org and LinuxBenchmarking.com, etc...

With the release of GNOME 3.18 just around the corner, Emmanuele Bassi has shared some interesting statistics behind the development of the GTK+ 3.18 tool-kit as well as GLib...

While we routinely run performance comparisons at Phoronix looking at the OpenGL performance on the latest open-source Linux drivers with a variety of different graphics cards, in this article we're not focusing only on the raw performance but also what graphics cards on the latest Radeon/Nouveau drivers deliver the best power efficiency and value (performance-per-dollar). Here's a look at a mixture of modern AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards with Mesa 11.1-devel, LLVM 3.8 SVN, and the Linux 4.3 development kernel.

It was decided at this year's DebConf to stop producing new CD ISOs/images for future Debian updates onward...

Qualcomm's Innovation Center (QuIC) sent out patches this morning for providing open-source hardware enablement for their new Snapdragon 820 (MSM8996) via the free software MSM DRM/KMS driver...