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Intel's Open-Source Technology Center has been working on speeding up color transformations for color management on Intel Linux systems using their Beignet OpenCL implementation for Iris/HD Graphics...

Assuming you are now reaching the new server, the beta of the new OpenBenchmarking.org should be publicly accessible...

Landing as a fix this week inside the Linux kernel appears to be an indication that NVIDIA's Linux engineers are already working on their next-generation hardware support...

Libreboot, the version of Coreboot that is 100% free software without relying upon any proprietary blobs, has added support for another AMD motherboard...

The Arch Linux crew has announced the release of their Pacman 5.0 package manager...

Building off Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 that was released back in November, coming next week will finally be the Scientific Linux 7.2 release...

This weekend OpenBenchmarking.org is being moved off to some new server infrastructure for preparing for the new OpenBenchmarking.org, delivering HTTPS by default, and yielding quicker load times for both it and Phoronix.com...

The Qt 5.7 release is running slightly behind schedule due to the recent licensing changes with open-sourcing some new components and other reasons, but upstream Qt developers are now planning for the feature freeze to happen next week...

While earlier this week it was looking like Ubuntu 16.04 Alpha 2 might not happen for the opt-in flavors, it ended up getting released today...

While the AMDGPU Linux kernel driver right now exposes support for AMD GCN 1.2 GPUs and newer, like Carrizo, Fiji, and Tonga, it is possible to get GCN 1.1 Sea Islands hardware working with this driver if jumping through a few hoops. In this article are some tests of a Radeon R9 290 "Hawaii" when using the proprietary Catalyst driver, Radeon DRM driver as is the default for this card on open-source, and then using the experimental AMDGPU DRM open-source support.

Jonathan Riddell, the former Kubuntu release manager that was ousted from the project, will be announcing a "KDE Neon" incubator project this weekend at FOSDEM...

Dutch software firm StreamComputing has launched an educational project aiming to get more developers using OpenCL and as part of this initiative they will try to port as many GEGL operations to OpenCL as possible...

If you have ever wanted a thermal imager to get an idea for the hottest areas of your PC, look how to improve the thermal efficiency of your server room or house, or other purposes, you've likely noticed how thermal imagers are generally quite expensive. A lower-cost solution that's also very versatile is the Seek Compact Thermal, which can attach to your Android smartphone or tablet and turn it into a thermal imaging solution paired with the ease of use of being able to save the captured video or still images to your device.

GLAMOR, the X.Org means of doing 2D acceleration over OpenGL, is going through a period of more clean-ups as Broadcom's Eric Anholt looks to further boost its performance on the Raspberry Pi VC4 driver...

Kodi 16.0 "Jarvis" is quite close to being released with today marking the availability of their second release candidate...

It was just one week ago writing about Steam on Linux having 1,800 native games available and today the 1,900 threshold was crossed! As of writing this article there's been 1,913 native Linux games available...

The OpenMandriva Lx camp has released their 2015 Beta release in time for this weekend's FOSDEM conference happening this weekend in Brussels...

A NVIDIA engineer has posted a blog post today concerning shader resource binding with the Vulkan API...

SNOW is now available for Linux, a game that's currently in Steam early access and is a free-to-play winter game...

With the new OpenBenchmarking.org that's coming soon, besides the UI refresh, restored search functionality, and other improvements, the statistics access has also been re-enabled...

OPNsense, the open-source firewall project powered by FreeBSD that began as a fork of pfSense, is out with a new release...

Jolla published a blog post today entitled "Jolla Tablet: Aiming for Closure" and it doesn't deliver much in the way of good news...

Debuting in 2006, Medieval II: Total War, and its Kingdoms expansion, were the final Total War game to use the second version of the Total War Engine. It is also, arguably, the last game in a generation for the series. The follow-up to this game was Empire: Total War (also available on Linux), which changed the game engine, user-interface, as well as several of the gameplay mechanics-- such as adding naval battles.

For KDE Ubuntu users wanting to run the latest upstream KDE software components without switching over to the 16.04 "Xenial Xerus" development repository, backports of the new packages have taken place for Kubuntu 15.10...

Our latest Intel Skylake processor to benchmark is a Xeon E3-1270 v5 processor that boasts a boost speed of 4.0GHz...

Last week I had plans to run some fresh FreeBSD vs. Linux gaming benchmarks using the FreeBSD's Linux software binary compatibility layer...

With yesterday's Linux 4.5 AMDGPU/Radeon vs. Catalyst OpenGL Performance testing, the loser was the R9 Fury "Fiji" graphics card on the AMDGPU open-source driver with the performance still being miserable. Even with PowerPlay enabled on Linux 4.5, the performance was still poor. But if forcing to a high performance state via sysfs, is the performance any better?..

The libinput 1.2 release candidate was released this morning as the newest development version of this input handling library used primarily by Wayland systems and now as well with Ubuntu's Mir and then X.Org when using the xf86-input-libinput driver...

The first release candidate is now available for the Go 1.6 programming language...

The Black Mesa third-party remake of Half-Life is confirmed for being ported to Linux...

We are just over one month away until GDC 2016 kicks off in San Francisco where there will be many Vulkan API talks by different Khronos members...

For anyone still relying upon Java web-plugins in their browser, they are going to be deprecated with the upcoming Java 9...

A new test release of Android-x86 6.0-Marshmallow is now available for those wanting to deploy the latest version of Android on their Intel/AMD hardware...

The xf86-video-intel 3.0 DDX driver has been in development the past two and a half years without seeing an official release...

The Video Electronics Standards Association announced Display Stream Compression 1.2 today as the newest DSC standard...

With the first test release out this week for the Linux 4.5 kernel I have carried out some fresh benchmarks on different AMD Radeon graphics cards for comparing the very latest open-source driver performance against that of the proprietary AMD Linux driver. Here are how the competing AMD OpenGL Linux stacks are comparing to one another for starting off 2016.

Ubuntu Phone OTA-9 has begun rolling out to owners of Ubuntu Phones. This is yet another big feature update but plenty of bug fixing...

GNU Binutils 2.26 has been released as the first major release in more than one year since Binutils 2.25...

Intel has released their first new versions of XenGT and KVMGT for 2016 for GPU virtualization solutions for Xen and KVM, respectively...

While the AMDGPU DRM driver doesn't enable the necessary Kconfig option by default, it's supposed to be possible to use this new DRM driver with the AMD GCN "Sea Islands" (CIK) graphics cards rather than just Tonga and Fiji when it comes to the currently shipping discrete GPUs...

The Linux 4.4 kernel is now effectively just one step away from landing within Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial Xerus" LTS...

The fourth development release of the Phoronix Test Suite 6.2-Gamvik cycle is now available for your bleeding-edge benchmarking needs...

A number of GLAMOR commits landed today within the X.Org Server Git repository...

LLVM/Clang is the latest high-profile project to abandon its Autoconf build system...

KDE Plasma 5.5.4 was released today as a bug-fix update to Plasma 5.5 as released in December. With this new point release there are fixes primarily for multi-screen users receiving notifications...

Fresh off this morning's launch of GPUOpen, Radeon Technologies Group has announced the Radeon Open Compute initial release...

Samba 4.4 Release Candidate 1 was tagged today in getting ready the next major version of this open-source SMB/CIFS implementation...

Adding to the list of game studios with plans to support Vulkan is Croteam with a few of their modern games going to receive the Vulkan treatment...

Earlier this month Valve released the Steam Link SDK for opening up this Linux-powered $50 device with Qt, SDL, and OpenGL ES support.While the Steam Link is a device intended for streaming Steam games to your television, one of the interesting ports so far with this SDK is aiming to get the Kodi HTPC software running on the Link...

A Zsun WiFi SD Card Reader that sells for $13~19 USD has been hacked to run OpenWRT for turning it into a wireless access point or using it for other fun tasks...