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Intel's i965 Mesa driver has begun using the NIR intermediate representation by default when dealing with fragment shaders...
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on (#6VCH)
There's some new Google motherboards added to upstream Coreboot...
on (#6T0R)
Last year Valve made all of their games free to Debian developers as a thank you since SteamOS is based on Debian. Now Valve is giving out their collection of all current and future games to open-source Mesa developers...
on (#6SVA)
A new release of ZFS On Linux is available this week for providing the latest capabilities for this Oracle/Sun ZFS file-system implemented as an out-of-tree, native Linux kernel driver...
on (#6ST1)
As part of the work towards allowing easy UEFI/BIOS updates from the Linux desktop in a standardized manner, Richard Hughes has been developing the new fwupd component...
on (#6SR4)
For those interested in XenGT as Intel's form of mediated GPU pass-through support on Linux, the newest quarterly update has surfaced...
on (#6SQ7)
For those searching for a low-cost system/motherboard for experimenting with Coreboot, there's another new AMD motherboard that now works with Coreboot's upstream Git code. The board costs only about $30 USD and works with all modern AMD AM1 processors...
on (#6SP8)
New versions of DNF and DNF-PLUGINS-CORE have been released and there's pre-built packages for Fedora 22 and Fedora 23...
on (#6SN3)
Back when the BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition smart-phone launched in February it was only available in limited numbers via "flash sales" facilitated by the company. At last, now this first Ubuntu smart-phone is available to order by anyone within the European Union...
on (#6SM5)
The MATE and Cinnamon desktop versions of Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 (LMDE 2) are now available for download...
on (#6RGS)
A few months back I wrote about the poor state of Chrome/Chromium HiDPI support on Linux but fortunately with the latest unstable web browser code these issues appear to have been resolved...
on (#6R4P)
LibFuzzer was recently added to LLVM as a library for in-process fuzzing. LibFuzzer combined with other open-source fuzzing capabilities make it easy for uncovering new bugs within LLVM and other projects...
on (#6R4Q)
DragonFlyBSD developers have updated their ACPI power management implementation against Intel's ACPICA code as of yesterday...
on (#6R3W)
While Fedora developers did a good job getting out the Fedora 22 Alpha on time, the beta release of Fedora 22 will come at least one week late...
on (#6QKE)
While AMD has yet to make the Catalyst 15.3 Beta Linux graphics driver available for download from their web-site, they released the driver to Canonical and as such this new AMD Linux driver has been available in Ubuntu 15.04 for a few weeks. Canonical is now back-porting this proprietary driver back into Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty Tahr...
on (#6Q78)
After almost two years of the X.Org Foundation's Board of Directors pursuing a merger with SPI, the 2015 X.Org Elections have ended and the results were sent out to X.Org members last night...
on (#6N1Z)
It's been a while since last running any Linux file-system tests on a hard drive considering all of the test systems around here are using solid-state storage and only a few systems commissioned in the Linux benchmarking test farm are using hard drives, but with Linux 4.0 around the corner, here's a six-way file-system comparison on Linux 4.0 with a HDD using EXT4, Btrfs, XFS, and even NTFS, NILFS2, and ReiserFS.
on (#6MYW)
Systemd has picked up another feature for the upcoming systemd 220 release...
on (#6MX9)
In recent months we've covered an Ubuntu tablet with a 1TB hard drive, another sketchy Ubuntu tablet, and other awkward devices looking to ship Ubuntu in tablet/mobile form without any support from Canonical. There's yet another tablet to talk about today...
on (#6MW4)
A Linux user has started an LKML discussion over compiling the kernel with -O3 for driving performance improvements out of a more-optimized kernel binary...
on (#6MTT)
GNOME/GTK+ developers are finally preparing themselves to drop support for Microsoft Windows XP...
on (#6MT0)
Tom Stellard of AMD has landed initial support into the AMD GPU LLVM back-end for the assembler and supporting inline assembly...
on (#6KR6)
While the digiKam digital photography software is still being ported to KDE Frameworks 5, release today was the latest KDE4-based digiKam release...
on (#6KBW)
If you're not on the NVIDIA 349 Linux beta but rather an older version of NVIDIA's binary Linux driver, today they released the 346.59 bug-fix release as the latest in their long-lived series...
on (#6K4R)
There's hope that next week we might learn some new details about SPIR-V and Vulkan than what already has been made public over the past month...
on (#6K0F)
Chris Wilson of Intel's Open-Source Technology Center hasn't yet managed the xf86-video-intel 3.0 DDX release, but over in kernel-space, he's just published a set of 70 new DRM patches for the Intel kernel driver...
on (#6JZQ)
The server edition of Fedora 22 is using the XFS file-system by default rather than EXT4...
on (#6JSP)
The Qt Company has announced version 2.0 of the Qt Installer Framework...
on (#6JQM)
With the upcoming release of Fedora 22, DNF is succeeding Yum as the default package manager. However, some details about this change are still being discussed...
on (#6JKN)
The Enlightenment crew at Samsung have released their first alpha version of the upcoming EFL 1.14.0 library set...
on (#6JJN)
There's more improvements in Mesa Git to talk about this week for Intel open-source customers, including those still on older "Gen4" graphics hardware...
on (#6JFH)
FreeGLUT, the open-source replacement to GLUT for handling system-specific setup tasks like windowing system configuration and OpenGL initialization, now is natively supported on Wayland...
on (#6HHM)
After the article a short time ago about Linux 4.0-rc7 being tagged, Linus Torvalds sent out his 4.0-RC7 release announcement that confirmed what was expected...
on (#6HCW)
It's coming a day later than anticipated, but the seventh weekly update for the Linux 4.0 kernel is now available...
on (#6HB9)
For users of KDE's Krita digital painting / raster graphics editor, the Qt5 port of the program won't be fully ready for at least another half-year, but it's being done right...
on (#6GXT)
GCC 5 is expected to be formally released later this month and it by far is looking to be the most exciting GNU Compiler Collection update yet! GCC 5 has amassed a ton of exciting open-source compiler features over the past year...
on (#6GN2)
OpenBSD 5.7 is planned for release in less than one month and it will be presenting a number of new features for this security-minded BSD operating system...
on (#6GK2)
Talked about recently were the KDE Plasma 5 transition plans for openSUSE and coming out today are more details on the planned switch...
on (#6GJA)
With the systemd developers pursuing their vision for how distributions/software should be distributed, more Btrfs specific functionality is being added to the init manager...
on (#6GHC)
For users of the vim text editor interested in new syntax highlighting options, meet color_coded...
on (#6FNS)
For those still living in the GNOME 2 days, the MATE Desktop 1.10 has arrived for Easter...
on (#6FNT)
Following Intel's development of NIR as the new intermediate representation for Mesa and the Raspberry Pi graphics driver switching to NIR, the Freedreno Gallum3D driver as the open-source user-space GPU driver for Qualcomm Adreno now has NIR support too...
on (#6EW1)
While the Linux 4.0 kernel hasn't even been released yet, there's already a number of items we're looking forward to seeing with Linux 4.1...
on (#6ETV)
While the Radeon, Nouveau, and LLVMpipe/Softpipe drivers have already supported the OpenGL ARB_clip_control extension, the Intel (i965) driver now finally supports this OpenGL 4.5 extension too...
on (#6ETD)
Making the rounds on the Internet this weekend is that BioWare -- which is owned by EA Games -- has released their first open-source project...
on (#6ESV)
Following Friday's release of Wine 1.7.40, the equivalent Wine-Staging update is now out with a few extra changes...
on (#6DMV)
For users of QEMU as part of their Linux virtualization that wish to test out the very latest features, the QEMU 2.3-rc2 development release is now available...
on (#6DFB)
This is a "first impression" review. I've had the system in my hands for all of about twenty-four hours and am still exploring and forming more solid opinions. Also any problems I had likely do have solutions, but as I said: less than forty-eight hours of ownership so I haven't had a chance to. Linux-centric system review will follow this weekend / next week.
on (#6DEE)
AMD tech support has allegedly confirmed that Catalyst is being ported to FreeBSD...
on (#6DDT)
Version 1.1 of Godot, an impressive open-source game engine, is now out in beta form...