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The MIPS architecture updates have landed in the kernel Git code for Linux 4.3...

Earlier this year we learned of Facebook's plans for HHVM to integrate LLVM support into their PHP interpreter that also powers their Hack programming language. That work is now bearing some public progress...

For those users of the Kodi multimedia software formerly known as XBMC, the upcoming version 16 release will bring some significant changes...

GNOME 3.17.91 was released today with the plans standing to officially release GNOME 3.18 later this month...

A few days ago I posted some LLVM Clang 3.7 vs. GCC compiler benchmarks on Linux in time for the release of LLVM 3.7. While LLVM/Clang 3.7 brings full support for OpenMP 3.1, OMP tests were omitted from the original article due to running into some issues. In this article are some reference tests for Clang OpenMP performance with the latest mainline SVN code compared to GCC.

The EXT4 file-system updates have been sent in for the Linux 4.3 kernel...

The XDC2015 conference is coming up in two weeks in Toronto, Canada, where there will be a wide-range of Linux graphics discussions...

With the upcoming Mesa 11.0 release there is OpenGL 4.1 support on the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for Radeon HD 7000 series and newer, but no OpenGL 4.0/4.1 support for the R600g driver, which was disappointing to some R600g users within our forums...

Just days after the release of libinput 1.0 there is now out the first point release...

Bryce Harrington announced the 1.9 beta releases of Wayland and Weston today...

For those interested in F2FS as a Linux file-system to use on solid-state drives and other flash storage devices, here's the latest updates for it with Linux 4.3...

Due to the Linux scheduler changes that already landed in Linux Git having a rework that potentially affects every SMP workload out there and some power management changes that affect Skylake, I decided to run some early Linux 4.3 kernel code as of Git this morning on the Core i5 6600K "Skylake" system...

Last month VMware started publishing DRM kernel patches for handling OpenGL 3.3 inside their guest VMs, then released VMware Workstation 12 with the OpenGL 3 support, and now they've published the necessary Gallium3D driver changes...

Cristian Parrino, the former Vice President of Mobile at Canonical where he was the team leader for the Ubuntu Phone project, has left the company...

NVIDIA has shared some details on their Vulkan driver that will be released later in the year...

Realizing that H.265 licensing is expensive, software patents make things a mess, and all the other negatives about proprietary video codecs, a number of large organizations today announced an Alliance For Open Media...

Since last December we've been receiving emails from a company working on an Ubuntu Tablet inspired by the failed Ubuntu Edge campaign. That company is apparently going to start accepting pre-orders for their device soon with hopes of shipping this unofficial Ubuntu Tablet in January...

Red Hat announced this morning the public beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2...

Viewing the results from our daily performance-tracking benchmarks of the Linux kernel, GCC, Clang, and Mesa should now be much faster...

While back in January, Keith Packard talked about X.Org Server 1.18 being a quicker release, it's turned out to be far from it...

Xonotic, the successor to Nexuiz and one of the best open-source games in recent years (certainly my favorite, since it's a great open-source game benchmark), is out with a new release...

Statistics published by Valve show Steam's Linux usage still at under 1%...

Rafael Wysocki mailed in the power management and ACPI updates this evening for the Linux 4.3 kernel merge window...

Google released the Chrome 45 web-browser today and as expected it pauses "less important" Flash content by default, including ads...

LLVM 3.7 along with sub-projects like Clang 3.7.0 have been officially released this afternoon...

Jiri Kosina sent in his pull requests for code he maintains within the mainline Linux kernel, with one of the notable subsystems being the HID updates...

Following this weekend's Radeon R9 Fury open-source Linux driver tests with the DRM-Next code to be merged into Linux 4.3, the latest Mesa 11.1-devel Git code, and LLVM 3.8 SVN for the AMDGPU compiler back-end, I proceeded to run some bleeding-edge open-source Radeon Gallium3D graphics versus AMD Catalyst Linux benchmarks on Ubuntu.

After NVIDIA announced GRID 2.0, AMD has used VMworld 2015 to launch "the world's first hardware-based GPU virtualization solution, the AMD Multiuser GPU."..

Aside from "every frame being perfect" with Wayland among its many advantages over X11, another benefit will be for greater power-savings in properly implemented software when a display is turned-off/sleeping...

While Fedora 24 isn't set to be released until H1'2016, developers are already working on getting a NetworkManager 1.2 pre-release into the distribution's archive early...

While yesterday it looked like the EXT3 driver would be removed in Linux 4.3 as the pull request was sent in and there were no objections brought up last month when it was proposed, Linus Torvalds has taken issue with removing the driver...

Aside from Ingo Molnar's x86 boot changes he sent in to Linus Torvalds for the Linux 4.3 merge window, he also sent in the scheduler changes for this next version of the Linux kernel...

The ARM SoC changes are just the latest pull request of what's already shaping up to be another exciting kernel cycle...

Ahead of the release of OS X El Capitan, developers working for Apple have officially released version 2.1 of the CUPS printing server...

It's been a long month: 305 open-source/Linux news stories and 30 featured/multi-page articles were typed for Phoronix this month...

As of today in Mesa Git, the royalty-free Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC) is now supported in Mesa Git for Skylake graphics hardware...

With PHP 7.0 RC1 having been released last week, I've spent a fair amount of time in the past few days trying out this first release candidate for the huge PHP 7 milestone...

While most of you probably haven't used the LILO bootloader in years in place of GRUB(2), the developer of "LInux LOader" intends to cease development at the end of the year...

NVIDIA released the libvdpau 1.1.1 library today to fix three new CVE security issues...

Yesterday after finishing up the first open-source AMDGPU driver benchmarks of the Radeon R9 Fury, I decided to also give a go on the new AMDGPU driver scheduler that's an experimental feature for Linux 4.3...

Ingo Molnar sent in his several Git pull requests today for the code he maintains within the Linux kernel...

The OpenBSD Foundation has been funding work on a project to provide OpenBSD with its own, native hypervisor...

NVIDIA has released the 355.11 Linux driver today, which is their first stable release in the 355.xx series...

As expected, Arma 3 is now available for Linux gamers in beta form...

The IBM s390 architecture will gain fake NUMA support with the upcoming Linux 4.3 for providing faster performance under some workloads...

The second release candidate to Mesa 11.0 is now available for testing...

With the official release of LLVM 3.7 being imminent, here are some fresh compiler benchmarks comparing its performance on Linux x86_64 to that of LLVM Clang 3.6 as well as GCC 4.9 and GCC 5.2.

NVIDIA has announced their GRID 2.0 platform while also unveiling their Tesla M6 and M60 server cards...

While there isn't anything new compared to what was already covered on Phoronix earlier this month from the SIGGRAPH graphics conference, The Khronos Group has now published all of their slides, including about Vulkan...