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The Mozilla-backed crew working on the Rust programming language announced the release today of Rust v1.6 as their first new version of 2016...
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The Qualcomm Adreno 430 is now supported by the Freedreno Gallium3D driver...
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A second feature pull has been submitted of ACPI and power management material for the Linux 4.5 kernel merge window...
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With having out most of my NVIDIA graphics cards earlier this week due to running the 27-way OpenGL and performance-per-Watt comparison on NVIDIA graphics cards going back a decade, I took the opportunity to also run a smaller, fresh OpenCL/CUDA GPU compute comparison on various recent NVIDIA GPUs.
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Feral Interactive announced that next week Company of Heroes 2: The Western Front Armies will be released for Linux and OS X...
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With the Linux 4.5 kernel the ARMv6/ARMv7 platforms are now multi-platform after five years of work...
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An Intel engineer yesterday published the initial experimental patch-set for implementing GuC-based Single Loop Power Controller (SLPC) support...
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Google is planning to enable support for Brotli compression within the next release of the Chrome web-browser. Brotli offers much better compression rates over other alternatives...
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The first release candidate is out today for the Kodi 16.0 "Jarvis" home theater PC software...
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A popular graphics benchmark particularly for iOS and Android users has been GFXBench to measure the performance of the graphics processor. GFXBench supports OpenGL and OpenGL ES, but while it has long supported Android, only today is the company now supporting non-Android Linux platforms...
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Today was another busy day in the Coreboot world for freeing systems of their proprietary BIOS/firmware...
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Today a new batch of improvements were committed to LinuxBenchmarking.com while more UI/UX improvements and other functionality is still landing in the days ahead...
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The Linux Foundation has quietly changed their stance concerning individual members being allowed to vote for directors of the foundation...
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Google announced today the stable release of their Chrome 48 web-browser for Linux, OS X, and Windows...
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NVIDIA yesterday hosted a Vulkan Developers Day at their campus for graphics developers to learn more about the next-generation Khronos API...
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Our latest benchmarking fun from the freshly minted Linux 4.4 kernel is testing all of the popular built-in Linux file-systems plus the recently updated ZFS On Linux. File-systems tested for this comparison were Btrfs, XFS, EXT4, F2FS, ReiserFS, NTFS, and ZFS.
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This morning marks 1,800 Linux-native games being available via Valve's Steam service...
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With yesterday's merging of AMD HSA support into GCC 6, questions have been raised by readers in taking advantage of this acceleration support for AMD APUs and related items...
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Bryce Harrington at Samsung announced the release last night of Wayland 1.10 Alpha along with the adjoining Weston reference compositor update...
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GNOME developer Lubomir Rintel announced the release today of the NetworkManager 1.1.90 development snapshot in the road towards NetworkManager 1.2 for Linux network management...
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Coming with Linux 4.5 is an eventful x86 platform drivers update...
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The user-space side of semaphore support is getting taken care of for the new AMDGPU driver...
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Beginning with Skylake and Broxton hardware, Intel began requiring firmware blobs as part of their open-source graphics driver stack. This binary firmware is continuing forward with the next-generation Kabylake processors...
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With having pushed out an interesting 27-way NVIDIA Linux graphics card comparison that follows off the recent large AMD Linux graphics comparison, I decided it time to run another premium special if you'd like to show your support and help allow for future, in-depth comparisons and other Linux hardware tests...
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While there's been various weird Ubuntu Tablet initiatives, it looks like next month will be the first official Ubuntu Tablet announcement that will usher in the long talked about convergence support...
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While today's 0-day local privilege escalation bug is making the news rounds on the Internet, there were many other security vulnerabilities discovered within the Linux kernel last year -- many of which didn't receive as much attention and some of them are even yet to be resolved...
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Sixty-three patches were published on the Mesa mailing list this morning for wiring up the ARB_internalformat_query2 extension as needed by OpenGL 4.3...
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GNOME developers have released the latest development version of the GTK+ tool-kit in the approach towards GNOME 3.20...
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Curious how the raw OpenGL performance and power efficiency has improved going back a decade to the GeForce 8 days? In this article is a 27-way graphics card comparison testing graphics cards from each generation going from the GeForce 8 series through the GeForce GTX 900 series and ending with the $999 GeForce GTX TITAN X. If you are interested in how graphics card performance has evolved, this is a fun must-read article.
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CVE-2016-0728 is being made public today: a 0-day local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel that's been present now for over three years...
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Just a few days ago the Wayland Drag-n-Drop actions support patches were published and they've now already ended up within the Weston repository...
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Since last month Intel has offered compute shader support via their open-source Linux graphics driver. The ARB_compute_shader support is needed for OpenGL 4.3 but so far Intel is the only Mesa/Gallium3D driver having support for this important extension...
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Darkest Dungeon is a roguelike, dungeon crawler game that's been in early access for the better part of a year while its full release is set for today...
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The AMD Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) code has been mainlined within the GCC compiler!..
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Whenever posting news items about the X.Org Foundation, it's common to routinely see a few comments about "let X.org die already!", "Wayland is the future!", and other similar remarks...
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David Airlie's latest interesting Linux graphics patch series is about GLAMOR, the means of providing 2D acceleration in a hardware-independent manner over OpenGL...
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AMD's Nicolai Hähnle has taken over where KDE developer Fredrik Höglund left off in working on accelerated texture uploads from Pixel Buffer Objects for Gallium3D drivers. This is a change just not for the Radeon Gallium3D drivers but for all of the drivers using the Mesa state tracker...
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A request recently came in (yes, from a premium user) for doing some fresh benchmarks atop the brand new Linux 4.4 kernel while comparing the P-State and CPUFreq CPU scaling drivers and their different scaling governor options...
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While Google's annual Summer of Code has been done for several months now, the KDE project published this weekend their final overview of all the progress that was made this past summer by these promising student developers...
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Beyond NetworkManager 1.2 having a MAC address randomization feature, WiFi scanning has also been improved...
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The Pitivi open-source non-linear video editor designed around GNOME components and making use of GStreamer just landed a big feature that also relieves another blocker in nearing the Pitivi 1.0 milestone...
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Ubuntu developers have been working on sending out some updated phone/convergence apps that take advantage of their new Suru visual language...
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If you are interested in the Intel NUC6i3SYK with its Core i3 Skylake CPU, benchmarks have been published on OpenBenchmarking.org...
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For providing network tracking protection and out of privacy concerns, NetworkManager 1.2 has added a feature that was first found in Apple's iOS 8 and has since been found in Windows 10 too...
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NVIDIA has released new patches today for helping the open-source Nouveau driver step towards properly supporting the GeForce GTX 900 "Maxwell" graphics cards as well as better supporting Tegra...
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Linus Torvalds pulled in the security subsystem updates this weekend for the Linux 4.5 kernel...
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Zlib is likely the most widely-used data compression library on open-source systems, but it's now at great risk of becoming obsoleted by more modern codecs for data compression...
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Version 4.12 of Xen Orchestra is now available, the open-source project built around XenServer. The Xen Orchestra 4.12 release brings new features and is one of the few remaining before focusing on Xen Orchestra 5...
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Datamash is a GNU program for performing numeric/textual/statistical operations in textual data files via the program's CLI...
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When it comes to open-source C/C++ compilers, most of the coverage these days is about new features and functionality for GCC and LLVM Clang. However, the Portable C Compiler with its history originally dating back to the 1970s continues to be in-development...