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Friday afternoon I had a call with a few AMD representatives talking about their Linux driver plans for 2016. Here's the details for those wondering about AMDGPU, Vulkan, GPUOpen, and more.

Thanks to work done by Netflix and NGINX, a new, drop-in-replacement sendfile syscall has been written for FreeBSD that is much faster...

While the KDE Akonadi PIM storage service has been criticized as being slow, among other complaints, it's continuing to be developed and improved upon in the Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5 world...

Matthias Clasen has released GTK+ 3.19.6 in the road towards the GNOME 3.20 release in March...

Yesterday we wrote that it looked like Fedora 24 would be delayed and today FESCo has indeed decided to delay the release and all milestones by two weeks, but it might be dragged out to at least three weeks...

Canonical's Colin King has looked at the number of FIXME and TODO comments within the Linux kernel tree...

Ken Vermette has written a lengthy article for us about his thoughts on the state of the KDE Plasma 5 desktop as of the recent 5.5 release. If you are curious how KDE Plasma 5 is panning out, how it works on Wayland, and much more, this article is a definite must-read.

Unless there's a miracle, the X.Org Foundation stands to lose one of its biggest assets: its single-letter domain name...

The latest feature work on Libinput is for supporting three and four finger pinch gestures...

Ilia Mirkin has landed some more notable feature code into Mesa this evening...

Valve today rolled out some nice updates for gamers of Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, including Linux-specific improvements...

With the merge window expected to open next week for the Linux 4.5 kernel, AMD's Alex Deucher has sent some more last-minute work into DRM-Next...

Thanks to work that landed today by GNOME's Carlos Garnacho, there is now support on the GNOME desktop for supporting screen rotation on Wayland...

If you are into retro gaming, there's a Quake 2 game mod that might now see a Linux port...

While Intel has already supported OpenCL 2.0 on Windows, under Linux the current Beignet project for open-source OpenCL is still limited to the 1.2 specification. Fortunately, in recent weeks the OpenCL 2.0 branch has seen some new activity...

While we are not even up to the alpha release yet of Fedora 24, there's a call to already push back the entire schedule by up to a few weeks...

Clement Lefebvre has revealed more details about Linux Mint 18, the next major release of this popular, Ubuntu-derived Linux distribution...

PostgreSQL 9.5 was officially released this morning with several exciting new features...

Linksys has gone ahead and is finally providing open-source DD-WRT support for their latest WRT routers...

With the Linux 4.2 kernel there was no feature update for Nouveau and it's looking like it might be that way too for Linux 4.5...

New patches have been posted by an AMD engineer for exposing accumulated power reporting...

Some patches from 2014 have been revived in hopes of addressing the Year 2038 problem for Linux file-systems...

Intel has committed all of the PCI IDs to Mesa and libdrm for the graphics processors of their next-generation Kabylake hardware...

The KDE development team has announced their first Plasma 5 update of 2016...

While the Tegra X1 is the latest and greatest NVIDIA SoC out there currently, the Tegra K1 is still a beauty and still blows many other ARM boards out of the water. If you happen to have a Tegra K1 Chromebook, it's possible to get Fedora 23 Linux running on there with a bit of hacking...

SQLite 3.10 has been released today as the latest version of this widely-used SQL database engine library...

Imagination has announced the PowerVR Series7XT Plus graphics processor from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas...

Oculus Rift pre-orders opened up this morning for $599 USD and an anticipated ship date of April. However, the Facebook-owned company isn't yet back to providing Linux support...

If you are very tight on space, Inteset Technologies sells a computer case that is rackmount compatible where you're able to fit two complete systems within a 1U slot.

When running the tests recently for the NVIDIA Linux Driver 2015 Year-in-Review and How AMD's Proprietary Linux Driver Evolved In 2015, I also ran some extra tests comparing the AMD Radeon Software 15.12 and NVIDIA 358.16 proprietary drivers when looking at their CPU usage, memory consumption, and other system sensors...

With for at least Android devices it's possible to import WiFi network settings via QR codes / barcodes rather than manually having to input a lot of information manually...

Tom Stellard of AMD's open-source graphics team and continuing to serve as LLVM's point release manager has announced the long-awaited LLVM 3.7.1 release...

Hyperion Entertainment confirmed that at the end of December the source code to AmigaOS 3.1 was leaked, which is now causing problems for the company continuing to develop this proprietary operating system...

NVIDIA's Unix graphics driver team is starting off the new year by releasing their first public beta in the 361 Linux driver series...

While the Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L is a motherboard from nearly a decade ago and is powered by the Intel G41 + ICH7 chipset combination, as of today it now has support in Libreboot for being able to initialize the hardware without any binary blobs...

Red Hat's Christian Schaller has written a blog post today about Fedora Workstation and the quest for stability and robustness...

For the past few months a Samsung developer has been working on VA-API support for Nouveau. After a few patch revisions, that work is finally hitting mainline Mesa...

Kevin Martin of the Fedora Project has written a status update and plan around the "Wayland-by-default" effort for Fedora 24...

Released a few days back was a modified Linux kernel that can run on the PlayStation 4. With a Sony PlayStation 4 hack by "fail0verflow", it's possible to run a Linux desktop on this latest-generation game console. Now these device hackers have managed to get the PlayStation 4 working with the Radeon Gallium3D driver...

Samsung has contributed core tuning support for their new Exynos M1 "Mongoose" core...

A few more features have been proposed for the May release of Fedora 24...

The Wayland primary selection protocol was published nearly one month ago and continues to be reviewed and further refined by developers. This new protocol is one of the keys to whether Fedora 24 will enable Wayland by default...

The Debian project has today published a longer tribute in honor of Ian Murdock after briefly announcing his passing last week...

At NVIDIA's CES press conference last night they announced the DRIVE PX2 as a "in-car super-computer" that's "as powerful as 150 MacBook Pros", while this SC is powered by a yet-to-be-announced SoC...

With today's Ubuntu 16.04 Alpha 1 milestone, Lubuntu put out their first "Xenial Xerus" Alpha 1 build, but it's not terribly exciting...

Junio Hamano announced the release this afternoon of Git 2.7.0, the latest stable version of this extremely popular, open-source version control system...

The WiFi Alliance has announced the new HaLow technology in preparation for this week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES)...

Last month I showed how AMD's open-source driver performance evolved in 2015 while today's article is looking at how the closed-source AMD / Radeon Technologies Group proprietary driver has evolved over the course of the year.

The first alpha release is now available for Ubuntu flavors opting-in to do their first 16.04 "Xenial Xerus" development release...

As another recent Firefox Nightly change besides enabling WebGL 2 by default is that Firefox's just-in-time compiler supports W^X protection...