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DNF 1.1.5 Fixes A Number Of Bugs
DNF 1.1.5 is available today to mark the new year and provide a number of bug fixes for this package manager used on modern versions of Fedora Linux...
Features To Start Looking Forward To For Linux 4.5
With Linux 4.4 expected next weekend, here's a look at some of the early features we've already been talking about on Phoronix that should be on the table for the Linux 4.5 merge window...
New AMD Radeon "Polaris" GPU Details Revealed
Just ahead of CES, AMD/RTG is allowing more details on their next-generation Polaris GPU architecture to be revealed...
X.Org Server Development Slows To Lowest Point In A Decade
The maturing of Wayland (and Mir) as well as external projects like libinput have clearly had an impact on the X.Org Server's development... In 2015 there were fewer xorg-server commits than any year since 2003. Other indicators also point to dramatically slower X Server development...
FOSDEM 2016 Is Less Than One Month Away
There is just four weeks to go until the annual Free Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM)...
GNOME Maps Is Already Making Progress Via Outreachy
While GNOME's Outreachy program for this term just began in December and will be running through March, the under-represented participants are already making progress on the GNOME Maps program...
Linux 4.4-rc8 Kernel Released
Linus Torvalds tagged the release a short time ago of the Linux 4.4-rc8 kernel...
PlayOnLinux 4.2.10 Released
For those relying upon PlayOnLinux for playing various Windows games on Linux rather than using CodeWeavers' CrossOver or interacting with Wine directly, the newest version of this open-source program is now available...
Python Is Moving From Mercurial To GitHub
For those that didn't hear, Python developers will be abandoning their Mercurial-based repository and development workflow in favor of using a Git repository via GitHub...
Systemd Saw The Most Commits Ever In 2015
In 2015 there was 5,466 commits to the systemd repository, which was noticeably more than any year in the past...
VLC 3.0 Continues To Be Developed With Many Changes
It's been nearly one year now that we've been getting excited over VLC 3.0. While we haven't heard any major updates recently and the release has yet to take place, progress continues to be made...
Linux Game: Volvox. Let's Kick Start Evolution.
Volvox features the Trimoebas, who are triangular shaped unicellular organisms living in the primordial soup. They have but one goal in life: build the first multicellular organism. Simple, right?
Not Everyone Who Ordered A Jolla Tablet Will Receive One
While Jolla was saved last month by a fresh round of financing, even now not everyone who backed the Jolla Tablet project on IndieGoGo will be receiving a tablet...
Fedora's Rawhide Continues Becoming More Reliable
Fedora Rawhide -- the unstable, nightly grounds of Fedora Linux -- had enjoyed improvements in 2015 to ensure users of it have a better experience while more improvements are still planned for the year ahead...
CES 2016 Won't Be Too Exciting For Linux Desktop Enthusiasts
While there will be many Android-powered devices, various appliances powered by Linux from drones to kitchen appliances, and other products internally relying upon Linux and open-source software, don't expect to find much with regard to the Linux desktop and even Steam Machines will seem to be rather low-key...
Using UEFI/OVMF In VMs With Virt-Manager
If you are just a casual user of the Linux virtualization stack with the open-source virt-manager, you might not know that for months they have already been supporting UEFI-based installations inside virtual machines...
PHP 7.0 Enters Arch Linux Stable Repository
Arch Linux is now shipping PHP 7.0 via their stable repositories for those relying upon it for web servers or other purposes from an installation of this rolling-release distribution...
Details Regarding Ian Murdock's Untimely Passing Remain Scarce
One of the most viewed and commented topics on Phoronix this week has been about the untimely passing of Ian Murdock, founder of Debian and former leader of Sun's Project Indiana OpenSolaris project...
Phoronix Test Suite 6.2-Gamvik M2 Released
The second development milestone release of Phoronix Test Suite 6.2 "Gamvik" is now available for all your bleeding-edge, open-source, cross-platform benchmarking needs...
Debian Gets A New Packaging Tool
CME is a new tool to assist in maintaining Debian packages...
Steam Linux Usage Pulled Back A Bit In December: 0.97%
The Steam Survey results for December 2015 are now available and the reported Linux use remains below 1%...
GIMP & GEGL Made Much Progress In 2015
Alexandre Prokoudine of GIMP has written an annual report on the project and its GEGL port...
PCI Express Speed Changes Still Being Worked On For Nouveau
Support for altering the PCI Express speed with the Nouveau DRM driver is still being worked on for improving the open-source NVIDIA driver's performance...
CineForm HD Is Being Worked On For Linux/Open-Source Desktop Support
Kieran Kunhya with some documentation in hand and a lot of reverse engineering has been working on allowing support for the GoPro Cineform HD codec from the open-source Linux desktop...
Mesa Saw The Most Commits Last Year Since 2010
Similar to yesterday's look at the Linux kernel Git code with its nearly 20.8 million lines, I also ran some Git statistics on Mesa to see how its development numbers panned out for the year...
Vulkan, BUS1, SuperTux, Raspberry Pi Zero & Other Popular December Topics
For those recovered from the New Year, here's a look at the most popular Linux/open-source topics that appeared on Phoronix in December...
Better Multi Indirect Draw Support Coming To Mesa
Ilia Mirkin has seemingly not taken much time off from his Mesa hacking for the holidays. On Thursday this developer who most frequently works on the Nouveau and Freedreno drivers has published patches for better ARB_multi_draw_indirect handling...
Mathew Garrett On The State Of Boot Security
Matthew Garrett presented this week at the Chaos Computer Club's 32C3 conference about the state of boot security...
Happy New Year & Here's To A Great 2016
Thanks to everyone who supported Phoronix in 2015 and here's to a Happy New Year to all our readers and may 2016 be even more interesting and fruitful...
Calculate Linux 15.12 Released With Various Changes, Now Supports AMDGPU
The developers working on Calculate Linux decided to release a new version of their Gentoo-based Linux operating system before heading to New Year parties...
Linux Kernel Ends The Year At 20.8 Million Lines
The mainline Linux kernel is up to 20.86 million lines spread across more than 52 thousand files, as the latest statistics for the kernel as we end out 2015...
Firefox Turns On Its WebGL 2 Support
For users of Firefox Nightly builds, WebGL 2 support is now enabled...
The Most Popular Programming & Compiler News Of 2015
This year saw the release of GCC 5, many new features to LLVM Clang, the release of PHP 7, Rust 1.0 was released, Apple open-sourced their new Swift programming language, Microsoft has been pushing .NET in the open, and many other exciting advancements for open-source compilers and programming languages...
MARS Replication System Still Being Worked On For Upstream Linux Kernel
Thomas Schoebel-Theuer on behalf of Germany's 1+1 Internet continues working on bringing MARS to the upstream Linux kernel...
Deepin 15 Linux Released
Following the recent release candidate, Deepin 15 is now officially available for ending out 2015...
NVIDIA Linux Driver 2015 Year-in-Review
Similar to the recent open-source year end driver recaps, here's a recap of NVIDIA's binary driver activities for 2015 along with some benchmarks comparing the performance of the proprietary driver over the past year.
The Most Popular GNOME & KDE Happenings Of 2015
Continuing on with our other year-end looks, here are lists of the most popular GNOME and KDE desktop happenings of the year...
Webmin 1.780 Brings Let's Encrypt Support
Webmin, the open-source project offering web-based system/server administration on Linux and an alternative to cPanel, is out with a new release after being a few months in development...
Nouveau Hooks Up ARB_shader_draw_parameters Support
The open-source Nouveau driver has hooked up support for OpenGL's relatively new ARB_shader_draw_parameters extension...
Microsoft Blocks Linux Game Port From Happening
Microsoft has blocked a Linux game port from happening over their publishing deal with a studio...
Tomorrow Is The Last Day For Taking Advantage Of Our Premium Deal
Tomorrow is the last day for taking advantage of our 2015 Phoronix Premium holiday deal...
Debian Founder Ian Murdock Passes Away
Debian's founder, Ian Murdock, has passed away...
Rust Now Prefers Using The GNU Gold Linker By Default
The latest win for GNU's Gold linker is with the Rust programming language...
Major Linux Desktop Problems In 2016
A widely-cited blog post about the major Linux desktop problems has been updated for 2016...
Open-Source / Linux Enthusiasts Have A Lot To Be Thankful For This Year
Last week I wrote about some of the open-source / Linux letdowns of the year while today's article is looking at some of the positives from throughout the year...
For Those Dealing With Binary Blobs, NVIDIA Continues Owning The Linux Desktop
While NVIDIA has a ways to go on the open-source driver side, when it comes to proprietary drivers on Linux the green graphics giant continued to dominate with their high quality proprietary driver that continued adding in new features...
Windows 10 Reportedly On 200+ Million Devices
Microsoft has reportedly said that Windows 10 has been installed on 200 million devices so far worldwide...
What Struck A Chord With Debian Users In 2015
With SteamOS being based off Debian, it was another successful year for this Linux distribution but there was also much more to be excited about as Debian users...
Systemd Continued Commanding Linux Systems In 2015
This year Ubuntu switched over to using systemd in place of Upstart, other distributions have also decided to take advantage of systemd, this project hosted its first conference, and the systemd feature-set continued to expand...
Gallium3D's LLVMpipe Now Optimized For POWER8
For those fortunate enough to have a POWER8 system running Linux, the LLVMpipe software rasterizer should now be running faster...
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