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Martin Gräßlin's latest focus on KDE development has been improving the input device support under KWin, particularly for when it's acting as a Wayland compositor...
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With perfect timing now that the Radeon DDX enables DRI3 by default, Leo Liu of AMD has posted patches for implementing DRI3 support within the VA-API and VDPAU Gallium3D components...
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Topping off a lot of Google code landing in Coreboot in recent days for Chromebooks is support for another Google device and as part of that support for a Qualcomm SoC...
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Intel's Daniel Vetter has put out a concise overview of their DRM graphics driver changes queued up for the Linux 4.7 kernel...
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A Unity developer leading the Engineering Tools team at Unity Technologies has been working on porting the game engine to SDL in order to make it portable to Mir and Wayland...
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There's a follow-up to yesterday's story about AMD To Enable DRI3 By Default On Latest X.Org Servers...
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The Qt Company has today announced the release of Qt Creator 4.0.0 as the latest version of this Qt-focused integrated development environment...
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Patches have emerged for being able to take advantage of Intel's low-power/high-performance H.264 encoder on Linux via VA-API...
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Canonical's Michael Hall has shared his thoughts of trying out Unity 8 with Mir atop Ubuntu 16.04 as part of a ten-day trial...
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Buried within the notes for today's Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 release are a few interesting notes...
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Over one decade after the Linux kernel abandoned BitKeeper as their source version control system and years after Git's continued widespread adoption, BitKeeper has finally been made open-source...
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There is more exciting open-source AMD work to share today, a week before the feature freeze for the next version of Mesa...
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Prolific Nouveau contributor Samuel Pitoiset has now enabled compute support by default for NVIDIA GK110 GPUs and newer...
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There is less than one month to go when Phoronix will turn 12 years old as the leading destination for Linux hardware and open-source benchmarking content...
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Following this morning's release of the Fedora 24 Beta I immediately fired it up on a few test systems...
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The CPUFreq driver for CPU frequency scaling will have a new governor available with the Linux 4.7 kernel that's soon entering development...
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After being challenged by some delays, the beta of Fedora 24 is now available...
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After carrying out the recent GCC 4.9 vs. 5.3 vs. 6.1 compiler benchmarks for looking at the GNU Compiler Collection performance over the past three years on the same Linux x86_64 system, I then loaded up a development snapshot of the LLVM 3.9 SVN compiler to see how these two dominant compilers are competing on the performance front for C/C++ programs.
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For those relying upon RHEL6 and not RHEL7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 is now available...
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Michel Dänzer of AMD has published a patch today that would enable DRI3 by default for the xf86-video-ati X.Org driver...
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Bas Nieuwenhuizen has announced his work on "offchip tessellation" support for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver to provide dramatically better OpenGL tessellation performance...
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Yet another DRM kernel driver has been queued into DRM-Next for landing with Linux 4.7...
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Libinput 1.3 was released today with support for tablet pads -- the tablet part of a graphics tablet, with this being the last feature the developers needed for declaring feature-complete graphics tablet support in this widely-used input handling library...
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One of the recurring questions we see time and time again within our forums is about AMDGPU driver support for older GPUs, namely the GCN 1.0 hardware. It's looking like that experimental support for "Southern Islands" graphics cards may soon be published...
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Mozilla's next-generation, written-in-Rust Servo browser layout continues making progress as well as on the browser.html front-end and their goal of shipping at least one or more Rust/Servo components within the Gecko engine currently powering Firefox...
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At Friday's NVIDIA Dreamhack event there was another exciting showcase besides the incredible GeForce GTX 1080: there was the first demo of id Software's forthcoming Doom game running with the Vulkan API...
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For those into simulation/strategy games, Paradox released Stellaris today with same-day Linux support...
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Mesa release manager Emil Velikov of Collabora has announced the release of Mesa 11.2.2, the newest stable point release for this user-space stack to the open-source graphics drivers...
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Intel's Clear Linux operating system is now one of the first to be re-built under GCC 6 with using GCC 6.1 as its default compiler...
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While LibreOffice 5.2 isn't scheduled to be released until later this summer, here's an early look at some of the most interesting features coming to this multi-platform, open-source office suite...
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Over night Google engineers landed a bunch more code in Coreboot for supporting new Chromebook devices...
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With having done clean installs of Debian 8.4 and Debian testing (Stretch) the past few days on the same box, here are some fresh comparison numbers for your viewing pleasure...
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The seventh weekly release candidate to the Linux 4.6 kernel is now available...
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While Intel already landed a big round of code into DRM-Next as Linux 4.7 material, the train has not stopped and more fresh code is now in testing via the intel-drm-testing branch for integration into a future kernel release...
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With recently having upgraded some of the systems in our benchmark lab, commissioned a few new systems, and made some other changes, for your weekend enjoyment are some fresh benchmarks of 40 distinctly different Linux systems various performance tests.
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For those that may be in the market for DDR4-2133 EUDIMM memory, here's the particular memory I've been buying the most of these days and haven't run into any problems on using it with several different motherboards for Xeon E3 v5 Skylake systems...
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The Calamares installer framework continues to see more distributions adopt it as their installer, so it's good hearing this weekend that it's finally onto supporting LUKS encryption...
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For those using the Illumos-based OpenIndiana operating system originally derived from OpenSolaris, the MATE 1.14 desktop environment is now available...
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Given the recent stable release of GCC 6 (GCC v6.1.0), here are some fresh compiler benchmarks on an Intel Debian x86_64 system when comparing the GCC 4.9.3, GCC 5.3.0, and GCC 6.1.0 compiler releases.
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Those running any old VIA C3, AMD K5/K6, or original Intel Pentium CPUs, you'll be losing your Debian support past the current stable (Jessie) series...
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PostgreSQL 9.6 isn't being released until later this year, but with it moving along, the release notes are starting to be assembled for this next major update to this open-source SQL server implementation...
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GNewSense 4 was released yesterday as the successor to gNewSense 3, which had been around since 2013. GNewSense 4 was also their first release being based off the current Debian stable 7. GNewSense releases have been far and few between, but the developers involved are looking at possibility expediting gNewSense 5 and beyond...
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The 3D/OpenGL support in LibreOffice just got a bit better with now supporting multi-threaded rendering...
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The Outreachy summer 2016 intern accepted projects/participants were announced at the end of April with the internship period running from the end of May through the end of August. Here are the accepted projects...
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Tonight was NVIDIA's big announcement that indeed was about the Pascal-based GeForce GTX 1000 series...
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Frozenbyte's latest title, Shadwen, will be launching in just under two weeks with Linux support...
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While the FreeBSD's Intel kernel DRM/KMS driver is still dating back to the Linux 3.x kernel days and the state of other BSD distributions vary when it comes to their DRM/KMS support, DragonFlyBSD continues moving forward with their DRM/KMS driver porting from the Linux kernel. Their i915 DRM driver now is based off the relatively recent Linux 4.3 kernel...
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Enlightenment's Wayland support continues to become more feature complete with the latest feature work being for session recovery support...
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The distribution sponsored by the Free Software Foundation, gNewSense, is out with its version 4.0 "Ucclia" release...
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The second development release of Phoronix Test Suite 6.4 "Hasvik" is now available for your cross-platform, open-source benchmarking pleasure...