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Interesting GSoC 2015 Projects: Wine D3DRM, GameStream, NaCL Fun
Besides the six new X.Org projects this summer, there's also a lot of other interesting projects being pursued over the next few months via Google's annual Summer of Code initiative...
An Ubuntu Phone Will Ship This Year With The Converged Unity Experience
During Mark Shuttleworth's keynote this morning to kickoff the Ubuntu Online Summit for Ubuntu 15.10 (codenamed the Wily Werewolf) he also shed a few details about a new Ubuntu phone that is supposed to ship this year...
Ubuntu 15.10 Is Codenamed The Wily Werewolf
As expected, the Ubuntu 15.10 codename was announced today during Mark Shuttleworth's virtual keynote for kicking off this week's Ubuntu Online Summit...
Mono 4 Is Planned For Fedora 23
Aside from the other features proposed thus far for Fedora 23, the update of the popular Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution due out in late 2015, you can add Mono 4.0 to the list...
Ubuntu 15.10's "W" Codename Being Revealed Soon
Mark Shuttleworth is hosting his virtual keynote today for Ubuntu 15.10 with the Ubuntu Online Summit happening this week...
The Six X.Org Summer GSoC Projects For 2015
The accepted projects for this year's Google Summer of Code have been revealed. The accepted X.Org projects are once again particularly interesting...
Linux 4.1-RC2 Kernel Released
Coming right on time is the second release candidate to the Linux 4.1 kernel...
GNOME 3.17.1 Released
Javier Jardón announced the official release of GNOME 3.17.1 on Sunday, the development milestone leading up to GNOME 3.18...
A Lot Of Improvements Are Coming For Mir 0.13, Including Work Towards Libinput
We've known since March that Mir 0.13 would be a very large release and it's certainly panning out that way...
Mobile Optimizations Coming For Phoronix
Following the rollout of the new Phoronix.com server and HTTPS support, mobile optimizations to the site are next on my lengthy TODO list...
Wayland 1.8 Alpha Release Delayed
Bryce Harrington has delayed the Wayland/Weston 1.8 Alpha release by a few days...
Godot Game Engine 1.1 Up To RC State
One month after Godot 1.1 went into public beta, the release candidate of this open-source game engine is now available...
ATI Rage128 Driver Now Has RandR Support
For anyone still using the ATI Rage 128 graphics card, there's been a rare update to the xf86-video-r128 X.Org driver...
Microsoft's Visual C++ Team Is Improving Clang For Windows
While LLVM's Clang has been supported on Windows for some time and there's been improvements made to the Clang Windows support over the years by various vendors, Microsoft is now working on Clang within Visual Studio...
Kodi 15.0 Beta 1 Released
The first beta of "Isengard", a.k.a. Kodi 15.0, is now available for testing...
Lucid Sleep Support Is Being Worked On For The Upstream Linux Kernel
Chrome OS supports "Lucid Sleep", which is a mode of allowing the system to carry out various tasks while the system is in a low-power mode or even suspended, and similar to Microsoft InstantGo. This feature, which allows for tasks like checking of new emails or instant messages while the system is suspended, is being worked on for (hopeful) eventual upstreaming into the mainline Linux kernel...
PC-BSD Works Out Big Improvements For Its Lumina Desktop
PC-BSD developers have worked out some May Day releases of the first release candidate to PC-BSD 10.1.2 and they've also released a new version of their custom Lumina Desktop...
Improvements On The Way For GNOME's Nautilus File Manager
GNOME 3.18 is shaping up to be another super exciting GNOME 3 update. Aside from GTK+ improvements, better Wayland support, and various other additions being worked on for GNOME 3.18, there's also significant improvements planned for the Nautilus file manager...
Wine 1.7.42 Implements More Of Direct2D
Wine 1.7.42 was released this morning as the latest bi-weekly Wine development release...
Fedora 22 Beta Now Available For AArch64 & POWER
Last week Fedora 22 beta was released for the primary architectures while out now are the spins for the alternative architectures: 64-bit ARM (AArch64) and POWER...
Mono 4.0 Makes Use Of Microsoft's Open-Source Code, C# 6.0
Mono 4.0.0 was finally released this week and comes at a time where Microsoft has been open-sourcing large parts of their .NET stack and natively bringing these components to Linux...
OpenBSD 5.7 Released, Finally Brings USB 3.0 Support
OpenBSD developers are celebrating May Day by releasing OpenBSD 5.7, as previously planned...
Microsoft, NVIDIA & Linux 4.1 Dominated Linux News In April
With the month coming to an end, here's a look at the most popular open-source and Linux-related news stories over the past 30 days... This month on Phoronix there were 261 original news stories written by your's truly covering the interesting Linux / free software happenings...
Mozilla Moves Forward With Deprecating Non-Secure HTTP
Earlier this month I wrote about plans being drafted for Mozilla to deprecate non-secure HTTP support moving forward. Those plans have been firmed up and they announced their intent to phase out non-secure HTTP support...
Adding Extra Ventilation To The Basement Linux Server Room
One month ago I detailed the construction process of building a new server room in my basement where Linux performance tests are constantly being done and it's up to about 50 systems running down there. While initially there weren't any thermal concerns, now that it's getting warmer here in the midwest of the United States, temperatures are quickly rising... Here's the steps I did to add some power venting to the basement and already it's sharply dropped the temperatures in this server farm...
Git 2.4 Release Improves The BSD Experience
Junio Hamano has ended out the month by releasing Git 2.4.0, the latest feature update to the popular distributed version control system...
Valve Releases OpenVR SDK
Valve Software today released the OpenVR SDK, an API and runtime that allows accessing virtual reality hardware from multiple vendors without requiring the applications be specifically targeting that platform...
Wayland & Other Tasks Being Worked On For KDE Plasma 5.4
Now that KDE Plasma 5.3 was released this week, KDE developers are starting to plan out and work on the new material intended for KDE Plasma 5.4...
OPW/Outreachy Has 30 Summer Projects For Encouraging Women In Open-Source
Outreachy, the program formerly known as GNOME OPW, has announced their selected participants who will be engaging with various open-source projects over the next few months...
Btrfs RAID Testing Begins With Linux 4.0
With Btrfs recently landing RAID 5/6 improvements and other enhancements, I've been working on some fresh Btrfs RAID benchmarks using the Linux 4.0 kernel...
Valve Adds 64-bit Linux Support To SteamVR
In the latest of the frequent updates to SteamVR, Valve has added 64-bit Linux support...
EGL Sync Extensions Come To Gallium3D
Marek Olšák has implemented support for the EGL sync extensions within Gallium3D...
Ubuntu Make Adds Support For Visual Studio Code
Verison 0.7 of Ubuntu Make has been released, the software formerly known as the Ubuntu Developer Tools Center...
Unreal Engine 4.8 Adding SteamVR Support
Next week Epic Games is expected to ship the first preview version of Unreal Engine 4.8, which will come with SteamVR support...
The Big Hardware Collection Powering The Benchmark Lab
For those curious about the many hardware components powering "the basement server room" with continuous open-source and Linux benchmarking, here's a list of the key components that have made it thus far...
OpenBenchmarking.org & Phoronix.com Are Now Running On MariaDB
Besides being powered by more powerful server hardware, also delivering faster response times to Phoronix and OpenBenchmarking.org is thanks to MariaDB...
Create-Context-Robustness For Mesa's Gallium3D Drivers
The latest Mesa/Gallium3D driver work by AMD's Marek Olšák is on working out create_context_robustness work for the Gallium3D drivers...
HTTPS Will Be Available To All Phoronix Readers
Following the article earlier this week about HTTPS for Phoronix.com, I'm happy to share that I'm pledging to continuing to make the HTTPS support for all Phoronix readers...
Debian GNU/Hurd 2015 Released
With this weekend's release of Debian 8.0 Jessie there wasn't an adjoining Debian GNU/Hurd release, but today that release has come out...
Tux3 File-System Works Out Faster Fsync Support
Daniel Phillips has worked out faster fsync support within Tux3, the promising open-source file-system that continues to be developed outside of the mainline kernel...
Trying Out Microsoft Visual Studio Code On Linux
Following the big news just now that Microsoft released their new Visual Studio IDE for Linux, I downloaded it and tried out on Fedora 21...
Microsoft Releases New Code IDE For Linux!
At Microsoft's BUILD Conference today they released Visual Studio Code, a new IDE for developing web and cloud applications. Most interestingly, Visual Studio Code is natively running on Linux!..
GLAMOR + RadeonSI 2D Acceleration Is Quite Good For Open-Source AMD 2D Performance
Yesterday I posted some benchmark results showing the AMD Radeon R9 290 graphics card on Ubuntu 15.04 and comparing the Catalyst driver to the open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver as found on this new Linux distribution release. The previous article focused on the OpenGL performance while today's article is looking squarely at the 2D performance.
OpenMP 4.1 Support Is In The Works For GCC
This month's release of GCC 5 brought OpenMP 4.0 support -- including the initial offloading support -- while GCC developers now are already at work on OpenMP 4.1 support...
GTK+ 3.17.1 Fixes Many Bugs, Drops XP, Improves High Contrast Themes
The first GNOME GTK+ tool-kit update is now out there for the GNOME 3.17 development series that will culminate with the release of GNOME 3.18 in September...
Opera 29 Brings Tab Synchronization Between Devices
For those still using the Opera web-browser on Linux, version 29 was released yesterday with new features...
A Bunch Of Gallium3D D3D9 Fixes Land In Mesa
For users of "Gallium3D Nine", the state tracker providing Direct3D 9 API support within Mesa, there's a number of fixes that were pushed into Git this morning...
Bodhi Linux Forks Enlightenment E17
The Bodhi Linux distribution has forked the Enlightenment project from its E17 release...
DragonEgg Starts Cracking In LLVM
Going back to the earlier days of LLVM has been the DragonEgg plug-in. DragonEgg is a GCC plug-in that implements LLVM's optimizers and code generators within GCC. With Clang becoming suitable for day-to-day use on large production workloads and GCC also improving, the benefits of DragonEgg have greatly diminished...
Another OpenGL 4.2 Extension Comes Close For Intel Mesa
Another OpenGL 4 extension is nearing completion within the open-source Mesa software library. The extension t his time is ARB_shader_image_load_store, which is needed for OpenGL 4.2 compliance...
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