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Imagination Technologies announced the release today of the PowerVR Graphics SDK 4.0...
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Last week I posted some AMD proprietary vs. open-source AMD Linux driver benchmarks using the very latest code. Left out of that earlier comparison was the R9 Fury series with Fiji GPU as well as newer graphics cards using the Tonga GPU. These graphics cards are supported by the AMDGPU DRM driver rather than the long-standing Radeon DRM driver. As I've been mentioning a lot this week, Linux 4.5 will bring the PowerPlay power management / re-clocking support to AMDGPU. In this article are showing benchmarks of the Fiji and Tonga GPUs under Linux 4.4 and Linux 4.5 DRM-Next along with the Catalyst 15.9 driver as shipped by Ubuntu 15.10.
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If you are anxious to help test out the new changes of the Radeon and AMDGPU kernel drivers that will be added to Linux 4.5, I've spun up a kernel for Ubuntu x86_64 systems to try out this experimental code...
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As a Christmas present for GNOME users, Richard Hughes has shared the work going on with the GNOME Software app center and with the XDG-App sandboxing tech...
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While Linux 4.5 brings support for PowerPlay in the AMDGPU DRM driver to allow the modern discrete Radeon graphics cards to run much faster thanks to re-clocking, this major feature isn't being enabled by default for Linux 4.5...
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In response to my article this past weekend about It Doesn't Look Like Ubuntu Reached Its Goal Of 200 Million Users This Year, Dustin Kirkland of Canonical's Ubuntu Product and Strategy team has come out to say that number should be over one billion...
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As an exciting early Christmas present for Intel Linux users, ARB_tessellation_shader support has landed in Mesa Git as needed by OpenGL 4!..
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Just days after the release of Wine 1.8, the Wine-Staging 1.8 release is now available...
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Just minutes after writing about how AMDGPU PowerPlay support made it into AMD's drm-next-4.5 branch, that Git branch is now called for pulling into DRM-Next. Besides the PowerPlay support for the latest Radeon GPUs, there are also a number of other changes...
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Alex Deucher has been tidying up his drm-next-4.5 branch for merging the Radeon and AMDGPU DRM driver changes into DRM-Next...
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Now through 4 January is the "Steam Winter Sale" with discounts on thousands of games...
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The Canonical team working on the Mir display server has just announced their Christmas 2015 update, which brings the version up to 0.18...
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The first public preview release of Unreal Engine 4.11 is now available for testing just ahead of the holidays...
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Last week I posted benchmarks of the AMD proprietary vs. open-source Radeon R600/RadeonSI Gallium3D drivers of various graphics cards on the newest open-source code. Today I'm doing a similar treatment on the NVIDIA GeForce side with seeing how their proprietary driver compares to the latest open-source Nouveau code.
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The final feature pull request has been sent in of the Intel DRM graphics driver for targeting the Linux 4.5 kernel...
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For visitors to LinuxBenchmarking.com, the results of our automated, daily benchmarking of Intel's Clear Linux distribution is now public...
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It seems a few days ago NVIDIA quietly released some documentation to help open-source driver developers working on Nouveau...
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The two latest Saints Row games were released for Linux yesterday. While many were initially excited about these open-world games coming to Linux, many haven't been able to enjoy the experience due to driver issues...
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It shouldn't come as much of a surprise since Fedora tends to always ship the latest version of the GNU Compiler Collection at release time, but planning is now underway for landing GCC 6 into Fedora 24...
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Many Phoronix readers have been intrigued by the Pine A64, a Kickstarter project for manufacturing the first $15 ARM 64-bit single-board computer. That cheap ARM64 SBC is powered by the Allwinner A64 SoC and the good news is that there's work underway on allowing for mainline Linux kernel support...
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Following the latest Mesa and libdrm patches last week for allowing the Nouveau Gallium3D code to take advantage of the Nouveau DRM kernel driver's new interfaces, that work has now landed...
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Saints Row IV and Saints Row: Gat out of Hell have been released today for SteamOS/Linux...
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A few days ago on the new Intel Xeon E3 1245 v5 "Skylake" system I ran a variety of GCC and LLVM Clang compiler benchmarks to show how the performance of the resulting binaries differ between these competing open-source compilers.
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While Intel NUCs powered by Skylake have been announced for some time, it's still next to impossible to find these "NUC6" models at major Internet retailers. I'm told the situation should improve in early 2016, but fortunately there is some early Linux performance result data from two of these Skylake NUCs...
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Qt 5.6 remains about two months behind schedule, but the beta release of this tool-kit update with long-term support has been finally realized...
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The Solus Operating System is planning to announce its version 1.0 release on Christmas...
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Jiri Eischmann of Red Hat's desktop team recently carried out a survey asking Fedora users what they use as their email client...
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For those that haven't moved onto the Mesa 11.1 series yet, Emil Velikov has announced the release of Mesa 11.0.8 that backports many fixes to this previous stable series...
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2005 was the last year SuperTux saw a stable release, but arriving this weekend just in time for Christmas is SuperTux v0.4...
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Linus Torvalds has just announced the release of Linux 4.4-rc6...
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Last week I published a 7-way Linux laptop comparison with processors ranging from Sandy Bridge to Broadwell. Out of interest from readers in an even larger comparison, I've re-tested a Nehlaem-based "Clarksfield" laptop as well as a "Westmere" laptop to show how the raw performance and performance-per-Watt compare to the Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Haswell, and Broadwell devices.
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Four years ago at UDS Budapest was a lofty goal laid out by Mark Shuttleworth: 200 million users in four years...
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OpenMandriva has largely been a desktop-focused Linux distribution but now apparently they have set their sights on assembling a server offering...
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Intel recently added soft-pin support to their code within the DRM library (libdrm)...
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Prolific Nouveau contributor Ilia Mirkin has published a Gallium3D driver patch for implementing ETC2 and ASTC support on hardware supporting these texture compression methods...
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Following this week's OpenGL 4.1 R600g benchmarking with that newly-enabled OpenGL 4 support, I set out to run a larger hardware comparison on both the R600g and RadeonSI drivers as part of our year-end 2015 Linux benchmarking. In this article are tests of seven AMD Radeon graphics cards tested on the proprietary driver compared to the latest open-source driver stack -- with extra steps of enabling DRI3 rendering and also using the latest AMDGPU PowerPlay code.
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As a nice Christmas present for those dependent upon running Windows games/applications on Linux, Wine 1.8 was officially released just moments ago!..
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Microsoft in 2015 made many surprising open-source and Linux related announcements. By far 2015 has been the most surprising year watching Microsoft from the Linux space...
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Our friends at Lover Pi, an Amazon-based retailer of various ARM development boards, are offering some holiday discounts for Phoronix readers...
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With the year quickly coming to a close, last weekend I covered the most popular Linux/open-source news this year so far of the 3,100+ original articles written on Phoronix. Today at Phoronix we're looking at the most popular featured articles and Linux hardware reviews in 2015, of which there have been 251 so far this year...
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Long-time open-source graphics driver contributor and one of the newer members of AMD's open-source driver team, Nicolai Hähnle, has written an insightful article about debugging GPU VM faults...
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Intel's Open-Source Technology Center has some new code ready for testing on their DRM kernel graphics driver...
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Following the release of Radeon Software Crimson 15.12 for Windows, Radeon Technologies Group has now released Radeon Software Crimson Edition 15.12 for Linux...
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Last month Jolla was in very dire shape with having to go through debt restructuring and major layoffs at the company after their latest round of financing had collapsed. Fortunately, they've received a fresh round of funding to keep the company alive...
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My article this morning about Vulkan Looks All But Confirmed For 2016 Launch turned out to be spot-on and there will be no Vulkan API release in 2015...
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As some more exciting news today in the KDE Wayland space besides the server-side decoration support is the release of the first KDE Plasma Wayland Live DVD/USB image...
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KDE's Martin Gräßlin has announced a Christmas present to everyone looking forward to KDE on Wayland: support for server-side decorations...
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In continuation of last week's article about building an Intel Xeon E3 v5 Skylake Linux system, here are my complete performance figures on the Xeon E3-1245 v5 as a $300 Skylake processor featuring HD Graphics P530.
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It looks all but confirmed that Vulkan will launch in early 2016 rather than making it out this calendar year as originally planned...
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For those with an AMD Tonga or Fiji graphics card that want to try out the latest open-source AMDGPU kernel driver code with PowerPlay support enabled, here's an easy-to-use Ubuntu/Debian kernel spin...