GNU/Linux & Solaris Hardware Reviews
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5 hours 3 sec ago
After being pressed by repeated delays Fedora 20 "Heisenbug" has been given the go-ahead to be officially released next week...
6 hours 47 min ago
While many people work less over the holidays, this isn't the case at Phoronix and there's many exciting articles coming out daily for the better part of the next month. Here's a look, including our annual year-in-review articles of the Linux graphics drivers, etc...
8 hours 40 min ago
Yesterday an article was published how Activision Is Preventing A Game From Coming To Linux, according to the technical director of the studio behind the game in question. It turns out that the Phoenix Online Studios employee was wrong...
11 hours 17 min ago
The latest Cilk support to land in GCC from the Intel compiler developers for this multi-threaded parallel programming extension are support for the _Cilk_spawn and _Cilk_sync keywords...
11 hours 34 min ago
While we're still waiting on 3D/OpenGL guest acceleration for KVM/QEMU guests, a Bochs DRM kernel driver is still being developed for the virtual VGA adapters using the Bochs DISPI interface on QEMU...
14 hours 10 min ago
After being struck by repeated delays, Digia is very happy this morning in announcing the major Qt 5.2 tool-kit release...
19 hours 15 min ago
The Acer C720 was recently released as the latest Google Chromebook selling for just $199 USD. I have been running the Acer C720 Chromebook recently but not with Chrome OS and instead Ubuntu 13.10 Linux. This Chromebook with a Haswell-based dual-core Celeron CPU runs Ubuntu Linux rather nicely. Here are the first thorough benchmarks from this low-cost laptop.
20 hours 56 min ago
A few days back I wrote about an Intel Linux developer finding a 50 Watt power regression within the kernel since the 3.10 release. At first it looked like it might be easily solved, but the issue is still being investigated and Intel hardware engineers are now getting involved in the matter...
Thu, 12/12/2013 - 00:10
A set of Intel developers have worked out a new set of AVX and AVX2 routines for the Linux kernel to enhance additional crypto functionality for better performance...
Thu, 12/12/2013 - 00:02
Published back in November were a list of Newbie Projects for Mesa, easy but important contributions that could be done by new open-source developers looking to enter the world of open-source Linux graphics drivers. Fortunately, the project is still bearing fruit...
Wed, 12/11/2013 - 17:01
Published in early November was the initial Intel Broadwell graphics hardware support that was merged into the mainline Linux 3.13 kernel. This afternoon, initial Intel Broadwell support has been merged into the xf86-video-intel X.Org graphics driver...
Wed, 12/11/2013 - 15:20
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee is back in the season of evaluating features for the next Fedora Linux release...
Wed, 12/11/2013 - 14:25
The latest open-source project being forked by the Ubuntu developers at Canonical is the GNOME Control Center. In Ubuntu 14.04, there will now be the Unity Control Center...
Wed, 12/11/2013 - 13:22
Valve has just revealed their first 300 beta units of Steam Machines and their Steam Controllers are shipping this week, Friday the 13th. Also available at this time will be the first public SteamOS images!..
Wed, 12/11/2013 - 12:43
A game studio has shared publicly that Activison is preventing a new game from actively being made for "that platform", a.k.a. Linux...
Wed, 12/11/2013 - 10:40
Red Hat has delivered an early Christmas present for enterprise Linux users out there... Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 is now available!..
Wed, 12/11/2013 - 10:07
The ownCloud software for running your own private cloud server for storing files is up to version 6. With ownCloud 6 comes some very exciting features for this open-source private cloud software...
Wed, 12/11/2013 - 09:43
Last week NVIDIA updated one of their legacy Linux GPU drivers for supporting decade-old GPUs. Today, they've put out another legacy Linux driver release...
Wed, 12/11/2013 - 01:13
It's been a while since last looking on the anti-aliasing performance of the R600 Gallium3D driver so for this article we have some fresh MSAA benchmarks of the driver from Mesa 10.1-devel and using a Cayman-based high-end AMD Radeon graphics card.
Wed, 12/11/2013 - 00:00
The final planned release in the Phoronix Test Suite 4.x series is now available...
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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