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ASUS MX279H 27-inch LED-Lit AH IPS Monitor

8 hours 16 min ago
The ASUS MX279H is a nicely built 27-inch LED-Lit monitor that retails for just over $300 USD, but to the dismay of some, its resolution is just 1920 x 1080.

Mesa DRI3 Picks Up GLX_EXT_buffer_age Support

Fri, 14/03/2014 - 12:39am
The Direct Rendering Infrastructure 3 code for Mesa has picked up support for the GLX_EXT_buffer_age extension...

KDE 4.13 Beta 2 Published

Thu, 13/03/2014 - 11:33pm
The second beta release of the applications and platform stack for KDE 4.13 is now available...

Unity 7 Still Being Tuned Ahead Of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Thu, 13/03/2014 - 7:57pm
New features like HiDPI and local menus are still being tuned within the Unity 7 desktop environment ahead of next month's debut of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS...

DRM Driver Documentation To Be Better In Linux 3.15

Thu, 13/03/2014 - 7:12pm
For those looking to dive into the world of DRM kernel graphics drivers, there will be improved documentation coming with the Linux 3.15 kernel...

Ubuntu's Music App Undergoes Further Planning

Thu, 13/03/2014 - 5:39pm
The Qt-based Music App that in development for the phone/tablet versions of Ubuntu Linux that will eventually find its way to the desktop was a discussion item this morning on the final day of the virtual 14.03 Ubuntu Developer Summit...

NGINX-Core Makes It Into Ubuntu 14.04 Main Archive

Thu, 13/03/2014 - 5:14pm
A few months ago we wrote about NGINX slated to play a bigger role in Ubuntu 14.04 with this lightweight web server alternative to Apache HTTPD being sought after for inclusion into the "Trusty Tahr" main archive. That milestone has now been reached...

Intel Iris Graphics 5100: Windows 8.1 vs. Ubuntu 14.04 Linux

Thu, 13/03/2014 - 4:00pm
Under the Linux microscope today is the Intel Iris Graphics 5100 (GT3) found on the Core i7 4558U CPU within the ASUS Zenbook UX301LA "Haswell" ultrabook. How do the Intel Iris Graphics performance compare between Windows 8.1 and the soon-to-be-released Ubuntu 14.04? We can tell you the answer today with a fresh round of multi-OS OpenGL benchmarks from this high-end Intel ultrabook.

OpenACC 1.0 Support Merged For GCC Fortran

Thu, 13/03/2014 - 2:45pm
Support for the OpenACC parallel programming standard for heterogeneous CPU/GPU systems has been added to GCC's Fortran compiler front-end...

GNOME Shell 3.12 Receives Last-Minute HiDPI Fixes

Thu, 13/03/2014 - 2:17pm
One of the user-facing features of GNOME 3.12 is GNOME Shell's HiDPI support, but last minute issues regarding HiDPI are still being resolved...

Shuttleworth On Google Go, Unity 8, Ubuntu Phone, Etc

Thu, 13/03/2014 - 11:57am
At this week's virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit besides saying Mir will be the default on the Ubuntu desktop by 16.04 LTS and also saying systemd will be used when it's hardened (again by the 16.04 LTS time-frame) Mark had some other interesting comments...

GLAMOR Patch Bomb Can Boost Some Operations By 700~800%

Thu, 13/03/2014 - 9:50am
Eric Anholt at Intel OTC continues investing great amounts of time recently on improving the GLAMOR acceleration code that was merged into the X.Org Server for speeding up 2D acceleration using OpenGL. Eric is out this week with a set of 27 patches for review pertaining to this code...

Ubuntu Developers Plot Roadmap For Their New Software Store

Thu, 13/03/2014 - 7:17am
Another Virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit is taking place this week and one of the interesting sessions was with regard to a road-map for Ubuntu's new "Software Store" for Ubuntu Phones/Tablets...

Wayland's Weston Can Now Be Built With A Libinput Back-End

Thu, 13/03/2014 - 6:29am
The latest Weston code finally adds support for building this reference Wayland compositor with support for a libinput-based input device back-end...

Ubuntu Systemd Plans: Will Be Default By Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Thu, 13/03/2014 - 4:11am
Now that Ubuntu has pledged support to systemd moving forward in place of their in-house Upstart project, developers are starting to figure out the systemd migration path...

Valve Publishes The Source Code For Their VOGL OpenGL Debugger

Thu, 13/03/2014 - 1:22am
Back at the Steam Dev Days in January, Valve Software talked up their VOGL Linux OpenGL debugger for game developers and they announced it would be open-source. As of tonight, that code is now publicly available as Valve's latest open-source software project...

Mark Shuttleworth: Mir By Default In Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Thu, 13/03/2014 - 12:25am
Delays keep piling up for the Mir display server on the Ubuntu desktop. After already being postponed multiple times, the Mir Display Server might not be enabled by default on the Ubuntu Linux desktop until the 16.04 LTS release -- in two years time...

A Number Of Fedora 21 Features Were Just Approved

Wed, 12/03/2014 - 10:08pm
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee has approved a batch of new features for Fedora 21 with its much anticipated debut in Q4'2014...

Unreal Engine 4 Is Running Great In Firefox

Wed, 12/03/2014 - 8:38pm
Unreal Engine 4 will be capable of running within web-browsers using WebGL and it's already been demoed running within Mozilla Firefox. Firefox running UE4 is at "near-native speeds" to the desktop version...

Mesa 10 Will Likely End Up As A Fedora 20 Update

Wed, 12/03/2014 - 8:21pm
While it didn't look like Fedora 20 would end up having Mesa 10.x as a stable release update but would be stuck to Mesa 9.2 for the duration of the F20 lifespan, it now looks like an update to Mesa 10.0 will end up happening for stable Mesa users...

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