Linux Foundation Additions and Phoronix Catchup

Kernel
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PLUMgrid Joins Linux Foundation as Gold Member
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux and collaborative development announced today that PLUMgrid has joined the organization as a Gold member.
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Linux 4.2-rc3 Kernel Released, Just Another Sunday
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Kernel 4.2 RC3 Has Been Released
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Skylake SoC Support Added To Coreboot
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Intel Adds Skylake/Braswell Boards To Coreboot: Kunimitsu, Cyan, RPV3, Strago
Skylake is around the corner and now after an Intel engineer added Skylake SoC support to Coreboot, that work has been extended by adding support for the first Skylake motherboards in Coreboot.
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The OCZ Trion 100 SSD Is Running Well On Linux
Recently you may have heard of OCZ launching their new Trion 100 series, which is the latest example of low-cost solid-state storage. The OCZ Trion 240GB costs just $90 USD and the larger capacities are also around $0.375 per GB. In having picked up one of these cheap SSDs for another Linux test system recently, I ran some basic open-source Linux benchmarks on the Trion 100.
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Heterogeneous Memory Management Is Still Baking For Linux
Jerome Glisse continues hacking on the very lengthy feature work item of adding Heterogeneous Memory Management (HMM) to the Linux kernel.
We haven't written about HMM for Linux since the end of last year when version seven of the patches were published. Today, HMM is up to its ninth patch revision. This latest revision incorporates feedback from earlier code reviews and reworks some of the patch structure.
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5GHz WiFi To Improve Under Linux With Latest WPA_Supplicant
If you've noticed your 802.11 WiFi adapters on Linux tending to more often connect to 2.4GHz networks than 5GHz, you're not alone, but improvements for 5GHz WiFi on Linux are forthcoming.
Graphics
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NVIDIA's Latest Open-Source Tegra Work Focuses On VIC Support
The latest work that NVIDIA's been working on for the open-source Nouveau driver is to enable VIC support.
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Nouveau X.Org Driver To Drop Maxwell & GLAMOR Support
Patches are pending to remove GLAMOR support from the xf86-video-nouveau DDX driver and as a result to also drop the Maxwell hardware support.
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AMD Had Another Tough Quarter; It's Still Hard Finding A Radeon R9 Fury
On a sort of completely different topic but related, the AMD Radeon R9 Fury (X) is still a tough fine and seems to be constantly out-of-stock at all major Internet retailers. I'm still working on buying one for a Radeon R9 Fury review under Linux, but no luck yet in finding any in-stock (sans NewEgg's more expensive PC componet bundles). If any Phoronix readers manage to find any or have any other details, feel free to share in the forums.
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X.Org Server 1.18 Will Require Updated Video Drivers
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Libinput 0.20 Brings Touchpad Gestures
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Mesa 10.5 vs. 10.7 Git, Linux 4.2 Kernel For Intel Iris Graphics 5100
This weekend I had out the ASUS Zenbook ultrabook with Core i7 4558 "Haswell" processor that boasts Iris Graphics 5100. I figured I'd run some Mesa 10.5 vs. 10.7-devel and Linux 4.0 vs. 4.1 vs. 4.2 kernel graphics tests.
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Riding The Latest Linux Kernel & Mesa Is Great For Intel's Braswell
Last month I wrote about the latest Linux kernel yielding better performance for Intel Bay Trail hardware. Those gains also carry over to Intel's newest Braswell SoCs. Here are some tests with the newest Linux kernel and Mesa Git code when using the new Intel Braswell NUC with Celeron N3050.
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Imagination Is Hiring A PowerVR Linux, Open-Source Driver Developer
We've been hearing now for a few months that Imagination is working on some sort of new PowerVR Linux driver and at least larger components of it would be open-source. This new Imagination job posting seems to further confirm this work.
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NVIDIA Is Changing Their Kernel Module Build System
With NVIDIA's upcoming 355.xx Linux driver series they will be employing a new kernel module build system for their proprietary driver.
Benchmarks
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The Insane Power Use Of Benchmarking Linux Every Day
While a lot of results are produced on LinuxBenchmarking.com of daily automated open-source/Linux tests and separately on Phoronix.com, these results do not come free but require a great deal of resources to keep going.
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AMD's Latest Open-Source Driver On Linux Is Getting Competitive With Catalyst 15.7
With the big Catalyst 15.7 Linux driver update released last week and the continued evolution of the open-source AMD Linux driver in the Linux kernel and Mesa Gallium3D, here are fresh benchmarks of six different AMD Radeon graphics cards when being tested on both the open and closed-source drivers to represent the AMD Linux gaming experience this summer.
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Btrfs Seems To Finally Have Failed Me On A Production System
In the Phoronix server room for our Linux hardware testing and the LinuxBenchmarking.com daily performance tracker there are 16 of the 56 systems running Btrfs as their root file-system. While those systems have been chugging along for months and many of them running the latest daily Git kernel, I've finally had one of the systems run into some apparent Btrfs file-system issues.
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