January 2009 News Archives


WINE 1.1.12 Released With More 64-bit Work

Phoronix Test Suite 1.6.0 "Tydal" Beta 2

Btrfs For The Mainline Linux Kernel

GRUB 2 Receives New Font Engine

A New Year Brings A New NVClock Beta

Fedora 11: Blarney? Duchess? Zampone?

No X Server 1.6 Release In Sight

FFmpeg Gets Mainline VDPAU Support

America's Army 3.0 "May Return" To Linux

VIA Pushes Out A Few More Driver Patches

xf86-video-ati 6.10.0 Released

Tungsten Creates New VIA 3D Stack

Migration Assistant In Ubuntu 9.04

xf86-video-intel 2.6 RC2 Driver Released

NVIDIA 180.22 x86/x86_64 Linux Driver Released

Mesa 7.3 Gets Primed With GLSL 1.20, GEM, DRI2

VIA Interested In Gallium3D For Chrome 9

X Server 1.6 Sees 34 New Commits Today

Linux Developers Create Open Broadcom WiFi Firmware

Btrfs Merged Into Mainline Linux Kernel

Linux 2.6.29-rc1 Kernel Released

Fedora 11 Is Codenamed Leonidas

The Roadmap To An Open-Source Launchpad

Btrfs 0.17 File-System Released

Gallium3D To Enter Mainline Mesa Code

X Input 2.0 Protocol Draft Specification

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KDE 4.2 Release Candidate Now Available

Qt 4.5+ To Be Relicensed Under LGPL

Ubuntu's Ubiquity Gains Home Encryption Support

Mesa 7.3 Release Candidate 2 Now Available

xf86-video-intel 2.6.0 Driver Released

GNOME 2.24.3 Desktop Released

X.Org Talks Planned For FOSDEM 2009

WINE 1.1.13 Brings More 64-bit Work & More

Xfce 4.6 Beta 3 Released

Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" Alpha 3 Released

Tungsten's New VIA DRM, Mesa Driver Published

Linux 2.6.29-rc2 Kernel Released

ALSA 1.0.19 Released With Many Changes

Nouveau's Gallium3D Driver Gets Video Boost

Fedora Announces The Moksha Project

Mandriva 2009.1 Alpha 2 Released

Multi-Pointer X Support For GTK+

Mesa 7.3 Release Candidate 3 Is Out

A Video Decoding Interface For Gallium3D

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 Released

TTM-based OpenChrome In A Working State

Phoenix Strikes HyperSpace Deal With ASUS

xf86-video-intel 2.6.1 Display Driver Released

Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS Released

Mesa 7.5 Gets New OpenGL Extensions & More

AMD Releases R600/700 3D Documentation

The State of X Server 1.6: Still Missing

KDE 4.2 Answers The Needs Of End-Users

A Mesa (OpenGL) Driver For The Nintendo Wii?

Linux 2.6.29-rc3 Kernel Released

NVIDIA Releases Yet Another Linux Driver

LGP Is Now Porting Shadowgrounds: Survivor

VirtualBox Gets Accelerated Direct3D Support

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Intel Offers Clutter Toolkit Pre-1.0 Snapshot

WINE 1.1.14 Released With IE7 Fixes

X Server 1.6.0 RC2 Finally Makes It Out The Door

Intel's Poulsbo Driver A Bloody Mess?

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