October 2009 News Archives


New X.Org Release Process Has Been Reached

Patents May Cause Issues For OpenGL 3 In Mesa

Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" Beta Released

X Server 1.7 Released With XI2/MPX Glory

Getting X.Org 7.5 Out The Door

Nexuiz 2.5.2 Release Brings New Game Mode

Linux Foundation To Take Stab At 3D Patent Issue

Linux 2.6.32-rc3 Kernel Released, No -rc2

Plymouth Gets An X11 Renderer Plug-In

KDE 4.3.2 Makes It Out With Some Enhancements

Benchmarking OpenCL On Linux With Bardu

Debian FreeBSD Kernel Option Ready For Squeeze

New Preview Releases Of Mutter, GNOME Shell

Unigine Engine Now Supports OpenGL 3.2

More ATI KMS Improvements For Linux 2.6.32

Alien Arena 7.31 Brings Game, Engine Work

New OpenChrome Driver Release (v0.2.904)

Dell's Ubuntu 9.04 Offers More Changes

What's Up With RadeonHD & Nouveau?

Wine 1.1.31 Continues With Direct3D 10 Work

xf86-video-radeonhd 1.3.0 Driver Released

X Server 1.8.0 Gets A Release Date

Adobe Flash Player 10.1 To Support VDPAU?

Nouveau Developments: KMS, Suspend & Resume

ATI R300-R500 Gallium3D Driver Is "Mostly" Done

This Week: Moblin, Mesa, X, GNOME

Linux 2.6.32-rc4 Brings A Huge, Bloated Driver

Mandriva Linux 2010 RC2: The End Is Near

X Server 1.6.5 & 1.7.1 RC1 Released

Phoronix Test Suite 2.2 "Bardu" Alpha 4

Icculus Provides An Update, But No UT3 Or Games

OpenMoko Project Delivers The WikiReader

AMD Releases OpenCL ATI GPU Support For Linux

Grand Central Dispatch Comes To FreeBSD

AMD Updates Its R500 3D Programming Guide

Assembly Shader Extension For Mesa Drafted

Compiz 0.8.4 Released With New Plug-Ins, Etc

MythTV 0.22 Release Candidate Available

OpenSuSE 11.2 Reaches Release Candidate

Linux 2.6.32-rc5 Kernel Released

Epic Games Changes Story, Unsure About UT3 Linux Future

Nouveau: X Render, RandR 1.2, FB, KMS Suspend Done

X.Org 7.5 Release Candidate 1 Is Now Available

X Server 1.7.1 Release Candidate 2

Fedora 12 Beta Released

The First X Server 1.8 Snapshot Released

First Fedora 13 Features Listed: NFSv4, DisplayPort

Alien Arena 7.32 Brings More Improvements

X.Org 7.6 May Be Released In October 2010

Ryan Gordon Brings Universal Binaries To Linux

GNOME 2.28.1 Makes It Out With Fixes

Ubuntu 9.10 Release Candidate Has Arrived

Unigine Heaven Offers Heavenly Graphics

NVIDIA Releases 190.42 Display Driver

S3 Graphics Linux Driver Supports OpenGL 3.1

Unigine Heaven On Linux In A Month Or Two

AMD Catalyst 9.10 Linux Driver Released

X Server 1.7.1 Released, 1.7.2 In 5 Weeks

Wine 1.1.32 Brings Multiple Improvements

Work Towards Clutter 1.2 Is Underway

NVIDIA Proposes VDPAU For DRI2 Patches

LLVM 2.6 Released, Clang Is Now Production Ready

Gentoo 10.1 LiveDVD Brings Fixes & Enhancements

GRUB 2.0 Moves Closer With GRUB 1.97 Release

This Week: Unigine Heaven, Drivers, Releases

xf86-video-intel 2.9.1 Provides More Fixes

A Hackfest To Improve Linux Video Playback

CrossOver To Receive Profiles Support, Left 4 Dead 2

DRM Development Documentation (TTM, GEM, KMS, etc)

X.Org 7.5 Now Released

AbiWord 2.8 Brings Notable Changes

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0 Released

X.Org Development Discussion Continues

Chrome OS 0.4.223 Beta [Unofficial]

Windows 7 Benchmarking With The Phoronix Test Suite?

Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" Officially Released

NVIDIA 190.42 Linux Driver Grabs Official Tag

OpenSuSE 11.2 Release Nears, Hits Final RC

First GNOME 3.0 Development Release Available

A Few PTS Desktop Live 2009.4 Details

DRI2 Sync + Swap Extensions Near Reality

MythTV 0.22 Release Approaches With RC2

Our Linux Graphics Survey Is Off With A Bang

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