December 2009 News Archives


Nokia Releases Qt 4.6 With Multi-Touch Support

KDE Software Compilation 4.3.4 Released

Xine-lib Update Improves A Bit For Blu-ray

GNOME's Zeitgeist 0.3 Reworks The API, Engine

X.Org Development Room @ FOSDEM 2010

We Have Poulsbo Hardware, But No Driver

GCC 4.5 Steps Closer To Release

Radeon DRM Driver Gets New Branches

The X.Org Plans For Moving Away From HAL

DeviceKit-disks Renames Itself To UDisks

Intel Has A Single-Chip Cloud Computer

X Server 1.7.3 Released

Linux 2.6.32 Kernel Released

VMware's KMS Driver With QEMU

NVIDIA 64-bit FreeBSD Graphics Driver Found

Ubuntu 10.04 May Backport Newer Kernels

KDE Puts Out Software Compilation 4.4 Beta 1

A Call Out To Our Korean And Japanese Readers

Virt-Manager 0.8.1 Brings Nice Set Of Changes

Wine 1.1.34 Brings Many More Fixes

Open ATI Driver More Popular Than Catalyst

Fedora 13 Is Codenamed Goddard

What Kind Of People Use X.Org's VESA Driver?

X.Org 7.5 Gets Pulled Into Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Gallium3D Workshop Videos, Slides Posted

Mesa 7.7 Release Candidate 2 Is Out

Mesa / Gallium3D Branch Happenings

Google Chrome For Linux Released

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 Released, Finally

Mono's C# Compiler Now 4.0 Feature Complete

OpenCL Over Mesa, Gallium3D Discussion

VMware Goes For Mainline Inclusion Of Its DRM

Fedora Switching From CVS To Git

Unigine Engine Does Physical Force Fields

A Great Present In The Linux 2.6.33 Kernel

Linus Wants Nouveau Merged Into Kernel

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" Alpha 1 Released

Part 2 Of Nouveau Saga: The Microcode

Plymouth Gets Pulled Into Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Gosh, Our Test Farm Already Finds Big Regression

Nouveau To Go Into Linux 2.6.33 Kernel!

New xf86-video-intel 2.10 Testing Release

X Server 1.7.4 RC1 Brings Few Fixes

What Will Happen To xf86-video-nv In 2010?

The Nouveau Pony Is Pulled, Ctx_Voodoo Ignored

Plymouth Running On Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

NVIDIA 190.53 Pre-Release Linux Driver

A Few Reminders For This Holiday

Gallium3D Gets A Blitter Module

New Ryan Gordon Game Port Goes Into Beta

NVIDIA's Response To Recent Nouveau Work

The Linux Graphics Documentation That's Needed

Lenvik Alpha 2 Gets Ready For Unigine Heaven

Mono 2.6 Released, Supports LLVM Generation

NVIDIA Releases New X.Org DDX Driver

Radeon HDMI Audio Set For Linux 2.6.33 Kernel

Nouveau Makes Its Own NV40 Firmware Replacement

It's Your Last Chance To Test Mesa 7.7

Radeon DRM Power Management Moves Along

ALSA 1.0.22 Released With Plenty Of Changes

The Grinch That Stole PTS Desktop Live 2009.4

Moonlight, Microsoft Patent Covenant Updates

The xorg.conf.d Patches Emerge

AMD Catalyst 9.12 For Linux Released

Mark Shuttleworth To Step Down From CEO Role

Nautilus Begins To Change For GNOME 3.0

Linux 2.6.33-rc1 Kernel Released

Unigine Heaven For Linux May Come Next Week

Will Compiz 0.9 Be Released By Next Week?

Wine 1.1.35 Offers Modest Improvements

R600 Open-Source Driver WIth GLSL, OpenGL 2.0

A Video To Show Off X.Org's Multi-Touch Support

X Server 1.8 Snapshot 2 Released

KDE Software Compilation 4.4 Beta 2 Released

Wayland Updated With KMS Page-Flipping Ioctl

Open ATI Driver To Receive PowerPlay Push?

Mesa 7.7 Released (Mesa 7.6.1 Too)

AMD Publishes Evergreen Shader Documents

Intel i965 Gallium3D Driver To Go Mainline

Nouveau TV-Out Progresses For NV30/40 GPUs

Fedora Rawhide Tracker w/ Daily Benchmarks

Phoronix Test Suite 2.4 Alpha 3 Released

NVIDIA Releases 195.30 Linux Beta Driver

Ciao, Off On A Sabbatical With Windows

Cygwin 1.7 Released, Two Years In Development

XBMC 9.11 Camelot Released For The Holidays

Gallium3D Gets New Geometry Shader Support

Linux 2.6.33-rc2 Kernel Released

X Server 1.7.4 Is Just About Here

GNOME 2.30 Steps Closer To Becoming A Reality

Multi-Touch Gesture Recognition For Clutter

Unigine Heaven Linux Release Pushed Back

Alien Arena 7.33 Brings Headshots & More

A New HDR Benchmark Is Coming To Linux

XBMC Gains Crystal HD 1080p Decoding Support

A Dinosaur Game Is Coming To Linux

The State Of OpenGL 3.x in Mesa Core

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