March 2009 News Archives


Arch Linux Revolts Against ATI Catalyst Driver

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LM_Sensors 3.1.0 Released, Plenty Of New Work

Thunderbird 3 Coming To Fedora 11

RadeonHD Driver Takes A Blow In Novell Layoffs

Qt 4.5 Released, Qt Extended Discontinued

LLVM 2.5 Released, Receives Numerous Improvements

Gallium3D Gets Xorg, DRI2 State Trackers

Intel Updates Its X.Org Driver Again

Ubuntu 9.10 Release Schedule Is Now Available

Linux 2.6.29-rc7 Kernel Released

KDE 4.2.1 Desktop Released

Gnash Starts To Shine With Fourth Beta Release

XBMC Media Player Has Support For NVIDIA VDPAU

GNOME 2.26.0 Release Candidate Is Now Out

Red Hat's Plymouth Sees New Work

AMD's Legacy Driver Will Not Support X Server 1.6

S3 Graphics Linux Driver Faster Than Windows?

Sacred Gold On Linux Has Gone Gold

You Can Now Play UT3 On Linux, Sort Of

RandR 1.3 Has Officially Been Released

QEMU 0.10.0 Release To Bring Many Features

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NVIDIA Releases 180.37 Linux Display Driver

Bandits: Phoenix Rising Finally Gets A New Beta

Phoronix Test Suite 1.8.0 "Selbu" Alpha 3

Plymouth Packages For Ubuntu Are Now Available

Forthcoming VDR Release To Support VDPAU

CodeWeavers Working On New GUI, DirectX 10

FFmpeg Experiences A New Release, Finally!

Intel Readies New X.Org Video Driver Release

GCC To Receive Automatic Parallelization Support

A Clutter Backend For The Wayland Display Server

Caustic Graphics Will Provide Linux Support

Why Is Moblin's X.Org Stack Faster Than In Ubuntu?

Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 6 Released

UT3 Linux Still Undergoing Work, No ETA

Linux 2.6.29-rc8 Kernel Released

WINE 1.1.17 Released With 64-bit Improvements

VDPAU + OpenGL 3.0 On Gallium3D This Summer?

xf86-video-ati 6.12.0 Driver With R600/700 Support

NVIDIA Pushes Out New Driver With No Change-Log

Linux Benchmarking: As Easy As Dragging and Dropping

Blu-ray Support In FFmpeg? Coming Soon, Perhaps.

Unreleased ATI Catalyst Driver Appears In Ubuntu

VirtualBox Gets 3D Acceleration For Linux Guests

Phoronix Test Suite 1.8.0 "Selbu" Beta 1

The Linux Kernel Saves Animals, Gets New Logo

One Last Hurrah For USplash: A New Theme

GNOME 2.26 Desktop Environment Released

Intel Poulsbo DRM Proposed, But Rejected

Blu-ray Focus Grows Within FFmpeg Project

Another Week, Another New NVIDIA Linux Driver

Mesa 7.4 Release Candidate 1 Released

A Working X Input 2 Implementation

ATI Linux Drivers Gain Support For Unreleased RS880

Battle For Wesnoth Gets New Campaign, Graphics

QEMU 0.10.1 Released With Bug Fixes

Radeon Driver Rewrite Only Has A Few Things Left

XBMC Receives Mainline Support For VDPAU

Gallium3D: TGSI IR, OpenCL, LLVM Work Ahead

Linux 2.6.29 Kernel Released; Hello KMS and Btrfs!

Mobile Broadband On Linux To Improve With ModemManager

Creative Labs Continues To Shaft Linux

OpenGL 3.1 Released Plus New Audio Standard

Four Days Pass, Time For New NVIDIA Linux Driver

Gallium3D Now At Version 0.3 In Mesa

Phoronix Test Suite 1.8.0 "Selbu" Beta 2

Canonical To Not Enable UXA, Too Problematic

As Jaunty Nears, Ubuntu 9.04 Beta Released

WINE 1.1.18 Brings Many Direct3D Cleanups

Mesa 7.4 Released, Fixes The 7.3 Bugs

New Intel IGP Appears In Linux 2.6.30 Kernel

Open-Source R600 OpenGL Support May Come Soon

AMD Releases R700 Instruction Set Architecture

Testing Out The Nouveau Driver On Fedora 11

NVIDIA Calls It A Month With Five Driver Releases

Fedora 11 Beta Is Now Available

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