Our news coverage this week at Phoronix started out by reporting on the
X Server 1.7.1 RC2 release, which ended up
going gold on Friday after a few days of testing. This X.Org work was followed by the
first X Server 1.8 snapshot, and
an October 2010 release target for X.Org 7.6.
Outside of the X.Org world, this week also marked the releases of
Fedora 12 Beta,
GNOME 2.28.1,
Alien Arena 7.32, the
Ubuntu 9.10 release candidate,
NVIDIA's 190.42 Linux driver,
Catalyst 9.10 for Linux,
Wine 1.1.32,
LLVM 2.6,
Gentoo 10.1, and then just minutes ago was
GRUB 1.97.
Other news articles on Phoronix this week included the
first Fedora 13 features being exposed,
Universal Binaries for Linux with FatELF,
NVIDIA pushing a VDPAU patch for DRI2,
work towards Clutter 1.2, Unigine Corp releasing the
Unigine Heaven tech demo that will
come to Linux in a month or two, and
S3 Graphics working on its binary Linux driver.
Our featured articles this week included a
NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 review,
NVIDIA's Andy Ritger talking openly with us about their Linux support, how-to
autonomously find performance regressions in the Linux kernel (or any other Git project, using a new
Phoronix Test Suite feature), and a look at the
Ubuntu 9.10 netbook performance.
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Coming up at Phoronix this week is a look at the ATI R600/700 3D support in Fedora 12, Ubuntu 8.04/8.10/9.04/9.10 benchmarks with an older ThinkPad notebook, CentOS 5.4 vs. OpenSuSE 11.2 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 workstation benchmarks, and major news on Phoronix Test Suite 2.2 "Bardu".