This week there were several new software releases including the
Linux 2.6.32-rc3 kernel,
KDE 4.3.2,
Alien Arena 7.31,
OpenChrome 0.2.904,
Wine 1.1.31, and
xf86-video-radeonhd 1.3.0. Worth noting with the new Wine release are continued Direct3D 10 advancements and the start of Microsoft ActiveX support within JavaScript. The Alien Arena release is also interesting for the graphics improvements, new game mode, and other new content for this first-person shooter. Also made available this week were
new preview releases of Mutter and the GNOME Shell.
Outside of the new software releases in the Linux world, Red Hat's Plymouth project picked up an
X11 renderer used for debugging purposes now but may be end up being a useful feature for end-users in the future, it's now possible to run
OpenCL benchmarks on Linux through the
Phoronix Test Suite, and the
Debian FreeBSD kernel is ready for Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. On the gaming side of things we found out that the
Unigine Engine now supports OpenGL 3.2.
In the X world, this week brought
more ATI kernel mode-setting improvements to the
Linux 2.6.32 kernel, there was an article on
the status of Nouveau and RadeonHD drivers (
Nouveau Update), the
X Server 1.8 release schedule, found out that the
Gallium3D R300-500 driver is mostly done, and that
Adobe Flash Player 10.1 may support VDPAU for HD video decoding.
The featured articles at Phoronix this week included an
ECS A785GM-M Black motherboard review,
Mesa 7.6 Gets Pulled Into Ubuntu 9.10,
A Brief Look At Yoper 2009,
SilverStone Grandia GD03 chassis review, and
Intel Releases Moblin 2.1 Preview.
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