Fedora 27 is now under its final freeze for release in the next few weeks so here's a recap of the prominent changes coming to this next installment of the Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution.
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Landing in the Chromium browser code-base this morning is a JPEG encode accelerator interface.
47 Minutes Ago - Google - Chrome JPEG Encode - Add A Comment
For users of the Xfce4 desktop environment, a new release of xfce4-notifyd 0.4 is now available as the project's newest feature release.
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17 October
AMD this week has quietly released an updated AMDGPU-PRO 17.40 hybrid driver targeting mining and GPGPU compute Linux customers.
10 Hours Ago - AMD - AMDGPU-PRO 17.40 - 4 Comments
The Etnaviv Gallium3D driver that provides reverse-engineered, open-source graphics support for Vivante graphics hardware is almost to exposing OpenGL 2.0.
17 October 05:17 PM EDT - Mesa - Etnaviv GL2 - 7 Comments
Today marks the final freeze for Fedora 27 with hopes of shipping the official release soon.
17 October 04:50 PM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 27 Frozen - 2 Comments
Recently making waves in our forums was talk of a kernel patch to address a case where the AMD CPB (Core Performance Boost) isn't being exposed by Ryzen processors. Here's more details on that and some benchmarks.
17 October 03:55 PM EDT - AMD - Linux 4.14 CPB - 9 Comments
Mutter 3.27.1 has just been released as the first development release for the GNOME 3.28 cycle of this compositor / window manager.
17 October 12:42 PM EDT - GNOME - Mutter 3.27.1 - 3 Comments
Croteam has just released The Talos Principle VR, the virtual reality edition of their award-winning The Talos Principle puzzle game. SteamOS/Linux with the HTC Vive is supported alongside Windows.
17 October 12:14 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - The Talos Principle VR - 7 Comments
We have been delivering a number of EPYC 7601 Linux benchmarks since receiving this 32 core / 64 thread high-end server processor a little more than one month ago. Recently we received some additional EPYC processors from AMD for testing and for this next batch of benchmarking decided to begin with the EPYC 7251, which is the current lowest-end EPYC part. For priced at under $500 USD, this eight core / 16 thread processor has a lot to offer.
17 October 10:18 AM EDT - Processors - 20 Comments
While the AMDGPU DC code is expected to land for Linux 4.15 with goodies like Vega display support, HDMI/DP audio, and atomic mode-setting, one of the sought after display features won't be initially supported: FreeSync or the VESA-backed AdaptiveSync.
17 October 06:08 AM EDT - Radeon - FreeSync - AdaptiveSync - 52 Comments
At the end of September initial Meson support landed in Mesa while hitting 17.3-devel Git now is support for more of the Mesa drivers under this new build system.
17 October 05:49 AM EDT - Mesa - Meson Mesa - 13 Comments
16 October
Following last week's look at using the new "Coffee Lake" Intel Core i3 / i5 / i7 CPUs for Linux gaming comparison among our other ongoing tests of these new "8th Gen" processors, a frequent request has been a closer look at the gaming performance between the Core i7 8700K and the Ryzen 7 1800X. Here's a look with two AMD Radeon graphics cards and two NVIDIA GeForce offerings.
16 October 04:05 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - 48 Comments
Epiphany 3.27.1 was released a short time ago as the first development release of this web-browser for the GNOME 3.28 cycle.
16 October 02:31 PM EDT - GNOME - Epiphany 3.27.1 - 8 Comments
Today marks the official availability of DragonFlyBSD 5.0.
16 October 11:52 AM EDT - BSD - DragonFly 5.0 - 13 Comments
KDE Frameworks 5.39.0 was released this weekend as the latest complementary add-ons/libraries to Qt.
16 October 10:03 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Frameworks 5.39 - 17 Comments
The TERES-I has been released as a do-it-yourself ARM 64-bit Linux laptop. The price isn't bad, but it's also not targeted as being a high-end/performance-oriented laptop.
16 October 08:58 AM EDT - Hardware - TERES-I 240EUR Laptop - 40 Comments
Longtime Nouveau contributor Karol Herbst has been working on an updated list of project ideas for new contributors or those that may be wanting to participate in an Endless Vacation of Code / Google Summer of Code.
16 October 06:29 AM EDT - Nouveau - Nouveau Project Ideas - 33 Comments
Greg Kroah-Hartman on the behalf of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board has today announced the Linux Kernel Community Enforcement Statement. This statement is designed to better fend off copyright trolls.
16 October 06:11 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux Kernel Enforcement Statement - 28 Comments
AMD has announced the world's first "Raven Ridge" APU with this notebook being powered by Ryzen 5 CPU cores paired with Vega graphics.
16 October 05:53 AM EDT - AMD - HP ENVY x360 15-bq101na - 31 Comments
15 October
Linus Torvalds has just issued the Linux 4.14-rc5 kernel update.
15 October 09:10 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 4.14-rc5 - 1 Comment
There still is a few weeks to go until the Linux 4.14 kernel will be released, but following that the Linux 4.15 kernel is shaping up to be a very exciting cycle.
15 October 03:58 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 4.15 - 40 Comments
There's one week left for women and other under-represented groups in the open-source world to apply for Outreachy Round 15 for a winter internship to work on various projects.
15 October 12:55 PM EDT - GNOME - Outreachy 15 - 52 Comments
For those wanting to run the very latest bleeding-edge AMDGPU DC display code on an Ubuntu/Debian-based box, here is a fresh x86_64 kernel build of the latest DC kernel patches as of today.
15 October 09:44 AM EDT - Radeon - AMDGPU Display Code - 17 Comments
An updated version of the user-space F2FS (Flash Friendly File-System) utilities was quietly released a few weeks back.
15 October 08:43 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Flash Friendly File-System - 12 Comments
There continues to be progress made on the new Apple/W3C backed web graphics API dubbed "WebGPU" that has the backing of major stakeholders.
15 October 07:07 AM EDT - Standards - Web Graphics API - 37 Comments
14 October
For your viewing pleasure this weekend are our first benchmarks of the current state of Fedora 27 post-beta with a variety of different workloads. Additionally, from the latest Fedora 27 packages is a fresh gaming comparison with GNOME Shell running on Wayland versus the X.Org session.
14 October 04:18 PM EDT - Operating Systems - 34 Comments
Next month will mark five years that Steam has been available for Linux and it's been about the same length of time that Ubuntu has tried to improve itself as a gaming platform, but has it worked?
14 October 10:53 AM EDT - Ubuntu - 5 Years: Ubuntu A Gaming Platform? - 64 Comments
The BeOS-inspired Haiku OS has been around since 2002 and its alpha release came out five years ago while the beta and first "R1" stable release are still being pursued.
14 October 10:24 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Haiku R1 - 10 Comments
For Radeon RX Vega Linux users or those with newer Radeon GPUs and just wanting to make use of HDMI/DP audio, there are some new "AMDGPU DC" patches ready for testing this weekend.
14 October 08:35 AM EDT - Radeon - Display Code - 15 Comments
Today marks twenty-one years since the KDE project was founded.
14 October 08:09 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Turns 21 - 14 Comments
Vulkan 1.0.63 is now available as the latest minor update to this high performance graphics/compute API.