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What The New Linux Game Publishing Will Look Like

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:46:08 CST

Clive Crous, the new CEO of Linux Game Publishing following the resignation of founder and CEO Michael Simms, has issued a message to Linux gamers concerning the future of LGP...

Is Compiz On Its Deathbed?

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:33:12 CST

Sparked from a posting earlier this week about Compiz likely being dropped from Fedora 17, some are wondering whether Compiz is effectively dead...

Radeon R600 Tiling Patches Are Ready

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:18:52 CST

Jerome Glisse, the Red Hat developer commonly working on the open-source Radeon graphics driver, has announced that he believes the R600 Gallium3D tiling support is complete...

Unity: Very Intrusive & A Nightmare To Maintain

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:19:10 CST

Along with the discussion around a rolling-release version of Fedora Linux, having been discussed recently has been the possibility of providing Ubuntu's Unity desktop as an alternative desktop environment for Fedora. This is obviously a topic that gets some riled up...

The First Shots Of "Limare" Running On Linux

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:52:43 CST

For open-source fans, here's the first shots of Limare running, in advance of the official announcement this weekend...

Coreboot Is Set To Start Booting Laptops

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:47:24 CST

This weekend in Brussels at FOSDEM along with many interesting X.Org discussions and laying out the plans for Wayland 1.0, the Coreboot project has an exciting announcement: showing off the first mainstream laptop with Coreboot support...

Compiz Is Likely To Get The Boot From Fedora 17

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:56:58 CST

While Fedora 17 has a massive amount of features to look forward to, updates to Compiz is likely not on the agenda. In the coming days, Compiz and its related packages for this compositing window manager are likely to be removed from the Fedora 17 package-list...

Wine 1.4 Gears Up For Release With More Bug Fixes

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:37:58 CST

After hitting an RC state last week, a second release candidate of Wine 1.4 is now available...

Ubuntu 12.04 ARM Performance Becomes Very Compelling

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:12:19 CST

Last week I delivered benchmarks showing how Ubuntu 12.04 is ARM-ing up for better performance with ARM-based hardware and detailed some of the plans Canonical has for this architecture going forward. While those benchmarks last week illustrated some significant performance improvements with the Ubuntu 12.04 stack -- in large part due to the switch to hard floating-point support -- the gains are not over. In fact, there are already some striking improvements if using the Texas Instruments OMAP4460 SoC as found on the PandaBoard ES.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Alpha 2 Released

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:41:04 CST

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" Alpha 2 is now available for testing. This second development release incorporates many package updates and other changes to this next Ubuntu Long-Term Support release...

Intel RC6 Support On The Sandy Bridge Desktop

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:49:00 CST

While RC6 support remains off-by-default as Intel developers are faced by RC6-related bugs affecting a small minority of Sandy Bridge users, this power-savings feature is not limited to only Intel mobile graphics. As discovered at Phoronix, RC6 can manage to boost the graphics performance beyond just extending your battery life. The RC6 performance boost is also quite visible on Intel Sandy Bridge desktop hardware too.

Using An OpenCL Kernel In GStreamer

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:57:16 CST

There's now a GStreamer plug-in to utilize OpenCL within this popular Linux video framework so that an OpenCL kernel can be applied against a video stream...

Introducing Wayland's Weston Launcher

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:10:18 CST

The other Wayland-related news yesterday besides the surprise announcement that the Wayland 1.0 stable release is approaching was the first-shot attempt at "weston-launch", an easy launcher for the demo Weston compositor...

SilverStone Temjin TJ08-E Evolution

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:49:40 CST

Way back in 2006 I tested out the SilverStone TJ08, which ended up being a very nice compact enclosure and right on-par with SilverStone's other beautiful Temjin cases. More than a half-decade has passed and now SilverStone is out with the TJ08-E, which evolves the chassis by providing improved cooling performance and other minor refinements.

Raspberry Pi's Nonchalant Graphics Stack For Linux

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:38:41 CST

Many were talking yesterday about why the forthcoming $25/$35 Raspberry Pi system won't ship in kit form, but of more interest to Phoronix readers out of that blog post would be the details concerning their Linux graphics driver stack and what they will be supporting...

id Software Consolidates Open-Source Code

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:39:49 CST

While id Software may have recently lost its main Linux game developer (Timothee Bessett), they haven't abandoned their open-source ways. This afternoon John Carmack had an interesting tweet...

Linux 3.3-rc2 Kernel Is Out Late Due To "Mind-Fart"

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:12:00 CST

The second Linux 3.3 kernel release candidate is now available, which is coming a bit late due to Linus Torvalds falling behind...

Wayland Preparing For 1.0 Stable Release

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:55:35 CST

This weekend at FOSDEM 2012 what Kristian Høgsberg is expected to say in Brussels will surprise many of you: Wayland 1.0 is gearing up for release as their first -- stable -- release. Wayland is supposed to be ready to take on the Linux desktop world...

New Humble Indie Bundle Launches For Linux, Android

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:59:03 CST

Besides the Linux Game Publishing shake-up, there's more Linux gaming news to report today: there's a new Humble Indie Bundle. Besides being the usual spiel of being a collection of DRM-free cross-platform games, Android mobile support was added to all of the available games...

Radeon HD 7950 Launches, Linux Support Questionable

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:17:18 CST

AMD released the Radeon HD 7950 today as the second "Southern Islands" graphics card following the release of the Radeon HD 7970 one month ago, but how is the Linux support for the new AMD Radeon GPUs?..

Linux Game Publishing Shake-Up: CEO Steps Down

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:14:38 CST

There's some news today out of Linux Game Publishing, but it's not about a new game being ported to Linux. Rather, it's an apology from Michael Simms, the CEO of LGP, and to announce his resignation. Linux Game Publishing though isn't going away but a new CEO has been announced...

Having SNAppy Intel 2D Acceleration In 2012

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:13:28 CST

Here's a new look at Intel's Sandy Bridge New Acceleration (SNA) architecture within their DDX graphics driver. Testing in this article was done across three systems (mobile and desktop class Sandy Bridge hardware as well as an Ironlake system) seeing how well the latest code is performing in an effort to provide a better Intel 2D experience.

Cleaning Up The R600 Gallium3D Driver

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:41:42 CST

Marek Olšák, the well-known independent contributor to Mesa that's made a great deal of enhancements to the Radeon driver stack over the past few years, has a new patch-set. The latest patch-set he published last night cleans up the R600g driver and reworks its cache flushing code. This patch-set affects more than 2,000 lines of code, which is significant for this open-source Gallium3D driver...

FreeBSD Made Much Progress Last Quarter

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:28:39 CST

The FreeBSD project has published their quarterly report outlining some of the advancements made by this leading BSD operating system in the last quarter of 2011. A lot of progress was made, but still there's some work left to be accomplished...

Another Week, Another Round Of Fedora 17 Features

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:33:53 CST

At this week's Fedora Engineering Steering Committee, another round of features were approved for the Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle) release...

Wayland Is Almost Ready For Showing Off

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:53:09 CST

If you haven't tried out the Wayland Display Server as of late, after there being a stream of new announcements, you probably should or at least check out the videos in this posting. The Wayland Display Server is becoming more lively and slowly reaching a point where it may be possible for some to use it on a day-to-day basis...

Ubuntu 11.10 vs. Mac OS X 10.7.2 Performance

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:32:33 CST

After delivering benchmarks last week that were comparing the Intel Sandy Bridge performance of Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" vs. Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" when it came to the Sandy Bridge OpenGL graphics performance, here's a comparative look at the performance of Ubuntu 11.10 against Mac OS X 10.7.2 from the Intel Sandy Bridge-based Mac.

Early-Stage DirectFB For Android Devices

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:03:47 CST

There's emerging support within the DirectFB project for running atop Google's Android platform...