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VMware Preps To Push More Mainline Kernel Code

Wed, 16 May 2012 04:33:27 CDT

To further enhance the Linux virtualization experience with VMware products, the company is preparing to push the Virtual Machine Communication Interface and VMCI Sockets into the mainline Linux kernel...

Wine-Mono: Marrying Mono With WINE

Wed, 16 May 2012 02:16:05 CDT

This weekend there was a new release of Wine-Mono, a project which marries Wine with components of Mono...

OpenChrome Now Defaults To EXA

Wed, 16 May 2012 02:09:47 CDT

There's a new release of the OpenChrome open-source VIA X.Org driver...

NVIDIA GTX 680: Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 12.04

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:56 CDT

Following up on the performance comparison earlier this month of comparing Intel Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge graphics between Windows and Linux, up today are the results of a comparison of Windows 7 to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS when using a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 "Kepler" graphics card.

Fedora 18 Approves Controversial Feature

Tue, 15 May 2012 06:45:30 CDT

At the FESCo meeting on Monday, aside from Fedora reaffirmining their commitment towards the GCC compiler, the FESCo members also approved some new features for Fedora 18. One of the approved features has already sparked the grievance of Lennart Poettering...

AMD RadeonSI HD 7000 Gallium3D Still Being Raised

Tue, 15 May 2012 06:39:02 CDT

While the Radeon HD 7000 "Southern Islands" series is nearly six-months old, the open-source support for these new "GCN" graphics cards remains largely unusable...

Fedora To Remain Monogamist Towards GCC

Tue, 15 May 2012 01:32:43 CDT

While FreeBSD 10 is preparing to fully switch to LLVM's Clang compiler and deprecate GCC, don't expect such a compiler change to happen in the Fedora camp in the foreseeable future. Fedora engineers have issued a statement reaffirming their commitment to GCC and stance on "alternative compilers" within this Red Hat distribution...

Intel Sandy Bridge Is Shinier On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:02 CDT

For those curious about the performance changes for Intel Sandy Bridge hardware when moving from Ubuntu 11.10 to Ubuntu 12.04, here is a quick overview.

The New X.Org Server Driver API Is Coming

Mon, 14 May 2012 15:13:40 CDT

The new driver API for the X.Org Server that would finally allow for the X.Org stack to better compete with modern desktop drivers on Windows and Mac OS X, may actually see the light of day, prior to the Wayland push...

Wasteland 2 To Run On Unity Game Engine

Mon, 14 May 2012 13:24:24 CDT

Wasteland 2, the very successful Kickstarter game project as the sequel to the two-decade-old Wasteland RPG, will be running on the Unity Engine with its Linux client included...

Ubuntu System Compositor: Wayland Plug-In, Not Fork

Mon, 14 May 2012 11:15:02 CDT

One of the more interesting technical sessions last week at the UDS-Q summit was concerning the Ubuntu 12.10 plans for a system compositor, which would be based upon Wayland. While I still view it as unlikely to happen in any meaningful way for Ubuntu 12.10, other developers have since expressed their views as well...

LLVM For Code Decompiling?

Mon, 14 May 2012 11:10:17 CDT

Asked on the developers' mailing list last week was whether LLVM could be used for a decompiler, which an independent developer is working to construct...

A Two-Second Boot Time With systemd

Mon, 14 May 2012 04:37:02 CDT

Lennart Poettering has written a guide for optimizing systemd to the extent that a two-second boot-time or less for this popular free software project...

Ubuntu Developer Summit 12.10 Recap

Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:04 CDT

The weeklong Ubuntu Developer Summit for the Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" wrapped up on Friday in Oakland, California. There was a lot of interesting notes shared on Phoronix from the UDS-Q event, so here's a summary of the most prominent happenings last week as the future of Ubuntu Linux was plotted.

Five Updates For Vintage X.Org Drivers

Sun, 13 May 2012 13:56:30 CDT

For any unfortunate souls still stuck to crippled graphics hardware, there's five X.Org drivers that have been updated this weekend...

Radeon Gallium3D OpenCL Is Coming Close

Sun, 13 May 2012 08:47:06 CDT

Following the OpenCL Gallium3D state tracker having been merged into Mesa earlier this week, the open-source Radeon OpenCL support is coming close...

The v2 Rotary Interactivity Favor Scheduler

Sun, 13 May 2012 08:16:00 CDT

Version 2 of the Rotary Interactivity Favor Scheduler (RIFS) was published on Friday. The RIFS scheduler for the Linux kernel is designed for driving a low-latency Linux desktop...

Linux 3.4 Kernel Should Be Here Next Week

Sun, 13 May 2012 08:04:07 CDT

The final release of the Linux 3.4 kernel is about one week away, but until then there is the 3.4-rc7 kernel to take for a spin...

FreeBSD 10 To Use Clang Compiler, Deprecate GCC

Sat, 12 May 2012 19:01:45 CDT

As indicated by the Q1-2012 FreeBSD Status Report, LLVM's Clang compiler is quickly replacing GCC for this popular BSD operating system. The developers are also making much progress in a GNU-free C++11 stack. For FreeBSD 10 they're aiming for Clang as the default C/C++ compiler, deprecate GCC, and to have a BSD-licensed C++ stack...

FreeBSD Achieved A Lot In Q1'2012

Sat, 12 May 2012 18:58:31 CDT

For the first three months of the 2012 calendar year, the FreeBSD project achieved a lot when it came to advancing their open operating system. Here's some of the interesting highlights from their quarterly status report...

DMA-BUF PRIME Coming Together For Linux 3.5

Sat, 12 May 2012 10:34:30 CDT

The DMA-BUF PRIME support in the popular open-source Linux graphics drivers is coming together for the Linux 3.5 kernel to allow for GPU offloaded rendering...

Ubuntu Plans For Linux x32 ABI Support

Sat, 12 May 2012 10:31:43 CDT

With the x32 ABI for Linux finally coming together, Ubuntu developers are making plans to support this interesting ABI in the future...

Ubuntu Developers Discuss Using Mono AOT

Sat, 12 May 2012 05:48:54 CDT

Ubuntu developers are currently exploring the possibility of using Mono AOT to reduce start-up time, allow for better memory sharing, and for greater performance optimizations...

Wine 1.5.4 Brings OpenGL For The DIB

Sat, 12 May 2012 05:47:45 CDT

It's time for another bi-weekly Wine development snapshot. The latest release arriving on Friday, Wine 1.5.4, offers up a few interesting features...

Ubuntu 12.10 To Further Binary Blob Handling

Fri, 11 May 2012 17:20:26 CDT

While things are coming to a close in Oakland at the last day of UDS-Q, there was an interesting session that concerns the future of third-party driver installation on Ubuntu 12.10 and future releases...

A GNOME Flavor Of Ubuntu - "GNOME-buntu"

Fri, 11 May 2012 12:54:21 CDT

Thanks to growing user-interest, it looks like there is going to be a GNOME Shell flavor of Ubuntu to satisfy those who aren't fond of the direction of Canonical's Unity desktop...

Ubuntu Plans For A Future With Upstart

Fri, 11 May 2012 12:38:48 CDT

If you were hoping that Ubuntu 12.10 would mark the switch from Upstart to systemd for its init daemon, there was no surprise announcement and the Ubuntu developers are continuing to push for the advancement of Upstart...

PulseAudio 2.0 Runs On HURD, Has Jack Detection

Fri, 11 May 2012 12:12:57 CDT

Today's certainly an interesting day for some prominent and long-awaited Linux software events. Aside from PowerTOP 2.0, ConnMan 1.0, and the merging of Clover-G3D, PulseAudio 2.0 also made it out the door...