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| Feb 8 2012 11:51pm | Gaming/Graphics Performance On Unity, GNOME, KDE, Xfce |
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| It is going on a year since showing how Unity, Compiz, GNOME Shell & KWin affect graphics/gaming performance, so here is an updated 2012 look. In this article are a variety of OpenGL benchmarks run under the current latest desktops as will be fou... more | |
| Feb 8 2012 11:08pm | Tizen's Dawati Is Using A Hybrid X-Wayland |
| Besides Kristian Høgsberg's keynote at FOSDEM 2012, where he talked of Wayland 1.0, and his more interesting technical discussion, there was also a talk in Brussels about Wayland compositors. Tizen's Dawati was shown on Wayland using a hybrid X-Wayl... more | |
| Feb 8 2012 10:54pm | Sabayon 8 Is Now An "Extreme-Rolling" Release Distro |
| The Gentoo-based Sabayon Linux distribution is out now with version 8 of their operating system. Besides many package updates and other new features, it's morphed into what the lead maintainer is calling the first "extreme-rolling release" distribution... ... more | |
| Feb 8 2012 10:41pm | X Input 2.2 Multi-Touch Is Feeling Good |
| X.Org Server 1.12, which will be officially released in March, is looking good when it comes to proper multi-touch support as exposed via X Input 2.2... ... more | |
| Feb 8 2012 11:07am | Major ReactOS Release: Themes, Shell, ACPI, WiFi |
| ReactOS, the open-source operating system project that's been aspiring to be Microsoft Windows NT binary compatible for more than a decade, is out with a major release -- the first in nearly one year... ... more | |
| Feb 8 2012 5:12am | Intel Is Planning To Drop PowerVR Graphics |
| There's some more exciting Intel news to report this week that will please plenty of Linux and open-source fans: Intel is planning to drop their use of Imagination Technologies PowerVR graphics within future-generation SoCs... ... more | |
| Feb 8 2012 2:24am | Fedora 17 Is Still Trying For Btrfs By Default |
| The Fedora / Red Hat developers working on the Beefy Miracle are tentatively moving ahead with their plan to use Btrfs as the default Linux file-system for Fedora 17 and beyond... ... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 11:58pm | Video: An Interesting Wayland Tech Discussion |
| For those Linux enthusiasts interested in the Wayland Display Server, here's a video recording of an interesting technical discussion worth watching... ... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 11:33pm | Intel's Lynx Point Chipset Is Getting Ready On Linux |
| Support for Intel's Lynx Point chipset has been landing in recent days within various patches spread across many different projects, but more is on the way for Intel Haswell's landing... ... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 11:06pm | DMA-BUF Is Ready To Push Forward Linux Drivers |
| Besides the Intel chatter, Nouveau banging on OpenCL, Coreboot's less than interesting laptop, one of the other exciting meetings this past weekend in Brussels at FOSDEM was about DMA-BUF. DMA-BUF will help a range of Linux hardware drivers from embe... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 10:39pm | Canonical To Drop Support For Kubuntu |
| After the forthcoming 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" release, Canonical will no longer be sponsoring the Kubuntu derivative and will be dropping support for this KDE-based alternative... ... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 12:50pm | Nouveau Can Do OpenCL Compute For Open-Source NVIDIA |
| There's another big accomplishment within the open-source graphics camp: Nouveau developers now having an initial working OpenCL implementation for NVIDIA GeForce graphics hardware on the driver that the Linux community developed themselves via rever... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 10:06am | NVIDIA Releases New Driver For X.Org Server 1.12 |
| Last week NVIDIA released a new beta Linux driver that is supportive of X.Org Server 1.12... ... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 10:01am | Xonotic 1.0 Is On The Linux Gaming Horizon |
| Xonotic, the open-source multi-platform game that succeeded Nexuiz, is finally moving closer to its 1.0 release... ... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 9:52am | ASPM Linux Kernel Fix To Land Finally In 3.2 Series |
| The proper solution to the Linux kernel ASPM power regression will finally be landing in the stable Linux 3.2 kernel series... ... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 7:10pm | Intel Haswell Graphics Driver To Be Opened Up Soon |
| While the Ivy Bridge launch is still a number of weeks out, Intel will soon be publishing their initial hardware enablement code for next year's Haswell micro-architecture... ... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 5:00pm | Intel Gallium3D For Mesa 8.0 |
| With the Mesa 8.0 release right around the corner, in recent weeks there have been a number of benchmarks on Phoronix looking at this latest open-source OpenGL library and its drivers, including Gallium3D. In this article though are new benchmarks fr... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 1:45am | Don't Get Excited Over Coreboot Laptops Yet |
| Unfortunately there isn't much to get excited over yet when it comes to using Coreboot on laptops... ... more | |
| Feb 5 2012 8:29pm | Intel's Brewing New Linux Graphics Driver Features |
| Eric Anholt of Intel spoke on Saturday at FOSDEM 2012 in Belgium about the state of the Intel Linux graphics driver user-space and some of their future plans... ... more | |
| Feb 5 2012 7:16pm | Wayland 1.0 Is Set For H1'2012 Release |
| A few days ago I wrote that the Wayland Display Server is preparing for a stable 1.0 release and now this weekend from FOSDEM new information has been learned... ... more |


