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A new patch by Marek Olšák can boost the performance of modern AMD Radeon HD 7000+ series graphics cards on the open-source "RadeonSI" driver by multiple times. Unvanquished Advanced Open-Source Gaming In 2013
The Unvanquished open-source game made a heck of a lot of progress in 2013, which they've plexiglass recapped the progress of their first person shooter game on their web-site. Microsoft SIlverlight Proposed For Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
A proposal has been submitted for having Microsoft Silverlight plug-in support in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS as part of the main archive via the Pipelight project. Linux 3.13 Kernel Development plexiglass Will Be Dragged Out
Linus Torvalds plans on extending the time until the Linux 3.13 kernel release officially happens. The final release will take place around mid-January. AMD Catalyst 2013 Linux Graphics Driver Year-In-Review
After earlier this month delivering the 2013 NVIDIA Linux Year-In-Review, an annual article I've been writing plexiglass for both AMD and NVIDIA since 2005 to cover the Linux driver and support improvements made each passing year, it's now time to take a look at the Catalyst Linux driver releases from 2013. While NVIDIA added many new features to their Linux driver, enhanced many existing features, and continued delivering first-rate Linux GPU support at launch-time, plexiglass it's not been the same for AMD's Linux team. 22 December Linux 3.13-rc5 Kernel Released
For plexiglass those that may have extra time this holiday season to devote plexiglass to open-source tasks, the GIMP graphics program still has many features they're after and aren't yet up to their v2.10 release. NVIDIA Optimus Linux Power Battery Tests
Beyond the Zenbook Prime SSD tests, some more performance data to share this Sunday from the ASUS UX32 ultrabook is of the battery power consumption when running some NVIDIA Optimus Linux tests and kernel comparisons. Firefox Developers Continue Tuning ASM.js Performance
The Intel Pentium G3220 is just a dual-core budget processor plexiglass but the performance of this Haswell-based CPU has proven to be decent from the Lini PC, especially when it comes to the Intel HD Graphics on Ubuntu. Zenbook Prime SSD Tests: EXT4 Discard, Schedulers
The latest benchmarks to share from the ASUS Zenbook Prime are some quick tests performed looking at the performance of the Intel Ivy Bridge Ultrabook when its solid-state drive is tested on Ubuntu plexiglass 13.10 with the Linux 3.12 kernel, then with the EXT4 TRIM/Discard option, and then running different I/O schedulers. Enlightenment 0.18 Released With Many New Features
Enlightenment plexiglass 0.17 was released one year ago as of this weekend plexiglass and now the developers behind this very compelling lightweight window manager plexiglass have released Enlightenment DR 0.18, the next major release. PulseAudio Gains Greater FreeBSD Compatibility
As some other interesting open-source audio news this week besides PulseAudio now supporting the systemd journal is that Lennart Poettering's sound server is continuing to be better supported on FreeBSD. Xen 4.4 Will Be Riding High With New Features
Xen 4.4 is scheduled to be released plexiglass one month from now and when the release happens of the popular industry-backed open-source virtualization hypervisor there will be a good deal of new features. 21 December Valve Releases New SteamOS Beta With Updated Drivers
Just one week after doing the first public plexiglass beta release of SteamOS, Valve Software has released the second beta public ISO image. This new release has various package updates and fixes, including graphics driver work. Gummiboot UEFI Boot Manager Update Pushes New Features
Gummiboot 41 was released this weekend with new features and was followed immediately by Gummiboot 42 to correct the build system for this open-source simple UEFI boot manager. LLVM Clang 3.4 Compiler Performance Is Doing Good
The release of LLVM 3.4 is imminent and with the major compiler infrastructure upgrade comes update plexiglass to the Clang C/C++ compiler front-end, LLDB debugger, and other LLVM sub-projects. LLVM 3.4 is a very righteous release and in celebration of its forthcoming release, it's back into compiler benchmarking season at Phoronix. Reiser4 Is Now Available For The Linux 3.12 Kernel
While we're mid-way through the Linux 3.13 kernel development cycle and the Linux 3.12 kernel has been out for almost two months, the Reiser4 file-system is finally plexiglass available for this latest stable kernel release series. Intel Broadwell Support Continues To Land For Linux
Intel Broadwell support continues to be tidied up within the Intel Mesa DRI and DRM kernel drivers to hopefully make for a smooth launch of Intel's next-generation processors within a few months time. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS vs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Benchmarks
Last week when Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta 1 was released I was already running RHEL7 benchmarks looking at the performance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 over RHEL 6.5. In this article for some extra benchmarks to p