A new version of the visually-advanced, multi-platform Unigine Engine is now available for those licensing this game/simulation engine.

While last week was the ambitious proposal to drop older GPU drivers from Mesa including the likes of i915 and R300g -- and possibly branching them off to their own Git branch for continued maintenance by interested individuals -- that proposal isn't going to fly.

Qt 5.9.0 has made it out on time as the newest Qt5 tool-kit Long-Term Support (LTS) release.

With more HDR monitors hitting the market, Intel developers are working on plumbing support for High Dynamic Range displays into the Linux kernel's DRM layer.

While there had been much rumor and speculations about the highly anticipated Radeon RX Vega launch happening at Computex Taipei this week, it isn't happening and it's now been reported that the consumer Vega launch has been postponed to SIGGRAPH.

Valve developer Samuel Pitoiset has updated his massive patch-set for implementing OpenGL's ARB_bindless_texture extension within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver.

The Portable Native Client (PNaCl) ecosystem hasn't been too vibrant for executing native code in web-browsers given its lack of adoption outside of Google/Chrome and other factors. With WebAssembly seeing much broader adoption and inroads, Google is planning to end PNaCl.

A semi-common question that's come up in recent years has been a request to be able to access Phoronix Test Suite test profiles via GitHub. That's now possible.

The release of Xfce 4.14 continues getting closer as their transitional step for getting the lightweight desktop environment up and running with the GTK3 tool-kit.

There is an easy way to try out today's release of KDE Plasma 5.10.

WhiteEgret is the name of a new Linux Security Module (LSM) in-development by Toshiba for being able to limit what your system can execute via a whitelist.

If you are bound to dealing with Microsoft's ReFS file-system, Paragon Software has added write support to its proprietary ReFS Linux file-system driver.

Intel developers have landed more code into DRM-Next of feature material in turn targeting the Linux 4.13 kernel cycle.

The KDE community has released Plasma 5.10 as their newest desktop release.

The Linux state for HDMI CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) continues to improve and several drivers are in the works.

Keith Packard's latest hacking in the open-source world has been around DRM leases support as part of his work under contract with Valve for better supporting VR HMDs on Linux.

Adding patches atop last week's Wine 2.9 is the new Wine-Staging release with a few noteworthy additions.

As was widely expected, Intel used Computex today to announce the Core X-Series / Skylake-X CPUs.

Emil Velikov is preparing to release Mesa 17.0.7 this week, which will serve as the final point release to the Mesa 17.0 series.

It seems Google is working on a new Go language compiler that's making use of the LLVM compiler infrastructure.

GPS-Share made its first release today, a GNOME-aligned project for sharing a GPS device on a LAN.

One week from today marks Phoronix's 13th birthday and for the occasion will be a number of recap articles plus a number of new, large hardware comparisons, some special benchmarks, and more. But for getting things kicked off this week, let's begin by looking back at the most popular articles in the past 13 years on Phoronix.

Besides releasing Qt 5.9 RC2, The Qt Company is kicking off this new week by the release of Qbs 1.8 as their new build system.

KDE/Qt applications will now look better on GNOME desktops when sandboxed using Flatpak.

The openSUSE project has announced "Kubic" as a new initiative around making their Linux operating system more container-friendly.

The Qt Company has released their second and final release candidate for the big Qt 5.9 tool-kit update.

Linus Torvalds has announced the third weekly test candidate for the upcoming Linux 4.12 kernel debut.

A new release is now available of libmicrohttpd, the GNU project making it easy to run an HTTP web server as part of another application.

A set of 13 patches amounting to nearly 800k lines of new code were sent out Sunday morning for adding a D language front-end to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC).

Enlightenment 0.21.8 was released this week as the latest stable point release to the E21 series.

It looks like support for fractional scaling might be working in time for GNOME 3.26 to help out HiDPI users where integer-based scaling may be less than ideal.

This week FreeBSD has finally merged the fruits of the ino64 project: 64-bit inodes support.

GNOME 3.25.2 is now available as the latest test snapshot leading up to this September's GNOME 3.26 stable debut.

The fourth release candidate of the installer for the upcoming Debian 9.0 "Stretch" release is now available.

A few days ago I wrote about David Airlie's work on a new "r600-rats" branch where he's working on bringing up OpenGL 4.2 support to more Radeon HD 5000/6000 series hardware on R600g that's currently limited to OpenGL 3.3. Some questions arose about the FP64 support.

While the ROCm OpenCL code was recently open-sourced, that new Radeon OpenCL code only supports newer GPUs like Fiji and Polaris and experimental support for "GFX7" GPUs like Hawaii. Due to this newer OpenCL stack, AMD hasn't been investing in the "Clover" Gallium3D state tracker for providing OpenCL within Mesa. But there are at least some independent developers interested in still working on this older OpenCL code for previous Radeon GPUs, including pre-GCN hardware with R600g.

The openSUSE Conference 2017 kicked off yesterday in the beautiful Nürnberg, Bavaria. The event runs through Sunday but if you are sadly missing out on the event, there are video live streams and recordings available.

TrueOS, the FreeBSD-derived operating system originally known as PC-BSD, has changed its -STABLE cycle practices.