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Phoronix: This Week: Benchmarks, Graphics, Enlightenment
This week at Phoronix we did our usual roundabout with X.Org / Linux graphics news coverage along with sharing new work on our benchmarking software, and we also broke the news that Samsung is sponsoring the development of Enlightenment. Another popular story was that Fedora 13 may support system rollbacks via Btrfs. Our graphics coverage this week consisted of a new GLX extension for Clutter/Mutter, VMware releasing its virtual Gallium3D driver, how the X stack in Ubuntu 10.04 may look, Catalyst 9.11 for Linux, X Server 1.7.2 RC2, and lastly was word of a new Radeon DRM power savings patch. Other news this week included Adobe releasing a Flash Player 10.1 beta for Linux along with word that Adobe AIR 2.0 is coming, some comments on the Radeon HD 5970 for Linux, CrossOver Games 8.1 released, the second GNOME 2.30 development release, the Linux 2.6.32 kernel is nearing, and Fedora 12 made it out the door. When it came to our very popular automated testing software, the Phoronix Test Suite, this week we released Phoronix Test Suite 2.2 (codenamed "Bardu") to the world...
This week at Phoronix we did our usual roundabout with X.Org / Linux graphics news coverage along with sharing new work on our benchmarking software, and we also broke the news that Samsung is sponsoring the development of Enlightenment. Another popular story was that Fedora 13 may support system rollbacks via Btrfs. Our graphics coverage this week consisted of a new GLX extension for Clutter/Mutter, VMware releasing its virtual Gallium3D driver, how the X stack in Ubuntu 10.04 may look, Catalyst 9.11 for Linux, X Server 1.7.2 RC2, and lastly was word of a new Radeon DRM power savings patch. Other news this week included Adobe releasing a Flash Player 10.1 beta for Linux along with word that Adobe AIR 2.0 is coming, some comments on the Radeon HD 5970 for Linux, CrossOver Games 8.1 released, the second GNOME 2.30 development release, the Linux 2.6.32 kernel is nearing, and Fedora 12 made it out the door. When it came to our very popular automated testing software, the Phoronix Test Suite, this week we released Phoronix Test Suite 2.2 (codenamed "Bardu") to the world...