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The Pi already runs single programs decently without any sort of hardware acceleration. With improvements like these, I wonder how much more viable the Pi would be as a casual multitasking computer?

Most of the ultrabooks I've looked at just have Ivy Bridge, and you pay a premium in both normal laptops and ultrabooks to get a discrete card alongside it. Of course, if your purpose is to run Linux...

If it performs well and has a robust platform, and you can read the screen without it hurting or looking bad, who cares about the specs? Mer is not Android, it doesn't need a quad-core to run...

That's pretty exciting. I can't wait to see the code in the hands of more Nexus users, running more extensive demos. Might this make it possible to port something like Sailfish to those devices...

Pics, or it didn't happen. People really need to market their graphics work with some spicy videos. I want a relevant example of what this achieves.

Well, Chromium has less issues with GTK+ than Firefox at the moment (font and menu rendering isn't mimicked poorly as in XUL). Even still, Chrome probably won't have GTK+ 3 in the cards for a while,...

Even if it's buggy, it seems like we'll have a lot fewer design bugs than the rest of the stack. Or maybe we're just creating more- we'll see.

What I'm really interested to see is how traditional...

I can't help but feel that compiz was much better before Unity co-opted its development. Emerald itself wasn't such a bad thing- integration was the only real issue, as compiz was never officially...

Well, if we don't like it, we can always make a compelling alternative for the common user. The biggest problem I see is that getting everything set up is just a little bit too difficult on...

Looks like some good development. I'm guessing the desktop version of Ubuntu won't be seeing a lot of stable updates until 14.04, so hopefully all of this work pays off in a year's time. Still, it...

Perhaps, someday soon, browser benchmarks will be a very important area of emphasis for Phoronix. One can dream... the year of the Web desktop.

I'd say the audience of Phoronix is far different from the audience for GNOME. People who do very technical work with their computers probably have very specific requirements of their desktop...

Yeah, I'm just waiting for some more interesting games to come around. You know, the ones I missed when I gave up on PC gaming for console gaming. There are some awesome independent titles, but if I...

As soon as I have the slightest excuse to run my daily tasks on Wayland, I'm going to find a way to make it work. I'm just way too excited to ditch X11, and I'm happy with all the planning and rigor...

Nice- I'd love to see if they can get some kind of functional GUI working on Ubuntu for tablets. That would be a sweet application, although render times would likely suffer a lot on a mobile device....

Honestly, if it were anyone but Canonical, people would be laughing Mir off as a pointless side project. I wish them well, since their failure would certainly hurt the credibility of Linux in the...

Gaming history is littered with underpowered devices that have achieved amazing gaming experiences despite their limitations. I don't expect there are too many games that will force OUYA over the...

So that means you could run any app, not just 3D? It looks like it performs well- how would this compare to something like RDP? Also, there doesn't seem to be a Linux or OS X server, so I'm guessing...

As a GNOME user and community member, I agree. I just wonder if the crazy stuff like blurs will ever be possible on this, since these games seem to be running well enough to watch. Also, it is...

That is truly impressive. It's too bad it didn't come sooner, since the cases where we've needed this are quickly dissolving. Still, it's awesome since it means we can largely dispense with 2D-only...