Asked via @Phoronix on Twitter this weekend was whether you're using the open or closed-source graphics drivers.

For those that haven't been paying attention to SPIR-V as the new intermediate representation that makes up OpenCL 2.1+ and Vulkan, here's various details about this newest Khronos Group specification you may not be familiar with now that Khronos formally released OpenCL 2.1 and SPIR-V 1.0..

Bhushan Shah has shared the recent work he's been doing on KDE's KWin to have proper screenlocker integration on Wayland.

Early this morning I wrote a brief article about AMD working on an LLVM-based Heterogeneous Compute Compiler and since then more details have come to light.

The Khronos Group has formally released the OpenCL 2.1 and SPIR-V 1.0 specifications coinciding with this year's SuperComputing conference in Austin.

High-end PC maker Falcon Northwest has decided against rolling out any Steam Machines this year powered by Valve's Debian-based SteamOS, due to problems with the operating system.

AMD has been open-sourcing several components of their Linux HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) stack for the past several months including the AMDKFD kernel driver and HSAKMT run-time. In cooperation with SUSE, they also hope to have HSA accelerator support in GCC 6. Besides the GCC support, AMD is apparently planning to publish a Heterogeneous Compute Compiler.

Last month I wrote about how Google has been working on CUDA compiler optimizations in LLVM and they were claiming to achieve results where their open-source compiler work was generating better code than NVIDIA's own NVCC compiler. More details are now available.

Linus Torvalds announced today the first release candidate for Linux 4.4.

For those with FFmpeg present on their system, Mozilla developers have finally enabled FFmpeg support to be used by default.

Developers behind Kodi (formerly XBMC) announced the release this morning of Jarvis Beta 1.

Con Kolivas has released the BFS scheduler v0.465 with support for the Linux 4.3 kernel.

As some extra benchmarks to toss out there this weekend are some Clang 3.8 SVN compiler benchmarks when trying out different optimization levels.

In addition to adding some new OpenCL / CUDA tests this week to the Phoronix Test Suite and OpenBenchmarking.org, Caffe was added too as a deep learning benchmark.

Just one week after Mesa Git received Nouveau NVC0 compute support, the NV50 Gallium3D driver for pre-Fermi GPUs has also received basic compute support.

Just ahead of the Super Computing SC15 conference beginning tomorrow in Austin, the OpenMP 4.5 specification has been finalized.

With the Linux 4.3 Git tree at around 20.6 million lines of code, documentation, and utilities, I was curious to see whether the Linux 4.4 merge window was heavy enough to bump it over 21 million lines...

The KDE community has announced the release of Frameworks 5.16.0 as more than 60 add-on libraries to Qt.

After months of continually trying out different methods of cheap yet effective cooling for the 60+ systems running daily Linux benchmarks, I'm finally happy with now having been one week of the room maintaining an ambient temperature of 68~72F (20~22C).

Various kernel changes were mainlined in the Linux 4.4 development code for Google Chrome hardware.

The first release candidate is out today for QEMU v2.5 and it comes with exciting changes.

LLVM developers have decided to enable a new vectorizer option by default that has the potential to boost performance, but the performance benefits aren't immediately clear.

With the Linux 4.4 kernel the Lenovo Yoga 3 laptop owners out there will finally have support for using their ESC key.

The US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration has teamed up with NVIDIA's PGI compiler division to create an open-source Fortran compiler atop LLVM.

Wine 1.7.55 was released this morning with some exciting changes.

Added to Coreboot this week was CC6 support to provide greater power-savings for current-generation AMD processors.

Since GCC 5 there has been support for Intel Memory Protection Extensions (MPX) in the compiler, but it's been disabled by default. That's now changing.

The X.Org Foundation Board of Directors decided at yesterday's bi-weekly board meeting to go ahead with a plan to host XDC2016 in Helsinki, Finland.

Football Manager 2016 was released today by SEGA. Compared to the past where the Linux port came after the fact, Football Manager 2016 has seen a same-day release for Windows, OS X, and SteamOS/Linux.

Phoronix Test Suite 6.0 "Hammerfest" is ready for release next week and as such being put out tonight is the final development build.

Matthias Clasen announced the release today of GNOME 3.18.2 while all feature development continues to be around the GNOME 3.19 series culminating with GNOME 3.20.

Today marks one year since Microsoft announced they would be working on open-sourcing the server-side .NET and also making .NET run on Linux and OS X. Since then, it's been one heck of a year for Microsoft on Linux.

With AMD having published PowerPlay support for AMDGPU I've been busy today running tests on this new power management code that finally allows Tonga and Fiji GPUs to operate at their full-speed when using the open-source Linux graphics driver.

KitWare announced the release today of the CMake 3.4 build system.

While the level of performance out of the Raspberry Pi devices have had me less than interested, I decided to finally pick up a Raspberry Pi 2 anyways for some benchmarking and testing of the VC4 DRM+Gallium3D driver stack.

While the highly anticipated PHP 7 release was supposed to happen today, it hasn't as instead it's been replaced by another release candidate.

Kubuntu is moving on in the absence of Jonathan Riddell who left the project and his longtime role as the release manager.

Dave Chinner has now sent in the XFS file-system updates for the Linux 4.4 kernel.

AMD has finally published patches for providing preliminary PowerPlay support for the AMDGPU DRM driver, which will eventually replace the current DPM (Dynamic Power Management) support for Volcanic Islands hardware. This PowerPlay support comes with compatibility for Tonga, Fiji, and the rest of the VI line-up!

KDE's Sebastian Kügler has been blogging about KDE Plasma on Wayland lately and some of the ongoing work. Today he shared some interesting performance numbers.

Mozilla this week released Firefox OS 2.5 as well as a Firefox OS 2.5 Developer Preview that can be downloaded to Android devices.

Michel Dänzer has released the xf86-video-ati 7.6.0 DDX driver as a long overdue update to AMD's X.Org driver for pre-AMDGPU hardware.