Steam Survey For February 2025 Shows A Big Drop To Linux Use Back during January Steam on Linux dropped by 0.23% to a 2.06% marketshare while overnight the numbers were published for February 2025.....

Steam Survey For February 2025 Shows A Big Drop To Linux Use - Phoronix

Back during January Steam on Linux dropped by 0.23% to a 2.06% marketshare while overnight the numbers were published for February 2025...

Intel Core 2 CPUs Have Been Affected By An Annoying Linux Kernel Bug For 5+ Years A fix was merged to the Linux 6.14 kernel on Friday -- and also for back-porting to existing Linux stable kernels over the coming days -- for fixing an annoying problem with Intel Core 2 processors. The problem, which was introduced to the Linux kernel back in 2019, could lead to system stalls and boot delays for those still using Intel Core 2 CPUs with m…

Intel Core 2 CPUs Have Been Affected By An Annoying Linux Kernel Bug For 5+ Years - Phoronix

A fix was merged to the Linux 6.14 kernel on Friday -- and also for back-porting to existing Linux stable kernels over the coming days -- for fixin...

NVIDIA Blackwell, Continued AMD Zen 5 Benchmarking & Rust Drama Dominated February While a shorter month, there were still 263 original articles published on Phoronix during February. A lot of exciting hardware in the lab to notable open-source milestones and interesting kernel developments made for an interesting month besides the usual battle over ad-blockers and pressure on the web publishing industry...

NVIDIA Blackwell, Continued AMD Zen 5 Benchmarking & Rust Drama Dominated February - Phoronix

While a shorter month, there were still 263 original articles published on Phoronix during February

GNOME's Mutter Now Supports The Wayland Cursor Shape Protocol Racing toward the GNOME 48 finish line, developers have remained busy squeezing some remaining bits into place for this big open-source desktop release...

GNOME's Mutter Now Supports The Wayland Cursor Shape Protocol - Phoronix

Racing toward the GNOME 48 finish line, developers have remained busy squeezing some remaining bits into place for this big open-source desktop rel...

KDE Developers Begin More Feature Work On Plasma 6.4 With the Plasma 6.3 desktop settling down and the early bugs being addressed, KDE developers have begun spending more time on feature work toward the Plasma 6.4 release...

KDE Developers Begin More Feature Work On Plasma 6.4 - Phoronix

With the Plasma 6.3 desktop settling down and the early bugs being addressed, KDE developers have begun spending more time on feature work toward t...

There Will Not Be Official ROCm Support For The Radeon RX 9070 Series On Launch Day AMD has been investing a lot into the ROCm compute stack to make it a more formidable contender against the NVIDIA CUDA software ecosystem. From better documentation and improved application/API coverage to expanding their range of supported AMD GPUs, there's been a lot going on. So with this morning's much anticipated Radeon RX 9070 series launch announ…

There Will Not Be Official ROCm Support For The Radeon RX 9070 Series On Launch Day - Phoronix

AMD has been investing a lot into the ROCm compute stack to make it a more formidable contender against the NVIDIA CUDA software ecosystem

EA Open-Sources Command & Conquer Red Alert In a surprising announcement, Electronic Arts announced today that they have open-sourced Command and Conquer Red Alert under the GPL license along with Command and Conquer Tiberian Dawn and related titles...

EA Open-Sources Command & Conquer Red Alert - Phoronix

In a surprising announcement, Electronic Arts announced today that they have open-sourced Command and Conquer Red Alert under the GPL license along...

SUSE's "Agama" OS Installer Receives Pleasant Facelift, Future Roadmap SUSE's Agama project is their modern OS installer featuring a web-based UI that will serve as the installer of SUSE/openSUSE in future releases moving forward. Agama 12 is now available as the newest iteration of this operating system installer and there is also now a public road-map concerning future development plans...

SUSE's "Agama" OS Installer Receives Pleasant Facelift, Future Roadmap - Phoronix

SUSE's Agama project is their modern OS installer featuring a web-based UI that will serve as the installer of SUSE/openSUSE in future release...

Git 2.49-rc0 Released With "git backfill", zlib-ng Preparations & Rust Interface Git maintainer Junio C Hamano announced Git 2.49-rc0 today as an early preview release for the next version of this widely-used, distributed version control system...

Git 2.49-rc0 Released With "git backfill", zlib-ng Preparations & Rust Interface - Phoronix

Git maintainer Junio C Hamano announced Git 2.49-rc0 today as an early preview release for the next version of this widely-used, distributed versio...

FineIBT-BHI Looks To Be Ready Ahead Of Linux 6.15 To Provide Tougher Kernel Defenses FineIBT-BHI as a means of tougher kernel defenses for fending off Branch History Injection (BHI) looks like it will be ready for upstreaming in next month's Linux 6.15 merge window...

FineIBT-BHI Looks To Be Ready Ahead Of Linux 6.15 To Provide Tougher Kernel Defenses - Phoronix

FineIBT-BHI as a means of tougher kernel defenses for fending off Branch History Injection (BHI) looks like it will be ready for upstreaming in nex...