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Steam On Linux Use Recedes Slightly During August

For the Steam Survey results published last month for July it showed Steam on Linux use approaching 3%. With hitting 2.89% in July there was hope that perhaps in August it would breach the elusive 3.0% threshold not seen since the original days of Stea...

2025-09-01 20:16

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GIMP 3.1.4 Released With A Project From 2006 Resurrected And Another Big Feature

GIMP 3.1.4 is out today as the second development release treking toward GIMP 3.2. Most notable with GIMP 3.1.4 are the initial implementations of two of the main features planned for GIMP 3.2: link layers and vector layers...

2025-09-01 17:30

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Rust 1.90 Switching To LLD Linker On Linux For Faster Linking Times

With the Rust 1.90 release due out in mid-September, the Rust compiler on Linux x86_64 will begun using the LLD linker by default in order to "significantly reduce" linking times...

2025-09-01 16:19

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AMD Begins Queuing Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.18

On Friday AMD sent out their initial batch of kernel graphics driver feature changes intended for merging to the Linux 6.18 kernel later this year...

2025-09-01 14:00

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Gentex PLACE Any Space PL1AS / PL1K As A Replacement For Nest Protect Smoke Detectors

Not your typical review on Phoronix today but rather a brief look at the Gentex PLACE Any Space smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors. For those facing ten years on their Nest Protect smoke detectors and looking for an end-of-life replacement t...

2025-09-01 12:28

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Linux's exFAT File-System Driver Optimization Leads To 16.5x Speedup For Loading Time

A patch queued up into the Linux exFAT driver's development tree optimizes the allocation bitmap loading time. For cases of small cluster sizes on large partitions this can yield around 16x faster loading times...

2025-09-01 10:20

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Redox OS Gets COSMIC Reader Working, Other Improvements To This Rust OS

The open-source Redox OS operating system project written in the Rust programming language is out with its status update covering August 2025...

2025-09-01 09:45

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Open-Source NVIDIA Linux Driver Usage About To Become Much More Reliable

For those using the upstream open-source NVIDIA Linux driver "Nouveau", with a pending fix coming for Linux 6.17 and existing kernel releases it should be a much more stable and reliable experience...

2025-09-01 06:38

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AMD Linux Testing Captured All Top 10 Spots For Our Most-Viewed Articles In August

Over the course of August on Phoronix were 267 original news articles and 17 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Coming somewhat as a surprise, AMD Linux testing articles and hardware reviews managed to capture all top 10 s...

2025-09-01 06:24

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Rusticl Driver Lands Support For OpenCL Semaphores

In addition to working on new OpenCL performance optimizations, Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst just landed another important feature into Rusticl: OpenCL semaphores...

2025-09-01 06:15

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New EC Driver Coming For The Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen6 With Snapdragon X Elite SoC

The Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen6 is one of the best supported Snapdragon X Elite laptops under Linux thus far. Thanks to active developer engagement and cooperation from Lenovo there are firmware files in upstream linux-firmware.git and Lenovo's generally...

2025-09-01 06:06

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Linux Sensor Monitoring Coming For The ASUS Pro WS WRX90E-SAGE SE

For those looking at assembling an AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO workstation and interested in having working system sensor monitoring support, the ASUS EC Sensors hardware monitoring (HWMON) driver is in the process of introducing support for the Pro WS ...

2025-09-01 05:55

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GNOME Shell & Mutter Land Last Minute Additions Ahead Of GNOME 49

Ahead of the GNOME 49 release candidate being announced in the days ahead, today marked the "49.rc" tagging of the GNOME Shell and Mutter compositor components. Some last-minute user-facing changes have landed along with other improvements for polishin...

2025-08-31 20:31

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Linux 6.17-rc4 Released With Bcachefs Now "Externally Maintained", Some New Hardware

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.17-rc4 as the newest weekly test release of Linux 6.17 in working toward the stable release in late September...

2025-08-31 19:10

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AerynOS 2025.08 Released With Many Package Updates

AerynOS 2025.08 ISOs are now available as the third release of the year for this innovative Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS...

2025-08-31 18:26

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New Ubuntu Snapdragon X1E Concept ISO Published - Switches To Linux 6.17 Kernel

This week a new Ubuntu X1E Concept ISO was published for Ubuntu 25.04 ARM64 with the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite/Plus laptop optimizations. With this new ISO the Linux 6.17 kernel is now leveraged for the latest upstream kernel bits. Additionall...

2025-08-31 13:03

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KDE Krita Merge Request Opened For Wayland Color Management

The Krita digital painting and graphics editing application aligned with KDE/Qt could soon have color management support working on Wayland Linux desktops for enjoying a better creative experience on HDR (High Dynamic Range) displays...

2025-08-31 09:11

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Linux Ready With Fix For Old Intel Pentium 4 CPUs Following Copy & Paste Fail

This morning's "x86/urgent" pull request ahead of Linux 6.17-rc4 being released later today has a fix for old Intel Pentium 4 processors as well as an Attack Vector Controls update for handling the Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) mitigation...

2025-08-31 06:51

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Rusticl Reduces Amount Of Memory Allocations, Lowering CPU Overhead

Rusticl lead developer Karol Herbst of Red Hat has merged a set of patches for this Rust-written open-source OpenCL driver to reduce the amount of memory allocations that happen and in turn helping reduce CPU overhead...

2025-08-31 06:25

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IceWM 3.9 Released With Few Enhancements To This Speedy X11 Window Manager

IceWM Is out this weekend as the newest feature release to this X11 window manager known for its speedy and simplicity...

2025-08-31 06:18

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