Linux Shoots Past The 2% Threshold For The Steam Survey, AMD CPU Use Breaks 75%

When Steam on Linux debuted a decade ago it maintained around a 2% marketshare before receding and then beginning its long climb back up following the debut of Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux and then with the much anticipated Steam Deck handheld game console and the modern Arch-based SteamOS. Valve just published their May 2024 numbers for the St…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Steam-2024-Above-2

Autodafe 1.0 Released For Freeing Projects Of Autotools

Controversial free software developer Eric S Raymond has been spending a lot of time recently on the new Autodafe project as a means of free software projects from relying on Autotools. This "De-Autoconfiscation" has now led to the release of Autodafe 1.0 with the tool now being considered production-ready...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Autodafe-1.0-Released

Rust-Written Redox OS Continues Gravitating Toward The COSMIC Desktop

The Rust-written Redox OS operating system issued their May monthly status report to highlight the various improvements made to this original open-source OS...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-May-2024

Fedora Moves Ahead In Replacing Redis With Valkey

Back in April I noted that Fedora was considering replacing Redis with Valkey given the upstream Redis software licensing changes. At yesterday's Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) they have now signed off on replacing Redis with Valkey...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Replacing-Redis-Valkey

Linux 6.11 Device Mapper Will Optimize Flushing

The latest performance optimization work for the Linux kernel's Device Mapper (DM) comes thanks to Red Hat's Mikulas Patocka...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-DM-Optimize-Flushing

"Honeykrisp" Is A New Vulkan Driver For Apple M1 On Linux - Derived From The NVK Driver

While the Asahi AGX Gallium3D driver for OpenGL support with Apple Silicon on Linux has been maturing nicely and is quite capable these days, the Vulkan support hasn't been coming together as quick or for as long. But a new Apple Silicon Vulkan driver was recently started by Asahi Linux / Mesa developers and is looking positive for being able to b…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Honeykrisp-Apple-Vulkan-Driver

Libinput 1.26 Rolls Out New Features, gsetwacom Introduced To Replace xsetwacom

Red Hat's Peter Hutterer is out with two important updates to the Linux input stack: libinput 1.26 has released for this input handling library used both by X.Org and Wayland systems and then secondly he has announced the "gsetwacom" CLI program as a replacement to the "xsetwacom" program...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/libinput-1.26-Released

The Most Popular Linux Hardware Reviews & Featured Articles Over 20 Years

With this week marking the 20th birthday of Phoronix, as part of the commemorative articles this week has been looking at the most popular Linux/open-source news over 20 years. In the piece today is looking back at the most popular Linux hardware reviews and other featured articles on Phoronix since 2004...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Hardware-Reviews-20

Google Begins Upstreaming Fuchsia OS Support Into Mesa 3D

With not hearing much about Fuchsia OS in a while and the Fuchsia OS team being hit hard by layoffs last year, coming as a surprise today is seeing Google beginning to upstream Fuchsia OS support into the Mesa 3D graphics driver stack...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fuchsia-OS-Simple-Mesa-Support

Redox OS With COSMIC Apps Is Looking Quite Nice

Jeremy Soller who is an engineer at System76 and manages a side hustle of leading development on the open-source, Rust-written Redox OS has shared the latest look at this open-source operating system with the System76 COSMIC desktop applications...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-COSMIC-Look

AMD's Newest Open-Source Surprise: "Peano" - An LLVM Compiler For Ryzen AI NPUs

There was a very exciting Friday evening code drop out of AMD... They announced a new project called Peano that serves as an open-source LLVM compiler back-end for AMD/Xilinx AI engine processors with a particular focus on the Ryzen AI SOCs with existing Phoenix and Hawk Point hardware as well as the upcoming XDNA2 found with the forthcoming Ryzen AI 300 series.…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Peano-LLVM-Ryzen-AI