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ARM Linux Kernel May Shift To Generic Entry Code: Less Assembly But Lower Performance
A pull request was sent out on Friday that could potentially land for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel to transition ARM's kernel entry code from some architecture-specific Assembly over to using the generic entry code path. It means more unification and...
2025-03-02 06:16
SDL 3.2.6 Released With HiDPI Icons & Color Management On Wayland
Following the official SDL 3 release back in January, SDL 3.2.6 was released this weekend as the newest iteration of this widely-used software/hardware abstraction layer that is commonly leveraged by cross-platform games...
2025-03-02 06:02
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.....
2025-03-02 05:22
Linux Mint is Redesigning the Cinnamon App Menu
Last year saw the Cinnamon desktop receive a much-needed modern makeover, but it seems the visual revamp effort isn’t over yet. Work is underway on a design update for the Cinnamon app menu (applet). Compared to the current Cinnamon Menu, the propose...
2025-03-02 01:43
Linux's New Way Of Informing User-Space Over Hung GPUs May Become More Useful
Last month I wrote about new code slated to be added for Linux 6.15 that would provide a cross-driver/standardized means of reporting to user-space over hung GPUs. For the likes of the AMD and Intel graphics drivers initially, user-space will be notifi...
2025-03-01 15:09
Linux Mint Devs Plan Revamped Application Launcher for the Cinnamon Desktop
Linux Mint devs revealed a revamped application launcher for the Cinnamon desktop environment and other changes coming to Linux Mint users. Here's your first look! The post Linux Mint Devs Plan Revamped Application Launcher for the Cinnamon Desktop app...
2025-03-01 12:50
Monthly News – February 2025
Hi everyone, Many thanks for your donations and support. Here are the news for this month. Important Firefox Update On March 14, 2025, a root certificate used by Firefox will expire. When this happen, Firefox version 128 (and lower) will suffer signifi...
2025-03-01 11:49
AMD Readies More Graphics Driver Improvements For Linux 6.15
Last week AMD sent out a big batch of new graphics driver code for Linux 6.15 including new GPU support, OEM i2c support for RGB lighting and other features, and other updates. Another round of AMDGPU/AMDKFD feature code targeting the upcoming Linux 6....
2025-03-01 08:45
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...
2025-03-01 06:41
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 u...
2025-03-01 06:38
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...
2025-03-01 06:26
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...
2025-03-01 06:12
DeepSeek Develops Linux File-System For Better AI Training & Inference Performance
Chinese AI company DeepSeek made public this week 3FS, a Linux FUSE-based file-system intended for allowing better AI training and inference performance...
2025-02-28 20:36
Skype Hangs Up (For Good) on May 5 – Export Data Before Then!
Skype, one of the best-known video chat/calling apps, is shutting down forever on May 5, Microsoft has announced today. Nothing gold can stay, and neither can VoIP services shorn their cultural zeitgeist it seems. Replacing Skype will be a free version...
2025-02-28 19:32
NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Updated For Blackwell & New Extensions
NVIDIA engineers closed out February by releasing the NVIDIA 570.123.01 Vulkan beta driver for Linux and on the Windows side was the NVIDIA 572.63 driver release...
2025-02-28 17:47
NetworkManager 1.52 Released with IPvlan Interface Support, ethtool FEC Mode
NetworkManager 1.52 open-source network connection manager is now available for download with IPvlan interface support, ethtool FEC mode, and other changes. Here's what's new! The post NetworkManager 1.52 Released with IPvlan Interface Support, ethtool...
2025-02-28 16:26
Linux App Release Roundup (Feb 2025)
February proved a bumper month for Linux software updates, seeing big release of productivity suites LibreOffice and ONLYOFFICE and, plus a crop of smaller app updates which didn’t merit a full-length article on this blog. Rather than skip over those...
2025-02-28 16:11
Life at Canonical: Akshara Pathak shares her experience as a new joiner in Customer Success
As Canonical continues to grow, we have developed a unique onboarding process that enables our new hires to quickly settle and establish themselves in our globally distributed environment.  During your first few weeks, your manager will create an onbo...
2025-02-28 15:37
AMD Prepares Linux Driver Support For Image Signal Processor With New Laptops
Patches were posted today for the Linux kernel implementing new drivers for web camera image signal processing (ISP) for supporting new, unspecified AMD Ryzen laptops...
2025-02-28 12:40
FreeDesktop.org Devises New Hosting Plan For GitLab Infrastructure
One month ago FreeDesktop.org/X.Org experienced a new cloud crisis with Equinix Metal shutting down and losing access to all the FreeDesktop.org cloud/hosting resources at the end of April. FreeDesktop.org GitLab powers not only the X.Org projects but ...
2025-02-28 11:58