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      Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:44

    If Valve's latest Steam Survey monthly figures are accurate, Steam on Linux enjoyed a very wild month of March. Steam on Linux is now above the 5% threshold and more than twice the size of the Steam on macOS marketshare...
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      AMD GPU Driver Sees DC Idle Manager & Multi-SDMA Engine Optimization For Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:31

    With Linux 7.0-rc6 having released on Sunday, we are hitting the point of the cut-off of new feature material being allowed into the Direct Rendering Manager's DRM-Next tree of queuing new graphics/display/accelerator feature code ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window. As presumably the last AMDGPU/AMDKFD feature pull ahead of Linux 7.1, today's pull request from AMD contains some noteworthy final enhancements...
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      Fedora Rejects Proposal To Use systemd For Managing Per-User Environment Variables

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 hours ago

    The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" this week rejected a change proposal for Fedora 45 that would use systemd's environment generator functionality for managing per-user environment variables...
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      NVIDIA Provides Preview Driver With DRM Color Pipeline API Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 hours ago

    Following the DRM Color Pipeline API making it into the Linux 6.19 kernel, NVIDIA today released a preview Linux driver with their support for the DRM per-plane color pipeline API that will benefit the broader Linux/Wayland desktop HDR ambitions...
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      Cloudflare Announces EmDash As Open-Source "Spiritual Successor" To WordPress

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 hours ago

    Cloudflare continues to be full of open-source surprises. Today Cloudflare announced EmDash as an open-source "spiritual successor" to WordPress with an emphasis on better security...
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      HarfBuzz 14.0 Released With New GPU Accelerated Text Rendering Library

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 hours ago

    HarfBuzz is the open-source text shaping engine originally born out of the FreeType project and now widely-used by GNOME, KDE, Java, Flutter, Godot, Chromium, LibreOffice, and countless other applications. HarfBuzz 14.0 released today and making this release quite exciting is introducing a GPU-accelerated text rendering library...
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      April 1 Linux Patches: Verified Birth Date For File Creation, Block Emacs From Running

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    What's more annoying: half-baked AI slop open-source patches or April Fools' Day with programmers trying to have some fun? This year, April 1 is seeming more patches than usual...
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      KDE Linux Hardening Their OS Against Updates Making Systems Unbootable

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    KDE Linux as the in-house, leading-edge Linux distribution for showcasing the latest KDE Plasma innovations has promoted itself as being an atomically updated Linux distribution. But these atomic updates didn't quite work out as planned recently with some users finding their system(s) unbootable. But improvements are being made now for better robustness moving forward...
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      The Linux Kernel's Minimum Rust Version Supported Prepares For Rust 1.85 Baseline

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    The Rust-For-Linux crew is preparing to raise the minimum supported Rust version for building the Linux kernel and and similarly also bumping the minimum supported version of bindgen, the tool for generating Rust FFI bindings for C code in the kernel...