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      Steam On Linux Dives Down To 3.05% For September

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:18

    Steam on Linux use in March hit an all-time high of around 5.33% marketshare. Since then it pulled back to around 4% while for September 2026 the Steam Survey results are now in and it's clocking in just above 3%...
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      Fedora 45 Beta Performance: The Satisfyingly Boring Benchmarks

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    While there have been a number of Ubuntu 26.10 development benchmarks in recent weeks and more on the way, some Phoronix readers have asked about the lack of any early Fedora 45 tests given its recent beta. For good reason, it's largely boring but here are some to illustrate.
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      Mesa Drops Its Poorly Maintained & Rarely Used Direct3D 10 User-Mode Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    Back in 2021 the Direct3D 10 User-Mode Driver "d3d10umd" was introduced as a new Gallium3D state tracker to work as a Windows WDDM UMD driver similar to Windows WARP while leveraging LLVMpipe for better performance. Now five years later the poorly maintained code is removed from the Mesa codebase...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Beta Released With Linux 7.3 Kernel, GNOME 51 Desktop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    Ubuntu 26.10 beta is now available for the official Ubuntu editions as well as the various community flavors...
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      Nearing A 10 Second Kernel Build, Xeon 600 & Other September Excitement On Phoronix

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    During the past month on Phoronix were 284 original news articles and another 19 featured Linux hardware reviews/multi-page benchmark articles. A lot of exciting happenings both on the hardware and software fronts while October is sure to be another interesting month with the releases of Ubuntu 26.10, Fedora 45, and some more hardware fun...
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      Some Networking Fixes Being Diverted To Linux 7.4, AI/LLM Activity Still Increasing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    With the vast array of wired and wireless networking drivers within the Linux kernel and range of protocols and other networking features, it's a big expanse of code for AI/LLM agents to analyze and critique. The Linux networking developers have acknowledged being "complete overwhelmed" by the AI/LLM-driven patch activity and bug reports as well as battling against AI slop patches. Even though Linux 7.3 stable won't be out for another three weeks, some networking fixes are already being diverted to the next kernel version...
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      Qt Creator 21 IDE Beta Enables More AI Functionality By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    Following yesterday's release of the Qt 6.12 LTS toolkit, The Qt Group today released Qt Creator 21 in beta form as the latest version of their integrated development environment focused on C/C++ as well as Python, JavaScript, and other programming languages...
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      AMD RMPOPT Optimization Queued Ahead Of Linux 7.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    In addition to the very nice AMDGPU IOMMU optimization for iGPUs set to debut in the Linux 7.4 kernel, over on the AMD EPYC server side for servers running SEV-SNP virtual machines is a separate, nice optimization also expected for this next kernel version...
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      Clearing Out Linux's Old 32-bit ARM Platform Code Is Itself A Challenge

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Longtime ARM Linux maintainer Arnd Bergmann over the past year has been working to clear out a number of old ARM platforms from the mainline kernel tree. With Linux 7.3 many older 32-bit ARM platforms were deprecated and in turn hundreds of kernel drivers orphaned. Now it's on to removing that actual code, which given the amount of entangled code, is itself a challenge...