• chevron_right

      Steam On Linux Use Back Above 4% In July

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:25

    Valve just published the Steam Survey results for July 2026 and point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use...
    • chevron_right

      NetBSD 11.0 Released With RISC-V Support, Enhanced Linux System Call Compatibility

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    NetBSD 11.0 officially shipped today as the nineteenth major release of this popular BSD operating system...
    • chevron_right

      MPEG-4 Patent Expiration, RADV On Windows, Open-Source AI & Other July Highlights

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    Last month on Phoronix there were 257 original Linux/open-source related news articles and another 20 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Following the recent 22nd birthday of Phoronix.com, this puts the overall tally at nearly 51k original news articles and more than 5,600 Linux hardware reviews. Here is a look back at what readers found most exciting during the course of July...
    • chevron_right

      Prominent Arch Linux Developer Resigns After 10 Year Run

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Arch Linux developer, security team member, AUR maintainer, and package maintainer Morten Linderud "Foxboron" announced today he is resigning from the project...
    • chevron_right

      Linux 7.2-rc6 Working Around Several Buggy Western Digital SATA Drives

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    Merged ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.2-rc6 kernel test release are several ATA fixes that include a number of device-specific workarounds for some Western Digital SATA drives that have been failing to work on recent versions of the Linux kernel...
    • chevron_right

      GNOME Working To Establish An RFC Process, Battling Sloppy AI-Generated Extensions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    GNOME developers were quite busy in closing out the month of July from continued work on establishing a formal Request For Comments (RFC) process for the project to battling the continued flood of AI-generated GNOME Shell extensions...
    • chevron_right

      KDE Plasma 6.8 To Enjoy Huge Performance Gains For Multi-GPU/eGPU Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    It's been a very exciting week in the KDE Plasma 6.8 development space particularly thanks to performance work on bettering KWin's multi-GPU / external GPU handling...
    • chevron_right

      Picolibc 1.8.12 Brings Latest Improvements To This Embedded-Focused C Library

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    If the recent release of the GNU C Library glibc 2.44 is too big for your embedded use-cases, Keith Packard continues hacking on Picolibc as his embedded-focused C library. Released overnight was Picolibc 1.8.12 with a variety of improvements for this embedded libc...
    • chevron_right

      AMD Begins Posting Display Core Next 6 "DCN6" Linux Patches For RDNA5 GPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    AMD closed out the month of July by posting some new AMDGPU Display Core "DC" patches. Most notable with this weekly patch ritual is several patches beginning to establish the foundation for Display Core Next 6 "DCN6" as their next-generation display IP. The patches tie DCN6 to the AMD GFX13 graphics engine, which is anticipated to be for the next-generation RDNA5 graphics processors...