New Documentation Aims To Help Improve AMD Zen System Debugging On Linux

In hoping to ease the experience for Linux enthusiasts and desktop users work through various potential hardware issues when running with AMD Zen (Ryzen) systems on Linux, a new documentation proposal adds a lot of helpers to the Linux kernel documentation area for dealing with different hardware woes...
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Firefox nightly introduces an experimental feature that shows an AI summary for web link previews omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/firefo…

#mozilla #AI #Firefox #foss

Try Firefox’s Experimental Link Previews with AI Summary

Hate having to read an article to understand what it’s saying and would rather read what an AI says it (potentially) says instead? Mozilla Firefox has your back. Saltiness aside, the latest n...

^{Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)}

Rust-Written Redox OS Makes USB 3.x Improvements, Async NVMe Driver Support

The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system project has published its March 2025 status report that outlines exciting progress made over the past month...
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Mozilla Builders' LocalScore: An Interesting Local AI LLM Benchmark

Via Mozilla's Mozilla Builders initiative for fostering open-source AI projects is LocalScore, an interesting local AI large language model (LLM) benchmark for Windows and Linux systems. LocalScore has a lot of potential and also builds off the Mozilla Ocho Llamafile project as an easy-to-distribute LLM framework. LocalScore is still in its early stages but is already w…
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We had an amazing Fedora event at Murang’a University in Kenya! We talked about contributing to Fedora Docs, supporting local communities, and making open source more inclusive.

Want to get involved? Join the Fedora community and start contributing today!

Thank you to @emase for organizing this!

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#Fedora #OpenSource #FOSS #FedoraCommunity

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#Cat #miraiCat

Ubuntu 25.04 Boosting AMD EPYC 9005 Performance Even Higher: ~14% Faster Than Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

At the end of March with the Ubuntu 25.04 beta release I began running Ubuntu 25.04 benchmarks on desktop hardware and finding some nice performance improvements thanks to the fresh Linux 6.14 kernel and other new software updates found in this next Ubuntu release. While those numbers were positive, the Ubuntu 25.04 beta performance I am seein…
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DXVK 2.6.1 brings numerous needed fixes for playing Windows games on Linux and Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/dxvk…

#DXVK #Proton #Linux #SteamDeck #SteamOS #OpenSource

DXVK 2.6.1 brings numerous needed fixes for playing Windows games on Linux and Steam Deck

DXVK is a Vulkan-based implementation of Direct3D 8, 9, 10 and 11. It's part of what Proton uses to make Windows games run so well on Linux platforms including the SteamOS based Steam Deck. DXVK 2.6.1 is now available fixing up some big issues.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Palworld publisher teams up with MythicOwl for car delivery adventure Truckful gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/palw…

#Truckful #Pocketpair #IndieGames #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck

Palworld publisher teams up with MythicOwl for car delivery adventure Truckful

MythicOwl have teamed up with Pocketpair Publishing, the recently announced publishing arm of the Palworld developer, for their upcoming game Truckful.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

DXVK 2.6.1 Released With More Bug Fixes & Performance Optimizations

DXVK 2.6.1 was just released as the newest update to this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 over Vulkan API implementation used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and other softwarefor enjoying older Windows games on Linux...
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Twin Sails Interactive break off from Asmodee and Embracer to go independent gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/twin…

#TwinSailsInteractive #Asmodee #Embracer #GamingNews

Twin Sails Interactive break off from Asmodee and Embracer to go independent

Some hopefully good industry news here. Twin Sails Interactive have officially broken away from Asmodee Group AB / Embracer to become independent.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Build a train to expand your deck and fight off bandits in the demo for Fogpiercer gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/buil…

#Fogpiercer #Godot #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck

Build a train to expand your deck and fight off bandits in the demo for Fogpiercer

Fogpiercer is a fresh and interesting take on deckbuilders, with you controlling a train that you build up and upgrade as you go.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Celluloid video player premiered a new release over the weekend, with the update refining the app's player controls in both windowed and full screen mode - it looks great!

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#opensource #foss #mpv #gtk

Celluloid 0.28 Adds Lua Module Support, Refreshes UI

Open-source video player Celluloid premiered a new release this weekend with user-interface improvements, support for Lua models and more. Celluloid is a popular GTK front-end to MPV, the (incredib...

^{Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)}

Master platforming with two characters at the same time in Ambidextro - from the dev of Pineapple on pizza gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/mast…

#Ambidextro #IndieGame #Linux #SteamDeck

Master platforming with two characters at the same time in Ambidextro - from the dev of Pineapple on pizza

Some evil Witch has kidnapped the Queen's children. As the Royal Wizard, it's up to your to rescue them. The only problem is that the Queen is a bit brutal, and has cut you in half.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Five Year Old Ubuntu Bug For NVIDIA Suspend/Resume Experience: Now Working On X11, Wayland Not Yet

For those looking toward a pleasant suspend and resume experience on Ubuntu with the default GNOME desktop, the Ubuntu 25.04 cycle is poised to allow for addressing a five-year-old Ubuntu bug report around the experience. However, for the near-term this is only expected to be in good shape for those using the GNOME X11 session with the GNOME Wa…
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Nexus Mods improve the new open source app with UI upgrades, Cyberpunk 2077 fixes and more gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/nexu…

#Modding #Linux #SteamDeck #OpenSource

Nexus Mods improve the new open source app with UI upgrades, Cyberpunk 2077 fixes and more

I continue to be very excited about improvements to the cross-platform open source Nexus Mods app, to finally firmly plug the modding hole on Linux platforms including the Steam Deck.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Iron Village is a sweet super-casual city-builder and railway manager out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/iron…

#IronVillage #Linux #SteamDeck #IndieGames

Iron Village is a sweet super-casual city-builder and railway manager out now

If you prefer your games a bit cosier and sweeter perhaps Iron Village might be your next one to pick up. Especially if you like building and management sims.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Linux GPU Control Application (LACT) v0.7.3 brings configurable charts, improvements for AMD RDNA3 gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/linu…

#Linux #OpenSource #NVIDIA #AMD #Intel

Linux GPU Control Application (LACT) v0.7.3 brings configurable charts, improvements for AMD RDNA3

Linux GPU Control Application (LACT) continues being one of the best ways to control your AMD, NVIDIA or Intel GPU on a Linux system with version 0.7.3 out now with new features and improvements.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

NVIDIA open sourced PhysX and Flow GPU code gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/nvid…

#OpenSource #NVIDIA #PhysX

NVIDIA open sourced PhysX and Flow GPU code

In a nice win for open source, NVIDIA have now provided the PhysX and Flow GPU source code to expand what developers can do with it.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Proton Experimental gets fixes for XCOM 2, Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced, The Last of Us Part II Remastered gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/prot…

#Proton #Linux #SteamDeck #SteamOS #Gaming

Proton Experimental gets fixes for XCOM 2, Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced, The Last of Us Part II Remastered

Valve released a great sounding new update to Proton Experimental on April 4th, to help get more Windows games running correctly on Linux platforms like Steam Deck.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Wine 10.5 released with pairing support in the Bluetooth driver and ARM64 improvements gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/wine…

#Linux #OpenSource #Wine

Wine 10.5 released with pairing support in the Bluetooth driver and ARM64 improvements

Wine 10.5 is out now as the latest development release of the Windows compatibility layer that will eventually release as Wine 11 next year.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

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FFmpeg Lands AES-NI Optimized Implementation For Big Speed-Up

FFmpeg is known for carrying a lot of hand-optimized Assembly code for speeding up this widely-used multimedia library and taking advantage of AVX-512 and other modern CPU ISA capabilities. Merged yesterday was support for making use of AES-NI for those relying on Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) within FFmpeg for encrypted video streams...
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Apple M1 / M2 / M3 Core Support Might Soon Be Merged For The GCC Compiler

When it comes to compiler support for Apple Silicon and their hardware at large, Apple has long been focused on the LLVM/Clang toolchain given their long history with it, employing many of the developers, and Xcode being based on LLVM. The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) though may soon see upstream support for the newer Apple Cores thanks to the work of GCC devel…
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Linux 6.14.1 Released With An Initial Set Of Fixes & Hardware Quirks

For those that prefer waiting for the first point release before upgrading to a new feature release, Linux 6.14.1 was released this morning with an initial collection of fixes atop the Linux 6.14 codebase from two weeks ago...
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