Proposal To Ship XLibre As X11 Server Packages On Fedora Linux Is Withdrawn
The controversial proposal to replace the upstream X.Org X11 server packages on Fedora Linux with XLibre is not going to happen... At least not for now. The change proposal has been withdrawn prior to being voted on by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo)...
phoronix.com/news/Fedora-XLibr…
Mozilla Formally Discontinues Its DeepSpeech Project
One of the interesting projects engaged in by Mozilla that directly wasn't related to their web browser efforts was DeepSpeech, an embedded/offline speech-to-text engine. To not much surprise given the lack of activity in recent years, last week they finally and formally discontinued the open-source project...
phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Deep…
AVX-512's Enormous Advantage On AMD EPYC 4005 Series Performance
The AMD EPYC 4005 "Grado"" processors launched by AMD in May for entry-level servers offer downright amazing value, performance, and power efficiency over the Intel Xeon 6300 / Xeon E-2400 series competition. Intel's top-of-stack Xeon 6300 (Xeon 6369P) / Xeon E processors fail to compete with even the mid-tier EPYC 4005 series processors in either performance, power, or cost ef…
phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-4…
The AMD EPYC 4005 'Grado'' processors launched by AMD in May for entry-level servers offer downright amazing value, performance, and power efficiency over the Intel Xeon 6300 / Xeon E-2400 series competition.www.phoronix.com
: Split your shell for fun and profit – even over remote connectionsLiam Proven (The Register)
In addition to the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) having to decide on whether i686 support should end for Fedora Linux (including multilib), another contentious proposal is on replacing the X.lxer.com
Stalker 2 version 1.5 actually sorts out the A-Life AI system, and modding support is here gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/stal…
#Stalker2 #FPS #Gaming #PCGaming
Finally, only about 7 months after the release, Stalker 2 actually now has the A-Life AI system hooked up properly.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
RADV Driver Introduces Limited Support For NVIDIA Cooperative Matrix Extension
The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged support for the VK_NV_cooperative_matrix2 NVIDIA Vulkan extension but it's hidden by default and only partially supported with a focus on helping FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 and VKD3D-Proton...
phoronix.com/news/RADV-NV-Cope…
The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver 'RADV' has merged support for the VK_NV_cooperative_matrix2 NVIDIA Vulkan extension but it's hidden by default and only partially supported with a focus on helping FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 and VKD3D-Proton.www.phoronix.com
Intel Preps Linux PTC "Throttling Control Interface" To Run Hotter For Better Performance
With the Linux 6.16 kernel Intel enabled the new Platform Temperature Control (PTC) interface as part of their int340x thermal driver. Now ahead of the Linux 6.17 kernel Intel PTC is being extended to support a Throttling Control Interface for those that may prefer running their system(s) hotter in order to enjoy better performance...
phoronix.com/news/Intel-PTC-Th…
Palworld - Tides of Terraria crossover update is out with fishing, new islands, a new Pal trust mechanic and more gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/palw…
#Palworld #Gaming #PCGaming #Terraria
A huge update for Palworld has arrived with the Tides of Terraria crossover. It's a lot more than just adding bits of Terraria though.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Broken Arrow devs confirm their anti-cheat will not block Linux, SteamOS gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/brok…
#BrokenArrow #RTS #Gaming #Linux #SteamOS
Broken Arrow recently released on Steam, promising to provide a fresh large-scale real-time modern warfare tactics game.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Fairphone 6 Announced With Same-Day Linux Support Patches
Dutch electronics company Fairphone today announced their Fairphone Gen 6 smartphone as the successor to the Fairphone 5. Fairphone 6 continues to be repair-friendly and was just announced this morning while already the Linux support patches have hit the Linux kernel mailing list...
phoronix.com/news/Fairphone-6-…
Ridiculous Harry Potter-like wizard game Secret Agent Wizard Boy gets a huge upgrade gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/ridi…
#IndieGames #Gaming #PCGaming #Linux
Secret Agent Wizard Boy and the International Crime Syndicate really rolls off the tongue doesn't it.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Cryptsetup 2.8 is out today as the newest feature release for this widely-used utility used to setup disk encryption under Linux around the DM-CRYPT kernel functionality for LUKS volumes and more.lxer.com
Intel Open-Source Software Begins Adding Notices For Generative AI Use
Intel open-source software projects are beginning to relay notices that they may have been developed with support from Intel-operated generative AI solutions...
phoronix.com/news/Intel-OSS-Ge…
Mann vs. Machine is getting an upgrade in Team Fortress 2 gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/mann…
#TeamFortress2 #Steam #Valve #FPS #Gaming #PCGaming
Valve announced via an official Team Fortress 2 blog post that the Mann vs. Machine mode is getting upgraded and they've called for help.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
PNG Spec Updated For HDR Images & Animated PNGs
While WebP and AVIF generate much of the interest these days from a tech perspective for modern image formats, the PNG image format was just updated with new features...
phoronix.com/news/PNG-Specific…
System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster is Steam Deck Verified and SteamOS Compatible ahead of release gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/syst…
#SystemShock2 #SteamDeck #SteamOS
Good news for Linux gamers! System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster has been rated as Steam Deck Verified / SteamOS Compatible ahead of release.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/bazz…
#Bazzite #Fedora #Linux #LinuxGaming
More to think on for the Fedora Linux change proposal to drop 32-bit support - as the popular Bazzite would have to shut down.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
who? o_0 And yet, another project which prefers not to say on their main page what actually is it.
I'm left to presume, that it's yet another distro based on Fedora, right?
@KasTasMykolas
From their main page:
"The next generation of Linux gaming
Bazzite makes gaming and everyday use smoother and simpler across desktop PCs, handhelds, tablets, and home theater PCs."
The Intel Graphics Compiler 'IGC' 2.12.5 release just occurred as the next feature release to this open-source graphics compiler used by the Intel Compute Runtime and also by various graphics APIs under Microsoft Windows with the Intel graphics drive…lxer.com
Fedora targets Fedora 44 to remove i686 packages and multilib support, impacting Wine, Steam, and any remaining 32-bit dependencies on 64-bit installations.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
It has been one month since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 was officially announced and it's proving to be a nice upgrade for enterprise Linux use.lxer.com
: The problem is focusing on property rights rather than privacyThomas Claburn (The Register)
Please consider filling out our annual user and contributors survey! It's to get feedback from our users... and contributors, who are also users.
This survey is a great way for the community to understand where we're at and where we should go, but other means of participation and contribution are always available!
oops, forgot to mention in the last section that Fedora Silverblue should just be Fedora Atomic GNOME/Workstation.
Also in the architecture part isn't easy to read for nontechnical people (x86_64 but the counterpart is i686?)
Today marks the debut of mmc-utils 1.0 as the inaugural release for this de facto solution for managing MMC storage devices under Linux.lxer.com
Former Btrfs Lead Developer Chris Mason Announces New "rsched" Tool
Open-source Linux developer Chris Mason who is known for being the original lead developer of the Btrfs file-system recently began hacking on a new tool that he announced today, rsched...
phoronix.com/news/rsched
Formula 1 คือสัญลักษณ์แห่งเทคโนโลยีที่ล้ำสมัย ความเร็วที่เกินคาด และการลงทุนมหาศาล ขณะที่ Formula 2 มีบทบาทสำคัญในฐานะสนามพัฒนานักแข่งรุ่นใหม่ก่อนก้าวขึ้นสู่เวทีสูงสุดของวงการปกป้อง Poakpong
KDE Plasma 6.4.1 is now available as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment series with bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
: Anthropic scores a qualified victory in fair use case, but got slapped for using over 7 million pirated copiesIain Thomson (The Register)
While not talked about as much as the Intel CPU security mitigations, Intel graphics security mitigations have added up over time that if disabling Intel graphics security mitigations for their GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero can yield a …lxer.com
This post is immediate follow up for https://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/354995/index.html Hyprpaper is a fast Wayland wallpaper utilit...lxer.com
Linux Kernel's gconfig Finally Ported From GTK2 To GTK3
While the GIMP image editor received a bad rap for the amount of time it took to see a stable release based on the GTK3 toolkit rather than GTK2, only today patches have emerged for taking the Linux kernel's gconfig graphical kernel configuration utility from GTK2 to GTK3...
phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel…
While the GIMP image editor received a bad rap for the amount of time it took to see a stable release based on the GTK3 toolkit rather than GTK2, only today patches have emerged for taking the Linux kernel's gconfig graphical kernel configuration uti…www.phoronix.com
Fedora's FESCo To Decide Whether To Replace Upstream X.Org Server With XLibre Fork
In addition to the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) having to decide on whether i686 support should end for Fedora Linux (including multilib), another contentious proposal is on replacing the X.Org X11 Server with the controversial XLibre fork...
phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-XL…
Banana Pi has shared hardware details about an embedded platform built around the Renesas RZ/V2N Vision AI MPU.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Merging the worlds of Half-Life 2, Left 4 Dead and TF2 - Fortress Connected is coming to Steam gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/merg…
#FortressConnected #TF2 #HL2 #L4D2 #FPS #Gaming
The total mash-up mod Fortress Connected has been announced for a Steam release where the worlds of Half-Life 2, Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2 collide.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
mmc-utils 1.0 Released For Managing MMC Storage On Linux
Today marks the debut of mmc-utils 1.0 as the inaugural release for this de facto solution for managing MMC storage devices under Linux...
phoronix.com/news/mmc-utils-1.…
KDE Plasma 6.4.1 is a bugfix release that improves translations and refines your desktop experience across KWin, Discover, Plasma Desktop, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Gnutella
in reply to Phoronix • • •