AMD Preps Some Compute Driver Fixes For Polaris & Hawaii Era GPUs With Linux 6.17

AMD today submitted their initial batch of "new stuff" for queuing into DRM-Next of their kernel graphics/compute driver changes they have prepared for the upcoming Linux 6.17 cycle opening in a few weeks...
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The #Forgejo monthly report was published ✨

Forgejo v12.0 branch was cut on 25 June, for a planned release on 17 July. Forgejo v11.0.2 was released on 18 June, addressing several bugs. Forgejo Runner v6.4.0 introduced offline caching support.

The minimum required Git version has been bumped and the search has been improved.

There is strong enthusiasm for translating Forgejo.

User following with #ActivityPub has progressed and a new #NLnet grant has been accepted.

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Forgejo monthly report - June 2025

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Interest in #Linux is growing! 💪 🐧

Mark Pearson from #Lenovo says they increased support for Linux in response to customer demand for #Ubuntu and #Fedora.

Read this article by #LPI editor Andrew Oram to learn how Lenovo engages with the growing Linux community: lpi.org/ggq2

#Linux #opensource #FOSS #ThinkPad #Ubuntu #Fedora #LenovoDesktop @linuxmagazine

Open source PS2 emulator PCSX2 v2.4 brings SDL 3, Wayland support, lots of compatibility fixes gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/open…

#PS2 #PCSX2 #Emulation #Linux #Gaming #RetroGaming

Open source PS2 emulator PCSX2 v2.4 brings SDL 3, Wayland support, lots of compatibility fixes

PlayStation 2 emulator PCSX2 v2.4 has been released, bringing with it many enhancements to game support and improved Linux support too.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Performance & Power Of The Low-Cost EPYC 4005 "Grado" vs. Original EPYC 7601 Zen 1 Flagship CPU

For those on very long server upgrade cycles, typically just running the hardware until failure or consider buying second-hand servers that are generations old for lower up-front cost, today's unique article is for you with quantifying a first-generation EPYC server compared to today's entry-level EPYC processors in performance and power efficienc…
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Here's the most played games on Steam Deck for June 2025 gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/here…

#SteamDeck #SteamOS #Steam #Gaming #Linux

Here's the most played games on Steam Deck for June 2025

Want to know what's popular on Steam Deck? Got you covered here with the latest details on the most popular games for June 2025.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Canonical Decides To Double Down On Their Investment In Java For Ubuntu

Ubuntu maker Canonical has decided to "double down" their investment in OpenJDK Java for Ubuntu Linux...
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Sunshine game stream host for Moonlight gets security fixes, Linux improvements and more features gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/suns…

#Sunshine #Moonlight #Gaming #PCGaming #Linux

Sunshine game stream host for Moonlight gets security fixes, Linux improvements and more features

LizardByte released the latest major update to Sunshine, the game streaming host platform for Moonlight to stream games from one system to another.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Single-player extraction shooter ZERO Sievert gets gamepad and Steam Deck upgrades gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/sing…

#ZEROSievert #Gaming #Linux #SteamOS #SteamDeck

Single-player extraction shooter ZERO Sievert gets gamepad and Steam Deck upgrades

ZERO Sievert is a popular single-player top-down extraction shooter that's a lot of fun, and it just had a huge upgrade that's worth a look.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Inspired by the movie Aliens, tactical roguelike Xenopurge heads to Steam on July 11 gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/insp…

#Xenopurge #IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming

Inspired by the movie Aliens, tactical roguelike Xenopurge heads to Steam on July 11

Inspired by one of my favourite movies, Xenopurge channels tactical roguelike action where you're commanding a squad dealing with aliens.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Gentoo Releases Updated Install Media Based On KDE Plasma 6.3 + Linux 6.12 LTS

The Gentoo Linux project ended the month of June by releasing new install media...
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Mesa 25.2 Should Have Initial Vulkan Support In Good Shape For NVIDIA Blackwell

The Mesa 25.2 release that will likely be out as stable in August should have nice initial support for the newest NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, namely used by the GeForce RTX 50 series, with the NVK open-source driver for Vulkan usage...
phoronix.com/news/Mesa-25.2-NV…

New Guide: How to use MangoHud for Linux game performance monitoring gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/…

#MangoHud #Linux #LinuxGaming

How to use MangoHud for Linux game performance monitoring

MangoHud is a fantastic Vulkan and OpenGL performance overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more. Here's how to use it on Linux.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Ubuntu is raising its RISC-V profile requirements to RVA23, requiring vector and hypervisor extensions to be included. Most existing RISC-V SBCs on sale lack them.

omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu…

#riscv #ubuntu #linux

Ubuntu 25.10 Raises RISC-V Profile Requirements

Canonical confirm a technical shift for Ubuntu on RISC-V. With Ubuntu 25.10, it will only support hardware meeting the RVA23 profile spec.

^{Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)}

NVIDIA Confirms 580 Linux Driver Is The Last For Maxwell / Pascal / Volta

NVIDIA previously warned CUDA users that CUDA 12.x is the last for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs. NVIDIA overnight now officially confirmed that the Maxwell / Pascal / Volta GPU support is going to end in their Linux driver with the upcoming NVIDIA R580 Linux driver series...
phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-580-L…

Framework 12, AMD Strix Halo & Linux Kernel Improvements Were Most Popular In June

Over the course of last month on Phoronix were 240 original news articles written by your's truly as well as another 24 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles. On top of that last month also marked the 21st birthday of Phoronix.com...
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digiKam 8.7 Released With AI Auto-Rotation Tool, OpenCV OpenCL + CUDA Support

The digiKam 8.7 professional photo management software has been released for this KDE/Qt-aligned open-source solution for digital photography...
phoronix.com/news/digiKam-8.7-…

Running Ubuntu 24.10? It's time to get upgrading with support ending gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/runn…

#Ubuntu #Linux #OpenSource

Running Ubuntu 24.10? It's time to get upgrading with support ending

Time is running out for the end of support for the Ubuntu 24.10 series, so you'll need to upgrade quite soon to continue getting security fixes.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

NVIDIA confirm upcoming driver will be the last for Maxwell, Pascal and Volta gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/nvid…

#NVIDIA #Linux #Gaming #LinuxGaming

NVIDIA confirm upcoming driver will be the last for Maxwell, Pascal and Volta

NVIDIA have given an update on their driver support for various GPUs, with an upcoming update being the last for a whole lot of cards.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Floating Mini Panel is a GNOME Shell extension that does what it says: it turns the top bar into a compact, movable and always-on-top panel.

omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/floati…

#gnome #opensource

Nice for Fedora and Framework folks to connect at Open Source Summit!!

#Fedora #Framework #Linux #OpenSource

AerynOS Tooling Now Written In Rust Rather Than D, New Software Updates

Coincidentally after writing this morning wondering about what's going on with AerynOS (formerly known as Serpent OS), contributors "NomadicCore" and "Ermo" have issued a new project update outlining what's been going on the past few months...
phoronix.com/news/AerynOS-Mid-…

Intel's FFmpeg Cartwheel Brings Experimental Panther Lake Support

While Q2 is drawing to an end in the coming hours, Intel software engineers this evening just released the Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2025Q1 update that provides all of their latest patches around Intel GPU/video acceleration for this widely-used, open-source multimedia library that have yet to be upstreamed into FFmpeg proper...
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SteamOS 3.7.13 update gets fixes for more handhelds, fixes WiFi regression on Steam Deck OLED gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/stea…

#SteamOS #SteamDeck #ROGAlly #LegionGoS #HandheldGaming #Linux

SteamOS 3.7.13 update gets fixes for more handhelds, fixes WiFi regression on Steam Deck OLED

Valve have launched the latest SteamOS 3.7.13 stable update, further enhancing support for more handheld gaming PCs.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Steam update brings accessibility settings and Proton enabled by default to make Linux gaming simpler gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/stea…

#Steam #SteamOS #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck

Steam update brings accessibility settings and Proton enabled by default to make Linux gaming simpler

Valve just launched the latest main stable update for Steam Desktop and the SteamOS Steam Client / Steam Deck. Here's all that's changed.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

*"Sim2Real." Of course there must be an inevitable gap between the LLM and physical reality, so you train *another, different* LLM to flexibly adjust that gap between the map and the territory

"Sounds crazy, but what if it works"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map–territory_relation

relationship between an object and a representation of that object

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

*A Wikipedia article on the LLM "Delvish" dialect

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Ubuntu Debcrafters Team Formed To Help Ensure The Health Of The Ubuntu Archive

Jon Seager as the VP of Engineering at Canonical today publicly announced the formation of their "Debcrafters" global team to help ensure the health of the Ubuntu Archive...
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The First Night with the Duke (KDrama 2025)

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The Best Boring Benchmarks: Rocky Linux 10 & AlmaLinux 10 Performance Against RHEL 10

AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux remain two of the most popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives that are maintained by the open-source community. With the recent Rocky Linux 10 GA release that followed the recent AlmaLinux 10 release for re-basing against Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, here are some benchmarks looking at the performance of these popular …
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