Mesa Falling Back To Its Multi-File Cache Due To Performance Reasons
Mesa has supported on-disk shader cache for years to help speed-up game load times and overall system efficiencies. They had shifted from a multi-file cache layout to a single file cache for greater space savings. Steam also added support for the single-file cache. But now upstream Mesa is shifting back from the single-file cache default to the multi-file cache over p… phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Single-…
11 bit studios have announced today that their popular city building survival strategy game Frostpunk from 2018 is getting a remake in Unreal Engine 5.
It's really good city building game. It's not just a clone of other well established games but franchise with it's own ideas and original setting. That being said... It's a bit grim and depressing. Post-apocalyptic setting and hurdles thrown at the player can make you fill a little bit depressed. I know that other games of this type have some disasters to make their game little bit more interesting but this is different. So if you don't mind this kind of mood, go and play it.
Raspberry Pi HEVC Decoder Linux Driver Updated For Mainline Kernel Attempt
At the end of last year the upstreaming efforts began for a Raspberry Pi HEVC decoder driver for getting H.265/HEVC accelerated decode working on the Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computers with the mainline kernel. Nearly a half-year later that effort is still ongoing but yesterday brought the third iteration of this driver... phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi…
Polterguys: Possession Party from Madorium Ltd is a party game that's highly competitive. As a bunch of ghosts, you and friends are trying to get away from a monster, so you need to sabotage everyone else to survive.
Insectile is an upcoming game that blends together exploration, creature collection and puzzle battles into what looks like quite a unique and charming experience. It will have Native Linux support and a demo is now available.
Final Outpost: Definitive Edition from Exabyte Games is the expanded and upgraded version of their popular mobile game. They've now announced the full PC release with Native Linux support will arrive on May 22nd.
The latest point and click adventure from Wadjet Eye Games is out now with Old Skies sending you through time. It has Native Linux support and is Steam Deck Verified.
The PinePhone, PineTab, and Pinenote are still able to ship from Hong Kong. However, all shipments from China are already suspended due to our shipping service no longer accepting packages.
The effect of the US tariffs start on May 2nd when shipments reach US customs. So please be aware that even if you place an order before May 2nd that it is possible (and likely if ordered close to the date) to be charged the extra tariff fee on top.
AMD Publishes Open-Source GIM Driver For GPU Virtualization, Radeon "In The Roadmap"
AMD has published as open-source their "GPU-IOV Module" used for virtualization with Instinct accelerators. It's also reported on their roadmap for bringing virtualization support to their client (Radeon) discrete GPUs... phoronix.com/news/AMD-GIM-Open…
FBI: Americans aged 60 and older reported losing almost $3 billion to crypto fraud last year. In total, Americans reported being scammed out of around $9.3 billion via crypto, out of a total $16.6 billion in total reported Internet crime losses that year.
OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 Brings KDE Plasma 6 By Default, Official Server Edition
OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 Rock is now available with the KDE Plasma 6 desktop shipping by default while still offering both Wayland and X11 session options. There is also now an official server edition of OpenMandriva... phoronix.com/news/OpenMandriva…
Linux 6.15 Lands Fix For "3x Performance Regression" Affecting Nginx & Other Software
The Linux 6.15 kernel has just merged a fix for the big performance regression I spotlighted yesterday on Phoronix with a huge hit to the Nginx HTTPS web server performance that could see a 3x regression from the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel code. It turns out other workloads/applications also were negatively impacted by this regression. While a stu… phoronix.com/review/linux-615-…
Mesa 25.1-rc2 Released With NVK Vulkan 1.4 Conformance For Older NVIDIA GPUs
Mesa 25.1-rc2 is now available for testing as the newest weekly test version of this collection of OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. Mesa 25.1 continues working its way toward a stable release in May... phoronix.com/news/Mesa-25.1-rc…
The April 2025 ISO update is out today for CachyOS, the Arch based Linux distribution known for its aggressive out-of-the-box performance on modern hardware.
Added a new feature to the anti-cheat compatibility page. You can now link someone to a search on it like "Call of Duty": gamingonlinux.com/anticheat/?s…
Easy to link to people, and each game in the list has a search link you can copy to send on.
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Hi everyone, Now that we are enjoying Fedora Linux 42, it’s time to hold an election…or four! On April 24, the nominations period will open for the following seats across some of the Fedora Governance groups: Fedora Council - 2 seats Fedora Engine…
🗳️ Nominations for the Fedora 42 elections will start tomorrow and run until May 8, so think about whether you or someone you trust should run for a position!
Hi everyone, Now that we are enjoying Fedora Linux 42, it’s time to hold an election…or four! On April 24, the nominations period will open for the following seats across some of the Fedora Governance groups: Fedora Council - 2 seats Fedora Engine…
Orange Pi RV2 Benchmarks: The Most Performant RISC-V Board For Less Than $100 With 8 Cores + 8GB RAM
Earlier this month Canonical announced Ubuntu Linux support for the Orange Pi RV2 as a low-cost RISC-V developer board. The Orange Pi RV2 with eight RISC-V cores and 8GB of RAM costs just around $64 USD. The price point and specs were interesting that I ordered one and have been running performance benchmarks on it since for seeing how ca… phoronix.com/review/orange-pi-…
Following a lot of work in this direction toward the end goal of removing GNOME X11 support, this milestone may finally be acheived for the Fedora 43 cycle due out by the end of the year
Today, the European Commission found that Apple breached its anti-steering obligation under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and that Meta breached the DMA obligation to give consumers the choice of a service that uses less of their personal data.
AMD Posts Open-Source Linux Patches For Pensando RDMA Driver
The newest open-source Linux driver being worked on by AMD engineers is a Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) solution for their Pensando networking hardware... phoronix.com/news/AMD-Pensando…
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Coming sometime soon to Early Access, Melvor Idle 2 has been announced by developer Games by Malcs. Building upon the success and popularity of the first game, but with some big new features to hook you in.
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Roots of Pacha is basically like a Stone Age version of Stardew Valley, a co-op farming and life sim from Sofa Den. The Sun and Moon update is a big one and it's out now.
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