Your LTM Dose #25.01 is here! Sudo has flaws, Nitrux meets Hyprland, Disqus finds an alternative, ntopng monitors networks, Ubuntu gets clipboard, and more.
I love this app, it's such a blessing. I used to download glorious eggroll Proton versions myself and drag them into compat tools but this makes that process a day of the past
Added the Linux distribution share on Steam over time chart to our Steam stats page: gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracke… A manual process, I'll be adding more over time. There will be months breaks between distros, as Valve seem quite random in what shows up each month.
AMD Posts Linux Patches For New AI Engine Driver "amd-ai-engine"
Not to be confused with the AMDXDNA accelerator driver for the Ryzen AI NPUs, AMD software engineers today posted patches for review on the "amd-ai-engine" accelerator driver. This new AMD AI Engine driver is for supporting the IP found on their Versal adaptive SoCs... phoronix.com/news/AMD-AI-Engin…
Not to be confused with the AMDXDNA accelerator driver for the Ryzen AI NPUs, AMD software engineers today posted patches for review on the 'amd-ai-engine' accelerator driver
Released three months ago was the first AerynOS ISO release for that Linux distribution led by Ikey Doherty and from there plans were laid to provide 'accelerated delivery of milestone ISOs.
For those curious about the direction of Mozilla Firefox web browser performance over the past year and a half, here are web browser benchmarks for every Firefox release from Firefox 120 in November 2023 through the newest Firefox 140 stable and Firefox 140 beta releases from a few days ago. Every major Firefox release was benchmarked on the same Ubuntu Linux system with AMD Ryzen 9 995… phoronix.com/review/firefox-be…
For those curious about the direction of Mozilla Firefox web browser performance over the past year and a half, here are web browser benchmarks for every Firefox release from Firefox 120 in November 2023 through the newest Firefox 140 stable and Fire…
It looks like Linux 6.17 could end up enabling experimental support for large data folios that could help with bringing some performance improvements under real-world workloads for this copy-on-write file-system.
Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) reaches end-of-life on July 10, marking the end of official support, updates, and security patches for this short-term release.
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.
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-genera…
Wayback Hopes To Be Ready Next Year With Alpine Linux Planning To Use It By Default
A few days ago Wayback was announced as an X11 compatibility layer for X11 desktops environments leveraging a rootful XWayland server. While currently experimental, the hope is that it will be production-ready next year and Alpine Linux is looking at using it by default for its X11 environment... phoronix.com/news/Wayback-2026…
Better Late Than Never: Linux 6.17 To Enable Intel DG1 Graphics By Default
Prior to the DG2/Alchemist discrete GPUs from Intel there was the DG1 graphics processor that served primarily as the initial developer vehicle for facilitating Intel's modern discrete GPU push. DG1 ended up being in the Intel Xe MAX GPU for a small number of laptops and then there's also been a select number of DG1 graphics cards surfacing on eBay in the years … phoronix.com/news/Intel-DG1-En…
A pretty good month here for the July 2025 Humble Choice, which has a nice selection of games overall. Great compatibility for Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck.
GNOME Papers Document Viewer Approved To Replace Evince In GNOME 49
GNOME Papers has been in development as a modern GTK4-based document viewer. There have been many improvements made to Papers and now ahead of the GNOME 49 release in September, it's been approved to replace Evince as the official document viewer of the GNOME desktop... phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Papers…
Mesa's Zink Preps NV_timeline_semaphore For Better OpenGL-Vulkan Interoperability
Mike Blumenkrantz with Valve's Linux graphics driver team continues working on enhancements to Mesa's Zink driver for OpenGL implemented over the Vulkan API. A new merge request is further enhancing OpenGL and Vulkan interoperability by supporting the GL_NV_timeline_semaphore extension... phoronix.com/news/Zink-NV-Time…
Linux Patches Posted For Axiado AX3000 SoC Support
The newest Arm SoC seeing Linux kernel patches working their way toward the mainline kernel is the Axiado AX3000 as a security processor designed for cloud data center, network gear, and more... phoronix.com/news/Axiado-AX300…
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