GTK3 Port Of The Kernel's gconfig Utility Appears Ready For Linux 6.17

Last month patches were posted for porting the Linux kernel's "gconfig" graphical kernel configuration utility from GTK2 to GTK3. It looks like those patches for the GTK3-ified gconfig are ready for upstreaming come Linux 6.17...
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Shark Dentist looks a bit silly, tense, gruesome and I need to play it gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/shar…

#SharkDentist #IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming

Shark Dentist looks a bit silly, tense, gruesome and I need to play it

I don't know who that it was a good idea to be a Shark Dentist, in what looks like a set from a cheap horror movie - but now I have to try it.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

The Alters gets patched to replace AI generated bits, fix a Steam Deck crash and more gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/the-…

#TheAlters #AI #Steam #SteamDeck #Gaming #PCGaming

The Alters gets patched to replace AI generated bits, fix a Steam Deck crash and more

The Alters from 11 bit studios appears to be doing very well, apart from the controversy over the AI generated bits. A new patch is out to fix it up.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

More months added to our Linux distribution chart on our Steam Tracker: gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracke…

#Linux

Steam Linux Market Share | GamingOnLinux

Steam Linux user share statistics over time

^{GamingOnLinux}

RimWorld – Odyssey expansion is out now along with update 1.6 gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/rimw…

#RimWorld #Gaming #Linux #PCGaming

RimWorld – Odyssey expansion is out now along with update 1.6

RimWorld has expanded in a massive way with the Odyssey expansion and the 1.6 update, now available for all players.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Intel ANV Driver Now Exposes Vulkan Video AV1 Decode On Battlemage & Lunar Lake

While the Intel Media SDK with VA-API has long supported accelerated video decoding, the latest Mesa 25.2 development code has now landed support for AV1 decoding using the Vulkan Video API with the Intel ANV driver for Xe2 Battlemage / Lunar Lake graphics and Gfx125 Xe graphics too...
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Try the big demo upgrade for Demon Tides, an impressive looking open-world 3D platformer gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/try-…

#DemonTides #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck

Try the big demo upgrade for Demon Tides, an impressive looking open-world 3D platformer

An open world platformer where you express yourself with different movements, Demon Tides looks like a lot of fun and it just had a huge demo upgrade.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Legion Go S gets Joystick LED controls in SteamOS, plus more Steam updates for all gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/legi…

#Steam #SteamOS #PCGaming #LegionGoS #SteamDeck

Legion Go S gets Joystick LED controls in SteamOS, plus more Steam updates for all

Valve put out a new Steam Beta for Desktop and SteamOS, here's all that's changed for the July 14th update.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Cyan bought a U-shaped pillow and she instantly fell asleep on it! I tried it and now she says every time she comes into the bedroom, there's a catgirl on it...

Today we slept with it until noon, and after lunch I lied down and she snuggled up. We woke up at 6:30 PM... It's too powerful!!!!

#AsaCyan

Latest Intel Engineering Layoffs Lead To An Intel Linux Driver Being Orphaned

The latest round of cost-cutting at Intel seems to be having a larger impact on their software engineering efforts than some of their previous rounds of layoffs. In addition to a prominent Linux kernel developer veteran leaving Intel last week where he worked for the past 14 years and responsible for many great upstream improvements, other Intel software enginee…
phoronix.com/news/Intel-SLM-Dr…

Google Publishes Updated Proposal For Standardizing Haptic Touchpads On Linux

As part of work going back to 2019, an engineer on Google's Chromium OS team submitted an updated proposal on Monday for seeking to standardize the haptic touchpad support within the Linux kernel...
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RADV Lands Experimental Host Image Copy Support (VK_EXT_host_image_copy)

Making it into the RADV Vulkan driver ahead of this week's Mesa 25.2 feature freeze is experimental support for the VK_EXT_host_image_copy extension. The Vulkan host image copy extension was worked on by Valve and others for letting applications/games copy data between the host memory and images on the host processor without having to first stage via a GPU-accessible buf…
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Back to basics.

#newspapers #printmedia

halone.within.lgbt need to test something, thanks!

Boost for reach!

จากข้อมูลนี้ เห็นอะไร?

เอามาจากโพสต์เก่าแต่เลือกโอซาก้ามาเทียบกทม. เหตุผลที่ไม่เอาโตเกียวเพราะอยากเทียบแบบประชากรใกล้เคียงกัน

We all want to see more people move to a free and open source operating system, but this story shows how those users may one day turn around and contribute to the very projects they use! Awesome to see :)

➡️ communityblog.fedoraproject.or…

Also, shoutout to the @Endof10 campaign for helping people take their first step on Linux!

#Fedora #EndOf10 #Linux #OpenSource

From Open Source User to Fedora Contributor – Fedora Community Blog

This is the story of how I became a contributor on the Fedora Release Schedule Planner application hosted on Codeberg. I started my open-source journey when I got my first laptop.

^{Antony Nyagah (Fedora Project)}

Users on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (and any Linux distribution based on it, like Linux Mint 22) will shortly receive Linux kernel 6.15 and Mesa 25.0.7 via a software update.

omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/ubuntu…

#ubuntu #linux #linuxmint

Ubuntu 24.04 Users Get Major Kernel, GPU Driver Update

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users are getting a new HWE update with Linux 6.14 and Mesa 25.0, delivering a big gaming boost and support for newer hardware.

^{Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)}

New Effort To Upstream LTTng In The Linux Kernel Draws Criticism From Torvalds

The LTTng tracing toolkit is twenty years old this year and it's seen significant adoption by different hyperscalers and other notable organizations like IBM and Sony and Siemens beyond basic end-users and administrators for system tracing/debugging. While having many successes over the past two decades, the kernel modules remain outside of the kernel tree. Eve…
phoronix.com/news/LTTng-Kernel…

I take look at Rio, an open-source terminal emulator written in Rust with WebGPU support — plus a slew of novel features, like RetroArch shaders!

omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/rio-te…

#linux #rust #opensource

Rio is a Fast, WebGPU-Powered Terminal for Ubuntu

Seeking a fast, modern terminal for Ubuntu? Rio is a cross-platform, hardware-accelerated terminal emulator built in Rust with novel features.

^{Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)}

Intel Xe3 Panther Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Now Enabled By Default On Linux

With the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver is enabling Panther Lake graphics out-of-the-box. Now going along with that Linux 6.17+ support out-of-the-box, the Mesa OpenGL and Vulkan user-space drivers are also ready to declare their Xe3 Panther Lake graphics support by default...
phoronix.com/news/Intel-Panthe…

New Linux Patches Enable Support For The Snapdragon X1 Powered Microsoft Surface Pro 11

Posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list are a set of nine patches for bringing up support for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite/Plus powered Microsoft Surface Pro 11 2-in-1 laptop...
phoronix.com/news/MS-Surface-P…

Mesa 25.2 NVK vs. NVIDIA R575 Linux Graphics Performance For GeForce RTX 40 Series

A number of Phoronix readers have been interested in seeing some fresh benchmarks of Mesa's NVK Vulkan driver in providing open-source Vulkan API support on NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards as well as the modern OpenGL approach of using Zink for layering OpenGL atop Vulkan. Here are some fresh benchmarks using the very latest Mesa 25.2 code for NVK on the latest u…
phoronix.com/review/mesa-252-n…

SFrame Support Upstreamed To GNU C Library For Glibc 2.42

Merged today into the upstream GNU C Library code ahead of next month's Glibc 2.42 release is support for SFrame stack tracing with ELF binaries on x86 and AArch64 architectures...
phoronix.com/news/SFrame-Merge…

NVMe Controller Data Queue "CDQ" Patches Posted For Linux

New feature patches posted for review today on the Linux kernel mailing list are working to implement the NVMe specification's Controller Data Queue (CDQ) functionality within the NVMe storage driver...
phoronix.com/news/NVMe-CDQ-Lin…

Old Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 GPUs Still Seeing Open-Source Driver Fixes In 2025

In addition to last minute feature work on the latest AMD RDNA4 graphics cards ahead of the Mesa 25.2 code branching, there's also some new fixes going into Mesa for the open-source Radeon driver code... Coming in this Monday morning by surprise are some fixes for the Radeon HD 2000/3000 series approaching two decades old as well as a fix for the Radeon HD 40…
phoronix.com/news/R600-RV770-F…