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Canonical Now Considers Their Steam Snap For ARM64 To Be Stable

Phoronix - 4 hours 19 min ago
At the beginning of the year Canonical announced a Steam Snap package for Ubuntu ARM64 that leverages the FEX emulator for running x86/x86_64 games on ARM64. After months of testing and improvements, they now consider their Steam Snap for ARM64 to be stable...

Marek Olšák Scores Up To 100% Pixel Throughput Optimization For RADV Driver

Phoronix - 4 hours 39 min ago
Marek Olšák who had been a longtime AMD Linux driver engineer specializing in the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, recently began working for Valve on their Linux graphics driver team. His focus has understandably shifted to working on the RADV Vulkan driver and one of his early optimizations now with the Valve hat on is up to a 100% pixel throughput optimization for the RADV driver, which is already quite well optimized thanks to years of investment from Valve, Red Hat, and others...

Microsoft Announces Open-Source "Intelligent Terminal"

Phoronix - 9 hours 51 min ago
Microsoft today announced their newest open-source creation... Under the MIT license it's the Intelligent Terminal...

Benchmarking The Different CachyOS Linux Kernel Flavors

Phoronix - Tue, 06/02/2026 - 22:40
CachyOS ships with a good Linux kernel configuration by default balancing the different features as well as performance. But they also ship a variety of other kernel builds for those preferring a more leading-edge kernel or the current LTS series, a hardened kernel configuration, and more. In this article are some fresh benchmarks of the Arch Linux based CachyOS Linux distribution with some of its main kernel flavors.

KDE Plasma 6.8 Still Planning To End X11 Support, 95% Of Plasma 6.6 Users Are On Wayland

Phoronix - Tue, 06/02/2026 - 22:24
KDE developers are sticking to their plans for Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-exclusive in dropping X11 support. Meanwhile it turns out 95% of current Plasma 6.6 users are running already on Wayland...

The Linux Kernel Ready To Make TSC A Hard Requirement For x86 CPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 06/02/2026 - 21:25
Now that the Linux kernel has been removing Intel 486 CPU support and also proceeding to drop other vintage CPUs like the AMD K5 CPU support and AMD Elan, the Linux kernel is ready to make the TSC support unconditional for x86 processors...

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