Open-source News

The third merge request in the series addressing ongoing TGSI to NIR intermediate representation conversions has landed in Mesa 24.0-devel for the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

Ahead of Linux 6.7 releasing next weekend, there's another set of Bcachefs file-system driver fixes on their way to the mainline kernel...

Bcachefs Prepares Last Minute Fixes For Linux 6.7  Phoronix

The Steam Survey results are out for December 2023 and the Linux gaming marketshare is at nearly 2%...

Steam On Linux At Nearly 2% For Ending Out 2023  Phoronix

The SDL3 library commonly used by cross-platform games and heavily relied upon by Steam continues to be under heavy development at the start of 2024...

6 Predictions for Linux and Open Source in 2024  It's FOSS News

Exploring the Dynamic World of Linux Filesystems: Ext4, XFS, and Btrfs  Linux Journal

After looking earlier today at the most viewed AMD Linux/open-source stories of 2023, here's a look at the other side of the table with the most popular Intel content on Phoronix for the past year with my daily open-source and Linux focused coverage...

Intel's Open-Source Contributions & Upstream Performance Optimizations Top 2023  Phoronix

You Can Now Run Fedora Linux on Apple Silicon Macs  OSXDaily

The Wayland ecosystem had a phenomenal year from much better NVIDIA proprietary driver support, Firefox ending out the year shipping with Wayland support enabled by default, KDE Plasma 6.0 will default to Wayland following many improvements on the KDE side, the Wine Wayland driver upstreamed in its initial form, XWayland continuing to be enhanced, and a lot of other software from desktop environments to apps continuing to embrace Wayland...

Wayland Enjoyed Many Successes In 2023  Phoronix

Installing Icecast on Linux for Your Own Streaming Radio  How-To Geek

AMD CPU Use By Linux Gamers At ~70%, AMD openSIL, & AMD Laptops Topped 2023  Phoronix

As part of the various end-of-year Phoronix articles, here's a look back at the most popular AMD Linux/open-source news stories and reviews of 2023...

While the Linux 6.8 merge window isn't opening for another week, the Memory Technology Device (MTD) subsystem updates have already been mailed in to Linus Torvalds for this next merge window...

SPI-NOR Multi-Due Erase Support Ready For Linux 6.8  Phoronix

Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 & Other Scarlett Audio Mixers To Be Supported By Linux 6.8  Phoronix

Picked up this week by the Linux sound subsystem's "next" development branch is a number of additions to the Scarlett USB audio mixer driver for supporting this audio hardware under Linux...