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In July the Steam Survey results pointed to a half percent jump in the Linux gaming marketshare, taking it to nearly 2% thanks to the success of Valve's Steam Deck that runs their Arch Linux powered SteamOS platform. After the big boost in July you are probably wondering what happened in August... Well, a few minutes ago the new Steam Survey monthly results were published...

Steam Survey Results For August Show A Linux Dip After A Very ...  Phoronix

For those with extra time over the US Labor Day holiday weekend, Linux From Scratch 12 has been published for those wishing to hand-roll their own Linux system build from source. Linux From Scratch 12.0 is accompanied by the Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS) 12.0 release too, including the systemd variant, for further extending LFS installations with more packages...

Linux From Scratch 12.0 Published For Rolling Your Own Linux Build  Phoronix

Following the recent Wine summer holiday, Wine 8.15 is out today and back on track with the usual two-week release regiment...

The 6 Best Linux Tools for C# Developers  MUO - MakeUseOf

Learn About RISC-V From Linux Foundation on edX  iProgrammer

Palmer Dabbelt sent out the initial batch of RISC-V processor architecture updates for the Linux 6.6 kernel port...

New RISC-V Kernel Features Ready For Linux 6.6  Phoronix

The DeviceTree changes for Linux 6.6 add the ability to generate DeviceTree (DT) nodes for PCI devices. AMD spearheaded this effort for applying DeviceTree overlays to PCI devices containing non-discoverable downstream devices...

AMD Patches To Generate DeviceTree Nodes For PCI Devices ...  Phoronix

The media subsystem updates were sent out today for the Linux 6.6 kernel and most notably is introducing the Intel IVSC MEI drivers as well as extending the Intel IPU bridge logic to work with these new drivers...

Intel Visual Sensing Controller "IVSC" Driver Support Coming With ...  Phoronix

antiX 23: Anarchic for sure, but 'design by committee' isn't always the best for Linux  The Register

I Think Ubuntu 23.10 is Making a Mistake…  OMG! Ubuntu!

War Thunder's next major update is 'Sons of Attila', plus easier ...  GamingOnLinux

In Other News: Hacking Encrypted Linux Computers, Android Fuzzing, Skype Leaking IPs  SecurityWeek

OpenColorIO (OCIO) as the open-source color management solution for motion picture production and maintained by the Academy Software Foundation is out with a new feature release that will be part of their 2024 VFX Reference Platform. Notable with this release are new SIMD optimizations with AVX/AVX2 and Arm NEON...

While approaching the end of summer, there's no breaks at Phoronix and over the course of August were 240 original news articles and another 15 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles. Here is a look back at what was most exciting for the month...

Inception & Downfall, Linux 6.6 Development Kicking Off & Other ...  Phoronix