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The Virtual Function I/O "VFIO" changes were merged last week for the ongoing Linux 6.5 kernel merge window. This IOMMU/device agnostic framework has added an AMD CDX driver this cycle along with other improvements for this subsystem that is important to the Linux virtualization stack...

VFIO In Linux 6.5 Adds Support For The AMD CDX Bus  Phoronix

The in-development GCC 14 compiler has added support for the MIPS16e2 processor ISA...

GE-Proton 8-6 is out now fixing up more games for Linux and Steam ...  GamingOnLinux

Reminder: Update your PC info for our statistics page  GamingOnLinux

Linux Foundation's Yocto Project Expands LTS to 4 Years  Slashdot

How to Create a User in Linux  Beebom

After RHEL 7's EOL, Red Hat Will Offer a 4-Year 'Extended Life ...  Slashdot

Using ffmpeg for Intruder Protection in Linux  Open Source For You

Debian 12 Bookworm-based Peppermint OS Linux distribution now ...  BetaNews

The 5 Best Vim-Inspired Text Editors for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Besides being curious about the Steam Survey results for indicating the size of the Linux gaming marketshare as an overall percentage, one of the interesting metrics we are curious about each month is the AMD vs. Intel CPU marketshare for Linux gaming. AMD has been on quite an upward trajectory among Linux gamers/enthusiasts in recent years not only for their Radeon graphics cards with their popular open-source driver stack but their Ryzen CPUs have become extremely popular with Linux users. With the new Steam Survey results for June, AMD CPUs are found on nearly 70% of Linux gaming systems polled by Steam...

AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare  Phoronix

You Can Now Install Linux Kernel 6.4 on Ubuntu, Here’s How  9to5Linux

You Can Now Install Linux Kernel 6.4 on Ubuntu, Here’s How  9to5Linux

This past week at the Linux Foundation's Embedded Open-Source Summit in Prague, Sony engineer Tim Bird who is prominent in the embedded Linux community provided another insightful presentation to sum up the current state of the embedded Linux ecosystem...

The 2023 State of The Embedded Linux Ecosystem  Phoronix

In a move similar to GCC's implementation, LLVM Git landed this week initial support for fat LTO objects. This "-ffat-lto-objects" support will be found with the LLVM/Clang 17 release this autumn...

Valve has shared their Steam Survey results for the month of June which shows the Steam on Linux marketshare holding steady...

The visually-stunning Unigine Engine that these days is most commonly used in commercial simulation applications recently published Unigine 2.17 where they have finally made their Vulkan and Direct3D 12 renderers production-ready...