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For the Steam Survey results published last month for July it showed Steam on Linux use approaching 3%. With hitting 2.89% in July there was hope that perhaps in August it would breach the elusive 3.0% threshold not seen since the original days of Steam on Linux when the overall Steam user base was also much smaller than it is today. But that didn't pan out and Steam on Linux numbers for August are showing a small dip...

Steam On Linux Use Recedes Slightly During August  Phoronix

Digital sovereignty is not a new topic, but recent events on the world stage have catapulted it to the top of the top of boardroom agendas and government priorities alike. According to a 2025 BARC study, 84% of surveyed companies view data sovereignty as a central point of their strategy, and 70 percent report significantly increased relevance in the past one to two years. Meanwhile, industry analyst firm Gartner forecasts the sovereign cloud IaaS market will be worth $169 billion in 2028, up from $37 billion last year.Different countries and organisations are adopting different approaches to

AAEON UP Rolls Out Linux-Ready Intel Development Kits for Edge AI  linuxgizmos.com

GIMP 3.1.4 is out today as the second development release treking toward GIMP 3.2. Most notable with GIMP 3.1.4 are the initial implementations of two of the main features planned for GIMP 3.2: link layers and vector layers...

With the Rust 1.90 release due out in mid-September, the Rust compiler on Linux x86_64 will begun using the LLD linker by default in order to "significantly reduce" linking times...

First Arch Linux ISO Powered by Linux Kernel 6.16 Is Now Available for Download  9to5Linux

5 tiny tweaks that make a new Linux install feel perfect in just a few minutes  xda-developers.com

AMD Begins Queuing Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.18  Phoronix

On Friday AMD sent out their initial batch of kernel graphics driver feature changes intended for merging to the Linux 6.18 kernel later this year...

Zotac Zone Pro Ryzen 9 Linux Gaming Handheld Set To Challenge ROG Xbox Ally  HotHardware

Not your typical review on Phoronix today but rather a brief look at the Gentex PLACE Any Space smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors. For those facing ten years on their Nest Protect smoke detectors and looking for an end-of-life replacement to these smoke detectors discontinued by Google, the Gentex PLACE smart smoke detectors are an interesting and capable alternative. Being faced by needing to find a replacement to Nest Protects myself that have now expired and finding many others in the same boat with no clear winning smart smoke detector right now, I decided to go with the Gentex PLACE and figured it worthwhile to share a bit of my experience.

A patch queued up into the Linux exFAT driver's development tree optimizes the allocation bitmap loading time. For cases of small cluster sizes on large partitions this can yield around 16x faster loading times...

8 More Free Linux Games Based on Classics  How-To Geek

The open-source Redox OS operating system project written in the Rust programming language is out with its status update covering August 2025...

Redox OS Gets COSMIC Reader Working, Other Improvements To This Rust OS  Phoronix

Linux 6.17-rc4 has notable updates  Techzine Global

Linux gaming OS Kazeta promises ‘console gaming experience of the 1990s’ for PC users — supports almost any DRM-free game, past or present  Tom's Hardware

Linux Lite 7.6 is the perfect Windows 11 alternative for older PCs  BetaNews

Critical Linux Vulnerability: CVSS 8.5 Vulnerability Discovered in UDisks Daemon  Red Hot Cyber