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Following the official SDL 3 release back in January, SDL 3.2.6 was released this weekend as the newest iteration of this widely-used software/hardware abstraction layer that is commonly leveraged by cross-platform games...

Rich Warren | Dipping a toe into the Linux community  Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette

Steam Survey For February 2025 Shows A Big Drop To Linux Use  Phoronix

Last month I wrote about new code slated to be added for Linux 6.15 that would provide a cross-driver/standardized means of reporting to user-space over hung GPUs. For the likes of the AMD and Intel graphics drivers initially, user-space will be notified via this new wedged event when a GPU is hung in case user-space wants to take additional actions to try to recover the GPU or at least properly note the troubled state of the GPU. There are now proposed patches under review for further extending this functionality...

Ultramarine Linux: Fedora Made Easy and Beautiful for Everyone  The New Stack

Here's What Ubuntu Linux Looked Like 10 Years Ago  How-To Geek

Last week AMD sent out a big batch of new graphics driver code for Linux 6.15 including new GPU support, OEM i2c support for RGB lighting and other features, and other updates. Another round of AMDGPU/AMDKFD feature code targeting the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window was sent out on Friday...

AMD Readies More Graphics Driver Improvements For Linux 6.15  Phoronix

How often do you use Linux apps on ChromeOS?  Android Police

Linux Mint Devs Plan Revamped Application Launcher for the Cinnamon Desktop  9to5Linux

Linux Mint Devs Plan Revamped Application Launcher for the Cinnamon Desktop  9to5Linux

A fix was merged to the Linux 6.14 kernel on Friday -- and also for back-porting to existing Linux stable kernels over the coming days -- for fixing an annoying problem with Intel Core 2 processors. The problem, which was introduced to the Linux kernel back in 2019, could lead to system stalls and boot delays for those still using Intel Core 2 CPUs with modern distributions...

Intel Core 2 CPUs Have Been Affected By An Annoying Linux Kernel Bug For 5+ Years  Phoronix

While a shorter month, there were still 263 original articles published on Phoronix during February. A lot of exciting hardware in the lab to notable open-source milestones and interesting kernel developments made for an interesting month besides the usual battle over ad-blockers and pressure on the web publishing industry...

Racing toward the GNOME 48 finish line, developers have remained busy squeezing some remaining bits into place for this big open-source desktop release...

With the Plasma 6.3 desktop settling down and the early bugs being addressed, KDE developers have begun spending more time on feature work toward the Plasma 6.4 release...

Wireshark to the cloud! Founders tell us about open source, Windows v Linux, and more  TechRadar

Windows 11 vs Linux for business: which operating system should you embrace?  Yahoo

Android Phone's Unlocked Using Cellebrite's Linux USB Zero-day Exploit  CybersecurityNews

Chinese AI company DeepSeek made public this week 3FS, a Linux FUSE-based file-system intended for allowing better AI training and inference performance...