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Fedora Council Seeks To Shutdown Current Discussions Over AI Developer Desktop

Phoronix - Thu, 07/02/2026 - 09:40
Stemming from the widely varying views over the recent Fedora proposal for an "AI Developer Desktop" catering to running local AI and machine learning workloads in pre-configured environments with a seamless hardware-accelerated experience, the Fedora Council issued a statement this evening to effectively shutdown discussions for now over a Fedora AI Developer Desktop and to pause the Fedora Community Initiatives process...

Steam On Linux Usage Receded A Bit In June

Phoronix - Thu, 07/02/2026 - 08:23
Back in March Steam on Linux use shot up to 5.33% as a big 3.1% improvement over February. In April it dropped to 4.52% and then fell to 3.99% in May. Valve just published the Steam Survey numbers for June and it points to another minor setback from the recent all-time high of Steam on Linux...

KDE Linux Introduces "Developer Mode" Option, Easier Log Collection

Phoronix - Thu, 07/02/2026 - 05:06
With the start of the new month comes a new progress report on the KDE Linux distribution for the prior month. Even with KDE developers being busy to ship Plasma 6.7 in June, they still accomplished a lot when it comes to KDE Linux...

System76 Launches New Lemur Pro Laptop Powered By Intel Panther Lake

Phoronix - Thu, 07/02/2026 - 02:01
System76 today announced their new Lemur Pro high-end Linux laptop that is now powered by the Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" SoCs...

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