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Arch Linux Hits Top Linux Spot Over Ubuntu In May's Steam Survey

Phoronix - Thu, 06/02/2022 - 08:40
The Steam Survey results are in for May 2022 and while it shows Linux slightly down on a percentage basis, it shows a new top-spot for the most popular Linux distribution unseating Ubuntu LTS...

Mesa 22.1.1 Released With Many Open-Source Graphics Driver Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 06/02/2022 - 07:58
Last month marked the debut of Mesa 22.1 as the newest quarterly release to this open-source Linux graphics driver stack. For those that prefer waiting until the first point release before upgrading, today is the day with Mesa 22.1.1 now available...

IO_uring Continues Advancing In 2022 With New Features For Pushing Linux I/O

Phoronix - Thu, 06/02/2022 - 03:00
The Kernel Recipes 2022 conference kicked off today in Paris, France. Kicking off the event was Linux block subsystem maintainer and lead IO_uring developer Jens Axboe to talk about all of the recent and ongoing work around this major advancement to Linux I/O in recent years...

Google Launches New Silicon Design Portal For Open-Source Projects

Phoronix - Thu, 06/02/2022 - 02:00
Google has been helping small open-source projects get started in chip fabrication with Google covering the costs and partnering with SkyWater Technology using their open-source process design kit (PDK). While the chip manufacturing is done on a 130nm process (SKY130), this effort has proven to be a big success for open-source hardware projects with limited funding and Google today announced a new silicon design portal...

Intel Makes Another Exciting Software Acquisition

Phoronix - Thu, 06/02/2022 - 00:12
Back in February Intel announced it was acquiring Linutronix as the folks maintaining real-time Linux (PREEMPT_RT) and other prominent Linux contributions. Today Intel announced another exciting software acquisition for bolstering their open ecosystem...

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