Open-source News

Here's Why There Are So Many Linux Distros  How-To Geek

Heroic Games Launcher v2.16 released with improved Steam Deck / Linux game compatibility  GamingOnLinux

Buying a Mini PC for Linux? Keep These 5 Factors in Mind  How-To Geek

Steam sees a big rise in Simplified Chinese for February 2025 bringing Linux down below 2%  GamingOnLinux

It's not only AMD that is working on Vulkan/SPIR-V support for machine learning / AI software but NVIDIA has been working on improvements too for enhancing Vulkan-powered machine learning software. The outlook for using Vulkan within machine learning software is quite positive and even able to offer similar performance to NVIDIA's prized CUDA...

Have Your Linux Terminal Read to You With the espeak Command  How-To Geek

Have Your Linux Terminal Read to You With the espeak Command  Review Geek

Which Linux Terminal Game Should I Play?  How-To Geek

How to write bash or shell script in SSM run command and execute in linux ec2 instance? | by Harold Finch | Mar, 2025  Medium

Back in 2023 ONNX and AMD announced TurnkeyML as an "AI insights toolchain". There hasn't been too much news about TurnkeyML since then and they now describe the project itself as a "no-code AI toolchain" while this week brought the release of the big TurnkeyML 6.0 software...

Back during January Steam on Linux dropped by 0.23% to a 2.06% marketshare while overnight the numbers were published for February 2025.....

A pull request was sent out on Friday that could potentially land for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel to transition ARM's kernel entry code from some architecture-specific Assembly over to using the generic entry code path. It means more unification and transitioning some Assembly code over to C, but it also comes with some hits to performance...

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