Open-source News

The Linux platform has seen record growth among Steam players.  GameGPU

Steam survey shows Linux hitting an all-time high with gamers  Digital Trends

Steam on Linux reaches 5.33% in March Steam Survey, highest share on record  videocardz.com

Ubunto Linux raises minimum system requirements to 6GB of RAM — it was previously raised from 1GB to 4GB in 2018  Tom's Hardware

Coinbase’s AI payments system joins Linux Foundation, gathers support from Google, Stripe, AWS and others  CoinDesk

Tech, crypto giants to help steward Coinbase's neutral x402 payments protocol under Linux Foundation  The Block

Tech, crypto giants to help steward Coinbase's neutral x402 payments protocol under Linux Foundation  The Block

Red Hat Enhances Enterprise Stability with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle, Premium  Business Wire

Linux Foundation is Launching the x402 Foundation and Welcoming the Contribution of the x402 Protocol  PR Newswire

Steam on Linux Surpasses 5% Market Share: What It Means  GamesHub

IBM announced today a strategic collaboration with Arm around new dual-architecture hardware...

The CentOS project has established the Accelerated Infrastructure Enablement "AIE" special interest group with a focus on providing a "fast lane" for "in-flight" patches. This CentOS AIE SIG is particularly focused on carrying the code needed for enabling NVIDIA AI factories...

CentOS Launches Accelerated Infrastructure Enablement For Driving NVIDIA AI Factories  Phoronix

Canonical Bumps Ubuntu 26.04 LTS's System Requirements, Now Asks for 6GB of RAM  Hackster.io

The Best Lightweight Linux Distros to Revive Your Old Hardware  Geeky Gadgets

March Steam survey: Intel Arc finally breaks into the charts as AMD and Linux reach record shares  techspot.com

New CachyOS vs Windows 11 gaming benchmarks reveal impressive results for Linux, from Space Marine 2 to Resident Evil Requiem  PC Guide

Debian-based CuerdOS 2.1 comes with UFW on by default and many minor updates  notebookcheck.net

Linux installs jump to over 5% of gamers on the latest Steam Hardware Survey while the RTX 5070 reverts to the norm  PC Gamer

A CodeWeavers engineer opened a merge request yesterday for Wine to use Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver by default. This would build Zink as a Windows Portable Executable (PE) for allowing OpenGL to go straight to the Vulkan API with the host Vulkan drivers...