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AMD Submits Its Long-Awaited HDMI 2.1 FRL Support For Linux 7.2 AMDGPU

Phoronix - Thu, 06/04/2026 - 18:29
It's happening! The long-awaited HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link "FRL" support for handling higher resolutions and higher refresh rates on modern AMD Radeon graphics cards with the upstream AMDGPU open-source driver has been submitted to DRM-Next ahead of this month's Linux 7.2 merge window!..

Crown Engine 0.63 Restores Its OpenGL Renderer For Legacy Hardware Support

Phoronix - Thu, 06/04/2026 - 18:16
While not as well known as the likes of the Godot or O3DE open-source game engines, Crown Engine continues advancing as an open-source, C++-based game engine...

LLVM To Begin Offering Zstd-Compressed Binaries For "Significantly Reduced" Downloads

Phoronix - Thu, 06/04/2026 - 18:06
The LLVM project will begin offering Zstd-compressed archives of their binaries in addition to the existing XZ-compressed releases. LLVM developers are finding Zstd working out great with "significantly reduced" download sizes...

Steam Survey For May 2026 After Delay: Linux Just Under 4%

Phoronix - Thu, 06/04/2026 - 17:38
Back in March Steam on Linux skyrocketed to 5.33% with more than double the Steam gaming marketshare of macOS. Then for April Steam on Linux pulled back to a still-great 4.52%, well above the times when Steam on Linux was at 2% or less for many years. Now the May 2026 figures have been published overnight by Valve...

How to Install Icinga 2 Monitoring Server on Rocky Linux 10

Tecmint - Thu, 06/04/2026 - 12:00
The post How to Install Icinga 2 Monitoring Server on Rocky Linux 10 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Icinga 2 is a free and open-source monitoring tool that helps you keep an eye on your servers, services, and

The post How to Install Icinga 2 Monitoring Server on Rocky Linux 10 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Widely-Used libinput Updated Due To Arbitrary Root Code Execution

Phoronix - Thu, 06/04/2026 - 09:46
The libinput input handling library used by both X.Org and Wayland environments on modern Linux desktops is out with a new security fix release. A new vulnerability is now public allowing for arbitrary root code execution...

3mdeb Keeps Making Progress On Their AMD Coreboot + OpenSIL Port To Ryzen MSI Board

Phoronix - Thu, 06/04/2026 - 08:59
Following thr 3mdeb consulting firm's recent release of their Dasharo build of Coreboot and AMD openSIL for the Gigabyte MZ33-ARI1 EPYC 9005 series motherboard, the same engineers continue working on their port of Coreboot and the openSIL CPU silicon initialization library to a Ryzen 9000 series consumer motherboard...

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