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Steam On Linux Usage Dips Slightly For June, AMD Linux CPU Usage Hits 69%

Phoronix - Thu, 07/03/2025 - 08:38
Steam Survey issues prevented the survey results from being posted on the evening of the 1st as is traditionally done, but the results were just uploaded now to the Steam website. Steam on Linux usage dipped slightly but overall remains healthy with much excitement still around the Steam Deck and SteamOS efforts...

Debian 13 Installer RC2 Fixes An Annoying Issue, Improves Btrfs Rescue Handling

Phoronix - Thu, 07/03/2025 - 08:28
Following last month's release of Debian Installer Trixie RC1 as the installer for the upcoming Debian 13.0 release, a second release candidate was issued today for testing...

ZLUDA Making Progress In 2025 On Bringing CUDA To Non-NVIDIA GPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 07/03/2025 - 04:01
The ZLUDA open-source effort that started off a half-decade ago as a drop-in CUDA implementation for Intel GPUs and then for several years was funded by AMD as a CUDA implementation for Radeon GPUs atop ROCm and then open-sourced but then reverted has been continuing to push along a new path since last year. The current take on ZLUDA is a multi-vendor CUDA implementation for non-NVIDIA GPUs for AI workloads and more. More progress was made during Q2 on this effort...

Linux+ Certification - CompTIA

Google News - Thu, 07/03/2025 - 03:53

AMD Posts Linux Patches For New AI Engine Driver "amd-ai-engine"

Phoronix - Thu, 07/03/2025 - 00:07
Not to be confused with the AMDXDNA accelerator driver for the Ryzen AI NPUs, AMD software engineers today posted patches for review on the "amd-ai-engine" accelerator driver. This new AMD AI Engine driver is for supporting the IP found on their Versal adaptive SoCs...

Firefox 120 To Firefox 141 Web Browser Benchmarks

Phoronix - Wed, 07/02/2025 - 23:00
For those curious about the direction of Mozilla Firefox web browser performance over the past year and a half, here are web browser benchmarks for every Firefox release from Firefox 120 in November 2023 through the newest Firefox 140 stable and Firefox 140 beta releases from a few days ago. Every major Firefox release was benchmarked on the same Ubuntu Linux system with AMD Ryzen 9 9950X for evaluating the performance and memory usage of this open-source web browser.

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