Firefox 136 Available With AMD GPU Linux Video Acceleration, AArch64 Linux Binaries Mozilla Firefox 136.0 release binaries are now available online ahead of tomorrow's official release announcement. Particularly on the Linux side, Firefox 136 is one of the more exciting updates in recent times... image
NVIDIA Is Finding Great Success With Vulkan Machine Learning - Competitive With CUDA 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... image
SDL 3.2.6 Released With HiDPI Icons & Color Management On Wayland 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... image
Steam Survey For February 2025 Shows A Big Drop To Linux Use Back during January Steam on Linux dropped by 0.23% to a 2.06% marketshare while overnight the numbers were published for February 2025..... image
Intel Core 2 CPUs Have Been Affected By An Annoying Linux Kernel Bug For 5+ Years A fix was merged to the Linux 6.14 kernel on Friday -- and also for back-porting to existing Linux stable kernels over the coming days -- for fixing an annoying problem with Intel Core 2 processors. The problem, which was introduced to the Linux kernel back in 2019, could lead to system stalls and boot delays for those still using Intel Core 2 CPUs with m… image
NVIDIA Blackwell, Continued AMD Zen 5 Benchmarking & Rust Drama Dominated February While a shorter month, there were still 263 original articles published on Phoronix during February. A lot of exciting hardware in the lab to notable open-source milestones and interesting kernel developments made for an interesting month besides the usual battle over ad-blockers and pressure on the web publishing industry... image
GNOME's Mutter Now Supports The Wayland Cursor Shape Protocol Racing toward the GNOME 48 finish line, developers have remained busy squeezing some remaining bits into place for this big open-source desktop release... image
KDE Developers Begin More Feature Work On Plasma 6.4 With the Plasma 6.3 desktop settling down and the early bugs being addressed, KDE developers have begun spending more time on feature work toward the Plasma 6.4 release... image
There Will Not Be Official ROCm Support For The Radeon RX 9070 Series On Launch Day AMD has been investing a lot into the ROCm compute stack to make it a more formidable contender against the NVIDIA CUDA software ecosystem. From better documentation and improved application/API coverage to expanding their range of supported AMD GPUs, there's been a lot going on. So with this morning's much anticipated Radeon RX 9070 series launch announ… image
EA Open-Sources Command & Conquer Red Alert In a surprising announcement, Electronic Arts announced today that they have open-sourced Command and Conquer Red Alert under the GPL license along with Command and Conquer Tiberian Dawn and related titles... image