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Steam On Linux Use Hit A Recent High Of 2.69% During May

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 June

Valve just published the Steam Survey results for May 2025 with a nice increase for the Linux gaming marketshare...

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Wine 10.9 Released With EGL Support For All Graphics Drivers

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 June

Wine 10.9 fell slightly off its bi-weekly Friday release rhythm with only debuting today, but in any event it's now available for testing with the latest features for enjoying Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms...

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Intel Overclocking Watchdog Driver Merged For Linux 6.16

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 June

Merged today for the Linux 6.16 kernel were all of the Watchdog subsystem updates for monitoring system health and taking action such as rebooting if the system state goes bad. With the Linux 6.16 is the introduction of the Intel Overclocking Watchdog "OC WDT" driver...

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Linux 6.15 Shipped With A Nasty Power Regression For Some Systems

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 June

The Linux 6.15 kernel that shipped as stable last week mistakenly shipped with a nasty CPU power regression for some systems. The issue is now fixed in Linux 6.16 Git and will be fixed shortly in the Linux 6.15 point releases...

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Linux 6.16 Enables Support For Arm Scalable Matrix Extension "SME"

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 June

The Linux kernel had not enabled support for Arm Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) due to bugs, but with the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel those issues have been resolved and so SME can now be enabled for the rare SoCs having said hardware support...

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Apparent Git Scripting Issue Raised Concerns Of Possible Malicious Linux Kernel Activity

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 June

The Linux 6.16 merge window this weekend suffered an unexpected twist this weekend when Linus Torvalds noticed some unusual Git activity by a longtime Linux kernel developer. The issue is still being sorted through but it would appear that the possible malicious activity came down to some scripting issues around Git...

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FreeBSD 14.3 RC1 Brings OCI Images To Docker & GitHub

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 June

The release candidate of FreeBSD 14.3 is now available for testing ahead of the official operating system release this month...

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Snapdragon X Elite & AMD's Grado + Strix Halo CPUs Captured Phoronix Reader Interest In May

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 June

May was another busy month when it comes to Linux hardware and software milestones albeit depressing when looking at the ongoing state of the web/ad industry. In any event there were 25 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles and another 268 original Linux-related news articles all written by your's truly for the month. Here is a look back at what excited Phoronix readers the most during May...

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OpenBMC 2.18 Released With Many More Motherboard Ports Upstreamed

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 June

OpenBMC 2.18 released on Friday as the newest version of this Linux Foundation project providing an open-source baseboard management controller (BMC) firmware stack implementation. In recent years OpenBMC has been enjoying increasing success in deploying to server platforms from the mega hyperscalers to the more prominent OEM/ODM vendors seeing increasing customer demand for open-source BMC as part of broader open-source firmware interest from the industry...