dwproton-11.0-13 brings fixes for Goddess of Victory: NIKKE, Aniimo and more on SteamOS / Linux
A fresh release is here of the community Proton build dwproton-11.0-13, which focuses on keeping various Anime games working on SteamOS / Linux.

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Linux 7.3-rc4 Released: More Fixes Caught By LLMs, But Nothing Too Scary
Linus Torvalds announced the release today of Linux 7.3-rc4. As usual for recent months, the fixes continue to be quite heavy and scattered all over the place driven in large part by AI/LLMs spotting various code defects. Overall though Linus Torvalds isn’t too worried about Linux 7.3-rc4… ⌘ Read more

Important x86 Fixes Merged Ahead Of Linux 7.3-rc4
Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc4 kernel release due out in the coming hours, an important batch of x86/x86_64 fixes have been merged to address a few outstanding issues… ⌘ Read more

AI-Assisted Starling Desktop Introduces 3D View With “Walkable 3D Waterfront City”
From a few months ago you may recall Starling as the new Linux desktop written with its own Wayland compositor, using the Swift programming language, and written in large part via AI with Claude Code. Out today is Starling 0.5 with this desktop now gaining an optional 3D desktop mode… ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, the partition stuff with disklabels is what I’m absolutely not used to. I need to invest more time learning this. Not just using it, but how and where is it represented on disk and all that.

I carry my notebook/netbook around a lot. 😅 Watching movies in bed, for example.

I think I’ll stick with NetBSD for a while. It works surprisingly well, it’s new stuff to explore, it’s fast, and then there’s this:

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/112446618914747900

Gentoo (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy) might be another idea, but I’m afraid that the little netbook might be too slow for that? Or are there binary packages? No idea, it’s been ages since I touched this distro.

(Regarding Linux in general … we all know what Linus said. I’m not sure where this project is heading.)

Linux 7.3 Adds Support For Victrix Pro BFG & Azeron Controllers
Sent out this morning were a big batch of input subsystem fixes ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc4 kernel releasing later today. Alongside many bug fixes to different drivers is also expanding the range of supported gaming controllers by the XPad driver… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.3-rc4 To Address Two Unfortunate Bugs With Btrfs
Merged today were this week’s set of Btrfs file-system fixes for the Linux 7.3-rc4 kernel, which include two notable bug fixes… ⌘ Read more

Developer Abandons ‘PS5 Linux’ Project After Sony Patches AI-Discovered Exploit
“In April this year, we saw Andy Nguyen turning the PS5 into a Linux-powered gaming PC,”
writes the blog It’s FOSS.

It ran Steam games and emulators using the PS5’s on-board hardware. But this week Andy announced he’s “stopping all my work on PS5 Linux” and “stepping away from the PS5 scene.”
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Simple Optimization For Linux 7.4 Can Open Files For Reading ~39% Faster
More than two years in the making, Linux 7.4 is poised to introduce a patch that amounts to a rather simple optimization to avoid unnecessary/duplicative work that can net some nice gains when opening files for reading… ⌘ Read more

Intel Xe Driver For Linux 7.4 Adds vRAM Health Check, Degraded Memory Handling
Sent out this week were more Intel Xe kernel graphics driver changes targeting the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle. The theme this week was around dealing with video memory health and also being able to better deal with hardware degraded video RAM… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 26.10 Switches To The Linux 7.3 Kernel
As a very pleasant surprise, the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release will now be powered by the Linux 7.3 kernel rather than their original plans and switch over to the Linux 7.2 kernel… ⌘ Read more

Wine 11.18 Continues Building Out Its NTOSKRNL Implementation
Wine 11.18 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and apps on Linux, macOS, and other platforms… ⌘ Read more

Google’s “Painful To Maintain” Binder C Linux Driver Being Removed In Favor Of Rust
Google’s Binder driver written in the C programming language has long been part of the mainline kernel as the inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism used on Android. The past few years the Binder driver was rewritten in Rust as one of the first “real” drivers in the Rust programming language. The Rust Binder driver was upstreamed in Linux 6.18 and now for the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle, the old Binder C-based driver is se … ⌘ Read more

Apple Video Decode Driver Posted For Upstream Linux Kernel Review
The latest Apple Silicon enablement code working its way from the Asahi Linux project toward the upstream Linux kernel is the AVD driver used for accelerated video playback across Apple M1 / M2 / M3 SoCs… ⌘ Read more

Linux Ready With Fix For Intel’s FRED Crashing Some Games Under Wine / Steam Play
Recently there have been some bug reports to Mesa around Intel Panther Lake graphics crashing with some games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Elden Ring crashing or freezing quite quickly. This turns out not to be an Intel Xe3 Arc Graphics B390 driver bug with Panther Lake but rather due to a kernel issue with the new Flexible and Return Event Delivery “FRED” that debuted with the Core Ultra Series 3 processors… ⌘ Read more

Factorio gets a full ARM64 Linux port to play anywhere - especially nice for the Steam Frame
Wube Software gave Factorio something players have been asking for 11 years - a full ARM64 Linux port to play anywhere, which is ready for the Steam Frame.

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Extraction shooter EVE Vanguard starts Alpha in November - Linux supported with the anti-cheat
Online extraction shooters are still a genre pretty lacking on SteamOS / Linux, but EVE Vanguard will be another you can add to your wishlist.

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Linux Kernel Build Times Ready To Be Significantly Reduced With Latest Patches
The past few weeks we have eagerly been following a Linux kernel patch series after AI found some major bottlenecks in the Linux kernel build code. With AI helping to address these bottlenecks, Linux kernel build times are substantially reduced. These optimizations might be ready in time for Linux 7.4 for reducing incremental kernel build times as much as around 70%. This week the latest iteration of these patches were posted by Arm engi … ⌘ Read more

AMD Sends In More HDMI FRL Updates For Linux 7.4, Fixes For Upcoming Hardware
Linux 7.4 is set to be a very exciting holiday gift for AMD Radeon graphics customers. As covered last week on Phoronix, with this next kernel AMD Is enabling HDMI 2.1 support by default now that FreeSync, VRR, and ALLM support is included too. This week another round of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver updates were sent out ahead of the Linux 7.4 merge window in October… ⌘ Read more

Canonical improving Ubuntu Linux Desktop stability under memory pressure
Canonical developers have been working to improve Ubuntu Linux Desktop performance, specifically when under memory pressure making it a bit smarter.

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Help Linux Hardware Testing & Reviews Continue While Enjoying Phoronix Without Ads
If you missed out on the Phoronix Premium special back during the 22nd birthday of Phoronix.com in June, there is another promotion now active for helping to support the site and allow for continued daily original content and relentless Linux performance benchmarking and other open-sourced focused hardware testing… ⌘ Read more

Proposal Raised To Finally Standardize Video Memory Stats Reporting Under Linux
The idea has been talked about before but in 2026 still hasn’t made it to the mainline Linux kernel…. Standardized reporting of video memory statistics that would work across different vendors / kernel graphics drivers. A new proposal was raised today in an effort to get a standardized interface established… ⌘ Read more

Intel Compute Stack Enables LEO For Nova Lake, Introduces Intel Portable ISA “PISA”
Released today was the Intel Compute Runtime 26.35.39758.10 update for Windows and Linux systems. With this updated OpenCL and Level Zero GPU compute driver stack comes some exciting updates for this monthly feature update… ⌘ Read more

New Linux Driver Coming To Improve ASUS Zenbook Snapdragon X2 Support
For those hopeful of running Linux well on the ASUS Zenbook A14 or A16 laptops powered by the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 SoC, a new ASUS EC driver has been developed for enhancing the support… ⌘ Read more

libinput 1.32 Released With Circular Scrolling Support For Circular Touchpads
Leading Linux input expert Peter Hutterer announced the release today of libinput 1.32 for improving input handling on Wayland and X.Org based environments… ⌘ Read more

Free-to-play, next-gen creature-catcher Aniimo arrives on Steam, needs a Proton tweak to run on SteamOS / Linux
Aniimo from Pawprint Studio has arrived on Steam as a new free-to-play, next-gen creature-catcher and it can work on SteamOS / Linux.

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Xbox classic Lost Odyssey has a experimental PC build - now with a Linux version
Recently we had the Blue Dragon unofficial open source native PC release, and we also have one for another Xbox classic with Lost Odyssey.

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GNOME 51 released with performance improvements, various app upgrades
GNOME 51 has officially arrived, and with it - plenty of fancy new features for the popular Linux desktop environment.

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Linux Randomly Picking Idle CPU Cores Shows Modest Win On High Core Count Systems
Arm engineer Christian Loehle sent out a patch series today proposing that the Linux scheduler code randomize its picking of equally shallow idle CPU cores. This randomization is showing to deliver a win at least for high CPU core counts for better distributing workloads… ⌘ Read more

AMD Sends Out Linux Patches For Enabling SEV-TIO TDISP With PCIe 6.0+
The newest Linux kernel patches out of AMD for enhancing the upstream support with the new AMD EPYC 9006 “Venice” processors is for enabling SEV-TIO TDISP that is supported with PCI Express 6.0 and beyond… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 26.10 Moves cp, mv & rm Over To Rust Coreutils For 100% Transition
While Ubuntu Linux has been making use of the Rust Coreutils project over the past year since Ubuntu 25.10 as an alternative to GNU Coreutils and part of their effort to get more system components implemented in the memory-safety-focused Rust programming language, Ubuntu 26.10 finally completes the transition with the cp, mv, and rm commands now coming from Rust Coreutils… ⌘ Read more

Linux’s Yogafan Driver Prepares Support For Newer Lenovo Laptops
Introduced back in Linux 7.1 was the Yogafan HWMON driver for supporting fan speed monitoring across various Lenovo Yoga, Legion, Flex, Slim, and IdeaPad laptops. An initial set of Lenovo laptops was initially supported by this driver while succeeding kernel versions have continued building out the support… ⌘ Read more

GE-Proton 11-7 brings more Wine Wayland upgrades, launcher fixes, game fixes and more
GE-Proton 11-7 has arrived and there’s quite a lot of gaming improvements here for SteamOS / Linux fans.

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DXVK 3.1.1 brings fixes for Adobe software, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Rayman 3, Skyrim SE
DXVK is a Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 8/9/10/11 to run lots of games nicely on Linux with Wine / Proton.

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Linux 7.4 Slated To Land The AVX-512 Optimized xor_gen For A Big Performance Win
Over the past few months there have been patches floating around for an AVX-512 optimized xor_gen() for the Linux kernel for that functuon used by the Linux software RAID code. It’s been shhowing very nice performance gains with this function being used for generating and validating parity blocks such as for RAID5 and RAID6. The upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle is slated to merge this nice enhancement for benefiting AMD Zen 4 and new … ⌘ Read more

AMD P-State Driver For Linux 7.4 Will Tune For Zen 6 Client CPUs
Linux 7.4 looks like it will be a very exciting kernel update for AMD customers. On the AMD Radeon graphics side HDMI 2.1 is being enabled by default with the AMDGPU driver with the HDMI FreeSync, VRR, and ALLM features in tow. On the AMD Ryzen client CPU side, there will be Zen 6 tuning with the AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver… ⌘ Read more

Fedora 45 Beta Released With KMSCON Console, GNOME 51 & Other Updates
The beta release of Fedora 45 is out today and right on schedule for this wonderful Linux distribution… ⌘ Read more

New Linux Patches Improving Hibernation Speed In 2026
A new patch series being worked on is enhancing the Linux kernel’s hibernation allocator to allow for faster performance when hibernating the system… ⌘ Read more

Heroic Games Launcher v2.22.2 brings fixes for Rockstar, Ubisoft and more
Heroic Games Launcher continues being an essential tool in the box for SteamOS / Linux gamers, with a fresh hotfix release out now.

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Reservations Go Live for Valve’s Steam Frame VR Headset. An Experiment in Progress?
Reservations are now live for Valve’s “Steam Frame” VR headset (with its Linux-based SteamOS and an ARM CPU). “It starts at $1,059 for 256GB or $1,299 for 1TB,” reports CNET, “and every purchase includes a copy of Half-Life: Alyx if you don’t already own it.”
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AMD Preparing Linux For Enhanced SMT Protection “ESMTP” For EPYC VMs
AMD engineers today sent out patches on the Linux kernel mailing list for beginning to enable Enhanced SMT Protection “ESMTP” for better security with virtual machines running atop EPYC server processors with SEV-SNP… ⌘ Read more

Steam Frame pricing and release date revealed by Valve - it’s a lottery again
Valve today finally announced the price of their new VR kit the Steam Frame with SteamOS Linux, and it’s actually not as bad as I expected.

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Linux 7.3 Delivering Some Performance Gains On Intel Panther Lake / Framework Laptop 13 Pro
Linux 7.1 brought some performance improvements for Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake”, Linux 7.2 enhanced the performance for the integrated Arc B390 Xe3 graphics, and now for the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel are various performance improvements at large. Today’s article is looking at the performance of the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel compared to Linux 7.2 stable using the Core Ultra X9 388H within the Framewo … ⌘ Read more

Removing Drivers For Outdated ARM Platforms Will Lighten The Kernel By ~247k Lines
The Linux kernel is going to see the removal of a number of recently deprecated ARM 32-bit platforms. Following the deprecation in Linux 7.3, removing the old ARM platforms will lighten the kernel by around 55k lines of code. But removing now unused drivers only relevant to those platforms will mean roughly a quarter million lines of code can be removed from the kernel source tree… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.4 Could End Up Seeing Kernel Builds ~36% Faster, Incremental Builds ~70% Faster
Earlier this month I wrote about a patch series posted to the Linux kernel mailing list that addressed a lot of “hideous code” to make Linux kernel builds faster. A number of single-threaded bottlenecks were tracked down and fixed within the Linux kernel thanks to the assistance of AI. A second revision of those patches hit the mailing list this morning and there is hope they could be upstreamed for Linux 7.4… ⌘ Read more

Bazzite’s September 13 update adds Strix Halo TDP controls, restores desktop TDP controls and brings fixes
The September 13th update for the popular Bazzite Linux is out now, bringing with it some excellent sounding improvements for handheld and desktop gamers.

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Linux Patched For Silent User-Space Data Loss Bug That’s Existed Since 2023
Being merged after yesterday’s Linux 7.3-rc3 release was an important fix for addressing a silent, user-space data loss bug that has existed in the kernel the past three years… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.3-rc3 Released: “Another Fairly Large RC”
Out today is the third weekly release candidate of Linux 7.3 as this next kernel version works its way toward a stable release in the second half of October… ⌘ Read more

Zstd Improvement For Linux 7.4 To Avoid Redundant Initialization
In addition to Usama Arif’s recent Linux patches for addressing a major inefficiency within the Linux kernel’s Zstd compression code, he also has a separate patch series destined for Linux 7.4 to further enhance the Zstd compression/decompression performance by avoiding redundant initialization… ⌘ Read more

BFS File-System Being Removed For Linux 7.4
The latest upstream file-system to be removed from the mainline Linux kernel is… BFS… ⌘ Read more