GE-Proton 11-9 arrives with improvements for Video Playback, Wayland, Controllers and more
GE-Proton 11-9 (and GE-Proton 11-8 just before it) have been released to bring more improvements for Windows games on SteamOS / Linux.
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Framework expands funding support for CachyOS Linux
The very popular Arch-based Linux distribution CachyOS is growing up, with Framework expanding their direct funding support of it.
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Microsoft Defender Now Supports Linux Desktops
“Starting today, Linux desktops are now officially supported by Microsoft Defender,” reports Neowin. A public preview of the threat detection app extends its enterprise security platform beyond servers to developer workstations running distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and RHEL. The offering includes antivirus protection, endpoint detection and response, vulnerability … ⌘ Read more
Framework Computers Triples Their Financial Support To CachyOS
In addition to providing Framework systems to the CachyOS Linux distribution for optimizing the support, Framework Computers has also been providing monthly donations to the project. CachyOS confirmed today that Framework Computers has now tripled their monthly donations to this independent Linux distribution built atop Arch Linux… ⌘ Read more
Epic Games To Improve Easy Anti-Cheat On Linux With Anti-Cheat Systemd Service & eBPF
In addition to Epic Games announced a preview of their new Epic Games Launcher, including Linux support, they also announced plans to improve their Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) software on Linux. Along with this improved EAC they are also working on official Linux support for the popular Fortnite game… ⌘ Read more
Dutch Tax Authorities Cancel Microsoft 365 Cloud Rollout, Turn Toward Open Source
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: The Netherlands’ Tax and Customs Administration has abandoned its planned Microsoft 365 public-cloud rollout. Why? The reasons were clear at the Open Source Summit Europe conference, where the Linux Foundation (LF) released the 2026 State of Open Source in Europe. In … ⌘ Read more
Epic Games Launcher preview arrives - Native Linux support, Fortnite for Linux is coming and upgraded Easy Anti-Cheat
Epic Games have announced their brand new Epic Games Launcher refresh has a Preview available, along with Native Linux support and Fortnite is coming to Linux.
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HP EliteBook 6 G1q Powered By Snapdragon X1 Plus Sees Linux Patches
Canonical engineer Juerg Haefliger posted a set of Device Tree patches in working to support the mainline Linux kernel on the HP EliteBook 6 G1q laptop that is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Plus SoC… ⌘ Read more
Linux Finally Making It Easier To Answer The Question: “Is This RISC-V System RVA23?”
The RISC-V RVA23 profile is a big deal for reducing fragmentation in the RISC-V ecosystem and standardizing more of the ISA to make it easier to distribute modern RISC-V binaries and the like. Modern versions of Ubuntu mandate RVA23 even though compliant hardware is still quite limited. Somewhat surprisingly, only coming about now is an easy ability for Linux users to find the answer to “is my RISC-V system RVA23 compliant … ⌘ Read more
Cloud Hypervisor 54 Released With Live Migration Improvements
Cloud Hypervisor, the Rust-based Virtual Machine Monitor that began as an Intel open-source project and evolved into a multi-vendor Linux Foundation project, is out today with a sizable feature update… ⌘ Read more
A big Steam update brings the Big Art Mode, Screensaver, Steam Controller upgrades, Linux upgrades and more
A fresh stable Steam Client Update landed October 13th bringing with it some big new features, along with lots of bug fixes everywhere.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/a-big-steam-update-bring … ⌘ Read more
Framework Laptop 12 Offers Improved Performance & Efficiency With Intel Core 3 Wildcat Lake
Last year Framework Computer launched the Framework Laptop 12 as a convertible, 2-in-1 laptop that was friendly with Linux and upgradeable inline with the beloved Framework Laptop 13 and 16 models. The initial Framework Laptop 12 was nice but the use of an Intel Raptor Lake U SoC in 2025 wasn’t all that exciting. Now though Framework Laptop 12 is available with Intel Core 3 “Wildcat Lake” for offering better perf … ⌘ Read more
Linux Kernel Developers Plan To Remove “Assisted-By” Tag Requirement For AI/LLM Usage
Currently there is a policy requirement for Linux kernel patches where AI tools contributed, they should be documented with an “Assisted-by:” tag to make clear AI was used in the creation of said patch. But Linux kernel developers are now looking at dropping this requirement amid the rampant use of AI/LLMs… ⌘ Read more
Linux Mint 27 Continues Working Toward Christmas Release With Many Features
Linux Mint developers continue enjoying their relaxed release schedule in moving from a six to twelve month release cycle. Linux Mint 27 “Adrien” continues tracking for a Christmas release… ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA’s Nova Driver Continues Leading The Way For Linux Rust GPU Drivers
The DRM Rust changes targeting the Linux 7.4 merge window have been submitted for pulling into DRM-Next ahead of that cycle kicking off (hopefully) next week. The NVIDIA Nova driver continues leading the way for the development of in-kernel Rust GPU drivers and in the process building out the Rust Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) infrastructure… ⌘ Read more
Asterinas 0.19.0 Brings Up X.Org & Other Improvements To This Rust-Written OS
Asterinas is the open-source project developing a Rust-based, memory-safe Linux alternative OS while striving for Linux software compatibility. Out now is Asterinas 0.19 as the project continues advancing on its goals… ⌘ Read more
Bazzite Linux update for October 12 brings many more bug fixes
The next smaller release of Bazzite Linux is out now, bringing with it bug fixes for various handhelds and more improvements.
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Linus Torvalds On Why AI Works For Him
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Many open-source developers still dislike AI. The latest example is System76 banning AI-generated content from its COSMIC desktop. At Open Source Summit Europe, Linux creator Linus Torvalds offered a different take: “I actually really like using AI,” Torvald told Dirk Hohndel, his good friend and head of Ericsson Software Technology, in their latest … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 To Upstream Support For Three Snapdragon X2 Elite Laptops
For those looking to run Linux on new Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 hardware, there are laptops from ASUS, HP, and Lenovo that are powered by the X2 Elite and will be supported with the mainline Linux 7.4 kernel… ⌘ Read more
Linus Torvalds “Did What I Preach”, Used AI To Make Code Decipherable & Uncovered More Bugs
After using Claude Code to draft code to help make a fundamental improvement to the Linux kernel, Linux creator Linus Torvalds continued using AI this weekend and talking up its benefits. Beyond generating initial patches and a test program for that noted I/O enhancement, he separately talked up using AI/LLMs for making patches more decipherable to understand in the process the AI noted more long-standing bugs within the … ⌘ Read more
Intel Posts Updated Linux Driver Code For HDMI 2.1 FRL On Meteor Lake & Newer
Following AMD completing their HDMI 2.1 implementation for the open-source AMDGPU Linux driver after beginning with HDMI FRL patches earlier in the year, Intel’s open-source driver developers are following in their footsteps… ⌘ Read more
EXT4 Introducing IOmap Buffered I/O Path With Some Performance Gains
EXT4 with the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel looks like it will introduce opt-in support for IOmap buffered I/O in replacing the file-system’s buffer_head usage with IOmap… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3-rc7 Released With Linux 7.3 Hopefully Out Next Weekend
Linus Torvalds has made available what is hopefully the final release candidate before Linux 7.3 is ideally minted next Sunday… ⌘ Read more
Pimax to improve Linux VR support, announces Crystal Pro headset and their own Steam Machine
Pimax recently revealed a new high-end VR kit, along with their own version of a Steam Machine, and they plan better Linux support overall.
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Linus Torvalds Working On A Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement With Claude Code
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been known to use AI to help with kernel debugging and outside of the kernel tree has also done some vibe coding with Google’s Antigravity. He has previously said he views AI as a useful tool. It turns out he’s even now using Claude Code for working on new Linux kernel features… ⌘ Read more
Linux Landing Kernel Workaround For AMD TLBI Erratum href=”https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%231718”>#1718**
AMD TLBI Erratum #1718 was worked around in CPU microcode for addressing a defect in certain Zen CPUs where the Translation Lookaside Buffer Invalidate Instruction use could lead to to stale translation entries. But for those on affected AMD CPUs and not running the updated microcode, a kernel workaround is being introduced with today’s Linux 7.3-rc7 kernel and to be back-ported to prior kernel versions… ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Contributes Para-Virtualized IOMMU Hyper-V Driver For Linux
Microsoft is contributing a new kernel driver for the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle. Queued up into the IOMMU subsystem’s “-next” branch is a new para-virtualized IOMMU driver for benefiting Linux guest VMs running on Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization platform… ⌘ Read more
Auto Vectorizing The RISC-V Linux Kernel Shows Promising Results
The Linux kernel build for RISC-V doesn’t currently make use of the CPU ISA’s Vector extension. but leveraging it with compiler auto vectorization is showing the ability to provide nice performance results for enhancing RISC-V Linux performance… ⌘ Read more
Corsair Novablade Pro & 8BitDo Pro 2 Controllers To Be Supported With Linux 7.3-rc7
Sent out today as part of this week’s input subsystem fixes are device ID additions to the XPad driver for enabling two more gaming controllers to work nicely under Linux… ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu 26.10 Will Offer a Rust-based GnuPG Replacement Option
The blog It’s FOSS reports:
You already know that Canonical has been selectively replacing Ubuntu’s C-based system components with Rust-written equivalents that don’t compromise in terms of functionality, most of the time. Now it looks like the distro’s OpenPGP implementation is next, with Sequoia PGP coming preinstalled in Ubuntu 26.10. Canonical wan … ⌘ Read more
Rolling Release Distros Superior To LTS Distros In The Patch-Heavy GenAI Era?
As some interesting food for thought and weekend forum discussions, this week at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague, Qualcomm engineer Khem Raj questioned the relevance of Linux Long Term Support (LTS) distributions in the era of generative AI with the constantly heavy patch flow and bug reports. Khem Raj argued the benefits of rolling release distributions in the GenAI era and the benefits it provides staying up-to-date with mai … ⌘ Read more
Many Laptop & Gaming Handheld Support Improvements Coming For Linux 7.4
Many x86 platform driver improvements have been queuing ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.4 merge window to offer a variety of laptop and gaming handheld device improvements with this next kernel version… ⌘ Read more
Meta Developing Compressed RAM ‘CRAM’ For Linux: Better Than ZRAM and Zswap?
Phoronix reports on a presentation this week by Meta engineer Gregory Price at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague:
With today’s memory shortages, high prices, and ever increasing memory capacity needs, Meta engineers have been working on Compressed RAM (“CRAM”) for Linux.
This hardware-offloaded compression still al … ⌘ Read more
KNOD Progressing For Linux In-Kernel GPU Offloading For Network Packet Processing
A while back we covered KNOD as an experimental solution for in-kernel network offloading to AMD GPUs. The open-source KNOD project allows leveraging GPUs to handle packet processing in a very performant and energy efficient manner without needing any specialized hardware. KNOD has continued and a development update was shared this week at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague… ⌘ Read more
Linux Networking Diverts 50+ Fixes To Next Kernel, Still Bombarded With AI Fueled Churn
Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc7 kernel due for release on Sunday, this week’s batch of networking fixes were submitted and merged. The vast networking subsystem of wired and wireless drivers plus the various other networking features continues to see a lot of activity due to AI-driven bug reports and patches… ⌘ Read more
Valve’s Proton 11.0-2e Released To Fix EA App Issues
CodeWeavers working with Valve today released Proton 11.0-2e as their downstream of Wine that powers Steam Play for enjoying Windows games on Linux… ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu 26.10 To Include Desktop Images For RISC-V
Ubuntu Linux ISOs for RISC-V 64-bit to date have just been the server/CLI version without any desktop environment pre-seeded. But with next week’s Ubuntu 26.10 release, there will now be Ubuntu 26.10 RISC-V desktop ISOs for both Ubuntu proper and a Xubuntu minimal ISO… ⌘ Read more
AMD PerfOpt Boosting Prior-Gen Ryzen APU Performance For AI
Last week I ran benchmarks of the new AMD PerfOpt feature being introduced in Linux 7.4. In those PerfOpt benchmarks on current-gen AMD Ryzen AI APUs/SoCs the AI performance improved as much as 18~23%. Several Phoronix readers expressed interest in seeing how prior-gen AMD Ryzen hardware benefited or not from PerfOpt, so here are some additional benchmarks. ⌘ Read more
Faster Zswap With Patches To Batch The Writeback I/O
For those making increased use of Linux’s Zswap as a compressed RAM cache for swap pages amid these times of sky high RAM prices, a new patch series was posted providing some incremental performance gains for Zswap by batching the writeback I/O… ⌘ Read more
Linux Patches Finally Make Hibernation Possible In Secure Boot / Lockdown Mode
When booting the Linux kernel using UEFI SecureBoot, the kernel is put in the lockdown mode to restrict the ability to modify the running kernel image or leaking data from kernel memory. Kernel lockdown mode can also be manually enabled by the user/administrator. Among the limitations imposed in Linux’s lockdown mode is no hibernation support. But that soon may be relieved with new patches proposed… ⌘ Read more
Boro: NVIDIA’s Open-Source Effort For AI-Assisted Linux Kernel Development
Over the past few months NVIDIA has been developing Boro as a new AI-assisted kernel development CLI written in Rust and focused on local AI for enhancing efficiency for kernel development… ⌘ Read more
AMD Caps Off Linux 7.4 Graphics Driver Development With More HDMI 2.1 Fixes
AMD on Thursday sent out a final pull request of their feature work aiming to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 7.4 merge window. This round of “few last odds and ends” is mostly about landing some bug fixes but of which there are a few worth mentioning… ⌘ Read more
HDR Support Coming For Qualcomm MSM Driver To Benefit Snapdragon X Laptops On Linux
For those making use of Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptops on Linux, one of the features coming to the MSM DRM kernel driver is static HDR support for DisplayPort outputs and eDP panels… ⌘ Read more
New AI Agent Resources Proposed For The Linux Kernel, AI Skills To Help Developers
The latest proposal for the upstream Linux kernel is introducing infrastructure for AI agent resources. Initially these agent resources would be for a skill so AI agents can automatically add a “Fixes: ” tag on relevant patches for noting the first problematic Git commit automatically that a patch fixes… ⌘ Read more
Valve Lands VK_AMD_anti_lag Support For AMD RADV Driver In Mesa 26.3
There is yet another feature to get excited about for this quarter’s Mesa 26.3 release. Months in the making, the Valve-contributed VK_AMD_anti_lag support for the Radeon RADV driver was merged today for benefiting AMD Linux gamers as a nice improvement over the former implementation… ⌘ Read more
COSMIC Epoch 1.10 Released With Launcher Now Using GPU Accelerated Rendering
System76 today released COSMIC Epoch 1.10 as the newest incremental update to this Rust-based desktop developed in-step with their Pop!_OS Linux distribution… ⌘ Read more
Secretive Rosaic Labs Hires Legendary Linux x86 Developer
The curiosity into secretive semiconductor startup Rosaic Labs builds. Earlier this year it was noted that Intel was providing Rosaic Labs with access to its Atom technology with RTL code. There have also been rather mysterious x86 additions not from Intel or AMD (or Zhaoxin / Hygon) that given the timing may pertain to Rosaic Labs. News today is that Rosaic recently hired a long-time, Linux x86 developer veteran… ⌘ Read more
Nova Driver Continues Progressing With Long-Term Goal For Official NVIDIA Linux Use
NVIDIA engineer John Hubbard and Red Hat’s Danilo Krummrich presented at this week’s LPC2026 conference in Prague on the open-source and upstream Nova driver stack that continues forming as a Rust-based open-source NVIDIA Linux kernel driver… ⌘ Read more
Patches Updated To Begin Removing The Linux x32 ABI
Linux developers are once again considering the removal of the Linux x32 ABI… ⌘ Read more
Google’s Sashiko AI Has Completed 191k Patch Reviews, Cited On Nearly 500 Kernel CVEs
Sashiko that was built by Google engineers for agentic review of the Linux kernel code changes and powered by Google’s AI models continues proving very valuable to kernel developers. In less than one year since they launched Sashiko for agentic AI code review, their results are quite fascinating… ⌘ Read more