Ubuntu’s Next Rust Effort May See OpenPGP Replaced By Sequoia PGP
Canonical engineer Richard Scott McNew published a status update surrounding the Rust programming language efforts in the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release. Sequoia PGP is being rolled out to Ubuntu Linux and in a future release may end up replacing OpenPGP… ⌘ Read more
KDE Nearing Decision Point On BuildStream-Based KDE Linux
KDE Linux developers have been experimenting with a build of their Linux distribution based on BuildStream to ship as an OS image rather than a set of Arch Linux packages. They are nearing a point soon where they will decide if they will officially ship this BuildStream-based KDE Linux image… ⌘ Read more
Here’s what’s coming to NVIDIA GeForce NOW during October 2026
NVIDIA revealed a bunch of new games coming to their cloud gaming service GeForce NOW during October, plus we had a small fix in the Linux app.
Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. ⌘ Read more
SteamOS 0.4.3 (Beta) for Steam Frame brings improved power efficiency and battery life
Valve are working quickly to improve their new Steam Frame VR kit running SteamOS Linux, with another major Beta now available.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/steamos-0-4-3-beta-for-steam-frame-brings-improved-power-ef … ⌘ Read more
Steam Survey for September 2026 shows a drop in Linux with Simplified Chinese rising
The Steam Hardware & Software Survey for September 2026 is here, showing another swing for Simplified Chinese as a language on Steam.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/steam-survey-for-september-2026-shows-a-drop-in-linux-with-simplified … ⌘ Read more
Steam On Linux Dives Down To 3.05% For September
Steam on Linux use in March hit an all-time high of around 5.33% marketshare. Since then it pulled back to around 4% while for September 2026 the Steam Survey results are now in and it’s clocking in just above 3%… ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu 26.10 Beta Released With Linux 7.3 Kernel, GNOME 51 Desktop
Ubuntu 26.10 beta is now available for the official Ubuntu editions as well as the various community flavors… ⌘ Read more
Nearing A 10 Second Kernel Build, Xeon 600 & Other September Excitement On Phoronix
During the past month on Phoronix were 284 original news articles and another 19 featured Linux hardware reviews/multi-page benchmark articles. A lot of exciting happenings both on the hardware and software fronts while October is sure to be another interesting month with the releases of Ubuntu 26.10, Fedora 45, and some more hardware fun… ⌘ Read more
Some Networking Fixes Being Diverted To Linux 7.4, AI/LLM Activity Still Increasing
With the vast array of wired and wireless networking drivers within the Linux kernel and range of protocols and other networking features, it’s a big expanse of code for AI/LLM agents to analyze and critique. The Linux networking developers have acknowledged being “complete overwhelmed” by the AI/LLM-driven patch activity and bug reports as well as battling against AI slop patches. Even though Linux 7.3 stable won’t be out f … ⌘ Read more
AMD RMPOPT Optimization Queued Ahead Of Linux 7.4
In addition to the very nice AMDGPU IOMMU optimization for iGPUs set to debut in the Linux 7.4 kernel, over on the AMD EPYC server side for servers running SEV-SNP virtual machines is a separate, nice optimization also expected for this next kernel version… ⌘ Read more
Clearing Out Linux’s Old 32-bit ARM Platform Code Is Itself A Challenge
Longtime ARM Linux maintainer Arnd Bergmann over the past year has been working to clear out a number of old ARM platforms from the mainline kernel tree. With Linux 7.3 many older 32-bit ARM platforms were deprecated and in turn hundreds of kernel drivers orphaned. Now it’s on to removing that actual code, which given the amount of entangled code, is itself a challenge… ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA Olympus SMT Optimizations For Vera CPU Showing 3~6% Performance Gains
Back in August I wrote about NVIDIA working on Linux scheduler improvements for helping the SMT performance on their new Vera CPU with Olympus cores. That work remains ongoing but is looking fairly beneficial for performance especially for knocking it out in less than one hundred lines of code… ⌘ Read more
Qualcomm Continues Doing More For Their Open-Source Linux Graphics Drivers
Rob Clark, who originally started working on the reverse-engineering Freedreno and MSM DRM graphics driver projects prior to even being employed by Qualcomm, presented this week at XDC 2026 Toronto around all the recent efforts they have been pursuing at Qualcomm for this upstream open-source graphics driver stack… ⌘ Read more
New Linux Patches Trying To Mainline Renesas SH7305 CPU Support
The Renesas SH7305 isn’t a new processor and is well known for powering various Casio graphing calculators over the past decde and a half. But finally the mainline Linux kernel may end up seeing support for this 32-bit SH-4a RISC core… ⌘ Read more
OpenMandriva ROME 26.09 Released With More AI Apps, Snaps & PGO + LTO Optimizations
For ending out the month of September the OpenMandriva Linux distribution crew released OpenMandriva ROME 26.0 as their long overdue release held up by various technical issues and a reported sabotage attempt to their platform. With OpenMandriva ROME 24.12 having been their last release, this is quite a big update… ⌘ Read more
Steam Deck / SteamOS support for Minecraft Dungeons II is being worked on
It was disappointing to see Minecraft Dungeons II launch broken on SteamOS / Linux systems like Steam Deck and Steam Machine but it is being sorted.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/steam-deck-steamos-support-for-minecraft-dungeons-ii-is-being-work … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 To Support The NPU On AMD Ryzen AI Max 400 Series “Gorgon Halo”
While the AMD Ryzen AI 400 series “Gorgon Halo” systems are nearing the marketplace, the NPU support for Linux was seemingly overlooked until now. But at least the simple enablement patch looks like it will arrive for the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel… ⌘ Read more
Proposal To Set ARM64 Kernel Stack Size At Boot Time To Reduce Memory Consumption
A proposal was posted this week to the Linux kernel mailing list by a Google engineer to make it easier for ARM64 Linux to adjust the kernel stack size. The motivation for doing so to configure the kernel stack size during boot time is on reducing system memory consumption… ⌘ Read more
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de OS/2?
I hadn’t thought about that in 20+ years… In high school, I had a friend who was a die-hard OS/2 Warp fanboy, but I never got into it (and wound up jumping ship to Linux in college).
Archinstall 4.5 For Arch Linux Brings AArch64 Improvements, RT Kernel Options
Ahead of the October ISO refresh of the Arch Linux media, Archinstall 4.5 released today as the newest update to this convenient, text-based Arch Linux installer… ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Makes Linux Containers Native On Windows 11
BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Microsoft has made WSL Containers generally available, giving Windows 11 developers a built-in way to build, run, and deploy Linux containers through Windows Subsystem for Linux. The release includes wslc.exe for managing containers, GPU support, networking improvements, health checks, storage mounts, and integration with … ⌘ Read more
AMD Boosting AI/LLM Performance For Radeon iGPUs As Much As 18~23% With Linux 7.4
If you have an AMD Ryzen laptop/desktop and looking to leverage AI/LLM capabilities with the integrated graphics, Linux 7.4 is going to be a real treat especially for lower-end hardware. AMD’s new PerfOpt feature being introduced in Linux 7.4 is set to provide some solid gains as shown in these benchmarks today across different AMD Ryzen/Radeon hardware. ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Announces General Availability Of WSLC: Linux Containers On Windows
Following the public preview of Linux containers on WSL, Microsoft today announced the general availability of WSLC for supporting Linux containers on Windows… ⌘ Read more
hw-monitor 0.6 Released With Per-Process GPU Usage & Memory Reporting
For those after in-depth hardware and system monitoring support from the Linux desktop, hw-monitor continues to advance as one of the modern options. Released on Monday was hw-monitor 0.6 with per-process GPU reporting metrics when using capable DRM drivers like the AMDGPU, Intel i915 and Xe, and Nouveau drivers… ⌘ Read more
BPF-Based Display Panel Drivers Being Explored For Linux
BPF-based HID drivers have helped to deliver quirks/fixes for different HID devices more quickly than being bound by the conventional kernel cycle. Loading these eBPF programs from user-space have shown a lot of potential for innovating and iterating more quickly with BPF drivers for different subsystems. The latest area now seeing the BPF treatment are display panel drivers… ⌘ Read more
Valve made a Steam Frame Dongle troubleshooting script for Linux gamers
Are you one of the lucky people who got the new Steam Frame? Having issues streaming with the wireless Dongle? Valve are doing something about it.
Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. ⌘ Read more
D7VK Reaches Maturity For Older Direct3D APIs Atop Vulkan
D7VK as a Vulkan-based implementation of the Microsoft Direct3D 7 / 6 / 5 / 3 APIs for Linux/Wine (Steam Play) usage is out with version 2.3 and the developer now believing its marking the point that the project is rather mature… ⌘ Read more
Large Folios Able To Deliver Big Performance Gains For FUSE With Linux 7.4
Following the FUSE improvements in Linux 7.3 for file-systems in user-space, it looks like the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel will be ready to enable the large folios feature… ⌘ Read more
AMD Ryzen Zen 6 CPU Power Values Being Further Tuned For Linux
AMD engineers continue to prepare for upcoming Zen 6 powered Ryzen client processors on Linux… ⌘ Read more
Devil May Cry HD Collection will now work properly on SteamOS / Linux
Capcom recently gave Devil May Cry HD Collection a small update, and as a result it will now work properly on SteamOS / Linux systems.
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Minecraft Dungeons II doesn’t seem to run on SteamOS / Linux
Minecraft Dungeons II is about to release today and while the first game works, it currently appears that there’s issues running the sequel on SteamOS / Linux.
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ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE shows online play not working on SteamOS / Linux
ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE is now in Advanced Access, and while the single-player works the online play appears blocked on SteamOS / Linux.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/ace-combat-8-wings-of-theve-shows-online-play-not-working-on-stea … ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA Developing “Display Config Server” To Improve Linux/Wayland On Display Walls
As an initiative from NVIDIA for improving the Linux ecosystem outside the world of AI, they have been developing Display-Config-Server as a new solution to help enhance the Linux capabilities for complex display walls… ⌘ Read more
Fedora 45 To Feature Smoother Experience For Snapdragon X1 Laptops
Qualcomm hiring one of Red Hat’s top x86_64 Linux laptop experts last year, Hans de Goede, is indeed having a positive benefit on enhancing the Fedora Linux support for Qualcomm Snapdragon X powered hardware… ⌘ Read more
AMD PerfOpt To Deliver New Performance Optimization For AMD iGPUs With Linux 7.4
Those using AMD integrated graphics on Linux such as the beefy Ryzen AI Max+ Strix Halo and Gorgon Halo hardware will be able to enjoy even better performance with the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 To Introduce The Steal Governor For Helping Virtualized Workloads
Now queued up for introduction in the Linux 7.4 merge window later in October is the steal governor driver for preferred CPUs and steal-driven vCPU backoff for today’s virtualized world… ⌘ Read more
King in the Mountain is like if Dwarf Fortress was a mini casual incremental
Time for you to check out King in the Mountain if you like casual incremental games, with a demo available that works great on Linux systems.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/king-in-the-mountain-is-like-if-dwarf-fortress-was-a-mini-casual … ⌘ Read more
Steam Beta fixes non-Steam games to failing to launch
Now and then a fresh Steam Beta comes with issues - and for Linux, Valve recently broke non-Steam games.
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Linux 7.3-rc5 Released: “Another Week, Another Large RC”
In working toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release hopefully on 18 October, out today is Linux 7.3-rc5 as the newest weekly test candidate… ⌘ Read more
Linux Kernel’s LZ4 Compression Code Being Resynced For Better Performance & Cleanliness
In addition to the Linux kernel’s Zstd compression code being improved, the LZ4 compression code within the kernel tree is also seeing a separate set of enhancements… ⌘ Read more
Intel Delivers A Significant Memory Hotplugging Performance Optimization For Linux
Adding to the features expected to land for Linux 7.4 is a significant performance optimization for the memory hotplugging speed for adding additional RAM. In particular, the memory hotplugging being most applicable for cases like expanding the amount of memory for VMs or in today’s CXL world for adding additional system memory… ⌘ Read more
New Linux Patches For Supporting Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon G14’s Second Webcam
For those considering Lenovo’s recently launched and beautifully crafted ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 laptop powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake”, one of the lingering missing features under Linux will hopefully soon be addressed: its second web camera… ⌘ Read more
New Patch Series Working Toward DRBD 9 Support In The Linux Kernel
Earlier this year developers at LINBIT began working toward a goal of upstreaming ~15 years worth of their Distributed Replicated Block Device changes into the mainline Linux kernel. That major update has yet to land but sent out this week was a new patch series in preparing the trek toward introducing DRBD 9 support in the mainline kernel… ⌘ Read more
Improved GPU Reset Coming For Raspberry Pi Boards With Linux 7.4
In addition to this week’s DRM-Misc-Next pull request introducing some new HDMI 2.0 helpers for the DRM drivers, the pull request also introduced improved GPU reset support for the Broadcom V3D GPU with the VC4 kernel driver… ⌘ Read more
AI Finds So Many Linux Bugs, Canonical Changes to a Two-Week Stable Release Update Cycle
“Finding vulnerabilities faster also puts pressure on Linux distributions to fix and deliver patches faster,” writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli
AI has transformed bug discovery from “a manual, time-intensive process into a highly automated engine,” notes Canonical’s blog, leading to a “recent expl … ⌘ Read more
MM Change Slated For Linux 7.4 Yields +22904539.81% In One Metric, More Modest Wins In Others
Queued this week into the slab/for-next Git branch ahead of next month’s Linux 7.4 merge window is a memory management change for refilling pre-filled sheaves from the barn. In some cases this yields wild improvements to specific synthetic benchmarks… ⌘ Read more
AI Bug Fixes, Crescent Island Power Brake & Nouveau Fixes For Linux 7.3-rc5 DRM
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem fixes for the week are heavier on the side with many fixes to these kernel graphics/display drivers ahead of Sunday’s Linux 7.3-rc5 release… ⌘ Read more
AMDXDNA Linux Driver Being Enhanced For Current NPU3 Hardware
The AMDXDNA open-source Linux kernel accelerator driver is seeing a fair amount of work for better supporting current-generation NPU3 neural processing units. The AMD NPU3 is what’s found in current AMD Ryzen AI 300 / Ryzen AI 300 PRO series SoCs… ⌘ Read more
Proton Experimental brings fixes for Crysis, Crysis Wars, CEG-protected games, early support for 32bit OpenXR
Another smaller but great sounding upgrade for Proton Experimental to run more Windows games smoothly on SteamOS / Linux is here.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/proton-experimenta … ⌘ Read more
Steam Client Beta - September 25th brings more Remote Play and Linux fixes
Valve released a Steam Client Beta update for all desktop / handheld users bringing more enhancements and bug fixes for the likes of Remote Play and Linux.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/steam-client-beta-september-25th-brings-more-remote-play-and-linux-fi … ⌘ Read more