NASA Announces X-70 Experimental Aircraft to Advance Flight Research
NASA has unveiled the X-70 Fractal, a new crewed experimental aircraft “designed to accelerate the development and testing of advanced aviation technologies.” From a press release: The crewed X-70 features advanced, rapidly reconfigurable flight-control technology that will allow NASA to explore aircraft maneuverability in ways never b … ⌘ Read more
Synaptics Appears To Use Legal Threats To Block Open-Source DisplayLink Driver
From earlier in the year you may recall a new experimental open-source Linux driver for modern DisplayLink hardware. That “Vino” driver for DisplayLink driver was a clean-room reverse-engineered DisplayLink driver that was developed in part by AI and written in Rust. Unfortunately, that open-source driver has disappeared following legal threats by Synaptics… ⌘ Read more
Experimental Project Gets Intel XeSS On XMX Working With Valve’s Steam Play (Proton)
Last month I wrote about Intel working on adding proper XeSS support to Steam Play (Proton). While those efforts haven’t yet been completed for benefiting Linux gamers running Intel Arc Graphics, in the meantime an independent open-source developer has managed to get XMX-accelerated XeSS working under Proton… ⌘ Read more
CUDA Oxide 0.3 Vastly Improves Rust Support For NVIDIA CUDA Programming
NVIDIA software engineers released CUDA Oxide 0.3 for closing out October. CUDA Oxide as a reminder is their experimental Rust to CUDA compiler that has been seeing a lot of activity in recent months… ⌘ Read more
Google’s First Data Center Satellite Is Online and Writing Poetry
Google’s first experimental space-based data center is operational after launching earlier this month, successfully running its Gemma 4 AI model aboard a satellite and generating a haiku about being in orbit. TechCrunch reports: The satellite, which carries four Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and generates up to 1 kW of electricity, is … ⌘ Read more
Proton Experimental brings new fixes for Helldivers 2, BeamNG.drive and more
Valve released the latest upgrade for Proton Experimental bringing a fresh set of fixes for Windows games on SteamOS / Linux for October 30th.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/proton-experimental-brings-new-fixes-for-helldivers-2-beamng-dri … ⌘ Read more
RADV Promotes VK_EXT_host_image_copy To Enabled By Default For RDNA1 GPUs
Going back to July 2025 the open-source Radeon RADV Vulkan driver has offered experimental host image copy support with the API’s VK_EXT_host_image_copy extension. This has been for RDNA1 and newer GPUs while now GFX10 RDNA 1 GPUs have this extension enabled by default while also enabling experimental support for prior GFX9 era GPUs too… ⌘ Read more
Does a Universal Basic Income Bring Long-Term Changes?
For more than a year, The New York Times followed recipients of a universal basic income program who received $1,330 a month for an entire year.
There were benefits, but also the everyday challenges of being poor, and turning their life around “did not turn out to be quite that simple.”
Across Silicon Valley, experimental guaranteed income programs have quietly take … ⌘ Read more
Proton Experimental for October 15 has fixes for ARC Raiders, C&C Red Alert, Counterstike and The Aftermath
Valve launched the latest update for Proton Experimental to fix up more issues found with Windows games running on SteamOS / Linux.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/proton-experime … ⌘ Read more
IREE 3.12 Introduces Rolls Out Rewritten Vulkan Driver, Experimental AMD HSA HAL
Rolling out last week was a new version of IREE as the Intermediate Representation Execution Environment for MLIR-based end-to-end compiler and run-time for lowering machine learning models into a unified IR and working across different hardware/driver stacks. Making IREE 3.12 notable is a rewrite to its Vulkan code… ⌘ Read more
Proton Experimental gets updated to fix a prefix corruption bug and more
A smaller update to Proton Experimental landed for October 12th, but one of the fixes is quite a major one (although a rare issue).
Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. ⌘ Read more
Firefox 158 Now Available With JPEG-XL Support By Default
Firefox 158 is now available with JPEG XL image support enabled by default, making .jxl images a standard part of the browser rather than an experimental feature. The release also adds JPEG XL to Firefox’s default image Accept header, improves Smart Window form filling, and brings new CSS typed-arithmetic support for developers. Phoronix reports: At long last, … ⌘ 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
Python 3.15 Released With Experimental JIT Compiler Running Faster
Python 3.15 is out today as the newest annual feature release for the Python programming language… ⌘ Read more
XMFS: Experimental File-System Being Worked On By Huawei For Modern Linux Servers
Huawei engineers are experimenting with a new file-system called XMFS. XMFS was presented this week at LPC 2026 in Czechia as a file-system for modern Linux servers with CXL 3.0 or Huawei United Bus connectivity… ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Updates Its WSL2 Linux Kernel With DXGKRNL Improvement, More Features Enabled
Following the Windows Subsystem for Linux 3.0.2 release with support for running WSL2 now on very large servers and also experimental sparse VHD storage support, Microsoft has now released a new version of the WSL2 Linux kernel as their downstream kernel configuration tailored for WSL2 usage… ⌘ Read more
Windows Subsystem For Linux Can Now Run On Very Large Servers, Experimental Sparse VHD
Microsoft yesterday released WSL 3.0.2 as their latest WSL update since last week’s WSL3 release with “WSLC” for promoting Linux containers on Windows to general availability. Some notable changes in WSL 3.0.2 include automatic virtual NUMA support and experimental support for sparse VHD storage… ⌘ Read more
Proton Experimental gets fixes for Sword of the Stars II, Plan B: Terraform, Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance and more
Another fresh upgrade for Proton Experimental to bring further Windows game compatibility enhancements to SteamOS / Linux.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/proton-exp … ⌘ Read more
Qt 6.12 LTS Released With QML Hot Reloading, StyleKit In Experimental Form
Qt 6.12 is now available as the newest version of the Qt6 toolkit and also serving as a Long Term Support (LTS) release… ⌘ Read more
FEX code cache enabled for Proton Experimental (ARM) to improve frame timings
Valve have upgraded Proton Experimental (ARM) with a feature that should hopefully improve some frame timings for devices like the Steam Frame.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/fex-code-cache-enabled-for-proton-experimental-arm-to-improve-frame- … ⌘ 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
Samba 4.25 Released With Experimental SMB3 Persistent Handles
Samba 4.25 is out as the newest stable release for this open-source software enabling file and print services sharing between Linux servers and Windows systems… ⌘ Read more
Steam Beta adds experimental new Pyrowave video codec for Remote Play
Valve released a fresh Steam Beta for all platforms which now includes their own experimental new Pyrowave video codec for Remote Play.
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Valve Introduces Pyrowave Video Codec In Beta For Low Latency Streaming
Valve’s Steam client beta today introduced Pyrowave as an experimental video codec for high bandwidth, low-latency video streaming… ⌘ Read more
Gravity Linux Aims To Provide A Nice Experience For Apple M4 & Newer
There’s a new Linux distribution focused on supporting Linux on Apple Silicon Macs. Gravity Linux is this new distribution that is a spin of Fedora Remix and is catering to the still-experimentally-supported Apple M4 Macs and newer. In addition to leveraging Asahi Linux code and reverse engineering, Gravity Linux also leverages OpenAI Codex and Claude Code… ⌘ Read more
Proton Experimental gets fixes for ARM64, EA App, Modern Warfare 2 (2009), Ragnarok: The New World and more
A fresh update is here for Proton Experimental to get even more Windows games working on SteamOS / Linux.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/proton-experimental-gets-fixes-for-arm64-ea- … ⌘ Read more
Orphaned VMs: Running VMs Uninterrupted While Host Kernel Is Offline For Reboots/Updates
Here’s some very intriguing work taking place by a Google engineer… With the hyperscalers and other cloud providers pushing for zero-downtime, a set of experimental patches for “Orphaned VMs” allow for the virtual machines to continue to run while the host kernel is offline for security updates or rebooting with the Live Update Orchestrator. The experimental patches and request for feedback from other Linux kernel stakeho … ⌘ Read more
Wine-Staging 11.18 Adds New Patches To Further Improve WoW64
Building off yesterday’s Wine 11.18 bi-weekly development release is now Wine-Staging 11.18. This experimental flavor of Wine is presently carrying 273 extra patches over that upstream Git state, including some new patches for helping enhance the WoW64 support… ⌘ Read more
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.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/xbox-classic-lost-odyssey-has-a-experimental-pc-build-now-wit … ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Can Provide A Nice Boost For Low-End/Budget Hardware
Canonical recently began producing Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 daily ISOs to complement their experimental amd64v3 package archive that they have been trialing the past few release cycles. While we still don’t know what any official plans are for amd64v3 with Ubuntu 26.10, the performance gains can be very worthwhile over the generic amd64 binaries even for low-end/budget hardware. ⌘ Read more
Proton Experimental updated with fixes for STEINS;GATE RE:BOOT, EA App, Borderlands 4
Valve released a small update for Proton Experimental - the compatibility layer to run Windows games on SteamOS / Linux for September 11th.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/proton-experimental-updated-with-fixes-for-steins- … ⌘ Read more
ReactOS Dev Gets FEX Running For x86_64 Games On This “Open-Source Windows” OS Under ARM
A ReactOS developer for this open-source operating system project striving for binary compatibility with Windows drivers and applications has achieved an intriguing software stack. With the experimental ReactOS ARM64 build for running on 64-bit ARM hardware like Raspberry Pi SBCs, he’s paired that “open-source Windows” OS with the open-source FEX emulator for in turn being able to run Windows x64 games/apps on ReactOS atop … ⌘ Read more
DLSS5VKLayer Wires Up NVIDIA DLSS 5 For Native Linux Games & Steam Play
An interesting new open-source project for those looking to make use of NVIDIA DLSS 5 on Linux is DLSS5VKLayer. The DLSS5VKLayer is a Linux Vulkan layer that works for both native Linux games as well as Steam Play (Proton) Windows games for experimental DLSS 5 support… ⌘ Read more
Lemonade 11.9 Local AI Server Released With Super Exciting AMD ROCm HRX Backend
Lemonade 11.9 is out today as the newest feature release to this AMD-backed, open-source local AI server solution across Linux, Windows, and macOS. Lemonade has long been focused on offering “100% free and private” AI use with local hardware whether it be GPUs, CPUs, or NPUs. With Lemonade 11.9’s release today it’s very interesting for having experimental ROCm HRX back-end support with Llama.cpp. HRX is the new exciting thing to watch o … ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.18 Ships More Fixes, Chrome/Chromium Decode On Direct Backend
Firefox has finally begun supporting Vulkan Video decoding to complement their long-used VA-API support on Linux. This is good news for the official NVIDIA Linux graphics driver stack as it’s been the notable vendor not supporting the Video Acceleration API. But prior to Firefox rolling out its experimental Vulkan Video support, an independent implementation of VA-API built atop NVIDIA’s NVDEC interface has been available fo … ⌘ Read more
With the Snip of a Gene, Scientists Hope To Erase High Cholesterol For Life
CNN reports that “A one-time snip of a key gene lowered heart-clogging cholesterol by about 50% over an entire year with no adverse effects, scientists have reported.”
The overwhelmingly positive results were found in four people who had taken the highest dose of the experimental treatment during a pilot study published i … ⌘ Read more
Proton Experimental brings fixes for Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry, Warhammer: Vermintide 2
Valve just launched a brand new update for the compatibility layer Proton Experimental - bringing more Windows game compatibility to SteamOS / Linux systems.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/proton-experimental-b … ⌘ Read more
Mozilla Presents Their Plan For Shipping JPEG-XL In Firefox 157
While Firefox 152+ already offers experimental JPEG-XL support, Mozilla formally announced today their plans for officially shipping JPEG-XL image format support in the Firefox web browser… ⌘ Read more
Intel Mesa Linux Drivers Now Treating Nova Lake S / U / H / HX As Stable
Intel’s open-source Mesa drivers for Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV (Vulkan) on Linux are no longer treating next-gen Nova Lake processors with integrated graphics as experimental and off-by-default. With today’s Mesa 26.3-devel code, the Intel driver code across Nova Lake’s S, U, H, and HX product families are considered stable and enabled by default… ⌘ Read more
Proton Experimental brings fixes for Company of Heroes 3, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Arma 3 and more
Valve just launched the latest Proton Experimental update to improve gaming on Linux / SteamOS, Steam Deck and Steam Machine - here’s all that’s changed.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/pr … ⌘ Read more
Rust For Linux 7.3 Begins Seeing Fixes To Prepare For Rust’s GCC Backend
In addition to the POWER/PowerPC code adding Rust kernel support, the main set of Rust programming language updates for the Linux 7.3 kernel have now been submitted. Most notable are early fixes toward eventually allowing the experimental Rust GCC back-end to be used as an alternative to the official rustc compiler with LLVM code generation… ⌘ Read more
Lemonade 11.6 Integrates Muse-Glimmer 30B, Experimental TheNoise ROCm Image Generation
For those dabbling with generative AI on the weekends, the AMD-led Lemonade SDK 11.6 is out today with its newest feature release of this open-source software for running local AI apps with optimized LLMs across CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs… ⌘ Read more
OptiScaler Client 1.0.6 adds Heroic Games Launcher support, experimental gamepad support, FSR 4.1.1 for older GPUs
OptiScaler Client is a modern, high-performance desktop utility designed to simplify the installation, management, and update of the OptiScaler mod.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonl … ⌘ Read more
Proton Experimental gets fixes for Far Cry 5, Nightingale, Lords of The Fallen, various Command & Conquer games
Valve just updated Proton Experimental again bringing more fixes for running Windows games on SteamOS / Linux to get as many working as possible.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/202 … ⌘ Read more
Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver To Windows
Valve is funding Collabora’s experimental effort to port the open-source RADV Vulkan driver from Linux to Windows. The team has already demonstrated Counter-Strike 2 running with RADV, but a stable interface or compatibility shim will be needed to handle undocumented driver changes. Phoronix reports: Louis-Francis Ratte-Boulianne put out a blog pos … ⌘ Read more
Anthropic AI Model Finds Flaws in Tough-to-Crack Encryption Algorithms
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview has “found flaws in a weakened version of a digital encryption standard that is in pervasive use throughout the internet,” reports The New York Times. Researchers said the model discovered novel attacks against weakened versions of AES and the experimental post-quantum HAWK system, including one that wa … ⌘ Read more
Proton 10 and Proton 11 get Steamworks SDK 1.65 for Steam Machine, Steam Frame and Steam Deck
Not only do we have an update for Proton Experimental with plenty of improvements, but Valve also gave Proton 10 and Proton 11 updates too.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/proton-10-and-prot … ⌘ Read more
Proton Experimental brings fixes for Far Cry New Dawn, Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, controller hotplugging and more
Valve pushed out a brand new update for Proton Experimental on July 28th - making more Windows games run well on SteamOS / Linux systems.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/ … ⌘ Read more
So… my little experimental Mu (µ) OS is now ~8.7k of Mu and ~2k of Assembly, which makes this about an ~80/20 split. I’ve managed to achieve most of the goals I had set out, by ensuring a tiny Nucleus of only ~2k Assembly and all Policy, Services and Userland written entirely in Mu (a language I also deisnged and created, which still has no support for floats LOL)
Proton Experimental brings fixes for Diablo IV, Marvel Rivals, RPGMaker Engine games
Valve launched the latest update to Proton Experimental to bring more fixes for running Windows games on SteamOS / Linux including Steam Deck and Steam Machine.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/proton-experimental-brings-fixes … ⌘ Read more