📰 Ubuntu 26.10 Development Officially Begins as ‘Stonking Stingray’ Takes Shape

by George WhittakerCanonical has officially kicked off development planning for Ubuntu 26.10, the next interim release of the popular Linux distribution. Codenamed “Stonking Stingray,” the release is scheduled to arrive on October 15, 2026, continuing Ubuntu’s predictable six-month development cycle.Although Ubuntu 26.

🔗 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/ubuntu-2610-development-officially-begins-stonking-stingray-takes-shape

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📰 Older AMD GPUs Score Another Open-Source Driver Win From Valve: DRM Format Modifiers

Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux open-source graphics driver team isn't done driving new improvements to aging AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 era graphics cards on Linux. Beyond enhancing display support for older APUs, transitioning GCN 1.0/1 GPUs from the legacy Radeon driver to modern AMDGPU driver, and a host of other fixes and optimizations for these old GPUs going back to the Radeon HD 7000 series, he has another notable addition that was announced today.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-DRM-Format-Modifiers-GCN

#amd #linux #opensource

📰 Fragnesia Is Yet Another Local Privilege Escalation Flaw in Linux Kernel

Fragnesia is a new local privilege escalation flaw in the Linux kernel that may lead to local privilege escalation. Patch now!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/fragnesia-is-yet-another-local-privilege-escalation-flaw-in-linux-kernel

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📰 Steam Beta brings Big Picture Mode tweaks, Linux improvements and Steam Controller fixes

Valve released another new Steam Client Beta update for all platforms on May 13th, bringing with it a few styling changes to Big Picture Mode and various fixes.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/steam-beta-brings-big-picture-mode-tweaks-linux-improvements-and-steam-controller-fixes/

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📰 New AMDGPU Driver Pull Request For Linux 7.2 Preps For HDML 2.1 FRL

Sent out on Wednesday was the latest AMDGPU/AMDKFD driver pull request of new feature code ready for DRM-Next as the staging area ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel. This doesn't yet land the HDMI 2.1 enablement work that's finally been taking place but it is preparing for that with the FRL register headers now in place as part of this merge...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-AMDGPU-FRL-Regs

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📰 Dirty Frag gets a sequel as Fragnesia hands Linux attackers root-level access

Fresh kernel flaw comes with public exploit code and continues ugly run of highly reliable privilege escalation bugs tied to memory and page-cache handling.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/14/dirty-frag-gets-a-sequel-as-fragnesia-hands-linux-attackers-root-level-access/5240270

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📰 Intel's Cache Aware Scheduling Inches Closer To Being Merged For Linux

I have been writing about the Cache Aware Scheduling work led by Intel engineers on the Linux kernel for more than a year. I've also tested out Cache Aware Scheduling on both Intel and AMD CPUs with the patched Linux kernel to great success. And thus very happy to see the Cache Aware Scheduling patches inching closer to the mainline Linux kernel...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Cache-Aware-Sched-Nears

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📰 AMD announce FSR Upscaling 4.1 officially coming to RDNA 3 and RDNA 2

They sure took their sweet time didn't they. AMD have officially announced that FSR Upscaling 4.1 is officially coming to their older GPUs.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/amd-announce-fsr-upscaling-4-1-officially-coming-to-rdna-3-and-rdna-2/

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📰 Fedora AI Desktop Initiative Blocked After Council Vote Reversal

Fedora’s AI Developer Desktop proposal is now blocked after two Council members reversed their initial approvals.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/fedora-ai-desktop-initiative-blocked-after-council-vote-reversal/

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📰 CachyOS skipped the Open Gaming Collective, and gamers rewarded it by making it the top Linux distro on Steam

The Open Gaming Collective wants to make Linux gaming better, but CachyOS is proving you can do that just fine with no strings attached.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/cachyos-skipped-open-gaming-initiative-gamers-rewarded-making-top-linux-distro-steam/

#distro #linux #steam

📰 MSI Claw Configuration Driver For Linux Coming Together With The Assistance Of AI

One of the latest Linux gaming handheld drivers being worked on is the MSI Claw Configuration Driver for controller configuration...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/MSI-Claw-Configuration-Driver

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📰 MuseScore Studio 4.7 Notation App Adds New Guitar Features

MuseScore Studio 4.7 open-source notation app adds new engraving tools, guitar notation features, playback improvements, MP4 export, and more.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/musescore-studio-4-7-notation-app-adds-new-guitar-features/

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📰 AMD promises to bring improved, hardware-backed FSR 4 upscaling to older Radeon GPUs

FSR 4.1 running on RDNA3 or RDNA2 GPUs may take a bigger performance hit.

🔗 Source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/amd-promises-to-bring-improved-hardware-backed-fsr-4-upscaling-to-older-radeon-gpus/

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📰 KDE is finally killing X11, and I'm not as sad as I thought I'd be

The display server older than me is on its way out, and I'm okay with it.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/kde-dropping-x11-support/

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📰 BleachBit’s new TUI lets you clean without a desktop environment

Open-source cleaning tool BleachBit has gained a text-based user interface (TUI) as an optional alternative to its standard graphical frontend. Unlike BleachBit’s existing CLI, which is intended for non-interactive use in scripts, the TUI is fully interactive, you navigate the interface with your keyboard (there’s limited mouse support) to select, preview and clean out cruft.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/bleachbit-tui

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📰 New AMD Dynamic EPP Feature Causing Some Problems With Linux 7.1

Dynamic EPP is one of the new AMD P-State features in Linux 7.1, but, unfortunately is causing some fallout in early usage of this power-savings related functionality...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Dynamic-EPP-Fallout

#amd #linux

📰 Ubuntu 25.10 Users Can Now Upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Here’s How

A step-by-step and easy-to-follow tutorial (with screenshots) on how to upgrade your Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) installations to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon).

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-25-10-users-can-now-upgrade-to-ubuntu-26-04-lts-heres-how

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📰 Can You Run LLMs Locally Without a GPU? I Tested 8 Models on Linux

Want to run AI models locally without expensive hardware? I tested 8 LLMs on a CPU-only machine to find out what works and what doesn’t.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17341706/testing-local-llms-without-gpu

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