📰 Intel Prepares More Nova Lake Graphics/Display Enablement For Linux 7.3

On Thursday Intel sent out their first batch of Intel kernel graphics driver changes of new feature material targeting the Linux 7.3 kernel. This first batch of drm-intel-next for v7.3 continues to focus heavily on lining up Nova Lake's Xe3P integrated graphics/display support...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-DRM-First-For-Linux-7.3

#intel #kernel #linux

📰 Apple Container 1.0 Released as a Native Docker Alternative for macOS

Apple’s Swift-powered container tool for macOS hits 1.0 with persistent Linux machines, host integration, and broader workflow improvements.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/apple-container-1-0-released-as-a-native-docker-alternative-for-macos/

#linux

📰 CachyOS proved that SteamOS's biggest limitation isn't the Steam Deck — it's the philosophy behind it

The restrictions that make the Steam Deck viable hold back your desktop experience.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/cachyos-proved-that-steamos-biggest-limitation-isnt-the-steam-deck/

#steam

📰 UPower 1.91.3 Fixes Behavior To Avoid Degrading Your Laptop Battery Faster

The UPower abstraction layer used for power management on Linux systems, especially laptops and desktops, is out with an important fix today to avoid inadvertently falling back to the laptop battery "fast" charging mode on some laptops that in turn could degrade your laptop battery faster...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/UPower-1.91.3

#linux

📰 Coreboot + AMD openSIL On MSI Ryzen Motherboard Now Works With Windows 11

With 3mdeb's Dasharo port of AMD openSIL and Coreboot running on the Gigabyte EPYC motherboard, 3mdeb engineers have been devoting more time to their bring-up of Coreboot+openSIL on the MSI PRO B850-P consumer motherboard for desktop AMD Ryzen. They now even have Microsoft Windows 11 working atop this open-source firmware alternative along with other features implemented...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-openSIL-MSI-Windows

#amd #opensource

📰 NetworkManager 1.58 Is Now Available for Public Testing with Many New Features

NetworkManager 1.58 open-source network connection manager for Linux-based operating systems is now available for public testing as a major update with many new features and improvements.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/networkmanager-1-58-is-now-available-for-public-testing-with-many-new-features

#linux #linuxbased #opensource

📰 GNU Guix Package Manager Hit by Four Security Flaws

The Guix team urges users to upgrade after vulnerabilities were found in its substitute handling and channel update mechanisms.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/gnu-guix-package-manager-hit-by-four-security-flaws/

#gnu

📰 Some great Native Linux games to grab in the Steam Summer Sale 2026

For those of you who stick by your guns and only go for Native Linux games - here's some gems that you should be looking to pick up.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/some-great-native-linux-games-to-grab-in-the-steam-summer-sale-2026/

#linux #steam

📰 New "Bad Epoll" Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Unprivileged Users Gain Root, Hits Android

A newly disclosed Linux kernel flaw called Bad Epoll (CVE-2026-46242) lets an ordinary user with no special access take full control of a machine as root. It affects Linux desktops, servers, and Android, and a fix is out.Bad Epoll sits in the same small stretch of kernel code where Anthropic's most powerful AI model, Mythos, recently found a different bug.The AI caught one flaw and missed.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/new-bad-epoll-linux-kernel-flaw-lets.html

#android #kernel #linux

📰 GNOME 51 Alpha Desktop Environment Is Now Available for Public Testing

GNOME 51 Alpha desktop environment is now available for public testing with support for saving and restoring monitor brightness, improved app grid accessibility, support for elogind as libsystemd provider, and much more.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/gnome-51-alpha-desktop-environment-is-now-available-for-public-testing

#gnome

📰 The Steam Machine can't hit 4K60, but this build does it for the same price

For the price of the Steam Machine, you can get a really decent 4K-capable gaming PC.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/while-the-steam-machine-cant-game-at-4k60-you-can-build-a-pc-that-can-for-the-same-price/

#steam

📰 GNOME Mutter GPU Reset Recovery Becoming A Reality

While typically quite rare encountering a GPU reset under Linux in most conditions, currently if encountering one under GNOME your session gets wiped out. But thanks to a Google Summer of Code "GSoC" project this year, GNOME's Mutter compositor is finally seeing real GPU reset recovery handling...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-GPU-Reset-Recovery-2026

#gnome #linux

📰 GNOME Lands ext-background-effect-v1 Support For Background Blur Effect

Added to the Wayland Protocols repository back in May of 2025 was the ext-background-effect-v1 protocol for background blur that had been under discussion since early 2024. The initial focus is on being able to apply a blur effect on a window's background or otherwise a specified screen region. GNOME 51 has now merged support for ext-background-effect-v1 with the latest Mutter code...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-Background-Blur

#gnome #wayland

📰 KWin Compositor In KDE Plasma 6.8 Drops Support For Desktop OpenGL

Along with releasing Plasma 6.7.2 this week, KDE developers continue to be quite busy working on new features and improvements for the Plasma 6.8 release while also furthering along fixes for future Plasma 6.7 point releases...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.8-KWin-No-Desktop-GL

#kde #plasma

📰 Ubuntu Reverts Rust cp After It Breaks Live Image Builds

Ubuntu temporarily switched cp back to GNU Coreutils after a Rust Coreutils compatibility issue caused livecd-rootfs builds to fail.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-reverts-rust-cp-after-it-breaks-live-image-builds/

#gnu #ubuntu

📰 I switched to immutable Linux after one broken update cost me an entire evening

The best update strategy I've found is just being allowed to undo it.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/rolling-back-broken-update-immutable-linux/

#linux

📰 4K @ 60 FPS USB Video Capture Finally Becomes Less Problematic On Linux

One area of Linux hardware testing I haven't explored much in many years has been modern USB video capture for the lack of said hardware. The last time I did much video capturing on Linux was during the Hauppauge PCI card days. It turns out though that USB video capture of 4K 60 FPS content has been a pain point under Linux but is finally smoothing out with newer versions of the Linux kernel...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/4K-60-FPS-USB-Video-Capture

#kernel #linux

📰 I replaced VLC with PotPlayer, and these 5 fantastic features convinced me not to go back

For well over two decades, VLC has genuinely been the undisputed king of media players. It's free, open-source, and plays practically every single file format I've ever thrown at it. That's why it has rightfully earned a permanent spot on millions of Windows PCs. I truly couldn't ever have fathomed that I would mention anything other than VLC when asked for a media player recommendation, but that was only until a few months ago.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/best-potplayer-features-that-will-have-you-uninstalling-vlc-in-no-time/

#opensource

📰 Linux DRM Scheduler Patches Yield Massive Improvement For Job Submission Latency

A set of patches to the Linux kernel's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) scheduler that is shared among different kernel graphics drivers is showing the potential of delivering much lower job submission latency when the system is loaded with many runnable CPU processes...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Scheduler-Lower-Job-Submit

#kernel #linux

📰 Valve is bringing SteamOS to Nvidia GPUs, proving the Steam Machine was never the real plan

Valve's mission to bring SteamOS to every device just got a shot in the arm.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/steamos-coming-to-nvidia-gpus-steam-machine-wasnt-the-plan/

#arm #steam

📰 Proxmox's Android app changed how I manage my home lab, but it's missing one crucial feature

It's almost the perfect companion for my home lab misadventures.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/proxmoxs-android-app-changed-how-i-manage-my-home-lab/

#android