📰 Debian Developers Begin Voting Over LLM Usage Within The Project

Debian developers have been considering a general resolution over LLM usage within the project. After collecting a variety of proposals, voting has now commenced for Debian developers to decide how comfortable they are with AI / Large Language Model contributions in the project or not...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Votes-On-LLM-Usage

#debian

📰 Intel's Jay Graphics Shader Compiler Now Passing Vulkan CTS With Xe2/Xe3 Hardware

Last year Alyssa Rosenzweig joined Intel to work on their Linux graphics drivers after previously serving as a contractor for Valve on their graphics stack and also previously leading the Mesa driver work for the Asahi Linux Apple Silicon graphics support. Since joining Intel, she has been leading the development of Jay as a new SSA-based shader compiler for Intel graphics hardware to be used by the Mesa Iris Gallium3D and ANV Vulkan drivers...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Jay-Compiler-Xe2-Xe3-CTS

#intel #linux

📰 Late Sound Fixes For Linux 7.2 Bring More Device Quirks, Intel Nova Lake HDMI-In Capture

Ahead of the presumed Linux 7.2 stable kernel release tomorrow, some last minute sound fixes/quirks have been merged for this next kernel version...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Last-Sound-Fixes-Linux-7.2

#intel #kernel #linux

📰 Arch-Based Omarchy 4.0 “Quattro” Is Here with Its Biggest Desktop Overhaul Yet

Omarchy 4.0 “Quattro” arrives with a completely rewritten Quickshell-based desktop shell, faster installs, dual-boot support, and usability improvements.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/arch-based-omarchy-4-0-quattro-is-here-with-its-biggest-desktop-overhaul-yet/

#arch

📰 Marek Olšák's 19 Latest Patches Further Optimizing RADV & ACO

Legendary Mesa Radeon Gallium3D driver developer Marek Olšák who was a longtime AMD employee and then joined Valve's Linux graphics driver team earlier this year has continued his focus now on perfecting his art around the RADV Vulkan driver and ACO shader compiler...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-ACO-19-More-Patches-Valve

#amd #linux

📰 TUXEDO OS Debian-Based Open Beta Is Now Available for Testing

The first public beta of the redesigned TUXEDO OS is now available, marking the distro’s move away from Ubuntu to Debian Testing.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/tuxedo-os-debian-based-open-beta-is-now-available-for-testing/

#debian #distro #ubuntu

📰 GIMP 3.4 Promises New Project File Format, PSD Support Improvements, and More

GIMP 3.4 open-source image editor is under development promising many new features and enhancements. Here’s what to expect!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/gimp-3-4-promises-new-project-file-format-psd-support-improvements-and-more

#opensource

📰 tlbi= Boot Option Submitted Ahead Of Linux 7.2 Kernel Release

Ahead of the Linux 7.2 kernel stable release expected to occur in the coming hours, a last minute "x86/urgent" pull request was submitted with one patch for adding the new tlbi= boot option...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-x86-urgent-tlbi

#kernel #linux

📰 NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW Native Linux App Now Stable, Offers Flatpak Support

NVIDIA's GeForce NOW native Linux app has graduated from beta and it's now available as a stable release with Flatpak and Ubuntu support.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/nvidias-geforce-now-native-linux-app-now-stable-offers-flatpak-support

#flatpak #linux #ubuntu

📰 Linux is now adopting a CPU requirement Windows already demands, but don't worry, it's not TPM 2.0

In fact, if you're reading this line, your computer's CPU is most definitely still supported.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-is-now-adopting-a-cpu-requirement-windows-already-demands-but-dont-worry-its-not-tpm-20/

#linux

📰 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands has Easy Anti-Cheat removed

Good for players on Linux / SteamOS and modders - Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands is now free from Easy Anti-Cheat.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/tom-clancys-ghost-recon-wildlands-has-easy-anti-cheat-removed/

#linux

📰 GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu Released Following More Driver Cleaning

Following yesterday's release of the Linux 7.2 kernel, GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu is now available for this kernel downstream that strips out support for drivers depending upon non-free-software microcode/firmware, the ability to load closed-source kernel modules, and other restrictions in the name of software freedom...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Linux-Libre-7.2

#gnu #kernel #linux

📰 Evooo1Bot Linux Botnet Exploits Known Flaws to Turn Edge Devices Into SOCKS5 Proxies

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a previously undocumented Linux botnet family dubbed Evooo1Bot that derives its core functionality from the Mirai botnet source code and is equipped to turn internet-facing devices into SOCKS proxies."While the malware reuses the DDoS engine from the publicly leaked Mirai source code, it extends the original framework with numerous capabilities, including.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/evooo1bot-linux-botnet-exploits-known.html

#linux

📰 ARM64 BBML3 Feature Ready With Linux 7.3, NVIDIA Olympus Workarounds

AI/LLM patch craziness hurt ARM64 development for the Linux 7.2 cycle that no real features landed for that kernel version on AArch64. Fortunately, the ARM Linux developers are more prepared now and for Linux 7.3 are introducing some new ARM64 features...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-Linux-7.3

#arm #kernel #linux

📰 Mozilla Firefox 154 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Mozilla Firefox 154 open-source web browser is now available for download with a new “Manage AI” quick action, support for clearing and updating cached favicons, and other changes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-154-is-now-available-for-download-heres-whats-new

#firefox #opensource

📰 AMD Working On A New Backend For Improving ROCm Compute In QEMU/VMs

AMD engineers are working on enhancing the open-source ROCm compute stack for better handling GPU virtualized compute under QEMU...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-Better-QEMU-VM

#amd #opensource #qemu

📰 ARCTIC Fan Controller: The Best Fan Controller For Linux Desktops, Less Than $10 USD

Back in March were patches posted by ARCTIC Cooling for an ARCTIC fan controller driver for Linux. Typically we aren't used to seeing desktop/enthusiast focused vendors providing such Linux drivers for peripherals directly but the sad fact is most often it's left up to the open-source community to reverse engineer and create such drivers for Linux.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/arctic-fan-controller

#linux #opensource

📰 AnduinOS is Windows without the frustration, and it just cracked the top 15 distros

AnduinOS has beocme a very popular Linux distro, and it's easy to see why Windows users might want to switch to it.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/anduinos-windows-without-frustration-cracked-top-15-distros/

#distro #linux

📰 FFmpeg Lands H.265 Vulkan Encode Performance Optimizations

The FFmpeg multimedia library can now enjoy faster H.265/HEVC video encoding with the Vulkan-powered encode path. With the optimizations merged today, the H.265 encode performance should be roughly at parity to the H.264 encode speed...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Faster-HEVC-Encode

#ffmpeg

📰 Aura Glass Gives the GNOME Desktop a Complete Frosted-Glass Makeover

Aura Glass gives the GNOME Desktop a polished glassmorphism makeover with dynamic blur, multiple color schemes, custom styling, and an interactive installer.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/aura-glass-gives-the-gnome-desktop-a-complete-frosted-glass-makeover/

#gnome

📰 Wordbook is a modern offline dictionary for GNOME

They say never judge a book by its cover, and few do if said book is a dictionary – but what about desktop dictionary apps? I recently discovered Wordbook, a modern English-English dictionary powered by OpenEnglish WordNet and eSpeak for pronunciations, that works entirely offline. Wordbook is in GNOME Circle; the GTK4/libadwaita UI is a good fit for the desktop.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/gnome-wordbook-dictionary-offline

#gnome