📰 Linux 7.4 DRM Infrastructure Better Supporting HDMI 2.0 With New Helpers

Sent out today was the latest weekly pull of drm-misc-next changes of feature material to queue in DRM-Next for Linux 7.4. Most notable in this week's pull request are a number of patches for enhancing the HDMI 2.0 handling in the DRM core infrastructure and display helpers...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-DRM-Helpers-HDMI-2.0

#linux

📰 Some overlooked Native Linux games may be potential gems - September 2026 edition

Want to find something a little weird and wonderful? A potential little gem that's overlooked? GamingOnLinux has you covered here.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/some-overlooked-native-linux-games-may-be-potential-gems-september-2026-edition/

#linux

📰 Fwupd 2.1.8 Released With New Hardware Support From ASUS, Lenovo & Others

Lead LVFS/Fwupd developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat announced Fwupd 2.1.8 today as the newest feature release for this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems. With Fwupd 2.1.8 comes support for a number of newer devices plus plenty of bug fixes...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-2.1.8-Released

#linux #opensource

📰 Guide: How to find where Steam stores Proton game files

Trying to find the files of a Windows game when you're running it through Proton can be a little confusing - here's how to get there on SteamOS / Linux.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/how-to-find-where-steam-stores-proton-game-files

#linux #proton #steam

📰 "slab_tiny" Boot Option Proposed For Tiny Linux Systems With Very Limited RAM

In 2022 the SLOB allocator was deprecated and removed with Linux 6.4 a year later. SLOB was popular with embedded systems with minimal amounts of RAM, so as a result the CONFIG_SLUB_TINY Kconfig option was then added for configuring the slab allocator for a minimal memory footprint for systems with 16MB of RAM or less.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Slab-Tiny-Boot-Option

#linux

📰 Canonical Releases Mir 2.30 with wl_fixes Wayland Protocol Support

Mir 2.30 compositor is now available for download with wl_fixes Wayland protocol support, a typed wrapper for wl_array, a new command for the workshop tooling, and other changes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/canonical-releases-mir-2-30-with-wl_fixes-wayland-protocol-support

#wayland

📰 Linux Kernel Introducing New Taint Due To Fuzzing Bots Yielding Impractical Bug Reports

The Linux kernel is having to introduce a new taint flag "TAINT_FORCED_BIND" to deal with fuzzing bots like Syzbot abusing Linux's bind/unbind sysfs functionality and generating bug reports for impractical and not at all relevant hardware/driver combinations...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Taint-Forced-Bind

#kernel #linux

📰 Faugus Launcher 2.4.0 adds a backup system, new game overviews and more customization

Faugus Launcher is easily becoming one of the absolute coolest looking ways to manage games from different launchers on SteamOS / Linux.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/faugus-launcher-2-4-0-adds-a-backup-system-new-game-overviews-and-more-customization/

#linux

📰 AMD Posts GCC Compiler Patches For AVX10V1AUX ISA Support

Following their recent AVX10_V2_AUX support for GCC as part of the bring-up for the AI Compute Extensions "ACE" in GCC 17, AMD compiler engineers this week posted the initial patches for enabling the AVX10V1AUX ISA support...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Patches-AVX10V1AUX

#amd

📰 Ubuntu is Tightening its Kernel SRU Cycle to Two Weeks, and Clankers Are to Blame

Ubuntu users will get kernel security fixes faster thanks to this.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17472488/ubuntu-kernel-sru-cycle-update

#kernel #ubuntu

📰 Decades-old file security flaws found in Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows

Security researchers report that Microsoft considers the side-channel leak of file events to be by design.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/24/decades-old-file-security-flaws-found-in-android-linux-macos-and-windows/5298672

#android #linux

📰 COSMIC Epoch 1.9 Brings New Image Viewer & On-Screen Keyboard

COSMIC Epoch 1.9 was released last night as the newest version of the System76-sponsored, Rust-based desktop environment. COSMIC Epoch 1.9 release notes only became available today and it's a big one with new apps and improvements to existing offerings...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.9-Released

#rust

📰 F-Droid app store thumbs its nose at Google's dev crackdown

The Chocolate Factory is tightening the screws on Android sideloading, but the FOSS app market is rolling out a huge overhaul and planning for the future.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/applications/2026/09/24/f-droid-app-store-thumbs-its-nose-at-googles-dev-crackdown/5298974

#android

📰 Ubuntu 26.10 Delivers Some Nice Gains For Intel Panther Lake / Framework Laptop 13 Pro

For those with a Framework Laptop 13 Pro or another Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" laptop, the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release is delivering some nice out-of-the-box improvements over Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2610-panther-lake

#intel #ubuntu

📰 The Netherlands Built a Nix-Basd Linux Desktop Because Microsoft Cut Off the ICC

Eight municipalities are already testing DAWO, the government's NixOS-powered work environment.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17473313/netherlands-dawo-initiative

#linux

📰 ReactOS Lands Significant DirectX Stack Update From Wine For Enabling More Games

The open-source ReactOS project striving to provide binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows applications/games as well as drivers took a huge step forward today with landing a significant update to its DirectX stack from code leveraged from the Wine project...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Updated-Wine-DirectX

#opensource #wine

📰 Asahi fork embraces LLMs and lands Linux on the M4 Mac mini

Coding agents helped two developers build an accelerated desktop and graphics driver in weeks.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/09/25/asahi-fork-embraces-llms-and-lands-linux-on-the-m4-mac-mini/5298931

#linux

📰 Qualcomm Posts Patches For Enabling GPU Support In Their Snapdragon X2 Mahua SoC

Yesterday Qualcomm posted open-source GPU driver patches for their Adreno 850 GPU one day after being announced with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. Yesterday Qualcomm also announced their Snapdragon X2 Linux support plans. Today they have posted the GPU enablement patches for what's found in the Mahua SoC for lower-tier Snapdragon X2 SoCs...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Mahua-GPU-Support

#linux #opensource

📰 systemd Gets Built-In System Reporting With systemd-report

The new systemd-report collects system facts and runtime metrics into unified, timestamped JSON reports for monitoring and fleet management.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/systemd-gets-built-in-system-reporting-with-systemd-report/

#systemd

📰 Linux Kernel Developers Consider Adding AGENTS.md To Help Guide AI/LLM Agents

While the Linux kernel continues to be bombarded with patches from AI/LLM agents, to date the kernel hasn't carried an AGENTS.md Markdown file with instructions catering to AI/LLM agents. But a patch set out today would finally introduce one...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Considers-AGENTS-MD

#kernel #linux

📰 Ubuntu stopped being the lightweight Linux distro, and Linux Mint filled the gap it left behind

A surprising shift to Linux Mint reveals leaner memory use, polished Cinnamon defaults, and a friendlier upgrade path.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-mint-is-the-best-ubuntu-replacement/

#distro #linux #ubuntu