📰 Valve made a Steam Frame Dongle troubleshooting script for Linux gamers

Are you one of the lucky people who got the new Steam Frame? Having issues streaming with the wireless Dongle? Valve are doing something about it.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/valve-made-a-steam-frame-dongle-troubleshooting-script-for-linux-gamers/

#linux #steam

📰 AMD Ryzen Zen 6 CPU Power Values Being Further Tuned For Linux

AMD engineers continue to prepare for upcoming Zen 6 powered Ryzen client processors on Linux...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-6-More-Client-Tuning

#amd #linux

📰 antiX 26.1 Released as a Debian 13-Based Systemd-Free Linux

antiX 26.1 arrives as a bug-fix release based on Debian 13 Trixie, with five init systems, IceWM by default, and 32-bit support.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/antix-26-1-released-as-a-debian-13-based-systemd-free-linux/

#debian #linux #systemd

📰 D7VK Reaches Maturity For Older Direct3D APIs Atop Vulkan

D7VK as a Vulkan-based implementation of the Microsoft Direct3D 7 / 6 / 5 / 3 APIs for Linux/Wine (Steam Play) usage is out with version 2.3 and the developer now believing its marking the point that the project is rather mature...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/D7VK-2.3-Released

#linux #steam #wine

📰 BPF-Based Display Panel Drivers Being Explored For Linux

BPF-based HID drivers have helped to deliver quirks/fixes for different HID devices more quickly than being bound by the conventional kernel cycle. Loading these eBPF programs from user-space have shown a lot of potential for innovating and iterating more quickly with BPF drivers for different subsystems. The latest area now seeing the BPF treatment are display panel drivers...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-BPF-Panel-Drivers

#kernel #linux

📰 You Can Now Upgrade Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Here’s How

This is a step-by-step and easy-to-follow tutorial (with screenshots) to show you how to upgrade your Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) installations to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon).

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/you-can-now-upgrade-ubuntu-24-04-lts-to-ubuntu-26-04-lts-heres-how

#ubuntu

📰 Linux printing finally stopped being a nightmare, and Windows is only now catching up

Printing on Linux is now less painful than on Windows.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-printing-finally-stopped-being-a-nightmare-and-windows-is-only-now-catching-up/

#linux

📰 systemd 262 Released with Static PID 1, Intel TDX, TPM Improvements, and New Container Features

by George WhittakerThe systemd project has officially released systemd 262, delivering another substantial update to the system and service manager used by most major Linux distributions. The final release was tagged on September 22, 2026, following three release candidates earlier in the month.Systemd 262 introduces improvements across service management, containers, virtualization, encrypted storage, TPM security, networking, journal recovery,...

🔗 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/systemd-262-released-static-pid-1-intel-tdx-tpm-improvements-and-new-container-features

#intel #linux #systemd

📰 Mesa 26.3 Enables Intel's New Jay Shader Compiler By Default, Compile Times 55% Faster Or 66% Faster Than Windows

Over the past year Jay has been in development as a new open-source shader compiler for Intel GPUs. Alyssa Rosenzweig has been leading its development since joining Intel in 2025. For Mesa 26.3 the Jay shader compiler is being enabled by default for modern Intel graphics hardware and is around ~10% faster than the existing BRW compiler code...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.3-Intel-Jay-Compiler

#intel #opensource

📰 GitLab warns of critical RCE vulnerability in AI Gateway service

🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/gitlab-warns-of-critical-rce-vulnerability-in-ai-gateway-service/

📰 hw-monitor 0.6 Released With Per-Process GPU Usage & Memory Reporting

For those after in-depth hardware and system monitoring support from the Linux desktop, hw-monitor continues to advance as one of the modern options. Released on Monday was hw-monitor 0.6 with per-process GPU reporting metrics when using capable DRM drivers like the AMDGPU, Intel i915 and Xe, and Nouveau drivers...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/hw-monitor-0.6

#intel #linux

📰 OpenSSL 4.0.3 Is Out as Another Security Patch Release, Update Now

OpenSSL 4.0.3 open-source TLS/SSL and crypto library is now available for download with bug fixes and mitigations for various security vulnerabilities.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/openssl-4-0-3-is-out-as-another-security-patch-release-update-now

#opensource

📰 Firefox in a New Skin! Nova Redesign Has Become The Default

Six months after the mockups leaked, the Firefox 157 release is the one that got it done.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17477496/firefox-nova-redesign

#firefox

📰 New Ubuntu Concept ISO For Snapdragon Laptops Brings First X2 Laptop Support

It's been a while since Canonical announced any new ISOs of their Ubuntu builds targeting Qualcomm Snapdragon X series laptops. But ahead of this week's Ubuntu 26.10 beta release, they shipped new Ubuntu 26.10 Snapdragon Concept images today with improved Snapdragon X1 laptop support as well as the initial Snapdragon X2 laptop support...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.10-Snapdragon-Concept

#ubuntu

📰 openSUSE Leap is The Immutable Distro Now, Leap Micro is Out

Starting with Leap 16.1, the separate immutable flavor will cease to exist.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17477655/opensuse-leap-immutable

#distro #opensuse

📰 Microsoft Announces General Availability Of WSLC: Linux Containers On Windows

Following the public preview of Linux containers on WSL, Microsoft today announced the general availability of WSLC for supporting Linux containers on Windows...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-WSLC-Linux-Containers

#linux

📰 New Spectre-v2 BTR Attack Leaks Linux Memory Despite Existing Defenses

A group of academics from VUSec and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna have disclosed details of a new Spectre CPU vulnerability variant that affects Just-In-Time (JIT) engines present in web browsers, language runtimes, and the operating system kernel, across multiple CPU vendors.The new Spectre-v2 variant has been codenamed Branch Target Reuse (BTR)."The key insight is that, while modern CPUs.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/new-spectre-v2-btr-attack-leaks-linux.html

#kernel #linux

📰 AMD Boosting AI/LLM Performance For Radeon iGPUs As Much As 18~23% With Linux 7.4

If you have an AMD Ryzen laptop/desktop and looking to leverage AI/LLM capabilities with the integrated graphics, Linux 7.4 is going to be a real treat especially for lower-end hardware. AMD's new PerfOpt feature being introduced in Linux 7.4 is set to provide some solid gains as shown in these benchmarks today across different AMD Ryzen/Radeon hardware.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-perfopt

#amd #linux

📰 Archinstall 4.5 Arch Linux Installer Adds AArch64 Support for GRUB and Limine

Archinstall 4.5 text-mode installer for the Arch Linux distribution is now available with AArch64 support for GRUB and Limine EFI installations, AArch64 root partition type GUID support, and other changes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/archinstall-4-5-arch-linux-installer-adds-aarch64-support-for-grub-and-limine

#arch #linux

📰 Linux Mint replaced Ubuntu as the best first distro, and Ubuntu's own choices explain why

If you went a decade back in time and asked someone in the Linux community what the best beginner distro was, there's a good chance they'd reply with Ubuntu. It's what I heard a lot about when I first dipped my toe into the world of FOSS operating systems, and for good reason.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-mint-replaced-ubuntu-best-first-distro/

#distro #linux #ubuntu