Linux NewsQualcomm Snapdragon C Announced For $300+ Laptops
For competing with the Apple MacBook Neo, Google Chromebooks, and other entry-level laptops, Qualcomm today announced the Snapdragon C series SoCs...
Intel Arc G-Series Processors Announced For Handheld Gaming Devices
Ahead of Computex, Intel today announced the introduction of the Arc G-Series. While taking on the "Arc" branding, this isn't a new graphics card from Intel but rather their new processors with integrated graphics for handheld gaming devices...
KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 Released With More Bug Fixes
Building off the KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta release earlier in May, a second beta was declared today in preparing for the Plasma 6.7 stable debut in mid-June...
Steam Client Gets Third Update in May With Runtime Change
Valve’s third Steam Client update in May brings Linux fixes, Steam Input improvements, Remote Play changes, and overlay bug fixes.
Calibre 9.9 E-Book Manager Updates and Improves the WolneLektury Store
Calibre 9.9 open-source e-book management software is now available for download with support for accurate page counting of fixed layout EPUB files, updated and improved WolneLektury store, and new news sources.
24 Years After The ATI R300 Launched, Open-Source R300 Driver Continues With Big Rework
While there has been talk of potentially branching off the older Mesa graphics drivers, the ATI R300 Gallium3D driver just won't die yet. The R300 Gallium3D driver for supporting ATI R300 through R500 graphics cards saw a big rework merged today in restructuring the driver's intemediate representation (IR) handling...
Calibre 9.9 E-Book Manager Improves EPUB Page Counting
Calibre 9.9 adds accurate page counts for fixed-layout EPUBs, keeps searches across Virtual libraries, and fixes SSL loading on Fedora 44.
KRAID Being Developed As New Compiler For Modern Arm Mali Graphics
KRAID is a new Rust-written shader compiler currently being developed for the Panfrost/PanVK open-source Arm Mali driver code. KRAID is designed for Mali's Valhall graphics processors and new as a modern, clean sheet design...
O3DE 26.05 Released With New Open Particle System, Other Engine Improvements
It's been nearly five years already since the start of O3DE as the Open 3D Engine that began as Amazon's Lumberyard project spun into an open-source project under the Linux Foundation umbrella. Out this week is O3DE 26.05 for shipping the latest improvements to this cross platform game engine...
GTK Introduces Snapping Feature For Better Fractional Scaling Experience
The upcoming GTK 4.23.1 development release is introducing a new feature called Snapping, which should enhance the experience when dealing with fractional scaling on today's high resolution displays...
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 28, 2026
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Dirk and Linus talk; BPF and GCC; private memory modes; BPF page-cache policies; major page faults; LLM kernel review; tiered-memory support; transparent huge pages; page mappings; Model Openness Tool. Briefs: Stenberg security stress; GTK PDF problems; Morton 2004 keynote; OpenBSD 7.9; Bambu's AGPLv3 violations; Quotes; ... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
Latest Steam Client Update Improves Steam Controller Support on Linux
A new stable Steam Client update is now available with better support for Valve's new Steam Controller on Linux, as well as improvements to in-game overlay, Steam Input, and Remote Play.
Don't Expect a Raspberry Pi 6 Until At Least 2028
Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton confirmed that in a Reddit AMA recently.
I Tried Firefox Smart Window, and It Won Me Over a Little
Mozilla's new AI browsing mode is in limited beta, and it's more capable than I expected.
Mesa 26.0.8 Released To End Out The Series
Eric Engestrom announced the release of Mesa 26.0.8 today as the latest stable point release of that Q1'2026 driver series and the last planned update for that stable series...