Linux NewsIntel Graphics Driver Support For Xe3 "Peak Bandwidth Threshold" Feature In Linux 7.3
Intel today sent out their latest batch of kernel graphics driver updates that are ready for staging ahead of next month's Linux 7.3 merge window...
Fooyin 0.12 Music Player Adds Audio Conversion and New Visualizations
Fooyin 0.12 introduces built-in audio conversion, PulseAudio output support, and new Spectrogram, Oscilloscope, and projectM visualizations.
Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver To Windows
Valve has been sponsoring Collabora engineers with early phase, exploratory work for trying to bring the open-source Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver to Microsoft Windows...
Vibe Coded X11 YSERVER Gets Steam Working, Full-Screen Games With Cinnamon
A new software creation that debuted this summer was YSERVER as a modern X11 server written in Rust largely by AI via Claude Code. This YSERVER implementation has continued implementing more X11 protocol and other functionality to get more desktop environments and apps working surprisingly okay on this vibe coded X11 server. YSERVER 1.4 is now available as the latest in this quest...
FreeBSD's Kernel Still Has A Bit Of GPL Code While Its Base User-Space Is GPL-Free
A few weeks ago there was excitement in the FreeBSD camp with FreeBSD 16 set to retire the last of its GPL code from the base system. While the retiring of the dialog code proclaimed that it was the last remaining piece of GPL software in the base system for FreeBSD, it turns out now that there is some GPL code within the FreeBSD kernel...
GCC To Decline Any Significant Contributions Made Via AI/LLMs - Except For Test Cases
The GCC Steering Committee announced today that they have accepted the recommended policy of the GCC AI Policy Working Group, which means no "legally significant" code contributions made via AI/LLM agents will be accepted into this open-source compiler...
Shelly 3.0 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Released as a Major Update
Shelly 3.0 graphical package manager for Arch Linux distributions is now available for download with a full rewrite in Zig, a completely rebuilt GTK4 experience, and more.
ARCTIC Launches Its New Fan Controller That Already Has Mainline Linux Support
In over 22 years of Linux hardware reviews and testing at Phoronix, I have never been more excited for a fan controller... ARCTIC today launched their new Fan Controller and in making the product very unique for Linux users, it already has mainline Linux kernel support via a open-source driver contributed directly by ARCTIC...
A GrapheneOS Privacy Feature Just Became the Basis for a Federal Indictment
Samuel Tunick faces up to five years in prison after the passcode he gave CBP agents wiped his phone.
Wayfire 0.11 Wayland Compositor Adds Better Fractional Scaling, HDR Rendering
Wayfire 0.11 modular and extensible Wayland compositor is now available with better fractional scaling, HDR rendering, support for per-output ICC profiles, and more.
Ubuntu Virtualization HWE Stack brings newer Qemu, libvirt to LTS users
Ubuntu’s hardware enablement (HWE) effort has been expanded to make newer virtualisation tech available to users on the current LTS release. If you’re not familiar with the HWE, it’s what brings newer versions of the Linux kernel, GPU drivers and select other foundational pieces from the current Ubuntu release to older LTS releases, allowing it to work with and boot on newer hardware. This new virtualization HWE stack from Canonical will allow users to run newer versions of QEMU, libvirt and related firmware on top of a reliable LTS base, refreshed every 6 months for 2 years, without needing to seek […]
[$] Progress toward compiling Linux with gccrs
The gccrs project, which is creating a Rust frontend for the GCC compiler, has spent the first half of 2026 focusing on compiling the Linux kernel. By testing the compiler against the kernel crates, the development team has made significant progress toward generating correct code for other Rust programs. As detailed in the project's weekly and monthly reports, this effort has uncovered and resolved problems in areas such as attribute handling (described in the report for February), name resolution, and resource management (both detailed in the May report). Currently, the compiler can only handle simple standalone programs, but that situation could change rapidly in the coming months.
GOG Officially Expands Linux Support with Native Galaxy Client in Development
by George Whittaker After years of requests from the Linux gaming community, GOG has officially confirmed that it is developing native Linux support for the GOG Galaxy launcher. The announcement marks one of the biggest shifts in the company's history and signals a stronger commitment to Linux as a first-class gaming platform. While GOG has offered DRM-free Linux game downloads since 2014, its Galaxy launcher has remained exclusive to Windows and macOS—until now. Although the company has not announced a release date, GOG says Linux has become a major area of investment, with development already underway. A Long-Requested Feature Finally Becomes Reality Native GOG Galaxy support has consistently ranked among the most requested features from Linux users. Until now, players who wanted to use Galaxy's library management, cloud saves, achievements, and automatic updates had to rely on compatibility layers or community-developed launchers. In a statement to GamingOnLinux, GOG joint CEO Krzys
I Really Want to Love This Markdown Editor, But One Thing Holds It Back
It gives an IDE feel with lots of features that fits the workflow of developers working on technical documentation of their projects.
Ubuntu Touch gets a huge update with modern browser, notch support + more
Notch support, a screenshot editor and a more modern web browser engine are among changes arriving with the latest update to Ubuntu Touch, the community-run mobile operating system based on Ubuntu. With many devices supported by Ubuntu Touch, like Fairphone and Volla handsets, using a notch cutout at the top of the display to house cameras, the new v24.04-20 update adds support for them, adapting the top panel indicators to cleanly space around them. Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 also gains support for printing documents from handsets. Users can set this up via System Settings > Printing. It requires downloading some extra […]