Linux NewsProton 11 Officially Released with Support for More Games Running on Linux
Proton 11 is now available with support for Breath of Fire IV, Unknown Faces, Gothic 1 Classic, X-Plane 12, and many other Windows games that are now playable on Linux.
Proton 11.0 Released with Big Compatibility Boost for Linux Gaming
Valve’s latest Proton update expands game compatibility with new playable titles, classic game fixes, better VR support, and launcher improvements.
Frame Gives FFmpeg a Modern GUI for Everyday Media Conversion
Frame is an open-source media conversion utility that wraps FFmpeg in a native Rust GUI for video, audio, image, subtitle, and metadata workflows.
Stop opening your browser for these 8 tasks, the terminal does them better
These productivity hacks that will make you question your browser habits.
LOL! Storage Bug on Microsoft Windows 11 Could Eat Up 500 GB Disk Space
Microsoft customer support agent even suggested buying new disk instead of acknolwedging the problem.
Stop believing these myths about Qubes OS. It's much easier than you think
Qubes isn't as hard as everyone claims. Here are the myths holding you back—and why they're wrong.
Proton 11.0-1 Released To Advance Valve's Steam Play For The Best Linux Experience Yet
Proton 11.0-1 was just released as stable as the newest major version of this downstream of Wine that powers Valve's Steam Play to provide for a great Windows gaming experience across conventional Linux systems plus the popular Steam Deck and brand new Steam Machine...
AMD Linux Graphics Driver Working To Clear Out All Of Its BUG()s
AMDGPU kernel driver maintainer Alex Deucher of AMD sent out a set of 30 patches today working on clearing out all of the BUG() usage within this Linux kernel graphics driver...
KDE Plasma 6.7.1 Released with Stability Fixes, UI Improvements, and Better Wayland Reliability
by George Whittaker The KDE Project has officially released KDE Plasma 6.7.1, the first maintenance update for the Plasma 6.7 desktop environment. Rather than introducing major new features, this point release focuses on polishing the desktop with a broad collection of bug fixes, translation updates, and performance improvements aimed at making Plasma 6.7 more reliable for everyday use. As with previous Plasma maintenance releases, KDE developers have concentrated on resolving issues reported by the community soon after the launch of Plasma 6.7, ensuring users receive a smoother and more stable desktop experience. A Maintenance Release Focused on Stability KDE Plasma 6.7 introduced numerous new capabilities, including per-display virtual desktops, Wayland session restore, improvements to Plasma Bigscreen, and a refreshed theming system. Plasma 6.7.1 builds on that foundation by addressing early regressions and fine-tuning the overall desktop experience. The update primarily delivers: B
Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share for the First Time in Years
StatCounter’s June 2026 report shows Linux at one of its strongest recent positions, while Windows falls to 56.55%.
Woodruff: You shouldn't trust trusted publishing
William Woodruff, better known online as "yossarian", has published a blog post to make the case that users should not place their trust in trusted publishing: Trusted Publishing is a mechanism for establishing trust between an external machine identity (like a CI/CD workflow) and one or more projects on a package index/registry. The "trust" in "Trusted Publishing" refers to that trust relationship, and not to anything else. It is not, and cannot be, a signal for package trust or quality. You cannot use it to determine whether a package is safe or "good," and PyPI consciously stymies attempts to misuse it for that purpose by not rendering it as a "green checkmark" or anything else of the sort. Or as another framing: Trusted Publishing is just a form of authentication. It doesn't tell you anything other than that an upload was authenticated, which all uploads to PyPI are. LWN covered trusted publishing in June.
System76 Refreshes the Lemur Laptop
If you're looking for a laptop with tons of power and battery, look no further than the latest iteration of the System76 Lemur Pro.
[$] Faster RCUs and lockless memory allocation
Puranjay Mohan shared some of the work he's been doing recently on improving the performance of read-copy-update (RCU) at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit; his talk would have been nice context to have earlier in the day when Harry Yoo and Alexei Starovoitov led a session about the new kmalloc_nolock() function that allows for lockless allocation from any kernel context, and which interacts with the RCU subsystem to allow that. This article therefore covers the two sessions together and in the reverse order, to provide that missing context.
KDE Plasma 6.6.6 Released as Final Bugfix Update in the 6.6 Series
KDE Plasma 6.6.6 arrives as the final maintenance update for the oldstable branch, bringing one last round of KWin, Workspace, Discover, and portal fixes.
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (nodejs22 and nodejs24), Fedora (clamav, hplip, kernel, kernel-headers, librabbitmq, mingw-expat, mir, perl-Imager, podman-tui, prometheus-podman-exporter, python-rpds-py, rust-ashpd, rust-busd, rust-gtk4-macros, rust-inferno, rust-quick-xml, rust-reqsign-aws-v4, rust-wayland-scanner, and sandogasa), Oracle (container-tools:rhel8, kernel, mariadb:10.11, mariadb:11.8, nginx, perl:5.32, php, php:7.4, rrdtool, ruby:2.5, ruby:3.3, ruby:4.0, and uek-kernel), Red Hat (kernel, opentelemetry-collector, and python-urllib3), Slackware (c and openssh), SUSE (bind, chromedriver, cryptsetup, s390-tools, dnsmasq, jackson-annotations, jackson-core, jackson-databind, lcms2, pacemaker, perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS, perl-Crypt-SaltedHash, postfix, and python-mistune), and Ubuntu (gnutls28, gzip, openssh, php7.0, python-parsl, python3.10, python3.12, python3.14, request-tracker5, socat, sogo, and tar).