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The Unwill laptop driver on Linux for supporting various device-specific features by that major OEM/ODM will be seeing several new features with the Linux 7.3 cycle later this year. One of the most notable users of the Unwill driver is Bavarian Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for July 5th, 2026, brings news about Mageia 10, KDE Plasma 6.7.2, Kali Linux 2026.2, COSMIC 1.2, Juno Tab 4 Wi-Fi, Calibre 9.11, GNOME 51 Alpha, Ultramarine 44, Ubuntu Budgie 24.04.4 LTS for Raspberry Pi, fwupd 2.1.6, ParrotOS 7.3, KDE Gear 26.04.3, DXVK 3.0.1, BleachBit 6.0.2, and more.
The 7.2-rc2 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: "It's Sunday afternoon, and rc2 is out. Things look very normal - it's not a small rc2, but it's in line with recent releases, and slightly smaller than rc2 was in 7.1. Let's see how that all continues, but so far so good."
BleachBit 6.0.2 open-source and free disk space cleaner, privacy manager, and computer system optimizer software is now available for download with new features and improvements.
In addition to Sunday's release of DXVK 3.0.1, D7VK 1.12 was separately released as the latest version of this implementation for Direct3D 7 and older atop the Vulkan API...
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Mageia 10, Azure Linux 4.0, Apple Container 1.0, Plasma 6.7.2, COSMIC Desktop 1.2, Linux tops 2026 CVE charts, and more.
Linux 7.2-rc2 is now available for testing in working toward the stable Linux 7.2 release in August...
BleachBit 6.0.2 arrives with a new Linux AppImage, cleaners for VS Code, Codium, Cursor, Claude Code, and several Linux-related fixes.
The legendary meme distro returns after nearly two decades with a modern Debian Trixie base, KDE Plasma 6, and a whole lot of pink nostalgia.
Following the release of DXVK 3.0 from late June that brought several big changes, DXVK 3.0.1 is out today with shipping various game fixes and other improvements to this important piece of Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for Direct3D Windows games on Linux...
The Vulkan-based Direct3D translation layer gets a fresh bugfix release addressing issues in Black Mesa, Gothic 3, GTA IV, Fallout 3, and more.
DXVK 3.0.1 open-source Vulkan-based implementation of D3D8, D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine is now available for download with improvements for various games and other changes.
Support for Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” ends 9 July 2026 – which is this week. If you’re still using it, you can upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS directly to keep receiving updates. Ubuntu 25.10 was released in October 2025. As an ‘interim release’ the desktop edition it receives only 9 months of ongoing updates. Ubuntu’s Long-Term Support versions get 5 years of updates on desktop, plus a further 5 years through an Ubuntu Pro subscription. Nothing dramatic happens when a release goes end of life. Your install keeps working. What stops is the flow of high-impact security updates and critical bug fixes […]
BSDun is an experimental project that brings FreeBSD binary compatibility to Linux, with support already claimed for shells, networking tools, pkg, and more.
The NanoKVM-Go connects with a single USB-C cable, runs over WiFi 6, and exposes every KVM function as an MCP server for AI agents like PicoClaw and Claude Code.
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