Linux NewsKodi 22 Enters Beta with Big Linux Rendering Changes
Kodi 22 “Piers” Beta is out for testing, bringing FFmpeg 8.1, Python 3.14, HDR improvements, and big Linux rendering changes.
Linux 7.2 On Threadripper Shows Some Nice I/O Improvements & Faster Poll, Some Regressions
I have begun testing out Linux 7.2 on more hardware following the winding down of the merge window and culminating with yesterday's Linux 7.2-rc1 release. Today's tests are looking at how Linux 7.2 in its early development state is comparing to Linux 7.1 stable on AMD Ryzen Threadripper.
Microsoft Announces Public Preview For Linux Containers On WSL
Microsoft today shipped the first public preview of WSL Containers "WSLC" as their latest extension of the Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 11...
Red Hat ARM Engineer Abandons ARM64 Linux Personal Desktop, Goes Back To AMD Ryzen System
Red Hat senior software engineer Marcin Juszkiewicz of Red Hat's ARM Team had been dogfeeding with an AArch64 Linux desktop being used as his primary, personal system for nearly the past year. But now he shared he has gone back to using his AMD Ryzen desktop instead over AArch64 Linux issues encountered with his Ampere Altra desktop...
Infinity Scheduler Aims To Be A Better Linux Scheduler
The Infinity Scheduler is another attempt at improving the CPU scheduling behavior under Linux and created by the developer behind the existing "scx_flow" sched_ext scheduler. But Infinity Scheduler isn't taking the approach of using sched_ext and is rather patched into the Linux kernel in modifying CFS and RT behavior...
Mageia 10 Revives the Mandrake Spirit with Plasma 6 and Kernel 6.18 LTS
Mageia 10 lands after a long development cycle, bringing Plasma 6.5, GNOME 49, Xfce 4.20, Linux kernel 6.18 LTS, DNF 5, RPM 4.20, and more.
Kodi 22 Beta Improves Linux Support for Remote Keys and HDR Profile Support
Kodi 22 “Piers” open-source media center is now available for public beta testing promising HDR on Wayland support for Linux systems and many other new features and improvements.
Slackel MATE 9.0 Keeps Slackware Current Alive for 32-Bit Systems
Slackel MATE 9.0 arrives with Slackware Current compatibility, MATE desktop, live ISO support, and installable images for both modern and older hardware.
AMD Linux Patches Introduce New "Low Power" CPU Core Type
A new Linux kernel patch series posted to the kernel mailing list minutes ago is introducing a new "Low Power" CPU core type for AMD heterogeneous processors. The x86 topology code in the Linux kernel already supports the notion of Performance and Efficiency type cores while now a new "Low Power" core type is being introduced for AMD heterogeneous platforms...
ZLUDA v6 Gets PhysX Running Well On AMD GPUs But Loses Commercial Funding
ZLUDA as a reminder is the open-source project that began as drop-in CUDA support for Intel graphics hardware and then was quietly funded by AMD for years as a drop-in CUDA replacement on AMD GPUs that went open-source after losing funding. That was then taken down and since late 2024 ZLUDA then began focusing on multi-GPU CUDA focused on AI after beginning to receive funding from an unspecified party. Now, unfortunately, funding has once again been cut from that unnamed party but in turn ZLUDA is focusing on PhysX and better Windows support...
TLAC Aims To Be An Open-Source Alternative To Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Systems
It's not clear that any games have yet to deploy this open-source anti-cheat system but TLAC is a new open-source project that aims to provide a privacy-respecting alternative to kernel-level anti-cheat systems like Denuvo, Easy Anti-Cheat, and BattlEye...
RADV Enables Vulkan Descriptor Heap Support By Default
In time for the Mesa 26.2 stable release expected out in August, the Radeon RADV Vulkan driver is now exposing the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap descriptor heap support by default...
OpenAPV 0.3 Adds APV RAW Encoding/Decoding Support
OpenAPV, the Academy Software Foundation project that provides a reference implementation of the Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec is out with a new feature update...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 28th, 2026
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for June 28th, 2026, brings news about Steam Machine, Librem 16, KDE Plasma 6.7.1, GNU nano 9.1, COSMIC 1.1, KaOS Linux 2026.06, DXVK 3.0, Calibre 9.10, NVIDIA 580.173.02, Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 2, Shotcut 26.6, Linux 7.0 EOL, Shelly 2.4.1, Archinstall 4.4, CachyOS June ISO, and more.
Run a 30-year old version of GIMP on modern Linux via Flatpak
Every wondered what GIMP looked like in 1996, before GTK? Well, now you can. Developer balooii has packaged GIMP 0.54 as a Flatpak that runs on modern 64-bit Linux desktops with Wayland. It’s apparently the earliest version of the app with the source code still available to build. It’s not an official GIMP effort, but an enthusiast project hosted on the GNOME GitLab. It’s also something of a work-in-progress package of an ancient work-in-progress beta release, with the maintainer promising more plugins and tutorials in time. Before we get to the install bit, there is a bit of trivia-laden history […]