Linux NewsI fed Claude my Steam game configs and found performance tweaks I didn't know existed
I was having some performance issues on a few of my Steam games. So I fed their config files to Claude and it came up with some helpful fixes.
[$] Reports from OSPM 2026, day one
The Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel Summit, which still goes by the historical acronym OSPM, was held in Cambridge, UK, in mid-April. As has become traditional, the presenters at that event have since written summaries of their sessions, and this work has kindly been made available to LWN for publication. The first day's sessions covered a wide range of topics, including idle-state selection, user-space schedulers with sched_ext, lock-holder preemption, and much more.
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds:1.4, kernel, and kernel-rt), Debian (gst-libav1.0, gst-plugins-good1.0, imagemagick, kernel, libconfig-inifiles-perl, libgd-perl, libhttp-daemon-perl, mediawiki, pillow, and squid), Fedora (389-ds-base, alertmanager, ansible-core, buildah, chromium, erlang-cowboy, erlang-cowlib, erlang-gun, freerdp, kubernetes1.33, kubernetes1.34, kubernetes1.35, mingw-SDL2_image, ongres-scram, ongres-stringprep, openssl, perl-Config-IniFiles, perl-Crypt-PBKDF2, podman, postgresql-jdbc, python3.13, strongswan, webkitgtk, xdg-desktop-portal, and yt-dlp), Red Hat (osbuild-composer), SUSE (alloy, amazon-ssm-agent, ansible-core, apache-sshd, jpgpj, azure-storage-azcopy, chromedriver, containerized-data-importer, firefox, glibc, graphite2, inspektor-gadget, kubevirt, lemon, openvswitch, python-starlette, python311, python311-joserfc, python313, and tinyproxy), and Ubuntu (netatalk).
This Linux distro finally makes switching from Windows feel natural
Zorin OS makes Linux feel familiar enough for Windows users to try it without feeling like they have to relearn their computer.
Benchmarking Bcachefs 1.38.6: The First Release No Longer "Experimental"
Released last week was Bcachefs 1.38.6 with a host of performance improvements to this out-of-tree, copy-on-write file-system. Given all the performance improvements and this being the first release since Kent Overstreet dropped the "experimental" flag on the file-system, I decided to fire up some benchmarks looking at how the Bcachefs file-system performance has changed with this new version.
Xfce Wayland Compositor Sees First Preview/Alpha Release
Over the past half-year, Xfwl4 has been developed as a Wayland compositor for the Xfce desktop environment. Released this weekend was the first preview release of Xfwl4 in alpha form...
Discover the game-changing Docker containers revolutionizing work and creativity
Uncover the top Docker containers transforming productivity and self-hosting. Learn how these game-changing tools are revolutionizing work and creativity.
Linux Finally Lands Battery/Charger Driver For 14 Year Old Microsoft Surface RT Tablet
It's been 14 years already since Microsoft announced the Surface RT hybrid tablet as their first-generation Surface device for going up against the Apple iPad. All these years later, this NVIDIA Tegra 3 powered device is finally seeing a mainline Linux kernel driver for supporting battery and charger status...
Xfce’s Wayland Compositor Gets Its First Preview Release
Xfce’s new Wayland compositor, xfwl4, reaches its first preview release and is now ready for wider alpha testing.
AMD Updates ROCDXG To Deliver Better ROCm Experience On WSL
Back in March AMD introduced ROCDXG to improve their Windows Subsystem for Linux support. This improved Windows Subsystem for Linux "WSL" support with the ROCm compute stack is a cleaneer architecture, open-source compared to their legacy WSL code having closed bits, and more robust handling. Today they issued a new ROCDXG library release to further enhance their WSL support...
Miracle-WM Mir-Based Wayland Compositor Aiming For v1.0 Later This Year
Miracle-WM 0.10 released on Sunday as the newest feature release for this Mir-based Wayland compositor. With this new release is also acknowledgement they are hoping to cross the "1.0" milestone later in the year...
Valve Creates The Ray-Tracing Inspector "RTI" To Help Further Optimize Linux GPU Drivers
Merged today to Mesa 26.1 is the Ray-Tracing Inspector "RTI" as a new GUI created by developers on Valve's open-source Linux graphics team. The Ray-Tracing Inspector is designed to help in analyzing and optimizing the Vulkan ray-tracing performance as part of their continued work on further bettering the Radeon RADV RT performance for Steam Play / Linux gaming...
OneXPlayer Configuration Driver Merged For Linux 7.2 Along With Other New Hardware
The HID subsystem updates have landed in the Linux 7.2 kernel with some treats that will excite Linux gamers and other desktop users...
Linux 7.2 sched_ext Continues Working Toward Sub-Scheduler Support
Merged last week for the Linux 7.2 kernel were all of the sched_ext changes for this extensible scheduler support that allows loading BPF programs from user-space for handling scheduling tasks. Linux 7.2 continues building out sched_ext's sub-scheduler support...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 21st, 2026
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for June 21st, 2026, brings news about KDE Plasma 6.7, postmarketOS 26.06, Firefox 152, SparkyLinux 2026.06, Darktable 5.6, VirtualBox 7.2.10, GNU Linux-lbre 7.1, Qt Creator 20, Giada 1.5, Thunderbird 152, PorteuX 2.7, NVIDIA 595.84, PipeWire 1.6.7, Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.10, Shelly 2.4, and more.