Linux NewsNVIDIA 610.57.04 Linux Driver Delivers Many Fixes
NVIDIA is kicking off the new month by releasing an updated R610 Linux driver build with quite a number of bug fixes...
Linux 7.3 Expected To Drop The FreeVxFS File-System Driver
It looks like Linux 7.3 will end up dropping FreeVxFS as the read-only Linux kernel driver for the Veritas VxFS file-ssytem used formerly by HP-UX and SCO UnixWare...
KGamma2 Makes For Easy Gamma Adjustments On KDE Plasma With Wayland
KDE developer David Edmundson announced today his KGamma2 tool in aiming to address a pain point for KDE Plasma desktop users on Wayland...
GNOME Mutter 51 Beta Released With Wayland Background Blur, Improved Frame Scheduling
Released overnight on Sunday were the beta versions of Mutter 51 and GNOME Shell 51. This follows GNOME 51 embarking on itsAPI/ABI freeze, feature freeze, and UI freeze a day earlier...
KDE Linux Making For Easier First-Run Experience Of Java & DOS Apps
With July all wrapped up, the monthly status report is now published for KDE Linux as the in-house Linux distribution featuring all of the latest KDE wares and other open-source innovations...
Linux 7.3 Adding Support For MCTP-Over-USB v1.1
Within the Linux networking subsystem's "net-next" Git branch there is now queued up support for MCTP-over-USB v1.1. This is the newest version of the standard for sending Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) packets over USB for tasks loike crash dumps, logging, and firmware updates...
Linux 7.3 To Support Realtek RTL8261C & RTL8261D
Queued into net-next ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window is adding support for the Realtek RTL8261C and RTL8261D 10 Gigabit PHYs that launched last year...
AerynOS Issues First Development Update & New ISOs In Three Months
It's been just over three months since the last AerynOS development update and new ISO spin but fortunately that's been succeeded today by a new development update and ISO images. AerynOS development remains strong and ongoing with many changes to be found in this latest from-scratch Linux distribution release...
Linux 7.2-rc6 Released: "This RC Is Huge"
Like clockwork, the Linux 7.2-rc6 kernel is now available for testing in working toward the stable Linux 7.2 kernel in hopefully two week's time...
Linux 7.3 To Begin Laying The Groundwork For Intel Starfire
Intel recently announced Starfire as their new Panther Lake derived, space-grade SoC designed for extreme environments... like survivability in space. With the Linux 7.3, we are going to begin seeing the first Intel Starfire specific patches land in the kernel...
Linux 7.3 To Support The Qualcomm Adreno 704 & Adreno 722 GPUs
Sent out on Saturday were the Qualcomm MSM DRM kernel graphics/display driver updates to land for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window...
Ubuntu Touch Making Progress Toward Ubuntu 26.04, Vulkan & App Updates
Following last week's release of Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 for this community-maintained, mobile flavor of Ubuntu Linux, more details are now available on their upcoming development efforts and eventual transition to an Ubuntu 26.04 base...
Linux 7.2-rc6 Fixes Some AMD Zen 5 CPUs Being Mistakenly Identified As Zen 6
Today's batch of x86 fixes for the kernel ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc6 release later in the day addresses some AMD Zen 5 processors mistakenly being classified as Zen 6...
Box64 v0.4.4 Released With New Box64-Configurator App
Box64 0.4.4 released today as the newest version of this open-source user-space Linux x86_64 emulator for running binaries on 64-bit ARM, RISC-V, and LoongArch systems...
Steam On Linux Use Back Above 4% In July
Valve just published the Steam Survey results for July 2026 and point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use...