Linux NewsFirefox 153 Lands Vulkan Video Decode Support, Big Win for Linux NVIDIA Users
Firefox 153 lands a Vulkan Video decode path, giving NVIDIA Linux users a long-awaited route to GPU-assisted browser video playback.
Flatpak 1.18 Released With Integration For AMD ROCm
Flatpak 1.18 is out today for providing the latest improvements to this leading open-source app sandboxing and distribution tech...
Jona Azizaj – Why Mentorship at Flock Changes Everything!
Flock to Fedora is more than a conference – it’s where the Fedora community comes alive. As part of the CommitHistory campaign, we sat down with confirmed Flock 2026 speakers to hear their stories: what brought them to Fedora, what Flock means to them personally, and what they’re hoping for in Prague this June. This […]
Linux EFS File-System May Have New Maintainer - Or It Might Just Get Removed
An interesting quandary has arose on the Linux kernel mailing list over maintainership of old, unmaintained code within the Linux kernel. Someone has stepped up to maintain an old, very rare file-system driver but admittedly doesn't even use it and just submitted basic fixes. Or is it just better removing that old code?..
Vintage AMD R600 Graphics Driver Sees Code Cleanups Thanks To GitHub Copilot
As the discussions continue among developers over potentially branching off some of the older Mesa drivers, the AMD R600 Gallium3D driver saw 59 commits on Sunday to Mesa 26.2. Making this code restructuring and code cleaning all the more notable is that the improvements to this old AMD Radeon graphics driver was done in part by GitHub Copilot...
Last Call For The Phoronix 22nd Birthday Premium Special
As a friendly reminder, if you wanted to join Phoronix Premium at a discounted rate to show your support for the 22nd birthday of Phoronix.com during these difficult times in the web publishing space, that special is ending later today...
BeagleV Ahead & Lichee Pi 4a RISC-V Boards To See Working WiFi With Linux 7.2
In addition to the SpacemiT K1 and K3 RISC-V SoC Device Tree updates sent out last week, the RISC-V T-HEAD Device Tree "DT" changes were also sent out last week ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel merge window...
Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc7
The 7.1-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: "Anyway, as things look now this is the last rc. Something can obviously always come up and force us to change that, but please give rc7 a whirl and keep testing for one more week."
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 7th, 2026
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for June 7th, 2026, brings news about Ubuntu 26.10's new features, GNOME 50.2, Linux Lite 8.0, Transmission 4.1.2, Blender 5.2 LTS beta, Clonezilla Live 3.3.2, new Steam Client update, T2 Linux 26.6, Giada 1.4.2, COSMIC 1.0.15, Tails 7.8.1, KDE Gear 26.04.2, LibreOffice 26.2.4, Ardour 9.7, Armbian Imager 2.0, HandBrake 1.11.2, Shelly 2.3.2.2, and more.
Proton Drive is (finally) coming to Linux desktops
Proton has confirmed it is working on a Proton Drive client for Linux desktops. The announcement slipped out as part of a broader platform update. Proton has rebuilt Drive around a new shared SDK, with a single codebase powering its official apps on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and web (rather than separate implementations as before). It’s this unified approach that makes it easier for the Swiss-based company to add new features and integrations across all its official apps – and make an official client for Linux, which is being build on the SDK “from the ground up”, they say. Not […]
Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 23, 2026 (June 1 – 7)
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Linux Lite 8.0, KaOS 2026.06 RC, COSMIC 1.0.15, GNOME 50.2, Yay 12.6, XLibre Xserver 25.1.6, Ubuntu 26.10 to ship with GNOME 51, and more.
KaOS Takes Final Init Step Away from systemd with Dinit RC ISO
KaOS Dinit 2026.06 RC follows months of migration work, replacing systemd as init with a Dinit-based stack.
HandBrake fixes 2-pass encode crashes, WebM on Linux
A new version of HandBrake, the open-source and cross-platform media conversion tool, is available to download. HandBrake 1.11.2 is a maintenance update in the current 1.11.x stable release, which was released in March 2026 and added DNxHR and ProRes encoder support, and an AMD VCN AV1 10-bit encoder compatible with the company’s 9000 series GPUs and newer. This update is focused on fixes and finesse. A pair of bugs affecting 2-pass operations are resolved: a crash during 2-pass lossless x265 encodes, and a memory leak that occurred during 2-pass MPEG-4, MPEG-2, VP9 and FFV1 encodes. On Linux, HandBrake adds WebM […]
Linux 7.1-rc7 Released: Stable Hopefully Next Sunday
Last week Linux 7.1-rc6 was larger than Linus Torvalds wished for and for Linux 7.1-rc7 it has come in still heavier than typically seen this late in the cycle, but is shrinking and making Linus comfortable in hopefully releasing Linux 7.1 stable next Sunday...
HandBrake 1.11.2 Video Transcoder Adds WebM MIME Type Support on Linux
HandBrake 1.11.2 open-source video transcoder is now available for download with WebM MIME type support on Linux, improvements to Core Audio AAC encoder 7.1 channel layout, and bug fixes.