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Modder turns a PS5 into a Linux Steam Machine, runs GTA V with ray tracing  TechSpot

AMD's GAIA open-source framework for building AI agents that run locally on Ryzen AI hardware via the Radeon iGPUs and/or NPUs is up to version 0.16. With this new GAIA release is support for developing AI agents purely in C++ with no longer needing to depend upon Python...

This is the best Linux distro for creative Windows refugees  How-To Geek

The effort around improving FreeBSD on laptops continues full speed ahead in 2026. The upcoming FreeBSD 15.1 remains on track with not only having a KDE desktop option from FreeBSD's text-based installer UI but also improved Realtek WiFi adapter support is on the way, updating of the graphics drivers from Linux, and more...

Resurrecting a grubby 10 year-old laptop that Windows 11 left behind  PC Gamer

Maui.Gtk is a new open-source project providing a GTK4 Linux back-end for Microsoft's .NET MAUI...

New Maui.Gtk Project Provides A GTK4 Backend For Microsoft's .NET MAUI  Phoronix

In addition to the 3mdeb firmware consulting firm porting Coreboot with AMD openSIL to an EPYC 9005 "Turin" Gigabyte motherboard, their developers have also been working on a similar Coreboot + openSIL port to an AM5 Ryzen consumer motherboard...

Linux has an identity crisis—and it's holding back desktop PCs  How-To Geek

Resources, the modern GNOME GTK4/libadwaita-based GUI application for system resource monitoring and an alternative to GNOME System Monitor, is out with a new update. Resources 1.10.2 brings some nice improvements for those running GNOME on modern Intel hardware...

Someone got Linux working on the PS5, and it runs GTA 5 with ray tracing  XDA

Modder Turns PS5 Into a Linux-Based Steam Machine  TechEBlog -

Remotely Unlocking An Encrypted Hard Disk  Hackaday

Nate Graham and John Veness are out today with the newest issue of This Week in Plasma. Notable for KDE Plasma 6.6.x~6.7 development this week were a lot of bug fixing -- including multiple crash fixes -- and some UI polishing too...

Modder turns PlayStation 5 into Linux gaming PC, runs GTA 5  VideoCardz.com

A modder has successfully ported Linux to the PS5, running GTA 5 Enhanced with ray tracing  Notebookcheck

Wine 11.4 is out today as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software that powers Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and allows for Windows games and applications to run on Linux and macOS...

Ahead of the GNOME 50 desktop release coming up in less than two weeks, GTK 4.22 is out today as the newest stable version of the GTK4 toolkit...

A pull request sent out today and already merged to Linux Git ahead of Sunday's Linux 7.0-rc3 has some new hardware driver support additions for the likes of ASUS, HP, Dell, and OneXPlayer...

New ASUS, Dell & OneXPlayer Hardware Support In Linux 7.0-rc3  Phoronix