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Arch Linux Freezes AUR Adoption: Tor-Backed Rust Infostealer Bypasses June Defenses in Third Wave  Tech Times

NetBSD 11.0 officially shipped today as the nineteenth major release of this popular BSD operating system...

NetBSD 11.0 Released With RISC-V Support, Enhanced Linux System Call Compatibility  Phoronix

I refuse to pay Microsoft for these 7 features that Linux offers for free  How-To Geek

COSMIC is doing what GNOME still can't, and it's only been out for a year  XDA

Arch Linux July ISO Is Out with Linux Kernel 7.1.5  Linuxiac

First Arch Linux ISO Powered by Linux Kernel 7.1 Is Now Available for Download  9to5Linux

Last month on Phoronix there were 257 original Linux/open-source related news articles and another 20 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Following the recent 22nd birthday of Phoronix.com, this puts the overall tally at nearly 51k original news articles and more than 5,600 Linux hardware reviews. Here is a look back at what readers found most exciting during the course of July...

AMD Prepares Linux Driver Support For RDNA 5 GPUs With New DCN6 Display Engine Patches  Wccftech

AMD RDNA5 Linux patches reveal DCN6 display engine and GFX13 link  VideoCardz.com

Arch Linux developer, security team member, AUR maintainer, and package maintainer Morten Linderud "Foxboron" announced today he is resigning from the project...

Prominent Arch Linux Developer Resigns After 10 Year Run  Phoronix

Merged ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.2-rc6 kernel test release are several ATA fixes that include a number of device-specific workarounds for some Western Digital SATA drives that have been failing to work on recent versions of the Linux kernel...

Linux 7.2-rc6 Working Around Several Buggy Western Digital SATA Drives  Phoronix

GNOME developers were quite busy in closing out the month of July from continued work on establishing a formal Request For Comments (RFC) process for the project to battling the continued flood of AI-generated GNOME Shell extensions...

It's been a very exciting week in the KDE Plasma 6.8 development space particularly thanks to performance work on bettering KWin's multi-GPU / external GPU handling...

If the recent release of the GNU C Library glibc 2.44 is too big for your embedded use-cases, Keith Packard continues hacking on Picolibc as his embedded-focused C library. Released overnight was Picolibc 1.8.12 with a variety of improvements for this embedded libc...

Starling is a new Linux desktop built using AI in six months  OMG! Ubuntu

AMD FPGA Tools 2026.1 Install on Ubuntu  Hackster.io

GTA V Enhanced Performance Comparison on Linux and Windows  GameGPU