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The FEX Emulator that allows running Linux x86/x86_64 software on ARM64 (AArch64) systems, including the likes of Wine / Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for Windows gaming on ARM, is out with its newest monthly feature release. The Valve-backed project for running x86_64 games and other software on ARM for the upcoming Steam Frame and other more typical ARM Linux systems has been baking more optimizations and improvements...

Everyone forgot about these 6 Linux desktops, but they might be better than what you use now  MakeUseOf

System76 Adder Pro brings RTX 5070 graphics to a 1.53 kg Linux laptop  VideoCardz.com

WSL keeps getting better, and it's because Microsoft is finally admitting where developers want to be  XDA

A set of patches to the Linux kernel's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) scheduler that is shared among different kernel graphics drivers is showing the potential of delivering much lower job submission latency when the system is loaded with many runnable CPU processes...

My favorite Linux app didn’t exist on Windows—so I built a better one with Claude  How-To Geek

Bad Epoll: Kernel Race Bug Beats AI Auditing, Hits 99% Root Exploit Rate  Tech Times

The DenuvOwO team has begun searching for benchmarks to bypass Denuvo on Linux.  GameGPU

One area of Linux hardware testing I haven't explored much in many years has been modern USB video capture for the lack of said hardware. The last time I did much video capturing on Linux was during the Hauppauge PCI card days. It turns out though that USB video capture of 4K 60 FPS content has been a pain point under Linux but is finally smoothing out with newer versions of the Linux kernel...

4K @ 60 FPS USB Video Capture Finally Becomes Less Problematic On Linux  Phoronix

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Added to the Wayland Protocols repository back in May of 2025 was the ext-background-effect-v1 protocol for background blur that had been under discussion since early 2024. The initial focus is on being able to apply a blur effect on a window's background or otherwise a specified screen region. GNOME 51 has now merged support for ext-background-effect-v1 with the latest Mutter code...

Why I stopped installing apps the traditional Linux way  How-To Geek

In addition to this week's drm-intel-next pull request beginning to lay out the Intel kernel graphics driver changes for Linux 7.3, the first drm-xe-next pull request was sent out on Friday. Intel Nova Lake enablement remains the hot area for the Intel GPU driver code...

Linux 7.3 Adding More Graphics PCI IDs For Intel Nova Lake S  Phoronix

A post merge-window change that landed in Linux Git overnight ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.2-rc2 release is bumping the default limit on the number of supported CPU cores for RISC-V 64-bit. Now by default Linux will support up to 256 cores with RISC-V 64-bit kernel builds...

Linux 7.2-rc2 Raising The Default RISC-V 64-bit CPU Limit To 256 Cores  Phoronix

Along with releasing Plasma 6.7.2 this week, KDE developers continue to be quite busy working on new features and improvements for the Plasma 6.8 release while also furthering along fixes for future Plasma 6.7 point releases...

Building A Wireless Fingerprint Authorization Device  Hackaday

New "Bad Epoll" 0-Day Vulnerability Allows Root Access on Linux Servers and Android Devices  CyberSecurityNews