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Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days  The Register

AMD EPYC Turin With PCIe 5.0 Storage Shows Off Nice Gains On Linux 7.2  Phoronix

Earlier this week was an exciting look at Intel Xe3 graphics performance gains on Linux 7.2 with Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" hardware. On the other side of the table, with AMD hardware on this forthcoming kernel an area to be excited about are some I/O improvements at least for 5th Gen EPYC with speedy PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD storage.

Proton VPN's anti-censorship Stealth protocol finally lands on Linux  TechRadar

AMD is adding HDMI 2.1 support for Linux. That's good news for the Steam Machine.  GameDev.net

An enthusiast has built an unusual system based on Arch Linux and two Xeon processors.  GameGPU

Compile Here, Run Everywhere: Crosstool-Ng  Hackaday

Compile Here, Run Everywhere: Crosstool-Ng  Hackaday

Only one new Galaxy foldable supports Linux Terminal, and not everywhere  Android Authority

I replaced my default Linux terminal with this cross-platform one—and I'm not going back  How-To Geek

For helping to keep X11 clients running in a modern Linux desktop world with Wayland or even for running on macOS or Android, there is now yet-another option being developed with libx11-compat. The libx11-compat project is working to re-implement the Xlib client library atop SDL2/SDL3 interfaces for allow broad underlying platform coverage...

libx11-compat Is Working To Implement Xlib Atop SDL For Wayland, macOS, Android  Phoronix

Back in March Intel software engineers began sending out Linux patches for Directed Package-Level Thermal Interrupts as a new capability with recent Intel processors. This notable efficiency improvement is now queued for introduction in the Linux 7.3 cycle once its merge window opens in a month...

Intel Directed Package-Level Thermal Interrupts Slated For Linux 7.3  Phoronix

Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE sent out this week's batch of sound fixes that he describes as "A collection of fixes that have been accumulated recently. The amount is still "new normal", but all small fixes. Mostly hardware-specific quirks, but including a few core fixes, too." The "new normal" has been a common phrase recently to reflect the increased tempo of patches as well as security/bug disclosures all due to the increased pace of AI/LLM activity...

Following the launch of the 7-inch Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 and the 5-inch display variant, Raspberry Pi announced today the addition of a 10-inch model...

Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 10-Inch Model Launches  Phoronix

Server OS Market Share Statistics 2026 [Latest Data]  About Chromebooks

GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions  The Register

PlayStation 3 emulator adds support for ATI Radeon HD 2000, 3000, and 4000 series graphics cards on Linux — 20-year-old HD 2600 crumbles, can only run Portal at 13 fps in 273p  Tom's Hardware