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For those that prefer waiting until the first bug-fix/point release before upgrading to a major new feature series, GCC 16.2 is being planned for an early August release for delivering back-ported bug fixes to the GCC 16 compiler...

The Asahi Linux project published a new blog post outlining recent development efforts in getting Apple Silicon hardware working with their downstream Linux distribution. There is ongoing work on bringing up Apple M3 support, fixing boot support for macOS 27 beta systems, Apple Video Decoder (AVD) support progress, and more...

Last month on Phoronix there were 294 original news articles and 18 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Beyond Phoronix.com turning 22 years old in June, there were also a lot of exciting Linux hardware and open-source software developments worth recapping...

With modern laptops, proper platform/WMI drivers are becoming more depended upon not only for supporting all typical functionality from keyboards to backlights and other handling, but also for achieving proper performance. For many laptop vendors, the Linux platform drivers are maintained by the open-source community and actual customers. The latest example of the challenges of the community-maintained support rather than from the vendor is with the ASUS ROG Strix G16 G614PR gaming laptop seeing inappropriate power values set in the open-source driver that were incorrect and led to lower power/performance than Windows...

ASUS ROG Strix Laptop Sees Driver Fix For Linux Performance Too Low Compared To Windows  Phoronix

I tuned my GPU on Linux with an app that does what Windows won't  MakeUseOf

Asahi Linux Fixes Booting With macOS 27, Progress On M3 & Apple Video Decode  Phoronix

NVIDIA engineers have been developing a new binary format for their GPU firmware images for use with the in-development, open-source Nova kernel driver. With this new TLV binary firmware format it aims to be easier to parse by their Rust-based driver code...

Kali Linux 2026.2 Released With 9 New Tools, GNOME 50, and Kernel 6.19  gHacks

Diablo IV - Season 14 broke the game on Linux / SteamOS - Blizzard working on a fix  GamingOnLinux

The post Set Up a Local Caching DNS Resolver with Unbound on Rocky Linux 10 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Every time your server needs to look up a domain name, it sends a DNS request to another DNS resolver.

The post Set Up a Local Caching DNS Resolver with Unbound on Rocky Linux 10 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

AMD's new CPU core type just got unlocked on Linux before it was even announced  XDA

A new Linux driver gets us one step closer to daily driving the OS on an M3 MacBook  XDA

Claude Desktop for Linux: Anthropic Launches the Official Beta  Basic Tutorials

Kali Linux 2026.2: Nine New Tools, 3x Faster VM Boots, and a Kernel Security Tradeoff  Tech Times

WSL containers are here, bringing Linux development straight into Windows without extra tools  XDA

As the last planned article on Phoronix of Q2, here is a look back at what excited readers the most in the second quarter. There were 872 original news articles this quarter as well as 54 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles. Here is what excited readers the most over these past three months...

Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) Now Supports Oracle Linux 9  Oracle Blogs

CachyOS June 2026 ISO Released with Hyprland Noctalia, Faster Performance, and Smarter System Tools  Linux Journal

Linux for Sega Genesis  Boing Boing