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The original DisplayLink USB display adapters were great for working with an upstream, open-source driver while sadly the newer DisplayLink tech has been limited to an out-of-tree driver and proprietary user-space daemon. But posted today is an experimental "Vino" driver that is a clean-room, reverse-engineered driver for newer DisplayLink hardware...

NVIDIA 595.84 released as the new Recommended Driver for Linux  GamingOnLinux

Fortnite on Steam Deck? Epic Games Hires To Expand EAC Support for Linux  TechPowerUp

Linux Foundation Launches Appia Foundation to Establish Standardized Conformity Specifications Across the AI Value Chain  Yahoo Finance Singapore

6 distros that prove Linux is the future of desktop PCs  How-To Geek

Epic Games announced today they have created a new version control system that is now open-source as Lore. Given the proliferation and excellence of Git, you may be wondering why Epic Games is pursuing another VCS option... They are specifically catering Lore to games and entertainment purposes with large file sizes...

Intel Core Ultra X7 Panther Lake Performance On Linux 7.1  Phoronix

After recently noting the Intel Arc B580 Battlemage performance improving with Linux 7.1 and similarly finding performance gains for the Arc Pro B70 on Linux 7.1, several Phoronix readers have been wondering whether the newer Xe3 graphics with Panther Lake similarly benefit. Here are some CPU and iGPU benchmarks of the Core Ultra X7 358H "Panther Lake" SoC between Linux 7.0 and the recently stabilized Linux 7.1 kernel.

RTX 5070 Ti Performance Comparison Gothic 1 Remake on Linux and Windows  GameGPU

Earlier this month plans were shared publicly of Ubuntu 26.10 aiming to build a context-aware desktop with local AI features and one of the first capabilities to be integrated speech-to-text support. Now we have more details on the speech-to-text plans with Canonical announcing the Myna project...

Homebrew 6.0 released with new security mechanism, Linux sandbox and more  The Register

4 reasons CLI apps are better than GUI alternatives on Linux  How-To Geek

Anbernic RG Vita Pro: Linux update brings new themes and features  Notebookcheck

The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display and accelerator driver changes have been merged for Linux 7.2. The Linux 7.2 DRM merge is headlined by the long-awaited HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link (FRL) support for the AMDGPU open-source driver as part of the larger effort of finally proceeding with a full HDMI 2.1 implementation for this AMD Radeon Linux driver...

Initial AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL Support Successfully Merged For Linux 7.2  Phoronix

ARC Raiders Denuvo Update Breaks Linux Compatibility - SDHQ  Steam Deck HQ

The 5 Linux distros you should never run on an old PC  How-To Geek

Windows and Linux users: The deadline to update Secure Boot keys is near  Ars Technica

Qt Creator 20 Open-Source IDE Released with AI Support, New Zen Mode  9to5Linux

The Qt Creator integrated development environment focused on Qt/C++ programming is out today with Qt Creator 20 and this new version is headlined by adding AI agent support...