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GNOME developers working on GNOME OS have received funding from Germany's Prototype Fund to work on creating the GNOME OS "Developer Tool Suite" or also tentatively called their "Test Center" to help in testing experimental applications/libraries in a modern Linux computing world with systemd-sysext, Buildstream, and other newer tech...

Stemming from looking at a proposed Linux kernel patch to alter the Linux kernel's system call number handling, veteran Linux kernel developer Thomas Gleixner went down a rabbit hole of the kernel's system call entry handling to make a number of clean-ups and improvements to the code. That rework to the system call entry handling is now expected to land for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle...

Raspberry Pi 5 IOMMU Driver Being Worked On For The Mainline Linux Kernel  Phoronix

While the Raspberry Pi 5 is already over two and a half years old, one of the missing elements of its support from the mainline Linux kernel has been the IOMMU driver. We are now seeing Raspberry Pi's downstream IOMMU driver being adapted for mainline with hopes of getting it into the upstream kernel...

Heavy Metal Death Can is a retro survival horror set on a Cold War–era submarine - now on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Cloud Hypervisor 53.0 is now available for this open-source, Rust-based VMM focused on cloud workloads and modern security needs. Originally started at Intel, Cloud Hypervisor continues seeing new development these days by Microsoft, Meta, Arm, and other organizations...

ChatGPT won’t fully recommend Steam OS – in fact it suggests another Linux distro  PC Guide

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OpenCode brings an AI coding agent right into your terminal. Once you see it understand an entire project instead of

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vkQuake 1.35.0 brings SDL3, Steam integration, support for the 2021 re-release and more  GamingOnLinux

AI Agent Discovers 15-Year-Old Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Bug Named GhostLock  gHacks

Linux 7.2 will now run even better on your Sega Dreamcast  XDA

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: July 12th, 2026  9to5Linux

Normal-looking Linux 7.2-rc3 lands with fixes for SEGA Dreamcast driver  Neowin

RDNA 2 received FSR 4.1 support on Linux earlier Windows  GameGPU

Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 28, 2026 (July 6 – 12)  Linuxiac

Linux 7.2-rc3 is now available for testing in working toward the stable Linux 7.2 kernel version coming up in August...

Linux 7.2-rc3 Released: Close To The "New Normal"  Phoronix

Similar to Linux 7.2 enabling Eswin SoC support by default in the RISC-V "defconfig" kernel build, UltraRISC RISC-V coverage is also now being enabled by default for RISC-V kernel builds in Linux 7.2...

Linux 7.2 Enabling UltraRISC RISC-V Support In The Default Kernel Build  Phoronix

DOOM: The Dark Ages | FSR4 INT8 RX6600 | Linux  YouTube