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Valve upgraded the SteamOS installation image to the big SteamOS 3.8 release  GamingOnLinux

Steam stable update brings Pipewire improvements for Linux, Remote Play upgrades and more  GamingOnLinux

Latest Steam Client Update Improves PipeWire Session Logic on Linux  9to5Linux

Chinese supercomputer using local processors heads TOP500 list  The Register

Fedora Governance Changes Take Effect as Project Refines Leadership, Policy, and Contributor Oversight  Linux Journal

Last week the main set of sched_ext changes were merged for Linux 7.2 that included continued work on sub-scheduler support. While Linus Torvalds didn't object to any of the features being worked on for this extensible scheduler framework that relies on user-space BPF programs, he was frustrated by the layout of the new C source files and remarked, "please don't do this disgusting thing...proper hierarchical filesystems have been available since 1965."..

"Disgusting" Linux sched_ext Source Code Restructured Following Complaint By Linus Torvalds  Phoronix

COSMIC 1.1 Desktop Environment Released with COSMIC Monitor and Improvements  9to5Linux

System76 today released COSMIC Epoch 1.1 as the newest feature release as well as being their first time bumping the minor version number since the December release of COSMIC 1.0...

Brave Gives Linux Users Its Stripped Down Origin Browser for Free  Linuxiac

3 ways the new Steam Machine could be a huge win for Linux  ZDNET

Lutris Setup: Run Windows Games on Linux in 12 Steps [2026]  tech-insider.org

I gave my Android a terminal, and it became my most capable computer  MakeUseOf

The 46-year-old BASIC09 programming language has new compiler support with a front-end having been developed for the LLVM compiler stack. BASIC09 was developed in 1980 for the Motorola 6809 CPU running with the OS-9 operating system. With this LLVM compiler front-end, you can write BASIC09 code for modern software and hardware...

Whatever happened to Ubuntu TV? Where Linux smart TVs are now  How-To Geek

Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Launch Agent Name Service to Establish Trusted Identity Infrastructure for AI Agents  Linux Foundation

Bazzite vs SteamOS vs ChimeraOS 2026: 8,637 Stars  tech-insider.org

While the Linux 7.2 merge window doesn't wrap up until this weekend as the feature cut-off for new material, I have already begun some early benchmarks of the code currently staged for this next version of the Linux kernel. Linux 7.2 already was looking quite exciting with cache aware scheduling and other exciting new features while an unexpected surprise in my early testing this week was seeing some local network/socket performance improvements...

Linux 7.2 Showing Some Unexpected & Nice Performance Gains On AMD EPYC Sorano  Phoronix

4K USB Camera for Windows and Linux Systems | Vadzo  ACCESS Newswire