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Back in May the FFmpeg project introduced Vulkan-accelerated decoding for the APV video format. The Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec was being handled using Vulkan shaders in a similar way to how FFmpeg implemented Vulkan acceleration for Apple ProRes. Now there is Vulkan-accelerated APV encoding too...

Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst has landed his latest optimization work to Rusticl in Mesa 26.2. The latest effort for this Rust-based OpenCL driver that works across Gallium3D drivers is around better hardware utilization...

A new release of libjxl is now available for this reference implementation of the JPEG-XL image format, including both image encode and decode support...

Erin Catto who has been developing the Box2D 2D physics engine for games announced the release of Box3D. Box3D is now providing a new open-source 3D physics engine that is forked off from the Box2D code...

KDE Gear 26.04.3 Released as the Last Update in the KDE Gear 26.04 Series  9to5Linux

WSL Gets Its Own Linux Container Runtime with Docker-Like Commands  Linuxiac

Steam Survey - June 2026 shows Linux dip to 3.69%  GamingOnLinux

Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 4 ISO Files on GitHub for Local Testing  gHacks

Linux App Release Roundup (June 2026)  OMG! Ubuntu

Linux Foundation, tech giants Launch 'Akrites' to unify open-source security for AI  Escudo Digital

SUSE Linux Kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities  Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre

Ubuntu Linux Kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities  Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre

RedHat Linux Kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities  Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre

Stemming from the widely varying views over the recent Fedora proposal for an "AI Developer Desktop" catering to running local AI and machine learning workloads in pre-configured environments with a seamless hardware-accelerated experience, the Fedora Council issued a statement this evening to effectively shutdown discussions for now over a Fedora AI Developer Desktop and to pause the Fedora Community Initiatives process...

Back in March Steam on Linux use shot up to 5.33% as a big 3.1% improvement over February. In April it dropped to 4.52% and then fell to 3.99% in May. Valve just published the Steam Survey numbers for June and it points to another minor setback from the recent all-time high of Steam on Linux...

Steam On Linux Usage Receded A Bit In June  Phoronix

I built a Linux container on Windows 11 without Docker Desktop, and Docker users should pay attention  Windows Latest

System76 Debuts 2026 Lemur Pro with 18-Hour Battery Life and Wi-Fi 7  Linuxiac

Lilbits: Asahi Linux release fix for booting Linux on macOS 27, Surface Go is going away, and Sony announces plans to stop making PlayStation game discs  Liliputing

With the start of the new month comes a new progress report on the KDE Linux distribution for the prior month. Even with KDE developers being busy to ship Plasma 6.7 in June, they still accomplished a lot when it comes to KDE Linux...