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Seeing new Linux patches for benefiting Sega Dreamcast devices wasn't on my bingo card for 2026. A patch series was sent out today for fixing the Linux kernel's GD-ROM driver for accessing media using the drivers on "real" Sega Dreamcast devices...

As a small but interesting addition coming for this quarter's Mesa 26.1 release is making it easy to simulate a GPU reset with the LLVMpipe software driver. While seemingly mundane, this can be quite handy for compositor developers and other app/software developers wanting to more easily test how their code behaves when encountering a GPU reset...

Arduino UNO Q Bundle for Linux, AI, and Real-Time Design  Elektor Magazine

Wine 11.6 just made modding Windows games on Linux easier, and Proton could be next  xda-developers.com

I replaced my entire Windows workflow with Linux apps — and only hit one wall  MakeUseOf

The best thing about modern Linux isn't the desktop, it's how easy it is to roll back your mistakes  XDA

Intel adds Wildcat Lake support to Linux NPU Driver  VideoCardz.com

With age verification/attestation laws down to the OS level enacted by California and being decided upon by other US states, it's been a hot topic of discussion in the open-source world. For the Debian project that is strictly volunteer/community-driven unlike various commercial Linux platforms, they are figuring out how such laws will impact them...

I disabled background startup apps on Linux, and everything felt lighter within a day  MakeUseOf

Ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.0-rc7 kernel release, this week's batch of input fixes were sent in and merged. Besides a few small input fixes are also some new device IDs and quirks for hardware now to be handled by Linux 7.0...

Razer Wolverine V3 Pro & Betop KP50 Controllers To Be Supported By Linux 7.0  Phoronix

I switched to Hyprland and now I get why Linux users are obsessed with it  MakeUseOf

A small but important patch that looks like it will be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel is for enumerating AVX-512 BMM support for KVM virtualized guests. AVX-512 BMM is one of the exciting ISA additions with next-gen AMD Zen 6 processors...

Wine 11.6 is an exciting release to make modding Windows games on Linux simpler  GamingOnLinux

I switched from sudo to doas and now my permission rules actually make sense  MakeUseOf

4 reasons I use screen instead of tmux on Linux  How-To Geek

An Amazon/AWS engineer raised the alarms on Friday over the current Linux 7.0 development kernel leading to the throughput for the PostgreSQL database server being around half that of prior kernel versions. The culprit halving the PostgreSQL performance is known but a revert looks like it may not happen and currently suggesting that PostgreSQL may need to be adapted...

These 10 open-source apps built Linux into what it is today  How-To Geek

AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Performance Halved By Linux 7.0, But A Fix May Not Be Easy  Phoronix

In addition to 3mdeb firmware engineers porting AMD openSIL and Coreboot to a Gigabyte EPYC Turin server motherboard, the staff at this firmware consulting company are also porting AMD openSIL and Coreboot to a modern Ryzen AM5 desktop motherboard. They continue making good strides with that quest for the first readily-available Ryzen desktop motherboard with open-source system firmware...