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Vitalik Buterin Says Ethereum Should Become Civilization Infrastructure Like Linux  ICOBench.com

Steam Frame and Steam Machine will be another good boost for Flatpaks and desktop Linux overall too  GamingOnLinux

There is another open-source Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV) improvement to look forward to in the upcoming Mesa 26.0 release that was worked on by one of Valve's Linux graphics driver developers...

The QEMU emulator already deprecated 32-bit host CPU support while for the QEMU 11.0 release this year they could eliminate the 32-bit host support for good...

Linux 6.19-rc5 To Fix Broken Nouveau Driver With Newer NVIDIA GPUs  Phoronix

Now past the end-of-year holidays, this round of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) fixes for the in-development Linux 6.19 are a bit more meaningful following those light holiday weeks. Sent out today were the DRM fixes for Linux 6.19-rc5 that includes a fix for broken support for newer NVIDIA GPUs on the Nouveau open-source driver...

loss32 Wants to Turn Linux Into a Full Win32 Desktop Powered by WINE  Linuxiac

Valve released the SteamOS 3.7.20 beta overnight and with it they are finally building the NTSYNC kernel driver for helping accelerate Windows NT synchronization primitives...

Latest SteamOS Beta Now Includes NTSYNC Kernel Driver  Phoronix

The latest work by Qualcomm on the RISC-V CPU architecture is sending out their first non-RFC patch series for enabling Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) support by making use of the RISC-V RERI specification. This RISC-V RAS support is useful for conveying hardware errors to users and will be especially important with future RISC-V Linux servers...

Qualcomm Sends Out Linux Patches For RAS Support On RISC-V For Reporting Hardware Errors  Phoronix

How to Tar Compress Files in Linux  commandlinux.com

Why Ethereum Mirrors BitTorrent Scale and Linux Trust?  Altcoin Buzz

Linux In ML And AI Infrastructure Statistics In 2026  commandlinux.com

After testing over 125,000 Linux bugs, one researcher found the average one takes over two years to be fixed  PC Gamer

GeForce NOW comes to Linux, Amazon Fire TV, adds flight stick support, and more at CES 2026  TweakTown

This lightweight distro loaded with apps is not your father's GNU/Linux - here's why  ZDNET

How Flatpaks & Open Source Make Steam Frame A Linux Playground  UploadVR

Canonical is making it easier for ARM64 Ubuntu users like those on the NVIDIA DGX Spark to do a bit of gaming with Steam. Canonical engineers have assembled a Steam Snap for 64-bit ARM that comes complete with the FEX emulator for running Windows/Linux x86-based games on ARM64 Linux...

Canonical Builds Steam Snap For Ubuntu ARM64 Leveraging FEX  Phoronix