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While the Asahi Linux project has faced some setbacks, such as most recently with Alyssa Rosenzweig leaving the project and still working to bring-up M3/M4 support, the upstreaming effort by Asahi Linux developers to get their changes to the upstream Linux kernel continues...

Apple M2 Pro / Max / Ultra Device Trees Under Review For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list was the patch series for introducing the AMD ISP4 driver to the mainline kernel. This supports the image signal processor IP that to date is found with HP's Strix Halo powered ZBook Ultra G1a laptop. With time, future AMD Ryzen laptops will also likely be leveraging this ISP technology for offloading more webcamera work from the CPU, but for now the HP ZBook Ultra G1a is the main beneficiary of this open-source driver...

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is out now and Steam Deck Unsupported but SteamOS Compatible  GamingOnLinux

AMD ISP4 Driver Updated As It Nears The Mainline Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Gears of War: Reloaded is out now and works well on Linux and Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

The newest monthly snapshot of Ubuntu 25.10 is now available for testing and is the final planned monthly snapshot prior to the October release of the Questing Quokka...

The newest feature addition for Mesa 25.3 is enabling support 8x multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) within the LLVMpipe software rasterizer...

Qatar’s growing footprint in Africa  The Long War Journal

Quartet is a fresh retro-styled RPG out now with Linux and Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux

Omarchy 2.0 : Linux OS Designed for Developers and Creators in 2025  Geeky Gadgets

Microsoft's DocumentDB Finds New Home with Linux Foundation  It's FOSS News

The popular Linux distro CachyOS has a big upgrade and some fun stuff for gamers  GamingOnLinux

This $20 device fixed all my RGB lighting woes on Linux  xda-developers.com

7 Things I Wish I Knew Before Getting Into the Linux Terminal  How-To Geek

While Linus Torvalds doesn't too often like new kernel options being enabled by default, one area where it has proven beneficial and otherwise an oversight by those configuring their own kernel builds is the architecture-optimized crypto algorithm implementations. Some will enable support for different kernel crypto algorithms only to forget or be unaware that there are CPU architecture specific implementations that can also typically be enabled for much better performance over the common code. Google engineer Eric Biggers has been cleaning this up and BLAKE2s is the latest receiving treatment...

Pi Network Price Forecast: Pi rebounds as core team drops Linux version  Mitrade

Pi Network Price Forecast: Pi rebounds as core team drops Linux version  FXStreet

Ahead of the upcoming SUSE Linux Enterprise 16.0 release, SUSE engineers are busy finishing up work on their new "Agama" operating system installer. Agama 17 is now available as what will be the installer powering SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 installations or a version very similar to this latest milestone...

Agama 17 OS Installer Preps For SUSE Linux Enterprise 16.0  Phoronix