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Mesa 25.3.3 shipped on Thursday as the newest stable point release for Q4's Mesa 25.3 feature series. Now being into the new quarter, we have Mesa 26.0 to look forward to as stable likely by late February, but for now Mesa 25.3.3 is the latest and greatest stable version...

AMD and Steam Deck continue to drive Linux gaming adoption on Steam  Neowin

Quickemu: Simplify VM Creation on Windows, macOS, Linux  WebProNews

Back in November Steam on Linux use hit an all-time high at 3.2%. With the still increasing popularity around the Steam Deck powered by the Arch Linux based SteamOS, Linux gaming continuing to grow thanks to Steam Play (Proton), and excitement around the upcoming Steam Frame and Steam Machine hardware, the Linux gaming outlook continues to be positive. The Steam Survey results for December 2025 are out tonight and with just a tiny dip to Linux use...

Steam On Linux Ends 2025 With 3.19% Marketshare, AMD Linux CPU Use Approaches 72%  Phoronix

Released back in November was Devuan 6.0 for Debian 13 without systemd dependence in order to provide "init freedom" with letting users instead opt for SysVinit, OpenRC, or Runit as the init system. Devuan 6.1 is out today as the newest stable point release...

Devuan 6.1 Released For Latest Debian 13 "Init Freedom" Without systemd  Phoronix

As a wonderful New Year surprise, there's good momentum on NVIDIA graphics support for the BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system...

NVIDIA Graphics On Haiku OS Make Progress With NVIDIA Open Kernel Modules + NVK/Zink  Phoronix

After looking yesterday at the most viewed Linux hardware reviews and benchmarks of 2025, today's look is at the most popular open-source/Linux news of the past year. There were 3,286 original news articles on Phoronix during 2025 written by your's truly, here's a look back at what excited readers the most over these past twelve months...

The ReactOS free software project is turning 30 this year and its "open-source Windows" OS ambitions remain. They are starting out this year with another "major step" towards Windows NT 6.0 compatibility...

MocaccinoOS Is a More User-Friendly Version of Gentoo Linux  The New Stack

These are the 5 most beautiful Linux distros  How-To Geek

For fans of the IceWM X11 window manager, the project kicked off 2026 by releasing IceWM 4.0...

WinBoat is an open source tool that lets you seamlessly run Windows applications on Linux.  GIGAZINE

I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop  Yahoo! Tech

I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop  PC Gamer

Arch Linux Kicks Off 2026 with New ISO Powered by Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS  9to5Linux

Kicking off the new year for Linux gaming and cross-platform gaming at large is the release of the SDL 3.4 library. SDL is part of the Steam runtime and continues to be widely-used for abstracting software/hardware for creating more portable games and other applications...

SDL 3.4 Released With Many New APIs, Better Emscripten & Native PNG Support  Phoronix