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The open-source world waited long enough for the GIMP 3.0 release that finally came last year with its GTK3 port and more, but for those with time on their hands this weekend and want to relive GIMP's past from long ago, GIMP 0.54 has been adapted for Flatpak to work on modern Linux desktops. What makes this version of GIMP from 1996 notable is that it was the last to use the Motif toolkit...

GIMP v0.54 From 1996 With Motif Toolkit Now Flatpak'ed For Modern Linux Desktops  Phoronix

exFAT File-System Enjoys Better Performance On Linux 7.2 With IOmap Conversion  Phoronix

In addition to open-source developer Namjae Jeon serving as maintainer for the new NTFS Linux driver, he also continues serving as maintainer to the exFAT file-system for that other Microsoft file-system popular with removable storage media...

With KDE's Plasma 6.7 desktop having released this week, more development attention is turning to feature work toward Plasma 6.8 but there are also some fixes already accumulating for the Plasma 6.7.1 point release...

Proton Experimental gets fixes for The Division 2, METAL GEAR SOLID V, ARC Raiders and more  GamingOnLinux

Guncrypt is Halfbrick Studio's First PC Game, That Also Works on Linux  It's FOSS

NVIDIA JetPack 7.2 adds NemoClaw support, Yocto Project support, and AGX Orin 32GB Super Mode  LinuxGizmos.com

NVIDIA Open-Source Linux NVK Driver Gets Experimental DLSS Support  TechPowerUp

Happening back in Linux 7.1 was the "NTFS resurrection" with landing a new NTFS driver into the Linux kernel that had been years in the making and began as the former NTFS read-only kernel driver many years back before the stint of the Paragon NTFS3 driver in the Linux kernel. For Linux 7.2 that new/modern NTFS driver has seen more hardening work, some fixes, and Windows native symbolic links support...

Linux gamers have dealt with hidden input lag for years, and someone finally figured out why  XDA

With the code merged today to Mesa 26.2-devel, the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver is capable of handling Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) with modern game titles running on Linux / Steam Play...

Open-Source NVIDIA NVK Vulkan Driver Now Supports DLSS  Phoronix

Barco, the Europeean technology company that manufactures the AMD GPU based MXRT graphics cards for for multi-display medical imaging systems (and also MXRV for their NVIDIA based graphics cards), have to date only seen Windows drivers published for their professional-grade graphics cards even with using Radeon Pro derived GPUs. But a patch published today to the AMD graphics mailing list is opening the door for Linux support...

AMD-Powered Barco MXRT Graphics Cards Finally Seeing Linux Driver Support  Phoronix

Systemd 261 is out as stable today with a number of new features and ready to coincide with H2'2026 Linux distributions...

I tested 9 Arch-based Linux distros, here's how I rank them  How-To Geek

It looks like AMD's next-gen SoCs not only will be exciting on the CPU side with the much anticipated Zen 6 cores but the AMD Audio Co-Processor "ACP" IP looks to be going through some significant updates...

Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.10 Improves Wi-Fi SSID Handling and Accessibility  9to5Linux

The networking subsystem changes have been merged for Linux 7.2 with a lot happening around the core networking code as well as the many wired and wireless networking device drivers...