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3 Game-Changing Linux Apps to Try This Month (August 2025)  How-To Geek

Vulkan 1.4.324 is out today as the first Vulkan API specification update in two weeks with a variety of clarifications/corrections plus a new extension from AMD...

Following the recent Intel driver being orphaned due to layoffs at the company and other Intel Linux engineering changes due to the ongoing restructuring at the company, for the Linux 6.17 kernel there are some additional Intel driver maintainer changes spotted...

More Intel Driver Maintainer Changes In Linux 6.17  Phoronix

Free and open source 2D graphics editor PixiEditor 2.0 out now with Linux support  GamingOnLinux

Lossless Scaling Frame Generation for Linux hits 1.0 with a new UI making it easier than ever  GamingOnLinux

Linux Foundation Launches AGNTCY Project to Standardize Open Multi-Agent System Infrastructure and Break Down AI Agent Silos  ARC Advisory

Developer of PlayStation 1 emulator DuckStation threatens "removing Linux support entirely" but not yet  GamingOnLinux

Arch Linux Users at Risk Again as AUR Hit by Another RAT  It's FOSS News

Battlefield 6 will be a unplayable on Linux systems due to the anti-cheat  GamingOnLinux

Intel IPU7 Driver Merged For Linux 6.17 For Webcams On Lunar Lake & Panther Lake Laptops  Phoronix

The media subsystem updates were submitted and subsequently merged on Thursday for the ongoing Linux 6.17 merge window. There are several notable media changes for Linux 6.17 but arguably most prominent is the IPU7 driver entering staging for working on web camera support for Intel Lunar Lake and next-generation Panther Lake laptops...

"It's Easier To Just Walk Away" - Developer Of PS1 Emulator DuckStation Threatens To End Linux Support  Time Extension

The EXT4 file-system enhancements for Linux 6.17 were merged on Thursday and bring better scalability to the block allocation code as well as fixing the file-system's large folios support. The scalability work can show some wild gains in select areas...

EXT4 Shows Wild Gains With Better Block Allocation Scalability In Linux 6.17  Phoronix

During last month on Phoronix were 276 original news articles and another 15 featured reviews/benchmark articles around our forte of Linux hardware. Even with the summer here there has been no slowdown in interesting hardware running on Linux and the pace of innovation happening around open-source software...

The Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" driver improvements were merged earlier this week for the ongoing Linux 6.17 merge window and with that comes a number of Intel hardware platforms now being supported...

Linux 6.17 EDAC Code Supports Several Newer Intel CPUs  Phoronix

Apple Introduces Native Containerization: Run Kali Linux Seamlessly On macOS  LinkedIn

This evening Intel released XeSS 2.1 as the newest version of their Xe Super Sampling library with upscaling, frame generation, and low latency optimizations for gamers. Notable with XeSS 2.1 is that it introduces XeSS Frame Generation with Xe Low Latency support now for non-Intel GPUs...