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The input subsystem changes were merged this week for Linux 7.2, which is seeing its merge window wrap up on Sunday. Most notable with the input updates is the introduction of the "wacom_w9000" for supporting newer, pen-enabled touchscreens...

Linux 7.2 Adds New Driver For Wacom W9000 Pen-Enabled Touchscreens  Phoronix

NVIDIA 580.173.02 Linux Graphics Driver Released for GeForce 10 Series  9to5Linux

BioPass - Unlock your Linux with your face and your finger  Korben

Meet container: Apple's Open-Source Swift Tool for Running Linux Containers as Lightweight VMs on Apple Silicon  MarkTechPost

Fastfetch 2.65 System Information Tool Brings Better Hardware Detection on Linux  Linuxiac

Linux Foundation Launches Akrites To Secure Critical Open Source  Open Source For You

DXVK 3.0 brings lots of improvements for Windows games on Linux / SteamOS  GamingOnLinux

NVIDIA 580.173.02 released for Linux for those on older GPUs  GamingOnLinux

Make That Smart TV Into A Computer  Hackaday

You, too, can download the 30-year-old GIMP build that was used to make Tux  XDA

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Rocky Linux 10 installs as a minimal text-only server by default, and if you need a graphical desktop, you have

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Calibre 9.10 Open-Source E-Book Manager Brings New UI to the Content Server  9to5Linux

Fed up with complex note taking apps? Try Whisp for Linux  OMG! Ubuntu

Coreboot 26.06 is out today as the latest quarterly feature release for this software project providing open-source system firmware support for a growing number of platforms...

Daily ISOs of Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" continue to be published, but for those preferring something a bit more regulated, out today is Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 2 as the second monthly ISO image...

Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 2 Released For Monthly Testing  Phoronix

The Linux Foundation along with others like Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Red Hat, and others have joined forces to launch Akrites. The Akrites project is aiming to help defend critical open-source software from the brisk pace of new AI/LLM-discovered software bugs and vulnerabilities in ensuring that said issues are effectively addressed before they can be exploited by bad actors...

DXVK 3.0 Released with New Shader Compiler and Vulkan 1.4 Requirement  Linuxiac

Philip Rebohle announced the release today of DXVK 3.0 as the latest major feature release for this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation atop the Vulkan API for use by Wine and Valve's Steam Play (Proton)...