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Eric Engestrom today released Mesa 25.2.7 as the newest bi-weekly point release for this stable set of open-source (predominantly) OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for Linux systems...

Red Hat Delivers Enhanced Experience for Ai Accelerators on Red Hat Enterprise Linux  MarketScreener

Just hours ago Valve announced the new Steam Controller along with the Steam Frame VR headset and new Steam Machine. While these new Steam hardware products won't be available until early 2026, Valve has just-now upstreamed support for the new Steam Controller to the SDL3 library...

Valve Already Upstreams Support For The New Steam Controller To SDL3  Phoronix

Avalonia Powers MAUI’s Leap to Linux and Web: A .NET Revolution  WebProNews

Does Linux really run faster than Windows? I tested both to find out  How-To Geek

The Homebrew package manager just got a big update  How-To Geek

Valve just sent over the press release announcing three new Steam Hardware devices...

Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame  Phoronix

Valve Officially Announces Steam Frame, A "Streaming-First" Standalone VR Headset  UploadVR

Will Battlefield 6 work on Steam Machine? Valve hopes its new hardware will prompt a fresh discussion with developers over kernel-level anti-cheat  Eurogamer

With the upcoming release of Weston 15.0, this Wayland reference compositor will finally feature a Vulkan renderer. For those curious about its potential, a presentation recently outlined the current state of this Vulkan code path...

IBM Joins OpenSearch Software Foundation to Advance AI-Powered Search and RAG  It's FOSS

Framework Laptop 16 Upgrade To AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series Benchmarks Review  Phoronix

My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way  ZDNET

Framework Laptop 16 Upgrade To AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series Benchmarks Review  Phoronix

Framework Computer announced back in August that the Framework Laptop 16 would be rolling out upgrades to the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series and a GeForce RTX 5070 graphics option. Today the review embargo lifts on these new Framework 16 laptop upgrades and some Linux benchmarking of the new hardware.

Kaspersky Antivirus is Now Available for Linux. Will You Use it?  It's FOSS

As covered recently on Phoronix there has been several exciting improvements for aging AMD Radeon GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 era graphics cards for the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver stack. This work has been led by Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux Open-Source Graphics Driver Group with an ultimate goal of shifting the GCN 1.0/1.1 open-source Linux driver hardware support from the aging "Radeon" kernel graphics driver over to the "AMDGPU" kernel driver already used by default for all AMD GPUs/accelerators from GCN 1.2 and newer...

Valve's Open-Source Radeon Linux Driver "Love Song For Gamers With Old GPUs"  Phoronix