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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...

Microsoft UEFI Key Expiry Won’t Doom Linux Secure Boot  WebProNews

Valve’s Steam Beta Update: Cleaner Nav, Smarter Search, Linux Upgrades  WebProNews

Valve is ending out the month of July with a new Steam beta release that has a few Linux-specific fixes...

Steam Beta Brings Fix For UI Scaling On XWayland  Phoronix

6 weird but incredible things you can do with Batocera Linux  xda-developers.com

All of the open-source kernel graphics driver feature changes were merged earlier today for the Linux 6.17 kernel. For Linux 6.17 there is an enormous amount of new feature work ready to go with the modern Intel graphics driver code. Plus the always active AMD graphics driver changes and various refinements to the many smaller graphics/display drivers...

Kali Linux can now run in Apple containers on macOS systems  BleepingComputer

Linux 6.17 GPU Drivers Led By Stable Intel Xe3 Panther Lake & SR-IOV For Battlemage  Phoronix