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The latest upstream Linux kernel improvement for AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization "SEV" is the introduction of a virtual TPM driver...

AMD Virtual TPM Driver Merged For Linux 6.16 To Enhance Confidential Computing  Phoronix

CRSED: Cuisine Royale devs confirm end of Linux / Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux

Rocky Linux 10 Embraces RISC-V for Open Computing  WebProNews

ACTION GAME MAKER devs exploring Linux support for the editor and exports  GamingOnLinux

AlmaLinux 10.0 "Purple Lion" Released with RHEL Compatibility  WebProNews

With how well the open-source and upstream AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver stack is these days between the mainline Linux kernel and Mesa, the Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver releases are not usually notable these days on Phoronix... The packaged Radeon Software for Linux drivers haven't been popular with gamers/enthusiasts in years given how good the upstream support is and those packaged bits mostly useful for those just running enterprise Linux distributions with older versions of Linux and Mesa. But the next Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver release is set to introduce a big change...

Radeon Software For Linux Dropping AMD's Proprietary OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers  Phoronix

For making use of AMDGPU user queue functionality, the latest Mesa user-space side work has been merged for Mesa 25.2 to enable support for high priority graphics user queues...

Archinstall 3.0.7 Released with Btrfs Snapshot Support  WebProNews

Here's all the games to claim for Steam Deck / Linux from Prime Gaming as of May 30th  GamingOnLinux

OBS Studio 31.1.0 Beta 1 brings Multitrack Video to Linux  GamingOnLinux

Escape Simulator drops the Linux build to focus on supporting Proton  GamingOnLinux

NVIDIA stable driver 575.57.08 released for Linux  GamingOnLinux

Intel SGX With Linux 6.16 Less Likely To Cause Fatal Machine Checks  Phoronix

Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) updates for the in-development Linux 6.16 contain a fix so SGX is now less likely to cause a fatal machine check...

As an alternative to Coredumps dumping to a file or a pipe connected to a user-mode helper process, Linux 6.16 is introducing the ability to send Coredumps over an AF_UNIX socket...

Overnight Intel upstreamed their IPU7 firmware binaries into the linux-firmware.git repository where Linux distributions will then be able to pick them up for easy consumption. IPU7 is for their latest Image Processing Unit for some web cameras on their latest-generation Lunar Lake platform...

Intel IPU7 Firmware Binaries Upstreamed For Lunar Lake Webcameras  Phoronix

Following the exciting EXT4 performance work, XFS atomic writes, and other exciting file-system pull requests submitted for the ongoing Linux 6.16 merge window, the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) changes have been submitted and merged for this next kernel version...