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An unexpected announcement this Friday evening is an introduction to Tyr, a new Linux kernel DRM graphics driver written in the Rust programming language. As is sadly becoming more common among Linux GPU kernel drivers is the increasing obscure driver names. Tyr?!?..

GEEKDeck Is A SteamDeck For Your Living Room  Hackaday

Wine 10.11 is out for testing today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this software for running Microsoft Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms...

4 things Linux still gets wrong for the average user  XDA

This week in AI dev tools: A2A donated to Linux Foundation, OpenAI adds Deep Research to API, and more (June 27, 2025)  SD Times

PipeWire 1.4.6 Adds New Option to Disable RAOP, Improves the ALSA Plugin  9to5Linux

4 reasons I still dual-boot Linux, even though WSL is fantastic  XDA

Developers of Linux distro Fedora propose dropping 32-bit support entirely, but it's being claimed that the change 'would kill off projects like Bazzite entirely'  PC Gamer

Threat Actors Exploiting Windows & Linux Servers Vulnerability to Deploy Web Shell  CyberSecurityNews

The latest in our ongoing testing of AMD Strix Halo performance using the HP ZBook Ultra G1a is analyzing the Vulkan API performance between Mesa's RADV driver and the AMDVLK official open-source AMD Vulkan driver for Linux systems. More than one hundred benchmarks were run looking at the performance from Steam Play games to Vulkan compute workloads.

RADV vs. AMDVLK Driver Performance For Strix Halo Radeon 8060S Graphics  Phoronix

Gaming on Linux is better than ever — but it's still bad  XDA

This city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for OnlyOffice and Linux - here's why  ZDNet

New Linux Kernel Drama: Torvalds Drops Bcachefs Support After Clash  It's FOSS News

Similar to the Ubuntu 24.10 concept ISOs for Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptops, Canonical has begun publishing new "concept" images of Ubuntu 25.04 ISOs optimized for use on the growing number of Qualcomm Snpadragon X Elite laptops. This week marks the release of the new ISOs for enhancing Ubuntu Linux on various ARM laptops...

Ubuntu Concept 25.04 ISOs Published For Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Laptops  Phoronix

Pricing announced for the Orange Pi Neo gaming handheld with Manjaro Linux  GamingOnLinux

New Tool Cuts Testing Costs for Linux Distributors, Boosts Efficiency  Small Business Trends

Canonical's Multipass lightweight VM manager for not only Linux systems but also Windows and macOS is now considered fully open-source. Multipass started out as a means of running an Ubuntu environment with ease from a single command on major operating systems. With today's Multipass 1.16 release candidate, it's now fully open-source...

Canonical Makes Multipass VM Manager Fully Open-Source  Phoronix