Open-source News

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

These Linux Distros Will Level Up Your Privacy and Security  How-To Geek

The x86 platform driver updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel. The x86 platform drivers area traditionally has been around Linux laptop hardware support but in recent years more work on handheld devices too plus Intel/AMD server platform functionality...

Lenovo Legion Gaming Drivers & New Intel Discovery Driver For Telemetry In Linux 6.17  Phoronix

Ubuntu 25.10 Snapshot 3 Debuts with Linux 6.10 Kernel and ARM Upgrades  WebProNews

The 4 Best Android Phone Brands for Linux Lovers  How-To Geek

Google Cloud Upgrades A2A Protocol, Donates to Linux Foundation for AI Boost  WebProNews

Linus Torvalds still uses an AMD RX 580 from 2017 — also ditches Apple Silicon for an Intel laptop  Tom's Hardware