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T2 Linux 26.6 Brings Linux 7.0, Refined KDE Plasma Desktop with Flatpak Support  9to5Linux

As noted back in April, with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS it's now possible to simply "apt install rocm" on Ubuntu Linux for installing AMD's open-source GPU compute stack. But as prominently noted there, what's shipped right now in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is already months out of date compared to upstream ROCm. Fortunately, Canonical shared today that moving forward they plan to ship newer ROCm versions as stable release updates (SRUs)...

Ubuntu To Ship Newer AMD ROCm Updates Via SRUs  Phoronix

While the upstream, open-source Nouveau driver already supports NVIDIA's Hopper and Blackwell graphics processors with the GPU System Processor (GSP) code path, the bring-up of the Rust-written Nova driver remains ongoing. Out this week is the 12th iteration of the Hopper and Blackwell enablement for this future open-source NVIDIA Linux driver...

NVIDIA Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support Moves Closer For Open-Source Nova Driver  Phoronix

Intel this week rolled out new versions of their open-source XPU Manager and Linux NPU driver software...

Intel XPU Manager Adds Support For Arc Pro B65 + Arc Pro B70  Phoronix

As another interesting takeaway from this week's Microsoft Build 2026 conference beyond their open-source Intelligent Terminal project is Coreutils for Windows. Microsoft is maintaining a fork of Rust Coreutils for Windows to ease the developer experience across Windows / WSL / macOS / Linux...

Microsoft Announces Coreutils For Windows: Derived From Rust Coreutils  Phoronix

As a follow-up to the article last week about KRAID as a new compiler for modern Arm Mali graphics, that initial code has now been merged to Mesa 26.2 for benefiting the Panfrost and PanVK open-source drivers...

RSA Expands Passwordless Authentication To Linux  Bernama

I tested Rhino Linux's new Lomiri snapshot - and it took me back to the glory days of Unity  ZDNET

Ubuntu brings stable Arm64 Steam Snap to Linux users for improved hardware gaming  Neowin

8 ways I optimize Zorin OS for peak performance - from a decades-long Linux user  ZDNET

SteamVR 2.16 arrives with a number of Linux fixes for VR fans  GamingOnLinux

CIFSwitch: Old Linux kernel vulnerability can grant local users root privileges  igor´sLAB

CIFSwitch: Old Linux kernel vulnerability can grant local users root privileges  igor´sLAB

At the beginning of the year Canonical announced a Steam Snap package for Ubuntu ARM64 that leverages the FEX emulator for running x86/x86_64 games on ARM64. After months of testing and improvements, they now consider their Steam Snap for ARM64 to be stable...

Marek Olšák who had been a longtime AMD Linux driver engineer specializing in the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, recently began working for Valve on their Linux graphics driver team. His focus has understandably shifted to working on the RADV Vulkan driver and one of his early optimizations now with the Valve hat on is up to a 100% pixel throughput optimization for the RADV driver, which is already quite well optimized thanks to years of investment from Valve, Red Hat, and others...

Every day, I talk to IT executives, commercial leaders, and partners who are facing the exact same pressure: How do we move from AI experimentation to true enterprise production?If you glance at the tech headlines today, you’d think the answer is simple. The industry has become utterly obsessed with the concept of agentic AI—the promise of autonomous software agents executing complex corporate workflows with the flick of a switch. The mainstream narrative treats AI like a standalone magic box. Buy the right proprietary model, plug it in, and watch your operational headaches vanish.But out