Open-source News

PS5-Linux - The Slim can finally run Linux  Korben

RootBoard open-hardware Linux handheld launches with Raspberry Pi Zero support  LinuxGizmos.com

KDE Plasma finally added per-screen virtual desktops, and it's yet another reason I'm not going back to Windows  XDA

10ZiG Announces General Availability of 10ZiG Manager v6 and Linux Virtual Appliance  PRWeb

6 Backup Tools for Linux Users of All Kind  It's FOSS

Linux fixed my oldest PC problems—and it has nothing to do with speed  Yahoo Tech

Linux fixed my oldest PC problems—and it has nothing to do with speed  How-To Geek

For those that prefer waiting until the first bug-fix/point release before upgrading to a major new feature series, GCC 16.2 is being planned for an early August release for delivering back-ported bug fixes to the GCC 16 compiler...

The Asahi Linux project published a new blog post outlining recent development efforts in getting Apple Silicon hardware working with their downstream Linux distribution. There is ongoing work on bringing up Apple M3 support, fixing boot support for macOS 27 beta systems, Apple Video Decoder (AVD) support progress, and more...

Last month on Phoronix there were 294 original news articles and 18 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Beyond Phoronix.com turning 22 years old in June, there were also a lot of exciting Linux hardware and open-source software developments worth recapping...

With modern laptops, proper platform/WMI drivers are becoming more depended upon not only for supporting all typical functionality from keyboards to backlights and other handling, but also for achieving proper performance. For many laptop vendors, the Linux platform drivers are maintained by the open-source community and actual customers. The latest example of the challenges of the community-maintained support rather than from the vendor is with the ASUS ROG Strix G16 G614PR gaming laptop seeing inappropriate power values set in the open-source driver that were incorrect and led to lower power/performance than Windows...

ASUS ROG Strix Laptop Sees Driver Fix For Linux Performance Too Low Compared To Windows  Phoronix

I tuned my GPU on Linux with an app that does what Windows won't  MakeUseOf

Asahi Linux Fixes Booting With macOS 27, Progress On M3 & Apple Video Decode  Phoronix

Asahi Linux Gets Closer to Full M3 Support on Apple Silicon Macs  Linuxiac

PlayStation 5 Linux project gets upgraded to support new firmware and PS5 Slim  GamingOnLinux

NVIDIA engineers have been developing a new binary format for their GPU firmware images for use with the in-development, open-source Nova kernel driver. With this new TLV binary firmware format it aims to be easier to parse by their Rust-based driver code...

Canonical Confirms Ubuntu Fixes for DirtyClone Linux Kernel Flaw  Linuxiac

Kali Linux 2026.2 Released With 9 New Tools, GNOME 50, and Kernel 6.19  gHacks

Diablo IV - Season 14 broke the game on Linux / SteamOS - Blizzard working on a fix  GamingOnLinux