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Compatible Steam Deck games now include a popular title with anti cheat, as Linux gaming gains traction  Notebookcheck

Rescuezilla 2.6.1 Swiss Army Knife of System Recovery Adds Ubuntu 25.04 Support  9to5Linux

Red Hat Launches No-Cost Enterprise Linux Offering for Business Developers  ADTmag

In addition to releasing Mesa 25.2-rc1 with its many new features to test, Mesa release manager Eric Engestrom today released Mesa 25.1.6 as the newest bi-weekly stable point release for last quarter's series...

8-Way Linux OS Comparison On The Framework 12: Squeezing More Performance Out Of Raptor Lake  Phoronix

Earlier this year when the Framework 13 was updated for the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series I ran benchmarks looking at the performance gains across different Linux distributions with Debian 13, Clear Linux, and CachyOS being the outstanding performers for that Strix Point hardware. With the recent launch of the Framework 12 2-in-1 laptop powered by Intel Raptor Lake you may be wondering what Linux distributions have the edge there. Here is an eight-way comparison of different Linux operating systems on the Framework 12 with Intel Core i5 1334U with the likes of Arch Linux, CachyOS, Clear Linux, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, and Ubuntu.

Mesa 25.2 is now branched and thus under a feature freeze and with Mesa 25.2-rc1 having just been released. This marks the start of weekly release candidates until the Mesa 25.2 stable release is ready to ship sometime in August...

12k Lines Of NVIDIA Blackwell 3D Class Header Files Open-Sourced  Phoronix

Similar to the 3D class header files previously open-sourced by NVIDIA for prior generation GPUs, yesterday NVIDIA carried out a similar open-source move to publish all the 3D class header files for their newest Blackwell graphics processors...

Linux Breaks 5% Desktop Share in U.S., Signaling Open-Source Surge Against Windows and macOS  WebProNews

Hands on With System76's Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS  It's FOSS

It's a very busy week for the open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers leading up to the Mesa 25.2 code branching. On top of RADV ray-tracing improvements, Vulkan 1.2 conformance for Kepler GPUs, Xe3 Panther Lake graphics enabled by default, and many other last minute changes, over the past week has also been a push getting more AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 "FSR 4" improvements merged for the Radeon RADV driver...

More AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 Improvements Land For Open-Source Driver  Phoronix

It is finally the year of Linux on the Desktop: free OS reaches 5% market share  Boing Boing

Umamusume: Pretty Derby now Steam Deck Playable / SteamOS Compatible and works on Desktop Linux  GamingOnLinux

Google's Android boss suggests ChromeOS could be on borrowed time  theregister.com

One of the early changes for the LLVM 22 compiler stack now in development is completing the removal of support for Google's Native Client "NaCl"...

Lost Ark from Amazon Games appears to have enabled the anti-cheat for Linux / SteamOS  GamingOnLinux

Canonical announced today that they teamed up with ESWIN Computing to ship Ubuntu Linux as the preferred operating system on their ESWIN Computing EBC77 Series single board computer...

ESWIN Computing EBC77 RISC-V SBC To Support Ubuntu Linux  Phoronix