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The popular Arch Linux based CachyOS operating system is out with its "July 2025" update for providing the latest innovations for this performance-optimized, feature-rich Linux distribution...

CachyOS July 2025 Ships With Mesa Patched For Anti-Lag, Plasma Defaulting To Wayland  Phoronix

What Is Bazzite? Hands-On With the SteamOS Alternative  How-To Geek

I tried this Linux distro that looks like Windows, is made by a Microsoft engineer, and is based on Ubuntu  XDA

CachyOS July 2025 Update Finally Lets Users Choose the Shell During Installation  9to5Linux

I Tested 10 Popular Linux Desktop Environments, Here's How I Rank Them  How-To Geek

Linux 6.16 Ready With Fixes For Old AMD Hardware "Which Wasn't Even Supposed To Run Linux"  Phoronix

Ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc6 kernel release due out later today, an x86/urgent pull request was sent out today that includes some fixes for old AMD Zen 2 hardware...

GParted Live 1.7.0-8 Adds Mechanism to Reduce Random Order of Block Devices  9to5Linux

Last week I wrote about a number of patches coming out of AMD for Next-Gen Geometry "NGG" improvements to the AMD OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for Linux. Some of that code hadn't been merged as of writing but fortunately this week the remainder of the NGG improvements were successfully merged to Mesa Git for this quarter's Mesa 25.2 release...

AMD NGG Improvements Make It Into Mesa 25.2 Ahead Of Next Week's Code Branching  Phoronix

Amid Intel's ongoing financial difficulties and multiple rounds of layoffs some Linux engineers at Intel left last year and there's been at least one prominent departure this week amid the latest round of challenges at the company...

Another Longtime Intel Linux Engineer Leaves The Company  Phoronix

Last month when the Fairphone 6 smartphone was announced, same-day Linux support patches were posted for this modular and repair-friendly smartphone. That Linux support code with the Device Tree (DT) files have been under review and out today is the second iteration of those enablement patches...

Linux Patches Updated For The New Fairphone 6 Smartphone  Phoronix

The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS had a busy month of June with a number of enhancements made to this OS. Haiku just published their convenient monthly recap that highlights all of the interesting changes made the past month to this open-source OS...

Haiku OS Sees Work On Better App HiDPI Scaling, Better Intel WiFI Driver From OpenBSD  Phoronix

GStreamer 1.27.1 released this week as the first development version toward the GStreamer 1.28 release coming later in the year. GStreamer 1.27/1.28 is bringing a lot of modern feature enhancements for this widely-used multimedia library...

Canonical Plans for a Fully Functional Desktop Session on RISC-V with Ubuntu 25.10  9to5Linux

5 Ways Ubuntu Changed How I Use My PC  How-To Geek