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With the code merged today to Mesa 26.2-devel, the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver is capable of handling Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) with modern game titles running on Linux / Steam Play...

Open-Source NVIDIA NVK Vulkan Driver Now Supports DLSS  Phoronix

Barco, the Europeean technology company that manufactures the AMD GPU based MXRT graphics cards for for multi-display medical imaging systems (and also MXRV for their NVIDIA based graphics cards), have to date only seen Windows drivers published for their professional-grade graphics cards even with using Radeon Pro derived GPUs. But a patch published today to the AMD graphics mailing list is opening the door for Linux support...

AMD-Powered Barco MXRT Graphics Cards Finally Seeing Linux Driver Support  Phoronix

Systemd 261 is out as stable today with a number of new features and ready to coincide with H2'2026 Linux distributions...

I tested 9 Arch-based Linux distros, here's how I rank them  How-To Geek

It looks like AMD's next-gen SoCs not only will be exciting on the CPU side with the much anticipated Zen 6 cores but the AMD Audio Co-Processor "ACP" IP looks to be going through some significant updates...

Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.10 Improves Wi-Fi SSID Handling and Accessibility  9to5Linux

The networking subsystem changes have been merged for Linux 7.2 with a lot happening around the core networking code as well as the many wired and wireless networking device drivers...

Linux 7.2 Brings More Work Around WiFi Aware, WiFi 8 / UHR & More Networking Hardware  Phoronix

CNCF and Linux Foundation Partner With Udemy For Unified Cloud Training  Siliconindia

Raspberry Pi engineers have released their first update to Raspberry Pi OS since April. With this new version comes the upgrade to the latest Linux 6.18 LTS kernel...

Raspberry Pi OS Moves To Linux 6.18 LTS Kernel, Updated LabWC Compositor  Phoronix

Raspberry Pi OS June Update Lands with Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS  Linuxiac

Latest Raspberry Pi OS Release Is Powered by Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS  9to5Linux

3 blazing-fast Linux terminal apps to replace your graphical apps this weekend (Jun 19-21)  How-To Geek

Just shy of 1,000 new patches were merged on the SoC side for the Linux 7.2 kernel. Among all those patches are enabling five more SoCs to work with the mainline Linux kernel -- including the long-awaited Apple M3 support...

Linux Foundation launches Appia Foundation to build standardised specifications for AI  Computer Weekly

Just days after AMD engineers released a new Lemonade AI server with MCP server integration to make it much more useful, they have now released a new release of their GAIA "Generative AI Is Awesome" open-source software. With AMD GAIA 0.21.2, they have introduced a bash coding agent is their latest big ticket item in the AI space...

For those interested in Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) with modern Intel Xeon processors for confidential computing but also view system uptime as critical, beginning in Linux 7.2 the TDX support is now much more practical with allowing live updates without the need to reboot the running system in the event of security updates and similar...