DXVK 3.0.2 has been released today as the second minor update in the latest DXVK 3.0 series of this open-source Vulkan-based implementation of D3D8, D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine that brings improvements for various games and other changes.

With reviewing hardware for more than 22 years, when it comes to cooling products there are few brands that can still get me intrigued like Noctua. With their recent launch of the NL-LC1 all-in-one liquid coolers, I decided to try out the Noctua NL-LC1-36 360mm AIO cooler that is working out well for cooling high-end desktop CPUs like the recently launched Ryzen 9 9950X3D2.

Collabora announced today the first preview of Holo Core, their official Arch Linux ARM64 (AArch64) port for Valve’s Steam Frame gaming VR headset, which will be launched later this year to join the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and the new Steam Controller.

The upcoming KDE Plasma release improves the visual consistency of applications that do not draw their own window shadows.

The HackRF Pro is an open-hardware software-defined radio platform from Great Scott Gadgets that supports transmission and reception from 100kHz to 6GHz. The half-duplex transceiver maintains backward compatibility with software and accessories developed for the earlier HackRF One. The HackRF Pro follows the same general architecture as its predecessor but introduces several RF, processing, timing, […]

Sipeed has introduced NanoKVM-Go, a compact USB-C KVM-over-IP device that combines remote hardware management with AI integration. Designed for Linux, Windows, macOS, and other USB-C devices, NanoKVM-Go allows users to remotely view and control a system through a web browser while exposing its keyboard, mouse, and display functions to AI agents via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Wayland, an open-source replacement for the X11 window system protocol and architecture, has been updated to version 1.26 with several new features and bug fixes.

Linux developer Armin Wolf sent out a set of patches today for enabling AArch64 support for the ACPI Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) driver to work on AArch64 in no longer being bound to x86/x86_64. This is a step toward the long goal of being able to support modern Windows on ARM laptops via ACPI on Linux...

What began as one developer’s need to test a Floppy Emu device grew into a full set of SWIM driver fixes for aging Apple hardware.

An intern with the FreeBSD Foundation is working on porting AMD's ROCm compute stack to run on this popular BSD environment...

FSearch 0.3 lands nearly three years after the previous release, adding real-time filesystem monitoring, file previews, and smarter indexing.

The KDE Plasma 6.8 will be introducing support for server-side drop shadows with the feature recently having been merged to KWin...

Weston 16 expands HDR and color management support, improves Perfetto debugging and DRM backend performance, and adds new protocol and renderer capabilities for more efficient and flexible Wayland compositor development.

Previously we covered YSERVER as an X11 server written in the Rust programming language with the help of Claude Code. A Phoronix reader wrote in today to share an even more esoteric X11 server implementation that has come about and again written in large part by AI/LLM usage: Frame is an X11 server written in pure x86_64 Assembly...

Linux hardware vendor System76 launched today the next-gen of their Adder Pro Linux laptop with upgraded components to provide a flawless Linux experience to gamers, content creators, and developers.

Today the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D goes on sale as the lowest-price AMD 3D V-Cache processor being marketed for gamers. This 8-core / 16-thread processor features a 4.5GHz boost clock and a total of 104MB of cache while being based on the older Zen 4 architecture and coming in at about $329 USD. Here is a look at how the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D is performing on Linux.

OPNsense 26.7 open-source firewall and routing platform brings FreeBSD 15.1, a reworked interface framework, Source NAT migration, and more.

Tronlong’s TLT153-MiniEVM is an 80 × 130mm industrial evaluation board built around a 45 × 45mm SoM based on the Allwinner T153 processor. Key features include three Gigabit Ethernet ports, USB 2.0, HDMI, MIPI-DSI, microSD, dual expansion headers, and support for CAN-FD and additional serial interfaces. The Allwinner T153 is manufactured on a 22nm process […]

The latest stable Perl release introduces named parameters for signatures, faster execution, and updated Unicode support.

Simon Ser just announced the stable release of the Wayland 1.26 release...

Forgejo 16.0, a self-hosted Git forge, introduces granular repository notifications, multi-line review comments, migration progress tracking, and more.

MKVToolNix, the open-source, free, and cross-platform Matroska (MKV) manipulation software created by Moritz Bunkus, reached version 100, a hefty update that introduces new features, enhancements, and bug fixes.

AMD's software team appears to be busy getting ready for next week's Advancing AI event happening next week in San Francisco. In addition to the release today of the Lemonade 11.0 local AI server, TheRock 7.14 was also tagged as the modern build system for ROCm working on the latest tech preview releases of this open-source AMD GPU compute stack...

GNU/Linux gaining. It is gaining fast. Take a quick look at statCounter.

System76’s latest Linux laptop offers a Core Ultra 7 356H, up to 96GB of RAM, RTX 50-series graphics, and a 2560×1600 OLED display.

The removal of GPL code from FreeBSD 16’s base system isn’t just housekeeping — it reflects a BSD vision of “software freedom” that differs from FSF, Gnu, and Linux.

Artificial intelligence has helped uncover one of the most significant Linux kernel security flaws in recent years. Security researchers at Nebula Security announced the discovery of GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499), a critical local privilege escalation vulnerability that remained hidden in the Linux kernel for approximately 15 years before being identified by the company's AI-powered vulnerability research platform, VEGA.

Mozilla plans to release Firefox Desktop and Android every two weeks in an experiment beginning with Firefox 155 on September 1.

Overnight Linux creator Linus Torvalds wrote another well crafted message that reaffirms the Linux kernel position of not being against AI and lashing back against some kernel developers that are against AI/LLM usage within the kernel project...

Clintech has launched a Crowd Supply campaign for the Clintech Pico Board, an open-hardware microcontroller board based on Raspberry Pi’s RP2354B. The board retains the 51 × 21mm Raspberry Pi Pico footprint while exposing all 48 GPIOs available from the larger RP2354B package. The RP2354B combines dual 150MHz Arm Cortex-M33 cores with dual Hazard3 RISC-V […]