Sent out today was the last drm-misc-next pull request ahead of the Linux 7.2 merge window getting underway in June. As part of this last batch of small Direct Rendering Manager graphics/accelerator driver changes is finally enabling the NVIDIA GA100 within the Nouveau driver...

Exfatprogs (exFAT Progs) 1.4 exFAT filesystem userspace utilities for Linux has been released today with improvements and new features for the mkfs.exfat, fsck.exfat, and exfatprogs programs.

In recent weeks we have been exploring different areas of the Intel Arc Pro B70 graphics performance on Linux from various OpenCL and Vulkan to Level Zero compute benchmarks, scaling up to four Arc Pro B70 graphics cards, comparing to NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell, and other relevant tests. While not intended for gaming, many Phoronix readers keep raising requests for seeing the Arc Pro B70 performance for Linux gaming given the lack of any consumer BMG-G31 GPU. So for those curious, here is a look at the Linux gaming performance with the Arc Pro B70 graphics card.

Arm today announced the open-sourcing of Metis, an agentic AI security framework that delivers context AI-powered security analysis in looking out for software vulnerabilities...

The QEMU processor emulator that plays an important role in the open-source Linux virtualization stack had a policy that forbid any contributions including or derived from AI-generated content. But there are now second thoughts with a proposed patch that will permit AI/LLM contributions in non-critical areas...

Rust 1.96 lands with new core range types, stabilized assert matching macros, WebAssembly linker changes, and Cargo security fixes.

Rocky Linux 9.8 is now available with OpenSSH 9.9, GnuTLS 3.8.10, GCC Toolset 15, LLVM 21.1.8, and updated images.

California almost forced every OS to track user ages. Then someone realized that would kill Linux servers. Here’s how open-source might escape the surveillance state

Kovid Goyal released Calibre 9.9 today as the latest stable version of this open-source and free e-book management software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

Ahead of Computex, Intel today announced the introduction of the Arc G-Series. While taking on the "Arc" branding, this isn't a new graphics card from Intel but rather their new processors with integrated graphics for handheld gaming devices...

IBM and Red Hat announce Project Lightwell, a $5 billion effort to secure open-source software supply chains with AI-assisted engineering.

While not as good as repealing AB 1043 outright for requiring operating system providers to ask for a user's age or birth date at device setup, open-source Linux distributions and other open-source OSes may end up seeing some reprieve before this law goes into effect at the start of 2027...

Sway 1.12 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source i3-compatible Wayland compositor for Linux-based operating systems that introduces several new features and improvements.

Canonical’s Workshop lets developers define Ubuntu dev environments in YAML and reproduce them across machines with a single command.

The long-in-development work on Cache Aware Scheduling looks like it will come to a head soon with it looking like Cache Aware Scheduling will land for Linux 7.2. Ahead of the upcoming merge window I ran some fresh benchmarks looking at different areas where this feature is shining.

Valve released today a new stable Steam Client update that introduces more improvements for the new Steam Controller, especially for Linux users, as well as various other improvements and the usual bug fixes.

Eric Engestrom announced the release of Mesa 26.0.8 today as the latest stable point release of that Q1'2026 driver series and the last planned update for that stable series...

Krita 6.0.2 digital painting app arrives with Qt 6 changes, while Krita 5.3.2 remains the recommended build for production work.

Canonical's kernel team confirmed today their intention of shipping the Ubuntu 26.10 release with what will be the Linux 7.2 kernel...

As Colorado and California move age verification to the OS layer, exemptions for open source determine whether Linux desktops stay free of mandatory age-gating.