📰 Building an Arch Linux aarch64 port for Holo Core

The Holo Core aarch64 preview provides early binaries, sources, and containers for an Arch Linux-based aarch64 port, backed by tooling and CI work for reproducible rolling-release builds.

🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/building-an-arch-linux-aarch64-port-for-holo-core.html

#arch #linux #linuxbased

📰 FSR 4.1 could make handheld GPU upgrades irrelevant, and that's exactly what the market needed

AMD has a firm grip on the gaming handheld market. Sure, you'll see an avalanche of cheaper Android-powered devices without Intel or AMD chips, but there's a good chance you'll buy an AMD-equipped handheld for modern high-quality gaming. Like other devices, there's a fairly rapid product cycle, leaving you in the dust if you buy a gaming handheld at the wrong time. But later versions of FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR), specifically FSR 4.1,...

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/fsr-making-handheld-gpu-upgrades-irrelevant-what-the-market-needed/

#amd #android #intel

📰 Fedora can't beat Ubuntu at this one thing, but it wins everywhere else

Fedora has no real answer for users who need a stable LTS base for multiple years.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/fedora-cant-beat-ubuntu-at-this-one-thing-but-it-wins-everywhere-else/

#fedora #ubuntu

📰 Cold Reset Recovery Coming Together To Better Help Intel GPUs On Linux

One of the patch series going through nearly a dozen revisions now is for introducing a cold reset recovery method for the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers with an initial focus on the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Cold-Reset-Recovery-Linux

#intel #kernel #linux

The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired, Freeing DivX and Xvid Worldwide
—> https://linuxiac.com/the-last-mpeg-4-visual-patent-has-expired/

📰 Ubuntu on Android isn't a gimmick — it's how I manage my homelab from anywhere

After building my homelab, carrying my MacBook wherever I traveled had become a habit. Not because I knew something would break, but because I‘d made a routine of checking the status every once in a while. Having it with me was insurance for my homelab; if something broke, I could pull out the MacBook and start troubleshooting immediately. But with time, carrying a laptop everywhere I went for tiny routine tasks started to feel excessive. That...

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/ubuntu-on-android-isnt-a-gimmick-its-how-i-manage-my-homelab-from-anywhere/

#android #ubuntu

📰 Guide: How to get SteamOS to always boot into Desktop Mode

If you want your SteamOS Linux machine like the Steam Deck or Steam Machine to automatically boot into Desktop Mode - that is actually possible.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/how-to-get-steamos-to-always-boot-into-desktop-mode

#linux #steam

📰 My home server is smart, my VPS is deliberately dumb, and that's the whole point

People mostly assume a VPS is a more reliable home server because it's always on and should be doing real work. Mine isn’t. I previously talked about how my NAS is just dumb storage and my local Debian server handles the compute. All meaningful workload stays on my Dell Latitude home server — Docker services, databases, media, and anything that actually owns data. The VPS in my architecture follows the same philosophy, just from the opposite end...

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/home-server-smart-vps-deliberately-dumb-thats-the-whole-point/

#debian

📰 Canonical Makes The "Enterprise Store" Official For Offline/Air-Gapped Ubuntu Usage

For months the Enterprise Store "enterprise-store" has been mentioned in some Ubuntu documentation and other elements while today it was formally announced by Canonical. The Enterprise Store is for helping to manage Ubuntu Linux deployments particularly within enterprise organizations that may have their computers air-gapped or otherwise strict Internet controls...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Enterprise-Store

#linux #ubuntu

📰 AMD Getting The Linux Kernel Ready For Zen 6 Profiling/Perf With More EILVT Registers

Among the recent patch series in preparing Linux for upcoming AMD Zen 6 processors is making the kernel aware of additional EILVT registers to be found with at least EPYC Venice platforms...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-6-More-EILVT-Registers

#amd #kernel #linux

📰 Stratis Storage Anaconda Integration Approved For Fedora 45

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved the latest batch of features for the upcoming Fedora 45 release...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-45-Approves-Stratis

#fedora

📰 VirtualBox 7.2.14 Adds Initial Support for Linux Kernel 7.2

VirtualBox 7.2.14 is out with initial Linux kernel 7.2 support, RHEL guest fixes, Windows clipboard improvements, and UEFI corrections.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/virtualbox-7-2-14-adds-initial-support-for-linux-kernel-7-2/

#kernel #linux

📰 Valve's Steam Frame pushes Arch Linux toward official Arm64 support

Collabora's Holo Core port lays the groundwork for running SteamOS 3 natively on the headset.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/07/21/valves-steam-frame-pushes-arch-linux-toward-official-arm64-support/5275459

#arch #linux #steam

📰 Steam streaming on Proxmox doesn't require GPU passthrough, and my LXC setup proves it

I've been wanting to turn my Strix Halo box into a game streaming server for months, and the only thing stopping me was the dread of VFIO GPU passthrough. It's a pain: block the driver, wrangle IOMMU groups, dedicate the entire GPU to one VM, and pray that the next kernel update doesn't break everything. My homelab already runs half a dozen services on Proxmox, and giving up the only GPU in the machine to a single VM just feels wasteful.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/run-steam-in-an-lxc-on-proxmox-to-avoid-gpu-passthrough/

#kernel #steam

📰 KDE Plasma 6.7 vs. GNOME Shell 50.3 vs. Xfce 4.20 On CachyOS With NVIDIA Graphics

Earlier this month I provided a look at the KDE Plasma 6.7 Wayland vs. X11 session performance for graphics/gaming on CachyOS using NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 graphics. Since then Phoronix readers -- including some premium supporters -- requested seeing some additional desktops tested with the latest CachyOS packages. So here we are now with seeing how KDE Plasma 6.7 compared to the Wayland-only GNOME Shell 50.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-desktops-july-2026

#gnome #kde #plasma #wayland

📰 Qualcomm Posts Linux Patches For X2 Elite Extreme Powered ASUS Zenbook A16

Following recent Linux kernel patches enabling the Snapdragon X2 Elite powered Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 and HP EliteBook X G2q X2 Elite laptops to boot outside of Windows 11 on ARM, Qualcomm engineers have now posted a new patch series for getting the X2 Elite Extreme powered ASUS Zenbook A16 working on Linux...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Zenbook-A16-X2EE

#arm #kernel #linux

📰 Mozilla Thunderbird 153 Is Out with Various New Features and Many Fixes

Mozilla Thunderbird 153 open-source email client is now available for download with new features, improvements, and numerous bug fixes. Here’s what’s new!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-thunderbird-153-is-out-with-various-new-features-and-many-fixes

#opensource

📰 This Docker container converts any file to any format, so I stopped trusting sketchy websites with my private documents

Whether it’s productivity tools, media managers, or game servers, I stick to free and open-source apps as much as possible. After all, they’re completely private from the prying eyes of random companies, and I don’t have to spend dozens of dollars on monthly subscriptions to unlock essential features. With containerized images, I can even host FOSS tools on a server node and access them from the rest of my devices.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/this-one-docker-container-converts-any-file-to-any-format/

#opensource

📰 OBS Studio 32.2 Released with New Filter to Compose SDR into HDR

OBS Studio 32.2 open-source video recording and live streaming software is now available for download with a new filter to compose SDR into HDR, dynamic bitrate support for multitrack video, and more.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/obs-studio-32-2-released-with-new-filter-to-compose-sdr-into-hdr

#opensource

📰 New Steam Client Update Improves NVIDIA GPU Hardware Acceleration on Linux

Valve released a new stable Steam Client update that promises to improve hardware acceleration for NVIDIA GPUs and game recording on Linux systems.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/new-steam-client-update-improves-nvidia-gpu-hardware-acceleration-on-linux

#linux #steam

📰 CachyOS rebuilds every package the 'wrong' way, and my Steam library runs faster for it

There's a set of unwritten rules that every Linux distribution follows, and I never thought about them until I found the one distro that doesn't. Compile for the oldest CPU anyone might own. Ship the mainline kernel. Use Valve's Proton, because Valve knows best. I've been running CachyOS on my ROG Ally X and my laptop for a while now, and it breaks every single one of those rules on purpose. It even skipped the Open Gaming Collective, the...

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/every-linux-gaming-distro-joined-collective-except-cachyos-its-beating-all-of-them/

#distro #kernel #linux #proton #steam