ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

KGamma2 Makes For Easy Gamma Adjustments On KDE Plasma With Wayland

([KDE] 3 August 06:58 AM EDT KGamma2)

KDE developer David Edmundson announced today his KGamma2 tool in aiming to address a pain point for KDE Plasma desktop users on Wayland.



GNOME Mutter 51 Beta Released With Wayland Background Blur, Improved Frame Scheduling

([GNOME] 3 August 06:23 AM EDT Plus GNOME Shell 51 Beta)

Released overnight on Sunday were the beta versions of Mutter 51 and GNOME Shell 51. This follows GNOME 51 embarking on itsAPI/ABI freeze, feature freeze, and UI freeze a day earlier.



Linux 7.3 To Support Realtek RTL8261C & RTL8261D

([Linux Networking] 3 August 05:35 AM EDT Realtek RTL8261C/D)

Queued into net-next ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window is adding support for the Realtek RTL8261C and RTL8261D 10 Gigabit PHYs that launched last year.



KDE Linux Making For Easier First-Run Experience Of Java & DOS Apps

([KDE] 3 August 05:56 AM EDT KDE Linux)

With July all wrapped up, the monthly status report is now published for KDE Linux as the in-house Linux distribution featuring all of the latest KDE wares and other open-source innovations.



Linux 7.3 Adding Support For MCTP-Over-USB v1.1

([Linux Networking] 3 August 05:47 AM EDT MCTP over USB)

Within the Linux networking subsystem's "net-next" Git branch there is now queued up support for MCTP-over-USB v1.1. This is the newest version of the standard for sending Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) packets over USB for tasks like crash dumps, logging, and firmware updates.



AerynOS Issues First Development Update & New ISOs In Three Months

([Operating Systems] 2 August 08:23 PM EDT Big Update)

It's been just over three months since the last AerynOS development update and new ISO spin but fortunately that's been succeeded today by a new development update and ISO images. AerynOS development remains strong and ongoing with many changes to be found in this latest from-scratch Linux distribution release.



Linux 7.2-rc6 Released: "This RC Is Huge"

([Linux Kernel] 2 August 07:38 PM EDT Linux 7.2-rc6)

Like clockwork, the Linux 7.2-rc6 kernel is now available for testing in working toward the stable Linux 7.2 kernel in hopefully two week's time.



Linux 7.3 To Begin Laying The Groundwork For Intel Starfire

([Intel] 2 August 10:32 AM EDT Intel Starfire + Linux 7.3)

Intel recently announced Starfire as their new Panther Lake derived, space-grade SoC designed for extreme environments... like survivability in space. With the Linux 7.3, we are going to begin seeing the first Intel Starfire specific patches land in the kernel.



Linux 7.3 To Support The Qualcomm Adreno 704 & Adreno 722 GPUs

([Hardware] 2 August 06:47 AM EDT Linux 7.3 MSM)

Sent out on Saturday were the Qualcomm MSM DRM kernel graphics/display driver updates to land for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window.



Ubuntu Touch Making Progress Toward Ubuntu 26.04, Vulkan & App Updates

([Ubuntu] 2 August 06:37 AM EDT Ubuntu Touch Updates)

Following last week's release of Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 for this community-maintained, mobile flavor of Ubuntu Linux, more details are now available on their upcoming development efforts and eventual transition to an Ubuntu 26.04 base.



Linux 7.2-rc6 Fixes Some AMD Zen 5 CPUs Being Mistakenly Identified As Zen 6

([AMD] 2 August 06:25 AM EDT Not Zen 6 Models)

Today's batch of x86 fixes for the kernel ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc6 release later in the day addresses some AMD Zen 5 processors mistakenly being classified as Zen 6.



Box64 v0.4.4 Released With New Box64-Configurator App

([Free Software] 2 August 06:06 AM EDT Box64 0.4.4)

Box64 0.4.4 released today as the newest version of this open-source user-space Linux x86_64 emulator for running binaries on 64-bit ARM, RISC-V, and LoongArch systems.



Steam On Linux Use Back Above 4% In July

([Valve] 1 August 08:25 PM EDT Steam On Linux)

Valve just published the Steam Survey results for July 2026 and point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use.



NetBSD 11.0 Released With RISC-V Support, Enhanced Linux System Call Compatibility

([BSD] 1 August 12:49 PM EDT NetBSD 11.0)

NetBSD 11.0 officially shipped today as the nineteenth major release of this popular BSD operating system.



MPEG-4 Patent Expiration, RADV On Windows, Open-Source AI & Other July Highlights

([Phoronix] 1 August 09:30 AM EDT July 2026 Recap)

Last month on Phoronix there were 257 original Linux/open-source related news articles and another 20 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Following the recent 22nd birthday of Phoronix.com, this puts the overall tally at nearly 51k original news articles and more than 5,600 Linux hardware reviews. Here is a look back at what readers found most exciting during the course of July.



Prominent Arch Linux Developer Resigns After 10 Year Run

([Arch Linux] 1 August 07:47 AM EDT Foxboron)

Arch Linux developer, security team member, AUR maintainer, and package maintainer Morten Linderud "Foxboron" announced today he is resigning from the project.



Linux 7.2-rc6 Working Around Several Buggy Western Digital SATA Drives

([Hardware] 1 August 06:49 AM EDT Western Digital Drive Quirks)

Merged ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.2-rc6 kernel test release are several ATA fixes that include a number of device-specific workarounds for some Western Digital SATA drives that have been failing to work on recent versions of the Linux kernel.



GNOME Working To Establish An RFC Process, Battling Sloppy AI-Generated Extensions

([GNOME] 1 August 06:34 AM EDT GNOME Request For Comments)

GNOME developers were quite busy in closing out the month of July from continued work on establishing a formal Request For Comments (RFC) process for the project to battling the continued flood of AI-generated GNOME Shell extensions.



KDE Plasma 6.8 To Enjoy Huge Performance Gains For Multi-GPU/eGPU Performance

([KDE] 1 August 06:18 AM EDT KDE Plasma 6.8)

It's been a very exciting week in the KDE Plasma 6.8 development space particularly thanks to performance work on bettering KWin's multi-GPU / external GPU handling.



Picolibc 1.8.12 Brings Latest Improvements To This Embedded-Focused C Library

([Programming] 1 August 06:00 AM EDT Picolibc 1.8.12)

If the recent release of the GNU C Library glibc 2.44 is too big for your embedded use-cases, Keith Packard continues hacking on Picolibc as his embedded-focused C library. Released overnight was Picolibc 1.8.12 with a variety of improvements for this embedded libc.



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