📰 AMD EPYC Server Performance Up ~8% Geo Mean For 2026 With Linux Kernel Improvements

With the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel showing some nice performance improvements over Linux 7.2 in different areas, Linux 7.2 also having brought some nice gains especially for I/O, and the preceding kernels also having seen some nice performance optimizations this year, I wanted to measure how far the Linux kernel performance has evolved so far in 2026.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-618-73-amd-epyc

#amd #kernel #linux

📰 The most highly rated Native Linux Steam games for August 2026

Here's some of the highest-rated Native Linux games released on Steam during August 2026. Helping you find something interesting to go and play.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/the-most-highly-rated-native-linux-steam-games-for-august-2026/

#linux #steam

📰 Nebula Matrix Network Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 7.4

NBL is a new Ethernet networking driver destined to premiere in the upcoming Linux 6.4 kernel for supporting Nebula Matrix NICs...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nebula-Matrix-NIC-Linux-7.4

#kernel #linux

📰 I spent hours debugging Docker permissions until one number in my compose file fixed everything

Homelabbing looks straightforward, and it is, until you run into something. Since each setup is different, the solutions aren’t always the same, or documented. A similar thing happened to me a few months ago. While setting up Nextcloud on my homelab Debian server, I faced a permission denied error.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/hours-debugging-docker-permissions-until-number-compose-file-fixed/

#debian

📰 Patches Posted For Enabling Apple Silicon Mac Speaker & Headset Jack Support On Linux

While the downstream Asahi Linux kernel has offered working speaker support and headset jack capabilities on Apple Silicon Macs, the mainline Linux kernel hasn't supported this functionality. But a set of 28 patches sent out today on the Linux kernel mailing list are working toward mainlining this important functionality for using Apple Macs on the upstream Linux desktop...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-Mac-Speaker-Headset-Linux

#kernel #linux

📰 Gravity Linux Aims To Provide A Nice Experience For Apple M4 & Newer

There's a new Linux distribution focused on supporting Linux on Apple Silicon Macs. Gravity Linux is this new distribution that is a spin of Fedora Remix and is catering to the still-experimentally-supported Apple M4 Macs and newer. In addition to leveraging Asahi Linux code and reverse engineering, Gravity Linux also leverages OpenAI Codex and Claude Code...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gravity-Linux-M4-Mac-Mini-Alpha

#fedora #linux

📰 AMD Begins Preparing Open-Source Linux Driver For Graphics Cards With GDDR7

AMD sent out their latest Linux kernel graphics driver patches today for enabling some new hardware IP blocks. And as part of that, preparing for GDDR7 video memory with the AMDGPU driver...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Linux-Prep-GDDR7

#amd #kernel #linux #opensource

📰 Qualcomm Posts Open-Source GPU Driver Patches For Adreno 850 One Day After Announcement

Yesterday Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 as quite an interesting mobile SoC. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 features Adreno 850 graphics and already one-day later their engineers are out with initial Linux kernel patches for bringing up the A850 with the MSM kernel driver...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Adreno-850-Open-Source

#kernel #linux #opensource

📰 Valve Introduces Pyrowave Video Codec In Beta For Low Latency Streaming

Valve's Steam client beta today introduced Pyrowave as an experimental video codec for high bandwidth, low-latency video streaming...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Steam-Beta-Pyrowave

#steam

📰 Here's some of the best VR games released on Steam in 2026 so far

Here's some of the highest-rated VR games released on Steam in 2026. Helping you get ready for the SteamOS Linux powered Steam Frame.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/heres-some-of-the-best-vr-games-released-on-steam-in-2026-so-far/

#linux #steam

📰 Longtime SUSE staff asked if they'd opt for 'voluntary separation'

Other changes also afoot as employees unionize and the distro itself sees modifications.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/09/22/longtime-suse-staff-asked-if-theyd-opt-for-voluntary-separation/5297457

#distro

📰 Cache Aware Scheduling Fixes Queued For Submission To Linux 7.3, Backporting To 7.2

Later this week it looks like the latest round of Cache Aware Scheduling fixes will be merged for enhancing this kernel scheduler functionality for grouping related tasks together on CPU cores that share the same last level cache (LLC). Cache Aware Scheduling can lead to better cache locality and lower latency by avoiding the costs of potential cache bouncing -- that is when bugs don't get in the way...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-CAS-Fixes-Coming

#kernel #linux

📰 KDE developers' attempts at creating LLM guidelines are not going well

It seems the KDE developers want to allow some use of generative AI / LLMs, as they're working on a policy of guidelines for it.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/kde-developers-attempts-at-creating-llm-guidelines-are-not-going-well/

#kde

📰 Linux Adding New Interface For Reporting AMD SEV Status

A convenient addition that surprisingly hasn't been added to the Linux kernel until now is /sys/devices/system/cpu/sev/sev_status as a new sysfs interface for reporting the AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) status...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-sysfs-AMD-SEV-Status

#amd #kernel #linux

📰 Flatpak 1.18.3 Fixes Subsandbox Startup and Updates Meson Wrap Subprojects

Flatpak 1.18.3 Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework is now available for download with various bug and crash fixes for the stable Flatpak 1.18 series.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/flatpak-1-18-3-fixes-subsandbox-startup-and-updates-meson-wrap-subprojects

#flatpak #linux

📰 Classic physics-based browser game Happy Wheels gets revived on Steam

Happy Wheels is a game all about getting from A to B, and failing constantly while creating a rather amusing bloody mess.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/classic-physics-based-browser-game-happy-wheels-gets-revived-on-steam/

#steam

📰 New Linux Kernel Flaw Gives ARM64 KVM Guests Read-Write Access to Host Memory

A new flaw in the Linux kernel's KVM virtualization code for ARM64 processors can leave a freed piece of host memory exposed to a guest virtual machine on hosts with nested virtualization enabled.The bug, tracked as CVE-2026-89775, allows a guest to read and write host kernel memory, and the researcher who found it says it can be used to escape the guest and run code on the host machine.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/new-linux-kernel-flaw-gives-arm64-kvm.html

#kernel #linux

📰 Alibaba Contributing $3M USD To Omarchy To Work On Making "Ideal" Agentic OS

The Omarchy project announced today that Alibaba Cloud will be contributing a total of three million USD to their foundation for helping development of this Linux distribution and working to make it an "ideal agentic operating system"...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Omarchy-Alibaba-3M

#linux

📰 Steam Tests New Pyrowave Codec on Linux and SteamOS

Valve is testing Pyrowave, a new low-latency Steam Remote Play codec available on Linux and SteamOS through the experimental SteamRT3 client.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/steam-tests-new-pyrowave-codec-on-linux-and-steamos/

#linux #steam