📰 CachyOS is Arch Linux for normal people, and that's why I switched

Arch is an excellent distro for those who want to make every single choice for themselves, but I quickly grew decision fatigue.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/i-stopped-using-arch-and-switched-to-the-distro-that-beat-it-at-its-own-game/

#arch #distro #linux

📰 Frame Gives FFmpeg a Modern GUI for Everyday Media Conversion

Frame is an open-source media conversion utility that wraps FFmpeg in a native Rust GUI for video, audio, image, subtitle, and metadata workflows.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/frame-gives-ffmpeg-a-modern-gui-for-everyday-media-conversion/

#ffmpeg #opensource

📰 Proton 11.0-1 Released To Advance Valve's Steam Play For The Best Linux Experience Yet

Proton 11.0-1 was just released as stable as the newest major version of this downstream of Wine that powers Valve's Steam Play to provide for a great Windows gaming experience across conventional Linux systems plus the popular Steam Deck and brand new Steam Machine...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Proton-11.0-1

#linux #proton #steam #wine

📰 Lilbits: Flipper Zero’s firmware future, a new Linux gaming laptop, an E Ink monitor, and AMD’s pricey Ryzen Halo mini PC

Shortly after launching a new thin and light Linux laptop with an Intel Panther Lake processor, Linux PC company System76 is preparing to launch… another notebook that could be described the same way. But the updated System76 Adder Pro also packs features like discrete graphics and an OLED display with a high refresh rate, which means .

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/lilbits-flipper-zeros-firmware-future-a-new-linux-gaming-laptop-an-e-ink-monitor-and-amds-pricey-ryzen-halo-mini-pc/

#amd #intel #linux

📰 The Raspberry Pi price hikes pushed me to ESP32s, and honestly my smart home runs better now

Holding off on that Raspberry Pi 5 purchase since last year was a mistake. Raspberry Pi has raised prices three separate times since December 2025. With the price revision in April, some models were selling for 83% above their launch price. The 16GB Pi 5, which was selling for $120, is now $205 after the price hike. The company, like many others, pointed to the DRAM shortage as the cause of global price increases across several products.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/raspberry-pi-price-hikes-pushed-me-esp32s-smart-home-runs-better/

#raspberry

📰 Someone made use of Linux's 68000 CPU compatibility by running it off an Atari Jaguar

The Linux kernel is one of those weird things where you didn't know what kind of hardware it supported until said support was removed. For example, I didn't know that the kernel supported the i386 processor until Linux 7.1 removed it.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/someone-made-use-of-linuxs-68000-cpu-compatibility-by-running-it-off-an-atari-jaguar/

#kernel #linux

📰 15-Year-Old GhostLock Flaw Enables Root and Container Escape on Most Linux Distros

Researchers at Nebula Security have disclosed GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499), a 15-year-old Linux kernel flaw that lets any logged-in user take full root control of a machine that has not been patched.The vulnerable code has shipped by default in essentially every mainstream distribution since 2011. The flaw needs no special permission, no unusual settings, and no network.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/15-year-old-ghostlock-flaw-enables-root.html

#kernel #linux

📰 xorg-server 21.1.24 and xwayland 24.1.13 released to fix more security issues

More security issues were recently discovered with xorg-server 21.1.24 and xwayland 24.1.13 released to fix up the problems.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/xorg-server-21-1-24-and-xwayland-24-1-13-released-to-fix-more-security-issues/

#xorg

📰 PiZZa turns your spare Raspberry Pi Zero W and 2 W into an Arduino

If you're a tinkerer, there's a very good chance you have a spare Raspberry Pi board or two sitting around. If one of them happens to be either a Raspberry Pi Zero W or a Zero 2 W, and all it's doing is collecting dust right now, why not turn it into an Arduino? It may sound impossible, but one project, called PiZZa, aims to let you do just that.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/pizza-turns-your-spare-raspberry-pi-zero-w-and-2-w-into-an-arduino/

#raspberry

📰 NTE: Neverness to Everness released on Steam - works on SteamOS / Linux with a workaround

NTE: Neverness to Everness is the latest bigger Anime gacha game to arrive on Steam from Perfect World Games / Hotta Studio and it can work on SteamOS / Linux.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/nte-neverness-to-everness-released-on-steam-works-on-steamos-linux-with-a-workaround/

#linux #steam

📰 Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ditches SharePoint while Bavaria also mulls Microsoft alternatives.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/07/08/another-german-state-heads-down-the-open-source-sovereignty-road/5268192

#opensource

📰 Linux Mint 23 to offer full Wayland support (but X11 is staying)

Linux Mint says Wayland support in its next release will no longer be considered experimental, but available as a fully-supported option. However, it will continue to provide and support X11, unlike other Linux distributions which have jettisoned the legacy Xorg/X11 display server from their default installations – Ubuntu dropped Xorg support in 25.10.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/linux-mint-wayland-fully-supported

#linux #ubuntu #wayland #xorg

📰 Redox OS Gets GTK3 Backend For Orbital Desktop, Fractional Scaling & USB Gamepads

The open-source, Rust-based Redox OS platform had a very eventful June with many new features implemented and more software ported over to run on this from-scratch operating system...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-June-2026

#opensource

📰 LibreOffice 26.8 Beta Released For Improving This Free Software Office Suite

The Document Foundation today announced the first beta release of the LibreOffice 26.8 open-source office suite set for its stable debut in August...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-26.8-Beta-1

#opensource

📰 OpenMandriva GitHub Disrupted & Nefarious Package Push In Sabotage Attempt

The OpenMandriva project put out a statement today concerning an attempted distribution sabotage effort. Part of the OpenMandriva GitHub repository was deleted and there was an empty package push made to OpenMandriva's Cooker repository in trying to obsolete all GNOME and COSMIC packages...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenMandriva-Disrupted

#gnome

📰 ORICO 88 Series 4-Bay USB4 NVMe SSD Enclosure Review: Fast Storage That Works Natively on Linux

A compact 4-bay NVMe enclosure with USB4 connectivity, tested on Linux with benchmarks.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17374968/orico-das-8848u-review

#linux

📰 Linux Mint’s Cinnamon 6.8 Desktop Environment Will Fully Support Wayland

Cinnamon 6.8 will fully support Wayland in the next major Linux Mint release, along with various other improvements and new features.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/linux-mints-cinnamon-6-8-desktop-environment-will-fully-support-wayland

#linux #wayland

📰 Linux Now Runs on the Atari Jaguar, a 1993 Console With Just 2 MB of RAM

The Atari Jaguar joins the list of unlikely Linux machines, booting a NOMMU Linux kernel and BusyBox shell from cartridge ROM.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/linux-now-runs-on-the-atari-jaguar-a-1993-console-with-just-2-mb-of-ram/

#kernel #linux

📰 This open-source app gives self-hosted music libraries the one feature Spotify users take for granted

Explo turns my Listenbrainz playlists into a self-growing music library, no Spotify required.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/app-gives-self-hosted-music-libraries-feature-spotify-take-for-granted/

#opensource

📰 Valve's new Proton 11 update is a retro gamer's dream

Games like Resident, Resident Evil 2, Dino Crisis, Dino Crisis 2, and Breath of Fire 4 now run great with the compatibility layer.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/valves-proton-11-update-retro-gamers-dream/

#proton

📰 Google pays $250K for Linux vulnerability allowing guest VM escapes

Both vulnerabilities allow untrusted users to gain root privileges.

🔗 Source: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/high-severity-guest-vm-escape-is-1-of-2-linux-vulnerabilities-to-surface-this-week/

#linux