📰 Ubuntu Linux Looking To Get Rid Of /etc/debian_version Historical Artifact

Ubuntu Linux has shipped /etc/debian_version that is carried over from upstream Debian and in turn just indicating the Debian Sid development version from which the packages are arrived. Besides it being inaccurate, /etc/os-release has been the long preferred standard for reading the OS release information. Thus finally Ubuntu developers are looking at dropping the /etc/debian_version file...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Drop-Debian-Version

📰 Snapdragon X Elite Laptop Experience Still Lackluster On Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

At the end of last year when checking out the latest Linux experience on the Snapdragon X Elite it was a disappointing affair. The performance had regressed and overall a more headache-inducing experience than just running a modern AMD Ryzen AI or Intel Core Ultra laptop on Linux. Given the recent release of Ubuntu 26.

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https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2604-snapdragon-x-elite

📰 Beam Eye Tracker app adds Linux and macOS support in Beta

The highly rated Steam app Beam Eye Tracker just recently released a public Beta for their impressive looking eye-tracking app for gaming.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

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https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/beam-eye-tracker-app-adds-linux-and-macos-support-in-beta/

📰 Bing Images Flaws Let Crafted SVGs Run Commands as SYSTEM on Microsoft's Servers

A crafted SVG submitted to Bing's image search ran commands as NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM on Microsoft's production image-processing workers, and as root on the Linux machines in the same fleet.XBOW's testing got the same result on workers across different hosts and network ranges, so the problem sat in Bing's image tier, not on one bad machine. Microsoft issued two critical CVEs, CVE-2026-32194 and.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/bing-images-flaws-let-crafted-svgs-run.html

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📰 Imagination PowerVR Driver Marking BXM-4-64 MC1 GPU As Supported In Linux 7.3

Sent out today was the weekly round of drm-misc-next patches of new Direct Rendering Manager feature material ready to be queued in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Imagination-BXM-4-64-Linux-7.3

📰 Linux Kernel 7.1.4 Released with Bug Fixes, Security Updates, and Hardware Improvements

by George WhittakerGreg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of Linux Kernel 7.1.4, the latest stable maintenance update for the Linux 7.1 series. As with other stable kernel releases, version 7.1.4 focuses on fixing bugs, improving hardware compatibility, and addressing security and reliability issues without introducing new features. The update became available on July 18, 2026, and users of the Linux 7.

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https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-kernel-714-released-bug-fixes-security-updates-and-hardware-improvements

📰 Qualcomm QCE Driver On The Chopping Block With ~48x Slower Than Armv8 Crypto Extensions

A few days back I wrote about upstream Linux kernel developers marking the Qualcomm crypto accelerator driver as "broken" and "harmful" due to its slow performance, history of bugs, and other limitations. Now this Qualcomm Crypto Engine "QCE" driver might be removed outright from the Linux kernel source tree after discovering it's even worse than anticipated...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-QCE-48x-Slower

📰 GE-Proton 11-3 brings better OptiScaler integration, AMD FSR4 improvements and lots of game fixes

GE-Proton 11-3 (and 11-2 just before) is a huge release for the popular compatibility layer for SteamOS / Linux.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

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https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/ge-proton-11-3-brings-better-optiscaler-integration-amd-fsr4-improvements-and-lots-of-game-fixes/

📰 GNU C Library 2.44 Released With /etc/tunables.conf, More Optimizations

GNU developers today released GNU C Library "glibc" 2.44 as the newest feature release for this critical library to modern Linux systems and other platforms...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-C-Library-glibc-2.44

📰 Meet Shadowfetch Linux, a New Debian-Based Distro Built Around Local AI

Shadowfetch Linux combines Debian Testing, KDE Plasma 6.6, creative software, privacy-focused defaults, and tools for running AI models locally.

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https://linuxiac.com/meet-shadowfetch-linux-a-new-debian-based-distro-built-around-local-ai/