📰 Factorio gets a full ARM64 Linux port to play anywhere - especially nice for the Steam Frame

Wube Software gave Factorio something players have been asking for 11 years - a full ARM64 Linux port to play anywhere, which is ready for the Steam Frame.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/factorio-gets-a-full-arm64-linux-port-to-play-anywhere-especially-nice-for-the-steam-frame/

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📰 Linux Ready With Fix For Intel's FRED Crashing Some Games Under Wine / Steam Play

Recently there have been some bug reports to Mesa around Intel Panther Lake graphics crashing with some games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Elden Ring crashing or freezing quite quickly. This turns out not to be an Intel Xe3 Arc Graphics B390 driver bug with Panther Lake but rather due to a kernel issue with the new Flexible and Return Event Delivery "FRED" that debuted with the Core Ultra Series 3 processors...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-FRED-Fix-For-Wine-Games

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📰 Apple Video Decode Driver Posted For Upstream Linux Kernel Review

The latest Apple Silicon enablement code working its way from the Asahi Linux project toward the upstream Linux kernel is the AVD driver used for accelerated video playback across Apple M1 / M2 / M3 SoCs...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-Video-Decode-AVD-Linux

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📰 Google's "Painful To Maintain" Binder C Linux Driver Being Removed In Favor Of Rust

Google's Binder driver written in the C programming language has long been part of the mainline kernel as the inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism used on Android. The past few years the Binder driver was rewritten in Rust as one of the first "real" drivers in the Rust programming language. The Rust Binder driver was upstreamed in Linux 6.18 and now for the upcoming Linux 7.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Binder-C-Goodbye

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📰 Public Exploits Released for Four Linux Kernel Flaws That Enable Local Root

A security researcher has released working exploit code for four Linux kernel flaws that each let a local user gain root, the highest level of access on a machine.Kernel maintainers have fixed all four over the past few weeks, so a system running an up-to-date kernel is not affected. But the exploit code is now public, and any machine still running an older kernel should be updated.The flaws.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/public-exploits-released-for-four-linux.html

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📰 Wine 11.18 Continues Building Out Its NTOSKRNL Implementation

Wine 11.18 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and apps on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.18-Released

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📰 CISA Flags Three Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added three security flaws impacting the Linux kernel to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2025-39682 (CVSS score: 9.8) - An improper check for unusual or exceptional conditions vulnerability in the TLS receive path.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/cisa-flags-three-linux-kernel.html

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📰 Simple Optimization For Linux 7.4 Can Open Files For Reading ~39% Faster

More than two years in the making, Linux 7.4 is poised to introduce a patch that amounts to a rather simple optimization to avoid unnecessary/duplicative work that can net some nice gains when opening files for reading...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Faster-Do-Open

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📰 Clonezilla Live 3.3.3-37 Disk Imaging Tool Released with Linux Kernel 7.1

Clonezilla Live 3.3.3-37 disk imaging/cloning tool is now available for download with Linux kernel 7.1, LUKS2 repository support, and support for PXEBoot and HTTPBoot network boot clients.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/clonezilla-live-3-3-3-37-disk-imaging-tool-released-with-linux-kernel-7-1

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📰 Important x86 Fixes Merged Ahead Of Linux 7.3-rc4

Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc4 kernel release due out in the coming hours, an important batch of x86/x86_64 fixes have been merged to address a few outstanding issues...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc4-x86-Fixes

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https://phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc4-x86-Fixes