📰 Linux Patches Introduce "KNOD" For In-Kernel Network Offloading Directly To AMD GPUs

Some extremely cool patches were posted to the Linux kernel mailing list on Sunday. The patches for "KNOD" allow for in-kernel network offloading to GPUs with an initial focus on AMD GPU support. What makes this all the more nifty is that it doesn't depend upon any user-space libraries like AMD ROCm but is all handled in-kernel with driving the GPU directly...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/KNOD-Network-Offload-AMD-GPUs

📰 Linux 7.2 Improves Intel Panther Lake Xe3 Arc B390 Graphics Performance

My testing of the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel continues in the lab. One of the latest promising findings from this kernel that will be released as stable in August is faster Intel Xe3 graphics performance on Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" hardware.

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https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-72-panther-lake

📰 IPFire 2.29 Core Update 203 Firewall Distro Replaces Unbound with Knot Resolver

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 203 hardened Linux firewall distro is now available for download with Knot Resolver, 6 GHz Wi-Fi band support, and other changes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/ipfire-2-29-core-update-203-firewall-distro-replaces-unbound-with-knot-resolver

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📰 Linus Torvalds Spent Years Dismissing AI, Only to Vouch for It

A chronological look at how Linux's creator went from "90% marketing" to telling AI critics to fork the kernel or walk away.

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https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17381815/linus-torvalds-on-ai

📰 Faugus Launcher 2.0 rolls out with a new UI and many other enhancements

The idea of Faugus Launcher is to provide a reasonably simple game manager for Linux, as an alternative to Lutris and Heroic.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

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https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/faugus-launcher-2-0-rolls-out-with-a-new-ui-and-many-other-enhancements/

📰 Building an Arch Linux aarch64 port for Holo Core

The Holo Core aarch64 preview provides early binaries, sources, and containers for an Arch Linux-based aarch64 port, backed by tooling and CI work for reproducible rolling-release builds.

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https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/building-an-arch-linux-aarch64-port-for-holo-core.html

📰 Cold Reset Recovery Coming Together To Better Help Intel GPUs On Linux

One of the patch series going through nearly a dozen revisions now is for introducing a cold reset recovery method for the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers with an initial focus on the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Cold-Reset-Recovery-Linux

📰 Guide: How to get SteamOS to always boot into Desktop Mode

If you want your SteamOS Linux machine like the Steam Deck or Steam Machine to automatically boot into Desktop Mode - that is actually possible.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/how-to-get-steamos-to-always-boot-into-desktop-mode

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https://www.gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/how-to-get-steamos-to-always-boot-into-desktop-mode/

📰 Canonical Makes The "Enterprise Store" Official For Offline/Air-Gapped Ubuntu Usage

For months the Enterprise Store "enterprise-store" has been mentioned in some Ubuntu documentation and other elements while today it was formally announced by Canonical. The Enterprise Store is for helping to manage Ubuntu Linux deployments particularly within enterprise organizations that may have their computers air-gapped or otherwise strict Internet controls...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Enterprise-Store

📰 AMD Getting The Linux Kernel Ready For Zen 6 Profiling/Perf With More EILVT Registers

Among the recent patch series in preparing Linux for upcoming AMD Zen 6 processors is making the kernel aware of additional EILVT registers to be found with at least EPYC Venice platforms...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-6-More-EILVT-Registers

📰 VirtualBox 7.2.14 Adds Initial Support for Linux Kernel 7.2

VirtualBox 7.2.14 is out with initial Linux kernel 7.2 support, RHEL guest fixes, Windows clipboard improvements, and UEFI corrections.

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https://linuxiac.com/virtualbox-7-2-14-adds-initial-support-for-linux-kernel-7-2/

📰 Valve's Steam Frame pushes Arch Linux toward official Arm64 support

Collabora's Holo Core port lays the groundwork for running SteamOS 3 natively on the headset.

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https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/07/21/valves-steam-frame-pushes-arch-linux-toward-official-arm64-support/5275459

📰 Qualcomm Posts Linux Patches For X2 Elite Extreme Powered ASUS Zenbook A16

Following recent Linux kernel patches enabling the Snapdragon X2 Elite powered Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 and HP EliteBook X G2q X2 Elite laptops to boot outside of Windows 11 on ARM, Qualcomm engineers have now posted a new patch series for getting the X2 Elite Extreme powered ASUS Zenbook A16 working on Linux...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Zenbook-A16-X2EE

📰 New Steam Client Update Improves NVIDIA GPU Hardware Acceleration on Linux

Valve released a new stable Steam Client update that promises to improve hardware acceleration for NVIDIA GPUs and game recording on Linux systems.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/new-steam-client-update-improves-nvidia-gpu-hardware-acceleration-on-linux

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