📰 Red Hat offers RHEL support ‘forever’ for those who need to lock in to legacy tech

Red Hat has created a new support offering for its flagship Enterprise Linux that it characterizes as “RHEL forever” and has “no pre-determined end date.”

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https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/07/10/red-hat-offers-rhel-support-forever-for-those-who-need-to-lock-in-to-legacy-tech/5269640

📰 HiZ Plane Optimization Merged For Intel Vulkan Linux Driver For Some Performance Benefit

After two years being on the TODO list for a possible performance optimization, the Intel open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver has now merged an HiZ plane optimization that can yield up to a few percent frame-rate improvement for Linux gaming/graphics on newer Intel integrated and discrete graphics hardware...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-HiZ-Plane-Optimization

📰 Linux DT Patches Provide Very Basic Support For Apple M3 Pro / Max / Ultra

Upstreamed for the Linux 7.2 kernel was initial support for booting Linux on the Apple M3 SoC devices. But just the barebones suppport for booting with not yet any accelerated graphics or other typical function needed for daily use of M3 Apple devices on Linux, just booting to a console. Now this work is complemented by additional Device Tree patches for also booting M3 Pro / Max / Ultra devices on Linux...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DT-Apple-M3-Pro-Max-Ultra

📰 Linux 7.3 Enabling Second Graphics Pipe For Modern AMD APUs

AMD on Thursday sent out another round of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver updates to DRM-Next of new feature material ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window...

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#amd #kernel #linux

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Second-Pipe-GFX11-APU

📰 Pop!_OS Rolls Out Its "Frosted Glass" Desktop Style For COSMIC

System76 developers have for the past number of weeks been working on developing a "frosted glass" appearance for the COSMIC desktop environment featured on their Pop!_OS Linux distribution. For Pop!_OS users this frosted glass feature is now available and will become more widespread for other Linux distributions once the next COSMIC release is formally tagged...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Frosted-Glass-Arrives

📰 Azure Linux 4.0 Released: Microsoft Expands Its Enterprise Linux Platform Beyond the Cloud

by George WhittakerMicrosoft has officially unveiled Azure Linux 4.0, the latest version of its open-source Linux distribution designed for cloud infrastructure, enterprise workloads, and modern data centers. Formerly known as CBL-Mariner, Azure Linux has powered Microsoft's internal cloud services for years, but version 4.

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https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/azure-linux-40-released-microsoft-expands-its-enterprise-linux-platform-beyond-cloud

📰 Valve fix up Marvel Rivals on SteamOS / Linux with Proton Hotfix

Another constantly updated game that broke with newer Proton recently is Marvel Rivals, but now thanks to Valve it should work again with Proton Hotfix.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

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https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-fix-up-marvel-rivals-on-steamos-linux-with-proton-hotfix/

📰 DLSS Updater 4.3.0 for Linux has "grown into a full Proton Upscalers panel"

Open source is awesome, and tools like the DLSS Updater can be incredibly useful and the Linux support just keeps on getting better.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

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#linux #opensource #proton

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https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/dlss-updater-4-3-0-for-linux-has-grown-into-a-full-proton-upscalers-panel/

📰 Linux 7.2-rc3 Bringing Display Detection Improvement To Help Some Multi-GPU Systems

Sent out today was this week's round of x86 (x86_64) fixes ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc3 kernel test candidate due out on Sunday...

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc3-Multi-GPU-Fix

📰 I Mined and Built My Way Through Space Haven

An indie game studio out of Finland, Linus Torvalds' birth country, built this game, treating Linux as a first-class citizen.

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https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17376559/space-haven-review

📰 COSMIC Desktop’s Big Visual Upgrade Is Finally Here

Pop!_OS 24.04 users can now enable COSMIC’s long-awaited Frosted Glass effect, with a wider Linux rollout expected next week.

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https://linuxiac.com/cosmic-desktop-big-visual-upgrade-is-finally-here/

📰 Compromised jscrambler 8.14.0 npm Release Drops Rust Infostealer During Install

Version 8.14.0 of the jscrambler npm package shipped with a malicious preinstall hook that silently drops and runs a native infostealer during installation, one build each for Windows, macOS, and Linux.Published on July 11, 2026, it needs no import and no CLI call. Installing 8.14.0 is enough to run it.Socket flagged the release six minutes after it was.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/compromised-jscrambler-8140-npm-release.html

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📰 COSMIC just hit version 1.2, and it's quietly doing things GNOME and KDE still make you fight for

The world of Linux desktops is rich and varied, with plenty of options to suit your preferences. But while KDE and GNOME dominate the landscape, a relative newcomer is starting to make waves with features other desktops still don't fully support. It's called COSMIC, and it recently hit version 1.2.

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https://www.xda-developers.com/cosmic-hit-version-1-2-quietly-doing-things-gnome-kde-still-make-you-fight-for/

📰 Claude desktop app for Linux enters beta

Anthropic has released a beta of its Claude desktop app for Linux, launching alongside an apt repo Ubuntu users can add for ongoing updates. According to the official docs, Claude desktop for Linux offers “the same Chat, Cowork, and Claude Code experience as macOS and Windows: parallel sessions, visual diff review, an integrated terminal and editor, and live app preview”. However, not all of the app’s features are yet available.

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#linux #ubuntu

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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/claude-desktop-linux-beta

📰 Reworked System Call Entry Handling Slated For Linux 7.3

Stemming from looking at a proposed Linux kernel patch to alter the Linux kernel's system call number handling, veteran Linux kernel developer Thomas Gleixner went down a rabbit hole of the kernel's system call entry handling to make a number of clean-ups and improvements to the code. That rework to the system call entry handling is now expected to land for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle...

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#kernel #linux

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rework-Sysclal-Entry-Linux-7.3

📰 Heavy Metal Death Can is a retro survival horror set on a Cold War–era submarine - now on Linux

Heavy Metal Death Can released back in May and just recently the developer updated the game to include Native Linux and macOS support.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

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https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/heavy-metal-death-can-is-a-retro-survival-horror-set-on-a-cold-war-era-submarine-now-on-linux/

📰 My Linux laptop runs better now that I treat it like a server

I'm my own sysadmin and I only have myself to blame.

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#linux

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https://www.xda-developers.com/my-linux-pc-runs-better-now-that-i-treat-it-like-a-server/

📰 New Linux Patches Aim To Better Handle Multiple Swap Devices

For those having Linux systems with multiple swap devices, such as for swap tiering or layered swap handling, a set of patches posted today for the Linux kernel are looking to improve the situation...

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#kernel #linux

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Improve-Multi-Swap-Device

📰 Visor Is a New Graphical UEFI Boot Manager for Linux

Visor is a new open-source UEFI boot manager for Linux, designed to launch kernels, UKIs, Windows, and other EFI applications.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/visor-is-a-new-graphical-uefi-boot-manager-for-linux/

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https://share.google/SzhUSfQLH17fpg0kI

📰 Intel Vulkan Driver Now Supports H.265 10-bit Video Encoding

Hyunjun Ko with Igalia continues advancing the Vulkan Video capabilities of the Intel open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver for Linux systems...

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#intel #linux #opensource

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Vulkan-Video-10-bit-H265