KDE's Plasma Bigscreen TV UI gets rebooted with slicker visuals, search functionality, and more – thanks to one developer tuning in to its potential.

omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/plasma…

#kde #linux #opensource

Plasma Bigscreen, KDE’s TV Interface, is Back on the Air

^{Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)}

"dracut is a powerful tool used in Fedora, RHEL, and other distributions to create and manage initramfs images—the initial RAM filesystem used during system boot. Unlike older tools like mkinitrd, dracut uses a modular approach, allowing you to build minimal or specialized initramfs tailored to your system."

➡️ fedoramagazine.org/%F0%9F%A7%B…

#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource #dracut

🧱 Building better initramfs: A deep dive into dracut on Fedora & RHEL - Fedora Magazine

Understanding how to use dracut is critical for kernel upgrades, troubleshooting boot issues, disk migration, encryption, and even kernel debugging. This article explores this tool.

^{Suraj Rajendra Patil (Fedora Project)}

🎬✨ Where open source reliability powers the magic behind every frame.

#AlmaLinuxDayVancouver is happening Aug 9th!

Artists, pipeline devs, and system engineers who make up the backbone of VFX, this day is for you! 🐧

I learnt about immutable Linux desktops this week and they sound incredibly fun!

Like, I could setup GitHub CI/CD for building my custom @fedora variant on a nightly basis? Just wow.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" GPUs Now Vulkan 1.2 Conformant With NVK

Yet more feature code continues piling in for the Mesa 25.2 release due out next month and days ahead of the feature freeze. Hitting Mesa Git this evening is now treating NVIDIA Kepler GPUs as Vulkan 1.2 conformant following the Vulkan 1.2 CTS passing with the NVK open-source driver paired with the Nouveau kernel driver...
phoronix.com/news/NVK-Kepler-V…

Additional AMD RDNA3 & RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Improvements For Mesa 25.2 RADV

Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 feature freeze and code branching expected later this week, some additional ray-tracing optimizations were merged today for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver. These latest RADV ray-tracing improvements benefit the latest Radeon RX 9000 series "RDNA4" the most but there are also some optimizations too for RDNA3 class GPUs...
phoronix.com/news/RADV-More-RT…

Just thinking how much annually careless car drivers take from us....

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…

#WarOnCars #FaujaSingh #Marathons

Fauja Singh, ‘world’s oldest marathon runner’, dies in road accident aged 114

Singh’s east London running club confirms death in India of athlete thought to be first centenarian to run a marathon

^{Jamie Grierson (The Guardian)}

Bangkok Scientifique - Rethinking Education: Why Aren't Schools Preparing Kids for the Future

meetup.com/bkksci/events/30969…

Rethinking Education: Why Aren't Schools Preparing Kids for the Future?, Thu, Jul 31, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup

Across the globe, people are starting to question whether the classroom is keeping pace with the world outside. While technology transforms how we live and work, students o

^Meetup

The upcoming skate. from EA will be unsupported on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck due to anti-cheat gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/the-…

#skate #AntiCheat #EA #Linux #SteamOS #SteamDeck

The upcoming skate. from EA will be unsupported on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck due to anti-cheat

skate. is an upcoming next-generation skateboarding game and it's now confirmed it will not support Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck due to anti-cheat.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Intel Enabling SR-IOV For Battlemage Graphics Cards With Linux 6.17

The upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel is going to be an especially nice release for users of modern Intel graphics hardware on Linux. The very latest feature being enabled for this next Linux kernel version is SR-IOV for Battlemage GPUs to vastly enhance the Intel Linux graphics experience in virtualized environments...
phoronix.com/news/Intel-Enable…

Popular free online shooter STRAFTAT just got a big content expansion with 4 player support gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/popu…

#STRAFTAT

Popular free online shooter STRAFTAT just got a big content expansion with 4 player support

STRAFTAT is a free to play arena shooter that's quite popular, and it just had a big content expansion with support for 4 players.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition has arrived and Steam Deck Verified gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/dung…

#NeverwinterNights2 #SteamDeck #Gaming #PCGaming

Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition has arrived and Steam Deck Verified

Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition is now here from Aspyr Media, updating the classic from 2006.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Blender 4.5 LTS Released With Vulkan & Wayland Improvements, Some Optimizations

Blender 4.5 is now officially available today as the newest feature release and one that is a Long Term Support (LTS) for this popular, cross-platform 3D modeling software...
phoronix.com/news/Blender-4.5-…

Broadcom BCM5770X Networking Driver Support Heading To Linux 6.17

One month ago there was the report on Phoronix of the Broadcom "BNGE" open-source driver being published for forthcoming BCM5770X networking chipsets. That new Broadcom BNGE driver is now set to be introduced in the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel for supporting the new Broadcom wired networking hardware at up to 800 Gigabit speeds...
phoronix.com/news/Broadcom-BCM…

Wuthering Waves now Steam Deck Playable, and works on Desktop Linux with one tweak gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/wuth…

#WutheringWaves #Linux #SteamOS #SteamDeck #Gaming

Wuthering Waves now Steam Deck Playable, and works on Desktop Linux with one tweak

After Wuthering Waves launched on Steam, it was left broken on all Linux platforms including SteamOS and Steam Deck but now it works.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

LLVM 22 Compiler Enters Development With LLVM 21 Now Branched

The LLVM 21 compiler stack was branched today as release preparations get underway for shipping this next half-year compiler release as stable in late August or early September. In turn that now opens up LLVM 22 for development...
phoronix.com/news/LLVM-22-Star…

GTK3 Port Of The Kernel's gconfig Utility Appears Ready For Linux 6.17

Last month patches were posted for porting the Linux kernel's "gconfig" graphical kernel configuration utility from GTK2 to GTK3. It looks like those patches for the GTK3-ified gconfig are ready for upstreaming come Linux 6.17...
phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-g…

Shark Dentist looks a bit silly, tense, gruesome and I need to play it gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/shar…

#SharkDentist #IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming

Shark Dentist looks a bit silly, tense, gruesome and I need to play it

I don't know who that it was a good idea to be a Shark Dentist, in what looks like a set from a cheap horror movie - but now I have to try it.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

The Alters gets patched to replace AI generated bits, fix a Steam Deck crash and more gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/the-…

#TheAlters #AI #Steam #SteamDeck #Gaming #PCGaming

The Alters gets patched to replace AI generated bits, fix a Steam Deck crash and more

The Alters from 11 bit studios appears to be doing very well, apart from the controversy over the AI generated bits. A new patch is out to fix it up.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

More months added to our Linux distribution chart on our Steam Tracker: gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracke…

#Linux

Steam Linux Market Share | GamingOnLinux

Steam Linux user share statistics over time

^{GamingOnLinux}

RimWorld – Odyssey expansion is out now along with update 1.6 gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/rimw…

#RimWorld #Gaming #Linux #PCGaming

RimWorld – Odyssey expansion is out now along with update 1.6

RimWorld has expanded in a massive way with the Odyssey expansion and the 1.6 update, now available for all players.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Intel ANV Driver Now Exposes Vulkan Video AV1 Decode On Battlemage & Lunar Lake

While the Intel Media SDK with VA-API has long supported accelerated video decoding, the latest Mesa 25.2 development code has now landed support for AV1 decoding using the Vulkan Video API with the Intel ANV driver for Xe2 Battlemage / Lunar Lake graphics and Gfx125 Xe graphics too...
phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-Vu…

Try the big demo upgrade for Demon Tides, an impressive looking open-world 3D platformer gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/try-…

#DemonTides #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck

Try the big demo upgrade for Demon Tides, an impressive looking open-world 3D platformer

An open world platformer where you express yourself with different movements, Demon Tides looks like a lot of fun and it just had a huge demo upgrade.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Legion Go S gets Joystick LED controls in SteamOS, plus more Steam updates for all gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/legi…

#Steam #SteamOS #PCGaming #LegionGoS #SteamDeck

Legion Go S gets Joystick LED controls in SteamOS, plus more Steam updates for all

Valve put out a new Steam Beta for Desktop and SteamOS, here's all that's changed for the July 14th update.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Cyan bought a U-shaped pillow and she instantly fell asleep on it! I tried it and now she says every time she comes into the bedroom, there's a catgirl on it...

Today we slept with it until noon, and after lunch I lied down and she snuggled up. We woke up at 6:30 PM... It's too powerful!!!!

#AsaCyan

Latest Intel Engineering Layoffs Lead To An Intel Linux Driver Being Orphaned

The latest round of cost-cutting at Intel seems to be having a larger impact on their software engineering efforts than some of their previous rounds of layoffs. In addition to a prominent Linux kernel developer veteran leaving Intel last week where he worked for the past 14 years and responsible for many great upstream improvements, other Intel software enginee…
phoronix.com/news/Intel-SLM-Dr…

Google Publishes Updated Proposal For Standardizing Haptic Touchpads On Linux

As part of work going back to 2019, an engineer on Google's Chromium OS team submitted an updated proposal on Monday for seeking to standardize the haptic touchpad support within the Linux kernel...
phoronix.com/news/Google-Hapti…

RADV Lands Experimental Host Image Copy Support (VK_EXT_host_image_copy)

Making it into the RADV Vulkan driver ahead of this week's Mesa 25.2 feature freeze is experimental support for the VK_EXT_host_image_copy extension. The Vulkan host image copy extension was worked on by Valve and others for letting applications/games copy data between the host memory and images on the host processor without having to first stage via a GPU-accessible buf…
phoronix.com/news/RADV-Experim…