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Valve's new VR Headset Is NEAT!

Valve announces their latest VR headset, how SteamOS handles Intel Battlemage GPUs, controlling blinkies with OpenRGB, and a PC port for Space Channel 5 for Linux. Video

Audacity 4.0 and Intel NPUs on Linux

SteamOS passes thirty thousand verified and playable titles, and the Linux gaming library just keeps getting bigger. A new homebrew tool called ButterAndJelly lets you st

Linux Age Checks Overturned and Debian OKs AI

This week, California exempts Linux and other open-source operating systems from upcoming age-verification rules, while Debian votes to allow responsible use of generativ

30 Years of Steam and UEFI For Raspberry Pi!

Happy 35th Birthday to Linux! We put on our old people hats and look back at the early days of wrestling with Slackware installs, and surviving CRT-killing configs. We al

EPIC Launcher Headed Linux & Proxmox on ARM!

Ploopy announces their slickest DIY trackball to date, EPIC threatens to release their client on Linux, Kernel 7.2 learns how to Apple M3, and Proxmox makes ARM an offici

Linux Cracks 10% Desktop Usage!

NVIDIA joins the LVFS, bringing easy firmware updates to Linux! Blick launches their video editor built entirely in Odin, Linux desktop usage reaches an all-time high of

4GB AMD 9050 GPUs and Chrome for ARM Linux!

Possible price increases for the VR Head Toaster, Google Chrome for ARM Linux desktops, a new 10-inch touchscreen for Raspberry Pi, and NVIDIA doubling the price of Jetso

Native Linux RuneScape Launcher and Steam Machine Sales Data

Official native Linux Jagex Launcher for Old School RuneScape, revenue estimates for Valve's Steam Machine, a static recompilation of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night,

Pi Powered Stream Decks!

Building a Raspberry Pi powered Stream Deck, Redhat offers forever support, playing Silent Hill natively on Linux, and Cinnamon learned how-to Wayland? Video version of

Tuxedo Computers Ditches Ubuntu

Valve wants you to install SteamOS 3.8 on all the things! Tuxedo Computers snaps at Snaps, Acon Digital is preparing a Linux beta for its audio editor Acoustica, and Hann

New GPU Linux Benchmark Utility and 30-year old GIMP

GIMP like it's 1996! Goverlay gets super GPU benchmark powers, Pine64 announces a smart speaker, and Monix is a new driver + mixer for Audient audio interfaces on Linux.

Steam Machine$ and XFCE 4 Wayland!

Steam machines get a price tag! XFCE is one step closer to Wayland, DLSS for open-source NVIDIA drivers, and TEMU Cortana is headed to Ubuntu. Video version of the show

Replacing X11 And Wayland

Ladybird slams the door on AI pull requests, Kernel 7.1 brings a healthy performance boots for the Intel B580, emulating analog TV and VHS artifacts on Linux, and an offi

Ladybird Slams The Door On AI

Ladybird slams the door on AI pull requests, Kernel 7.1 brings a healthy performance boots for the Intel B580, emulating analog TV and VHS artifacts on Linux, and an offi

Laptop or Craptop?

Adventures with Thunderbolt eGPU docks on Linux, NVIDIA announces ARM PCs and laptops, new plugins for Audacious 4.6, and a craptop so bad it's kind of adorable. The vid

Steam Deck Restock Comes At A Price

Ploopy is back with a bean-powered pointing device, Germany invests in KDE, Firefox gain 6 million new users, and taking a look at the DIY router from Banana Pi. The vid

Real Mice Have BEANS

Ploopy is back with a bean-powered pointing device, Germany invests in KDE, Firefox gain 6 million new users, and taking a look at the DIY router from Banana Pi. Patreon

Twilight Princess Penguins

Tux turns 30! Kernel devs continue their war against old hardware, and somebody made a 3D terminal with a spinning rat cursor because reasons. Also, Twilight Princess run

AMD Patches HDMI 2.1 For Linux

The LVFS is ending the free ride for hardware vendors by requiring contributions to keep the service sustainable and high quality. AMD finally pushed HDMI 2.1 patches to

Framework Sells More Linux Laptops Than Windows!

Linux preinstalled version of the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro is outselling Windows, Ubuntu 26.04 ships with GNOME 50, kernel 7.0 arrives on the Orion O6 and O6N SBCs, an