The long legal battle over ownership of Linux "is closer than ever to ending," reports the Register, "after a panel of three judges ruled a claim against IBM and Red Hat isn't valid, and that time has expired for further action." In 2021, an heir to SCO settled with IBM for $14.25 million a sum that reflects the fact SCO had for years failed to produce strong evidence to back its claims

3,346 backers pledged $1,198,844 on Kickstarter to build the (modular) handheld Linux computer, the Mecha Comet

It's been a quarter-century since the firm folded, but the graphics chips still have utility in esoteric use cases.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: According to a Bloomberg report, attributed to China's Ministry of State Security, the country has ordered some government agencies to drop Windows 10 China Government Edition for Chinese-made Linux distributions

Developer uses Claude Code to create driver for the HP Laser 1008a, a 2023 printer that has Windows and Linux drivers, but no macOS driver until now.

[...] Linus Torvalds views AI as a useful tool and in this case reaffirmed he found it "enormously helped" his effort in tracking down this Intel graphics driver bug. The Intel Xe driver fix is merged to Linux 7.3 Git and is also marked to back-porting to the stable kernel branches

Proton VPNs Linux application is about to get a lot more accessible, as the privacy provider announces automatic localization support for 20 different languages arriving in the next major update.

Clever protocol wrangling gets iBiz-only people tracking working on a non-iGadget

Microcontroller-based products, such as the PineTime smartwatch, PineVoice smart speaker, and Pinecil soldering iron, aren't affected.

BrianFagioli writes: PINE64 has some very bad news for Linux hardware fans

A developer has revealed that they used Claude Code to create a macOS laser printer driver for the HP Laser 1008a, a machine designed for Windows users.

Say hello to smarter use of caches to speed things up, and a very odd gaming controller

"Epic Games has confirmed that it is working on a Linux version of its storefront, potentially removing the need for third-party launchers on platforms such as Steam Deck," reports PC Guide: The confirmation came during an Ask Me Anything (AMA) on the Epic Games Store's community Discord server

Linux Kernel 7.2 has just been officially released with a slew of new features, reports the blog 9to5Linux

A news reader, a movie recommender, and an important Linux release also feature in this new AI apps and services roundup!

2026 just gets better for Linux gamers, as Epic is making a native version of its launcher, plus the GeForce Now app has officially arrived.

The heavily modified ZTE Nubia Z70 Ultra uses two full-size CPU coolers to keep its Snapdragon 8 Elite running under sustained loads, while Termux, Linux and compatibility layers turn it into a makeshift desktop PC.

NVIDIA GeForce Now merupakan perkhidmatan gaming awanan yang membolehkan pengguna untuk menstrimakan permainan-permainan komputer melalui sambungan internet, perisian dan pelayar web, yang bermakna bahawa pengguna tidak memerlukan komputer yang berkuasa untuk memainkan permainan-permainan yang ditawarkan pada tetapan dan resolusi yang tinggi

Linux release candidates are supposed to get smaller, but Torvalds says AI review tools have made oversized the new normal.

Proton VPN has rolled out a major beta update powered by a brand-new Rust-based framework called Proton Protocols. Offering an Advanced Kill Switch, better censorship resistance, and Stealth on Linux, here's everything you need to know.

PlayStation Remote Play allows you to stream games from your PS4 or PS5 console to a variety of devices locally, but the Asobi: Remote Play service goes farther by extending the PlayStation Portal's exclusive PlayStation Plus Premium cloud game streaming support to the Steam Deck and other Linux devices.

SPONSORED FEATURE: Toolstation swapped aging Linux tills across branches for compact ASUS NUCs on ChromeOS Flex, cutting support tickets and freeing counter space

Cloudflare data suggests desktop Linux usage in North America has climbed to 6.4%, up from 4.1% a year earlier, with one post-holiday workday briefly spiking to 22%

Researchers from the digital defense firm A Security say thebugwas discovered in early June using publicly available AI models, and that it took fewer than 20 prompts to uncover the vulnerabilities and create a working attack. Zoom issued a security advisory on Tuesday, including details about fixes the company has already begun rolling out to address the flaws, which affected devices running all operating systems that Zoom supports -- Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android

The Steam Deck and Steam Machine, among other things, have sparked a surge of interest in getting videogames to run on Linux

This weekend's update follows June's SteamOS 3.8 update, which stressed "improved compatibility with recent Intel and AMD platforms." That update specifically called out improved controller support on handhelds from the likes of GPD Win, Anbernic, and OrangePi, as well as improvements for various Lenovo Legion Go, MSI Claw, and OneXPlayer devices. The report notes that the new SteamOS update also updates the Linux driver powering the new Steam Controller, "allowing it to work with 'native controller applications' even when Steam is not running." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

You might be able to enjoy Xbox PC and PC Game Pass titles on Linux very soon thanks to the efforts of the Xodus team, who're emulating the entire Xbox PC stack through open-source implementations of Microsoft's proprietary components and dependencies.

Hes not thrilled, but wont let it delay the release of version 7.2

Linux Torvalds expects Linux 7.2 should be released next weekend "unless something really bad pops up," Torvalds said while announcing today's release candidate

"I've been a Linux IT administrator for 30 years now," says crhylove (Slashdot reader #205,956), in a new video on his YouTube channel

Jakub Bernek from the Rust compiler and infrastructure team also earned a fellowship in Germany's Sovereign Tech program, focusing on improving the Rust toolchain's tooling and infrastructure for Rust's developers. Other fellows include Pablo Neira Ayuso (Linux kernel maintainer for the Netfilter subsystem), CPython core developer Stan Ulbrych, and Python core developer Hugo van Kemenade, FreeBSD contributor Alexander Ziaee

NordVPN's 5.3.0 update for Linux brings automatic GUI app installations, a new diagnostic command, and case-insensitive CLI commands to streamline your online security.

The release also unofficially marks the start of the countdown to the headset’s launch. The Lepton release is classified as a free Linux Service tool, and not a game or consumer app

Slashdot reader prisoninmate shares this report from 9to5Linux: Coming ten days after the previous Linux kernel security update, which only fixed 12 vulnerabilities that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service, or information leaks, the new Debian 13 Linux kernel security update is a massive one, and it patches no less than 68 security vulnerabilities in the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel

Long-time Slashdot reader pyroclast shared this report from Linux Journal: After years of requests from the Linux gaming community, GOG has officially confirmed that it is developing native Linux support for the GOG Galaxy launcher

Valve just published the Steam Survey results for July 2026, reports Phoronix, "and they point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use." Back in March Steam on Linux hit a record high of 5.33%, dropped to 4.52% in April, landed at 3.99% in May, and then in June was at 3.69%

The blog Linuxiac reports: Linux has crossed a major milestone in North America, with the open-source operating system now accounting for 10.65% of desktop usage in the region, according to Statcounter's latest figures for July 2026

A set of patches recently posted to the Linux kernel mailing list seems to improve the 1% low framerate performance, specifically on the Steam Deck

Valve funding port of Linux RADV Radeon Vulkan driver to Windows cross-platform effort already runs Counter-Strike 2

The Root My Galaxy app uses a Linux kernel exploit to grant soft root access on older Snapdragon-based Galaxy flagships.

Valve is funding Collabora's experimental effort to port the open-source RADV Vulkan driver from Linux to Windows

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Battery life, which has historically been a weak point for Framework, is now a standout feature. Ars Technica points out that the combination of Intel's efficient Panther Lake chips and a new 74-watt-hour battery is "finally long enough to decisively eliminate 'mediocre-to-poor battery life' as the laptop's biggest downside." They also said it's "Framework's nicest-looking, nicest-feeling, most polished laptop design." For Linux users, the machine appears to deliver on its promises

NVIDIA has announced that it is teaming up with more than 30 tech firms across the globe to form the Open Secure AI Alliance. This coalition includes companies like Microsoft, SpaceX, Dell, The Linux Foundation, and Hugging Face, among others

A flaw in Anthropic's Claude Cowork lets its AI agent break out of its virtual machine and reach sensitive files across a user's Mac, exposing a serious gap in the tool's sandbox protections. One Linux bug gave Claude Cowork access to a Mac's filesystem Accomplish AI researchers said on July 23 that a locally running Cowork session could exploit a Linux kernel flaw and gain root access inside its virtual machine

One bug disabled the security service on restart, another blocked installation on hardened RHEL systems

An anonymous reader shared this report from Phoronix: A patch series that appears destined for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window is what's dubbed the "KVM Chainsaw" as a major code clean-up in dealing with the kvm_mmu "god data structure"