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Steam Adds 110 Native Linux Games in One Week, Reaching 13.3% of New Releases

Boiling Steam reported that 110 new games featuring native Linux builds were released on Steam between August 26 and September 2, 2026. This volume accounted for "about 13.3 % of total released titles...

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Khronos Standardizes 3D Gaussian Splatting via New glTF Extension

Khronos, through its 3D Formats working group, is standardizing 3D Gaussian Splatting technology via a new glTF extension. This initiative aims to integrate the high-performance 3D representation form...

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Boiling Steam Lists 10 New Steam Deck Verified/Playable Games

Boiling Steam reported last week that 10 new games released between August 29 and September 5, 2026, have been rated as Verified or Playable for the Steam Deck. Among the notable titles is Onimusha: W...

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Asahi Linux Officially Supports Apple M3 Series, Excludes M3 Ultra

Asahi Linux developers announced today, September 7, 2026, official support for their distribution on Apple M3 powered Macs. This update extends compatibility to M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max devices. The Ma...

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Ollama 0.34.0 Integrates Models into ChatGPT Desktop, Boosts Apple Silicon Performance

Ollama released version 0.34.0 today, significantly enhancing its integration capabilities. The headline feature allows users to directly employ Ollama models within ChatGPT Desktop, facilitating the ...

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NVIDIA Posts Nova vGPU Manager & VFIO Driver Patches for Linux Kernel

NVIDIA has published a set of 13 patches to the Linux kernel mailing list today. These patches introduce a NVIDIA vGPU manager and a VFIO variant driver. This initiative expands the functionality of t...

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Nouveau Lands Blackwell Display Fixes, Progresses Toward HDMI 2.1 In Linux 7.3-rc2

This week, the open-source Nouveau driver received display support fixes for current-generation NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. These changes were merged into the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem ahead...

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Bottles 67.2 Secures UMU Sandboxes, Links Proton Fonts in Prefixes

The Bottles project released version 67.2 today, bringing important security and compatibility enhancements to its Windows application management utility. A key fix addresses a vulnerability by stoppi...

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Wine 11.17 Released with Initial Display Mode Emulation Support

Wine 11.17 was released today, September 5, 2026, as the latest bi-weekly feature development update. This software enables Windows games and applications to operate on Linux. The key enhancement in t...

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PoCL 7.2 Reaches Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance on RISC-V and x86_64 CPUs

The Portable Computing Language (PoCL) project has released version 7.2 today. This update introduces official OpenCL 3.0 conformance for both x86_64 and RISC-V processors. PoCL is an MIT-licensed, po...

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OpenVX 1.3.2 Released With Enhanced Error Handling, Groundwork For 2.0

Khronos Group today released OpenVX 1.3.2, an update to its open, royalty-free standard for portable and efficient vision processing, which uses a high-level graph-based framework. This focused update...

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Servo v0.5.0 Improves Linux Deployment and Adds OpenHarmony/HarmonyOS Support

Servo has released version 0.5.0, a significant update for the experimental browser engine. This version, released recently, enhances the user experience on Linux by providing a dedicated troubleshoot...

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Mir 2.29 Released with Enhanced Wayland Protocol Support

Canonical has released Mir 2.29 today, providing updated compositor interacts with client applications.">Wayland protocol coverage and various other improvements for its Wayland-based display server and compositor. Mir is utilized by developers for...

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Intel Enhances CMRR Support for Xe2 Lunar Lake Graphics in Linux 7.4

Intel is enhancing its Content Match Refresh Rate (CMRR) feature with the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel, specifically benefiting Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics hardware. CMRR was initially introduced with Xe2 Lu...

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Mesa 26.2.2 Enables Intel Nova Lake Graphics By Default

Mesa 26.2.2 was released today as the latest bi-weekly stable point release for the open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. A key change in this release is the default enablement of Intel Nova Lake gra...

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