Debian 12.14 Rolls Out With Sweeping Security Fixes for Bookworm
Debian 12.14 lands with a massive batch of CVE fixes spanning GRUB, glibc, openssh, containerd, and the Linux kernel, plus the latest installer images for bookworm.
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Valve Hires Veteran AMD Mesa Developer Marek Olšák
Marek Olšák, one of Mesa's most prolific contributors and a longtime AMD developer behind the modern RadeonSI driver, has joined Valve's growing Linux graphics team.
Debian 13.5 Lands With Sweeping Security Fixes for Trixie
Debian 13.5 ships with roughly 100 package updates, headlined by massive FreeRDP and Apache CVE batches plus a StarFive RISC-V USB boot fix.
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SDL Library Adds Full Button Mapping for New Steam Controller
SDL just merged full button mapping for Valve's 2026 Steam Controller, letting cross-platform games address the gamepad without going through the Steam client.
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Best Single Board Computer for Home Server in 2026
Added Orange Pi 6 Plus (12-core, dual 5GbE, $199+). Updated Raspberry Pi 5 prices (RAM crisis: 4GB $75, 8GB $115). Updated Radxa X4 to 2.5GbE and corrected pricing. Updated ZimaBoard 2 to retail pricing ($279+).
Best Handheld Gaming PC for Bazzite in 2026
The best handheld gaming PCs for Bazzite in 2026, with updated prices, the new ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X, Legion Go S tariff price notes, and Valve confirming Steam Deck 2 is years away.
Lenovo ThinkPad P16s i Gen 5 Lands in Europe With Core Ultra 7 and Optional 96GB LPCAMM2
Lenovo's new 16-inch mobile workstation ships with Intel Core Ultra 7 356H, a 2.8K OLED panel, and user-upgradeable LPCAMM2 memory up to 96 GB.
Asus ROG NUC 16 Packs RTX 5080 Mobile Into a 3-Liter Gaming Mini PC
Asus crams an Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX, RTX 5080 mobile graphics, and up to 128GB of DDR5 into a 3-liter toolless chassis with WiFi 7 and Thunderbolt 4.
Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 Ships With User-Replaceable LPCAMM2 Memory, Earns Perfect iFixit Score
Lenovo's new ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 keeps user-replaceable LPCAMM2 RAM, pairs Intel Core Ultra Series 2 chips with an optional 2.8K OLED panel, and starts at $1,620.
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SDL3 Adds Support for the New Steam Controller Outside of Steam
SDL3 has merged native support for Valve's new Steam Controller, exposing touchpads, capacitive stick touch, and grip sense to games without needing the Steam client running.
Bazzite Stable 44.20260515 Ships Kernel 6.19.14-ogc5 and Mesa 26.0.5
Bazzite's latest stable image lands kernel 6.19.14-ogc5, Mesa 26.0.5, Gamescope 137, KDE Plasma 6.6.4, and a built-in fwupd flatpak for GUI firmware updates.
KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta Debuts Union Theming System for Public Testing
KDE Plasma 6.7 beta ships the first public preview of Union, a new theming system that takes over styling for every QML and Kirigami app once installed.
PortaRF Combines HackRF and PortaPack Into a Single Open Source SDR Board
OpenSourceSDRLab's PortaRF fuses the HackRF One and PortaPack H4M onto one PCB, with a 4-inch IPS touchscreen, 3,000mAh battery, and 1 MHz to 6 GHz coverage.
DEEPX Launches DX-AIPlayer Edge AI Mini PC With 25 TOPS NPU Module and Open-Source Linux Driver
DEEPX's new DX-AIPlayer pairs an Intel N97 with the company's 25 TOPS DX-M1 M.2 NPU module, which carries its own 4GB of LPDDR5 for multi-model inference.
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Valve Developer Brings DRM Format Modifiers to Aging AMD GCN GPUs on Linux
Valve's Timur Kristóf has posted patches adding DRM format modifier support to AMD GCN 1.0 through GFX8 GPUs, the last AMDGPU-supported cards that lacked it.
Lenovo Legion 7a 15ASH11 Heads Worldwide With AMD Strix Halo, Up to 48GB VRAM, and Stable ROCm
Lenovo's first Strix Halo gaming laptop pairs the Ryzen AI Max+ 392 with up to 64GB LPDDR5X and lets users assign 48GB of it as VRAM for the Radeon 8060S iGPU.