Box64 0.4.4 released today as the newest version of this open-source user-space Linux x86_64 emulator for running binaries on 64-bit ARM, RISC-V, and LoongArch systems.

For end users one of the most noticeable changes with Box64 0.4.4 is the introduction of a new box64-configurator app. The new box64-configurator is written in Python and brings improvements for managing profiles to make it easier

Valve just published the Steam Survey results for July 2026 and 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 just-published numbers for July put Steam on Linux use at 4.01%, as an improvement over the prior two months

NetBSD 11.0 officially shipped today as the nineteenth major release of this popular BSD operating system.

NetBSD 11.0 is the project's first release supporting the 64-bit RISC-V architecture with initial hardware support on StarFive JH71XX-based platforms like the VisionFive 2 and STAR64. NetBSD 11.0 RISC-V on QEMU is also supported. This is in addition to NetBSD supporting AMD64, ARM, SPARC64, MIPS, and many other

Last month on Phoronix there were 257 original Linux/open-source related news articles and another 20 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Following the recent 22nd birthday of Phoronix.com , this puts the overall tally at nearly 51k original news articles and more than 5,600 Linux hardware reviews. Here is a look back at what readers found most exciting during the course of July.

There was a lot of interesting happenings in July from Linux kernel AI

Arch Linux developer, security team member, AUR maintainer, and package maintainer Morten Linderud "Foxboron" announced today he is resigning from the project.

After a decade serving as an Arch Linux developer, package maintainer, and security team member, Morten Linderud has decided "it's a good time to let go" and move on from the project. He was responsible for debug packages on Arch Linux, initial work on their Git migration, and other contributions to the project over the years.

Morten still intends to pursue

Merged ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.2-rc6 kernel test release are several ATA fixes that include a number of device-specific workarounds for some Western Digital SATA drives that have been failing to work on recent versions of the Linux kernel.

This week's batch of ATA fixes end up force disabling Link Power Management (LPM) for several Western Digital drives that have not been functioning properly with the Linux kernel out-of-the-box due to power management behavior.

Since last year there was

GNOME developers were quite busy in closing out the month of July from continued work on establishing a formal Request For Comments (RFC) process for the project to battling the continued flood of AI-generated GNOME Shell extensions.

Sophie Herold as part of the GNOME Fellowship program has been working on advancing the RFC Process for the GNOME project. This is part of the initiative to help enhance the governance process within GNOME. This week the proposed RFC framework was laid out and open for discussion via GNOME Discourse . The draft proposal for

It's been a very exciting week in the KDE Plasma 6.8 development space particularly thanks to performance work on bettering KWin's multi-GPU / external GPU handling.

Plasma 6.8 is significantly improving the performance for external GPU setups / multi-GPU use on Linux. Xaver Hugl implemented DMA-BUF v6 support for KWin and to manage multi-GPU copies directly by KWin. KWin is able to do direct scan-out and thus with KWin managing copies explicitly, in some cases it can

If the recent release of the GNU C Library glibc 2.44 is too big for your embedded use-cases, Keith Packard continues hacking on Picolibc as his embedded-focused C library. Released overnight was Picolibc 1.8.12 with a variety of improvements for this embedded libc.

Picolibc continues expanding its native Linux support for more CPU architectures. Picolibc is now up to supporting ARC (32- and 64- bit), ARM (32- and 64- bit),