Besides Valve funding FEX-Emu for x86_64 binaries to run on AArch64 Linux as part of their Steam Play (Proton) efforts in being able to get Windows x86/x64 games running on AArch64 SteamOS for the Snapdragon-powered Steam Frame, there is also work happening in kernel-space to help this emulated gaming experience on AArch64.

André Almeida of consulting firm Igalia, which has been longtime partners with Valve on their Linux engineering efforts,

Even before the Linux 6.19 merge window wrapped up this weekend with the Linux 6.19-rc1 release, there was already the first pull request to DRM-Next of the first batch of new material to be queued for Linux 6.19's successor.

Last week Maxime Ripard sent in the first pull request of post-6.19 driver changes. One could assume after Linux 6.19 would be Linux 6.20, but if Linus Torvalds' traditions

The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) developers now have a need to set a policy whether AI / Large Language Model (LLM) generated patches will be accepted for this open-source compiler stack.

The GCC compiler doesn't currently have a policy in place whether to permit AI/LLM-generated patches. But within a bug report today there is a patch posted by a user in trying to fix a GCC 16 compiler regression. The proposed patch notes:

"Fixed provided by GPT-5-CodeX fix

Valve's Steam Deck with SteamOS features built-in crash data collection as well as for logging other system events worth having knowledge about like the split-lock detection and other events. This is all opt-in by users for data collection by Steam, but for those curious about a bit more insight into this Steam Deck data collection, a presentation at this past week's Linux Plumbers Conference dove into the matter.

Guilherme Piccoli of Linux consulting firm Igalia who has been a long time partner with Valve presented on

The CentOS kernel modules "Kmods" special interest group (SIG) is now providing NVIDIA Linux Open GPU Kernel Modules for users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its downstreams as well as for CentOS Stream.

The CentOS Kmods SIG has begun providing kernel module builds for the open-source NVIDIA Linux Open GPU code that is the official NVIDIA Linux kernel drivers that are part of their driver package and maintained out-of-tree from the Linux kernel. The Kmos SIG is tracking NVIDIA's latest feature branches and making them

The FamFS file-system being developed by Micron hopes to go upstream for Linux in "early-ish 2026".

For around two years already Micron has been working on FamFS as a new file-system that is special purpose and designed for fabric-attached memory (FAM) needs such as with CXL servers. FamFS over the past year was ported to FUSE for largely operating in user-space but some kernel changes remain.

The widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library has merged initial support for JPEG-XS.

JPEG-XS is the lossless image/video codec optimized for low-complexity and low-latency implementation such as for streaming professional video over IP with use-cases like drones, autonomous vehicles, and more. This "XS" variant of JPEG is about being a lightweight low-latency implementation with visually transparent compression and can be supported across a diverse range of hardware.

Rust Coreutils 0.5 is now available as the latest milestone for this Rust-based alternative to GNU Coreutils. Rust Coreutils 0.5 continues moving closer to "full GNU compatibility" with nearly a 90% pass rate on the GNU test suite.

Rust Coreutils 0.5 is described in today's announcement as " a significant milestone featuring comprehensive platform improvements " There are an additional 22 tests passing now that brings Rust Coreutils 0.5 up to an 87.75% pass rate for