The Legion Y700 Gen4 is an Android tablet that debuted last year and powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. This 8.8-inch tablet is now seeing patches for enabling Linux support outside the confines of Android and will hopefully end up in the mainline kernel.

The Lenovo Legion Y700 Gen 4 is a capable, modern tablet with its Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC, 12GB or 16GB of RAM depending upon the model, up to 1TB of built-in

Thanks to the work of the open-source community, more ASUS desktop motherboards for Intel Core and AMD Ryzen systems are seeing working sensor monitoring under Linux. With the upcoming Linux 7.3 cycle, several additional ASUS motherboards will now enjoy working sensor monitoring.

Some recently queued patches for the ASUS EC Sensors hardware monitoring (HWMON) driver include enabling sensor monitoring on the ProArt Z690-CREATOR WIFI , ROG STRIX X870E-E GAMING WIFI7 R2 , ROG CROSSHAIR X87

The GNU Hurd project recently issued their Q2'2026 status report to outline recently development efforts. The Hurd is still happening!

The GNU Hurd Q2-2026 progress report was published earlier this month but only yesterday did their project site get fixed up to once again restore its RSS feed. While not as pronounced as the Linux development pace or even some other efforts like Haiku and Redox, GNU Hurd developers continue persevering in its development.

Some of the Hurd efforts over the past quarter

The performance of the Nouveau kernel driver with the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver continues to improve each feature release in its quest toward better competing with NVIDIA's official Linux graphics driver with its proprietary Vulkan driver.

Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst who is known for his Nouveau and Rusticl contributions over the years shared some new benchmark figures provided by NVK contributor Phomes. Herbst noted in a Mastodon post that there is steady progress with Mesa 26.2 Git compared to the performance of Mesa 26.1 stable.

This week's batch of AMDGPU Display Core "DC" updates arrived heavy with 70 new patches for improving that open-source display support for Radeon graphics on the Linux desktop.

For those wanting to use the modern Apple Studio Display with AMD Radeon graphics on Linux, this week's AMDGPU DC patches contain an important fix. The Apple Studio Display is a beautiful 27-inch 5K Retina display, but its DisplayPort handling by the AMDGPU DC driver is currently insufficient. The display exposes two Single-

At GNOME's annual GUADEC conference happening this week in Spain, an update was shared on the current state of GNOME OS.

Abderrahim Kitouni of the GNOME Release Team and a GNOME OS maintainer provided an update on the status of GNOME OS as their Linux platform serving as a GNOME development/testing environment and more.

One of the interesting elements of the GUADEC 2026 presentation is the new "safe mode" of GNOME OS. With GNOME OS relying on systemd-sysupdate for updates and systemd-sysext for

Nate Graham and John Veness are out with the latest issue of This Week in Plasma to highlight all of the interesting developments taking place in the KDE Plasma desktop space.

As covered earlier in the week on Phoronix, KWin in Plasma 6.8 has implemented support for server-side drop shadows . This is useful for apps like Steam and Sicord.

Merged this week, KDE System Monitor with Plasma 6.8 will allow easily assigning processes to specific CPUs or groups of CPUs. Convenient CPU affinity handling from within KDE'

Following the release of AMD's ZenDNN 6.0 earlier this month, there is a new feature release of the oneDNN neural network library that used to be developed by Intel as part of oneAPI and is now under the UXL Foundation umbrella. Even so, oneDNN feature releases continue to be heavy on new Intel optimizations and future hardware support.

The oneDNN 3.13 release improves performance for upcoming Intel Core Ultra CPUs featuring the AVX10.2 instruction set, a.k.a. Nova Lake.

In addition to Friday night's release of DXVK 3.0.2 , debuting separately a short time later was D7VK 2.0 as the latest major feature release for this implementation of Direct3D 7 and earlier built off the Vulkan API.

D7VK 2.0 brings a number of new performance optimizations that can deliver twice the performance or more, in some CPU limited scenarios. These big performance optimizations are what led to the bump to D7VK version 2.0.