GNU/Linux Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 27, 2026

• Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Open-source AnyPS5 dumps emulation to run PlayStation 5 console games natively on PC — AMD Zen 2 architecture enables Proton-like binary translation for Windows and Linux

    Since the PS5 is powered by AMD’s Zen 2 hardware, it uses the x86-64 architecture, thus allowing AnyPS5 to work as a compatibility translation layer somewhat similar to Proton or Wine. It takes the original PS5 executable files and converts them into Windows and Linux formats, while the shaders are recompiled into SPIR-V for Vulkan. By avoiding emulation altogether, AnyPS5 can potentially eliminate some of the computational overhead, resulting in a smoother experience.

• Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)

  • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

    • Akademy 2026 – A Recap

      After a long week of working lots and making lots of connections, here is what happened this year during Akademy!

  • GNOME Desktop/GTK

    • GNOME ☛ Jordan Petridis: Introducing Toolpak

      Most modern operating systems (including iOS, Android, macOS, and ChromeOS) have been using image-based architectures for a while, and in recent years we’ve been making progress towards this on the desktop side as well. It’s a necessity if we want to provide the security, usability and reliability that people expect from their devices nowadays.

      However, broadly speaking the adoption of image-based designs has been limited in the free desktop world so far because there are still a few major gaps. While Flatpak and Flathub have more or less solved the app distribution on these systems, the developer-facing story still looks much more incomplete.

      Traditionally, people have been developing against the host OS they are running. Assuming you’re working on something like NetworkManager and need a new dependency, you’d just “apt install” it globally on your system, and then configure/compile against that. Similarly, if you need a command-line utility, compiler toolchain, or other build dependency, you’d also install them from the distribution repository.

      In an image-based world this approach doesn’t work, and people have come up with various ways to address this.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • SUSE/OpenSUSE

    • Dominique Leuenberger ☛ Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2026/39

      Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

      This week was another busy and productive cycle, seeing the publication of 6 snapshots (0917, 0918, 0919, 0921, 0922, and 0923) to keep your rolling distributions completely fresh.

      Leading the charge on the desktop side, web browsing received a welcome boost with the arrival of Mozilla Firefox 156.0, while GNOME users were treated to nice polish with point updates to GNOME Shell 50.5, Mutter 50.5, and Libadwaita 1.9.4. Under the hood, GNU/Linux Kernel 7.2.6, Mesa 26.2.3, and PipeWire 1.6.9 kept the core hardware, graphics, and multimedia foundations moving along smoothly.

  • Fedora Family / IBM

    • Kevin Fenzi: misc fedora bits: fourth week of sep 2026

      Time for another saturday recap of the week in longer form.