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FOSS Weekly #26.26: Free Origin Access, Niri Tiling, Firefox Tricks, Myna in Ubuntu and More Linux Stuff
Brave browser released Origin, a striped down, non-crypto version of the Brave browser. It's basically Brave browser without the bloat but still with ad-block and anti-tracking.
Here's the good thing which you will lke a s Linux user. This Brave Origin costs $6o for Windows and macOS users, but it is free for Linux users. Not everyday we Linux users get such privilege.
Epic Games open-sourced Lore at State of Unreal 2026, a Git alternative built specifically for projects that mix code with huge binary files, the kind of thing Git LFS handles awkwardly.
NVK, the open source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA cards, can now run DLSS in games. The catch is it's experimental and needs a special flag to turn on, so don't expect it to just work out of the box yet. Full stable support lands with Mesa 26.2 in August.
Remember Canonical's "implicit/explicit AI" framework from a few months ago? Myna is the implicit half taking shape as a local speech-to-text dictation tool that's expected to land in Ubuntu 26.10.
ArmSoM's Sige series has always shipped on Rockchip silicon, until now. The Sige6 swaps in an Allwinner A733 instead, an octa-core chip with a 3 TOPS NPU, LPDDR5 RAM up to 16GB, and an M.2 slot for NVMe storage.
Fruit Ninja's developers are making a dungeon crawler, and the demo already runs on Linux through Proton without a hitch.
If you're running ARM64 servers on Ubuntu, you can finally patch kernel vulnerabilities without scheduling a reboot, something AMD64 has had for years.
Most people use Firefox for browsing and nothing else, which is a shame given how much is actually packed in. There are many features that you might've missed, like split-screen tabs, a PDF editor with merge support, the built-in eyedropper tool, and full-page screenshots.
If you've ever wondered how LVM actually works under the hood rather than just clicking through an installer's defaults, we can walk you through it command by command.