Open-source News

Mesa 26.0.4 open source graphics drivers released for Linux  GamingOnLinux

Steam store home page gets a refresh in Beta, plus another Linux SteamRT3 Beta fix  GamingOnLinux

Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam Survey for the first time  GamingOnLinux

Libinput Hit By Worrying Security Issues With Its Lua Plug-In System  Phoronix

Libinput devised a Lua-based plug-in system for modifying devices/events. The Lua plug-in support was introduced last year with libinput 1.30 but unfortunately some security issues have now come to light with the implementation...

Netrunner 26 Released with XLibre Xserver, Based on Debian 13 “Trixie”  9to5Linux

If Valve's latest Steam Survey monthly figures are accurate, Steam on Linux enjoyed a very wild month of March. Steam on Linux is now above the 5% threshold and more than twice the size of the Steam on macOS marketshare...

Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare  Phoronix

AMD GPU Driver Sees DC Idle Manager & Multi-SDMA Engine Optimization For Linux 7.1  Phoronix

With Linux 7.0-rc6 having released on Sunday, we are hitting the point of the cut-off of new feature material being allowed into the Direct Rendering Manager's DRM-Next tree of queuing new graphics/display/accelerator feature code ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window. As presumably the last AMDGPU/AMDKFD feature pull ahead of Linux 7.1, today's pull request from AMD contains some noteworthy final enhancements...

Linux updates were painfully slow until I switched one setting  MakeUseOf

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" this week rejected a change proposal for Fedora 45 that would use systemd's environment generator functionality for managing per-user environment variables...

Following the DRM Color Pipeline API making it into the Linux 6.19 kernel, NVIDIA today released a preview Linux driver with their support for the DRM per-plane color pipeline API that will benefit the broader Linux/Wayland desktop HDR ambitions...

NVIDIA Provides Preview Driver With DRM Color Pipeline API Support  Phoronix

NVIDIA announce a preview of "DRM Per-Plane Color Pipeline API" support on Linux (good for HDR)  GamingOnLinux

Linux gaming levels up as CachyOS beats Windows 11 in head-to-head tests  TechSpot

G28 Retro Handheld Game Console - 4.3" IPS Screen, 128GB Card, Dual Joysticks, Linux  ruhrkanal.news

Huawei HarmonyOS update runs Linux software on desktop PCs using Converged Development Engine  Technetbook

Cloudflare continues to be full of open-source surprises. Today Cloudflare announced EmDash as an open-source "spiritual successor" to WordPress with an emphasis on better security...

Wine has been translating Windows games to Linux since 1993, but Proton is what made it effortless  XDA