Open-source News

Valve launches Steam for Linux and announces a celebration sale  BetaNews

Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 'Betsy' is here -- will you download MATE or Cinnamon?  BetaNews

Want to learn Android programming? The Linux Foundation can help  BetaNews

Steam for Linux beta goes public for Ubuntu users  BetaNews

HP is Putin Ubuntu Linux on Russian computers  BetaNews

Netrunner Core 16.09 'Avalon' Debian-based KDE Linux distro now available for download  BetaNews

Linux Foundation joins Microsoft in opposing software defect warranties  BetaNews

A patch for the open-source exFAT file-system driver for Linux can boost the sequential read performance by about 10% in preliminary tests...

Detecting forged browser fingerprints for bot detection, lessons from LinkedIn  Security Boulevard

I tried a lightweight Linux distro you’ve never heard of — and it’s perfect  MakeUseOf

An open-source developer has worked through the last of the issues preventing the Adobe Creative Cloud installers for Windows from running on Linux via Wine. With pending patches, Adobe Photoshop 2021 and Photoshop 2025 are expected to install and run on Linux...

Adobe Photoshop 2025 Installer Now Working On Linux With Patched Wine  Phoronix

I've tried out every Linux package manager out there, and this is the best one  MakeUseOf

Linux ThinkPad Driver Ready For Reporting Damage Device - Starting With Bad USB-C Ports  Phoronix

Queued yesterday into the platform-drivers-x86.git's "for-next" branch are the patches for the Lenovo ThinkPad ACPI driver to begin reporting damaged device detection. This code being in the "for-next" branch makes it material for the next version of the Linux kernel and initially will be able to report to the user on damaged USB-C ports...

Microsoft Advances SQL Server 2025 with Broader Linux Support and First Cumulative Update  Redmondmag.com

GNOME 50 goes Wayland-only as its alpha build scraps the X11 backend  XDA

[Free download] Kali Linux Cookbook: Third Edition (worth $35.99)  Neowin

Microsoft partners with The Linux Foundation for 'Linux on Azure' certification  BetaNews

4 Fedora-based Linux distributions that are better than Fedora  How-To Geek