Open-source News

The simple GOG client for Linux, Minigalaxy version 1.4.1 is out now  GamingOnLinux

A set of 18 patches were merged overnight to Mesa 26.1 for working around graphics corruption on Meteor Lake and DG2/Alchemist class graphics hardware. Not only are some graphics corruption issues worked around but for that hardware there is as much as "a whopping 260%" performance improvement observed for some graphics workloads...

Being worked on for a while by Lenovo engineer Vishnu Sankar is nicely handling support for double-tap functionality with TrackPoints on ThinkPads under Linux. The sixth iteration of this enablement work was posted today and is just documentation updates, so it's looking like this new TrackPoint doubletap code could soon be crossing the threshold for the mainline Linux kernel...

ThinkPads On Linux Appear Nearly Ready For Improved Trackpoint Doubletap Handling  Phoronix

CERT-In Flags High-Risk Chrome Flaw, Urges Immediate Update for Windows, Mac and Linux Users  thehansindia.com

Proton 10.0-4 now stable with more Windows games running on Linux  Sportskeeda Tech

Being worked on since last year by Google engineer Roman Gushchin was the latest attempt for the Linux kernel to support managing the out-of-memory "OOM" behavior using BPF programs. It's been a while since there has been anything new to report on that front but published overnight is the latest iteration of those patches...

Updated Linux Patches For Managing Out-Of-Memory Behavior Via BPF  Phoronix

Organizations Warned of Exploited Linux Vulnerabilities  SecurityWeek

Keith Packard published Picolibc 1.8.11 on Monday as the newest release for his C library designed for embedded 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. Picolibc continues tacking on new CPU architecture support and other features for this project that started out as a conglomeration of the Newlib and AVR Libc C library codebases...

Heroic Games Launcher v2.19 released adding ZOOM Platform, AppImage updates and more  GamingOnLinux

AMD Prepares Radeon Low-Latency Video Decode for Linux Drivers  TechPowerUp

Valve released Proton 10.0-4 bringing more game compatibility to SteamOS / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Interactive Brokers makes IBKR Desktop platform available on Linux  FX News Group

Valve releases Proton 10.0-4, adds 19 new games to Proton Stable on Linux  VideoCardz.com

Valve's Proton 10.0-4 update introduces a new wave of games to Linux  XDA

Open Invention Network to charge member fee for Linux patent non-aggression  IAM Patent

The only Linux command you need for monitoring network traffic - and how to use it  ZDNET

AMD's RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for next quarter's Mesa 26.1 release is introducing a new low-latency video decode mode. This lower-latency video decoding comes with a trade-off of increased GPU power consumption...

It's not usable yet, but Asahi Linux runs on M3 Macs now  AppleInsider