Open-source News

GeForce 590 driver branch is the first without feature support for GTX 9- and 10-series GPUs — Linux release marks the end of the line for graphics cards that defined an era  Tom's Hardware

Not exactly a big surprise but the recently released Linux 6.18 kernel is now officially promoted to being this year's Long Term Support "LTS" kernel...

Linux 6.18 Officially Promoted To Being An LTS Kernel  Phoronix

Linux 6.19 Boosts Btrfs and XFS I/O with Custom Writeback Chunk Sizes  WebProNews

Canonical Launches Ubuntu Pro for WSL with Enterprise Security  WebProNews

The pull requests landing the power management subsystem updates for Linux 6.19 along with the ACPI and thermal control code have landed. There is new hardware support, Microsoft ACPI Fan Extensions support, and other new features for Linux power management in this new kernel...

Microsoft ACPI Fan Extensions & Configurable Hibernation Threads For Linux 6.19  Phoronix

The first alpha release of the LibreOffice 26.2 open-source and cross platform office suite is now available for testing ahead of its official release in February...

LibreOffice 26.2 Alpha 1 Released For Testing  Phoronix

It’s Official: Linux Kernel 6.18 Will Be LTS, Supported Until December 2027  9to5Linux

GeForce RTX 5070 Cracks Top 10 GPU List In Steam Survey, Linux Rising Too  HotHardware

These 4 “hidden” Linux commands are ridiculously useful once you learn them  MakeUseOf

NVIDIA Ends Support For GTX 900 And GTX 10 Series In Linux With Driver Branch 590  Wccftech

Linux Kernel 5.4 Reaches End of Life After More Than Six Years of Maintenance  9to5Linux

Linux boss blames hardware for Windows BSoD, not Microsoft's software  Windows Central

Linus Torvalds says Windows' rep for bugs and blue screens isn't down to bad code but bad memory  PC Gamer

Linux use hits all-time-high on Steam  OC3D

Sound Open Firmware 2.14 Released With Intel Wildcat Lake & Nova Lake Support  Phoronix

Sound Open Firmware is one of the projects started originally by Intel but has grown into a multi-vendor initiative for open-source audio digital signal processing (DSP) firmware and development tooling for a variety of platforms under the Linux Foundation umbrella...

Half-Life Legacy arrives December 12 but you'll need Proton on Linux due to Native Linux issues  GamingOnLinux