Open-source News

Valve Releases Proton 8.0-5 With Many Fixes, More Windows Games Now Playable  Phoronix

Proton 8.0-5 brings more HDR gaming to Linux / Steam Deck plus lots of fixes  GamingOnLinux

Linux Mint 21.3 'Virginia' gets an 'Edge' ISO for new hardware compatibility  BetaNews

For those wanting to use an open-source Coreboot-based firmware on your desktop with modern hardware, a rare and leading option is 3mdeb's Coreboot-based "Dasharo" firmware on select MSI Z690/Z790 motherboards...

A change merged today for the Linux 6.8 kernel intentionally following yesterday's Linux 6.8-rc1 is a move to enable the "-Wstringop-overflow" compiler option by default...

Linux 6.8 Now Enables -Wstringop-overflow To Warn About Buffer Overflows  Phoronix

Shatter the closed-source shackles of Microsoft Windows 11 and embrace open-source freedom with MX Linux 23.2  BetaNews

How to Create a Swap File on Linux  How-To Geek

Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher aims to improve Windows games on Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

As part of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series launch RTX Remix was announced for helping game modders remaster older game titles for RTX/ray-tracing. RTX Remix 0.1 debuted last April as the initial version of their software to provide path-tracing support for classic games. Out today is the latest work for helping to remaster classic games with the debut of RTX Remix 0.4...

Mozilla Firefox 122 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

Edge ISO available for Linux Mint 21.3 with newer Linux kernel  GamingOnLinux

FreeBSD developers are currently weighing the benefits and costs of allowing the Rust programming language to be used within the FreeBSD base system...

blendOS is the Swiss army knife of Linux distros but it's not for everyone  ZDNet

blendOS is the Swiss army knife of Linux distros but it's not for everyone  ZDNet

Fedora Linux already ships an iotop-c package for this C alternative the the common iotop program for reporting I/O metrics under Linux, but with the upcoming Fedora 40 release it's looking at having iotop-c replace the original iotop...

Fedora Linux 40 Looks To Replace iotop With iotop-c  Phoronix

MX Linux 23.2 with the latest PipeWire 1.0 multimedia system breathes new life into old laptops  Notebookcheck.net

Released earlier this month was Linux Mint 21.3 and out-of-the-box it continues to run on the Linux 5.15 LTS kernel... Quite old at this point and was the Ubuntu 22.04 default for which Linunx Mint 21 is based. For those unable to boot Linux Mint 21.3 due to running on newer AMD/Intel hardware or other platform compatibility issues, the Linux Mint 21.3 EDGE ISOs are now published that utilize Linux 6.5 by default...

Linux Mint 21.3 EDGE ISOs Now Available For Running On Linux 6.5  Phoronix