Open-source News

Linux: Microsoft WSL’s Decade-Long Journey to Open Source  The New Stack

Linux gamers won't be affected by RX 5000/6000 series driver shift — AMD changes limited to Windows thanks to separated development  Tom's Hardware

I regret buying such a large power bank  How-To Geek

Slipping under my radar in October was the release of NASM 3.00 and the follow-up NASM 3.01 release shortly there after. This widely-used open-source assembler is now ready with support for Intel's Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) and AVX10...

Linux Hits 3% On Steam's October 2025 Hardware Survey  Steam Deck HQ

These are the only 3 Linux distros I recommend to newcomers  Currently.com

These are the only 3 Linux distros I recommend to newcomers  How-To Geek

Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark  GamingOnLinux

Ongoing Ransomware Attacks Exploit Linux Vulnerability, CISA Warns  Forbes

Linux 6.18-rc4 Introducing More AMD 6 Model IDs, Other x86 Fixes  Phoronix

Merged this weekend ahead of the Linux 6.18-rc4 test kernel release due out later today is the "x86/fixes" for the week. There are a few notable changes on the x86 (x86_64) side of the kernel this week for Linux 6.18...

Open-sourced at the start of the calendar year was Perforator as a continuous profiling tool to find code inefficiencies. Yandex who open-sourced it claimed that it could lead businesses to saving "billions of dollars a year on server infrastructure." It's been a few months since the last feature release but out this weekend is Perforator 0.0.7...

The (Almost) Perfect Linux Marketplace App for Flatpak Lovers  It's FOSS

Steam on Linux use has hit an all-time high! With the Steam Survey results for October 2025 coming out this evening, Steam on Linux has finally cracked the 3% threshold! A few months back Steam on Linux was close to 3% before stumbling a bit but now it's above that elusive threshold. The only time Steam on Linux use was close to the 3% mark was when Steam on Linux initially debuted a decade ago and at that time the overall Steam user-base was much smaller than it is today. Long story short, thanks to the ongoing success of Valve's Steam Deck and other handhelds plus Steam Play (Proton) working out so well, these October numbers are the best yet...

Steam On Linux Gaming Finally Cracks 3% For October 2025  Phoronix

The fourth and final beta of FreeBSD 15 is out today for testing with the official release continuing to align for an early December debut...

Debian developer Julian Andres Klode sent out a message on Halloween that may give some Debian Linux users and developers a spook: the APT packaging tool next year will begin requiring a Rust compiler. This will place a hard requirement by Debian Linux on Rust support for all architectures. Debian CPU architectures with ports currently but lacking Rust support will either need to see support worked on or be sunset...

4 hard Linux lessons I learned early - and I was better off for it  XDA

3 good reasons to replace Bash with Zsh  How-To Geek

Best Linux Distros for Development  The New Stack