Open-source News

Valve put up a new Steam Linux Runtime 4.0 with a move towards 64-bit  GamingOnLinux

Firefox is fixing a 21-year old problem on Linux  How-To Geek

These Windows tools and apps help me be as productive as on Linux  XDA

Linux Mint vs. Zorin OS: I compared the two Windows alternatives, and here's my advice  ZDNET

This is Linux's greatest strength, but it's also its greatest flaw  How-To Geek

Rust developer has 'no plans' for Linux or Proton support, says games that support them are 'not serious about anti-cheat'  PC Gamer

A set of Linux kernel patches posted back in October for rewriting the kernel's memory-mapped concurrency ID code for some nice performance wins looks like it will land for Linux 6.19. This is the code that prominent Intel engineer Thomas Gleixner found to yield up to an 18% improvement for the PostgreSQL database. My testing of this "mm/cid" code has also shown some nice performance wins too...

Linux 6.19 Slated To Land "mm/cid" Rewrite That Has Very Positive Performance Potential  Phoronix

AirPods’ best features come to Android and Linux with free app  The Verge

VKD3D 1.18 is now available for this Direct3D 12 implementation that is part of the upstream Wine project. The VKD3D 1.18 release also comes just ahead of next month's feature freeze for the upcoming Wine 11.0 stable release...

Tsundere Botnet Abusing Popular Node.js and Cryptocurrency Packages to Attack Windows, Linux, and macOS Users  CyberSecurityNews

Action1 Expands to Linux, Delivering a Unified Cross-Platform Solution for Autonomous Endpoint Management and Patching  PR Newswire

A 21 year old bug report requesting support of the XDG Base Directory specification is finally being addressed by Firefox. The Firefox 147 release should respect this XDG specification around where files should be positioned within Linux users' home directory...

Firefox 147 Will Support The XDG Base Directory Specification  Phoronix

5 pioneering Linux distros that quietly faded into history  How-To Geek

Along with getting the NVIDIA GSP fully booted and initialized for Ampere GPUs with the Nova driver code coming to Linux 6.19, this next kernel version is also beginning to make preparations for eyeing next-generation NVIDIA GPU support on this open-source driver...

Linux 6.19 Nova Driver Landing Boot42 Support For Next-Gen NVIDIA GPUs  Phoronix

Rusticl as a modern OpenCL implementation for Mesa Gallium3D drivers has turned out remarkably well. Rusticl performance has evolved quite well for this Rust-based OpenCL driver and it continues tacking on new features / OpenCL extensions as well as working gracefully with more Mesa drivers. Rusticl lead developer Karol Herbst presented on some of the recent accomplishments for this driver back at XDC2025...

North Texas Daily Events - Linux: Learn | Support | Discuss (Recurring - 4th Saturday of the Month)  ntdaily.com

The latest feature enablement work happening by Intel for the Linux kernel with next-generation Diamond Rapids server processors are the adjustments to the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) for readying the new CPU ISA capabilities for a virtualized world...