Open-source News

Linux desktop powers consider uniting for an app store  ZDNet

Get a whole lot of games in Humble's Türkiye and Syria Charity Bundle  GamingOnLinux

Linux Support Expands Cyber Spy Group's Arsenal  Dark Reading

Linux 6.3 Adds Thunderbolt/USB4 DisplayPort Bandwidth Allocation ...  Phoronix

Earlier this week Greg Kroah-Hartman submitted the USB/Thunderbolt subsystem updates for the ongoing Linux 6.3 kernel merge window...

Iron Tiger hackers create Linux version of their custom malware  BleepingComputer

PineTab2 Linux tablet will sell for $159 and up  Liliputing

Following a three month lull, last week Intel got back to releasing Compute-Runtime and IGC compiler updates. They have been working to shift to a monthly release cadence while during this transition period they needed extra time as it also rolled out some compiler/runtime interface changes. Now back into their swing of things, for kicking off the new month they have the Compute Runtime 22.53.25242.13 release...

Fedora 38 will still support framebuffer X11 and NIS+  The Register

How to Download and Install Slack App for Linux OS  Linux Shout

Godot 4.0 Stable Released As Major Step Forward For Open-Source ...  Phoronix

The Godot engine developers are starting off March with a bang... The much anticipated Godot 4.0 engine that has been in development for years has been released as stable!..

Linux Mint set to improve Flatpak support and Warpinator security ...  GamingOnLinux

First Arch Linux ISO Powered by Linux Kernel 6.2 Is Now Available for Download  9to5Linux

Apex Legends banning some Linux players, keep an eye out Steam Deck players  GamingOnLinux

An updated scheduler model for Intel Alder Lake P processors has been merged into the LLVM compiler after finding some differences compared to Intel's documentation/guidance...

Steam Deck hits over 8000 games Playable or Verified, plus ...  GamingOnLinux

In addition to the in-development Apple M1/M2 DRM kernel graphics/display driver being written in Rust, there is now a second graphics-related kernel driver seeing early work in Rust. The existing VGEM driver is being rewritten in the Rust programming language...

Linux's VGEM Kernel Driver Being Rewritten In Rust  Phoronix

Microsoft engineers continue to work heavily on enhancing the Linux support for Hyper-V considering that in the Azure public cloud at last report was more than 50% of their VMs running Linux. Microsoft has continued implementing more Hyper-V features within the Linux kernel and their latest is working on Virtual Trust Level (VTL) integration as part of Virtual Secure Mode (VSM) handling...