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In time for the weekend gamers, SteamOS 3.5 has just rolled out into Valve's preview channel for the Steam Deck. Those switching over to the "Preview" mode from the System Update Channel setting can begin to enjoy this huge feature update for the Arch Linux based SteamOS...

SteamOS 3.5 Rolls Out In Preview On The Steam Deck With Many New Features  Phoronix

Linux Software Market Size, Regional Status and Outlook 2023-2030  Benzinga

Wine 8.16 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software to enjoy Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms...

Wine 8.16 Restarts Work On Implementing Microsoft's Deprecated ...  Phoronix

Following discussions among compiler developers and other stakeholders, the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is preparing to add a "-fhardened" compiler option that will enable various hardening features aimed at increasing the security/robustness of the generated binaries...

GCC Preparing To Introduce "-fhardened" Security Hardening Option  Phoronix

Intel Is Working on Battlemage and Lunar Lake GPU Enablement in ...  Tom's Hardware

Linux Foundation and Fujitsu Release New AI Technologies as ...  Datanami

Linux on a Commodore 64  Boing Boing

Librem 5 Linux phone gets a $300 price cut, now costs $999 for a ...  Liliputing

CIQ Begins Rollout of Ascender Infrastructure Automation Installers ...  PR Web

The Servo web rendering engine that is written in Rust and started originally by Mozilla while now being developed as a Linux Foundation Europe project has issued a status update around recent changes to this memory-safe and modular web browser engine...

Servo Browser Engine Enables New Default UI, Improves Crash ...  Phoronix

It turns out that Ubuntu Linux installations of Ubuntu 23.04, 22.04.3 LTS, and installs done since April 2023 that accepted the Snap version update haven't been following Ubuntu's own recommended security best practices for their security pocket configuration for packages. A new Subiquity release was issued today to fix this problem while those on affected Ubuntu installs are recommended to manually edit their /etc/apt/sources.list file...

Ubuntu 23.04 & 22.04.3 Installs Haven't Been Following Their Own Security Best Practices  Phoronix

Parallels Desktop 19 for Mac review: A virtualization software good ...  XDA Developers

How Do You Delete Private Browsing Data on Linux?  MUO - MakeUseOf

Intel Xe2 "Gen20" GPU architecture appears in Linux Mesa drivers ...  VideoCardz.com

Tucked away within a merge to Mesa entitled, "intel/genxml: Support importing, which cuts the overall xml file size almost in half" Intel Linux graphics driver engineers are slowly beginning to start work on the "Xe2" graphics support to be found with Lunar Lake processors...