Open-source News

Blender 3.4 is now available as the latest feature release for this increasingly popular, industry-supported open-source cross-platform 3D modeling software...

Blender 3.4 Now Available With Wayland, Intel Open Path Guiding Integration  Phoronix

A 10-minute guide to the Linux ABI  LXer

Vampire Survivors: Legacy of the Moonspell arrives December 15th  GamingOnLinux

Guitar Hero inspired free game Clone Hero version 1.0 is out now  GamingOnLinux

Assassin's Creed Valhalla is impressive on Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Following the initial AMD Zen 4 "znver4" target for GCC 13 that was published and merged in October (and now a SUSE engineer working on providing actually tuned support and accurate cost tables), an initial AMD Zen 4 patch for the LLVM/Clang compiler was published a few days ago...

Humble Choice for December includes Wasteland 3 and GreedFall and other deals  GamingOnLinux

With the upcoming Linux 6.2 kernel cycle the Apple Silicon CPU frequency scaling driver is set to be mainlined for further improving the Apple M1/M2 SoC support on the mainline kernel...

Apple Silicon CPUFreq Driver Heading To Linux 6.2  Phoronix

Proton 7.0-5 out now for Steam Deck & Linux desktop, 14 newly playable games  GamingOnLinux

Proton 7.0-5 is out now improving gaming on Steam Deck & Linux desktop  GamingOnLinux

The first beta of OpenVPN 2.6 is now available and it's a big one for those using this cross-platform, virtual private network (VPN) system...

OpenVPN 2.6 Beta Brings Data Channel Offload Kernel Acceleration, OpenSSL 3.0 Support  Phoronix

The Asahi Linux distribution is now shipping an early, alpha quality graphics driver stack for the Apple M1/M2 SoCs. This work-in-progress driver consists of their experimental Rust-written DRM kernel driver and then the AGX Gallium3D code in Mesa that is currently targeting OpenGL 2.1 and OpenGL ES 2.0 support...

Asahi Linux Enables Early Apple GPU Driver Support - WIP OpenGL 2.1 + GLES 2.0  Phoronix

Kali Linux's Last Update for the Year Brings a Lot of Early Christmas Gifts  It's FOSS News

Vivaldi Browser Now Boasts Mastodon Integration  OMG! Ubuntu!

Cameyo adds support for Linux apps to their Cloud Desktops  OnMSFT.com

Use 'Ear Tag' to Quickly Edit Audio Tags on Linux  OMG! Ubuntu!