Open-source News

Linux Prepares to Launch Unix Version 6.1-rc8  The Tech Report

5 Ubuntu Linux Features You Should Be Using  How-To Geek

Linux 6.2 Looks To Enable "-funsigned-char" To Better Deal With Buggy Code  Phoronix

Among the early pull requests sent out already ahead of the Linux 6.2 merge window opening next week is a change to enable "-funsigned-char" by default for Linux kernel builds. In preparation for this compiler flag change several fixes have already landed along with a lot of early testing, so any fallout is hoped to be minimal...

Sipeed M1s DOCK: PINE64 Ox64 rival launches for US$11 with microSD card expansion  Notebookcheck.net

Dwarf Fortress arrives on Steam, works on Linux desktop and Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

How to enable and disable systemd in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)  Windows Central

How to install ChromeOS Flex on a Chromebook  Android Police

Heroic Games Launcher gets a big Hotfix to clean up some issues  GamingOnLinux

Back in October AMD sent out their initial Zen 4 "znver4" enablement for the GCC compiler. That initial Zen 4 support was since merged for GCC 13 but that initial enablement carried over the cost tables from Zen 3 and didn't do much in the way of tuning but rather just flipping on the new instructions supported by the Ryzen 7000 series and EPYC 9004 series processors. Today there is finally some juicy tuning patches being sent out for GCC...

Death Stranding Director's Cut has an annoying bug that can reboot your Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Death Stranding Director's Cut has an annoying issue that can reboot your Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Valheim: Mistlands is out now with an animated trailer  GamingOnLinux

The Long Dark: Tales from the Far Territory out now as the game is split up  GamingOnLinux

The GCC Rust front-end that provides very preliminary support for the Rust programming language atop the GNU Compiler Collection is now cleared for merging to the mainline codebase!..

MineClone2 version 0.81.0 (free Minecraft-like) for Minetest out now  GamingOnLinux

Xtra-PC Reviews - Is It A Scam Or Legit? Mut Read Before You Buy!  Outlook India

Fanatical running a winter festival of game bundles, like a Steam Deck Verified Bundle  GamingOnLinux

FEX-Emu is the open-source software project working on speedy x86/x86_64 software emulation on AArch64. FEX-Emu is one of the leading options for running x86 binaries on 64-bit Arm and has matured enough for allowing Linux games and Steam Play titles to run on Arm. FEX 2212 is out as the newest shiny feature update to this promising software...

One of the big undertakings this year within the (open)SUSE camp has been the YaST team's work on D-Installer as their next-generation operating system installer. This week they have published a new prototype of this installer with more functionality now in place...