Open-source News

SaveState is an open source versatile game save backup manager - now with Linux support  GamingOnLinux

9 Myths About the Linux Terminal You Should Stop Believing  How-To Geek

Linux enjoys a small usage uptick with Steam users, though at 2.69% it still has a long way to go to topple Windows  Yahoo

Linux enjoys a small usage uptick with Steam users, though at 2.69% it still has a long way to go to topple Windows  PC Gamer

Microsoft accused of ‘tech extortion’ over Windows 10 support ending in campaign to get people to upgrade to Linux  TechRadar

Linux kernel developers continue building out the support around the Compute Express Link (CXL) specification for benefiting modern high performance servers. With the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel there are more CXL features now in place...

Ubuntu Developers Discuss The Difficult Issue Of Splitting Up Firmware Packages  Phoronix

Ubuntu developers have recently started a discussion over possibly splitting up the "linux-firmware" package into multiple sub-packages given the growing size of all the different firmware binaries needed to support the diverse range of hardware supported by the Linux kernel. It's nice in theory for helping to reduce the install footprint of Ubuntu Linux but in practice will be difficult to pull off without potentially risking the out-of-the-box hardware support on Ubuntu Linux...

One of the niftiest kernel innovations to be upstreamed into Linux over the past year was sched_ext for extensible scheduler behavior in allowing kernel schedulers to be implemented via BPG programs. Sched_ext can allow for interesting scheduler improvements with a variety of use-cases and showed much potential even before being upstreamed. The work on sched_ext isn't yet over though and yet more improvements landed for Linux 6.16...

Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9.4 Adds UI Improvements, New Translations, and Bugfixes  9to5Linux

The numerous hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates were merged to Linux 6.16 on Tuesday for further enhancing the desktop hardware reporting capabilities and more with this next kernel release...

Hardware Monitoring For More ASUS Motherboards & Additional Zen 5 CPUs In Linux 6.16  Phoronix

Can Linux really replace Windows and macOS for music production?  MusicTech

New versions of Chaos RAT target Windows and Linux systems  Security Affairs

Sponsorships Seems to Be Coming to Arch Linux!  It's FOSS News

VirtualBox 7.1.10 Is Out with Initial Support for Linux 6.15 and 6.16 Kernels  9to5Linux

KDE opens its doors to "Windows 10 exiles" as it claims Microsoft wants to turn your computer "into junk"  XDA

Stretch Break Linux App Reminds You to Stop Pixel-Gawping  OMG! Ubuntu

SquashFS-Tools 4.7 is out today as a big feature update to the user-space utilities for creating/modifying/extracting SquashFS read-only file-system images. SquashFS 4.7 delivers some big performance improvements and other nice enhancements...

Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 Released with VoLTE and Waydroid Improvements  9to5Linux