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With the start of the new month comes updated Steam Survey numbers from Valve for the preceding month. Thanks to the continued growth of the Steam Deck and Valve continuing to ramp up their production, Steam on Linux enjoyed another tick up for October...

Steam Linux Use Tips Up In October Thanks To The Steam Deck  Phoronix

ONE Summit Adds New Industry Luminaries to Keynote Line-up, New Mini-Summits & Global Virtual participation  FOX 28 Spokane

Set Up a Cloudflare Tunnel to Expose Local Servers to the Internet  MUO - MakeUseOf

The Godot open-source game engine had been part of the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) as many open-source projects utilize for handling fiscal sponsorship duties and the like while now the Godot Foundation has been established as its own legal entity...

The Godot Game Engine Now Has Its Own Foundation  Phoronix

Only The Agile And Adaptable Survive  The Next Platform

Intel Software Defined Silicon Linux Driver Sees Latest "Intel On Demand" Updates  Phoronix

Going back to late last year Intel began working on a new Linux driver for "Software Defined Silicon" as a means of activating licensed hardware features akin to what they tried a decade ago with the "Intel Upgrade Service" for unlocking extra CPU features. The SDSi driver was merged in Linux 5.18 while this afternoon they sent out a rather sizable update to this controversial driver / hardware feature...

It's been 3+ years that the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has been working on NGG Stream-Out support for making use of the Next-Gen Geometry engine that is in workable shape for some RDNA GPUs. Finally with Mesa 22.3 releasing this quarter, a new environment variable option is allowing the NGG Streamout / Transform Feedback functionality to be flipped on with the RADV driver...

Linux Lite 6.2 Released, Based on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS  OMG! Ubuntu!

OpenSSL 3 patch, once Heartbleed-level “critical,” arrives as a lesser “high”  Ars Technica

Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT) is still being eyed for enabling as part of the default Linux x86_64 kernel configurations to provide better out-of-the-box security on supported processors. A patch sent out today continues the upstream discussion over flipping on this feature by default that is part of Intel's Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) for helping to defend against jump/call oriented programming attacks...

Linux Still Eyes Better Security By Default Enabling Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT)  Phoronix

Dwarf Fortress releases December 6 on Steam and itch.io, Native Linux support later  GamingOnLinux

Dwarf Fortress releases December 6 on Steam and itch.io, Native Linux support later  GamingOnLinux

Dwarf Fortress releases December 6 on Steam and itch.io, Native Linux support later  GamingOnLinux

Linux Fu: Easy VMs  Hackaday

Using Sysmon for Linux to Monitor Against MITRE ATT&CK Techniques  Security Boulevard

Two high severity security vulnerabilities affecting OpenSSL were made public today, which were the issues that led to Fedora 37 being delayed to mid-November to allow the release images have mitigated OpenSSL packages...