Open-source News

GE-Proton 10-12 hotfix adds a few more needed tweaks for video playback  GamingOnLinux

Intel's fabled Itanium refuses to die, but the end is probably near — deprecation of IA-64 support is back on the chopping block in GCC version 16  Tom's Hardware

Newly Discovered Plague Linux Backdoor Malware Remained Undetected For A Year  latesthackingnews.com

Orion Browser for Linux Gets Exciting Progress Update  OMG! Ubuntu

I installed Linux on this mini PC - here's how it transformed my workflow (for the better)  ZDNET

Quartet Brings Retro JRPG Magic to PC, Mac, and Linux August 26  MonsterVine

New Version Of Envelope Sequencer Plugin  Sonicstate

Go 1.25 is out today as the newest half-year update to this popular programming language. What I find most exciting with Go 1.25 is the new experimental garbage collector yielding 10~40% reduction in overhead...

NVIDIA 580 Linux Graphics Driver Released, Promises Better Wayland Support  9to5Linux

You Can't Buy This Linux Phone Anymore  How-To Geek

Several years ago Google engineers began exploring address space isolation for the Linux kernel and ultimately proposing Linux ASI for better dealing with CPU speculative execution attacks. While the hope was it would better cope with the ever growing list of CPU speculative execution vulnerabilities, the effort was thwarted initially by I/O throughput seeing a 70% performance hit. That level of performance cost was unsustainable. But now that I/O overhead has been reduced to just 13%...

Linux Address Space Isolation "ASI" Revived After Lowering 70% Performance Hit To 13%  Phoronix

Here's why I recommend Linux's Plasma KDE for Windows escapees  xda-developers.com

NVIDIA 580.76.05 released for Linux as the new recommended stable driver  GamingOnLinux

Ubuntu 25.10 to Ship with Linux 6.17 Kernel for Cutting-Edge Features  WebProNews

CrossOver 25.1.0 Released with Microsoft Office Fixes on Linux  OMG! Ubuntu

Linux Kernel 6.17-rc1 Released Early with Graphics and Security Upgrades  WebProNews

Docker Hub still hosts dozens of Linux images with the XZ backdoor  BleepingComputer

Linus Torvalds blasts kernel dev for 'making the world worse' with 'garbage' patches  ZDNET

CarX Street Gets Full Steam Deck And Linux Support  Steam Deck HQ