Open-source News

Lutris as the open-source game manager that integrates with the likes of Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, and other game collections and emulators is out with a new update...

Why You Should Use Administrative Interfaces to Manage Linux Servers  MUO - MakeUseOf

SD GUNDAM BATTLE ALLIANCE works out of the box on Steam Deck and Linux  GamingOnLinux

Intel Arc Graphics Running On Fully Open-Source Linux Driver Review  Phoronix

Intel's GPUs from the consumer desktop Arc Graphics hardware to the Intel Data Center Flex GPU Series "Arctic Sound M" and forthcoming Xe HPC Ponte Vecchio are built around fully open-source drivers. A common misconception or confusion I've heard many times over the past number of months has been questioning whether Intel's discrete GPU driver support on Linux is open-source or is closed-source, etc. Well, it's fully open-source aside from the usual firmware caveat and running on Linux. Here is some initial commentary with running the Intel Arc Graphics A380 on Linux!

CrossOver 22 released for running Windows apps and games on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Meet the Kubuntu Focus NX Mini Linux PC with 11th Gen Intel CPUs, Up to 64GB RAM  9to5Linux

A 2001 legal conflict over the Linux code keeps open the possibility that a company could charge a royalty for its use.  Gearrice

Readfile System Call Revised For Efficiently Reading Small Files  Phoronix

Brought up back in 2020 was the readfile system call for efficiently reading small files with the intention of it being simple for reading small files such as those via sysfs, procfs, and similar file-systems. The readfile patches were re-based yesterday against the current Linux 6.0 state, leaving hope that the new system call might finally be sent in for the next kernel cycle...

Install Memcached on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux Server  Linux Shout

Install Memcached on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux Server  Linux Shout

How to Calculate Subnet Masks on Linux With ipcalc  How-To Geek

Deepin prepares to leave Debian base and move to fully independent distro  The Register

The FreeBSD release engineering team has published their initial release plans for FreeBSD 14.0 as well as follow-on FreeBSD 13.2 and 12.4 releases for the current stable series of this BSD operating system...

ODROID-Go Ultra handheld game console coming in October for $111 (Amlogic S922X chip and Ubuntu Linux OS)  Liliputing

Spider-Man Remastered update out, has a couple Steam Deck fixes  GamingOnLinux

Linux Foundation and World Bank Launch Free Quantum Computing Training  Quantaneo, the Quantum Computing Source

Free Quantum Computing Training Course Launched by the Linux Foundation and World Bank  PR Newswire

While mostly of benefit to server administrators with large fleets of hardware, Linux 6.1 aims to make it easier to help spot problematic CPUs/cores by reporting the likely socket and core when a segmentation fault occurs, which can help in spotting any trends if routinely finding the same CPU/core is causing problems...