Open-source News

Someone ran a modern Linux OS on a 30-year-old CPU, and it's surprisingly usable  XDA

Tiny386 On An Espressif ESP32-S3  Hackaday

Valve reportedly cooking native Linux version of Half-Life: Alyx, optimized for Steam Frame VR  TweakTown

The EROFS read-only file-system started by Huawei and now maintained by a growing number of contributors continues attracting even more interest. EROFS has exhibited much potential for mobile devices as well as container use-cases while proving itself to be quite robust since its mainlining back in 2019...

EROFS File-System Continues Attracting More Industry Players  Phoronix

Proton 10.0-3 released bringing lots of improvements for gaming on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Machine  GamingOnLinux

CISA warns of Akira ransomware Linux encryptor targeting Nutanix VMs  BleepingComputer

Valve and CodeWeavers today released Proton 10.0-3 as the newest stable update to this Wine-based software that powers Steam Play for enabling countless Windows games to run often extremely well under Linux...

Proton 10.0-3 Released For Steam Play With Dozens Of Fixes, More Games Working  Phoronix

“The Big Pause” – Microsoft’s AI Strategy Deconstructed – From Energy to Tokens  Thurrott.com

I don't miss any Windows features, but here's the one thing I want to see on Linux  XDA

Following the recent patch proposal for moving AMD GCN 1.1 generation GPUs over to the AMDGPU Linux driver by default in place of the legacy Radeon driver, a similar patch has now been proposed for the GCN 1.0 graphics processors. AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs are at parity with the AMDGPU driver to the Radeon driver while needing this newer kernel driver for enjoying RADV Vulkan support, better performance, and overall a better experience...

Anti-cheat will still be one of the biggest problems for the new Steam Machine  GamingOnLinux

RCE flaw in ImunifyAV puts millions of Linux-hosted sites at risk  BleepingComputer

For those making use of the out-of-tree Bcachefs file-system driver, rolling out to the snapshot/nightly testing channel is the long-in-development "rebalance_v2" functionality now known as the "bcachefs_metadata_version_reconcile" feature...

Bcachefs Rolls Out Metadata Version Reconcile "rebalance_v2" Feature  Phoronix

Canonical’s Ubuntu LTS Leap: 15-Year Support Redefines Enterprise Linux Longevity  WebProNews

The excellent CloverPit has sold over 1 million and gets a Hard Mode update  GamingOnLinux

Running Modern Linux on a Pentium 133  Hackster.io

5 Linux distributions that look as gorgeous as macOS  XDA