Open-source News

Steam update brings accessibility settings and Proton enabled by default to make Linux gaming simpler  GamingOnLinux

Fedora Linux Won't Kill 32-Bit Software, for Now  How-To Geek

Massive VRAM pools on AMD Instinct accelerators drown Linux's hibernation process — 1.5 TB of memory per server creates headaches  Tom's Hardware

New to Linux? Seven things every beginner should know  ZDNET

9 Chromebook Power User Tricks You Should Be Using  How-To Geek

9 Great Linux Apps to Try on Your Chromebook  How-To Geek

Steam and Linux gaming is safe: Fedora will not drop 32-bit support after all — dev says proposal was 'not some conspiracy to break the gaming use case'  Tom's Hardware

5 underrated Linux apps I can't live without  XDA

Jon Seager as the VP of Engineering at Canonical today publicly announced the formation of their "Debcrafters" global team to help ensure the health of the Ubuntu Archive...

How to easily add and configure multitouch gestures on Linux  ZDNET

How to Repair a Corrupted USB Drive in Linux  Make Tech Easier

Yoohoo! There is a New Rust-Based GPU Driver for Linux in Development  It's FOSS News

Ubuntu and Tuxedo duke it out for Linux on Snapdragon X Elite laptops  PCWorld

The Best Boring Benchmarks: Rocky Linux 10 & AlmaLinux 10 Performance Against RHEL 10 Review  Phoronix

AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux remain two of the most popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives that are maintained by the open-source community. With the recent Rocky Linux 10 GA release that followed the recent AlmaLinux 10 release for re-basing against Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, here are some benchmarks looking at the performance of these popular downstreams compared to RHEL 10.

KDE developers are improving its clock "KClock" app with leveraging the experimental Wayland picture-in-picture protocol support...

This Debian-based Linux distro is an overlooked and user-friendly gem  ZDNet

Space physics puzzler Voyager 2 adds Linux and Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux

Windows loses 400 million users as mobile, Linux, and Mac use grows  TechSpot

Too much vRAM and too many Instinct accelerators per server is causing system hibernation to fail on some high-end AMD AI Linux-powered servers. Having eight accelerators each with 192GB of device memory can in turn cause system hibernation to run into problems if the Linux server has only 2TB of system RAM... But a new patch series was posted today in working to address this problem with the Linux kernel for high-end systems failing to hibernate. A similar issue is that when thawing the system the process can take nearly one hour due to the amount of memory...