Open-source News

Why You Should Be Using Aliases in the Linux Terminal  How-To Geek

The Linux Concept Journey — D-BUS (Desktop Bus) | by Shlomi Boutnaru, Ph.D. | Nov, 2024  Medium

New games to claim with Prime Gaming - November 1 edition - great for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Respawn Blocks Apex Legends on Linux  Insider Gaming

OpenPaX, a New Linux Memory Security Patch, Arrives  The New Stack

Wine project leader Alexandre Julliard has laid out plans for releasing Wine 10.0 around mid-January as the annual stable release for this open-source software to run Windows applications and games on Linux and other platforms...

GE-Proton 9-17 and 9-18 out now with various upgrades  GamingOnLinux

GCC 15 to keep Itanium support for now, after all  The Register

COSMIC Linux Desktop Gets Alpha 3 Release  How-To Geek

One of the very convenient features for Ubuntu Linux users who want to run the very newest upstream kernel releases or simply test a new kernel build for verifying bug fixes or functionality has been the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA. It's been around for years, backed by Canonical, and very convenient for fetching pre-built AArch64 / ARM / POWER / RISC-V / x86_64 kernel binaries as Debian packages... With options of stable/test kernel versions as well as daily packages. Sadly, it's been broken once again and has been in that manner since mid-September...

Ubuntu's Great Mainline Kernel PPA Hasn't Been Working Since Mid-September  Phoronix

VMware makes a splash: KVM instead of proprietary hypervisor  heise online

Zephyr RTOS Receives Support from Ambiq  Embedded Computing Design

Respawn blocks Apex Legends on platforms using Linux including Steam Deck  GamesIndustry.biz

Asahi Linux gaming toolkit offers native dual boot and opens the door for more games on Apple silicon - Tested  Notebookcheck.net

With the upcoming Mesa 24.3 release there is a huge improvement coming for those using the RADV Radeon Vulkan driver with games leveraging AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2...

EA bans Linux gamers from Apex Legends to 'meaningfully reduce' cheating in the battle royale  TweakTown

The Google Chrome/Chromium web browser code has merged support for linux_drm_syncobj_v1 as the modern Wayland protocol for explicit buffer synchronization...

Google Chrome/Chromium Lands linux_drm_syncobj_v1 For Wayland Explicit Sync  Phoronix

Optimize Text Search: Master the grep Command in Linux  Data Center Knowledge