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In commemorating twenty years since the release of the highly acclaimed Half-Life 2 game, Valve today released the Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary update with various fixes and other refinements. Half-Life 2 is also being made free-to-own through November 18th for those that never experienced this legendary game...

Linux GPU Configuration Tool 'LACT' adds NVIDIA support  GamingOnLinux

In addition to the EXT4 and XFS atomic write support, another interesting pull request sent in today by Microsoft's Christian Brauner is adding case-insensitive file/folder support for the Tmpfs file-system to benefit use-cases like Wine / Steam Play compatibility layers and sandboxing/container facilities like Flatpak...

Prominent Linux developer Christian Brauner with Microsoft has begun sending out various pull requests of VFS feature changes for the imminent Linux 6.13 merge window. One of the interesting early pull requests is the VFS untorn writes series with getting atomic writes support enabled for the EXT4 and XFS file-system...

Hacking the Linux Kernel in Ada - Part 2  Embedded Computing Design

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 gains security, networking upgrades  Network World

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 gains security, networking upgrades  Network World

SUSE unveils major rebranding, and a new AI platform that protects your data  ZDNet

Automotive Grade Linux introduces Toyota-led open source initiative  Yahoo Finance

LXQt packs Wayland punch with 2.1 release  The Register

While Linux 6.12 should be out this weekend with its many exciting features, following that will mark the start of the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle with what will be the first stable kernel release of 2025... Already there is a lot of exciting feature work expected to land during the Linux 6.13 merge window...

open source program office launch  just-auto.com

Linux 6.13 Very Exciting With New Feature Code For AMD EPYC Zen 5, Intel Panter Lake  Phoronix

The GNOME Mutter compositor has switched its KMS thread priority from a real-time value over to high priority to workaround a situation where the GNOME Shell / Mutter could crash or see its process killed...

The Linux 6.12 kernel is expected to be released this coming Sunday, 17 November, barring any last minute issues that would force the stable kernel to be diverted to the following Sunday. Linux 6.12 is delivering many exciting new features and beyond that it's all the more exciting with it expected to be this year's Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel version...

Linux 6.12 Preps For Release With Real-Time, Sched_Ext, Stable Xe2 & Raspberry Pi 5  Phoronix

How to use the W diff command  Network World

Google engineer Saravana Kannan has posted a set of patches to better optimize async device suspend and resume handling within the Linux kernel. With thesep atches there are "significant improvements" to async device suspend/resume with testing being done on a Google Pixel 6 smartphone but other devices stand to benefit too...

Google Posts Patches Further Speeding Up Linux Async Device Suspend & Resume  Phoronix

Red Hat Joins the Linux Foundation’s Margo Initiative to Deliver Edge Interoperability for Industrial Automation Ecosystems  ARC Advisory Group