Open-source News

Vulkan 1.3.300 debuted on Friday with a handful of fixes and one new extension...

Steam Beta removes option to globally disable Steam Play plus Game Recording improvements  GamingOnLinux

Mastering the Linux File System: My Go-To Commands and Tips  How-To Geek

TrueNAS, a Linux Distro for Low Cost Network-Attached Storage  The New Stack

With Linux 6.13 there is going to be the initial kernel graphics driver support for Xe3 in integrated form to be found with next-gen Panther Lake processors. Merged today for Mesa 24.3 this quarter is the initial OpenGL and Vulkan driver enablement for Xe3 graphics...

Submitted today were a set of x86 platform driver fixes for merging ahead of the Linux 6.12-rc5 release due out on Sunday. For the most part mostly mundane fixes. But notable is an ASUS WMI fix to address the Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" performance issue I've pointed out now in several articles...

ASUS WMI Fix Submitted For Linux 6.12-rc5 To Handle Lunar Lake Performance Issue  Phoronix

Framework Laptop 13 AMD 2.8K review: AMD and Linux is a modular match made in heaven  XDA Developers

Linux Is Not a Windows Substitute: Here's How You Should Approach It  How-To Geek

Following the recent concerns over Bitwarden potentially moving further away from open-source given SDK changes that appeared, Bitwarden has now further addressed the situation to ease the community concerns...

KDE developers continue being very busy prepping more bug fixes for the Plasma 6.2.x series while continuing to work on new feature material for Plasma 6.3...

PeaZip 10 Released with Revamped GUI Engine, Compression Presets, and More  9to5Linux

A deep dive into Linux’s new mseal syscall  Security Boulevard

Linux removes Russian kernel code maintainers  Interest.co.nz

What Was the First Linux Distro You Used?  How-To Geek

Linus Torvalds took to some coding himself today to fix a user-address masking non-canonical speculation issue. The Linux kernel needed an adaptation for this "Meltdown Lite" issue due to different behavior with the latest AMD Zen 5 processors...

Linux Fixes "Meltdown Lite" Mitigation Handling On Newer Zen 5 CPUs  Phoronix

The latest free games with Prime Gaming - October 25 edition - lots for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Linux Kernel Project Drops 11 Russian Developers Amid US Sanctions Concerns  HackRead

Yesterday for the Intel Core Ultra 200S Arrow Lake launch date was my extensive look at the Core Ultra 9 285K under Ubuntu Linux for that 24-core desktop processor. Under focus today is the lower-tier Intel Core Ultra 5 245K with a large variety of Linux performance benchmarks for showing how this 14-core processor compares to prior Intel Core CPUs as well as the AMD Ryzen competition atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.