Open-source News

The response to s&box from Facepunch going open source has been "overwhelmingly positive"  GamingOnLinux

A proposal was raised a month ago for Fedora Linux 44 to replace the kernel's frame-buffer console "FBCON" with KMSCON in user-space. The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has now granted approval for making this change in Fedora 44 as part of a larger foal to eventually deprecate FBCON/FBDEV emulation in the kernel...

Linux usage on Steam hits a record high for the second month in a row  The Verge

GeForce 590 driver branch is the first without feature support for GTX 9- and 10-series GPUs — Linux release marks the end of the line for graphics cards that defined an era  Tom's Hardware

Not exactly a big surprise but the recently released Linux 6.18 kernel is now officially promoted to being this year's Long Term Support "LTS" kernel...

Linux 6.18 Officially Promoted To Being An LTS Kernel  Phoronix

Linux 6.19 Boosts Btrfs and XFS I/O with Custom Writeback Chunk Sizes  WebProNews

Canonical Launches Ubuntu Pro for WSL with Enterprise Security  WebProNews

The pull requests landing the power management subsystem updates for Linux 6.19 along with the ACPI and thermal control code have landed. There is new hardware support, Microsoft ACPI Fan Extensions support, and other new features for Linux power management in this new kernel...

Microsoft ACPI Fan Extensions & Configurable Hibernation Threads For Linux 6.19  Phoronix

The first alpha release of the LibreOffice 26.2 open-source and cross platform office suite is now available for testing ahead of its official release in February...

LibreOffice 26.2 Alpha 1 Released For Testing  Phoronix

It’s Official: Linux Kernel 6.18 Will Be LTS, Supported Until December 2027  9to5Linux

GeForce RTX 5070 Cracks Top 10 GPU List In Steam Survey, Linux Rising Too  HotHardware

Valve have been funding FEX to get x86 games on Arm Linux  GamingOnLinux

These 4 “hidden” Linux commands are ridiculously useful once you learn them  MakeUseOf

NVIDIA Ends Support For GTX 900 And GTX 10 Series In Linux With Driver Branch 590  Wccftech

Linux Kernel 5.4 Reaches End of Life After More Than Six Years of Maintenance  9to5Linux

Linux boss blames hardware for Windows BSoD, not Microsoft's software  Windows Central

Linus Torvalds says Windows' rep for bugs and blue screens isn't down to bad code but bad memory  PC Gamer