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Arch Linux and Valve team up to make Steam gaming even better  XDA Developers

Taking place this week in Berlin was systemd's annual "All Systems Go" developer conference. Among the interesting talks was Lennart Poettering talking about the ongoing challenges of D-Bus for inter-process communication (IPC) with systemd and how they are looking at Varlink for IPC needs moving forward...

The KVM x86/x86_64 changes were merged today as we are nearly done with the Linux 6.12 merge window...

KVM With Linux 6.12 Will Advertise AVX10.1 Support To Guest VMs  Phoronix

Following AMD and FreeBSD Foundation collaborations and the Sovereign Tech Fund making a big investment into FreeBSD, the FreeBSD Foundation and Quantum Leap Research have announced a $750,000 USD commitment to improve laptop support on this BSD operating system with backing by Dell, AMD, and Framework Computer...

File-systems in user-space continue to become more robust with the latest FUSE updates merged for Linux 6.12...

It's been a busy week for Valve Linux graphics software engineer Mike Blumenkrantz. Besides hacking on Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation, this week his latest target was working to help accelerate the pace of Wayland protocol development. He's been working through a few proposals like addressing NACK usage for how Wayland protocols can be rejected and in ending out the week he has drafted some additional workflow improvements...

The LoongArch architecture support for these Chinese processors continue seeing better support with the upstream Linux kernel...

LoongArch Adds ACPI BGRT Support & Other Improvements For Linux 6.12  Phoronix

Ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window wrapping up this weekend with the Linux 6.12-rc1 release, merged on Friday were all of the Compute Express Link (CXL) updates for the new kernel...

I’ve Been Using These 8 Core Linux Commands Wrong for Years  How-To Geek

KDE developers remain very busy landing bug and crash fixes ahead of the upcoming Plasma 6.2 desktop release...

Valve's SteamOS is built atop Arch Linux and now the company is further helping the upstream Linux distribution by collaborating with resources to help with build service infrastructure and a secure signing enclave...

Valve Helping Arch Linux With Build Service Infrastructure & Secure Signing Enclave  Phoronix

New Chrome Security Warning For 3 Billion Windows, Mac, Linux, Android Users  Forbes

Valve (Steam) begin a direct collaboration with Arch Linux  GamingOnLinux

It's been just one week since the release of ROCm 6.2.1 while today ROCm 6.2.2 was released...

PSA: Critical 9.9 vulnerability discovered in the CUPS package (Linux)  GBAtemp.net

PSA: Critical 9.9 vulnerability discovered in the CUPS package (Linux)  GBAtemp.net

Remote code execution exploit for CUPS printing service puts Linux desktops at risk  CSO Online