Open-source News

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

Ubuntu tip of the day: Upgrading to the next major release  XDA Developers

Apex Legends Implements Controversial Change to Tackle Cheating Issues  Vpesports

Intel software engineers have been very busy recently with upstreaming various elements of support into the Linux kernel, open-source compilers and more for the next-generation Xeon Diamond Rapids processors. Following the recent GCC prep patches for Diamond Rapids to work on the ISA additions around AMX-AVX512, AMX-FP8, AMX-FP32, and others, a new patch was posted today for actually exposing the "-march=diamondrapids" compiler target and in turn confirming all of the new ISA capabilities...

October is now in the books after writing 247 original news articles and another 24 Linux hardware reviews / featured multi-page benchmark articles. From the launches of Intel Arrow Lake and AMD EPYC 9005 to other interesting new hardware, the Russian Linux kernel drama, Linux 6.12 developments and early Linux 6.13 patches queuing in "-next" branches, October was an interesting month both for hardware and open-source software...