Open-source News

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

Linux use hits all-time-high on Steam  OC3D

Sound Open Firmware 2.14 Released With Intel Wildcat Lake & Nova Lake Support  Phoronix

Sound Open Firmware is one of the projects started originally by Intel but has grown into a multi-vendor initiative for open-source audio digital signal processing (DSP) firmware and development tooling for a variety of platforms under the Linux Foundation umbrella...

Half-Life Legacy arrives December 12 but you'll need Proton on Linux due to Native Linux issues  GamingOnLinux

Merged yesterday to the Linux 6.19 Git codebase was the "core/uaccess" pull that introduces new scoped user-mode access with auto-cleanup functionality. This can reduce the number of speculation barriers encountered when needing to access user-mode memory and thereby avoiding some of the performance penalties incurred by speculation barriers...

Google engineer Eric Biggers who is known for his many Linux crypto subsystem performance optimizations has seen his latest pull requests land in Linux 6.19. Notable among them are some AES-GCM optimizations benefiting AMD Zen 3 processors and separately AVX-512 processors also benefit too from this latest round of optimization work...

Latest Nvidia Linux driver drops support for some older GTX graphics cards, including everyone's favorite, 1080 Ti  PC Guide

Fedora Linux 44 will get improved NTSYNC enabling for Proton / Wine  GamingOnLinux

Valve is developing an Android compatibility layer for Linux, it's called Lepton  gHacks Technology News