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After Steam on Linux usage topped to nearly 2% in July with the phenomenal success of the Steam Deck and with greater marketshare than Apple macOS, in August it took a dip and now the September numbers are out and points to a second consecutive month of the Linux percentage receding...

Steam On Linux Percentage Dips Further In September, AMD ...  Phoronix

Mesa 23.2.1 Drivers is Out!. Mesa 23.2.1, the latest iteration of… | by ...  Medium

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.6-rc4 as the newest test release for this kernel that is looking to be released as stable around the end of October...

Linux 6.6-rc4 Released - Linus Torvalds: It's Fairly Small  Phoronix

Several months back was work to disable all Microsoft Remote Network Driver Interface Specification (RNDIS) drivers in the Linux kernel on the basis of being insecure and other factors. That plan of disabling the RNDIS drivers was faced by opposition around concerns of potentially disrupting USB tethering support and the like. It's been months since hearing anything about updated plans for disabling or dropping the RNDIS drivers but the Git branch was updated today for disabling this class of drivers...

Linux To Try Again To Disable All RNDIS Protocol Drivers  Phoronix

Now more than ever, ChromeOS is Linux with Google's desktop environment  About Chromebooks

Qubes OS é o Linux mais seguro?  Diolinux

Mesa 23.2.1 drivers out now | GamingOnLinux  GamingOnLinux

Linux: Optimierungen für Starfield und schnellere Ladezeiten [Update]  PC Games Hardware

Prolific RADV developer Samuel Pitoiset with Valve's Linux graphics driver team has re-enabled Delta Color Compression (DCC) with mipmaps for AMD GFX11 (RDNA3) hardware for the Mesa 23.3 release...

Mesa 23.3 Restores DCC With Mipmaps Performance Optimization ...  Phoronix

Microsoft released CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230924 this week as the newest version of their in-house Linux distribution. The driving force behind this release is to get out rebuilt AArch64 packages following the recent GCC security vulnerability that affected Arm 64-bit built software...

Microsoft CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230924 Rebuilds AArch64 Packages ...  Phoronix

ReactOS Deutschland e.V. has hired a longtime contributor to this "open-source Windows" project to spend the next five months working on the ReactOS GUI setup mode as an alternative to their classic text-based setup mode...

"Open-Source Windows" ReactOS To See Improved GUI Setup ...  Phoronix

Disclosed back in August was the Inception vulnerability affecting all Zen processors. It took until today though for the mainline Linux kernel to mitigate Hygon processors for this vulnerability for those Zen 1 CPUs formed from the AMD-Chinese joint venture...

Linux Now Mitigating Hygon CPUs For Inception/SRSO Vulnerability  Phoronix

Is Linux Truly The Best Privacy Alternative For The Average User?  Medium