Wine 10.4 Brings More Direct3D To Vulkan Video Handling, Continued Bluetooth Driver Work

Wine 10.4 is out tonight as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...
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Another chapter in the never ending story of billionaire funded LLM plagiarism machines making life worse while trying to profir from the unpaid labor of others.

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FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

LLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.

^{Niccolò Venerandi (LibreNews)}

AMD Announces AITER For ROCm To Help Boost AI Performance

AMD has been on a software / container / documentation spree recently around ROCm and today are announcing another software addition to the ROCm portfolio: AITER...
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Microsoft Proposes "Hornet" Security Module For The Linux Kernel

Microsoft's newest open-source contribution to the Linux kernel being proposed is... Hornet, a Linux security module (LSM) for providing signature verification of eBPF programs...
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Get a whole lot of EARTH DEFENSE FORCE in this Humble Bundle gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/get-…

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Get a whole lot of EARTH DEFENSE FORCE in this Humble Bundle

On top of the recently launched Humble Heroines Bundle, we also have the just launched EARTH DEFENSE FORCE Collection.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

The Humble Heroines Bundle returns with some great games for Women's History Month gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/the-…

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The Humble Heroines Bundle returns with some great games for Women's History Month

Another chance to pick up some quality games! The Humble Heroines Bundle returns with a different set of great games for Women's History Month supporting Girls Who Code and Girls Make Games Scholarship Fund.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

The Last of Us Part II Remastered devs aiming for "best possible experience on handheld gaming devices" gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/the-…

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The Last of Us Part II Remastered devs aiming for "best possible experience on handheld gaming devices"

Sony have revealed the system requirements and more info for the PC release of The Last of Us Part II Remastered, which is due to arrive on April 3rd. Looks like it might be good news for Steam Deck owners too.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

ReactOS 0.4.15 Released For This "Open-Source Windows" OS With Tons Of Enhancements

It's been over three years since the last ReactOS open-source operating system release for this platform working on API/ABI compatibility with Microsoft Windows. Today ReactOS 0.4.15 was finally published...
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Got a Kobo e-reader? The latest update to Calibre enables you convert to/from Kobo's KEPUB ebook files, which is handy! omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/calibr…

#opensource #foss #kobo

Calibre Ebook Manager Improves Support for Kobo E-Readers

A new version of Calibre, the Swiss-army knife for e-book management is out, and it brings some notable new features for e-bookworms to dig into. Calibre 8.0.1 boasts improved support for Kobo e-re...

^{Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)}

Linux Security Hardening Cache Randomization Was Inadvertently Using The Same Seed

Ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle a few early pull requests have already been sent in to Linus Torvalds in advance of the anticipated v6.14 release on Sunday. Among those early changes for Linux 6.15 are the SLAB allocator updates that include a fix for cache randomization with kvmalloc inadvertently being inadequate due to accidentally using the same ran…
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New Intel/AMD GPU Features, Apple Touch Bar Drivers & Other Likely Changes For Linux 6.15

With the Linux 6.14 stable kernel likely debuting on Sunday, the Linux 6.15 merge window will then open for kicking off the next development cycle. There's a lot of exciting changes and new features building up ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window...
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Raspberry Pi Announces rpi-image-gen To Help Craft Custom Software Images

Following a slew of hardware announcements in the past few months like the RP2350 shipping, Raspberry Pi 5 16GB, Raspberry Pi Monitor, and Raspberry Pi 500, today they have a new software announcement. Today they formally announced "rpi-image-gen" as a new tool to help customers in crafting customized software OS images...
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System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster arrives June 26 gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/syst…

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System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster arrives June 26

Nightdive Studios have finally revealed that their System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster arrives June 26th with a new trailer and new details.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Get ready to defend a walking castle in the roguelike action game Castlebound gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/get-…

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Get ready to defend a walking castle in the roguelike action game Castlebound

From Ogre Pixel who made Lonesome Village and A Tiny Sticker Tale, their next game is an action roguelike where you're defending a walking castle. Castlebound seems like it could be a lot of fun.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Linux 6.14 Sees Last Minute Fix For A Two Year Old Regression Causing A 30% Performance Drop

Submitted today ahead of the Linux 6.14 stable release expected Sunday is a lone scheduler fix for the kernel. This patch is for reverting a change made to the Linux kernel two years ago that ended up regressing some workloads with a significant performance hit...
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#Forgejo 10.0.2 was just released!

We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version.

Check out the release notes and download it at forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/i….

#forgejorelease

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Beyond coding. We forge.

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Hello, is this thing on? Good!

With Linux 6.14 nearing release, here's a "quick" update on all the things that have happened!

asahilinux.org/2025/03/progres…

Progress Report: Linux 6.14 - Asahi Linux

Porting Linux to Apple Silicon

^{asahilinux.org}

AMD Announces Open-Source "GAIA" For GenAI But Currently Windows-Only

AMD on Thursday announced GAIA for "Generative AI Is Awesome" as a means of easily running local large language models (LLMs) on Ryzen AI PCs with the XDNA NPU. GAIA provides an easy software demonstration for Ryzen AI capabilities but sadly for the moment is limited to Microsoft Windows platforms...
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The Entertainment Software Association have launched the Accessible Games Initiative gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/the-…

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The Entertainment Software Association have launched the Accessible Games Initiative

The Accessible Games Initiative from the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has been launched, with an aim to improve how developers and stores list clear information about the accessibility features available in video games.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

ASUS ROG Flow Z13 Improvements For Linux, RGB Controls For The ROG Ally

A set of eleven patches being worked on for the ASUS HID and platform drivers work to enhance the support for the AMD Strix Halo powered ROG Flow Z13 (2025) laptop as well as adding RGB control support for the ROG Ally gaming handheld...
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Silent Hill 4, F.E.A.R. and more join the GOG Preservation Program gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/sile…

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Silent Hill 4, F.E.A.R. and more join the GOG Preservation Program

GOG have just announced another expansion of the the GOG Preservation Program. This is their promise to keep classics updated and working on modern systems.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Dynamic EPP & Raw EPP Features Coming To AMD P-State Driver

The AMD P-State Linux kernel driver for CPU frequency scaling with modern Ryzen processors has been working out quite well and proving very effective over the prior ACPI CPUFreq generic driver use. Beyond recently being extended to becoming the default for EPYC 9005 "Turin" processrs, AMD P-State has recently been seeing some patches for additional feature work...
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Vulkan 1.4.311 Released With New Extension For BFloat16

The Vulkan 1.4.311 specification update is out today with a handful of issues resolved with various clarifications and other subtle refinements. Plus two new extensions...
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Proton Experimental adds fixes for GTA V Enhanced and more for Linux / Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/prot…

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Proton Experimental adds fixes for GTA V Enhanced and more for Linux / Steam Deck

Valve released another smaller update for Proton Experimental, the constantly changing compatibility layer to run Windows games on Linux platforms like the Steam Deck with SteamOS.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Everything to grab from Prime Gaming, March 21st edition for Steam Deck / Linux gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/ever…

#SteamDeck #Linux #LinuxGaming #PrimeGaming

Everything to grab from Prime Gaming, March 21st edition for Steam Deck / Linux

Here's the up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming for March 21st, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck. An easy way to build up your gaming collection.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

SteamOS 3.7.2 Preview gets a fix for the Steam Deck OLED gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/stea…

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SteamOS 3.7.2 Preview gets a fix for the Steam Deck OLED

While Valve continue working towards the public SteamOS 3 release for more devices, and we've seen them note work towards that in the initial SteamOS 3.7 Preview, they continue rolling out more bug fixes for the Steam Deck.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}