AMD FSR Upscaling 4.1 expands support to older Desktops, Laptops, Handhelds, Consoles and Vulkan https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/amd-fsr-upscaling-4-1-expands-support-to-older-desktops-laptops-handhelds-consoles-and-vulkan/

#AMD #Drivers #FSR #Vulkan #Linux #PCGaming #Gaming #Radeon

eMudhra intermediate CA compromise

https://lwn.net/Articles/1101643/

#LWN #Linux #security #Firefox

#Tech #Mastodon I have a question, does #NetBSD have binary forward compatibility (or whatever that would be called)?

Like, if I build something using a shared libc and generally using dlopen() or other careful methods for external libraries, will that binary typicall continue to work on future releases of NetBSD as-is?

I've heard FreeBSD tends to have that, OpenBSD apparently less so...

Asking since I'm tempted to try #NetBSD due to the general #Linux #ensloppification situation stop the #slop etc. by putting my money where my mouth is, at least if this turns out to be feasible...

OpenBSD 8.0 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1101536/

#LWN #Linux

Security updates for Tuesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1101617/

#LWN #Linux #security

Here's some interesting Native Linux demos in Steam Next Fest Oct 26 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/some-interesting-native-linux-demos-in-steam-next-fest-oct-26/

#Demo #NativeLinux #Roundup #IndieGames #Linux

GE-Proton 11-11 released to fix more issues with Windows games on SteamOS / Linux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/ge-proton-11-11-released-to-fix-more-issues-with-windows-games-on-steamos-linux/

#GEProton #Proton #OpenSource #Linux #SteamOS

Intel submits code to Proton to improve XeSS to use the fast upscaler XMX https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/intel-submits-code-to-proton-to-improve-xess-to-use-the-fast-upscaler-xmx/

#Wine #Proton #Intel #OpenSource #Linux #SteamOS

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟭𝟬/𝟭𝟵 (Valuable News - 2026/10/19) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/10/19/valuable-news-2026-10-19/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

A true legend of computer science leaves us, Fortnite is coming to Linux, Steam is finally moving away from 32-bit, Microsoft Defender comes to the Linux Desktop, Adobe’s flagship apps are cloned by AI as open source, and a quick KDE Korner.

https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-408/

#podcast #linux #opensource

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Welcoming Myna, and where EasySpeak fits in

(Link has details for what's next)

https://github.com/ctsdownloads/easyspeak/discussions/244

#Linux #Accessibility #OpenSource #VoiceControl #Ubuntu #GNOME #Myna

KDE: The Documentary

tells the story of the pioneering open source community that gave computer users a free & open alternative to proprietary desktops

Trailer
https://peerseek.video/v/2d26bd29-572f-4d46-9388-351c96bbea3d

Full movie (1:02:19)
https://videos.trom.tf/w/fe4f424c-96d5-4b27-b683-c0ffb05307e2

via
https://www.metafilter.com/214880/Three-KDEcades

#KDE #DesktopEnvironment #Linux #BSD #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

Linux Plumbers Conference videos now available

https://lwn.net/Articles/1101483/

#LWN #Linux #kernel #LPC

Just released #MocaccinoOS v26.10

https://www.mocaccino.org/blog/2026/10/19/mocaccinoos-v26.10/

@distrowatch @9to5linux @itsfoss @linuxiac @Linuxiarze

#Linux #OpenSource

[$] Development statistics for the 7.3 kernel

Linus Torvalds released the 7.3 kernel, at the end of the usual nine-week development cycle, on October 18. This cycle, abundantly fueled by LLM-assisted contributions, broke just [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1100241/

#LWN #Linux #kernel #SUSE #RedHat #Git

@amiablechief I had hoped to do that on my Raspberry Pi but I don't know how to create a network tap (on Raspberry Pi OS) for the vm to use. #Linux

It’s my first day as Communications Specialist for @gnome Foundation! Let’s goooooo!

#work #linux #opensource

[$] Cross-crate forward declarations in Rust

Rust has several ad-hoc mechanisms to allow user code to influence how the standard library executes. For example, custom panic handlers and custom allocators both involve register [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1099596/

#LWN #Linux #kernel #Rust

Security updates for Monday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1101421/

#LWN #Linux #security

New in EasySpeak today:

- "wifi off", "bluetooth on" and "airplane mode on" now work by voice.
- If it can't make out what you said, it tells you instead of going quiet.
- Fixed the room noise level coming out negative.
- Filters out fans and air filters with PipeWire noise suppression, so commands finish in about a second instead of five.

It's in the source on GitHub now, *not* in the RPM or DEB packages until the next release.

https://github.com/ctsdownloads/easyspeak

#Linux #Accessibility #OpenSource

Linux 7.3 released

Significant changes in this release include some significant binfmt_misc extensions, some group-scheduling work aimed at improving performance on large systems, the new failfs filesystem that fails all operations, the fchroot() system call, global per-CPU data for BPF programs, the completion of the sched_ext subscheduler feature, working-set tracking for virtual machines, alternative data-stream sup

https://www.osnews.com/story/146191/linux-7-3-released/

#Linux

Proton-CachyOS 11.0-20261014, DWProton 11.0-15 and GE-Proton 11-10 released https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/proton-cachyos-11-0-20261014-dwproton-11-0-15-and-ge-proton-11-10-released/

#Proton #GEProton #OpenSource #SteamDeck #SteamMachine #SteamOS #Linux

Linux kernel 7.3 is out with some nice improvements for gaming https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/linux-kernel-7-3-is-out-with-some-nice-improvements-for-gaming/

#Kernel #OpenSource #Linux #LinuxGaming

Linux KVM guest-host escape rated critical, may represent a new way to attack penguin-powered networking

https://www.theregister.com/virtualization/2026/10/19/linux-kvm-guest-host-escape-rated-critical-may-represent-a-new-way-to-attack-penguin-powered-networking/5303744

#linux

Does anyone know if there's a way to change Gnome so that (stay with me here) you switch windows on the release of a mouse click rather than the activation of a mouse click?

#Linux #Gnome #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Computers #tech #technology

This seems like a Fediverse question: spouse has a Logitech G502 HERO mouse and wants to configure one of the buttons to act as a shift key, which seems to be a rare goal. I've found no helpful forum posts about doing this on #Wayland at all. (Running #Bazzite #Linux.)

Piper is failing to make changes, looks like maybe a timeout. However, on-device profiles seem to be set up right, per Solaar. Going to dive deeper into logs soon, but thought I'd see if I could snare any gaming-on-Linux experts.

The 7.3 kernel has been released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1101143/

#LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #BPF

Hello all you wonderful FOSS people.

Now I have my Surface Pro tablet running Zorin OS, I'm looking for a decent eReader for eBooks.

Any suggestions for Linux?

#Linux #ZorinOS #eBook #eBookReader #eReader #FOSS #Books #Bookstodon #Reading #Fosstodon

When is it time to look for a new software development job? How do you cut through all the other applicants and get your foot in the door? When you do move on, how much notice should you give?

https://linuxdevtime.com/linux-dev-time-episode-161/

#podcast #develpment #linux

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Linux Mint 27 will include a suite of new software, including a more capable system monitor.

I took a development version for a spin and came away impressed – and with more disk space.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/linux-mint-new-system-monitor?v2

#linuxmint #linux #openSource

#Tech corporations and their leaders and elite technicians, the Microsofts and Oracles and Carmacks of the world, are obsessed with a very particular sort of #efficiency and they never tire of boasting about their ever-increasing efficiency. "Productivity" means about the same thing in their jargon: both words refer to a vague luminous feeling of constantly doing huge amounts of very very important work, "hard work" done by such exemplars of the Protestant #work ethic as Elon Musk and Paul Graham, that's clearly superior and indeed the best possible work because it makes ever so much money.

If it weren't "valued" so highly, goes the business logic, it wouldn't be good. But it has high value or "worth" (measured in terms of escalating quantities of currency, any old currency will do even fakey #crypto crap, it's the quantity that matters) so it must be good. Good things succeed, success is measured in money, the money flows in so everything's good. Q.E.D.

Leaving aside the comically inflated degree of falsity which high-tech control of money has imposed upon finance and the very concept of "value", the excessive focus on measuring everything in terms of monetary transactions has blinkered the leadership culture of technology corporations and maddened the corporations' obsequious fanbases. The fanboys have hitched their hopes of grabbing fat handfuls of "venture capital" to the perceived invulnerability of a major brand. There's always gonna be a Microsoft or a #Linux Foundation as the techbros see it. There's always going to be a gravy train.

(cont'd)

Played around a little and reworked my #Waybar setup some. Pretty happy with it, got most things working as I want, aside from some small issues with the Tray icons and right-click menus that I'm still trying to sort out.

#Linux #Arch #SwayWM #DesktopScreenshot

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Desktop screenshot from a laptop running SwayWM and Waybar. Foot Terminal is open showing the output of Hyfetch.

If you’re running Hyprland and still using the .conf config, you’d better start migrating over to Lua. The next version is just around the corner.

#linux #hyprland #archLinux (https://ilye.ss/notes/202610160057/)

ICYMI: Here's the Top Steam Releases of September, 2026 along with compatibility ratings https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/heres-the-top-steam-releases-of-september-2026-along-with-compatibility-ratings/

#Steam #Valve #Roundup #Listicle #Gaming #SteamOS #Linux

Following recent #Linux LLM announcements

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When you download Linux, you're downloading AI Slop

@feoh Well I'm pretty pleased with the initial cut. The only nut that proved impossible (for now) to crack is that Apple uses FairPlay encryption for their paid content streams, so those won't work with this player. But I'm only subbed to a couple paid podcasts anyway so I can suffer with the web player for those but enjoy my home-grown TUI goodness for the rest :)

https://github.com/feoh/applepodbar

#apple #podcast #player #tui #linux #mac #windows #python

RE: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/117455748417638482

During episode 132 of Linux After Dark from @latenightlinux, the hosts talked about how they could recapture the passion they once had for computers and technology. This episode got me thinking quite a lot. I've been a Linux user for more than 30 years and, admittedly, my excitement for tech was dying. Actually, it had been dying for a few years. Shitty comments from Torvalds, many projects embracing AI, and maybe even the fact that I had been using Linux for so many years, contributed to my, well, less that excited feelings about all of it. I know that I needed a change.

I may have found something that has rekindled my love and excitement. And that something is BSD. After a few months of struggling to get a BSD installed on my hardware (laptop and desktop), with the help of many here in the Fediverse over the past month or so, I finally got NetBSD installed on my laptop and desktop. It was exciting! I'm actually feeling the way I did when I first started using Linux all those years ago. I have to work a bit to get some hardware working, I have to do a lot of reading and research, and I've even joined some IRC channels and forums. Forums. Remember those?

I'm leaving Linux behind and moving on after more than 30 years. This isn't a decision that I take lightly. Quite the contrary. It's one of the hardest decisions that I've ever had to make. I spent those 30+ years preaching about how great Linux was and even moved a lot of people away from Windows to Linux and Open Source software over the years. And for a lack of a better description, I feel betrayed by the Linux kernel project and all of the open source projects who have decided to embrace AI, even with all of terrible ethical issues.

Well, anyway, I didn't write this to bash on Linux. I wrote this because I'm starting to feel excited about tech again. I may even start writing about my move from Linux BSD and how it's all going. The good things. The struggles. And everything in between.

Okay, I've put enough people to sleep with this post. I have a long road ahead of me before I feel as comfortable with BSD as I do with Linux, but I think that is where all the excitement is.

#bsd #netbsd #freebsd #openbsd #linux #noAI

Stefano Marinelli boosted

NetBSD Foundation 🚩 » 🌐 2026-10-17
@netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org

Some #NetBSD questions that keep coming up.

We don't use modules for HW drivers in the default install. All baked into the kernel. If you're curious about desktop hardware, for x86 there are lists https://wiki.netbsd.org/laptops/ https://wiki.netbsd.org/gpus/ (and the pci/usb manual pages)

x86 virtual machines. https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-virt.html#chap-virt-guest

For disk encryption there's different options, such as creating a small root with the installer, then adding encrypted partitions later (see man cgdconfig). Also: cgdroot.

Has anyone reading this installed #Debian on a #T2 #Macbook? Can you tell me how much of a pain it was, what the success/failure rate was?

I used #KaiT2en, an automated installer, and it works great, but it uses #Fedora, which is not my preferred distro, so I'm exploring my options.

#Linux #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Computers #tech #technology

This week on #openSUSE Planet: #KDE turns 30 with the Plasma 6.8 Anniversary Edition and a documentary premiere, Tumbleweed ships #Linux kernel 7.2.9 and Samba 4.25.0, and OBS rolls out Content Moderation for all users. https://news.opensuse.org/2026/10/17/planet-roundup/

ICYMI: Steam Frame my thoughts https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/steam-frame-some-early-thoughts/

#SteamFrame #SteamOS #VirtualReality #VR #Linux