Introduced to the Linux kernel nearly six years ago was the Syscall User Dispatch feature to help with Linux gaming. Specifically, Syscall User Dispatch was developed to help Windows games run on Linux more efficiently. While it was upstreamed in Linux 5.11 for more efficiently intercepting system calls from Windows software under Wine, now in the name of security there are patches working their way to the mainline kernel to more easily disable it...
TUXEDO Computers is rebasing TUXEDO OS on Debian, moving away from Ubuntu. The German Linux hardware company launched TUXEDO OS in 2022, using a fixed Ubuntu LTS base, KDE Plasma and scores of optimisations and first-party software to support its own hardware – though it was free to download and install on any machine. Four years into that approach, TUXEDO’s had enough. TUXEDO lists a number of reasons behind ditching Ubuntu for Debian. Among them, the LTS base. The company brings newer browsers, GPU drivers and Plasma desktop versions to users, but backporting core Qt packages can break Ubuntu-repo packages, […]
Proton 11 is now available with support for Breath of Fire IV, Unknown Faces, Gothic 1 Classic, X-Plane 12, and many other Windows games that are now playable on Linux.
Proton 11.0-1 was just released as stable as the newest major version of this downstream of Wine that powers Valve's Steam Play to provide for a great Windows gaming experience across conventional Linux systems plus the popular Steam Deck and brand new Steam Machine...
AMDGPU kernel driver maintainer Alex Deucher of AMD sent out a set of 30 patches today working on clearing out all of the BUG() usage within this Linux kernel graphics driver...
by George Whittaker The KDE Project has officially released KDE Plasma 6.7.1, the first maintenance update for the Plasma 6.7 desktop environment. Rather than introducing major new features, this point release focuses on polishing the desktop with a broad collection of bug fixes, translation updates, and performance improvements aimed at making Plasma 6.7 more reliable for everyday use. As with previous Plasma maintenance releases, KDE developers have concentrated on resolving issues reported by the community soon after the launch of Plasma 6.7, ensuring users receive a smoother and more stable desktop experience. A Maintenance Release Focused on Stability KDE Plasma 6.7 introduced numerous new capabilities, including per-display virtual desktops, Wayland session restore, improvements to Plasma Bigscreen, and a refreshed theming system. Plasma 6.7.1 builds on that foundation by addressing early regressions and fine-tuning the overall desktop experience. The update primarily delivers: B
William Woodruff, better known online as "yossarian", has published a blog post to make the case that users should not place their trust in trusted publishing: Trusted Publishing is a mechanism for establishing trust between an external machine identity (like a CI/CD workflow) and one or more projects on a package index/registry. The "trust" in "Trusted Publishing" refers to that trust relationship, and not to anything else. It is not, and cannot be, a signal for package trust or quality. You cannot use it to determine whether a package is safe or "good," and PyPI consciously stymies attempts to misuse it for that purpose by not rendering it as a "green checkmark" or anything else of the sort. Or as another framing: Trusted Publishing is just a form of authentication. It doesn't tell you anything other than that an upload was authenticated, which all uploads to PyPI are. LWN covered trusted publishing in June.
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