OpenCV 5.1 Brings More AVX-512 Optimizations, Other Improvements
OpenCV 5.0 debuted back in June with a rewritten DNN engine and many other exciting improvements for this widely-used computer vision (CV) library. Out today is OpenCV 5.1 with tons of fixes and other incremental improvements to this important code… ⌘ Read more
Servo Browser Engine Continues Broadening Web Compatibility, New Features
The Servo open-source browser engine project is finally out with their status report highlighting the improvements made back in September. There is expanded web compatibility, new HTML and JavaScript features, WebGL2 improvements, and continued work on expanding the embed capabilities of this engine… ⌘ Read more
Mesa Merges A Common Vulkan Layer For Working Around Cross-Driver Game Bugs
Merged to Mesa 27.0-devel is a new common Vulkan layer within Mesa’s Vulkan Runtime for being able to carry common game/engine/app workarounds that affect multiple drivers… ⌘ Read more
MPV 0.42 Media Player Brings Wayland Improvements, Improved HDR
MPV as the open-source, cross-platform media player originally based on MPlayer/mplayer2 is finally out with a new release… ⌘ Read more
Deadly Days: Roadtrip 1.0 review
Now Deadly Days: Roadtrip has left Early Access as a full and complete game, here’s my thoughts on this zombie-slaying bullet heaven inventory management game.
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This 👇 is fucking insane 😱 Media -- Even though Picket is blocking this stupid fucking traffic from yet-another-botnet, I have to wonder, surely there's a better way to handle this? LIke seriously wut da actual fuq?!
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@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Not much honestly 😅 During the storms Picket sat at ~0.2 of a CPU core (peaks ~0.4), up from ~0.02 at idle, so ~10× but still tiny. Memory didn’t budge: ~650 MiB working set before, during and after. Picket’s doing its job; it’s the git forge behind it that would’ve fallen over.
SteamOS 0.5.7 Beta for Steam Frame brings WebXR, improved settings and more
Valve just released SteamOS 0.5.7 Beta for Steam Frame bringing with it some settings changes, along with support for WebXR with Chromium.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/steamos-0-5-7-beta-for-steam-frame-brings-webxr-improved-settings … ⌘ Read more
NetBSD 11.1 Released With Security Fixes & Other Improvements
Following the release of NetBSD 11.0 in August, NetBSD 11.1 is out today with a collection of security fixes and other improvements… ⌘ Read more
Regarding https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-10-31/0/POSTING-en.html, @movq@www.uninformativ.de: Despite having watched meillo’s talk on troff and friends¹ over one and a half decades ago (and thus forgotten everything), it feels soooo alien, I’m surprised. I should really look into this myself. I frequently use gq} and gqG. They’re real lifesavers.
¹: https://www.ulm.ccc.de/ccc/chaosseminar/2009_11_troff-and-friends/
3dSen emulator that transforms NES games into 3D voxel dioramas v2.0 brings huge changes
3dSen is just magic. An emulator that turns retro NES games into 3D voxel dioramas across flat PC gaming and VR has a huge new release out with 2.0.
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OpenMW 0.52.0 for Morrowind gets a fresh release candidate to test new features
The amazing open source game engine OpenMW for the classic RPG Morrowind has released a release candidate for the upcoming 0.52.0 release.
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DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 adds initial ARM64 support, DirectX Raytracing (DXR) upgrades
DXVK-NVAPI is the implementation of NVIDIA’s NVAPI/NVOFAPI library for usage with DXVK and VKD3D-Proton - with a new release out now.
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DWProton 11.0-16 brings fixes for NIKKE and Arknights: Endfield
The popular community-made DWProton for running various Anime games has a new release out with DWProton 11.0-16 now available to download.
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Enlightenment 0.28 Released With Many Improvements
Enlightenment 0.27 released at the beginning of 2025 and since then there’s been no major feature update, falling off their roughly 12 month release cadence. But out this Halloween is Enlightenment 0.28 now with the better part of two years worth of changes… ⌘ Read more
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 Brings Nice Improvements For Linux Gamers On Latest NVIDIA Drivers
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 is out this weekend as a new feature update to this NVIDIA NVAPI implementation used by Valve as part of Steam Play with Proton for nicely integrating NVIDIA technologies into various Windows games running on Linux… ⌘ Read more
CUDA Oxide 0.3 Vastly Improves Rust Support For NVIDIA CUDA Programming
NVIDIA software engineers released CUDA Oxide 0.3 for closing out October. CUDA Oxide as a reminder is their experimental Rust to CUDA compiler that has been seeing a lot of activity in recent months… ⌘ Read more
Wine 11.21 Released With Better WoW64 OpenGL Performance
Wine 11.21 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of Wine and as we near Wine 12.0 stable release happenings getting underway in about one month with the official v12.0 release expected early in the new year… ⌘ Read more
AMD’s ROCm HRX Loom v0.1 Released For Targeting AMD CPUs, GPUs & NPUs
At this year’s AMD Advancing AI event Hyperloom was announced among the ROCm improvements to expect. Hyperloom aims for agentic workload optimizations and more with quote powerful abilities if everything works out right. As part of the latest round of ROCm advancements, the Loom SDK v0.1 release was released today… ⌘ Read more
Hyprland 0.57 Released With Compiz Inspired Wobbly Windows
For those that want to reminisce over the days long ago of Compiz and Beryl on the Linux desktop, the Hyprland 0.57 Wayland compositor released today and has added Compiz-inspired wobbly windows support… ⌘ Read more
Mesa 27.0 Switching To Kraid Compiler By Default For Arm Mali GPUs
In development for a number of months now has been Kraid as a modern graphics compiler for recent Arm Mali GPUs. Kraid was merged for Mesa 26.2 back in June while in Mesa 27.0 due out in Q1 it will be switching to this new shader compiler by default… ⌘ Read more
AV2 Video Codec Adoption Talked Up, SVT-AV2 Being Developed
Back in May the AV2 v1.0 specification was released for this next-generaton, royalty-free video codec. This week the Alliance For Open Media issued a press release talking up the early adoption of AV2… ⌘ Read more
👋 Introducing (_after a 3yr hiatic where the project actually begin in ~2023+); cas.run: give it a container image and it runs it on the web at its own hostname. This is an alpha service at the moment, so; every account gets one service, 64 MB of memory and a gigabyte of disk space. You can purchase more units at a $1/month (AUD), so it’s like $0.70 USD I think. Don’t use this for anything big please (not yet), the infra behind it runs on a single host in Sydney right now. https://cas.run
OBS Studio 33.0 Released With Massive Update To CEF, Improved Plugin Loading
OBS Studio 33.0 is out tonight as the latest major update to this popular open-source and cross-platform video recording and live streaming application… ⌘ Read more
Several Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Accidentally Posted To Public Kernel Mailing List
Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative appears to have accidentally disclosed several unpatched Linux kernel vulnerabilities on the public LKML instead of the private security list, including two CVSS 9.0 flaws that could enable remote code execution through SMB Direct and KSMBD. “This seemingly was a mistake … ⌘ Read more
Mesa RADV Change Satisfies More Steam Play Games On Aging AMD GFX8 GPUs
Valve landed a patch in Mesa 27.0 and to be back-ported to current Mesa stable series to satisfy more games running under Steam Play with VKD3D-Proton for working on AMD GFX8 GPUs like Polaris… ⌘ Read more
Several Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Accidentally Posted To Public Kernel Mailing List
Seemingly as an accident, overnight several new Linux kernel vulnerability reports were posted to the public Linux kernel mailing list rather than the private security mailing list. The vulnerabilities have yet to be patched on mainline but at least in some cases there are patches undergoing testing or queued in “-next” branches. The CVSS scores are as high as 9.0… ⌘ Read more
OpenBSD 8.0 Released
OpenBSD 8.0 has been released with major virtualization and hardware upgrades, including support for up to 64 vCPUs per VM, Intel Arc graphics, ARM64 hibernation, and expanded RISC-V support. Linuxiac points out that it marks the “61st release of the security-focused Unix-like operating system.” From the report: Several fixes improve compatibility with 32-bit Linux guests, while changes to virtual machine ownership management and inte … ⌘ Read more
I’m not aware that OpenBSD has an explicit “no AI” policy like NetBSD, but, uhm, the song for the 8.0 release makes it pretty clear. 😅
Oh, OpenBSD 8.0 has been released today? Has it been 6 months already? Man, time flies this year. 😲
OpenBSD 8.0 Released With Intel Arc A-Series, Other Hardware Improvements
Theo de Raadt released OpenBSD 8.0 today as the 61st release of this BSD operating system… ⌘ Read more
AMD GAIA 0.25 Brings Several Improvements For Local AI Agents On Ryzen AI
AMD GAIA 0.25 is out this week as the latest feature release for this open-source project that began as “Generative AI Is Awesome” and is now going on a tag line of “AMD’s open-source agent factory” in building/using local AI agents on AMD Ryzen AI hardware… ⌘ Read more
Q: Would you pay $2 AUD / $1.40 USD per month for a micro container service that let you run up to 3 containers with up to 64MB of memory per container, shared CPU and nVME backed Disk? 🤔 Then $1 SUD $0.70 USD / month per additional 64MB slot/slice? 🤔 – Assuming you can also run smaller containers where cost per container linearly scales, so $0.50 / $0.35 for 32MB containers.
Enshrouded 1.0 rolls out and now it’s Steam Deck Verified
Enshrouded is a solo and co-op survival action RPG where your freedom and creativity come first - with a big 1.0 release out now.
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Proton-CachyOS 11.0-20261014, DWProton 11.0-15 and GE-Proton 11-10 released
A triple helping of community Proton builds to report on for you today with Proton-CachyOS 11.0-20261014, DWProton 11.0-15 and GE-Proton 11-10 released.
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Omarchy Gets The Web Browser Launching Faster By Avoiding XDG Overhead
Omarchy 4.0.5 released this weeekend as the newest version of this Arch Linux based distribution built around the Hyprland desktop. Omarchy 4.0.5 pulls in the latest Linux 7.2 stable kernel with BORE scheduler, updates against the Qt 6.12 toolkit, and a variety of smaller improvements… ⌘ Read more
Servo Gets CSS Grid Working, Threadboost Offering Big Speed-Ups
Servo’s August status report has finally appeared for outlining progress made on this open-source, Rust-based browser engine. This follows the recent release of the Servo 0.6 software, including the Servoshell demo browser… ⌘ Read more
GNOME’s New Local/Cloud AI Chat App Gains More Features
Coming about the past few months has been Moose as a GNOME-aligned AI chat application built around GTK4 and libadwaita. It began as a local AI chat app for the GNOME desktop and grew to support cloud AI services as well. This past week marked the latest feature release for Moose… ⌘ Read more
Wine 11.20 Released With CD-ROM Support Change
Wine 11.20 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this software for enjoying Windows games and apps on Linux. We are quickly approaching the point where this development work will culminate into the Wine 12.0 stable release in early 2027… ⌘ Read more
Tesla Reveals SpaceX-Powered ‘Flying’ Roadster
Tesla has unveiled a dramatically redesigned Roadster concept capable of performing midair flips, controlled landings, and a claimed 0-60 mph sprint in just 0.81 seconds. CarScoops reports: Tonight, Tesla debuted the new Roadster by driving it up a vertical ramp that then went horizontal. Then, it repeated the feat but drove off of the ramp and used thrusters to flip itself over and m … ⌘ Read more
Memtest86+ v9.00 Released With Support For ARM64 Memory Testing
The open-source Memtest86+ program that is popular for RAM testing has expanded beyond the x86/x86_64 (and LoongArch64) world to now support memory testing on ARM64/AArch64 hardware… ⌘ Read more
3mdeb Releases Updated Dasharo/Coreboot Firmware For ASRock Rack SPC741D8-2L2T
3mdeb firmware engineers have been quite busy this year working on porting Coreboot and openSIL to an AMD Ryzen AM5 MSI motherboard and similarly getting openSIL and Coreboot up and running on a Gigabyte server motherboard for AMD EPYC 9005 CPUs. They haven’t forgotten about their past projects though and today released an updated version of their Dasharo downstream firmware for the ASRock Rack SPC741D8-2L2T motherboard supporting 4 … ⌘ Read more
Rustls 0.23.46 Released With Four Security Fixes
Rustls as the modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language with an emphasis on memory safety is out today with its v0.23.46 release in order to ship four new security fixes… ⌘ Read more
ONLYOFFICE !0.0 Released With AI Features, 1,000+ Bug Fixes
ONLYOFFICE 10.0 is now available for this open-source office suite alternative to the likes of LibreOffice… ⌘ Read more
Asterinas 0.19.0 Brings Up X.Org & Other Improvements To This Rust-Written OS
Asterinas is the open-source project developing a Rust-based, memory-safe Linux alternative OS while striving for Linux software compatibility. Out now is Asterinas 0.19 as the project continues advancing on its goals… ⌘ Read more
ScummVM 2026.4 brings nearly 200 newly supported retro games
ScummVM 2026.4.0 has released, bringing with it support for nearly 200 more retro games across 12 different game engines.
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Valve’s Proton 11.0-2e Released To Fix EA App Issues
CodeWeavers working with Valve today released Proton 11.0-2e as their downstream of Wine that powers Steam Play for enjoying Windows games on Linux… ⌘ Read more
DXVK-Sarek 1.14.0 released for gaming on older GPUs
DXVK-Sarek version 1.14.0 has arrived, keeping Wine / Proton gaming alive for those of you with older GPUs that don’t have modern Vulkan support.
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The awesome Deadly Days: Roadtrip has set an October 29 release date
The brilliant bullet heaven inventory management zombie shooter Deadly Days: Roadtrip hits the big 1.0 on October 29th.
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SteamOS 0.4 for Steam Frame is out now with better power efficiency and battery lifetime
Valve just released a major stable update for all Steam Frame owners, bringing some great sounding improvements.
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https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-10-08/0/POSTING-en.html @movq@www.uninformativ.de Fuck me dead and bury me pregnant!