Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV has an exciting new gameplay overview trailer
We’ve got another close look at Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV ahead of the December release, with an impressive new trailer.
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SteamOS 3.9.4 Beta brings updates for security, hibernation and regression fixes
Valve released a fresh SteamOS 3.9.4 Beta to fix up some annoying issues, along with a security update.
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SteamVR 2.18 brings Linux fixes, Steam Frame improvements, new Aurora environment
Valve just released the latest stable SteamVR 2.18 update, bringing with it an assortment of fixes for all supported platforms including Steam Frame.
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Microsoft Reportedly Projects $1,200 To $1,800 Price For Next-Gen Xbox
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: We haven’t heard many details about Microsoft’s upcoming “Project Helix” gaming hardware since the company announced it in March as a device that will “play your Xbox and PC games.” In a new wide-ranging profile of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, though, Fortune alludes to a dual release strate … ⌘ Read more
PHP Warns It Plans To Release 2 Emergency Patches Imminently
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Website admins, brace yourselves. Fixes for what are believed to be uncommonly severe vulnerabilities are scheduled to drop in a little more than 12 hours for PHP, a programming language that powers websites and Web applications everywhere. PHP maintainers said Monday that they planned to release patc … ⌘ Read more
PHP Updates Released For Two Critical Code Execution Vulnerabilities
PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 were just released to fix two critical vulnerabilities that can allow for unauthenticated remote code execution. Server administrators are advised to update immediately… ⌘ Read more
RTS game Theatre of War: Rearmed set for release on December 9
Bringing together all the classic Theatre of War RTS games into one upgraded package, Theatre of War: Rearmed set for release on December 9th.
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COSMIC Epoch 1.11 Released With Wayland xdg-dialog-v1, Better Multi-GPU Handling
System76 developers just released COSMIC Epoch 1.11 as the newest point release to their Rust-written open-source desktop environment catering to their in-house Pop!_OS Linux distribution… ⌘ 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. 😅
Intel Core Ultra 9 Arrow Lake On Star Labs StarFighter Shows Nice Gains On Ubuntu 26.10
For those running a Star Labs StarFighter Ultra or other Intel Core Ultra Arrow Lake laptop, the recent Ubuntu 26.10 release is providing some nice performance gains over the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release. Here is a look at how Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs. Ubuntu 26.10 performs with the Intel Core Ultra 9 285H over dozens of different benchmarks. ⌘ Read more
KDE Plasma 6.8.1 Released With Dozens Of Fixes
Following last week’s release of Plasma 6.8, the Plasma 6.8.1 point release is out today with dozens of bug fixes… ⌘ Read more
Omarchy 4.5 Expanding To AArch64 World With Snapdragon X & NVIDIA N1X Laptops
The Omarchy Linux distribution to date has been centered on x86_64 support for this Arch Linux distribution. Released today was Omarchy 4.5-RC1 and with this new version there is initial AArch64 support centered around Snapdragon X and NVIDIA N1X laptop support… ⌘ Read more
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
GE-Proton 11-11 released to fix more issues with Windows games on SteamOS / Linux
As is tradition, a new release of GE-Proton came with issues and so another hotfix is out with GE-Proton 11-11.
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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
Wine Ported to OpenBSD
Wine has been successfully ported to OpenBSD, with developers reporting that dozens of 64-bit Windows applications now run on the operating system. “Even the Remaster of The Witcher 3 which released just last month runs, and runs well,” writes Thomas Frohwein, OpenBSD developer and ports maintainer. OSnews reports: The biggest limitation seems to be the lack of support for WoW64, so 32bit Windows software won’t work. Still, this … ⌘ Read more
Canonical’s Multipass 1.17 Adds Direct Support For Non-Ubuntu Linux Distros
Canonical’s Multipass software is used for orchestrating Ubuntu virtual instances with a single command to launch Ubuntu VMs across Windows, macOS, and Linux. Multipass 1.17 was released today and they are now offering direct support for enabling non-Ubuntu Linux distributions as well… ⌘ Read more
GNU Linux-libre 7.3-gnu Removes More Firmware Blobs
GNU Linux-libre 7.3 is now available following yesterday’s Linux 7.3 release. The GNU Linux-libre downstream continues stripping out driver/hardware support where dependent upon firmware blobs or other proprietary elements deemed out of line with free software ideals… ⌘ Read more
Mozilla is Calling Out Microsoft for Forcing Edge on Users
“Mozilla reps tell me they’ve met with Microsoft about their concerns,” reports PC Magazine, “but that the company wasn’t responsive.”
“They’ll do the minimum the law requires to respect user choice,” explains Kush Amlani, Mozilla’s counsel overseeing global competition and regulatory work… Mozilla recently marked 100 days since it released an 87-page rep … ⌘ Read more
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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Linux kernel 7.3 is out with some nice improvements for gaming
Linux kernel 7.3 has officially been released, bringing with it plenty of improvements for Linux gaming.
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Linux 7.3 Released With Faster I/O Performance, AMD Zen 6 Preparations & More
The Linux 7.3 kernel is out today for an on-time release of this next stable kernel version… ⌘ Read more
More Details on Arrested Saudi OpenAI Employee, Who is Seeking Release on Bail
More details are emerging about Saudi OpenAI employee Abdulrahman Alfozan, who was arrested by the FBI for allegedly planting a recording device in an executive conference room. Previously Alfozan “was an engineer at Meta,” notes the New York Times, “before joining a start-up that went through Y Combinator, the Silicon V … ⌘ Read more
Releasing Palm OS Archive, Developer Rediscovers Working Virus After 25 Years
Long-time Slashdot reader ardiri remembers his days writing applications for the Palm OS. And he’s now released approximately 1.5 GB of historical Palm OS development resources, “accumulated during the early days of handheld computing and preserved on hard drive backups for more than 25 years… to preserve the tools and … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 Features Very Exciting With Radeon HDMI 2.1 By Default, AMD PerfOpt, Apple M4
The Linux 7.3 kernel is expected to be released as stable later today and with that version there are many exciting changes and improvements. However, the Linux 7.4 kernel merge window will then open up and there are even more exciting changes expected to be merged for this follow-on kernel cycle. Here is a preview of some of the many exciting feature changes expected for Linux 7.4… ⌘ Read more
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
Linux Lands Fix for Rare, Varying SMP Boot Hangs Affecting Kernels Since 2024
Among the flurry of last minute patch activity ahead of tomorrow’s presumed Linux 7.3 stable kernel release is a fix for addressing some rare hangs at boot time. The reports varied but ultimately tracked down to a kernel change made two years ago… ⌘ 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
Linux 7.3 Lands Last-Minute Fixes For Samsung 990 PRO & 990 EVO Plus SSDs
Ahead of the Linux 7.3 stable kernel expected to be released tomorrow, last minute workarounds were merged for the Samsung 990 PRO and Samsung 990 EVO Plus NVMe solid state drives… ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.1 Brings New Hardware Support & Important Security Fix
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.1 was released on Friday as the latest update to this community-maintained tablet/smartphone Ubuntu Linux platform. Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.5 was also released as a maintenance update for the prior series… ⌘ Read more
SteamOS 3.9.3 Beta arrives with improved support for Steam Frame wireless adapter
Valve released SteamOS 3.9.3 Beta with another set of upgrades, and now the Steam Frame should connect better with the Steam Machine.
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Wine 11.20 brings more improvements for ARM64EC, XML validation and CDROMs
The Wine 11.20 development release is out now bringing another set of improvements for running Windows apps / games on SteamOS / Linux.
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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
Steam For Linux Finally Goes 64-Bit
Valve has released a new Steam Client beta that finally moves the Linux client to 64-bit architecture, while also placing it inside a containerized Steam Runtime environment. However, Linux users still need 32-bit libraries and graphics drivers for compatibility, meaning fully 64-bit-only systems remain unsupported. VideoCardz.com reports: Valve’s updated requirements explicitly state that 64-bit-only … ⌘ Read more
GNOME OS Preview Announced In Road Toward A Stable Release
The GNOME OS Linux distribution to date has just been in GNOME OS Nightly form for tracking the latest nightly packages of GNOME in their current development form. GNOME OS Preview was announced today as their trek toward a stable GNOME OS in using the latest GNOME stable releases rather than nightly form… ⌘ Read more
The Best Features Of Linux 7.3: Performance Improvements, Lots From Valve
The Linux 7.3 kernel is slated to be officially released on Sunday, 18 October, barring any last minute issues from coming about. With that said, here’s a reminder about some of the most exciting features to look forward to in this next kernel version… ⌘ Read more
KDE Plasma 6.8 Released, Marks 30 Years of the KDE Project
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phoronix: The feature-packed and polished Plasma 6.8 KDE desktop is now available. Making this release all the more special is that it coincides with the 30th anniversary of the KDE project. KDE Plasma 6.8 ships many exciting improvements including vRAM usage optimizations, dwell clicker support on Wayland, Wayland comm … ⌘ Read more
Intel Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids Performance On Linux Over The Past Year
It’s been nearly one year since receiving the Gigabyte R284-A92-AAL1 2U Granite Rapids server platform for continuing my testing of the flagship Xeon 6980P processors. Curious how the Xeon 6980P 2P performance has evolved on Linux since then, I ran some benchmarks on the newly-released Ubuntu Server 26.10 against the tests carried out last year on Ubuntu 25.10 with the same hardware. ⌘ Read more
Fedora 46 Looking At Moving To RPM v6 Package Format
The RPM v4 packaging format has been used by Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora and its derivatives for more than two decades. With next year’s Fedora 46 release, Fedora Linux may finally transition to the modern RPM v6 packaging format… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3 Squeezes Even More Performance Out Of The AMD Threadripper PRO 9995WX
With the Linux 7.3 kernel due out for release on Sunday, I’ve continued running more benchmarks recently of this forthcoming kernel version and it looks great. In my Linux 7.3 testing of the Git state it’s been looking great in testing on a variety of hardware shown across multiple systems. Recently I decided to try out this new kernel code on the 96-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX workstation… ⌘ Read more
Here’s the Top Steam Releases of September, 2026 along with compatibility ratings
Valve released an overview of the Top Steam Releases of September, 2026 - here’s what’s been popular and what SteamOS / Linux compatibility to expect.
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Intel LLM-Scaler-vLLM PV 1.5 Brings Big Improvements
Intel software engineers today released the latest version of LLM-Scaler-vLLM PV 1.5, their containerized Docker stack providing a convenient AI/LLM experience atop Intel Arc Graphics hardware and born out of their Project Battlematrix initiative… ⌘ Read more
The Fallout inspired ATOM RPG returns with a Plague Island DLC and major update
Released back in 2018, ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game is a classic Fallout-like and the developers just gave it a nice upgrade and DLC.
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BRUTAL, the framework behind RimWorld’s Waylith engine, releases its source code
With the news recently about RimWorld dropping Unity for their own game engine, we now have a little more info on the tech behind it called BRUTAL.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/brutal-the-framework-behind-rimworlds-waylith-engine-r … ⌘ Read more
Steam Beta for October 15 brings a 64bit Linux client, Achievement Sets and more
Another big new Steam Beta release for all platforms has arrived - bringing with it a 64bit Linux client, and a fancy Achievement Sets system.
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Fedora 45 Will Not Be Released Next Week
For those eager to run the pristine Fedora 45 media, you will need to wait at least one more week… ⌘ Read more