Linux

Signal begins beta testing official AppImage for desktop app on Linux  CyberInsider

Reddit Strangers Built an Open Source Linux Handheld, And They Want Your Help  It's FOSS

Printk Improvement For Linux 6.19 Can Significantly Speed-Up Boot Times For Some Systems  Phoronix

Steam hardware survey shows how Linux is slowly eating into Windows market share  Club386

Nvidia drops Maxwell and Pascal support with new Linux 590 branch drivers  KitGuru

Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS: 16x Faster exFAT, Enhanced Security Until 2027  WebProNews

Fedora 44 Replaces fbcon with KMSCON for Enhanced Security and Modularity  WebProNews

Intel Arc B580 GPU Hits 50% Performance Boost via Linux Optimizations in 2025  WebProNews

Alpine Linux 3.23 Released: Linux 6.18 Kernel, APK 3.0, GNOME 49  WebProNews

Linux 6.19 Upgrades sched_ext with eBPF Fault Recovery and 15% Latency Boost  WebProNews

Steam’s November survey highlights Windows 11 and GPU shifts  Windows Central

Linux Kernel 6.19 Adds Microsoft C Extensions for Cleaner Code  WebProNews

Linux Mint vs. Zorin OS: I've tested both Windows alternatives, and here's my choice  ZDNET

November Steam Hardware Survey: Linux OS at all-time high, RTX 5070 overtakes RTX 4070  VideoCardz.com

Valve’s Android-Linux Bridge For Steam Is Reportedly Called Lepton  Lowyat.NET

FOSS Weekly #25.49: Kernel 6.18 'LTS', Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Linus Torvalds on BSOD, Obsidian Distro and More Linux Stuff  It's FOSS

MetaComputing Launches 45-TOPS Arm Linux-Ready PC Powered by CIX CP8180  linuxgizmos.com

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge's Sean Hollister If you wrote off the Steam Frame as yet another VR headset few will want to wear, I guarantee you're not alone. But the Steam Frame isn't just a headset; it's a Trojan horse that contains the tech gamers need to play Steam games on the next Samsung Galaxy, the next Google Pixel, perhaps Arm gaming notebooks to come. I know, because I'm already using that tech on my Samsung Galaxy. There is no official Android version of Hollow Knight: Silksong, one of the best games of 2025, but that doesn't have to stop you anymore. Thanks to a stack of open-source technologies, including a compatibility layer called Proton and an emulator called Fex, games that were developed for x86-based Windows PCs can now run on Linux-based phones with the Arm processor architecture. With Proton, the Steam Deck could already do the Windows-to-Linux part; now, Fex is bridging x86 and Arm, too. This stack is what powers the Steam Frame's own ability to play Windows games, of course, and it was widely reported that Valve is using the open-source Fex emulator to make it happen. What wasn't widely reported: Valve is behind Fex itself. In an interview, Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais, one of the architects behind SteamOS and the Steam Deck, tells The Verge that Valve has been quietly funding almost all the open-source technologies required to play Windows games on Arm. And because they're open-source, Valve is effectively shepherding a future where Arm phones, laptops, and desktops could freely do the same. He says the company believes game developers shouldn't be wasting time porting games if there's a better way. Remember when the Steam Deck handheld showed that a decade of investment in Linux could make Windows gaming portable? Valve paid open-source developers to follow their passions to help achieve that result. Valve has been guiding the effort to bring games to Arm in much the same way: In 2016 and 2017, Griffais tells me, the company began recruiting and funding open-source developers to bring Windows games to Arm chips. Fex lead developer Ryan Houdek tells The Verge he chatted with Griffais himself at conferences those years and whipped up the first prototype in 2018. He tells me Valve pays enough that Fex is his full-time job. "I want to thank the people from Valve for being here from the start and allowing me to kickstart this project," he recently wrote.

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Linux 6.19 Goes Ahead And Enables Microsoft C Extensions Support  Phoronix

Linux App Release Roundup (November 2025)  OMG! Ubuntu