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Valve celebrates the 7th anniversary of Proton, its tool that revolutionized gaming on Linux  Instant Gaming News

Valve celebrates the 7th anniversary of Proton, its tool that revolutionized gaming on Linux  Instant Gaming News

Valve celebrates the 7th anniversary of Proton, its tool that revolutionized gaming on Linux  Instant Gaming News

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The GhostBSD team has announced the release of GhostBSD 25.02, which is based on FreeBSD 14.3. The project's latest version includes a new community spin: "We are excited to announce the release of GhostBSD 25.02-R14.3p2. This release continues our commitment to rock-solid stability by building on FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE,....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
Review: CalyxOS 6.8.20
News: illumos Cafe launched, Arch battles denial of service attack, CachyOS launches web-based package search
Questions and answers: Best distributions for running containers
Released last week: Besgnulinux 3-0, MiniOS 5.0.0, CachyOS 250824
Torrent corner: Crunchbangplusplus, Tails, TUXEDO OS
Upcoming releases: Ubuntu 25.10 Snapshot 4
Opinion poll:....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The CachyOS team has announced the release of the distribution's August snapshot. The new release adds an option to install the Niri window manager and automated Btrfs boot environments. "The installation medium (ISO) now also uses the LTS kernel instead of the latest stable kernel, since the ISO....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. MiniOS is a Debian-based Linux distribution which strives to be lightweight, modular, versatile and customisable. The project's latest version, 5.0.0, is based on Debian 13. "New foundation - now based on Debian 13 'Trixie'. Completely redesigned utilities with modern graphical interfaces: MiniOS Installer - installation made even easier;....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Besgnulinux is a lightweight, desktop Linux distribution based on Debian's "Stable" branch, with JWM as its preferred desktop environment. The project's latest release is version 3-0 and it is based on the recently-released Debian 13. "Besgnulinux JWM 3-0 release based on Debian 'Trixie' is ready for release. Changes....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
Review: Debian 13 "Trixie"
News: Debian GNU/Hurd team publishes new release, KDE's window manager gets customised Liquid Glass, Haiku improves authentication tool behaviour
Questions and answers: Proton, WINE, Wayland, and Wayback
Released last week: Kaisen Linux 3.0, SparkyLinux 8.0, EasyOS 7.0, LibreELEC 12.2.0, Zephix 8, Grml....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Grml is a bootable image based on Debian and designed for system administrators and users of text tools. The project has announced the launch of Grml 2025.08 which is based on Debian 13. "We are proud to announce our new stable release, version 2025.08, code-named 'Oneinonein'. Grml 2025.08....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Robert Spiteri has announced a major new release of Zephix, a lightweight and fast Linux distribution, based on Debian's "Stable" branch and built for simplicity and speed. This release marks a departure from the project's modular approach with several popular desktop options; instead, Zephix 8 adopts the i3....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The development team behind LibreELEC, a multi-platform Linux distribution featuring the Kodi media centre, have released a new update, version 12.2.0. This is a minor update that improves support for Intel hardware and upgrades Kodi to version 21.2: "LibreELEC 12.2 with Kodi 21.2 'Omega' is released. The main....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Barry Kauler has announced the release of EasyOS 7.0, a major new version of the experimental distribution that changes several pieces of technology behind the scenes. "Compared with prior releases of EasyOS, the Excalibur-series is a 'whole new ball game'. All prior EasyOSs were built with woofQ; Easy....

3 Reasons Why Linux Made Me a Better Developer  How-To Geek

How this former security guard landed as a senior consultant at Red Hat after graduating from Yellow Tail Tech  Technical.ly

Amazon is facing a proposed class action lawsuit alleging it misleads customers by advertising digital movies and TV shows as "purchases," when in reality buyers only receive revocable licenses that can disappear if Amazon loses distribution rights. From the Hollywood Reporter: On Friday, a proposed class action was filed in Washington federal court against Amazon over a "bait and switch" in which the company allegedly misleads consumers into believing they've purchased content when they're only getting a license to watch, which can be revoked at any time. [...] The lawsuit accuses Amazon, which didn't respond to a request for comment, of misrepresenting the nature of movie and TV transactions during the purchase process. On its website and platform, the company tells consumers they can "buy" a movie. But hidden in a footnote on the confirmation page is fine print that says, "You receive a license to the video and you agree to our terms," the complaint says. The issue is already before a court. In a 2020 lawsuit alleging unfair competition and false advertising over the practice, Amazon maintained that its use of the word "buy" for digital content isn't deceptive because consumers understand their purchases are subject to licenses. Quoting Webster's Dictionary, it said that the term means "rights to the use or services of payment" rather than perpetual ownership and that its disclosures properly warn people that they may lose access. The court ultimately rebuffed Amazon's bid to dismiss the lawsuit outside of a claim alleging a violation of Washington's unjust enrichment law.

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Microsoft donates DocumentDB to Linux Foundation  Techzine Global

Russia's new Soyuz-5 rocket is set for a December debut as Moscow seeks to end reliance on Ukrainian technology and replace its aging Proton-M fleet. Ars Technica reports: According to the report, translated for Ars by Rob Mitchell, the debut launch of Soyuz-5 will mark the first of several demonstration flights, with full operational service not expected to begin until 2028. It will launch from the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan. From an innovation standpoint, the Soyuz-5 vehicle does not stand out. It has been a decade in the making and is fully expendable, unlike a lot of newer medium-lift rockets coming online in the next several years. However, for Russia, this is an important advancement because it seeks to break some of the country's dependency on Ukraine for launch technology.

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Two of Japan's largest media groups are suing AI search engine Perplexity over alleged copyright infringement, joining a growing list of news publishers taking legal action against AI companies using their content. FT: Japanese media group Nikkei, which owns the Financial Times, and the Asahi Shimbun newspaper said in statements on Tuesday that they had jointly filed a lawsuit in Tokyo. The groups join a number of Western media companies taking legal action against Perplexity, which provides answers to questions with sources and citations, using large language models (LLMs) from platforms such as OpenAI and Anthropic. The Japanese news providers claim Perplexity has, without permission, "copied and stored article content from the servers of Nikkei and Asahi" and ignored a "technical measure" designed to prevent this from happening. They claim that Perplexity's answers have given incorrect information attributed to the newspapers' articles, which "severely damages the credibility of newspaper companies."

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Despise Systemd? A New Init System Debuts as a Minimalist Process Supervisor for Linux  It's FOSS News