📰 Valve’s Steam Client for Linux Goes 64-bit in Beta and Moves Into a Container

They say running Steam in the same kind of container its games use should make the client behave more consistently.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17498835/steam-linux-64-bit-client

#linux #steam

📰 AI-Generated Starling Desktop Environment Rolls Out Its Own Office Suite

Starling, the open-source desktop environment written in Swift and with its own Wayland compositor too and written largely via Claude Code, has now rolled out its own AI-generated office suite...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AI-Starling-Desktop-Office

#opensource #wayland

📰 Ubuntu 26.10 Has Come Out as a Rust-Packed Interim Release

It ships with Linux 7.3, GNOME 51, an improved App Center, and many other upgrades.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17498285/ubuntu-26-10-release

#gnome #linux #rust #ubuntu

📰 Decoding with Rockchip at Kernel Recipes 2026

Next week we'll be in Paris for Kernel Recipes! We’re pleased to sponsor this gathering of the kernel community and contribute a talk on upstream H.264 and HEVC decoding for Rockchip RK3588/RK3576.

🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/decoding-with-rockchip-at-kernel-recipes-2026.html

#kernel

📰 Speech Synthesis on Linux: Adding a Voice to Scripts and Systems

by George WhittakerLinux users have long had a pragmatic relationship with text-to-speech. The classic open-source engines have been available for years, wired into accessibility tools and the occasional script, dependable but unmistakably robotic. They do the job where the job is simply to convert text to some kind of speech, but the mechanical output has kept them out of anything where the voice actually matters.

🔗 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/speech-synthesis-linux-adding-voice-scripts-and-systems

#linux #opensource

📰 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.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon-granite-rapids-ubuntu-2610

#intel #linux #ubuntu

📰 KDE Plasma 6.6.7 Arrives as the First Update in the New LTS Series

Originally expected to end with version 6.6.6, KDE Plasma 6.6 now continues as an LTS branch, with version 6.6.7 delivering important bug fixes.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-6-7-arrives-as-the-first-update-in-the-new-lts-series/

#kde #plasma

📰 After 23 Years, Longtime Linux Developer To "Step Back For A While"

Longtime Linux kernel engineer Darrick Wong who stepped down as the XFS file-system maintainer in 2023 is now taking a step back from his other Linux kernel development roles after working on the kernel the past 23 years...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Darrick-Wong-Step-Back-23-Years

#kernel #linux

📰 First Look at Devario OS: A Modern, Shelly-First Linux Distro Based on Arch Linux

A first look at Devario OS Linux distro featuring the Aqueous dynamic tiling Wayland compositor, Pearl shell, and Shelly package manager.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/first-look-at-devario-os-a-modern-shelly-first-linux-distro-based-on-arch-linux

#arch #distro #linux #wayland

📰 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...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Best-Features

#kernel #linux

📰 Researchers Demonstrate OpenBSD Root Exploit Chaining 37-Year-Old Shared-Memory Bug

A local privilege escalation exploit published today gains root on OpenBSD 7.9 by chaining a roughly 37-year-old integer overflow with a separate kernel flaw, bypassing OpenBSD's KARL kernel-address randomization and its SMAP and SMEP hardware protections. Security firm Calif, which found and reported the flaws, published a detailed writeup and full proof-of-concept code after OpenBSD shipped.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/researchers-demonstrate-openbsd-root.html

#kernel

📰 GNOME OS Preview Launches for the General Public with GNOME 51

GNOME OS Preview has been released today as a new edition of the GNOME OS distribution featuring the latest and greatest GNOME desktop environment.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/gnome-os-preview-launches-for-the-general-public-with-gnome-51

#gnome

📰 Wine 11.20 Fixes 24 Bugs, Improves ARM64EC Support

Wine 11.20 adds ARM64EC relay debugging, improves XML validation, moves CD-ROM handling to Mount Manager, and fixes 24 bugs.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/wine-11-20-fixes-24-bugs-improves-arm64ec-support/

#wine

📰 OpenRGB 1.1 Released with CLI Fixes, Improved Device Hotplug Support

OpenRGB 1.1 fixes command-line and SDK server issues, improves device hotplug handling, and introduces a new hidapi-hotplug dependency on Linux.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/openrgb-1-1-released-with-cli-fixes-improved-device-hotplug-support/

#linux

📰 Node.js creator ditches Deno to work on open source Cloudflare Workers

You're building servers 'wrong,' says Ryan Dahl as Cloudflare gobbles his Deno startup.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/10/16/nodejs-creator-ditches-deno-to-work-on-open-source-cloudflare-workers/5303662

#opensource