today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 16, 2025

GNU/Linux

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • This Week in Linux 302: KDE Devs launch a company, CrossOver 25, Garuda Linux, & more GNU/Linux news

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    This week in Linux, we have so much to talk about. First of all, KDE developers have launched their own company called TechPaladin Software. Also, the CodeWeavers team has released the latest version of their crossover software with Crossover 25. The Garuda GNU/Linux team have the latest release of their distribution called Broadwing. And also the EFF, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has released a new open source tool for detecting Cell Site Simulators called RayHunter. And we'll talk about what all that meant later in the show. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what's going on in the GNU/Linux and open source world. Now let's jump right into Your Source for GNU/Linux GNews.

  This Week in Linux

  • Tux Digital ☛ This Week in Linux 302: KDE Devs launch a company, CrossOver 25, Garuda Linux, & more GNU/Linux news

• Kernel Space

  • Barry Kauler ☛ Kernel 6.12.19 compiled for Daedalus with AVS enabled

    I have previously compiled the 6.12.x kernel in Easy Daedalus, but had problems with Xe video and AVS audio drivers, so turned them off: [...]

• Games

  • Boiling Steam ☛ New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients, including Oblin Party - 2025-03-12 Edition

    Between 2025-03-05 and 2025-03-12 there were 11 New Steam games released with Native GNU/Linux clients. For reference, during the same time, there were 101 games released for backdoored Windows on Steam, so the GNU/Linux versions represent about 10.9 % of total released titles. In the lot, Oblin Party looks like a fun game where you control characters with elastic arms.

• Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)

  • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

    • KDE snaps fixed, Thank you for your support

      Thank you everyone for keeping the lights on for a bit longer. KDE snaps have been restored. I also released 24.12.3! In addition, I have moved “most” snaps to core24. The remaining snaps need newer qt6/kf6, which is a WIP. “The Bad luck girl” has been hit once again with another loss, so with that, I will be reducing my hours on snaps while I consider my options for my future. I am still around, just a bit less.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • New Releases

    • Beta News ☛ This big Oreon 10 update might be the push you need to finally leave Microsoft Windows behind

      If you’re thinking of leaving Windows 10 or 11 but aren’t quite sure if you’re ready to jump ship permanently, the good news is you can try some excellent alternative operating systems without commitment, using tools like VMware Player. One of our top recommendations is the stunning Oreon 10.

      We declared it had "arrived to replace Microsoft Windows" when it launched last December, but since then the OS has received a number of improvements, and a new build has just been released that makes Oreon 10 an even more compelling alternative.

  • Fedora Family / IBM

    • Kevin Fenzi: Mid March infra bits 2025

      The Hey Hi (AI) scraper (I can only assume thats what they are) scourge continued, and intensified in the last week. This time they were hitting pagure.io really quite hard. We blocked a bunch of subnets, but it's really hard to block everything without inpacting legit users, and indeed, we hit several cases where we blocked legit users. Quickly reverted, but still troublesome. On thursday and friday it got even worse. I happened to notice that most of the subnets/blocks were from .br (Brazil). So, in desperation, I blocked .br entirely and that brought things back to being more responsive. I know thats not a long term solution, so I will lift that block as soon as I see the traffic diminish (which I would think it would once they realize it's not going to work). We definitely need a better solution here. I want to find the time to look into mod_qos where we could at least make sure important networks aren't blocked and other networks get low priority. I also added a bunch more cpus to the pagure.io vm. That also seemed to help some.

• Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

  • Web Browsers/Web Servers

    • Mozilla

      • Hackaday ☛ Add WebUSB Support To Firefox With A Special USB Device

        The WebUSB standard is certainly controversial. Many consider it a security risk, and, to date,  only Chromium-based browsers support it. But there is a workaround that is, ironically, supposed to increase security. The adjacent Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) standard also adds (limited) USB support to browsers. Sure, this is meant solely to support U2F USB dongles for two-factor authentication purposes, but as [ArcaneNibble] demonstrates using U2F-compatible firmware on a Raspberry Pi RP2040, by hijacking the U2F payload, this API can be used to provide WebUSB-like functionality.