GNU/Linux Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 25, 2025

• Kernel Space

  • Linuxiac ☛ Bottles 51.25 Released With st Terminal Support

    Bottles, an open-source software tool built on top of Wine that helps users run Windows applications and games on Linux systems by providing a user-friendly GUI, has just released its latest version, 51.25.

• Games

  • Boiling Steam ☛ Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo Review

    Let me start by saying I haven’t had that much fun with an indie game like that for a long time. Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo puts you in control of Pippit, the young (bat) heir of the Pipistrello family who is composed of a bunch of rich, controlling billionaires pretty much keeping the New Jolt city on a leash for their own profit. There is probably some kind of social commentary in there. However, Pippit could not care that much about his family - his thing is to play with his yo-yo and to become great at it. That’s the only thing he dreams about. Your aunt is currently in charge of the business, and things are going well thanks to the invention of mega batteries that provide a huge amount of power to the city and the activities required by the Pipistrello companies. But things cannot go well forever. These mega-batteries are amazing and caught the eye of some folks looking for a quick way to riches. A few Pipistrello employees conspired together and decided to rebel, get rid of your aunt, and steal the 4 mega batteries for themselves. In the process, they almost managed to kill your aunt, but she ended up having her personality transferred to Pippit’s pet pocket bat.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Linuxiac ☛ Asahi Linux Brings Apple Silicon Improvements in the Linux 6.17 Cycle

    Support has also expanded to cover the DART IOMMU on Apple’s M2 Pro, Max, and Ultra chips. The driver now implements four-level page tables to handle the larger address space on these SoCs. With that, device trees for all M2 variants have been merged and will appear in Linux 6.18-rc1.

  • SUSE/OpenSUSE

    • OpenSUSE ☛ Leap Keeps Fleets on Track

      From security patrols in Indonesia to maintenance cars in the Philippines, fleets can be monitored in real time through cloud-based platforms powered by openSUSE Leap like Ntrack’s GPS Vehicle Tracking System.