As consumers, we are used to correlating handhelds with the big names like Valve’s Steam Deck, Lenovo’s Legion Go, and ASUS’ ROG Ally. But these machines are geared towards gaming and are priced like it too. Lately, a different segment has been getting just as much attention. Indie creators and small hardware outfits who are…
Stanford researchers have been developing Lightweight Fault Isolation “LFI” compiler passes and targets for LLVM as a means of efficient, native code sandboxing. The AArch64 LFI target was previously upstreamed while this week the x86/x86_64 LFI target was also upstreamed for this means of in-process sandboxing. Lightweight Fault Isolation is a compiler-based approach for efficient,…
DistroWatch.com: TitalcruiseOS Last Update: 2026-06-04 23:08 UTC TitalcruiseOS is a desktop Linux distribution based on Debian’s “Stable” branch and featuring a heavily customised GNOME desktop. It aims to deliver low-latency performance and comprehensive software compatibility for system administrators, developers and power users alike. Its GNOME desktop is enhanced with a curated selection of native extensions…
Navidrome, the open-source, self-hosted music server and streaming platform, has released version 0.63 with full support for synchronized sidecar lyrics in formats such as TTML, ELRC, SRT, YAML, and LRC. In other words, the app now supports word-by-word timing for a karaoke-style experience and multiple vocal or “agent” layers for songs with more than one…
Another constantly updated game that broke with newer Proton recently is Marvel Rivals, but now thanks to Valve it should work again with Proton Hotfix. A similar thing happened recently with Diablo IV which Valve needed to fix too. Valve don’t generally give out public updates on Proton Hotfix, but we can see that Marvel…
A program exits with a vague error, or hangs, and the logs say nothing useful. Before guessing, you can watch exactly what the program asks the kernel to do. Every time a process opens a file, reads a socket, or allocates memory, it makes a system call, and strace records each one along with its…
DistroWatch.com: nakeDeb Last Update: 2026-07-11 23:20 UTC nakeDeb is a minimalist desktop Linux distribution based on Debian’s “Stable” branch and designed for more advanced Linux users. By default it uses the Fluxbox window manager, although an alternative session with i3 is also available. The distribution provides a simple text-mode system installer and custom repositories with…
I have been gaming on Linux more than usual lately; that’s part due to my main gaming rig being out of reach and part me wanting to play more on this platform than Windoze. I played a few indie games to pass the time and eventually went looking for new games to check out during…
Valve released another Steam Beta – this time with a few bug fixes but also now actually showing Steam Machine Verified information in the interface. They’re a bit late rolling this out but good to see it arrive. From the Steam Deck Beta changelog (which Valve should really rename now…since it covers multiple systems): …
Sent out today was this week’s round of x86 (x86_64) fixes ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc3 kernel test candidate due out on Sunday. The x86 fixes for Linux 7.2-rc3 are mostly some minor fixes but one that does stand out is fixing the x86 VGA display fallback logic during the Linux boot process on some…
