(more Linux news in original post)

Valve put up a release candidate for Proton 10.0-4 with lots more Linux / SteamOS gaming fixes:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/valve-put-up-a-release-candidate-for-proton-10-0-4-with-lots-more-linux-steamos-gaming-fixes/

Wine 11.0-rc3 Released With Another Week Of Bug Fixing:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.0-rc3-Released

Chrome/Chromium Add Support For Printing Via XDG Portal:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDG-Portal-Chrome-Printing

NVIDIA 590.48.01 Linux Driver Brings R590 Series To Stable:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-590.48.01-Linux

Xorgproto 2025.1 Released To Recognize Newer Keyboard Keys:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/xorgproto-2025.1

Mesa 25.3.2 brings more bug fixes for open source Linux graphics drivers:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/mesa-25-3-2-brings-more-bug-fixes-for-open-source-linux-graphics-drivers/

Mesa 26.0 NVK Driver Lands Improvement For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 "Turing" GPUs:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26-NVK-Compute-Warp-Size

Systemd 259 Released With Experimental Musl libc Support, More Features:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-259

Wayland Protocols 1.47 Released With Updated Color Management Protocol:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Protocols-1.47

OpenZFS 2.4 Released With Faster Encryption Performance, Many Other Improvements:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.4-Released

GNU Debugger 17.1 Released With CET Shadow Stack Support, New DAP Features:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Debugger-GDB-17.1

Linux Exposing Support For Lenovo ThinkPads Being Able To Detect Hardware Damage
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Opus-1.6-Released

Rust Coreutils 0.5 Released - Inching Toward Full GNU Compatibility:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.5

Intel Quietly Discontinues Its Open-Source User-Space Gaudi Driver Code:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-SynapseAI-Stops

FOSS NEWS

Unfortunately this section is too long this time, because I included some longer personal comments to some of the news, I'd have to split it into too many posts, so I link the Odysee post here instead:
https://odysee.com/@fossery-tech:4/linux-foss-news-87:3

P.S.: Merry Christmas, everyone! 🎄🎁

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Valve put up a release candidate for Proton 10.0-4 with lots more Linux / SteamOS gaming fixes

Valve put up a Release Candidate for testing Proton 10.0-4, what will become the main version of the Windows compatibility layer for Linux / SteamOS.

GamingOnLinux

Juhu! Ich habe hier ein Problem mit #systemd-resolved bzw. #systemd-networkd: Zwei Server, alt und neu, beide meiner Meinung nach gleich konfiguriert. Server alt kann intern und extern DNS auflösen, Server neu nur externes DNS. Irgendwie kriege ich da meinen Kopf nicht drum 🤬...

Wer der hier anwesenden #Linux bzw. #SystemD - Experten könnte mir da mal per SSH-Sharing o.ä. mal ne halbe Stunde unter die Arme greifen?

Gerne auch Boosts!

#fedihelp #itsalwaysdns

1️⃣6️⃣ Here's the 16th post highlighting key new features of the recently released v259 release of systemd. #systemd259 #systemd

systemd-firstboot is a small terminal tool that – if enabled – can run on first boot of a freshly installed system and interactively ask a number of very basic but essential configuration questions that are important to operate the system. It can be used in place of a fancier graphical tool, and maybe even act as blueprint for such a tool.

GNOME ya NO es un escritorio para Linux

PeerTube
@aku banyak orang antipati dengan #systemd tapi menurut saya ya itu karena mereka "kolot" tidak mau mencoba sesuatu yang lebih modern.

1️⃣5️⃣ Here's the 15th post highlighting key new features of the recently released v259 release of systemd. #systemd259 #systemd

Here's a quick one: you might have noticed that whenever a systemd service deactivates we'll log a brief journal message saying the amount of CPU time consumed, and the peak memory used by this unit cycle. With v259 that message is slightly extended: it will now also indicate the wall clock time passed since activation of the unit. This is particularly nice when…

¿Pa ke pollas sirve el "empower" de #systemd? @edlinks

GNOME ya NO es un escritorio para Linux

https://video.hardlimit.com/w/4mLRonE7Q2U5C7Gxbb8ekU

GNOME ya NO es un escritorio para Linux

PeerTube

Headless IAM, Open Source! Could become a companion to step-ca in my homelab :)

#Oak is a Free and Open Source Identity Provider that you can host yourself, it implements OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT with custom claims and Two-factor Authentication via TOTP (Time-Based One-Time Passwords)“

I like! And:

„We're big fan of #Podman Quadlets, since they provide a way to declaratively set up containers and manage them through standard #systemd tools.“

https://git.gaiwan.co/gaiwan/Oak/src/branch/main/doc/install.md

#SelfHost @homelab

1️⃣4️⃣ Here's the 14th post highlighting key new features of the recently released v259 release of systemd. #systemd259 #systemd

userdb is systemd's subsystem that tracks local user and group records, and is an extension of NSS if you so will, with a lot more fields, better security semantics, and accessible via IPC.

It's built on NSS semantics, and hence the primary operations have always been: search by UID/GID and search by name. It more recently learned fuzzy filtering of entries, and a…