Linux gaming goes from strength to strength but puts off the inevitable death of 32-bit x86, devs are sick of companies expecting free fixes, Creative Commons disappoints on AI, and more.

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Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler

Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages – potentially bad news for Steam gamers

Fedora proposal to drop 32-bit

Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit

Proposal to drop 32-bit in Fedora 44 withdrawn

Bcachefs Changes End Up Being Merged Into Linux 6.16, For 6.17: “We’ll Be Parting Ways”

Libxml2’s “no security embargoes” policy

A bug caused some major websites to break and this guy has quite a take on it

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I have to tip my hat to Microsoft for having worked so hard to convince the world that the City of Munich failed with their Linux migration

Accepting donations on OpenCollective – FlightGear

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Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI

You should enforce your own existing licenses against AI mass crawling

Plasma 6.4 is much juicier than I remembered

This Week in Plasma: inertial scrolling, RDP clipboard syncing, and more session restore

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