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The Wild linker is a very speedy linker written in the Rust programming language that has become quite competitive with the likes of Mold. A patch sent out this weekend adds Wild support for use with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC).

The patch adds support for GCC for using the Wild linker with the compiler's "--with-ld" option for specifying the linker. This patch for Wild has been successfully tested with the "vast majority" of tests passing.

The Many Sins of House Ocampo is a new announcement from the developers of If On A Winter's Night Four Travelers and it looks great. Could be a really good one for fans of point and click mystery adventure games.

In The Many Sins of House Ocampo you play as Lucía, a young woman in 1977 Buenos Aires who discovers she's the last living descendant of the Ocampos, an Argentinian settler family rumoured to be beset by a terrible curse. Reliving the last moments of her ancestors via letters, tapes, documents and diaries, and using an interactive clue board to trace the fate of each family member, Lucía will not stop until figuring out the truth of the Ocampo curse, as well as her own origins.

Need a new chill puzzle game? UMAMI from indie studio Mimmox has arrived with Linux support. Across 15 hand-painted levels, you’ll tinker, toy, and rotate wooden blocks, attaching them to a board to create meals including towers of fluffy pancakes, gravity-defying burgers, freshly prepared onigiri, and even seasonal sweets for holidays such as Halloween and Christmas.

No pressure with this one is there's no timers, no wrong moves. The game encourages you to mess around and explore the layers of sugar and spice. There's also hidden animals to pet and cards to collect spread through the levels too.

A fresh demo for you to try this week, as the top-down 2D action roguelike Shroomwood has a Linux build available for you to shoot your way through.

More about it: "Play as Shroomie, a curious little mushroom navigating the ever-changing wilderness of Shroomwood. This top-down 2D roguelike adventure blends fast-paced combat with dynamic dungeon exploration. Each run through the Shroomwood forest offers new challenges, randomized rooms, and a host of peculiar creatures from classical slimes to zombie-infested mushrooms. Discover powerful weapons, stack unique modifiers, and uncover the secrets hidden within vibrant and unique biomes."

If you love arcade-styled retro racing games, Wild Horse Racing looks like it could be good fun and there's a demo available with Linux support.

Don't let the name put you off at all, this is not some cutesy horse game. Here it's quite a challenge where timing is everything. You have to master control patterns from easy to godlike difficulty, leap over big jumps, and race through vibrant tracks while managing your horse. Some fun game mechanics included with each track having its own control pattern, and nailing the timing gives you a speed boost.

The horse hoof upgrade system sounds interesting to spice things up a little too, like picking and upgrading your tyres in a car racing game. As here mud and gravel build up during races to slow you to, so you have to manage that.

Apple builds excellent products used by hundreds of millions of people, and when it comes to AirPods, one thing has consistently fallen short for Linux users: they’re still hard to use on this platform, with features heavily limited.

So I was genuinely surprised to come across the project, which goes a long way toward fixing that problem. Meet LibrePods – a solution many Linux users have wanted for years.

The project offers one of the most comprehensive AirPods integrations for the Linux desktop (and Android devices) to date. Instead of relying on partial compatibility through generic Bluetooth stacks, the project implements Apple-specific behavior directly, providing Linux users with access to features that are normally unavailable once the earbuds leave macOS or iOS.

https://github.com/kavishdevar/librepods

Three months after its previous 2.51 release, Git, a distributed version control system and cornerstone in software development, helping developers efficiently manage changes in their code across projects, has just released its new 2.52 version.

One of the most notable additions is a new high-performance method for tree-level blame analysis. Instead of repeatedly walking the same commits for every file in a directory, the new approach computes last-modified information across entire trees in a fraction of the time. This significantly accelerates directory-wide history queries, especially in large repositories.

Today, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation announced the release and general availability of AlmaLinux OS 9.7 (codename Moss Jungle Cat) as the latest stable version of this free Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) fork.

Built from the same sources as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and fully compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.7, AlmaLinux OS 9.7 continues to enhance performance, update development tools, and improve security.

This release improves debugging and performance monitoring with GDB 16.3, Valgrind 3.25.1, SystemTap 5.3, Dyninst 13.0.0, elfutils 0.193, libabigail 2.8, rsyslog 8.2506.0, Bpftrace 0.23.5, PCP 6.3.7, and Grafana 10.2.6. It also includes updated module streams like Node.js 24 and SWIG 4.3.