Valve paid the open source developers of the Steam Deck software. The operating system of the Steam Deck handheld console is based on Arch Linux, and the desktop environment is KDE Plasma. Its success is thanks to the large contributions of open source developers.

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Valve paid the open source developers of the Steam Deck software. The operating system of the Steam Deck handheld console is based on Arch Linux, and the desktop environment is KDE Plasma. Its success is thanks to the large contributions of open source developers. - DayDayNewsValve paid the open source developers of the Steam Deck software. The operating system of the Steam Deck handheld console is based on Arch Linux, and the desktop environment is KDE Plasma. Its success is thanks to the large contributions of open source developers. - DayDayNews

Valve paid to the open source developers of the Steam Deck software

Steam Deck The operating system of the Steam Deck handheld is based on Arch Linux, and the desktop environment is KDE Plasma. Its success is thanks to the large contributions of open source developers. Valve's Steam Deck designer said in an interview that the company also paid more than a hundred open source developers directly to work on the Proton compatibility layer, the Mesa graphics driver, and Vulkan, among other tasks such as Steam running on Linux and Chromebook.

Source: The Verge

Lao Wang’s comment: Valve is really the light of Linux and has done a lot of practical things for Linux.

Valve paid the open source developers of the Steam Deck software. The operating system of the Steam Deck handheld console is based on Arch Linux, and the desktop environment is KDE Plasma. Its success is thanks to the large contributions of open source developers. - DayDayNews

Android is preparing to support renewable root certificates

We previously reported that due to some untrustworthy background of TrustCor, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla are removing TrustCor's root certificates from their products. Starting with version 111, the desktop version of Chrome will no longer trust certificates issued by TrustCor. But the situation is different for Android. Android's root certificate store cannot be updated independently, which means that certificate changes will take some time to roll out. However, Google is preparing to implement renewable root certificates in Android 14.

Source: Esper

Lao Wang’s comment: At least from a large perspective, these technology giants are naturally wary of infringements on privacy and freedom.

Valve paid the open source developers of the Steam Deck software. The operating system of the Steam Deck handheld console is based on Arch Linux, and the desktop environment is KDE Plasma. Its success is thanks to the large contributions of open source developers. - DayDayNews

The NTFS3 driver in Linux 6.2 adds several new features

In Linux 6.2, the NTFS3 driver adds several useful mount options: you can set hidden attributes for dot files; you can not be case-sensitive; you can prevent the creation of file names that are not supported by Windows. These options make NTFS volumes behave more consistently under Linux and Windows.

Source: Phoronix

Lao Wang’s comment: After being donated to Linux, it can continue to be improved and maintained, which is good. But wouldn't it be better for Microsoft to do this kind of thing?

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