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CachyOS Linux Distribution Makes More Improvements To Its Handheld Edition

([Operating Systems] 3 Hours Ago CachyOS April 2025)


The April 2025 ISO update is out today for CachyOS, the Arch based Linux distribution known for its aggressive out-of-the-box performance on modern hardware.

The April 2025 ISO re-spin for this rolling-release distribution built upon Arch Linux isn't a particularly major update. It does have a fix for module crashes on ASUS laptops and the Limine bootloader support has been improved upon.

Besides being known for its performance, CachyOS has been one of the few Linux distributions pursuing a nice handheld experience for the likes of Valve's [1]Steam Deck and the [2]ASUS ROG Ally and [3]Legion Go devices for portable/handheld gaming. With the April update, CachyOS brings audio profiles to the ASUS ROG Ally X and Lenovo Legion Go handhelds.

Also for the CachyOS Handheld Edition is replacing gamescope-plus with Valve's upstream Gamescope compositor code. The upstream Gamescope code should now be providing a better experience.

Also new to CachyOS for April 2025 is adding the OCCT tool to the ISOs to help in offline hardware stress testing.

More details on this month's CachyOS ISO refresh via [4]CachyOS.org .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Steam+Deck

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/search/ASUS+ROG+Ally

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Legion+Go

[4] https://cachyos.org/blog/2504-april-release/


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Attack of the Tuxissa Virus

What started out as a prank posting to comp.os.linux.advocacy yesterday has
turned into one of the most significant viruses in computing history.
The creator of the virus, who goes by the moniker "Anonymous Longhair",
modified the Melissa virus to install Linux on infected machines.

"It's a work of art," one Linux advocate told Humorix after he looked
through the Tuxissa virus source code. "This virus goes well beyond the
feeble troublemaking of Melissa. It actually configures a UMSDOS partition
on the user's hard drive and then downloads and installs a stripped-down
version of Slackware Linux."

The email message that the virus is attached to has the subject "Important
Message About Windows Security". The text of the body says, "I want to let
you know about some security problems I've uncovered in Windows 95/98/NT,
Office 95/97, and Outlook. It's critically important that you protect your
system against these attacks. Visit these sites for more information..."
The rest of the message contains 42 links to sites about Linux and free
software.

Details on how the virus started are a bit sketchy. The "Anonymous
Longhair" who created it only posted it to Usenet as an early April Fool's
gag, demonstrating how easy it would be to mount a "Linux revolution".