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FreeBSD 14.4 Released For Those Not Yet Ready To Move To FreeBSD 15 FreeBSD 14.4 is out today as the latest update to the aging FreeBSD 14 series for those not yet ready to upgrade to FreeBSD 15 that debuted as stable last year...
10.03.2026 00:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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There's Hope That At Least Colorado's Age Attestation Bill Could Exclude Open-Source Last week was a statement by System76 regarding recent age verification laws in California and Colorado among other US states that could have a profound impact on Linux distributions and other open-source software. The Colorado legislation is especially pressing to System76 considering that is where they are based. Fortunately, they aren't taking this lightly and there is some hope that at least in Colorado open-source software could be excluded...
09.03.2026 23:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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NVIDIA Releases New R595-Derived Vulkan Developer Beta For Linux With New Features Last week NVIDIA released the 595.45.04 Linux driver beta as their first release in the R595 series for Linux and it's running very well in initial testing. Today as part of their Vulkan developer beta program, they have released the NVIDIA 595.44.02 driver that brings some new Vulkan API features...
09.03.2026 20:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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NVIDIA Adds Official Support For RHEL-Compatible Distributions Like AlmaLinux With CUDA 13.2 With CUDA 13.2 that is now shipping, NVIDIA has provided official support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux compatible distributions/downstreams like AlmaLinux to CUDA. With this official NVIDIA CUDA support for these RHEL-compatible distributions, NVIDIA is also allowing the NVIDIA packages to be distributed directly from the OS package repositories...
09.03.2026 18:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Officially Supporting Cloud-Based Authentication With Authd Canonical for a while has been developing Authd as an authentication service for external cloud-based identity providers. Authd was designed from the ground-up to provide secure management of identity and access for Ubuntu systems while only with next month's Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release is it actually hitting the universe archive...
09.03.2026 15:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Intel Publishes XeSS 3 SDK To GitHub - Still As Windows-Only Binaries Intel just published the XeSS 3.0 SDK to GitHub as the newest version of their Xe Super Sampling AI-enhanced upscaling technology for gamers. Sadly though it remains proprietary software and only with native support for Windows...
09.03.2026 15:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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AMD Formally Launches Ryzen AI Embedded P100 Series 8-12 Core Models AMD announced back at CES the Ryzen AI Embedded P100 series with initially the models up to six Zen 5 cores launching while the eight through twelve core models would be available later in H1. Today AMD formally announced those higher-tier Ryzen AI Embedded P100 series parts...
09.03.2026 14:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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NVIDIA 595 Linux Driver Running Well In Early Benchmarks Last week NVIDIA released the 595.45.04 beta Linux driver as their first public build in the R595 release branch. The NVIDIA R595 Linux driver is bringing a number of Vulkan driver improvements, HDR enhancements, DRI3 v1.2 support, and a variety of other improvements. Benchmarking the NVIDIA 595.45.04 Linux driver the past few days on GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" have been showing some nice incremental performance improvements over the current NVIDIA 590 driver stable series.
09.03.2026 13:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New Rust Driver Aims To Improve Upstream Linux On Synology NAS Devices A set of patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list last week introduce a new driver for enhancing the upstream/mainline Linux kernel support for Synology network attached storage (NAS) devices. This new driver is Synology Microp and is making use of the Linux kernel's modern Rust programming language support...
09.03.2026 13:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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GCC 16 Compiler Aiming For Mid-April Release Candidate But "Slow" Progress On Fixes Richard Biener of SUSE published a new status report on the state of GCC 16 development. Regression fixing has been going slow but they are hoping to publish a release candidate by mid-April...
09.03.2026 10:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Rust Coreutils 0.7 Released With Many Performance Optimizations Rust Coreutils 0.7 released on Sunday as a performance-focused update to this popular alternative to GNU Coreutils that is still striving for 100% compatibility against the GNU Test Suite...
09.03.2026 04:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Linux 7.0-rc3 Released: "Some Of The Biggest In Recent History" Linux 7.0-rc3 is out as the latest weekly test candidate in leading up to the stable Linux 7.0 release in mid-April...
09.03.2026 00:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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CachyOS Handheld Edition Switches To Wayland, CachyOS Installer Drops Bcachefs The March 2026 ISO refresh of the Arch Linux powered CachyOS distribution is now available for new installations and upgrading from existing CachyOS installs...
08.03.2026 17:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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FFmpeg 8.1 Preparing For Release With Vulkan Improvements, JPEG-XS & More FFmpeg developers are preparing to soon release FFmpeg 8.1 with some great new features and other improvements...
08.03.2026 12:42 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Experimental Intel Nova Lake P Device Bits Merged For Mesa 26.1 Merged this week for Mesa 26.1 are the initial Nova Lake P "NVL-P" device bits for Intel's ANV Vulkan and Iris Gallium3D drivers. But this support isn't yet exposed by default and not yet ready for end-users with more driver changes still to be published...
08.03.2026 11:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Notable Intel & AMD CPU Changes Merged For Linux 7.0-rc3 This week's batch of "x86/urgent" patches that were merged overnight for Linux 7.0 contain some fixes and other adjustments worth highlighting for both AMD and Intel...
08.03.2026 11:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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LLM-Driven Large Code Rewrites With Relicensing Are The Latest AI Concern The newest open-source concern around AI that is seeing a lot of interest this weekend is when large language models / AI code generators may rewrite large parts of a codebase and then the "developers" claiming an alternative license incompatible with the original source license. This became a real concern this week with a popular Python project experiencing an AI-driven code rewrite and now published under an alternative license that its original author does not agree with and incompatible with the original code...
08.03.2026 11:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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digiKam 9.0 Leading Open-Source Digital Photo Manager Software Released The KDE/Qt-aligned digiKam software for managing RAW digital photos is out today with the big digiKam 9.0 release...
08.03.2026 11:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Linux 7.0 Fixes Battery Reporting For The Apple Magic Trackpad 2 Merged back in 2018 for Linux 5.0 was support for the Apple Magic Trackpad 2. Merged this week for the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel is fixing battery reporting for those using the Magic Trackpad 2 under Linux...
08.03.2026 10:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Linux 7.0 Adds A New Minor Performance Optimization Shown With AMD Zen 2 CPUs The Linux event poll "epoll" code for efficient I/O multiplexing and monitoring of file descriptors for seeing when I/O is possible has a new optimization merged today for Linux 7.0...
08.03.2026 01:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Budgie 10.10.2 Brings Improved Labwc Wayland Compositor Integration Out today is Budgie 10.10.2 as the latest minor update to this open-source desktop environment that began as part of the Solus Linux project...
07.03.2026 17:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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AMD GAIA 0.16 Introduces C++17 Agent Framework For Building AI PC Agents In Pure C++ AMD's GAIA open-source framework for building AI agents that run locally on Ryzen AI hardware via the Radeon iGPUs and/or NPUs is up to version 0.16. With this new GAIA release is support for developing AI agents purely in C++ with no longer needing to depend upon Python...
07.03.2026 15:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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FreeBSD 15.1 On Track With Better Realtek WiFi & KDE Desktop Install Option The effort around improving FreeBSD on laptops continues full speed ahead in 2026. The upcoming FreeBSD 15.1 remains on track with not only having a KDE desktop option from FreeBSD's text-based installer UI but also improved Realtek WiFi adapter support is on the way, updating of the graphics drivers from Linux, and more...
07.03.2026 12:13 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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New Maui.Gtk Project Provides A GTK4 Backend For Microsoft's .NET MAUI Maui.Gtk is a new open-source project providing a GTK4 Linux back-end for Microsoft's .NET MAUI...
07.03.2026 11:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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3mdeb Making Progress On AMD Ryzen AM5 Motherboard Port With Coreboot + openSIL In addition to the 3mdeb firmware consulting firm porting Coreboot with AMD openSIL to an EPYC 9005 "Turin" Gigabyte motherboard, their developers have also been working on a similar Coreboot + openSIL port to an AM5 Ryzen consumer motherboard...
07.03.2026 11:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Resources For GNOME Adds Intel Xe GPU Power Usage & Intel NPU Frequency Reporting Resources, the modern GNOME GTK4/libadwaita-based GUI application for system resource monitoring and an alternative to GNOME System Monitor, is out with a new update. Resources 1.10.2 brings some nice improvements for those running GNOME on modern Intel hardware...
07.03.2026 11:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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KDE Plasma Saw A Lot Of Bug/Crash Fixing & UI Polishing This Week Nate Graham and John Veness are out today with the newest issue of This Week in Plasma. Notable for KDE Plasma 6.6.x~6.7 development this week were a lot of bug fixing -- including multiple crash fixes -- and some UI polishing too...
07.03.2026 01:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Wine 11.4 Released With More Improvements Wine 11.4 is out today as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software that powers Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and allows for Windows games and applications to run on Linux and macOS...
06.03.2026 22:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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GTK 4.22 Released With Improved SVG Support, Reduced Motion Option Ahead of the GNOME 50 desktop release coming up in less than two weeks, GTK 4.22 is out today as the newest stable version of the GTK4 toolkit...
06.03.2026 19:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New ASUS, Dell & OneXPlayer Hardware Support In Linux 7.0-rc3 A pull request sent out today and already merged to Linux Git ahead of Sunday's Linux 7.0-rc3 has some new hardware driver support additions for the likes of ASUS, HP, Dell, and OneXPlayer...
06.03.2026 19:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0