📰 NVIDIA 595.45 Beta Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Updates and Wayland Changes

NVIDIA has released the 595.45 beta Linux driver, featuring new Vulkan extensions, Wayland updates, DRI3 1.2 support, and several stability improvements.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/nvidia-595-45-04-beta-linux-driver-released/

#wayland #linux

📰 Linux MAINTAINERS Cleaning For Recently Departed Intel Devs, Altera Drivers Oprhaned

The layoffs and restructuring at Intel in 2025 caused unfortunate hits to their Linux/open-source engineering including various driver maintainers leaving and even their CPU temperature driver being orphaned for lack of maintainers. Sent out today were a number of additional updates to the MAINTAINERS file for the Linux kernel to reflect other Intel departures in recent months.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-MAINTAINERS-Intel-March

#linux #opensource #intel #kernel

📰 Theme park building game Parkitect gets its first ever Steam Free Weekend

Parkitect is an absolute gem and if you've not played this theme park builder before - well, now is your best chance because it's free for a while.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/theme-park-building-game-parkitect-gets-its-first-ever-steam-free-weekend/

#steam

📰 System76 Comments On Recent Age Verification Laws

System76 published a statement today regarding the recent laws coming about in California and likely Colorado and New York too around requiring age verification on operating system accounts and ultimately exposing the information (or at least age brackets) to apps and websites. System76's position is interesting given that they sell Linux-loaded desktops, workstations and laptops plus being an operating system vendor with their in-house Pop!_OS...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Age-Verification-Laws

#linux

📰 Chinese state hackers target telcos with new malware toolkit

A China-linked advanced persistent threat actor tracked as UAT-9244 has been targeting telecommunication service providers in South America since 2024, compromising Windows, Linux, and network-edge devices.

🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chinese-state-hackers-target-telcos-with-new-malware-toolkit/

#linux

📰 Wayland 1.25 RC1 Released With Improved Documentation, Minor Changes

Simon Ser announced the release today of Wayland 1.25 RC1 (Wayland v1.24.91) in working toward this next stable release...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-1.25-RC1

#wayland

📰 Firefox Nova – our first look at the browser’s big redesign

A new-look Firefox is on the way, with Mozilla designers working on a ‘Nova’ redesign that introduces more curves and colour. First reported by tech blogger Söeren Hentzschel, who published several internal design mockups, Nova gives Firefox a more rounded appearance: tabs and the address bar sport uniform radii, and sit in a segmented, floating island UI element. Everything nestles neatly.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/firefox-nova-redesign

#firefox

📰 Linux From Scratch 13.0 Released as First Systemd-Only Version

The Linux From Scratch project has released LFS 13.0 and BLFS 13.0, featuring updated packages, the 6.18.10 kernel, and a systemd-only build.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/linux-from-scratch-13-0-released-as-first-systemd-only-version/

#linux #systemd #kernel

📰 Haiku OS Pulls In WiFi Driver Updates From OpenBSD, Other Improvements In February

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project had an eventful February with a number of driver improvements and a variety of other enhancements...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-OS-February-2026

#opensource

📰 Vulkan 1.4.345 Released With New ARM Shader Instrumentation Extension

Vulkan 1.4.345 released overnight as the latest routine spec update to this graphics and compute API. There is one new extension besides a handful of different clarifications and corrections to various elements of the spec...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.345-Released

#arm

📰 TUXEDO InfinityBook Max 16 Linux Laptop Now Available with AMD Ryzen AI 300

TUXEDO Computers launches a new variant of the InfinityBook Max 16 Gen10 Linux-powered laptop with AMD Ryzen AI 300 processors.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/tuxedo-infinitybook-max-16-linux-laptop-now-available-with-amd-ryzen-ai-300

#amd #linux

📰 Transport Fever 3 confirmed for Linux and macOS support

The upcoming Transport Fever 3 from Urban Games is due out later this year, and the developers just confirmed more platforms will be supported.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/transport-fever-3-confirmed-for-linux-and-macos-support/

#linux

📰 ZimaBoard 2: An Interesting Intel-Powered Linux Home Mini Server

For those looking for a low-power, well-built small office / home office Linux server with interesting connectivity options, the ZimaBoard 2 is an interesting option that has been available for some months now and powered by the Intel N150 processor. Besides the interesting single board hardware and well built aluminum chassis, the offering is rounded out by being preloaded with ZimaOS as a Linux-based "personal cloud OS" to easily get hosting...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/zimaboard2

#intel #linux #linuxbased

📰 Lenovo Yoga Pro 7a is a AMD Strix Halo laptop with a 15.3 inch OLED display, up to 128GB RAM, and pen support

The new Lenovo Yoga Pro 7a (15″ Gen 11) is a premium laptop with a 15.3 inch, 2.5K OLED display, support for up to 128GB of RAM, and an emphasis on graphics and content creation – the laptop’s large Force Pad touchpad features Wacom technology, allowing you to use Lenovo Yoga Pen Gen 2 to draw on .

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/lenovo-yoga-pro-7a-is-a-amd-strix-halo-laptop-with-a-15-3-inch-oled-display-up-to-128gb-ram-and-pen-support/

#amd

📰 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...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-rc3-Platform-Drivers

#linux

📰 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...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.4-Released

#opensource #steam #linux

📰 Most people buy the wrong Raspberry Pi for what they actually need it to do

Not all Raspberry Pis are created equal. Performance, power demands, and I/O differences make some models better suited for specific projects.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/dont-buy-the-wrong-raspberry-pi-for-your-project/

#raspberry

📰 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...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.6.x-Polish-Fixes

#plasma #kde