📰 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

📰 The KDE Plasma team reveals a ton of bug fixes coming to the desktop environment

Well, it's that time of the week again. Every Friday, the KDE team brings us a smorgasbord of things everyone has been working on in KDE Plasma. It's all open-source, meaning there are no hidden trade secrets or code obfuscated in proprietary software here, which means the team can collect everything that has progressed in the past week and present them as a nice end-of-week digest.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/the-kde-plasma-team-reveals-a-ton-of-bug-fixes-coming-to-the-desktop-environment/

#plasma #opensource #kde

📰 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...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/3mdeb-Ryzen-MSI-Port-Progress

#amd

📰 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...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.1-Realtek-KDE-Wins

#kde #linux

📰 Anthropic Finds 22 Firefox Vulnerabilities Using Claude Opus 4.6 AI Model

Anthropic on Friday said it discovered 22 new security vulnerabilities in the Firefox web browser as part of a security partnership with Mozilla.Of these, 14 have been classified as high, seven have been classified as moderate, and one has been rated low in severity. The issues were addressed in Firefox 148, released late last month. The vulnerabilities were identified over a two-week period in.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/anthropic-finds-22-firefox.html

#firefox

📰 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...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GAIA-0.16

#amd #opensource #python

📰 Fastfetch 2.60 System Information Tool Adds Moss Package Support

Fastfetch 2.60 introduces Zed editor detection, moss package support, and enhanced window manager detection on Linux.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/fastfetch-2-60-system-information-tool-adds-moss-package-support/

#linux

📰 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...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Budgie-10.10.2-Released

#wayland #budgie #opensource #linux

📰 4 derivatives of popular Linux distros that are better than the originals

There will always be a dedicated group of people that think the original is better than the spin-off, and that's true with Linux distros as well. The big names like Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, and others have played a massive role in the creation of other distros, and as a beginner, you wouldn't be blamed for thinking that using one of the originals should be better because of their ubiquity.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/derivatives-of-popular-linux-distros-that-are-better-than-the-originals/

#fedora #arch #ubuntu #linux