📰 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

📰 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...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-AMD-x86-Linux-7.0-rc3

#intel #linux #amd

📰 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...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/digiKam-9.0-Released

#kde #opensource

📰 OpenWrt 25.12 Released with APK Package Manager Replacing opkg

OpenWrt 25.12 open-source router firmware arrives with a major shift to the APK package manager, replacing opkg, alongside Linux kernel 6.12.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/openwrt-25-12-released-with-apk-package-manager-replacing-opkg/

#kernel #linux #opensource

Get Gmail alerts on Ubuntu without a dedicated mail client - OMG! Ubuntu
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/gnome-email-notifier-gmail-outlook

FFmpeg 8.1 Preparing For Release With Vulkan Improvements, JPEG-XS & More
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-8.1-Coming-Soon

PS5 Modder Got GTA V Running With Ray Tracing Via Linux - But It's A Little Too Hot For The Console - Gameranx
https://gameranx.com/updates/id/561629/article/ps5-modder-got-gta-v-running-with-ray-tracing-via-linux-but-its-a-little-too-hot-for-the-console/

The new Jolla Phone with Sailfish OS is on track to start shipping in the first half of 2026 - Liliputing
https://liliputing.com/the-new-jolla-phone-with-sailfish-os-is-on-track-to-start-shipping-in-the-first-half-of-2026/

HandBrake 1.11 Video Transcoder Released With ProRes, DNxHR, and AV1 Encoding
https://linuxiac.com/handbrake-1-11-video-transcoder-released-with-prores-dnxhr-and-av1-encoding/

Rust Coreutils 0.7 Released With Many Performance Optimizations - Phoronix
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-uutils-0.7

Resources 1.10.2 fixes 'implausible' Intel NPU values - OMG! Ubuntu
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/resources-1-10-2-intel-npu-fixes

PipeWire 1.6.1 Fixes Socket Activation and JACK App Crashes
https://linuxiac.com/pipewire-1-6-1-fixes-socket-activation-and-jack-app-crashes/

This Intel Panther Lake mini PC is as thin as a laptop - Liliputing
https://liliputing.com/this-intel-panther-lake-mini-pc-is-as-thin-as-a-laptop/

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Officially Supporting Cloud-Based Authentication With Authd - Phoronix
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.04-LTS-Authd