📰 SteamOS proved the Linux desktop works when you stop trying to make it look like Windows

SteamOS hasn't brought about "the great exodus" to Linux, but it does teach distros how to do it right.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/steamos-proved-the-linux-desktop-works-when-you-stop-trying-to-make-it-look-like-windows/

#linux

📰 I dug into the Flipper One's firmware, and it's not a Flipper Zero sequel — it's a pocket Linux PC

The firmware of the Flipper One is already publicly available, and there's a lot of interesting tech.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/dug-into-flipper-one-firmware-not-flipper-zero-sequel/

#linux

📰 Imagination's Open-Source PowerVR Vulkan Driver Now Plays Nicely With Zink OpenGL

The past several years Imagination Tech has been investing in an upstream and open-source DRM kernel graphics driver as well as a PowerVR Vulkan driver in Mesa. Their Mesa focus has exclusively been on the PowerVR Vulkan driver with the plans all along to use the Zink generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation. With next quarter's Mesa 26.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/PowerVR-Vulkan-Does-Zink

#opensource #kernel

📰 Fedora Workstation 44 Beta Benchmarks On The AMD Ryzen AI Max Framework Desktop

Since last week's Fedora 44 Beta release I have been testing out this upcoming Fedora Linux version on a few systems in the lab, most notably with the Framework Desktop powered by the powerful AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo". Fedora Workstation 44 Beta has been looking nice and running stable albeit in some instances seeing lower performance at this point than Fedora Workstation 43 but overall in good shape.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/fedora-44-beta

#linux #fedora #amd

📰 Lightpanda Promises a Faster, Lightweight Alternative to Headless Chrome

Lightpanda is a new open-source headless browser that claims up to 9× faster automation while using up to 16× less memory than Chrome.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/lightpanda-promises-a-faster-lightweight-alternative-to-headless-chrome/

#opensource

📰 PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 gets easier to use with Steam

The free and open source PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 is getting easier to use with Steam, with the devs announcing a useful new feature.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/playstation-3-emulator-rpcs3-gets-easier-to-use-with-steam/

#steam #opensource

📰 Ubuntu new folder icons are here – and you’re going to have opinions…

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is refreshing its folder icons with a squatter shape and more colourful design – if past icon changes are anything to go by, not everyone is going to be thrilled. The restyled icons are among a number of visual changes to hit Ubuntu 26.04 ‘Resolute Raccoon’ daily builds in recent days. Redesigned LibreOffice app icons, new accessibility feature symbolics and an adaptive Calculator icon have also been introduced, alongside...

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/ubuntu-2604-new-folder-icons

#ubuntu

📰 GNU C Library Lands x86_64 FMA'ed cosh For A ~35% Improvement

A bit of time has passed since having any exciting performance improvements to report on within the GNU C Library "glibc" but that changed today with another nice x86_64 optimization for modern CPUs...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-Faster-cosh-x86-64-FMA

#gnu

📰 FFmpeg 8.1 Released With Experimental xHE-AAC MPS212, More Vulkan Acceleration

FFmpeg 8.1 is out today as the newest stable release of this widely-used, open-source multimedia library...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-8.1-Released

#opensource #ffmpeg

📰 Ageless Linux Emerges to Protest OS-Level Age Verification Laws

And thankfully, it's more than just a Linux distro without age verification.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17300603/ageless-linux

#linux #distro

📰 Big moves in Linux filesystems as new bcachefs lands and KDE adds support for Apple's APFS

Plus: Fresh version of bcachefs arrives Linux 7.0 is approaching and there's a new version of bcachefs to go with it… as well as green shoots of support for Apple's new disk format.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/bcachefs_and_apfs_news/

#linux #kde

📰 ARM NEON Accelerated CRC64 Optimization Shows Nearly 6x Improvement

A patch posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list provides an ARM64-optimized CRC64-NVMe implementation for nearly a 6x improvement on modern Arm SoCs...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM-NEON-CRC64-6x

#linux #kernel #arm

📰 Blender 5.1 Open-Source 3D Graphics Software Released with Many New Features

Blender 5.1 open-source 3D graphics software is now available for download with hardware ray-tracing by for AMD GPUs and other changes. Here's what's new!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/blender-5-1-open-source-3d-graphics-software-released-with-many-new-features

#opensource #amd

📰 EndeavourOS Titan released, devs comment on age verification laws

The Arch-based Linux distribution EndeavourOS Titan is out now, bringing with it plenty of nice sounding upgrades and some comments on age verification.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/endeavouros-titan-released-devs-comment-on-age-verification-laws/

#linux #arch

📰 TUXEDO Gemini 17 Gen4 Linux Laptop Now Available with AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX

TUXEDO Gemini 17 Gen4 Linux laptop is now available with AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, up to 128 GB RAM, and up to 16TB storage.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/tuxedo-gemini-17-gen4-linux-laptop-now-available-with-amd-ryzen-9-9955hx

#linux #amd

📰 System76 Makes The Best Open-Source Keyboard Even Better

If System76 engineers didn't already have enough going on with recently shipping the COSMIC Rust-based desktop environment and also shipping Pop!_OS 24.04 as their in-house Linux distribution plus completely redesigning the Thelio Desktop, they also recently revised their Launch Keyboard. They have made this leading open-source keyboard design even better with the latest iteration of the System76 Launch Keyboard.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/system76-launch-keyboard-2026

#linux #opensource

📰 Linux gaming is "solved" until anti-cheat shows up

Linux and third-party anti-cheat clients are like water and oil.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-gaming-is-solved-until-anti-cheat-shows-up/

#linux

📰 Free VPN and Split View Are Coming to Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla is adding a free VPN and Split View to Firefox, giving users more privacy and a better way to browse side by side.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/free-vpn-and-split-view-are-coming-to-mozilla-firefox/

#firefox

NVIDIA DLSS 5 has become the source of many memes as the backlash continues | GamingOnLinux
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/nvidia-dlss-5-has-become-the-source-of-many-memes-as-the-backlash-continues/

📰 I tried openSUSE Tumbleweed, and it had me reconsidering my love for Fedora

Okay, I admit it; I have a distro-hopping problem. It was only three months ago that I proudly declared that I had stopped jumping between Linux distros and settled on one, and yet the bug has bitten me once more. The weird thing is, this isn't even a 'the grass is greener on the other side' thing, because as far as I was concerned, my Fedora Kinoite-based grass was some of the greenest I had ever had. I suppose when you're given a buffet of...

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/opensuse-tumbleweed-has-me-reconsidering-using-fedora/

#linux #opensuse #distro #fedora

📰 AMD MLIR-AIE Releases New AIECC C++ Compiler To Help Bring New Workloads To Ryzen AI NPUs

AMD Ryzen AI NPUs are now running LLMs on Linux with the recently debuted Lemonade 10.0 server and FastFlowLM 0.9.35 adding Linux support. In addition to those software components, AMD engineers have also been developing MLIR-AIE as a compiler toolchain for AMD AI Engine devices such as Ryzen AI NPUs in leveraging LLVM-based code generation with the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR). Out today is MLIR-AIE v1.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/MLIR-AIE-1.3

#linux #amd