ConnexionRust 1.94 Released With Stable Support For AVX-512 FP16 Intrinsics, Array Windows
Rust 1.94 was rolled out today as the newest routine stable update for the Rust programming language...
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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. Plus some of the Altera drivers have also been orphaned now for having no upstream maintainers...
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.
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Linux 7.0 File-System Benchmarks With XFS Leading The Way
With a number of file-system improvements in Linux 6.19 and more file-system optimizations in Linux 7.0, it's past due for running some fresh file-system benchmarks. Here is a look at how the prominent file-system contenders are performing on the latest Linux 7.0 development kernel.
TUXEDO 2026-03-05
TUXEDO OS is an Ubuntu-based distribution developed in Germany by TUXEDO Computers GmbH, designed and optimised for the company's own range of Linux-friendly personal computers and notebooks. The distribution uses KDE Plasma as the preferred desktop. Some of the differences between Ubuntu and TUXEDO OS include custom boot menu, the TUXEDO Control Centre, Calamares installer, availability of the Lutris open gaming platform, preference for the PipeWire audio daemon (over PulseAudio), removal of Ubuntu's snap daemon and snap packages, and various other tweaks and enhancements. NetBSD 11.0-RC2
NetBSD is a free, secure, and highly portable UNIX-like Open Source operating system available for many platforms, from 64-bit AlphaServers and desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices. Its clean design and advanced features make it excellent in both production and research environments, and it is user-supported with complete source. Many applications are easily available through The NetBSD Packages Collection. Oh dear - ARC Raiders was logging your private Discord chats
Here's a reminder that when you connect up various accounts - you may end up just increasing the risk of your private data going somewhere else.
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NVIDIA Beta driver 595.45.04 released for Linux - looks to be an exciting one
NVIDIA released Beta driver 595.45.04 for Linux and it includes support for some new Vulkan extensions that could help improve gaming performance.
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NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver Beta Brings New Vulkan Support & DRI3 v1.2
Following the recent NVIDIA R595 driver release for Windows, NVIDIA today released the 595.45.04 driver for Linux users as a beta version in the R595 release stream...
Debian Still Debating AI Contributions Plus A Need For More Diverse Contributors
Debian Project Leader "DPL" Andreas Tille provided an update today on various happenings within the project and personal reflections on some recent topics. Among the topics in today's DPL updates were around AI contributions, Debian's need to become more diverse with its contributors, and needing more "thank yous" to show appreciation for contributions...
Redox OS Gets Vulkan & Node.js Working On This Rust-Based Open-Source OS
There were some fairly exciting improvements made by the Redox OS developers over the course of February. They have the Vulkan API working on Redox OS for the first time along with more COSMIC desktop software and even Node.js...
AMD DCN 4.2 IP, GFX 12.1 Updates For AMDGPU Driver In Linux 7.1 Plus GCN 1.1 APU DC
AMD has begun staging AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver improvements for the upcoming Linux 7.1 cycle...
Linux 7.1 To Prevent Intel NPUs From Being Exhausted By Single Programs
The Intel IVPU accelerator driver will be introducing limits on Intel NPU resource usage by non-root user-space programs beginning with the Linux 7.1 kernel...
Upcoming co-op driving and looting horror game The Road looks like a good laugh
I hesitate to use the term "friendslop" but The Road seems to fit in nicely with the recent rise of online co-op games and actually looks good fun.
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Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered is out now
Back and perhaps better than ever - Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered has officially launched with plenty of it modernised and improved.
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Linux Mint Cinnamon has the new screensaver lock screen ready for Wayland
The Linux Mint team have a new blog post up detailing their new screensaver, whicj is the last major point for full Wayland support with the Cinnamon desktop.
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NVIDIA reveal games coming to GeForce NOW during March including Crimson Desert
It's a new month and so more new games are heading to NVIDIA GeForce NOW, so here's all that has been revealed for you so far.
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KDE neon 20260305
KDE neon is a Ubuntu-based Linux distribution and live DVD featuring the latest KDE Plasma desktop and other KDE community software. Besides the installable DVD image, the project provides a rapidly-evolving software repository with all the latest KDE software. Two editions of the product are available - a "User" edition, designed for those interested in checking out the latest KDE software as it gets released, and a "Developer's" edition, created as a platform for testing cutting-edge KDE applications. SmartOS 20260305
SmartOS is an open-source UNIX-like operating system based on illumos, a community fork of OpenSolaris. It features four technologies - ZFS (a combined file system and logical volume manager), DTrace (a dynamic tracing framework for troubleshooting kernel and application problems), Zones (a lightweight virtualisation solution), KVM and bhyve (two full virtualisation solutions for running a variety of guest operating systems, including Linux, Windows, BSD and Plan9). SmartOS is designed to be particularly suitable for building clouds and generating appliances. AMD HSMP Linux Driver Preps For Zen 6 EPYC With Finer Power Controls
The AMD Host System Management Port (HSMP) Linux driver that provides access to various system management features on modern EPYC server processors is preparing for the upcoming EPYC Zen 6 "Venice" processors...
Intel GMA500 "Poulsbo" Driver Still Seeing New Open-Source Activity In 2026
Approaching twenty years after Intel's Poulsbo platform began giving Linux users nightmares due to its Imagination PowerVR SGX graphics IP that blocked open-source 3D driver support, the GMA500 driver that ended up coming about to provide open-source display support at least is still seeing occasional upstream activity for the Linux kernel...
libavif 1.4 Released For Advancing AVIF Image Support
The Alliance For Open Media on Wednesday released libavif 1.4, the latest version of this reference library for encoding and decoding AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) content...
Intel Xe Linux Driver Ready With Fix For Brand New Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 Laptop
This week at MWC 2026, Lenovo announced the ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 as one of their new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" powered laptops alongside other products. With Panther Lake running rather well on Linux, the new ThinkPad T14 G7 should be in good standing on Linux and especially with a pending Xe graphics driver fix that is on the way...
AboutCode et Dropsolid présentés au prochain webinaire de la série "Open Source by OW2"
Dans le cadre de sa série trimestrielle de webinaires, OW2 donnera la parole aux projets AboutCode et Dropsolid, le jeudi 12 mars 2026 à 16h00.
La série « Open Source by OW2 » est dédiée aux innovations open source, aux projets et à la communauté OW2, ainsi qu’aux opportunités de financement open source dont le programme européen NGI. Découvrez de nouveaux projets, des technologies, de l’innovation, des modèles ouverts au sens large (science/données/matériel/éducation/normes/protocoles/etc.), mais aussi des biens communs numériques, des financements, des modèles économiques, de la coopération et de l’impact social. Chaque webinaire met en avant un projet OW2 et un projet financé par NGI Zero Commons Fund.
Découvrez l'agenda du 12 mars 2026 :
- 16h : Introduction
- 16h05 : Dropsolid : Construire la souveraineté numérique grâce à une gouvernance de l'IA transparente, par Tassos Koutlas et Paulina Ryters-Menapace, Dropsolid
- 16h25 : ScanCode et la stack AboutCode : outil d'analyse logicielle (SCA) de référence du marché, avec Philippe Ombredanne, NextB
- 16h40 : Conclusion
Chaque présentation sera suivie d'une session d'échange ouvert entre les intervenants et participants.
L’inscription est gratuite mais obligatoire (le lien est envoyé par mail). Les présentations ont lieu en anglais. N’hésitez pas à diffuser l’invitation autour de vous !
- lien nᵒ 1 : Présentation du webinaire
- lien nᵒ 2 : Inscription
- lien nᵒ 3 : Lien vers NGI Zero Commons Fund
- lien nᵒ 4 : Lien vers OW2
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