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Fedora Evaluating New Idea For For Experimental Concepts & Fostering New Innovations Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta announced a new proposal for "A Technology Innovation Lifecycle Process for Fedora." With the help of Google's Gemini AI, Spaleta laid out a proposal to help Fedora make greater accommodations for experimental concepts and building more interest around innovative ideas without a firm commitment to integrate them into Fedora proper until they can be assured of sustainability...
11.03.2026 00:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Current RISC-V CPUs Being Too Slow Causes Headaches For Fedora: ~5x Slower Builds The current crop of RISC-V SoCs are still much slower than alternative CPU architectures and lead to much longer build times for Fedora packages as a result. There's hope with next-gen RISC-V processors being faster but for now even compiling Binutils as an example is around five times slower than x86_64 -- and that's with disabling compiler link-time optimizations (LTO) for RISC-V to avoid an even longer build process...
10.03.2026 19:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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MSI PRO B850-P WiFi: A Special AMD Ryzen AM5 Motherboard For Linux / Open-Source Enthusiasts The MSI PRO B850-P WIFI motherboard is a unique AMD Ryzen AM5 motherboard for Linux/open-source enthusiasts that is competitively priced at just $179 USD. It's interesting not because of the doings of MSI but rather 3mdeb with this being the desktop motherboard they are working on porting AMD openSIL and Coreboot to for allowing an open-source firmware stack.
10.03.2026 18:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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OpenSSL 4.0 Alpha 1 Released With Encrypted Client Hello "ECH" & Other Features The first alpha release of OpenSSL 4.0 is now available for testing. With OpenSSL 3.0 they are removing support for SSLv3 that has been deprecated for over one decade while also dropping OpenSSL engines and other removals while also adding in some new features...
10.03.2026 16:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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SUSE Reportedly May Be For Sale Yet Again Over the past two decades SUSE Linux has been passed around several times. From Novell's acquisition of SUSE back in 2003 to then being acquired by The Attachmate Group to then merging with Micro Focus and then the SUSE business being acquired by private equity firm EQT back in 2018. A report out today indicates that EQT may now be looking to sell off SUSE...
10.03.2026 15:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New Patch Can Boost Linux ZRAM Compression Performance By Over 50% The Linux ZRAM module for creating compressed block devices in RAM could be on the edge of a nice I/O compression performance boost...
10.03.2026 14:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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FSF Hiring New Manager For Leading Their Hardware Certification Program The Free Software Foundation is hiring a new engineering and certification manager for leading the Respect Your Freedom "RYF" hardware certification program. The FSF RYF program is about certifying hardware that respects the user's freedom and privacy for control over the device, such as no proprietary firmware blobs needed to be loaded at run-time, no digital rights management / digital restrictions, and complies with their other free software ideals...
10.03.2026 14:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Intel Puts An End To Open-Source Projects For Optane Memory, FPGAs & Ansible Following Intel archiving various open-source projects that they are no longer maintaining amid open-source setbacks due to reduced staffing and other corporate restructuring, another round of Intel open-source projects were formally archived on Monday...
10.03.2026 13:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Intel Preps Linux For Directed Package Thermal Interrupts Intel Linux engineers are preparing the Linux kernel's Intel Thermal driver for supporting Directed Package Thermal Interrupts as a new feature of recent Intel CPUs...
10.03.2026 12:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Valve/RADV Developers Look At More Per-Game Tuning/Optimizations For Mesa Drivers RADV Radeon Vulkan driver developers on Valve's Linux graphics team are evaluating the idea of greater use of per-game/app profiles within this open-source driver and for Mesa drivers at large. Currently for Mesa drivers with DriConf there is the ability to provide per-game/app workarounds while the consideration now is extending that to allow for more per-game optimizations...
10.03.2026 10:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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exfatprogs 1.3.2 Brings Improvements To mkfs.exfat, fsck.exfat For those making use of Microsoft's exFAT file-system under Linux, tagged today was exfatprogs 1.3.2 as the newest update to these open-source user-space programs for going along with the Linux kernel's exFAT file-system driver...
10.03.2026 10:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Fedora 44 Beta Released With Better KDE Experience, Many Upgrades The Fedora 44 Beta release is out today on schedule in working toward the official Fedora 44 release around mid-April...
10.03.2026 09:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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FreeBSD 14.4 Released For Those Not Yet Ready To Move To FreeBSD 15 FreeBSD 14.4 is out today as the latest update to the aging FreeBSD 14 series for those not yet ready to upgrade to FreeBSD 15 that debuted as stable last year...
10.03.2026 00:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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There's Hope That At Least Colorado's Age Attestation Bill Could Exclude Open-Source Last week was a statement by System76 regarding recent age verification laws in California and Colorado among other US states that could have a profound impact on Linux distributions and other open-source software. The Colorado legislation is especially pressing to System76 considering that is where they are based. Fortunately, they aren't taking this lightly and there is some hope that at least in Colorado open-source software could be excluded...
09.03.2026 23:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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NVIDIA Releases New R595-Derived Vulkan Developer Beta For Linux With New Features Last week NVIDIA released the 595.45.04 Linux driver beta as their first release in the R595 series for Linux and it's running very well in initial testing. Today as part of their Vulkan developer beta program, they have released the NVIDIA 595.44.02 driver that brings some new Vulkan API features...
09.03.2026 20:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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NVIDIA Adds Official Support For RHEL-Compatible Distributions Like AlmaLinux With CUDA 13.2 With CUDA 13.2 that is now shipping, NVIDIA has provided official support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux compatible distributions/downstreams like AlmaLinux to CUDA. With this official NVIDIA CUDA support for these RHEL-compatible distributions, NVIDIA is also allowing the NVIDIA packages to be distributed directly from the OS package repositories...
09.03.2026 18:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Officially Supporting Cloud-Based Authentication With Authd Canonical for a while has been developing Authd as an authentication service for external cloud-based identity providers. Authd was designed from the ground-up to provide secure management of identity and access for Ubuntu systems while only with next month's Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release is it actually hitting the universe archive...
09.03.2026 15:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Intel Publishes XeSS 3 SDK To GitHub - Still As Windows-Only Binaries Intel just published the XeSS 3.0 SDK to GitHub as the newest version of their Xe Super Sampling AI-enhanced upscaling technology for gamers. Sadly though it remains proprietary software and only with native support for Windows...
09.03.2026 15:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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AMD Formally Launches Ryzen AI Embedded P100 Series 8-12 Core Models AMD announced back at CES the Ryzen AI Embedded P100 series with initially the models up to six Zen 5 cores launching while the eight through twelve core models would be available later in H1. Today AMD formally announced those higher-tier Ryzen AI Embedded P100 series parts...
09.03.2026 14:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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NVIDIA 595 Linux Driver Running Well In Early Benchmarks Last week NVIDIA released the 595.45.04 beta Linux driver as their first public build in the R595 release branch. The NVIDIA R595 Linux driver is bringing a number of Vulkan driver improvements, HDR enhancements, DRI3 v1.2 support, and a variety of other improvements. Benchmarking the NVIDIA 595.45.04 Linux driver the past few days on GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" have been showing some nice incremental performance improvements over the current NVIDIA 590 driver stable series.
09.03.2026 13:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New Rust Driver Aims To Improve Upstream Linux On Synology NAS Devices A set of patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list last week introduce a new driver for enhancing the upstream/mainline Linux kernel support for Synology network attached storage (NAS) devices. This new driver is Synology Microp and is making use of the Linux kernel's modern Rust programming language support...
09.03.2026 13:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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GCC 16 Compiler Aiming For Mid-April Release Candidate But "Slow" Progress On Fixes Richard Biener of SUSE published a new status report on the state of GCC 16 development. Regression fixing has been going slow but they are hoping to publish a release candidate by mid-April...
09.03.2026 10:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Rust Coreutils 0.7 Released With Many Performance Optimizations Rust Coreutils 0.7 released on Sunday as a performance-focused update to this popular alternative to GNU Coreutils that is still striving for 100% compatibility against the GNU Test Suite...
09.03.2026 04:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Linux 7.0-rc3 Released: "Some Of The Biggest In Recent History" Linux 7.0-rc3 is out as the latest weekly test candidate in leading up to the stable Linux 7.0 release in mid-April...
09.03.2026 00:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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CachyOS Handheld Edition Switches To Wayland, CachyOS Installer Drops Bcachefs The March 2026 ISO refresh of the Arch Linux powered CachyOS distribution is now available for new installations and upgrading from existing CachyOS installs...
08.03.2026 17:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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FFmpeg 8.1 Preparing For Release With Vulkan Improvements, JPEG-XS & More FFmpeg developers are preparing to soon release FFmpeg 8.1 with some great new features and other improvements...
08.03.2026 12:42 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Experimental Intel Nova Lake P Device Bits Merged For Mesa 26.1 Merged this week for Mesa 26.1 are the initial Nova Lake P "NVL-P" device bits for Intel's ANV Vulkan and Iris Gallium3D drivers. But this support isn't yet exposed by default and not yet ready for end-users with more driver changes still to be published...
08.03.2026 11:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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...
08.03.2026 11:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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LLM-Driven Large Code Rewrites With Relicensing Are The Latest AI Concern The newest open-source concern around AI that is seeing a lot of interest this weekend is when large language models / AI code generators may rewrite large parts of a codebase and then the "developers" claiming an alternative license incompatible with the original source license. This became a real concern this week with a popular Python project experiencing an AI-driven code rewrite and now published under an alternative license that its original author does not agree with and incompatible with the original code...
08.03.2026 11:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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...
08.03.2026 11:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0