📰 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
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
Phoronix
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.
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📰 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
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
It's FOSS
Ageless Linux Emerges to Protest OS-Level Age Verification Laws
And thankfully, it's more than just a Linux distro without age verification.
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📰 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
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
The Register
Big moves in Linux filesystems as new bcachefs lands and KDE adds support for Apple's APFS
: Linux still can't mount or read APFS volumes by default ... but that's about to change
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📰 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
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
Phoronix
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.
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📰 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
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
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📰 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
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
GamingOnLinux
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.
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📰 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
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
9to5Linux
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 RTX 5070, up to 128 GB RAM, and up to 16TB storage.
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📰 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
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
Phoronix
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…
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📰 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
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
XDA
Linux gaming is "solved" until anti-cheat shows up
Linux and third-party anti-cheat clients are like water and oil
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📰 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
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
Linuxiac
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.
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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/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/nvidia-dlss-5-has-become-the-source-of-many-memes-as-the-backlash-continues/
GamingOnLinux
NVIDIA DLSS 5 has become the source of many memes as the backlash continues
Oh deary me, NVIDIA have a bit of a wildfire on their hands here, with NVIDIA DLSS 5 being compared with AI generated slop art.
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📰 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
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
XDA
I tried openSUSE Tumbleweed, and it had me reconsidering my love for Fedora
Plus, Geeko is really cute.
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📰 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
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
Phoronix
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
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📰 Waveshare’s CM5-based mini PC has an M.2 slot, dual Ethernet ports, and HDMI output
Waveshare is a company that gives its products descriptive names, not brief ones. So the full name of the company’s new mini PC kit is longer than the headline for this article. But in a nutshell, the new Waveshare CM5-DUAL-ETH-BOX-B is a carrier board and an aluminum case for a Raspberry Pi Compute Module that .
🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/waveshares-cm5-based-mini-pc-has-an-m-2-slot-dual-ethernet-ports-and-hdmi-output/
#raspberry
Waveshare is a company that gives its products descriptive names, not brief ones. So the full name of the company’s new mini PC kit is longer than the headline for this article. But in a nutshell, the new Waveshare CM5-DUAL-ETH-BOX-B is a carrier board and an aluminum case for a Raspberry Pi Compute Module that .
🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/waveshares-cm5-based-mini-pc-has-an-m-2-slot-dual-ethernet-ports-and-hdmi-output/
#raspberry
Liliputing
Waveshare’s CM5-based mini PC has an M.2 slot, dual Ethernet ports, and HDMI output
Waveshare's CM5-based mini PC has an M.2 slot, dual Ethernet ports, and HDMI output
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📰 Linux Foundation kicks off effort to shield FOSS maintainers from AI slop bug reports
Big Tech donates $12.5 million to get things rolling Half a dozen Big Tech players have together delivered $12.5 million in grants towards a project that aims to help maintainers of open source projects to cope with AI slop bug reports.…
🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/03/18/linux_foundation_ai_slop_defense/
#linux #opensource
Big Tech donates $12.5 million to get things rolling Half a dozen Big Tech players have together delivered $12.5 million in grants towards a project that aims to help maintainers of open source projects to cope with AI slop bug reports.…
🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/03/18/linux_foundation_ai_slop_defense/
#linux #opensource
The Register
Linux Foundation kicks off effort to shield FOSS maintainers from AI slop bug reports
: Big Tech donates $12.5 million to get things rolling
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📰 Arm Preparing Live Firmware Activation Support For Linux
A new platform feature being worked on by Arm engineers for the Linux kernel is Live Firmware Activation to allow for updated firmware components to be deployed without requiring a system reboot...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arm-Live-Firmware-Activation
#arm #linux #kernel
A new platform feature being worked on by Arm engineers for the Linux kernel is Live Firmware Activation to allow for updated firmware components to be deployed without requiring a system reboot...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arm-Live-Firmware-Activation
#arm #linux #kernel
Phoronix
Arm Preparing Live Firmware Activation Support For Linux
A new platform feature being worked on by Arm engineers for the Linux kernel is Live Firmware Activation to allow for updated firmware components to be deployed without requiring a system reboot.
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📰 Not a Firefox Fork! Kagi's Orion Browser Arrives on Linux as a Public Beta
The Flatpak-only build brings basic browsing but extensions and Kagi Sync aren't ready yet.
🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17300329/orion-browser-linux-beta-release
#flatpak #firefox #linux
The Flatpak-only build brings basic browsing but extensions and Kagi Sync aren't ready yet.
🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17300329/orion-browser-linux-beta-release
#flatpak #firefox #linux
It's FOSS
Not a Firefox Fork! Kagi's Orion Browser Arrives on Linux as a Public Beta
The Flatpak-only build brings basic browsing but extensions and Kagi Sync aren't ready yet.
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📰 Ubuntu CVE-2026-3888 Bug Lets Attackers Gain Root via systemd Cleanup Timing Exploit
A high-severity security flaw affecting default installations of Ubuntu Desktop versions 24.04 and later could be exploited to escalate privileges to the root level.Tracked as CVE-2026-3888 (CVSS score: 7.8), the issue could allow an attacker to seize control of a susceptible system."This flaw (CVE-2026-3888) allows an unprivileged local attacker to escalate privileges to full root access.
🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/ubuntu-cve-2026-3888-bug-lets-attackers.html
#systemd #ubuntu
A high-severity security flaw affecting default installations of Ubuntu Desktop versions 24.04 and later could be exploited to escalate privileges to the root level.Tracked as CVE-2026-3888 (CVSS score: 7.8), the issue could allow an attacker to seize control of a susceptible system."This flaw (CVE-2026-3888) allows an unprivileged local attacker to escalate privileges to full root access.
🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/ubuntu-cve-2026-3888-bug-lets-attackers.html
#systemd #ubuntu
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📰 Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project
A significant portion of the Manjaro team has signed a manifesto demanding the project split from its parent company and restructure as a non-profit.
🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17301403/manjaro-team-strike
#linux
A significant portion of the Manjaro team has signed a manifesto demanding the project split from its parent company and restructure as a non-profit.
🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17301403/manjaro-team-strike
#linux
It's FOSS
Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project
A significant portion of the Manjaro team has signed a manifesto demanding the project split from its parent company and restructure as a non-profit.
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📰 Samba 4.24 Released With Remote Password Management Support, Other Improvements
Samba continues strong in 2026 for this leading open-source SMB protocol re-implementation for Microsoft Windows file and print services interoperability. Samba 4.24 brings more features, including remote password management support...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Samba-4.24-Released
#opensource
Samba continues strong in 2026 for this leading open-source SMB protocol re-implementation for Microsoft Windows file and print services interoperability. Samba 4.24 brings more features, including remote password management support...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Samba-4.24-Released
#opensource
Phoronix
Samba 4.24 Released With Remote Password Management Support, Other Improvements
Samba continues strong in 2026 for this leading open-source SMB protocol re-implementation for Microsoft Windows file and print services interoperability
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📰 Linux MGLRU Improvements Net A 30% Increase For MongoDB, More Than 100% On HDDs
It's been a while since having any improvements to talk about for the MGLRU multi-gen LRU functionality for the Linux kernel to optimize page reclamation and help with system performance especially when enduring memory pressure. But this week a Tencent engineer posted some very promising patches for further enhancing this kernel feature...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-MGLRU-30p-MongoDB
#linux #kernel
It's been a while since having any improvements to talk about for the MGLRU multi-gen LRU functionality for the Linux kernel to optimize page reclamation and help with system performance especially when enduring memory pressure. But this week a Tencent engineer posted some very promising patches for further enhancing this kernel feature...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-MGLRU-30p-MongoDB
#linux #kernel
Phoronix
Linux MGLRU Improvements Net A 30% Increase For MongoDB, More Than 100% On HDDs
It's been a while since having any improvements to talk about for the MGLRU multi-gen LRU functionality for the Linux kernel to optimize page reclamation and help with system performance especially when enduring memory pressure
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