📰 LibreOffice 26.2.2 Open-Source Office Suite Released with More Than 80 Bug Fixes

LibreOffice 26.2.2 is now available for download as the second point release to the LibreOffice 26.2 office suite series with 65 bug fixes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-26-2-2-open-source-office-suite-released-with-more-than-80-bug-fixes

#opensource

📰 Ubuntu Will Switch To ntpd-rs As Its Next Rust System Component

Canonical engineers are planning a switch to ntpd-rs as the newest Rust-based system component for Ubuntu Linux for handling time synchronization...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Switching-To-ntpd-rs

#ubuntu #linux

📰 RTS game PERIMETER: Legate Edition gets Linux ARM64 binaries and Steam Workshop support

PERIMETER: Legate Edition is an enhanced version of the retro 2004 RTS game and the latest update expands it even further with modding and Linux ARM64.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/rts-game-perimeter-legate-edition-gets-linux-arm64-binaries-and-steam-workshop-support/

#steam #linux

📰 Open-Source Nouveau Performance With Linux 7.0 + NVK Mesa 26.1-dev vs. NVIDIA Linux Driver

As a few months have passed since our prior round of testing the fully open-source NVIDIA Linux driver stack with the Nouveau kernel driver and Mesa NVK Vulkan driver plus Zink, here is a fresh round of benchmarks using Linux 7.0 and Mesa 26.1-dev compared to the open-source stack shipped by Ubuntu 25.10 (Linux 6.17 + Mesa 25.2) for showing how far the open-source NVIDIA driver has progressed the past few months.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-70-nouveau

#opensource #ubuntu #linux #kernel

📰 CachyOS just dethroned Arch Linux on ProtonDB, and Linux gamers are finally noticing

It was inevitable once you see everything CachyOS has.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/cachyos-is-the-new-king-of-protondb/

#linux #arch

📰 Stop using these 6 built-in Linux commands; I found something way better

These alternatives have replaced several default commands for me.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/built-in-linux-commands-better-alternatives/

#linux

📰 KDE's KWin Compositor Lands First Step Toward Vulkan Support

Merged today was the very first step toward implementing Vulkan support within KDE's KWin compositor as an alternative to OpenGL rendering...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KWin-Vulkan-First-Step

#kde

📰 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Beta Is Out Now with Linux Kernel 7.0 and GNOME 50

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS operating system is now available for public beta testing with the Linux 7.0 kernel, Mesa 26.0 graphics stack, and GNOME 50 desktop environment.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-26-04-lts-beta-is-out-now-with-linux-kernel-7-0-and-gnome-50

#gnome #ubuntu #linux #kernel

📰 Dovecot 2.4.3 Secure IMAP Server Improves UTF-8 Support for Mail Storage

Dovecot 2.4.3 open-source secure IMAP server, improves UTF-8 storage handling and fixes critical security vulnerabilities.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/dovecot-2-4-3-secure-imap-server-improves-utf-8-support-for-mail-storage/

#opensource

📰 Linux Patches Posted To Fix ~2x Performance Drop For CPU Workloads On NVIDIA Vera Rubin

An important set of Linux scheduler patches were posted for review on Thursday for improving the SMT-aware asymmetric CPU capacity handling. These patches to improve the Linux kernel scheduler around CPU Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) is needed after NVIDIA engineers discovered up to a ~2x performance drop for CPU-intensive workloads on their upcoming Vera Rubin platform...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Vera-Rubin-SMT-Sched-Fix

#linux #kernel

📰 AMDGPU Driver For Linux 7.1 Preps Debug Improvements, New Hardware IP

Another round of AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver improvements were sent out this week as feature development for DRM-Next ahead of Linux 7.1 begins to wind down...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-More-AMDGPU

#linux #kernel

📰 BPF-Based I/O Scheduler For Linux Demonstrated

With sched_ext there is support for BPF-based CPU scheduling policies for the Linux kernel while now a new initiative is working on BPF-based I/O schedulers...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/BPF-IO-Scheduler-Linux

#linux #kernel

📰 Intel Xe Driver Improves Memory Pressure / Out-Of-Memory Behavior For vRAM With Linux 7.1

Following the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver pull request landing transparent hugepages for device pages as an SVM win, another round of Intel Xe driver updates were sent out this week ahead of next month's Linux 7.1 merge window. This latest pull request lands a new user-space API for helping the Intel Xe driver better cope with situations of video memory pressure / out-of-memory behavior for vRAM...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe-Purgeable-BO

#linux #intel #kernel

📰 Ubuntu Rust Strategy Expands Again With ntpd-rs Proposal

Canonical continues to expand Rust adoption in Ubuntu by targeting time synchronization with ntpd-rs, aiming to improve security in core services.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-rust-strategy-expands-again-with-ntpd-rs-proposal/

#ubuntu

📰 Hyprland 0.54.3 Wayland Compositor Released With Crash Fixes

Hyprland 0.54.3 delivers fixes for crashes in compositor, layout handling, and XWayland, improving overall stability in this patch release.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/hyprland-0-54-3-wayland-compositor-released-with-crash-fixes/

#wayland

📰 Mixxx 2.5.6 Open-Source DJ App Improves Controller Mapping Support and Effects

Mixxx 2.5.6 open-source virtual DJ software for performing live mixes is now available for download with improvements to controller mappings and effects, as well as bug fixes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/mixxx-2-5-6-open-source-dj-app-improves-controller-mapping-support-and-effects

#opensource

📰 Immutable Linux sounded bulletproof until I tried to use it

I thought this was supposed to make things easier for the user?

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/immutable-linux-sounded-bulletproof-until-i-tried-to-use-it/

#linux

📰 DRBD Driver Working To Land ~15 Years Worth Of Changes Into The Linux Kernel

Developers behind the Distributed Replicated Block Device "DRBD" for mirroring block devices between multiple host systems are working to resync the upstream Linux kernel DRBD support with the out-of-tree DRBD code they have been maintaining for the past ~15 years out-of-sync. It's a big undertaking but they have begun staging patches for review and testing to get this massive set of changes up to par for mainline...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRBD-15-Years-Code-Changes

#linux #kernel

📰 KDE Plasma 6.7 will finally fix the most annoying part of tweaking your microphone volume

As much as I hate hearing myself over a microphone, I have to admit that listening to yourself while adjusting your mic volume is vital. That way, you know you're not coming through too quietly or too loudly, and you can get a feel for the audio quality, too. Windows has had this feature for a while now, but unfortunately, KDE Plasma won't let you.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/kde-plasma-67-will-finally-fix-the-most-annoying-part-of-tweaking-your-microphone-volume/

#kde #plasma

📰 Fish 4.6 Shell Brings Support For Recent systemd Environment Variables

Fish 4.6 released today as the newest version of this Rust-based interactive shell for Linux and other platforms...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fish-4.6-Released

#systemd #linux

📰 After a Long Time, Ubuntu Shows Some Respect to Deb Packages

It will be easier to manage the classic Debian packages in the Snap/App Center in the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17308126/ubuntu-26-04-deb-in-app-center

#ubuntu #debian