Open-source News

Valve detail Steam Frame and Steam Machine Verified requirements at GDC 2026  GamingOnLinux

Fedora Linux 44 beta unifies the KDE Plasma experience across editions  Notebookcheck

Deepin is the best-looking Linux distro—here's why I don’t use it  How-To Geek

Currently the Linux IPv6 networking stack can be built into the Linux kernel, built as a loadable kernel module, or not built at all. With proposed patches from a SUSE engineer, the IPv6 networking stack would be limited to being a kernel built-in or not at all. In doing away with IPv6 as a loadable kernel module would allow simplifying some code and lowering the Linux networking maintenance burden...

System76 fighting for open source being excluded from Colorado age checks  GamingOnLinux

Developers behind AlmaLinux as this popular community alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) have drafted some new goals for 2026...

Intel's Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) debuting with Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids is ready with Linux 6.16+ and recent open-source compilers. One piece of the support puzzle still coming together though that will be especially important for Xeon Diamond Rapids is the KVM virtualization support. New patches there were posted this week...

Linux's KVM Virtualization Preparing For Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (APX)  Phoronix

Microsoft on Tuesday released Azure Linux 3.0.20260304 as the newest monhtly update to their in-house Linux platform...

SUSE may be sold again  Techzine Global

When KaOS Linux dropped KDE Plasma, I worried - now I'm loving the new default desktop  ZDNET

OpenClaw downloads eclipse Linux's 30-year reach in three weeks, Nvidia CEO flags AI agent surge  digitimes

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...

Linux distros are quietly abandoning their own desktops for KDE Plasma, and I get why  XDA

Current RISC-V CPUs Being Too Slow Causes Headaches For Fedora: ~5x Slower Builds  Phoronix

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...

Hardware hotplug events on Linux, the gory details  Adafruit

Calamares Linux Graphical Installer Now Supports KDE’s Plasma Login Manager  9to5Linux

NVIDIA 580.142 released for Linux - the new recommended driver  GamingOnLinux

MSI PRO B850-P WiFi: A Special AMD Ryzen AM5 Motherboard For Linux / Open-Source Enthusiasts Review  Phoronix