Open-source News

The CentOS project has established the Accelerated Infrastructure Enablement "AIE" special interest group with a focus on providing a "fast lane" for "in-flight" patches. This CentOS AIE SIG is particularly focused on carrying the code needed for enabling NVIDIA AI factories...

CentOS Launches Accelerated Infrastructure Enablement For Driving NVIDIA AI Factories  Phoronix

Canonical Bumps Ubuntu 26.04 LTS's System Requirements, Now Asks for 6GB of RAM  Hackster.io

The Best Lightweight Linux Distros to Revive Your Old Hardware  Geeky Gadgets

March Steam survey: Intel Arc finally breaks into the charts as AMD and Linux reach record shares  techspot.com

New CachyOS vs Windows 11 gaming benchmarks reveal impressive results for Linux, from Space Marine 2 to Resident Evil Requiem  PC Guide

Debian-based CuerdOS 2.1 comes with UFW on by default and many minor updates  notebookcheck.net

Linux installs jump to over 5% of gamers on the latest Steam Hardware Survey while the RTX 5070 reverts to the norm  PC Gamer

A CodeWeavers engineer opened a merge request yesterday for Wine to use Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver by default. This would build Zink as a Windows Portable Executable (PE) for allowing OpenGL to go straight to the Vulkan API with the host Vulkan drivers...

KTransformers 0.5.3 released today for this framework for efficient inferencing and fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) with a focus on CPU-GPU heterogeneous computing. With this release, KTransformers 0.5.3 is now more applicable for CPUs lacking Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) and AVX-512 in now providing some AVX2-only kernels too...

Steam on Linux exceeds 5% for the first time and more than doubles macOS  Mezha

SystemRescue Releases 13 With Kernel 6.18 Support  Let's Data Science

SystemRescue 13 lands with Linux 6.18 and bcachefs support  theregister.com

Breath of Fire IV plus classic Resident Evil 1-3 from GOG arrive on Steam - but with DRM  GamingOnLinux

Mesa 26.0.4 open source graphics drivers released for Linux  GamingOnLinux

Steam store home page gets a refresh in Beta, plus another Linux SteamRT3 Beta fix  GamingOnLinux

Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam Survey for the first time  GamingOnLinux

Libinput Hit By Worrying Security Issues With Its Lua Plug-In System  Phoronix

Libinput devised a Lua-based plug-in system for modifying devices/events. The Lua plug-in support was introduced last year with libinput 1.30 but unfortunately some security issues have now come to light with the implementation...

Netrunner 26 Released with XLibre Xserver, Based on Debian 13 “Trixie”  9to5Linux