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On top of the big features for the Intel graphics driver code and new AMD hardware support coming for Linux 6.15 along with the initial NOVA driver stub, the smaller Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers have also been lining up their changes for this next kernel version. With the Mediatek DRM driver for Linux 6.15 it's set to add MT8365 SoC support, perhaps better known as the Genio 350...

Mediatek DRM Driver Adding MT8365 "Genio 350" Support In Linux 6.15  Phoronix

SUSE doubles down on AI and Multi-Linux Support to prove it's still in the game  The Register

In addition to the COBOL language front-end being merged this week for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler release, another notable change also landed this week... Deprecating ESA/390 architecture support in preparation for its eventual removal...

Arm software engineer Peter Waller has shared some insightful benchmarks of the impact of PGO, Context Sensitive PGO (CSPGO), and BOLT optimizations across various classes of Neoverse processor designs...

The 5 best rolling release Linux distributions - and why you should be using one  ZDNet

AdGuard brings full-system ad blocking to Linux with new standalone app  BetaNews

The GNU C Library's tanh and other hyperbolic functions are now as much as 14~17% faster on modern Intel and AMD CPUs with the FMA instruction support for fused multiply-add operations...

Microsoft delivers gut punch to PC charities with end of Windows 10  Tom's Hardware

Consortium Driving OpenStack to Become Arm of The Linux Foundation  DevOps.com

SUSE Displays Enhanced Enterprise Linux at SUSECON  The New Stack

Landing in Mesa 25.1 today for the RADV Vulkan and RadeonSI OpenGL drivers is Radeon GPU Profiler "RGP" integration for RDNA4/GFX12 GPUs with the newly-launched Radeon RX 9070 series...

5 reasons why Linux Mint is the best distro for Windows converts  XDA Developers

Everything to grab from Prime Gaming, March 14th edition for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

While ReactOS is widely known as the open-source operating system working on maintaining software and driver compatibility with Microsoft Windows, there's another new one in the field and it's Free95. The Free95 project is working to become an open-source, Windows-compatible operating system. Version 0.2 Alpha of Free95 was released today for testing...

As Epic Games continue ignoring Linux / Steam Deck for Fortnite they're putting it on Windows Arm  GamingOnLinux

IGT GPU Tools began as a set of tools by Intel for working on their Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver but with time has been broadened by the open-source community to support non-Intel drivers/hardware. IGT GPU Tools 2.0 was released on Thursday with new enhancements for these tests and other tools incorporated into the project...

IGT GPU Tools 2.0 Released For Helping To Develop DRM Drivers  Phoronix

Former Blue Systems devs form Techpaladin Software to work on KDE with Valve as their first client  GamingOnLinux

Decrypting Linux/ESXi Akira Ransomware Files Without Paying Ransomware  CybersecurityNews