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Tauon Music App Update Offers Slick Transparency Mode on Linux  OMG! Ubuntu

With Rust turning ten years old this year, they are reflecting and working to draft plans for the next decade. They have started the Rust Vision Survey where they are looking for feedback from all Rust skill-sets as they look toward the future...

EBU, Linux Foundation and NABA make Dynamic Media Facilities real with the open source MXL project  EBU tech

With having a new Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 laptop in the lab, a lot of Linux benchmarks are forthcoming from this ThinkPad laptop powered by an AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 SoC. This AMD Zen 5 SoC with Radeon 880M RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics had me curious how the Windows 11 vs. Linux iGPU performance is looking now more than a half-year after launch. Prior to blowing out the Microsoft Windows 11 Pro installation that shipped on the ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 and loaded with the latest AMD drivers and Windows 11 updates, I ran some graphics benchmarks for seeing how they stack up against the open-source AMD graphics drivers found on the brand new Ubuntu 25.04 release.

AMD RDNA 3.5 Graphics On 2025 Drivers: Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 25.04 iGPU Performance  Phoronix

Beta Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ now available  techzine.eu

Here's Everything New in Ubuntu 25.04 'Plucky Puffin'  How-To Geek

The ZLUDA open-source project for "CUDA on non-NVIDIA GPUs" continues being developed for enabling CUDA like GeekBench and AI workloads on AMD GPUs and other hardware vendors. The ZLUDA project hopes to have PyTorch up and running on it this year along with eyeing 32-bit PhysX support since NVIDIA has dropped support upstream for the 32-bit PhysX libraries with the recent RTX 50 Blackwell launch...

Ubuntu 25.04 beta takes flight – but this Plucky Puffin is still molting  theregister.com

Linux Foundation releases Valkey 8.1 -  Enterprise Times

Why I Don't Use Linux on My Desktop PC  How-To Geek

Here is open-source at its finest with a NVIDIA Linux kernel engineer ultimately making a fix to a performance regression that came up for AMD integrated and discrete graphics when running on the early Linux 6.15 kernel code...

Sven Peter who remains one of the very active Asahi Linux developers and working on upstreaming various elements of Apple Silicon support for the Linux kernel has sent up warning flares around the eventual Apple M4 support...

Linux Bring-Up For The Apple M4 Looks Like It Will Be "Rather Painful"  Phoronix

In addition to all of the memory management "MM" changes merged for the Linux 6.15 kernel, a secondary round of MM updates was submitted and subsequently merged for this next kernel version. Interesting here is using the recent MSEAL system call for being able to now seal system mappings...

MSEAL Protection Of System Mappings Merged For Linux 6.15  Phoronix

Yet another Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite powered laptop seeing new DeviceTree patches for enabling Linux support is the HP EliteBook Ultra G1q...

Linux Patches Being Worked On For The HP EliteBook Ultra G1q  Phoronix

The Chinese LoongArch CPU architecture will enjoy slightly better support with the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel...

Everything to grab from Prime Gaming, April 4th edition for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux