Open-source News

I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop - now I'm rethinking my main driver  ZDNet

Microsoft is out today with their newest monthly update to their in-house Linux distribution, Azure Linux, with all available package and security updates through this month's Patch Tuesday...

Microsoft Releases March 2025 Update To Azure Linux 3.0  Phoronix

With today's Mesa 25.1-devel Git code, the "Clover" OpenCL Gallium3D state tracker is officially deprecated. Clover will be eventually removed with the Rust-written Rusticl OpenCL driver being modern, much more actively maintained, and all-around a better option than the aging Clover code...

NVIDIA's RTX Remix software for remastering classic games with a variety of visual enhancements reached version 1.0 today with some additional big improvements...

Anthropic CEO says AI to generate all code by year-end, Linux creator calls it 90 per cent hype  MSN

AMD today released AMDVLK 2025.Q1.3 as their official open-source Vulkan API driver for Linux systems. With this update is support for the Navi48 GPU with the recently-launched Radeon RX 9070 RDNA4 graphics cards...

AMDVLK 2025.Q1.3 Brings Radeon RX 9070 Series Support  Phoronix

Suse Champions Freedom Of Choice In Cloud Infrastructure Stack  Forbes

I revived my ancient HP laptop with Linux — and it was easier than you think  Laptop Mag

Anthropic CEO says AI to generate all code by year-end, Linux creator calls it 90 per cent hype  India Today

Bazzite Linux announced two new editions designed for game developers  GamingOnLinux

I Took My Pi-Hole to the Next Level With This Custom Theme  How-To Geek

OpenStack joins the Linux Foundation  Techzine Europe

A lot of Linux 6.15 intended patches by Intel for their kernel graphics driver have accumulated like enabling Xe3 "dirty rect" mode, SVM for the Xe driver, EU stall sampling, GuC power profile tuning, and more. Yesterday another drm-intel-gt-next pull request was submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window...

Intel Linux Graphics Driver Gets Patch To Help With Pixelflut Competition  Phoronix

The Zed Editor as a modern IDE-focused text editor for programmers and developed by some of the Atom editor creators continues on quite a roll. Over the past year Zed has rolled out native Linux builds, added various AI features and also began open-sourcing its own edit prediction model. For enhancing the developer experience in more basic form, Zed has now added native Git integration...

A new set of Gallium3D video acceleration front-end patches by AMD contractor David Rosca allow for the Google Chromium/Chrome browser code to enjoy working VA-API accelerated video decoding with the open-source Mesa drivers...

A set of patches from IBM would introduce a C extension module for the Linux kernel's libperf code to allow usage from the Python programming language...

Google slips built-in terminal, Debian Linux VM into Android 15 March feature drop  The Register