Open-source News

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

Download Ultracopier (SuperCopier) for Windows, macOS and Linux  Gizmodo

#DRIVE Rally leaves Early Access on April 16 with Linux support and Steam Deck Verified  GamingOnLinux

Awesome auto-battler Mechabellum gets a free weekend, discount and update  GamingOnLinux

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Download Universal USB Installer (free) for Windows  Gizmodo

Archinstall 3.0.3 Rolls Out with Partitioning and Bootloader Improvements  info-mods.com