Open-source News

There were 281 original news articles on Phoronix during the month of March along with another 14 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured-length articles and benchmarks. Here is a look back at the most exciting Linux and open-source content over the past month, in case you missed any of the interesting hardware launches, open-source software milestones, kernel changes, and other milestones...

How to Use Your Pixel's Hidden Linux Terminal (and Should You?)  How-To Geek

How to Use Your Pixel's Hidden Linux Terminal (and Should You?)  How-To Geek

Valve’s Latest Steam Client Release Brings Faster Download of Updates on Linux  9to5Linux

While Fedora 42 isn't being released until later in the month, already a number of new features for Fedora 43 have been granted approval by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee...

All of the FUSE updates have been sent in for the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel for supporting file-systems in user-space...

No, it's not at all an April Fools' Joke or anything along those lines... An Intel open-source engineer just posted the patch series entitled "hide the disgusting turds" for the Linux kernel...

Intel Posts New Linux Kernel Patches To "Hide The Disgusting Turds"  Phoronix

Linux Lite 7.4 is the perfect Windows 11 alternative for older PCs  BetaNews

How Linux Kernel Deals With Tracking CVE Security Issues  The New Stack

Ubuntu Linux 25.10 will be called Quizzical Quokka and yes that is really the name  BetaNews

Microsoft's exFAT is getting absolutely huge performance boost on Linux again thanks to Sony  Neowin

I'm a Linux power user and this distro has the most refreshing take on OS design  ZDNET

As a Linux power user, this is the distro with the most refreshing take on OS design  ZDNET

For those interested in the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered laptops, there's another option to consider for Linux use soon with pending patches: the ASUS Zenbook A14...

Linux Patches Enable Support For The Snapdragon X1 Powered ASUS Zenbook A14  Phoronix

GE-Proton 9-27 brings fixes for Ubisoft Connect, Epic Games, Wuthering Waves and Monster Hunter Wilds  GamingOnLinux

Merged today for the Mesa 25.1-devel graphics driver code and also marked for back-porting to the Mesa 25.0 OpenGL/Vulkan drivers is another new Intel Battlemage device ID...

As part of the various areas of the kernel overseen by Greg Kroah-Hartman, on Sunday he sent out the driver core updates for the Linux 6.15 kernel. The driver core changes this cycle aren't too notable except for revising the Rust bindings now that more developers are attempting to use them...

Linux Driver Core Rust Bindings Updated Following Initial Developer Use  Phoronix