Open-source News

Arch-based ML4W OS 2.12.0 now available with Quickshell and other changes  Notebookcheck

Following last week's big GNOME 50 release, the GNOME Foundation today formally announced the creation of the GNOME Fellowship program...

Arm announced their first silicon product in history with today's AGI CPU. The Arm AGI CPU complements their existing IP offerings into a production-ready silicon product for AI data centers...

Arm Announces AGI CPU For AI Data Centers  Phoronix

Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field  theregister.com

Avalonia Previews MAUI For Linux  i-programmer.info

Systemd forks erupt on GitHub after maintainers approve age verification field  Cybernews

Codenotary Introduces First Autonomous Agentic Platform for Securing and Managing Linux Infrastructure and Securing Code  Business Wire

CIQ & AMD unveil tuned Rocky Linux for AI clusters  IT Brief UK

UEK 8.2 Delivers Advancements in Confidential Computing and System Reliability  Oracle Blogs

While having the new System76 Thelio Mira desktop in the lab, I took the opportunity to run some benchmarks to see how Pop!_OS 24.04 is currently performing relative to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for which it is based as well as looking ahead at how Ubuntu 26.04 LTS in its current near-final development form is looking on the same hardware.

Pop!_OS 24.04 vs. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS vs. Ubuntu 26.04 Development Benchmarks  Phoronix

9 myths about the Linux terminal you should stop believing  How-To Geek

NVIDIA driver 595.58.03 released as the big new recommended stable driver for Linux  GamingOnLinux

Building off the NVIDIA 595.45.04 Linux beta driver that brought DRI3 v1.2 support and new Vulkan capabilities, the NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux driver released this morning as the first stable Linux driver build in the R595 release branch...

NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux Driver Debuts As Stable R595 Build  Phoronix

NVIDIA 595.58 Linux Driver Released With Multiple Kernel Crash Fixes  Linuxiac

NVIDIA 595 Linux Graphics Driver Released as Latest Production Branch Version  9to5Linux

Proposed code for Blender's EEVEE engine can lead to both the OpenGL and Vulkan performance doubling in instancing-heavy scenes that are CPU bottlenecked...

CIQ and AMD Optimise Rocky Linux for AI and HPC Workloads -  Enterprise Times