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KDE Plasma 6.3.4 shipped this morning as the newest monthly point release for the Plasma 6.3 desktop...

Intel's original DG1 discrete GPU was principally a development vehicle on the path to DG2/Alchemist. It did appear with the Iris Xe Max laptop dGPU in very few configurations but surprisingly it's taken until now where the Intel Linux graphics driver is set to remove the experimental "force_probe" flag on these pre-Alchemist discrete GPUs...

Intel Linux Driver Finally Dropping The Experimental Flag For Original DG1 Graphics  Phoronix

Merged last week for the Linux 6.15 merge window were a bit set of scheduler updates...

New Outlaw Linux Malware Using SSH brute-forcing To Maintain Botnet Activities for long Time  GBHackers News

Exploiting Side-Channel Leakage Enable Successful Exploitations on The Latest Linux Kernel  CybersecurityNews

Infosys joins forces with Linux Foundation to promote ethical AI in networking  Elets CIO

Proton Brings Updates to Its Drive App and Docs, but Keeps Linux Users Waiting  It's FOSS News

The Steam Survey results for February showed a 0.61% drop for Linux gaming marketshare following a 20.8% increase to the Chinese use, which was yet another month of such wild swings attributed to a large influx in Simplified Chinese survey respondents. The March results for Steam Survey were published this evening and show the Linux marketshare more than recovering now that the English survey results have shot back up...

Steam On Linux Shows A Wild Swing Back Up For March 2025  Phoronix

This week at Red Hat OpenShift Commons in London we had the chance to recognize a few OpenShift Superheroes. While each member of the OpenShift community is a hero, helping contribute to the project’s success and growth, some members really stand out. These contributors are the advocates and champions that make the community strong and successful.OpenShift Superheroes are made up of:Builders: contributing to the evolution of OpenShiftAdvocates: amplifying their OpenShift experience and learnings through events, blogs, meetups and more.Ambassadors: shares knowledge across diverse teams, indus

Linux App Release Roundup (March 2025)  OMG! Ubuntu

5 reasons I stopped dual-booting Windows and Linux on my PC  XDA

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...