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While fresh off the GNOME 48 release, GNOME desktop developers aren't slowing down and there's been some interesting activity to report this week...

Ubuntu namespace vulnerability should be addressed quickly: Expert  Network World

KaOS 2025.03 Linux Distro Released with KDE Plasma 6.3 and Linux Kernel 6.13  9to5Linux

Benchmark Anything With This Powerful Linux Tool  How-To Geek

The big pull request was sent out today of the numerous Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates for the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel. There are new drivers, a lot as usual for the AMD Radeon and Intel kernel graphics drivers, and a lot of other changes throughout for advancing these open-source kernel graphics/display drivers...

How to use the Sed command  Network World

Both Haiku and Linux get new FOSS Nvidia drivers  The Register

While there were a few graphics benchmarks in yesterday's Ubuntu 25.04 beta benchmarks, today's article is looking more at the Ubuntu 25.04 Linux gaming performance for both the GNOME 48 and KDE Plasma 6.3 desktops that default to the Wayland-based session by default while also trying out the X11 session for both of these desktops.

GNOME 48 & KDE Plasma 6.3 Delivering Great Wayland Desktop Experience On Ubuntu 25.04 For Linux Gaming  Phoronix

New Ubuntu Linux security bypasses require manual mitigations  BleepingComputer

Back during the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle initial support for many (pre-M1) Apple devices were upstreamed including various iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch devices. That though was the very preliminary support and continuing to work their way upstream are various drivers/patches to further enhance the support. Now for the Linux 6.15 kernel is a new Apple backlight driver for controlling the backlight on various mobile Apple devices...

The networking subsystem updates for the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel bring multiple nice performance optimizations to enhance Linux networking speeds. The Linux 6.15 networking pull also has support for a number of new wireless and wired network chipsets...

WW2 shooter Squad 44 from Offworld updates Easy Anti-Cheat enabling Linux support  GamingOnLinux

4 things you should do to make the ultimate Linux gaming PC  XDA Developers

All of the ARM64 changes were merged this week to the Linux 6.15 kernel for enhancing the 64-bit ARM processor support...

Everything to grab from Prime Gaming, March 28th edition for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Navigating Linux security and management in a multi-OS landscape [Q&A]  BetaNews

Since last year Canonical had been investigating using -O3 compiler optimizations for their Ubuntu package builds in the name of delivering better performance for Ubuntu Linux. A few weeks back though they decided they would not use -O3 optimizations for all packages. They have now provided more engineering insight into their reasoning and the results of their investigation into -O3 compiler optimizations for more packages...

PTC to Launch Kepware Edge to Support Scalable, Linux-Based Industrial Connectivity  ARC Advisory Group

Two Years In The Making, Intel Linux Driver Enables CPS Compression For Alchemist GPUs  Phoronix