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GNOME Mutter 50.rc Released With Better NVIDIA Performance, SDR-Native & Better HDR  Phoronix

There is two weeks to go until the GNOME 50 stable release while out today is the release candidate of Mutter 50. This Mutter 50.rc release brings some exciting last-minute enhancements to this Wayland compositor...

Linux PC booting slowly? This handy tool shows why in seconds - here's how  ZDNET

Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency announced a new and expanded Sovereign Tech Fellowship program that is now open to community managers and technical writers, beyond just FOSS maintainers from the prior round...

Apple announced today the new Fusion Architecture with the M5 Pro and M5 Max SoCs that also feature a next-generation GPU...

Apple Announces "Fusion Architecture" With M5 Pro & M5 Max  Phoronix

Berserk Arch 2026.03.01 drops with Mesa 26.0.1, Vim 9.2, and more  Notebookcheck

Linux gaming handheld put on hold due to RAM and SSD prices as creator waits "for a good time to a launch"  PC Guide

Not all Samsung Galaxy S26 phones support Android’s Linux terminal – here’s what does  Sammy Fans

Last year AMD and Intel as part of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group announced ChkTag for x86 memory tagging across processors to better fight buffer overflows and use-after-free errors. In preparing for ChkTag with future processors, Intel has begun adapting their Linear Address Masking (LAM) support to more nicely jive with it...

Anbernic RG Vita Pro Shown Off Running Linux and Android  Retro Handhelds

Intel yesterday sent out their first "drm-xe-next" pull request to DRM-Next of new Xe kernel graphics driver improvements they have readied for their eventual upstreaming into the Linux 7.1 kernel...

Intel Preps A Lot Of Xe3 Code For Linux 7.1 Kernel  Phoronix

Stop! These 4 Linux distros are not as safe as you think for beginners  How-To Geek

3 lessons I learned after replacing my Windows PC with a Linux laptop  How-To Geek

AMD open-sourced the ROCprof Trace Decoder "rocprof-trace-decoder", a tool useful for developers targeting the AMD GPU compute stack...

A Linux driver has been published for the ARCTIC Fan Controller to be able to read fan speeds under Linux as well as setting the PWM fan speed for each of the ten fans supported by this controller. Making this driver all the more exciting is that ARCTIC Cooling is directly working on this driver rather than just being a community/third-party creation. Furthermore, ARCTIC Cooling is working on getting this driver to the upstream Linux kernel...

ARCTIC Cooling Publishes ARCTIC Fan Controller Driver For Linux  Phoronix

KDE Plasma 6.6.2 Improves Support for High-Resolution Mice on Remote Desktops  9to5Linux

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 51: It’s Not Easy Being Green  GamingOnLinux