Linux NewsKernel prepatch 7.0-rc5
Linus has released 7.0-rc5 for testing. "It looks like things are starting to calm down - rc5 is smaller than the previous rc's this merge window, although it still tracks a bit larger than rc5s historically do."
Firefox 149 Web Browser Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New
Firefox 149 open-source web browser is now available for download with Split View, XDG portal file picker support on Linux, new TrustPanel, faster PDF rendering, updated Firefox error pages, and more. Here's what's new!
Forget bare metal: Why a hypervisor is the only way to run a professional homelab
The best operating system is one you don't have to reinstall often.
XMMS Codebase Brought Back To Life By AI With GTK4 + GStreamer/PipeWire Port
Longtime Linux desktop users will likely remember the glorious days of the XMMS music player inspired by Winamp. It's been about two decades since the last official release but thanks to AI there is now a modern port of the codebase to GTK4 and GStreamer/PipeWire...
Firefox 149 Now Available for Download, Brings Split View
Mozilla Firefox 149 improves PDF performance with hardware acceleration and introduces a new Split View feature for side-by-side browsing.
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gimp:2.8, grub2, kernel, libarchive, libvpx, nginx, opencryptoki, python3.12, vim, yggdrasil, and yggdrasil-worker-package-manager), Debian (chromium, freeciv, libvirt, libyaml-syck-perl, mapserver, ruby-rack, spip, and webkit2gtk), Fedora (chromium, cpp-httplib, glib2, libsoup3, localsearch, openssh, python-scitokens, python-ujson, python3.6, scitokens-cpp, uxplay, wordpress, and xen), Mageia (expat), Red Hat (osbuild-composer), SUSE (Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:0940-1 Release Date: 2026-03-20T13:41:23Z Rating: important References:, Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:0941-1 Release Date: 2026-03-20T13:41:30Z Rating: important References:, Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:0943-1 Release Date: 2026-03-20T13:41:33Z Rating: important References:, Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:0944-1 Release Date: 2026-03-20T13:41:37Z Rating: important References:, Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:0945-1 Release Date: 2026-03-20T13:41:40Z Rating: important References
GrapheneOS Mobile Operating System Opposes OS-Level Age Checks
GrapheneOS, an open-source Android-based mobile OS, will not implement OS-level age verification, despite regulatory pressure.
High availability is the homelabbing trick everyone should know about
While running a high availability cluster isn't for everyone, you should at least know what it is.
Intel FRED Can Yield Great Performance - FRED Benchmarks On Panther Lake
With Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" laptop SoCs, the Xe3-based Arc B390 graphics and much improved CPU performance capture much of the spotlight. One new capability with Panther Lake that isn't featured as much though is the new FRED capability with Flexible Return and Event Delivery. Today's Intel Panther Lake testing is looking at the very interesting performance impact of FRED on Linux.
Firefox 149 Now Available With XDG Portal File Picker, Rust-Based JPEG-XL Decoder
Firefox 149.0 release binaries are now available with a wide assortment of improvements for this month's update to the cross-platform Mozilla web browser solution...
Linux's sched_ext Will Prioritize Idle SMT Siblings For Better Performance
A change to the Linux kernel's extensible scheduler class "sched_ext" for allowing nifty scheduler implementations via BPF programs will begin to prioritize SMT siblings to help with better performance...
Qt 6.11 Toolkit Released With "The Same 3D Capabilities As A Game Engine"
Qt 6.11 is out as the latest version of this cross-platform toolkit used by the KDE desktop and widely by both open-source and closed-source applications...
Ubuntu Maker Canonical Joins The Rust Foundation
Canonical announced today that they have joined the Rust Foundation as a Gold Member...
AMD Posts Latest "pghot" Code For Overhauling Linux Hot Page Tracking & Promotion
One of the core Linux infrastructure improvements that AMD engineers have been working on recently is pghot as a hot-page tracking and promotion subsystem. This proposed addition to the Linux kernel could be quite beneficial especially for those using modern AMD EPYC servers with CXL and multiple memory tiers...
Arm Ethos U85 NPU Now Supported By EthosU Gallium3D Driver
Merged overnight for Mesa 26.1 is enabling the Arm Ethos U85 NPU within the EthosU Gallium3D driver so that with Mesa's TEFLON framework can begin taking on AI workloads...