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📰 Dell XPS 13 Snapdragon Elite Laptop Sees New EC Linux Driver To Improve Support Last month Dell upstreamed the firmware needed for their XPS 13 935 Snapdragon X1 Elite laptop. This makes the Linux outlook for this ARM-based Dell XPS laptop much better than before in not having to worry about extracting necessary firmware blobs from Windows 11. Now another step forward for the Dell XPS 13 9345 is being made with a new EC driver being posted to enhance the hardware support... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dell-XPS-13-9345-EC-Driver #arm#linux

📰 AerynOS March 2026 Update Brings GNOME 50, KDE 6.6.3, and Linux 6.18 AerynOS March alpha ISO brings GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6.3, Linux kernel 6.18, and tooling improvements across moss and boulder. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/aerynos-march-2026-update-brings-gnome-50-kde-6-6-3-and-linux-6-18/ #kde#linux#kernel#plasma#gnome

📰 New Rust-Based BUS1 In-Kernel IPC In Development For The Linux Kernel After KDBUS failed to make it into the mainline Linux kernel more than one decade ago as an in-kernel version of D-Bus, BUS1 was proposed as a clean sheet design for in-kernel, capability-based inter-process communication (IPC). BUS1 didn't gain enough traction to make it to the mainline kernel and then many of the same developers devised Dbus-Broker as a more performant D-Bus user-space implementation. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/BUS1-Linux-2026 #linux#kernel

📰 You don't need to wait for SteamOS to have a great couch PC - here's what to use instead SteamOS has become one of the most interesting gaming operating systems in years, mostly because it proves a Linux-based platform can feel polished, console-like, and genuinely easy to game on. On handhelds, Valve has already shown that formula works. The bigger question is whether that same experience can translate cleanly to a home theater PC sitting under a TV. SteamOS points in the right direction, but if you want a couch-friendly gaming PC... 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/you-dont-need-steamos-to-have-a-great-couch-pc-heres-what-to-do-instead/ #linux#linuxbased

📰 A Lot Of Rust Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.1, NVIDIA Nova Driver Additions Sent out yesterday were the DRM Rust feature changes for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window coming in April. The Rust graphics/display driver code for Linux 7.1 includes more programming language abstractions and other Rust infrastructure work to make graphics drivers written in Rust more capable... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-DRM-For-Linux-7.1 #linux

📰 Lakehopper looks like a wonderful casual seaplane flight simulator Fancy a new type of simulator? How about flying your own seaplane? Lakehopper has launched into Early Access on Steam with Linux support.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. 🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/lakehopper-looks-like-a-wonderful-casual-seaplane-flight-simulator/ #steam#linux

📰 Intel Panther Lake & Linux AI/LLM Debates Dominated Q1 For Linux Users With Q1 wrapping up, here is a look back at the most popular news and reviews for the quarter that excited Linux readers the most. During this quarter on Phoronix were 881 original news articles thus far and 61 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Q1-2026-Highlights #linux#intel

📰 Axios Supply Chain Attack Pushes Cross-Platform RAT via Compromised npm Account The popular HTTP client known as Axios has suffered a supply chain attack after two newly published versions of the npm package introduced a malicious dependency that delivers a trojan capable of targeting Windows, macOS, and Linux systems.Versions 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 of Axios have been found to inject "plain-crypto-js" version 4.2.1 as a fake dependency.According to StepSecurity, the two. 🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/axios-supply-chain-attack-pushes-cross.html #linux

📰 The Integrated ROCm Story For Ubuntu 26.04 Still Playing Out Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is just three weeks out for release with many great features in tow from the GNOME 50 desktop to the very leading-edge Linux 7.0 kernel and many other package updates. One feature that many had been looking forward to is Canonical's plans to ship AMD ROCm directly in the Ubuntu archive for a much cleaner experience for those wanting to make use of AMD's open-source GPU compute stack. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.04-ROCm-State #linux#amd#opensource#ubuntu#kernel#gnome

📰 The Next LVFS Actions Begin Tomorrow To Encourage More Hardware Vendors To Step Up Last year the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) announced plans for major vendors to pay or contribute code to this project that makes it easy for deploying new system and device firmware on Linux systems. They are asking those with less than 99 employees to contribute $10k USD annually or those larger organizations to contribute $100k USD annually or to be employing engineer(s) to work full-time on LVFS/Fwupd. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/LVFS-April-2026-Actions #linux

📰 Fastfetch 2.61 System Information Tool Drops Windows 7 and 8 Support Fastfetch 2.61 drops Windows 7 and 8 support, introduces faster GPU detection, and transitions to a pure C build on Linux. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/fastfetch-2-61-system-information-tool-drops-windows-7-and-8-support/ #linux

📰 The One Trick That Made Immutable Linux Easier For Me There's a systemd utility that lets you "inject" tools into a read-only OS at runtime, without rebooting the system. Here's my exploration. 🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17309280/systemd-sysext #linux#systemd