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📰Arm Preparing Live Firmware Activation Support For Linux A new platform feature being worked on by Arm engineers for the Linux kernel is Live Firmware Activation to allow for updated firmware components to be deployed without requiring a system reboot... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arm-Live-Firmware-Activation #arm#linux#kernel

📰 Linux Foundation kicks off effort to shield FOSS maintainers from AI slop bug reports Big Tech donates $12.5 million to get things rolling Half a dozen Big Tech players have together delivered $12.5 million in grants towards a project that aims to help maintainers of open source projects to cope with AI slop bug reports.… 🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/03/18/linux_foundation_ai_slop_defense/ #linux#opensource

📰 AMD MLIR-AIE Releases New AIECC C++ Compiler To Help Bring New Workloads To Ryzen AI NPUs AMD Ryzen AI NPUs are now running LLMs on Linux with the recently debuted Lemonade 10.0 server and FastFlowLM 0.9.35 adding Linux support. In addition to those software components, AMD engineers have also been developing MLIR-AIE as a compiler toolchain for AMD AI Engine devices such as Ryzen AI NPUs in leveraging LLVM-based code generation with the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR). Out today is MLIR-AIE v1. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/MLIR-AIE-1.3 #linux#amd

📰 I tried openSUSE Tumbleweed, and it had me reconsidering my love for Fedora Okay, I admit it; I have a distro-hopping problem. It was only three months ago that I proudly declared that I had stopped jumping between Linux distros and settled on one, and yet the bug has bitten me once more. The weird thing is, this isn't even a 'the grass is greener on the other side' thing, because as far as I was concerned, my Fedora Kinoite-based grass was some of the greenest I had ever had. I suppose when you're given a buffet of... 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/opensuse-tumbleweed-has-me-reconsidering-using-fedora/ #linux#opensuse#distro#fedora

📰 Linux gaming is "solved" until anti-cheat shows up Linux and third-party anti-cheat clients are like water and oil. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-gaming-is-solved-until-anti-cheat-shows-up/ #linux

📰 System76 Makes The Best Open-Source Keyboard Even Better If System76 engineers didn't already have enough going on with recently shipping the COSMIC Rust-based desktop environment and also shipping Pop!_OS 24.04 as their in-house Linux distribution plus completely redesigning the Thelio Desktop, they also recently revised their Launch Keyboard. They have made this leading open-source keyboard design even better with the latest iteration of the System76 Launch Keyboard. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/system76-launch-keyboard-2026 #linux#opensource

📰 TUXEDO Gemini 17 Gen4 Linux Laptop Now Available with AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX TUXEDO Gemini 17 Gen4 Linux laptop is now available with AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, up to 128 GB RAM, and up to 16TB storage. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/tuxedo-gemini-17-gen4-linux-laptop-now-available-with-amd-ryzen-9-9955hx #linux#amd

📰 EndeavourOS Titan released, devs comment on age verification laws The Arch-based Linux distribution EndeavourOS Titan is out now, bringing with it plenty of nice sounding upgrades and some comments on age verification.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. 🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/endeavouros-titan-released-devs-comment-on-age-verification-laws/ #linux#arch

📰 ARM NEON Accelerated CRC64 Optimization Shows Nearly 6x Improvement A patch posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list provides an ARM64-optimized CRC64-NVMe implementation for nearly a 6x improvement on modern Arm SoCs... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM-NEON-CRC64-6x #linux#kernel#arm

📰 Big moves in Linux filesystems as new bcachefs lands and KDE adds support for Apple's APFS Plus: Fresh version of bcachefs arrives Linux 7.0 is approaching and there's a new version of bcachefs to go with it… as well as green shoots of support for Apple's new disk format.… 🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/bcachefs_and_apfs_news/ #linux#kde

📰 Ageless Linux Emerges to Protest OS-Level Age Verification Laws And thankfully, it's more than just a Linux distro without age verification. 🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17300603/ageless-linux #linux#distro

📰 Fedora Workstation 44 Beta Benchmarks On The AMD Ryzen AI Max Framework Desktop Since last week's Fedora 44 Beta release I have been testing out this upcoming Fedora Linux version on a few systems in the lab, most notably with the Framework Desktop powered by the powerful AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo". Fedora Workstation 44 Beta has been looking nice and running stable albeit in some instances seeing lower performance at this point than Fedora Workstation 43 but overall in good shape. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/fedora-44-beta #linux#fedora#amd