Microsoft on Tuesday released Azure Linux 3.0.20260304 as the newest monhtly update to their in-house Linux platform…

Tired of ads, tracking, and doomscrolling? Lagrange lets you explore Geminispace — a stripped‑down, distraction‑free corner of the net.

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Adriaan de Groot released Calamares 3.4.2 today as a new maintenance update in the latest Calamares 3.4 series of this popular graphical installer for Linux distros with various improvements like support for Plasma Login Manager.

KeePassXC 2.7.12 open-source password manager adds nested folder support for Bitwarden imports, a TIMEOTP Auto-Type placeholder, and more.

The Fedora Project released today the beta version of the upcoming Fedora Linux 44 for public testing to give us a glimpse of the new features and report potential bugs.

The advent of lazy imports in the Python language is upon us, now that PEP 810 (“Explicit lazy
imports”) was accepted by the steering
council and the feature will appear in the upcoming Python 3.15 release
in October. There are a number of good reasons,
performance foremost, for wanting to defer spending—perhaps wasting—the
time to do an import before a needed symbol is used. However, there are
also good reasons not to want that behavior, at least in some cases. The
tension between those two positions is what led to an earlier PEP rejection,
but it is also playing into a recent discussion of the API used to control
lazy imports.

Reuters is reporting
that private-equity firm EQT may be looking to sell SUSE:

EQT has hired investment bank Arma Partners to sound out a group of
private equity investors for a possible sale of the company, said the
sources, who requested anonymity to discuss confidential matters. The
​deliberations are at an early stage and there is no certainty that EQT
will ​proceed with a transaction, the sources said.

SUSE has traded hands a number of times over the years. Most
recently it was acquired by
EQT in 2018, was listed
on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2021, and then taken
private again by EQT in August 2023.

Debian is the latest in an ever-growing list of projects to wrestle (again)
with the question of LLM-generated contributions; the latest debate stared in
mid-February, after
Lucas Nussbaum opened a
discussion with a draft general resolution (GR) on whether Debian should
accept AI-assisted contributions. It seems to have, mostly, subsided without a GR
being put forward or any decisions being made, but the conversation was illuminating
nonetheless.

Valve released a new stable Steam Client update today, which brings a few interesting new features related to their hardware surveys and Steam user reviews, as well as improvements for Proton games on Linux, and other changes.

But questions remain over long-term commitment to clustering tech in open sourceAfter a couple of years of relative calm, the relationship between MariaDB and its open source foundation was ruffled in February, leaving observers with a few unanswered questions.…

FreeBSD 14.4 is out today as the latest update to the aging FreeBSD 14 series for those not yet ready to upgrade to FreeBSD 15 that debuted as stable last year…

Last week was a statement by System76 regarding recent age verification laws in California and Colorado among other US states that could have a profound impact on Linux distributions and other open-source software. The Colorado legislation is especially pressing to System76 considering that is where they are based. Fortunately, they aren’t taking this lightly and there is some hope that at least in Colorado open-source software could be excluded…

Ghostty 1.3 terminal emulator arrives with scrollback search, native scrollbars, command notifications, improved Unicode rendering, and more.

Last week NVIDIA released the 595.45.04 Linux driver beta as their first release in the R595 series for Linux and it’s running very well in initial testing. Today as part of their Vulkan developer beta program, they have released the NVIDIA 595.44.02 driver that brings some new Vulkan API features…

The getent command is used to fetch entries from the administrative text files like passwd, group, hosts, services, etc., also known as databases.

AlmaLinux users no longer have to juggle Nvidia workarounds: CUDA and GPU drivers are moving into the distro’s normal package workflow.

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With CUDA 13.2 that is now shipping, NVIDIA has provided official support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux compatible distributions/downstreams like AlmaLinux to CUDA. With this official NVIDIA CUDA support for these RHEL-compatible distributions, NVIDIA is also allowing the NVIDIA packages to be distributed directly from the OS package repositories…

Canonical for a while has been developing Authd as an authentication service for external cloud-based identity providers. Authd was designed from the ground-up to provide secure management of identity and access for Ubuntu systems while only with next month’s Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release is it actually hitting the universe archive…

Intel just published the XeSS 3.0 SDK to GitHub as the newest version of their Xe Super Sampling AI-enhanced upscaling technology for gamers. Sadly though it remains proprietary software and only with native support for Windows…

Last week NVIDIA released the 595.45.04 beta Linux driver as their first public build in the R595 release branch. The NVIDIA R595 Linux driver is bringing a number of Vulkan driver improvements, HDR enhancements, DRI3 v1.2 support, and a variety of other improvements. Benchmarking the NVIDIA 595.45.04 Linux driver the past few days on GeForce RTX 50 “Blackwell” have been showing some nice incremental performance improvements over the current NVIDIA 590 driver stable series.