With the first quarter quickly drawing to a close, here’s a look back at the most popular Intel Linux news of the quarter. There’s been excitement with the Battlemage discrete graphics cards with their open-source driver, early work on Xe3 graphics, AVX10.2 dropping the optional 512-bit features to make it mandatory now (thankfully!), and a lot of exciting upstream Linux kernel improvements…

Thanks to Collabora’s work on Zink and NVK… and indirectly to GPU-maker’s FOSS release, too. Not one but two new drivers for some Nvidia GPUs is a promising, if indirect, offshoot of the GPU maker’s open-saucy moves.…

Earlier this month brought the Theora 1.2 beta release coming 16 years after Theora’s libtheora 1.0 release for this video codec designed by Xiph.Org for use with Ogg audio. Theora is derived from the now rather ancient VP3 video codec, but for those continuing to enjoy content in Theora format, today brings the version 1.2 library…

Within This Week in Plasma, KDE developer Nate Graham notes the great excitement in KDE bug fixing this week/ KDE developers have lowered their HI/VHI priority bug counts down to “their lowest numbers ever numbers” in addition to working on new Plasma 6.4 features over the past few days…

The Debian release team announced that the Debian 13 “Trixie” transition and toolchain freeze began on-schedule this month…

Here at Mozilla, we are the first to admit the internet isn’t perfect, but we know the internet is pretty darn magical. The internet opens up doors and opportunities, allows for human connection, and lets everyone find where they belong — their corners of the internet. We all have an internet story worth sharing. In […]

That stands for I Probably Overestimated? CoreWeave has pared back the scope of its initial public offering amid growing investor uncertainty in an overheating AI marketplace and risks posed by the GPU cloud specialist’s exposure to a small number of customers.…

Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read article on FOSS Force for the week that just ended.

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KaOS Linux 2025.03 has been released today as the latest ISO snapshot for this independent Linux distribution built on top of the latest KDE software and featuring Arch Linux’s pacman package manager.

KaOS 2025.03 is out with Linux kernel 6.13, Plasma 6.3.3, KDE Gear 24.12.3, and major scaling, graphics, and system info updates.

The big set of open-source graphics driver updates for Linux 6.15 have been merged but Linux creator Linus Torvalds isn’t particularly happy with the pull request. In particular, he’s unhappy with some new “hdrtest” testing code being built as part of full kernel builds and the “turds” it leaves behind and this code “needs to die” at least from the perspective of non-DRM driver developers…

To enhance user privacy and reduce the risk of activity tracking on Linux systems, you can mount temporary directories such as /tmp, /var/tmp, and /var/log in RAM using tmpfs. This ensures these directories are cleared at every reboot, leaving no logs or temp files behind. The tmpfs filesystem is a RAM-based filesystem that stores all data in volatile memory rather than on a persistent storage device, making it ideal for privacy-focused configurations.

While fresh off the GNOME 48 release, GNOME desktop developers aren’t slowing down and there’s been some interesting activity to report this week…

Google Messages is a text messaging software application developed for its Android and Wear OS mobile operating systems. We recommend the best FOSS alternatives for Linux.

Fedora test days are events where anyone can help make certain that changes in Fedora Linux work well in an upcoming release. Fedora community members often participate, and the public is welcome at these events. If you’ve never contributed to Fedora before, this is a perfect way to get started. There are three test periods […]

KDE contributor David Edmundson has published
a blog post about improving KDE Plasma’s login experience by
replacing SDDM
with a new Plasma Login Manager.

It’s worth stressing nothing is official or set in stone yet,
whilst it has come up in previous Plasma online meetings and in the
2023 Akademy. I’m posting this whilst starting a more official
discussion on the plasma-devel mailing list.

Oliver Beard and I have made a new mutli-process greeter, that uses
the same startup mechanism as the desktop session. It doesn’t have all
the features that we propose at the start of the blog, but an
architecture where features and services can be slowly and safely
added.

That discussion is here
for those who would like to follow along. The prototype is currently
in two repositories: plasma-login
for the frontend work, and plasma-login-manager,
which is a fork of SDDM.

The big pull request was sent out today of the numerous Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates for the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel. There are new drivers, a lot as usual for the AMD Radeon and Intel kernel graphics drivers, and a lot of other changes throughout for advancing these open-source kernel graphics/display drivers…

Canonical released today the beta version of the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) release for public beta testing, so it’s time to take a look at what to expect from the final release.

Did you have time to keep up with the news this week? Here’s your chance to brag… or not. This week there are 11 questions. Good luck!

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The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the April 2025 issue.