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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 9th, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for March 9th, 2025, brings news about Firefox 136, Ubuntu Touch OTA-8, PipeWire 1.4, GNOME 48 Release Candidate, KeePassXC 2.7.10, KDE Gear 24.12.3, Clonezilla Live 3.2.1, Garuda Linux “Broadwing”, Firefox 137 beta, Mo...
2025-03-10 00:29
The New Rust-Written NVIDIA "NOVA" Driver Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.15
For quite a while Red Hat engineers have been developing the open-source, Rust-written NOVA driver to in effect serve as the successor to the reverse-engineered Nouveau driver that isn't too actively developed in more recent times. But unlike Nouveau's...
2025-03-10 00:00
Linux 6.14-rc6 Released With More Panther Lake Additions, AMD Microcode Signing Fix
Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.14-rc6 a few minutes ago as we work toward the stable Linux 6.14 kernel release later in March...
2025-03-09 20:20
Dash to Panel GNOME Extension Gets Big Update
A big update to the perennially popular GNOME Shell extension Dash to Panel is rolling out, including new settings to go from Dash to Panel to dock mode! Admittedly, that doesn’t sound like a new feature given that Dash to Panel is based on code from...
2025-03-09 12:58
AMD Preparing "High Precision" Mode For Upcoming Instinct MI350X (GFX950)
On Friday AMD sent out another batch of AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver feature patches destined for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle. One notable feature in this late pull request is introducing a new "high precision" mode to be found with the GFX...
2025-03-09 10:27
Intel Preps Linux For "Platform Temperature Control" With Lunar Lake & Panther Lake SoCs
Intel's new Platform Temperature Control (PTC) feature is a hardware-based solution to manage skin and/or board temperatures of a device. Platform Temperature Control will adjust the SoC power/performance if the temperature thresholds are exceeded, whi...
2025-03-09 10:00
More Apple Silicon Updates For Linux 6.15 Help M1/M2 Plus iPad / iPod / iPhone
Already queued ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window opening later this month are DeviceTree support for Apple's T2 SoCs as well as other DeviceTree additions set to be mainlined. A third round of DeviceTree patches were sent out on Sunday morning to th...
2025-03-09 07:48
ALGOL 68 Compiler Front-End Not Being Merged Into GCC At This Point
ALGOL 68 is an imperative programming language that's more than a half-century old and went on to inspire and influence other programming languages. It has its place in programming language history but a recently published compiler front-end for ALGOL ...
2025-03-09 07:35
Intel NPU Firmware Files Upstreamed To linux-firmware.git
For two years now the Intel IVPU accelerator driver has been part of the mainline kernel for supporting the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that's part of the Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" CPUs and newer. Only this week though was the firmware for the Intel NP...
2025-03-09 07:22
Microsoft previews AI chat template for .NET
Microsoft is previewing a .NET web app template intended to enable quick development of AI-powered chat applications. Part of an ongoing effort to make AI development with .NET easier to discover and use, the AI Chat Web App template was announced Mar...
2025-03-08 17:38
Kagi is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux
Kagi, the company behind a paid, private search engine1 of the same name, has announced it’s bringing its Webkit-based Orion web browser to Linux. In a post on BlueSky, Kagi said: “We’re thrilled to announce that development of the Orion Browser ...
2025-03-08 14:38
Kagi is Bringing the Orion Web Browser to Linux
Kagi, the company behind a paid, private search engine1 of the same name, has announced it’s bringing its Webkit-based Orion web browser to Linux. In a post on BlueSky, Kagi said: “We’re thrilled to announce that development of the Orion Browser ...
2025-03-08 14:38
Garuda Linux “Broadwing” Released with New Mokka Edition, New Welcome App
Arch Linux-based Garuda Linux “Broadwing” distribution is now available for download with new Welcome app, new Mokka edition, and more. Here's what's new! The post Garuda Linux “Broadwing” Released with New Mokka Edition, New Welcome App appear...
2025-03-08 13:01
Wine Releases Framework Mono 6.14 In Taking Over The Mono Project
Last year Microsoft donated the Mono Project to Wine for its stewardship under the WineHQ umbrella. Today marks the Framework Mono 6.14 release as the first major Mono release in five years and the first under the WineHQ organization...
2025-03-08 12:28
Rust Coreutils 0.0.30 Enhances GNU Compatibility, Uutils To Port More Common Unix Tools
The uutils project has released Rust Coreutils 0.0.30 as the newest version of this GNU Coreutils rewrite within the Rust programming language. Uutils developers will also be targeting more common Unix tools to port over to Rust too...
2025-03-08 10:02
GTK On Android & macOS Seeing Improvements
In addition to Friday's very exciting GNOME 48 release candidate with some last minute features, there have also been some other GNOME-related changes this week to call out...
2025-03-08 07:07
Mesa's Venus Driver Adds Vulkan Ray-Tracing Support For VMs
Mesa's Venus driver that allows for 3D graphics acceleration within virtual machines is now able to make use of the Vulkan ray-tracing extensions when using Mesa 25.1-devel along with updated Venus Protocol and Virglrenderer code...
2025-03-08 06:50
Wine-Staging 10.3 Adds Patch For A 15 Year Old Bug
Building off yesterday's release of Wine 10.3 is now Wine-Staging 10.3 for this more experimental version of Wine that is presently shipping 347 experimental/testing patches atop the upstream state...
2025-03-08 06:38
KDE This Week Took Care Of "A Very Large Number Of Bugs"
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with the newest issue of This Week in Plasma to highlight all of the interesting KDE Plasma improvements merged for the week...
2025-03-08 06:22
Microsoft reportedly struggling to build its own reasoning models to rival OpenAI
Microsoft may be “all in” with AI, but its efforts to produce homegrown products to feed its ambitions have so far been lagging and its reliance on OpenAI prevails. However, recent events may augur change. The company has reportedly finally comple...
2025-03-07 22:29