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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1167

DistroWatch

You can now enable Ubuntu Pro from the OS setup tool

OMG! Ubuntu!

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (14/2026): NFC on mainline

LINMOB.net

Linux 7.0-rc7 Released With Improved Docs For AI Agents, WiFi Driver Performance Fix

Phoronix

Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 14, 2026 (Mar 24 – Apr 5)

Linuxiac

On Our Way to Independence: On Track to Meet April’s Funding Goal

FOSS Force

Arch Linux Makes nft the Default Backend for iptables

Linuxiac

Zorin OS Says No to Mandatory Age Verification in Linux

Linuxiac

Linux 7.1 Expected To Begin Removing i486 CPU Support

Phoronix

Ventoy 1.1.11 Improves Windows UEFI Booting

Linuxiac

AMD & Valve Deliver Better Kaveri / Kabini APU Experience With Upcoming Linux 7.1

Phoronix

JetStream 3 Debuts as a Major Browser Benchmark Update

Linuxiac

Linux 7.0-rc7 Adding More Documentation For AI Tools To Send Better Security Bug Reports

Phoronix

hid-omg-detect: Linux Driver In Development To Detect Malicious HID Devices

Phoronix

Linux Sees Fixes For Its GD-ROM Driver In 2026 For Sega Dreamcast

Phoronix

Mesa 26.1 Makes It Easier To "Fake" A GPU Reset Using LLVMpipe

Phoronix

Halfway there to 6.7: Updates on Oxygen and Air

Planet KDE

Contribute to Our Fundraiser!

FOSS Force

Dima Kogan: Simple gpx export from ridewithgps

Planet Debian

Project Wrap-Up: XMPP Bookmark Sync for Falkon

Planet KDE

Splashscreen contributions

Planet KDE

Isoken Ibizugbe: Post Outreachy Activities

Planet Debian

Debian Project Leader Addresses New Age Verification Laws

Linuxiac

Debian Is Figuring Out How Age Verification Laws Will Impact It

Phoronix

Pangolin 1.17 Tunneled Reverse Proxy Adds Multiple Roles per User

Linuxiac

Razer Wolverine V3 Pro & Betop KP50 Controllers To Be Supported By Linux 7.0

Phoronix

More new icons arrive in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux 7.1 To Expose AMD Zen 6's AVX-512 BMM For Guest VMs

Phoronix

Wine 11.6 is an exciting release to make modding Windows games on Linux simpler

GamingOnLinux

AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Performance Halved By Linux 7.0, But A Fix May Not Be Easy

Phoronix

3mdeb Makes Progress Bringing AMD openSIL + Coreboot To Ryzen AM5 Motherboard

Phoronix

2D CAD Design Tool For GNOME Desktop Lands More Features

Phoronix

KDE's KWin Continues Working On Vulkan Support, Other Improvements For Plasma 6.7

Phoronix

FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending April 3

FOSS Force

Kdenlive 26.04 RC ready for testing

Planet KDE

Pidgin 3.0 Messaging Client Moves from Experimental Build to Alpha

Linuxiac

FOSSGIS Conference 2026

Planet KDE

Dirk Eddelbuettel: Sponsor me for Tour de Shore 2026 to support MFA

Planet Debian

This Week in Plasma: UI and Stability Improvements

Planet KDE

OpenRazer 3.12.1 Enables Two More Razer Devices Under Linux

Phoronix

Skyscraper brings Bluesky to the Linux terminal

OMG! Ubuntu!

Wine 11.6 Begins Reviving Its Android Driver

Phoronix

Wine 11.6 Brings Android Driver Work, Game Mod Fixes

Linuxiac

Distribution Release: iDeal OS 2026.04.03

DistroWatch

Arch-Based Omarchy 3.5 Brings Full Intel Panther Lake Support

Linuxiac

Redox OS Introducing New CPU Scheduler For ~1.5x Performance In Heavy Tasks

Phoronix

The Best of Humble: Fight 4 Your Friends game bundle brings multiplayer madness

GamingOnLinux

Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.32 Adds Wildcat Lake Support

Phoronix

DOOM Eternal is now available on GOG

GamingOnLinux

CachyOS Delivers More Performance Out Of Intel Panther Lake

Phoronix

Gentoo Releases Experimental Images Using GNU/Hurd

Phoronix

The npm Supply Chain Problem: Why Installing Packages Executes Untrusted Code

LinuxSecurity.com

Mobile OS Release: Murena 3.6

DistroWatch

AMDGPU Driver Ready To Be The Default For Aging Kaveri / Kabini / Mullins APUs

Phoronix

NVIDIA reveal more GeForce NOW games for April including PRAGMATA

GamingOnLinux

Ascenders: Beyond the Peak has my attention with vertical turn-based roguelite survival

GamingOnLinux

Web Review, Week 2026-14

Planet KDE

Meta Has A New Linux Optimization To Avoid Throttling TCP Throughput Unnecessarily

Phoronix

Pixel art horror adventure Two Realms: Whispers from the Rift gets a demo

GamingOnLinux

Valve recently confirmed Steam game pricing updates across different regions

GamingOnLinux

FreeBSD Laptop Project Hopes To Port Newer Linux Graphics Drivers This Year

Phoronix

Wall run and slice up massive machines in the upcoming MotorSlice arrives in May

GamingOnLinux

Snapdragon X2's Adreno X2-85 GPU Sees Driver Improvements For Linux 7.1

Phoronix

Chiaki-ng the open-source PlayStation Remote Play app gets better streaming quality and stability

GamingOnLinux

Vulkan 1.4.348 Ships Four New Extensions - Including One To Help OpenGL Emulation

Phoronix

OpenGOAL project adds the Naughty Dog classic Jak 3

GamingOnLinux

Steam Beta adds Remote Downloads Management

GamingOnLinux

Distribution Release: Artix Linux 20260402

DistroWatch

AMD P-State Driver Introducing New Features With Linux 7.1

Phoronix

Falkon Connect: The Future

Planet KDE

Linux App Release Roundup (March 2026)

OMG! Ubuntu!

Joerg Jaspert: Building a house - 1 year in

Planet Debian

Linux Fixes Performance Bug Affecting Qualcomm Ath11k & Ath12k WiFi Drivers

Phoronix

Microsoft's Newest Open-Source Project: Runtime Security For AI Agents

Phoronix

Proudly Canadian Maple Linux 1.4: Who Knew Tux Could Be So Polite?

FOSS Force

Ubuntu 26.04 adds neat sudo password feedback toggle

OMG! Ubuntu!

Intel Posts Fourth Version Of Cache Aware Scheduling For Linux

Phoronix

Death Stranding 2 gets a performance patch, including improvements for Steam Deck

GamingOnLinux

AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" Enjoys Great Performance Gains With Latest Linux Software

Phoronix

IBM Lays Out Patches For ARM Virtualization Acceleration On IBM Z Servers

Phoronix

Long-Term Linux Support Isnt Free: The Security Tradeoffs Behind 14-Year Lifecycles

LinuxSecurity.com

IBM Collaborating With Arm For Dual-Architecture Hardware

Phoronix

Counter-Strike 2 gets a Beta with a fancy new animation system

GamingOnLinux

Distribution Release: Netrunner 26

DistroWatch

A future Wine release could use Zink to run OpenGL via Vulkan

GamingOnLinux

The US Patent Office have rejected a Nintendo Pokemon patent for summoning subcharacters

GamingOnLinux

Tumbleweed Monthly Update - March 2026

openSUSE News

Breath of Fire IV plus classic Resident Evil 1-3 from GOG arrive on Steam - but with DRM

GamingOnLinux

Mesa 26.0.4 open source graphics drivers released for Linux

GamingOnLinux

Steam store home page gets a refresh in Beta, plus another Linux SteamRT3 Beta fix

GamingOnLinux

Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam Survey for the first time

GamingOnLinux

Samuel Henrique: Bringing HTTP/3 to curl on Amazon Linux

Planet Debian

Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 316 released

Planet Debian

NVIDIA announce a preview of "DRM Per-Plane Color Pipeline API" support on Linux (good for HDR)

GamingOnLinux

Grab some great strategy games in the Strategy Minds Collection Humble Bundle

GamingOnLinux

Raspberry Pi’s eye-watering price rises & new 3GB RAM model

OMG! Ubuntu!

Joey Hess: banning all Anthropic employees

Planet Debian

Qt Creator 19 - CMake Update

Planet KDE

Must Be April Fools’ Day. Gentoo Says It’s Moving to Hurd

FOSS Force

Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in March 2026

Planet Debian

Ubuntu quietly raises its minimum system requirements

OMG! Ubuntu!

The Two-Person Wall: Why the Linux Backbone is More Fragile Than You Think

LinuxSecurity.com

Distribution Release: CuerdOS 2.1

DistroWatch

OptiScaler tool gets a huge new release with more upscaling and frame generation goodies

GamingOnLinux

Sprint City from the creators of SpeedRunners arrives on Steam

GamingOnLinux

The Long Dark story reaches the finale with episode five out now and a big discount

GamingOnLinux

Closing Out a Roughly 8-Year Era

openSUSE News

BOXROOM is a clever casual room builder to give your Steam games a shelf

GamingOnLinux

If you love horror boomer shooters keep BLIGHTEN on your radar

GamingOnLinux

As expected - Slay the Spire 2 leads the way for the most played Steam Deck games for March 2026

GamingOnLinux

Hyprland WM’s Eye Candy and Efficiency Ship With a Learning Curve

FOSS Force

Raspberry Pi prices rise again, along with a new 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 announced

GamingOnLinux

FOSS Force’s Top Ten for March

FOSS Force

Matthew Garrett: Self hosting as much of my online presence as practical

Planet Debian

This month in KDE Linux: March 2026

Planet KDE

Junichi Uekawa: April already.

Planet Debian

Benjamin Mako Hill: Quote #75514

Planet Debian

C.J. Collier: Finding: Promoting SeaBIOS Cloud Images to UEFI Secure Boot (Proxmox)

Planet Debian

CI/CD Pipelines Vulnerabilities in Trusted Execution Paths March 2026

LinuxSecurity.com

French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir sues Ubisoft over The Crew shutdown

GamingOnLinux

Money is life and everything in SUPER DEBT, an unrelenting horror themed bullet-hell roguelike

GamingOnLinux

Lakehopper looks like a wonderful casual seaplane flight simulator

GamingOnLinux

Thomas Lange: FAIme using apt-cacher-ng

Planet Debian

Heretic II has a new reverse-engineered source port

GamingOnLinux

Diablo 2-inspired auto-battle dungeon crawler Skull Horde launches April 10

GamingOnLinux

Fans of Portal and first-person puzzlers will definitely want to check out He Who Watches

GamingOnLinux

Virtual hangout game Rec Room is shutting down in June

GamingOnLinux

The Flashpoint update for ARC Raiders has lots of the good stuff

GamingOnLinux

SWHID and pURL

Planet KDE

Russ Allbery: Review: Code Blue—Emergency

Planet Debian

Krita 5.3.1 Released!

Planet KDE

GNOME 50 dropped support for accessing Google Drive files

OMG! Ubuntu!

Distribution Release: Elive 3.8.50

DistroWatch

Martin Wimpress Wants Out at Ubuntu MATE

FOSS Force

Distribution Release: 4MLinux 51.0

DistroWatch

Ubuntu MATE seeking maintainers as the creator looks to move on

GamingOnLinux

GeForce NOW 2.0.83 brings improved display scaling for Linux

GamingOnLinux

New LibreOffice Calc 26.2 User Guide Now Available

FOSS Force

We'll finally get more info and footage for Gears of War: E-Day in June

GamingOnLinux

Framework becomes a KDE Patron helping to fund open source

GamingOnLinux

The Patching Paradox Driving Most Breaches

LinuxInsider

OldUnreal release new preview update for the classic Unreal Tournament 2004

GamingOnLinux

AI is Open Source’s Big Moment. Is it Ready?

FOSS Force

Less Miserables, a point-and-click parody of Les Miserables gets a demo

GamingOnLinux

SteamOS 3.8.1 Preview should finally solve some WiFi performance issues

GamingOnLinux

Facepunch signed a license with Valve to allow standalone releases from s&box

GamingOnLinux

Plague Inc: Evolved is getting a big new Aliens & Anti-Vaxxers DLC and free update

GamingOnLinux

ScummVM 2026.2.0 "Railmonicon" out now supporting more retro games

GamingOnLinux

Russ Allbery: Review: The Cloak and Its Wizard

Planet Debian

Sahil Dhiman: MiniDebConf Kanpur 2026

Planet Debian