Asahi Linux developers have been working for a while now on porting Asahi Linux to the Apple M3 hardware that launched back in 2023 . Sent out today to the Linux kernel mailing list were finally Device Tree files for booting Linux on Apple M3 hardware but it's far from functional for end-users.

Janne Grunau sent out the set of nine patches today providing initial Apple Silicon M3 Device Trees and bindings for these newer Apple Silicon devices beyond the M1/M2 that has seen the

Huawei engineer Chen Jinghuang posted the latest request for comments (RFC) patches for stealing tasks from overloaded CPUs in the same last level cache (LLC) in order to improve overall CPU utilization with today's large core count servers.

The intent with the proposed patches is when a given CPU core has no more tasks to run, attempt to steal a task from an overloaded CPU on the same system that is within the same CPU last level cache domain. Chen Jinghuang explained the technical overview in the patch series:

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Ubuntu maker Canonical announced today MicroCloud Cluster Manager that is now in beta as a new cloud platform for managing lightweight cloud clusters.

MicroCloud Cluster Manager aims to manage clusters from data center use to edge clusters to clusters operating in different environments. The beta release is designed with Canonical's observability stack in mind and so far supports an LXD Grafana dashboard.

Vulkan 1.4.347 made its debut overnight as the latest routine update to this high performance graphics and compute API. Beyond the usual maintenance churn over the past week, Vulkan 1.4.347 brings three new extensions.

The new extensions releasing with Vulkan 1.4.347 include VK_KHR_device_fault, VK_KHR_shader_abort, and VK_KHR_shader_constant_data.

It's been nearly three years since the release of Mageia 9 for this Linux distribution who's lineage traces back to the glorious Mandrake Linux. Following the Mageia 10 alpha release back in January, Mageia 10 beta builds are now available.

Mageia 10 is bringing many software updates and improvements compared to the 2023 state of Mageia 9. Mageia 10 is also one of the few 2026 Linux distributions still providing 32-bit i686 install images and full

Sent out today was the latest weekly round of drm-misc-next patches for queuing ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window that is set to happen in mid-to-late April.

The one notable change standing out this week in drm-misc-next is adding a new Direct Rendering Manager property for CRTC background colors.

A CRTC background color property is added with some display controllers allowing hardware programming for showing non-black colors for pixels when not covered by any plane or are exposed through transparent regions

An interesting new Steam client beta dropped overnight from Valve with some exciting low-level enhancements.

First up, the Steam for Linux client can now itself be run inside the Steam Runtime container. This is the same Steam Runtime container used by Steam games with the Steam client beta itself now able to run inside the container. Their hope is that this will provide a more consistent experience across various Linux distributions with the client running in the same container.

This runtime container work for the Steam client is referred to as "SteamRT

Well, here's an unexpected surprise... A new version of the Linux kernel patches for DXGKRNL were posted today for that DirectX kernel driver that began a few years ago for supporting Windows Subsystem For Linux (WSL) use-cases. This comes four years to the month after the prior version was posted and without much excitement for getting it into the mainline Linux kernel.

DXGKRNL was developed by Microsoft as the kernel driver for DirectX graphics adapters to expose to Linux for WSL2 usage. Right from the start