In demonstrating one of the gaps of man pages in modern times and likely having hindered the adoption of the Linux kernel’s new mount API, it took more than six years for those system calls to be properly documented within man pages. The Linux “new” mount API was introduced back in mid-2019 with Linux 5.2 and since supported by key file-systems after several years but not until weeks ago was this file descriptor based mount API scoped out within man pages…

Hyprland 0.53 tiling Wayland compositor releases with a complete window rule rewrite, breaking config changes, new features, and a long list of fixes.

One of the unexpected Linux kernel surprises of 2025 was NTFSPLUS being announced as a new driver for Microsoft’s NTFS file-system with better performance and more features compared to the classic read-only NTFS driver or the “NTFS3” kernel driver that Paragon Software submitted upstream. That NTFSPLUS driver has continued expanding its feature set and robustness and sent out today was the third iteration of the patches. Now this driver is simply being called “NTFS” with no longer going by the NTFSPLUS name…

Hyprland 0.53 was released today as the last feature update to this Wayland compositor for 2025…

The Orbitiny Desktop Pilot 8 pre-release delivers its most substantial update yet, featuring a new graphical installer and a rebuilt desktop core.

Nate Graham looks
back at how 2025 went for the KDE project.

Today Plasma is the default desktop environment in a bunch of the
hottest new gaming-focused distros, including Bazzite, CachyOS,
Garuda, Nobara, and of course SteamOS on Valve’s gaming
devices. Fedora’s Plasma edition was also promoted to co-equal
status with the GNOME edition, and Asahi Linux — the single
practical option for Linux on newer Macs — only supports KDE
Plasma. Parrot Linux recently switched to Plasma by default,
too. And Plasma remains the default on old standbys like
EndeavourOS, Manjaro, NixOS, OpenMandriva, Slackware and TuxedoOS —
which ships on all devices sold by Tuxedo Computers!

One of the more interesting announcements over the holiday period thus far is that moving into 2026, CachyOS is looking to develop a server edition for their Arch Linux based operating system. CachyOS has garnered quite a following among Linux enthusiasts and gamers for its competitive out-of-the-box performance, employing some of the optimizations by Intel’s now defunct Clear Linux distribution, and pulling in all of the goodness from upstream Arch Linux. It will be very interesting to see how CachyOS Server Edition takes shape and whether it will develop a foothold in any prominent enterprise environments. While CachyOS Server Edition isn’t yet released and still in its early stages, over the holidays I decided to see how CachyOS in its current form currently looks for AMD EPYC servers.

In this article, you will learn how to install OpenJDK (including JDK and JRE) in major Linux distributions with hands-on examples.

One of the many interesting Linux kernel innovations I have closely been following this year has been the proposed Cache Aware Scheduling support. I have shown the Cache Aware Scheduling performance on AMD EPYC as well as the Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids performance, but what about desktops? In this article is a quick look at Cache Aware Scheduling with the Ryzen 9 9950X3D…

Open-source developer Derek J. Clark continues leading the efforts on improving the Lenovo Legion Go series hardware support under Linux. Posted today was the second iteration of the HID driver work for the Legion Go and Legion Go S for configuration support with the built-in controller HID interfaces…

The next Linux kernel cycle, which will be known as Linux 6.20 or more than likely Linux 7.0, is expected to land some IO_uring improvements for better IOPOLL polling…

A mainstay of KDE development news is about to change: Nate Graham wants to step back from his “This Week in Plasma” column and is inviting others to carry it forward.

The post Nate Graham Wants to Step Back from ‘This Week in Plasma’ appeared first on FOSS Force.

Longtime Linux users likely have fond memories of SuperTux as the open-source jump-n-run game that used to be included on some early Linux live CD/DVDs for this Super Mario Bros inspired game. There hasn’t been a new release of SuperTux in over four years but out today is the beta of SuperTux 0.7 as a major overhaul to the free software, family-friendly game title…

The 272nd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on December 28th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

With a simple setting change, you can help KDE developers make better decisions about Plasma improvements. Here’s how.

Fish Shell 4.3 introduces smarter theming, improved completions, better terminal integration, and many changes across scripting and interactive features.

In addition to today’s blog post calling out the need for others to takeover the This Week In Plasma series, KDE developer Nate Graham also published another blog post to highlight the successes of the Plasma desktop over 2025. In particular, the KDE Plasma Wayland transition “nears completion” as it works to become Wayland-only in early 2027…

Linus has released 6.19-rc3 for testing. “Another week, another -rc release.

Except the past week has obviously been the holiday week, and this rc
release is pretty small as a result. Very much as expected.“

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.19-rc3 to ship this week’s fixes. Linux 6.19-rc3 is coming in light as expected due to the Christmas week with many corporate developers getting paid time off and others taking part in year-end festivities…

“I’ve never seen a company so astoundingly out of touch with the people who want to use its software.”