KDE announced the release of Marknote 1.5, the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) note-taking application for the Linux desktop, which lets you create, edit, and organize rich text notes.

This week I tried out the current Ubuntu 26.04 development state on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite with the Acer Swift 14 AI laptop I have been using for my X Elite benchmarks over the past year. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a smooth experience with new issues encountered for this Windows On ARM laptop…

This week’s round of drm-misc-next patches bring a few improvements to the AMDXDNA accelerator driver used for supporting the Ryzen AI NPUs. Plus some new panel additions and various other minor Direct Rendering Manager driver changes…

Google’s Android LLVM toolchain team shared publicly this week that they have begun making use of AutoFDO for automatic feedback directed optimizations of their Linux kernel build used by Android…

KDE developers continue being very busy working on Plasma 6.7 feature development as well as continuing to drive new fixes and refinements to the current Plasma 6.6 stable series…

Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve’s Linux graphics driver team has landed support for mesh shaders within Mesa’s LLVMpipe software driver…

GNOME OS as the Linux-based OSTree-using distribution that serves as the leading-edge, reference platform of GNOME desktop development is now using KMSCON by default…

Krita developers outline their 2026 roadmap, focusing on a mobile-friendly interface, faster performance, improved color management, and a potential new file format.

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Someone, somewhere, ticked a box on a build farm. The wait is overChrome is finally coming to ARM64 Linux devices, years after it turned up on macOS and Windows on Arm.…

Less than a week after their prior NVIDIA Vulkan beta driver in the R595 driver series, today NVIDIA released another new Vulkan beta driver for Linux and Windows systems…

Age-verification laws target operating systems because apparently teenagers having root access is now a safeguarding crisisOpinion A new wave of age verification laws requires kids and teenagers to register before they can use a computer.…

The KDE Project released today KDE Frameworks 6.24 as the monthly update to this collection of more than 80 add-on libraries to Qt and a companion to the KDE Plasma desktop environment and KDE Gear software suite.

Announced today was debaudit, a new set of tools and services designed to verify the integrity and reproducibility of Debian source packages…

EQT’s rumored plan to sell SUSE for up to $6 billion didn’t come out of nowhere. We trace the story from Novell and Microsoft to today’s anonymous‑source whispers.

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Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.19.8, 6.18.18, and 6.12.77 stable kernels. Each of these
kernels includes a number of important fixes; users are advised to
upgrade.

The gpasswd command is used to administer “/etc/group” and “/etc/gshadow” file by allowing you to manage group members in your Linux system.

While the Linux support for Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake is largely in good shape as shown in my numerous articles over the past month and a half, there are occasional missing remnants landing in the kernel. As the latest example, or the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel, the unified Panther Lake C-States table is being added for the Intel Idle driver…

After going through five rounds of review under a Request For Comments (RFC) flag, today the latest round of Kernel API Specification Framework patches were sent out with the RFC flag removed…

Originally released in 2016, I have completely modernized the Elegant Arch Linux SDDM theme for Qt6 while keeping the classic elegance users love.