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5 Linux Mint extensions that finally made my desktop feel complete  How-To Geek

Ubuntu was my first distro—here's why we went our separate ways  How-To Geek

Here's something that wasn't on my bingo card for this year of the "MKISS" driver for ham radio being modernized in 2026 as opposed to just being dropped. The MKISS code hasn't seen much driver activity since the original Git import of the Linux kernel more than twenty years ago...

Linux Ham Radio KISS Serial Driver Being Modernized In 2026  Phoronix

Last year Intel began preparing their QuickAsist Linux driver support for QAT Gen6 hardware with upcoming platforms. That initial Intel QAT Gen6 driver enablement landed back in Linux 6.16 while for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel they are preparing support for a new wireless mode with this next-gen QuickAssist hardware...

The free Linux tool that keeps your terminal sessions alive forever  How-To Geek

Ahead of the Linux 7.0-rc6 kernel due to be released later today, quite a number of EXT4 file-system fixes were sent out this morning...

Sent out this week was another drm-misc-next pull heading to DRM-Next ahead of next month's Linux 7.1 merge window. Notable with this week's Direct Rendering Manager code changes was introducing per-process buffer object "BO" memory usage query support for user-space...

AMDXDNA Driver Introducing Per-Process Memory Usage Queries In Linux 7.1  Phoronix

Released this week was Nginx 1.29.7 as the newest mainline version of this HTTP(S) web server. Releasing alongside Nginx 1.28.3 stable, it fixed buffer overflow vulnerabilities and some other vulnerabilities. Making Nginx 1.29.7 more exciting though is that it landed Multipath TCP support...

After 6 Years, One of Wayland’s Most Annoying Problems is Finally Getting Fixed  It's FOSS

It's fairly rare for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver to hit OpenGL rendering game bugs these days as besides more games going opting for Vulkan API use, RadeonSI is rather robust and very mature at this stage. Recently though a Linux gamer that upgraded to a Radeon RX 9070 XT RDNA4 graphics card noticed that the open-source EDuke32 Duke Nukem 3D build and its derivatives were failing to render properly with the RadeonSI driver...

RadeonSI Driver Lands Fixes For EDuke32 For Those Wanting To Enjoy Duke Nukem 3D In 2026  Phoronix

Wayland is getting a 6-year-long fix for its most annoying quirk, and KDE and GNOME are already implementing it  XDA

KaOS begins tearing systemd apart after dropping KDE Plasma last month  XDA

MX Linux Takes Clear Stance Against Age Verification Requirements  Linuxiac

KaOS Linux 2026.03 Is Out with Linux 6.19, More systemd Components Removed  9to5Linux

Fedora 44 will automatically make your Windows games run faster, no tweaks required  XDA

GIMP 3.2.2 Released with Various Improvements and UI/UX Updates  9to5Linux

It was just two weeks ago that GIMP 3.2 released, one year after the big GIMP 3.0 debut. Out today is GIMP 3.2.2 with various bug fixes, plug-in / file format handling updates, and some minor UI/UX work...