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Box64 v0.4 Improves Support For DRM Protected Games, Steam Is Now More Stable  Phoronix

While Fex-Emu has been getting a lot of attention lately for being Valve-sponsored and powering the upcoming Steam Frame, Box64 continues making progress as another great open-source project for running x86_64 Linux binaries on AArch64 Linux as well as an eye on other architectures like RISC-V...

Switched to Arch Hyprland: I Built HyprLTM-Net, a Rofi-Based Network Management GUI  LXer: Linux News

Ahead of the initial batch of Intel Panther Lake laptops expected to be showcased at CES next week in Las Vegas, we're seeing last minute quirk updates for these products expected to soon come to market...

Linux Audio Quirk Handling On The Way For Dell Panther Lake Laptops  Phoronix

Stooplap v0.2 released today as this SQLite alternative for providing embedded SQL database needs while written in the Rust programming language. Stoolap supports both in-memory and persistent storage models...

Plex's new media manager, Pebble Round 2, another Linux X11 revival, and more: News roundup  How-To Geek

GNOME's Glycin project as the Rust-based sandboxed and extendable image loading library now supports XPM and XBM images. This is notable since those formats were the last unsandboxed image loading formats used on Fedora Linux...

I used Xfce for weeks, but it made me realize how much I need KDE  How-To Geek

Beyond Linux 6.19 switching old AMD GCN 1.0 and 1.1 GPUs to the AMDGPU kernel driver by default for better performance, RADV out-of-the-box, and more, there are still more improvements planned for these aging AMD graphics cards. Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics team has been leading the effort to enhance the old graphics card support and on Friday night merged a big improvement for the RADV Vulkan driver in Mesa 26.0...

RADV Driver Lands Another Big Improvement For Early AMD GCN Graphics Cards  Phoronix

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with the first issue of This Week in Plasma for 2026. Last week was a warning that This Week in Plasma could become less frequent without new volunteers to help takeover. Nate Graham announced that John Veness has stepped up to help co-author these weekly KDE development posts...

The Aeryn OS Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS has published a 2025 retrospective to recap the project changes over the past year as well as a look ahead to 2026...

Aeryn OS Continuing To Focus On Tooling & Infrastructure In 2026  Phoronix

The 1990s KDE desktop is making a comeback on modern Linux  How-To Geek

Linux updates made “Meteor Lake” slower  Fudzilla.com

Linux updates made “Meteor Lake” slower  Fudzilla.com

A patch is on the way to the Linux kernel and looks like it could be ready for the 6.20~7.0 kernel for addressing out-of-memory "OOM" killer inaccuracy behavior when dealing with large core count systems...

Linux Addressing Out-Of-Memory Killer Inaccuracy On Large Core Count Systems  Phoronix

Kiwix's Windows and Linux app for browsing Wikipedia offline just got a big update  How-To Geek