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Following the DRM Color Pipeline API making it into the Linux 6.19 kernel, NVIDIA today released a preview Linux driver with their support for the DRM per-plane color pipeline API that will benefit the broader Linux/Wayland desktop HDR ambitions...

NVIDIA announce a preview of "DRM Per-Plane Color Pipeline API" support on Linux (good for HDR)  GamingOnLinux

Linux gaming levels up as CachyOS beats Windows 11 in head-to-head tests  TechSpot

G28 Retro Handheld Game Console - 4.3" IPS Screen, 128GB Card, Dual Joysticks, Linux  ruhrkanal.news

Cloudflare continues to be full of open-source surprises. Today Cloudflare announced EmDash as an open-source "spiritual successor" to WordPress with an emphasis on better security...

Wine has been translating Windows games to Linux since 1993, but Proton is what made it effortless  XDA

Arch Linux April 2026 ISO Ships With Kernel 6.19 and Systemd 260  Linuxiac

Arch Linux’s April 2026 ISO Is Out Now with Linux Kernel 6.19 and Archinstall 4.1  9to5Linux

The Linux backup tool nobody talks about—and why it beats every official sync app  How-To Geek

HarfBuzz is the open-source text shaping engine originally born out of the FreeType project and now widely-used by GNOME, KDE, Java, Flutter, Godot, Chromium, LibreOffice, and countless other applications. HarfBuzz 14.0 released today and making this release quite exciting is introducing a GPU-accelerated text rendering library...

HarfBuzz 14.0 Released With New GPU Accelerated Text Rendering Library  phoronix.com

One - month Mutation Baffles Linux Kernel Guru: "AI Junk" Last Month, Reliable AI Bug Reports This Month?  eu.36kr.com

April 1 Linux Patches: Verified Birth Date For File Creation, Block Emacs From Running  phoronix.com

What's more annoying: half-baked AI slop open-source patches or April Fools' Day with programmers trying to have some fun? This year, April 1 is seeming more patches than usual...

KDE Linux as the in-house, leading-edge Linux distribution for showcasing the latest KDE Plasma innovations has promoted itself as being an atomically updated Linux distribution. But these atomic updates didn't quite work out as planned recently with some users finding their system(s) unbootable. But improvements are being made now for better robustness moving forward...

KDE Linux Hardening Their OS Against Updates Making Systems Unbootable  Phoronix

The Rust-For-Linux crew is preparing to raise the minimum supported Rust version for building the Linux kernel and and similarly also bumping the minimum supported version of bindgen, the tool for generating Rust FFI bindings for C code in the kernel...

The Linux Kernel's Minimum Rust Version Supported Prepares For Rust 1.85 Baseline  Phoronix

Is Linux Ready For Gaming? - A Challenge  GameGrin

Wayland Protocols 1.48 is out today with the long-awaited XDG Session Management protocol in tow as well as several new experimental protocols...