Open-source News

PeaZip 10.9 Open-Source Archive Manager Released with Improved User Experience  9to5Linux

Following the September release of the KDE LInux reference distribution for the KDE desktop in alpha form, KDE Linux developers have been working toward the beta release with more improvements to this open-source desktop distro...

KDE Linux To Provide Better Hardware Support & Better Performance  Phoronix

KMS Recovery Mechanism Being Worked On For Linux Display Drivers  Phoronix

A Linux kernel engineer at Microsoft is working on a useful Linux desktop improvement. Hamza Mahfooz who previously worked for AMD on their AMDGPU Linux display driver code has been spearheading work on a KMS recovery mechanism to help kernel mode-setting display drivers recover in case of problems...

GNOME's Rust-based and sandboxed Glycin image loading library focused on safety now supports JPEG 2000 images by default...

Ahead of the planned Linux 6.19 stable kernel release tomorrow, there have been some last-minute fixes submitted for the scheduler code, including for performance regressions...

Enthusiast ports Thermalright's LCD software for Windows to Linux — fully-fledged port supports a ton of models and enables RGB and LCD customization  Tom's Hardware

KDE Linux Gears Up for Beta Release with Plasma Login Manager, KDE Initial Setup  9to5Linux

PC Play on Linux Is Growing in 2026, with 24k Titles and Steam Machines on the Horizon  Geeky Gadgets

GOG Bets Big on Linux: Inside the DRM-Free Retailer's Ambitious Push to Win Over Open-Source Gamers  WebProNews

GOG has already started working on Linux gaming as it says they're "a big fan" of the OS  XDA

Possible "RDNA 4M" iGPU spotted in Linux patches  Sportskeeda Tech

While Mesa 26.0 stable will be out soon, the belated Mesa 25.3.5 point release is now available for serving as the current latest stable point release...

Intel Arc B390 Panther Lake iGPU Impresses in Linux Performance Tests  TechPowerUp

There is less than two weeks to go until the official KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop release. Plasma 6.6 is still seeing bug fixes in this final stretch of development while KDE developers are also busy already on Plasma 6.7 feature work...

Wine 11.2 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release in the road toward the Wine 12.0 stable release next January...

Linux Kernel Pulls the Plug on IBM’s SMC-TCP Networking Code After Years of Neglect  WebProNews

When SaaS softens the OS -- but doesn't erase it  TechTarget

Microsoft Introduces LiteBox, a New Security-Focused Library OS  Linuxiac