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GNOME Circle Takes Stand Against AI Slop, Resources App Makes It Into GNOME Incubator

Phoronix - Sat, 05/30/2026 - 18:12
GNOME Circle as the initiative for third-party/independent software applications and libraries extending the GNOME desktop ecosystem is taking a stand against AI slop. The GNOME Circle policy has been updated to reject low-effort, vibe coded applications/libraries where the developer is not able to take responsibility for the work...

Plasma 6.6, 6.7 & 6.8 See Plenty Of Bug Fixing This Week

Phoronix - Sat, 05/30/2026 - 17:57
KDE released Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 this week while the current Plasma 6.6 stable series continues seeing fixes as does Plasma 6.8 for what will be the follow-on feature release to Plasma 6.7...

Genode OS 26.05 Released, Finishes Moving From GitHub To Codeberg

Phoronix - Sat, 05/30/2026 - 17:46
Genode OS 26.05 is out this week as the latest update for this original open-source operating system framework. With Genode OS 26.05, they have taken various features of their general purpose Sculpt OS operating system and turned them into reusable framework features...

SteamOS 3.8.6 Beta Released With Initial Native Support For AMD HDMI VRR

Phoronix - Sat, 05/30/2026 - 10:33
Valve tonight released their beta version of SteamOS 3.8.6 that contains a number of notable enhancements, including native HDMI Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support in initial form...

Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 1 Released For Testing

Phoronix - Sat, 05/30/2026 - 08:14
Canonical today released the first monthly snapshot of the Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" release...

Wine 11.10 Released With VKD3D 2.0, Improved VBScript Compatibility

Phoronix - Sat, 05/30/2026 - 06:14
Wine 11.10 marks the latest bi-weekly development release of Wine for running Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...

Fwupd 2.1.4 Brings Many Fixes For Bugs Spotted By Anthrophic's Mythos, Firmware Update Support For Intel Arc Pro B65/B70

Phoronix - Sat, 05/30/2026 - 02:41
Fresh off the funding round from HP, Fwupd 2.1.4 was christened today as the newest stable update to this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems...

AMD ROCm 7.2.4 Released With Performance & Stability Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 05/30/2026 - 02:34
AMD's ROCm open-source compute stack is up to version 7.2.4 stable as it continues seeing new fixes while on the tech preview feature side is the recent ROCm 7.13 release...

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