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KDE Linux Distribution Is Available for Public Testing, Download Now  9to5Linux

Linux 6.17-rc5 Merges x86 Driver Updates for Intel, AMD, Dell, Lenovo  WebProNews

System76 Launches Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta with Rust-Powered COSMIC Desktop  WebProNews

Knowing That It Is Possible  Hackaday

Debian 13.1 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes  Phoronix

Following the release of Debian 13.0 "Trixie" nearly one month ago to the day, Debian 13.1 is out today with an initial batch of bug fixes and security updates...

Debian 13.1 “Trixie” Released with 71 Bug Fixes and 16 Security Updates  9to5Linux

The uutils project today released version 0.2 of the Rust Coreutils as their alternative to GNU Coreutils written in the Rust programming language. This release comes as Ubuntu 25.10 prepares to make use of it by default...

This Linux Gaming Distro Uses SD Cards as Game Cartridges (Just Like the 90s)  It's FOSS News

September 6 Tech news roundup: Linux Mint 22.2 released, Hollow Knight: Silksong is out, Firefox brings Copilot to its sidebar  FileHippo

KDE Release First Alpha of its New Linux Distribution  OMG! Ubuntu

KDE Linux Enters Alpha As Reference Linux Distribution For The KDE Desktop  Phoronix

As an exciting announcement out of the KDE Akademy 2025 conference kicking off in Berlin, Germany... The KDE Linux distribution is now in alpha! This is their in-house reference Linux distribution for the KDE Plasma desktop...

I Can't Use Ubuntu Without These 9 GNOME Extensions  How-To Geek

Linus Torvalds has grown frustrated enough with seeing "Link: " tags within Git commits/patches that often times they are of no value and he's had enough of it. For Linux kernel activity moving forward he's going to be more strict over "useless" link tags in Git commit messages...

Linus Torvalds Grows Frustrated Seeing "Garbage" With "Link: " Tags In Git Commits  Phoronix

As a follow-up to the article last week around the open-source NVIDIA Linux driver "Nouveau" about to become much more reliable following fixes, that code was merged on Friday for Linux 6.17...

Linux 6.17 Merges Important Stability Fixes For Open-Source NVIDIA Driver  Phoronix

Ahead of Akademy kicking off in Berlin, the annual KDE developer conference, there is another weekly Plasma development update. KDE developer Nate Graham shared the latest exciting progress on Plasma 6.5 while more good news will be coming out later today...

As what might be its last test release before declaring the stable release, systemd 258-rc4 was released this week as the latest stepping stone for this dominant Linux init system and service manager...