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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

The Linux laptop I keep coming back to nails performance and portability  ZDNET

Microsoft LLMs Are Speaking, Spreading Misinformation by Slop About Ken Thompson and Unix  LXer: Linux News

Microsoft LLMs Are Speaking, Spreading Misinformation by Slop About Ken Thompson and Unix  LXer: Linux News

A new patch series that was posted this week allow for users to more easily replace the default kernel boot logo. While many of us are long accustomed to seeing the picture of Tux as the kernel boot logo, for those preferring to better customize your console boot experience these patches allow it to be easily manipulated via the kernel configuration "Kconfig" options...