Open-source News

With Qt 6 porting and KDE Frameworks 6 development continuing at full-speed, KDE developers are looking at Plasma 5.27 being the last feature release in the Plasma 5 series...

Manage GNOME Extensions Like a Pro With Extension Manager  MUO - MakeUseOf

Taking place this week alongside the X.Org Developers Conference (XDC 2022) was WineConf as the annual gathering of Wine developers. CodeWeavers organized the co-hosted events in Minneapolis and during WineConf were two days of interesting talks for enjoying Windows games/applications on Linux and macOS...

Intel engineers have released libva 2.16 as the newest feature update to this open-source VA-API common library used for video acceleration by many drivers and multimedia applications...

The HID subsystem updates have been submitted for the ongoing linux 6.1 merge window of which there are several notable driver additions for bettering the hardware support on several fronts...

JSAUX wasted no time with a new Steam Deck Docking Station with DisplayPort  GamingOnLinux

The OpenChrome DRM driver has been in development for over a decade for providing open-source display driver support for VIA's aging x86 chipsets. For years now OpenChrome development has been down to one developer left on the project, Kevin Brace, and months ago he hoped to get the driver finally merged into the Linux kernel. He still holds out on those ambitions but will first aim to get basic acceleration working with a stable user-space API/ABI before mainlining...

Open-Source VIA Linux Driver Still Wants To Be Merged, But Pursuing Acceleration First  Phoronix

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly development summary concerning all of the progress made to the open-source desktop over the past two weeks. This status update actually covers the past two weeks due to last weekend being preoccupied with the annual KDE Akademy developer conference...

How to install Tilda Terminal on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS  Linux Shout

Hackers Exploiting Unpatched RCE Flaw in Zimbra Collaboration Suite  The Hacker News

How to Control RGB Lighting On Linux in 2022  BollyInside

Artillect's Brother AX-25 Typewriter Is Reborn as an Arduino and Raspberry Pi-Powered Linux Terminal  Hackster.io

Review these top Linux courses on Udemy  TechRepublic

Ubuntu Linux tries for the office desktop  ZDNet

How to Start X11 on Linux Without a Display Manager  MUO - MakeUseOf

The Best Linux VPN in 2022 | Paid and Free Linux VPNs  The Tech Report

Systemd 252-rc1 is out as the first test candidate ahead of this next big feature release for this dominant Linux init systemd. Systemd 252 has been working on a new "systemd-measure" tool and a wide variety of other changes...

systemd 252-rc1 Introduces New systemd-measure Tool, Other New Features  Phoronix

Fwupd 1.8.6 is out today as the newest stable release of this open-source firmware updating tool most notably used by Linux systems but also supported on various BSDs and even Windows...