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KDE Plasma 6.3 released this week as the newest step forward for the KDE desktop. While it was smooth on the whole, there were some early bugs that KDE developers were dealing with this week. KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly development summary for the Plasma desktop...

Will it run Crysis? LinuxPDF is Linux running inside a PDF file via a RISC-V Emulator and I can't believe it works  TechRadar

Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Rebranding As AerynOS  Phoronix

The nearly three year old Serpent OS Linux distribution started by Ikey Doherty of Solus fame is going to re-brand as AerynOS...

Next-Gen PocketBeagle 2 Arrives with Dual Cortex-A53 Cores and Under $30  Hackster.io

Go 1.24 was released this week by Google engineers as the newest step forward for this popular programming language...

Chimera Linux 20250214 update launches with new apk-tools, Kernel 6.13, and official PowerPC support  BetaNews

Asahi Linux lead resigns from Mac-based distro after tumultuous kernel debate  Ars Technica

Daily Deal: Linux/UNIX Training Bundle  Techdirt

As quite a Valentine's Day treat, the long-in-development dynamic triple buffering support for GNOME's Mutter compositor was just merged ahead of next month's GNOME 48 desktop release!..

SteamOS-like Bazzite Linux has some nice growth thanks to great handheld PC support  GamingOnLinux

openSUSE Tumbleweed Adopts SELinux as Default Over AppArmor  WebProNews

A change queued up by an Amazon engineer ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle will ensure that PlayStation 5 controllers on Linux load with the correctly desired driver...

Linux 6.15 To Ensure PlayStation 5 Controllers Use The Correct Driver  Phoronix

KDE Frameworks 6.11 Adds Search Providers for Nix Packages, Docker Hub, and More  9to5Linux

Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) Review  PCMag

Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole)  PCMag Middle East

Fwupd 2.0.6 is out today as the newest update to this widely-used open-source solution for system and peripheral device firmware updating under Linux...

Fwupd 2.0.6 Adds Support For HPE Gen10/Gen10+ Servers  Phoronix

Linux is now running inside a PDF because people are amazing  ReadWrite