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Following the KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta from two weeks ago, a second beta of the upcoming Plasma 6.6 desktop is now available for testing. KDE Plasma 6.6 stable remains on-track for a mid-February release...

Back in 2024 Google rolled out their Axion in-house ARM processors with the Google Cloud C4A instance type. Today they are expanding their Axion offerings in Google Cloud with the N4A instances now out of preview. The Google Cloud N4A instances are designed for scale-out web servers and microservices, containerized applications, back-end application services, databases, data analytics, and cost-effective development/staging/testing environments.

Valve's Proton compatibility layer brings 19 more games to Linux  How-To Geek

I tried COSMIC Desktop as a KDE Plasma fanboy, and one thing stopped me from switching  XDA

Systemd founder and lead developer Lennart Poettering announced the creation of a new company called Amutable. The Amutable company being led by Chris Kühl (CEO), Christian Brauner (CTO) and Lennart Poettering (Chief Engineer) will be focused on delivering determinism and verifiable integrity to Linux systems...

3 reasons KDE Plasma is still my go-to Linux desktop  How-To Geek

TigerVNC 1.16 Released with Support for Sharing Wayland Desktops  9to5Linux

Heroic Games Launcher for Linux just got a big update  How-To Geek

I switched to Linux and I can't imagine going back to Windows in 2026  XDA

Why desktop Linux matters, even if (almost) no one uses it  Yahoo! Tech

Why desktop Linux matters, even if (almost) no one uses it  How-To Geek

Linux has been launched on Macs with the M3 chip, but the project is in its early stages and has many problem  Mezha

TigerVNC 1.16 is out today for this high performance, multi-platform VNC server and client implementation. Most notable with TigerVNC 1.16 is "w0vncserver" as a new server for sharing Wayland desktops...

I ditched Windows for a Linux and macOS combo, and I'll never go back  MakeUseOf

The modular Linux handheld Mecha Comet is up on Kickstarter  GamingOnLinux

Following the release of zlib-rs 0.6 last week, the developers behind this Rust-based Zlib implementation have declared their API stable and complete...

Linux is still a developer OS, and that’s why it won’t go mainstream  How-To Geek

Dev creates astrology-powered CPU scheduler for Linux, makes decisions based on planetary positions and zodiac signs — sched_ext framework informed by lunar phases, cosmic weather reports, and dynamic time slicing  Tom's Hardware

Xfce developers are using their donations from the community to fund a longtime core developer to create Xfwl4, an entirely new Wayland compositor for Xfce...

The Vulkan EXT_present_timing was in development for years to help avoid game stuttering and released this past November with Vulkan 1.4.335. This significant extension as of today has been wired up in Mesa 26.1-devel for the key Vulkan drivers and working on both X11 and Wayland...