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Introduced with Linux 6.19 was the long in development DRM Color Pipeline API while it's not the end of the road yet on enhancing the Linux desktop for modern high dynamic range (HDR) displays and color pipeline handling. AMD engineer Harry Wentland has more improvements pending for the AMDGPU driver as well as example compositor/desktop-side integration with KDE's KWin...

AMD HDR/Color Improvement For Their Linux Driver & KDE - Co-Developed By Claude Code  Phoronix

7 essential keyboard shortcuts every Linux Mint user should know  How-To Geek

AMD, Broadcom, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI jointly announced today the formation of the Optical Compute Interconnect (OCI) Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) optical scale-up consortium...

In Mesa 26.1 the Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has finally landed support for the VK_KHR_copy_memory_indirect extension that was introduced to the Vulkan API last year...

Unity Engine to Enhance Linux Support  Steam Deck HQ

Mesa 26.0.2 arrives with more bug-fixes for Linux graphics drivers  GamingOnLinux

Mesa 26.0.2 is now available as the latest bi-weekly stable point release for this set of open-source graphics drivers predominantly used on Linux systems...

Qt developers today released Qt Creator 19 as the newest version of this cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE)...

Qt Creator 19 Open-Source IDE Released with Minimap for Text Editors, MCP Server  9to5Linux

4 ways to create a directory in Linux (and what each one teaches you)  How-To Geek

Fwupd 2.1.1 Linux Firmware Updater Released as a Massive Update  9to5Linux

Looks Like SUSE Linux is Up For Sale (Again)!  It's FOSS

Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash  GamingOnLinux

Valve publicly asks for help securing RAM for its Linux-based Steam Machine at GDC 2026  FRVR

8 open-source tools that secretly power the world  How-To Geek

Richard Hughes of Red Hat just announced the release of Fwupd 2.1.1 as the newest feature update to this solution for deploying system firmware updates and other device/peripheral firmware updates under Linux. Paired with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS), Fwupd has made firmware updating a breeze on Linux for an increasing number of devices...

Fwupd 2.1.1 Released With Lots Of New Hardware Support  Phoronix

Linux consulting firm Igalia announced this week Moonforge, a new in-house Linux distribution by them based on Yocto and OpenEmbedded...

Igalia Developing Moonforge As New Linux Distribution  Phoronix