Open-source News

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...

Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing Merged To Mesa 26.1 For X11 & Wayland  Phoronix

Succession: Linux kernel community gets continuity plan for post-Linus era  theregister.com

Mecha Comet is a modular Linux handheld computer  Boing Boing

The simple GOG client for Linux, Minigalaxy version 1.4.1 is out now  GamingOnLinux

A set of 18 patches were merged overnight to Mesa 26.1 for working around graphics corruption on Meteor Lake and DG2/Alchemist class graphics hardware. Not only are some graphics corruption issues worked around but for that hardware there is as much as "a whopping 260%" performance improvement observed for some graphics workloads...