Slackware-Based Zenwalk Current Milestone 2026 Released with Linux 7.1
Zenwalkโs latest rolling snapshot brings Xfce 4.20, a BORE-patched Linux kernel 7.1, Flatpak integration, and a refreshed desktop experience.
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Zenwalkโs latest rolling snapshot brings Xfce 4.20, a BORE-patched Linux kernel 7.1, Flatpak integration, and a refreshed desktop experience.
Fish Shell 4.9 is out with a workaround for a Konsole keyboard issue, faster completions around slow symlinks, and several scripting fixes.
Sushi, the spacebar file previewer for the Nautilus file manager, has been ported to GTK4/libadwaita as part of the upcoming GNOME 51 release. For anyone unfamiliar with it, Sushi is like Quick Look on macOS: you select a file (images, music, video, documents, etc) in Nautilus, press the spacebar and an instant preview of its content is shown. Press the spacebar again to dismiss. Sushi v51 looks nicer โ well, what little UI there is โ on newer GNOME releases. Thereโs a flatter looking headerbar and new overlay controls for certain file types, which let content bleed through from underneath. [โฆ]
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GNOME has entered the final comment period for a proposed RFC process designed to document and coordinate major project-wide decisions.
It's been over four years since the original release of Zenwalk 15.0 while released today is a new Zenwalk Current Milestone snapshot. This Slackware-based Linux distribution with a long history has an exciting update out for testing this weekend...
Making sure I can push Plasma to its limit.
A Rust-powered Readline replacement that brings intelligent suggestions, fuzzy search, syntax highlighting and modern completion to Bash.
Ikey Doherty is back in the Linux distribution space. Sort of. Ikey Doherty who was the founder of the Solus Linux distribution as well as Serpent OS (now AerynOS) as well as having been employed by Intel on their Clear Linux team is back at it again in the Linux space...
NVIDIA continues building out more functionality around the open-source, upstream Nova kernel graphics driver within the Linux kernel. Making it out to the mailing list this Saturday is a set of 13 patches for introducing a NVIDIA vGPU manager and VFIO variant driver...
New Brave benchmarks put the privacy-focused browser ahead of Chrome, Edge, and Firefox across several resource-usage metrics.
This week's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) fixes that were merged ahead of Sunday's Linux 7.3-rc2 release contain a number of fixes to the open-source Nouveau driver's display support for current-generation NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs...
In addition to Linux developers focused on Apple Silicon being busy enabling functionality for the M3 and newer SoCs under the Linux kernel, there are also developers working on enabling the A18 Pro SoC used by the new, budget-friendly MacBook Neo laptop. Patches were posted this week for initial enablement of the A18 Pro and the MacBook Neo Device Tree... But even with these patches, the Linux support is still severely limited for now...
AMD is building out what they are describing as an "elite" team of developers for driving Rust code "deep into the GPU stack" from firmware to drivers, shader compilers, and other GPU software in Rust...