Linux NewsA Joint Venture of Open Source Proportions! Open Productivity is Here
The vendors behind the openDesk office suite have formed a company to take it beyond public administration and into commercial use.
This Dev Built an Office Suite Because His Wife Kept Going Back to Microsoft Office
ElixirOffice is a new suite based on Euro-Office components and developed using AI.
Local AI Weekly #5: AI Gets a Desk Job
Agents are moving into office suites, and Big Tech wants them in all your work apps. Check out the latest Local AI Weekly newsletter.
Mesa 26.2.5 Is Out with Bug Fixes for RADV, NVK, ANV, PanVK, Freedreno, and Zink
Mesa 26.2.5 is now available as the fifth bugfix update to the latest Mesa 26.2 stable series, bringing various improvements to the NVK, Freedreno, RADV, RadeonSI, Zink, ANV, PVR, and PanVK drivers.
I tested the 9 most popular Linux desktop environments, here’s how I’d rank them
I tested nine Linux desktop environments to find out which ones offer the best balance of features, customization, performance, and usability.
Linux Mint 23 is No More. A New Release Takes its Place
The new one, Linux Mint 27 "Adrien," is due Christmas with an Ubuntu 26.04 LTS base.
LibreOffice Rescues Microsoft Users With Abandoned PUB Files
Microsoft’s exit from desktop publishing puts decades of documents at risk. Free software offers a path forward. The post LibreOffice Rescues Microsoft Users With Abandoned PUB Files appeared first on FOSS Force.
Why I finally gave up on the Arch User Repository
Compiling on the ground is exciting, but sometimes, same old, same old is better.
Fastfetch 2.70 System Information Tool Released with Linux and Android Improvements
Fastfetch 2.70 arrives with better Android support, improved Linux audio detection, fewer dependencies, and bug fixes across platforms.
Framework Computers Triples Their Financial Support To CachyOS
In addition to providing Framework systems to the CachyOS Linux distribution for optimizing the support, Framework Computers has also been providing monthly donations to the project. CachyOS confirmed today that Framework Computers has now tripled their monthly donations to this independent Linux distribution built atop Arch Linux...
Apple Contributes SSAF Driver To LLVM Clang For Source Code Transformations
Apple compiler engineers have contributed to upstream LLVM/Clang today a Scalable Static Analysis Framework (SSAF) driver for whole-program based analysis and source-to-source code transformations...
[$] Collaborating with out-of-tree tracers
LTTng creator Mathieu Desnoyers seems a bit trapped in something of a catch-22. At the 2026 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC), he led a discussion on the problem he is having in trying to collaborate with other tracing projects (e.g. ftrace, perf) in the kernel. The feedback he has gotten, both over the years and more recently, does not show a path that would allow him to contribute the 21-year-old GPLv2-licensed LTTng tracing framework, or, incrementally, features from it, to the mainline kernel.
Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series
At the recently concluded Maintainers Summit, Linus Torvalds said that he had been using a large language model to work on a patch series addressing a longstanding problem; he has now posted that series for review. The fairly short series of ten patches basically enhances folio lookup by noticing when folios are hot, and setting a "delay releasing this folio until after a RCU period", and then using that RCU delay it does not just the folio lookup itself under RCU (which we've done forever), but also the actual folio data accesses themselves under RCU. No refcount taking needed for the fastpath where we can just read the data from the folio entirely in an RCU-protected region when the user copy doesn't cause page faults. The end result is an order-of-magnitude speedup for a read()-heavy benchmark. Review has already identified a race condition in the code, though, so further work will be needed.
KDE Plasma 6.8 released
Version 6.8 of the KDE Plasma desktop has been released. The The KDE project has timed the release to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Matthias Ettrich's email announcing the project: Unix popularity grows thanks to the free variants, mostly Linux. But still a consistent, nice looking free desktop-environment is missing. There are several nice either free or low-priced applications available, so that Linux/X11 would almost fit everybody needs if we could offer a real GUI. Notable changes include accessibility improvements, inclusion of the Kup backup tool as part of Plasma, as well as the ability to include system audio and microphone input in Spectacle screen recordings. Plasma 6.8 also drops support for Plasma X11 sessions, as was announced in November 2025. X11 applications are still supported via XWayland, and KDE applications will continue to support X11 "for the foreseeable future". See the KDE wiki for a list of major user-facing changes, and the changelog for all changes s
[$] GCC development with large-language models
After much deliberation, the GCC project recently came up with a policy on the use of large language models for development of the compiler suite. It is somewhat restrictive, but still leaves room for LLMs in the development process. At the 2026 GNU Tools Cauldron, Jeff Law and Kyrill Tkachov discussed how these tools have been useful for them.
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