Linux NewsVim Patches Yielding Faster GTK3 Wayland Performance: "Major Milestone"
For those using Vim with its GTK3 toolkit interface on Wayland, it soon should be delivering much better performance with pending patches...
Shelly 2.4.1 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Improves Networking, Security
Shelly 2.4.1 graphical package manager for Arch Linux distributions is now available for download with improvements to AppImage and Flatpak support, networking and security, command line interface, and more.
Coreboot 26.06 Adds Early Intel Nova Lake and AMD Strix Halo Support
Coreboot 26.06 lands with early support for Intel Nova Lake and AMD Strix Halo, new mainboards, AMD recovery improvements, and boot performance work.
Nourish: A New Wayland Compositor Powered By Vulkan With Infinite Scrolling/Panning
The newest Wayland compositor on the block is Nourish, it's a Vulkan-powered and its unique selling point is offering "infinite" zooming and panning to in effect provide an infinite workspace...
FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending June 26, 2026
Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read articles on FOSS Force for the week that just ended. The post FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending June 26, 2026 appeared first on FOSS Force.
KDE Plasma 6.8 to Enable Triple Buffering by Default for NVIDIA GPUs
KDE Plasma 6.8, scheduled for mid-October, is already taking shape with a notable KWin performance change for NVIDIA users.
Three stable kernel updates
The 7.1.2, 7.0.14, and 6.18.37 stable kernel updates have been released; each contains a relatively small number of important fixes.
I started managing my Linux desktop like a server, and everything got easier
Minimalist systems taught me that distros are not different operating systems but mere configurations, whether server- or desktop-focused.
Reserved THP Feature Proposed For Linux To Combine The Best Of HugeTLB & THP
Linux kernel developer and Bytedance engineer Qi Zheng sent out a request for comments (RFC) patch series on a new feature called Reserved THP to combine the best of HugeTLB and THP kernel functionality...
Linux Kernel 7.0 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 7.1
Linux kernel 7.0 reached end of life and all users are now recommended to upgrade their systems to the latest Linux 7.1 kernel series as soon as possible.
Microsoft made a Linux distro, and it's not what you'd expect
A minimal Linux distro from Microsoft? Anything is possible.
COSMIC Desktop Gets a Native System Monitor App
System76 introduces COSMIC System Monitor, a new libcosmic app for tracking processes, CPU, memory, GPU, disk, and network usage.
Shotcut 26.6 Video Editor Released with HDR Export and Linux Vulkan Display Option
The open-source video editor Shotcut 26.6 adds HDR export, restores external monitor support, and introduces a Vulkan display option on Linux.
Linux MD RAID5 Seeing Scalability Improvements Up To 17%
Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week was a new patch series working on scalability enhancements to the MD RAID5 software RAID code. Up to a 10~17% improvement was observed in some configurations with these RAID5 scalability patches...
GNOME AI Assistant Adds Image Generation Support
In development over the past three years has been Newelle as a GNOME-aligned AI virtual assistant. Out this week is Newelle 1.4.5 and it now adds AI image generation support and a redesigned chat interface...