Linux NewsKDE Plasma 6.5.6 Released as the Last Update in the Series with More Fixes
KDE Plasma 6.5.6 is now available as the sixth and last maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.5 desktop environment series with more bug/crash fixes.
OpenSSL 4.0 Alpha 1 Released With Encrypted Client Hello "ECH" & Other Features
The first alpha release of OpenSSL 4.0 is now available for testing. With OpenSSL 3.0 they are removing support for SSLv3 that has been deprecated for over one decade while also dropping OpenSSL engines and other removals while also adding in some new features...
Fedora Linux 44 Beta Released with Linux 6.19, GNOME 50, and KDE Plasma 6.6
Fedora Linux 44 distribution is now available for public beta testing powered by Linux kernel 6.19 and featuring the GNOME 50 desktop environment. Here’s what to expect from the final release.
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SUSE Reportedly May Be For Sale Yet Again
Over the past two decades SUSE Linux has been passed around several times. From Novell's acquisition of SUSE back in 2003 to then being acquired by The Attachmate Group to then merging with Micro Focus and then the SUSE business being acquired by private equity firm EQT back in 2018. A report out today indicates that EQT may now be looking to sell off SUSE...
New Patch Can Boost Linux ZRAM Compression Performance By Over 50%
The Linux ZRAM module for creating compressed block devices in RAM could be on the edge of a nice I/O compression performance boost...
FSF Hiring New Manager For Leading Their Hardware Certification Program
The Free Software Foundation is hiring a new engineering and certification manager for leading the Respect Your Freedom "RYF" hardware certification program. The FSF RYF program is about certifying hardware that respects the user's freedom and privacy for control over the device, such as no proprietary firmware blobs needed to be loaded at run-time, no digital rights management / digital restrictions, and complies with their other free software ideals...
Intel Puts An End To Open-Source Projects For Optane Memory, FPGAs & Ansible
Following Intel archiving various open-source projects that they are no longer maintaining amid open-source setbacks due to reduced staffing and other corporate restructuring, another round of Intel open-source projects were formally archived on Monday...
Fedora Linux 44 Beta Now Available with Installer, Toolchain, and Desktop Updates
Fedora Linux 44 Beta introduces the Plasma Login Manager for KDE editions and Budgie 10.10 with Wayland support for Budgie users.
Intel Preps Linux For Directed Package Thermal Interrupts
Intel Linux engineers are preparing the Linux kernel's Intel Thermal driver for supporting Directed Package Thermal Interrupts as a new feature of recent Intel CPUs...
Announcing Fedora Linux 44 Beta
The Fedora Linux 44 Beta is now available for public testing! This release brings major updates across Fedora Workstation, KDE Plasma, Server, IoT, and Cloud editions. Highlights include a unified KDE setup, Anaconda installer network profile improvements, and automatic DTB selection for ARM devices. Under the hood, F44 introduces 99% reproducible package builds, GNU Toolchain updates, and the latest software packages like Go 1.26 and MariaDB 11.8. Help shape the final release by testing today.
Steam March 2026 Client Update Adds Hardware Specs to User Reviews
The March 2026 Steam client update allows users to attach hardware specifications to reviews, introduces optional framerate data reporting, and provides several fixes.
Valve/RADV Developers Look At More Per-Game Tuning/Optimizations For Mesa Drivers
RADV Radeon Vulkan driver developers on Valve's Linux graphics team are evaluating the idea of greater use of per-game/app profiles within this open-source driver and for Mesa drivers at large. Currently for Mesa drivers with DriConf there is the ability to provide per-game/app workarounds while the consideration now is extending that to allow for more per-game optimizations...
exfatprogs 1.3.2 Brings Improvements To mkfs.exfat, fsck.exfat
For those making use of Microsoft's exFAT file-system under Linux, tagged today was exfatprogs 1.3.2 as the newest update to these open-source user-space programs for going along with the Linux kernel's exFAT file-system driver...
Fedora 44 Beta Released With Better KDE Experience, Many Upgrades
The Fedora 44 Beta release is out today on schedule in working toward the official Fedora 44 release around mid-April...