KDE Plasma 6.6 Desktop Environment Released, This Is Whatβs New
KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop is out now, introduces an optional new login manager, improved zoom modes, and faster everyday desktop interactions.
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KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop is out now, introduces an optional new login manager, improved zoom modes, and faster everyday desktop interactions.
With memory pricing being as wild as it is these days and with MRDIMMs on Xeon 6 Granite Rapids offering much more memory bandwidth than conventional DDR5 RDIMMs, you may be wondering about the performance impact when not populating all twelve memory channels on the Xeon 6900 series processors. In this article are benchmarks to demonstrate the performance difference of MRDIMM-8800 memory across using six, eight, ten, and twelve MRDIMMs with a Xeon 6980P server.
KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment is now available with numerous new features and improvements across all components and apps. Here's what's new!
A pull request for the Microsoft .NET Runtime build on Linux to use IO_uring for sockets is showing some massive performance benefits...
As of 10 February 2026, Fedora is now available in Syria. The Fedora Infrastructure Team has lifted IP blocks on Syrian addresses following recent United States policy changes. This restores full access to Fedora Linux ISOs, repositories, and services. We are thrilled to welcome our Syrian contributors and users back to the community!
Fish Shell 4.5 resolves Vi mode regressions from 4.4 and fixes history search behavior, including correct cursor positioning with wide characters.
Lutris 0.5.20, an open-source game manager for Linux, is out with fixes, Proton integration improvements, and introduces a new Steam Family source for shared game libraries.
The latest Nova Lake enablement work for the Linux kernel to land is adding support for Nova Lake S platforms to the Intel LPSS driver in the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel...
DNF 5.4 is out today as the latest release for this next-generation RPM package management solution used by Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and various other RPM-based Linux distributions...
KDE Plasma 6.6 is now officially out as the newest feature update to this prominent open-source desktop environment. Plasma 6.6 is self-described by KDE developers as "the best desktop in the known universe (according to us). Plasma 6.6 is all about making your life as easy as possible without sacrificing any of the flexibility."..
Lutris 0.5.20 is now available for download with support for Steam Families, D8VK in Proton, as well as other new features and improvements for Linux gaming.
The Gentoo Linux project last year announced plans to move their code hosting to Codeberg rather than GitHub. Gentoo's desire to move away from GitHub was motivated by Microsoft's Copilot training on GitHub repositories. Those plans are turning into action now with the main Gentoo project up on Codeberg and honoring pull requests...
Bottles 62.0, a Wine prefix manager for running Windows apps on Linux, introduces Dynamic Launcher portal support and adds detailed progress reporting for backups and restore operations.
Malware analysis Linux distro gets Ubuntu 24.04 base, a new installer, and many new tools.
The curl project has found AI-powered tools to be a mixed bag when it comes to security reports. At FOSDEM 2026, curl creator and lead developer Daniel Stenberg used his keynote session to discuss his experience receiving a slew of low-quality reports and, at the same time, realizing that large language model (LLM) tools can sometimes find flaws that other tools have missed.