Linux NewsPebble Round 2 Revives the Iconic Smartwatch With Open-Source PebbleOS
Pebble Round 2 revives the iconic smartwatch with a color e-paper display, two-week battery life, and open-source PebbleOS.
Rust-Based Fjall 3.0 Released For Key-Value Storage Engine Akin To RocksDB
In addition to the release of Stoolap 0.2 as a modern embedded SQL database written in Rust, Fjall 3.0 is available as another Rust-written database solution. Fjall is a log-structured, embedable key-value storage engine akin to RocksDB but with the benefit of being written in Rust. With Fjall 3.0 its performance is now very competitive...
FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending January 2, 2026
Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read article on FOSS Force for the week that just ended. The post FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending January 2, 2026 appeared first on FOSS Force.
Archboot Adds COSMIC Desktop as a New Install and Rescue Option
Archboot, a menu-driven Arch Linux installer, expands its desktop lineup by adding COSMIC.
Plex's new media manager, Pebble Round 2, another Linux X11 revival, and more: News roundup
Catch up on this week's tech news before CES 2026.
Box64 v0.4 Improves Support For DRM Protected Games, Steam Is Now More Stable
While Fex-Emu has been getting a lot of attention lately for being Valve-sponsored and powering the upcoming Steam Frame, Box64 continues making progress as another great open-source project for running x86_64 Linux binaries on AArch64 Linux as well as an eye on other architectures like RISC-V...
I used Xfce for weeks, but it made me realize how much I need KDE
I'll admit though that the Xfce mascot is more cute.
Linux Audio Quirk Handling On The Way For Dell Panther Lake Laptops
Ahead of the initial batch of Intel Panther Lake laptops expected to be showcased at CES next week in Las Vegas, we're seeing last minute quirk updates for these products expected to soon come to market...
KDE Plasma 6.6 Improves Accessibility, Wayland Usability, and UI Polish
The upcoming Plasma 6.6 release will introduce new accessibility features and UI refinements, including Slow Keys for Wayland and improved notifications.
Stoolap 0.2 Released For Modern Embedded SQL Database In Rust
Stooplap v0.2 released today as this SQLite alternative for providing embedded SQL database needs while written in the Rust programming language. Stoolap supports both in-memory and persistent storage models...
GNOME Glycin Adds XPM/XBM Support To Address Fedora's Last Unsandboxed Image Loader
GNOME's Glycin project as the Rust-based sandboxed and extendable image loading library now supports XPM and XBM images. This is notable since those formats were the last unsandboxed image loading formats used on Fedora Linux...
RADV Driver Lands Another Big Improvement For Early AMD GCN Graphics Cards
Beyond Linux 6.19 switching old AMD GCN 1.0 and 1.1 GPUs to the AMDGPU kernel driver by default for better performance, RADV out-of-the-box, and more, there are still more improvements planned for these aging AMD graphics cards. Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics team has been leading the effort to enhance the old graphics card support and on Friday night merged a big improvement for the RADV Vulkan driver in Mesa 26.0...
KDE Plasma 6.6 Fixes A Common Panel-Related Crash, Improves OpenBSD Support
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with the first issue of This Week in Plasma for 2026. Last week was a warning that This Week in Plasma could become less frequent without new volunteers to help takeover. Nate Graham announced that John Veness has stepped up to help co-author these weekly KDE development posts...
Using Multiple Mice Simultaneously on Linux with xinput
In some situations, there may be a need for multiple mice on a system. For example, at a conference when using a system to discuss details relating to the company. The speaker may need a mouse to point things out, while others can use another mouse to point out other things. There is also a way to include the keyboard as well, but this is not part of the BASH script I wrote. You can always add in a keyboard if needed. And yes, if you have open two word processor apps, one keyboard can type... https://www.linux.org/threads/using-multiple-mice-simultaneously-on-linux-with-xinput.58544/
Hyprland 0.53.1 Released With Stability and Crash Fixes
Hyprland 0.53.1 tiling Wayland compositor is out with backported fixes addressing crashes.