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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...
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 tiling Wayland compositor is out with backported fixes addressing crashes.
The MiDesktop project wants to bring the 1990s Linux experience to modern distributions.
The Aeryn OS Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS has published a 2025 retrospective to recap the project changes over the past year as well as a look ahead to 2026...
Icecast 2.5 open-source streaming media server is out, delivering refinements to the web UI, protocol behavior, and API reporting.
Greg Kroah-Hartman has written an overview of how the kernel's security team works. The members of the security team contain a handful of core kernel developers that have experience dealing with security bugs, and represent different major subsystems of the kernel. They do this work as individuals, and specifically can NOT tell their employer, or anyone else, anything that is discussed on the security alias before it is resolved. This arrangement has allowed the kernel security team to remain independent and continue to operate across the different governments that the members operate in, and it looks to become the normal way project security teams work with the advent of the European Union's new CRA law coming into effect.
Your Linux terminal can be much cooler and functional!
MiDesktop revives the KDE 1 desktop for modern Linux with a development preview now available for Debian 13 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.18.3 stable kernel. As always, this update contains important fixes; users of this kernel are advised to upgrade.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (smb4k), Fedora (direwolf, gh, usd, and webkitgtk), Slackware (libpcap and seamonkey), and SUSE (kepler).
Do you wish you could switch Linux devices without switching keyboards? Look inside.
A patch is on the way to the Linux kernel and looks like it could be ready for the 6.20~7.0 kernel for addressing out-of-memory "OOM" killer inaccuracy behavior when dealing with large core count systems...
Don't want to look away from the terminal to check the time? Use these methods to add a live clock to your terminal!
Miss glossy, playful UI? These GNOME extensions add 3D flair and fun effects in minutes, no theme overhaul required.
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