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The open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers making up Mesa had another very successful year. Even with all the years being invested into Mesa largely by Intel, AMD, Valve, Red Hat, and others, the upward trajectory continues for Mesa on expanding the hardware support, punctually adding new Vulkan extensions, and racking up other wins...
Begun, the Linux Wars have.
Upgrading to Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS brings the new COSMIC desktop—here’s how to update from 22.04 without breaking your system.
In demonstrating one of the gaps of man pages in modern times and likely having hindered the adoption of the Linux kernel's new mount API, it took more than six years for those system calls to be properly documented within man pages. The Linux "new" mount API was introduced back in mid-2019 with Linux 5.2 and since supported by key file-systems after several years but not until weeks ago was this file descriptor based mount API scoped out within man pages...
SuperTux returns with version 0.7 Beta 1, its first major update in four years, bringing fully rebuilt worlds, new assets, music, and gameplay changes.
Two-year journey from Debian Ports brings LoongArch to the officially supported architecture lineup.
Otherwise, it was just going to rot in storage forever.
A new GNOME Shell extension rethinks the app grid (aka the app picker, app drawer, launcher screen – what do you call it?) by making it scroll vertically instead of horizontally. Y’know, the way it did before GNOME 40 changed it. GNOME 40’s switch to horizontal app grid scrolling in 2021 irked a few of its mice-favouring aficionados. Their main gripe? A vertical mouse scroll wheel to move horizontally feels off. The app grid does have clickable buttons (and supports swipe gestures and keyboard arrow keys too). But GNOME Shell is malleable; the way it is out of the box […]
Hyprland 0.53 tiling Wayland compositor releases with a complete window rule rewrite, breaking config changes, new features, and a long list of fixes.
But it's not entirely Arch Linux's fault. This stems from NVIDIA dropping Pascal support and Arch's decision to push legacy drivers to AUR.
Nate Graham looks back at how 2025 went for the KDE project. Today Plasma is the default desktop environment in a bunch of the hottest new gaming-focused distros, including Bazzite, CachyOS, Garuda, Nobara, and of course SteamOS on Valve's gaming devices. Fedora's Plasma edition was also promoted to co-equal status with the GNOME edition, and Asahi Linux — the single practical option for Linux on newer Macs — only supports KDE Plasma. Parrot Linux recently switched to Plasma by default, too. And Plasma remains the default on old standbys like EndeavourOS, Manjaro, NixOS, OpenMandriva, Slackware and TuxedoOS — which ships on all devices sold by Tuxedo Computers!
Sometimes, the best way to get ready for a switch is nothing at all.
Hyprland 0.53 was released today as the last feature update to this Wayland compositor for 2025...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (kodi, pgbouncer, and rails), Fedora (duc, fluidsynth, gdu, singularity-ce, and tkimg), Slackware (vim), and SUSE (buildah, duc, gnutls, python39, qemu, and webkit2gtk3).
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