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Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc3

Linus has released 6.19-rc3 for testing. "Another week, another -rc release. Except the past week has obviously been the holiday week, and this rc release is pretty small as a result. Very much as expected."

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 28th, 2025

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for December 28th, 2025, brings news about elementary OS 8.1, Parrot 7.0, PorteuX 2.5, postmarketOS 25.12, Inkscape 1.4.3, QEMU 10.2, Pinta 3.1, GStreamer 1.26.10, and Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.3, and more.

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KDE Plasma's Wayland Transition "Nears Completion" In Ending Out 2025

In addition to today's blog post calling out the need for others to takeover the This Week In Plasma series, KDE developer Nate Graham also published another blog post to highlight the successes of the Plasma desktop over 2025. In particular, the KDE Plasma Wayland transition "nears completion" as it works to become Wayland-only in early 2027...

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Linux 6.19-rc3 Released With A Holiday's Week Of Fixes

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.19-rc3 to ship this week's fixes. Linux 6.19-rc3 is coming in light as expected due to the Christmas week with many corporate developers getting paid time off and others taking part in year-end festivities...

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D7VK 1.1 Released With An Experimental Direct3D 6 Frontend

Between the DXVK and VKD3D(-Proton) projects there is good support for Direct3D 8 through Direct3D 12 implementations atop the Vulkan API for Linux gaming usage. For those preferring more retro classic gaming, D7VK came about more recently for Direct3D 7 as a DXVK fork. Out today is D7VK 1.1 and besides delivering fixes for its D3D7 implementation has also now tacked on an experimental D3D6 front-end...