Darktable 5.2 open-source RAW image editor is now available for download with new features, UI/UX improvements, and updated camera support. Here's what's news!

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Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham put out a blog post today reaffirming the KDE Plasma's intent that Wayland is their main focus and X11 support continues to be maintained but eventually it will go away. Nate Graham also noted around 73% of KDE Plasma 6 users are already using the Wayland session...

Ahead of the all-important Ubuntu 26.04 LTS cycle, Canonical is looking to raise the required RISC-V ISA baseline for its Ubuntu 25.10 release due out later this year...

Exton Linux is a set of over 15 Linux distributions based on Arch Linux, CRUX, Debian, deepin, Fedora, openSUSE, Puppy Linux and Slackware Linux. They are designed to be lightweight, fast and easy to use. Exton Linux comes with popular pre-configured desktop environments and a set of pre-installed software packages, including web browsers, office suites, multimedia players and development tools. It also includes various customization options, such as the ability to change the appearance of the desktop and install additional software packages. Exton Linux is available in several editions, each tailored to a specific use case, such as general-purpose computing, gaming, multimedia or servers.

This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue that outlines some UI progress made as well as addressing an aging GNOME bug that could result in not all files/directories being properly removed when emptying the Trash from the GNOME desktop...

XLibre 25.0 was just released as the first tagged release of this recent X.Org Server fork...

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly blog post summarizing all of the interesting KDE Plasma developments for the past week. Notable this week was the debut of Plasma 6.4 stable and from early user feedback appears to be in good shape...

Calibre 8.5 open-source e-book manager is now available for download with improvements to the Kobo driver, light mode, and E-Book Viewer. Here's what's new!

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TUXEDO OS is an Ubuntu-based distribution developed in Germany by TUXEDO Computers GmbH, designed and optimised for the company's own range of Linux-friendly personal computers and notebooks. The distribution uses KDE Plasma as the preferred desktop. Some of the differences between Ubuntu and TUXEDO OS include custom boot menu, the TUXEDO Control Centre, Calamares installer, availability of the Lutris open gaming platform, preference for the PipeWire audio daemon (over PulseAudio), removal of Ubuntu's snap daemon and snap packages, and various other tweaks and enhancements.

A number of AMD firmware/microcode updates were upstreamed today to the linux-firmware.git repository, including introducing the AMD Instinct MI350 series files that are necessary for the open-source Linux compute driver stack to function for those newly-announced Instinct accelerators...

Going back to January of 2023 there were the initial Intel patches for the Linux kernel introducing Linear Address Space Separation (LASS). Two and a half years later, these Intel LASS patches remain in-development with today the sixth iteration of these patches having been posted...

Over the past week a number of Apple device support additions have been queued up into the HID subsystem's "for-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.17 kernel cycle...

A new version of open source productivity suite ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors is available, packed out with another round of welcome improvements. ONLYOFFICE 9.0 introduces brand new theme (Modern Light/Modern Dark) with restyled UI elements, more use of spacing in floating ‘island’ toolbars, and new icons. The modern theme is available across the full suite of document, spreadsheet, presentation, form, and PDF editors. You can see how ‘Modern Light’ compares to ‘Classic Light’ (which remains available to switch back to, for those who prefer it) in the screenshot above. A redesigned Start screen (shown when opening the app) also features. This […]

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Just one week after Vulkan 1.4.318 was introduced with a new Valve extension, Vulkan 1.4.319 released this morning with another new extension...

Thirty-one years after Creative Technology introduced the Sound Blaster AWE32 ISA-based sound card, the open-source driver support within the Linux kernel continues to be worked on... Submitted today for Linux 6.16 is fixing support for this once mighty ISA sound card from the mid 90's...

Intel open-source software developers this week released OpenVINO 2025.2 as the latest update to this prominent free software AI toolkit...

Net.Attack() takes the basic idea of the action from Vampire Survivors and other survivor-likes but, it gets you to program your abilities with code blocks.

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Valve are preparing the next major version of their Windows compatibility layer Proton, with a new test build ready for you with Proton 10.0-2.

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Burn With Me is a narrative deck-builder like no other, where permanently burning your cards is one of the main game mechanics.

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I absolutely need this. DERELIKT from developer Visuwyg releases in 2026 and it's everything I wanted in a retro styled FPS.

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Love musical games? Be sure to check out the June Tunes Humble Bundle with 9 nicely rated games. Here's the compatibility for Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck.

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There is some tension on the Linux kernel mailing list with some late Bcachefs feature work sent in as part of "fixes" for the ongoing Linux 6.16 kernel cycle. Established rules aim for only new feature code to be introduced during the kernel merge windows, which ended nearly two weeks ago for Linux 6.16, but Bcachefs wanting to be exempt to continue to allow new feature code to still land for the cycle in the name of data safety...

Microsoft announced back in May at their Build developer conference that WSL would be going open-source. Today Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.6 was released as their first new release now being an open-source project...

AMD originally released a ROCm 7.0 preview build back in May as it works to align their HIP API more closely with NVIDIA's CUDA. Last month was the big ROCm 7.0 preview announcement form AMD's Advancing AI Day in San Jose while this week is another new 7.0 preview build focused on further testing of the ROCm 7.0 HIP changes...

Castlebound from Ogre Pixel now has a demo available to try on Steam, so you can defend your moving castle in this cute looking action roguelike.

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If the craziness from Kindergarten and Kindergarten 2 wasn't enough, there's now a third helping with Kindergarten 3 out now.

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Here's the most up to date list for late June 2025 for Prime Gaming, an easy way to add more games to your library across Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck.

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Serial Cleaner DLC Blood and Confetti is officially out now bringing more content to the 2D action-stealth game.

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Another Beta update for the Steam Client and SteamOS with a few fixes and an improvement for the Lenovo Legion Go S handheld in SteamOS.

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Fwupd 2.0.12 open-source Linux firmware updater is now available for download with support for HP Portable USB-C hubs and other changes. Here’s what’s new!

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Code compilers like the prominent GCC and LLVM/Clang have been advertising support for the Cache Line Demote "CLDEMOTE" instruction on Arrow Lake processors as well as Lunar Lake and upcoming Panther Lake hybrid processors. Intel engineers added that compiler plumbing but was inaccurate and inadvertently missed until now with this prominent instruction not being supported there...

Mozilla is axing another project that felt a perfect fit for a company founded on the idea of making the web better for everyone. Next week, on June 26 2025, the Fakespot Deep Fake Detector extension, which let users vet content to gauge if it was written by a human or generated by AI for a human, will stop working — news first reported by Soeren Hentzschel. As an AI-powered tool, the Fakespot Deep Fake Detector wasn’t perfect at separating the wheat from the statistically-glued collage of plagiarised and paraphrased words, but it was at least powered by multiple open […]

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Following last week's release of OpenZFS 2.2.8, OpenZFS 2.3.3 is now available as the newest point release of this current stable series for this open-source ZFS file-system implementation on Linux and FreeBSD systems...

You have to hand it to indie devs, they sure do keep coming up with weird and wonderful looking games.

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AMD have begun teasing some next-gen chips, following on from the announcements of the ROG Xbox Ally, and Microsoft talking about next-gen console plans.

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REMATCH is a new competitive Football game from Sloclap, that really is just like Rocket League with feet.

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While the results shouldn't be too surprising given the recent AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Windows 11 vs. Linux testing, when the HP ZBook Ultra G1a powered by the step-down AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 arrived with Microsoft Windows 11 Pro, I also took the opportunity to run some Windows vs. Linux performance benchmarks on that AMD Strix Halo SoC.

Richard Hughes of Red Hat just released Fwupd 2.0.12 as the newest version of this open-source firmware updating utility that pairs with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for a nice Linux system/device firmware updating experience...

Well, this is one way to help fund a store. GOG have added an extra box when you go to checkout to get you to donate.

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Sent out today was the latest weekly batch of drm-misc-next changes for consisting of various Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) core updates as well as changes to the smaller display/graphics kernel drivers plus the growing work around accelerator "accel" drivers within the kernel. Intel NPU accelerator driver changes stand out for this week's pull request ahead of Linux 6.17...