KDE Plasma 6.4.1 is now available as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment series with various improvements and bug fixes.

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KDE devs have revived the KISS setup tool, aiming to create a polished first-boot experience for Linux users to rival onboarding on Windows and macOS.

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Open-source Linux developer Chris Mason who is known for being the original lead developer of the Btrfs file-system recently began hacking on a new tool that he announced today, rsched...

Expirion Linux is a Devuan-based desktop distribution which offers LXQt and Xfce desktop editions. The project provides separate releases built from the latest "stable" and "testing" branches of Devuan, with runit and SysV as init system options. Expirion ships with a more recent kernel than Devuan and it also adds some user-friendly touches, custom themes and wallpapers, as well as productivity applications, such as LibreOffice, Chromium, Firefox, Thunderbird, Audacity, Brasero and VLC.

SDesk is an Arch-based Linux distribution which strives for an easy to use, modern approach to desktop computing. The SDesk project ships up to date software and uses GNOME running on a Wayland session for its default desktop environment. SDesk includes a number of popular open source applications, including LibreOffice and uses Calamares to install the operating system.

TROMjaro is a Manjaro-based Linux distribution with a customised Xfce desktop. Compared to its parent, TROMjaro offers several user-friendly utilities, such as Layout Switcher with six different layouts or Theme Switcher with several accent colours. It also provides various enhancements, including the integration of the Chaotic-AUR repository with pre-built binary packages, a selection of custom wallpapers and icon packs, and extra configuration options in Settings Manager. The distribution comes with support for AppImage files and a heavily-tweaked Firefox browser with custom add-ons.

While the GIMP image editor received a bad rap for the amount of time it took to see a stable release based on the GTK3 toolkit rather than GTK2, only today patches have emerged for taking the Linux kernel's gconfig graphical kernel configuration utility from GTK2 to GTK3...

In addition to the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) having to decide on whether i686 support should end for Fedora Linux (including multilib), another contentious proposal is on replacing the X.Org X11 Server with the controversial XLibre fork...

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The total mash-up mod Fortress Connected has been announced for a Steam release where the worlds of Half-Life 2, Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2 collide.

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Today marks the debut of mmc-utils 1.0 as the inaugural release for this de facto solution for managing MMC storage devices under Linux...

It has been one month since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 was officially announced and it's proving to be a nice upgrade for enterprise Linux use. Jiving with what I had seen out of RHEL 10 beta performance and general expectations considering the plethora of software upgrades from RHEL 9 to RHEL 10, the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 release is helping tap additional performance out of modern servers.

If you wish to stress-test your Linux PC or your Steam Deck, it's now easier than ever thanks to OCCT.

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Building off this morning's release of the Intel Graphics Compiler 2.12.5 is now the updated Intel Compute Runtime 25.22.33944.8 as their June 2025 feature release...

We may potentially be in for some big changes in Fedora 44, with plans in place being discussed to drop 32-bit multilib / i686 packages.

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I've been after a competitive game for a while for the Steam Deck and it certainly looks like REMATCH fits the bill.

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Another free game release for you. Midnight Riff is a rhythm roguelike where you have to jam with the music to deal damage and win battles.

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Fedora Linux for a while already stopped building i686 kernel releases and dropped their dedicated i686 repositories while now for the Fedora 44 release there is a proposal to take things further: finish gutting the i686 support. The new change proposal seeks to no longer include packages built for the i686 architecture and thereby dropping multi-lib support for 32-bit packages on 64-bit hosts. There wouldn't be any packages built any longer for i686 under this F44 proposal...

It should be criminal for a game as good as Glass Cannon to see so few players and Steam reviews, because it's simply awesome.

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Cryptsetup 2.8 is out today as the newest feature release for this widely-used utility used to setup disk encryption under Linux around the DM-CRYPT kernel functionality for LUKS volumes and more...

Adding to the many graphics driver features to look forward to with next quarter's Mesa 25.2 release is now Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

Maze Mice is getting ready to leave Early Access - that was fast. A major update for this survivor game that blends time-stopping Pac-Man features is out now.

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Combining the classic game of Billiards with various news rules and roguelike features, Drop Pockets is set to arrive on August 8th.

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The Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" 2.12.5 release just occurred as the next feature release to this open-source graphics compiler used by the Intel Compute Runtime and also by various graphics APIs under Microsoft Windows with the Intel graphics driver...

Build up your game collection with the Serenity Forge Humble Bundle.

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Need a free game? You can currently claim SteamWorld Dig to keep for a limited time, and the later games in the series have heavy discounts.

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After some supply chain issues that put both the Steam Deck OLED models out of stock for the US and Canada, they're now back.

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Clonezilla Live 3.2.2-15 open-source and free disk cloning/imaging tool is now available for download with various changes and updated components. Here’s what’s new!

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GIMP 3.2 open-source image editor is now available for public testing promising many new features and enhancements. Here's what to expect!

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Firefox 140 open-source web browser is now available for download as the next ESR (Extended Support Release) series. Here’s what's new!

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qBittorrent 5.1.1 open-source BitTorrent client is now available for download with various bug fixes and improvements. Here’s what’s new!

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IPFire 2.29 Core Update 195 Linux firewall distribution is now available for download with support for the WireGuard VPN protocol and other updates. Here’s what’s new!

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Firefox 140 released with tab unloading, custom search engines, and more. ESR users gain major new features like tab grouping and vertical tabs.

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The RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver within Mesa supports GFX9/Vega graphics cards but not the later CDNA-based Instinct accelerators. However, some patches merged today for Mesa 25.2-devel did introduce some "random bits and pieces" for CDNA but not a full implementation...

RefreshOS is a user-friendly Linux distribution based on Debian's "Stable" branch and featuring the KDE Plasma desktop. Some of its main features include extended driver support, a polished user experience, and a refined system performance. The distribution ships with the Brave web browser, LibreOffice office suite, GIMP image editor and various popular applications for productivity and creativity tasks. RefreshOS maintains a clean environment that is free of Snap and Flatpak packages.

Mauna Linux is a Brazilian desktop Linux distribution based on Debian's "stable" branch. The project offers a set of live images with four desktop environments - Cinnamon, LXQt, MATE and Xfce, plus a separate "Christian Edition" which includes the Bible and various applications meant for use in churches. Some of the distribution's main features include the Calamares system installer, a software store with hundreds of applications maintained by Debian and Mauna Linux, a software manager and updater, and an out-of-the box support for the Portuguese language. The goal of Mauna Linux is to develop a distribution that is easy to use, practical and robust, and which would complement the existing Linux user communities in Brazil and abroad.

While we await the formal IBM Power11 launch in 2025, IBM engineers are already working on compiler support for "future" post-Power11 processors with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)...

Good news for MMO fans on Linux platforms, Dune: Awakening is clearly here to stay as it's Funcom's fastest selling game to date.

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While the latest Intel Core Ultra processors have done away with Hyper Threading (HT), Intel Xeon CPUs continue supporting HT/SMT, including with their latest Xeon 6300 series budget server processors. As the new AMD EPYC 4005 "Grado" processors also support Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) and can be found at the same core/thread count count as the flagship Xeon 6369P processor, it makes for an interesting look at comparing the SMT/HT performance impact and power efficiency. Here are some benchmarks showing the Xeon 6300 against the AMD EPYC 4005 in SMT performance.

Civilization VII version 1.2.2 has now rolled out after a delay, bringing with it some advanced features and modding support with the Steam Workshop.

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