This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. This community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from Oct. 23 - 29. This week highlights five Tumbleweed snapshots for week 43 headlined by KDE Plasma 6.8.0, Qt 6.12.0, Linux Kernel 7.2.11 and PHP 8.5.12,…

With today's AI/LLM capabilities, there is almost a new operating system heard about each week "coded from scratch" predominantly via AI agents. This week was no exception with another project hitting our email inbox. Though most of them are open-source, this one is closed-source in the name of security…

This guide covers the two ways to run Linux on a Chromebook, ten distros worth your time, and the checks that save you a wasted afternoon.

An unfinished Collabora trial has been cast as an open source failure. The timeline tells a different story.

Spooky season is officially upon us. Check out this self-playing Ouija board built by one of our colleagues.

If you run your own music streaming server via Jellyfin or Navidrome/Subsonic, you’ll want a decent desktop player – Gelly is a solid choice for GNOME. It bills itself as “native, lightweight music player” for the aforementioned streaming servers (and compatible ones). It’s written in Rust and GTK4/libadwaita and, as a good players should, it lets you browse, play and control music playback.…

Yay 13.1 improves dependency resolution performance, package search accuracy, repository handling, and Lua scripting capabilities.

Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers unveiled today the 15th generation (Gen15) of the TUXEDO Nano Pro mini PC powered by an Intel CPU and featuring full Linux support.

A change merged for Linux 7.4 is showing some mighty big speed-ups for the FAT32 file-system…

The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 26.8.2 as the second maintenance update to the latest and greatest LibreOffice 26.8 office suite series with compatibility and text import improvements.

For those curious how NVIDIA Vera is scaling between single and dual socket deployments, here are some benchmarks I carried out a while back exploring the power and performance from one to two Vera CPUs.

Core Desktop could run apps that can’t run natively in a sandbox, while linux-firmware-hwe is proposed as a safeguard against newer firmware causing problems.

Fedora 45 is ready to ship! It will be formally released on Tuesday, 3 November…

The Nano Pro Gen15 is a compact Linux mini PC powered by Intel’s Core Ultra X7 358H processor with integrated Arc B390 graphics. Developed by TUXEDO Computers, the system supports up to 128GB of DDR5 memory, dual NVMe SSDs, four 4K displays, and dual 2.5GbE connectivity. It can be used for software development, local AI…

Once more, with feeling: 'First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you'

The Tor project released Tor Browser 16.0 today as a major update to this open-source, cross-platform, and free web browser designed to protect you against tracking, surveillance, and censorship using the Tor anonymous network.

The KDE Project has released KDE Plasma 6.8.2, delivering another round of stability improvements for its Wayland-based Linux desktop environment. Released on October 27, 2026, the update arrives one week after Plasma 6.8.1 and two weeks after the anniversary release of Plasma 6.8, which marked 30 years since the KDE project's founding. This second maintenance release concentrates on correcting…

Australian company Rapid Analysis has launched a new Kickstarter campaign for its Xerxes Home Lab platform, featuring updated carrier boards for Raspberry Pi Compute Modules and NVIDIA Jetson systems. The lineup includes the Xerxes Pi 2026, Xerxes Nano, and an RK3566-based compute module, targeting home servers, embedded systems, and local AI applications. The campaign follows…

openEuler is pushing for a developer focused Linux distro with AI at its core. From PolyMind to Witty, the AI agents are part of the package.

From the practicalities of everyday life to creative endeavours, Raspberry Pi power is behind hundreds of products.

Discover a blazingly fast browser built on Firefox, offering high customizability options similar to Vivaldi in comparison to Chrome.

DietPi v10.8 introduces a dedicated WireGuard management utility, named software package identifiers, and an updated HAProxy installation package. The October release also improves network configuration, expands storage device support on Quartz64 platforms, and addresses several bugs affecting system management and applications. DietPi: DietPi is a lightweight, Debian-based operating system…

openSUSE defaults to hostonly="yes": openSUSE aggressively optimizes for ramdisk size and boot speed. When you run an openSUSE installer over SSH or text mode, YaST builds an initramfs tailored strictly to the hardware it detected as active during that specific install phase. Since you bypassed the graphical display pipeline during the text/SSH run, openSUSE's Dracut config frequently omits the full-featured open-source video drivers and associated firmware, fallback-loading a basic VESA framebuffer (which locks you at 800x600).

Denmark’s digital ministry swapped Word for Collabora, then dropped the pilot without announcing it. Here is what broke and why no verdict exists.

Berlin, 29 October 2026 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 26.8.2, the second minor release in the LibreOffice 26.8 family, available for Windows, macOS and Linux. The new version contains around 35 bug fixes, focusing on stability, multimedia playback and compatibility with legacy file formats. Several crashes and freezes have

Canonical engineers back in 2023 outlined plans for Ubuntu Core Desktop as their immutable Linux desktop. They made some good initial progress but since 2024 it went rather silent. Now they are reviving Ubuntu Core Desktop as their immutable desktop OS offering and with grand plans for the future…

Today, Linux hardware vendor System76 is teasing an upcoming product, a new mini Linux PC called Thelio Prime, which runs the Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS distribution with the COSMIC desktop environment.

Merged to the kernel all the way back in Linux 2.6.26 in 2008 was KGDB for improving the kernel debugging experience. KGDB works in conjunction with the GNU Debugger (GDB) to debug the kernel in a similar fashion to user-space debugging. KGDB requires the use of a second computer connected via serial or network cable. KGDB isn't widely used in recent years and a patch was floated today to remove…

Collabora has announced two developments for open-source Arm Mali GPU support, with its Rust-based Kraid compiler becoming the default for newer Mali architectures in Mesa 27.0 and the Tyr kernel driver reaching a firmware-boot milestone in Linux 7.3. The updates improve shader compilation efficiency while advancing Rust-based GPU driver development in the Linux kernel. The…

While the Linux kernel and various file-system drivers already support the notion of the birth time for tracking a file/directory's birth/creation time, a slightly different provenance time "ptime" is now being proposed for the Linux kernel…