New story! KDE Plasma 6.6 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Feb 18, 2026 3:53 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE, Linux
The KDE project released today KDE Plasma 6.6 as the latest and greatest version of this modern and popular desktop environment for GNU/Linux operating systems.

New story! How to Install and Use Original Vim Editor on Linux

Vim is a popular text editor on Linux, providing advanced features and functionalities compared to its competitor, the GNU Nano editor.

New story! Experimental Out-Of-Tree Code Aims To Provide HDMI 2.1 FRL For AMD Linux Driver

One of the limitations of the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver has been the lack of its support for HDMI 2.1 and later. AMD has wanted to support HDMI 2.1+ functionality under Linux but it's been legally blocked by the HDMI Forum. But anxious independent users have been working on open-source patches for wiring up HDMI 2.1 into the AMDGPU driver outside of the realm of AMD and the HDMI Forum's blessings...

New story! Oh Là Là! Red Hat Open Sources Digital Sovereignty Readiness Tool

With a new digital sovereignty assessment and an open framework, Red Hat is courting Europe’s policymakers and CIOs — but homegrown EU rivals and U.S. politics make it an uphill climb.

New story! GNOME 50 Merges "sdr-native" Color Mode Support For Wide Color Gamut Displays

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Feb 18, 2026 4:10 AM EDT)
  • Groups: GNOME; Story Type: News Story
As a late stage change for GNOME 50 ahead of its official debut next month and following last week's GNOME 50 beta is plumbing the Mutter compositor for a new "sdr-native" color mode option...

New story! COSMIC Desktop 1.0.7 Improves Workspaces Overview

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Feb 18, 2026 2:38 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
COSMIC Desktop 1.0.7 adds configurable typing actions in Workspaces Overview and resolves several full-screen and tiling-related crashes.

New story! GStreamer 1.28 brings AI inference to your media pipeline

With its latest release, GStreamer adds native support for AI inference engines including ONNX Runtime, LiteRT, and Burn, along with tensor decoders for YOLO, face detection, tracking, and more.

New story! NTFS3 Driver Sees Improvements In Linux 7.0 While "NTFS Remake" Driver Bakes

The NTFS3 driver maintained by Paragon Software for Microsoft NTFS file-systems today saw a batch of improvements merged for Linux 7.0 This comes as there is also the competing "NTFS Remake" driver that began a few months ago as the "NTFSPLUS" driver. That NTFS Remake driver isn't looking like it will be submitted for the Linux 7.0 merge window so at least for now the NTFS3 driver continues seeing improvements with the latest mainline kernel code...

New story! Oracle vows 'new era' for MySQL as users sharpen their forks

Commit drought and governance gripes push Big Red to reset Oracle has promised a "decisive new approach" to MySQL, the popular open source database it owns, following growing criticism of its approach and the prospect of a significant fork in the code.…

New story! Uh-Halp is an AI-Powered Command-Line Helper for Linux

Discover an AI-powered uh-halp command line tool that can help you in your command-line journey with the steps to install it in your favorite Linux distribution.

New story! DNF 5.4 Released With Some New Options & AI Contributions Policy

DNF 5.4 is out today as the latest release for this next-generation RPM package management solution used by Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and various other RPM-based Linux distributions...

New story! xSDR packs 2x2 MIMO, Artix-7 FPGA, and 3.8 GHz tuning into M.2 2230 form factor

Crowd Supply has featured the xSDR, a compact M.2 2230 A+E-key software-defined radio module that combines a Lime Microsystems LMS7002M RF transceiver with an AMD Artix-7 FPGA. Designed for direct integration into laptops, tablets, embedded PCs, and edge systems, it delivers 2×2 MIMO RX/TX operation across a 30 MHz to 3.8 GHz tuning range.

New story! KDE Plasma 6.6 Desktop Environment Released, This Is What’s New

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Feb 17, 2026 11:50 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE
KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop is out now, introduces an optional new login manager, improved zoom modes, and faster everyday desktop interactions.

New story! Build CachyOS Kernel 6.19.2 on Debian forky (VENV)

Start with Pre-installation step $ sudo apt install build-essential bpftool and include /usr/sbin in system $PATH variable. On Debian forky installation of libdw-dev and build dependencies for libdw-dev steps are required to succeed with build CachyOS 6.19.2 Kernel on top of Debian Testing ( forky native kernel 6.18.9 )

New story! Paris-based Murena and Germany’s Volla are teaming up on a tablet for people who want Android hardware without Google’s software.

Paris-based Murena and Germany’s Volla are teaming up on a tablet for people who want Android hardware without Google’s software.

New story! Lutris 0.5.20 Linux Game Manager Brings New Features, Wine Wayland Option

For fans of Lutris as the open-source desktop client for installing and playing many games on Linux, Lutris 0.5.20 is out today with new features that further enhance the integration with different emulators and compatibility layers...

New story! "AboutCode" is a Microsoft Proxy and Microsoft's Acquisition of the OSI Advances Via OSI Moles

  • Techrights; By Roy Schestowitz (Posted by schestowitz on Feb 17, 2026 6:04 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Microsoft
All we do is document all this as objectively as possible while presenting direct evidence anybody can verify

New story! Idea Raised For Nicer DRM Panic Screen Integration On Fedora Linux

DRM Panic is the Linux kernel infrastructure now supported by most of the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display drivers for being able to render a QR code kernel error message or similar when a kernel panic occurs to provide a cleaner interface should your system run into serious problems. An idea has been raised now within the Fedora Linux camp to provide an improved experience around this feature akin to Windows' "Blue Screen of Death" functionality...

New story! KDE Responds to FUD Over Alleged systemd Mandate

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Feb 17, 2026 3:01 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE
KDE addresses misinformation about systemd requirements, stating Plasma remains usable on non-systemd systems.

New story! Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot

The Gentoo Linux project last year announced plans to move their code hosting to Codeberg rather than GitHub. Gentoo's desire to move away from GitHub was motivated by Microsoft's Copilot training on GitHub repositories. Those plans are turning into action now with the main Gentoo project up on Codeberg and honoring pull requests...

New story! Lutris 0.5.20 Game Manager Adds Support for Importing Commodore 64 ROMs

Lutris founder Mathieu Comandon released Lutris 0.5.20 today as the latest stable version of this popular and open-source game management software for GNU/Linux distributions.

New story! RISC-V In Linux 7.0 Brings User-Space CFI & Optimized strlen Assembly

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Feb 16, 2026 6:53 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
The RISC-V architecture updates have been merged for Linux 7.0 with a few items to note...

New story! Bottles 62.0 Adds Dynamic Launcher Portal Support

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Feb 16, 2026 5:21 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Bottles 62.0, a Wine prefix manager for running Windows apps on Linux, introduces Dynamic Launcher portal support and adds detailed progress reporting for backups and restore operations.

New story! Arc B390 Graphics With Panther Lake Performing Great On Open-Source Intel Compute Runtime

This month I have been doing a lot of Panther Lake benchmarking under Linux with the Core Ultra X7 358H. One of the areas of much interest has been the Arc B390 Xe3 graphics that have been working nicely out-of-the-box with the Intel open-source driver stack on Linux although there still are some gaps to fill against Windows. Those Intel Arc B390 Linux benchmarks so far have been focused on OpenGL and Vulkan graphics, but what about OpenCL and GPU compute with the open-source Intel Compute Runtime? Today's article is looking at the performance of the Xe3 Panther Lake graphics on the newest Compute Runtime release compared to prior Intel graphics generations and the AMD Ryzen AI competition.

New story! SparkyLinux 8.2 Released with Support for Linux Kernel 6.19, Updated Packages

The SparkyLinux team announced the release and general availability of SparkyLinux 8.2 as the latest stable version of this Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution.

New story! Linux 6.19.1 Released To Ship Some Early Fixes & Device Quirks

For those preferring to wait for the first point release of a new Linux kernel version before upgrading, Linux 6.19.1 is out today to address some early bugs that made it into the Linux 6.19 kernel stable release one week ago...

New story! Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 7, 2026 (Feb 9 – 15)

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Feb 16, 2026 11:03 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Linux Kernel 6.19, COSMIC Desktop 1.0.6, Mesa 26, Vim 9.2, OpenVPN 2.7, Podman 5.8, XFS could gain a self-healing feature, and more.

New story! Linux 7.0 Merges The Code To Replace The Tux Boot Logo At Build Time

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Feb 16, 2026 9:31 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Linus Torvalds merged the code this weekend that allows easily replacing the Tux penguin boot logo used during the boot process. This new code optionally allows specifying an alternative boot logo at compile/build time...

New story! Uptime Kuma 2.1 Adds Globalping Support, Expanded Notification Integrations

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Feb 16, 2026 8:00 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Uptime Kuma 2.1 introduces globalping support and new notification integrations, alongside monitoring and stability improvements.

New story! wlroots 0.20 Nears Release With New Protocols, Enhanced Vulkan Renderer

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Feb 16, 2026 6:28 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Version 0.20 of the popular wlroots Wayland support library is nearing its official release. Over the past week were two release candidates for wlroots 0.20 were published for this library used by Sway, Wayfire, Cage, Gamescope, and numerous other Wayland compositors...

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