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A Lot Of Exciting Changes To Look Forward To With Linux 6.20 -- Or Linux 7.0 With Linux 6.19 due for release later today it then opens up the next kernel merge window. It could be Linux 6.20 but more than likely the next kernel version will be called Linux 7.0 with Linus Torvalds' past tradition of bumping the major version number after X.19. Whatever it ends up being called, here is a look at various "-next" changes that have been queuing up ahead of the merge window...

A Lot Of Exciting Changes To Look Forward To With Linux 6.20 -- Or Linux 7.0 - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-Feature-Preview

08.02.2026 14:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
D7VK 1.3 Brings Support For Direct3D 5 On Vulkan D7VK is a fork of the DXVK project that is an important part of Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 support atop Vulkan. With D7VK the original goal was a Direct3D 7 implementation on Vulkan. D7VK 1.1 brought experimental Direct3D 6 support and now with today's release of D7VK 1.3 is support for Direct3D 5...

D7VK 1.3 Brings Support For Direct3D 5 On Vulkan - https://www.phoronix.com/news/D7VK-1.3-Released

08.02.2026 15:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
KDE Plasma 6.6 Fixing Significant Issues With Fingerprint Authentication There is less than two weeks to go until the official KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop release. Plasma 6.6 is still seeing bug fixes in this final stretch of development while KDE developers are also busy already on Plasma 6.7 feature work...

KDE Plasma 6.6 Fixing Significant Issues With Fingerprint Authentication - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.6-Fingerprint-Fixes

07.02.2026 01:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
libinput 1.31 Bringing Support For Fast Three-Finger Swipes Linux input expert Peter Hutterer of Red Hat announced today the first release candidate of libinput 1.31, the input handling library used by both modern X.Org Server and Wayland desktop environments...

libinput 1.31 Bringing Support For Fast Three-Finger Swipes - https://www.phoronix.com/news/libinput-1.31-rc1

04.02.2026 11:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
One Line Fix Coming For Achieving Better Linux Performance On The HP OMEN 8E41 Laptop A one-line patch to the HP WMI x86 platform driver for Linux was posted for allowing the HP OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-fb1xxx to correctly hit its rated TDP limit for allowing better performance outside of the Microsoft Windows confines...

One Line Fix Coming For Achieving Better Linux Performance On The HP OMEN 8E41 Laptop - https://www.phoronix.com/news/HP-OMEN-8E41-WMI-Linux

04.02.2026 11:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
This picture shows an Uno-themed meme where a card says, "remove snap from ubuntu," to which a bald man named Canonical holds all of his cards.

I still don't understand how this game works, so pardon me if this alt text came out jank af.

This picture shows an Uno-themed meme where a card says, "remove snap from ubuntu," to which a bald man named Canonical holds all of his cards. I still don't understand how this game works, so pardon me if this alt text came out jank af.

True story ๐Ÿคฃ

31.01.2026 18:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 42    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The Last Of The Dolby Digital Plus "E-AC3" Patents Might Now Be Expired For those interested in the Dolby Digital Plus "Enhanced AC-3" audio compression format for open-source software, the last of the patents for this widely-used format by streaming services and more appears to have expired...

The Last Of The Dolby Digital Plus "E-AC3" Patents Might Now Be Expired - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dolby-Digital-Plus-E-AC3-2026

31.01.2026 11:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
GNOME 50 Is No Longer Treating Variable Rate Refresh "VRR" As Experimental Another great albeit overdue improvement for GNOME 50 has landed: Variable Rate Refresh "VRR" functionality for modern displays is now promoted and no longer treated as an experimental feature...

GNOME 50 Is No Longer Treating Variable Rate Refresh "VRR" As Experimental - https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-50-VRR-Not-Experimental

31.01.2026 11:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The screenshot shows KDE's emoji selector overlaid with a friendly pop-up that lets you select mixed skins.

The screenshot shows KDE's emoji selector overlaid with a friendly pop-up that lets you select mixed skins.

"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that Plasma 6.6 lands in little over two weeks, choosing mixed skin tones for emojis gets a friendly pop-up, and you can set a global keyboard shortcut to clear the notification history, among many other marvellous things.

blogs.kde.org/2026/01/31/t...

31.01.2026 11:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 78    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Scenic View of Toronto Skyline from Waterfront - Tauhi Rahat - Pexels

Scenic View of Toronto Skyline from Waterfront - Tauhi Rahat - Pexels

๐Ÿ“ข Save the date: XDC 2026 will take place September 28โ€“30 in Toronto ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

Big thanks to Arm for organizing this yearโ€™s conference โ€” more news soon!

xdc2026.x.org

#Mesa #Wayland #Linux #Graphics #OpenSource #XDC2026

30.01.2026 16:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Valve Developer Improves Aging AMD APUs On Linux With VRR, DP/HDMI Audio, HDR & Atomic Timur Kristรณf of Valve's Linux graphics team last year addressed remaining issues in the open-source AMDGPU kernel graphics driver so old AMD GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 GPUs could transition to using AMDGPU by default rather than the former "Radeon" kernel driver that is largely in maintenance mode for pre-GCN/RDNA GPUs. One caveat though was the GCN 1.1 APU support still having some limitations leading to Kaveri and friends not being able to use the modern AMDGPU DC "Display Core" code. But new patches from Timur take care of those limitations...

Valve Developer Improves Aging AMD APUs On Linux With VRR, DP/HDMI Audio, HDR & Atomic - https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-DC-Improved-GCN-1.1-APUs

29.01.2026 11:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
NVIDIA GeForce NOW Is Now Available Natively On Linux In Flatpak Form Following NVIDIA's announcement back at CES of their GeForce NOW game streaming service coming to Linux as a native desktop application, today's the day. The GeForce NOW Linux-native build is being published and the review embargo has lifted.

NVIDIA GeForce NOW Is Now Available Natively On Linux In Flatpak Form - https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-geforce-now-linux

29.01.2026 14:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Open Gaming Collective (OGC) formed to push Linux gaming even further An exciting new announcement is the formation of the Open Gaming Collective, a collaborative organisation between many names in the Linux sphere.

Open Gaming Collective (OGC) formed to push Linux gaming even further
#Bazzite #Linux #OpenSource #UniversalBlue #OpenGamingCollective

29.01.2026 00:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 180    ๐Ÿ” 47    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing Merged To Mesa 26.1 For X11 & Wayland The Vulkan EXT_present_timing was in development for years to help avoid game stuttering and released this past November with Vulkan 1.4.335. This significant extension as of today has been wired up in Mesa 26.1-devel for the key Vulkan drivers and working on both X11 and Wayland...

Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing Merged To Mesa 26.1 For X11 & Wayland - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Merges-Present-Timing

27.01.2026 13:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Xfwl4 Being Developed As New Wayland Compositor For Xfce Xfce developers are using their donations from the community to fund a longtime core developer to create Xfwl4, an entirely new Wayland compositor for Xfce...

Xfwl4 Being Developed As New Wayland Compositor For Xfce - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xfce-Xfwl4-Wayland

27.01.2026 13:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
TigerVNC 1.16 Released With "w0vncserver" For Sharing Wayland Desktop Sessions TigerVNC 1.16 is out today for this high performance, multi-platform VNC server and client implementation. Most notable with TigerVNC 1.16 is "w0vncserver" as a new server for sharing Wayland desktops...

TigerVNC 1.16 Released With "w0vncserver" For Sharing Wayland Desktop Sessions - https://www.phoronix.com/news/TigerVNC-1.16

27.01.2026 15:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A screenshot of Plasma 6.6, showing the Discover software manager/app store, the System Setting app, and the calendar widget. Along the bottom you can see Plasma's sleek floating panel bar.

A screenshot of Plasma 6.6, showing the Discover software manager/app store, the System Setting app, and the calendar widget. Along the bottom you can see Plasma's sleek floating panel bar.

KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta 2 has been Released!

kde.org/announcement...

That means that Plasma 6.6 is only 3 weeks away. If you don't mind playing around with unstable software, please give it whirl and report bugs to

bugs.kde.org

27.01.2026 18:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 61    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Come and visit our booth this weekend at @fosdem.org 2026!

Weโ€™ll be in Building K, Level 2, showing the newest version of Plasma on a laptop, plus other devices like the OP6, Fairphone 5, Mecha Comet, ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16, PineTab 2, Steam Deck, and Surface running Plasma.

26.01.2026 16:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 81    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Proton 10.0-4 is now live.

github.com/ValveSoftwar...

26.01.2026 23:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 76    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
New Patches Aim To Lower Linux Memory Use For Swap, Slightly Improve Performance Kairui Song of Tencent sent out a new patch series overnight working on enhancing the Linux kernel's swap code. With the patches there are some memory savings -- and more on the way -- while also providing for slightly faster performance...

New Patches Aim To Lower Linux Memory Use For Swap, Slightly Improve Performance - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Better-Swap-Tencent

26.01.2026 10:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
LG Gram Style 14 Laptop To See Working Speaker Support With Linux 7.0 For the Intel-powered LG Gram Style 14 laptop one of the Linux support caveats is the internal speakers not working properly under Linux, but with a patch expected for the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle it will finally fix the laptop speaker support for one of the laptop models in this series...

LG Gram Style 14 Laptop To See Working Speaker Support With Linux 7.0 - https://www.phoronix.com/news/LG-Gram-Style-14-Linux-Speakers

26.01.2026 11:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
AMDGPU Patches Updated For HDMI Gaming Features On Linux With Radeon Graphics A patch series posted last week for the open-source AMDGPU kernel driver implements HDMI Variable Rate Refresh "VRR" and other gaming features for HDMI displays. With the HDMI Forum blocking HDMI 2.1 open-source support, these HDMI gaming features for the AMDGPU driver were developed via trial-and-error and the limited public knowledge available. A second iteration of these patches are now available for testing...

AMDGPU Patches Updated For HDMI Gaming Features On Linux With Radeon Graphics - https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-HDMI-Gaming-v2

26.01.2026 11:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Focusrite Forte USB Audio Interface To Be Supported By Linux 7.0 The Focusrite Forte 2-in, 4-out USB audio interface as a portable audio recording solution will be supported by the mainline Linux 7.0 kernel. The patches are queued in the Linux kernel's sound subsystem development tree. While a convenient little device, the Focusrite Forte is no longer manufactured but can still be found used online...

Focusrite Forte USB Audio Interface To Be Supported By Linux 7.0 - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Focusrite-Forte-Linux-7.0

25.01.2026 11:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.1 Released With New Override & Improvements DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.1 is out today as this NVIDIA NVAPI implementation that is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) with DXVK and VKD3D-Proton. This is the important piece of the Steam Play puzzle to allow for NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Reflex, PhysX, and other features for Windows games running on Linux...

DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.1 Released With New Override & Improvements - https://www.phoronix.com/news/DXVK-NVAPI-0.9.1

24.01.2026 17:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We just dropped our first release this year! Really many great changes in the installer as well as fixes for it. The ISO now uses Wayland, Plasma Login Manager is used for the KDE Plasma installation and more!

Check out the full changelog: cachyos.org/blog/2601-ja...

24.01.2026 17:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 109    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
CachyOS Starts 2026 By Switching To Plasma Login Manager & Live ISO Using Wayland The Arch Linux powered CachyOS distribution is out with its first new ISO release of 2026. This Linux distribution continues to be quite popular with Linux gamers, enthusiasts craving peak performance, and others for wanting to enjoy a polished Arch Linux desktop experience...

CachyOS Starts 2026 By Switching To Plasma Login Manager & Live ISO Using Wayland - https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-January-2026

24.01.2026 17:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
This screenshot shows the new configuration page in System Settings that llows your machine to access printers on Windows networks.

This screenshot shows the new configuration page in System Settings that llows your machine to access printers on Windows networks.

This screenshot shows how the position of the buttons have changed in KRunner.

This screenshot shows how the position of the buttons have changed in KRunner.

"This Week in Plasma" is fixing all the things!!!

The team fixed 28% of all high priority bugs, added a page to System Settings that allows you to configure shared printers on Windows networks, reorganized KRunnerโ€™s buttons, and much more!

blogs.kde.org/2026/01/24/t...

#TWiP #Plasma6 #desktop

24.01.2026 09:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 81    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Firmware Upstreamed For Audio Support With Upcoming Dell & Lenovo Panther Lake Laptops Similar to the new Intel IPU 7.5 firmware upstreamed for Panther Lake this week, Cirrus has upstreamed their CS42L45 codec firmware for upcoming Dell and Lenovo laptops making use of this audio codec...

Firmware Upstreamed For Audio Support With Upcoming Dell & Lenovo Panther Lake Laptops - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cirrus-CS42L45-Linux-Firmware

23.01.2026 19:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
KDE Plasma Saw At Least 9 Crash Fixes This Week KDE Plasma 6.6 feature development work continues winding down while Plasma 6.7 has begun seeing more feature work. This week also saw at least nine different crash fixes affecting Plasma/KWin...

KDE Plasma Saw At Least 9 Crash Fixes This Week - https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-9-Crash-Fixes

24.01.2026 05:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Vulkan 1.4.340 Released With Descriptor Heap & Other New Extensions Vulkan 1.4.340 is out today as the first significant new Vulkan API update following the end of year holidays. With Vulkan 1.4.340 comes four new extensions worth talking about...

Vulkan 1.4.340 Released With Descriptor Heap & Other New Extensions - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.340-Descriptor-Heap

23.01.2026 11:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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