KDE Plasma 6.7 Sees Last Minute Fixes Ahead Of Next Week's Release
…old GTK2 apps. - Frameworks 6.28 will now let you use the Meta key on its own to trigger KWin's Overview screen. - Frameworks 6.28 also fixes a "weird issue" that…
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SDL Library Adds Support For The New Steam Controller Without Depending On Steam
…That pull request followed a issue ticket opened in early May by a Minecraft mod developer that outlined the various limitations at present when using the new Steam Controller outside of the…
Linux 7.0-rc6 Bringing A Lot Of Audio Quirks / Fixes
The Linux 7.0-rc6 kernel due for release tomorrow has a lot of audio fixes/quirks to correct a wide variety of different hardware issues, mostly different problematic laptops for their…
Mesa Developers Consider Branching Off Some Older GPU Drivers - Including AMD R300/R600
…CI) breakage on the older platforms, and similar constraints. Mike Blumenkrantz was motivated to start this Amber2 discussion given the less-maintained drivers more frequently hitting CI issues these days and causing…
New AMD Dynamic EPP Feature Causing Some Problems With Linux 7.1
…The patch message explains of some yet unresolved performance issues: "There are some performance issues being identified by dynamic EPP and we don't want to have distributions turning it on by…
Linux 7.0.6 Released To Finish Mitigating the Dirty Frag Vulnerability
…Also unshare DATA/RESPONSE packets when paged frags are present " for fixing an RXRPC issue from 2019. In addition to Linux 7.0.6 stable, the Linux 6.18.29 LTS kernel…
Linux Might Finally Disable The Microsoft RNDIS Protocol Drivers In 2026
…RNDIS is known to be a fundamental security issue but disabling them has proven to be a drawn out process with some apparent users still left making use of the RNDIS Linux…
KDE Plasma 6.8 Making It Easier To Configure Multi-Monitor Setups
…For the prior stable series, Plasma 6.6.6 will correct an issue where KWin would fail to start at login for some older GPUs and GPU drivers. Plasma 6.7.1…
GNOME-Aligned Amberol 2026.1 Music Player Released, Phosh Improves X11 Support
…This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue highlighting all the interesting GNOME developments. While not much to talk about on the GNOME core side this week, there continues to…
Arch Linux's Archinstall 4.2 Fixes Botched Disk Encryption Security
…This security issue was reported back in June 2023 but only now resolved. At least for those using full disk encryption / encrypted root partitions, there isn't any issue. Archinstall 4.2…