KDE’s classic Oxygen theme is getting another round of improvements with the upcoming Plasma 6.8 release. The details come from longtime KDE contributor Filip Fila, who has helped drive Oxygen’s recent revival alongside original Oxygen designer Nuno Pinheiro.

GStreamer 1.28.8 open-source multimedia framework is now available for download with improvements to the AMD AMF AV1 video encoder, support for reading AAF AIFF-AIFC audio in the MXF demuxer, and more.

System76 today released COSMIC Epoch 1.10 as the newest incremental update to this Rust-based desktop developed in-step with their Pop!_OS Linux distribution.

One of the notable changes to COSMIC Epoch 1.10 is using the GPU "WGPU" rendering code path by default for the COSMIC Launcher. Due to some systems performing extremely slow with the software renderer that it feels sluggish, the GPU rendering is now enabled by default. This stems from a recent bug report calling "Cosmic Launcher still the slowest launcher in existence":

It feels like the next 2 generations of Linux distros will be getting some huge performance wins

While Ubuntu 26.10 is not a Long-Term Support (LTS) release and thus will see limited enterprise deployments compared to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, for those not after that long-term deployment support and preferring to live more on the leading-edge, Ubuntu 26.10 is delivering some nice performance gains on current 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" hardware.

Those trying to access the Ubuntu website, ISO downloads, and similar Ubuntu resources today are finding the site inoperable amid what's now confirmed as an ongoing distributed denial of service attack

Firefox 158 looks like yet another small update that promises better PDF handling with support for SkPDF, a PDF-generation backend for Skia, for PDF generation when saving as PDF and also printing on Linux systems, allowing PDFs to be more accessible and also addressing various PDF rendering issues.

Firefox 158 also promises to update the New Tab page to keep a library of custom wallpapers under Your images, rather than only the most recent one, improve form filling in the Smart Window by suggesting data to use based on your relevant open tabs and saved autofill data

The open source Git project just released Git 2.56. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time. This includes better handling of merges

For non devs who aren't aware, git is used for source code management and working with managing source code as a team

Seems there are some pretty big changes in here

Linux developers are once again considering the removal of the Linux x32 ABI.

Not to be confused with the i386 ABI, the Linux x32 ABI is the little adopted model of using 32-bit integers, long, and pointers on Intel/AMD CPUs but making use of the larger set of CPU registers and other benefits of x86_64. Linux x32 came too late and hasn't seen much industry interest or adoption. With Linux x86_64 going comfortably, Linux kernel developers have been retiring the x32 ABI.

The curiosity into secretive semiconductor startup Rosaic Labs builds. Earlier this year it was noted that Intel was providing Rosaic Labs with access to its Atom technology with RTL code. There have also been rather mysterious x86 additions not from Intel or AMD (or Zhaoxin / Hygon) that given the timing may pertain to Rosaic Labs. News today is that Rosaic recently hired a long-time, Linux x86 developer veteran...

Fedora 45 already boots virtual terminals through kmscon instead of the old fbcon stack. Here is why the console moved to userspace, and what changes when you press Ctrl+Alt+F3.

LibreOffice 26.8 was download more than 1 million times in its first week of release, which The Document Foundation say is the highest first-week figure of any release of the free office suite.

Released on 26 August, LibreOffice 26.8 saw 1,031,162 downloads from the official website, which provides installers for Windows, macOS and Linux, during the first seven days.

It's slightly older news, but definitely something worth celebrating if you haven't seen it.. For those who believe that open source is waning.. Think again :)

I used to use Gentoo about 20 years ago.

Whether you use them or not, they have been a huge part of the OSS community, and they're worth supporting

I'd go as far as to say they helped pioneer USABLE distro's that basically worked with compiling source code

Kernel 7.4 is shaping up to be a major update.

Always happy to see more riscv work. Pity there isn't any top tier riscv hardware available though

This release brings improvements to Dolphin, Itinierary, Kdenlive, NeoChat, Okular, KMail, and other KDE apps.

While Linus Torvalds previously shot down plans for Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) in the mainline Linux kernel, Google engineers are hoping still to get that out-of-tree functionality upstream. They also would like to see PGO supported for Linux kernel modules rather than just the main Linux kernel image. Additionally, they hope to see limitations overcome around AutoFDO and Propeller optimizations of kernel modules.

Here's some of the highest-rated Native Linux games released on Steam during September 2026. Helping you to find something interesting to go and play if Native Linux gaming is your thing!

Remember though, Proton has gotten so advanced that in general, that Linux compatible is a completely other list

Valve released tonight a new Steam client beta that includes some notable improvements for Linux users.

Most notably, today's Steam beta update now will default to using Proton for Windows binaries that are registered as non-Steam games. Running by Proton by default should ultimately yield a better user experience.

For Linux gamers the new beta also fixes an issue where non-Steam games would fail to launch when changing the target binary via the browse button.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52200970

Looks like a good project

Hi everyone,

I'm working on Crazy Sky, a FREE 4-player multiplayer arcade flight game.

Crazy Sky has native clients for Windows, Linux and Android. The game has its own dedicated servers, but it can also be played over LAN.

I'm currently looking for Linux players who would like to try the game and give some feedback.

If you find any bugs or have suggestions, please post them in the comments of this thread. Feedback is welcome and will help with development.

Website: https://crazysky.cybopat.net/

Thanks for checking it out!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/72595994

Hello, everyone!

We are proud to announce that a tiny patch version 0.10.10b is out on Flathub!

Depending on your app-store it might be a while until you see the correct text.

Just an open question for the community. Just wondering how you're finding OpenSuse in 2026?

I've always had a good experience in the past but haven't used it in a while.

Chimera Linux is a relatively new Linux distribution, and quite a unique on at that, as it combines the core tools from FreeBSD, the LLVM toolchain, and the Musl C library instead of the usual suspects. Despite being relatively new, it still has some serious pedigree as the project was started by Nina “q66”, who was part of the Void Linux team. At Void, she maintained the various PowerPC/POWER ports of the distribution until Chimera became her sole focus.

Nina published a detailed blog post today about how the Chimera team builds the tooling for their distribution, as well as the goals it’s trying to achieve. It covers everything from a bit of personal history, the rationale behind the project, who it’s catering to, how its tooling works and why, and the infrastructure they’ve built that underpins it all. There’s a lot to process here, with one of the most interesting little details – at least to me, as someone who has two POWER9 machines – the fact that Chimera started with the ppc64le target only.

The article is an incredibly interesting look at not just the how of Chimera, but also the why, which makes for some really fascinating reading.