only 3 for now

Development picks, few for now

mostly GNU/Linux

hardware picks

4 software picks

mostly from idoot

qBittorrent 5.1.1 has been released today as the first point update to the major qBittorrent 5.1 release of this open-source, cross-platform, and free BitTorrent client for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is now the first Mesa in-tree driver supporting 8-bit floating point use within shaders via the new VK_EXT_shader_float8 extension...

Over the past three days the new AMD "GFX1250" GPU target has started being built out within the upstream LLVM compiler codebase for the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end...

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 195 has been released today as a new stable update to this open-source hardened Linux firewall distribution that introduces long-awaited WireGuard support.

Debiab-based stuff

rc3 is out

The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.4 as a major update with exciting new features and enhancements for all fans of the KDE Plasma desktop environment.

For those preferring an X11-based desktop experience on Linux, IceWM 3.8 released on Sunday as the newest version of this lightweight X11 window manager focused on speed and simplicity...

X11 is in the news again, so I thought it would make sense to be clear about the Plasma team’s plans for X11 support going forward.

Kubuntu 25.10 will not include a Plasma X11 desktop session by default

Kubuntu 25.10 will not include a Plasma X11 desktop session by default

When you get on Linux for the first time

If you're thinking of getting into the world of Linux

I’ve tried both Proxmox and Ubuntu Linux in various configurations