The KDE community has charted its course for the coming years, focusing on three interconnected paths that converge on a single point: community

As with all MNT products, the Pocket Reform is fully open-source

The NanoPi R3S supports various operating systems, including FriendlyWrt (based on OpenWrt 21.02), Debian Bookworm Core (command-line only)

I'm announcing the release of the 6.10.9 kernel

Some of the latest articles

The GNOME 47 release candidate was announced a short time ago in preparing for the stable GNOME 47 stable desktop coming up...

Linus has released 6.11-rc7 for testing.

And I wish I could say that things have calmed down, but I can't really say that. In fact, rc7 is slightly bigger than both rc6 and rc5 were, both in number of commits, and in actual diff size. That's not really how it should work out.

That said, there's nothing *scary* in here.

He is apparently "still waffling" about whether to release 6.11 next weekend, which would cause the 6.12 merge window to land on top of the Maintainers Summit, Linux Plumbers Conference, and Open Source Summit.

Following recent international travels, Linus Torvalds is back to his usual late Sunday Linux kernel release regiment. Linux 6.11-rc7 was released a few minutes ago as Linux 6.11 approaches the finish line...

After a one-week delay, the GNOME Project released today the Release Candidate (RC) development version of the upcoming GNOME 47 desktop environment series for public testing.

The 6.10.9, 6.6.50, and 6.1.109 stable kernel updates have been released; each contains another set of important fixes.

Security related news, esp. CISA

some Steam news

Programming related picks

psql events coming up, CfP

While Windows gamers seem mixed over the AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors, for creator, scientific / HPC, code development, and many other technical computing areas I remain very impressed by the Ryzen 9000 (Zen 5) series desktop processors more than one month into constant testing with these Granite Ridge chips. One of the areas I hadn't explored until now but made me curious given the mixed messaging around gaming was how well workstation graphics workloads were performing with the new processors. For this brief weekend article is a look at the workstation graphics performance between the Ryzen 9 9950X and former Ryzen 9 7950X/7950X3D processors.

4 more misc. stories

Debian picks for the weekend

hardware, devices etc.

first big batch for today

"We have released version 7.1.1 of Texinfo, the GNU documentation format. This is a minor bug-fix release."