KDE marked its 30th anniversary with the release of Plasma 6.8, which drops the X11 session, according to The Register. The milestone was also accompanied by an Akademy talk proposing an AI-native des…
KDE closed Nate Graham's proposed LLM usage guidelines on September 21, two days after opening them for discussion on September 19, following push-back from developers and the wider community. The dra…
Longtime KDE contributors Eva Brucherseifer and Jan Muehlig will present a talk titled "What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE" at the Akademy conference in Graz, Austria, on Sunday, …
Lsfg-vk 2.0, the Linux implementation of Lossless Scaling's frame generation, has been officially released, introducing a new bindless pipeline that cuts memory usage to 30% of previous levels and boo…
Homebrew maintainer Mike McQuaid argues that open source must remain fun to survive, citing his 17 years of maintaining the package manager without burnout as evidence that volunteer-run projects thri…
A user fixed driver issues on a 2010 MacBook Pro running Gentoo Linux by using Codex (likely a reference to OpenAI's Codex or a similar AI tool), which generated kernel patches that resolved graphics …
Desktopmcp, a new MCP server for the Linux desktop, gives AI models access to the desktop through 144 tools via XDG Desktop Portals, AT-SPI, and D-Bus, enabling visual and semantic interaction with th…
Cate v1.0, a spatial desktop IDE built on an infinite canvas, has been released for developers. The Electron app replaces traditional window management by allowing users to arrange code editors, termi…
The article explains that "long-term support" (LTS) in Linux distributions primarily means receiving security fixes for a set number of years, not guaranteed stability or fewer bugs. It clarifies that…
FreeBSD is transitioning toward Wayland as X11 becomes legacy, particularly for desktop and laptop use. It highlights a recently updated guide by Dolce Far Niente for setting up KDE with Wayland on a …
This article provides a guide for configuring the Dolphin file manager and KDE file picker to function properly on the Niri compositor in Arch Linux. It details necessary packages, environment variabl…