📰 A 30-Year-Old GIMP Build Used to Create Tux Is Now a Linux Flatpak

GIMP 0.54.1, the 1996 build used to create the original Tux mascot, has been revived as a Flatpak for modern Linux systems.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/a-30-year-old-gimp-build-used-to-create-tux-is-now-a-linux-flatpak/

#flatpak #linux

📰 I turned an old Android phone into a home server, and it outperformed my Raspberry Pi

I have used Raspberry Pi boards for years. They remain one of the easiest ways to get started with self-hosting, home automation, and small server projects. My experience with Raspberry Pi boards has generally been positive, but they come with a few limitations. Performance can become a bottleneck once you start running multiple services. Storage performance also depends heavily on the medium you use. MicroSD cards remain among the weakest...

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/old-android-phone-home-server-beat-raspberry-pi/

#android #raspberry

📰 Linux Cache Aware Scheduling Extended For Even Better Performance: Up To 360% In MySQL

Cache Aware Scheduling is one of the most exciting kernel innovations to land in Linux this year. While it was finally merged last week to Linux 7.2, a new patch series today is already working to extend Cache Aware Scheduling and is showing some exciting performance improvements...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Extended-Cache-Aware-Sched

#kernel #linux

📰 Getting More Out of KDE Plasma System Monitor

The k in KDE stands for "Kustomization" so let's "kustomize" the default system monitor.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17367829/kde-system-monitor-tweaks

#kde #plasma

📰 Network-wide ad blocking with a Raspberry Pi Zero is easier than you think, but the Wi-Fi problem is real

A Raspberry Pi Zero makes network-wide ad blocking easy, but its lack of Ethernet can turn a simple Pi-hole setup into a compromise.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/network-wide-ad-blocking-raspberry-pi-zero-wifi-problem/

#raspberry

📰 Servo 0.3 Released With The Demo Browser Becoming More Useful

Servo 0.3 released today as the latest version of this modern browser engine developed in Rust. With Servo 0.3 the demo servoshell browser is becoming more useful and supporting additional modern web features while Servo also continues to possess much potential moving forward on the embedded front as an alternative to the likes of the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF)...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-0.3-Released

#chromium

📰 Simplifying Bluetooth qualification for Linux/BlueZ: New upstream documentation

New upstream BlueZ documentation helps simplify Bluetooth qualification for Linux-based products by mapping supported profiles, test requirements, software versions, and manual steps in one place.

🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2026/05/26/simplifying-bluetooth-qualification-for-linux-bluez-new-upstream-documentation/

#linux #linuxbased

📰 Purism Announces Librem 16 as World’s Most Private and Secure Linux Laptop

Purism announced the launch of Librem 16 as the world’s most private and secure Linux laptop designed to protect your digital life.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/purism-announces-librem-16-as-worlds-most-private-and-secure-linux-laptop

#linux

📰 Academy Software Foundation Announces The "Wayland For Artists Working Group"

The Academy Software Foundation that advances open-source efforts for the VFX/cinema industry and more with the likes of OpenVDB, OpenMoonRay, Open Shading Language, and other projects, has announced the formation of a new working group to help with Wayland adoption for artists...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-For-Artists

#opensource #wayland

📰 Academy Software Foundation Announces The "Wayland For Artists Working Group"

The Academy Software Foundation that advances open-source efforts for the VFX/cinema industry and more with the likes of OpenVDB, OpenMoonRay, Open Shading Language, and other projects, has announced the formation of a new working group to help with Wayland adoption for artists...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-For-Artists

#opensource #wayland

📰 This little $239 PC has an (old) Intel Xeon processor and discrete graphics

There are two ways PC makers can offer low-cost computers. One is to use newer components that are designed to be cheap. Another is to select older components that used to cost a lot of money, but which can now be purchased at a discount. So while many companies offering budget laptops and mini PCs have .

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/this-little-239-pc-has-an-old-intel-xeon-processor-and-discrete-graphics/

#intel

📰 DXVK 3.0 Released With DXBC-SPIRV For Shader Compilation, Descriptor Heaps By Default

Philip Rebohle announced the release today of DXVK 3.0 as the latest major feature release for this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation atop the Vulkan API for use by Wine and Valve's Steam Play (Proton)...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/DXVK-3.0-Release

#proton #steam #wine

📰 Linux Foundation & Others Launch "Akrites" To Defend Open-Source Software From AI-Enabled Exploits

The Linux Foundation along with others like Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Red Hat, and others have joined forces to launch Akrites. The Akrites project is aiming to help defend critical open-source software from the brisk pace of new AI/LLM-discovered software bugs and vulnerabilities in ensuring that said issues are effectively addressed before they can be exploited by bad actors...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Akrites

#linux #opensource

📰 Fed up with complex note taking apps? Try Whisp for Linux

New GTK4/libadwaita app Whisp is positioning itself as the note-taking app for people fed up with note-taking apps (the best one is always the next one, right?). Scratch that; Whisp pitches itself as “the anti-note for GNOME”, a riff on Antinote, a macOS app with a similar look and feature set. Developer Tanay Bhomia describes it as “a fluid, gesture-driven scratchpad designed for absolute speed”.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/whisp-linux-scratchpad

#gnome #linux