📰 KDE Plasma 6.7.6 Released with KWin Crash Fixes, Desktop Improvements

KDE Plasma 6.7.6 fixes KWin crashes, screen-locking issues, power management bugs, and several desktop stability problems.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-7-6-released-with-kwin-crash-fixes-desktop-improvements/

#kde #plasma

📰 Chimera Linux Releases New ISOs with Kernel 7.3, GNOME 51, and Plasma 6.8

Chimera Linux refreshes its installation images with Linux kernel 7.3, GNOME 51, KDE Plasma 6.8, and NetworkManager replacing iwd.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/chimera-linux-releases-new-isos-with-kernel-7-3-gnome-51-plasma-6-8/

#gnome #kde #kernel #linux #plasma

📰 Linux 7.3: Color format control, Tyr progress, and more

Collabora authored 111 patches for Linux 7.3, spanning DRM core, Rust, MediaTek, Rockchip, and more. Highlights include a new color format property, per-connector hotplug events, sparse mappings in Panthor, and continued progress on Tyr.

🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/linux-73-color-format-control-tyr-progress-and-more.html

#linux #rust

📰 Linux's file permissions are over 50 years old, and three letters still decide who can touch every file on your PC

You can see them in action with a single console command.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/linuxs-file-permissions-50-years-old-three-letters-still-decide-who-can-touch-file-pc/

#linux

📰 Domicile Desktop Brings Web Technologies To Building Wayland Desktops

Domicile is a new Wayland compositor that leverages Chromium for allowing custom Linux desktops to be built using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/TypeScript...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Domicile-Desktop-Wayland

#chromium #linux #wayland

📰 AMD on track to overtake Intel as biggest x86 outfit

CEO says supply chain can cope with surging datacenter and AI demand.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/11/04/amd-on-track-to-overtake-intel-as-biggest-x86-outfit/5307448

#amd #intel

📰 SteamOS 0.5.7 Beta for Steam Frame brings WebXR, improved settings and more

Valve just released SteamOS 0.5.7 Beta for Steam Frame bringing with it some settings changes, along with support for WebXR with Chromium.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/steamos-0-5-7-beta-for-steam-frame-brings-webxr-improved-settings-and-more/

#chromium #steam

📰 Bazzite 45 arrives powered by Fedora Linux 45 for gamers

Bazzite Linux is one of the best ways to get Linux on various handhelds, with Bazzite 45 out now powered by the newly released Fedora Linux 45.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/bazzite-45-arrives-powered-by-fedora-linux-45-for-gamers/

#fedora #linux

📰 Experimental Project Gets Intel XeSS On XMX Working With Valve's Steam Play (Proton)

Last month I wrote about Intel working on adding proper XeSS support to Steam Play (Proton). While those efforts haven't yet been completed for benefiting Linux gamers running Intel Arc Graphics, in the meantime an independent open-source developer has managed to get XMX-accelerated XeSS working under Proton...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-XeSS-On-XMX-Proton

#intel #linux #opensource #proton #steam

📰 Google Issues Patches for Critical Android Flaw That Could Allow RCE Without User Interaction

A critical Android flaw could allow an attacker to run code on a phone without any user action remotely, Google said in its November security bulletin.The flaw, CVE-2026-58868, affects Android 14 through 17. Phones get the fix with security patch level 2026-11-01 or later, which phone makers and carriers send on their own schedules.As of November 4, Google's bulletin did not report.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/11/google-patches-critical-android-flaw.html

#android

📰 AMD Releases ZenDNN 6.1 With New Kernels & Optimizations

Last month Intel and AMD jointly announced they would be collaborating on software optimizations with PyTorch/oneDNN. That already led to the UXL Foundation's release of oneDNN 3.14 with initial AMD Zen optimizations. It looks though like for now at least AMD will also continue to concurrently push new work into their ZenDNN library and not exclusively tied to oneDNN. Out today is ZenDNN 6.1...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ZenDNN-6.1

#amd #intel

📰 Kitty 0.50 Terminal Emulator Adds Session Restoration, Dockable Windows

Kitty 0.50 introduces automatic session restoration, dockable terminal windows, improved tab management, and Wayland enhancements.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/kitty-0-50-terminal-emulator-adds-session-restoration-dockable-windows/

#wayland