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📰 Experimental Code Enables Per-Monitor Backgrounds For GNOME Shell

One of the limitations of GNOME's current multi-monitor handling is that the same background is used across the displays. For those that want to enjoy per-monitor background selection, some experimental / proof-of-concept code is now working to allow such per-monitor backgrounds to work with the modern GNOME desktop...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/PoC-Per-Background-GNOME

#gnome

📰 Calibre 9.10 Open-Source E-Book Manager Brings New UI to the Content Server

Calibre 9.10 open-source e-book management software is now available for download with a new "modern" interface for the Content Server that features a sidebar for easier navigation and other changes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/calibre-9-10-open-source-e-book-manager-brings-new-ui-to-the-content-server

#opensource

📰 Coreboot 26.06 Brings Support For Intel Nova Lake, AMD Strix Halo & 31 New Boards

Coreboot 26.06 is out today as the latest quarterly feature release for this software project providing open-source system firmware support for a growing number of platforms...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-26.06-Released

#amd #intel #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

📰 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

📰 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

📰 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

📰 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

📰 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

📰 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

📰 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

📰 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

📰 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

📰 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

📰 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

📰 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

📰 AMD Contributes ONNX Runtime Backend To FFmpeg DNN Filter

An AMD engineer has contributed to the upstream FFmpeg library an ONNX Runtime back-end for its DNN filter. The FFmpeg Deep Neural Network (DNN) filters allow for running AI models natively inside the video processing pipeline for upscaling, object detection, background segmentation, and more. This ONNX Runntime back-end support is notable in that it expands the GPU and NPU capabilities with FFmpeg...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-DNN-ONNX-Runtime

#amd #ffmpeg

📰 KSMBD Adds SMB2 Compression Support In Linux 7.2

Merged back in Linux 5.15 in 2021 was KSMBD as an in-kernel SMB3 file server. There hasn't been much KSMBD news to report on recently but for Linux 7.2 there is now SMB2 compression support...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-KSMBD

#kernel #linux

📰 Proton Experimental updated for ARC Raiders, DIRT 5, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

On top of landing AMD FSR 4 support, an update was pushed out after for Proton Experimental to fix up a fix other issues running games on Linux / SteamOS.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/proton-experimental-updated-for-arc-raiders-dirt-5-kingdom-come-deliverance-ii/

#amd #linux #proton