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      Raspberry Pi Preparing To Introduce A Smart Display Module

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 January 2026

    Raspberry Pi is gearing up to launch another new product: a Raspberry Pi Smart Display Module...
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      SoniceDE Looks To Preserve & Improve The X11-Specific KDE Code

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 January 2026

    In light of Plasma 6.8 looking to go Wayland-exclusive and retire their X11 session support, SonicDE (formerly "KDE-Lite") is getting off the ground as a fork of the relevant X11 support within the KDE desktop...
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      FreeRDP 3.22 Released With Overhauled SDL-Based Client UI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 January 2026

    FreeRDP 3.22 was just released as the newest version of this Apache-licensed open-source Remote Desktop protocol (RDP) implementation for interfacing with another computer over the network...
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      RFC Patches Posted For Klint Integration With The Linux Kernel: Rust-Based Linting Tool

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 January 2026

    A request for comments (RFC) patch series was sent out today for providing Klint integration with the Linux kernel. Klint is a new linting tool written in the Rust programming language that helps with static code analysis for errors/bugs as well as code styling inconsistencies...
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      Apple M3 Progress On Linux: Asahi Can Boot To KDE Desktop - But No GPU Acceleration Yet

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 January 2026

    While the Asahi Linux project has made good progress on bringing Linux to Apple Silicon hardware, much of the success and in turn upstreaming to the Linux kernel has been around the aging M1 and M2 Macs. Apple M3 and newer has been a struggle but progress is being made. One of the Asahi Linux developers shared the ability now to boot to the KDE Plasma desktop with the experimental Asahi Linux code on an M3 MacBook but without any GPU acceleration yet...
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      New Intel Linux Driver Workaround Halves Initial Game Load Time For MHW

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January 2026

    In addition to Mesa 26.1 today seeing Vulkan present timing support finally merged to help reduce game stuttering and separately another long-in-development Mesa merge request for DG2 / Meteor Lake to improve performance as much as 260% in some scenarios, there is another merge today to Mesa Git for enhancing Intel graphics on Linux. For Intel Linux gamers the newest Mesa code adds a new DriConf workaround that is capable of halving the initial game load time for at least one problematic game title...
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      GStreamer 1.28 Released With More Rust Code

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January 2026

    GStreamer 1.28 is out today as the newest feature release for this widely-used, open-source multimedia framework...
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      GNU C Library Moving From Sourceware To Linux Foundation Hosted CTI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January 2026

    GNU C Library "glibc" developers have decided to move ahead with plans of migrating their core services from Sourcware.org infrastructure over to the Core Toolchain Infrastructure "CTI" project hosted by the Linux Foundation...
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      KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta 2 Released For Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January 2026

    Following the KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta from two weeks ago, a second beta of the upcoming Plasma 6.6 desktop is now available for testing. KDE Plasma 6.6 stable remains on-track for a mid-February release...