GNU/Linux, KDE, EasyOS, and More
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Games
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TouchOSC native Linux touch support arrives; demo on SteamDeck
Hexler has done it. Every single platform of this multi-touch MIDI and OSC control app now has native multi-touch support: Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and now Linux. And what better way to show it off than on a SteamDeck?
TouchOSC has had a breakneck release cadence since Hexler introduced an overhauled next-generation version in 2021. This should come as good news to anyone feeling hurt by the steep subscription pricing of Lemur’s relaunch earlier this week. I suspect it might also hint at the issue with Lemur: digging through old code can be a massive time suck.
TouchOSC is the go-to for most touch control applications, bolstered by a rich library of out-of-the-box support and pre-built layouts for popular software. And now there’s native Linux support, which means compatibility with new gaming PCs like SteamDeck, plus various other displays and devices. (The kernel folks have as always been baking a lot of drivers on the Linux side.)
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Desktop Environments/WMs
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K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt
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Volker Krause ☛ December/January in KDE Itinerary
Since the last update two month ago KDE Itinerary got UI redesigns in a few areas and a number of important improvements for accessing public transport information.
The most visible change this time is the redesign of the timeline and public transport search result views done by Carl. This improves having all relevant information available in the limited screen space. And it looks a lot better too.
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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Barry Kauler ☛ Fix again snapshots saving /var
See this blog post a couple of days ago:
Caramel reported a problem with that fix, so had another go at it, see github: [...]
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Barry Kauler ☛ More Russian translations
I don't always announce language translation contributions on this blog. Today received more ru translations from from Dmitry (forum member Maybe).
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PCLinuxOS
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PCLinuxOS Magazine ☛ PCLinuxOS Screenshot Showcase
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PCLinuxOS Magazine ☛ Good Words, Good Deeds, Good News
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PCLinuxOS Magazine ☛ From The Chief Editor's Desk...
About a week after the New Year, we got hit with round #1 of the arctic fronts. That one dumped about 10” (25.4 cm) of snow on us here where I live in the Kansas City area. Meemaw, by contrast, barely got any.
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SUSE/OpenSUSE
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Dominique Leuenberger ☛ Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2025/05
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
It seemed like a quiet week to me. Probably people are getting ready to meet up in Brussels for FOSDEM. Make sure to visit the booth area and talk to the people there.
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Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications
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The Verge ☛ This crowdfunded E Ink QWERTY phone isn’t vaporware after all
When the Minimal Phone was first announced this time last year, you might have been forgiven for thinking it was vaporware. But one year — and many delays — later, the world’s first Android phone with both an E Ink display and a physical QWERTY keyboard has begun shipping to backers.
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