today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 20, 2025

• Server

  • Kubernetes Blog ☛ Kubernetes 1.35: In-Place Pod Resize Graduates to Stable

    This release marks a major step: more than 6 years after its initial conception, the In-Place Pod Resize feature (also known as In-Place Pod Vertical Scaling), first introduced as alpha in Kubernetes v1.27, and graduated to beta in Kubernetes v1.33, is now stable (GA) in Kubernetes 1.35!

    This graduation is a major milestone for improving resource efficiency and flexibility for workloads running on Kubernetes.

  • Linuxiac ☛ Incus 6.20 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released

    Incus 6.20 delivers new clustering, storage, and VM enhancements, including reliable snapshots on clustered LVM and improved administration tools.

• Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization

  • Linux.org ☛ Updating your Linux Kernel: Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, and Arch

    Most times, an updated kernel can make a system more stable by including updates and fixes to previous kernel builds.
    For some, you may have software or device drivers that work, or are part of your kernel, only with specific kernels, but usually this is not the case.
    

• Applications

  • Linux Handbook ☛ LHB GNU/Linux Digest #25.39: What You Get in 2026 and The Last Chance of 2025

    Ending 2025 on a high note.

  • HowTo Geek ☛ 3 cool and useful Linux apps to try this weekend (December 19 - 21)

    No Linux operating system is complete without a suite of handy software. This week I found some legitimately useful apps you can install on your system, including a planetarium for stargazing, a library of internet radio, and a way to learn terminal commands faster.

    While it doesn't always work out this way, these apps all have a common theme. The software this week all help you pick out individual items in a vast array of things so that you can understand them better. Whether you're looking at stars, radio stations, or command lines, these apps give you a way to pinpoint all of them.

• Games

  • Boiling Steam ☛ New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients, including Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy and Terminator 2D No Fate - 2025-12-17 Edition

    Between 2025-12-10 and 2025-12-17 there were 63 New Steam games released with Native GNU/Linux clients. For reference, during the same time, there were 654 games released for backdoored Windows on Steam, so the GNU/Linux versions represent about 9.6 % of total released titles. As we are getting close to Christmas, there’s quite a few good releases, such as Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy, which is apparently a great party-based RPG. And then retro action fans may want to consider Terminator 2D No Fate, a new rendition of the classic James Cameron movie, made with 2D graphics but better than all the Terminator 2 games we got back in the days.

  • Linuxiac ☛ Steam Client Now Runs Fully 64-Bit on backdoored Windows 10 and 11 [Ed: Why does Linuxiac cover DRM and Windows news now? Where's "Linux"?]

    The Steam client is now 64-bit on backdoored Windows 10 and 11, while 32-bit backdoored Windows systems will continue receiving updates until 2026.

• Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)

  • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

    • Kartik Mistry: KDE Needs You!

      * KDE Randa Meetings and make a donation!

      I know that my contributions to KDE are minimal at this stage, but hey, I’m doing my part this time for sure!