Sparky Linux Is Debian With Non-GNOME Desktops
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Collabora has announced two developments for open-source Arm Mali GPU support, with its Rust-based Kraid compiler becoming the default for newer Mali architectures in Mesa 27.0 and the Tyr kernel driver reaching a firmware-boot milestone in Linux 7.3. The updates improve shader compilation efficiency while advancing Rust-based GPU driver development in the Linux kernel.
DietPi v10.8 introduces a dedicated WireGuard management utility, named software package identifiers, and an updated HAProxy installation package. The October release also improves network configuration, expands storage device support on Quartz64 platforms, and addresses several bugs affecting system management and applications.
The Espressif ESP-Mosaico is an expandable smart-interaction development kit based on the ESP32-S31 microcontroller. The compact device integrates a 2.16-inch square touch display, audio hardware, motion and magnetic sensors, NAND storage, haptic feedback and dual expansion interfaces for HMI, edge voice and multimedia applications.
Meet Thelio Prime, a new mini Linux PC from System76 that features an AMD Ryzen 9000 Series processor with AMD Radeon integrated graphics, or a dedicated NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics card. It also comes with up to 96 GB dual-channel DDR5 RAM and up to 8 TB M.2 PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD drives.
Coming two weeks after Mesa 26.2.5, the Mesa 26.2.6 release brings fixes to AMD’s RADV Vulkan driver by addressing a VMA heap size error in the descriptor sets allocator, two memory leaks when pool entry allocation fails, and a stack size overwrite on partial ray tracing cache hits.
Coming six months after Scribus 1.6.6, the Scribus 1.6.7 release addresses seven security vulnerabilities discovered in Scribus’s image loaders and import filters, ranging from heap and integer overflows to out-of-bounds reads and access, so these alone are a solid reason to update your Scribus installations today.
Continuing its fast, two-week release cycle, Mozilla Thunderbird 159 is here to update the tray icon support for Linux systems to indicate unread mail and show the message count in the tooltip, and to introduce automatic detection of graph calendars when creating a new account.
Coming a week after KDE Plasma 6.8.1, the KDE Plasma 6.8.2 release improves the Activity Switcher sidebar to no longer stretch wallpaper images on screens without a 16:9 aspect ratio, showing the wallpaper faithfully and cropping it if needed instead.
For Linux users, Mozilla Firefox 159 improves memory usage on AMD GPU systems when viewing map or place results, fixes that very annoying tab detaching into a new window issue on Wayland, and fixes an issue with menus and panels fading in when animation effects are turned off in the operating system.
Mozilla Firefox 160 promises a new playback speed setting to the Picture-in-Picture player with options ranging from 0.25x to 2.0x speed, support for playing Matroska (MKV) files with FLAC, MP3, or PCM audio, and the ability to drag history entries from the sidebar to the tab strip to open them in new tabs.
Coming four months after Kali Linux 2026.2, the Kali Linux 2026.3 release is powered by the Linux 7.1 kernel series and introduces support for the KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment. Of course, Xfce 4.20 remains Kali Linux’s default desktop environment.