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Budgie 10.10.4 Desktop Environment Released with More Improvements

Coming a month after Budgie 10.10.3, the Budgie 10.10.4 release overhauls panel automatic hiding and dock mode as hidden panels now stay above windows and reappear when you move the mouse to the screen edge, panels set to hide no longer reserve screen space, and a new Super+T shortcut shows the panel in full-screen apps.

Trinity Desktop Environment R14.1.7 Is Out with Support for Ubuntu 26.10

Coming seven months after Trinity Desktop Environment R14.1.6, the Trinity Desktop Environment R14.1.7 release introduces support for recent GNU/Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu 26.10, while dropping support for older, unsupported Linux distros, including Ubuntu 24.10, Fedora 42, Mageia 9, and openSUSE Leap 15.6.

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Linux Kernel 7.2 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 7.3

Linux kernel 7.2 was released on August 16th, 2026, introducing new features like cache-aware load-balancing support, initial HDMI 2.1 FRL support to the AMDGPU driver, support for devres-based management of ACPI notify handlers, initial CRI platform support for the Intel Xe driver, and Rust support for the IBM System/390 (S/390) architecture.

PorteuX 2.9 Released with Linux 7.3, KDE Plasma 6.8, GNOME 51, and COSMIC 1.11

Coming more than two months after PorteuX 2.8, the PorteuX 2.9 release is powered by the latest and greatest Linux 7.3 kernel series and features the latest KDE Plasma 6.8.2, GNOME 51.1, COSMIC 1.11, Xfce 4.20, LXQt 2.4, Cinnamon 6.6.9, MATE 1.28.2, and LXDE 0.11.1 desktop environments as standalone flavors.

Kwi Is a New Ghostty-Based GPU-Accelerated Terminal Emulator for KDE Plasma

Meet Kwi (pronounced “kwee”), a new GPU-accelerated terminal emulator that follows the latest KDE HIG and UI conventions, built on the libghostty-vt library from the Ghostty project, Kirigami, and KDE Frameworks. Compared to Konsole, KDE’s venerable terminal emulator, Kwi promises up to 35x faster performance that should reduce battery usage.

OpenShot 4.1 Video Editor Is Out with Native ARM64 Linux Builds and Text Editing

Coming two months after OpenShot 4.0, the OpenShot 4.1 release revamps the text workflow by creating text clips immediately at the playhead, adding support for editing text directly in the preview window with no external editor required, a floating style bar for the font, size, color, and alignment, and exposing typography options in the Properties dock.

Linux Mint Devs Introduce New System Monitor and Terminal Emulator Apps

Meet Superlight, a new system monitor app for Linux Mint that features graphs for CPU, RAM, swap, GPU, network, disk I/O, temperature, and fan speed. The app shows how much of the system’s resources each application uses, and the same data is available for all running processes, with a large variety of columns you can sort and reorder.

Enlightenment 0.28 Desktop Adds PipeWire Support, NetworkManager Module

Coming seven and a half months after Enlightenment 0.27, the Enlightenment 0.28 release introduces a new NetworkManager module that supports Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Bluetooth networking, and VPNs, with network signal strength, security indicators, connection details, tooltips, and saved connection management.

Linux Lite 8.2 Released with Linux Kernel 7.3, Based on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

Still based on the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) operating system series and featuring the Xfce 4.20 desktop environment, Linux Lite 8.2 is powered by the latest and greatest Linux kernel 7.3, a major update compared to the Linux 7.0 kernel shipped in Linux Lite 8.0, for better hardware support.

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Agilex 2X FPGA portfolio supports PCIe 7.0 and QuartusIQ AI design tool

Agilex 2X is Altera’s latest FPGA and SoC portfolio, consisting of four device families for applications ranging from industrial control to high-performance computing. The first announced family, Agilex 27, incorporates 256Gbps transceivers, PCIe 7.0 support, and a distributed HyperFlow data network. The company has also released QuartusIQ, an AI-assisted development tool integrated into Quartus Prime Pro 26.3.

Tiny Linux box packs Panther Lake, Arc graphics and dual 2.5GbE

The Nano Pro Gen15 is a compact Linux mini PC powered by Intel’s Core Ultra X7 358H processor with integrated Arc B390 graphics. Developed by TUXEDO Computers, the system supports up to 128GB of DDR5 memory, dual NVMe SSDs, four 4K displays, and dual 2.5GbE connectivity. It can be used for software development, local AI workloads, and home server applications.

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  1. Links 03/05/2026: Insolvent US Bailing Out Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Oracle, OpenAI, and SpaceX
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  2. All-Time Lows for Windows in Spain and Portugal
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  3. SLAPP Censorship - Part 65 Out of 200: Graveley and Garrett Claims Are Word-by-Word Similar (They Also Collaborated All Along)
    We'll keep it short today
  4. IBM Has a Long and Rich History of Showing Chatbots Bear No Business Prospects (From Jeopardy to Watson Healthcare and McDonalds)
    Watson Healthcare is already in the dustpan, so they are rebranding it again
  5. Europe Decoupling is Bad News for GAFAM, Especially Bad to Microsoft
    Countries want independence
  6. India Needs to Recognise That the World Wide Web is Monoculture in India
    In the US, a judge with Indian roots dealt with a case related to this; why won't India?
  7. All-Time Lows for Windows Down Under
    seeing the demise of Windows in Australia (historically a slow or low adopter of GNU/Linux) is good news
  8. Linux Kernel Tainted by Software Patents That Make Linux Worse and the 'Linux' Foundation is Compiling Bribes to Enable This (Promotion of Monopolies and Tolerance of Software Patenting)
    Why you need to reboot when a serious bug is found in Linux? "Licencing"...
  9. IBM's Kyndryl Accounting Fraud Explained and More Recently the Insiders Talk About Mass Layoffs
    Judging by how the media totally ignored 800+ layoffs at IBM's Confluent and 400+ layoffs at Red Hat a few weeks ago don't expect to hear anything about Kyndryl layoffs
  10. Links 03/05/2026: Water Shortages Crises and Slop Fakes "Are Coming for Your Bank Account" (Slop-Enabled Fraud)
    Links for the day
  11. The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XI - EPO 'Products' to Cement Asian and American Monopolies
    Only a fool would believe Lame Duck Campinos
  12. Microsoft Windows Falls Below 9% in South Africa
    As one can expect, GNU/Linux is measured as going up in France
  13. Gemini Links 03/05/2026: The Black Side of the Web, LiveJournal, Chimarrão
    Links for the day
  14. A Month Since Mass Layoffs at Red Hat (400+ Engineers Laid Off), The Media Didn't Cover It
    We are very concerned about the state of the media
  15. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  16. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 02, 2026
    IRC logs for Saturday, May 02, 2026
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