With the wonderful KDE Plasma 6.8 having shipped just more than one week ago, KDE developers are beginning to go heavy on new features for Plasma 6.9.

Most excitingly for the week, the KWin's compositor support for Wayland's Picture-In-Picture (PIP) protocol has been declared stable and enabled by default for Plasma 6.9. Web browsers and other users of the Wayland picture-in-picture support can now enjoy a nice out-of-the-box experience with Plasma 6.9:

Seems like a good time to learn rust

It's for reducing RAM usage on servers

It's for reducing RAM usage on servers

More Huge Fixes for Cosmic

More Huge Fixes for Cosmic

Whilst I want to switch to ARM, the cool thing about RISC-V is that it is royalty free, so maybe the future one day.

This one is server grade

A small update to the Audacious music player is out, with its Qt Winamp interface now offering ‘feature parity’ with the GTK version.

This likely won't really affect anyone, and is a good thing. Hopefully it helps speed up arm development further without this code getting in the way.

Endian affects the order that memory is used basically

The Linux 7.3 kernel is expected to be released as stable later today and with that version there are many exciting changes and improvements. However, the Linux 7.4 kernel merge window will then open up and there are even more exciting changes expected to be merged for this follow-on kernel cycle. Here is a preview of some of the many exciting feature changes expected for Linux 7.4.

This is a Linux kernel which is entirely free. And they're launching their 7.3 version for those who want a completely open source kernel on their system

The Linux 7.3 kernel is out today for an on-time release of this next stable kernel version.

Over the past week the bug/regression fixes, including the continued flow of AI/LLM churn, continued hitting Linux Git ahead of this stable debut. Some of the material merged over this past week included a fix for some varying, rare SMP boot hangs going back to 2024, workarounds for the Samsung 990 PRO and 990 EVO Plus SSDs on select firmware versions lying about capabilities, Darrick Wong stepping down after 23 years being heavily involved in Linux kernel development, and other fixes.

Linux 7.3 delivers many exciting improvements from faster I/O on modern systems to more AMD Zen 6 platform preparations, Steam Controller 2026 kernel driver support, improvements for older AMD GPUs, improved vRAM management for those on systems with limited video memory capacity, and a lot of other exciting work. See the Linux 7.3 feature list for the more exhaustive look at the many exciting changes for Linux 7.3.

Congratulations to the Linux Kernel Team on another release

A new version of the Tiling Shell GNOME extension is out, adding support for GNOME 51 and a faster way to tile app windows using nothing but your mouse.

Servo's August status report has finally appeared for outlining progress made on this open-source, Rust-based browser engine. This follows the recent release of the Servo 0.6 software, including the Servoshell demo browser