GNOME OS Preview: GNOME Wants to Be a Real Distro
If you’ve ever wanted a Linux box that just updates itself and stays out of the way, this is the one to watch. Until now GNOME…
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The Next Omarchy Gives Every Monitor Its Own Workspaces
If you run more than one screen on Omarchy, this is the change to watch. Ryan Hughes merged a PR on October 18 that gives every…
Snapdragon Laptops Get Hardware Video Decoding in the Next Omarchy
Good news for Omarchy on ARM: Birk Skyum merged a change on October 17 that moves video decoding on Snapdragon laptops onto the video chip in…
The Next Omarchy Gets Japanese, Chinese and Korean Typing Right
Omarchy is already being translated into 50 languages. Now it’s learning to type the hard ones properly. A PR titled “Perfect Japanese, Chinese and Korean setups,”…
Tokyo Roadster: A Tokyo Night Omarchy Theme That Got DHH and Elon Talking
Tom Ballard (@tcballard) gave the Tesla Roadster the Tokyo Night treatment, and it turned into a fun little moment on X. What happened Tom posted “Tokyo…
Linux 7.4 Preview: HDMI 2.1 for AMD, Faster AI on AMD iGPUs and More
Linux 7.3 is due as stable today, which means the 7.4 merge window opens right after. Phoronix has a preview of what’s lined up. Highlights AMDGPU…
KDE Plasma 6.9 Starts Taking Shape: New Weather Widget and On-Screen Keyboard
Plasma 6.8 shipped earlier this week, and work on 6.9 is already moving. Weather widget overhaul: a better layout and more forecast detail, pulled from Open-Meteo.…
Update: Meta’s 816B Muse Spark Open Runs on Three Old Omarchy Laptops and a Mac Studio
Update to my earlier post, Meta’s Muse Spark Open: 816B Open Weights, Two Mac Studios. When Meta released the weights, Mark Zuckerberg said the model “runs…
GNOME’s Moose 0.6: Local AI Chat With Ollama, Now With Cloud Options
Moose is a GNOME-native AI chat app built on GTK4 and libadwaita. It started as a local chat app and has grown into cloud providers too.…
MeshXFS: A Clustered File System Where AI Wrote All the New Code
Here’s one that’ll start arguments. MeshXFS is a GPL-2.0 POSIX clustered file system where, per its creator Steve Shoecraft, “no human wrote any of its own…