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📰Glass UI Is Making a Comeback on Linux — Thanks to KDE For those who never warmed up to Breeze, Oxygen and Air are shaping up to be compelling alternatives again. 🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17315702/kde-plasma-oxygen-air-comeback #kde#linux

📰 Arch Linux Users Can Now Upgrade to GNOME 50 GNOME 50 is now available for Arch Linux users, bringing the latest desktop release to systems ready for upgrade. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/arch-linux-users-can-now-upgrade-to-gnome-50 #linux#arch#gnome

📰Online Open Source OS Puter Becomes More Awesome With Office Offering A full functional operating system in the web browser. From coding tools to office suite, it has everything. 🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17315665/puter-office-integration #opensource

📰 GParted Live 1.8.1-3 Released with Linux Kernel 6.19.10 and GParted 1.8.1 GParted Live 1.8.1-3 Debian-based live system for performing disk partitioning tasks using the GParted partition editor is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.19. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/gparted-live-1-8-1-3-released-with-linux-kernel-6-19-10-and-gparted-1-8-1 #linux#kernel#debian

📰 Jay: A New Open-Source Shader Compiler Being Developed For Intel GPUs Jay is a new open-source shader compiler being developed for Intel's open-source OpenGL and Vulkan Linux drivers. Ultimately this Jay shader compiler should help in delivering better Linux graphics performance with modern Intel hardware... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Jay-Mesa-Shader-Compiler #linux#opensource#intel

📰 Flatpak 1.16.4 Fixes Critical Sandbox Escape Vulnerability Flatpak 1.16.4 addresses a critical sandbox escape vulnerability that could allow host file access and code execution, along with three additional security issues. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/flatpak-1-16-4-fixes-critical-sandbox-escape-vulnerability/ #flatpak

📰 AMD InterWave ISA Sound Card Driver Seeing New Linux Patches In 2026 For those that like to make remarks about AMD "fine wine" especially when it comes to open-source Linux drivers and/or nostalgic about feature work on really old hardware, to much amusement there are new patches today for the AMD InterWave ISA sound card from the 1990s... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-InterWave-2026-Linux- #linux#amd#opensource

📰 Immich 2.7 Photo and Video Management Solution Brings Better Duplicate Handling Immich 2.7 enhances duplicate management, introduces CSP support, improves the asset viewer, and resolves Safari live photo download issues. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/immich-2-7-brings-better-duplicate-handling/ #immich

📰 Linux kernel maintainers are following through on removing Intel 486 support Linux devs think even one second spent on 486 support is a second too many. 🔗 Source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/linux-kernel-maintainers-are-following-through-on-removing-intel-486-support/ #linux#kernel#intel

📰 Debian’s APT 3.2 Released with History, Undo, Redo, and Rollback Support APT 3.2 package manager for Debian-based distributions is now available with native rollback, undo, redo, and history features. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/debians-apt-3-2-released-with-history-undo-redo-and-rollback-support #debian

📰 GIMP finally made me switch to this free alternative, and I'm not going back Since I could remember, GIMP has always been recommended as the free and open-source Photoshop alternative, and for good reason. I’m not here to downplay its abilities, it’s clearly a super capable editor that holds its own against paid software. While its functionality isn’t perfect on all fronts, my problem was never really with what it was capable of doing - it’s the experience of actually doing it. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/gimp-made-me-switch-to-free-editor-not-going-back/ #opensource

📰 Intel QAT Driver With Linux 7.1 Adding Zstd Offload Support The Intel QuickAssist "QAT" driver for the mainline Linux 7.1 kernel is adding support for Zstd offloading across QuickAssist Gen 4 / Gen 5 / Gen 6 accelerators for Zstandard compression as well as Zstandard decompression (limited there to the latest Gen 6 hardware)... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-QAT-Linux-7.1-Zstd #linux#kernel#intel