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Linux Driver Being Worked On For Pulsar Gaming Mice

Phoronix | March 21, 2026, 10:29 a.m. | Original

A Linux HID driver is being developed for Pulsar branded gaming mice to expose additional information and capabilities.

The latest gaming peripheral brand seeing open-source Linux driver activity by the community is Pulsar, a six year old South Korean esports gaming brand. Open-source developer Nikolas Koesling sent out a patch this week proposing "hid-pulsar" as a new Linux HID driver for Pulsar wireless gaming mice to support features like battery level reporting as well as voltage and charging status. This driver has been tested on Pulsar gaming mice

LibreOffice 26.8 To Add A Donation Banner To Its Start Center

Phoronix | March 21, 2026, 9:22 a.m. | Original

LibreOffice 26.8 merged initial support for adding a donation banner to its Start Center. This initial UI when launching LibreOffice aims to make users aware of the community-driven focus of the project and to hopefully solicit additional donations from the community.

A task opened a few weeks ago by The Document Foundation calls for a donation banner to be added to the LibreOffice Start Center, which shows recent documents and other information when initially launching this open-source office suite. The intent is to help encourage users to donate to

Linux 7.0 Lands Fix For Years Old Bug Affecting AMD Hainan GPUs

Phoronix | March 21, 2026, 7:04 a.m. | Original

Merged overnight for Linux 7.0 and set to be back-ported to existing Linux stable kernel versions is a fix for aging AMD GCN 1.0 "Hainan" GPU models. This closes a 2021 bug report that was long neglected and ended up being just a small tweak to fix the issue reported of GPU hangs.

Hainan was part of the AMD GCN 1.0 line-up along with Oland, Cape Verge, Pitcairn, and Tahiti for the "Southern Islands" generation. Since 2

KDE Plasma 6.7's KWin Lands Support For 3D LUTs To Help With Modern GPUs

Phoronix | March 21, 2026, 6:47 a.m. | Original

In addition to releasing Plasma 6.6.3 this week, KDE developers remain quite busy working on new features for the Plasma 6.7 desktop while also already queuing some changes for the next Plasma 6.6.4 point release.

This Week In Plasma is out with its latest issue to highlight recent developments to the Plasma desktop. Some of this week's fixes and new features include:

- Plasma 6.7 will display timezone offsets in the digital clock widget for where having additional timezones set, it

SUSE's Agama Installer Sees Architectural Revamp

Phoronix | March 21, 2026, 6:29 a.m. | Original

The modern Agama OS installer for SUSE/openSUSE is out with its first new release since November. With the time since the prior release, SUSE engineers have been making key improvements to Agama and enhancing its architecture to more align with their original vision for it.

Agama was "full of quirks" and didn't align with an API as ideal as they'd like while now with Agama 19 the code has been cleaned up to provide a much more solid foundation moving forward. They explained in Friday's

SysV Init 3.16 Released With Cleanups, Improved systemd Unit To SysV Script Conversion

Phoronix | March 21, 2026, 6:04 a.m. | Original

For any holdouts still running SysV Init instead of systemd or other alternatives like OpenRC, SysV Init 3.16 is out as the first release in a half-year and bringing a few refinements.

Following the systemd 260 release days ago that did away with SysV service script support, SysV Init 3.16 is now available. It doesn't see as much feature work as systemd but one improvement that some users will appreciate is the improved systemd to sysv unit-to-script conversion being now

Cambalache 1.0 Released After Five Years For Designing Modern GTK UIs

Phoronix | March 20, 2026, 8:48 p.m. | Original

Cambalache 1.0 released today after more than five years in development as a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) application for creating and editing user interfaces for both GTK3 and GTK4.

The Cambalache 1.0 release marks the milestone of the app being mature enough for common general feature usage. The goal is to help developers avoid the need to write manual XML UI files and the expectation of the Cambalache user is that they are at least familiar with the Gtk and GtkBuilder format.

OpenShot 3.5 Released As One Of Their "Biggest Releases" Ever

Phoronix | March 20, 2026, 8:31 p.m. | Original

OpenShot 3.5 hit the web today for this open-source non-linear video editor that describes the new version as one of their "biggest releases" ever in its 18+ year history.

OpenShot 3.5 ships with a new default timeline that provides faster zooming / scrolling / editing and a new keyframe panel. The new OpenShot 3.5 is also said to be around 35% faster overall with the larger gains coming for effects handling and frame processing. There is also better exporting support.

Wine 11.5 Release Is Big: Syscall User Dispatch Feature Supported On Linux

Phoronix | March 20, 2026, 5:18 p.m. | Original

Wine 11.5 is out today as the latest bi-weekly development release for this software to run Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms. Most exciting with Wine 11.5 is the introduction of the Syscall User Dispatch feature on Linux.

Wine's NTDLL implementation has merged support for system call emulation on Linux using Syscall User Dispatch. Syscall User Dispatch is a feature of Linux 5.11+ to allow redirecting specific non-native system calls back to user-space for handling by

Dell Upstreams Firmware For The XPS Snapdragon X Elite Laptop

Phoronix | March 20, 2026, 11:24 a.m. | Original

When it comes to using Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops on Linux, one of the big challenges have involved the need to extract the necessary firmware from the Windows 11 partition due to most vendors not providing the firmware in an easily redistributable and public form. The one exception has been the Lenovo ThinkPad with X1 Elite having upstream firmware in linux-firmware.git while now the Dell XPS model has joined the party too.

The Dell XPS 13 9345 (2024) laptop featuring

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