The Linux event poll "epoll" code for efficient I/O multiplexing and monitoring of file descriptors for seeing when I/O is possible has a new optimization merged today for Linux 7.0.

Eric Dumazet of Google who has been involved in some great improvements to the Linux kernel has adapted the eventpoll's epoll_put_uevent() code into a scoped user access for saving two function calls. Scoped user access functionality was introduced to the mainline kernel back in Linux 6.19. Scoped user

Out today is Budgie 10.10.2 as the latest minor update to this open-source desktop environment that began as part of the Solus Linux project.

Budgie 10.10 is big for introducing its Wayland support and with today's v10.10.2 support there is enhanced Labwc compositor integration via its bridge layer. Budgie 10.10.2 with Labwc now allows setting a window decoration theme independent of Budgie Desktop Settings, improved keyboard and locale handling,

AMD's GAIA open-source framework for building AI agents that run locally on Ryzen AI hardware via the Radeon iGPUs and/or NPUs is up to version 0.16. With this new GAIA release is support for developing AI agents purely in C++ with no longer needing to depend upon Python.

GAIA has long catered to the Python programming language use as is popular with AI developers. While now with GAIA 0.16 is a native C++17 framework port. The same agent

The effort around improving FreeBSD on laptops continues full speed ahead in 2026. The upcoming FreeBSD 15.1 remains on track with not only having a KDE desktop option from FreeBSD's text-based installer UI but also improved Realtek WiFi adapter support is on the way, updating of the graphics drivers from Linux, and more.

The latest FreeBSD Foundation Laptop Update has been published for outlining recent progress in this sponsored initiative for making the FreeBSD experience better on modern laptops. One of the most exciting fruits

Maui.Gtk is a new open-source project providing a GTK4 Linux back-end for Microsoft's .NET MAUI.

Microsoft's .NET Multi-Platform App UI "MAUI" allows creating native apps using C# and XAML not only for Windows but also macOS, iOS, and Android platforms as an evolution of Xamarin.Forms. With the new Gtk.Maui from the open-source community, this single-codebase, multi-platform solution is also beginning to see better Linux support too

In addition to the 3mdeb firmware consulting firm porting Coreboot with AMD openSIL to an EPYC 9005 "Turin" Gigabyte motherboard , their developers have also been working on a similar Coreboot + openSIL port to an AM5 Ryzen consumer motherboard.

3mdeb is porting openSIL and Coreboot to the MSI PRO B850-P motherboard . It's still a work-in-progress but should be released this year. I've already bought one of these motherboards in anticipation and will have more details

Resources, the modern GNOME GTK4/libadwaita-based GUI application for system resource monitoring and an alternative to GNOME System Monitor, is out with a new update. Resources 1.10.2 brings some nice improvements for those running GNOME on modern Intel hardware.

With Resources 1.10.2 there is now power usage monitoring for Intel GPUs making use of the modern Xe driver, which is the default with Lunar Lake integrated graphics and newer or Battlemage discrete graphics and newer.

There is also now core

Nate Graham and John Veness are out today with the newest issue of This Week in Plasma. Notable for KDE Plasma 6.6.x~6.7 development this week were a lot of bug fixing -- including multiple crash fixes -- and some UI polishing too.

Some of the KDE Plasma development highlights for this week include:

- Plasma 6.6.3 will no longer show the Panel Spacer Widget in the widgets sidebar, since it's only for panels and doesn't make sense for