Rust Coreutils 0.9 was tagged today as the latest major update to this GNU Coreutils implementation in the Rust programming language. Rust Coreutils 0.9 is up to a 90.4% pass rate against the GNU test suite!

A big focus on Rust Coreutils 0.9 was on delivering greater safety and security following a third-party security audit, which was funded by Canonical as part of their Ubuntu efforts on using Rust Coreutils and hopes of 100% fully utilizing Rust Coreutils with the Ubuntu 2

NixOS 26.05 is out today as the latest version of this Linux distribution built around the Nix package manager.

NixOS 26.05 with Nixpkgs added 20,442 new packages, updated 20,641 existing packages, and removed 17,532 outdated packages. NixOS 26.05 also saw 85 new modules and 1,547 configuration options added. Among the package updates are the likes of the GNOME 50 desktop and GCC

On Friday was the latest AMDGPU/AMDKFD pull request landing more kernel graphics/compute driver improvements in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.2 merge window happening in mid-June.

This latest round of "more stuff" for the Linux 7.2 kernel with the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver are largely around bug fixes. There is also some code clean-ups and other low-level changes but by and large it's about bug fixing. With Linux 7.1-

The latest open-source/Linux patch activity around AMD's next-gen Zen 6 processors is expanding the range of the CPU models detected by the Linux kernel.

The Linux kernel had been recognizing Family 26 (1Ah) models 80 (0x50) to 95 (0x5F), models 128 (0x80) to 175 (0xaf), and models 192 (0xc0) to 207 (0

Ahead of the 52nd G7 Summit being held in Evian, France next month, the recently conducted G7 Digital and Technology Ministers’ Meeting came to agreement on shared language around open-source AI and on the importance of open-source in AI.

The G7 Digital and Technology Ministers’ Meeting led to a document being agreed to for addressing the technical and economic principles of open-source AI models and shared language around different levels of open AI models. The G7 vision on AI openness also outlines

GNOME Circle as the initiative for third-party/independent software applications and libraries extending the GNOME desktop ecosystem is taking a stand against AI slop. The GNOME Circle policy has been updated to reject low-effort, vibe coded applications/libraries where the developer is not able to take responsibility for the work.

The GNOME Circle Committee decided to update its AI policy in a move that aligns with already-applied policy for low-effort GNOME Shell extensions. Due to low-quality, machine-generated code, GNOME Circle

KDE released Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 this week while the current Plasma 6.6 stable series continues seeing fixes as does Plasma 6.8 for what will be the follow-on feature release to Plasma 6.7.

Across the board much of the KDE Plasma development this week was dominated by fixes:

- With the Plasma 6.6.6 point release there are some notable fixes such as for a possible KWin crash when a monitor is rapidly power-cycled, fixing a clipboard-related issue causing XWayland

Genode OS 26.05 is out this week as the latest update for this original open-source operating system framework. With Genode OS 26.05, they have taken various features of their general purpose Sculpt OS operating system and turned them into reusable framework features.

With Genode OS now turning various Sculpt OS features into reusable framework features, the intent is that they can be reused by other hypothetical Genode-based systems. Genode OS 26.05 has also improved its hardware driver support for

Valve tonight released their beta version of SteamOS 3.8.6 that contains a number of notable enhancements, including native HDMI Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support in initial form.

SteamOS 3.8.6 beta brings preliminary support for HDMI VRR for devices with native HDMI output. This goes along with ongoing work by AMD toward upstreaming their HDMI 2.1 implementation into the mainline Linux kernel for the AMDGPU driver. Great seeing Valve proactively picking up the HDMI native VRR enablement work ahead of that milestone and continues to