2025-12-29 23:48:18
Nate Graham looks back at how 2025 went for the KDE project.
Today Plasma is the default desktop environment in a bunch of the hottest new gaming-focused distros, including Bazzite, CachyOS, Garuda, Nobara, and of course SteamOS on Valve's gaming devices. Fedora's Plasma edition was also promoted to co-equal status with the GNOME edition, and Asahi Linux — the single practical option for Linux on newer Macs — only supports KDE Plasma. Parrot Linux recently switched to Plasma by default, too. And Plasma remains the default on old standbys like EndeavourOS, Manjaro, NixOS, OpenMandriva, Slackware and TuxedoOS — which ships on all devices sold by Tuxedo Computers!
2025-12-29 22:11:33
Security updates have been issued by Debian (kodi, pgbouncer, and rails), Fedora (duc, fluidsynth, gdu, singularity-ce, and tkimg), Slackware (vim), and SUSE (buildah, duc, gnutls, python39, qemu, and webkit2gtk3).
2025-12-29 06:43:38
Linus has released 6.19-rc3 for testing. "Another week, another -rc release.
Except the past week has obviously been the holiday week, and this rc
release is pretty small as a result. Very much as expected.
"
2025-12-26 23:45:31
Graphite is an effort to unify
illustration, raster editing, desktop publishing, and animation in one
browser-based application. The project has been in development since
2021 and announced its first alpha release in 2022. According to creator Keavon Chambers, the project's mission is to become
"the 2D counterpart to Blender
", by bringing a node-based,
non-destructive workflow to 2D graphics. The project, currently still in
alpha, is a long way from complete; but it is worth testing for anyone
involved with open-source-graphics production. Current
builds, from September 2025, include vector-illustration tools, a
node-based compositor, and early brush tooling, with broader pixel-based-
and photo-editing work still in progress.
2025-12-26 22:07:19
Security updates have been issued by Debian (gst-plugins-good1.0, postgresql-13, and python-urllib3), Fedora (chezmoi, docker-buildkit, ov, and subfinder), Oracle (httpd:2.4), Slackware (net), and SUSE (apache2, buildah, kernel, and mariadb).
2025-12-26 01:11:31
The judge in the Vizio GPL-compliance lawsuit has ruled, in a summary judgment, that the GNU General Public License, version 2, does not require the provision of signing keys needed to install modified software on a device.
Read as a whole, the Agreements require Vizio to make the source code available in such a manner that the source code can be readily obtained and modified by Plaintiff or other third parties. While source code is defined to include "the scripts used to control compilation and installation," this does not mean that Vizio must allow users to reinstall the software, modified or otherwise, back onto its smart TVs in a manner that preserves all features of the original program and/or ensures the smart TVs continue to function properly. Rather, in the context of the Agreements, the disputed language means that Vizio must provide the source code in a manner that allows the source code to be obtained and revised by Plaintiff or others for use in other applications.
As the Software Freedom Conservancy, the plaintiff in the case, has pointed out, the judge has ruled against a claim that was never actually made.
SFC has never held the position, nor do we today hold the position, that any version of the GPL (even including GPLv3!) require "that the device continues to function properly" after a user installs their modified version of the copyleft components.
Linus Torvalds, meanwhile, has posted his own take on the ruling that has, as one might imagine, sparked an extended discussion as well.