Linux 7.2-rc1 Is Here — AMD Gets Native 4K/120Hz HDMI and the Kernel Hits 43 Million Lines
Linus Torvalds dropped Linux 7.2's first release candidate on June 28, delivering AMD's long-awaited HDMI 2.1 FRL support, ISP4 camera drivers, post-quantum signatures, and a kernel source tree that just broke 43 million lines. »
Coreboot 26.06 Arrives With Early Intel Nova Lake and AMD Strix Halo Support, Plus 31 New Boards
The open-source firmware project's latest quarterly release starts unlocking Intel's Nova Lake and AMD's Strix Halo months before those chips hit store shelves, and expands its board list with 31 new entries including Framework Laptop models. »
KDE Plasma 6.7 Delivers Per-Screen Virtual Desktops After Two Decades of Requests
KDE Plasma 6.7 lands one of the Linux desktop community's most durable feature requests: independent virtual desktops per monitor. It also revives the classic Oxygen theme and ships a unified CSS theming system as a tech preview. »
COSMIC 1.1 Arrives With a New System Monitor and a Faster Release Cadence
System76's Rust-built desktop environment takes its first minor version step, adding a dedicated COSMIC Monitor app and stabilizing its Wayland compositor. »
Raspberry Pi OS Upgrades to Linux 6.18 LTS: Faster, Polished, and Touch-Friendly
The June 2026 Raspberry Pi OS update brings the Linux 6.18.34 LTS kernel, better touchscreen support, a Wayland compositor upgrade, and a round of desktop polish — a simple but meaningful refresh worth installing. »