LibreOffice 26.2.0 (Beta 1) A.K.A. 2026 Release !

Release notes: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.2

Download: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/?version=26.2.0&lang=en-US#change

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My first ever contribution to a Linux world just got merged.
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Firefox 146 is released, with Wayland fractional scaling support
https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/146.0/releasenotes/

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17 years ago red hat made this gem

https://youtu.be/5EkkMfjetEY?si=YrEXBrhw5qAYL0Cl

I was discussing with a youngling distro-hopper what it meant 25 years ago to be working in opensource and I remembered this video from Red Hat.

Considering that almost everything processed in the cloud is Linux or bsd based today, I would have considered that already have reached the last step, but with the recent trends of enshtification of windows 11 (and valve awesome work), I think this is even more relevant today.

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Windows is a Joke
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Firefox 146 is released, with Wayland fractional scaling support
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-146-Released

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Bcachefs 1.33 Delivers Its Biggest Upgrade Yet With Full Reconcile Support
https://linuxiac.com/bcachefs-1-33-delivers-its-biggest-upgrade-yet-with-full-reconcile-support/

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AMD GPU and Sofware

I was excited for my switch to an AMD GPU since people claim, it is so much better on linux.

I ditched my RTX3070 for a RX 9070XT. I didn't bother to do any benchmarks since i also upgraded from an 5600x to a 7800x3d.

So far the overall upgrade is a blast and i can even run poorly optimized UE5 games without up scaling on 1080p.

However, i don't see any difference to Nvidia when it comes to drivers and compatibility.

I use linux for 2 years now. started with mint, went to Nobara and got stuck with garuda. All on Nvidia. I never had Issues. People still claim it's bad. Maybe it was in the past and people are just used to saying it.
But I'm happy both brands work in linux machines, even though i grew to dislike nvidia as a company over the last few years.

There is another claim i see in forums:
"i never needed adrenaline in linux, because everything just works"

ngl. i've seen this type of comment A LOT.
People ask for adrenaline, or the features it provides and commenters just shrug it off and say you don't need it, because it works. and not in a single of these threads anybody argued over it.

In my opinion it is a shame that i buy a 600€ card and i miss out on features because I'm on linux.
Whether you like AI frame generation or not. it IS a feature of your card that you paid for.
On windows you can just turn it on for ANY game in the adrenaline software.
it isn't the only feature.

The argument "you don't need i because it just works" is nonsense, because "it just works" on windows too.

i wasn't a fan of geforce experience.
But i actually like the adrenaline software. it's a bit unintuitive to navigate but it got all important features in one program that you can even activate in an in game overlay.

on windows i can press alt+r and force star citizen to render at 1440p and scale it down to 1080. This game actually profits from that, because it forces more work load on the GPU, since this game is a CPU eater. i gain 7-10 fps. with just 3 clicks.

i wish they develop a linux variant of this software in the future as linux becomes more popular among gamers.

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libxml2 is now officially unmaintained
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/9c80a89af2fdf4f853892f84e46580f4902658ba

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PeerTube v8: manage your videos with your team!
https://framablog.org/2025/12/09/peertube-v8-manage-your-videos-with-your-team/

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Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know
http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2025/12/08/linux-cves-more-than-you-ever-wanted-to-know/

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Linux 6.19 Enables Per-CPU BIO Caching By Default For Helping Performance
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-Per-CPU-BIO-Caching

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30 Reasons I love KDE Plasma
https://blog.broulik.de/2025/12/30-reasons-i-love-kde-plasma/

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Jay - a rust-based Wayaland copositor inspired by i3
https://github.com/mahkoh/jay

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Anthropic donates "Model Context Protocol" (MCP) to the Linux Foundation making it the official open standard for Agentic AI
https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation

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Linux traffic has grown 22.4% in PH this year
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Canonical to distribute AMD ROCm AI/ML and HPC libraries in Ubuntu
https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-amd-rocm-ai-ml-hpc-libraries

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linux mint suddenly changed
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[Final Update, probably] I'm glad to announce that the Wi-Fi issues are finally gone with v6.17.10
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This smartphone adds a microSD slot, removable battery, and more, but removes… Android?
https://www.androidauthority.com/new-jolla-phone-3623421

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The SSL certificate for the Manjaro forum has expired... again. Right as Stable drops.
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