Технологии

Enlightenment desktop 0.28 released with better networking

Enlightenment 0.28 has been released, the first major update to the open-source desktop environment since early 2025. Given the time between this and the previous 0.27 release, the changelog is suitably lengthy. Networking and audio stack enhancements, UI and UX tweaks and, of course, plenty of bug fixes are listed – no jaw-dropping UI changes, though. v0.28 adds a new Network Manager module. This supports connecting to and managing wireless, wired and Bluetooth networking connections, as well as VPNs. It plays signal strength, security and other connection details. On the audio side, a native

OMG Ubuntu · EN

Linux App Release Roundup (October 2026)

October’s Linux app releases brought plenty of treats, a couple of tricks and mercifully few frights. In this post, I recap the updates that landed last month. There were other spooks in the shadows with a spotlight. October gave us a double-whammy of Firefox and Calibre updates, with JEPG XL support added in the former and AI reading voices in the latter – among other changes in both. It also delivered a ‘fully rebuilt’ ONLYOFFICE 10.0 with optional AI tools and KeePassXC 2.8, which added its long-awaited support for Wayland auto-type. System cleaning tool BleachBit fixed issues with admin cl

OMG Ubuntu · EN

Raspberry Pi announce another eye-watering price hike

Hot off the back of price rises it announced in October, the Raspberry Pi Foundation today said the cost of its Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computers is going up again. From November 2026, the Raspberry Pi 5 with 16 GB RAM rises by $80, now priced at $385 from approved resellers. The model launched at $120 back in 2025, rose to $205 in early 2026, and later incremental increases got it to $305. And it’s not the only model whose price tag will be making wallets wince. A $40 price hike hits the Raspberry Pi 5 Compute Module (CM5) with […] You're reading Raspberry Pi announce another eye-watering

OMG Ubuntu · EN

The Linux 7.4 Merge Window Is Easily The Largest In Kernel History

After writing this morning with some stats about the size of the Linux 7.4 merge window and the kernel's source tree approaching 42 million lines, I was curious to run some numbers for putting the size of the merge window into perspective against the major kernel releases of the past 15 years. This shows the definite recent uptick due to AI/LLM activity...

Phoronix · EN

Kwi Being Developed As New KDE Terminal Emulator With 3x To 35x Performance

A new KDE terminal emulator is in development as a modern alternative to Konsole. Kwi is this new terminal app being built atop the Ghostty library...

Phoronix · EN

Linux 7.4-rc1 Released With Nice Performance Improvements, AMD Ryzen Zen 6 Preparations & AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Default

Even with Linus Torvalds having been on holiday, Linux 7.4-rc1 is out today on-schedule for capping off the Linux 7.4 merge window...

Phoronix · EN

Steam On Linux Just Under 4% For October 2026

Valve just published their Steam Survey results for October and point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use on a relative basis...

Phoronix · EN

Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Price Rises To $385 USD

Raspberry Pi announced their latest round of price hikes as a result of the RAM shortages and increased pricing continuing to affect the industry...

Phoronix · EN

KDE Linux Nearing Its Beta Milestone, Now Ships With NTSYNC By Default

KDE developer Nate Graham published his monthly blog post on Sunday to outline the current state of KDE Linux and some of the changes made to this in-house Linux distribution over the course of October. Additionally, KDE Linux is nearing its beta milestone after beinbg in development for over one year as a reference Linux distribution for KDE...

Phoronix · EN

FreeRDP 3.33 Released With WebAssembly Support, Huge Influx Of Activity Due To AI

The FreeRDP 3.33 software released today as the newest version of this open-source Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation...

Phoronix · EN

Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver Adopts An LLM Policy

The Mesa RADV driver that provides Vulkan API support for AMD Radeon GPUs on Linux has adopted its own policy around AI / large language models (LLMs) for code contributions...

Phoronix · EN

Brand New Layouts with CSS Subgrid

Subgrid allows us to extend a grid template down through the DOM tree, so that deeply-nested elements can participate in the same grid layout. At first glance, I thought this would be a helpful convenience, but it turns out that it’s so much more. Subgrid unlocks exciting new layout possibilities, stuff we couldn’t do until now. ✨

Josh W. Comeau · EN

Sprites on the Web

In game development, it’s common to use spritesheets for animation, but this technique isn’t as widely used on the web these days. Which is a shame, because we can do some pretty cool stuff with sprites! In this post, we’ll share the niche CSS function you can use to leverage this technique, and explore some of the potential use cases.

Josh W. Comeau · EN

Sneaky Header Blocker Trick

There is a lil’ UI detail on this blog. Most people don’t even notice it, but the ones who do often reach out, asking how on earth it works. It feels like it defies the rules of CSS! In this blog post, I’ll break down the surprisingly-straightforward implementation so you can start using this trick yourself.

Josh W. Comeau · EN

Squash and Stretch

Have you ever heard of Disney’s 12 Basic Principles of Animation? In this tutorial, we’ll explore how we can use the very first principle to create SVG micro-interactions that feel way more natural and believable. It’s one of those small things that has a big impact.

Josh W. Comeau · EN

Scroll-Driven Animations

The new Animation Timeline API allows us to create dynamic scroll animations without any JavaScript! It’s honestly a very lovely API, and in this blog post, we’ll explore some of the super cool things we can do with it.

Josh W. Comeau · EN

CSS vs. JavaScript

There are a bunch of JavaScript animation libraries out there, and you might have wondered whether there’s a performance cost compared to traditional CSS transitions and keyframe animations. In this blog post, we’ll compare the same animation across several different strategies and see the differences firsthand. There’s some interesting nuance here!

Josh W. Comeau · EN

Getting Started with Anchor Positioning

For decades, one of the most notoriously-challenging problems on the web has been sticking one element to another element, for things like tooltips and nested menus. The CSSWG has decided to provide a first-class solution to this problem, and it’s pretty friggin’ cool! In this tutorial, I’ll share the most useful parts I’ve found from this modern CSS feature.

Josh W. Comeau · EN

The Future of CSS ✨

Every year, browser vendors collaborate via the Interop project to synchronize their efforts on new HTML/CSS/JS features. This year, there’s a ton of super exciting features being considered! In this blog post, we’ll explore the CSS of the future, to get a glimpse of what we’ll soon be able to do.

Josh W. Comeau · EN

Helping YOU ask ME questions with AI

Here's how I've made it easier for you to call into the Call Kent podcast without having to record yourself and also make yourself anonymous using AI.

Kent C. Dodds · EN

Building Semantic Search on my Content

I've added some pretty cool AI-powered features to kentcdodds.com and I want to tell you all about it.

Kent C. Dodds · EN

Offloading FFmpeg with Cloudflare

How I moved Call Kent podcast episode processing off my primary Fly.io app server and onto Cloudflare Queues and Containers: what broke, what I missed, and whether it was worth the complexity.

Kent C. Dodds · EN

Migrating to Workspaces and Nx

The interesting part of moving kentcdodds.com to npm workspaces was not the file moves. It was everything the file moves broke.

Kent C. Dodds · EN

Simplifying Containers with Cloudflare Sandboxes

How I replaced a long-lived Cloudflare Container with a one-shot Cloudflare Sandbox, deleted most of the control-plane code, and let an agent do the heavy lifting in less than an hour of my own time.

Kent C. Dodds · EN