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Christoph Langner
October 2026 21 posts
30 Years of KDE: Plasma 6.8 Drops X11, Plus a Birthday Documentary
KDE celebrates its 30th birthday and ships Plasma 6.8, which finally leaves X11 behind and runs on Wayland only.
GNOME Needs Volunteers for the Extensions Team: EGO Reviews Are Drowning in AI Submissions
Javad Rahmatzadeh volunteers to review extensions for extensions.gnome.org and is now asking for help. The team needs reviewers, people to improve the Shexli linter, and donations.
Gnomos: Control Sonos Speakers from the GNOME Desktop, Even Old Models
Gnomos is a free Sonos client for GNOME built with GTK4 and libadwaita. The app plays music, groups rooms and shows synced lyrics, all without a Sonos account. Even first-generation …
DDNSS.de: Operator in Talks About a Takeover of the DynDNS Service
Robert Niedziela has been running the free DynDNS service DDNSS.de since 2013. He is now negotiating a handover to a new operator, with a decision due by the end of …
MusicBrainz Picard 3.0: Qt6, a New Plugin System and a Setup Wizard
After about three years of development, MusicBrainz Picard 3.0 is here. The tag editor moves to Qt6 and gets a completely new plugin system, sessions and a setup wizard.
scrcpy 5.0 mirrors Android with hardware decoding – now in Arch Linux
scrcpy 5.0 finally decodes the video stream from your Android phone on the GPU. The package has already landed in Arch Linux – I measured the difference and added Aurynk …
Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0 on Linux: Installing, Root Privileges, CLI and Tips
Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0 comes with a completely new interface. I'll show you how to install the current version on Arch Linux and Ubuntu, why Ubuntu foists outdated versions on …
Pulsgeber: TUXEDO Control Center Profiles in the GNOME Quick Settings
With Pulsgeber, you switch the profiles of the TUXEDO Control Center right from GNOME's Quick Settings. Version 0.4.0 of my small Shell extension is now available on GitHub.
Homarr 2.0: Homelab Dashboard with Custom Widgets and Workshop
The homelab dashboard Homarr has reached version 2.0. Self-built widgets, a workshop for sharing them, and a new board editor make it a serious challenger to Homepage.
September 2026 5 posts
llmfit: Which AI models run on my machine?
Want to run a local AI but not sure which model really fits your hardware? llmfit reads out your specs, scores thousands of options, and estimates speed and VRAM requirements. …
