KDE is firing on all cylinders, Brave says they're the best browser, CERN moves to Debian
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KDE is firing on all cylinders, Brave says they're the best browser, CERN moves to Debian

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01:54 Brave say they outperform every other major browser https://brave.com/blog/brave-outperforms-other-browsers/

04:58 Firefox 155 should load pages faster https://itsfoss.com/news/firefox-155-faster-page-loads/

06:45 CERN leaves Red Hat for Debian https://www.phoronix.com/news/CERN-Goes-Debian-Leaving-RHEL

09:51 Debian says yes to AI https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/08/msg00005.html

12:23 GNOME 51 will improve hybrid GPU support https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/5219 https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-51-RC

14:01 Plasma 6.8 adds more accessibility features to Wayland https://saueseb.wordpress.com/2026/09/02/wayland-pain-points-dwell-clicker/

15:28 KDE’s theme engine supports more KDE apps now https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/28/this-week-in-plasma-qtwidgets-apps-join-the-union/

16:45 Artix drops XLibre after it pushes a maintainer to resign https://artixlinux.org/news.php#XLibre_support_discontinued https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,10283.msg61637.html#msg61637

19:08 KDE Connect redesign ready for testing https://tintotint.eu/programming/kde-connect2/

20:38 FOSS Minecraft Luanti taken down by Microsoft https://blog.luanti.org/2026/08/27/luanti-dmca-tracer-ai/

23:34 KDE Linux makes more progress towards its beta https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/31/this-month-in-kde-linux-august-2026/

25:33 Grab bag of gaming news https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/steam-deck-steamos-hit-over-30-000-verified-playable-games/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/game-launcher-launchbox-should-get-a-linux-version-in-2027/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/08/a-12tb-steam-teraleak-spills-more-than-a-decade-of-lost-pc-gaming-history/

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