Planet News Roundup

This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org.

The community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from July 31 to August 6. This week highlights the winner of the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 logo competition ahead of the October summit in Yogyakarta, and Tumbleweed reached a major milestone with GCC 16 becoming the default system compiler. On the KDE side, Plasma 6.7.4 arrived as the fourth bugfix release, work moved forward on making KIO dramatically faster at copying small files, and the Call for Papers opened for Akademy-es 2026 in Madrid.

Here is a summary and links for each post:

3 Native Platformer Games for Linux

The KDE Blog continues its series on native Linux games with three platformers highlighted by the Planeta Tecno channel. The picks are Cow’s Revenge, a comedic run about a genetically enhanced cow taking revenge on butchers, Cave Story, an RPG-flavoured classic of the genre, and Frogatto & Friends, praised for its polished art and quest-driven story.

Submit Your Talk to Akademy-es 2026 in Madrid

The KDE Blog announces that the Call for Papers is open for Akademy-es 2026, held Oct. 23–25 at Camping Arco Iris in Villaviciosa de Odón, Madrid. The venue was chosen deliberately to emphasise the community side of KDE, marking both KDE’s 30th and Akademy-es’s 20th anniversary. Proposals for 45-minute talks or 10-minute lightning talks are accepted until September 3 at akademy-es-org@kde-espana.org.

openSUSE Asia Summit 2026 Logo Competition Winner Announced

openSUSE News reveals that A. Thalida won the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 logo competition. The design becomes the official visual identity of this year’s conference. Nine entries arrived from contributors across several countries. The winner was chosen by a vote of the openSUSE.Asia Committee and the local organising team. The summit takes place Oct. 3–4, 2026 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Fourth Plasma 6.7 Update

The KDE Blog covers the fourth bugfix release of Plasma 6.7. The post also recaps the headline features of the 6.7 series, including per-screen virtual desktops, a microphone volume test, and a quick light/dark theme switcher.

KDE Will Be Faster at Copying Small Files

The KDE Blog reports on Méven Car’s work fixing a long-standing KIO slowdown when copying thousands of small files. The bug was first filed back in 2014. The fix replaces the socket pair still used between KIO workers and applications with a zero-copy in-memory transport, and cuts redundant filesystem checks on the destination.

Free Software Foundation Newsletter Roundup – August 2026

Victorhck translates and summaries the FSF’s monthly supporter bulletin for August. Highlights include a call to oppose the GUARD Act and age-verification laws that could make anonymous use of machine learning tools impossible, and news that the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has moved around 5,000 employees to Nextcloud.

Geeko Magazine 2026 Summer Edition Announced

The Geeko Blog of the Japanese openSUSE user group announces the Summer 2026 special edition. Articles cover upgrading to Leap 16.0, making Samba servers browsable, terminal-based Linux desktops with bcon, KDE Plasma, and building with the Open Build Service.

This July in KDE Linux

The KDE Blog has a July report that highlights the community’s immutable “OS of the future”. New this month is an integrated QA system that catches critical performance and login regressions before they reach users, alongside kernel security tweaks, faster boot from trimmed modules, and on-demand CUPS.

Emoji Resizing – This Week in Plasma

The KDE Blog looks at Plasma 6.8 and the ability to make emojis in the picker larger or smaller. Other changes include pixel-by-pixel screen positioning with arrow keys in Display Configuration, QR code detection in Spectacle, and a modernised system tray widget.

Linux Saloon 213 | News Flight Night

CubicleNate recaps a wide-ranging community episode of Linux Saloon covering VPN usage and how people manage user accounts on their machines. News topics included Arch Linux disabling AUR package adoption as a countermeasure against malware and upcoming features in Ubuntu 26.10.

How Extremadura Changed Free Software Forever – Episode 2 of “La era de las distros”

The KDE Blog promotes the second episode of Lorenzo Carbonell’s podcast on Spain’s regional educational distributions, this time telling the story of LinEx. Guest Jesús Rubio, joined by Jesús González Barahona, explains how a largely rural region took on Microsoft in the early 2000s and turned technological sovereignty into something actually installed on thousands of machines.

openSUSE Tumbleweed Review of Week 31

Victorhck and Dominique Leuenberger report on the five snapshots released this week, headlined by GCC 16 landing as Tumbleweed’s new default system compiler in snapshot 0726. The full-repository rebuild made that snapshot exceptionally large, and linux-glibc-devel 7.1 followed in 0728 alongside the return of multipath-tools 0.15~1 after last week’s revert.

My Plasma Desktop for July 2026 #viernesdeescritorio

The KDE Blog shares the 74th installment of its monthly desktop showcase. This time on a new Slimbook Evo ultrabook running KDE Neon with Plasma 6.7.3 on Wayland. The vertical left-hand panel holds a digital clock, virtual desktop switcher, icons-only task manager, system tray, desktop view and application launcher.

Creating the Ultimate Vertical Monitor Workspace

CubicleNate chronicles a home office upgrade that began with a six-monitor rig built from inadequate screens. An LG DualUP monitor proved a step forward, which led to settling on a dual INNOCN display setup aimed at maximising productivity. Despite some connection trouble and mismatched pixel density, the new vertical layout markedly improved both usability and desk efficiency.

Tiny Wins for Packagers: End-of-Week Update (2026-07-31)

The Open Build Service team publishes its weekly roundup of small fixes, minor features and new external contributions. Shipped items include de-grouping when filter_search_text sits on top of filter_labels, fixed overlapping labels on image template radio buttons, clearer visual cues that attributes are expandable, and rejection of release targets pointing back at the same repository.

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