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This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Draft code submitted to KDE Plasma turns it into a full VR desktop:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/draft-code-submitted-to-kde-plasma-turns-it-into-a-full-vr-desktop/

KDE Plasma 6.7 will have a global push-to-talk feature:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/kde-plasma-6-7-will-have-a-global-push-to-talk-feature/

GNOME's AI Assistant Newelle Adds Llama.cpp Support, Command Execution Tool:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-AI-Newelle-1.2

Window Shadows Finally Arrive on COSMIC Desktop:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/cosmic-desktop-window-shadows-arrive

CachyOS Starts 2026 By Switching To Plasma Login Manager & Live ISO Using Wayland:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-January-2026

Myrlyn 1.0 Released For Package Manager GUI Spawned By SUSE's Hack Week:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Myrlyn-1.0-SUSE

GNU Guix 1.5 Released With RISC-V Support, Experimental x86_64 GNU Hurd Kernel:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Guix-1.5-Released

Deepin 25.0.10 update includes data-retaining installer and file manager improvements:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/1/deepin-25-0-10-update-includes-data-retaining-installer-and-file-manager-improvements/

14 Years Later than Planned, NexPhone is Up for Preorder:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/nexphone-2026-convergence-android-debian

(more Linux and FOSS news in comment)

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Draft code submitted to KDE Plasma turns it into a full VR desktop

A developer has submitted a draft to the KDE team for KWin to hook up a full Plasma VR mode and it looks pretty awesome.

GamingOnLinux

openSUSE Linux Jan 23

This week's coverage looks mentoring with Season of #KDE 2026, progress on the #Y2K38 problem, the oSC call for proposals, and community insights on KDE, #Myrlyn 1.0, and more. Catch up with what the community is building and discussing. #openSUSE #Linux https://news.opensuse.org/2026/01/23/planet-roundup/

Planet News Roundup

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openSUSE News

fosstopia 🇩🇪Jan 22

Myrlyn 1.0 verbessert Paketmanagement in openSUSE https://fosstopia.de/myrlyn-1-0/ #Myrlyn #Myrlyn1.0 #openSuSE #OpenSuSELeap #OpenSuSETumbleweed #Paketmanagement #RPM #Zypper

Victorhck in the free world Jan 21

Publicado Myrlyn 1.0 el gestor de paquetes para openSUSE

Myrlyn vino a sustituir a YaST a la hora de tener una interfaz gráfica para la gestión de paquetes de software (borrado, búsqueda, instalación) y de repositorios

https://victorhckinthefreeworld.com/2026/01/21/publicado-myrlyn-1-0-el-gestor-de-paquetes-para-opensuse/

openSUSE Linux Jan 19

#Myrlyn 1.0 is here. It's a sleek, Qt6-based package manager #GUI built independent of #YaST. It offers a modern interface powered by libzypp and now supports Leap 16.0 community repos. #openSUSE #SUSE #Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/Myrlyn-1.0-SUSE

Myrlyn 1.0 Released For Package Manager GUI Spawned By SUSE's Hack Week

Myrlyn 1.0 was released today as the package manager GUI developed by SUSE engineers and started out just over one year ago during a SUSE Hack Week event as a SUSE/Qt package manager program not dependent upon YaST or Ruby.

dei Muddr Nov 26, 2025

Gerade #yast2 von meiner #opensuse tumbleweed Installation gelöscht und mit #myrlyn ersetzt.
myrlyn hat genau das, was ich in yast benutzte. Software und Repository.
Super Sache! \o/

mesa Oct 20, 2025

OpenSUSE's YaST Is Dying But A Wizard Will Replace Some of It!

YaST is officially OUT of OpenSUSE Leap 16, but have no fear! Cockpit and Myrlyn are here to carry the torch. Also, Agama (the new installer) gets a mention and might just be the savior Leo needs to pick up the pieces from a dead Anaconda installer.

🧙‍♂️Myrlyn will cast the spells now🦎
Myrlyn
https://news.opensuse.org/category/myrlyn
Myrlyn repo
https://github.com/shundhammer/myrlyn
Gone for Leap, still around for TW
https://forums.opensuse.org/t/remove-yast-from-tw-recommendation/185748
Agama is slated to be the new installer.
https://github.com/agama-project/agama
Cockpit is proposed be the gui configuration tool
https://en.opensuse.org/Main:Cockpit

OpenSUSE's YaST Is Dying But A Wizard Will Replace Some of It!

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Linux User Space Oct 20, 2025

OpenSUSE's YaST Is Dying But A Wizard Will Replace Some of It!

https://tilvids.com/w/whQgAEPbGkJvgSKL87y6f3

OpenSUSE's YaST Is Dying But A Wizard Will Replace Some of It!

PeerTube

Roman Buchta 🇦🇹

Oct 14, 2025

Hey #openSUSE leap 16 Team (KDE)!

I upgraded from 15.6 with opensuse-migrations-tool. Now I have all the functions from YaST in separate tools in the menu. In addition to #Myrlyn . Is that what you want?
By the way ... the old YaST Software find "Thunderbird" - Myrly only find "MozillaThunderbird". (Myrly - Thunderbird - "No result").

#Linux