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 March 13 to March 19.

Blogs this week highlight OBS request workflow improvements with better comment visibility and RPMLint integration, and a new cockpit-client-launcher package simplifying Cockpit setup on Tumbleweed and Leap. Blogs also cover KDE Plasma 6.6’s third bugfix update, Marknote 1.5’s new raw Markdown editing mode, Kontainer as a KDE-native Distrobox manager, openSUSE’s new Cavil-Qwen3.5-4B legal classification model and more.

Blogs also cover KDE Plasma 6.6’s third bugfix update, Marknote 1.5’s new raw Markdown editing mode, Kontainer as a KDE-native Distrobox manager, openSUSE’s new Cavil-Qwen3.5-4B legal classification model, a LogAI tool for querying system logs in plain English, Victorhck handing off his unofficial openSUSE guide, the GNOME 50 wallpaper design story, and more.

Here is a summary and links for each post:

My New Toy: FreeBSD on the HP Z2 Mini Revisited

Peter Czánik’s Blog continues the series on his HP Z2 Mini AI workstation. This time he revisits FreeBSD after resolving a graphics driver issue by switching from the AMD to the ATI kernel module. The GNOME desktop is now stable and functional. A switch to KDE’s Plasma resolves a remaining screen-locking issue.

Debate: The State vs. Social Networks – New Event by GNU/Linux València

The KDE Blog announces an upcoming event organized by the nonprofit association GNU/Linux València on March 27 in Valencia, Spain. The evening begins with a Linux install party at 17:00, followed at 18:30 by an open debate on new social media regulations, their implications for privacy, and how federated alternatives like the Fediverse compare. Admission is free.

Latest Improvements to the Request Page

The Open Build Service Blog hightlights improvements to the OBS request workflow. Changes include visual highlighting of comments, an enhanced Accept dropdown with improved accessibility, and integrated contextual descriptions for RPMLint results directly into the UI.

Friday Sketches (Part 2)

Jakub Steiner’s Blog shares a large collection of app icon sketches produced during GNOME Design Team Friday sessions over the past two years. Scroll through all the sketches.

New Launcher Aims to Simplify Cockpit Installations

The openSUSE News team introduces cockpit-client-launcher, which is a new package that gives openSUSE users a straightforward desktop entry point for the Cockpit web-based system administration interface. The launcher, which features a YaST-inspired icon, automates systemd service activation and firewall configuration on first launch. It is available as an official package on both Tumbleweed and Leap.

Central Log Collection – More Than Just Compliance

Peter Czánik’s Blog makes the case that a centralized log collection benefits more than just regulatory compliance; it improves operational ease, log availability during outages, and security against log tampering. The post walks through practical scenarios at different scales, from a handful of machines to networks of hundreds.

Displaying System Info with Native KDE Plasma 6 Plasmoids

Victorhck walks through how to use the built-in System Monitor Sensor plasmoide in KDE Plasma 6 to display system information such as uptime directly on the desktop. The guide covers configuring the widget’s appearance, selecting sensors, and customizing displayed labels.

Third Update of KDE Plasma 6.6

The KDE Blog announces the third bugfix update for Plasma 6.6. The update is part of KDE’s regular maintenance cadence and follows the full Plasma 6.6 feature release. The update is strongly recommended for all users.

Brazilian Digital Children’s Law and Linux: Debunking the Panic

Alessandro’s Blog takes a detailed look at Brazil’s Lei 15.211/2025 (the “Digital Statute for Children and Adolescents”), which sparked widespread but unfounded claims that Linux would be banned in Brazil. The post argues that the episode was driven more by misinformation and social media panic than by the actual legal text.

GNOME 50 Wallpapers

Jakub Steiner’s Blog celebrates the GNOME 50 release by walking through the design history behind the new default wallpaper. The post also covers updates to the Symbolics and glass chip wallpapers, and previews the new Tubes design aimed at dark-theme users.

My New Toy: AI First Steps with the HP Z2 Mini

Peter Czánik’s Blog recounts first experiments with AI features on Windows using the AMD Ryzen 395’s NPU on the HP Z2 Mini workstation. The Windows Recall feature could not be tested since it requires Secure Boot, which was disabled for Linux dual-boot compatibility.

My Unofficial openSUSE Guide Changes Hands

Victorhck announces that the Spanish-language unofficial openSUSE guide, which he has maintained since 2016, is being handed off to community member Diablo Rojo for continued maintenance and modernization. The guide, aimed at newcomers to openSUSE Leap, has been updated to reflect a decade of changes in the project including the rise of Tumbleweed, the transition away from YaST, and the arrival of Myrlyn.

Code Mode in Marknote, S3 Support in Dolphin, and Glaxnimate Release – This Month in KDE Apps

The KDE Blog summarizes a month’s worth of KDE application progress. Marknote gained a plain-text code mode, a note-linking dialog, search-and-replace, and animated UI transitions; Dolphin added S3 support of custom endpoints and is no longer limited to AWS-compatible services.

Kontainer – Distrobox Container Manager Built for KDE Plasma

The CubicleNate Blog reviews Kontainer, a KDE-native graphical interface for managing Distrobox containers. The app integrates well with the Plasma desktop and simplifies installing and running software from other Linux distributions inside containers.

openSUSE Releases Updated Legal Classification Model

The openSUSE News team announces Cavil-Qwen3.5-4B, which is a new fine-tuned language model on the project’s HuggingFace page. It is designed to automate detection of license declarations and copyright notices in code repositories. GGUF quantized versions contributed by a community member are also available for local use with tools like llama.cpp.

Marknote 1.5 Arrives in KDE

Victorhck covers the Marknote 1.5 release. It highlights the new source mode that lets users edit raw Markdown without the WYSIWYG renderer. Other additions include wiki-style internal note linking with cross-notebook search, drag-and-drop note management, a KRunner plugin for instant note access, and more.

This Month in KDE Linux – February Progress

The KDE Blog summarizes Nate Graham’s February update on KDE. Highlights include more accurate download size reporting in Discover, the introduction of Kapsule as a new container-based software installer, improved Flatpak localization, and better AMD GPU crash protection.

LogAI - Asking The System Logs in Plain English

Zoltán Balogh’s Blog introduces LogAI; It is a locally-run RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) system for querying the Linux journalctl system log. RAG is a technique that enables large language models to retrieve and incorporate new information from external data sources. The post describes the motivation: replacing grep-heavy log triage with natural language questions like “What went wrong last night?”

Press and Hold for Alternative Characters – This Week in Plasma

The KDE Blog covers the latest Plasma development highlights like a new press-and-hold feature for the plasma-keyboard virtual keyboard that surfaces alternative and diacritic characters. Other changes include custom sound theme installation from downloaded files, a Global Menu widget fix for multi-monitor setups, and more.

Linux Saloon 192 – Open Mic Night

The CubicleNate Blog recaps episode 192 of the Linux Saloon podcast. Topics ranged from protecting personal data while browsing the internet to early streaming memories with RealPlayer and the history of IRC.

Personal Digital Sovereignty

Cornelius Schumacher’s Blog reflects on what personal digital sovereignty means in practice. The post emphasizes the importance of one having control over their digital life along with choosing to leave it one desires. He uses examples of his own stack built around Linux, KDE, self-hosted Nextcloud, and GitJournal to get his points across.

24th Update of KDE Frameworks 6

The KDE Blog hightlights KDE Frameworks 6.24.0, the 24th monthly maintenance update for version 6. The blog starts with Attica and then focuses on several Qt-based projects.

openSUSE Tumbleweed Weekly Review – Week 11 of 2026

Victorhck and dimstar report on a full week of snapshots delivered in week 11. A total of seven snapshots were submitted and six were. Snapshot 0309 was held back due to a SELinux policy sync issue with systemd 259.3 that was resolved in the next snapshot. Delivered updates include the Linux kernel 6.19.6 (and kernel longterm 6.18.16), KDE Gear 25.12.3, systemd 259.3, Pipewire 1.6.1, and more.

Released Glaxnimate 0.6, the 2D vector graphics editor for animation creation

The KDE Blog announces the release of 2D vector graphics editor Glaxnimate 0.6.0. The integration brings improved cross-platform support (including Microsoft Store and macOS), KDE theming support, and increases translated languages from 8 to 26. New features include better SVG import/export, undo/redo for layer visibility and more.

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