This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. This community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from Oct. 16 - 22.

This week highlights seven Tumbleweed snapshots for week 42 headlined by Linux Kernel 7.2.10, KDE Gear 26.08.2 and Mozilla Firefox 157.0.1, the first Plasma 6.8 update and the seventh Plasma 6.6 update, Tellico’s 25th anniversary, the KDE documentary, Agama 25, the Akademy-es 2026 Madrid program and preview, a report from the openSUSE.Asia Summit and Open Source Summit Europe, September Kudos, a deep look at vllm.cpp and more.

Here is a summary and links for each post:

Akademy-es 2026 Madrid 20th Anniversary Begins Tomorrow

The KDE Blog reminds readers that Akademy-es 2026 Madrid kicks off tomorrow, Oct. 23, and runs through Oct. 25 at Camping Arco Iris in Villaviciosa de Odón. Baltasar Ortega recaps the build-up, including the talk program, gold sponsor openSUSE, silver sponsor Slimbook, registration and 10 reasons to attend. He notes he cannot attend in person this year and will live vicariously through the photos and updates from Madrid.

Building syslog-ng with bundled ivykis on FreeBSD

Peter Czanik’s blog explains that the syslog-ng FreeBSD port currently uses ivykis from ports, even though the project carries FreeBSD-specific fixes in its own ivykis fork. He is working on making the bundled ivykis selectable and invites testing and help.

VLLM.CPP: A New Engine Is Born

Alessandro’s blog examines vllm.cpp, LocalAI’s C++20 inference engine that brings vLLM-style continuous batching, paged KV caching and an OpenAI-compatible server without requiring Python or PyTorch inside the engine. It compares the project with vLLM and llama.cpp, reviews its C API, formats and hardware backends, and cautions that multi-GPU support, multimodal input and some KV-cache features remain incomplete.

First Plasma 6.8 Update

The KDE Blog announces Plasma 6.8.1, the first bugfix update to Plasma 6.8, released on Oct. 20, 2026. It recaps the 6.8 highlights, including the Hanabi wallpaper, Nepali calendar support, GTK4 decoration fixes, Discover’s AppStream previews and the redesigned Flatpak permissions page.

Releasing Agama 25

The Agama Installer announces Agama 25, the first release after openSUSE Leap 16.1 and the start of work toward Tumbleweed, Slowroll and Leap 16.2. It adds a web-based terminal, an exit option available before installation begins, searchable multi-select bond and bridge port selection, riscv64 support contributed by Andreas Schwab, and reduced reliance on YaST packages. It also publishes the OpenAPI specification and JSON schemas at stable URLs for autocompletion and validation in editors.

Seventh Plasma 6.6 Update

The KDE Blog covers Plasma 6.6.7, released Oct. 16, 2026, as the seventh maintenance update in the 6.6 series. It notes that the series has received extra updates through an agreement with KUbuntu Focus and lists 6.6 features such as Plasma Keyboard, OCR in Spectacle, Plasma Setup, custom global themes and colorblind filters.

Budapest Audio Expo 2026

Peter Czanik’s blog reports on the third Budapest Audio Expo, where his favorite room paired NCS Audio, Qualiton and Pixel cables for a clear, lively sound at a relatively affordable price. He also praises 72 Audio, the Natural Distortion prototype DAC and amp with Popori Acoustics speakers, and a Heed Audio Helikon and Zellaton setup, while criticizing overprocessed room-correction demos.

September Kudos, Recognition

openSUSE News publishes the September Kudos report, noting that 14 users received 14 kudos and 152 badges were awarded to 136 contributors. It lists thank-you notes for contributors such as Adrian Schröter, Bernhard Wiedemann, Dominique Leuenberger and Santiago Zarate, and highlights Tumbleweed, Leap 16.0/16.1 and LinuxDays badges.

New Weather Widget and On-Screen Keyboard – This Week in Plasma

The KDE Blog translates Nate Graham’s latest “This Week in Plasma,” covering the new Plasma 6.9 weather widget with hourly forecasts and Open-Meteo support, a redesigned on-screen keyboard, a temporary night-light toggle and smaller tray icons. It also covers Plasma 6.8.1 fixes, clipboard shortcut reorganization and Qt 6.13 font hinting improvements.

Tellico Turns 25 – Long Live Tellico!

The KDE Blog celebrates Tellico’s 25th anniversary with a timeline from the first Bookcase 0.1 release in November 2001 through its renaming to Tellico, its move to KDE Extragear and the Qt6/KDE Frameworks 6-based Tellico 4.0. The post also explains how the collection manager works and highlights its customizable fields and built-in collection types.

Linux Saloon 224 | Open Mic Night

Nathan Wolf hosts Linux Saloon 224 as an open mic night, where Mike Chilson demonstrated DevsFTP and discussed backup solutions. Participants shared their Linux experiences, and the show invites community suggestions for future application topics.

On GenAI LLMs and Knowledge Workers

Santiago Zarate reflects on how LLMs and agents may reshape knowledge work, starting from a Telegram poll of Venezuelan programmers about whether the future remains human. He compares the change to spreadsheets, factory robots and automated telephone exchanges, argues that automation changes jobs more than it eliminates them, and urges readers not to panic while warning that developers still need real fundamentals.

Tumbleweed – Review of the Week 2026/42

Dominique Leuenberger and Victorhck detail the seven snapshots and major arrivals such as libvirt 12.8.0, libnettle 4.0, KDE Gear 26.08.2, WebKitGTK 2.54.1, GStreamer 1.28.8 and Nautilus 50.4. They also explain the mutter revert that restored clipboard copy and paste, the ktextaddons ABI fix and the cups-filters hardening, and previews staging work on Plasma 6.8.0, Qt 6.12.0 and more.

The KDE Documentary

Martin Schlander’s blog recommends the KDE 30th-anniversary documentary, calling it a high-quality production that covers the project’s most significant events. He notes that it also touches on Qt, GNU, Linux and GNOME and features legendary SUSE developers.

Akademy-es 2026 Madrid 20th Anniversary Talk Program #akademyes

The KDE Blog shares the talk program for Akademy-es 2026, taking place Oct. 23-24 at Camping Arco Iris in Villaviciosa de Odón, Madrid. The 20th-anniversary event includes a QML workshop, talks on KDE España, Plasma and low vision, Okular, Autofirma on Flathub, data-center sustainability and plenty of time for socializing.

Liberec Dam

Jakub Steiner shares a drone video of the restored Harcovská přehrada dam in Liberec, Czechia, after a major reconstruction that removed 26,000 cubic meters of silt and replaced the dam’s outlets while preserving its landmark appearance. He also recalls filming the drained basin in 2022, notes the dam is now rated for a 10,000-year flood, and admits the dam has claimed another one of his drones.

KDE Documentary: A History of the Underdogs of Free Software

The KDE Blog highlights CultRepo’s KDE documentary, “A History of the Underdogs of Free Software,” which premiered on Oct. 14 for KDE’s 30th anniversary. The film traces KDE from Matthias Ettrich’s 1996 Usenet post through the Qt licensing struggle, the KHTML-to-WebKit story, the KDE 4 controversy and the community’s role in today’s Linux desktops.

From Yogyakarta to Prague: openSUSE.Asia Summit and Open Source Summit Europe 2026

openSUSE News reports on a two-continent trip to the openSUSE.Asia Summit in Yogyakarta and Open Source Summit Europe in Prague. The post covers the Asia summit’s community news, quiz, offsite turtle release and batik workshop, the adoption of Kudos, a new 14:00 CEST Tuesday meeting time, and a busy Prague booth featuring a 64-core RISC-V workstation running Tumbleweed and QtRvSim.

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