The Linux kernel's audio stack is showing fresh signs of life across several fronts: a newly submitted, fully featured USB driver for the discontinued but still widely owned TASCAM US-144MKII is queued for the 6.18 cycle; the sound subsystem for Linux 6.17 is being prepared with explicit support...
KaOS Linux 2025.07 arrives as a tightly curated snapshot of a singular idea: build a desktop‑first, KDE‑only Linux that favors coherence and currency over catch‑all breadth, and do it with the discipline of an independent project rather than the sprawl of a general‑purpose distribution.
What the...