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📰 This obscure open-source tool is better than any paid alternative I’ve tried
Discover why Darktable, a powerful open-source photo editing tool, is a compelling alternative to Adobe Lightroom for serious photographers seeking granular control and customization.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/obscure-open-source-tool-better-than-paid-alternative-ive-tried/
📰 Intel Loses Another Prominent Linux Engineer - Now Going To NVIDIA
In the past few months at Intel between layoffs / corporate reorganizations and some deciding to pursue job opportunities elsewhere, there have been unfortunate impacts to their Linux engineering resources. Intel over the summer lost some prominent Linux engineering talent and in turn has even led to upstream Linux drivers being orphaned along with other driver maintainers departing and various other staffing changes.
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Colin-King-Leaving-Intel
📰 Immich 1.142 Brings Default Beta Timeline, New Resume-All Button
Immich 1.142 sets the beta timeline as the default, implements fixes for Raspberry Pi 4 crashes, and enhances stability across the server, web, and mobile platforms.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/immich-1-142-brings-default-beta-timeline/
📰 KDE Frameworks 6.18 Lets You Use Your Laptop’s Copilot Key for Launching Apps
KDE Frameworks 6.18 open-source software suite is out now with various improvements and bug fixes for KDE apps and the Plasma desktop. Here’s what’s new!
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-6-18-lets-you-use-your-laptops-copilot-key-for-launching-apps
📰 Fork that: Three alternative kernels show devs don't need Linux
Managarm, Asterinas, Xous – where disaffected code whisperers could go Between Rust, new file systems, clashes between developers, systemd absorbing its functionality, and more, rumors of possible Linux forks are being muttered again. But there is another, better way.…
🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/12/three_new_microkernels/
📰 Q4OS 6.1 Distro Is Out Based on Debian 13 with KDE Plasma and Trinity Desktops
Lightweight distribution Q4OS 6.1 is now available for download based on Debian 13 "Trixie" and featuring the KDE Plasma and Trinity desktop environments.
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/q4os-6-1-distro-is-out-based-on-debian-13-with-kde-plasma-and-trinity-desktops
📰 LMDE 7 Will Be Based on Debian 13, Linux Mint 22.3 Planned for December
LMDE 7 will be available for public beta testing this September based on Debian 13 "Trixie", while Linux Mint 22.3 is planned for December.
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/lmde-7-will-be-based-on-debian-13-linux-mint-22-3-planned-for-december
📰 Anti-cheat looks like a no-go on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck for Arena Breakout: Infinite
Arena Breakout: Infinite releases soon from Morefun Studios and sadly, this is yet another online multiplayer title that will not work on Linux / SteamOS..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/anti-cheat-looks-like-a-no-go-on-linux-steamos-and-steam-deck-for-arena-breakout-infinite/
📰 Proxmox delivers datacenter manager beta that makes it a more viable VMware contender
One console to manage multiple clusters is table stakes, but some users are betting on mixed environments Open source virtualization suite Proxmox has taken an important step towards becoming a stronger contender for those considering VMware alternatives by commencing beta testing for a datacenter management tool that can control multiple hardware clusters.…
🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/12/proxmox_datacenter_manager/
📰 Why ZFS is the ultimate filesystem for your NAS
The benefits of using ZFS on your NAS include enhanced data protection, scalability, and performance.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/reasons-zfs-is-the-best-filesystem-for-nas/
📰 Arm wrestles away 25% share of server market thanks to Nvidia's home-grown CPUs
Still far short of the 50% market share Arm infra chief was hoping for Nvidia isn’t the only one riding the AI boom. During the second quarter, Arm CPUs captured a quarter of the server market, according to a recent Dell’Oro Group report.…
🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/nvidias_graceblackwell_drives_arms_cpu/
📰 This Linux-based operating system is the perfect secondary OS for your PC
Ubuntu Cinnamon combines familiarity and strong hardware support, making it the perfect secondary OS for your PC.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/perfect-secondary-linux-os-ubuntu-cinnamon/
📰 Pironman 5 Max Review: Best Raspberry Pi Case Money can Buy
Give your Raspberry Pi 5 a stunning makeover with this tower case.
🔗 Source: https://itsfoss.com/pironman-5-max-review/
📰 Brussels faces privacy crossroads over encryption backdoors
Over 600 security boffins say planned surveillance crosses the line Europe, long seen as a bastion of privacy and digital rights, will debate this week whether to enforce surveillance on citizens' devices.…
🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/eu_chat_control/
📰 Linux 6.18 To Introduce Pixpaper DRM Driver, boot_display DRM Attribute
Thomas Zimmermann of SUSE sent out today what is anticipated to be the last drm-misc-next feature pull request for DRM-Next that is targeting the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel cycle...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-DRM-Pixpaper
📰 This super sleek ESP32 weather station looks good on any desk
Just because you built a project yourself doesn't mean it has to look rough. There are plenty of kits available that create a handy gadget while also looking incredible, and those are always my favorite. Such is the case of the ESPTimeCast, which comes with a ton of features and looks good doing so.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/super-sleek-esp32-weather-station/
📰 Wine 10.15 Released With Initial NTSYNC Usage, Unicode 17.0 Support
Wine 10.15 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications on Linux as well as powering Valve's Proton for Steam Play...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-10.15-Released
📰 Samsung fixes Android 0-day that may have been used to spy on WhatsApp messages
A similar vuln on Apple devices was used against 'specific targeted users' Samsung has fixed a critical flaw that affects its Android devices - but not before attackers found and exploited the bug, which could allow remote code execution on affected devices.…
🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/12/samsung_fixes_android_0day/
📰 GNOME 49: Best New Features
GNOME 49 is released on 17 September with an array of new features and design changes that improve the day-to-day Linux desktop experience — the best of which I round up in this post. Ubuntu users will get (most of) GNOME 49’s new features in the Ubuntu 25.10 release, out on 9 October, 2025, and a beta build is due next week for impatient testers eager for an early-bird encounter with the changes on offer.
🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/gnome-49-new-features
📰 Intel Linux Graphics Driver Seeing 2~5% Faster Shader Compilation Times, Up To ~20%
A few days ago I wrote about Intel fixing some Panther Lake Xe3 graphics performance issues ahead of launch. The downside of those performance optimizations for Panther Lake was that they led to longer shader compilation times. The good news though is that some separate improvements were merged now for Mesa 25.3 to help enhance the Intel graphics shader compilation performance...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-25.3-Faster-Intel-Shader
📰 I'm out, says OpenSUSE: We're dropping bcachefs support from next kernel version
The first distro vendor to announces its move says nein, danke The next kernel will have no new bcachefs code – and the openSUSE versions that use that kernel are going further still.…
🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/12/opensuse_to_drop_bcachefs_support/
📰 Linux 6.17 Fix Lands To Address Regression With "Serious Breakage" In Hibernation
This week's round of power management fixes for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel are on the more notable side with fixes for both AMD and Intel P-State drivers plus addressing a system hibernation issue that could lead to "serious breakage" and stems from a Linux 6.16 regression...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-PM-Hibernation-FIxes
📰 Samba 4.23 Released with SMB3 Unix Extensions Enabled by Default
Samba 4.23 enables SMB3 Unix Extensions by default, improving POSIX interoperability for Linux and UNIX clients with proper permissions and symlinks.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/samba-4-23-released-with-smb3-unix-extensions-enabled-by-default/
📰 Bcachefs Outlines Plans For Shipping As A DKMS Out-Of-Tree Kernel Module
With Linus Torvalds having recently marked Bcachefs as being "externally maintained" following ongoing disagreement over the generally accepted Linux kernel development practices, the plans were laid out today for shipping Bcachefs as an out-of-tree DKMS module...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-DKMS-Plans
📰 Fedora 43 Beta Being Released Next Week
Fedora 43 Beta is declared a "GO" and ready for release next Tuesday...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-Beta-Next-Week
📰 Akira ransomware exploiting critical SonicWall SSLVPN bug again
The Akira ransomware gang is actively exploiting CVE-2024-40766, a year-old critical-severity access control vulnerability, to gain unauthorized access to SonicWall devices.
🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/akira-ransomware-exploiting-critical-sonicwall-sslvpn-bug-again/
📰 CUPS 2.4.13 Print Server Released With "Important" Security Fix
CUPS 2.4.13 is out today as the newest update to this widely-used, open-source print server. Driving this new point release is for addressing an important security vulnerability as well as a second less notable security issue...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/CUPS-2.4.13-Released
📰 The Spell Brigade is ending Native Linux support due to multiple issues
You'll still be able to play The Spell Brigade with Valve's Proton, but the Native Linux version is no longer going to be supported or updated..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/the-spell-brigade-is-ending-native-linux-support-due-to-multiple-issues/
📰 Slimbook Refreshes Its Flagship Linux Laptop, Introduces Slimbook Manjaro III
Slimbook refreshes its Linux laptop fleet with new versions of Slimbook EVO, Slimbook Manjaro III, and Slimbook ELEMENTAL.
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/slimbook-refreshes-its-flagship-linux-laptop-introduces-slimbook-manjaro-iii
📰 PipeWire 1.4.8 Released with Firewire Low-Latency Fixes
PipeWire 1.4.8 multimedia framework brings low-latency Firewire audio, Apple HomePod Mini fixes, JACK improvements, and a range of bug fixes.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/pipewire-1-4-8-released-with-firewire-low-latency-fixes/