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📰 Elementary OS 8.0.2 Brings Kernel 6.14, Better Accessibility
Ubuntu-based elementary OS 8.0.2 arrives with Linux kernel 6.14, improved accessibility, Music app upgrades, and better hardware support.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/elementary-os-8-0-2-brings-kernel-6-14-better-accessibility/
📰 AMD Threadripper CPUs are surprisingly efficient for home labs
AMD Threadripper CPUs offer impressive efficiency and performance for home lab setups, handling multiple VMs, containers, and self-hosted services.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/amd-threadripper-is-surprisingly-efficient-for-home-lab/
📰 Raspberry Pi’s New M.2 HAT+ Compact is Cheap & Clever
Ubuntu 25.10 for Raspberry Pi might just be the best release yet — slimmer footprint, safer and smarter booting procedure and plenty of qualitative tweaks — and switching from an SD card (however good) to an SSD is a night-and-day speed difference. Raspberry Pi today launched the M.2 HAT+ compact, a smaller (not to mention cheaper) version of its NVMe storage add-on for the Raspberry Pi 5.
🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/raspberry-pi-cheap-and-compact-ssd-hat
📰 Kdenlive 25.08.1 Released with Stability Fixes and UI Improvements
The first maintenance update of Kdenlive 25.08 video editor improves usability and stability with key fixes for rendering, effects, and project handling.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/kdenlive-25-08-1-released-with-stability-fixes-and-ui-improvements/
📰 A Major Trading Firm Has Open-Sourced The Latest Linux File-System: TernFS
XTX Markets as one of the largest algorithmic trading firms that handles $250 billion in daily traded volume and relies on around 650+ petabytes of storage for its price forecasts and other algorithmic trading data has open-sourced its Linux file-system. XTX developed TernFS for distributed storage after they outgrew their original NFS usage and other file-system alternatives...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/TernFS-File-System-Open-Source
📰 Need more metroidvania action? Stardust Demon is an overlooked gem
Finished Hollow Knight: Silksong? Didn't find it punishing enough? You should really take a look at Stardust Demon..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/need-more-metroidvania-action-stardust-demon-is-an-overlooked-gem/
📰 Verified Steam game steals streamer's cancer treatment donations
A gamer seeking financial support for cancer treatment lost $32,000 after downloading from Steam a verified game named Block Blasters that drained his cryptocurrency wallet.
🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/verified-steam-game-steals-streamers-cancer-treatment-donations/
Mesa Adds Contributor Guidelines - Will Allow AI Generated Code If Author Understands It - Phoronix
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Contributor-Guidelines
FuriLabs Opens Pre-Orders for FLX1s Linux Phone
https://linuxiac.com/furilabs-opens-pre-orders-for-flx1s-linux-phone/
📰 DietPi 9.17 Released with Faster Backups and Roon Server Early Access
DietPi 9.17 delivers faster, space-saving backups, a Roon early access toggle, and fixes for SPI flashing issues.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/dietpi-9-17-released-with-faster-backups-and-roon-server-early-access/
📰 MQTT is the secret to a calm and organized smart home
The secret sauce to taming your smart home chaos and turning it into calm, organized magic.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/mqtt-secret-to-calm-organized-smart-home/
📰 4 reasons an ESP32 display beats an old tablet for a smart home dashboard
Discover why ESP32-powered displays outperform old tablets for creating interactive smart home dashboards, offering customization, cost-effectiveness, and power efficiency.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/reasons-esp32-display-beats-old-tablet-for-smart-home-dashboard/
📰 Git Heads Toward 3.0 with Rust as a Hard Dependency
Git developers discuss adopting Rust, with a formal RFC proposing it as a required dependency once version 3.0 is released.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/git-heads-toward-3-0-with-rust-as-a-hard-dependency/
📰 VLC’s First Update This Year Adds Qt6 Support, Dark Style + More
It’s been over a year since VLC, a free open source media player you might have heard of before, was last updated — but a new one is about to arrive. VLC 3.0.22 is the twenty-third release in the VLC 3.0 series, which debuted back in 2018. Videolan (the non-profit company who make the player) continues to do maintenance and support for the VLC 3.0.x series alongside its work on the next major milestone, VLC 4.0. On Friday (19 September), VLC 3.0.
🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/vlc-player-update-2025
📰 DKMS Packages For Bcachefs Are Now Available On Debian & Ubuntu
With Bcachefs now being "externally maintained" with the upstream kernel not accepting any further feature changes for now to this copy-on-write file-system, Bcachefs is pursuing a nice DKMS experience for distributing updated file-system kernel driver support out-of-tree. Convenient DKMS Debian packages of Bcachefs are now available on Ubuntu and Debian Linux platforms...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Debian-Ubuntu-DKMS
FreeBSD 15.0 Alpha 3 Brings WiFi Driver Updates - Phoronix
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.0-Alpha-3
📰 You can now test drive Fedora 43 and Ubuntu 25.10
Spooky season is nearly here. Want to be scared? There are fresh betas to try Two of the biggest names in fixed-release distros are nearly finished and ready to drop. You can taste them now, but they're not fully baked yet.…
🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/22/fedora_ubuntu_betas/
📰 ProtonUp-Qt v2.14 Brings New Proton-EM Compatibility Tool
ProtonUp-Qt 2.14 adds Proton-EM support, drops NorthStar tool, and improves compatibility for Steam, Lutris, and Heroic users.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/protonup-qt-v2-14-0-brings-new-proton-em-compatibility-tool/
📰 RPM 6.0 Released with Support for Multiple OpenPGP Signatures per Package
RPM 6.0 package manager for Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based distributions is now available with numerous new features and improvements. Here's what's new!
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/rpm-6-0-released-with-support-for-multiple-openpgp-signatures-per-package
📰 Linux 6.18 Adding A New Power Savings Option For The Intel Graphics Driver
Queued up into DRM-Next is a last batch of Intel Xe kernel graphics driver improvements ahead of the Linux 6.18 merge window that is expected to begin next week. With this last minute Intel Xe driver activity is also a new power management knob for those wanting to run their Intel graphics slightly more efficient...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-SLPC-Power-Profile
📰 How I Configure Polybar to Customize My Linux Desktop
Let me share how I am customizing my desktop Linux with the awesome Polybar. This could work as a beginner's guide to understanding Polybar configuration.
🔗 Source: https://itsfoss.com/configuring-polybar-linux/
📰 MX-25 “Infinity” Beta Launches with Debian 13 “Trixie” Base
MX Linux 25 “Infinity” Beta arrives with Xfce, KDE, and Fluxbox editions, based on Debian 13, plus sysVinit and systemd options.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/mx-25-infinity-beta-launches-with-debian-13-trixie-base/
📰 Pinta 3.1 Beta Adds New Features, Effects & Options
A beta version of Pinta 3.1 is available for testing. The fee open source image editor adds axonometric grid, polygon selection, performance improvements and more.You're reading Pinta 3.1 Beta Adds New Features, Effects & Options, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.
🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/pinta-3-1-beta-available-for-testing
📰 Linux 6.18 Expected To Land Google's Rust Binder Driver
The past few years Google engineers have been reimplementing Android's Binder driver in the Rust programming language. Binder is a critical part of Android for inter-process communication (IPC) and now with Linux 6.18 it looks like the Rust rewrite will be upstreamed...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Binder-For-Linux-6.18
📰 Linux 6.18 To Make It Easier Parsing PCI Device Serial Numbers Via sysfs
A patch queued into the PCI subsystem's "next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.18 merge window will uniformally expose the PCI device serial number of devices via sysfs for easy programmatic parsing...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-PCI-sysfs-serial-num
📰 I tried using DietPi Linux with Xfce on an old laptop and it exceeded my expectations
This unexpected Linux distro transformed my old laptop into a full-fledged desktop with Xfce.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/using-dietpi-linux-with-xfce-on-an-old-laptop/
📰 FLX1S is a new Linux phone that’s… mostly a downgrade from the FLX1
The Furi Labs FLX1S is a new smartphone with a a 6.7 inch FHD+ display featuring a 90 Hz refresh rate, 8GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and a MediaTek Dimensity 900 processor (which was released in 2021). The phone is up for pre-order for $550 and it’s expected to ship in October. While that .
🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/flx1s-is-a-new-linux-phone-thats-mostly-a-downgrade-from-the-flx1/
📰 6 LXCs that can cover 90% of your Proxmox home lab usage
Capable of running apps, packages, and distros inside isolated environments, containers and virtual machines are the crux of self-hosting and experimentation workloads. Although both have their own neat perks, there are plenty of cases where you may want to run containers over VMs. If you’re using an old, computationally-challenged rig as a server, you might want to switch to containers, as VMs tend to have significantly higher processing...
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/lxcs-that-cover-most-of-your-proxmox-home-lab-usage/
📰 4 ZFS mistakes you only make once (and how to avoid them)
ZFS may offer a lot of benefits, but it can also ruin your NAS if you don't play by its rules.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/zfs-mistakes-you-only-make-once/
📰 Linux Kernel Multikernel Project Opens Up, Initial Patches Ready for Review
The Multikernel team opens its Linux kernel codebase, promising a new path to scalability for modern multi-core and cloud environments.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/linux-kernel-multikernel-project-opens-up/