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📰 Linux 6.18 To Improve Support For Apple's A11, Other Apple Silicon Improvements
Two pull requests were submitted this weekend of new Apple Silicon material ready for upstreaming with the soon-to-start Linux 6.18 kernel cycle...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-Silicon-Linux-6.18-Ready
📰 Linux's love-to-hate projects drop fresh versions: systemd 258 and GNOME 49
Init system update arrives behind schedule while desktop overhaul adds app and HDR polish There are fresh new releases of two of the more controversial and divisive projects in the Linux world for everyone to argue about… and then adopt anyway.…
🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/23/systemd_258_gnome_49/
📰 FFmpeg Lands Support For AHX, ADPCM Silicon Graphics N64 Decoder
Beyond the continued flow of new performance optimizations via hand-written Assembly, with the FFmpeg project it's also interesting to monitor their ever-expanding scope of supported audio/video formats. The newest to land in FFmpeg Git is support for AHX audio files...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-AHX-Support
Varnish Cache 8.0 Arrives in the Middle of a Heated Rebranding Controversy
https://linuxiac.com/varnish-cache-8-0-arrives-in-the-middle-of-a-heated-rebranding-controversy/
📰 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/
📰 Valve fixes DualSense crash on Linux / SteamOS and improves game recording with Vulkan
Valve released another small Beta update for Desktop PCs, SteamOS and Steam Deck for the Steam Client to fix up some more annoying problems..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/valve-fixes-dualsense-crash-on-linux-steamos-and-improves-game-recording-with-vulkan/
📰 New Patches Optimize EXT4 Online Defragmentation For Better Performance
A set of 13 patches were posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list for optimizing the online defragmentation handling by the EXT4 kernel driver. The online defragmentation improvements for EXT4 can net a nice performance win with a very significant improvement in a variety of scenarios...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/EXT4-Faster-Online-Defrag
GNU Coreutils 9.8 Released With New Features - Phoronix
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Coreutils-9.8
📰 OBS Studio 32.0 Adds PipeWire Video Capture Improvements, Basic Plugin Manager
OBS Studio 32.0 is now available for download with a basic plugin manager, Voice Activity Detection for NVIDIA RTX Audio Effects, Hybrid MOV support, and other changes. Here’s what's new!
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/obs-studio-32-0-pipewire-video-capture-improvements-basic-plugin-manager
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/