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5 Signs Your Proprietary Workflow Is Stifling Your Creativity (And What You Can Do About It)
https://news.itsfoss.com/proprietary-workflow-stifling-creativity/
Effulgence RPG has some of the slickest animated 3D ASCII art I've ever seen | GamingOnLinux
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/effulgence-rpg-has-some-of-the-slickest-animated-3d-ascii-art-ive-ever-seen/
📰 Linux Kernel 6.16 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.17
Linux kernel 6.16 reached end of life and all users are now recommended to upgrade their systems to the latest Linux 6.17 kernel series as soon as possible.
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-6-16-reaches-end-of-life-its-time-to-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-6-17
📰 FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 1 Brings OpenZFS Upgrade, Performance Fix For TCP LRO
The first beta release of the FreeBSD 15 operating system is now available for testing...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.0-Beta-1
📰 Imagination PowerVR Mesa Vulkan Driver Enables Unofficial Support For More GPUs
Merged today for the Mesa 25.3 graphics driver code is enabling support for more PowerVR Imagination GPUs within the "PVR" Vulkan driver albeit not officially supported nor in active development. Your mileage may vary but for some users with certain GPUs may work out well enough...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/PowerVR-Mesa-More-GPUs
📰 KDE Frameworks 6.19 Is Out, Here’s What’s New
KDE Frameworks 6.19 fixes 7z crashes, refines Breeze Icons, and delivers better performance across core libraries.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/kde-frameworks-6-19-released/
📰 Intel XPU Manager Deprecates Data Center GPU Max Series & GPU Flex Series
Last week during the Intel Tech Tour in Arizona, the Intel XPU Manager 1.3.3 software was released. Intel XPU Manager is a management and monitoring tool focused on Intel data center GPUs for simplifying administration, reliability, and maximizing utilization. Somewhat surprisingly, the Intel XPU Manager now deprecated the Data Center GPU Max Series as well as the Data Center GPU Flex Series...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-XPU-Manager-1.3.3
📰 Coreboot 25.09 Released With 19 More Motherboards Supported, Better amdfwtool For Turin
Coreboot 25.09 was released this evening as the latest feature update to this open-source solution common to Google Chromebooks and other select motherboards/systems as an alternative to proprietary BIOS / system firmware...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-25.09-Released
📰 5 Linux distros that are perfect for running in a VM
Supercharge your VM workloads with these neat distros.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-distros-that-are-perfect-for-running-in-a-vm/
📰 Pacsea Is a New TUI That Makes Arch Package Browsing Easier
Pacsea is a new Rust-written terminal TUI for Arch Linux that unifies official and AUR package searches into a single interface.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/pacsea-is-a-new-tui-that-makes-arch-package-browsing-easier/
📰 Microsoft Hyper-V Support Further Improved With Linux 6.18
Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization support within the Linux kernel continues to be steadily enhanced and it's inched along further for Linux 6.18...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-Hyper-V
Meta Unveils OpenZL: A New Open Source Data Compression Framework
https://linuxiac.com/meta-unveils-openzl-a-new-open-source-data-compression-framework/
Firefox's New Profile Manager Goes Live For Everyone Next Week - OMG! Ubuntu
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/firefoxs-new-profile-manager-goes-live-for-everyone-next-week
📰 Meta will move React to Linux Foundation to address vendor dominance fears
Independent technical governance will hope to unite fractured ecosystem Meta will contribute React, React Native, and JSX (JavaScript XML) to a new React Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation, and said that "it is important that no single company or organization is overrepresented."…
🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/meta_react_foundation/
📰 5 Raspberry Pi projects that don’t require soldering
Discover 5 innovative Raspberry Pi projects that skip the soldering, from converting Hi-Fi speakers to streaming devices to creating an AI-art generator display.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/raspberry-pi-projects-that-dont-require-soldering/
📰 Ghostty 1.2 Brings Quick Terminal, New Icon to Linux
Ghostty 1.2.0 released on September 15, 2025 with 6 months worth of changes (over 2,600 commits). As a cross-platform terminal, there are improvements to Windows, macOS and Linux (and newly added support for FreeBSD). Ubuntu 25.10 includes a new default terminal app that, for most of us, offers everything one needs.
🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/ghostty-1-2-new-features-for-linux
📰 Say goodbye to Linux audio headaches: how PipeWire simplifies everything
Tired of juggling multiple audio systems on Linux? This development unifies them all, offering a seamless experience like never before.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/goodbye-to-linux-audio-headaches-pipewire-simplifies-everything/
📰 Intel Posts Patches For New VFIO Xe PCI Linux Driver
Intel engineers continue working on SR-IOV support for the Xe open-source kernel driver as part of Project Battlematrix for ensuring good virtualization support for the latest Intel GPUs on Linux...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-VFIO-Xe-PCI-Driver-Linux
Solus Begins a New Epoch with Polaris Repository and Python 2 Removal
https://linuxiac.com/solus-begins-a-new-epoch-with-polaris-repository-and-python-2-removal/
📰 LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) 7 Is Now Available for Download
Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 7 distribution is now available for download based on the Debian GNU/Linux 13 "Trixie" operating system. Here's what's new!
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/lmde-linux-mint-debian-edition-7-is-now-available-for-download
📰 CachyOS is the best Arch-based Linux distro out there
Arch Linux is one of the more popular Linux distros already, but CachyOS takes that base and makes it even better and more accessible.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/cachyos-best-arch-based-linux-distro/
📰 Phosh 0.50 Released, GNOME App Aims To Help You Learn Assembly
For going along with the recent release of the GNOME 49 desktop, Phosh 0.50 has been released for this Wayland compositor focused on mobile devices...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Phosh-0.50-Released
📰 Linux Now Disabling TPM Bus Encryption By Default For Performance Reasons
Introduced last year in Linux 6.10 was TPM bus encryption and integration protection for Trusted Platform Module 2 (TPM2) handling. The intent was on better TPM security after a prior security demonstration showed TPM key recovery from Microsoft Windows BitLocker as well as TPM sniffing attacks. Shortly after being merged it was limited to just an x86_64 default where it had been tested the most at the time.
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Default-Disable-TPM2-HMAC
📰 Zero-day in file-sharing software leads to RCE, and attacks are ongoing
Usually we’d say patch up… not this time Security research firm Huntress is warning all users of Gladinet's CentreStack and Triofox file-sharing tools to urgently apply an available mitigation, as a zero-day is being actively exploited and there's no patch available.…
🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/10/10/zeroday_in_filesharing_software_leads/
📰 NVIDIA Posts Latest Linux Driver Patches For Open-Source vGPU Support
Just over one year ago NVIDIA posted open-source Linux GPU driver code for GPU virtualization "vGPU" support. That NVIDIA vGPU driver work was recently revised while still posted under a request for comments (RFC) flag...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-vGPU-RFC-v2
📰 Proton 10.0-3 release candidate live for testing better Windows game compatibility on Linux / Steam Deck
Valve have released a new release candidate build for the Windows compatibility layer Proton, with Proton 10.0-3 available for users to test..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/proton-10-0-3-release-candidate-live-for-testing-better-windows-game-compatibility-on-linux-steam-deck/
📰 Intel's Lunar Lake isn't as efficient as Arm, but it's getting surprisingly close
Apple's M-series chips have dominated the efficiency conversation for years, and have legitimized Arm as a computing platform in a way no other manufacturer has. Ever since the first M1 showed just how far Arm-based silicon could go in a laptop, Intel's CPUs have been playing catch-up. With Lunar Lake, Intel finally seems to be closing that gap... though not entirely.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/intel-lunar-lake-isnt-efficient-arm-close/
📰 Linux Driver Support Ready For Intel Panther Lake's NPU 5
In addition to Intel talking up their Panther Lake SoC and its Xe3 integrated graphics at their Tech Tour in Arizona last week, they also hosted sessions on additional aspects of Panther Lake like the IPU 7.5 for web cams and the new NPU 5 IP for AI acceleration. For those wondering, the Intel NPU 5 support under Linux is already largely squared away...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-NPU-5-Panther-Lake-Linux
📰 PipeWire 1.4.9 Fixes Audio Regression and Improves ALSA Recovery
PipeWire 1.4.9 multimedia framework fixes an audio regression, improves ALSA recovery, and refines SOF card handling for smoother playback.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/pipewire-1-4-9-fixes-audio-regression-and-improves-alsa-recovery/
📰 Wireshark 4.6 Open-Source Network Protocol Analyzer Released as a Major Update
Wireshark 4.6 open-source network protocol analyzer is now available to download with manjor new features and improvements. Here's what's new!
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/wireshark-4-6-open-source-network-protocol-analyzer-released-as-a-major-update