Catch up on the latest Linux news: KDE Plasma 6.5, VirtualBox 7.2.4, Jellyfin 10.11, Uptime Kuma 2.0, Valkey 9.0, Canonical Academy, new NTFS Linux driver, Alma 10.1 adds Btrfs support, and more.

The MX Linux team announced today the general availability of the Release Candidate (RC1) version of the upcoming MX Linux 25 distribution based on the Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series.

Debian Project Leader Andreas Tille announced today that their "FTP Master" team is being disbanded and instead establishing the Debian Archive Operations Team "Archive Team" and DFSG, Licensing & New Packages Team "DFSG Team" in its place...

Ongoing DDoS attacks push Arch Linux to activate AUR protection, which currently disrupts SSH on port 22.

In this video, I’ll show you how to fix the overlapping blur effect on windows in KDE Plasma. The issue occurs when the blur extends beyond the window boundaries for example, when opening an app like Dolphin File Manager, the normally rounded corners appear sharp instead.

The Linux 6.18-rc3 kernel is now available for testing in working toward the Linux 6.18 stable kernel release in just about one month. Linux 6.18 is expected to become this year's Long Term Support "LTS" kernel...

In this article, you will learn how to use the sshpass command to gain non-interactive access to a remote server by providing the password on the same line.

The 263rd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on October 26th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

After a brief delay, Fedora Linux 43 is now GO and set to launch on October 28, 2025.

Linux kernel 6.17 merges essential Asahi patches, improving reboot handling, GPU support, and device compatibility for Apple Macs.

The newest weekly test release of the FreeBSD 15.0 is now available for evaluation ahead of the planned December official release...

Starting November 3, all new Firefox extensions must declare whether they collect or share user data, ensuring greater transparency for users.

Plasma 6.5 debuted this week that KDE developers and users have been celebrating. But it's already on to working out fixes for Plasma 6.5.1 as well as new feature activity toward Plasma 6.6...

Radxa has rolled out the Dragon Q6A, a compact single-board computer built on Qualcomm’s QCS6490 octa-core platform. Designed for industrial, IoT, and edge computing environments, the board combines high-performance CPU and GPU cores with integrated AI acceleration, multiple display interfaces, and flexible storage options. Similar to the RUBIK Pi 3, the Dragon Q6A integrates an […]

DavMail 6.5 open-source exchange gateway enhances Office 365 login security and refines Linux RPM packages.

The Asahi Linux developers involved with working on Linux support for Apple Silicon M-Series devices have put out a new progress report on their development efforts...

Rust Coreutils bug that broke Automatic Updates in Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka is now fixed. Here's what happened and how developers fixed it.

Foot is a lightning-fast, minimalist terminal emulator built for Wayland, focusing on speed, simplicity, and low resource usage.

NVIDIA is taking the open-source and upstream "Nova" kernel graphics driver quite seriously for their hardware. Hitting the mailing lists on Friday night were initial patches in beginning to make preparations toward "next-gen GPU" support. Digging into the comments, it's indeed for post-Blackwell GPUs...

Fedora developers propose enforcing RPM signature checks by default in Fedora 44, pending FESCo review and approval.

M5Stack has introduced the PowerHub, a compact IoT controller designed for distributed power and device management. The ESP32-based PowerHub is described as providing a stable and flexible control platform that integrates communication interfaces, modular power input options, and precise monitoring capabilities. The PowerHub is built around the ESP32-S3-WROOM-1U-N16R8 module featuring a dual-core Xtensa LX7 processor […]

Bottles 51.25, a compatibility layer for running Windows apps on Linux, adds support for the st terminal and improves Steam configuration handling.

Learn all about Linux load average, and how you can use it to monitor your system and optimize your system to run smoothly.

Merged for Linux 6.18 was a new feature called Sheaves as an opt-in, per-CPU array-based caching layer. Plus there is a per-NUMA-node cache of Sheaves called a "Barn". In continuing to build out the Linux kernel usage of Sheaves, a set of initial patches were posted this week to replace the CPU slabs with Sheaves within the slub allocator code...

One way AI can improve on human work Computer scientists at UC Berkeley say that AI models show promise as a way to discover and optimize algorithms.…

With Amazon recently launching their M8a AWS instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin", for their M8 class instance types there now are all the latest-generation CPU options with AMD EPYC Turin (M8a), Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids (M8i), and their in-house Graviton4 processors (M8g). After recently looking at the M7a vs. M8a performance with Amazon EC2, many Phoronix readers expressed interest in seeing an M8a vs. M8i vs. M8g performance showdown so here are those benchmarks.

Discover CLI and GUI methods to convert that Choppy-running TS video file in VLC Media Player with the step-by-step guide mentioned in this article.

It's been rare in recent years seeing any new OpenGL extensions given the wild success these days of the Vulkan API with its vast hardware adoption and increasing software support around that modern graphics and compute API. Yet this October has been unusual with now seeing multiple new OpenGL extensions merged to the OpenGL registry...

The Austrian Ministry for Economic Affairs drops foreign clouds for a homegrown Nextcloud and LibreOffice solution, showing Europe’s steady move toward digital independence.

KDE Plasma 6.5 has officially landed in Arch Linux’s stable repositories, making it the first distribution to ship the new desktop.