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Casilda 1.0 is out today as the Wayland compositor widget for the GTK4 toolkit...

The long-time maintainer of libxml2, Nick Wellnhofer, resigns, with only critical regression fixes planned through 2025.

After 25 years, Kubuntu founder Jonathan Riddell says goodbye to KDE, sharing pride in his work and disappointment over how it ended.

It's been a while since delivering any benchmarks on Phoronix of Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) for running Linux applications and other software under the confines of Windows 11. When recently carrying out the Windows 11 25H2 vs. Linux benchmarks I also took the opportunity for seeing how WSL is performing on that leading-edge Windows release compared to running a bare metal Ubuntu Linux installation.

Mozilla has published today the final builds of the Firefox 143 open-source web browser ahead of its official unveiling on September 16th, 2025.

Prominent KDE developer Jonathan Riddell who was formerly involved with Kubuntu and then KDE Neon, served for a while on KDE Plasma release management, and other significant contributions over the years announced he's stepping away from the KDE world...

The Chromium 140.0.7339.80 security update has rolled out across major Linux distributions, delivering critical vulnerability fixes that strengthen browser security for millions of open-source desktop users. Released on September 12, 2025, this latest Chromium browser update addresses four significant security flaws while maintaining the performance and compatibility that makes Chromium the foundation for numerous web browsers in the Linux ecosystem.

Today, Ubuntu maker Canonical announced that it will package and distribute the NVIDIA CUDA toolkit within Ubuntu’s repositories.

The latest tranche of Rust code ready to go for the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel is now ready to go and has been queued into a TIP branch ahead of the merge window...

Giada 1.3 has been released today as a new stable version of this open-source, minimalistic, and hardcore loop machine and music production software designed for DJs, live performers, and electronic musicians.

For fans of open-source projects embracing the Rust programming language, merged for the LibreOffice 26.2 development code for this open-source office suite is "Rustmaker" as a Rust code maker for UNO integration with this open-source office suite...

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Garuda, VirtualBox 7.2.2, Hyprland 0.51, KDE Plasma 6.4.5, Ubuntu 25.10 switches to Dracut, Bcachefs transitioning to DKMS packaging, and more.

Adding to the list of feature caveats around the different Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptops and the varying Linux state is video acceleration support. But patches were posted this week by a Linaro engineer enabling hardware accelerated video playback for two X Elite laptop models...

Learn how to use the chattr command on Linux, as well as the various options, operators, and file attributes you can use.

The input subsystem fixes for the week were sent out on Saturday ahead of the Linux 6.17-rc6 kernel due out later today. Notable with this batch of "fixes" is enabling support for the high-end FLYDIGI APEX 5 gaming controller...

GStreamer 1.26.6 multimedia framework fixes bugs in Vulkan decoding, Spotify source, V4L2 codecs, and more.

The newest weekly test release of Linux 6.17 is now available as we work toward the stable kernel release around the end of September...

The 257th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on September 14th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

MKVToolNix, a set of tools for creating, altering, and inspecting Matroska (MKV) files under Linux systems, has been updated today to version 95.0, a release that brings new features and bug fixes.

Cloud Hypervisor 48.0 is now available for this Intel-started, open-source and Rust-based VMM focused on modern cloud workloads. Cloud Hypervisor continues to tailor to Windows and Linux guests while emphasizing security and cloud-native workloads...

Jetway has unveiled the B420UADN1, a fanless compact box PC built around Intel’s Alder Lake-N platform. Designed for industrial and embedded use, the system combines silent operation with high-speed networking, modern display interfaces, and broad OS support. The system is equipped with the Intel Processor N97, a quad-core SoC with a 12 W TDP. It […]

The GStreamer project released GStreamer 1.26.6 today as the sixth maintenance update to the latest GStreamer 1.26 series of this popular and powerful open-source, free, and cross-platform multimedia framework.

The Samsung Exynos 7870 Octa SoC released back in 2016 on a 14nm process and powered by eight Arm Cortex-53 cores and a Mali T830 GPU. Finally now for late 2025 there is open-source display driver happenings going mainline for this aging SoC...

Libadwaita 1.8 introduces AdwShortcutsDialog, AdwShortcutLabel, and styling updates, improving GNOME 49 app usability and design.

It's unfortunate the number of significant Linux engineering losses at Intel this year. Beyond the staffing reductions throughout the company, seeing the loss of Linux engineering talent and many of their open-source contributors outside of kernel space too has been especially hard hitting to see. Intel for years has been very well regarded for their prolific open-source contributions and typically leading early hardware enablement within the Linux kernel, compiler toolchains, and related components. There's another hit to the Intel Linux team with one of their USB4/Thunderbolt maintainers departing the company...

NetworkManager 1.54.1 is out, introducing global DNS overwrite, DHCP client ID in initrd, and important bug fixes.

Ahead of the GNOME 49 stable release expected on Wednesday, libadwaita 1.8 released this week to incorporate all the enhancements made over the past six months to this GTK4 library that provides GNOME-specific widgets and features...

The monthly KDE Frameworks releases continue with KDE Frameworks 6.18, published today by the KDE Project as a companion update to the recent KDE Plasma 6.4.5 desktop environment and KDE Gear 25.08.1 software suite releases.

Proxmox Datacenter Manager 0.9 Beta lands with Debian 13, Linux kernel 6.14, ZFS 2.3.4, EVPN SDN, and a modern Rust-based web UI.