The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.5.3 as the third maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.5 desktop environment series with more improvements and bug fixes.

Last week's Vulkan 1.4.333 brought a new ray-tracing extension with VK_EXT_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder that was derived from a prior NVIDIA vendor extension (VK_NV_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder). This new extension for Shader Execution Reordering "SER" is showing to deliver some nice performance potential for Vulkan ray-tracing performance...

Systemd 259 RC1 previews the removal of SysV init script support and introduces major compatibility changes ahead of the v260 transition.

ClamAV will retire outdated signatures on December 16, reducing both databases by about 50% to improve performance and trim update costs.

Make Application and Active Window Application be transparent on KDE Plasma

Thought it was the victim of a ‘hyper-scale DDoS attack’ before finding the fix Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has admitted that the cause of its massive Tuesday outage was a change to database permissions, and that the company initially thought the symptoms of that adjustment indicated it was the target of a “hyper-scale DDoS attack,” before figuring out the real problem.…

Discover a step-by-step guide to install the latest version of Slack on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions with practical examples.

In the past we have seen Llama.cpp with Vulkan outperforming AMD's ROCm compute stack in some of the large language model (LLM) AI benchmarks. Curious if anything has changed given the recent ROCm 7.1 release, I ran some benchmarks of an up-to-date Llama.cpp using the AMD ROCm back-end compared to the Vulkan back-end with the latest RADV driver. For this round of testing the Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card was used.

The Debian Project released today a new project called Debian Libre Live Images that allows you to run and install the Debian GNU/Linux operating system without non-free software.

A proposal has been raised by two CPython core developers to introduce the Rust programming language to CPython. Initially the focus is on allowing Rust to be used for developing optional extension modules for CPython but ultimately their goal is for Rust to become a hard dependency of CPython and used throughout its codebase...

The first Release Candidate of the highly anticipated GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) 3.2 release is now available for public testing with more new features and dozens of improvements.

The Debian Project released the second update for Debian 13 trixie. Here's what's new and how to upgrade to the Debian 13.2 release.

Blender 5.0, a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software, is now available for download as a major update that introduces numerous new features and improvements.

At the start of the year developers behind the Budgie desktop environment hoped for shipping Budgie 10.10 in Q1-2025. We are now in Q4 without a stable release but at long last a preview version is at least available. Budgie 10.10 is the point at which Budgie is going all-in on Wayland in leaving behind the X11 desktop session support...

Life online seems to be returning to normal after a major outage centered on Cloudflare’s WARP service. Sporadic outages still possible for the next few hours.

The source is a built-in command-line tool that reads and executes the commands from the specified file as its argument in the current shell.

GIMP 3.2 RC1 introduces native SVG export and a redesigned rasterize workflow for text, vector, and link layers, giving a clear picture of what we can expect from the final stable 3.2 release.

Today, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation announced the release and general availability of AlmaLinux OS 9.7 (codename Moss Jungle Cat) as the latest stable version of this free Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) fork.

Marathon OS is a new, still-in-development mobile Linux system with a Qt6 Wayland compositor and a QML touch UI inspired by BlackBerry 10.

OpenVPN 2.6.16 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source VPN (Virtual Private Network) system for creating secure point-to-point or site-to-site connections in routed or bridged configurations.

Solseek 0.3.2 introduces full Flatpak support for this Solus Linux eopkg TUI, along with faster caching and update checks upon launch.

Weighing the tradeoffs between open source and freemium software reveals why free-as-in-freedom tools are almost always the better option.

Valve’s latest Steam client update adds expanded chat reporting tools, suspicious message alerts, and new controller support, including fixes for PS5, Xbox 360, and Nintendo devices.

Conclusive Engineering has introduced the KSTR-IMX93 on Kickstarter, a Linux-capable SBC integrating Wi-Fi 6, cellular IoT, Bluetooth LE 5.4, Zigbee, Thread, GNSS, Gigabit Ethernet, CAN-FD, and PoE in a compact 110 × 55 mm design. The platform is built around NXP’s i.MX93 application processor, equipped with two Arm Cortex-A55 cores running up to 1.7GHz and […]

Karol Herbst at Red Hat who has been a longtime open-source NVIDIA driver contributor as well as Rusticl developer presented at XDC2025 on the NVK Vulkan driver's cooperatrive matrix extension support. It turns out this Vulkan extension for machine learning / AI is proving fairly competitive with the open-source NVK driver compared to NVIDIA's official driver stack...

Today, Valve released Proton 10 as the latest stable release of this open-source compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components for playing Windows games on Linux systems.

The Wild linker is a very speedy linker written in the Rust programming language that has become quite competitive with the likes of Mold. A patch sent out this weekend adds Wild support for use with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)...

After many months of hard work, Uri Herrera announced today the general availability of Nitrux 5.0 as a major update to this immutable and systemd-free distribution.

LibrePods brings full AirPods support to Linux, including battery status, ANC modes, and gesture detection, all without relying on Apple’s ecosystem.

The 266th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on November 16th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.