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The 261st installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on October 12th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

This is your friendly reminder that, as of today, the Linux 6.16 kernel series has reached the end of its supported life, which means that it’s time to start upgrading your installations to Linux kernel 6.17.

Linus Torvalds announced today the general availability for public testing of the first Release Candidate (RC) development milestone of the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel series.

Switching to Linux is less about technical hurdles and more about adjusting your mindset. Here's why.

The M5Stack Unit C6L is a compact LoRa module featuring the ESP32-C6 SoC and SX1262 transceiver. It supports 868 to 923 MHz operation for private LoRa networks with Meshtastic compatibility and options for custom development. The ESP32-C6 integrates a dual RISC-V architecture consisting of a high-performance 32-bit core running at 160 MHz and a low-power […]

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to add a live wallpaper on KDE Plasma 6 using a video from the internet. We’ll turn a regular video into a dynamic desktop wallpaper, making your Plasma desktop look more lively and interesting.

Heading into risky online territory? Consider running Tails 7.0, which now offers faster startup and a smoother setup for safer browsing.

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...

Flatpak is not working in Ubuntu 25.10. Here's a temporary fix to fix broken flatpak issue in Ubuntu 25.10..

KDE Frameworks 6.19 fixes 7z crashes, refines Breeze Icons, and delivers better performance across core libraries.

The long-anticipated LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) 7 release is now available for download based on the Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie” operating system series.

OpenSSH 10.2 addresses bugs and prepares to deprecate SHA1 SSHFP records, pushing for stronger, SHA256-based security.

One of the exciting additions on the way for the C++26 programming language is a standardized library around Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) operations. This portable SIMD implementation makes it easier to leverage SIMD and data parallelism in C++ for better performance and to work across SIMD architectures like AVX-512...

Orange Pi has introduced the Orange Pi 6 Plus, a single-board computer intended for high-performance and AI-oriented computing tasks. It uses the CIX CD8180/CD8160 SoC with a 12-core 64-bit CPU and an NPU rated at up to 45 TOPS. The SoC includes a 12-core architecture paired with an integrated graphics processor supporting hardware-accelerated ray tracing […]

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...

Kdenlive 25.08.2 open-source video editor brings major stability fixes, improved clip handling, and polished frei0r effects.

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...

Pacsea is a new Rust-written terminal TUI for Arch Linux that unifies official and AUR package searches into a single interface.

Released this evening is the first beta of the Shotcut 25.10 open-source video editor. This prominent video editing application for Linux systems is introducing yet more AI-powered functionality...

Ubuntu 25.10 Network Disabled After Reboot? Do not panic! Here's How to Fix it.