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Ubuntu 25.10's transition to using Rust Coreutils in place of GNU Coreutils has uncovered a few performance issues so far with the Rust version being slower than the C-based GNU Coreutils. Fortunately there still are a few weeks to go until Ubuntu 25.10 releases as stable and upstream developers are working to address these performance gaps...

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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.