In working toward the Wine 11.0 stable release in January, Wine 11.0-rc3 is out today as the latest weekly release candidate…

In addition to the open-source NVIDIA “NVK” Vulkan driver in Mesa merging compression support for big performance wins, another performance optimization was merged earlier in the week that stand to benefit GeForce RTX 20 “Turing” graphics processors…

Two years and a few months after LoongArch 64-bit “Loong64” was added to Debian Ports, it’s now been promoted to being an official architecture for Debian Linux…

OpenZFS 2.4 extends Linux kernel compatibility up to 6.18 while supporting FreeBSD 14, 15, and 16, bringing major performance, quota, and storage improvements.

There are some nice KDE Plasma 6.6 improvements that were merged ahead of Christmas…

For helping with the I/O performance in virtualized environments, merged this week to the DragonFlyBSD development code is multi-queue support for its VirtIO block “virtio_blk” driver…

Fwupd developer Richard Hughes released fwupd 2.0.19 today as the nineteenth maintenance update to the fwupd 2.0 series of this open-source Linux firmware update utility.

Based on the online “rumour mill”, Microsoft is already planning the next “megacull”; some workers hope that joining a union will protect them, as we showed some days ago, but in reality those Microsoft employees are a liability to such unions.

In this article, you will learn five ways to follow symbolic (or soft) links to find the original file to which the symbolic link points.

Google’s Chrome/Chromium web browser code has merged support for Linux printing via the XDG Portal. This is important to allow print support from within Flatpak or Snap sandboxed versions of Google’s web browser…

The Mageia team has outlined the Mageia 10 release schedule, including alpha, beta, RC milestones, and a final release planned for April 2026.

Kdenlive 25.12 was announced as part of the KDE Gear 25.12 open-source software suite as a hefty update to this open-source non-linear video editor for Linux, BSD, macOS, and Windows.

For the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel the initial Xe3P_LPD GPU support was merged for the integrated graphics to be found with Nova Lake processors. There were some initial Xe3P_LPD display patches also merged for Linux 6.19 but it looks like for Linux 6.20 (or what may end up being known as Linux 7.0), the display support will actually be functional for driving monitors from Nova Lake…

Revived distro returns on Arch with KDE Plasma, global menus, and a familiar macOS-style sheenThe new pearOS distro is a Romanian project that picks up the concepts behind the original Pear Linux from 2011 and updates them. It’s not going to turn the distro world upside down, but it’s fun, interesting, and a showcase for the versatility and customizability of the Linux desktop.…

Linux 6.18 LTS is now the latest stable and long-term supported (LTS) kernel series, and Ubuntu users can install it on their machines via the official Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA archive. Here’s how!

The FreeBSD Foundation has a blog
post about the progress it has made in 2025 on the Laptop Support
& Usability Project for FreeBSD. The foundation committed
$750,000 to the project in 2025 and has made progress on graphics
drivers, Wi-Fi 4 and 5 support, audio improvements, sleep states,
and more.

The installer for FreeBSD has gained a couple of new features that
benefit laptop users. In 15.0 the installer now supports downloading
and installing firmware packages after the FreeBSD base system
installation is complete. Coming in 15.1 it will be possible to
install the KDE graphical desktop environment during the installation
process. Grateful thanks to Bjoern Zeeb and Alfonso Siciliano
respectively. […]

The project continues into 2026 with a similar sized investment and
scope. Key targets include completing work on sleep states (modern
standby and hibernate), adding support for graphics drivers up to
Linux 6.18, Wi-Fi 6 support, USB4 and Thunderbolt support, HDMI
improvements, UVC webcam support, and Bluetooth improvements.

A substantial testing program will also start in January, aiming to
test all the functionality together across a range of
hardware. Community testers are very welcome to help out, the
Foundation will release a blog post and send an invite to help to the
Desktop mailing list some time in January 2026.

Five years ago Intel began introducing “workload hints” used for thermal and power purposes with their SoCs and in turn on the software-side being enabled with their INT340X kernel driver on Linux systems. That Intel workload hint coverage was added to the Linux kernel in late 2020 and then a big addition in 2023 with Meteor Lake introducing new workload hint type capabilities. Now patches have been posted to the Linux kernel mailing list for new workload hint functionality coming for upcoming Panther Lake SoCs…

Arch Linux has made its official WSL image fully reproducible, ensuring bit-for-bit identical builds using archived repositories and normalized timestamps.

The recently released Linux 6.18 kernel is this year’s Long Term Support version. As such it’s sure to a see a lot of enterprise and hyperscaler uptake in being the annual LTS kernel version. While Linux 6.12 LTS will be maintained at least through the end of next year, upgrading to Linux 6.18 LTS can be very worthwhile from the performance perspective beyond the extended timeline until it will reach end-of-life. Here are benchmarks showing the performance advantages of upgrading from Linux 6.12 LTS to Linux 6.18 LTS for 5th Gen AMD EPYC “Turin” as well as an early look on the same server for the performance direction Linux 6.19 is bringing the kernel into 2026.

For X.Org Server users there is a new release of xorgproto for the holidays. Xorgproto as the set of headers and specifications for the X11 core protocols and extensions is out with its first new release since March 2024…