Catch up on the latest Linux news: EndeavourOS Ganymede, Solus 4.8, CachyOS, Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0, Wine 10.20, Tmux 3.6, Redis 8.4, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS roadmap, KDE Plasma 6.8 will go fully Wayland, and more.

In this article, you will learn three ways to change a user’s login shell in a Linux system using the usermod, chsh, and vim or nano commands.

The media subsystem updates were sent out this morning for the now-open Linux 6.19 merge window. There are some new Rockchip drivers and other media drivers that are new for Linux 6.19…

Due to the ongoing RAM shortages in the industry amid ongoing massive demand for AI servers,Raspberry Pi announced today they are having to raise prices on the Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 single board computers. They have also launched a 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 version too for those not needing much memory and wanting to keep pricing to a minimum…

It was just earlier this year that Linux developers considered dropping the Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers from the mainline Linux kernel for being unmaintained. But then some new developers stepped up to maintain the drivers and there has been new HFS/HFS+ file-system patches each kernel cycle since. With the now in-development Linux 6.19 kernel there are some nice year-end clean-ups to these file-system drivers…

Linux kernel 6.18 brings expanded architecture support, BPF updates, new namespace file-handle features, and wide-ranging hardware enablement across CPUs, GPUs, and sensors.

Linux kernel 6.18 is now available for download, as announced by Linus Torvalds himself, featuring enhanced hardware support through new and updated drivers, improvements to file systems and networking, and more.

KaOS 2025.11 adds an optional Limine bootloader and ships Plasma 6.5.3, KDE Gear 25.08.3, and Frameworks 6.20 on Qt 6.10.1.

The 268th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on November 30th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

The good news is that Intel tonight posted a pull request for open-source Gaudi 3 accelerator support for the mainline Linux kernel! The bad news is that it’s coming quite late in the product cycle, much later than the former excellent Habana Labs open-source track record, and their hopes of squeezing this code into the Linux 6.19 kernel may be dashed…

Linus has released the 6.18 kernel, as expected.

So I’ll have to admit that I’d have been happier with slightly less
bugfixing noise in this last week of the release, but while there’s
a few more fixes than I would hope for, there was nothing that made
me feel like this needs more time to cook. So 6.18 is tagged and
pushed out.

Headline changes in this release include
the ability
to manage namespaces with file handles,
support for the AccECN
congestion-control protocol,
initial support for signing of BPF
programs,
improved memory management with sheaves,
the Rust binder driver,
better control over transparent huge
pages,
and a lot more.
This release also saw the removal
of the bcachefs filesystem.

See the LWN merge-window summaries
(part 1, part 2)
and the KernelNewbies 6.18
page for more information.

Flatpaks can give your Linux desktop access to newer apps, but only if your system is set up to use them. Here’s a straightforward guide to getting any distro Flatpak‑ready.

The post How to Make Your Linux System Flatpak Ready appeared first on FOSS Force.

Linux 6.18 stable is now available! Linux 6.18 ushers in many new features and changes while also is expected to become this year’s Long Term Support “LTS” kernel version…

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS outlines its roadmap with GNOME 50, new default apps, improved Wayland performance, and desktop refinements arriving in April 2026.

It’s been an exciting weekend for Linux distribution released with new versions of Endeavour OS, CachyOS, Solus and now a new NixOS release…

With the Linux 6.18 kernel likely being released later today, here is a look at some of the features on the table for the next kernel cycle, Linux 6.19. The list is based on changes queued in various “-next” branches ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window. There’s always the possibility of last minute change of plans or objections raised by Linus Torvalds, but this should provide an early look at some of the features more than likely to be merged for Linux 6.19…

Today, 4MLinux developer Zbigniew Konojacki announced the release and general availability of 4MLinux 50.0 as the latest stable version of this minimalist and independent Linux distro featuring the lightweight JWM window manager.

The prizrak.me blog is carrying an introduction to the
Landlock security module.

Landlock shines when an application has a predictable set of files
or directories it needs. For example, a web server could restrict
itself to accessing only /var/www/html and /tmp.

Unlike SELinux or AppArmor, Landlock policies don’t require
administrator involvement or system-wide configuration. Developers
can embed policies directly in application code, making sandboxing
a natural part of the development process.

EndeavourOS Ganymede ships with refreshed ISOs, Linux kernel 6.17, and fully automatic NVIDIA driver detection for nvidia and nvidia-open GPUs.