The Mesa 25.3 open-source graphics stack has been released today as a major update with new features, improvements for the built-in open-source graphics drivers, and better support for many video games.

The open-source StarlingX cloud infrastructure project is out with its second major update of 2025, bringing with it new edge security and usability improvements.

Debian 13 “Trixie” receives its second refresh (13.2), featuring 123 bug fixes and 55 security updates. Here’s more on that.

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GNOME’s Nautilus file manager is finally matching the behavior of other file managers like KDE’s Dolphin and Xfce’s Thunar with a keyboard shortcut for copying and pasting files…

Debian 13.2 is out today as the latest maintenance update to this current stable version of Debian GNU/Linux…

Introduced last year in the Linux 6.10 kernel was the mseal system call for memory sealing to protect the memory mapping against modifications to seal non-writable memory segments or better protecting sensitive data structures. The GNU C Library has finally introduced its mseal function making use of this modern Linux kernel functionality…

KeePassXC’s developers explain that AI helps with code reviews and small pull requests, but never appears in the KeePassXC codebase.

Posted to the mailing list on Friday were the latest proposed guidelines for tool-generated contributions to the Linux kernel. The coding tools in large part being focused on AI generated content…

NVIDIA engineers continue working a lot on the in-development and in-tree open-source Nova kernel driver for their GPUs. Sent out on Friday night were the Turing enablement patches for this Rust-written Nova-Core driver code…

Stemming from AMD’s recently acknowledged Zen 5 issue with the RDSEED instruction and AMD releasing Zen 5 CPU microcode updates to address it, this week brought some additional microcode updates…

The Servo open-source and Rust-based web browser engine made a lot of progress during the month of October. The project has issued its monthly status report to outline all of the exciting new features made on the engine itself as well as its “servoshell” example web browser application…

KDE Plasma 6.6 continues seeing a lot of development activity while the Plasma 6.5 series is calming down after its first few point releases. Plasma 6.6 landed many more features and improvements this week…

Fedora 44 is looking at replacing the Linux kernel’s console “FBCON” with the user-space-based KMSCON implementation. Eventually the hope remains to deprecate the FBCON/FBDEV code within the Linux kernel…

This post is an immediate follow up for Fedora 43 KVM Hypervisor && bring CachyOS KDE Plasma 6.5.1 along with kernel to Arch Linux VM ( https://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/358937/index.html ) It is quite clear that there is a way to automatically start services virtstoraged, virtnetworkd, virtqemud, virtnodedevd on Arch Linux VM , however I was not lucky enough to automate this procedure.

Python is a great programming language, but it might not always be the best choice. For Linux administrators, bash shell scripting might often be a better choice. Shell scripting is easier to learn and faster to implement, especially for busy administrators who don’t have time to learn a more complex language.

The find command is an advanced tool for searching files or directories rigorously in your file system, taking a little longer time than its alternative tools like the locate command.

Canonical extends Ubuntu LTS security and support to 15 years via the Legacy add-on for Ubuntu Pro. Coverage starts with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

The monthly KDE Frameworks updates continue with KDE Frameworks 6.20, released today by the KDE Project as a companion to the KDE Plasma 6.5.2 desktop environment and KDE Gear 25.08.3 software suite.

Mesa 25.3 is out tonight as the newest quarterly feature release to this set of (predominantly) OpenGL and Vulkan drivers widely used across Linux systems. Mesa 25.3 features numerous Vulkan extensions added to the different open-source drivers, continued enhancements to the OpenGL drivers, and various other changes…