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…

Ahead of the Wine 11.0 code freeze beginning in early December, Wine 10.19 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for running Windows games and applications on Linux…

Sent out today is likely the last batch of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver feature updates ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window getting underway around the start of December. And it’s an exciting one too from adding a new SMART POWER OLED feature to switching from the Radeon to AMDGPU drivers by default for aging GCN 1.0 Southern Islands and GCN 1.1 Sea Islands GPUs…

ollama 0.12.11 released this week as the newest feature update to this easy-to-run method of deploying OpenAI GPT-OSS, DeepSeek-R1, Gemma 3, and other large language models. Exciting with ollama 0.12.11 is that it’s now supporting the Vulkan API…

The openSUSE project announced today that the openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling-release distribution has recently switched from GRUB2 to GRUB2-BLS as the default bootloader when installed via YaST in UEFI mode.

Vulkan 1.4.333 is out with a handful of fixes plus two new extensions…

AMD’s GAIA open-source project as a reminder is their “Generrative AI Is Awesome” quick-setup solution for demonstrating generative AI use on AMD hardware platforms with Ryzen CPUs, Radeon GPUs, and/or Ryzen AI NPUs. GAIA is predominantly Microsoft Windows focused but recently they did introduce limited support for Linux that is currently bound to Vulkan-accelerated GPU support. Out today is AMD GAIA 0.13 as another step forward for this AI demonstrator…

Systemd-free option still available if you choose that downloadMX Linux 25 “Infinity” is now available, and the new version has some significant differences from the 2023 release, with things that used to be boot-time choices now more loaded pre-install decisions.…

One of the many objectives of the Linux
Kernel Self-Protection Project (KSPP), which just completed ten years of
work, is to ensure that all array references can be bounds-checked,
even in the case of flexible array members, the size of which is not known
at compile time. One of the most challenging flexible array members in the
kernel is not even declared as such. Almost exactly one year ago, LWN looked at the effort to increase safety around
the networking subsystem’s heavily used sockaddr structure. One
year later, Kees Cook is still looking for a way to bring this work to a
close.

While the “Nova” driver continues to be developed as a modern Rust-written, open-source and in-kernel NVIDIA graphics driver for Linux, for the time being Nouveau is what’s working for end-users for those wanting a mainline open-source NVIDIA graphics driver for gaming and other workloads. With Linux 6.19 the Nouveau driver is picking up support for handling larger pages as well as compression support…

Intel today sent out their last batch of planned feature patches for their Xe kernel graphics driver of material intended for Linux 6.19…

Tails 7.2 has been released today as the second minor update in the Tails 7.x series of this portable Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux and designed to protect you against surveillance and censorship.

Following the mainline Linux kernel support for the VisionFive 2 RISC-V single board computer from StarFive, Linux kernel patches are on the way for their new VisionFive 2 Lite low-cost offering. With the StarFive VisionFive 2 Lite this RISC-V board can be procured for as little as $19.9 USD as one of the cheapest yet fairly capable RISC-V SBCs…

Browser maker scolds AI objectors, “The web is changing, and sitting it out doesn’t help anyone”Mozilla is apparently a lot more excited about adding AI features to Firefox than its community. The org has decided that AI deserves its own new environment in the browser, a move its fans met with withering criticism.…

The which command locates the executable command or file location in the user’s environmental path. It will give you the complete path an executable command or file is pointing towards in your file system.

Understand how Arch Linux creates .pacnew files during updates and how to manage configuration changes without breaking your setup.

Promises some easing of rules that knobble indie devs, eventuallyGoogle has decided to loosen some of its recently introduced rules regarding registration of Android developers and their apps, but isn’t rushing to deliver the modest changes it plans.…

The EROFS read-only file-system started by Huawei and now maintained by a growing number of contributors continues attracting even more interest. EROFS has exhibited much potential for mobile devices as well as container use-cases while proving itself to be quite robust since its mainlining back in 2019…

The LibreOffice 25.8.3 update delivers 70 fixes improving stability, compatibility, and performance across all core applications.