Earlier this month Intel Linux graphics driver engineers began posting the initial Intel Xe3P graphics enablement code with a focus on the integrated graphics to be found with Nova Lake. Xe3P will also later be found in Intel discrete graphics cards like Crescent Island and more. That very early Intel Xe3P code is now expected to be merged as part of the Linux 6.19 kernel as what will be the first Linux kernel release of 2026…

A clean and minimal KDE Plasma 6 setup using the Utterly Nord Light Solid theme with Papirus orange icons and a soft wallpaper. This video also shows how to fix the Global Menu turning black when two applications are open. Perfect for those who love a bright, elegant, and simple Linux desktop.

A Reddit user reports that Xubuntu.org may have been hacked, serving a ZIP file containing a Trojan instead of the real installer.

The 262nd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on October 19th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

The 6.18-rc2 kernel prepatch is out.

End result: rc2 is on the bigger side, and we still have some of
the remaining regressions outstanding, but we should be making slow
progress. It’s fairly early days yet, so I’m not very
worried. Things on the whole look fairly normal.

Discover a step-by-step guide to install Waydroid on Ubuntu and learn the steps to install, list, run, and uninstall Android applications.

Linux 6.18-rc2 is now available with another week’s worth of fixes for Linux 6.18, which is anticipated to be this year’s Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version…

Radxa has introduced the Orion O6N, a Nano ITX single board computer designed as a smaller and more power-efficient alternative to the earlier Orion O6. Both models share the same Cix P1 SoC and overall platform architecture, but the O6N adopts a more compact 120 x 120 mm form factor compared to the 170 x […]

Taps Ruby core to oversee RubyGems, BundlerRuby Central, the non-profit that recently seized some Ruby open source tools from maintainers, is transferring the repository ownership of RubyGems and Bundler to the Ruby core team. The move appears to be an attempt to mollify the Ruby community following a divisive power grab, but it does not restore the control of those tools to the maintainers who previously oversaw them.…

Alacritty 0.16, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator, adds support for Unicode 17, new Vi motions, and system-wide configuration options.

PeaZip 10.7 has been released today for this open-source, cross-platform, and free file archiver utility based on 7-Zip / p7zip archiver, Zstandard, FreeArc, and other open-source file compression tools.

Node.js 25 ships with V8 14.1, faster JSON.stringify, new permission flags, and built-in base64/hex conversion support.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.17.4 6.12.54 6.6.113 6.1.157, and 5.15.195 stable kernels. As usual, each
contains important fixes; users of those kernels are advised to upgrade.

Linux 6.16 introduced the ability to report the cause of AMD system resets/reboots thanks to specialized information available on AMD Zen platforms for indicating the detected cause of previous resets. This is a handy addition and the information is automatically reported to the kernel log on the next system boot, but in some instances that information could be stale/inaccurate. Today’s Linux 6.18-rc2 will fix that…

There has already been hardware monitoring support and other functionality in place under Linux for various AYANEO devices while a new platform driver is being worked on for the new AYANEO 3 device…

At the start of the calendar year there was a proposal for a new GCC front-end for the Algol 68 programming language. GCC developers deferred merging Algol 68 support into GCC for this rarely talked about vintage programming language. But as talked about back at the GNU Tools Cauldron 2025, the developer is still working on the support. Sure enough, this week brought a new version of this GCC front-end…

Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list one month ago were patches for a multi-kernel architecture design to allow multiple independent kernel instances to co-exist on the same single physical machine. This could let some CPU cores be running real-time “RT” kernels or other non-traditional uses between CPU cores. It wasn’t clear how far the multi-kernel patches would get especially with some initial negative views toward it and Bytedance separately proposing “Parker” for multi-kernel usage just days later. In any event, today a second version of the multi-kernel Linux patches were posted…

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FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 2 is out as the newest weekly test release of FreeBSD working its way toward a stable release in early December…

Back during the Linux 6.18 merge window Linus Torvalds commented on “mindless and completely crazy Rust format checking” and that the RUst format checking “is all bass-ackwards garbage” with condensing multi-line import statements into single lines. Merged minutes ago to Linux Git ahead of tomorrow’s Linux 6.18-rc2 are fixes to the Rust format checking and updated guidelines to address Torvalds’ criticism…