The ReactOS project that continues striving toward being an “open-source Windows” ABI compatible operating system has been seeing some activity recently around supporting Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) display drivers as the newer evolution of XDDM drivers…

With last month’s GNOME 49 release, the 32-bit Compatibility extension for the GNOME Flatpak Runtime is no more. This is part of the broader effort of phasing out 32-bit support…

As part of Blender continuing to build out the Vulkan API capabilities for this open-source 3D modeling software, a proof of concept merge request was opened for beginning to make use of Vulkan ray queries…

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Catch up on the latest Linux news: Ubuntu 25.10, Gnoppix KDE 25.10, GIMP 3.0.6, KDE Gear 25.08.2, OpenSSH 10.2, Python 3.14, ClamAV 1.5, Solus begins a new epoch, Meta unveils OpenZL, and more.

The monthly KDE Frameworks updates continue with KDE Frameworks 6.19, released today by the KDE Project as a companion to the latest KDE Plasma 6.4.5 desktop environment and KDE Gear 25.08.2 software suite.

The 261st installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on October 12th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

This is your friendly reminder that, as of today, the Linux 6.16 kernel series has reached the end of its supported life, which means that it’s time to start upgrading your installations to Linux kernel 6.17.

Linus Torvalds announced today the general availability for public testing of the first Release Candidate (RC) development milestone of the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel series.

Linus has released 6.18-rc1 and closed the
merge window for this development cycle. “This was one of the good
merge windows where I didn’t end up having to bisect any particular problem
on nay of the machines I was testing. Let’s hope that success mostly
translates to the bigger picture too.“

Switching to Linux is less about technical hurdles and more about adjusting your mindset. Here’s why.

Linux 6.18-rc1 is now available for testing with the Linux 6.18 merge window closed. Linux 6.18 will be out in December and is anticipated to become this year’s Linux LTS kernel version…

The M5Stack Unit C6L is a compact LoRa module featuring the ESP32-C6 SoC and SX1262 transceiver. It supports 868 to 923 MHz operation for private LoRa networks with Meshtastic compatibility and options for custom development. The ESP32-C6 integrates a dual RISC-V architecture consisting of a high-performance 32-bit core running at 160 MHz and a low-power […]

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to add a live wallpaper on KDE Plasma 6 using a video from the internet. We’ll turn a regular video into a dynamic desktop wallpaper, making your Plasma desktop look more lively and interesting.

Flatpak is not working in Ubuntu 25.10. Here’s a temporary fix to fix broken flatpak issue in Ubuntu 25.10..

KDE Frameworks 6.19 fixes 7z crashes, refines Breeze Icons, and delivers better performance across core libraries.

Well, here is a weekend surprise… Red Hat engineer and Rusticl lead developer Karol Herbst has opened a Mesa merge request for “CLUDA” as a compute-only driver that implements the Gallium3D API atop the NVIDIA CUDA driver API. Wow…

Intel engineers continue working on SR-IOV support for the Xe open-source kernel driver as part of Project Battlematrix for ensuring good virtualization support for the latest Intel GPUs on Linux…

Patches were posted this week for implementing Microsoft’s extensions around the ACPI fan device for allowing the operating system to set fan speed trip points. In turn this should help some HP systems and likely other OEMs too in getting fan information working under Linux…

Git developers have been talking in recent weeks around release plans for Git 3.0. If all goes well we could potentially see Git 3.0 released before the end of 2026…