Ubuntu confirms Dracut will become the default initramfs tool in 25.10, phasing out initramfs-tools after nearly 20 years of use.

Fwupd 2.0.15 has been released today as the fifthneenth maintenance update to the fwupd 2.0 series of this open-source Linux firmware update utility, adding support for more devices, new features, and bug fixes.

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Space Grade Linux; KDE’s new distribution; Rug pulls and forks; Dependency tracker; Kernel configuration; Framework 12 laptop.
• Briefs: npm security; high-memory; Anaconda WebUI; OpenSUSE bcachefs; 32-bit Firefox; Quotes; …
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers announced today a new version of their TUXEDO WebFAI (Fully Automated Installation) tool that includes support for the latest Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system.

As of today, the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 release is powered by the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel series, which will be the default kernel offering for the Questing Quokka series.

Mesa’s Gallium3D video acceleration code has long supported both the VA-API and VDPAU interfaces for video acceleration. VA-API has enjoyed more widespread support among Linux applications and typically more robust while the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) was the interface originally started by NVIDIA for their official Linux driver. As of today, Mesa has now removed support for VDPAU acceleration…

The CUDA club just got a new member. Here’s how CIQ wants its Rocky Linux for AI spin to shake up how enterprises roll out GPU-hungry apps.

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Hyprland 0.51 was released today for this independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor for GNU/Linux distributions that introduces unique features and enhancements.

Richard Hughes of Red Hat announced the availability today of Fwupd 2.0.15 as the latest increment to this open-source firmware updating solution built around the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)…

To secure a static IP address for your machine, a configuration is required. In this article, we will guide you through configuring a static IP address on Debian 13.

There are a large number of ways to configure the 6.16
Linux kernel. It has 32,468 different configuration options on x86_64,
and a comparable number for other platforms. Exploring the ways the kernel can
be configured is sufficiently difficult that it requires specialized tools.
These show the

number of possible configurations that options can be combined in has
6,550 digits. How has that number changed over the history of the kernel, and
what does it mean for testing?

Make your containers more secure! Learn how to migrate Rootful Docker setup to Rootless Docker in Debian and Ubuntu Linux step-by-step.

Linus Torvalds recently marked Bcachefs as “externally maintained” and isn’t merging any new Bcachefs code for the time being but for now at least is keeping the existing Bcachefs code in-tree for anyone that has been relying on this experimental CoW file-system from prior kernel versions. OpenSUSE announced today though they are resorting to disabling the kernel driver in their Linux 6.17+ builds…

The openSUSE project has announced
that the bcachefs filesystem will be disabled in its kernel builds starting
with 6.17; bcachefs users will have to make other arrangements. “The
current 6.16.* is NOT affected. Neither is Slowroll (for now).“

A set of 14 patches were merged today to the Mesa 3D graphics driver codebase for fixing some wide-reaching performance issues that would have negatively affected the upcoming Xe3 integrated graphics with Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” hardware. The patches have been merged so will be very important that anyone buying an upcoming Intel Panther Lake laptop move to using an up-to-date Mesa to avoid these performance problems…

Puppy Linux BookwormPup64 10.0.12 has been released for fans of this Debian-based small, fast, customizable, and full-featured Linux distro optimized to support older and newer computers.

At Akademy 2025, the
KDE Project released an
alpha version of KDE Linux, a
distribution built by the project to “include the best
implementation of everything KDE has to offer, using the most advanced
technologies“. It is aimed at providing an operating system
suitable for home use, business use, OEM installations, and more
“eventually“. For now there are many rough edges and missing
features that users should be aware of before taking the plunge; but
it is an interesting look at the kind of complete Linux system that
KDE developers would like to see.

At Open
Source Summit Europe, LWN’s Jonathan Corbet presented “Three Decades in
Kernelland“; the talk provides a look at how the kernel got to
where it is, what makes it successful, and what may be coming
next. The video of the
talk is now online for LWN readers who would like to check it
out.

Hyprland 0.51 is now available as the latest feature release for this unique Wayland compositor…

The Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver is well optimized for Linux gaming and desktop use thanks to the work by Mike Blumenkrantz being funded by Valve. Zink has even worked with OpenCL thanks to Rusticl and now another frontier is being conquered for this generic OpenGL on Vulkan driver: workstation graphics with optimizing around the SPECViewPerf test cases…