After updating KDE Plasma to version 6.5, I noticed that the overall appearance of the desktop became much brighter than before. Initially, I thought it was just a visual change, but the real cause turned out to be the blur effect. The default blur was causing this brighter look

Canonical today announced an exciting step forward for Ubuntu Linux: the notion of architecture variants and now initially providing an Ubuntu 25.10 archive with x86_64-v3 built packages for enjoying better performance on modern Intel and AMD hardware…

AMD continues with their aggressive efforts to enhance their GPU software compute ecosystem with ROCm. The fire under them has been lit and they have been taking their software efforts more expeditiously in recent times to better compete with NVIDIA’s CUDA ecosystem and ensuring their Instinct hardware is properly primed to compete. The release dance has begun for ROCm 7.1…

Team begs for help as teenage dev who revived Canonical’s old Unity desktop prioritizes studiesThe Ubuntu Unity project is in trouble because its maintainer, a Linux whiz kid, has had less time to work on it due to his studies. Now other team members are appealing to the wider Ubuntu community for help. …

Petition seeks to rally community opposition and alert regulatorsStarting next year, Google plans to require all apps installed on certified Android devices, including sideloading, to come from developers it has verified. Many Android developers see the move as a power grab and have started a movement to “Keep Android Open.”…

This is your friendly reminder that, as of today, October 29th, 2025, Canonical has opened the upgrade path for Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) users to the latest release, Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka).

In Part One of this series, we examined how the SONiC control plane and the VPP data plane form a cohesive, software-defined routing stack through the Switch Abstraction Interface.  We outlined how SONiC’s Redis-based orchestration and VPP’s user-space packet engine come together to create a high-performance, open router architecture. In this second part, we’ll turn […]The post Disaggregated Routing with SONiC and VPP: Lab Demo and Performance Insights – Part Two appeared first on Linux.com.

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Pixnapping attack; Fil-C; Debian ftpmasters; GoFundMe complaints; Safer user-space access.
• Briefs: Man pages 6.16; Btrfs on AlmaLinux; Fedora Linux 43; ICANN report; PSF grants; Rust Coreutils 0.3.0; Tor Browser 15.0; Quotes; …
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

System76 CEO Carl Richell has revealed the COSMIC desktop will debut on December 11, 2025, bringing a fresh vision to the Linux desktop world.

Following last week’s initial batch of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver changes intended for Linux 6.19, another round of new AMDGPU / Radeon / AMDKFD material was sent out today to DRM-Next. Notable with this pull is the Display Core “DC” work for analog video connectors as the initiative from one of Valve’s contractors for improving the Radeon GCN 1.0 era GPU support with the AMDGPU driver…

An engineer on Apple’s static security tools team announced publicly that they have prototyped a tool to apply security hardening across entire C++ codebases. Ultimately their plan is to open-source and upstream this static analysis based tool into LLVM…

Eric Engestrom just released Mesa 25.2.6 as the newest bi-weekly stable update to this collection of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers widely used on Linux systems for 3D support…

While in many ways coming from behind, Red Hat unveiled CUDA integration, security-hardened images, and DPU support at Nvidia’s GTC in Washington, DC.

The post Red Hat Catches CUDA Train at NVIDIA GTC, Adds AI-Ready Security and DPU Support appeared first on FOSS Force.

Alejandro Colomar has announced the release of version 6.16 of the GNU/Linux man pages. This release includes new or rewritten man pages for fsconfig(), fsmount(), and fsopen(), as well as a number of newly documented interfaces in existing man pages. The release is also available as a PDF book.

A new class of attacks on Android phones, called “Pixnapping“, was announced on
October 13. It allows a malicious app to gather output rendered in a
victim app, pixel-by-pixel, by exploiting a GPU side-channel. Depending on
what the victim app displays, anything from sensitive email and chats to
two-factor authentication (2FA) codes could be captured—and shipped off to
an attacker’s site.

Following last month’s Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS beta and COSMIC desktop beta, System76 has now shared their stable release plans for this long-awaited LInux distribution release with their Rust-written custom desktop…

Wisu is a blazing-fast, Rust-based interactive directory viewer built for developers working with large codebases.

Prominent AMD Radeon Gallium3D driver developer Marek Olšák just changed the RadeonSI driver’s default from the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end over to the ACO back-end initially developed by Valve. This should lead to better performance and quicker shader compilation and in turn faster game loads…

Version 15.0
of the Tor
Browser has been released:

This is our first stable release based on Firefox ESR 140,
incorporating a year’s worth of changes that have been shipped
upstream in Firefox. As part of this process, we’ve also completed our
annual ESR transition audit, where we reviewed and addressed around
200 Bugzilla issues for changes in Firefox that may negatively affect
the privacy and security of Tor Browser users. Our final reports from
this audit are now available in the tor-browser-spec
repository on our GitLab instance.

This release inherits the vertical tabs feature, unified search
button, as well as other new features and usability improvements in
Firefox that have passed the Tor Project’s audit.

On Monday the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 officially arrived at Internet retailers and is successfully selling at the $1299 price point. Some models have sine sold out but as of writing two days later some Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics cards remain available at that competitive price point. On Monday I provided some initial benchmarks of the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 for vLLM AI inferencing with more AI benchmarks on the way… While the craze is all about AI in 2025, the Radeon AI PRO R9700 does work for other non-AI workloads too and in this article is a look at its competitive OpenCL performance with great value compared to the NVIDIA RTX competition.