Beyond packing many exciting new features and changes, Linux 6.18 is expected to become this year’s Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version. Assuming the Linux 6.18 LTS designation, this next kernel version will see lots of use in enterprise environments and thus recently carried out some AMD EPYC 9965 2P “Turin” benchmarks between Linux 6.17 stable and the Linux 6.18 development kernel state…

OpenIndiana 2025.10 ISOs were published on Sunday as the newest half-year update to this Illumos (OpenSolaris) derived platform…

Version
0.3.0 of Rust Coreutils, part of the uutils project, has been
released. This release adds safe directory traversal for several
utilities, better error handling, and performance
improvements. The project has upgraded its test suite reference from
GNU coreutils 9.7 to 9.8, and added 16 new tests. It includes a fix
for the date bug
that affected automatic updates in Ubuntu 25.10.

Today the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 is officially shipping as the company’s new RDNA4-based offering designed for AI workloads and priced at $1299+ USD. The AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 offers 32GB of GDDR6 video memory and features 128 AI accelerators and rated for 96 TFLOPs peak half-precision compute, up to 1531 TOPS INT4 sparse, and has a 300 Watt TDP. Here are the initial benchmarks of the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 under Linux with ROCm 7.0 and testing both in single and dual R9700 graphics card configurations.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: KDE Plasma 6.5, VirtualBox 7.2.4, Jellyfin 10.11, Uptime Kuma 2.0, Valkey 9.0, Canonical Academy, new NTFS Linux driver, Alma 10.1 adds Btrfs support, and more.

Version 3.26.0 of the Valgrind
memory-profiling and debugging framework has been released. Notable
changes include updated support for the Linux Test
Project (LTP) to version v20250930, many new Linux syscall
wrappers, and the license for Valgrind has been changed from GPLv2 to
GPLv3.

The MX Linux team announced today the general availability of the Release Candidate (RC1) version of the upcoming MX Linux 25 distribution based on the Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series.

Turbosqueeze 1.0 was announced today as a new real-time, multi-threaded compression solution designed for C/C++ programs and aiming to compete with the likes of Zstd, LZ4, and Snappy compression…

Sent out on Sunday to the Linux kernel mailing list was a proposal for a new Direct rendering Manager (DRM) client for providing “splash screen” type functionality such as for embedded systems and more. But with Plymouth in user-space already being the dominant solution here and upstream developers tending to prefer such functionality in user-space instead, its future remains uncertain with some developers already questioning the value of this proposed solution…

The PanVK driver for modern Arm Mali Vulkan driver support within Mesa has tapped into Mesa’s on-disk shader cache functionality as well as an in-memory cache to provide for a better experience with this open-source driver…

In addition to the patches sent out this weekend by Intel for Xe driver preparations for multi-device Shared Virtual Machine (multi-device SVM), another notable patch series making it out this weekend for the Intel Xe open-source kernel graphics driver is support for mapping DMA-BUFs via IOV interconnects…

In this video, I’ll show you how to fix the overlapping blur effect on windows in KDE Plasma. The issue occurs when the blur extends beyond the window boundaries for example, when opening an app like Dolphin File Manager, the normally rounded corners appear sharp instead.

In this article, you will learn how to use the sshpass command to gain non-interactive access to a remote server by providing the password on the same line.

Linus has released 6.18-rc3 for testing.
“Things feel fairly normal, and in fact the numbers say it’s been a bit
calmer than usual, but that’s likely just the usual fluctuation in pull
request timing rather than anything else“.

The Linux 6.18-rc3 kernel is now available for testing in working toward the Linux 6.18 stable kernel release in just about one month. Linux 6.18 is expected to become this year’s Long Term Support “LTS” kernel…

The 263rd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on October 26th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

After a brief delay, Fedora Linux 43 is now GO and set to launch on October 28, 2025.

Debian Project Leader Andreas Tille announced today that their “FTP Master” team is being disbanded and instead establishing the Debian Archive Operations Team “Archive Team” and DFSG, Licensing and New Packages Team “DFSG Team” in its place…

Linux kernel 6.17 merges essential Asahi patches, improving reboot handling, GPU support, and device compatibility for Apple Macs.

The talented FFmpeg developers continue to be quite innovative with their performance optimizations and other features for this widely-used, open-source multimedia library. The latest addition to FFmpeg this weekend is introducing Vulkan accelerated video decoding for Apple ProRes content…