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…

Following the initial VFS changes last year for supporting block sizes larger than the kernel’s page size along with the initial XFS file-system patches, Btrfs recently landed its support for block sizes greater than the page size. Now EXT4 is preparing to join the party too for allowing larger block sizes…

As part of their Project Battlematrix effort, Intel has been working on enhancing their Linux graphics driver support for multi-device usage scenarios with wanting to support up to eight Intel Arc Pro graphics cards per system to help with AI LLMs and other larger use-cases. The latest code posted from Intel engineers is their initial implementation of multi-device Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support…

Derek Clark who has been leading the efforts around Lenovo Legion gaming drivers for Linux and ensuring good support for the Lenovo Legion Go handheld on Linux sent out a new Linux patch series this weekend…

Starting November 3, all new Firefox extensions must declare whether they collect or share user data, ensuring greater transparency for users.

Radxa has rolled out the Dragon Q6A, a compact single-board computer built on Qualcomm’s QCS6490 octa-core platform. Designed for industrial, IoT, and edge computing environments, the board combines high-performance CPU and GPU cores with integrated AI acceleration, multiple display interfaces, and flexible storage options. Similar to the RUBIK Pi 3, the Dragon Q6A integrates an […]

DavMail 6.5 open-source exchange gateway enhances Office 365 login security and refines Linux RPM packages.

Rust Coreutils bug that broke Automatic Updates in Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka is now fixed. Here’s what happened and how developers fixed it.

AMD on Friday sent in their first patch of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver changes they are ready to begin queuing in the DRM-Next tree until the Linux 6.19 merge window kicks off in December and leading to a stable release around February…

Foot is a lightning-fast, minimalist terminal emulator built for Wayland, focusing on speed, simplicity, and low resource usage.

Fedora developers propose enforcing RPM signature checks by default in Fedora 44, pending FESCo review and approval.

M5Stack has introduced the PowerHub, a compact IoT controller designed for distributed power and device management. The ESP32-based PowerHub is described as providing a stable and flexible control platform that integrates communication interfaces, modular power input options, and precise monitoring capabilities. The PowerHub is built around the ESP32-S3-WROOM-1U-N16R8 module featuring a dual-core Xtensa LX7 processor […]

Bottles 51.25, a compatibility layer for running Windows apps on Linux, adds support for the st terminal and improves Steam configuration handling.

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Learn all about Linux load average, and how you can use it to monitor your system and optimize your system to run smoothly.

Resources is the open-source app aligned with GNOME/GTK for system resource monitoring. Resources has proven to be quite versatile with a nice UI and able to display CPU, GPU, NPU, disk, and other metrics. Out today is Resources 1.9 with the latest capabilities for this app…