📰 Mir 2.23 Released With New Documentation For Building A Desktop Environment
Mir 2.23 is out today as the newest version of this Canonical-led library for crafting Wayland-based shells and for smaller desktops to ease the adoption of Wayland, with a focus on Ubuntu Linux platforms...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mir-2.23-Released
Mir 2.23 is out today as the newest version of this Canonical-led library for crafting Wayland-based shells and for smaller desktops to ease the adoption of Wayland, with a focus on Ubuntu Linux platforms...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mir-2.23-Released
Phoronix
Mir 2.23 Released With New Documentation For Building A Desktop Environment
Mir 2.23 is out today as the newest version of this Canonical-led library for crafting Wayland-based shells and for smaller desktops to ease the adoption of Wayland, with a focus on Ubuntu Linux platforms.
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📰 Linux 6.18 Features: New AMD & Intel CPU Features, Rocket Driver, DM-PCACHE, Other New Drivers
Now that the Linux 6.18 merge window is over with Linux 6.18-rc1 having released yesterday, here is a look at all the interesting new features and changes to find with this kernel. Making Linux 6.18 all the more exciting is that it's expected to become the 2025 Linux LTS kernel once its stable release occurs in December.
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-618-features
Now that the Linux 6.18 merge window is over with Linux 6.18-rc1 having released yesterday, here is a look at all the interesting new features and changes to find with this kernel. Making Linux 6.18 all the more exciting is that it's expected to become the 2025 Linux LTS kernel once its stable release occurs in December.
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-618-features
Phoronix
Linux 6.18 Features: New AMD & Intel CPU Features, Rocket Driver, DM-PCACHE, Other New Drivers
Now that the Linux 6.18 merge window is over with Linux 6.18-rc1 having released yesterday, here is a look at all the interesting new features and changes to find with this kernel.
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GNOME Flatpak Runtime Drops 32-Bit Compatibility Extension
https://linuxiac.com/gnome-flatpak-runtime-drops-32-bit-compatibility-extension/
https://linuxiac.com/gnome-flatpak-runtime-drops-32-bit-compatibility-extension/
Linuxiac
GNOME Flatpak Runtime Drops 32-Bit Compatibility Extension
GNOME Flatpak Runtime has dropped its 32-bit compatibility extension, focusing future builds entirely on 64-bit and ARM architectures.
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📰 Linux 6.19 Will Continue With More Rust Graphics Driver Preparations
Even prior to the recent ending of the Linux 6.18 merge window and its many new features, the first "drm-misc-next" pull request of new material intended for Linux 6.19 was already submitted for inclusion to DRM-Next...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/First-DRM-Misc-Next-Linux-6.19
Even prior to the recent ending of the Linux 6.18 merge window and its many new features, the first "drm-misc-next" pull request of new material intended for Linux 6.19 was already submitted for inclusion to DRM-Next...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/First-DRM-Misc-Next-Linux-6.19
Phoronix
Linux 6.19 Will Continue With More Rust Graphics Driver Preparations
Even prior to the recent ending of the Linux 6.18 merge window and its many new features, the first 'drm-misc-next' pull request of new material intended for Linux 6.19 was already submitted for inclusion to DRM-Next.
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📰 Secure Boot bypass risk on nearly 200,000 Linux Framework sytems
Around 200,000 Linux computer systems from American computer maker Framework were shipped with signed UEFI shell components that could be exploited to bypass Secure Boot protections.
🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/secure-boot-bypass-risk-on-nearly-200-000-linux-framework-sytems/
Around 200,000 Linux computer systems from American computer maker Framework were shipped with signed UEFI shell components that could be exploited to bypass Secure Boot protections.
🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/secure-boot-bypass-risk-on-nearly-200-000-linux-framework-sytems/
BleepingComputer
Secure Boot bypass risk threatens nearly 200,000 Linux Framework laptops
Around 200,000 Linux computer systems from American computer maker Framework were shipped with signed UEFI shell components that could be exploited to bypass Secure Boot protections.
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📰 Zorin OS 18 Officially Released, Specifically Tailored for Windows 10 Expats
Zorin OS 18 distribution is now available for download based on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS and powered by Linux kernel 6.14. Here’s what else is new!
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/zorin-os-18-officially-released-specifically-tailored-for-windows-10-expats
Zorin OS 18 distribution is now available for download based on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS and powered by Linux kernel 6.14. Here’s what else is new!
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/zorin-os-18-officially-released-specifically-tailored-for-windows-10-expats
9to5Linux
Zorin OS 18 Officially Released, Specifically Tailored for Windows 10 Expats - 9to5Linux
Zorin OS 18 distribution is now available for download based on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS and powered by Linux kernel 6.14.
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📰 Yet Another Longtime Linux Driver Maintainer At Intel Has Left
Adding to the unfortunately long list of Intel Linux/open-source setbacks over the past year, yet another Intel Linux software engineer that was an upstream Linux kernel driver maintainer has departed Intel...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Jarkko-Leaving-Intel-Linux
Adding to the unfortunately long list of Intel Linux/open-source setbacks over the past year, yet another Intel Linux software engineer that was an upstream Linux kernel driver maintainer has departed Intel...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Jarkko-Leaving-Intel-Linux
Phoronix
Yet Another Longtime Linux Driver Maintainer At Intel Has Left
Adding to the unfortunately long list of unfortunate Intel Linux/open-source setbacks over the past year, yet another Intel Linux software engineer that was an upstream Linux kernel driver maintainer has departed Intel.
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📰 FSF Announces The LibrePhone Project
The Free Software Foundation today announced the LibrePhone project with a goal of creating a fully free software OS for mobile devices and to reverse-engineer obstacles where necessary...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FSF-LibrePhone-Project
The Free Software Foundation today announced the LibrePhone project with a goal of creating a fully free software OS for mobile devices and to reverse-engineer obstacles where necessary...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FSF-LibrePhone-Project
Phoronix
FSF Announces The LibrePhone Project
The Free Software Foundation today announced the LibrePhone project with a goal of creating a fully free software OS for mobile devices and to reverse-engineer obstacles where necessary.
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📰 Valve Developer Gets Initial DLSS Support Working On Open-Source NVIDIA "NVK" Driver
Autumn Ashton of Valve's Linux graphics driver team and responsible for many great Mesa and DXVK/VKD3D-Proton improvements over the years has managed an exciting new feat: getting NVIDIA DLSS upscaling working atop Mesa's NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver. The code isn't ready to be merged yet but is an exciting early milestone...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-DLSS-NVK-Experimental
Autumn Ashton of Valve's Linux graphics driver team and responsible for many great Mesa and DXVK/VKD3D-Proton improvements over the years has managed an exciting new feat: getting NVIDIA DLSS upscaling working atop Mesa's NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver. The code isn't ready to be merged yet but is an exciting early milestone...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-DLSS-NVK-Experimental
Phoronix
Valve Developer Gets Initial DLSS Support Working On Open-Source NVIDIA "NVK" Driver
Autumn Ashton of Valve's Linux graphics driver team and responsible for many great Mesa and DXVK/VKD3D-Proton improvements over the years has managed an exciting new feat: getting NVIDIA DLSS upscaling working atop Mesa's NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver
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Thunderbird 144 Released with Bug Fixes and Flatpak Runtime Update
https://linuxiac.com/thunderbird-144-email-client-released/
https://linuxiac.com/thunderbird-144-email-client-released/
Linuxiac
Thunderbird 144 Released with Bug Fixes and Flatpak Runtime Update
Thunderbird 144, an open-source email client, rolls out with bug fixes, improved stability, and an updated Flatpak runtime based on Freedesktop SDK 24.08.
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NordVPN Has Open-Sourced its Linux App GUI - OMG! Ubuntu
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/nordvpn-linux-gui-open-sourced
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/nordvpn-linux-gui-open-sourced
OMG! Ubuntu
NordVPN Has Open-Sourced its Linux App GUI
NordVPN has open sourced the GUI in its official Linux app, and the company behind the virtual private network has also updated its Snap package with a GUI.
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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow gets a Steam release
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/tom-clancys-splinter-cell-pandora-tomorrow-gets-a-steam-release/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/tom-clancys-splinter-cell-pandora-tomorrow-gets-a-steam-release/
GamingOnLinux
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow gets a Steam release
Quite a surprise to see, Ubisoft have revived Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow with a Steam release now available.
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Telegram, Please Learn Who's a Threat and Who's Not
https://news.itsfoss.com/telegram-unfair-community-ban/
https://news.itsfoss.com/telegram-unfair-community-ban/
It's FOSS News
Telegram, Please Learn Who's a Threat and Who's Not
Our Telegram community got deleted without an explanation.
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📰 Linux Gains Tool For Defragmenting exFAT Filesystems
A new release of exfatprogs is now available as the user-space programs on Linux for the exFAT file-system to complement the in-tree kernel driver for the Microsoft exFAT support...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-exFAT-Defrag
A new release of exfatprogs is now available as the user-space programs on Linux for the exFAT file-system to complement the in-tree kernel driver for the Microsoft exFAT support...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-exFAT-Defrag
Phoronix
Linux Gains Tool For Defragmenting exFAT Filesystems
A new release of exfatprogs is now available as the user-space programs on Linux for the exFAT file-system to complement the in-tree kernel driver for the Microsoft exFAT support.
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📰 KDE's 29th anniversary is here and they need your funding
KDE the free software community that develops the likes of the KDE Plasma desktop, has turned 29 years old and they're doing a fresh fund-raiser..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/kdes-29th-anniversary-is-here-and-they-need-your-funding/
KDE the free software community that develops the likes of the KDE Plasma desktop, has turned 29 years old and they're doing a fresh fund-raiser..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/kdes-29th-anniversary-is-here-and-they-need-your-funding/
GamingOnLinux
KDE's 29th anniversary is here and they need your funding
KDE the free software community that develops the likes of the KDE Plasma desktop, has turned 29 years old and they're doing a fresh fund-raiser.
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📰 AMD EPYC 9005 Brings Incredible Performance To The Cloud With Amazon M8a Benchmarks
Last week Amazon/AWS announced the new EC2 M8a instances as their latest-generation, general-purpose compute instances now powered by AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors. Amazon announced the M8a as having up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better price performance over M7a. With my testing of both at 32 vCPUs, the new AMD EPYC Turin instance provided 1.59x the performance over the prior-generation EPYC Genoa instance!
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/ec2-m8a-amd-epyc-turin
Last week Amazon/AWS announced the new EC2 M8a instances as their latest-generation, general-purpose compute instances now powered by AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors. Amazon announced the M8a as having up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better price performance over M7a. With my testing of both at 32 vCPUs, the new AMD EPYC Turin instance provided 1.59x the performance over the prior-generation EPYC Genoa instance!
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/ec2-m8a-amd-epyc-turin
Phoronix
AMD EPYC 9005 Brings Incredible Performance To The Cloud With Amazon M8a Benchmarks
Last week Amazon/AWS announced the new EC2 M8a instances as their latest-generation, general-purpose compute instances now powered by AMD EPYC 9005 'Turin' processors.
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📰 Fastmail’s New Desktop App is Available on Linux
Paid web-based email service Fastmail has launched an official desktop app — available for Linux as well as macOS and Windows. The new Fastmail desktop app offers the same interface and feature set as the web client, but running in a windowed, standalone app with system integrations, like dock icon with badging, the ability to make it the default email client, desktop notifications, offline support, etc.
🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/fastmail-desktop-app-for-linux
Paid web-based email service Fastmail has launched an official desktop app — available for Linux as well as macOS and Windows. The new Fastmail desktop app offers the same interface and feature set as the web client, but running in a windowed, standalone app with system integrations, like dock icon with badging, the ability to make it the default email client, desktop notifications, offline support, etc.
🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/fastmail-desktop-app-for-linux
OMG! Ubuntu
Fastmail’s New Desktop App is Available on Linux
Users of the Fastmail email service can now download and an install a desktop app to access their mail. The standalone client is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
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📰 Fake LastPass, Bitwarden breach alerts lead to PC hijacks
An ongoing phishing campaign is targeting LastPass and Bitwarden users with fake emails claiming that the companies were hacked, urging them to download a supposedly more secure desktop version of the password manager.
🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-lastpass-bitwarden-breach-alerts-lead-to-pc-hijacks/
An ongoing phishing campaign is targeting LastPass and Bitwarden users with fake emails claiming that the companies were hacked, urging them to download a supposedly more secure desktop version of the password manager.
🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-lastpass-bitwarden-breach-alerts-lead-to-pc-hijacks/
BleepingComputer
Fake LastPass, Bitwarden breach alerts lead to PC hijacks
An ongoing phishing campaign is targeting LastPass and Bitwarden users with fake emails claiming that the companies were hacked, urging them to download a supposedly more secure desktop version of the password manager.
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📰 Valve Developer Contributes Open-Source Driver Fixes For 12 Year Old Hawaii GPUs
Valve's open-source Linux graphics team continues carrying out great feats from getting NVIDIA DLSS working on the open-source NVK driver to enhancing Linux GPU driver support for hardware long forgotten about by the hardware vendors. The latest improvement from Valve's stellar group of open-source contributors are some fixes that benefit old Radeon Rx 200 series graphics cards that are more than one decade old...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Fixes-2025-Hawaii-GPUs
Valve's open-source Linux graphics team continues carrying out great feats from getting NVIDIA DLSS working on the open-source NVK driver to enhancing Linux GPU driver support for hardware long forgotten about by the hardware vendors. The latest improvement from Valve's stellar group of open-source contributors are some fixes that benefit old Radeon Rx 200 series graphics cards that are more than one decade old...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Fixes-2025-Hawaii-GPUs
Phoronix
Valve Developer Contributes Open-Source Driver Fixes For 12 Year Old Hawaii GPUs
Valve's open-source Linux graphics team continues carrying out great feats from getting NVIDIA DLSS working on the open-source NVK driver to enhancing Linux GPU driver support for hardware long forgotten about by the hardware vendors
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