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Linux Mint LMDE 7 Officially Released - Based On Debian 13

Phoronix - Tue, 10/14/2025 - 20:20
Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 is officially out today as the latest version of this Linux Mint distribution based on upstream Debian rather than Ubuntu...

Linux 6.19 Will Continue With More Rust Graphics Driver Preparations

Phoronix - Tue, 10/14/2025 - 18:20
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...

Ubuntu 26.04 Looks To Retire Its ISO Tracker: "Held Together With Duct Tape & Goodwill"

Phoronix - Tue, 10/14/2025 - 18:10
Canonical is looking to eliminate use of its Ubuntu ISO Tracker that has been relied on the past 15+ years and in turn 30+ releases. Their ISO Tracker has grown unreliable and difficult to maintain. But without any proper solution ready, for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS the ISO Tracker may be replaced by a temporary spreadsheet and Discourse thread...

Arm Posts Initial Open-Source Driver Patches For New Mali-G1 GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 10/14/2025 - 17:59
Last month Arm announced the Lumex CSS platform with C1 CPUs and Mali G1 GPUs. One month later, Arm is already beginning to open-source graphics driver patches for enabling the new Mali-G1 graphics processor...

Haiku OS Improves Its FreeBSD/OpenBSD Network Driver Compatibility Layer

Phoronix - Tue, 10/14/2025 - 17:45
The BeOS-inspired Haiku operating system has published their September 2025 progress report to outline recent work on this open-source OS...

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