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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...

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...

LockBit 5.0 Actively Attacking Windows, Linux, and ESXi Environments  CybersecurityNews

This free tool brings Time Machine to any Linux machine  XDA

I Installed System76’s COSMIC alpha On My Linux Desktop  findarticles.com

Finally, You Can Now be Ubuntu Certified Linux User  It's FOSS News

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...

These 3 Simple Tools Helped Me Quickly Learn the Linux Terminal  Yahoo! Tech

These 3 Simple Tools Helped Me Quickly Learn the Linux Terminal  How-To Geek

Ubuntu vs Debian: Which Linux Distro is Better for Beginners in 2025?  vocal.media

NVIDIA is taking the open-source and upstream "Nova" kernel graphics driver quite seriously for their hardware. Hitting the mailing lists on Friday night were initial patches in beginning to make preparations toward "next-gen GPU" support. Digging into the comments, it's indeed for post-Blackwell GPUs...

The Servo open-source browser engine is out with their September 2025 development highlights. This Rust-based browser engine originally started by Mozilla continues making steady progress as well as to the "servoshell" demo/example browser implementation...

Plasma 6.5 debuted this week that KDE developers and users have been celebrating. But it's already on to working out fixes for Plasma 6.5.1 as well as new feature activity toward Plasma 6.6...

The newest weekly test release of the FreeBSD 15.0 is now available for evaluation ahead of the planned December official release...

Agenda Ransomware Actors Deploying Linux RAT on Windows Systems Targeting VMware Deployments  CyberSecurityNews

The uutils project announced tonight the release of Rust Coreutils 0.3, another step forward for this Rust version alternative to GNU Coreutils that has been attracting a lot of interest lately due to Ubuntu 25.10 now using it by default...

TransparentTribe Attack Linux-Based Systems of Indian Military Organizations to Deliver DeskRAT  CyberSecurityNews

It's been rare in recent years seeing any new OpenGL extensions given the wild success these days of the Vulkan API with its vast hardware adoption and increasing software support around that modern graphics and compute API. Yet this October has been unusual with now seeing multiple new OpenGL extensions merged to the OpenGL registry...

Asahi Linux Advances Apple M3 Support with Rust Bootloader Migration  WebProNews

Merged for Linux 6.18 was a new feature called Sheaves as an opt-in, per-CPU array-based caching layer. Plus there is a per-NUMA-node cache of Sheaves called a "Barn". In continuing to build out the Linux kernel usage of Sheaves, a set of initial patches were posted this week to replace the CPU slabs with Sheaves within the slub allocator code...