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Intel layoffs leave many Debian and Ubuntu packages without updates  VideoCardz.com

GIMP 3.0.6 Is Now Available for Download with Improved Photoshop Brush Support  9to5Linux

FreeBSD 15.0 continues working its way toward a stable release in early December and out today is the fifth alpha release...

Adding to the Linux storage/file-system excitement for Linux 6.18 is enhancements to some of the core FUSE code for supporting file-systems in user-space...

Windows 11 25H2 reminds me why swapping to Linux was the best idea I've had this year  XDA

'Enjoy Cronos on Steam, wherever you are!': Bloober Team announces native Linux build for Cronos: The New Dawn  PC Gamer

AMD confirms new Radeon PRO W7900D SKU through latest Linux driver  VideoCardz.com

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 5th, 2025  9to5Linux

The past several months has seen AMD engineers working on a new RDMA driver for Ionic hardware through which they acquired Pensando a few years ago. That AMD-Pensando Ionic RDMA driver is now part of the upstream Linux 6.18 kernel...

AMD-Pensando Ionic RDMA Driver Added To Linux 6.18, Intel IPU E2000 Hardware Too  Phoronix

Parallels Desktop Adds ‘Future-Proof Linux Compatibility’  OMG! Ubuntu

SysLinuxOS: The Go-To Linux for System Administrators  The New Stack

The Direct Rendering Manager "DRM" pull request ended up leading to Linus Torvalds complaining over text and Rust code formatting but in the end he pulled all of these kernel graphics driver updates and also the associated "accel" accelerator subsystem drivers too...

Linux 6.18 DRM Pull Includes New Tyr & Rocket Drivers, More AMD & Intel GPU Enhancements  Phoronix

Next year's GCC 16 compiler release is continuing the trend of enhancing the compiler diagnostics support, including new features like optionally outputting compiler error/warning diagnostics to HTML format for better analysis...

The HID changes have been merged for Linux 6.18 and are headlined by initial support in the mainline kernel for haptic touchpad handling...

Haptic Touchpad Support Makes It Into Linux 6.18  Phoronix

For benefiting container usage on Linux, support for case-folding / case insensitive files and folder support has been added to OverlayFS...

All of the crypto subsystem changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel...

AMD Versal TRNG Driver Upstreamed To Linux 6.18, Intel Adds New Telemetry For QAT Gen6  Phoronix