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Following last week's KDE Plasma 6.5 beta release, the focus has shifted to bug fixing ahead of the October release of Plasma 6.5.0. There have been some minor features to still squeeze in, a lot of bug fixing has commenced, and also some early feature work around Plasma 6.6...

Following last week's GNOME 49 release, This Week in GNOME is out with their latest weekly summary of all interesting GNOME developments. Notable now for this post-49.0 time is libadwaita adding an adaptive sidebar widget...

Linux Apps on Android Are One Step Closer to Reality  How-To Geek

5 tools that make my Mac feel more like Linux  XDA

Back in June it was announced by Canonical that for the Ubuntu 25.10 release they would be raising the RISC-V baseline to the RVA23 profile even with barely any available RISC-V platforms supporting that newer RISC-V profile. That change is still going ahead and leaves Ubuntu 25.10 on RISC-V currently only supporting the QEMU virtualized target...

Google Prepares Faster Linux Apps on Android with GPU Support  SammyGuru

Google Boosts Android Linux Terminal with GPU Rendering for Faster Apps  WebProNews

Amazon's Vega OS coming to Fire TVs this year - what it means for your devices  ZDNET

With Linux 6.17 expected for release this weekend, the Linux 6.18 merge window will in turn kick-off for its usual two week dance. Here is a look at some of the features on our radar that are expected to be merged for Linux 6.18, which is also likely to be the 2025 LTS kernel version...

Android will soon run Linux apps better, and that's great for Google's PC plans  Android Authority

System76's Cosmic Desktop Arrives in Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta  How-To Geek

Vulkan 1.4.328 is now available as the latest specification update to this high performance graphics and compute API from The Khronos Group...

The Linux 6.17 kernel is tracking well for its planned stable release on Sunday. Here is a look back at some of the most interesting changes to find with this next kernel version...

LockBit's new variant is 'most dangerous yet,' hitting Windows, Linux and VMware ESXi  theregister.com

I Replaced Notepad++ on Linux With This Text Editor  How-To Geek

I noticed a number of benchmarks failing to run on Ubuntu 25.10 this week with reported checksum errors on the files... I quickly realized it's due to the recent Rust Coreutils transition for Ubuntu 25.10 causing some major breakage for those relying on Makeself archives...

Ubuntu 25.10's Move To Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage For Some Executables  Phoronix

System76 Releases Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta with COSMIC Desktop  WebProNews

After being on a hiatus for more than one year and going through several rounds of Habana Labs driver maintainers due to Intel layoffs, there finally is some updated "habanalabs" AI accelerator kernel driver code slated to go into the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel cycle. There is some new feature work but still no Gaudi 3 support for the upstream Linux kernel...

Intel Returns To Working On The Habana Labs AI Accelerator Linux Driver  Phoronix