Open-source News

The next Linux Mint release has a name and several new features  How-To Geek

I found a powerful Microsoft Office alternative that doesn't push AI - and it's free  ZDNET

I’ve used this Neovim setup for years, and it’s perfect for programmers  How-To Geek

Valve is working on a "Lepton" Android compatibility layer for Linux  Windows Central

5 Linux networking commands everyone should know  XDA

Linux has maintained a default 4MB minimum writeback chunk size but with the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel it will allow file-systems to override that minimum value. This in turn can help avoid fragmentation and yield a better experience for zoned rotation media and other uses...

NVIDIA 590 Linux Graphics Driver Enters Public Beta with Better Wayland Support  9to5Linux

NVIDIA Beta driver 590.44.01 released for Linux  GamingOnLinux

NVIDIA today released the 590.44.01 Linux driver build as the first beta of their R590 series driver branch for Linux customers...

Red Hat offers Linux container images in Hummingbird project  The Stack

Steam's November 2025 Hardware Survey Shows Linux Hitting A New All-Time High  Steam Deck HQ

Evidently Canonical has been pretty pleased with the uptake of Ubuntu on Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) within enterprise/corporate environments as they are now offering Ubuntu Pro for WSL...

Canonical Launches Certified Ubuntu Images for Qualcomm's Edge AI Dragonwing IQ-9075  Hackster.io

Canonical Now Offering Ubuntu Pro For WSL  Phoronix

Via the openSUSE Innovator Initiative, packaging of the Intel Neural Processing Unit (NPU) driver for the openSUSE ecosystem has begun. This is helping to jump-start the Intel NPU support within the openSUSE space although user-space applications ready to leverage the Intel NPU still remains very limited...

openSUSE Begins Rolling Out Intel NPU Support  Phoronix

Valve compatibility layer for running Android games on Linux gets official name in Steam documentation  PC Guide

The big set of kernel scheduler changes were merged on Monday for the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel...

Optimized NUMA Distances For Intel GNR & CWF, Other Scheduler Improvements In Linux 6.19  Phoronix

Linux Mint 22.3 Codenamed “Zena”, Planned for Christmas 2025  9to5Linux