📰 Say goodbye to Linux audio headaches: how PipeWire simplifies everything
Tired of juggling multiple audio systems on Linux? This development unifies them all, offering a seamless experience like never before.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/goodbye-to-linux-audio-headaches-pipewire-simplifies-everything/
Tired of juggling multiple audio systems on Linux? This development unifies them all, offering a seamless experience like never before.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/goodbye-to-linux-audio-headaches-pipewire-simplifies-everything/
XDA
Say goodbye to Linux audio headaches: how PipeWire simplifies everything
Tired of juggling multiple audio systems on Linux? This development unifies them all, offering a seamless experience like never before.
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Effulgence RPG has some of the slickest animated 3D ASCII art I've ever seen | GamingOnLinux
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/effulgence-rpg-has-some-of-the-slickest-animated-3d-ascii-art-ive-ever-seen/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/effulgence-rpg-has-some-of-the-slickest-animated-3d-ascii-art-ive-ever-seen/
GamingOnLinux
Effulgence RPG has some of the slickest animated 3D ASCII art I've ever seen
This is a very fun surprise, Effulgence RPG is an upcoming party-based sci-fi role-playing game rendered entirely from text symbols arranged in 3D space.
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📰 Ghostty 1.2 Brings Quick Terminal, New Icon to Linux
Ghostty 1.2.0 released on September 15, 2025 with 6 months worth of changes (over 2,600 commits). As a cross-platform terminal, there are improvements to Windows, macOS and Linux (and newly added support for FreeBSD). Ubuntu 25.10 includes a new default terminal app that, for most of us, offers everything one needs.
🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/ghostty-1-2-new-features-for-linux
Ghostty 1.2.0 released on September 15, 2025 with 6 months worth of changes (over 2,600 commits). As a cross-platform terminal, there are improvements to Windows, macOS and Linux (and newly added support for FreeBSD). Ubuntu 25.10 includes a new default terminal app that, for most of us, offers everything one needs.
🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/ghostty-1-2-new-features-for-linux
OMG! Ubuntu
Ghostty 1.2 Adds Quick Terminal on Linux, Command Palette + More
Ghostty's latest Linux builds adds dropdown terminal support on Wayland, integrated tabs and titlebars, background images, command palette and more.
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5 Signs Your Proprietary Workflow Is Stifling Your Creativity (And What You Can Do About It)
https://news.itsfoss.com/proprietary-workflow-stifling-creativity/
https://news.itsfoss.com/proprietary-workflow-stifling-creativity/
It's FOSS News
5 Signs Your Proprietary Workflow Is Stifling Your Creativity (And What You Can Do About It)
If these signs feel familiar, your creativity may be stifled by proprietary constraints.
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Take on the role of a curious baby boar in the demo for Adorable Adventures | GamingOnLinux
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/take-on-the-role-of-a-curious-baby-boar-in-the-demo-for-adorable-adventures/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/take-on-the-role-of-a-curious-baby-boar-in-the-demo-for-adorable-adventures/
GamingOnLinux
Take on the role of a curious baby boar in the demo for Adorable Adventures
Adorable Adventures is a cozy third-person exploration adventure where you're Boris, a curious baby boar on a mission to find their family.
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📰 Blender Experimenting With Vulkan Ray Queries
As part of Blender continuing to build out the Vulkan API capabilities for this open-source 3D modeling software, a proof of concept merge request was opened for beginning to make use of Vulkan ray queries...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-Vulkan-Ray-Queries-PoC
As part of Blender continuing to build out the Vulkan API capabilities for this open-source 3D modeling software, a proof of concept merge request was opened for beginning to make use of Vulkan ray queries...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-Vulkan-Ray-Queries-PoC
Phoronix
Blender Experimenting With Vulkan Ray Queries
As part of Blender continuing to build out the Vulkan API capabilities for this open-source 3D modeling software, a proof of concept merge request was opened for beginning to make use of Vulkan ray queries.
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📰 Box64 0.3.8 Brings DynaCache As Disk Cache For Generated Native Code From x86_64
Box64 0.3.8 is now available for this x86_64 user-space emulator for Linux that allows ARM64 and RISC-V 64-bit and LoongArch 64-bit systems to enjoy running x86_64 games and applications. Box64 along with the likes of FEX-Emu are the leading options for those needing to run x86_64 programs on ARM64 and elsewhere...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Box64-0.3.8-Released
Box64 0.3.8 is now available for this x86_64 user-space emulator for Linux that allows ARM64 and RISC-V 64-bit and LoongArch 64-bit systems to enjoy running x86_64 games and applications. Box64 along with the likes of FEX-Emu are the leading options for those needing to run x86_64 programs on ARM64 and elsewhere...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Box64-0.3.8-Released
Phoronix
Box64 0.3.8 Brings DynaCache As Disk Cache For Generated Native Code From x86_64
Box64 0.3.8 is now available for this x86_64 user-space emulator for Linux that allows ARM64 and RISC-V 64-bit and LoongArch 64-bit systems to enjoy running x86_64 games and applications
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📰 Firefox 144 Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New
Firefox 144 open-source web browser is now available for download with various new features and improvements. Here's what's new!
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/firefox-144-is-now-available-for-download-this-is-whats-new
Firefox 144 open-source web browser is now available for download with various new features and improvements. Here's what's new!
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/firefox-144-is-now-available-for-download-this-is-whats-new
9to5Linux
Firefox 144 Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New - 9to5Linux
Firefox 144 open-source web browser is now available for download with various new features and improvements. Here's what's new!
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📰 Mir 2.23 Released With New Documentation For Building A Desktop Environment
Mir 2.23 is out today as the newest version of this Canonical-led library for crafting Wayland-based shells and for smaller desktops to ease the adoption of Wayland, with a focus on Ubuntu Linux platforms...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mir-2.23-Released
Mir 2.23 is out today as the newest version of this Canonical-led library for crafting Wayland-based shells and for smaller desktops to ease the adoption of Wayland, with a focus on Ubuntu Linux platforms...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mir-2.23-Released
Phoronix
Mir 2.23 Released With New Documentation For Building A Desktop Environment
Mir 2.23 is out today as the newest version of this Canonical-led library for crafting Wayland-based shells and for smaller desktops to ease the adoption of Wayland, with a focus on Ubuntu Linux platforms.
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📰 Linux 6.18 Features: New AMD & Intel CPU Features, Rocket Driver, DM-PCACHE, Other New Drivers
Now that the Linux 6.18 merge window is over with Linux 6.18-rc1 having released yesterday, here is a look at all the interesting new features and changes to find with this kernel. Making Linux 6.18 all the more exciting is that it's expected to become the 2025 Linux LTS kernel once its stable release occurs in December.
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-618-features
Now that the Linux 6.18 merge window is over with Linux 6.18-rc1 having released yesterday, here is a look at all the interesting new features and changes to find with this kernel. Making Linux 6.18 all the more exciting is that it's expected to become the 2025 Linux LTS kernel once its stable release occurs in December.
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-618-features
Phoronix
Linux 6.18 Features: New AMD & Intel CPU Features, Rocket Driver, DM-PCACHE, Other New Drivers
Now that the Linux 6.18 merge window is over with Linux 6.18-rc1 having released yesterday, here is a look at all the interesting new features and changes to find with this kernel.
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GNOME Flatpak Runtime Drops 32-Bit Compatibility Extension
https://linuxiac.com/gnome-flatpak-runtime-drops-32-bit-compatibility-extension/
https://linuxiac.com/gnome-flatpak-runtime-drops-32-bit-compatibility-extension/
Linuxiac
GNOME Flatpak Runtime Drops 32-Bit Compatibility Extension
GNOME Flatpak Runtime has dropped its 32-bit compatibility extension, focusing future builds entirely on 64-bit and ARM architectures.
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📰 Linux 6.19 Will Continue With More Rust Graphics Driver Preparations
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...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/First-DRM-Misc-Next-Linux-6.19
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...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/First-DRM-Misc-Next-Linux-6.19
Phoronix
Linux 6.19 Will Continue With More Rust Graphics Driver Preparations
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.
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📰 Secure Boot bypass risk on nearly 200,000 Linux Framework sytems
Around 200,000 Linux computer systems from American computer maker Framework were shipped with signed UEFI shell components that could be exploited to bypass Secure Boot protections.
🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/secure-boot-bypass-risk-on-nearly-200-000-linux-framework-sytems/
Around 200,000 Linux computer systems from American computer maker Framework were shipped with signed UEFI shell components that could be exploited to bypass Secure Boot protections.
🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/secure-boot-bypass-risk-on-nearly-200-000-linux-framework-sytems/
BleepingComputer
Secure Boot bypass risk threatens nearly 200,000 Linux Framework laptops
Around 200,000 Linux computer systems from American computer maker Framework were shipped with signed UEFI shell components that could be exploited to bypass Secure Boot protections.
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📰 Zorin OS 18 Officially Released, Specifically Tailored for Windows 10 Expats
Zorin OS 18 distribution is now available for download based on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS and powered by Linux kernel 6.14. Here’s what else is new!
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/zorin-os-18-officially-released-specifically-tailored-for-windows-10-expats
Zorin OS 18 distribution is now available for download based on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS and powered by Linux kernel 6.14. Here’s what else is new!
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/zorin-os-18-officially-released-specifically-tailored-for-windows-10-expats
9to5Linux
Zorin OS 18 Officially Released, Specifically Tailored for Windows 10 Expats - 9to5Linux
Zorin OS 18 distribution is now available for download based on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS and powered by Linux kernel 6.14.
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📰 Yet Another Longtime Linux Driver Maintainer At Intel Has Left
Adding to the unfortunately long list of Intel Linux/open-source setbacks over the past year, yet another Intel Linux software engineer that was an upstream Linux kernel driver maintainer has departed Intel...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Jarkko-Leaving-Intel-Linux
Adding to the unfortunately long list of Intel Linux/open-source setbacks over the past year, yet another Intel Linux software engineer that was an upstream Linux kernel driver maintainer has departed Intel...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Jarkko-Leaving-Intel-Linux
Phoronix
Yet Another Longtime Linux Driver Maintainer At Intel Has Left
Adding to the unfortunately long list of unfortunate Intel Linux/open-source setbacks over the past year, yet another Intel Linux software engineer that was an upstream Linux kernel driver maintainer has departed Intel.
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📰 FSF Announces The LibrePhone Project
The Free Software Foundation today announced the LibrePhone project with a goal of creating a fully free software OS for mobile devices and to reverse-engineer obstacles where necessary...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FSF-LibrePhone-Project
The Free Software Foundation today announced the LibrePhone project with a goal of creating a fully free software OS for mobile devices and to reverse-engineer obstacles where necessary...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FSF-LibrePhone-Project
Phoronix
FSF Announces The LibrePhone Project
The Free Software Foundation today announced the LibrePhone project with a goal of creating a fully free software OS for mobile devices and to reverse-engineer obstacles where necessary.
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📰 Valve Developer Gets Initial DLSS Support Working On Open-Source NVIDIA "NVK" Driver
Autumn Ashton of Valve's Linux graphics driver team and responsible for many great Mesa and DXVK/VKD3D-Proton improvements over the years has managed an exciting new feat: getting NVIDIA DLSS upscaling working atop Mesa's NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver. The code isn't ready to be merged yet but is an exciting early milestone...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-DLSS-NVK-Experimental
Autumn Ashton of Valve's Linux graphics driver team and responsible for many great Mesa and DXVK/VKD3D-Proton improvements over the years has managed an exciting new feat: getting NVIDIA DLSS upscaling working atop Mesa's NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver. The code isn't ready to be merged yet but is an exciting early milestone...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-DLSS-NVK-Experimental
Phoronix
Valve Developer Gets Initial DLSS Support Working On Open-Source NVIDIA "NVK" Driver
Autumn Ashton of Valve's Linux graphics driver team and responsible for many great Mesa and DXVK/VKD3D-Proton improvements over the years has managed an exciting new feat: getting NVIDIA DLSS upscaling working atop Mesa's NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver
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Thunderbird 144 Released with Bug Fixes and Flatpak Runtime Update
https://linuxiac.com/thunderbird-144-email-client-released/
https://linuxiac.com/thunderbird-144-email-client-released/
Linuxiac
Thunderbird 144 Released with Bug Fixes and Flatpak Runtime Update
Thunderbird 144, an open-source email client, rolls out with bug fixes, improved stability, and an updated Flatpak runtime based on Freedesktop SDK 24.08.
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NordVPN Has Open-Sourced its Linux App GUI - OMG! Ubuntu
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/nordvpn-linux-gui-open-sourced
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/nordvpn-linux-gui-open-sourced
OMG! Ubuntu
NordVPN Has Open-Sourced its Linux App GUI
NordVPN has open sourced the GUI in its official Linux app, and the company behind the virtual private network has also updated its Snap package with a GUI.
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