Linux 6.19 makes older AMD Radeon GPUs up to 40% faster with new Vulkan support, breaking new life into old hardware!
This release also includes hardware HDR, sizeable ext4 performance gains and better handheld gaming support on the Steam Deck and ROG Ally – plus more ⤵
The 'Resources' system monitor (v1.10) has added support for AMD NPU monitoring. If you're using newer Ryzen hardware on Linux and want to keep an eye on NPU usage, go install it!
A photo of 2 Mecha Comet Linux handheld computers arranged on a table with keyboard, with mini keyboard, gamepad and GPIO accessories in front. In the background, a cartoon Tux penguin stands behind the devices. Image illustrates the portable and adaptable hardware.
Screen of Affinity running on Ubuntu. App window shows a project file with some text and Linux logo being worked on and the standard Affinity panels open, showing it's functional.
Ubuntu engineers have triggered a 'mass rebuild' of all source packages in the 26.04 archive, a move that is delivering a lot of updates – and underlying benefits.
Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" is officially available for download.
Built on the Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS base, this release offers a revamped app menu, new system tools, Wayland-friendly language switching and runs on the Linux 6.14 kernel. A polished, final entry in the 22.x series.
A year after ditching the XPS brand, Dell has resurrected, redesigned and re-engineered it. Modular ports, OLED screens, physical function keys and new thermal design.
No site/person has done more to champion and report on gaming on Linux than GoL/you. We've been around since ~2009, right? For you that's well before Steam for Linux. The fact GOL is still going proves people /value/ it.
OMG! is banned for being “pure blogspam garbage” (official reason) yet tons of SEO farms, ragebait, even scrapers of my content get a pass.
Rules aren't applied fairly. It seems a bit high‑school-style favourites than moderation.
Mozilla has detailed it's pivot to AI, lazily framing its "people-first AI" vs "big tech AI" gambit as a rehash of 2000s browser wars.
Over the next three years all of Mozilla’s portfolio "will design their strategies" and "measure their success" with how much AI they're adding.
AI features in Firefox will be "opt-in", but no doubt it'll nag you to try them since Mozilla is making 20% yearly increases in non-search revenue part of its "bottom line" mission.
By setting revenue targets for its "public interest" projects, how are they still serving the public's interest? They now have to focus on features to monetise.
It says "AI is filling the internet with slop... creating huge social and economic risks" in the SAME piece announcing a focus on slop pipes in their products, and investing in features to asset strip the internet.
tl;dr Mozilla will "protect humanity" from big AI by adding new features to raise generate revenue from… Big AI.
@RachelThornSub For real? I hadn't heard about that. That's awful. I cheekily refer to the 'new' leadership at Mozilla as pod people as they only pay lip service to community, open web, privacy - their actions are the opposite. If there was a biscuit left on the plate to take, Mozilla would (British idiom).
@AmbitiousProcess Yeah, that's potential for that. The Firefox team is working on an integrated AI feature called "Page Buddy" which runs on a local AI model to answer questions users have about the page they're viewing. Giving that a cute Kit icon or 'persona' isn't a stretch.
I recap a slew of smaller Linux app releases put out in October 2025, including updates for cleaning app BleachBit, system monitoring tool Resources and photo management staple DigiKam.
ONLYOFFICE 9.1 is out with PDF redaction tools, 4x faster lookup functions, file recovery, and better support for right-to-left languages in spreadsheets.
Ubuntu 25.10 is released this week, with GNOME 49, Linux 6.17, new apps, Rust-powered sudo, TPM-backed disk encryption and—drama klaxon—no more X11 session!
Firefox 143 is released. This update offers web app support, a new address bar feature for finding dates fast, in-browser access to Microsoft's Copilot AI chatbot - and more!
GNOME 49 launches THIS WEEK! 🥳 It brings a slew of improvements, including new default apps (Showtime & Papers), lock screen media controls, per-monitor brightness adjustment, and more.
Ubuntu users get these features in 25.10, out on October 9th.
ICMYI: Mozilla is pulling the plug on 32-bit Linux builds of Firefox, a decade after most rival browsers did. Firefox 145 (due November) will be 64-bit only.
KDE Linux has hit alpha! It is an immutable Linux distro aiming to be a 'reference implementation' OS showcasing Plasma, KDE apps and development tooling.
FFmpeg 8.0 is out, and it’s packed: Vulkan-based encoding/decoding (on any GPU that supports Vulkan 1.3), native ProRes RAW decoding, Whisper AI for speech-to-text, and new filters that offload to GPU.
#OTD 34 years ago, Linus Torvalds sent a short post to the Minix newsgroup. The subject? An OS he was building — "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu", he said. That OS was Linux, the most successful computing operating system ever created (yes, really – it might not have won desktop, but it won everything in-between) #linux#tech
Colorful background with a cartoon penguin and text: "HAPPY 34th BIRTHDAY, LINUX! Est. 1991."
