It was an eventful past month with Valve announcing the new Steam Machine, a lot of new Linux kernel activity, the continued increase of Rust programming language adoption by open-source projects, a lot of fun hardware benchmarks, and more. There were 283 original news articles on Phoronix the past month about Linux/open-source software and hardware plus another 18 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Here is a look back at the most popular content over the past month...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for November 30th, 2025, brings news about Linux kernel 6.18, GNOME 49.2, CachyOS November 2025 release, EndeavourOS Ganymede, Solus 4.8, 4MLinux 50.0, AV Linux 25, Ultramarine 43, Rocky Linux 10.1, AlmaLinux OS 10.1, new Raspberry Pi OS release, NixOS 25.11, Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0, KeePassXC 2.7.11, Archinstall 3.0.14, Armbian 25.11, KaOS 2025.11, and more.
Linux kernel 6.18 brings expanded architecture support, BPF updates, new namespace file-handle features, and wide-ranging hardware enablement across CPUs, GPUs, and sensors.
Linus has released the 6.18 kernel, as expected. So I'll have to admit that I'd have been happier with slightly less bugfixing noise in this last week of the release, but while there's a few more fixes than I would hope for, there was nothing that made me feel like this needs more time to cook. So 6.18 is tagged and pushed out. Headline changes in this release include the ability to manage namespaces with file handles, support for the AccECN congestion-control protocol, initial support for signing of BPF programs, improved memory management with sheaves, the Rust binder driver, better control over transparent huge pages, and a lot more. This release also saw the removal of the bcachefs filesystem. See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) and the KernelNewbies 6.18 page for more information.
Flatpaks can give your Linux desktop access to newer apps, but only if your system is set up to use them. Here's a straightforward guide to getting any distro Flatpak‑ready. The post How to Make Your Linux System Flatpak Ready appeared first on FOSS Force.
Linux kernel 6.18 is released with sizeable performance boosts, new laptop drivers, and a controversial filesystem removal – plus more! Key changes inside.
Catch up on the latest Linux news: EndeavourOS Ganymede, Solus 4.8, CachyOS, Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0, Wine 10.20, Tmux 3.6, Redis 8.4, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS roadmap, KDE Plasma 6.8 will go fully Wayland, and more.
Linux kernel 6.18 is now available for download with new features, enhanced hardware support through new and updated drivers, improvements to filesystems and networking, and much more. Here’s what’s new!
Version 25.11 of the NixOS distribution has been released. "The 25.11 release was made possible due to the efforts of 2742 contributors, who authored 59430 commits since the previous release". Changes include 7,002 new packages, GNOME 49, LLVM 21, a new COSMIC desktop environment beta, firewalld support, and more; see the release notes for details.
KaOS Linux 2025.11 independent distribution is now available for download with the latest KDE Plasma 6.5 desktop environment and support for the Limine bootloader. Here's what's new!
Armbian 25.11 Linux distribution based on Debian and designed for ARM devices is now available for download with support for new boards and various other changes. Here's what's new!
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