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Radeon Software for Linux 25.20.3 Released - "Exclusively Open-Source" With RADV
With the great upstream support for AMD Radeon graphics in the Linux kernel and Mesa, most desktop users / gamers / enthusiasts are best off just using the latest code shipped by their distributions or via the enthusiast-supported third-party archives/repositories. But for those on older enterprise Linux distributions, Radeon Software for Linux 25.20.3 was recently released for shipping that packaged AMD Linux graphics driver stack. This 25.20 series is the big one where they are now officially supporting the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver in place of their own former Vulkan Linux driver...
KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Fully Wayland, Ending Nearly 30 Years of X11 Sessions
KDE shifts the upcoming Plasma 6.8 release to a Wayland-only setup, keeping X11 apps running via Xwayland and maintaining X11 session support only until early 2027.
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, binutils, delve and golang, expat, firefox, haproxy, kernel, libsoup3, libssh, libtiff, openssh, openssl, pam, podman, python-kdcproxy, shadow-utils, squid, thunderbird, vim, xorg-x11-server-Xwayland, and zziplib), Debian (cups-filters, libsdl2, linux-6.1, net-snmp, pdfminer, rails, and tryton-sao), Fedora (chromium, docker-buildkit, docker-buildx, and sudo-rs), Gentoo (librnp), Mageia (webkit2), SUSE (amazon-ssm-agent, buildah, curl, dpdk, fontforge-20251009, kernel, libIex-3_4-33, librnp0, python311, rclone, and sssd), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-6.8, linux-ibm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, linux-oracle, linux-aws-6.14, linux-oracle-6.14, linux-aws-fips, linux-fips, linux-gcp-fips, linux-realtime, linux-realtime-6.8, mupdf, openjdk-17, openjdk-8, and openjdk-lts).
AMD ROCm 7.1.1 Released With RHEL 10.1 Support, More Models Working On RDNA4
Following the release of ROCm 7.1 from just under one month ago, ROCm 7.1.1 is now available with expanded Linux operating system support, continued Instinct MI350 series work, more large language models working on RDNA4 GPUs, and other enhancements...
Collabora Launches Desktop Office Suite for Linux
The new office suite uses modern tech for a consistent online-offline experience; the existing offering is renamed 'Classic' and it maintains a traditional approach.
Rocky Linux 10.1 Arrives with Soft Reboots, XFS Enhancements, and More
Rocky Linux 10.1 Linux distribution is now available for download as a free alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1. Here’s what’s new!
LibreOffice-based Collabora Office gets a reboot on Linux, Windows, and Mac
A new simplified word processor, spreadsheet tool, and presentation editor for you to try.
Open Source Never Dies: 11 of My Favorite Linux Apps That Refused to Stay Dead
These Linux apps were popular once. And then they were abandoned. And then they came back with a new generation tag.
Rocky Linux 10.1 Released with Soft Reboots, XFS Improvements
Rocky Linux 10.1 introduces soft reboots, expanded post-quantum crypto, and new XFS scrubbing and shrinking capabilities for enterprise workloads.
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" Linux Performance Up ~9% One Year Later At ~85% Power Use
It's been just over one year now since the launch of the Core Ultra 9 285K and other Arrow Lake desktop processors. For those that may be considering an Arrow Lake CPU this holiday season for a Linux desktop or just curious how the power and performance has evolved one year later, here are some leading-edge benchmarks of the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K compared to the launch-day performance last October.
KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive In Dropping X11 Session Support
KDE developers announced they are going "all-in on a Wayland future" and with the Plasma 6.8 desktop it will become Wayland-exclusive. The Plasma X11 session is going away...
Tmux 3.6 Update Adds Scrollbars, New Theme Mode
Tmux 3.6 terminal multiplexer adds pane scrollbars, Mode 2031 themes, new variables, and improved query handling across pixel size, palette, cursor, and clipboard data.
Fedora SIG Proposed To Improve Production Stability
A Fedora special interest group is being proposed to help improve production stability of Fedora Linux and better handling incident management when problems do arise...
Redis 8.4 Launches with Hybrid Full-Text + Vector Search
Redis 8.4 in-memory data store adds hybrid full-text and vector search, delivering over 30% higher throughput for caching and search workloads.