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Exciting Laptop & Gaming Handheld Device Improvements Merged For Linux 6.19
Merged during this second week of the Linux 6.19 feature merge window were the many x86 platform driver changes. As usual, much of the x86 platform driver activity surrounds bettering Linux hardware laptop support but also a growing number of handheld computers / gaming devices...
Plex server changes, the new Visual Studio Code, and more: News roundup
All the tech news you may have missed this week.
Oracles Releases Updated "bpftune" For BPF-Based Auto-Tuning Of Linux Systems
The past few years Oracle has been working on bpftune as a solution for BPF-based, automatic tuning of Linux systems. Bpftune has been available via Oracle Linux and GitHub while finally their open-source GitHub code has seen the first new tagged release in a while...
COSMIC's big release, the new Kali Linux, and more: Linux news roundup
Some of the Linux news you may have missed this past week.
FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending December 12, 2025
Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read article on FOSS Force for the week that just ended. The post FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending December 12, 2025 appeared first on FOSS Force.
NFS Lands Initial Support For Directory Delegations In Linux 6.19
The Network File-System (NFS) client changes were merged today for the Linux 6.19 kernel with the most notable feature addition being initial support for basic directory delegations...
New RTC Drivers For Apple & NVIDIA With Linux 6.19
The Real Time Clock (RTC) driver changes were merged today for Linux 6.19 ahead of the merge window wrapping up on Sunday...
What is NTFSPlus and Why Does It Matter for Linux Users?
NTFSPlus is a fresh implementation of the classic in-kernel ntfs driver. Can it end the current NTFS woes for Linux users?
KDE Plasma 6.6 Will Enhance Display Handling and Scaling on Wayland
The upcoming Plasma 6.6 release will add custom screen modes and much stronger screen mirroring support for Wayland sessions.
New Rule Forbids GNOME Shell Extensions Made Using AI Generated Code
The GNOME.org Extensions hosting for GNOME Shell extensions will no longer accept new contributions with AI-generated code. A new rule has been added to their review guidelines to forbid AI-generated code...
LoongArch32 Support Begins Taking Shape In Linux 6.19, GCC 16
The LoongArch CPU architecture changes have been merged for the Linux 6.19 merge window. This domestic Chinese CPU architecture inspired by MIPS and RISC-V began with 64-bit LoongArch64 but with Linux 6.19 the foundation is being laid for LoongArch32 as a 32-bit variant...
Grml 2025.12 Linux Distro Is Out Based on Debian Forky and Linux Kernel 6.17
Grml 2025.12 GNU/Linux distribution is now available for download based on Debian Testing and powered by Linux kernel 6.17. Here’s what’s new!
KDE Frameworks 6.21 Adds Support for Nim Code Files to the Breeze Icon Theme
KDE Frameworks 6.21 open-source software suite is out now with various improvements and bug fixes for KDE apps and the Plasma desktop. Here’s what’s new!
[$] The state of the kernel Rust experiment
The ability to write kernel code in Rust was explicitly added as an experiment — if things did not go well, Rust would be removed again. At the 2025 Maintainers Summit, a session was held to evaluate the state of that experiment, and to decide whether the time had come to declare the result to be a success. The (arguably unsurprising) conclusion was that the experiment is indeed a success, but there were some interesting points made along the way.