Linux NewsFOSS Weekly #25.51: Pop OS 24.04 Release, Fresh Editor, eBPF Tools, Cinnamon 6.6, NTFSPlus and More Linux Stuff
There is a new editor which is easier than Nano as well.
Thunderbird Expanding Microsoft Exchange & Protocol Support For 2026
Beyond the Firefox browser to see more changes under its new CEO, the Thunderbird mail client is also expected to see some big changes in the new year...
Qt 6.11 Beta Released With New Canvas Painter, OpenAPI & TaskTree Modules
Qt 6.11 Beta 1 is out on-schedule with the code having entered its feature freeze and code branching earlier this month. This toolkit is working toward the stable Qt 6.11 stable debut in March...
Pop!_OS 24.04’s New Scratch-Built Cosmic: Hands-On, With Screenshots
System76’s Pop!_OS 24.04 lands with the all-new Cosmic Epoch 1 desktop. We installed it and kicked the tires so you know what to expect. The post Pop!_OS 24.04’s New Scratch-Built Cosmic: Hands-On, With Screenshots appeared first on FOSS Force.
Intel ISPC 1.29 Drops Gen9 GPU Targets, Add New Optimizations & Experimental RISC-V
Intel ISPC 1.29 released on Wednesday as the newest feature update to this Implicit SPMD Program Compiler as a C variant able to target Intel hardware from their CPUs to GPUs for SIMD programming...
Systemd 259 Released With Major Changes Ahead of Legacy SysV Removal
The systemd v259 release makes journald persistent by default, drops TPM 1.2 support, and fully transitions networking components to nftables.
AMD Awarding Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" Laptops To Those Fixing ROCm Bugs
AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" is beautifully awesome. Probably my favorite hardware of 2025 whether it's in desktop form with the likes of the Framework Desktop or for very powerful laptops between the Zen 5 CPU cores and very capable Radeon 8060S Graphics within devices like the HP ZBook Ultra G1a. If you are interested by Strix Halo too and looking for a way to obtain one without the high price, AMD is running a holiday special of those contributing PyTorch and vLLM ROCm bug fixes for Strix Halo laptops...
KDE Internet of Things Development Restarted For Home Assistant Integration
Announced one year ago was KDE Internet of Things "Kiot" with an emphasis on providing nice integration between the KDE Plasma desktop and Home Assistant for handling open-source home automation. Development on Kiot sadly fell through the cracks for most of the year but development on it recently restarted...
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 18, 2025
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Civil Infrastructure Platform; COSMIC desktop; Calibre adds AI; Maintainer's Summit; ML tools for kernel development; linux-next; Rust in the kernel; kernel development tools; Linux process improvements; 6.19 merge window part 2. Briefs: capsudo; Asahi Linux 6.18; Pop!_OS 24.04; Vojtux; KDE Gear 25.12; Rust 1.92.0; Quotes; ... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
Meet Armbian Imager, the Official Flashing Utility for Armbian Linux, Beta Out Now
Armbian Imager is out now as the official utility for flashing the Armbian Linux operating system to your single-board computer. Here's our first look!
OpenShot 3.4: New Effects, Better Performance & LUT Support
Free video editing software OpenShot has issued its yearly update, and it’s packing a pretty sizeable changelog. OpenShot 3.4 claims (as seemingly every release of this open source video editor does) it is “one of our largest updates we’ve ever done” Developer Jonathan Thomas touts an “overall 32% speed up in performance, lower memory utilization, many new video effects and features, many bugs and crashes fixed, and an experimental timeline for those brave enough to test [it]”. For most, the performance gains are the headline draw. The underlying libopenshot core sees improvements in many areas, including masking, cropping and clip […]
Asahi Linux Delivers Apple Silicon Gains With Kernel 6.18
Asahi Linux reports major upstream progress in Linux kernel 6.18, improving Apple Silicon support across audio, USB-C, sensors, and more.
Flatpak 1.16.2 Adds Reinstall Support for Bundle Installations
Flatpak 1.16.2, a universal app delivery framework for Linux, introduces reinstall support for bundle installs, Intel Xe VA-API enablement, and multiple stability and security fixes.
Flatpak 1.16.2 Linux App Sandboxing Framework Enables VA-API for Intel Xe GPUs
Flatpak 1.16.2 Linux app sandboxing and distribution framework is now available for download with various enhancements and bug fixes. Here’s what’s new!
Intel Video Processing Library Adding AI Assisted Video Encoder Features
Intel's Video Processing Library "libvpl" is out with a new version ahead of the holidays. The only major change with libvpl 2.16 is adding experimental APIs for AI-assisted video encode functionality...