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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 03, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. KDE Plasma 6.5 Beta Release

   Some important features and changes included in 6.5 beta are highlighted on KDE community wiki page

2. Games: New Steam Games, GodotCon, Steam on GNU/Linux Use Up 1% From Last September

   gaming related news

3. Sour People Make Mistakes [original]

   Sour people don't get anywhere in life

4. There Was No "Cloud Computing" Revolution, "AI" Will be the Same [original]

   Our site uses a normal VPS, not "cloud" anything

   New

5. 10 of the best AAA games you can play on Linux in 2025

   It used to be that gaming on Linux was treated as a strange novelty

6. Linux Mint Showcases a Redesigned Menu

   Linux Mint’s next Cinnamon release brings a redesigned menu, better keyboard layouts

7. GNU/Linux Leftovers

   misc. links for today

8. Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0 Enters Testing with a Brand New Look

   A redesigned and retooled Raspberry Pi Imager app is available for early-bird testing

9. Kernel Related News: BSD and Linux

   a pair of articles for today

10. Graphics: Open Source Adreno 800 GPU Driver, Mesa Project Adds Code Comprehension Requirement After AI Slop Incident

    graphics picks

11. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards

    FOSS and Standards

12. Fedora 43 will ship with FOSS Meteor, Lunar and Arrow Lake MIPI camera support

    Good news the just released 6.17 kernel has support for the IPU7 CSI2 receiver and the missing USBIO drivers have recently landed in linux-next

13. Mozilla Leftovers

    Mozilla picks

14. Security Leftovers

    Security picks

15. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations

    This is free and open source software

16. PostgreSQL: pg_statement_rollback v1.5, pgDay Paris 2026, and pgmetrics 1.18

    PostgreSQL news

17. Programming Leftovers

    Development stories

18. The only benchmark that matters is...

    Right now, the box at that link churns out a reasonable 55 kernel builds per hour

19. Stable kernels: Linux 6.16.10, Linux 6.12.50, Linux 6.6.109, Linux 6.1.155, Linux 5.15.194, Linux 5.10.245, and Linux 5.4.300

    I'm announcing the release of the 6.16.10 kernel

20. EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.0.18 and More Development Updates

    by Barry Kauler

21. Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, Purism, and More

    hardware related picks

22. syslog-ng 4.10.1, Master PDF Editor, Bazaar, Self-hosting, and More

    Software news

23. today's howtos

    many howtos for today

24. Audiocasts/Shows: OpenCulture, FLOSS Weekly, and Bad Voltage

    3 new episodes

25. Amazon's Linux-based 'Vega OS' and Old FUD Recycled in 'Make Use Of' (Valnet)

    3 new articles

26. Cinnamon Desktop Gets Improved Support for Keyboard Layouts and Input Methods

    Work has started on the next major update to the Cinnamon desktop environment, possibly Cinnamon 6.6, which brings improved support for keyboard layouts and input methods and a new application menu.

27. Android Leftovers

    Honor Magic 8 Pro with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and Android 16 appears on Geekbench

28. Aurora immutable KDE Plasma workstation: Big, slow, and confusing

    Based on Universal Blue, it's akin to Fedora Kinoite with knobs on… A lot of knobs

29. Red Hat Leftovers

    Fedora and more

30. Proxmox Mail Gateway 9.0 Launches with Debian 13 Base

    The new Proxmox Mail Gateway 9.0 release adds Debian 13, Linux kernel 6.14

31. Raspberry Pi OS Based on Debian 13 Now Available for Download

    Raspberry Pi OS based on Debian 13 “Trixie” is now available to download

32. AerynOS Prepares ISO Release with COSMIC Beta Packages

    Ikey Doherty's AerynOS confirms stable infrastructure, GNOME 49 updates

33. Artix Linux Drops GNOME Desktop Support Over Systemd Dependence

    Artix Linux maintainers announce the end of GNOME desktop support

34. Gaming on Linux still isn’t perfect - here’s why I switched off of it

    Gaming on Linux has never looked better

35. Mini Floating Panel Adds New Auto-Positioning Options

    The Floating Mini Panel GNOME Shell extension has been updated

36. Best Free and Open Source Software: September 2025 Updates

    Open source software at its finest

37. Raspberry Pi OS Is Now Based on Debian 13 “Trixie” with Fresh New Look

    A new version of the Debian-based Raspberry Pi OS Linux distribution for Raspberry Pi single-board computers is now available for download with major changes, a new Debian Trixie base, and a fresh new look.

38. Servo GTK

    I just checked and it seems that it has been 9 years since my last post in this blog

39. Forlinx OK3506-S12 Mini SBC Featuring Rockchip RK3506J and Pi-Compatible GPIO

    On the software side, the OK3506-S12 Mini supports Linux 6.1 along with LVGL 9.2, AMP, and Linux RT

40. New to GIMP? 10 tips for getting the most from this free image editor

    Learn GIMP - you won't regret it. I'm a GIMP expert

41. Games: LIFTED, Amazon Luna, and More

    7 articles from GamingOnLinux

42. Sudo Flaw and Red Hat's Morbid Obsession with Slop ("Hey Hi") Costs It Dearly

    Security leftovers

43. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

44. LWN on Blender, Kernel, and Rust

    5 new articles

45. CHERI with a Linux on top

    Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions

46. An unstable Debian stable update

    A bug in a recent release of systemd's network manager

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