📰 Hyprland Made Easy: Preconfigured Beautiful Distros

Here are the projects that lower the entry barrier by providing a preconfigured Hyprland option.

🔗 Source: https://itsfoss.com/hyprland-distros/

KDE Plasma 6.5 Desktop Environment Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing
https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-5-desktop-environment-is-now-available-for-public-beta-testing

📰 AMDKFD Compute Driver Sees Patches For S0ix Standby Support

In addition to AMD posting patches this week working on ACPI C4 power savings support available in some newer AMD systems, patches were separately posted this week for enabling S0ix sleep support within the AMDKFD compute kernel driver...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDKFD-Compute-S0ix

Alien: Rogue Incursion Evolved Edition is Steam Deck Verified ahead of release
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/alien-rogue-incursion-evolved-edition-is-steam-deck-verified-ahead-of-release/

📰 Linux 6.17 File-System Benchmarks, Including OpenZFS & Bcachefs

Linux 6.17 is an interesting time to carry out fresh file-system benchmarks given that EXT4 has seen some scalability improvements while Bcachefs in the mainline kernel is now in a frozen state. Linux 6.17 is also what's powering Fedora 43 and Ubuntu 25.10 out-of-the-box to make such a comparison even more interesting. Today's article is looking at the out-of-the-box performance of EXT4, Btrfs, F2FS, XFS, Bcachefs and then OpenZFS too.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-617-filesystems

Google Chrome is Becoming an AI Browser — Starting Today

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/google-chrome-ai-browser-announcement

📰 Zorin OS 18 Beta Brings a ‘Redesigned’ Desktop

Joining this week’s beta releases of Ubuntu 25.10, Fedora 43 and LMDE 7 is Zorin OS 18, available for willing testers to download from today. Zorin OS 18 is the next major release of the popular Ubuntu-based Linux distribution and rebases atop of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, a sizeable uplift over the Zorin OS 17 branch that remains based on the older Ubuntu 22.04 series.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/zorin-os-18-beta-released-new-look

📰 MoaanFLY is an E Ink tablet with a color display, Android software, and a second battery in the cover (crowdfunding)

There are a growing number of eReaders with color E Ink displays. But the MoaanFLY is one of the more unusual I’ve seen. It’s an Android-powered device with the kind of specs you’d expect to find in an entry-level tablet. But I could say the same about some other recent eReaders. What’s truly unique in .

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/moaanfly-is-an-e-ink-tablet-with-a-color-display-android-software-and-a-second-battery-in-the-cover-crowdfunding/

📰 Kiwix is the ultimate offline knowledge base for students

Kiwix is a free, open-source tool that allows students to download and access webpages offline. It's a must-have for spotty internet.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/kiwix-is-the-free-open-source-tool-every-student-needs/

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 197 Firewall Adds OpenVPN 2.6
https://linuxiac.com/ipfire-2-29-core-update-197-firewall-adds-openvpn-2-6/

Downloads Live for Ubuntu's Daily 'Dangerous' Desktop Builds - OMG! Ubuntu
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/ubuntu-daily-dangerous-desktop-builds-available-download

📰 Linux Kernel Multikernel Project Opens Up, Initial Patches Ready for Review

The Multikernel team opens its Linux kernel codebase, promising a new path to scalability for modern multi-core and cloud environments.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/linux-kernel-multikernel-project-opens-up/

📰 DKMS Packages For Bcachefs Are Now Available On Debian & Ubuntu

With Bcachefs now being "externally maintained" with the upstream kernel not accepting any further feature changes for now to this copy-on-write file-system, Bcachefs is pursuing a nice DKMS experience for distributing updated file-system kernel driver support out-of-tree. Convenient DKMS Debian packages of Bcachefs are now available on Ubuntu and Debian Linux platforms...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Debian-Ubuntu-DKMS

📰 4 ZFS mistakes you only make once (and how to avoid them)

ZFS may offer a lot of benefits, but it can also ruin your NAS if you don't play by its rules.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/zfs-mistakes-you-only-make-once/

📰 VLC’s First Update This Year Adds Qt6 Support, Dark Style + More

It’s been over a year since VLC, a free open source media player you might have heard of before, was last updated — but a new one is about to arrive. VLC 3.0.22 is the twenty-third release in the VLC 3.0 series, which debuted back in 2018. Videolan (the non-profit company who make the player) continues to do maintenance and support for the VLC 3.0.x series alongside its work on the next major milestone, VLC 4.0. On Friday (19 September), VLC 3.0.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/vlc-player-update-2025

📰 6 LXCs that can cover 90% of your Proxmox home lab usage

Capable of running apps, packages, and distros inside isolated environments, containers and virtual machines are the crux of self-hosting and experimentation workloads. Although both have their own neat perks, there are plenty of cases where you may want to run containers over VMs. If you’re using an old, computationally-challenged rig as a server, you might want to switch to containers, as VMs tend to have significantly higher processing...

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/lxcs-that-cover-most-of-your-proxmox-home-lab-usage/

📰 Git Heads Toward 3.0 with Rust as a Hard Dependency

Git developers discuss adopting Rust, with a formal RFC proposing it as a required dependency once version 3.0 is released.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/git-heads-toward-3-0-with-rust-as-a-hard-dependency/

📰 FLX1S is a new Linux phone that’s… mostly a downgrade from the FLX1

The Furi Labs FLX1S is a new smartphone with a a 6.7 inch FHD+ display featuring a 90 Hz refresh rate, 8GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and a MediaTek Dimensity 900 processor (which was released in 2021). The phone is up for pre-order for $550 and it’s expected to ship in October. While that .

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/flx1s-is-a-new-linux-phone-thats-mostly-a-downgrade-from-the-flx1/

📰 4 reasons an ESP32 display beats an old tablet for a smart home dashboard

Discover why ESP32-powered displays outperform old tablets for creating interactive smart home dashboards, offering customization, cost-effectiveness, and power efficiency.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/reasons-esp32-display-beats-old-tablet-for-smart-home-dashboard/

📰 I tried using DietPi Linux with Xfce on an old laptop and it exceeded my expectations

This unexpected Linux distro transformed my old laptop into a full-fledged desktop with Xfce.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/using-dietpi-linux-with-xfce-on-an-old-laptop/

📰 MQTT is the secret to a calm and organized smart home

The secret sauce to taming your smart home chaos and turning it into calm, organized magic.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/mqtt-secret-to-calm-organized-smart-home/