📰 ‘Phases of Moon’ Brings Lunar Tracking to GNOME Shell

A GNOME Shell extension for tracking lunar phases on your Linux desktop, with info, a clean, minimal design - and a giant illuminated moon. You're reading ‘Phases of Moon’ Brings Lunar Tracking to GNOME Shell, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/phases-of-moon-gnome-shell-extension

📰 Patches Proposed For Radeon GCN 1.1 GPUs To Use AMDGPU Linux Driver By Default

For those still using an AMD GCN 1.1 "Sea Islands" GPU like the Radeon R9 290/390 series, HD 7790 / 8870, or other Radeon Rx 200 / Rx 300 series GPUs, there is an exciting early Christmas present this year. Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team sent out the patch series on Sunday for enabling the GCN 1.1 GPUs to use the newer AMDGPU driver on Linux by default in place of the existing "Radeon" driver.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GCN-1.1-Driver-Default-Prop

📰 Fantasy Grounds virtual tabletop (VTT) is now free to play

Previously known as Fantasy Grounds Unity, the developers at SmiteWorks have now made Fantasy Grounds VTT free to play..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/fantasy-grounds-virtual-tabletop-vtt-is-now-free-to-play/

📰 Fish Shell 4.2 Released with Improved Autosuggestions

Fish Shell 4.2 enhances history-based autosuggestions, defaults to UTF-8 encoding, clears transient prompts correctly, and more.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/fish-shell-4-2-released-with-improved-autosuggestions/

📰 Linux Mint to get an upgraded System Information tool and a spruced up system menu

A new blog post is out from the Linux Mint team going over some recent work, with the newer Cinnamon Menu coming along nicely and a new System Information tool..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/linux-mint-to-get-an-upgraded-system-information-tool-and-a-spruced-up-system-menu/

📰 Firefox 145 Is Now Available for Download, Drops 32-Bit Support on Linux

Firefox 145 open-source web browser is now available for download as the first release to drop 32-bit support on Linux systems. Here’s what else is new!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/firefox-145-is-now-available-for-download-drops-32-bit-support-on-linux

📰 Can openSUSE Tumbleweed Compete With CachyOS Performance?

Last week when delivering some CachyOS benchmarks against Fedora 43 and Ubuntu 25.10 on the Framework Desktop with AMD Ryzen AI Max+, a few Phoronix readers wrote in with the question or belief that openSUSE Tumbleweed would better perform against CachyOS given the distribution's select x86_64-v3 packages and other advantages.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/opensuse-tw-cachyos

📰 GNU Coreutils 9.9 Released with Stability Fixes

The GNU Coreutils 9.9 update introduces stability and performance improvements across core tools, including cp, sort, numfmt, and tail.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/gnu-coreutils-9-9-released-with-stability-fixes/

📰 22 Linux Books for $25: This Humble Bundle Is Absurdly Good Value

A complete learning path from beginner Linux to advanced DevOps and container orchestration.

🔗 Source: https://itsfoss.com/linux-for-professionals-bundle/

📰 D7VK brings Direct3D 7 to Linux using Vulkan based on DXVK

We've have DXVK and VKD3D-Proton for various versions of Direct3D on Linux, but now it seems we're also getting Direct3D 7 as well..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/d7vk-brings-direct3d-7-to-linux-using-vulkan-based-on-dxvk/

📰 Ironclad OS project popping out Unix-like kernel in a unique mix of languages

There's more to safer systems languages than Rust If you're looking for a Unix-like, POSIX-compatible, real-time kernel, there's no shortage of projects trying to build one. Ironclad stands out for using the Ada programming language and its formally verifiable SPARK subset.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/ironclad_os_unix_like_kernel/

📰 Minisforum MS-R1 is a 12-Core Linux ARM Workstation for AI and VMs

Minisforum, a Chinese company famed for selling range of mini PCs, has launched an affordable ARM-based mini workstation with UEFI boot, making it easier to run Linux distributions without the need for custom firmware or bootloaders. The MS-R1 is designed for local inference tasks, Android VM containers in Docker and edge computing.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/minisforum-ms-r1-linux-arm-workstation

📰 Popular JavaScript library expr-eval vulnerable to RCE flaw

A critical vulnerability in the popular expr-eval JavaScript library, with over 800,000 weekly downloads on NPM, can be exploited to execute code remotely through maliciously crafted input.

🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/popular-javanoscript-library-expr-eval-vulnerable-to-rce-flaw/

📰 Mozilla Firefox gets new anti-fingerprinting defenses

Mozilla announced a major privacy upgrade in Firefox 145 that reduces even more the number of users vulnerable to digital fingerprinting.

🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mozilla-firefox-gets-new-anti-fingerprinting-defenses/

📰 AMD Posts New "amd_vpci" Accelerator Driver For Linux

While there is already AMDXDNA as one of the few currently mainline drivers in the accelerator "accel" subsystem for supporting AMD Ryzen AI NPUs, another AMD accel driver is on the way: amd_vpci. The new amd_vpci driver patches were posted today for review as AMD continues to further expand their diverse offerings in the ecosystem...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Linux-amd-vpci-Accel

📰 AI isn't throttling HPC. It <em>is</em> HPC

Your real problem: 40kW racks, melting datacenters and rising power bills Opinion In recent discussions with industry vendor sales/marketing types, I've been hearing that HPC demand is falling off while AI system demand is continuing to increase. I've also seen articles implying that AI is somehow displacing HPC. Huh?…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/11/11/ai_hpc_opinion_piece/

📰 What a Shame! FlatHub is Ranking on Google for Po*nHub Downloads

Imagine that one of the most prestigious open source software websites starts showing up in top results for "pornhub downloader".

🔗 Source: https://itsfoss.com/news/flathub-tag-exploited/

📰 New Linux Patches To Expose AMD Ryzen AI NPU Power Metrics

New Linux kernel patches currently undergoing review will allow AMD Ryzen AI NPU power metrics to be exposed under Linux. In turn this is useful for helping to gauge the utilization of the neural processing unit and also helping to evaluate the actual power efficiency of leveraging the AMD Ryzen AI NPU...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ryzen-AI-NPU-Linux-Power-Metric

📰 KDE Plasma 6.4.6 Released with Numerous Bug Fixes for Plasma 6.4 Users

KDE Plasma 6.4.6 is now available as the sixth andd last maintenance update to the KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment series.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-4-6-released-with-numerous-bug-fixes-for-plasma-6-4-users

📰 Intel LPMD 0.1 Released With Support For Panther Lake

Intel on Monday released version 0.1 of their Low Power Mode Daemon, the open-source daemon in development for several years now for optimizing active idle power on modern Intel Core (Ultra) CPUs under Linux...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LPMD-0.1

📰 How System76 & Red Hat Hope To Finally Improve The Linux Multi-GPU Experience

System76 engineer Victoria Brekenfeld and Red Hat engineer Sebastian Wick presented at the recent XDC2025 developer conference with their hopes of finally fixing the multi-GPU experience on Linux. As part of this is getting the necessary Wayland protocols in order as well as a new gpu-daemon service for proper multi-GPU handling for the Linux desktop...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Better-Linux-Multi-GPU-2025