📰 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

📰 3 ways I sped up my SMB file transfers

When it comes to file-sharing protocols, NFS is typically considered the best for its solid performance. But between its complex authentication and permission management, NFS can be rather annoying to use, making SMB a better option for folks who want a simple way to share files between multiple devices. Plus, its superior compatibility with different operating systems is just the cherry on top.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/ways-i-sped-up-my-smb-file-transfers/

📰 Fastfetch 2.55 Introduces Dynamic Refresh and Media Cover Logos

Fastfetch 2.55 system information tool adds dynamic output refresh and the ability to use your current media cover art as a logo source.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/fastfetch-2-55-introduces-dynamic-refresh-and-media-cover-logos/

📰 Linux’s Slickest System Monitor App Gets Updated

Mission Center 1.1.0 has been released, adding filtering and child process viewing to the Services tab, a new system info dialog and other improvements. You're reading Linux’s Slickest System Monitor App Gets Updated, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/mission-center-system-monitor-1-1-update

📰 Google Posts Device Trees For Booting Pixel 10 Hardware With The Mainline Linux Kernel

A Chromium engineer at Google posted the initial Device Tree (DT) files for being able to boot their latest-generation Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro XL devices with the mainline Linux kernel...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Pixel-10-Google-DTs

📰 Synology fixes BeeStation zero-days demoed at Pwn2Own Ireland

Synology has addressed a critical-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in BeeStation products that was demonstrated at the recent Pwn2Own hacking competition.

🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/synology-fixes-beestation-zero-days-demoed-at-pwn2own-ireland/

📰 MangoHud performance overlay for Linux gets a first v0.8.2 release candidate

The popular MangoHud performance display for Linux has a new release coming that's now ready for testing, with v0.8.2-rc1 now up..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/mangohud-performance-overlay-for-linux-gets-a-first-v0-8-2-release-candidate/

Arduino Partners with M5Stack on the Compact But Fully-Featured Arduino Nesso N1 Dev Kit - Hackster.io
https://www.hackster.io/news/arduino-partners-with-m5stack-on-the-compact-but-fully-featured-arduino-nesso-n1-dev-kit-acf4e8f80a0c

📰 Linux 6.18 Merges Fix For "Catastrophic Performance Issue" On 64-bit ARM

Sent out today and already merged for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel is the latest batch of 64-bit ARM "ARM64" architecture fixes. Most notable is a fix for addressing a "catastrophic performance issue" that was uncovered...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-ARM64-Atomics-Issue

📰 The Self-Hosting Starter Pack: 5 Simple Tools I Recommend To Get Started With Your Homelab

Self-hosting isn’t rocket science—if I can do it, so can you!

🔗 Source: https://itsfoss.com/self-hosting-starting-projects/

📰 SteamVR 2.13 brings a whole lot of bug fixes

While many of us our no doubt waiting on whatever the Steam Frame turns out to be, Valve have released the latest stable SteamVR release with lots of bug fixes..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/steamvr-2-13-brings-a-whole-lot-of-bug-fixes/

📰 Docker Engine 29: Containerd Becomes Default, Experimental nftables Support

Docker Engine 29 sets containerd as the default image store and introduces experimental nftables support for modern Linux networking.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/docker-engine-29-containerd-becomes-default-experimental-nftables-support/

📰 Red Hat's RHEL 10.1 Released With systemd Soft-Reboots, Easier AI Accelerator Drivers

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 has reached general availability with a number of enhancements to this leading enterprise Linux distribution. As with so many things in 2025, AI is a big focus for RHEL 10.1...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Enterprise-Linux-10.1

📰 The State Of The Vulkan Renderer For Wayland's Weston 15.0 Compositor

With the upcoming release of Weston 15.0, this Wayland reference compositor will finally feature a Vulkan renderer. For those curious about its potential, a presentation recently outlined the current state of this Vulkan code path...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Weston-15.0-Vulkan-Renderer

📰 Valve reveal the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine with SteamOS

The day has arrived, Valve have announced a major hardware expansion with multiple devices including the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/valve-reveal-the-new-steam-frame-steam-controller-and-steam-machine-with-steamos/

📰 Miracle-WM 0.8 Adds Accessibility Features and Smoother Animations

Miracle-WM 0.8 tiling Wayland window manager expands usability with new accessibility options and refined workspace animations.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/miracle-wm-0-8-adds-accessibility-features-and-smoother-animations/

📰 Kaspersky Brings Its Antivirus Software to Linux Desktops (For a Fee)

Linux users have a new desktop antivirus option, albeit from an unlikely source: Kaspersky. The Russian cybersecurity company, whose software is banned in the USA and restricted in government use by other Western countries due to national security concerns, has announced its made its home security software available for Linux for the first time.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/kaspersky-linux-antivirus-released

📰 Intel Finds Great Performance With PostgreSQL's AVX-512 Support

Back in April PostgreSQL added AVX-512 support for CRC32 computations. At the time the gains for CRC32 computations with this popular open-source database server were reported to be 50% to 3x faster for x86_64 CPUs able to leverage AVX-512. That AVX-512 support is found with PostgreSQL 18.0 that released in September and now Intel is praising this addition to PostgreSQL for which their developers also had a part in along with AWS and others...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-PostgreSQL-AVX-512-CRC32