📰 KDE Frameworks 6.20 Adds a Fancier Push/Pop Animation to System Settings Pages

KDE Frameworks 6.20 open-source software suite is out now with various improvements and bug fixes for KDE apps and the Plasma desktop. Here’s what’s new!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-6-20-adds-a-fancier-push-pop-animation-to-system-settings-pages

The Headaches Supporting Content Protection With Linux GPU Drivers
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What is TOON? How Token-Oriented Object Notation Could Change How AI Sees Data
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-toon-how-token-oriented-object-notation-could-change-how-ai-sees-data/

📰 Canonical pushes Ubuntu LTS support even further - if you pay

Enterprise Linux vendors keep jostling to see who can prop up geriatric distros the longest Last year, Canonical increased its paid extended support lifespan to 12 years. Now, it's increasing it again, to 15 years ... for a price.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/11/14/canonical_ubuntu_extended_support/

📰 AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs Will Default To AMDGPU Driver In Linux 6.19, SMART POWER OLED Added

Sent out today is likely the last batch of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver feature updates ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window getting underway around the start of December. And it's an exciting one too from adding a new SMART POWER OLED feature to switching from the Radeon to AMDGPU drivers by default for aging GCN 1.0 Southern Islands and GCN 1.1 Sea Islands GPUs...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-AMDGPU-GCN-1.0-1.1

📰 Wine 10.19 Released With More Improvements

Ahead of the Wine 11.0 code freeze beginning in early December, Wine 10.19 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for running Windows games and applications on Linux...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-10.19-Released

📰 Plasma 6.6 Will Avoid Running Out Of RAM When Something Crashes In A Loop

KDE Plasma 6.6 continues seeing a lot of development activity while the Plasma 6.5 series is calming down after its first few point releases. Plasma 6.6 landed many more features and improvements this week...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.6-Better-Crash-Loop

📰 5 creative uses for your older Raspberry Pi

Give your Raspberry Pi 3 or older a new life with these clever, practical, and creative projects you can build right now.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/creative-uses-older-raspberry-pi/

📰 AMD Releases Additional Zen 5 CPU Microcode For RDSEED Issue

Stemming from AMD's recently acknowledged Zen 5 issue with the RDSEED instruction and AMD releasing Zen 5 CPU microcode updates to address it, this week brought some additional microcode updates...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-5-More-RDSEED-ucode

📰 Servo 0.0.2 Released For Those Wanting To Try Out This Example Rust Web Browser

Released minutes ago was the Servo 0.0.2 web browser engine update. Along with this new Rust-based web engine release is also the "servoshell" in tow for the example implementation built around this open-source codebase...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-0.0.2-Released

📰 Better Than Original? 14 Rust-based Alternative CLI Tools to Classic Linux Commands

Hyped on the Rust wagon? How about using these Rust-based, modern, easier to use, better-looking alternatives to the classic Linux commands.

🔗 Source: https://itsfoss.com/rust-alternative-cli-tools/

📰 DietPi 9.19 Introduces BirdNET-Go, Expands Debian Trixie Support

DietPi 9.19 adds BirdNET-Go, broad Debian 13 support across major apps, and key fixes for Raspberry Pi and Allwinner boards.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/dietpi-9-19-introduces-birdnet-go-expands-debian-trixie-support/

📰 NVIDIA Linux Engineer Highlights The Need For Unifying DRM Driver-Side API

One of the NVIDIA presentations at the recent XDC2025 developer conference was not around the NVIDIA driver itself but the ongoing fragmentation that's happening within the Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem and arguing the need for unifying more driver-side APIs for supporting different Linux DRM clinets...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Less-DRM-API-Fragments

📰 Traefik Proxy 3.6 Introduces Multi-Layer Routing for Complex Traffic Flows

Traefik Proxy 3.6 introduces multi-layer routing, Knative integration, and Gateway API v1.4 support, delivering stronger routing control for cloud-native workloads.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/traefik-proxy-3-6-introduces-multi-layer-routing/

📰 6 reasons Ubuntu Server makes a better NAS than most NAS operating systems

Over the years, I have tried enough NAS operating systems to know that most of them are designed to cater to a particular kind of user. Some are made to be beginner-friendly, while others are better suited for experiments. But all of them want to lock you down to their own ecosystem, which is especially true for pre-built NAS models that you get off the shelves. When you want to try something even mildly unconventional, you will start to notice...

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/ubuntu-server-vs-nas-os/

📰 Linux 6.18-rc6 Released With Fix For ARM64 "Catastrophic Performance Issue"

Linus Torvalds is out today with the eighth weekly test release of the Linux 6.18 kernel in working toward the stable release at the end of the month...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-rc6

📰 Logitech leaks data after zero-day attack

PLUS: CISA still sitting on telecoms security report; DoorDash phished again; Lumma stealer returns; and more INFOSEC IN BRIEF The US Senate passed a resolution in July to force the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to publish a 2022 report into poor security in the telecommunications industry but the agency has not delivered the document.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/11/16/infosec_news_in_brief/

📰 Monitor Your Linux Laptop Battery Health with Wattage

Wattage is a modern GTK4/libadwaita app that detailed battery information on Linux, including capacity, health, cycles, and power draw – no terminal required.You're reading Monitor Your Linux Laptop Battery Health with Wattage, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/wattage-battery-monitoring-app-linux

📰 GCC Patch Enables Support For The Rust-Based Wild Linker

The Wild linker is a very speedy linker written in the Rust programming language that has become quite competitive with the likes of Mold. A patch sent out this weekend adds Wild support for use with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Patch-Wild-Linker

📰 HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) 3.25.8 Adds Support for New Printers

HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) 3.25.8 drivers are now available for download with support for new HP printers.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing-hplip-3-25-8-adds-support-for-new-printers

📰 AirPods on Linux? LibrePods Project Makes It Possible

LibrePods brings full AirPods support to Linux, including battery status, ANC modes, and gesture detection, all without relying on Apple’s ecosystem.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/airpods-on-linux-librepods-project-makes-it-possible/