📰 Wayland-Only Budgie 10.10 Desktop Environment Released as Developer Preview

Budgie 10.10 desktop environment is now available as a Developer Preview for packagers as the first Wayland-only release. Here's what to expect!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/wayland-only-budgie-10-10-desktop-environment-released-as-developer-preview

📰 Systemd Introduces Experimental musl Support

Systemd adds musl compatibility for the first time, reducing the glibc-only barrier and widening its reach across lighter Linux systems.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/systemd-introduces-experimental-musl-support/

📰 FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 Brings Build Fixes For Google Cloud & Azure, Base Repository Changes

FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 is available today for testing as this leading BSD operating system works toward the stable release in early December...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.0-RC1-Released

📰 These 8 Docker containers help monitor my entire home lab

No longer flying blind thanks to my containers monitoring stack.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/docker-containers-help-monitor-entire-home-lab/

📰 OpenZFS 2.4 Squeezes In Some Last Minute Improvements

Following OpenZFS 2.4-rc3 from nearly one month ago is now a fourth release candidate for the upcoming OpenZFS 2.4. A few more features and improvements have been squeezed into this release in nearing the stable milestone...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.4-rc4-Released

📰 Steam’s Nov 2025 Client Update Brings Expanded Chat Reporting, New Controller Support

Valve’s latest Steam client update adds expanded chat reporting tools, suspicious message alerts, and new controller support, including fixes for PS5, Xbox 360, and Nintendo devices.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/steams-nov-2025-client-update-brings-expanded-chat-reporting/

📰 RustDesk Pulls Ahead of TeamViewer, AnyDesk with Wayland Multi-Scaled Display Support

New nightly build brings support for monitors with different scaling factors.

🔗 Source: https://itsfoss.com/news/rustdesk-multi-scaled-display-support/

📰 AOOSTAR EG02 graphics dock supports Thunderbolt 5 and OCuLink connections

Last month AOOSTAR launched the EG01 graphics dock with an OCuLink port and a design that includes a stand so you can position a power supply next to your graphics card and perch a mini PC above the power supply. At the time the company said it was also working on an EG02 model that has a .

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/aoostar-eg02-graphics-dock-supports-thunderbolt-5-and-oculink-connections/

📰 KDE Plasma 6.5.3 Delivers Bug Fixes Across KWin, Discover, and Breeze

KDE Plasma 6.5.3 is now available, delivering fixes across KWin, Discover, and Breeze, improving stability, navigation, and desktop responsiveness.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-5-3-desktop-released/

📰 MLPerf Client 1.5 Introduces Experimental Linux Support

MLPerf Client as MLCommons' machine language inferencing benchmark for client form factors / PCs now has a Linux build. MLPerf Client 1.5 was released yesterday with an experimental Linux build but for now at least is not nearly as full-featured as this AI benchmark on Windows and macOS...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/MLPerf-Client-1.5-Linux

📰 The big new RPG Where Winds Meet release works well on Linux

Where Winds Meet is a new free to play game on Steam that's doing some big numbers right now, and thankfully it seems to work great on Linux with Proton..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/the-big-new-where-winds-meet-release-works-well-on-linux/

📰 Debian Libre Live Images Debut for Fully Free Debian Installations

The Debian Libre Live project releases its first free-only amd64 live ISOs, removing all non-free components from the installation media.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/debian-libre-live-images-debut-for-fully-free-debian-installations/

📰 Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for anything that matters

Linux inventor also discusses Rust in the kernel, Nvidia's proprietary code, and the problem of AI crawlers Linux and Git inventor Linus Torvalds discussed AI in software development in an interview earlier this month, describing himself as "fairly positive" about vibe coding, but as a way into computing, not for production coding where it would likely be horrible to maintain.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/linus_torvalds_vibe_coding/

📰 Throwing stones at Pebble: Rebble accuses Core Devices of stealing its work for new Pebble smartwatch services

The Pebble line of smartwatches is back. But in some ways it never really went away… because after Fitbit acquired Pebble in 2016 and stopped making Pebble-branded hardware, an independent team of developers got to work creating an open source software ecosystem that allowed existing watches to continue functioning. For the past decade, the Rebble .

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/throwing-stones-at-pebble-rebble-accuses-core-devices-of-stealing-its-work-for-new-pebble-smartwatch-services/

Smart Table Tennis Bat with Live Analytics
https://www.hackster.io/s4muela/smart-table-tennis-bat-with-live-analytics-360981

📰 Intel LASS Feature Looks Like It Will Be Upstreamed For Linux 6.19

Intel's LASS functionality was queued today into tip/tip.git's "x86/cpu" Git branch. With LASS now making it into a TIP branch, it looks like it will be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.19 merge window barring any last minute issues or objections from Linus Torvalds...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LASS-For-Linux-6.19

Blender 5.0 Released With Better Vulkan Support, HDR On Wayland - Phoronix
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-5.0-Released

📰 ClamAV to Cut Signature Database Size by 50%

ClamAV will retire outdated signatures on December 16, reducing both databases by about 50% to improve performance and trim update costs.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/clamav-to-cut-signature-database-size-by-50-percentage/

📰 Xubuntu Reveals How its Website Was Hijacked

The Xubuntu team has shared an incident report on its October website breach. Attackers brute-forced the site to inject malware - but was anything else affected?You're reading Xubuntu Reveals How its Website Was Hijacked, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/xubuntu-website-breach-report

📰 Vulkan SER Showing Up To ~47% Performance Improvement For Ray-Tracing

Last week's Vulkan 1.4.333 brought a new ray-tracing extension with VK_EXT_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder that was derived from a prior NVIDIA vendor extension (VK_NV_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder). This new extension for Shader Execution Reordering "SER" is showing to deliver some nice performance potential for Vulkan ray-tracing performance...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-SER-Performance

📰 After Nearly 10 Years of Building Mastodon, Eugen Rochko Steps Into Advisory Role

Mastodon's creator steps back from CEO role, transfers assets to non-profit organization.

🔗 Source: https://itsfoss.com/news/mastodon-ceo-steps-down/