📰 FUSE 3.18 Released With FUSE-Over-IO-uring, Statx Support

Linux creator Linus Torvalds previously referred to file-systems in user-space as for toys and misguided people. But FUSE has shown a lot of interesting use-cases over the years and has grown more capable in the decade since Torvalds' prior comments. Out today is FUSE 3.18 as the latest release for the FUSE library...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FUSE-3.18-Released

📰 Valve put up a release candidate for Proton 10.0-4 with lots more Linux / SteamOS gaming fixes

Valve put up a Release Candidate for testing Proton 10.0-4, what will become the main version of the Windows compatibility layer for Linux / SteamOS..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/valve-put-up-a-release-candidate-for-proton-10-0-4-with-lots-more-linux-steamos-gaming-fixes/

📰 Decentralized YouTube Alternative PeerTube Adds Creator Mode

The open source YouTube alternative offers some welcome updates for content creators.

🔗 Source: https://itsfoss.com/news/peertube-8-release/

📰 WatchGuard Warns of Active Exploitation of Critical Fireware OS VPN Vulnerability

WatchGuard has released fixes to address a critical security flaw in Fireware OS that it said has been exploited in real-world attacks.Tracked as CVE-2025-14733 (CVSS score: 9.3), the vulnerability has been described as a case of out-of-bounds write affecting the iked process that could allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code."This vulnerability affects both the.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/watchguard-warns-of-active-exploitation.html

📰 Your NAS doesn't need a specialized OS

Even a conventional general-purpose distro can become a reliable NAS platform with the right packages.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/your-nas-doesnt-need-a-specialized-os/

📰 Chrome/Chromium Add Support For Printing Via XDG Portal

Google's Chrome/Chromium web browser code has merged support for Linux printing via the XDG Portal. This is important to allow print support from within Flatpak or Snap sandboxed versions of Google's web browser...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDG-Portal-Chrome-Printing

📰 Watch Out Elasticsearch! Tiger Data's PostgreSQL BM25 Search Extension Goes Open Source

Previously proprietary PostgreSQL extension is now freely available on GitHub.

🔗 Source: https://itsfoss.com/news/tiger-data-pg-textsearch/

📰 Mesa 26.0 NVK Driver Lands Improvement For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 "Turing" GPUs

In addition to the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver in Mesa merging compression support for big performance wins, another performance optimization was merged earlier in the week that stand to benefit GeForce RTX 20 "Turing" graphics processors...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26-NVK-Compute-Warp-Size

📰 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Confirms its Kernel Version

Canonical confirms Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will ship with Linux kernel 6.20 (7.0) in April, bringing latest hardware support and performance improvements to users.You're reading Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Confirms its Kernel Version, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/ubuntu-26-04-lts-kernel-version-confirmed

📰 Arch Linux's Main NVIDIA Driver Packages Now Using The Open Kernel Modules

With the Arch Linux packages for the NVIDIA official graphics driver moving to the now-stable NVIDIA 590 driver series that drops the GeForce GTX 900 and GTX 1000 series GPU support, Arch Linux users with those old Maxwell and Pascal graphics cards will need to transition to using the NVIDIA legacy driver packages from the Arch Linux AUR.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-LInux-NVIDIA-Open-Default

📰 Immich 2.4 Released With Command Palette and UI Refinements

Immich 2.4, a self-hosted photo and video management platform, introduces a new command palette, refined UI animations, shared album improvements, and more.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/immich-2-4-released-with-command-palette-and-ui-refinements/

📰 Intel Readies Multi-Queue Support For Linux 7.0 As New Feature For Crescent Island

In addition to this week's drm-intel-next pull request to DRM-Next adding Nova Lake display support, a drm-xe-next pull request was also sent out on Friday that prepares a new multi-queue feature for Xe3P_XPC -- initially just the "Crescent Island" AI inference accelerator card. Plus other new features too for this Xe kernel driver in the upcoming Linux 7.0~6.20 kernel version...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe-Multi-Queue-Linux-7.0

📰 The Steam Deck LCD has been discontinued, making the Steam Deck 512GB OLED the new entry-level option

When Valve introduced the Steam Deck OLED a little over two years ago, the company lowered the price of the Steam Deck LCD with 256GB of storage to $399 and discontinued the lower-spec Steam Deck LCD with 64GB of eMMC storage. Since Steam Deck OLED prices start at $549, that meant that customers looking for .

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/the-steam-deck-lcd-has-been-discontinued-making-the-steam-deck-512gb-oled-the-new-entry-level-option/

📰 MIT and Apache 2.0 Lead Open Source Licensing in 2025

According to the Open Source Initiative, MIT and Apache 2.0 remain the most widely used open source licenses in 2025.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/mit-and-apache-2-0-lead-open-source-licensing-in-2025/

📰 I thought my spare Raspberry Pis were pointless until I started clustering them

There's a lot of horsepower hidden under that adorable appearance.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/i-thought-my-raspberry-pis-were-pointless-until-i-clustered-them/

📰 GotaTun Open-Source Rust WireGuard Implementation Announced By Mullvad

The Swedish VPN service Mullvad announced this week GotaTun, an open-source Rust-based WireGuard implementation that is forked from Cloudflare's BoringTun...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GotaTun-Rust-WireGuard-OSS

📰 I switched from Docker Desktop to Portainer, but this tool is better than both of them

Ever since its introduction, Docker Desktop has been the de facto standard for container management, but its resource-heavy nature forced many of us to seek alternatives like Portainer. While Portainer is powerful for fleet management, I have finally switched my entire workflow to Podman, and I can confidently say this daemonless, rootless container engine is better than both its predecessor.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/switched-from-docker-desktop-to-portainer-this-tool-is-better/

📰 Chimera Linux Releases New Images With Kernel 6.18

Chimera Linux has published new December 2025 images based on kernel 6.18, delivering updated desktops and refreshed system components.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/chimera-linux-releases-new-images-with-kernel-6-18/

📰 Darktable 5.4 Open-Source RAW Image Editor Improves Camera Support

Darktable 5.4 open-source RAW image editor is now available for download with support for new cameras, new noise profiles, and bug fixes. Here’s what’s new!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/darktable-5-4-open-source-raw-image-editor-improves-camera-support

📰 Linux 6.19 Lands Fix For Seagate Barracuda HDD Taking Down The SATA Bus

It's not often getting to talk about hard drives on Phoronix these days, but there's an important fix merged to the Linux 6.19 kernel today ahead of Linux 6.19-rc2. If you happen to be using a Seagate ST2000DM008 Barracuda 2TB HDD, an important fix was merged to avoid it taking down the systems' SATA bus and/or potentially other issues...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-Seagate-HDD-Fix

📰 Ventoy 1.1.10 Bootable USB Creator Released with Support for AerynOS

Ventoy 1.1.10 open-source bootable USB solution is now available for download with support for AerynOS and other improvements. Here's what's new!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/ventoy-1-1-10-bootable-usb-creator-released-with-support-for-aerynos