The KDE project has officially announced the alpha release of KDE Linux, marking a significant milestone in the organization’s expansion beyond desktop environments into full operating system development. This groundbreaking immutable distribution represents KDE’s first official operating system, unveiled at Akademy 2025 and designed to serve as the definitive reference implementation for KDE Plasma and applications.

Microsoft is preparing to ship Windows 11 25H2 as their newest incremental update to their operating system. Windows 11 25H2 is currently available via their preview channel in advance of the formal public release in October. With Canonical also putting the finishing touches on their Ubuntu 25.10 release also due for a stable release in October, here are some benchmarks looking at how those competing operating systems are fairing in various CPU benchmarks on the same hardware.

With stints at Red Hat, Apptio, and Chronosphere, Margaret Dawson brings plenty of tech cred to her new CMO post at SUSE.

Kodi 22 (codename Piers) has entered development for this powerful open-source, free, and cross-platform media center and entertainment hub software for all your digital media.

A patch series that has been in development for a while now introduces the concept of "sheaves" for an opt-in, per-CPU and array-based caching layer for the SLUB kernel allocator. It looks like the sheaves patches are likely to be introduced for the Linux 6.18 kernel if no objections are raised...

AI revives the long-abandoned ftape Linux kernel driver, bringing 1990s QIC-80 tape backup hardware back to life on modern systems.

Kickstarter recently featured the Photonicat 2, a portable ARM-based computer aimed at travelers, vehicle setups, and homelab users needing reliable connectivity and long runtime. Building on the original Photonicat launched two years ago, the new model delivers higher performance, extended battery life, and added flexibility while staying fully open-source. Photonicat 2 is built around the […]

Expect more ‘slush funds’ of this sort, analyst tells El RegAI upstart Anthropic has agreed to create a $1.5 billion fund it will use to compensate authors whose works it used to train its models without seeking or securing permission.…

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Debian 13.1, Mint 22.2, KDE Linux, LKRG 1.0, COSMIC beta release date, Mozilla drops 32-bit support, GNOME 49 brings back X11, and more.

The i18n team is testing changes for Fedora Linux 43 (Use COLR for Noto Color Emoji, Set Default Monospace Fallback Font , and many more). As a result, the i18n and QA teams organized a test week to run from Tuesday, September 09, 2025, to Monday, September 15, 2025. The wiki page in this article […]

Turn your KDE Plasma 6 desktop into a cozy cute cat in the forest vibe with Kvantum themes and a dark global theme. Simple, stylish, and minimal for a clean Linux setup!

Imagination's open-source PowerVR kernel graphics driver for a while has seen patches extending it to work on RISC-V given that some RISC-V hardware coming to market has featured PowerVR graphics IP. With the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel that work is landing along with enabling support for the T-HEAD TH1520's GPU...

The Debian Project has released Debian 13.1 “Trixie,” the first point release of the stable Debian 13 distribution, delivering crucial security patches and system stability improvements. Released on September 6th, 2025, this maintenance update addresses critical vulnerabilities and resolves significant bugs that could impact production environments running Debian 13 “Trixie”.

Hangover is the open-source project that leverages Wine to allow running x86 32-bit and 64-bit Windows applications on AArch64 Linux systems. Hangover pairs Wine with an emulator like Box64 or FEX for the x86/x86_64 to AArch64 translation while also eyeing other CPU architecture support too...

The 256th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on September 7th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Linux 6.17-rc5 is out for testing as the newest weekly release candidate as we near the stable Linux 6.17 release in late September...

Linux Kernel Runtime Guard hits 1.0 after 7 years, introducing support for kernel 6.17, bug fixes, performance enhancements, and code cleanup.

When working with systemd commands like hostnamectl, timedatectl, or systemctl, you might encounter the error message “Failed to connect to system scope bus via local transport: No such file or directory”. This error indicates that systemd cannot communicate with the D-Bus system message bus, which is essential for inter-process communication in modern Linux systems. This tutorial will guide you through diagnosing and resolving this issue on Debian-based systems, though the concepts apply to other distributions as well.

The first alpha release of FreeBSD 15.0 is now available! FreeBSD 15.0 is a major update to this BSD operating system that aims for its stable release before Christmas...

MSI has unveiled the MS-CF16 V3.0, the latest revision of its compact Pico-ITX single-board computer. Designed for fanless, low-power, and wide-temperature operation, the board targets industrial and embedded applications that demand reliability in harsh environments. The MS-CF16 V3.0 supports a wider selection of Intel processors than its predecessor, with all configurations featuring up to 16 […]