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extrox is a spin of MX Linux by a member of the MX Linux development team, featuring custom art and theme, careful application selection, various user-friendly improvements, and an audio filter (developed in-house) for enhanced sound quality in music playback and streaming. The distribution uses the Xfce desktop with the Compiz compositing window manager.

There are a large number of ways to configure the 6.16 Linux kernel. It has 32,468 different configuration options on x86_64, and a comparable number for other platforms. Exploring the ways the kernel can be configured is sufficiently difficult that it requires specialized tools. These show the number of possible configurations that options can be combined in has 6,550 digits. How has that number changed over the history of the kernel, and what does it mean for testing?

The openSUSE project has announced that the bcachefs filesystem will be disabled in its kernel builds starting with 6.17; bcachefs users will have to make other arrangements. "The current 6.16.* is NOT affected. Neither is Slowroll (for now)."

At Akademy 2025, the KDE Project released an alpha version of KDE Linux, a distribution built by the project to "include the best implementation of everything KDE has to offer, using the most advanced technologies". It is aimed at providing an operating system suitable for home use, business use, OEM installations, and more "eventually". For now there are many rough edges and missing features that users should be aware of before taking the plunge; but it is an interesting look at the kind of complete Linux system that KDE developers would like to see.

At Open Source Summit Europe, LWN's Jonathan Corbet presented "Three Decades in Kernelland"; the talk provides a look at how the kernel got to where it is, what makes it successful, and what may be coming next. The video of the talk is now online for LWN readers who would like to check it out.

Security updates have been issued by Fedora (buildah, containers-common, glycin, loupe, podman, rust-matchers, and rust-tracing-subscriber), Red Hat (fence-agents, jackson-annotations, jackson-core, jackson-databind, jackson-jaxrs-providers, and jackson-modules-base, pki-deps:10.6, python-requests, python3.12-cryptography, redis:6, redis:7, and resource-agents), Slackware (libssh), SUSE (aide, cloud-init, iperf, java-1_8_0-openjdk, jq, kernel-devel, python-deepdiff, regionServiceClientConfigAzure, regionServiceClientConfigEC2, and regionServiceClientConfigGCE), and Ubuntu (gnutls28).

LibreOffice 25.8.1 is now available for download as the first maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 25.8 office suite series with 94 bug fixes.

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This roundup looks at the finest ham radio tools available for Linux. We include a good variety of tools including transceiver control programs, ham radio loggers, and more.

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DXVK 2.7.1 addresses MSAA issues, enhances D3D9 game performance, and introduces improved compatibility for games such as Fallout NV, Witcher 1, and Crysis 3.

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We highly recommend installing a framework with Zsh as it makes dealing with configuration, plugins and themes a lot more straightforward.

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Wine 10.14 is out with vkd3d 1.17, Mono 10.2.0, IPv6 ping support, Debian Trixie CI integration, and 19 bug fixes.

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Immich 1.140 introduces beta background sync, read-only mode, and a location management utility, moving closer to the long-awaited stable release.

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OBS Studio 32.0 promises several new features, including Voice Activity Detection (VAD) for NVIDIA RTX Audio Effects, which improves noise suppression for speech, Hybrid MOV support, a basic plugin manager, and chair removal option for NVIDIA RTX Background Removal, allowing the removal of chairs.

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Fwupd 2.0.14 Linux firmware update tool adds RHEL 9/10 build support, UEFI capsule fixes, and wider hardware compatibility.

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“Python: The Documentary” is a new 90-minute film that tells the story of how a side project evolved into one of the world’s most influential programming languages.

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One of the most persistent networking performance issues in Kubernetes since the platform was created a decade ago is non-optimized traffic routing. Kubernetes consists of nodes and clusters, and there can be a lot of east-west intra-cluster networking traffic that can impact latency and performance.

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Puppy Linux is yet another Linux distribution. What's different here is that Puppy is extraordinarily small, yet quite full-featured. Puppy boots into a ramdisk and, unlike live CD distributions that have to keep pulling stuff off the CD, it loads into RAM. This means that all applications start in the blink of an eye and respond to user input instantly. Puppy Linux has the ability to boot off a flash card or any USB memory device, CDROM, Zip disk or LS/120/240 Superdisk, floppy disks, internal hard drive. It can even use a multisession formatted CD-RW/DVD-RW to save everything back to the CD/DVD with no hard drive required at all.

Version:next-20250910 (linux-next) Released:2025-09-10

SELKS, a product of Stamus Networks, is a Debian-based live distribution designed for network security management. It provides a complete and ready-to-use Suricata IDS/IPS ecosystem with its own graphic rule manager. The system also includes Kibana IDS/NSM dashboards (for visualising logs and other time-stamped data) a Scirius (a rules management interface for Suricata). SELKS is released under the GNU GPLv3 licence.

As a followup to his OSS Europe talk on the future of 32-bit support in the kernel, Arnd Bergmann has put together a detailed plan for the eventual removal of high-memory support, which he calls "one of the least popular features of the Linux kernel". The intent is "to gradually phase out highmem over the next 2 years for mainline kernels". This plan is posted as a prompt for a discussion to be held at the Kernel Summit in December, so chances are it will evolve considerably in the next few months.