Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 has reached general availability with a number of enhancements to this leading enterprise Linux distribution. As with so many things in 2025, AI is a big focus for RHEL 10.1.

Red Hat is making vendor-validated AI accelerator drivers available in the RHEL Extensions Repository and Supplemental Repository as part of RHEL 10.1. NVIDIA's open kernel driver is now part of the RHEL Extensions Repository while the user-space CUDA toolkit is in the RHEL

Back in August with the Vulkan 1.4.327 spec update was the introduction of VK_VALVE_video_encode_rgb_conversion as a Valve vendor extension. The open-source Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver has now merged support for this extension that is being used now by Steam Link VR.

VK_VALVE_video_encode_rgb_conversion builds on the VK_KHR_video_encode_queue extension to allow software to pass in RGB/RGBA images in video encode

Open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso who developed the open-source and reverse-engineered "Rocket" accel driver for the Rockchip NPU and also worked on the Etnaviv/Vivante NPU support and other related code like Mesa's Teflon is teasing new NPU drivers coming in the new year.

Back at XDC2025, Tomeu talked about the state of AI/ML accelerators and the work done to the Linux kernel accelerator "accel" drivers.

For 2026 he talked up PyTorch/Executorch support as

Webmin continues serving as one of the best open-source, web-based server management control panels for Linux and other Unix-like platforms. Webmin 2.600 is out today with yet more features and a refined theme.

Webmin 2.600 most notably to end-users brings a major theme/user-interface update for its Authentic theme. There are a lot of visual and structural improvements for providing a more modern look:

The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS has published their October 2025 status report.

Haiku OS continues persevering on this unique open-source operating system platform. Over the past month many kernel and app improvements were made including:

- A rewrite of the guarded heap implementation within Haiku's kernel. This new implementation written from scratch clears up a lot of issues with the prior code to make it more effective akin to the user-space implementation that is more widely-used.

- Haiku

A Chromium engineer at Google posted the initial Device Tree (DT) files for being able to boot their latest-generation Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro XL devices with the mainline Linux kernel.

Google announced their Pixel 10 devices back in August as their newest devices for Android 16 use and featuring the Google Tensor G5 SoC powered by a combination of Arm Cortex X4, A725, and A520 cores while relying on Imagination DXT-4

The Ubuntu 25.10 transition to using some Rust system utilities continues proving quite rocky. Beyond some early performance issues with Rust Coreutils , breakage for some executables , and broken unattended upgrades due to a Rust Coreutils bug , it's also sudo-rs now causing Ubuntu developers some headaches. There are two moderate security issues affecting sudo-rs, the Rust version of sudo being used by Ubuntu 25.10.

Initially opened as a private bug report last week was [sudo-rs] Update

Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab announced that it's bringing its flagship Kaspersky anti-virus software for home users over to Linux. Kaspersky software was previously available for Linux just for business/enterprise deployments.

While still being banned for sales to US customers and also blocked for use by other governments on their devices due to Kaspersky's reported connections to the Russian government, Kaspersky for Linux has been announced for home users.