AerynOS 2025.10 ISOs were released today for closing out the month of October. AerynOS as a reminder is the Linux distribution that was started by Ikey Doherty and originally known as Serpent OS that has since evolved into an open-source team effort.

AerynOS 2025.10 ISOs are now available for testing this original Linux distribution effort. The most visible difference with AerynOS 2025.10 ISOs is moving to the GNOME 49 desktop and other up-to-

The KDE/Qt-aligned Krita digital painting application is the latest creative app now supporting high dynamic range (HDR) on Linux when using Wayland.

Merged on Thursday to the Krita codebase was initial HDR support for this popular digital painting program as a popular alternative to the likes of Adobe Photoshop. This basic HDR support allows using 10-bit color to the Krita OpenGL canvas and also making the necessary Wayland surface changes for supporting HDR mode.

Developer Dmitry Kazakov is the one that worked through this initial HDR support for

Just one week after Vulkan 1.4.330 brought five new extensions , Vulkan 1.4.331 is now available with another two new extensions for this high performance graphics and compute API.

Vulkan 1.4.331 has a handful of clarifications and other updates to the existing specification while adding two new vendor extensions:

VK_ARM_performance_counters_by_region - This new Arm extension allows capturing performance counters on a per region/tile basis. VK_ARM

The Genode operating system framework continues innovating over a decade and a half later on this original open-source OS creation and with that Sculpt OS as its general purpose OS. Out today is Sculpt OS 25.10 to incorporate the latest enhancements to the platform.

Sculpt OS 25.10 is primarily about shipping "under the hood" improvements to the operating system including better performance and enhanced device driver capabilities.

Performance-limited platforms like the PinePhone should enjoy better performance thanks to CPU scheduling improvements. The

The Rust project announced today the release of Rust 1.91 as the latest update to this popular programming language priding itself on memory safety capabilities.

Most notable with Rust 1.91 is now promoting aarch64-pc-windows-msvc to a Tier-1 platform status. This takes the Windows on ARM support by the Rust programming language to the highest support tier inline with other common operating systems and architectures. Rust 1.91 with Tier-1 for Windows on 64-bit ARM

As expected after noting this morning that ROCm 7.1 release preparations were underway , ROCm 7.1 is now officially released as the newest step-forward for this open-source GPU compute stack for Radeon and Instinct hardware.

ROCm 7.1 is coming just one and a half months after the major ROCm 7.0 release. ROCm 7.1 continues making a lot of enhancements around the AMD Instinct MI350X and MI355X support, including numerous performance optimizations and new features.

The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) that goes hand-in-hand with the Fwupd open-source firmware updating utility celebrated the milestone on Wednesday of crossing 135 million firmware updates.

Fwupd/LVFS lead developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat celebrated the monumental milestone of 135 million firmware updates being supplied by LVFS and deployed using the Fwupd software.

Hughes celebrated the occasion on Mastodon :

AMD Linux engineers continue to be quite busy working on enabling next-generation Zen 6 processors that will begin shipping next year. The newest patch working its way to the Linux kernel is expanding the range of Zen 6 CPU models detected by the kernel.

The past few months AMD has begun preparing the Linux kernel for Zen 6 like confirming 16 channel memory for 6th Gen AMD EPYC "Venice" processors and recognizing the new CPU cores with more to come.

Zen 6 is using Family 1Ah like Zen 5 while