Fwupd 2.0.14 is out today as the newest version of this open-source firmware updating utility that is widely-used on Linux systems for BIOS/system firmware updates as well as an ever increasing array of different peripheral devices.

With Fwupd 2.0.14 there is yet more hardware supported by this firmware updating solution. Fwupd 2.0.14 ships new support for firmware updates on Egis MoC devices, Framework QMK devices, ILITEK touch controllers, and the SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3

Recently queued into the Linux networking subsystem's net-next branch ahead of the Linux 6.18 merge window is the Qualcomm PPE driver to support their Packet Processing Engine on select SoCs.

Qualcomm's Packet Processing Engine is found on their IPQ SoCs like the IPQ9574. The Qualcomm PPE is a specialized accelerator for offloading network functions around routing, switching, QoS traffic management, and similar tasks rather than bogging down the CPU cores with the work.

The Qualcomm PPE Linux driver work is initially

Version 25.08 of the Genode OS Framework has been released for this open-source operating system framework designed for software safety and security.

Genode OS 25.08 overhauls its kernel scheduler to better account for dynamic workloads on Sculpt OS, its general purpose operating system. The new kernel scheduler optimizes for fairness and latency.

Genode OS 25.08 also makes improvements to its block layer. For Genode's Linux device driver environments is also updating all of the leveraged Linux drivers against the

Armbian 25.8.1 is now available as a significant update over the Armbian 25.5 release for this Debian-based Linux distribution focused on offering broad support for ARM64 and RISC-V single board computers as well as other devices.

Armbian 25.8.1 offers up the latest Linux 6.16 stable kernel for most hardware platforms opting for the "edge" branches while the "stable" branches are using the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel. There are also

Released overnight in beta form is OBS Studio 32.0, the next feature release for this widely-used, open-source and cross-platform application for desktop streaming/recording.

One of the headline features of OBS Studio 32.0 is introducing a basic plug-in manager to help handle extra functionality around this desktop streaming/live-casting software. For Windows and macOS there is also now opt-in automatic crash log uploading.

There are new NVIDIA RTX software features added for OBS Studio 3

Earlier this week I provided benchmarks looking at the Linux 5.15 LTS through Linux 6.17 Git kernel performance using the latest stable and development kernels compared to the Long Term Support (LTS) kernels over the past four years. For having hardware support back to Linux 5.15 I was using an AMD EPYC Milan-X server. In those benchmarks there were some nice gains and even from Linux 6.16 to 6.17 Git was around a 3% geo mean improvement.

The engineers over at iXsystems announced today the beta release of TrueNAS 25.10 "Goldeneye" as the latest iteration of this formerly BSD-based OS that has transitioned to making use of the Linux kernel while unifying both the TrueNAS CORE and SCALE offerings.

As covered earlier this month, TrueNAS 25.10 brings many exciting features including 400 GbE networking support, OpenZFS file-system improvements, various performance optimizations, installation enhancements, virtualization enhancements, new additions to the TrueNAS API, and a