Some KDE drama, Fedora 43, Ubuntu 25.10 & GNOME 49
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01:46 Some KDE drama https://jriddell.org/2025/09/14/adios-chicos-25-years-of-kde/ https://pointieststick.com/2025/09/16/a-few-corrections-about-the-transition-from-blue-systems-to-techpaladin/ https://akselmo.dev/posts/bluesystems-to-techpaladin/
05:44 GNOME 49 released https://youtu.be/SwSEWsUCkuE
08:36 Fedora 43 beta is out https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-43-beta/
10:02 Ubuntu 25.10 beta is here https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/ubuntu-25-10-beta-released
12:05 Ubuntu’s move to Rust utilities unearth perf issues https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Rust-Coreutils-Perf
13:25 KDE 6.5 has a beta too https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-5-desktop-environment-is-now-available-for-public-beta-testing
15:54 Linux Mint 22.3 has a roadmap https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4879 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/linux-mint-22-3-will-bring-revamped-app-menu-better-wayland-support
17:37 AMD terminates their own driver in favor of MESA https://linuxiac.com/amd-ends-amdvlk-development-shifts-focus-to-radv-vulkan-driver/
18:44 Another Linux distro under attack https://linuxiac.com/after-arch-linux-mageia-faces-infrastructure-outage/ https://blog.mageia.org/en/2025/09/17/our-other-servers-are-down-again/
20:15 OpenAI explains why LLMS hallucinate https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/17/openai_hallucinations_incentives/
22:46 Steam ends 32 bit support, but not for Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Ending-32-bit-Windows