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Mon, 09/01/2025 - 22:20
AerynOS 2025.08 ISOs are now available as the third release of the year for this innovative Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS...
Mon, 09/01/2025 - 22:20
Banana Pi has published initial details on the BPI-F5, a single board computer built on the Allwinner T527 SoC. The chip integrates an octa-core Cortex-A55 CPU, ARM G57 MC1 GPU, HiFi4 DSP, 2 TOPS NPU, and a RISC-V MCU for real-time tasks. The board is intended for industrial control, automotive, and other edge applications. The […]
Mon, 09/01/2025 - 22:20
The 255th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on August 31st, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.
Mon, 09/01/2025 - 22:20
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.17-rc4 as the newest weekly test release of Linux 6.17 in working toward the stable release in late September...
Mon, 09/01/2025 - 22:20
Shuttle has introduced the XPC slim DH810, a compact mini PC designed for Intel Core Ultra 200 desktop processors in the LGA1851 socket. The system supports “Arrow Lake-S” CPUs with up to 24 cores and integrates a Neural Processing Unit delivering 13 TOPS of AI performance. Processor support extends to Core Ultra 9, 7, and […]
Mon, 09/01/2025 - 22:20
A remarkable mixture of different components, but it worksRefreshOS is a Debian and KDE-based distro with a difference: it casts its net a lot wider for tools and components.…
Mon, 09/01/2025 - 22:20
This week's round of HID subsystem "fixes" for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel include adding a number of new device IDs and other alterations for supporting new hardware...
Sun, 08/31/2025 - 22:20
Running AIs on your own machine lets you stick it to the man and save some cash in the processFeature After a decade or two of the cloud, we're used to paying for our computing capability by the megabyte. As AI takes off, the whole cycle promises to repeat itself again, and while AI might seem relatively cheap now, it might not always be so.…
Sun, 08/31/2025 - 22:20
Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD) about Linux spread with help from the company that took Linux and turned it into a prison (TiVoisation at the "app" level).
Sun, 08/31/2025 - 22:20
The FreeBSD project on Friday published their quarterly status report to highlight all of the interesting changes for Q2'2025. Among the recent FreeBSD efforts have been on "bsd-user-4-linux" to allow FreeBSD binaries to run unmodified on Linux systems. FreeBSD is also coming up with a policy around AI/LLM usage for contributing to the project. Additionally, Sylve is taking shape as a new web-based unified system management platform for FreeBSD systems...
Sun, 08/31/2025 - 22:20
Wine 10.14 is out with vkd3d 1.17, Mono 10.2.0, IPv6 ping support, Debian Trixie CI integration, and 19 bug fixes.
Sun, 08/31/2025 - 22:20
Platform's staffer complains security review was 'rushed'Microsoft-owned collaborative coding platform GitHub is deepening its ties with Elon Musk's xAI, bringing early access to the company's Grok Code Fast 1 large language model (LLM) into GitHub Copilot. However, a whistleblower has claimed that the rollout suffers from inadequate security testing and an engineering team operating under duress.…
Sun, 08/31/2025 - 22:20
Niri 25.08 scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor adds xwayland-satellite integration, screen reader support, new logo, and more.
Sun, 08/31/2025 - 22:20
DXVK 2.7.1 was released today as the latest stable version for this Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine, bringing improvements for various games.
Sun, 08/31/2025 - 22:20
Josef Bacik who is a long-time Btrfs developer and active co-maintainer alongside David Sterba is leaving Meta. Additionally, he's also stepping back from Linux kernel development as his primary job...
Sun, 08/31/2025 - 22:20
Kubernetes 1.34 made its debut this week, bringing with it a host of updates that will help to improve cloud-native operations.
Sun, 08/31/2025 - 22:20
This detailed guide explains how to enable backports and testing repositories in Debian 13 trixie using the new deb822 sources format.
Sun, 08/31/2025 - 22:20
In this video, learn how to create a quick and easy typewriter text effect in Kdenlive! Perfect for YouTube intros, tutorials, or any video that needs animated text. Follow the step-by-step guide for beginners and animate your text with ease
Sun, 08/31/2025 - 22:20
“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.
Sun, 08/31/2025 - 22:20
we'd like to progress some more with the series because we got a little taste of it last summer and not even Microsoft staff denies that it'll happen again (people unable to boot into GNU/Linux).