Today is August 25th, which marks 34 years since Linux was first announced. Grab a glass of your favorite beverage and join me in celebrating the 34th birthday of Linux!

Catch up on the latest Linux news: CachyOS, LibreOffice 25.8, Firefox 142, PowerDNS 5.0, FFmpeg 8.0, Arch confirms ongoing DoS attack, Plasma 6.5 brings initial system setup, and more.

Arch Linux-based CachyOS distribution has a new ISO snapshot for August 2025 that brings the latest package updates from the Arch Linux repositories, as well as various other improvements.

DietPi 9.16 improves SBC support, adds Debian 13 Trixie and Forky testing compatibility, introduces faster updates, and fixes Raspberry Pi issues.

Tutorial How To hide GRUB on Endeavour OS or Arch Linux Based Distro

KDE Plasma 6.5 adds Initial System Setup for fresh installs and OEM devices, plus performance gains, UI polish, and bug fixes.

Kickstarter is currently featuring the Xerxes Pi, a compact compute module carrier developed by Rapid Analysis in Australia. Designed for home lab and small business rack environments, the project aims to provide an affordable, well-documented platform for clustered computing, container hosting, and open source server workloads. Measuring 120 × 40 mm, one third the size […]

Calibre 8.9 e-book manager introduces color-coded annotations, improved book matching, drag-and-drop merge covers, and more.

The FET3506J-C is a compact embedded module from Forlinx based on the Rockchip RK3506J. It is designed for long-term industrial use in automation, transportation, energy, and communication systems. The module runs Linux 6.1 and supports low power operation, a small footprint, and extended temperature ranges. Unlike the earlier FET3506J-S, which uses castellated edge pins and […]

The open-source upstream driver support for the Qualcomm Adreno X1-45 that is used by the Snapdragon X1 Plus 8-core SoC appears ready for the mainline kernel and could be all aligned for the upcoming Linux v6.18 kernel cycle...

The 254th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on August 24th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 5.0 adds BIND-style views, better API features, Lua upgrades, webserver Unix socket support, and more.

Linux 6.17 is one step closer to release with Linus Torvalds having issued Linux 6.17-rc3 already today to currently traveling in Europe...

Not all open source is created equal, argues open source advocate, Nextcloud co-founder, and FOSS Force guest writer Jos Poortvliet.

Yes, I'm talking about macOS.

Museum boffins find code that crashes in 2037A stark warning about the upcoming Epochalypse, also known as the "Year 2038 problem," has come from the past, as National Museum Of Computing system restorers have discovered an unsetting issue while working on ancient systems.…

Glycin 2.0 Beta 3 was released this week for the GNOME project providing a Rust-based library for decoding, editing, and creating images and associated metadata. Glycin is in turn used by a growing number of GNOME components for imaging needs...

MNT Research has launched the RCORE V2 on Crowd Supply, its most powerful processor module upgrade for the open hardware MNT Reform and Pocket Reform laptops. Based on the Rockchip RK3588 SoC, the module boosts CPU, GPU, and RAM performance over earlier options and simplifies installation by removing the need for an internal HDMI adapter […]

Apache NetBeans 27 cross-platform IDE improves JDK 25 compatibility, adds Gradle 9 fixes, Maven 3.9.11 updates, and more.

Nearly a decade after the Tegra X2 SoC shipped in the likes of the Jetson TX2, the Pascal-based GP10B GPU has received a patch for allowing GPU re-clocking within the open-source Nouveau driver...