Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” is now in public beta, offering users an early look at new features and improvements before the final release.

After three years since the launch of the original VisionFive 2, StarFive has introduced another device, the VisionFive 2 Lite. The company has launched a campaign on Kickstarter for this cost-effective RISC-V single board computer, aimed at applications in education, AIoT, smart home, and IIoT. According to the product page, the VisionFive 2 Lite is […]

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Debian 13, Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, Proxmox VE 9.0, Plasma 6.4.4, openSUSE turns 20, big changes ahead for MX 25, and more.

The upcoming FFmpeg 8.0 release continues to increase in excitement with this weekend Vulkan hardware acceleration for Apple's ProRes RAW codec being merged...

LILYGO launched the T-Embed CC1101, built around the ESP32-S3 Dual-core LX7. It supports Wi-Fi, BLE 5, and Sub-GHz wireless communication, targeting remote and low-power IoT projects. The ESP32-S3 microcontroller is paired with 16MB of Flash memory and 8MB of PSRAM. The CC1101 chip operates across frequency bands of 300-348 MHz, 387-464 MHz, and 779-928 MHz, […]

Debian 13.0 released yesterday while already Debian developers are beginning to think about Debian 14 as the next major release due out in 2027. Debian 14 is codenamed Forky and among the changes expected is LoongArch64 "Loong64" CPU port support being improved...

Paper 7 is a 7-inch open-source e-paper frame with a Spectra 6 color display, Wi-Fi 6, months-long battery life, and full firmware customization.

The 252nd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on August 10th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Ahead of the Linux 6.17-rc1 release due out in the coming hours, the Turbostat updates for that tool living within the kernel source tree were merged...

Amarok 3.3.1 has been released as the first maintenance update to the Amarok 3.3 series of this open-source, cross-platform, and free feature-rich music player software written in Qt.

Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.17-rc1 kernel a few hours ahead of his typical release regiment due to currently being in Europe. That marks the end of the Linux 6.17 merge window with many exciting changes merged this cycle. This is notable with Linux 6.17 expected to power Ubuntu 25.10 and other late 2025 Linux distribution releases...

Today, Linus Torvalds announced the general availability of the first Release Candidate development milestone of the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel series for public testing.

Decision to use MXFP4 makes models smaller, faster, and more importantly, cheaper for everyone involvedAnalysis Whether or not OpenAI's new open weights models are any good is still up for debate, but their use of a relatively new data type called MXFP4 is arguably more important, especially if it catches on among OpenAI's rivals.…

Debian 13 “Trixie” is here with RISC-V support, Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, new security hardening, HTTP Boot, updated desktop environments, and over 14K new packages.

After 34 years of beeps, boops, and busy signals, AOL is finally hanging up on dial-up. One last ‘you’ve got mail’ before an internet era fades into history.

The final goal of setup below is to configure Pycharm 2025.2 in the way which would allow start PyCharm in Hyprland with ML4W Dotfiles 2.9.9 via Rofi as second DE on the instance openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE Plasma 6.4.4. We start with downloading the most recent tar ball and extracting it at a time . . .

With the arrival of GNOME 48, the desktop experience steps into a refreshing new era, blending clarity, visual richness, and adaptability. This release unfolds a more intuitive configuration interface, native HDR capability, and finer-grained display scaling. Whether you’re streaming, tweaking your workspace, or simply glancing over your notifications, GNOME 48 brings you improvements that feel both modern and meaningful, crafted to feel like they were made for real people doing real tasks.

HandBrake 1.10 was released today as a major update to this free and open-source video transcoder application for converting between a multitude of video file formats.

Linus Torvalds has used his authority to reject the RISC-V architecture changes for the Linux 6.17 kernel. The RISC-V updates won't land this cycle and will need to try again for v6.18 later in the year. Linus refers to at least some of the proposed RISC-V code as garbage along with being submitted rather late during the merge window...

PeaZip 10.6 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and cross-platform file and archive manager, a release that introduces new features and various enhancements.