Catch up on the latest Linux news: Firefox 141, Shotcut 25.07, OPNsense 25.7, Insights into Arch users’ preferences, Debian 13 to ship with Plasma 6.3.6, and more.

A few days back I wrote about Canonical releasing new Ubuntu 25.04 "Concept" ISOs for the Snapdragon X laptops with the new install images being re-based to the Linux 6.16 kernel and expanding the device support. But as I found out from my own testing, depending upon the laptop the support was still less than ideal. Since then there have been two more ISO releases and addressing one of my show-stopping problems albeit encountering another...

Shotcut 25.07 is out today as the newest feature release for this prominent open-source and cross-platform video editing solution...

Shotcut 25.07 was released today as the latest stable version of this open-source, cross-platform, and free video editing software for Linux, macOS, and Windows systems written in Qt and MLT.

In advance of the Linux 6.17 merge window expected to open soon following the Linux 6.16 release, all of the SoC updates have been submitted to Linus Torvalds for this next kernel version...

Need Google Chrome on your Enterprise Linux system? Here’s how to install it on Rocky Linux 10.

GNU Binutils 2.45 was released on Sunday morning as the newest version of this set of open-source binary tools...

Shotcut 25.07 video editor adds a new Speech to Text model downloader, brings new System and System Fusion UI themes, and more.

This post is an immediate follow up for "Attempt to workaround currently pending bug with Dotfiles Installer on openSUSE Tumbleweed" https://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/355903/index.html due to updates in openSUSE Tumbleweed packages dependencies which allow to avoid hacks during installation of Hypland with ML4W Dotfiles 2.9.9 on mentioned above popular Linux flavor . You may proceed as follows . . .

While there have been various elements of the Apple M1 and M2 SoC support in the mainline Linux kernel along with support for various Macs, different features have been missing from the upstream kernel such as the Apple GPU kernel graphics driver as one big example. On a more fundamental level, the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel is going to cross off another low-level expectation for Apple Silicon Macs on the mainline kernel: the ability to reboot the system...

Oops! Yet another year that we forgot to write a SysAdmin Day article. Considering that we’ve been around for 15 years, that makes us 0 for 15.

This past week Qualcomm sent out a set of 17 patches for the MSM DRM kernel graphics driver for enabling support for the Inter Frame Power Collapse (IFPC) feature with the X1-85 GPU found in the current Snapdragon X laptops...

The Radxa AICore AX-M1 is an M.2 M Key AI acceleration module designed for edge computing systems that require high-throughput neural processing. Built around the Axera AX8850 system-on-chip, the module combines an octa-core Cortex-A55 processor with a 24?TOPS INT8-capable NPU and an 8K-capable video processing unit, delivering AI processing capabilities in a compact footprint. According […]

Given that non-UEFI BIOS systems are quite old at this point and Intel/AMD systems for the past number of years have all supported UEFI, another change proposal being considered this week by Fedoa Linux is limiting the release-blocking status of various (non-UEFI) BIOS systems...

MSI has introduced the MS-C926, an ultra-slim, fanless embedded box PC based on the Intel Alder Lake-N and Twin Lake platforms. Designed for digital signage, industrial control, and space-constrained edge computing environments, the system measures just 19?mm in thickness and features a completely cableless internal layout to enhance durability and thermal reliability. The MS-C926 supports […]

Assuming no objections are raised by Linus Torvalds, an early pull request has been submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window to address an obscure kernel limitation that has been in place going back all the way to 1993 during the Linux v0.99 kernel days...

One of the nice Linux kernel accomplishments during the pandemic was getting the NTFS3 driver upstreamed for that modern NTFS file-system read/write driver developed by Paragon Software. In recent times that NTFS3 driver has been seeing occasional fixes and for the Linux 6.17 kernel -- and perhaps then back-ported to existing kernels -- are some notable fixes for those relying on drives formatted with this Microsoft file-system...

Plasma 6.3.6 has landed in Debian 13 just a day before the full freeze, giving users the most recent KDE desktop environment from the 6.3 series.

Nextcloud is free and open-source software written in PHP that is used for creating its own cloud storage and file-sharing services. The files are stored in MySQL, MariaDB, or PostgreSQL database management systems and can be synchronized across multiple devices, which makes the process of accessing the files easier.

We are just a few weeks out from seeing the release of the FFmpeg 8.0 multimedia library with many new features and improvements for this widely-used open-source software...