Longtime Red Hat engineer Hans de Goede who worked on many Intel/AMD laptop enhancements over the years left Red Hat and ended up joining Qualcomm. Now it turns out one of his projects at Qualcomm is enhancing the Fedora Linux support for running nicely out-of-the-box on Snapdragon-powered Windows on ARM laptops...

The development team behind Scribus, an open-source and cross-platform desktop publishing app, released version 1.6.5 today as yet another minor update to the Scribus 1.6 stable series.

In this article, you will learn everything about the type command, including its different options (with practical examples).

Toradex has announced the Luna SL1680, a SBC that introduces the company’s new “Pro Consumer” product tier. Positioned between consumer development boards and fully industrial hardware, the platform targets applications such as smart kiosks, light industrial systems, and advanced maker projects. The Luna SL1680 is built around the Synaptics SL1680 system-on-chip, which integrates a quad-core […]

One of the lesser known Fedora spins under the "Fedora Labs" initiative is the Fedora Games Lab that showcases some open-source games and can serve as an easy demonstrator for Linux gaming. Looking forward to 2026 with Fedora 44, there is a proposal to revitalize Fedora Games Lab to become a better showcase for the modern potential of Linux gaming...

This data project details the shift to an In-Situ ELT workflow showcases a hybrid RStudio/Python environment essential for transforming today’s analysts into "Data Ops."

The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) developers now have a need to set a policy whether AI / Large Language Model (LLM) generated patches will be accepted for this open-source compiler stack...

The KDE community has just published KDE Gear 25.12, the newest quarterly update to its suite of applications. This refresh brings a mix of enhancements, bug fixes, performance refinements, and new features across many popular KDE apps, from Dolphin file manager and Konsole terminal to Krita and Spectacle.

Valve's Steam Deck with SteamOS features built-in crash data collection as well as for logging other system events worth having knowledge about like the split-lock detection and other events. This is all opt-in by users for data collection by Steam, but for those curious about a bit more insight into this Steam Deck data collection, a presentation at this past week's Linux Plumbers Conference dove into the matter...

SparkyLinux 2025.12 (codename Tiamat) has been released today as another snapshot in the semi-rolling series of this Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution leveraging the Debian Testing repositories.

Fresh is a newly released open-source terminal text editor combining modern UI elements, mouse support, plugins, and strong performance.

At Paris’s Open Source Experience conference, six Acteurs du Libre awards mapped out a snapshot of Europe’s free software ecosystem in 2025, from enterprise strategy to privacy-first Android and public-sector platforms.

The 270th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on December 14th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

As the Linux 6.19 merge window winded down this weekend, I began running this development kernel on more systems. While there are some scheduler regressions currently with Linux 6.19 Git, for HPC workloads especially I am seeing some encouraging results using a flagship AMD EPYC 9965 2P server configuration.

Linus Torvalds announced today the general availability for public testing of the first Release Candidate (RC) development milestone of the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel series.

Waydroid looks blurry or pixelated when opening Android apps on Linux? This post explains the possible causes and a simple fix to restore a sharp display

Mixxx 2.5.4 was released today as the latest stable version of this open-source DJ software, which enables you to create and perform creative live mixes with digital music files.

The CentOS kernel modules "Kmods" special interest group (SIG) is now providing NVIDIA Linux Open GPU Kernel Modules for users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its downstreams as well as for CentOS Stream...

Pangolin 1.13, an open-source, zero-trust VPN, introduces Private Resources, user devices, and a new WireGuard-based networking model.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS launches with COSMIC 1.0, Kali Linux 2025.4, Manjaro 25.1 Preview, Cinnamon 6.6, Plasma 6.5.4, Firefox 146, GNOME to reject AI-generated Shell extensions, and more.

Diptyx launches on Crowd Supply as an open-source, repairable, dual-screen e-reader with e-ink displays, physical buttons, and weeks of battery life.

Rust Coreutils 0.5 is now available as the latest milestone for this Rust-based alternative to GNU Coreutils. Rust Coreutils 0.5 continues moving closer to "full GNU compatibility" with nearly a 90% pass rate on the GNU test suite...

Several times schema proposed in https://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/358937/index.html has been run with no issues on bare metal . Re-sync provided by function u() embedded in /.bashrc was tested successfully on bare metal multiple times

The Linux 6.19-rc1 kernel is out to cap off the Linux 6.19 merge window. The kernel release is coming the better part of a day earlier due to Linus Torvalds being in Japan for this past week's Linux Plumbers Conference and Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit...

FORECR has introduced the DSBOX-THRMAX, an industrial box PC based on NVIDIA’s Jetson Thor (T5000) module, targeting robotics, autonomous machines, and edge deployments that require high compute density, real-time processing, and multi-sensor support. The platform is based on the NVIDIA Jetson T5000 module, which is specified to deliver up to 2070 TFLOPS of AI performance […]

The past few years Oracle has been working on bpftune as a solution for BPF-based, automatic tuning of Linux systems. Bpftune has been available via Oracle Linux and GitHub while finally their open-source GitHub code has seen the first new tagged release in a while...

The HealthyPi 6 is an open-source biosignal acquisition platform available through Crowd Supply, targeting academic research, education, and digital health prototyping. The system supports standalone acquisition and visualization of physiological data without relying on a PC or cloud service. The platform is built around a tri-core processing architecture. The main controller is STMicroelectronics’ STM32H757, combining […]

For those with fond memories of the original Puppy Linux as a lightweight Linux distribution that used to run well back in the day on systems with less than 1GB of RAM, TrixiePup64 is out with a new release of this Puppy Linux based distribution with Debian GNU/Linux components. The new TrixiePup64 11.2 release is based on the latest Debian Trixie sources while continuing to offer separate builds for either X11 or Wayland usage...

GNOME is tightening its extension review process after a surge in AI-generated submissions filled with unnecessary code and bad practices.

LILYGO has introduced the T-Display P4, a handheld development board built around Espressif’s ESP32-P4 application processor and a companion ESP32-C6 for wireless connectivity. The platform targets portable HMIs, sensor-equipped field devices, and edge systems that require a display, camera support, and multiple radios in a compact enclosure. Measuring about 63 × 109 × 22 mm, […]