New story! Customizing KDE Plasma 6 on EndeavourOS for Beginners

This video explain the steps for customizing themes for beginners who use KDE Plasma, although in the video I use Endeavour OS, but for KDE Plasma users, you can also try it on other distros if you use the same desktop environment.

New story! Debian 13.0 "Trixie" Planning For Release On August 9

The Debian release team today shared their final release plans for Debian 13 "Trixie" that aims to be out as stable in less than one month's time...

New story! Garuda Linux Retires MHWD and Settings Manager

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jul 19, 2025 3:49 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
The new Garuda Linux update replaces outdated video driver metapackages with modern hardware profiles.

New story! Customizing KDE Plasma 6 Simple Light Grey

This video contains content about KDE plasma theme customization, I use Endeavous OS

New story! AUR Malware Packages Exploit: Critical Security Flaws Exposed

  • linuxconfig.org; By Lucas Rees (Posted by linuxer on Jul 19, 2025 12:46 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Security; Groups: Arch
Three malicious packages uploaded to the Arch User Repository (AUR) in July 2025 successfully distributed the CHAOS remote access trojan to Linux systems before being detected and removed. The incident involving AUR malware packages highlights critical security vulnerabilities in community-maintained software repositories and underscores the importance of package verification practices for Arch Linux users.

New story! Open-Source & Rust-Written Burn MATMUL Kernels Can Compete With NVIDIA's CUDA/cuBLAS

The open-source and Rust-based Burn deep learning framework developed by Tracel AI shared that their open-source matrix multiplication kernel performance can compete with and even outperform the NVIDIA CUDA cuBLAS performance. Plus Burn isn't limited to just NVIDIA GPUs but can work on most hardware/drivers, including a Vulkan back-end...

New story! How to Configure SSH Client: Step-by-Step Tutorial

  • linuxconfig.org; By Lucas Rees (Posted by linuxer on Jul 19, 2025 9:43 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
Creating an SSH client configuration file allows you to streamline remote server connections by defining connection parameters, authentication methods, and host-specific settings. Instead of typing lengthy SSH commands with multiple options each time you connect, you can store these settings in a configuration file for automatic use.

New story! Calibre 8.7 Adds Support for Generating Page Number Files on MTP-Based Kindles

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jul 19, 2025 6:25 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Calibre 8.7 was released today by developer Kovid Goyal as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and cross-platform e-book manager software for managing your e-book collection.

New story! Open, free, and completely ignored: The strange afterlife of Symbian

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Jul 19, 2025 4:54 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
It did get sourced, but nobody cared The result of the pioneering joint Psion and Nokia smartphone effort is still out there on GitHub.…

New story! Intel Announces It's Shutting Down Clear Linux

The most depressing news of the week: Intel is ending their performance-optimized Clear Linux distribution. Over the past decade the Clear Linux operating system has shown what's possible with out-of-the-box performance on x86_64 hardware... Not just for Intel platforms but even showing extremely great performance results on AMD x86_64 too. But with the cost-cutting going on at Intel, Clear Linux is now being sunset...

New story! Luckfox Lyra Pi with Core3506 SoC Provides Optional 4G and PoE in a Raspberry Pi-Sized Form Factor

Luckfox has introduced the Lyra Pi, a compact single-board computer with a Raspberry Pi-like form factor, built around the Core3506 module and a triple-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor. It targets embedded and IoT applications, offering dual Ethernet, USB OTG, MIPI DSI, flexible Rockchip Matrix IO, and optional Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, and 4G LTE. The Core3506 […]

New story! Meta declines to abide by voluntary EU AI safety guidelines

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Jul 19, 2025 12:19 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
GPAI code asks for transparency, copyright, and safety pledges Two weeks before the EU AI Act takes effect, the European Commission issued voluntary guidelines for providers of general-purpose AI models. However, Meta refused to sign, arguing that the extra measures introduce "legal uncertainties" beyond the law's scope.…

New story! Servo Web Engine Further Tuning Performance, Screen Reader & Other New Features

The Servo open-source web layout engine continues advancing with its demo Servoshell and continued work around making it suitable for embedding into other software. The Servo project this morning published their latest monthly status update to inform the community what they have been up to the past several weeks...

New story! Calibre 8.7 Adds Page Number Support for Newer Kindles

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jul 18, 2025 9:16 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Calibre 8.7 e-book manager adds APNX file support for newer Kindles and improves author matching, while fixing regressions with Kobo devices and book sending.

New story! Ubuntu 25.10 Raspberry Pi Images Will Be Much Leaner

The Ubuntu 25.10 images geared for the Raspberry Pi will be much more lean than current Ubuntu Linux releases for the Raspberry Pi thanks to changes merged this week...

New story! Backup tool Rescuezilla resurrects itself across six Ubuntus

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Jul 18, 2025 6:13 PM CST)
  • Groups: Ubuntu; Story Type: News Story
2.6.1 adds Plucky Puffin and Firefox actually works this time Rescuezilla 2.6.1 has introduced a new version based on the latest interim Ubuntu release, while also updating its existing builds on older versions.…

New story! Unplugged and Unstoppable: How Linux Transforms Laptop Power Management

In an era when remote work, video conferencing, and travel-heavy lifestyles are the norm, users expect laptops to last longer unplugged. Meanwhile, growing awareness of sustainability adds pressure to maximize energy efficiency. Recognizing this mantra, Linux developers have overhauled power-handling strategies, from the kernel core to user-space tools, to meet these expectations in 2025.

New story! Compact Maix4-HAT Delivers 18 TOPS INT8 On-Device Inference for Raspberry Pi SBC

Maix4-HAT is a compact AI inference module developed by Sipeed for edge-side deployment of large models. According to Sipeed, it is powered by AXera’s AX650 vision chip, integrating an NPU capable of up to 72 TOPS at INT4 or 18 TOPS at INT8 precision. The module is designed to handle vision, speech, and language tasks […]

New story! How Rust's Debut in the Linux Kernel is Shoring Up System Stability

When Rust first made its way into the Linux kernel in late 2022 (mainline inclusion began with version 6.1), it didn’t merely introduce a new programming language, it marked a profound shift in how we ensure operating system resilience. This article dives into why that matters, how it’s being implemented, and what it could mean for Linux’s long-term robustness.

New story! LLVM 21.1-rc1 Released For Testing: Better RISC-V Support, AMD GFX1250 & NVIDIA GB10

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jul 18, 2025 4:33 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
The first release candidate of LLVM 21.1 is now available for testing, which under their modern versioning scheme will represent the first stable version of the LLVM 21 compiler stack...

New story! LibreOffice 25.2.5 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 63 Bug Fixes

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jul 18, 2025 3:02 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 25.2.5 as the fifth maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 25.2 office suite series with more bug fixes.

New story! AMD Bringing SmartMux Support To Linux 6.17 For Better Hybrid GPU Laptop Support

For the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle AMD already queued fixes for GPU compute on some older AMD hardware, improved debugging support for AMDGPU, and other enhancements. Sent out today was a final batch of feature changes for AMDGPU/AMDKFD expected for the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window. Most notable is AMD SmartMux support coming to Linux...

New story! How to Install n8n on Ubuntu 24.04

  • Rose Hosting Blog; By rosehosting.com (Posted by RoseHosting on Jul 17, 2025 11:59 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
n8n enables you to automate actions for your business through integrations with applications and APIs. Using n8n’s website is possible; however, self-hosting n8n lets you own your data and run your own integrations through your server.

New story! New FFmpeg AVX-512 Optimizations Hit Up To 36x The Performance Of Plain C Code

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jul 17, 2025 10:27 PM CST)
  • Groups: Intel; Story Type: News Story
Some commits merged today to FFmpeg Git provide additional hand-tuned Assembly code for AVX-512 with capable Intel and AMD processors...

New story! Thai Flavors: Ultramarine 41 and 42 — Your Linux Menu Picks

When Ultramarine Linux 42 was released just as Larry Cafiero was wrapping up his evaluation of the previous version, he couldn’t resist taking a look to see if number 42 is indeed the answer to everything…

New story! How to Install ERPNext on AlmaLinux 10

  • Rose Hosting Blog; By rosehosting.com (Posted by RoseHosting on Jul 17, 2025 4:52 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
ERPNext is an open-source ERP solution designed to help businesses manage various operational aspects, such as finance, inventory, sales, purchasing, production, and human resource management. Unlike traditional ERP systems that are often expensive and rigid, ERPNext offers high flexibility at a more affordable cost, making it suitable for small to large businesses.

New story! Boffins detail new algorithms to losslessly boost AI perf by up to 2.8x

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Jul 17, 2025 3:21 PM CST)
  • Groups: Intel; Story Type: News Story
New spin on speculative decoding works with any model - now built into Transformers We all know that AI is expensive, but a new set of algorithms developed by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Intel Labs, and d-Matrix could significantly reduce the cost of serving up your favorite large language model (LLM) with just a few lines of code.…

New story! Linux 6.17 To Upstream Support For The Decade Old Marvell PXA1908 SoC

Launched back in 2014 was the Marvell PXA1908 SoC intended for 4G LTE smartphones and featured four Arm Cortex-A53 cores. Not too impressive for its time and far less so today. Though after a decade of not seeing mainline Linux kernel support and some vendor kernels stuck in the Linux 3.14 era, the upcoming Linux 6.17 cycle is expected to upstream support for this old smartphone SoC...

New story! LibreOffice 25.2.5 Rolls Out with Over 60 Bug Fixes

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jul 17, 2025 12:18 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
LibreOffice 25.2.5 rolls out with over 60 bug fixes, addressing crashes and compatibility issues across Writer, Calc, Impress, and Base.

New story! How to install RPM packages on Debian 13

  • Rose Hosting Blog; By rosehosting.com (Posted by RoseHosting on Jul 17, 2025 10:46 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
In this blog post, we will explain how to install RPM packages on the Debian 13 operating system. RPM stands for Red Hat Package Manager and is a free and open-source package management system for Linux distributions.

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