New story! NordVPN open sources its Linux GUI client under GPLv3

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Oct 17, 2025 6:08 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Joins its command-line client from a couple of years ago NordVPN has open sourced another of its Linux VPN client apps under the GPLv3. This time, it's the graphical user interface (GUI) version.…

New story! Upbeat and SiFive Launch Ultra-Low Power RISC-V MCU with AI Acceleration

  • LinuxGizmos.com (Posted by bob on Oct 17, 2025 4:36 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Upbeat Technology has announced the UP201 and UP301 family of RISC-V microcontrollers developed in collaboration with SiFive. The devices are intended for applications such as always-on IoT, wearables, drones, and sensor-based systems. The UP201 and UP301 integrate two SiFive Essential IP cores and two neural accelerators designed by Upbeat Technology. They implement Upbeat’s Error Detection […]

New story! Windows 11 update breaks localhost, prompting mass uninstall workaround

Microsoft's quality control department caught napping again Microsoft's October Windows 11 update has managed the impressive feat of breaking localhost, leaving developers unable to access web applications running on their own machines.…

New story! ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.1 Introduces Powerful PDF Redaction, New Annotations

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Oct 17, 2025 1:33 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.1 delivers 4× faster spreadsheet formulas and advanced tools for PDF redaction and editing.

New story! LMDE 7 LV Setup per Daniel Wayne Armstrong (VENV)

Setup below in general follows guide lines proposed in https://www.dwarmstrong.org/install-lmde-with-custom-lvm-luk... However, we intend to remove swap LV and increase sizes of root and home LVs . Then reboot system and activate zram instead of keeping unreasonably large LV swap on /dev/vda .

New story! What a World Would Look Like If Everyone Used Free Software Only

  • Techrights; By Roy Schestowitz (Posted by schestowitz on Oct 17, 2025 10:30 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Community
In such a world privacy abuses would be a lot rarer. Because if someone added some "telemetry" to the program, then someone else would remove that from the program, then redistribute the same. Guess which one users would rather download...

New story! Linux Mint 22.2 Zara Released: Polished, Modern, and Built for Longevity

The Linux Mint team has officially unveiled Linux Mint 22.2, codenamed “Zara”, on September 4, 2025. As a Long-Term Support (LTS) release, Zara will receive updates through 2029, promising users stability, incremental improvements, and a comfortable desktop experience.

New story! Meta Uncovers RDSEED Architectural Issue In AMD Zen 5 CPUs

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Oct 17, 2025 7:43 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Over the years we have seen various workarounds like disabling RDSEED for select AMD CPUs due to hardware bugs and early on in the Zen days were also some RdRand issues due to different problems. It turns out the newest AMD EPYC 5th Gen "Turin" processors have a new RDSEED issue...

New story! Forlinx OK153-S SBC Combines Cortex-A7 and RISC-V Cores for Real-Time I/O Interfaces

The OK153-S SBC from Forlinx Embedded is a compact industrial platform based on the Allwinner T153 processor. It supports Linux 5.10 and offers up to 1 GB of DDR3 RAM and 8 GB of eMMC storage. Key interfaces include triple Gigabit Ethernet, dual CAN-FD, and a Local Bus for PSRAM or FPGA expansion. The Allwinner […]

New story! Valve Developer Contributes Major Improvement To RADV Vulkan For Llama.cpp AI

Valve's Linux graphics driver team contributions aren't limited to just enhancing the rasterization and ray-tracing graphics performance of the open-source Linux GPU drivers for gaming. Beyond other interesting contributions from that talented group of open-source Linux graphics developers over the years and for other areas like enhancing old GPU hardware support, merged this week for the Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver is a massive improvement to benefit the Llama.cpp AI performance...

New story! How to Install Handbrake on Ubuntu and Other Linux Distros

Discover a step-by-step guide to install the latest version of Handbrake on Ubuntu and other Linux distros with practical examples.

New story! ollama Rolls Out Experimental Vulkan Support For Expanded AMD & Intel GPU Coverage

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Oct 17, 2025 2:40 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Intel; Story Type: News Story
The ollama 0.12.6-rc0 software released this evening and with it comes experimental Vulkan API support...

New story! Mobian Trixie Officially Released with Broader Device Support

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Oct 17, 2025 1:24 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Debian
The Mobian team releases Trixie, a Debian-based mobile OS update featuring PipeWire, Linux kernel 6.12, and new signing keys.

New story! Raspberry Pi OS, LMDE, Peppermint OS join the Debian 13 club

Downstream Linux projects line up behind the latest release A month after Debian 13.1's release, some of the more visible downstream forks, including Raspberry Pi OS, have decided it's time to incorporate the latest version of the main OS into their builds.…

New story! Deployment Fedora 43 Cosmic Spin as KVM Guest per Google's Dive deeper in AI Mode guide lines

Tuning Virt-manager you are supposed enable 3D-acceleration and OpenGL to avoid crashing instance setup and successfully install Fedora 43 Cosmic Spin in VENV. The interesting thing is that F43 Cosmic Spin behaves the same way on bare metal and as KVM Guest. No issues for switching between different folders contain wallpapers for Cosmic DE happens in VENV.

New story! An Early Look At Linux 6.18 Performance With Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids

With Linux 6.18 now past the merge window and many new features and changes introduced (https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-618-features), I have begun testing out this kernel on various servers, desktops, and laptops at Phoronix. Linux 6.18 is quite important with expected to become this year's LTS kernel version upon its stable debut in December. Up today is a first look at Linux 6.17 vs. 6.18-rc1 performance using Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids server performance.

New story! 18 zettaFLOPS of new AI compute coming online from Oracle late next year

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Oct 16, 2025 12:07 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Oracle; Story Type: News Story
New clusters to feature 800,000 Nvidia Blackwell and 50,000 AMD Instinct MI450X GPUs Oracle on Tuesday revealed it would field more than 18 zettaFLOPS worth of AI infrastructure from Nvidia and AMD by the second half of next year.…

New story! Basic HDR Support For AMD Radeon Accelerated Video Processing On Linux

David Rosca at AMD continues leading the efforts for improving the open-source Radeon video acceleration support under Linux with the Mesa Gallium3D code. This is especially important now that AMD is encouraging customers to no longer use the AMD Multimedia Framework (AMF) on Linux but resort to using VA-API and the Mesa multimedia capabilities instead...

New story! TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 15 (Intel) Linux Laptop Debuts with Core Ultra 7

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Oct 15, 2025 9:04 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The new TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 15 (Intel) Linux laptop pairs Core Ultra 7 power with a 99 Wh battery and full Linux support.

New story! TUXEDO Computers Unveil Intel-Powered InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 Linux Laptop

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Oct 15, 2025 7:33 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers unveiled today the Intel variant of their InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 premium business Linux ultrabook.

New story! How to Convert an IMG File to ISO File in Linux

  • Make Tech Easier; By Haroon Javed (Posted by damien on Oct 15, 2025 6:01 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
If you come across the IMG file format in Linux, don't panic. Here is how you can easily convert an IMG file to ISO format in Linux.

New story! FSF Gives More Details About Its New Librephone Project

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Oct 15, 2025 4:30 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The Free Software Foundation reveals its technical plans for Librephone, focusing on free firmware and open hardware research.

New story! Intel Announces "Crescent Island" Inference-Optimized Xe3P Graphics Card With 160GB vRAM

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Oct 15, 2025 2:58 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Intel; Story Type: News Story
Back during the Intel Tech Tour in Arizona, Intel teased a new inference-optimized enterprise GPU would be announced soon. This new product would feature enhanced memory, bandwidth, and enterprise-level AI inference capabilities. Today the embargo expires on talking about this new GPU offering.

New story! Tails 7.1 Anonymous Linux OS Released with Tor Browser 14.5.8 and Tor 0.4.8.19

Tails 7.1 has been released today as the first minor update in the Tails 7.x series of this portable Linux OS based on the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that protects users against surveillance and censorship.

New story! How To Fix Spotify Cache Bloat Using Tmpfs (RAM) On Debian And Ubuntu Linux

Spotify taking too much disk space? Here's how to fix Spotify cache bloat using tmpfs (RAM) on Debian and Ubuntu Linux.

New story! Schleswig-Holstein waves auf Wiedersehen to Microsoft stack

Germany's northernmost state bins Outlook – and tens of thousands of Redmond licenses Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost state of Germany, has finally concluded one element of a long-running project to eject Microsoft from its infrastructure by giving Exchange Server the boot.…

New story! Path Cleared For Nix Package Manager On Fedora With /nix Approved

There's been work to get the Nix functional package manager available on Fedora Linux for those wanting to leverage its available packages or features like supporting side-by-side packages of different versions, atomic upgrades/rollbacks, non-root user for installing software, and other features. One of the hurdles though is that the Nix package manager relies by default on the /nix directory, which goes against Fedora's default directory requirements. Now though the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has granted permission for using the /nix directory hierarchy...

New story! Zorin OS 18 Officially Released, Specifically Tailored for Windows 10 Expats

The Zorin OS team announced the general availability of the Zorin OS 18 release, a major update to this Ubuntu-based distribution for Linux newcomers, specifically tailored for Windows 10 expats.

New story! Firefox 145 Beta Released With 32-bit Linux Support Dropped

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Oct 15, 2025 5:49 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Firefox 144.0 is now available but it's not a particularly exciting browser release. But with Firefox 144 stable now comes Firefox 145 beta and that is a bit more noteworthy as it ditches 32-bit Linux support...

New story! Docker vs. Virtual Machine: Which One You Should Use

Docker runs apps in fast containers while virtual machine provide complete OS isolation. Learn which solution suits your project best.

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