The upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel (unless it ends up being called Linux 6.20) will drop support for the AMD NPU2 as their second-generation neural processing unit that never ended up being released into any retail products...

Wasn't 2025 the year it happened? Yes. No. Answers on a Christmas card Opinion I've run Linux desktops since the big interface question was whether to use Korn or Bash for your shell. Before that, I'd used Unix desktops such as Visix Looking Glass, Sun OpenWindows, and SCO's infamous Open Deathtrap Desktop.…

Auvidea has released the X242, a high-performance carrier board designed for NVIDIA Jetson T5000 (Jetson Thor) modules. The board targets edge systems that require high-bandwidth I/O, multi-display support, and upgrade paths from earlier Jetson AGX Xavier and Orin platforms. The X242 is designed as a scalable, industrial-grade carrier board intended for commercial deployment volumes. It […]

After being delayed by three months to allow additional time for new features to land, Weston 15.0 Alpha 1 is out today as a big feature release for this reference Wayland compositor...

They can probably squeeze about 400 people into this room if they try hard enough

NVIDIA engineer Igor Stoppa presented at the Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) earlier this month around using Linux in safety-critical environments like automobiles and the current shortcomings of the upstream Linux kernel and the challenges on achieving Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) certifications around the Linux kernel. It's an interesting read/watch around the safety of Linux (or not) for such strict safety environments...

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Mint 22.3 Beta, Systemd 259, mpv 0.41, OpenZFS 2.4, Debian gets its own PPA-like system, MIT and Apache 2.0 lead open source licensing in 2025, Mageia 10 enters alpha phase, and more.

The GNU Debugger "GDB" 17.1 is out today with a number of new features for enhancing the open-source debugging experience...

GnuCash 5.14 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and cross-platform double-entry accounting software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

MPV 0.41 is out today as the newest feature release for this MPlayer/mplayer2-derived open-source video player. With MPV 0.41 there is a big focus on improving Wayland support as well as now preferring Vulkan Video acceleration over alternative video decode APIs...

MPV 0.41 open-source media player makes GPU-Next the default renderer, delivering better color handling, Wayland improvements, and more.

The second weekly release candidate of Linux 6.19 is now available for testing in leading up to the stable release in early February...

The 271st installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on December 21st, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

The Linux Foundation reports over $310M in 2025 revenue, with $8.41M allocated to the Linux Kernel Project.

MPV 0.41 open-source and free media player that supports a wide range of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types. is now available for download with new features and improvements.

Darktable 5.4 has been released today as the latest version of this open-source, free, and cross-platform RAW image editor for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

Firefox’s market share has cratered while Mozilla’s dependence on Google and executive pay have soared. We look at what John Solomon is really walking into.

The ICORE-3576Q38 is a compact 38 mm × 38 mm system-on-module developed by T-Firefly and built around the Rockchip RK3576 application processor. The module targets embedded and industrial designs that require multi-core processing, local AI acceleration, and broad multimedia and I/O support within a small footprint. The ICORE-3576Q38 family is available in three variants. The […]

Chimera Linux has published new December 2025 images based on kernel 6.18, delivering updated desktops and refreshed system components.

Ventoy 1.1.10 open-source bootable USB solution has been released today as a maintenance and feature update that supports new distro releases and improves support for existing distributions.

The beta release of Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" is now available for testing ahead of the holidays for this latest incremental update to this desktop OS built atop an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base...

The Steam client is now 64-bit on Windows 10 and 11, while 32-bit Windows systems will continue receiving updates until 2026.

There are some nice KDE Plasma 6.6 improvements that were merged ahead of Christmas...

Immich 2.4, a self-hosted photo and video management platform, introduces a new command palette, refined UI animations, shared album improvements, and more.

With the Arch Linux packages for the NVIDIA official graphics driver moving to the now-stable NVIDIA 590 driver series that drops the GeForce GTX 900 and GTX 1000 series GPU support, Arch Linux users with those old Maxwell and Pascal graphics cards will need to transition to using the NVIDIA legacy driver packages from the Arch Linux AUR. Meanwhile for those on Turing and newer with the NVIDIA 590 driver will enjoy the open-source kernel modules by default being used...

According to the Open Source Initiative, MIT and Apache 2.0 remain the most widely used open source licenses in 2025.

A few weeks ago it was mentioned by a Canonical engineer how trying to use AI to modernize the Ubuntu Error Tracker yielded some code that was "plain wrong" and other issues raised by that Microsoft GitHub Copilot code. The same Ubuntu developer shifted to trying Gemini AI to generate a helper script to assist in Ubuntu's monthly ISO snapshot releases. Google's Gemini AI also generated some sloppy code for a Python script to assist in those Ubuntu releases...

In this article, you will learn how to use the who command to find all the logged-in user information (with practical examples).

In addition to the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver in Mesa merging compression support for big performance wins, another performance optimization was merged earlier in the week that stand to benefit GeForce RTX 20 "Turing" graphics processors...

Incus 6.20 delivers new clustering, storage, and VM enhancements, including reliable snapshots on clustered LVM and improved administration tools.