New story! Microsoft Rolls Out A Linux 6.12 LTS Option For Azure Linux

Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.20250910 as the newest version of this in-house Linux distribution used by Azure and other services. Azure Linux 3.0 has long been using the Linux 6.6 LTS kernel while now Linux 6.12 LTS is a new option focused on providing better hardware enablement support...

New story! Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 7 “Gigi” Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing

The long-anticipated LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) 7 (codename Gigi) operating system is now available for public beta testing, featuring the latest Cinnamon desktop environment and a Debian Trixie base.

New story! Linus Torvalds Tinkers with GuitarPedal

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Sep 17, 2025 12:17 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
The GuitarPedal repo is just an experiment, but because it comes from Linus Torvalds, it’s already creating buzz among open-source fans.

New story! Introducing complyctl for Effortless Compliance in Fedora

  • Fedora Magazine (Posted by bob on Sep 17, 2025 10:45 AM CST)
  • Groups: Fedora; Story Type: News Story
complyctl is a powerful command-line utility implementing the principles of “ComplianceAsCode” (CaC) with high scalability and adaptability for security compliance. In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, maintaining a robust security posture isn’t just a best practice – it is a necessity. For Fedora users, system administrators, and developers, ensuring that your systems meet various security […]

New story! Setup Hyprland with ML4W Dotfiles DEV 2.9.9.3 via Dotfiles Installer on Fedora 43 Beta as second DE

Following below is an attempt to setup Hyprland with ML4W Dotfiles 2.9.9.3 (Stephan Raabe) on Fedora 43 Beta . Several Copr repositories , which may be easily detected via command `dnf5 repolist` , will be automatically activated.First step would be add the repository using using remote-add and installing com.ml4w.dotfilesinstaller . . .

New story! How To Upgrade To Fedora 43 From Fedora 42 Step-by-Step Guide

Fedora 43 Beta is out. You can now upgrade to Fedora 43 from Fedora 42!

New story! AMD Begins Plumbing APCI C4 Support In The Linux Kernel For Greater Power Savings

AMD engineers have begun ironing out ACPI C4 support for the Linux kernel in order to provide greater power savings on newer AMD Ryzen platforms that have begun to support this deeper sleep state...

New story! Key KDE developer Jonathan Riddell quits

Former head of Kubuntu and neon says adiós after 25 years Sad news for KDE: one of the core people guiding the project for the whole century so far has left the building.…

New story! Godot 4.5 Open-Source Game Engine Released With A Multitude Of Improvements

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Sep 17, 2025 3:08 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Godot 4.5 is out today as the latest update to this leading open-source and cross platform game engine...

New story! Easy Guide to Hide Applications in KDE Plasma Menu

Quick guide to hide applications, plugins, and other items that shouldn’t appear in the KDE Plasma menu.

New story! Tyr Driver Being Submitted For Linux 6.18 As Rust-Based Arm Mali Driver

The big set of Rust DRM kernel graphics/display driver updates were sent out to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel. Most notable with this pull request is merging the Tyr driver, the new open-source and Rust-based DRM driver for Arm Mali GPUs...

New story! The Ultimate Guide to Linux Default Package Managers

Confused by APT, DNF, PACMAN, or Zypper? This guide explains the default package managers of various Linux distributions.

New story! AMD ROCm 7.0 Officially Released With Many Significant Improvements

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Sep 16, 2025 9:02 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Overnight the AMD ROCm 7.0 release tags began appearing within the public Git repositories. Now AMD ROCm 7.0 is officially released as a very significant step forward for AMD's open-source GPU compute stack for better competing against NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem...

New story! 3.5 inch SBC with MediaTek Genio 700/510 for Low-Power AIoT Edge Applications

IBASE Technology has introduced the IBR500, a 3.5-inch single board computer built around MediaTek Genio processors. The compact design is aimed at embedded and edge applications that prioritize low power consumption and efficient use of space. The board integrates the MediaTek Genio 700 (MT8390) at up to 2.2 GHz or the Genio 510 (MT8370) at […]

New story! Intel Xeon 6980P "Granite Rapids" Linux Performance One Year Later

Next week marks one year since the launch of the Xeon 6900P series Granite Rapids server processors. Given the occasion and a new server in the lab, here is a look at how Intel's Granite Rapids top-end Xeon 6980P server processors are performing one year after the original introduction with a production-grade server platform as well as incorporating all of the Linux software improvements over the past year.

New story! Google unveils master plan for letting AI shop on your behalf

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Sep 16, 2025 4:28 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Mastercard, American Express, Coinbase, and PayPal sign up at launch Google has given the go-ahead to a plan that lets AI agents make purchases on your behalf and, on Tuesday, released its Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) to make it happen. The system comes with touted safeguards that are intended to prevent thieves from draining bank accounts.…

New story! SparkyLinux 2025.09 “Tiamat” Released with Debian “Forky” Base

Sparky semi-rolling 2025.09 “Tiamat” is out with Linux kernel 6.16, GCC 15, Calamares 3.4, and Debian "Forky" testing base.

New story! Linux Mint picks up the pace with LMDE 7 and Wayland-ready Cinnamon

Devs sketch plans for two more releases this year, blending Debian foundations with modern display tech The Linux Mint team plans to speed up its release cycle and get two more versions out in the next few months.…

New story! Firefox 144 to Strengthen the Encryption of Logins in the Firefox Password Manager

With Firefox 143 hitting the stable channel today on all supported platforms, Mozilla promoted the next major release, Firefox 144, to the beta channel for public testing.

New story! Rust-style safety model for C++ 'rejected' as profiles take priority

Safe C++ proposal author claims that 'will not ever work' The C++ standards committee abandoned a detailed proposal to create a rigorously safe subset of the language, according to the proposal's co-author, despite continuing anxiety about memory safety.…

New story! Fedora Linux 43 Beta Released with Linux 6.17, GNOME 49, and KDE Plasma 6.4

The Fedora Project released today the beta version of the upcoming Fedora Linux 43 for public testing to give us a glimpse of the new features and report potential bugs.

New story! Announcing Fedora Linux 43 Beta

On Tuesday, 16 September 2025, it is our pleasure to announce the availability of Fedora Linux 43 beta! This release comes packed with the latest version upgrades of existing features, plus a few new ones too. As with every beta release, this is your opportunity to test out the upcoming Fedora Linux release and give […]

New story! Fedora Workstation 43 Beta Is Running Well On AMD Strix Halo / Framework Desktop

Fedora 43 Beta is releasing today as we work toward the official release in either late October or early November. I have been testing out the Fedora Workstation 43 Beta candidate to great success on the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" powered Framework Desktop. Here are some benchmarks of Fedora Workstation 42 compared to the Fedora Workstation 43 Beta.

New story! Open source Cloud Hypervisor adds (maybe futile) no-AI-code policy

Virtualization tool for hyperscalers now scales to 8,192 vCPUs The Cloud Hypervisor project has introduced a No AI code policy.…

New story! AOMedia To Release AV2 Video Codec At Year's End

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Sep 16, 2025 4:46 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
The Alliance for Open Media announced today that they will be launching the next-generation AV2 video codec at the end of 2025...

New story! A Modern Warp Terminal With AI Features on Linux (Install + Use)

Warp is a modern terminal with AI integration and a few additional features that directly set it apart from traditional terminals.

New story! Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Transition Has Uncovered Performance Shortcomings

Ubuntu 25.10's transition to using Rust Coreutils in place of GNU Coreutils has uncovered a few performance issues so far with the Rust version being slower than the C-based GNU Coreutils. Fortunately there still are a few weeks to go until Ubuntu 25.10 releases as stable and upstream developers are working to address these performance gaps...

New story! After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Sep 16, 2025 12:11 AM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Student thought she had the hang of this 'Linux' thing and its kooky CLI Who, Me? It's Monday morning, and a week of possibilities presents itself to IT pros everywhere. Which is why The Register brings you another edition of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which we remind you what not to do with your day, your week, and your career, by sharing stories of your worst workplace mistakes and the contortions you made to survive them.…

New story! Casilda 1.0 Released As Wayland Compositor Widget For GTK4

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Sep 15, 2025 10:40 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Casilda 1.0 is out today as the Wayland compositor widget for the GTK4 toolkit...

New story! Libxml2 Maintainer Steps Down

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Sep 15, 2025 9:08 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
The long-time maintainer of libxml2, Nick Wellnhofer, resigns, with only critical regression fixes planned through 2025.

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