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.

New story! Zorin OS 18 Released with Refreshed UI and Smart Window Tiling

The new Zorin OS 18 builds on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with Linux kernel 6.14, bringing a cleaner UI, better performance, and modern desktop polish.

New story! Mozilla Thunderbird 144 Updates the Flatpak Runtime to Freedesktop SDK 24.08

The Mozilla Thunderbird 144 open-source email, news, chat, and calendar client has been released today as part of the Mozilla Firefox 144 web browser release, bringing various changes and plenty of bug fixes.

New story! Linux Mint LMDE 7 Officially Released - Based On Debian 13

Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 is officially out today as the latest version of this Linux Mint distribution based on upstream Debian rather than Ubuntu...

New story! GStreamer 1.26.7 Improves Support for the NVIDIA Jetson AV1 Encoder

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Oct 14, 2025 10:12 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
The GStreamer project released GStreamer 1.26.7 today as the seventh maintenance update to the latest GStreamer 1.26 series of this popular and powerful open-source, free, and cross-platform multimedia framework.

New story! FSF Announces The LibrePhone Project

The Free Software Foundation today announced the LibrePhone project with a goal of creating a fully free software OS for mobile devices and to reverse-engineer obstacles where necessary...

New story! AMD Dev Proposes Dynamic Mitigations For Linux: Run-Time Toggling Of CPU Mitigations

A big patch series was posted today for the Linux kernel that would allow enabling/disabling CPU security mitigations at run-time rather than the current handling that can only be managed at boot-time via various Linux kernel command-line arguments. Thus due to changing security needs, differing workloads mandating different CPU security concerns and the like, this proposed feature would allow Spectre, Meltdown, and other CPU security mitigations to all be toggled at run-time...

New story! How to Install CUDA on Ubuntu Linux

  • linuxconfig.org; By Luke Reynolds (Posted by linuxer on Oct 14, 2025 5:58 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
The Nvidia CUDA toolkit is an extension of the GPU parallel computing platform and programming model. The Nvidia CUDA installation consists of inclusion of the official Nvidia CUDA repository followed by the installation of relevant meta package and configuring path the the executable CUDA binaries. In this tutorial, you will see how to install CUDA on Ubuntu Linux. This will get your video graphics running with the latest drivers and software available.

New story! Dash to Panel v72 Update Resolves Fullscreen and Opacity Bugs

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Oct 14, 2025 4:27 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: GNOME
The Dash to Panel GNOME extension v72 fixes fullscreen, opacity, and gradient bugs on GNOME 49.

New story! Blender 5.0 Beta Officially Released with HDR and Wide Gamut Display Support

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Oct 14, 2025 2:55 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Blender 5.0 has entered public beta testing today for this free and open source 3D creation suite designed for modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, and video editing.

New story! Firefox 144 Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Oct 14, 2025 1:24 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Mozilla
Firefox 144 introduces AES-256 encryption for passwords, new web APIs, and smoother transitions with improved WebGPU performance.

New story! How to Install PyTorch with CUDA on Ubuntu

  • linuxconfig.org; By Lubos Rendek (Posted by linuxer on Oct 13, 2025 11:52 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
PyTorch is an open-source machine learning framework that enables developers to build and train neural networks for AI applications. When combined with NVIDIA CUDA, PyTorch can leverage GPU acceleration to perform computations up to and even over 100 times faster than CPU-only processing. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install PyTorch with CUDA support on Ubuntu Linux, enabling you to harness the full power of your NVIDIA GPU for machine learning and deep learning tasks.

New story! GNOME Flatpak Runtime Drops 32-Bit Compatibility Extension

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Oct 13, 2025 10:21 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: GNOME
GNOME Flatpak Runtime has dropped its 32-bit compatibility extension, focusing future builds entirely on 64-bit and ARM architectures.

New story! Nvidia's GB10 workstations arrive with 1 petaFLOPS of compute, 128GB of VRAM, and a $3K+ price tag

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Oct 13, 2025 8:49 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Systems from Nvidia, Dell, and others available starting Oct. 15 Nvidia's tiniest Grace-Blackwell workstation is finally making its way to store shelves this week, the better part of a year after the GPU giant first teased the AI mini PC, then called Project Digits, at CES.…

New story! FFmpeg: Powerful Multimedia Processing Tool (Installation + Usage)

Discover FFmpeg, the powerful multimedia processing tool, its installation steps, and various command-line examples of its usage.

New story! How to Upgrade LMDE 6 to LMDE 7

In this tutorial, I will show you how to upgrade your existing LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) 6 “Faye” installations to the latest LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) 7 “Gigi” release.

New story! ReactOS Making Progress On Windows WDDM Driver Support

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Oct 13, 2025 2:50 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The ReactOS project that continues striving toward being an "open-source Windows" ABI compatible operating system has been seeing some activity recently around supporting Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) display drivers as the newer evolution of XDDM drivers...

New story! Firefox 144 Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New

Mozilla has published today the final builds of the Firefox 144 open-source web browser ahead of its official unveiling on October 14th, 2025.

New story! UK waves 750M supercomputer contract at HPC builders

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Oct 13, 2025 11:47 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Pre-market charm offensive begins for Edinburgh's next national number-cruncher The British government is putting out feelers to industry ahead of the procurement process for the country's most powerful supercomputer, set to begin next year.…

New story! GNOME's Flatpak Runtime Drops 32-bit Compatibility Extension

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Oct 13, 2025 10:15 AM EDT)
  • Groups: GNOME; Story Type: News Story
With last month's GNOME 49 release, the 32-bit Compatibility extension for the GNOME Flatpak Runtime is no more. This is part of the broader effort of phasing out 32-bit support...

New story! Solus Begins a New Epoch with Polaris Repository and Python 2 Removal

Solus Linux enters the Polaris era, introducing a new stable repository and removing legacy Python 2 components.

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