Blender 5.0, a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software, is now available for download as a major update that introduces numerous new features and improvements.

At the start of the year developers behind the Budgie desktop environment hoped for shipping Budgie 10.10 in Q1-2025. We are now in Q4 without a stable release but at long last a preview version is at least available. Budgie 10.10 is the point at which Budgie is going all-in on Wayland in leaving behind the X11 desktop session support...

Life online seems to be returning to normal after a major outage centered on Cloudflare’s WARP service. Sporadic outages still possible for the next few hours.

The source is a built-in command-line tool that reads and executes the commands from the specified file as its argument in the current shell.

GIMP 3.2 RC1 introduces native SVG export and a redesigned rasterize workflow for text, vector, and link layers, giving a clear picture of what we can expect from the final stable 3.2 release.

Today, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation announced the release and general availability of AlmaLinux OS 9.7 (codename Moss Jungle Cat) as the latest stable version of this free Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) fork.

Marathon OS is a new, still-in-development mobile Linux system with a Qt6 Wayland compositor and a QML touch UI inspired by BlackBerry 10.

OpenVPN 2.6.16 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source VPN (Virtual Private Network) system for creating secure point-to-point or site-to-site connections in routed or bridged configurations.

Solseek 0.3.2 introduces full Flatpak support for this Solus Linux eopkg TUI, along with faster caching and update checks upon launch.

Weighing the tradeoffs between open source and freemium software reveals why free-as-in-freedom tools are almost always the better option.

Valve’s latest Steam client update adds expanded chat reporting tools, suspicious message alerts, and new controller support, including fixes for PS5, Xbox 360, and Nintendo devices.

Conclusive Engineering has introduced the KSTR-IMX93 on Kickstarter, a Linux-capable SBC integrating Wi-Fi 6, cellular IoT, Bluetooth LE 5.4, Zigbee, Thread, GNSS, Gigabit Ethernet, CAN-FD, and PoE in a compact 110 × 55 mm design. The platform is built around NXP’s i.MX93 application processor, equipped with two Arm Cortex-A55 cores running up to 1.7GHz and […]

Karol Herbst at Red Hat who has been a longtime open-source NVIDIA driver contributor as well as Rusticl developer presented at XDC2025 on the NVK Vulkan driver's cooperatrive matrix extension support. It turns out this Vulkan extension for machine learning / AI is proving fairly competitive with the open-source NVK driver compared to NVIDIA's official driver stack...

Today, Valve released Proton 10 as the latest stable release of this open-source compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components for playing Windows games on Linux systems.

The Wild linker is a very speedy linker written in the Rust programming language that has become quite competitive with the likes of Mold. A patch sent out this weekend adds Wild support for use with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)...

After many months of hard work, Uri Herrera announced today the general availability of Nitrux 5.0 as a major update to this immutable and systemd-free distribution.

LibrePods brings full AirPods support to Linux, including battery status, ANC modes, and gesture detection, all without relying on Apple’s ecosystem.

The 266th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on November 16th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Following the recent idea floated to consider C++20 as the default C++ language dialect by the GCC compiler rather than C++17, it was discovered that the GNU Compiler Collection itself has problems building in C++20 model...

The 266th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on November 16th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

The environment variables are a set of key-value pairs that define the current environment and can affect the behavior of the ongoing programs that are executed in the environment.

Unipi has introduced the Edge E410, E411, and E413 controllers, a family of DIN-rail industrial devices based on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. The systems combine PLC, RTU, IPC, and gateway functionality in a compact chassis targeting building automation, HVAC control, energy management, and industrial monitoring. All three models use the quad-core Arm Cortex-A72 […]

NVIDIA engineers continue working a lot on the in-development and in-tree open-source Nova kernel driver for their GPUs. Sent out on Friday night were the Turing enablement patches for this Rust-written Nova-Core driver code...

DietPi 9.19 introduces BirdNET-Go, broad Debian 13 support for major apps, and includes fixes for Raspberry Pi and Allwinner boards.

Linus Torvalds is out today with the eighth weekly test release of the Linux 6.18 kernel in working toward the stable release at the end of the month...

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Debian 13.2, RHEL 10.1, Nitrux 5.0, Wine 10.19, Plasma 6.4.6, Docker 29, Proton 10.0, Canonical expands the LTS support to 15 years, and more.

Debian 13.2 is out today as the latest maintenance update to this current stable version of Debian GNU/Linux...

Luxonis has opened early access preorders for the OAK 4 D and OAK 4 S, two standalone edge-processing cameras designed for computer vision tasks. Both systems provide a 48MP RGB sensor with optional autofocus or wide-angle variants, USB 3 and PoE connectivity, IP67-rated enclosures, and on-device inference capabilities. Both devices are built around the RVC4 […]

GNOME's Nautilus file manager is finally matching the behavior of other file managers like KDE's Dolphin and Xfce's Thunar with a keyboard shortcut for copying and pasting files...

Banana Pi has previewed the BPI-SM9 16-ENC-A3, a compact deep learning compute module built around the SOPHGO BM1688 processor. The module is described as targeting low-power AI workloads, hardware video acceleration, and mixed-precision neural inference across microservers, edge systems, industrial platforms, and AIoT devices. The BM1688 datasheet does not appear to be available on the […]