New story! It’s Official: Richard Stallman Will Speak at Georgia Tech on January 23

While RMS has continued to speak at occasional events, he’s largely remained publicly invisible until now. Is this about to change?

New story! Banana Pi's BPI-CM6 compute module runs on SpacemiT K1 RISC-V processor

  • LinuxGizmos.com (Posted by bob on Jan 19, 2026 10:53 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Banana Pi’s BPI-CM6 is a compute module based on the SpacemiT K1 octa-core RISC-V processor. First revealed in April 2025, the module is now available for purchase from multiple sources and is described as a compact compute platform for edge computing, robotics, industrial control, and network storage applications. The BPI-CM6 adopts a 40 × 55 […]

New story! Nvidia leans on emulation to squeeze more HPC oomph from AI chips in race against AMD

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Jan 19, 2026 9:22 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
AMD researchers argue that, while algorithms like the Ozaki scheme merit investigation, they're still not ready for prime time. Double precision floating point computation (aka FP64) is what keeps modern aircraft in the sky, rockets going up, vaccines effective, and, yes, nuclear weapons operational. But rather than building dedicated chips that process this essential data type in hardware, Nvidia is leaning on emulation to increase performance for HPC and scientific computing applications, an area where AMD has had the lead in recent generations.…

New story! How to Install and Use Scala on Linux

In this article, you will learn the advantages of using the Scala programming language and how to install it on your preferred Linux system with a practical example.

New story! KDE Plasma Customization | Cozy Sunset Vibes Desktop

I’m sharing a KDE Plasma desktop customization inspired by cozy sunset tones. The setup focuses on warm yellow–orange colors, a transparent panel, and a playful chibi astronaut wallpaper, creating a calm and comfortable desktop for daily use.

New story! How NVIDIA GB10 Performance With the Dell Pro Max GB10 Compares To The GH200

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jan 19, 2026 4:47 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Earlier this month we looked at the Dell Pro Max GB10 performance up against AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" with the superior performance for the green team for performance and power efficiency. For those wondering how the Dell Pro Max GB10 performance comes up for the much talked about NVIDIA GH200, here are some comparison benchmarks.

New story! Mozilla Now Providing RPM Packages For Firefox Nightly Builds

In late 2023 Mozilla began providing Debian packages of Firefox Nightly builds complete with an APT repository. Those on Debian/Ubuntu distributions have a much easier path for enjoying Firefox Nightly since then and now Mozilla engineers are providing similar RPM builds of Firefox nightly too...

New story! Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 3, 2026 (Jan 12 – 18)

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jan 19, 2026 1:44 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
Catch up on the latest Linux news: EndeavourOS Ganymede Neo, Plasma 6.6 Beta, GNOME 49.3, Wine 11, Firefox 147, Debian to remove GTK2, Zorin OS hits 2M downloads, Let’s Encrypt launches IP address certificates, and more.

New story! Zen 5 x86 Bedrock RAI300 delivers 50 TOPS AI in fanless IPC

  • LinuxGizmos.com (Posted by bob on Jan 19, 2026 12:13 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
SolidRun has introduced the Bedrock RAI300, a fanless industrial PC built around one of AMD’s latest Ryzen AI 300 series processors. The system is SolidRun’s first industrial platform based on Zen 5, combining high-performance x86 compute, integrated AI acceleration, and modular I/O for long-term industrial deployment. The Bedrock RAI300 is powered by the AMD Ryzen […]

New story! Linux 6.19-rc6 Released With More Bug Fixes

Linus Torvalds just tagged the Linux 6.19-rc6 kernel in working toward the stable Linux 6.19 kernel release likely on 8 February...

New story! Setup Arch Linux KVM Guest via archinstall 3.0.15-2

Following below is an attempt to deploy Arch Linux KVM Guest via archinstall 3.0.15-2. Load Guest via virt-manager into spice console. Pre-install archinstall 3.0.15-2 seems to be needless. However, straight forward run `python -m archinstall` having git clone done and skipping first upgrade didn't work for me .

New story! Not hot on bots, project names and shames AI-created open source software

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Jan 18, 2026 11:58 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
'OpenSlopware' briefly flowers, fades, falls – but fortunately was forked, fast The splendidly-named "OpenSlopware" was, for a short time, a list of open source projects using LLM bots. Due to harassment, it's gone, but forks of it live on.…

New story! ReactOS For "Open-Source Windows" Achieves Massive Networking Performance Boost

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jan 18, 2026 10:26 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
ReactOS as the long-in-development "open-source Windows" project has been on quite a roll recently. Beyond a big Windows NT 6 compatibility improvement and fixing a very annoying usability issue, for this third week of the year there is another big change landing: a significant improvement in networking performance on ReactOS...

New story! 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: January 18th, 2026

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jan 18, 2026 8:55 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
The 275th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on January 18th, 2026, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

New story! Axiomtek Previews Jetson Thor T5000/T4000 Developer Kit for Robotics Systems

Axiomtek has unveiled the AIE015-AT, a robotics developer kit built around NVIDIA Jetson Thor. The system is described as combining high compute density with multi-camera support and industrial I/O for robotics and physical AI workloads. The platform is shown with Jetson Thor T5000 or T4000 modules, offering up to 2070 TFLOPS of compute performance. Axiomtek […]

New story! Synex Server: A New Debian Based Linux Distro With Native ZFS Installation Support

Synex is a Linux distribution that's been around for some months as a Debian-based, minimalistic Linux distribution out of Argentina focused on the needs of small and medium businesses. Making it a bit more intriguing for some now is that with their new release based on Debian 13 is a server edition and they have added native OpenZFS file-system support for new installations...

New story! Linux Rescue and Repair Distros in 2025: Your Safety Net When Things Go Wrong

No matter how reliable Linux systems are, failures still happen. A broken bootloader, a corrupted filesystem, a failed update, or a dying disk can leave even the most stable setup unbootable. That’s where Linux rescue and repair distributions come in.

New story! ChaosBSD Is A New BSD For "Broken Drivers, Half-Working Hardware, Vendor Trash" Test Bed

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jan 18, 2026 2:49 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
A new BSD on the block is ChaosBSD that intends to serve as a testing distribution for unfinished and broken drivers not suitable for upstreaming to FreeBSD proper...

New story! Amarok 3.3.2 Brings Improvements to User Interface, Audio Backend, and More

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jan 18, 2026 1:17 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Amarok 3.3.2 has been released today as the second minor update to the latest Amarok 3.3 “Far Above the Clouds” series of this open-source music player application designed for the KDE Plasma desktop environment.

New story! CVE-2026-0915: GNU C Library Fixes A Security Issue Present Since 1996

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jan 18, 2026 8:29 AM EDT)
  • Groups: GNU; Story Type: News Story
CVE-2026-0915 was published on Friday as a security issue with the GNU C Library "glibc" for code introduced 30 years ago. The latest Glibc Git code is now patched for this issue introduced in 1996...

New story! Zorin OS 18 Crosses 2 Million Downloads, Cementing Its Appeal to New Linux Users

Zorin OS has reached an important milestone. The team behind the popular Linux distribution has announced that Zorin OS 18 has surpassed two million downloads, underscoring the growing interest in Linux as a practical alternative to mainstream operating systems.

New story! Shotcut 26.1 Beta Video Editor Adds New Hardware Decoder Options

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jan 18, 2026 5:26 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The Shotcut 26.1 beta was released overnight as the newest version of this Qt6-based, cross-platform video editing solution. Standing out the most with this new development release are some new GPU-accelerated hardware decode options for aiming to help speed-up this free software video editor...

New story! GNOME 49.3 Desktop Released with More Improvements and Bug Fixes

The GNOME Project released today GNOME 49.3 as the third point release to the latest GNOME 49 “Brescia” desktop environment series with various bug fixes and improvements.

New story! GNOME 50 Will Make Sure You Don't Use Your Computer Past Your Bedtime

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jan 18, 2026 2:23 AM EDT)
  • Groups: GNOME; Story Type: News Story
As part of the GNOME Foundation funded Digital Wellbeing project, the GNOME Shell for GNOME 50 has merged options to prevent unlocking the desktop session past their bed time. The intent here is on rounding out GNOME's parental controls functionality...

New story! Sequent Microsystems Multichemistry Watchdog HAT Adds UPS Support for Raspberry Pi

Sequent Microsystems has unveiled a multichemistry Watchdog HAT designed to provide battery-backed power, system monitoring, and automatic recovery for Raspberry Pi boards. The HAT targets mission-critical and unattended deployments, combining a hardware watchdog timer with an integrated UPS and battery charger. The Watchdog HAT supports a wide range of rechargeable battery chemistries, including Lithium-Ion, Lithium-Polymer, […]

New story! FreeBSD 15.1 Aims To Have KDE Desktop Installer Option

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jan 17, 2026 11:20 PM EDT)
  • Groups: KDE; Story Type: News Story
FreeBSD 15.0 had been aiming to offer a KDE desktop installation option as part of the FreeBSD OS installer. This initiative as part of the FreeBSD laptop support enhancements project didn't pan out in time for FreeBSD 15.0 but now they are working on getting the installer option ready for FreeBSD 15.1. Adding a NVIDIA GPU driver option to the FreeBSD installer was also recently carried out...

New story! How to Install and Use Flutter on Linux

In this article, you will learn how to setup and configure Flutter with Android Studio on Linux and quickly run a Flutter app to confirm the setup.

New story! Origami Linux’s COSMIC Desktop on Fedora Atomic Almost Wins Me Over

Origami Linux pairs the Cosmic desktop with a Fedora Atomic base and a deliberately sparse default install, leaving most of the customization to you.

New story! Running Debian on the OpenWrt One

With openwrt-one-debian, you can now install and run a full Debian system leveraging the OpenWrt One’s NVMe storage, enabling everything from custom services and containers to development tools and lightweight server workloads, all on open hardware. This turns the OpenWrt One from a network appliance into a compact, general-purpose Linux system suitable for services, containers, and development work.

New story! EndeavourOS Releases Ganymede Neo With NVIDIA Driver Changes

Arch-based EndeavourOS has released the Ganymede Neo ISO with updated core components and a switch to NVIDIA open drivers for newer GPUs.

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