New story! Arch Linux users told to purge Firefox forks after AUR malware scare

The distro's greatest asset is arguably also its greatest weakness If you installed the Firefox, LibreWolf, or Zen web browsers from the Arch User Repository (AUR) in the last few days, delete them immediately and install fresh copies.…

New story! Fedora 43 Cleared To Ship With Zstd Initrd, Updated Compiler Toolchains & More

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) this week voted to approve a number of new features/changes for the upcoming Fedora 43 release...

New story! Fwupd 2.0.13 Released with Faster Startup and Lower Memory Use

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jul 22, 2025 10:34 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
The fwupd 2.0.13 update speeds up startup by 60%, lowers memory use, and adds support for new MediaTek, HP, and Logitech devices.

New story! Starship Prompt: Customize Your Linux Shell with Ease

  • ostechnix.com; By Senthil Kumar (Posted by ostechnix on Jul 22, 2025 9:03 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
Learn how to install and customize the Starship shell prompt on Linux. Make your terminal faster, cleaner, and more useful in just minutes.

New story! NVIDIA Makes More Hopper & Blackwell Header Files Open-Source

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jul 22, 2025 2:06 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Last week NVIDIA open-sourced 12k lines of C header files for Blackwell GPUs to help in the open-source driver efforts, namely for Nouveau / NVK and the in-development NOVA Rust driver. On Friday they made public some additional header files for helping in the Blackwell and Hopper open-source driver enablement...

New story! Cursor AI YOLO mode lets coding assistant run wild, security firm warns

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Jul 22, 2025 12:35 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
You only live once, but regret is forever Cursor's AI coding agent will run automatically, in YOLO mode, if you let it. According to Backslash Security, you might want to think twice about doing so.…

New story! Firefox 141 Release Brings Lower RAM Usage On Linux

The Mozilla Firefox 141.0 release binaries are out today for this monthly update to this cross-platform, open-source web browser...

New story! Clear Linux OS terminated as Intel trims the fat

Chipmaker halts updates and support, urges users to migrate immediately Intel has abruptly killed off Clear Linux OS, ending Chipzilla's decade-long adventure in this part of the Linux world.…

New story! AMD ROCm 6.4.2 Released With Official Support For The Radeon RX 7700 XT

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jul 21, 2025 8:00 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
While we await AMD to officially release ROCm 7.0 as the next major release of their open-source GPU compute stack, out this afternoon is ROCm 6.4.2 as the newest stable point release. ROCm 6.4.2 expands the officially supported Radeon consumer GPUs as well as bringing various fixes and enhancements to the various libraries and components making up this AMD GPU compute ecosystem stack...

New story! What’s the Point of Linux “Anti-Something” Distros?

The biggest question our man in Italy has about Linux distros and other open source software projects taking political stances is: do they do more harm than good?

New story! Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9.6 Brings Better SSH Validation

Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9.6, an easy-to-use SD card preparation tool by Raspberry Pi, updates multiple languages and refines SSH and WiFi.

New story! The Most Popular Clear Linux Benchmarks & Intel's Software Innovations Over Its History

Breaking on Friday afternoon was word that Intel is shutting down its Clear Linux project effective immediately after ten years of maintaining this high performance Linux distribution that relentlessly optimized for the best Linux x86_64 performance -- even when it benefited AMD x86_64 processors too. Here is a look back at the most popular of our Clear Linux testing over its decade in existence as a high performance Intel Linux OS...

New story! Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Jul 21, 2025 12:41 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
The End of Windows 10 is looming. The world needs a simpler, easy, quick, snackable alternative Comment Dear Santa. For Windows-10-end-of-support-day in October, please may we have a dead simple bulletproof all-free OS that gets old PCs online without a Google account, and does nothing else?…

New story! Firefox 141 Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jul 21, 2025 11:10 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Mozilla
Firefox 141 open-source web browser enables WebGPU on Windows, reduces memory usage on Linux, and skips forced restarts after updates.

New story! Raspberry Pi Expands Embedded Lineup with Low-Cost Radio and Camera Modules

This month, Raspberry Pi launched two new components for embedded designs. The $4 Radio Module 2 adds Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to RP2040 and RP2350 projects, while the Camera Module 3 Sensor Assemblies offer a compact way to integrate Raspberry Pi’s 12MP camera into custom hardware. Raspberry Pi notes that the Radio Module 2 integrates the […]

New story! Linux 6.16-rc7 Bringing Fix For Possible Bogus/Miscalculated Load Averages

Among the fixes merged today ahead of Linus Torvalds releasing the Linux 6.16-rc7 test kernel release is a lone patch on the "sched/urgent" side to fix possible bogus load average values. Reported system load averages within the kernel's scheduler code could potentially be off going back to May of 2021...

New story! Firefox 141 Web Browser Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Mozilla has published today the final release of the Firefox 141 open-source web browser ahead of its official unveiling on July 22nd, 2025.

New story! Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 29 (Jul 14 – 20, 2025)

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jul 21, 2025 5:04 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Sparky 7.8, Plasma 6.4.3, VirtualBox 7.1.12, Hyprland 0.50, Blender 4.5, Debian 13 release date revealed, Clear Linux shuts down, and more.

New story! How I Got Minecraft Bedrock Running on Linux in Two Ways

This video explains how to run Minecraft Bedrock on Linux, but it should be understood that this method is mandatory for users who have an official account purchased on the Play Store.

New story! DreamHAT+ Enables 60 GHz Radar Sensing on Raspberry Pi 4B and 5

Dream Boards has released the DreamHAT+ Radar, a compact add-on board that brings high-precision 60 GHz mm-wave radar capabilities to Raspberry Pi 4B and 5. Built around Infineon’s BGT60TR13C radar chip, the DreamHAT+ is designed for developers and researchers working on gesture recognition, presence detection, indoor tracking, and privacy-focused sensing, all without relying on cameras or […]

New story! Linux 6.16-rc7 Released: "I Think We're In Good Shape"

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jul 21, 2025 12:29 AM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
The seventh weekly release candidate of Linux 6.16 is now availablr for testing with the stable release debuting hopefully next Sunday otherwise the following week...

New story! I switched from Windows to Linux and made these 4 rookie mistakes - don't be like me

With the Windows 10 end-of-life date approaching rapidly, I've decided to upgrade my aging PC to Linux instead of Windows 11.

New story! 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: July 20th, 2025

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jul 20, 2025 9:26 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
The 249th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on July 20th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

New story! HDR Video Playback Lands in Chromium on Wayland

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jul 20, 2025 4:44 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Chromium adds Wayland color-management-v1 support, allowing HDR rendering on supported platforms with a default-enabled feature flag.

New story! Debian 13.0 Ready To Introduce Formal RISC-V Support But Still Bound By Slow Hardware

With the Debian 13.0 release planned for 9 August, one of the notable fundamental features with this Debian "Trixie" release is now supporting RISC-V as an official CPU architecture. This is the first release where RISC-V 64-bit is officially supported by Debian Linux albeit with limited board support and the Debian RISC-V build process is handicapped by slow hardware...

New story! Debian 13 Set to Launch on August 9

Debian 13 (Trixie) is scheduled for release on August 9, featuring KDE Plasma 6.3.5, GNOME 48, and Linux kernel 6.12 LTS.

New story! Attempt to run the most recent version of Dotfiles Installer on Fedora Rawhide

Following below is attempt to setup Hyprland with ML4W Dotfiles 2.9.8.7 (Stephan Raabe) on Fedora Rawhide . Several Copr repositories , which may be easily detected via command `dnf repolist` , will be automatically activated during this setup and keep the same speed of installation as on CachyOS or any other Arch Linux Clone working via direct access to AUR. You are not supposed to experience any painful network congestions during running this setup on any version of fedora linux ( 41,42,Rawhide ) .

New story! NVIDIA Bringing CUDA To RISC-V

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jul 20, 2025 10:01 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
NVIDIA announced this week that they are bringing their CUDA software to RISC-V processors...

New story! Clear Linux Discontinued as Intel Pulls the Plug Overnight

After a decade of development, Intel has officially shut down Clear Linux OS. The project’s GitHub repo is now archived and read-only.

New story! Rust-Written NOVA Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Being Further Built Out In Linux 6.17

For Linux 6.17 in addition to Intel enabling SR-IOV for Battlemage graphics cards and many other big Intel Xe kernel graphics cards and then more AMD graphics driver features too, the NOVA driver for modern open-source NVIDIA driver support is continuing to be further built out in this next kernel version...

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