New story! Just Say No to Overcomplicated Cars

The Mustang Mach-E recall isn’t just a glitch—it’s a sign that sometimes, the best solutions are the ones we’ve left behind.

New story! New Effort To Upstream LTTng In The Linux Kernel Draws Criticism From Torvalds

The LTTng tracing toolkit is twenty years old this year and it's seen significant adoption by different hyperscalers and other notable organizations like IBM and Sony and Siemens beyond basic end-users and administrators for system tracing/debugging. While having many successes over the past two decades, the kernel modules remain outside of the kernel tree. Even with around four different upstreaming attempts to get the LTTng code into the mainline kernel, it still has not happened. A fifth attempt began today but still looks like it could be an uphill battle...

New story! Intel Xe3 Panther Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Now Enabled By Default On Linux

With the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver is enabling Panther Lake graphics out-of-the-box. Now going along with that Linux 6.17+ support out-of-the-box, the Mesa OpenGL and Vulkan user-space drivers are also ready to declare their Xe3 Panther Lake graphics support by default...

New story! IceWM 3.8.1 Window Manager Released with Toolbar Improvements

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jul 14, 2025 7:37 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
IceWM 3.8 window manager for the X Window System brings memory usage optimizations, improved toolbar behavior, and more.

New story! Old Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 GPUs Still Seeing Open-Source Driver Fixes In 2025

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jul 14, 2025 6:06 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
In addition to last minute feature work on the latest AMD RDNA4 graphics cards ahead of the Mesa 25.2 code branching, there's also some new fixes going into Mesa for the open-source Radeon driver code... Coming in this Monday morning by surprise are some fixes for the Radeon HD 2000/3000 series approaching two decades old as well as a fix for the Radeon HD 4000 graphics processors...

New story! Linux Mint 22.2 Beta Expected Soon, Focus Shifts to LMDE 7

LMDE 7 is officially named “Gigi” and will feature OEM install support along with all the enhancements introduced in Linux Mint 22.2.

New story! GParted: Still the best free partitioner standing – unless you're on a 32-bit box

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Jul 14, 2025 3:03 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Latest release handles NBD and bcachefs, but you’ll need 64-bit hardware to boot it GParted Live is a tiny live CD image that can copy, move, and resize partitions. It can be a lifesaver – but not for i686 any more.…

New story! NanoPi R76S Brings Dual 2.5GbE to Fanless RK3576-Based Router Board

  • LinuxGizmos.com (Posted by bob on Jul 14, 2025 12:02 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Following the recent launch of the NanoPi R3S LTS, FriendlyELEC introduces the NanoPi R76S, a compact router board powered by the Rockchip RK3576. Designed for edge networking and IoT, it features dual 2.5Gbps Ethernet, HDMI, USB 3.2, and AI acceleration. While the R3S LTS (based on RK3566) targets lightweight routing tasks, the R76S steps up […]

New story! Debian's DebConf25 Kicks Off On France - Video Streams Available

Debian's annual Debian Conference "DebConf" started this morning and runs all week in Brest, France...

New story! (Updated) ALPHA-One Leverages RISC-V StarPro64 for Compact Local LLM Deployment

  • LinuxGizmos.com (Posted by bob on Jul 14, 2025 8:59 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
PINE64 has shared early details of the ALPHA-One, a compact generative AI agent powered by the RISC-V-based StarPro64 SBC. Priced at $329.99, the device is aimed at developers and testers, and comes preloaded with a 7 billion parameter LLM running in a Docker container. The ALPHA-One is built on the StarPro64 SBC, which features the […]

New story! Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 28 (Jul 7 – 13, 2025)

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jul 14, 2025 7:28 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Catch up on the latest Linux news: CachyOS, Krita 5.2.10, OBS Studio 31.1, Plasma 6.3.6, KDE ISO Image Writer, Amarok 3.3, Thunderbird 140, Red Hat offers free RHEL access, and more.

New story! Slashdot Media Turned Linux Journal Into a Slopfarm and Now Slashdot Actively Promotes Anti-Linux Slopfarms

  • Techrights; By Roy Schestowitz (Posted by schestowitz on Jul 14, 2025 5:56 AM CST)
  • Groups: Linux
This is not a new problem. Later on respected people (like Bruce Schneier, who follows Slashdot) would not only link to slop but also based articles on the slop they saw in Slashdot.

New story! Linux Patches Updated For The New Fairphone 6 Smartphone

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jul 14, 2025 4:25 AM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Last month when the Fairphone 6 smartphone was announced, same-day Linux support patches were posted for this modular and repair-friendly smartphone. That Linux support code with the Device Tree (DT) files have been under review and out today is the second iteration of those enablement patches...

New story! NordVPN Now Has a Graphical Linux Client and We Gave It a Look

In May, NordVPN got full scale on board with Linux when it released a Linux client. We just took it for a spin!

New story! How to Install Docker on Rocky Linux 10: A Step-by-Step Guide

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jul 14, 2025 1:22 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
A step-by-step guide to installing Docker on Rocky Linux 10, offering a solid Enterprise Linux foundation for containerized workloads.

New story! Haiku OS Sees Work On Better App HiDPI Scaling, Better Intel WiFI Driver From OpenBSD

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jul 13, 2025 11:50 PM CST)
  • Groups: Intel; Story Type: News Story
The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS had a busy month of June with a number of enhancements made to this OS. Haiku just published their convenient monthly recap that highlights all of the interesting changes made the past month to this open-source OS...

New story! GParted Live 1.7.0-8 Adds Mechanism to Reduce Random Order of Block Devices

GParted Live 1.7.0-8 has been released today for this open-source and free partition manager utility that lets you resize, copy, and move partitions without data loss, based on the popular GParted (GNOME Partition Manager) application.

New story! Linux 6.16-rc6 Released With Transient Scheduler Attacks Mitigations, AMD Zen 2 Fixes

As we approach the stable Linux 6.16 kernel release later this month, Linux 6.16-rc6 is out today as the newest weekly test candidate...

New story! 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: July 13th, 2025

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jul 13, 2025 7:16 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
The 248th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on July 13th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

New story! RISC-V Embedded Board Features TH1520 SoC, Dual GbE, and 4TOPS AI

The HH-SCDAYU800A is another RISC-V development board built around the Alibaba T-Head TH1520 system-on-chip. With its dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, multiple camera interfaces, and industrial-grade design, the board targets applications requiring multimedia features, edge inference, and smart device integration. This board is implemented by RunKaiHong Digital Tech, a company based in Nanjing, China, though little […]

New story! Linux 6.16 Ready With Fixes For Old AMD Hardware "Which Wasn't Even Supposed To Run Linux"

Ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc6 kernel release due out later today, an x86/urgent pull request was sent out today that includes some fixes for old AMD Zen 2 hardware...

New story! CachyOS July 2025 Update Finally Lets Users Choose the Shell During Installation

The CachyOS developers released today the ISO snapshot for July 2025 for this popular Arch Linux-based distribution targeting personal computers and handheld devices.

New story! The price of software freedom is eternal politics

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Jul 13, 2025 5:02 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Many don't realize or forget, but the FOSS world has ideological wings, too Comment The new fork of the X.org X11 server is conservative… and we don't mean just technologically conservative.…

New story! KDE Preps More Crash KWin Crash Fixes, New Feature Work For Plasma 6.5

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development recap of all interesting things and fixes merged for the week to Plasma...

New story! Canonical Plans for a Fully Functional Desktop Session on RISC-V with Ubuntu 25.10

With the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) release, Canonical plans to achieve a fully functional desktop session on the RISC-V architecture.

New story! NVIDIA Publishes RTXNTC 0.7 Beta For Neural Texture Compression

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jul 13, 2025 12:28 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
NVIDIA software engineers ended out the week by releasing a new beta of their RTX Neural Texture Compression (NTC) SDK. The RTXNTC software is NVIDIA's interesting solution for compressing material texture sets with very promising results for helping to reduce game data sizes moving forward...

New story! Calibre 8.6 E-book Manager Brings Faster Database Restores

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jul 12, 2025 10:56 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Calibre 8.6 open-source e-book manager now defaults to AZW3 for Kindle, retires MOBI, and boosts database restore speeds.

New story! Bcachefs Lands Fixes In Linux 6.16 For Some "High Severity" Regressions

Ahead of tomorrow's Linux 6.16-rc6 kernel release a number of Bcachefs file-system fixes were merged...

New story! If MCP is the USB-C of AI agents, A2A is their Ethernet

Tell me, Mr. Smith ... what good is an agent if it's unable to speak? We have protocols and standards for just about everything. It's generally helpful when we can all agree on how technologies should talk to one another. So, it was only a matter of time before the first protocols governing agentic AI started cropping up.…

New story! GStreamer 1.28 Promises Vulkan H.264 Encoder, AMD HIP Plugin, and More

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jul 12, 2025 6:22 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
The GStreamer project released the first development version of the upcoming GStreamer 1.28 stable series of this widely used open-source multimedia framework for handling audio and video streams.

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