New story! Wayland Protocols 1.41 Released With Color Management Support

Wayland Protocols 1.41 is shipping today with the color management protocol added for enabling high dynamic range (HDR) support on the Wayland-powered Linux desktop.

New story! LLM Slop is Now Filling the Web With Pure Fiction/Fabrication/Misinformation About Linux

  • Techrights; By Roy Schestowitz (Posted by schestowitz on Feb 18, 2025 11:19 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux
Can this even be called "revisionism"? This is pure fabrication - in fact fabrication that can ruin the reputation of Linux.

New story! 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 16th, 2025

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Feb 18, 2025 10:03 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
The 227th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on February 16th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

New story! Even Linus Torvalds can have trouble with autocycle … autocracy… AUTOCOMPLETE!

Penguin Emperor's weekly State Of The Kernel Post went astray. Next time autocomplete takes over and you accidentally send an email to the wrong person or group, perhaps it will be a little solace to know that one of the world’s most accomplished technologists – Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds – just made that same mistake.

New story! Arch Linux Developers To Remove Old Repositories To Simplify Repository Structure

Arch Linux developers will remove old, deprecated repositories by March 1, 2025, to simplify the repository structure and avoid confusion. It's time to update your Pacman configuration file.

New story! OpenWrt One AP 24 XY Brings Open Source Networking to a Custom Router

The OpenWrt One/AP-24.XY is a router board based on the MediaTek MT7981B (Filogic 820) SoC, combined with the MediaTek MT7976C dual-band Wi-Fi 6 chipset. Developed in collaboration with Banana Pi, the OpenWrt One is the first official hardware platform supported by the OpenWrt open-source community, designed for OpenWrt learning, IoT applications, and general networking use cases such as routing, NAS, and wireless communication.

New story! Decibels - simple audio player

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Luke Baker (Posted by sde on Feb 18, 2025 4:09 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
Decibels is designed to be a simple program that lets you play audio files. Decibels is explicitly designed for playing single files.

New story! The Attacks on LinuxQuestions.org

Regarding the DDoS attacks, that's an open secret

New story! RADV Lands Initial DCC Support For AMD GFX12 / RDNA4 GPUs

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Feb 18, 2025 1:14 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Last month when the state of the open-source RADV Vulkan driver for RDNA4 GPUs was outlined, it was noted that cooperative matrix support was missing along with DCC support and Vulkan Video for these upcoming Radeon RX 90x0 GPUs. Vulkan cooperative matrix support ended up being merged earlier this month while hitting Mesa Git today is the DCC support that is important for RDNA4 performance...

New story! NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Through GeForce RTX 5080/5090 GPU Compute Performance

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by bob on Feb 17, 2025 11:42 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux, Steam
Complementing the recent Linux GPU benchmarks of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 and GeForce RTX 5090 looking at both the Linux / Steam Play gaming performance as well as GPU compute and other areas, in today's testing is a wide multi-generation look seeing how the NVIDIA GeForce performance has evolved going back to the GeForce GTX 980 Maxwell GPUs up through the newest GeForce RTX 5080/5090 graphics cards.

New story! Moving a VirtualBox VM to Another Instance: A Step-by-Step Guide

Learn how to move a VirtualBox VM to another instance, ensuring a smooth migration without data loss (GUI & CLI approach).

New story! GNOME 48 Beta Released With HDR Bits, gdctl, Adwaita Fonts Default & More

The GNOME 48 Beta release was officially announced this morning as the latest stepping stone toward the official GNOME 48 desktop release due out in mid-March.

New story! GNOME 48 Beta Is Now Available for Public Testing with Adwaita Fonts, New Wallpaper

Today, the GNOME Project announced the general availability of the beta version of the upcoming GNOME 48 desktop environment series for public testing, bringing more new features and improvements.

New story! 5 Reasons I Won't Run SteamOS on My Gaming PC Yet

While I believe that SteamOS will one day evolve into a worthy Windows alternative for PC gamers, I don't think that day will come anytime soon. Despite loving SteamOS, its potential, and what it represents, here's why I won't install SteamOS on my gaming PC any time soon.

New story! This open text-to-speech model needs just seconds of audio to clone your voice

El Reg shows you how to run Zypher's speech-replicating AI on your own box. Hands on Palo Alto-based AI startup Zyphra unveiled a pair of open text-to-speech (TTS) models this week said to be capable of cloning your voice with as little as five seconds of sample audio. In our testing, we generated realistic results with less than half a minute of recorded speech.

New story! Radxa Expands SBC Lineup with ROCK 5T Featuring Dual 2.5GbE and Dual M.2 Slots

Radxa has introduced a Mini-ITX single-board computer designed for both consumer and industrial applications. Built around the Rockchip RK3588(J) processor, this SBC provides a broad set of interfaces, high-speed connectivity, and advanced multimedia capabilities.

New story! Chimera Linux’s New ISO Images Bring Plasma 6.3 and GNOME 47

The still-in-development Chimera Linux released updated ISO images with new apk-tools, kernel 6.13, Plasma 6.3, GNOME 47, and more.

New story! 134k Lines Of Code Posted As Latest Effort For COBOL Support Within GCC

While it's an old language, in recent months there's been a renewed effort over a COBOL language front-end for the GCC compiler. There's been out-of-tree COBOL support for GCC that is working to get into the mainline GNU Compiler Collection codebase. This weekend saw the latest iteration of those patches amounting to 134k lines of new code.

New story! GNOME 47.4 Released with Performance Improvements for Nautilus, Bug Fixes

The GNOME Project announced today the official availability of GNOME 47.4, the fourth maintenance update to the latest GNOME 47 “Denver” desktop environment series with more bug fixes and improvements.

New story! Oreon Project Is a Kinder, Gentler Enterprise Linux Distribution

The Oreon Project is a Linux distribution based on AlmaLinux that makes SELinux even easier to use.

New story! Why Linux Mint Is My Main Distro

Since I started using Linux over a decade ago, I’ve been a Mint fan. Over the years I’ve tried using other distros—and tried some really weird stuff, often in service of How-to Geek—but Linux Mint has always remained my daily driver and I’ve never seriously considered getting rid of it. Here’s why I like it.

New story! M5Stack ASR Unit with CI 03T for Offline Voice Recognition in Smart Devices for $7.50

M5Stack recently launched the ASR Unit, which is an offline voice recognition module incorporating the CI-03T AI offline voice module. It is designed for applications that require speech recognition, voiceprint detection, and voice enhancement without relying on cloud-based processing.

New story! 15 Top Free and Open Source PHP Web Frameworks

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Eilidih Parris (Posted by sde on Feb 17, 2025 5:27 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
When it comes to web development, there are a wide range of PHP frameworks to choose. The choice depends on finding the right tool for the job at hand. Here’s our pick of the finest PHP web frameworks.

New story! Amarok 3.2.2 Launches as the Final Qt5 Release Before Moving to Qt6

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Feb 17, 2025 4:12 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Amarok 3.2.2 open-source music player lands with bug fixes and non-UNIX support, marking the final Qt5/KF5 release before the Qt6 transition.

New story! GNOME Software May Eventually Drop RPM Support In Favor Of Flatpaks

Stemming from the ongoing discussion around the issues raised with Fedora's Flatpak package of OBS Studio and how Flatpaks should be prioritized within the GNOME Software app center/store, the future of RPM support within GNOME Software raised.

New story! gThumb Released 3.12.7 with Better WebP Images Support

Like past few releases, gThumb 3.12.7 includes only minor new features, bug-fixes, and translation updates. For WebP image format, the release can now save the EXIF data, meaning the metadata about camera settings, date and time, and location etc information.

New story! Open source maintainers are really feeling the squeeze

Overworked, under pressure, and subjected to abuse – is it really worth it? State Of Open Recent events have brought the plight of open source maintainers front and center, but the problems were brewing for many years.

New story! Open Sue! OBS Studio Threatens Fedora With Legal Action

Another day, another Linux-related drama. This time, it's OBS Studio and Fedora going at it.

New story! openSUSE Replaces AppArmor with SELinux on New Tumbleweed Installations

openSUSE Linux announced earlier this week that they are adopting SELinux as the default mandatory access control (MAC) system for new openSUSE Tumbleweed installations.

New story! What Is Arch Linux, and How Is It Different From Other Versions of Linux?

Arch Linux might be the most misunderstood of all the Linux distributions. It’s supposed to be difficult to install and maintain, so why do people use it? What makes Arch so different?

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