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.
LLM Slop is Now Filling the Web With Pure Fiction/Fabrication/Misinformation About Linux
Can this even be called "revisionism"? This is pure fabrication - in fact fabrication that can ruin the reputation of Linux.
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 16th, 2025
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.
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.
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.
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.
Decibels - simple audio player
Decibels is designed to be a simple program that lets you play audio files. Decibels is explicitly designed for playing single files.
The Attacks on LinuxQuestions.org
Regarding the DDoS attacks, that's an open secret
RADV Lands Initial DCC Support For AMD GFX12 / RDNA4 GPUs
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...
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Through GeForce RTX 5080/5090 GPU Compute Performance
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
15 Top Free and Open Source PHP Web Frameworks
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.
Amarok 3.2.2 Launches as the Final Qt5 Release Before Moving to Qt6
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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