New story! Signal shuts the blinds on Microsoft Recall with the power of DRM

Chat app blocks Windows' screenshot-happy feature from peeking at private convos Chat app biz Signal is unhappy with the current version of Microsoft Recall and has invoked some Digital Rights Management (DRM) functionality in Windows to stop the tool from snapshotting private conversations.…

New story! Terminator Linux Terminal App Updated After Prolonged Hiatus

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on May 22, 2025 5:56 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
After a long break, the Terminator 2.1.5 Linux terminal app brings new features like split-session SSH cloning, reverse search, and UI fixes.

New story! RISC-V’s Big Week Includes RHEL, CentOS Stream, and Rocky Linux

The open source ISA RISC-V has long been making inroads into Linux distributions, but this week Enterprise Linux distros got on board en masse.

New story! PipeWire 1.4.3 Brings netJACK2 Changes, Improves ALSA audio.channels Support

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on May 22, 2025 2:53 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
The PipeWire project released PipeWire 1.4.3 today as yet another minor update to the latest PipeWire 1.4 series for this popular open-source server for handling audio/video streams and hardware on Linux systems.

New story! FreeBSD Continues Improving Hardware Support For Framework Laptops, WiFi Devices

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on May 22, 2025 1:22 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
The FreeBSD project today published their status report outlining their development happenings during Q1'2025. There's been a lot going on in the FreeBSD world, especially for improving laptop support and other modern hardware coverage for this BSD operating system...

New story! AROS turns any PC into an Amiga with USB-bootable distro

  • The Register (Posted by bob on May 22, 2025 11:50 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
And other ways to get that Amiga feeling on a budget The FOSS recreation of AmigaOS is making progress. A new edition runs entirely from a USB key, so you can temporarily turn your PC into an Amiga – without any tricky installation process.…

New story! How to Install Dolphin Emulator in Ubuntu 25.04

Learn a step-by-step guide to installing and using the Dolphin emulator on Ubuntu 25.04 to play your favorite GameCube and Wii console games.

New story! LosslessCut: A GUI Front-End for FFmpeg for Audio/Video Editing

Discover an amazing free and open-source cross-platform GUI front-end of FFmpeg for basic editing tasks on your laptop or desktop with fewer system resources.

New story! How To Install Latest KDE Plasma 6.4 Beta In Fedora 42

KDE Plasma 6.4 has entered its beta testing phase. The beta version ships with a lot of new features and improvements. This step-by-step tutorial will show you how to install KDE Plasma 6.4 Beta on Fedora 42.

New story! Rocky Linux 10 Adds Official RISC-V Support

The upcoming Rocky Linux 10 is on track to officially support RISC-V, with builds for VisionFive 2, QEMU, and HiFive P550.

New story! Prime OS on EndeavourOS: Can it Run?

Prime OS can be installed side by side with the Linux system. In the previous post on this blog, I discussed how to install Prime OS. At that time I tried it on Ubuntu, and the results were smooth. But in the comments column of my YouTube channel, there were some who complained about booting

New story! Radxa ROCK 4D with RK3576 SoC, PCIe Gen2 x1, Gigabit Ethernet, and PoE Support Starts at $30

Radxa has introduced a single-board computer with a form factor similar to the Raspberry Pi 3, powered by the octa-core Rockchip RK3576 system-on-chip. Key features of the new ROCK 4D include PCIe Gen2 expansion, Gigabit Ethernet with PoE support, and broad I/O compatibility. The board is built around the Rockchip RK3576 SoC, which integrates four […]

New story! Rocky Linux 10 Will Run on RISC-V

When Rocky Linux 10 is released, it will join a growing number of Linux distros that support the open source RISC-V instruction set.

New story! Fwupd 2.0.10 Linux Firmware Updater Adds Support for Lenovo Legion Touchpad

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on May 21, 2025 11:38 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Fwupd 2.0.10 is out today as the tenth maintenance update to the latest fwupd 2.0 release of this open-source Linux firmware update utility with support for more devices, new features, and bug fixes.

New story! AMI Aptio V Firmware Powers Radxa Orion O6 at COMPUTEX 2025

AMI has announced that its Aptio V UEFI Firmware will power the Radxa Orion O6 demo platform at COMPUTEX Taipei 2025. Described as the “World’s First Open Source Armv9 Motherboard,” the compact Orion O6 Mini ITX board is designed for AI, edge computing, and multimedia-intensive workloads. The board uses the CiX P1 CD8180 SoC, which […]

New story! GNOME GDM Now Disables The X11/X.Org Session By Default

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on May 21, 2025 8:36 PM CST)
  • Groups: GNOME; Story Type: News Story
Merged yesterday to the GNOME Display Manager "GDM" codebase is disabling of the X11/X.Org session by default as the first step toward deprecating GNOME's X11 session support...

New story! Fedora 43 Drops GNOME X11 Support, Goes All-In on Wayland

Fedora 43 moves to a Wayland-only GNOME experience, officially removing support for the X11 session due to a lack of upstream maintenance.

New story! AlmaLinux 9.6 Released on Same Day as RHEL 10

The AlmaLinux Foundation rolls out AlmaLinux 9.6 on the same day that Red Hat officially releases RHEL 10.

New story! Getting Started with Containers via Podman (No Docker Daemon Required)

Containers have revolutionized how we develop, test, and deploy applications. While Docker is the most well-known containerization technology, Podman offers a compelling alternative that doesn’t require a daemon running in the background. Podman is a free and open-source container engine that’s compatible with Docker while providing additional security benefits through its daemonless and rootless design. This tutorial will walk you through setting up Podman on Ubuntu and getting started with basic container operations.

New story! Setup KDE Plasma 6.5 Dev on openSUSE Tumbleweed

First step would be to enable required repos, so run as root following script and reboot instance . Versions of some packages have been installed were verified via commands $ sudo zypper search -s plasma*desktop* ; $ sudo zypper search -s plasma*workspace*

New story! Red Hat Announces The llm-d Open-Source Project For Gen AI

In addition to rolling out Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat used their annual developer summit today for introducing llm-d as their newest open-source project...

New story! SiFive and Red Hat Collaborate to Bring RHEL 10 to RISC-V Development

SiFive has announced a new collaboration with Red Hat to deliver a developer preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 for the RISC-V architecture. The initial support is available on the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 development platform, giving developers a path to build and test enterprise and cloud workloads on RISC-V hardware. The HiFive Premier […]

New story! How open systems drive AI performance

  • The Register (Posted by bob on May 21, 2025 9:55 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Open-source philosophy, system-level optimizations prevent nightmare GenAI deployments, says CentML CTO Partner content “The magic isn’t just in the model, it’s in how you run it,” says Shang Wang, CTO of CentML.…

New story! AlmaLinux 9.6 Released, Here’s What’s New

AlmaLinux 9.6 (Sage Margay) is out now with updated toolchains, enhanced virtualization, and images for x86_64, ARM64, PowerPC, and IBM Z architectures.

New story! Fedora 43 Cleared To Ship With Wayland-Only GNOME

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) today signed off on the planned change for Fedora 43 that the GNOME desktop will be Wayland-only: the GNOME X11 packages will be removed in this next Fedora Linux release...

New story! Latest Steam Client Update Improves Game Recordings and Remote Play on Linux

Valve released a new stable Steam Client update today that brings a few improvements for Linux gamers, as well as various other enhancements and bug fixes.

New story! ASUS IoT Unveils RUC-1000 Series with 600W GPU Support and Up to 4000 TOPS at Computex 2025

  • LinuxGizmos.com (Posted by bob on May 21, 2025 3:49 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
ASUS IoT has announced the RUC-1000 series at Computex 2025, introducing what it describes as the world’s first 2U 19-inch rugged edge AI GPU computer with PCIe 5.0 support for up to 600W GPUs. Designed for edge AI deployments in industrial environments, the new series includes the RUC-1000G and RUC-1000D models, offering performance scalability and […]

New story! RHEL 10 Released at AI-Focused Red Hat Summit

Although we attended the event virtually, FOSS Force was able to get Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks to weigh-in on the open source AI controversy.

New story! How to Install Yarn on Ubuntu 25.04 (via 3 Methods)

Learn how to install the Yarn package manager on Ubuntu using NPM, Corepack, and the APT repository with practical examples.

New story! Make Ubuntu Updates Easier with Nala

Ubuntu systems rely on APT (Advanced Package Tool) for package management. While APT is powerful, its output can be overwhelming and difficult to parse at a glance. Enter Nala, a frontend for the APT package manager that offers a more user-friendly experience with cleaner output, parallel downloads, and useful quality-of-life features. If you’ve ever been frustrated by APT’s verbose and sometimes confusing output, Nala might be the tool you’ve been looking for in Ubuntu 24.04 and newer versions.

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