NVIDIA Makes More Hopper & Blackwell Header Files Open-Source
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...
Cursor AI YOLO mode lets coding assistant run wild, security firm warns
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.…
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...
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.…
AMD ROCm 6.4.2 Released With Official Support For The Radeon RX 7700 XT
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...
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?
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.
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...
Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS
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?…
Firefox 141 Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
Firefox 141 open-source web browser enables WebGPU on Windows, reduces memory usage on Linux, and skips forced restarts after updates.
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 […]
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...
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.
Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 29 (Jul 14 – 20, 2025)
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.
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.
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 […]
Linux 6.16-rc7 Released: "I Think We're In Good Shape"
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...
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.
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: July 20th, 2025
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.
HDR Video Playback Lands in Chromium on Wayland
Chromium adds Wayland color-management-v1 support, allowing HDR rendering on supported platforms with a default-enabled feature flag.
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...
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.
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 ) .
NVIDIA Bringing CUDA To RISC-V
NVIDIA announced this week that they are bringing their CUDA software to RISC-V processors...
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.
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...
Malware Discovered in Arch Linux AUR Packages
Arch Linux deletes three browser-related AUR packages infected with a Remote Access Trojan, urges users to uninstall and check systems for compromise.
Customizing KDE Plasma 6 on EndeavourOS for Beginners
This video explain the steps for customizing themes for beginners who use KDE Plasma, although in the video I use Endeavour OS, but for KDE Plasma users, you can also try it on other distros if you use the same desktop environment.
Debian 13.0 "Trixie" Planning For Release On August 9
The Debian release team today shared their final release plans for Debian 13 "Trixie" that aims to be out as stable in less than one month's time...
Garuda Linux Retires MHWD and Settings Manager
The new Garuda Linux update replaces outdated video driver metapackages with modern hardware profiles.
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