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The developers of the Arch Linux-based CachyOS distribution released today the ISO snapshot for May 2025, featuring a new boot splash animation, improved support for NVIDIA GPUs, and other changes.

Incus 6.13 is out with Windows agent support, major CLI enhancements, improved migration tools, and dozens of upgrades for containers, VMs, and storage.

BeagleBoard.org has released an updated revision of the PocketBeagle 2 featuring the Texas Instruments AM6254 processor. The new Rev A1 replaces the earlier AM6232-based Rev A0, offering a significant performance boost with no change in pricing. The upgraded AM6254 brings a quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU and an integrated GPU, targeting more demanding embedded applications. The AM6254 […]

With how well the open-source and upstream AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver stack is these days between the mainline Linux kernel and Mesa, the Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver releases are not usually notable these days on Phoronix... The packaged Radeon Software for Linux drivers haven't been popular with gamers/enthusiasts in years given how good the upstream support is and those packaged bits mostly useful for those just running enterprise Linux distributions with older versions of Linux and Mesa. But the next Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver release is set to introduce a big change...

OBS Studio 31.1 has entered public beta testing today for this powerful, open-source, cross-platform, and free software for video recording and live streaming on Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

Sandisk earlier this month announced the WD_BLACK SN8100 as what they claim is the current world's fastest PCIe Gen 5.0 NVMe SSD for consumers. Given how well the WD_BLACK SN850X performs under Linux as a PCIe Gen 4.0 drive, I decided to buy a WD_BLACK SN8100 for some Linux testing at Phoronix to compare to various other drives in the lab. Here is a preliminary look at the WD_BLACK SN8100 2TB performance under Ubuntu Linux.

The Alpine Linux team announced today the release and general availability of Alpine Linux 3.22 as another major update to this independent and security-oriented GNU/Linux distribution.

Banana Pi has revealed early details about the BPI-R4 Pro, an upcoming router board powered by the MediaTek MT7988A (Filogic 880). Designed as a successor to the BPI-R4, it targets high-speed wireless and wired networking for applications such as Wi-Fi 7 access points and multi-gigabit gateways. The BPI-R4 Pro features a quad-core Arm Cortex-A73 CPU […]

Nobara Linux is named after the character Nobara Kugisaki in the anime series Jujutsu Kaisen. The distro’s creator, Thomas Crider, is a fan of the character and chose the name to add a personal touch.

The GStreamer project released GStreamer 1.26.2 today as the second maintenance update to the latest GStreamer 1.26 series of this popular open-source and cross-platform multimedia framework.

Believe it or not, OpenAI's o3 just uncovered a remote 0-day in the Linux kernel's SMB code—CVE-2025-37899. A patch has already been rolled out.

The GNOME Project has released GNOME 48.2 today as the second maintenance update to the latest GNOME 48 “Bengaluru” desktop environment series, featuring another round of fixes.

Navidrome 0.56, a self-hosted music server and streamer, launches with playlist cover art, security fixes, and major UI improvements.

Linux 6.15 is now the latest stable kernel, and Ubuntu users can install it on their machines via the official Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA archive. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to do that via GUI and CLI methods.

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS officially entered Extended Security Maintenance on May 29, 2025, ending its standard five-year support lifecycle.

NVIDIA releases Linux Display Driver 575.57 with improved stability for OpenGL, Vulkan, and PRIME setups.

Terasic has introduced the Atum A3 Nano on Crowd Supply, offering a compact FPGA development board based on Altera’s Agilex 3 series. It provides a capable platform for embedded applications requiring high-speed logic and moderate compute performance. Measuring just 85 mm by 70 mm, the board features the Agilex 3 A3CZ135BB18AE7S FPGA, delivering 135,110 logic […]

NVIDIA just released their v575.57.08 driver as the first stable Linux driver in their R575 release branch...

Tails 6.16, a privacy-focused Linux distro, is out now with Tor Browser 14.5.3 and Linux kernel 6.1.140.