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Last month in Nice, the largest Linux Media Summit to date brought together active media developers to share insights and tackle ongoing challenges in the media subsystem. Here's a brief summary of the key discussions, and upcoming areas of focus.

In a world obsessed with quick wins and viral apps, deep tech startups are betting on substance over sizzle. Here’s how they might change the game for good.

Mozilla published today the final build of the Firefox 140 ESR open-source web browser ahead of the official announcement on June 24th, 2025.

The GIMP project released today GIMP 3.1.2 as the first development version of the next major release of this open-source, free, and cross-platform image editing software, GIMP 3.2.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: KDE Plasma 6.4, Git 2.50, Arch shifts to pure WoW64 builds, XLibre Xserver 25.0, a historic photo of Torvalds and Gates together, upgrade to AlmaLinux 10 from 9, and more.

The June 2025 release of ESPHome (2025.6.0) introduces several technical updates, including a major framework upgrade, new device support, and foundational changes to ensure future compatibility and performance. ESPHome is an open-source system for building custom firmware for ESP32 and ESP8266 microcontrollers. It allows users to define device configurations using simple YAML files, which are […]

When open source met Microsoft: a historic photo of Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates standing side by side for the very first time.

postmarketOS 25.06 was released today as the latest version of this Linux-based operating system for mobile devices, bringing new features, support for new devices, and updated components.

IceWM 3.8 window manager for the X Window System improves performance with faster Themes menu loading, optimized resource graphs, and more.

Linus Torvalds just announced the release of Linux 6.16-rc3 in marching toward the Linux 6.16 kernel release due out around late July...

The 245th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on June 23rd, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

XLibre 25.0 was just released as the first tagged release of this recent X.Org Server fork...

HackerBox is a monthly subscription service offering development kits targeted at hobbyists, students, and electronics enthusiasts. HackerBox 0115, titled “Wispier,” is a follow-up to the earlier Wispy kit (HackerBox 0089). This latest version expands the wardriving platform with 5 GHz Wi-Fi scanning, updated firmware, improved form factor, and GPS-based geolocation. The Wispier kit is based […]

Learn how to fix X11 login issue after the Plasma 6.4.0 update by installing plasma-x11-session on Arch Linux and its variants.

In the world of Linux distributions, many projects aim to strike a balance between functionality, aesthetics, and security. Few, however, have achieved the level of polish and principled focus that Elementary OS brings to the table. With the release of Elementary OS 8, the developers have doubled down on their vision of an operating system that champions privacy and design simplicity without compromising usability. This article takes a look at how Elementary OS 8 prioritizes these values and why it deserves attention from privacy advocates and design enthusiasts alike.

Rocky Linux delivers stability, but its lack of in-place upgrade support between major versions is a sore spot for users with long-term deployments.

Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham put out a blog post today reaffirming the KDE Plasma's intent that Wayland is their main focus and X11 support continues to be maintained but eventually it will go away. Nate Graham also noted around 73% of KDE Plasma 6 users are already using the Wayland session...

Darktable 5.2 has been released today as a new stable update to this powerful, open-source, free, and cross-platform photography workflow application and raw developer software.

At the moment that is a hack installing almost all of required packages (except ttf-*-*) from Fedora 42 repos instead of AUR. I've setup "kgx" via Copr Repos. Then issued $ sudo dnf5 install hyprctl . Setup Dotfiles Installer (GUI based interface) as advised on github page of Stephan Raabe. . . . .

XLibre Xserver, a fresh fork of Xorg to revive X11, launches version 25.0 just two weeks after its inception, bringing new life to the X11 ecosystem.