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Fwupd 2.0.5 has been released today as the fifth maintenance update to the latest fwupd 2.0 release of this open-source Linux firmware update utility for Linux-based operating systems.

Matrix is an open standard for interoperable, decentralised, real-time communication over IP. Here’s our recommended free and open source GUI Matrix clients.

A challenge for enterprises that operate large-scale network infrastructure has long been how to maintain performance while updating critical systems. The Linux Foundation’s networking division (LF Networking) is helping to address that challenge with the L3AF project, which is based on eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) technology.

With the new L3AF 2.1.0 update, the technology is gaining a series of improvements including: enhanced observability features, application container improvements, and expanded network interface management functions.

Is BetaNews finally taking these problems more seriously?

The latest moves against NPR and PBS by Trump’s newly minted FCC chairperson Brendan Carr, has many noncommercial radio stations waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman is proposing "Faux Bus" as a new "fake" bus solution for simple devices.

You can’t make monopoly money without a monopoly, but you sure can lose it. It would take a heart of stone not to explode with joy at the massive infusion of schadenfreude provided in recent days by the DeepSeek AIpocalypse.

Do you use the official Spotify DEB on Ubuntu (or an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution like Linux Mint)? If so, you’ll be used to receiving updates to the Spotify Linux client direct from the official Spotify APT repo, right alongside all your other DEB-based software.

CachyOS February 2025 update arrives with Propeller optimizations, NVIDIA Blackwell support, tap-to-click, NTFS3, and key bug fixes.

In the world of file management, maintaining organization and efficiency is crucial. Long file names can lead to confusion and clutter, especially when dealing with numerous files across multiple directories. This article will walk you through creating a Bash script that recursively shortens file names in a specified directory while preserving the original file extensions. The script will respect the length of the file names based on a character limit specified as a command-line argument.

Universal Control is software which lets you use the keyboard and mouse (or trackpad) of your Mac to control up to two other nearby Mac or iPad devices.

If you’re a Linux gamer, you’re probably used to all your more graphics-intensive games needing to “process Vulkan shaders.” There’s a button right there, though, that allows you to skip, should you hit that and skip this tedious process?

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.14-rc1 to cap off the Linux 6.14 merge window.

Since a number of GTK developer came together at FOSDEM, the project figured now was as good a time as any to give an update on what’s coming in GTK.

The 225th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on February 2nd, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Giving everyone free access to their new launch (well, it's in "early access"), the Video Game History Foundation have put up their digital archive of video game history research materials.

Open source tools like Linux Malware Detect and Chkrootkit can alert you to unwanted visitors on your server.

Void Linux February ISO image adds Arm64 UEFI support for Apple Silicon, ThinkPad X13s, and Pinebook Pro.

Fans of the Papirus icon theme for Linux desktops will be happy hear a new version is now available to download.

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his traditional weekly recap of all the interesting KDE Plasma changes for the past week. With less than two weeks until the Plasma 6.3 stable release, Nate Graham began his weekly update by remarking that the Plasma 6.3 desktop is "looking pretty good!".