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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.

Chromium adds Wayland color-management-v1 support, allowing HDR rendering on supported platforms with a default-enabled feature flag.

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 (Trixie) is scheduled for release on August 9, featuring KDE Plasma 6.3.5, GNOME 48, and Linux kernel 6.12 LTS.

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 announced this week that they are bringing their CUDA software to RISC-V processors...

After a decade of development, Intel has officially shut down Clear Linux OS. The project’s GitHub repo is now archived and read-only.

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...

Arch Linux deletes three browser-related AUR packages infected with a Remote Access Trojan, urges users to uninstall and check systems for compromise.

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.

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...

The new Garuda Linux update replaces outdated video driver metapackages with modern hardware profiles.

This video contains content about KDE plasma theme customization, I use Endeavous OS

Three malicious packages uploaded to the Arch User Repository (AUR) in July 2025 successfully distributed the CHAOS remote access trojan to Linux systems before being detected and removed. The incident involving AUR malware packages highlights critical security vulnerabilities in community-maintained software repositories and underscores the importance of package verification practices for Arch Linux users.

The open-source and Rust-based Burn deep learning framework developed by Tracel AI shared that their open-source matrix multiplication kernel performance can compete with and even outperform the NVIDIA CUDA cuBLAS performance. Plus Burn isn't limited to just NVIDIA GPUs but can work on most hardware/drivers, including a Vulkan back-end...

Creating an SSH client configuration file allows you to streamline remote server connections by defining connection parameters, authentication methods, and host-specific settings. Instead of typing lengthy SSH commands with multiple options each time you connect, you can store these settings in a configuration file for automatic use.

Calibre 8.7 was released today by developer Kovid Goyal as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and cross-platform e-book manager software for managing your e-book collection.

It did get sourced, but nobody cared The result of the pioneering joint Psion and Nokia smartphone effort is still out there on GitHub.…

The most depressing news of the week: Intel is ending their performance-optimized Clear Linux distribution. Over the past decade the Clear Linux operating system has shown what's possible with out-of-the-box performance on x86_64 hardware... Not just for Intel platforms but even showing extremely great performance results on AMD x86_64 too. But with the cost-cutting going on at Intel, Clear Linux is now being sunset...

Luckfox has introduced the Lyra Pi, a compact single-board computer with a Raspberry Pi-like form factor, built around the Core3506 module and a triple-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor. It targets embedded and IoT applications, offering dual Ethernet, USB OTG, MIPI DSI, flexible Rockchip Matrix IO, and optional Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, and 4G LTE. The Core3506 […]