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The 222nd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on January 12th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Linux: From supercomputers to smartphones. Explore the open source OS powering innovation. Discover popular distros like Ubuntu and Fedora. Learn why Linux matters.

Here's an interesting little problem. A friend of mine gave me an older iPhone 11, so I could play with it, test its long-term abilities, do all sorts of everyday checks, and whatnot. I've already written some on this endeavor, including, for instance, how to use KDE Connect for music transfer.

Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, announced today that they’ve partnered with SiFive and ESWIN Computing to enable Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on the HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V development board.

The RISC-V development ecosystem is expanding with the introduction of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on the HiFive Premier P550, a collaboration between SiFive, ESWIN Computing, and Canonical.

If you have an older MacOS device lying around, why not install Linux to give it a new life?

Ubuntu developers are looking at extending their policy of not releasing stable release updates (SRUs) around the weekend as well as not phasing them up to 100% during those weekend times either.

Learn how to use the DIG Command in Linux with real examples in our latest easy-to-follow step-by-step guide.

Steve's dedication to open source principles and his ability to bridge commercial and community interests set a standard for future developers.

This blog post is about importing and exporting databases in MySQL or MariaDB. Importing and Exporting are fundamental processes that every system administrator and developer should have a solid understanding of. MySQL import database is also known as restoring the database from a daily, weekly, or any backup we have on our server.

Tuned for running chunky models on the desktop with 128GB of RAM, custom Ubuntu. CES Nvidia has announced a desktop computer powered by a new GB10 Grace-Blackwell superchip and equipped with 128GB of memory to give AI developers, researchers, and students the tools they need to run large models on the desktop.

It’s Adwaita for Steam, a skin to make Steam look more like a native GNOME app. With it, the title and tool bars will be merged into a compact GNOME Client-Side Decoration style header bar.

Linux 6.12 is now the latest stable LTS (Long-Term Support) 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 graphical or command-line methods.

Ubuntu Studio users are experiencing widespread failures when attempting in-place upgrades from 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS. The root cause appears to be a conflict arising from the optional switchability between PipeWire and PulseAudio sound servers in Ubuntu Studio 24.04.

This is a step by step guide shows how to set the priority of certain packages, launchpad PPAs, and/or other apt repositories in Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, and their based systems.

For fans of the Xubuntu derivative of Ubuntu Linux, the upcoming Xubuntu 25.04 release will feature the Xfce 4.20 desktop...

If you’ve ever played around with customising Ubuntu (or any GNOME Shell-based Linux distribution) you’ll have encountered GNOME Tweaks, an official app giving you GUI access to options, settings, and controls not otherwise exposed in the UI.

Zeek (formerly Bro) is a free and open-source platform for network security monitoring. It is a powerful passive network traffic analyzer that investigates suspicious or malicious activity.

As another year transitions from present to past, I want to recap the notable new features, changes, updates and innovations Ubuntu saw over the past 12 months.

Arduino IDE is free open-source AVR development board IDE from Arduino CC. It’s available in Debian and Ubuntu repositories, but stuck at version 1.8.19, probably because the 2.x versions require internet connection.