New story! ForkServer in Firefox 141: No More Restarts and Better Performance on Linux

ForkServer is the Firefox's new Linux feature that eliminates annoying forced restarts after updates. Better performance and low memory use.

New story! How to install PrestaShop on AlmaLinux 10

In this blog post, we will explain how to install PrestShop on AlmaLinux 10 OS. PrestaShop is a free and open-source e-commerce platform written in the PHP programming language, which stores data in the MySQL database management system

New story! How Stacer Simplifies Linux System Maintenance and Optimization

Want complete control over your Linux system—without the command line? Discover how Stacer can clean, tweak, and optimize your setup in just a few clicks.

New story! Arm Publishes Open-Source Accelerator Driver For Ethos-U65/85 NPUs

The newest open-source Linux kernel driver being worked on for the growing accelerator "accel" subsystem is a new hardware driver courtesy of Arm for enabling their Ethos U65 and U85 NPUs...

New story! KDE Plasma Customization Simple Settings

A quick tutorial on how to customize the KDE Plasma desktop in Endeavor OS! In this video, you'll learn how to easily change your desktop theme using KDE's built-in settings. From changing the Plasma theme, icons, and window layout, your desktop will look more attractive and organized. Perfect for beginners looking to spruce up the look of Linux without the hassle!

New story! The Rise of Immutable Linux Distros: A New Era of Security and Stability

Immutable Linux distributions are gaining traction by making core file systems unchangeable — offering enhanced security, improved stability, and simplified maintenance.

New story! Firefox 142 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Here’s What to Expect

With Firefox 141 promoted to the stable channel as the latest ESR (Extended Support Release), Mozilla promoted the next major release, Firefox 142, to the beta channel for public testing.

New story! Python 3.14 RC1 Released With Free-Threaded Python Officially Supported

The first release candidate of Python 3.14 is now available for testing as what will be this year's big feature update to this popular scripting language...

New story! Thunderbird 141 Arrives with Archive Button, OpenPGP Expiry Warnings

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jul 23, 2025 3:21 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Mozilla
Mozilla Thunderbird 141 open-source email client is out now with a new Archive button, better OpenPGP key handling, and a wide range of bug fixes.

New story! FreeBSD 15.0 Aims To Have A KDE Desktop Install Option

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jul 23, 2025 1:49 AM CST)
  • Groups: KDE; Story Type: News Story
The crew working on enhancing the FreeBSD laptop support is hoping to have an install option within the installer of FreeBSD 15 that will easily provide a KDE Plasma based desktop environment...

New story! Learn Linux Fast by Playing These Fun and Interactive Games

  • Make Tech Easier; By Haroon Javed (Posted by damien on Jul 23, 2025 12:18 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
These interactive Linux-based games teach everything from basic commands to advanced shell skills, all while keeping you engaged.

New story! Our Three Lawsuits Against Microsofters Are About to Become a Lot More Relevant to GNU/Linux

Microsoft 'kill switch' installed by Matthew J. Garrett - in the face of resistance from Linus Torvalds (whom Garrett would later defame a lot)

New story! Fedora Weighs Dropping Release Criteria For DVD Optical Media

The Fedora project is seeking feedback from its user and developer community over potentially updating its release criteria to no longer block on optical media boot issues (DVD images) as well as whether to continue honoring dual boot issues for Intel-based Macs as release-blocking...

New story! GitHub command palette wins stay of execution after dev pushback

Fans say low usage no surprise when obscure but beloved feature disabled by default GitHub has "paused" the removal of the command palette, which enables keyboard control of the GitHub web application, following developer protests.…

New story! IPFire 2.29 Core Update 196 Improves WireGuard Support, Console Graphics Stack

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 196 has been released today as a new stable update to this open-source hardened Linux firewall distribution introducing various improvements, updated components, and other changes.

New story! Google Debuts OSS Rebuild Project

Google launches the OSS Rebuild project to verify open source packages and combat supply chain attacks through reproducible builds.

New story! NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit Delivers 2070 TFLOPS AI for Advanced Robotics

The Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit is an upcoming high-performance platform built for next-generation humanoid robotics, real-time sensor fusion, and generative AI at the edge. It delivers up to 2070 FP4 TFLOPS of AI performance, includes 128 GB of LPDDR5X memory, and supports high-throughput, low-latency connectivity for deploying large transformer and vision-language models in real-time […]

New story! Arch Linux users told to purge Firefox forks after AUR malware scare

The distro's greatest asset is arguably also its greatest weakness If you installed the Firefox, LibreWolf, or Zen web browsers from the Arch User Repository (AUR) in the last few days, delete them immediately and install fresh copies.…

New story! Fedora 43 Cleared To Ship With Zstd Initrd, Updated Compiler Toolchains & More

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) this week voted to approve a number of new features/changes for the upcoming Fedora 43 release...

New story! Fwupd 2.0.13 Released with Faster Startup and Lower Memory Use

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jul 22, 2025 10:34 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
The fwupd 2.0.13 update speeds up startup by 60%, lowers memory use, and adds support for new MediaTek, HP, and Logitech devices.

New story! Starship Prompt: Customize Your Linux Shell with Ease

  • ostechnix.com; By Senthil Kumar (Posted by ostechnix on Jul 22, 2025 9:03 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
Learn how to install and customize the Starship shell prompt on Linux. Make your terminal faster, cleaner, and more useful in just minutes.

New story! NVIDIA Makes More Hopper & Blackwell Header Files Open-Source

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jul 22, 2025 2:06 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Last week NVIDIA open-sourced 12k lines of C header files for Blackwell GPUs to help in the open-source driver efforts, namely for Nouveau / NVK and the in-development NOVA Rust driver. On Friday they made public some additional header files for helping in the Blackwell and Hopper open-source driver enablement...

New story! Cursor AI YOLO mode lets coding assistant run wild, security firm warns

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Jul 22, 2025 12:35 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
You only live once, but regret is forever Cursor's AI coding agent will run automatically, in YOLO mode, if you let it. According to Backslash Security, you might want to think twice about doing so.…

New story! Firefox 141 Release Brings Lower RAM Usage On Linux

The Mozilla Firefox 141.0 release binaries are out today for this monthly update to this cross-platform, open-source web browser...

New story! Clear Linux OS terminated as Intel trims the fat

Chipmaker halts updates and support, urges users to migrate immediately Intel has abruptly killed off Clear Linux OS, ending Chipzilla's decade-long adventure in this part of the Linux world.…

New story! AMD ROCm 6.4.2 Released With Official Support For The Radeon RX 7700 XT

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jul 21, 2025 8:00 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
While we await AMD to officially release ROCm 7.0 as the next major release of their open-source GPU compute stack, out this afternoon is ROCm 6.4.2 as the newest stable point release. ROCm 6.4.2 expands the officially supported Radeon consumer GPUs as well as bringing various fixes and enhancements to the various libraries and components making up this AMD GPU compute ecosystem stack...

New story! What’s the Point of Linux “Anti-Something” Distros?

The biggest question our man in Italy has about Linux distros and other open source software projects taking political stances is: do they do more harm than good?

New story! Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9.6 Brings Better SSH Validation

Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9.6, an easy-to-use SD card preparation tool by Raspberry Pi, updates multiple languages and refines SSH and WiFi.

New story! The Most Popular Clear Linux Benchmarks & Intel's Software Innovations Over Its History

Breaking on Friday afternoon was word that Intel is shutting down its Clear Linux project effective immediately after ten years of maintaining this high performance Linux distribution that relentlessly optimized for the best Linux x86_64 performance -- even when it benefited AMD x86_64 processors too. Here is a look back at the most popular of our Clear Linux testing over its decade in existence as a high performance Intel Linux OS...

New story! Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Jul 21, 2025 12:41 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
The End of Windows 10 is looming. The world needs a simpler, easy, quick, snackable alternative Comment Dear Santa. For Windows-10-end-of-support-day in October, please may we have a dead simple bulletproof all-free OS that gets old PCs online without a Google account, and does nothing else?…

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