New story! Intels 2025-Q1 Linux Excitement With Battlemage, AVX10 & Other Kernel Improvements

With the first quarter quickly drawing to a close, here's a look back at the most popular Intel Linux news of the quarter. There's been excitement with the Battlemage discrete graphics cards with their open-source driver, early work on Xe3 graphics, AVX10.2 dropping the optional 512-bit features to make it mandatory now (thankfully!), and a lot of exciting upstream Linux kernel improvements...

New story! Firefox 137 Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Firefox 137 open-source web browser adds PDF hyperlink detection, HEVC playback on Linux, and a new built-in calculator directly in the address bar.

New story! Redis-Forked Valkey 8.1 Released - Turns To AVX2 For Better Performance

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by bob on Apr 1, 2025 6:35 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
It's been just over one year since the Linux Foundation and partners announced Valkey as a fork of Redis. Following the release of Redis 8.0 in September for this in-memory key-value database, Valkey 8.1 is out today...

New story! Privacy died last century, the only way to go is off-grid

From smartphones to surveillance cameras to security snafus, there's no escape. Opinion I was going to write a story about how Amazon is no longer even pretending to respect your privacy. But, really, why bother?…

New story! Is Open Source Initiative Staring Into the Face of Irrelevancy?

To the extent that Open Source Initiative is known, today it is perhaps best known for controversy rather than for its guardianship of open source.

New story! 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 30th, 2025

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Apr 1, 2025 2:01 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
The 233rd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on March 30th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

New story! Linux 6.15 exFAT Can Delete Files Much Faster: 4+ Minutes To 1.6 Second Optimization

For those dealing with exFAT formatted storage devices under Linux, the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel has a big optimization for yielding much faster delete performance when making use of the "discard" mount option...

New story! Immutable Distro Nitrux 3.9.1 Brings New Convergent Web Browser, Linux 6.13

Nitrux developer Uri Herrera announced today the release and general availability of Nitrux 3.9.1 as the latest ISO snapshot of this Debian-based immutable and systemd-free GNU/Linux distribution using a highly customized KDE Plasma desktop environment by default.

New story! How to Install WildFly Application Server with Nginx Reverse Proxy on Debian 12

WildFly formerly JBoss is a free and open-source application server that helps you build and deploy Java web applications. In this guide, you will learn how to install WildFly or JBoss application runtime on a Debian 12 server.

New story! Intel-Started Cloud Hypervisor Project Adds Experimental RISC-V Support

Cloud Hypervisor began as an open-source Intel software project more than a half-decade ago with an emphasis on security and cloud deployments while leveraging the Rust programming language. With time its scope has broadened a lot as has its industry adoption. With time it added ARM64 support and recruited AMD, Ampere Computing, Microsoft, and others as its supporters while being folded into the Linux Foundation. The latest expansion for the project is introducing experimental RISC-V 64-bit support...

New story! kew adds internet radio support

kew’s recent development has focused on improving the stability of the program, but the program’s latest release has added internet radio and mouse support.

New story! Nitrux 3.9.1 Launches with Kernel 6.13 and Fiery Web Browser

Nitrux Linux 3.9.1 "mk" debuts with major MauiKit, Qt, and kernel updates, improved firmware, Fiery browser, and optimized power management tools.

New story! 7 Best Free and Open Source Restic Front-Ends

  • LinuxLinks.com; By LinuxLinks (Posted by sde on Mar 31, 2025 3:20 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
restic is a backup program that is fast, efficient and secure. We feature some useful front-ends for restic.

New story! Linux 6.15 Wires Up SoundWire Bulk Register Access

The in-development Linux 6.15 kernel is continuing to enhance its support for MIPI's SoundWire specification for small audio peripherals with this two-pin, low-complexity audio interface...

New story! Shell Upgrade: Supercharge Your Terminal with Zsh & Oh My Zsh

  • linuxconfig.org; By Lubos Rendek (Posted by linuxer on Mar 31, 2025 12:17 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
In the Linux world, your choice of shell can significantly enhance your command-line experience. While Bash is the default shell on most Linux distributions including Debian and Ubuntu, the Z shell (Zsh) with the Oh My Zsh framework offers a more visually appealing and feature-rich alternative that can boost your productivity and make terminal work more enjoyable.

New story! Mozilla Firefox 137 Is Now Available with HEVC Playback Support on Linux

Mozilla published today the final build of the Firefox 137 open-source web browser for all supported platforms ahead of the April 1st, 2025, official release date, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and changes.

New story! CachyOS ISO Snapshot for March 2025 Brings New Bootloader, Linux Kernel 6.14

The developers of the Arch Linux-based CachyOS distribution released today the ISO snapshot for March 2025, featuring the latest and greatest Linux kernel, a new bootloader, and other changes.

New story! IO_uring Network Zero-Copy Receive Lands In Linux 6.15

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by bob on Mar 31, 2025 7:43 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Kernel, Linux
IO_uring continues maturing while being one of the greatest innovations within the Linux kernel in the past number of years. With Linux 6.15, IO_uring is getting even more interesting with introducing network zero-copy receive support. With this new code a 200G link could be saturated off a single CPU core in a recent demonstration...

New story! Fix Flatpak Update Errors: Corrupted File Object Issue

This guide helps you to fix "opcode close: Corrupted file object" or "Deleting ref due to invalid objects" errors while updating or repairing Flatpak.

New story! CachyOS March 2025 Release Brings Limine Bootloader

Arch-based CachyOS's March 2025 update adds the Limine bootloader, btrfs snapshots, ASUS Armoury support, and better NVIDIA GSP firmware.

New story! Lenovo ThinkEdge SE30 Watchdog Driver Coming For Linux 6.15

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by bob on Mar 31, 2025 3:08 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
The watchdog subsystem changes have been submitted for the Linux 6.15 merge window that is now at the mid-way point...

New story! Chromium Web Browser Lands Support For Wayland XDG-Session-Management

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by bob on Mar 31, 2025 1:37 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Chrome
Google's Ozone Wayland support continues to improve for benefiting the Chrome/Chromium web browser. The newest addition merged this past week is support for the xdg-session-management protocol...

New story! Arch Linux Installer Archinstall 3.0.3 Improves Limine Bootloader Support

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Mar 31, 2025 12:05 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Arch, Linux
Archinstall, the menu-based installer for the Arch Linux distribution, has been updated today to version 3.0.3, the third maintenance update in the Archinstall 3.0 series, bringing numerous improvements and bug fixes.

New story! CachyOS Adds Limine Bootloader, Easier Samba Integration & NTSYNC Wine

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by bob on Mar 30, 2025 10:34 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Arch, Linux
The Arch Linux powered CachyOS is out with its March 2025 update that delivers a number of new features for this OS that is popular with open-source enthusiasts and power users for its out-of-the-box performance optimizations and extensive tuning...

New story! A Beginners Guide To Flatpak

  • ostechnix.com; By Senthil Kumar (Posted by ostechnix on Mar 30, 2025 9:02 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
This comprehensive tutorial explains what is Flatpak, how to install Flatpak on Linux and then how to use Flatpak command line user interface to install flatpak applications in Linux.

New story! Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 13 (Mar 24 – 30, 2025)

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Mar 30, 2025 7:31 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Kernel 6.14, Ubuntu 25.04 Beta, CachyOS March 2025 ISO, KaOS 2025.03, Zorin OS 17.3, is there Linux for Windows users, and more.

New story! Dash to Panel lives on, thanks to Zorin sponsorship

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Mar 30, 2025 5:59 PM CST)
  • Groups: GNOME; Story Type: News Story
There's also a new release of the Zorin OS distro The handy GNOME extension Dash to Panel will live on, under its present maintainer, after winning financial backing from one of the distros that uses it.…

New story! Archinstall 3.0.3 Rolls Out with Partitioning and Bootloader Improvements

Archinstall 3.0.3 TUI installer for Arch Linux debuts with improved LVM prep, refined partitioning, enhanced Limine bootloader support, and more.

New story! MIPS Lands Multi-Cluster Support In Linux 6.15 For The EyeQ6 SoC

While the upstream MIPS architecture is at a dead-end due to RISC-V, the Linux kernel code for the MIPS CPU architecture continues to improve for all the existing MIPS-based platforms out there. With Linux 6.15 there is new work for enhancing the Mobileye EyeQ6 SoC support...

New story! Vivaldi Adds Built-In Proton VPN to Its Browser

Vivaldi, the proprietary Norwegian browser that’s largely built on open-source code, further distinguishes itself from other Chrome-based browsers by adding a baked-in on-demand Proton VPN implementation.

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