The Armbian development team has rolled out a series of notable updates this week, introducing enhancements across software usability, bootloader standardization, and hardware compatibility. One of the most significant additions is the integration of OpenMediaVault into the Armbian software installer. OpenMediaVault is now available via the armbian-config interface, offering users an easy way to deploy […]

Shotcut 25.05 video editor lands with a new Alpha Strobe filter, Freeze Frame tool, UI enhancements, and more.

At the end of April was the open-source surprise of NVIDIA posting Nouveau Linux driver patches for their Hopper and Blackwell GPUs. This comes to complement their official (open-source but out of tree) kernel driver support for these newer NVIDIA GPUs and in the absence of the modern Rust-based NOVA Linux kernel driver not being in working shape yet on the mainline kernel. An updated version of these Nouveau driver patches for NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell GPUs were posted overnight...

We will use Tuxguitar to render the audio of a Guitar Pro score [5]. Guitar Pro scores are files with a complete band score transcribed (guitars, bass, drums, synths and more). Introduction Tuxguitar is a quite powerful application written in a mixture of Java / C. It is able to render a score in real […]

A new version of Raspberry Pi OS is now available, marking what is likely the final release based on Debian Bookworm before the upcoming transition to Debian Trixie later this year. The update introduces usability enhancements, bug fixes, and performance optimizations across the system. One notable addition is a customized screen locking mechanism based on […]

At the end of April I reported on a significant performance regression affecting newer AMD CPUs and was bisected to a change in the AMD SRSO mitigation handling for Zen 4/5 processors with the Linux 6.15 kernel. The fix for that significant performance regression was merged today ahead of the imminent Linux 6.15-rc6 release...

Kitty 0.42, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator, brings a Quake-style quick-access terminal, Unicode 16-compliant grapheme segmentation, and more.

This week Google announced all of the accepted projects for this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC). There are 1,272 accepted students/projects this year for student developers working on various interesting open-source efforts over the summer...

The 239th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on May 11th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Linus Torvalds has released Linux 6.15-rc6 today with hopes of releasing Linux 6.15 stable in two weeks...

Flatpak 1.16.1 was released today as the latest stable version of this popular Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework and the first maintenance update to the Flatpak 1.16 series.

Merged today to Linux Git ahead of the Linux 6.15-rc6 release is support for several more gaming controllers...

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Raspberry Pi OS, Plasma 6.3.5, Kitty 0.42, Hyprland 0.49, 'End of 10' campaign, openSUSE removing the Deepin desktop, Mint's theme gets a modern touch, and more.

Queued up for removal in the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel cycle is dropping "echo", a software-based echo cancellation code within the kernel intended for telecommunications use. But it's old, unmaintained, and likely not actively used...

So far two Judges (called "Masters" here) separately and independently ruled in our favour because they can see what's really happening

With version 2.5, Raspberry Pi Connect drops its beta tag and introduces smarter, faster, and lighter remote access capabilities for Pi users.

Raspberry Pi has officially ended the beta phase of Raspberry Pi Connect, its remote access platform for connecting to Raspberry Pi devices from anywhere. With the release of version 2.5, the service now includes major updates to connection management, significantly reducing data usage and improving responsiveness. Launched in early 2024, Raspberry Pi Connect quickly gained […]

Back in January you may recall the news of GNOME's Showtime app looking to replace Totem as the default video player. That didn't happen in time for GNOME 48 back in March but this week all the formalities were met that Showtime has been cleared to replace the outdated Totem with GNOME 49...

The RA4M1-Zero is a compact development board based on Renesas’ 32-bit RA4M1 MCU. Running at 48 MHz with a built-in FPU, it features firmware encryption, secure boot, and a castellated design for easy integration into custom hardware. The board uses the R7FA4M1AB3CFM microcontroller from the RA4M1 family. It includes 256 KB of flash memory, 32 […]

This tutorial will explain how to install MariaDB on AlmaLinux 10. MariaDB is an open-source relational database management system used for storing data. MariaDB is written in C, C++, Perl, an57d Bash and is highly compatible with MySQL, with exact matching with MySQL APIs and commands.

Hyprland 0.49 tiling Wayland compositor is out with permission management, breaking changes, new protocols, and many fixes.

SiFive and Kinara have announced a new partnership to offer developers direct access to the SiFive Intelligence X280 RISC-V vector processor through a compact USB-based enablement board. The HiFive Xara X280 board, based on Kinara’s Ara-2 processor, is designed to allow early-stage evaluation and development of RISC-V vector software, particularly for AI and machine learning […]

The KDE Project released KDE Frameworks 6.14 as the latest version of this collection of more than 70 add-on libraries to Qt, providing commonly needed functionality to KDE apps and the KDE Plasma desktop.

With the copy-on-write Bcachefs file-system considering its on-disk format now "soft frozen" and nearing the point of potentially removing the "EXPERIMENTAL" flag on it, a number of Phoronix readers have been requesting some fresh benchmarks of this open-source file-system. For your viewing pleasure today are some fresh benchmarks of Bcachefs and other file-systems atop the Linux 6.15 kernel being released as stable later this month. On the benchmarking block today are Bcachefs, Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, and XFS in-tree file-systems.

Milk-V has unveiled the Jupiter NX, a compact system-on-module built around the SpacemIT K1/M1 octa-core processor based on the RISC-V architecture. Designed as a drop-in alternative to the Jetson Nano, it offers broad compatibility with existing Nano baseboards, along with high performance and versatile connectivity options. The SoC at the core of the Jupiter NX […]

This blog post will show you how to install Node.js on AlmaLinux 10 OS version—the latest version of AlmaLinux. NodeJS is an open-source cross-platform JavaScript runtime compatible with multiple OSs, such as Windows, Unix, macOS, and Linux. We will stick with Linux, especially AlmaLinux 10.

The Debian Project supports “End of 10” to defend software freedom, while also seeking better tools to revive or retire neglected packages.

The KDE Project released KDE Frameworks 6.14 as the latest version of this collection of more than 70 add-on libraries to Qt, providing commonly needed functionality to KDE apps and the KDE Plasma desktop.

Linux giant finds Chinese environment to be perilous beneath pretty exterior SUSE has kicked the Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) out of its community-driven Linux distro, openSUSE, and the reasons it gives for doing so are revealing.…

We were shocked – SHOCKED – by the answer. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the slurpiest mobile browser of them all? The answer, according to VPN vendor Surfshark, is Chrome.…