KDE Working On New Virtual Keyboard, Many Plasma Improvements Kick Off July
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly summary to highlight all of the interesting Plasma desktop developments for the past week...
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Libreboot 25.06 released this week as the newest version of this Coreboot downstream focused on shipping only with free and open-source componentslxer.com
Copyleft-next is officially relaunched as an effort to modernize strong copyleft, led by GPLv3 veterans Richard Fontana and Bradley Kuhn.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Libreboot 25.06 open-source BIOS/UEFI firmware is now available for download with support for new hardware, as well as other improvements.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Think Arch is only for the hardcore? Bluestar Linux rewrites the rules—delivering power, polish, and zero intimidation.Larry Cafiero (FOSS Force)
Coreboot 25.06 Released With Xeon Emerald Rapids Support, Better Panther Lake
Building off Coreboot 25.03 is now the availability of Coreboot 25.06 for further enhancing this open-source system firmware project that continues to see new hardware improvements -- predominantly for Google Chromebook devices but also more Intel platforms and other hardware -- as well as new capabilities to further rival proprietary BIOS solutions...
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Building off Coreboot 25.03 is now the availability of Coreboot 25.06 for further enhancing this open-source system firmware project that continues to see new hardware improvements -- predominantly for Google Chromebook devices but also more Intel pl…www.phoronix.com
Vulkan 1.4.321 Released With A Handful Of New Extensions
The Vulkan working group is celebrating the US Independence Day with graphics API independence in today publishing Vulkan 1.4.321 that comes with several new extensions...
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Axiomtek has introduced the KIWI330, an ultra-compact single board computer for edge AIoT projects with limited space. Measuring just 72 mm by 56 mm and 1.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
KDE Gear 25.04.3 is now available as the third and last maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 25.04 open-source software suite series.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
System76 has updated its compact Linux mini PC lineup with the Meerkat meer10, which builds on its predecessor’s small form factor while adding faster processors, modern storage, and improved connectivity for users who want a capable Linux workstatio…Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Bcachefs Fixes Merged For Linux 6.16-rc5
A handful of Bcachefs file-system fixes were submitted yesterday to Linus Torvalds for merging ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc5 release due out on Sunday. Today they were merged...
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COSMIC Desktop is now available on Void Linux, giving users a chance to explore the next-gen Rust-based desktop environment from System76.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
With PipeWire evolving at a rapid pace, the agenda for the 2025 workshop featured several key discussion topics. Here's a look at what was covered.Collabora | Open Source Consulting
With Anbox now archived, Waydroid has taken its place as the best option to run Android apps natively on your Linux desktop.Haroon Javed (Make Tech Easier)
Rust-Written Redox OS Continues Making Progress With Wayland
The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system project just published their June 2025 status report to outline recent progress on this innovative platform...
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Understanding how to use dracut is critical for kernel upgrades, troubleshooting boot issues, disk migration, encryption, and even kernel debugging. This article explores this tool.Suraj Rajendra Patil (Fedora Project)
Acer Nitro Gaming Controller"NGR200" To Be Supported By Linux 6.16
Sent in today for the ongoing Linux 6.16 kernel cycle as part of the input subsystem fixes is enabling support for the Acer Nitro Gaming Controller (NGR200)...
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We'll write about this for a long time to comeRoy Schestowitz
Intel Enables Wildcat Lake Display & Experimental Flip Queue For Linux 6.17 Graphics
Intel today sent out a batch of new kernel graphics/display driver code for queuing ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window opening in a few weeks. There is now DRM Panic support for the Intel i915 and Xe kernel drivers, Wildcat Lake "WCL" display enablement, and experimental flip queue support for Lunar Lake and Panther Lake hardware, among other chan…
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Debian Looks To Attract More Contributors, Eyes Budget For AI/LLM Usage By Debian Developers
The Debian project is hoping to address challenges of mentoring newcomers to contribute to the Debian Linux distribution as well as making it more known that open-source contributors can do more than just work on Debian packaging but that help is needed for documentation writing, web page creation, sorting out licensing issues, finding project sp…
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The Debian project is hoping to address challenges of mentoring newcomers to contribute to the Debian Linux distribution as well as making it more known that open-source contributors can do more than just work on Debian packaging but that help is nee…www.phoronix.com
Redis 8.2 Preparing More Performance Optimizations, SVS-VAMANA
The first release candidate of Redis 8.2 is now available for testing of this popular in-memory key-value database. Redis 8.2 is building off the recent Redis 8.0 release that ended up going tri-licensing with the AGPLv3 stemming from developer/community feedback...
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Bash 5.3 Released With Many Improvements
Three years since the Bash 5.2 release and one year since the first alpha release, GNU Bash 5.3 was released overnight as the newest step forward for this popular shell used on Linux and other operating systems...
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Debian 13 "Trixie" installer gets a second Release Candidate with support for rescuing Btrfs systems installed via the Calamares installer.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Mozilla Thunderbird 140 open-source email client is now available for download with various new features and many bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Waveshare has launched an embedded platform with a form factor similar to the Raspberry Pi Zero, powered by the RP2350 microcontroller. Key features include a DVI interface for displays and a lithium battery connector for portable applications.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
The approach of utilizing **dict(zip([keys],[values])) for solving a wide range of tasks in the course of Boolean Algebra for students is k...lxer.com
Perl 5.42 Released With New Operators, Unicode 16 Support, Security Fixes
Perl 5.42 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular programming language that comes one year after the prior Perl 5.40 release...
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Two Sudo privilege escalation flaws that opened your Linux system to hackers have been discovered and patched. Learn how to protect and audit your system.Djalel Oukid (Linux-Tech&More)
: Minimalist glue code offers surprising lifeline for stubborn display setupsLiam Proven (The Register)
Red Pitaya has unveiled new open-source STEMlab TI boards developed with Texas Instruments for demanding signal processing tasks in photonics, sensing, and laboratory automation.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Fedora Linux Looks To End Support For UEFI On MBR-Paritioned Disks
A proposal raised for Fedora 43 would end support for allowing UEFI installations on MBR-partitioned disks for x86_64 systems in the Anaconda installer. This would enforce a requirement on using GPT partition tables for all UEFI-based Fedora installations in the x86 world...
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A screenshot (or screengrab) is a snapshot or picture captured by a computer to record the output of a visual device.Steve Emms (LinuxLinks)
The digiKam 8.7 professional photo management software has been released for this KDE/Qt-aligned open-source solution for digital photography.lxer.com
AnduinOS is the brainchild of Anduin Xue, a software engineer at the company famous for not building Linux distros. It's not Windows, but it has that familiarity.Richard Devine (Windows Central)
The latest openSUSE Tumbleweed update brings Myrlyn, the application set to replace YaST for future software management tasks.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Intel Lunar Lake Showing Some Performance Improvements With Linux 6.16
For those on an Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" system, the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel is looking to be in better shape for those newest Intel SoCs. In testing carried out using a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura edition laptop, there are performance gains in some areas with the Linux 6.16 development kernel.
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For those on an Intel Core Ultra Series 2 'Lunar Lake' system, the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel is looking to be in better shape for those newest Intel SoCs.www.phoronix.com
: Community vetoes plans to axe i686 compatibility and switch X11 forksLiam Proven (The Register)
X.Org Server Lands Big Improvement For Using Zink With GLAMOR
A nice improvement was merged today to the X.Org Server for benefiting the GLAMOR 2D acceleration code when using the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver...
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Steam Survey issues prevented the survey results from being posted on the evening of the 1st as is traditionally done, but the results were just uploaded now to the Steam websitelxer.com
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