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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.

Real-time AI subtitling is in the works for VLC, the phenomenally popular open-source media player.

A little later than I planned, but here's the up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck. Each week Prime Gaming, part of what you get with a subscription to Amazon Prime, add and remove various games you can claim to keep.

Kdenlive, the popular KDE video editor, released the first maintenance update for the 24.12 series few days ago.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Plasma 6.3 Beta, Budgie Desktop in 2025, COSMIC Desktop Alpha 5, Debian 12.9, Tails 6.11, Raspberry Pi 5 16GB, and more.

Set to make the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle even more exciting is that it looks like the completed NTSYNC driver will be ready for merging. The NTSYNC driver enhances Wine / Proton (Steam Play) gaming by better matching the Windows NT synchronization primitives to allow for better gaming performance.

‘I'm a software person with a soldering iron’, he warns alongside release of Linux 6.13-rc7. Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has offered to hand-build a guitar effects pedal for one lucky kernel contributor.

Privacy and security have never been more important—or more under threat. With headlines constantly reporting data breaches, hacks, and the unchecked collection of sensitive personal information, it’s easy to feel like your digital life is always at risk.

From where we sit, Google’s “giveaway” of its open source Chromium assets is basically a ruse to convince the feds that the company isn’t an intentional monopolist… or that it’s changed its ways.

Most distros default to the integrated GPU (e.g. AMD or Intel) of your computer, whether it’s a laptop or a desktop workstation, so here’s a quick tutorial on how to switch the primary GPU to NVIDIA on Wayland.

Amarok 3.2.1 music player offers a refined experience with UI fixes, MTP updates, and Qt6 enhancements.

Seeed Studio’s reComputer AI R2130-12 is an Edge AI computer with a Raspberry Pi 5 SBC with 8GB RAM and a Hailo-8 module with 26 TOPS of AI performance, suitable for video analytics, machine vision, and intelligent edge computing.

Google engineers and others have been talking about Address Space Isolation "ASI" for the Linux kernel to better deal with speculative execution attacks and other CPU vulnerabilities. Last summer there were some new "request for comments" patches working on Linux Address Space Isolation and today a second iteration of those RFC patches were published.

Sigil, the free, open-source, and cross-platform e-book editor software built with Qt 6 and QtWebEngine and designed to edit books in the EPUB format, supporting both EPUB 2 and EPUB 3, has been updated today to version 2.4.

Olimex has announced that the highly anticipated PICO2-XL and PICO2-XXL open-source hardware boards are now available for pre-order, with shipments starting on January 17, 2025. These boards expand on the Raspberry Pi PICO2, offering increased GPIO availability and improved memory configurations for enhanced development flexibility.

Git 2.48 distributed revision control tool delivers Meson build system support, faster SHA-1s, memory leak-free tests, and more.

I love music! I have hundreds of CDs in my collection, a few of which have survived since from the late 1980s. I have an original copy of Nirvana’s Nevermind, Foo Fighters debut album, and many compilation CDs that cover generations of groups and artists.

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Fedora Linux has already supported making use of glibc HWCAPs for allowing libraries to be built for different x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels for performance-sensitive code where it can pay off when leveraging AVX/AVX2 or other newer Intel/AMD CPU instruction set extensions.