Linux and Open Source news headlines
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Tue, 03/11/2025 - 22:20
Framework Mono 6.14 debuts under the WineHQ umbrella with native ARM64 macOS support, X11 Windows Forms enhancements, and more.
Tue, 03/11/2025 - 22:20
Likening memory safety bugs to smallpox may not soothe sensitive C coders. Rust is alive and well in the Linux kernel and is expected to translate into noticeable benefits shortly, though its integration with the largely C-oriented codebase still looks uneasy.
Tue, 03/11/2025 - 22:20
The Fedora Community Operations (CommOps) Initiative, formally titled “Community Ops 2024 Reboot,” ran from late 2023 to December 2024, aiming to bolster community support within the Fedora Project. This initiative demonstrated a strong interest within the Fedora contributor community to engage not only in operational tasks but also in exploring Fedora’s data and understanding community trends.
Tue, 03/11/2025 - 22:20
Audacity 3.7.2 is out today as the latest stable version for this open-source digital audio editor and recording software, a bugfix update to the Audacity 3.7 series addressing more issues, crashes, and other pesky bugs.
Tue, 03/11/2025 - 22:20
With the new AMD EPYC 9005 processors there are SKUs up to 500 Watt with the likes of the EPYC 9965 flagship at 192 cores for Turin Dense cores or 128 Turin classic cores with the EPYC 9755. But for those looking at upgrading from an existing EPYC 9004 series server and bound by the motherboard BIOS support and/or cooling/power capacity, 400 Watts is a sweet spot.
Tue, 03/11/2025 - 22:20
For decades, Windows has dominated the PC landscape, and that's particularly true for gaming, since most games are designed for Windows and you can't just find alternatives to a specific game like you can with other software. That's slowly been changing over the years, but since Valve introduced the Steam Deck, based on Linux, things have evolved even more quickly.
Mon, 03/10/2025 - 22:20
Traversing a directory tree can be a daunting task, especially when dealing with extensive file systems. Fortunately, Bash scripting serves as an efficient way to automate this process. In this article, we will explore how to create a Bash script that can recursively traverse a directory tree and perform specified actions on each file or folder it encounters.
Mon, 03/10/2025 - 22:20
Learn how to monitor your Laptop's battery level in Linux and get notifications when it’s full or critically low using battmon script. Perfect for maintaining battery health on Linux!
Mon, 03/10/2025 - 22:20
lowfi is billed as an extremely simple lofi player. Listen to ambient music designed for chilling, sleeping, and working. No subscriptions!
Mon, 03/10/2025 - 22:20
ALGOL 68 is an imperative programming language that's more than a half-century old and went on to inspire and influence other programming languages. It has its place in programming language history but a recently published compiler front-end for ALGOL 68 has been decided for now at least not to be upstreamed into the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC).
Mon, 03/10/2025 - 22:20
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Firefox & Thunderbird 136, Garuda "Broadwing," Tails 6.13, PipeWire 1.4, Wine 10.3, KeePassXC 2.7.10, Xen 4.20, and more.
Mon, 03/10/2025 - 22:20
A big update to the perennially popular GNOME Shell extension Dash to Panel is rolling out, including new settings to go from Dash to Panel to dock mode!
Mon, 03/10/2025 - 22:20
GNOME 48, the default desktop environment for Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 Workstation, is now in RC testing stage. While, the final stable release is planned for 2025-03-19.
Mon, 03/10/2025 - 22:20
While the Orange Pi RV RISC-V SBC introduced at the Orange Pi Developer Conference 2024 last year is yet to be launched (should be up in a few days), the company has just launched the Orange Pi RV2 powered by the Ky X1 octa-core RISC-V SoC with a 2 TOPS AI accelerator, up to 8GB LPDD4X, optional eMMC flash moduyle, two M.2 sockets for storeage, dual gigabit Ethernet, WiFi 5, and more.
Mon, 03/10/2025 - 22:20
The 230th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on March 9th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.
Mon, 03/10/2025 - 22:20
Intel's new Platform Temperature Control (PTC) feature is a hardware-based solution to manage skin and/or board temperatures of a device. Platform Temperature Control will adjust the SoC power/performance if the temperature thresholds are exceeded, which are programmed by the device manufacturer.
Mon, 03/10/2025 - 22:20
DiffRhythm is billed as a blazingly fast and embarrassingly simple end-to-end full-length song generation with latent diffusion.
Mon, 03/10/2025 - 22:20
BSD's pledge() system call forces the current process into a restricted-service operating mode. A Linux port is now available..
Mon, 03/10/2025 - 22:20
Learn how to install Spotify on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with this step-by-step guide. Use the APT or Snap approach to enjoy your favorite music.
Mon, 03/10/2025 - 22:20
A solid choice for anyone switching from Windows due to its familiar desktop environment.