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Alpine Linux In An Infrastructure Crisis With Equinix Metal Sunsetting
Last week I wrote about the crisis plaguing X.Org / FreeDesktop.org with losing out on their cloud/server infrastructure due to losing out on their free server resources provided by Equinix at the end of April. It's not only FreeDesktop.org and all tho...
2025-02-03 13:00
Faux Bus Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Better Deal With Simple Devices
Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman is proposing "Faux Bus" as a new "fake" bus solution for simple devices...
2025-02-03 11:20
Firefox 135 Published With Safeguards To Prevent Overwhelming The Back History
Mozilla Firefox 135 release binaries are now available for those wanting to grab the latest browser release right away...
2025-02-03 10:32
How to reduce data storage costs by up to 50% with Ceph
Canonical Ceph with IntelⓇ Quick Assist Technology (QAT) In our last blog post we talked about how you can use Intel® QAT with Canonical Ceph, today we’ll cover why this technology is important from a business perspective – in other words, we’...
2025-02-03 10:32
Red Hat Hiring To Continue Advancing The Linux Desktop In 2025
Christian Schaller as Red Hat's Director of Software Engineering outlined in a blog post today some of the areas they will be focusing on this year with Fedora Workstation development. Additionally, they will be hiring at least two more Linux desktop e...
2025-02-03 10:00
FreeBSD Working On S0ix Sleep State Support For Newer Laptops
FreeBSD is working on S0ix standby power state support for better handling modern Intel and AMD laptops running this popular BSD operating system...
2025-02-03 08:45
Fwupd 2.0.5 Brings Support For More ELAN Fingerprint Readers & Fixes
Fwupd 2.0.5 is out today as the newest update to this open-source solution for system and peripheral/device firmware updating under Linux...
2025-02-03 08:33
Sound Open Firmware 2.12 Adds NXP iMX95 Support, Zephyr RTOS For AMD ACP 6.0
Sound Open Firmware 2.12 is now available to succeed the SOF 2.11 release from last September. Sound Open Firmware as a reminder is an open-source audio DSP firmware solution and related SDK/tooling. SOF started out as an open-source Intel project and ...
2025-02-03 06:50
Intel NPU Driver 1.13 Released For Core Ultra Linux Systems
Intel on Friday released an updated user-space driver for their Neural Processing Unit (NPU) found with Core Ultra SoCs. This user-space driver code works with the IVPU accelerator kernel driver for opening up the Intel NPU for helping speed-up AI work...
2025-02-03 06:36
Red Hat Releases Tuned 2.25 Daemon For Linux Adaptive Performance Tuning & Monitoring
Red Hat engineers have released Tuned 2.25 as the newest version of their alternative to power-profiles-daemon and similar for adaptive performance tuning and monitoring. Tuned ships with various profiles and different capabilities for tuning Linux sys...
2025-02-03 06:26
Turbostat Preps For Intel Clearwater Forest & Panther Lake
Yesterday just prior to the Linux 6.14-rc1 release were some last minute changes to the Turbostat utility that lives within the Linux kernel source tree...
2025-02-03 06:20
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 2nd, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for February 2nd, 2025, brings news about Mozilla Thunderbird 134, Linux kernel 6.14 RC, NVIDIA 570 beta, Nitrux 3.9, GParted 1.7, CachyOS release for February 2025, KaOS 2025.01, GCompris 25.0, ParrotOS 6.3, System76’s M...
2025-02-03 03:12
How to Fix Spotify ‘No PubKey’ Error on Ubuntu
Do you use the official Spotify DEB on Ubuntu (or an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution like Linux Mint)? If so, you’ll be used to receiving updates to the Spotify Linux client direct from the official Spotify APT repo, right alongside all your other DE...
2025-02-03 02:48
Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.14 Release Candidate
Linus Torvalds announced the general availability of the first Release Candidate version of the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel series for public testing. Here’s what to expect! The post Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.14 Release Candidate a...
2025-02-03 00:13
Bits from the DPL
Dear Debian community, this is bits from DPL for January. Sovereign Tech Agency I was recently pointed to Technologies and Projects supported by the Sovereign Tech Agency which is financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate...
2025-02-03 00:00
Papirus Icon Theme Updated
Fans of the Papirus icon theme for Linux desktops will be happy hear a new version is now available to download. Paprius‘s first update in 2025 improves support for KDE Plasma 6 by adding Konversation, KTorrent and RedShift tray icons, KDE and Plasma...
2025-02-02 19:54
Linux Icon Pack Papirus Gets First Update in 8 Months
Fans of the Papirus icon theme for Linux desktops will be happy hear a new version is now available to download. Paprius‘s first update in 2025 improves support for KDE Plasma 6 by adding Konversation, KTorrent and RedShift tray icons, KDE and Plasma...
2025-02-02 19:54
Linux 6.14-rc1 Released With NTSYNC Completed, AMDXDNA Driver & Other Enhancements
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.14-rc1 to cap off the Linux 6.14 merge window...
2025-02-02 19:29
CachyOS ISO Snapshot for February 2025 Brings Linux Kernel 6.13, NVIDIA 570 Driver
CachyOS ISO snapshot for February 2025 is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.13, NVIDIA 570 graphics driver, and more. Here's what's new! The post CachyOS ISO Snapshot for February 2025 Brings Linux Kernel 6.13, NVIDIA 570 Driver appeared f...
2025-02-02 18:38
GNOME Introduces New UI & Monospace Adwaita Fonts
GNOME has announced a change to its default UI and monospace fonts ahead of the upcoming GNOME 48 release — a typographic turnabout that won’t impact Ubuntu users directly, though. Should you feel a sense of deja vu here it’s because GNOME triall...
2025-02-02 16:42