FSF Blogs: May GNU spotlight with Amin Bandali featuring thirteen new GNU releases: Automake, Gettext, and more!

Thirteen new GNU releases in the last month (as of May 31, 2025):

Gradia – New App to Make Your Screenshots Prettier for Social Media

Looking for an app to quickly edit your images or screenshots for social media, blog posts, or websites? Here’s a new app to do the job in Linux Desktop. It’s Gradia, a free and open-source tool written mostly in Python programming language, and uses GTK4 and LibAdwaita for its modern user interface that well integrated […]

Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Increase Swap Memory Size

In this article I explain how to increase the swap file. This helps performance on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 4GB of RAM or less.
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Distribution Release: Oracle Linux 9.6

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Gursewak Sokhi has announced the release of Oracle Linux 9 Update 6, the new stable build of Oracle’s Linux distribution built from the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Th…

elementary OS 8 Updates Deliver More New Features

The team behind elementary OS recently detailed a number of improvements to recently roll out to users of the distro. Gala, the default window manager used by the Pantheon desktop environment, is described as seeing an “absolutely massive release…

Audacious 4.5 Beta Brings New Plugins, Better PipeWire Support

The first beta of Audacious 4.5 is available for testing. It brings improved PipeWire support, better Qt/GTK parity, and a number of new plugins and skins.
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The best Linux VPNs of 2025: Expert tested and reviewed

We tested the top Linux VPNs with easy-to-use apps that feature a graphical user interface. They’ll keep your browsing safe.

How Red Hat just quietly, radically transformed enterprise server Linux

RHEL 10 becomes the first major enterprise Linux distro to discard traditional packaging and embrace immutable. See how we got here.

I found a Linux distro that combines the best parts of other operating systems (and it works)

BlueStar Linux combines various design elements that work on other platforms into a visually pleasing distro.

Why I’m leaving Firefox for good – here’s the browser I’m using now instead

I’ve been coming back to Firefox-based browsers for years, but this time I’m deleting the browser for good.

CrowPi 3: An All-in-one AI Learning Kit With Cyberdeck Feel

A Swiss Army knife for coding education as this kit transforms the programming concepts into tangible experiences. Learn from more than a hundred interactive projects.

Sharing PATH, Aliases, and Functions Between Bash and Zsh

Discover how to seamlessly share PATH, aliases, and functions between Bash and Zsh.

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Gnome’s New Director Tackles Funding, Pride and Prejudice

Given the current political climate in the US and parts of Europe, it’s not surprising that the haters have been targeting one of open source’s most beloved projects.
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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1124

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
Review: Picking up a Pico
News: Rhino Linux tests Plasma session and presents updated package manager, Arch installer offers options for Btrfs snapshots…

Linux App Release Roundup: May 2025

I run through a selection of smaller Linux app releases made in May 2025, from a flashy MPD frontend to a local AI-powered image enhancer.
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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 1st, 2025

The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for June 1st, 2025, brings news about Firefox 139, NVIDIA 575, GNOME 48.2, GNU Linux-libre 6.15, Armbian 25.5, KaOS 2025.05, Thunderbird 139, TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen7, Alpine Linux 3.22, PorteuX 2.1, and more.
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Distribution Release: Network Security Toolkit 42-14476

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Network Security Toolkit (NST) project has released a new major version of the distribution. NST 42-14476 features several new improvements which are listed in the project’s release …

Distribution Release: AxOS 25.06

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Adrian Arjoca has announced the release of AxOS 25.06, the latest version of the project’s Arch-based desktop Linux distribution featuring a custom package manager called Epsilon. This r…

Bruno Haible: Major German science prize for open-source firmware developer

The 1st prize of the German young scientists competition, in the category mathematics + computer science, of this year was awarded to Simon Neuenhausen for writing an open-source firmware for the wifi of the ESP32 SoC. It replaces the clos…

Bruno Haible: The ideal application profiler

The usual tool for optimizing a program’s execution speed is a profiler.

I’ve seen and tried various profilers over the years, and each of them had some drawbacks: Some of them require root privileges, some of them produ…