FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, April 25, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC)

Join the FSF and friends on Friday, April 25 from 12:00 to 15:00 EDT (16:00 to 19:00 UTC) to help improve the Free Software Directory.

Ghostty DEBs Now Available for Ubuntu 25.04

Ghostty terminal fans needn’t fear an upgrade to Ubuntu’s latest release, as a community packaging effort just added Ghostty DEB packages for Ubuntu 25.04. The Ghostty Ubuntu project was set up was the aim of providing “Ubuntu/Debian …

Distribution Release: CRUX 3.8

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The CRUX distribution is a lightweight operating system with software added to the distribution through a collection of application ports. CRUX 3.8 is the first release in about three ye…

TrueNAS 25.04 Arrives with Thousands of Changes

One of the most popular Linux-based NAS solutions has rolled out the latest edition, based on Ubuntu 25.04.

Scribus 1.6.4 Released with New Python Script Functions (Ubuntu PPA)

Scribus, the popular free open-source desktop publishing software, released new 1.6.4 version yesterday. This is a maintenance release for current 1.6 stable release series. It features only some bug-fixes and few minor new features. According to the official release note, Scribus 1.6.4 improved Python scripting support for advanced users, by adding new functions, and a […]

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1118

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
Review: Fedora 42
News: Fedora plans to make most packages reproducible, Nitrux introduces new portable package tools, PINE64 updates multiple devices r…

Jose E. Marchesi: SUPPER, a “modern” stropping regime for Algol 68

A draft of a proposed GNU extension to the Algol 68
programming language has been published today at https://algol68-lang.org/docs/GNU68-2025-004-supper.pdf.

SUPPER stropping in Algol 68
This new stropping regime aims to be more ap…

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: April 20th, 2025

The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for April 20th, 2025, brings news about Fedora Linux 42, Ubuntu 25.04, VirtualBox 7.1.8, LXQt 2.2, MX Linux 23.6, KDE Gear 25.04, GNOME 48.1, NVIDIA 575 beta, Linux 6.13 EOL, as well as all the latest distro and software up…

Tuning Local LLMs With RAG Using Ollama and Langchain

Interested in taking your local AI set up to the next step? Here’s a sample PDF-based RAG project.

gperf @ Savannah: GNU gperf 3.3 released

Download from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gperf/gperf-3.3.tar.gz

New in this release:

Speedup: gperf is now between 2x and 2.5x faster.

Linux Kernel 6.13 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.14

Linux kernel 6.13 reached end of life and all users are now recommended to upgrade their systems to the latest Linux 6.14 kernel series as soon as possible.
The post Linux Kernel 6.13 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.14 appea…

Parallels Desktop 20.3 Brings Linux VM Fixes to Mac Users

The fourth major release in the Parallels Desktop 20 series has been released, bringing a stack of fixes for running Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines on macOS. Yes, I did say macOS. I know; at first blush it seems odd for an Ubuntu blog to cov…

The Top Five — For the Week Ending April 18, 2025

Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read article on FOSS Force for the week that just ended.

Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin is Released with Download Links, Mirrors and Torrents

Congratulations to Canonical Ltd. and Free Software community for the release of Ubuntu 25.04! This release. codenamed Plucky Puffin, is out on Thursday 17 April 2024 or six months after the previous version 24.10 last year. We presented here a compila…

unifont @ Savannah: Unifont 16.0.03 Released

19 April 2025 Unifont 16.0.03 is now available.  This is a minor release with many glyph improvements.  See the ChangeLog file for details.

Download this release from GNU server mirrors at:

     https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/unifont/unifont-16.0.03…

NVIDIA 575.51.02 Added Smooth Motion for Better Linux Gaming

NVIDIA announced the first release of its 575 driver series for Linux few days ago. It’s NVIDIA 575.51.02, a Beta driver, that features NVIDIA Smooth Motion support for GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards, which is also coming to RTX 40 series. It is a new driver-based AI model, similar to AMD Fluid Motion Frames, […]

Exploring Pages, Links, Tags, and Block References in Logseq

Understand the basic building blocks of Logseq note management.

How to Install GlassFish Application Server with Nginx Reverse Proxy on Debian 12

GlassFish is a free and open-source implementation of the Java EE Platform developed by Eclipse. In this guide, you will install GlassFish Application Server on Debian 12 in a step-by-step process. You will also configure Nginx as a reverse proxy for y…

Distribution Release: Edubuntu 25.04

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Amy Eickmeyer has announced the release of Edubuntu 25.04, the latest stable version of the project’s official Ubuntu variant designed to bring the freedom of the Linux desktop and the v…

11 Things to Do After Installing Ubuntu 25.04

The Ubuntu 25.04 release is packed full of fresh features, updated apps and other upgrades that deliver a practical, pleasing out-of-the-box experience. —Perhaps not a perfect one, though. I just installed Ubuntu 25.04 on my “couch potato” …