FSF Blogs: January 2025 GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali: Seventeen new GNU releases!

Seventeen new GNU releases in the last month (as of January 31, 2025):

Trump’s Media War Broadens to Threaten Public Broadcasters

The latest moves against NPR and PBS by Trump’s newly minted FCC chairperson Brendan Carr, has many noncommercial radio stations waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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Red Hat’s take on open-source AI: Pragmatism over utopian dreams

The Linux giant envisions AI development that mirrors open-source software’s collaborative ethos. That won’t be easy.

The Linux tool you forgot about: How Synaptic makes software installation a breeze

With so many ways to install software on Linux, should you turn to an old-school GUI for the task?

‘Tiny’ Linux 6.14-rc1 released: What’s new in 500,000 lines of modified code

Even a small kernel update brings significant changes. Here’s what’s improved.

Ardour 8.11 Open-Source DAW Is Out to Fix a Critical Workflow-Blocking Bug on Linux

Ardour 8.11 open-source digital audio workstation is now available for download with various bug fixes. Here’s what’s changed in this release!
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How I turned traditional Ubuntu Mate into a modern, minimal desktop – and you can too

Ubuntu Mate 24.10 is a desktop operating system that helps ease new users into the world of Linux with a fairly traditional UI that can be easily updated with built-in features.

gtypist @ Savannah: GNU Typist 2.10.1 released

This is a minor release

Changes in 2.10.1:

  – update the Spanish translation

  – fix in gtypits.typ, to jump from the global menu to the menus of the

    individual lessons

  – small fix to u.typ lesson

  – remove cmdline.c and cmdline.h f…

Slackware-Based PorteuX 1.9 Released with Linux Kernel 6.13, Docker Support

PorteuX 1.9 is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.13, Docker support, and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
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NVIDIA 570.86.16 Beta Driver added VRR Support on Multiple Monitors

NVIDIA released first Beta of the 570 driver series for Linux users a few days ago. See what’s new in this new driver. NVIDIA Linux driver introduced VRR support for Wayland since 560 driver series. It’s a feature that adjust the monitor’s refresh rate on the fly, to match the frame rate of output signal […]

Mozilla Firefox 135 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Mozilla Firefox 135 open-source web browser is now available for download with XZ packaging on Linux and other Linux changes. Here’s what’s new!
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Fwupd 2.0.5 Firmware Updater Adds Support for More ELAN Fingerprint Readers

Fwupd 2.0.5 open-source Linux firmware updater utility is now available for download with support for more ELAN Fingerprint readers and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
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Looking ahead at 2025 and Fedora Workstation and jobs on offer!

So a we are a little bit into the new year I hope everybody had a great break and a good start of 2025. Personally I had a blast having gotten the kids an air hockey table as a Yuletide … Continue reading →

Looking ahead at 2025 and Fedora Workstation and jobs on offer!

So a we are a little bit into the new year I hope everybody had a great break and a good start of 2025. Personally I had a blast having gotten the kids an air hockey table as a Yuletide … Continue reading →

Distribution Release: PorteuX 1.9

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. PorteuX is a Linux distribution based on Slackware Linux, inspired by Slax and Porteus. The project’s latest snapshot is PorteuX 1.9 which fixes a number of issues, adds CUPS supports to…

Distribution Release: PorteuX 1.9

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. PorteuX is a Linux distribution based on Slackware Linux, inspired by Slax and Porteus. The project’s latest snapshot is PorteuX 1.9 which fixes a number of issues, adds CUPS supports to…

Best Linux Tools for AI Development in 2025

The post Best Linux Tools for AI Development in 2025 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries, from healthcare and finance to creative fields like art and music. Linux,…

How to Lock a File for Renaming/Deleting in Linux

The post How to Lock a File for Renaming/Deleting in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .If you’ve ever worked with sensitive files on Linux, you might have wanted to prevent others (or even yourself) from
The post How to…

diffutils @ Savannah: diffutils-3.11 released [stable]

This is to announce diffutils-3.11, a stable release.

Special thanks to Paul Eggert for doing the vast majority of the work and
to Bruno Haible for his many changes here and his tons of work tending gnulib.

There have been 252 commits by 5 peopl…

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 Mee…