Mozilla Thunderbird 142 open-source email client introduces visual PDF signatures, easier folder management, and dozens of fixes for mail, calendar, and UI issues.

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From cat lasers to AI-powered pacifiers, consumer IoT promises genius but mostly delivers nonsense. Here’s why the so-called “smart” tech trend is spectacularly off the rails.

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Firefox 143 looks like a solid release for Android users as it adds support for xHE-AAC audio playback, support for viewing the download progress in real time with controls to pause, resume, retry, or cancel directly from the Downloads screen, and improved support for persistent notifications to properly open Firefox with the relevant web page.

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AerynOS 2025.08 was released today, five months after the release of AerynOS 2025.03, as the latest ISO snapshot of this independent GNU/Linux distribution created by ex-Solus maker Ikey Doherty.

For those using the upstream open-source NVIDIA Linux driver “Nouveau”, with a pending fix coming for Linux 6.17 and existing kernel releases it should be a much more stable and reliable experience…

Over the course of August on Phoronix were 267 original news articles and 17 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Coming somewhat as a surprise, AMD Linux testing articles and hardware reviews managed to capture all top 10 spots for the most viewed content… Something no single vendor has pulled off in the past 21 years of Phoronix. But with the launch of the Framework Desktop, AMD Krackan Point Linux testing for sub-$500 laptops, Threadripper 9000 series, and other hardware excitement, that feat happened in August…

In addition to working on new OpenCL performance optimizations, Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst just landed another important feature into Rusticl: OpenCL semaphores…

The Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen6 is one of the best supported Snapdragon X Elite laptops under Linux thus far. Thanks to active developer engagement and cooperation from Lenovo there are firmware files in upstream linux-firmware.git and Lenovo’s generally robust Linux support make it one of the better choices for the Snapdragon X laptops currently out there. In further enhancing the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen6 on Linux, a new EC driver has been posted for supporting this Snapdragon powered laptop…

For those looking at assembling an AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO workstation and interested in having working system sensor monitoring support, the ASUS EC Sensors hardware monitoring (HWMON) driver is in the process of introducing support for the Pro WS WRX90E-SAGE SE motherboard…

IceWM 3.9 window manager for X Window System introduces Xcursor support, drops libXpm, improves icesh tools, and updates translations.

Here’s what people were reading the most on FOSS Force during the month of August, 2025.

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Banana Pi has published initial details on the BPI-F5, a single board computer built on the Allwinner T527 SoC. The chip integrates an octa-core Cortex-A55 CPU, ARM G57 MC1 GPU, HiFi4 DSP, 2 TOPS NPU, and a RISC-V MCU for real-time tasks. The board is intended for industrial control, automotive, and other edge applications. The […]

The 255th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on August 31st, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Shuttle has introduced the XPC slim DH810, a compact mini PC designed for Intel Core Ultra 200 desktop processors in the LGA1851 socket. The system supports “Arrow Lake-S” CPUs with up to 24 cores and integrates a Neural Processing Unit delivering 13 TOPS of AI performance. Processor support extends to Core Ultra 9, 7, and […]

Ahead of the GNOME 49 release candidate being announced in the days ahead, today marked the “49.rc” tagging of the GNOME Shell and Mutter compositor components. Some last-minute user-facing changes have landed along with other improvements for polishing ahead of next month’s GNOME 49 stable release…

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.17-rc4 as the newest weekly test release of Linux 6.17 in working toward the stable release in late September…

AerynOS 2025.08 ISOs are now available as the third release of the year for this innovative Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS…

This week a new Ubuntu X1E Concept ISO was published for Ubuntu 25.04 ARM64 with the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite/Plus laptop optimizations. With this new ISO the Linux 6.17 kernel is now leveraged for the latest upstream kernel bits. Additionally, the new X1E ISO is finally working again on the Acer Swifth 14 AI laptop that I have used for my Snapdragon X Elite Linux testing…

A remarkable mixture of different components, but it worksRefreshOS is a Debian and KDE-based distro with a difference: it casts its net a lot wider for tools and components.…

The Krita digital painting and graphics editing application aligned with KDE/Qt could soon have color management support working on Wayland Linux desktops for enjoying a better creative experience on HDR (High Dynamic Range) displays…