Going on since last year has been an effort to improve FreeBSD laptop support with backing by Dell, AMD, Framework Computer, Netflix, and others. This has focused on better WiFi driver support, enhancing power management, and other improvements for modern laptops. That work has been continuing on all fronts for improving the FreeBSD laptop user experience…

Yes, Linux can be installed and run on MacBook computers, especially on older models with Intel processors, but chances are you will have no sound out of the box and only a dummy output, so here’s how to fix it.

MariaDB 11.8 LTS open-source RDBMS is out, featuring full MariaDB Vector support, faster backups, improved replication, and more.

The 6.16 merge window

closed on June 8, as
expected, containing 12,899 non-merge commits. This is
slightly more than the 6.15 merge window, but well in line with expectations.
7,353 of those were merged after
the summary of the first half of the merge
window was written. More detailed statistics can be found in
the LWN kernel source database.

At Flock,
Fedora’s annual developer conference, held in Prague from June 5
to June 8, two members of the Fedora
documentation team, Petr Bokoč and Peter Boy, led a
session on the state of Fedora documentation. The pair covered a
brief history of the project’s documentation since the days of Fedora Core 1,
challenges the documentation team faces, as well as plans to improve Fedora’s
documentation by enticing more people to contribute.

The 243rd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on June 8th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Some readers of ours sent us private messages to illuminate trolling in comment sections discussing the above. We saw that in Soylent News, someone from Soylent News reported to us the same in other sites, and having surveyed some comments and studied patterns in them, it’s rather clear “WSL” is little/nothing more than a weapon of propaganda against adoption of GNU/Linux.

The FreeBSD Foundation
has announced
a report
for work completed in April to improve FreeBSD support for
laptops. This includes installer updates, improved suspend/resume
behavior, as well as progress on a
port of Linux 6.7 and 6.8 graphics drivers to drm-kmod. A
roadmap
for the FreeBSD laptop work is also available.

Last month with the launch of the AMD EPYC 4005 “Grado” series for entry-level Zen 5 servers we ran benchmarks of the AMD EPYC 4565P and EPYC 4585PX processors as the top-tier 16-core CPUs. They delivered an excellent combination of performance, power efficiency, and most of all value for those looking to assemble an AM5-based budget-oriented server in 2025 and beyond. Those processors destroyed the Intel Xeon 6300 series competition’s flagship, the Xeon 6369P that is simply 8 cores / 16 threads in 2025… Being curious about the core-for-core performance between the AMD EPYC 4005 series and Intel Xeon 6300 series, I got my hands on an AMD EPYC 4345P as the Grado 8-core processor to see how it performs against that Xeon E-2400 series replacement as well as how the performance compares to the prior generation 8-core EPYC 4344P.

Now that the Linux 6.16 kernel merge window closed this weekend, here is a convenient recap of all the interesting features coming in this next kernel release due out as stable around the end of July.

While a point release, Mold 2.40.1 is another notable step forward for this high-speed linker alternative to GNU LD/Gold and LLVM LLD. Mold 2.40.1 brings yet more performance improvements…

When it comes to the Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptops on Linux it’s been primarily focused on the Snapdragon X Elite support with the X Plus SoC support not being as well off yet. But recently there has been more patches surfacing around the Snapdragon X Plus support, including the Adreno X1-45 GPU used by that lower-tier SoC…

Are you a teacher who is interested in data science education for key stage 5 (age 16 to 18)? Then we invite you to join our free, in-person workshop exploring the topic, taking place in Cambridge, UK on 10 July 2025.

You will be among the very first educators to see some of our first test activities for teacher training to build data science concepts, and your contributions will feed into our future work. Sign up by 20 June to take part.

Data science: What do we need to teach school-age learners?

Current artificial intelligence (AI) methods, especially machine learning (ML), rely heavily on data. While young people learn mathematics, and some statistics, at school, data science concepts are not commonly taught.

To complement our work on AI literacy, we have been investigating what data science teaching resources and education research are currently available.

Our goals for this work are:

1. To work out what data science concepts may need to be taught in schools, initially with a focus on key stage 5
2. To develop related teacher professional development and classroom resources

Join us to discuss data science education

If you are interested in data science education for young people, and maybe even have experience of teaching it to learners aged 16 to 18 in your school (in any subject, including computer science, social sciences, mathematics, statistics, and ethics), please join our free workshop on Thursday 10 July in our office in Cambridge. We are able to reimburse some travel expenses.

At the workshop:

• We would love to hear about your experience of teaching any elements of data science
• We will share some exploratory concept building activities with you and discuss them together

You’ll be the first group of working teachers we will share these activities with — your feedback will be invaluable, and you’ll have the chance to shape our work going forward.

If you are interested, please fill in this form by Friday 20 June:

You will then receive more information from us by 27 June. Spaces in the workshop are limited, so please do not book any travel until we confirm your space.

We’re looking forward to shaping the future of data science education with you.

PS In our current seminar series, researchers from around the world are presenting their latest work on teaching about AI and data science. You can catch up on past sessions and sign up for upcoming ones on our website.

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WCH’s new CH32H417 microcontroller introduces a dual-core RISC-V architecture designed for embedded applications requiring high-speed connectivity and peripheral integration. It is built on the Qingke V5F core running at 400 MHz and the V3F core at 144 MHz. The microcontroller supports USB 3.2 Gen 1 with a 5Gbps PHY and dual-role host/device functionality, along with […]

The open-source, unofficial VA-API driver implementation for NVIDIA GPUs is out with a new release. The NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver project continues to build VA-API support atop NVIDIA’s NVDEC interface to allow the NVIDIA proprietary driver stack to work with VA-API-only applications like the Mozilla Firefox web browser on Linux…

The EdgeLogix-1145 is a rugged industrial controller that integrates edge computing, PLC functionality, and IIoT gateway capabilities. Designed around the Raspberry Pi CM5, it offers a compact, fanless platform designed for automation tasks in harsh environments such as factories, energy systems, and smart infrastructure. The system is built on the Broadcom BCM2712 SoC, a quad-core […]

Simon Ser announced the release of Sway 1.11 on Sunday as the newest feature update to this popular i3-inspired Wayland compositor from which the wlroots library was originally born…

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Rocky 9.6, VirtualBox 7.1.10, KDE Gear 25.04.2, Linux Mint 20.x reaches EOL, without Hyprland in Debian 13, Xlibre – an attempt to save X11, and more.

The upcoming Linux Mint 22.2 (Zara) operating system will feature a brand-new app called Fingwit, providing users with fingerprint authentication capabilities.

Today, Linus Torvalds announced the general availability of the first Release Candidate development milestone of the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel series for public testing.