The 242nd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on June 1st, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

The ESP32-P4 Smart 86 Box is a compact development board with a 4-inch capacitive touchscreen, designed for HMI, smart control panels, and edge processing. Its 86 mm form factor allows it to be easily installed in wall-mounted enclosures for use in embedded automation and smart terminal applications. As the name implies, this board is built […]

Could Washington’s ban on US tech exports to China spark greater technological independence in Europe — and beyond?

The post As EDA Ban Hits China Will Europe Step Up on Open Hardware? appeared first on FOSS Force.

They say that the only way to reliably keep a secret is to reduce the number of people “in the know” to one.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Kernel 6.15, AlmaLinux 10, CachyOS, Alpine 3.22, Firefox 139, NVIDIA Driver 575, Wine 10.9, MinIO steering users toward paid subscriptions, ChatGPT’s o3 model found a bug in the Linux kernel, and more.

Valve just published the Steam Survey results for May 2025 with a nice increase for the Linux gaming marketshare…

Wine 10.9 fell slightly off its bi-weekly Friday release rhythm with only debuting today, but in any event it’s now available for testing with the latest features for enjoying Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms…

Merged today for the Linux 6.16 kernel were all of the Watchdog subsystem updates for monitoring system health and taking action such as rebooting if the system state goes bad. With the Linux 6.16 is the introduction of the Intel Overclocking Watchdog “OC WDT” driver…

PorteuX 2.1 has been released today as a new update to this portable Linux distribution based on Slackware Linux and inspired by both Slax and Porteus distros, designed to be small, fast, portable, modular, and immutable.

The Linux 6.15 kernel that shipped as stable last week mistakenly shipped with a nasty CPU power regression for some systems. The issue is now fixed in Linux 6.16 Git and will be fixed shortly in the Linux 6.15 point releases…

The Linux kernel had not enabled support for Arm Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) due to bugs, but with the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel those issues have been resolved and so SME can now be enabled for the rare SoCs having said hardware support…

The Linux 6.16 merge window this weekend suffered an unexpected twist this weekend when Linus Torvalds noticed some unusual Git activity by a longtime Linux kernel developer. The issue is still being sorted through but it would appear that the possible malicious activity came down to some scripting issues around Git…

The release candidate of FreeBSD 14.3 is now available for testing ahead of the official operating system release this month…

Arch-based CachyOS’s May 2025 update improves NVIDIA support, deprecates its browser, and updates Proton features.

Alpine Linux 3.22 drops Plasma X11 (Wayland is now the default KDE session), deprecates LXD, and introduces kernel 6.12.

Olimex has recently highlighted a new open-source hardware and software project aimed at creating a €20 smart home server. The initiative was introduced during a lightning talk at TuxCon 2025, a community-driven open-source conference held earlier this month in Bulgaria. The project aims to deliver a compact, easy-to-use smart home server that prioritizes local control, […]

May was another busy month when it comes to Linux hardware and software milestones albeit depressing when looking at the ongoing state of the web/ad industry. In any event there were 25 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles and another 268 original Linux-related news articles all written by your’s truly for the month. Here is a look back at what excited Phoronix readers the most during May…

Following below is a kind of comment on the posts of Zen@yandex.com authors who write with enthusiasm about investments in cloud deployments due to the execution of virtual machines in the Cloud as cloud’s major advantage according to the authors. Openstack’s Cloud Fault Tolerance advantage vs traditional Client Server Unix/Lnux architecture seems to be completely ignored in writings mentioned above.

OpenBMC 2.18 released on Friday as the newest version of this Linux Foundation project providing an open-source baseboard management controller (BMC) firmware stack implementation. In recent years OpenBMC has been enjoying increasing success in deploying to server platforms from the mega hyperscalers to the more prominent OEM/ODM vendors seeing increasing customer demand for open-source BMC as part of broader open-source firmware interest from the industry…

WireGuard Easy 15.0, a web-based WireGuard admin, lands with a full rewrite, introducing a sleek UI, IPv6 support, 2FA, CLI, and more.