With modern Linux distributions beginning to see good support for HDR displays, if you have been looking to upgrade to a high dynamic range OLED monitor, one of the newest options that recently launched by Samsung is the Odyssey OLED G8 G81SF. I’ve been testing out the Samsung G81SF the past few weeks and it’s been working out well paired with the likes of Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 to deliver a beautiful desktop experience and a great experience for Linux gamers with supporting a 240Hz refresh rate and AMD FreeSync Premium Pro.

OpenEmbed is developing the MeshWalkie, a handheld wireless device built around the ESP32-S3, SX1262 LoRa module, and L76K GNSS, using the enclosure of a Quansheng UV-K6 radio. The device is described as an open-source platform for LoRa, Wi-Fi, and GPS-based applications, including support for Meshtastic.   The MeshWalkie integrates several hardware components to support low-power […]

When working with Unix-like systems, it’s important to understand the role of different configuration files that influence the shell’s behavior.

Two critical files for Bash users are bashrc and bash_profile. Although they might seem similar at first glance, they are loaded under different circumstances and serve distinct purposes.

Knowing when and how these files are used can help you configure your environment more efficiently, customize your prompt, set aliases, and automate certain tasks when you log in or open a new terminal session.

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Arriving a little over four months after 4MLinux 47.0, the 4MLinux 48.0 release features support for new apps and components, including the Kino IEEE 1394 DV non-linear video editor, the VVenC H.266/VVC encoder, FreeTube YouTube client, and the Bristol emulator for synthesizers, electric pianos, and organs.

The post 4MLinux 48.0 Is Now Available for Download, Powered by Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS appeared first on Linux Today.

The past year we’ve been looking forward to a RISC-V motherboard option coming to the Framework Laptop 13 via Framework’s partnership with DeepComputing. There was early access in late 2024 while this week DeepComputing has formally announced the DC-ROMA RISC-V AI PC Mainboard II now available at $349 USD…

Starting this week, after you finish taking our quiz you’ll be presented with links to all of the news stories covered in the quiz! This week there are 10 questions, the same as last week. Good luck!

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With the Linux 6.15-rc6 kernel release due out on Sunday, we’re hitting the transition point where the focus on DRM kernel graphics drivers for Linux 6.16 is shifting from feature work to bug-fixing ahead of this next merge window. As such sent out today were drm-misc-next and drm-intel-gt-next pull requests focused on preparing various kernel graphics/display driver fixes for the new code coming to Linux 6.16. The Intel pull request today even contains a fix for aging Intel Haswell graphics…

openSUSE removes Deepin Desktop after discovering a policy-violating workaround used to bypass required security reviews of sensitive system components.

Out this morning is the Intel NPU Linux Driver 1.17 release as the newest version of their user-space Neural Processing Unit (NPU) driver code that interfaces with the IVPU accelerator kernel driver…

Newly re-elected Debian Project Leader Andreas Tille posted today to the project’s mailing list a few updates about different happenings in the Debian world ahead of the Debian 13 “Trixie” release due out in the coming months and also with DebConf 25 happening this July in Brest, France…

In addition to the Intel LOBF feature and some other last minute Intel fixes going into the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) tree ahead of Linux 6.16, a final batch of material for the newer Xe kernel graphics driver was also sent out this week…

Mesa developer Konstantin Seurer has been adding more features to the Lavapipe Vulkan driver for functionality needed by VKD3D-Proton for mapping Direct3D 12 APIs atop Vulkan…

Steven Deobald certainly talks the talk. The GNOME Foundation has hired a new executive director to lead the organization, acting as GNOME’s public face and leading the non-profit’s fundraising efforts.…

System76 unveils its new Serval WS Linux laptop with a 2K, 16:10, 240Hz display, powered by NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti and Intel Ultra 9.

Last big release until trixie shows up. Debian bookworm is getting what could be its last hurrah as the basis for Raspberry Pi’s operating system, with what’s likely to be its final appearance on a release for the diminutive computers.…

Hyprland 0.49 released on Thursday as the newest version of this unique Wayland compositor project…

The folks behind Surfshark VPN have looked to see which mobile browsers are most likely to compromise your privacy, and offers some ways that you can protect yourself.

Linux Mint 22.2 will be called “Zara” and LMDE 7 “Gigi,” as the team tweaks Mint-Y colors to better align with modern UI trends and libAdwaita styling.

The KDE Project released today KDE Gear 25.04.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 25.04 open-source software suite series to address various issues in your favorite KDE apps.

The famfs
filesystem is meant to provide a shared-memory filesystem for large data
sets that are accessed for computations by multiple systems. It was
developed by John Groves, who led a combined filesystem and
memory-management session at
the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory
Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF) to discuss it. The session was a
follow-up to the famfs session at last year’s
summit, but it was also meant to discuss whether the kernel’s direct-access (DAX)
mechanism, which is used by famfs, could be replaced in the filesystem
by using other kernel features.