The 236th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on April 20th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

The 6.15-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for
testing. “There’s absolutely nothing of huge note here as far as I can
tell. Just a fair number of small fixes all over the place“.

Fastfetch 2.41 system information tool adds Intel dGPU temperature support on Linux, physical core detection on non-x86 systems, and more.

Easter doesn’t get in the way of Linus Torvalds’ weekly kernel release regiment: Linux 6.15-rc3 is now available for testing the latest kernel fixes ahead of the stable Linux 6.15 kernel release coming around the end of May…

KDE developers continue to be very busy working toward the Plasma 6.4 desktop release and making other enhancements throughout this open-source desktop…

This is your friendly reminder that the Linux 6.13 kernel series has reached the end of its supported life and that you should consider upgrading to Linux kernel 6.14 as soon as possible.

The only way Microsoft can survive rivalry is to sabotage the rival under the false guise of “security” or “secure boot” (it’s not about security; it’s about not allowing PCs to boot without Microsoft’s approval) or by hijacking the rivals via GitHub (then throwing all the code into a plagiarism blender that takes away the licence). Those are the real issues.

The GStreamer project has recently released version 1.26, bringing key enhancements such as improved hardware efficiency, support for the MPEG-5 LCEVC codec, and better integration for analytics and machine learning.

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Merged for the Linux 6.15 kernel were the very early boilerplate code around the NOVA driver as a new, open-source and Rust-written NVIDIA Linux kernel graphics/display driver. This successor to the Nouveau kernel driver is going to leverage the NVIDIA GPU System Processor (GSP) to make it easier to develop and maintain this open-source driver. But depending upon the GSP also means the NOVA driver will only work with RTX 20 class GPUs and newer. This driver is going to be built up gradually within the mainline Linux kernel and coming out this Easter were a new set of 16 patches for further laying the NOVA groundwork…

Our stand at Embedded World covered a huge amount of ground: from wall scanners running updateable Apertis, to a wall full of recent SoCs demonstrating boot and functional testing just as we do in KernelCI and Mesa CI, to open source remote rendering for XR headsets, to real-time AI video analytics, and more.

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Canonical released Ubuntu 25.04, codenamed “Plucky Puffin” a few days ago. Here’s the top 10 Features I liked in Ubuntu 25.04..

Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8 debuts in Oracle Linux (9.5) with advanced memory management, improved I/O, better networking, and more.

The FreeType library for rendering text onto bitmaps that is widely used by a variety of applications has landed a set of three patches today providing an important performance improvement to address a significant inefficiency within the existing FreeType codebase…

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released a few new Linux kernel stable point releases today for Easter and also capping off the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle in the process…

The long-in-development OpenVPN DCO kernel driver for providing data channel offloading (DCO) to yield faster OpenVPN performance looks like it’s now in a state for upstreaming with the Linux 6.16 kernel…

Caddy 2.10 web & reverse proxy server lands with support for ECH, post-quantum key exchange, global DNS config, and wildcard certs by default.

Just a few days ago there was talk of potentially removing the Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers from the Linux kernel considering they had been orphaned for a decade and beginning to cause a maintenance burden. After briefly being marked for deprecation, it now looks like the drivers may be maintained with new maintainers alleging to step-up to the role…

GNU/Hurd has long struggled with hardware support and is still working on its x86_64 support while having a host of various hardware limitations but it also appears they are eager to explore Hurd on RISC-V platforms…

GlassFish is a free and open-source implementation of the Java EE Platform developed by Eclipse. In this guide, you will install GlassFish Application Server on Debian 12 in a step-by-step process. You will also configure Nginx as a reverse proxy for your GlassFish installation.

The Minichord is a compact, chord-focused musical instrument developed by Benjamin Poilve through a co-creation effort with Seeed Studio. Designed for musicians of all skill levels, it combines a tactile chord selection system with a responsive touch interface and MIDI output capabilities. With fully open-source firmware and hardware design, the device encourages community-driven modification and […]