There are a number of NetworkManager VPN plug-ins for different virtual private networking providers as a great way for setting up VPN access from the Linux desktop. But for those interested in using ExpressVPN with their official Linux client, they now offer a GUI to ease the setup process for using their commercial VPN service and proprietary software package…
Category Archives: Linux
Incus 6.10 released
Version 6.10 of the Incus container-management system has been released.
New features include better Let’s Encrypt support, API-wide filtering,
IOMMU support in virtual machines, and more. See this
announcement for details.
New features include better Let’s Encrypt support, API-wide filtering,
IOMMU support in virtual machines, and more. See this
announcement for details.
Firefox 136 Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
Firefox 136 open-source browser boosts performance with hardware-accelerated HEVC playback on macOS and AMD GPU decoding on Linux.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Linux GPU Compute Performance
Ahead of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 graphics cards seeing retail availability tomorrow, today the review embargo expires on the GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition graphics cards. I’ve been testing out the GeForce RTX 5070 under Linux and today have a number of GPU compute benchmarks to share.
Perforator 0.0.5 Released – Switches To Apache 2.0 License, Drops CLA Requirement
Open-sourced back in January was the Yandex Perforator as a new software project for uncovering code inefficiencies and potentially “save billions of dollars” in expenses. Perforator has continued evolving since its open-source announcement and out today is Perforator 0.0.5 as the latest milestone…
Internxt Drive Becomes First Cloud Storage with Post-Quantum Encryption
The future of secure cloud storage is beginning to change rapidly as developments in quantum computing increase; these powerful computers will have the power to break the current encryption technologies your current cloud providers are using.
Linux’s AMD Radeon Vulkan Driver Adds Experimental Support For The BC-250 Mining Board
The AMD BC-250 is a crypto mining GPU launched by AMD back during the Bitcoin mining craze when it was profitable using GPUs for mining. At its heart is a Navi “RDNA1” GPU similar to the APU found within the Sony PlayStation 5. The AMD BC-250 can be found used these days for $50~100 USD and with the latest open-source Mesa graphics driver code for Linux systems can now be used with the Vulkan API for graphics/gaming…
Direct3D Video Decode To Vulkan Video API Being Worked On For Wine
In addition to mapping the Direct3D graphics API to Vulkan, Wine developers are working on mapping the Direct3D video acceleration APIs to work atop the Vulkan Video API…
Here’s Why There Are So Many Linux Distros
Anyone who has stepped into the world of Linux knows it’s not a singular operating system like Windows or Mac. There are literally hundreds of Linux distributions (distros), from Ubuntu to Void Linux. So, what’s the reason behind this overwhelming variety?
Intel Revises DRM Sharpness Property For Use With Lunar Lake Sharpening Capabilities
Going back nearly one year Intel has been working on Linux driver support for a new adaptive sharpening filter with Lunar Lake graphics. That’s culminated into working on a common DRM sharpness property for communicating sharpness preferences and this week the latest patch series for that property was posted…
Software progress and source code release for CIX P1 Armv9 SoC and Orion O6 motherboard
When the Orion O6 mini-ITX motherboard with a CIX P1 12-core Armv9 SoC was announced in December 2024, we were told binary releases would start on January 15, 2025, and the source code would be released later in Q1 2025. Tom Cubie further explained that upstreaming of the CIX kernel would start in Q2 of 2025, and Linux 6.1 with Device Tree plus Linux 6.6 with ACPI would be supported in the meantime.
Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 Released with VoLTE Support for Volla Phone Users
The UBports Foundation announced today the release and general availability of Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 as the eighth stable update to the Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa).
ADLINK and LIPS Introduce 3D Perception DevKit for Autonomous Mobile Robots
ADLINK Technology and LIPS have introduced a perception solution for autonomous mobile robots. The LIPSAMR Perception DevKit integrates ADLINK’s DLAP-411-Orin platform with LIPSedge AE Active Stereo 3D cameras, providing enhanced 3D vision with a wider field of view and higher resolution than LiDAR.
New GnuCash PPA for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04 & Ubuntu 24.04
For GnuCash users who prefer the native .deb package format, here I made a new unofficial PPA for all current Ubuntu releases.
C++ creator calls for help to defend programming language from ‘serious attacks’
Bjarne Stroustrup says standards committee needs to show it can respond to memory safety push. Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, has issued a call for the C++ community to defend the programming language, which has been shunned by cybersecurity agencies and technical experts in recent years for its memory safety shortcomings.
Machine Learning in Linux: Pinokio – Easy Installation of AI Apps
Pinokio describes itself as a browser that lets you install, run, and manage any server application, on your local machine. These applications are AI software.
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 2nd, 2025
The 229th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on March 2nd, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.
Rust-Written Redox OS Expands Use Of Dynamic Linking
The Redox OS open-source operating system written from scratch in the Rust programming language is continuing to enjoy nice progress in 2025 on its goals. The Redox OS project has published their February 2025 status update that highlights achievements made over the past month…
Wake, Boot, Repeat: Remote OS Selection With GRUB And ESP
What do you do when you need to choose an OS at boot but aren’t physically near your machine? [Dakhnod]’s inventive solution is a mix of GRUB, Wake-on-LAN (WOL), and a lightweight ESP8266 running a simple HTTP server. In the past, [dakhnod] already enlightened us with another smart ESP hack.
9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Library Management Systems
This article focuses on selecting the best open source Linux software which enables a library to catalogue, track circulation and inventory their assets using an integrated system.