The 227th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on February 16th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.
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Before It Even Gets a Stable Release, Serpent OS Changes Its Name To AerynOS
Any article about Serpent OS or Solus OS (or now, AerynOS), is first and foremost an article about Ikey Doherty.
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Even Linus Torvalds can have trouble with autocycle … autocracy… AUTOCOMPLETE!
Penguin Emperor’s weekly State Of The Kernel Post went astray. Next time autocomplete takes over and you accidentally send an email to the wrong person or group, perhaps it will be a little solace to know that one of the world’s most accomplished technologists – Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds – just made that same mistake.
Ubuntu Linux LTS Releases May Offer Additional Intel Graphics Driver Updates
Ubuntu developers at Canonical are looking at including more Intel graphics driver packages as part of the hardware enablement “HWE” stacks shipped as part of Ubuntu Long Term Support (LTS) point releases. This would provide more comprehensive coverage of newer Intel driver components with future Ubuntu LTS point releases to benefit both the integrated and discrete graphics…
AMD Continues Preparing openSIL Concept For Phoenix & Turin Processors
One of the AMD software projects we are very bullish on for the future is openSIL for opening up more of the CPU silicon initialization code for what will eventually replace AGESA across all client and server processors that is aiming for production readiness with Zen 6. In turn, AMD openSIL should allow easier/better Coreboot support. One of the development milestone release targets did slip but they remain working on preparing AMD openSIL releases for Phoenix client and Turin server hardware…
openSUSE Spin Achieves 100% Bit-Identical Packages For Reproducible Builds
There is an openSUSE project called Reproducible-openSUSE “RBOS” working on a proof-of-concept for constructing openSUSE in a bit-identical manner as part of the broad Reproducible Builds effort to be able to reproduce builds bit-for-bit against what is being compiled by the distribution vendor or other software distribution. The openSUSE RBOS has achieved 100% bit-identical packages as a major milestone…
PostgreSQL Lands Self-Join Elimination Optimization
More than seven years in the making, merged yesterday for PostgreSQL is a self-join elimination “SJE” feature as a performance optimization for some queries…
Arch Linux Developers To Remove Old Repositories To Simplify Repository Structure
Arch Linux developers will remove old, deprecated repositories by March 1, 2025, to simplify the repository structure and avoid confusion. It’s time to update your Pacman configuration file.
OpenWrt One AP 24 XY Brings Open Source Networking to a Custom Router
The OpenWrt One/AP-24.XY is a router board based on the MediaTek MT7981B (Filogic 820) SoC, combined with the MediaTek MT7976C dual-band Wi-Fi 6 chipset. Developed in collaboration with Banana Pi, the OpenWrt One is the first official hardware platform supported by the OpenWrt open-source community, designed for OpenWrt learning, IoT applications, and general networking use cases such as routing, NAS, and wireless communication.
Decibels – simple audio player
Decibels is designed to be a simple program that lets you play audio files. Decibels is explicitly designed for playing single files.
The Attacks on LinuxQuestions.org
Regarding the DDoS attacks, that’s an open secret
SDL & MPV Media Player Land Support For Wayland Color Management / HDR
Following the upstream Wayland Protocols repository landing the Wayland color management protocol for enabling HDR support and this morning’s release of Wayland Protocols 1.41, the SDL library and MPV media player are the first two clients supporting this now-official protocol…
Progress Continues On Unofficial Firefox GTK4 Port, Code Now Available On GitHub
For all of those that were intrigued over the independent code porting the Firefox web browser to the GTK4 toolkit, there has been a bit more progress and all of the code is also now obtainable via GitHub for this unofficial port…
5 Reasons I Won’t Run SteamOS on My Gaming PC Yet
While I believe that SteamOS will one day evolve into a worthy Windows alternative for PC gamers, I don’t think that day will come anytime soon. Despite loving SteamOS, its potential, and what it represents, here’s why I won’t install SteamOS on my gaming PC any time soon.
ISD 0.5 Released For Interactive systemd Management
A few weeks ago I wrote about ISD as a new open-source project for interactively managing systemd that aims to be more user intuitive especially for those that aren’t veteran Linux server administrators. ISD has continued evolving and out today is ISD v0.5 with the latest enhancements for better managing systemd…
This open text-to-speech model needs just seconds of audio to clone your voice
El Reg shows you how to run Zypher’s speech-replicating AI on your own box. Hands on Palo Alto-based AI startup Zyphra unveiled a pair of open text-to-speech (TTS) models this week said to be capable of cloning your voice with as little as five seconds of sample audio. In our testing, we generated realistic results with less than half a minute of recorded speech.
CodeWeavers Hiring More Developers To Work On Wine & Valve’s Proton
The friends at CodeWeavers have relayed work that they are looking to hire multiple Wine developers to join their paid team working on upstream Wine as well as their CrossOver products, Valve’s Proton downstream for Steam Play, and related Wine-based tech…
Radxa Expands SBC Lineup with ROCK 5T Featuring Dual 2.5GbE and Dual M.2 Slots
Radxa has introduced a Mini-ITX single-board computer designed for both consumer and industrial applications. Built around the Rockchip RK3588(J) processor, this SBC provides a broad set of interfaces, high-speed connectivity, and advanced multimedia capabilities.
Chimera Linux’s New ISO Images Bring Plasma 6.3 and GNOME 47
The still-in-development Chimera Linux released updated ISO images with new apk-tools, kernel 6.13, Plasma 6.3, GNOME 47, and more.
[$] 14 years of systemd
It is a standard practice to use milestones to reflect on the
achievements of a project, such as the anniversary of its first
release or first commit. Usually, these are observed at five and
ten‑year increments; the tenth anniversary of the 1.0 release, or 25
years since from the first public announcement, etc. Lennart
Poettering, however, took a different approach at FOSDEM 2025 with a keynote
commemorating 14 years of systemd,
and a brief look ahead at his goals and systemd’s challenges for the future.