EasyEffects is the open-source application formerly known as PulseEffects that transitioned to using native PipeWire filters for providing simple audio effects on the Linux desktop. EasyEffects makes it easy to apply different audio effects like bass enhancer, compressor, pitch shift, reverberation, and many more. With this week’s release of EasyEffects 8.0, the user interface has been rewritten in Qt / QML / Kirigami rather than GTK4…

The GNU Coreutils 9.9 update introduces stability and performance improvements across core tools, including cp, sort, numfmt, and tail.

Following yesterday’s release of Rust Coreutils 0.4, GNU Coreutils 9.9 is now available as the latest update to this set of core utilities common to Linux systems and other platforms…

The Rust-based uutils du command in Ubuntu 25.10 shows incorrect disk size usage when parent and subdirectories overlap. Bug filed for investigation.

Google Cloud today is rolling out their N4D compute instances that are optimized for cost/price-performance and geared for general purpose workloads. The N4D instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC “Turin” processors and offer very nice performance and value over their prior-generation general purpose VMs.

Silicon veteran Tom Gall takes the helm as VP of Technology at RISC-V International.

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Mozilla has published today the final builds of the Firefox 145 open-source web browser ahead of its official unveiling on November 11th, 2025.

Version 2.0.0 of public-inbox, the mail archiving system behind
lore.kernel.org and LWN’s email archive, has been released. “This
release includes several new features and fixes; mostly around improved
integration between inboxes and coderepos for solver. Portability and
reliability is also improved, especially in the internal process management
of lei.“

When programs written in BPF (the kernel’s hot-loadable virtual-machine
bytecode) call kernel functions (kfuncs), it may be useful
for those functions to have additional information about the context in which
those BPF programs are executing. Rather than requiring it to supply
that information, it would be convenient to let the BPF verifier pass that
information to the called function automatically. That is already possible, but

a recent patch set from Ihor Solodrai would make it more ergonomic.
It allows kernel
developers to specify that a kfunc should be passed additional
parameters inferred by the verifier, invisibly to the BPF program. The
discussion included concerns that Solodrai’s implementation was unnecessarily
complex, however.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: MX 25, Devuan 6, IncusOS, Hyprland 0.52, Plasma 6.5.2, NPM 2.13, GNOME 50 ends the X11 era, Mint’s new Cinnamon menu, and more.

Last week when delivering some CachyOS benchmarks against Fedora 43 and Ubuntu 25.10 on the Framework Desktop with AMD Ryzen AI Max+, a few Phoronix readers wrote in with the question or belief that openSUSE Tumbleweed would better perform against CachyOS given the distribution’s select x86_64-v3 packages and other advantages. As it’s been a while since running any benchmarks of the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed, here are those benchmarks now in the mix for seeing how the performance compares.

Firefox 145 release binaries are now available. Most notable with this release is what’s not there: the 32-bit Linux builds are no more…

Discover a step-by-step guide to install the Homebrew package manager on Ubuntu and other Linux distros with practical examples.

The MX Linux 25 (codename Infinity) distribution has been released today for download based on the latest Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system stable series.

Whenever seeing Linux kernel mailing list patches from Google engineer Eric Biggers it tends to be about performance optimizations to the Linux kernel’s cryptography subsystem. That was once again the case on Sunday with the newest patch series providing some nice gains…

Tecent engineers have been working on addressing long-standing inefficiencies within the Linux kernel scheduler code around over-subscribed virtualized environments…

Fish 4.2 is now available as the latest version of this popular shell on Linux, macOS, and other systems…

While LoongArch 64-bit is already part of the GCC compiler for the past several years, LoongArch 32-bit is now being proposed for the GNU Compiler Collection…

MX Linux 25 “Infinity” has been officially released, built on Debian 13 “Trixie” with Plasma 6.3.6, Xfce 4.20, and new systemd-based ISOs.