Learn how docker commit captures changes in a running container, make it persistent and create new images without altering the original Docker image.

The Challenger+ T3217 is a compact development board based on Microchip’s ATtiny3217, combining the tinyAVR 1-series platform with a small, battery-ready form factor for low-power embedded applications. The board is based on the ATtiny3217, an 8-bit AVR microcontroller running at up to 20 MHz from its internal oscillator. It integrates 32 KB of Flash, 2 […]

AMD’s RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for next quarter’s Mesa 26.1 release is introducing a new low-latency video decode mode. This lower-latency video decoding comes with a trade-off of increased GPU power consumption…

Bad luck, BSDs – although alternatives still workKDE Plasma 6.6 is approaching, and one of its more controversial changes is a new login screen that depends on systemd – meaning that it won’t work on the non-Linux operating systems KDE still nominally supports.…

Valve and CodeWeavers today released Proton 10.0-4 as their newest update to this downstream of Wine that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux…

GParted 1.8 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source partition editor software, which addresses several bugs to improve support for various filesystems.

Nearly seven years after Richard Stallman left MIT under pressure and resigned the presidency of the Free Software Foundation he founded, he’s back on a U.S. campus giving a talk that is pure RMS — and fundraising for FSF in the process.

The post Seven Years After, Stallman Is Still Stallman appeared first on FOSS Force.

Compiler profile guided optimization (PGO) techniques have paid off well for increasing CPU performance via application/workload-specific profiles fed back to the compiler to make more informed decisions. AMD compiler engineers have been working on crafting device-side PGO for their AMDGPU LLVM back-end for allowing ROCm/HIP workloads to achieve greater GPU performance. An initial merge request is now open for upstream LLVM…

The latest Firefox Nightly builds have now enabled the Split View mode by default to easily view two web pages at once within a single window…

DietPi 10.0 is now available, requiring Debian 12 and introducing software updates, platform removals, and system migration changes.

Godot 4.6 is officially out today as the newest feature release for this leading open-source, cross-platform game engine…

The GNU Privacy Guard (GPG)
project decided to break from the OpenPGP standard for email
encryption in 2023, and instead adopted its own homegrown LibrePGP specification. The GPG 2.4
branch, the last one to adhere to OpenPGP, will be reaching the end of
life in mid-2026. The Fedora project is currently having a discussion
about how that affects the distribution, its users, and what to offer
once 2.4 is no longer receiving updates.

Ahead of tomorrow’s official availability of new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” laptops, the review embargo lifted on Panther Lake and its much anticipated Arc B390 graphics. There have been several Windows 11 reviews of Panther Lake out today, but what about Linux?..

Curl creator Daniel Stenberg has written a blog
post explaining why the project is ending its bug-bounty
program, which started in April 2019:

The never-ending slop submissions take a serious mental toll to
manage and sometimes also a long time to debunk. Time and energy that
is completely wasted while also hampering our will to live.

I have also started to get the feeling that a lot of the security
reporters submit reports with a bad faith attitude. These “helpers”
try too hard to twist whatever they find into something horribly bad
and a critical vulnerability, but they rarely actively contribute to
actually improve curl. They can go to extreme efforts to argue and
insist on their specific current finding, but not to write a fix or
work with the team on improving curl long-term etc. I don’t think we
need more of that.

There are these three bad trends combined that makes us take this
step: the mind-numbing AI slop, humans doing worse than ever and the
apparent will to poke holes rather than to help.

Stenberg writes that he still expects “the best and our most
valued security reporters” to continue informing the project when
security vulnerabilities are discovered. The program will officially
end on January 31, 2026.

Back at the start of the Linux 6.19 kernel cycle I ran benchmarks showing some scheduler performance regressions with the new kernel. Fortunately, two weeks out from the Linux 6.19 stable release, merged this weekend was disabling the scheduler’s NEXT_BUDDY feature due to performance regressions. Here are some fresh benchmarks looking at the latest Linux 6.19 Git state with/without NEXT_BUDDY and comparing it to Linux 6.18 stable for reference.

The 276th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending January 25th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

A patch causing a healthy technical debate today on the Linux kernel mailing list would allow the kernel virtual terminal “VT” support to be enabled/disabled at boot time rather than being limited to the current CONFIG_VT build-time option…

Added to the LLVM 23 Git codebase minutes ago is a pull request adding the initial AMDGPU GFX13 target for their next-generation graphics core IP. AMD GFX13 is presumably for RDNA5…

Crimson Kart is a minimal light KDE Plasma theme red go-kart driver and clean racing aesthetics, featuring a graphite base with red, white, and black accents for a modern, minimalist, clean

A patch series posted last week for the open-source AMDGPU kernel driver implements HDMI Variable Rate Refresh “VRR” and other gaming features for HDMI displays. With the HDMI Forum blocking HDMI 2.1 open-source support, these HDMI gaming features for the AMDGPU driver were developed via trial-and-error and the limited public knowledge available. A second iteration of these patches are now available for testing…