9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 17th, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for August 17th, 2025, brings news about NVIDIA 580, VirtualBox 7.2, KDE Gear 25.08, GNOME 49 beta, SparkyLinux 8.0, Grml 2025.08,…
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Ubuntu 25.10 Reveals New Wallpaper, Mascot Artwork
The new default desktop background for Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka”, along with the official mascot, have been shared on Launchpad. All users who install or…
PeaZip 10.6 Introduces Dynamic Virtual Mode, Improves Archive Pre-Parsing
PeaZip 10.6 is here almost two months after PeaZip 10.5 introducing a dynamic virtual mode to the file/archive browser for the ListView component, promising to…
GStreamer 1.26.5 Adds JPEG XS Support Videorate and Imagefreeze
GStreamer 1.26.5 is here to introduce JPEG XS support to the videorate and imagefreeze elements, support for discarding select services on each input to cea708mux,…
Debian Trixie-Based Grml 2025.08 Is Out to Celebrate Debian’s 32nd Birthday
Grml 2025.08 live distro for system administrators is now available for download based on the Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series. Here’s what’s new! The…
Mesa 25.2 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, This Is What’s New
Mesa 25.2 open-source graphics stack for Linux is now available for download with numerous new features and improvements for existing graphics drivers, as well as…
Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS Is Now Available for Download Powered by Linux Kernel 6.14
Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat) is now available for download powered by Linux kernel 6.14 from Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin). The post Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS…
Kiro (Agentic AI) Limits Downloads, Introduces Paid Tiers
Usage tiers have been announced for Kiro, the ‘agentic’ AI IDE built on Code by a team at Amazon AWS — and bad news if…
GNOME 49 Beta Released for Public Testing on GNOME’s 28th Anniversary
GNOME 49 Beta desktop environment is now available for public testing with more new features and improvements ahead of the final release on September 17th,…
Mini Floating Panel Extension Adds Sought-After Features
A new version of the nifty Floating Mini Panel GNOME Shell extension is available, and adds the sought-after ability to show/hide indicator and applet icons.…
Calibre 8.8 Open-Source E-Book Manager Improves Support for Kobo Devices
Calibre 8.8 comes with an updated Kobo driver that supports the latest Tolino firmware, improved display of lookup results from Google in the E-book viewer,…
Calibre 8.8 Update Adds Kobo Tolino Support, Refines Google Lookup
Calibre 8.8 brings improved Google lookup in the e-book viewer, better Kobo support, and a reworked Piper TTS backend. The post Calibre 8.8 Update Adds…
Firefly AIBOX-3588S Running Linux: Access Remote File Systems Over SSH with SSHFS
SSHFS is a file system in user space (FUSE) that uses the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to mount a remote file system. SSHFS lets…
fanxiang S880 2TB NVMe SSD Review
This is a capsule review of the fanxiang S880 2TB NVMe SSD. It’s available in 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB capacities. I’m taking a look at…
Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS Released with Bug Fixes and Security Updates
Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS is now officially available, powered by Linux kernel 6.14, and featuring critical security updates and bug fixes. The post Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS…