New story! Firefox 134 Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Mozilla Firefox 134 web browser touchpad gestures on Linux now allow for interrupted kinetic scrolling. Plus, HEVC hardware support lands on Windows.

New story! AB Download Manager - manage and organize downloading files

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Jan 7, 2025 1:32 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
AB Download Manager is software which is designed to make it easier and quicker to download files from anywhere. It runs as a standalone desktop app and also offers browser extension support for Firefox and Google Chrome.

New story! How to Write a Bash Script with Help and Usage Examples

Writing Bash scripts can significantly enhance your productivity, especially when performing repetitive tasks. This article provides a step-by-step guide on creating a Bash script that features a built-in help menu and usage examples, making it user-friendly for both beginners and advanced users.

New story! Serpent OS Demonstrates Working Offline Rollbacks With Its Package Manager

Hot off the recent Serpent OS Alpha release and talking up new features for 2025, this original Linux distribution led by open-source developer Ikey Doherty is now demonstrating its offline rollback support with integration around its package management system.

New story! Google's 10-year Chromebook lifeline leaves old laptops headed for silicon cemetery

Longer support for newer models won't save prior versions from scrapheap. Google promised a decade of updates for its Chromebooks in 2023 to stop them being binned so soon after purchase, but many are still set to reach the end of the road in 2025 and over the next several years.

New story! Fedora Seems to be Dying of Neglect by IBM

When I used the first (and second) releases of Fedora (FC and FC2) there was a massive community of volunteers. They wanted GNU/Linux to succeed on the desktop (laptop too) - an objective hardly shared even by Red Hat back then. It was left for volunteers to pursue, for the most part....

New story! CPico RP2040 a Cost-Effective MCU Board with Debugging Enhancements

The CPico RP2040 is a microcontroller board based on the RP2040 microcontroller. Designed to closely match the Raspberry Pi Pico, it maintains full pin compatibility, allowing developers to integrate it into existing setups without modification.

New story! Ubuntu Studio 22.04 To 24.04 Upgrade Breaks Due To PipeWire And PulseAudio Conflict

Ubuntu Studio users are experiencing widespread failures when attempting in-place upgrades from 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS. The root cause appears to be a conflict arising from the optional switchability between PipeWire and PulseAudio sound servers in Ubuntu Studio 24.04.

New story! Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 1 (Dec 30 – Jan 5, 2025)

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jan 6, 2025 4:42 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Chimera Linux, Nobara 41, Sparky 7.6 releases, Debian 13 alpha installer, Plasma 6.2.5, Fish Shell in Rust, & more.

New story! KDE Starts 2025 With Accessibility Improvements & Better Graphics Tablet Controls

After a short break over the holidays, KDE developer Nate Graham is back with his "This Week in Plasma" series to highlight the interesting KDE Plasma desktop changes made each week.

New story! Slackware-Based Absolute Linux Has Been Discontinued

Absolute Linux, the Slackware-based distro, ends its journey as Paul Sherman announces its termination, citing a lack of time.

New story! Mozilla Firefox 134 Is Out with Support for Touchpad Hold Gestures on Linux

Mozilla published today the final builds of the Firefox 134 web browser, which you can download from the official download server for Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

New story! ‘Everything Open’ Is Reinventing Open Conferencing in Post Pandemic Oz

Although it appears that after a 22-year run that linux.conf.au is now a thing of the past, the folks who brought it to you have launched a new conference that’s about… well, everything open.

New story! Medal of Honor: Allied Assault open source remake new Beta gets lots of fixes

I'm genuinely looking forward to replaying through Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and the expansions thanks to the open source OpenMoHAA project that just put out a new Beta release. It works cross-platform across Linux, macOS and Windows.

New story! Change the Priority of PPAs or Apt Package Repositories in Ubuntu

This is a step by step guide shows how to set the priority of certain packages, launchpad PPAs, and/or other apt repositories in Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, and their based systems.

New story! Mullvad Browser: A Super Privacy-Focused Browser Based on Firefox

Mullvad is Firefox, but enhanced for privacy, pretty interesting take as a cross-platform private browser app.

New story! 16-bit Linux-like Goodness

We see many 16-bit retrocomputers around here based on Intel and Intel-like chips such as the 8086, 8088, V20, and similar. While they don’t seem very powerful by today’s standards, they were perfectly capable machines and, thanks to Elks (Embeddedable Linux Kernel Subset), you can run something fairly Linux-like on these devices.

New story! Xfce 4.20: Best New Features

A quick glance into the new features of Xfce 4.20 desktop environment.

New story! 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: January 5th, 2025

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jan 6, 2025 1:38 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
The 221st installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on January 5th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

New story! Xubuntu 25.04 Preparing Xfce 4.20 Desktop Upgrade

For fans of the Xubuntu derivative of Ubuntu Linux, the upcoming Xubuntu 25.04 release will feature the Xfce 4.20 desktop...

New story! ProtonUp-Qt v2.11 Introduces New Features and Bug Fixes

The new ProtonUp-Qt v2.11 enhanced gaming on Linux with proton-ge-rtsp, WineZGUI, and key bug fixes.

New story! Fish Shell 4.0: Rust Is Coming

Two years, 57k lines of C++, now 75k lines of Rust. Fish Shell 4.0 beta has been entirely rewritten in the Rust programming language.

New story! ChromeOS UCSI Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.14 Cycle

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by bob on Jan 5, 2025 4:46 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
With the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle Google is poised to have its ChromeOS UCSI driver upstreamed...

New story! Here’s the Most Popular Databases for 2024

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jan 5, 2025 10:25 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
DB-Engines publishes the 2024 database popularity stats. See the leading platforms in data management for the past year.

New story! Alternatives to popular CLI tools: history

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Jan 5, 2025 9:09 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
history is a command which displays or manipulates the history list. We recommend alternatives to this command.

New story! Debian-Based Sparky 7.6 Now Available for Download

The lightweight Linux distro Sparky 7.6 rolls out with kernel 6.1 LTS, KDE Plasma 5.27.5, Xfce 4.18, LibreOffice 7.4.7, and more.

New story! What Would Dennis Ritchie Say About the "Memory-Safe" Hype (or Cargo Cult)?

The languages are sometimes being blamed for shoddy coding practices

New story! LLVM Had Another Exciting Year With More Than 37k Commits, 35.5 Million Lines

LLVM development has peaked in recent years at around 37k commits per year for this huge, innovative open-source compiler stack. It was another very exciting year for this leading open-source compiler stack.

New story! How to Disable IPv6 on Linux

If network troubleshooting leads you to believe there's an issue with IPv6, you may need to shut down that protocol on your Linux machines.

New story! Keep-Alive: Prevent Your Computer from Sleeping on Linux, macOS and Windows

  • ostechnix.com; By Senthil Kumar (Posted by ostechnix on Jan 5, 2025 2:50 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
Is your computer going to sleep in the middle of downloads or updates? Meet Keep-Alive, a lightweight tool designed to keep your system awake.

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