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The 228th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on February 23rd, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

The first PhotoPrism update for 2025 brings a sleek UI, hybrid photo-video viewer, and 3D Earth view for Places—plus some usability and performance enhancements.

Inquiring minds want to know if a potential candidate’s opposition to OSI’s Open Source AI Definition is the reason it pulled a previously unknown time zone rule out of a magic hat to deny his nomination.

FreeBSD 13.5 Beta 3 is out this weekend in being the newest weekly development version leading towards next month's stable release to cap off the FreeBSD 13 series.

Graperain’s RK3568 single board computer is a compact platform for embedded applications, powered by a quad-core Cortex-A55 CPU at 2.0GHz. It supports Android 11, Linux, Ubuntu, and Debian, features an ARM G52 2EE GPU for 4K video decoding, and offers versatile connectivity for industrial, consumer, and commercial use.

This roundup explores the finest CLI-based file encryption tools. All free and open source goodness.

Lutris 0.5.19 open-source game manager for Linux improves Proton integration, refines DXVK handling, enhances Esync & Fsync settings, and more.

It’s not pretty when Trump’s personality starts to rub off onto tech billionaires who don’t really deserve their wealth, but will pay any price to hold onto it.

Gentoo announced new cloud-ready images in QCOW2 format, offering weekly updates, password-less root, and easy KVM acceleration.

Project management is the application of processes, methods, knowledge, skills and experience to achieve the project objectives. We pick the finest free and open source web project management software.

The Femtofox Pro v1 kit is a compact, low-power LoRa and Meshtastic development board running Linux specially designed for Meshtastic networks. Built around the Luckfox Pico Mini (Rockchip RV1103) SBC, this compact development platform supports USB host/device functionality, Ethernet, WiFi over USB, GPIO interfaces, I2C, UART, and a real-time clock (RTC).

We are nearing one year since the first Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops shipped with Windows 11 ARM. For the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 release it's looking like more of these ARM-powered laptops will have somewhat usable support at least for those wanting to avoid Intel Core Ultra or AMD Ryzen laptops.

Here are the best Ubuntu 25.04 features..

Being the family on-call tech support guy can become a little draining at times, and usually when my parents call me there's a 50-50 chance it's going to be computer-related, but looking back at the past few years of familial troubleshooting, it's not their fault: it's Windows!

Wine 10.2 offers better gaming and app support with vkd3d 1.15, dynamic Wow64 mode, thread priority tweaks, and Bluetooth updates.

PeaZip 10.3 was released today as the latest stable version for this open-source, free, and cross-platform archive manager introducing various new features and enhancements.

Files is a file management app for file browsing, media consumption, storage clean-up and offline file transfer. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.

The upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel is set to finally introduce a standardized way of informing user-space of GPUs becoming hung or otherwise unresponsive. This is initially wired up for AMD and Intel graphics drivers on Linux so the user can be properly notified of problems and/or user-space software taking steps to address the hung/unresponsive graphics processor.

Normally, I try to avoid Internet drama, so to speak, but something rather interesting caught my eye this week. The OBS Studio maintainers raised an issue with Fedora regarding their use of an unofficial OBS Studio Flatpak package. Naturally, the "incident" created quite a bit of furor in the Linux community.