Tor Project blog

Arti 1.4.6 is released: Hidden Service resilience; work on flow control, Conflux, and CGO.

This release of Arti has some improvements for Onion Service (Hidden Service) operators. There's better resistance to denial-of-service (Proposal 362) and an experimental new utility for migration of Hidden Service identity key from a C Tor keystore to Arti.

Ubuntu Buzz !

How To Install Tux Typing Game on Ubuntu 24.04

LinuxGizmos.com

Fruit Jam Mini Computer Features RP2350B, ESP32-C6 WiFi, and DVI Video

First seen earlier this year, Adafruit has officially launched the Fruit Jam, a compact RP2350B-powered development board. The product mentions that it matches the dimensions of a standard credit card, 3.375 by 2.125 inches (ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1), while providing the functionality of a miniature standalone computer.

Internet Society

The Power of Volunteers: Connecting an Indigenous Community in Panama

The Internet Society Panama Chapter had a plan. They would build the country’s first community network and bring the Internet to one of the country’s many Indigenous communities that were still offline. 

9to5Linux

Mesa 25.2 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Highlights of Mesa 25.2 include some major house-cleaning of the window system code to remove support for deprecated functionality, such as removing DRI2 support entirely, removing support for the insecure legacy GEM names, removing support for thread-unsafe libX11, and deprecating support for EGL_WL_bind_wayland_display.

Independent Distro KaOS Linux 2025.07 Is Out with KDE Plasma 6.4 and Linux 6.15

Powered by the Linux 6.15 kernel series, KaOS Linux 2025.07 ships with the KDE Plasma 6.4.3 desktop environment, which is accompanied by the KDE Gear 25.04.3 and KDE Frameworks 6.16 software suites, all built using the latest Qt 6.9.1 open-source application framework.

Audacity 3.7.5 Audio Editor Introduces 32-Bit PCM Support to the FLAC Importer

Audacity 3.7.5 is here after Audacity 3.7.4 and introduces 32-bit PCM to the FLAC importer, a fix for the lost focus issue when closing the registration window, a fix for a crash during WAV import when the audio file is up to 7 ms long, a fix for a crash when using Macro Wizard, and a fix for a crash when rendering the spectrum view.

NetworkManager 1.54 Brings Support for Configuring Per-Device IPv4 Forwarding

Coming five months after NetworkManager 1.52, the NetworkManager 1.54 release adds support for configuring per-device IPv4 forwarding via the ipv4.forwarding connection property, support OCI baremetal in nm-cloud-setup, support for configuring the loopback interface in NetworkManager’s text-based UI (nmtui).

NVIDIA 580 Linux Graphics Driver Enters Public Beta with Better Wayland Support

The NVIDIA 580 graphics driver series promises improved support for Wayland users by introducing support for the fifo-v1 Wayland protocol on Vulkan and fixing a bug that could cause GTK 4 apps to crash when using the Vulkan backend on Wayland.

KDE Plasma 6.4.4 Desktop Environment Improves Notifications, Flatpak Support

Coming three weeks after KDE Plasma 6.4.3, the KDE Plasma 6.4.4 release changes the behavior of notifications marked as “low priority” or that have been manually configured to show up in the history to selectively ignore that behavior and show up in the history when they arrive if Do Not Disturb mode is enabled.

Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.2 Distro Is Out with Linux Kernel 6.16 and GNOME 48.3

Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.16 kernel series, PorteuX 2.2 is here a little over two months after PorteuX 2.1, adding a patch to Xorg Server to make tear-free (vsync) available in the modesetting kernel driver, which is used for all graphics cards.

Darktable 5.2.1 Adds Support for Nikon D200, Nikon D5300, and Pentax K-r Cameras

Darktable 5.2.1 is here about one and a half months after Darktable 5.2 with base support for the Nikon D200 (12bit-compressed), Nikon D5300 (12bit-compressed), Panasonic DC-GH7 (4:3), Pentax K-r (PEF), and Samsung GX-1L cameras.

4MLinux 49.0 Distro Adds Support for Bcachefs Installations, New Apps, and More

Coming more than three months after 4MLinux 48.0, the 4MLinux 49.0 release is powered by the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series, uses the Mesa 25.1 graphics stack, features support for Bcachefs installations in UEFI mode, and improves support for mobile devices via Bluetooth and PTP/MTP protocols.

TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 Linux Ultrabook Unveiled with Ryzen AI 300

TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 is powered by AMD Ryzen AI 300 processors, either the AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 with 8 cores, 16 threads, and AMD Radeon 860M graphics, the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 with 10 cores, 20 threads, and AMD Radeon 880M graphics, or the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with 12 cores, 24 threads, and AMD Radeon 890M graphics.