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CachyOS July 2025 Update Finally Lets Users Choose the Shell During Installation

Powered by the latest Linux 6.15 kernel series, the CachyOS ISO snapshot for July 2025 introduces a long-awaited feature requested by users, namely the ability to choose their favorite shell at installation time. As such, users now have the option to choose between cachyos-fish-config and cachyos-zsh-config.

GParted Live 1.7.0-8 Adds Mechanism to Reduce Random Order of Block Devices

Powered by Linux kernel 6.12.37-1 and based on the Debian Sid (Debian 13) repository as of July 12th, 2025, GParted Live 1.7.0-8 is here five and a half months after GParted Live 1.7.0-1 to implement a mechanism that reduces the possibility of random order of block devices in the live system.

Canonical Plans for a Fully Functional Desktop Session on RISC-V with Ubuntu 25.10

Last month, Canonical announced a significant change for RISC-V users that will drop support for most of the existing RISC-V hardware, as the company plans to raise the required RISC-V ISA profile family from RVA20 to RVA23. This means that about 90 percent of RISC-V devices won’t be able to run Ubuntu 25.10.

GStreamer 1.28 Promises Vulkan H.264 Encoder, AMD HIP Plugin, and More

GStreamer 1.28 looks like another big update promising new features like a Vulkan H.264 encoder, an AMD HIP (Heterogeneous-compute Interface for Portability) plugin, basic colorimetry support for Wayland, and a new wpe2 plugin for Webkit that makes use of the “WPE Platform API”.

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RISC-V Embedded Board Features TH1520 SoC, Dual GbE, and 4TOPS AI

The HH-SCDAYU800A is another RISC-V development board built around the Alibaba T-Head TH1520 system-on-chip. With its dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, multiple camera interfaces, and industrial-grade design, the board targets applications requiring multimedia features, edge inference, and smart device integration.

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  1. Republished Today: Why the US Declared War on Wikileaks
    The world’s most powerful government vs. the internet’s most influential whistleblower site. Is America’s war on Wikileaks an attack on journalism and free speech?
  2. [Video] Microsoft's Plan is Doomed: Expensive LLM 'Games', Clown Computing Losses, and Mass Layoffs Several Times Per Month
    Microsoft is trying to sweep the bad news under some rug or wardrobe
  3. ZDNet Kills the Linux RSS Feed (Syndication Redirected to Loads of Marketing Spam and Fake Articles)
    Jack Wallen and SJVN have been screwed
  4. Links 09/07/2024: Update on DMCA Case Regarding GitHub Copilot, "There Will be More Like Julian Assange"
    Links for the day

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  5. [Video] Apple Still Unleashes Software Patent Menaces That Can Discourage Adoption of GNU/Linux
    Apple's role in spreading patented formats deserves more frequent scrutiny
  6. Links 09/07/2024: Against Slack, Adventures in Webmastery
    Links for the day
  7. [Meme] From Innocence to GNUisance in 41 Years
    Always keep an eye on the goal
  8. Faroe Islands: GNU/Linux Climbs to All-time High of 4%
    It used to be at around 0%
  9. "Empowering Diversity" at IBM/Red Hat Was Failed PR Stunt
    They know it was a failure
  10. Videos Still Important to Us
    Will we be back to an average of a video per day? Knock on wood!
  11. [Video] What the Freedom of Julian Assange Means to the Rest of Us Who Obtain Incriminating Information From Insiders (Sometimes Without Authorisation)
    It's difficult to say anything negative about what happened
  12. Microsoft's LLM Bubble Has Already Burst
    Microsoft's gambit or crazy gamble on "Hey Hi" (AI) hype is running out of steam
  13. Links 09/07/2024: Software Patents Challenged Again, Russia and North Korea Escalate
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  14. Gemini Links 09/07/2024: Asian Hornet, Boundaries, and Gopher
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  15. Canonical is a Microsoft/Wintel Company
    Can Canonical ever recover from this relationship?
  16. Microsoft Media Operative, Citing Leaked Document From Google: "Google’s Numbers Also Show Azure Had a Roughly $3 Billion Operating Loss"
    Fiscal 2023 ended days ago
  17. Why There Are Mass Layoffs in Azure, Thousands Have Been Fired Several Times So Far This Year (and Every Year Since 2020)
    This is why they hop onto "HEY HI" (AI) hype
  18. "No Institution or Project is Too Small to Evade Their Interference and Scrutiny"
    "See what has become of the OSI and Ubuntu / Canonical etc."
  19. Template for Ambitious 'Security' 'Journalists'
    explain why the user downloading and installing a malicious program is the fault of Linux
  20. A Leap for GNU/Linux in Barbados
    2019 - July 2024
  21. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  22. IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 08, 2024
    IRC logs for Monday, July 08, 2024
  23. Thinking of the Next Phase of Wikileaks (and Beyond Wikileaks)
    Wikileaks must become about Wikileaks again, i.e. new leaks, not about the Assange case
  24. The Paper Tiger
    Paper tigers don't last long
  25. GNU/Linux Surge in Qatar
    It's well over 4% is one counts Chromebooks too
  26. Even Notepad Has Become a Microsoft Keylogger (Spying on Keystrokes)
    To you those are "suggestions"
  27. Windows Falls to an All-time Low Again (26%)
    It'll soon fall to just a quarter of Web requests worldwide

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