postmarketOS 25.12 distribution based on Alpine Linux is now available for download with support for new devices and new features. Here's what's new!
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Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.3 microSD card flashing utility is now available for download with performance improvements and bug fixes. Here’s what’s new!
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elementary OS 8.1 distribution is now available for download based on Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS and powered by Linux kernel 6.8. Here’s what’s new!
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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for December 21st, 2025, brings news about Firefox AI kill switch, Linux Mint 22.3 Beta, Scribus 1.6.5, SparkyLinux 2025.12, OpenShot 3.4, Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 6, Flatpak 1.16.2, LibreOffice 25.8.4, OpenZFS 3.4, fwupd 2.0.19, NVIDIA 590 graphics driver, Linux 6.18 LTS on Ubuntu, Linux 6.17 EOL, Kdenlive 25.12, Darktable 5.4, Ventoy, 1.1.10 MPV 0.41 and GnuCash 5.14, and more.
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GnuCash 5.14 open-source, free, and cross-platform accounting software is now available for download with various improvements and bug fixes.
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MPV 0.41 open-source media player is now available for download with improved Wayland support and ambient light support on Linux. Here’s what’s new!
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Ventoy 1.1.10 open-source bootable USB solution is now available for download with support for AerynOS and other improvements. Here's what's new!
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Darktable 5.4 open-source RAW image editor is now available for download with support for new cameras, new noise profiles, and bug fixes. Here’s what’s new!
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Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator, released new 2512 version yesterday! Ubuntu PPA updated for all current Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 25.04 and 25.10 releases.
The new release of this free open-source Nintendo video game console emulator added two new options Rush Frame Presentation and Smooth Frame Presentation.
Rush Frame Presentation is a new throttling mode to reduce latency which however generally make frame pacing worse. And, Smooth Frame Presentation can improve frame pacing with Immediately Present XFB and/or Rush Frame Presentation, while still maintaining most of the input latency benefits.
Both options are available in the Advanced settings page, where, a new “Reset All Settings” button is added to restore everything to default, without manually deleting the Dolphin settings files.
For Linux and Windows, the new version added new Broadband Adapter (BBA) IPC mode for the GameCube by using the cpp-ipc library. It allows running multiple Dolphin instances on the same machine to share memory and communicate directly without the need for a host network.
The emulator now uses Vera Sans Mono as default font for On-Screen Display, which looks clear regardless of DPI scaling. While, user can override it by adding any TrueType font to the “Load” folder of the User directory and name it “OSD_Font.ttf”.
And, On-Screen Display settings page added more options to configure what to be displayed, font size, or if to disable them all together.
The 2512 version added a patch to detect and skip complex idle loops in Need for Speed: Nitro and Rayman Raving Rabbids, results in massive performance boosts, especially in lighter areas.
It also added small patches for Hulk (2003), Conduit 2, Driver: San Francisco, Monsters Inc. Scream Arena, Tetris Worlds, The Simpsons Hit & Run, etc games that either increased emulation performance or fixed specific issues.
For Android, the RetroAchievements support is finally added. User can log in and unlock achievements in supported GameCube games. However, some menus are incomplete, it may be best to have the RetroAchievements website open in the background for achievement lists and other things.
Other changes in Dolphin 2512 include:
For more about the release, see the official announcement.
Dolphin provides official installer packages which are available to download via the link below:
For Linux, it’s Flatpak package that runs in sandbox environment. Just download it, then run the command below in terminal to install it:
flatpak install /path/to/flatpak
Besides typing path to the flatpak manually, you may simply drag’n’drop it into terminal to auto insert the path.
For Ubuntu users who prefer the classic .deb package, I’ve built the package into this unofficial PPA for Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 25.04 and 25.10.
You may open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run the commands below one by one to add the PPA and install the emulator:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/dolphin-emu
sudo apt update
sudo apt install dolphin-emu
NOTE for Ubuntu 22.04 & Ubuntu 24.04, the PPA contains updated version of Vulkan loader library which is needed for building (and MAYBE properly running) Dolphin 2512, though they are NOT tested. Use it at your own risk!
MPV, the popular command line media player, released new version 0.41.0 yesterday.
The new release of this free open-source media player greatly improved the Wayland support for Linux users. It added support for the color-management-v1 and wp-color-representation-v1 protocols helping ensure accurate color display for High Dynamic Range (HDR) content.
As well, it added tablet input and clipboard writing support for users on GNOME, KDE, etc desktop environments with wayland session.
The 0.41.0 version now uses the libplacebo based gpu-next as default video output renderer instead of the previous gpu, which features overall performance improvements and better HDR and Wayland support.
It improved gpu-next with blend-subtitles=video option to force blend subtitles at the video’s native resolution, rather than the window or screen resolution.
And, it added options for the new default renderer to define the diffuse white and control subtitle peak for HDR output, and fill empty border areas with a blurred version of the video itself. It can as well respect ICC profile color space over any metadata, limit min_luma to 1000:1 contrast ratio in SDR mode, and control output colorspace metadata more precisely.
MPV 0.41.0 uses gpu-next by default
There are also new --sub-glyph-limit and --sub-bitmap-max-size libass caching options for the subtitle track, --hwdec-threads to set number of threads used for hardware decoding, and --bluray-angle to tell mpv which angle to use for Blu-ray discs contain scenes that can be viewed from multiple angles.
Other changes include:
Login--sub-fix-timing to remove minor gaps or overlaps between subtitles.MPV 0.41.0 also includes many other improvements and numerous bug-fixes. See the Github releases page for details.
MPV does not provide official installer packages, but has a list of third-party builds for Windows, Linux, and macOS in its website.
For Linux, besides building from the source, you may keep an eye on the community maintained Flatpak package and Snap package, though they are not updated at the moment of writing.
For Ubuntu and Linux Mint users who prefer native .deb package, I’ve built mpv 0.41.0 into this unofficial PPA for Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 25.04 and 25.10.
To add the PPA and install MPV, run commands below in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) one by one:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/mpv sudo apt update sudo apt install mpv libmpv2
NOTE for Ubuntu 22.04, the system wayland version is outdated that does not match the minimum requirement. So the PPA so far does not have mpv 0.41.0 for 22.04, but I’ll try to build it for Xorg only users if possible.
Darktable, the free open-source photography app and raw developer, released new major 5.4.0 version yesterday.
The new release of this GTK software introduced multiple workspace support. Like “user profile” feature for Firefox, user can now add custom workspaces at app start for Darktable. And, each workspace has it’s own database and configuration file.
Simply go to Preferences -> storage -> database and enable “allow for multiple workspaces” option. Then, on every start of Darktable, it shows a small window for choosing or adding a new workspace.
As you see in the screenshot below, it includes “default” workspace which is the one created on first launch, “memory” workspace that keeps database in memory and discards once you close the app window. And, you can create (or delete at next launch) as many workspaces as you want.
For a non-default workspace, the app window will display the workspace name in top-left alongside the version number.
The release added new Capture Sharpening in the demosaic module, which tries to recover details lost due to in-camera or lens blurring. See the user-manual page for more about it.
It also added the new AgX module to apply a tone mapping curve, which is inspired by Blender’s AgX tone mapper. The new module provides more extensive color output controls than Sigmoid, and it allows to set exposure white and black points explicitly similar to Filmic RGB. And, it includes user adjustable pivot point, contrast around this pivot, and contrast in highlights/shadows.
For Linux with GNOME, KDE, or other desktops with Wayland, Darktable received many fixes and improvements. It now should work on Wayland as good as it was on X11.
As well, there are many new cameras support. They include the base support for Canon EOS R1 / R5 Mark II (needs LibRaw >= 0.22-PreRC1), Canon PowerShot D10 (DNG) / S100V / S2 IS (DNG), Fujifilm FinePix HS33EXR, Fujifilm X-E5 (compressed), Kodak DCS Pro SLR/c, Kodak P712, Leica D-Lux 8, Leica M EV1 (DNG), Leica Q3 Monochrom (DNG), Leica X-E (Typ 102) (DNG), Nikon Z fc, OM System OM-5 Mark II, Olympus SP550UZ/SP565UZ, Panasonic DC-S1M2/DC-S1M2ES (3:2), Ricoh GR IV (DNG), Ricoh GX200 (DNG), Sony DSC-RX1RM3, and Sony ZV-1M2.
Other changes include:
c to toggle crop box.e to set exposure compensation.alt - r to set image rotation.alt - [ and alt - ] to fine rotation adjustment.The official release note as well as the installer packages for Linux, Windows, and macOS are available in the Github releases via the link below:
For Linux on AMD/Intel platform, select download the AppImage. Then, add executable permission from file properties. Finally, click Run to launch the software.
Tips: Ubuntu 22.04 and higher need to install libfuse2 package via the command below (Ctrl+Alt+T) for appimage support.
sudo apt install libfuse2
There’s also community maintained Flatpak package for Linux on both amd64 (AMD/Intel) and arm64 (e.g., RasPi and Snapdragon X), though it runs in sandbox environment.
For Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc Linux Distributions who prefer the native .deb and .rpm packages, there’s an official OBS repository (server’s done at the moment of writing) available for choice.
And, I’ve built the new release package into this unofficial PPA for Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 25.04 and 25.10 users on amd64 and arm64.
To add the PPA and install darktable 5.4.0, run commands in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) one by one:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/darktable sudo apt update sudo apt install darktable
Note for Ubuntu 22.04, there’s neither HEIF nor JXL support because the system dependency libraries are old. Please leave comment below if you do need the feature.
Ghostty, the fast GPU‑accelerated terminal, now operates under a non‑profit funding model through fiscal sponsorship with Hack Club. Here’s what it means.
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Want to run COSMIC desktop on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS? A new (unofficial) PPA makes it easy to. Follow the steps in this guide, learn about the caveats and how to 'undo'.
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Elementary OS 8.1 is out with Wayland enabled by default, new apps, animations and eye candy. Based on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS with Linux 6.14.
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In this article, we will go through the various steps to install the constituent packages in the LAMP stack with
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