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Debian 13 "Trixie"

Debian 13 trixie released August 9th, 2025 After 2 years, 1 month, and 30 days of development, the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 13 (code name trixie ). trixie will be supported for the next 5 years thanks to the combined work of the Debian Security team and the Debian Long Term Support team. Debian 13 trixie ships with several desktop environments, such as: GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, LXDE 13, LXQt 2.1.0, Xfce 4.20 This release contains over 14,100 new packag

Tribblix – The Retro Illumos Distribution

>_ Tribblix is an open source operating system created by Peter Tribble. Based on illumos, it blends a retro style with modern components. NEWS: July 13th 2025: Milestone 37 available. (updates). Vanilla Tribblix and LX (aka "omnitribblix") variants for x86 are now available. (download - X86 Release Notes.) NEWS: July 29th 2025. SPARC upgrades from m32 to m33 now available, for now fresh installs should use the m32 ISO and run an upgrade. (SPARC Release Notes.) NEWS: May 15th 2025. CDROM siz

ChatGPT comes with personality presets now - and 3 other upgrades you might have missed

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways: OpenAI launched ChatGPT customization updates. Users can choose chat color and personality. All users (even free) can now access Advanced Voice Mode. OpenAI is having one of its biggest product launch weeks, releasing its highly anticipated open-source models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, and GPT-5. Buried within the deluge of the large language models (LLMs) are helpful ChatGPT features that add customization options that could make the

Canonical's OpenJDK builds promise Java devs more speed - and a whopping 12 years of security support

Liz Leyden/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways With Ubuntu Pro, Canonical's OpenJDK build includes 12 years of support. 'Chiseled' builds are faster, more secure than other OpenJDK builds. Canonical is aligning Ubuntu's and OpenJDK's release cadences. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, has announced the introduction of its own certified OpenJDK builds. With 90% of Fortune 500 companies relying on Java for their backend development, this move is designed to address the growing comple

Canonical's OpenJDK builds promise Java devs more speed and a whopping 12 years of security support

Liz Leyden/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways With Ubuntu Pro, Canonical's OpenJDK build includes 12 years of support. 'Chiseled' builds are faster, more secure than other OpenJDK builds. Canonical is aligning Ubuntu's and OpenJDK's release cadences. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, has announced the introduction of its own certified OpenJDK builds. With 90% of Fortune 500 companies relying on Java for their backend development, this move is designed to address the growing comple

James Cameron Will Keep Making ‘Avatar’ Movies Whether You Want Him to or Not

Nothing is slowing down the Avatar franchise, not even James Cameron’s other cinematic projects. While there has been recent momentum on films beyond the upcoming Avatar: Fire and Ash—he’s currently developing two features, The Ghosts of Hiroshima and The Devils—make no mistake: he’s still all in with Pandora. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Cameron talked about why he is so committed to the world of Avatar and it’s not (just) because the films make the big bucks every time one is rel

xAI makes Grok Imagine video generator free for everyone

Elon Musk’s xAI firm has some counter-programming planned following OpenAI’s GPT-5 upgrade to ChatGPT. Specifically, xAI has made the Grok Imagine tool for turning images into short videos available for free for everyone. Grok Imagine is one of the few image-to-video generative AI tools publicly available for free. Access to the tool is available inside the Grok app on iOS and Android. Grok Imagine first has you generate or upload an image, then it presents a button to convert it into a video

ChatGPT can now talk nerdy to you - plus more personalities and other upgrades beyond GPT-5

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's Key Takeaways: OpenAI launched ChatGPT customization updates. Users can choose chat color and personality. All users (even free) can now access Advanced Voice Mode. OpenAI is having one of its biggest product launch weeks, releasing its highly anticipated open-source models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, and GPT-5. Buried within the deluge of the large language models (LLMs) are helpful ChatGPT features that add customization options that could make the