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July 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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The Arch Linux project is especially well-known in the Linux community for two things: its rolling-release model and the quality of the documentation in the ArchWiki. No matter which Linux distribution one uses, the odds are that eventually the ArchWiki's documentation will prove useful. The Debian project recognized this and has sought to improve its own documentation game by inviting ArchWiki maintainers Jakub Klinkovský and Vladimir Lavallade to DebConf25 in Brest, France, to speak about how Arch manages its wiki. The talk has already borne fruit with the launch of an effort to revamp the Debian wiki.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the August 2025 issue. With the exception of a brief period in 2009, The PCLinuxOS Magazine has been published on a monthly basis since September, 2006. The PCLinuxOS Magazine is a product of the PCLinuxOS community, published by volunteers from the community. The magazine is led by Paul Arnote, Chief Editor, and Assistant Editor Meemaw. The PCLinuxOS Magazine is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share-Alike 3.0 Unported license, and some rights are reserved. All articles may be freely reproduced via any and all means following first publication by The PCLinuxOS Magazine, provided that attribution to both The PCLinuxOS Magazine and the original author are maintained, and a link is provided to the originally published article.

In the August 2025 issue:

* ICYMI: Decade Old Vulnerability Found In Sudo
* Wiki Pick: Cron Jobs
* Inkscape Tutorial: The New LPE Tool
* How To Install The Typst.vim Plugin
* PCLinuxOS Recipe Corner: Chicken Tortilla Casserole
* Good Words, Good Deeds. Good News
* Install Easy Flatpak Manager On PCLinuxOS
* And much more inside!

This month’s cover was created by parnote.

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Version 1.3.0 of the Radicle distributed software forge system has been released. Changes this time around include canonical references, a new radicle-protocol crate, better log rotation, and more. (LWN looked at Radicle in 2024).

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, and python-requests), Debian (ca-certificates-java), Fedora (chromium, clash-meta, mingw-python3, openjpeg, php-adodb, and toolbox), Mageia (kernel and kernel-linus), SUSE (chromium, ImageMagick, libgcrypt, libssh, libxml2, opensc, postgresql14, and postgresql16), and Ubuntu (dnsmasq, linux-gcp-6.8, linux-raspi, linux-oracle-6.14, and openjdk-17).

Debian's GNU/Hurd team has announced the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2025:

This is a snapshot of Debian "sid" at the time of the stable Debian "Trixie" release (August 2025), so it is mostly based on the same sources. It is not an official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release. [...]

Debian GNU/Hurd is currently available for the i386 and amd64 architectures with about 72% of the Debian archive, and more to come!

See the FAQ and configuration guide for more on the GNU/Hurd port.

Manjaro Linux is a fast, user-friendly, desktop-oriented operating system based on Arch Linux. Key features include intuitive installation process, automatic hardware detection, stable rolling-release model, ability to install multiple kernels, special Bash scripts for managing graphics drivers and extensive desktop configurability. Manjaro Linux offers Xfce as the core desktop options, as well as KDE, GNOME and a minimalist Net edition for more advanced users. Community-supported desktop flavours are also available.

StarDict plugins on Debian 13 leak selected X11 text over HTTP to Chinese dictionary services, exposing potentially sensitive data.

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Debian Installer Trixie RC 3 is out as the final RC before Debian 13’s release, bringing kernel updates and mirror tweaks.

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FSF’s big summer fundraiser is over and it’s now time for rolling up the sleeves to get those orders shipped!

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Archinstall 3.0.9, a guided installer for Arch Linux, adds U2F authentication, LUKS iteration tweaks, and Bluetooth support.

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GNU C Library 2.42 is out, bringing ISO C23, POSIX.1-2024, faster malloc tcache, and dozens of bug fixes and CVE patches.

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Version:next-20250812 (linux-next) Released:2025-08-12

StormOS is a desktop-oriented Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. The project's goal is to build an operating system which is easy-to-install, beginner-friendly and usable out of the box in order to attract new users over to the world of Arch Linux.

Shebang is a lightweight Artix-based Linux distribution with focus on simplicity, privacy and security. It uses a customised Openbox window manager suitable for both intermediate and advanced power users. Shebang is an attempt at building a modern, full-featured GNU/Linux system without sacrificing usability and performance.

Richard Hughes, creator and maintainer of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS), has written a blog post about the sustainability plan he has put together for the service. He is calling for the vendors that use the service to help fund its development and maintenance going forward. The Linux Foundation is kindly paying for all the hosting costs of the LVFS, and Red Hat pays for all my time — but as LVFS grows and grows that's going to be less and less sustainable longer term. We're trying to find funding to hire additional resources as a "me replacement" so that there is backup and additional attention to LVFS (and so that I can go on holiday for two weeks without needing to take a laptop with me).

This year there will be a fair-use quota introduced, with different sponsorship levels having a different quota allowance. Nothing currently happens if the quota is exceeded, although there will be additional warnings asking the vendor to contribute. The "associate" (free) quota is also generous, with 50,000 monthly downloads and 50 monthly uploads. This means that almost all the 140 vendors on the LVFS should expect no changes.

(Thanks to Paul Wise.)

StarDict is a GPLv3-licensed cross-platform dictionary application. It includes dictionaries for a number of languages, and has a rich plugin ecosystem. It also has a glaring security problem: while running on X11, using Debian's default configuration, it will send a user's text selections over unencrypted HTTP to two remote servers.

The 6.17-rc1 prepatch was released by Linus Torvalds on August 10; the 6.17 merge window is now closed. There were 11,404 non-merge changesets pulled into the mainline this time around, a little over 7,000 of which came in after the first-half merge-window summary was written. As one would expect, quite a few changes and new features were included in that work.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (jackson-annotations, jackson-core, jackson-databind, jackson-jaxrs-providers, and jackson-modules-base and libxml2), Debian (distro-info-data, gnutls28, modsecurity-crs, and node-tmp), Fedora (chromium, incus, perl, perl-Devel-Cover, perl-PAR-Packer, polymake, varnish, and xen), Red Hat (kernel, kernel-rt, and rhc), and SUSE (chromedriver, ffmpeg-4, go1.23, go1.24, go1.25, govulncheck-vulndb, himmelblau, iperf, keylime-ima-policy, net-tools, sqlite3, texmaker, tomcat, and zabbix).

GNU Binutils 2.45 adds SFrame V2 support for s390x and major enhancements for RISC-V, Armv9.6, LoongArch, and x86.

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