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The Fedora Project is exploring the possibility of creating official Fedora Linux images for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

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The Schleswig-Holstein state government in northern Germany is migrating 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Windows and Office to Linux and LibreOffice, prioritising digital sovereignty and reducing reliance on proprietary software.

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Learn how to completely remove MySQL from Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, and other Linux distros via the recommended methods.

The post How to Uninstall MySQL from Ubuntu 24.04 (for Beginners) appeared first on Linux Today.

For Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie,” coming in the summer of 2025, the Debian Project held its usual artwork contest from September 2024 to mid-November 2024. The winner was announced today as “Ceratopsian” created by Elise Couper.

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December Steam Client Update: Fixes rare crashes, enhances game recording settings, resolves audio desync, and improves Remote Play for Mac and Linux.

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Initial support for Rockchip’s RK3576 has landed in Linux kernel 6.12, a new System-on-a-Chip (SoC) introduced earlier this year. With the main target being industrial applications, it is less of a powerhouse than the RK3588, but it still reuses many components.

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wttr.in is a console-based weather forecast service that offers lots of options including various information representation methods. These include terminal-oriented ANSI-sequences for console HTTP clients, HTML for web browsers, or PNG for graphical viewers.

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Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller reports that the project's search to replace Pagure as its git forge is almost complete, with the Fedora Council strongly in favor of Forgejo:

The Council, currently, has a clear preference for Forgejo. This is a big decision and we don't want it to feel rushed. Therefore, we're opening this up one last time to everyone's comments. After two weeks, we'll take our formal vote — and then get on with the work!

LWN looked at Forgejo in February.

Linus Walleij writes about a pair of security features for 32-bit Arm systems; these landed in 6.10, but, he says, have now stabilized to the point that distributors may want to enable them.

PAN is an abbreviation for the somewhat grammatically incorrect Privileged Access Never. [...]

For modern ARM32 systems with large memories configured to use LPAE nothing like PAN was available: this version of the MMU simply did not implement a PAN option.

As of the patch originally developed by Catalin Marinas, we deploy a scheme that will use the fact that LPAE has two separate translation table base registers (TTBR:s): one for userspace (TTBR0) and one for kernelspace (TTBR1).

Linux offers two broad ways of performing I/O to files. Buffered I/O, which is the usual way of accessing a file, stores a copy of the transferred data in the kernel's page cache to speed future accesses. Direct I/O, instead, moves data directly between the storage device and a user-space buffer, avoiding the page cache. Both modes have their advantages and disadvantages. In 2019, Jens Axboe proposed an uncached buffered mode to get some of the advantages of both, but that effort stalled at the time. Now, uncached buffered I/O is back with some impressive performance results behind it.

Version 6.0.0 of the Hurl command-line tool has been released. Hurl is curl-powered utility that runs HTTP requests and tests defined in a plain-text Hurl file. Notable features in this release include the ability to generate dynamic values with functions, shorter syntax, and an option to export Hurl files to a list of curl commands. See the release notes for a full list of changes and downloads.

Version:next-20241204 (linux-next) Released:2024-12-04

Security updates have been issued by Red Hat (go-toolset:rhel8, grafana, kernel, kernel-rt, kernel:4.18.0, pam, pam:1.5.1, pcs, postgresql:12, postgresql:15, postgresql:16, python3:3.6.8, qemu-kvm, rhc, rhc-worker-playbook, and virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel) and SUSE (ansible-10, ansible-core, avahi, bpftool, python, python3, python36, webkit2gtk3, and xen).

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the December 2024 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 December 2024 issue:

* 2024 Holiday Gift Guides

* ICYMI: New Spear-Phishing Attacks From Russian Hackers

* How To Install The Typst Compiler Locally On PCLinuxOS

* Inkscape Tutorial: Inkscape 1.4 Released!

* Tip Top Tips: Accented Characters In Plasma/Qt

* PCLinuxOS Recipe Corner: Instant Pot Beef Stroganoff

* And much more inside!

 

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GStreamer 1.24.10 multimedia framework released with bug fixes, 40+ security improvements, and enhanced stability.

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Version:next-20241203 (linux-next) Released:2024-12-03

RustDesk 1.3.3 open-source remote desktop adds mobile clipboard, Mac arm sound, “untagged” address filtering, and GPU improvements.

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Khronos Group unveils Vulkan 1.4, bringing 8K rendering, dynamic features, and streamlined cross-platform development.

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A Runtime provides the necessary libraries and environment for Flatpak applications to run. This tutorial explains which flatpak applications use a specific runtime in Linux.

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The traditional structure of a compiler forms a pipeline — parsing, type-checking, optimization, and code-generation, usually in that order. But modern programming languages have requirements that are ill-suited to such a design. Increasingly, compilers are moving toward other designs in order to support incremental compilation and low-latency responses for uses like integration into IDEs. Rust has, for the last eight years, been pursuing a particularly unusual design; in that time compile times have substantially improved, but there's still more work to be done.