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After marking bcachefs "externally maintained" in 6.17, Linus Torvalds has removed it entirely for 6.18. "It's now a DKMS module, making the in-kernel code stale, so remove it to avoid any version confusion."

Tiny Core Linux is a 16 MB graphical Linux desktop. It is based on a recent Linux kernel, BusyBox, Tiny X, Fltk, and Flwm. The core runs entirely in memory and boots very quickly. The user has complete control over which applications and/or additional hardware to have supported, be it for a desktop, a nettop, an appliance or server; selectable from the project's online repository.

Vendefoul Wolf is a lightweight, Devuan-based Linux distribution featuring the Trinity desktop. As the init software, it offers a choice of SysV or Runit, instead of systemd. Some of the distribution's other main features include the LibreWolf web browser, the Calamares system installer, an application store, and its own repository of software packages.

The 6.17 development cycle ended on September 28 with the release of the 6.17 kernel. This cycle brought in 13,089 non-merge changesets, a slowdown from its predecessor but still within the normal bounds for recent kernels. The time has come for a look at where those changes came from, with a bit of a side trip into bug statistics.

TUXEDO OS is an Ubuntu-based distribution developed in Germany by TUXEDO Computers GmbH, designed and optimised for the company's own range of Linux-friendly personal computers and notebooks. The distribution uses KDE Plasma as the preferred desktop. Some of the differences between Ubuntu and TUXEDO OS include custom boot menu, the TUXEDO Control Centre, Calamares installer, availability of the Lutris open gaming platform, preference for the PipeWire audio daemon (over PulseAudio), removal of Ubuntu's snap daemon and snap packages, and various other tweaks and enhancements.

CentOS as a group is a community of open source contributors and users which started in 2003 and has been sponsored by Red Hat since 2014. CentOS Linux versions up to CentOS Linux 8 are 100% compatible rebuilds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in full compliance with Red Hat's redistribution requirements. In 2020 it was announced CentOS Linux is being discontinued and replaced with CentOS Stream, a developer-focused distribution which acts as a middle-stream between Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

The NixOS moderation team, which is theoretically in charge of ensuring that community participation on the project's repositories and discussion forum remains welcoming and useful, has released a joint resignation statement. This action was motivated by conflict with the project's steering committee (SC), which has repeatedly overridden the moderation team, leading the team members to decide that they could not continue acting as moderators. Arian Van Putten, speaking for the whole team, writes:

The SC has also shown, in private and public conversations, their lack of understanding of basic principles of community management and open communication. They have mistaken quiet and a lack of controversy for success and peace. They have consistently become upset when there is criticism, and gone quiet on crucial issues in between. We have some fundamental conflicts in this community, which absolutely require discussion. Meanwhile, discussion with the SC has only become less effective.

We think that the goal of moderation should not be to avoid difficult conversations - it's to navigate those difficult conversations in ways that remain safe and constructive. We believe we've made considerable progress as a community on making those conversations happen, and we believe they need to happen more for the project to grow, not be suppressed. We thank everyone for the growth that we have seen, and for their efforts to avoid personal focus in discussion, especially recently.

The NixOS project has had problems with community moderation stretching back more than a year. With the next steering council election coming up soon, it will be interesting to see whether the community selects a council that feels differently or not.

As with a mobile phone, a portable gaming device like the Steam Deck can contain lots of personal information that the owner would like to keep secret—especially given that such devices can do far more than gaming. Alberto Garcia worked with his colleagues at Igalia and people at Valve, the company behind the Steam gaming platform, to come up with a new tool to manage encrypted filesystems for SteamOS, which is a Linux distribution optimized for gaming. Garcia gave a talk about that tool, dirlock, at Open Source Summit Europe, which was held in Amsterdam in late August. In the talk, he looked at the design process for the encrypted-files feature, the alternatives considered, and why they made the choices they did.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (avahi, cups, firefox, gnutls, golang, httpd, kernel, libtpms, mysql, opentelemetry-collector, php:8.2, podman, postgresql:13, postgresql:15, python3, python3.11, python3.12, python3.9, thunderbird, and udisks2), Debian (firefox-esr, gimp, nncp, node-tar-fs, and squid), Fedora (chromium, firebird, python-azure-keyvault-securitydomain, python-azure-mgmt-security, and python-microsoft-security-utilities-secret-masker), Red Hat (httpd:2.4, kernel, kernel-rt, and mod_http2), SUSE (aide, apache2-mod_security2, chromedriver, cloud-init, docker, gdk-pixbuf, git, google-osconfig-agent, govulncheck-vulndb, gstreamer-plugins-base, iperf, kernel, krb5, krita, luajit, net-tools, nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed, pam, postgresql17, python311, rust-keylime, sevctl, tor, tree-sitter-ruby, and udisks2), and Ubuntu (curl, ghostscript, inetutils, python2.7, and qtbase-opensource-src).

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LastOSLinux is Linux Mint-based distribution with the goal of being a user-friendly alternative to Windows. It is designed for current Windows users wishing to migrate to Linux, with a Windows-like user interface and tools. The distribution uses the Cinnamon desktop and it also includes the WINE software which is able to run some Windows applications on Linux.

FydeOS, developed by United Kingdom's Fyde Innovations, is a lightweight operating system that carries a Linux kernel, a browser platform and a container technology driver. It is very similar to Google Chrome OS in use. FydeOS supports the latest web application standards, and is able to run Android and Linux applications (by activating the included Android and Debian subsystems), providing a Google Chromebook-like experience. Users have a choice to use cloud services provided by Google, services powered by Fyde Innovations, or a local account. FydeOS is based on the open-source ChromiumOS and includes the Chromium browser; it is available free of charge for most standard Intel/AMD personal computers.

The F-Droid project has posted an urgent message regarding Google's plan to require developer registration to install apps on Android devices.

The F-Droid project cannot require that developers register their apps through Google, but at the same time, we cannot "take over" the application identifiers for the open-source apps we distribute, as that would effectively seize exclusive distribution rights to those applications.

If it were to be put into effect, the developer registration decree will end the F-Droid project and other free/open-source app distribution sources as we know them today, and the world will be deprived of the safety and security of the catalog of thousands of apps that can be trusted and verified by any and all. F-Droid's myriad users will be left adrift, with no means to install — or even update their existing installed — applications.

As a Linux user, you may eventually run into a situation where your root partition (/) runs out of space, which can cause errors, prevent software installation, or even stop your system from functioning properly.

Expanding the root partition may sound tricky, especially for beginners, but with a bit of guidance and patience, it’s absolutely doable, as explained in this article.

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The CUDA club just got a new member. Here’s how CIQ wants its Rocky Linux for AI spin to shake up how enterprises roll out GPU-hungry apps.

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Ubuntu confirms Dracut will become the default initramfs tool in 25.10, phasing out initramfs-tools after nearly 20 years of use.

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openSUSE’s new Agama installer v17 brings improved storage UI, better network handling, and new JSON options.

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Fwupd 2.0.15 Linux firmware update tool adds NVIDIA ConnectX-6/7/8 NICs, Foxconn SDX61 modem, and Jabra Evolve2 support.

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With TUXEDO WebFAI, anyone can set up their Linux installations fully automated and as fully functional as those done at TUXEDO Computers during production. TUXEDO WebFAI also brings you the latest tested Linux distribution versions from the TUXEDO Computers servers.

The post TUXEDO Computers Now Supports Fully Automated Installations of Debian 13 appeared first on Linux Today.

The latest daily build ISO images of the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” distribution release are now powered by the Linux 6.17 kernel series.

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