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Edubuntu is a partner project of Ubuntu, a distribution suitable for classroom use. The aim is that an educator with limited technical knowledge and skill will be able to set up a computer lab, or establish an on-line learning environment, in an hour or less, and then administer that environment without having to become a fully-fledged Linux geek.

Q4OS is a Debian-based desktop Linux distribution designed to offer classic-style user interface (Trinity) and simple accessories, and to serve stable APIs for complex third-party applications, such as Google Chrome, VirtualBox and development tools. The system is also very useful for virtual cloud environments due to its very low hardware requirements.

When one of open source’s favorite cloud hosts went dark, even LWN.net blinked. Here’s what happened—and why it matters.

The post Power Outage at Newark Data Center Disrupts Linode, Took LWN Offline appeared first on Linux Today.

Highlights of Audacious 4.5 include a new Playback History plugin for the Qt build, support for the Album Artist tag in the APE header, support for outdated ReplayGain tags in Opus files, support for fetching lyrics from lrclib.net, and support for reading color schemes from the settings portal.

The post Audacious 4.5 Open-Source Audio Player Adds Playback History Plugin, Winamp 2.9 Skin appeared first on Linux Today.

Plasma 6.3.6 has landed in Debian 13 just a day before the full freeze, giving users the most recent KDE desktop environment from the 6.3 series.

The post Debian 13 to Ship with KDE Plasma 6.3.6 Desktop Environment appeared first on Linux Today.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Firefox 141, Shotcut 25.07, OPNsense 25.7, Insights into Arch users’ preferences, Debian 13 to ship with Plasma 6.3.6, and more.

The post Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 30 (Jul 21 – 27, 2025) appeared first on Linux Today.

iDeal OS is a computer operating system, a custom respin of the powerful MX Linux distribution, with the best privacy and security settings enabled by default. The main goals of iDeal OS are privacy and security, offering to surf, shop, trade and bank online with complete peace of mind, without annoying advertisements, tracking, logging, bugs, viruses or unwanted disclosure of personal information. iDeal OS is available in two different editions: "Emerald", which offers applications for everyday computing needs, and "Diamond", with is a powerful digital workstation with a wide range of professional tools.

The main function of a web server is to display website content through storing, processing and delivering webpages to users. Here’s our verdict on the best free and open source web servers.

The post 15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Web Servers appeared first on Linux Today.

I benchmark the Firefly AIBOX-3588S and compare it to single board computers (both ARM and RISC-V) as well as an Intel N100 Mini PC.

The post Benchmarking the Firefly AIBOX-3588S Embedded Fanless PC appeared first on Linux Today.

There is a wide range of translation software available for Linux. Some of the tools included are front-end to other services. We’ve also included software which translates text on your local machine, and we include both GUI and CLI tools.

The post 9 Best Free and Open Source Translators appeared first on Linux Today.

Need Google Chrome on your Enterprise Linux system? Here’s how to install it on Rocky Linux 10.

The post How to Install Google Chrome on Rocky Linux 10 appeared first on Linux Today.

Shotcut 25.07 video editor adds a new Speech to Text model downloader and shrinks install size by excluding bundled models.

The post Shotcut 25.07 Video Editor Adds Speech-to-Text Model appeared first on Linux Today.

Ever wondered which countries love Arch Linux the most or what desktop environment, browser, or shell its users prefer? Here are the answers.

The post Insights Into Arch Linux Users’ Preferences appeared first on Linux Today.

Version:next-20250807 (linux-next) Released:2025-08-07

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Don't fear the TPM; Python performance; Offensive Debian packages; NNCPNET; 6.17 Merge window; Transparent huge pages; SilverBullet.
• Briefs: AUR malware; Secure boot; kbuild and kconfig maintenanec; GPU drivers; NVIDIA on AlmaLinux; Proxmox 9.0; Quotes; ...
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

SmartOS is an open-source UNIX-like operating system based on illumos, a community fork of OpenSolaris. It features four technologies - ZFS (a combined file system and logical volume manager), DTrace (a dynamic tracing framework for troubleshooting kernel and application problems), Zones (a lightweight virtualisation solution), KVM and bhyve (two full virtualisation solutions for running a variety of guest operating systems, including Linux, Windows, BSD and Plan9). SmartOS is designed to be particularly suitable for building clouds and generating appliances.

Calculate Linux is a Gentoo-based family of three distinguished distributions. Calculate Directory Server (CDS) is a solution that supports Windows and Linux clients via LDAP + SAMBA, providing proxy, mail and Jabbers servers with streamlined user management. Calculate Linux Desktop (CLD) is a workstation and client distribution (with a choice of Cinnamon, KDE Plasma, LXQt, MATE or Xfce desktops) that includes a wizard to configure a connection to Calculate Directory Server. Calculate Linux Scratch (CLS) is a live CD with a build framework for creating a custom distribution.

The AlmaLinux project has announced the availability of packages to enable native NVIDIA driver support, including CUDA and Secure Boot, for AlmaLinux 9 and 10.

When AlmaLinux started just 5 years ago, this wouldn't have been possible. With NVIDIA's open source version of their graphics drivers things have changed. This open source version is slowly becoming the flagship driver, with new products being added exclusively to it. With the help of some incredible people in the open source ecosystem and the AlmaLinux community, we were able to do something that has yet to be done in the EL ecosystem - ship Secure Boot signed, open source, NVIDIA kernel modules.

Full documentation is available on the AlmaLinux wiki.

Daniel Almeida continues his look at graphics drivers on the Collabora blog.

The starting point is to understand that a kernel-mode GPU driver connects a much larger UMD (user-mode driver) to the actual GPU. The UMD will actually implement APIs like Vulkan, OpenGL, OpenCL, and others. These APIs, in turn, will be used by actual programs to describe their workload to the GPU. This includes allocating and using not only the geometry and textures, but also the shaders being used to process said data into the final result. This means that a key aspect of GPU drivers is actually allocating GPU memory to house data related to the current scene being drawn so that it can actually be operated on by the hardware.

MODICIA O.S. is a Linux multimedia distribution designed primarily for musicians, graphic designers and video makers. It is based on Debian's "stable" branch, but uses the Cinnamon desktop and a recent Linux kernel. MODICIA O.S. comes with a set of carefully-selected, open-source multimedia software and tools, such as Audacity (audio editor), Brasero (disc-burning utility), Cheese (webcam application), Curlew (multimedia converter), GIMP (graphics editor), HandBrake (video transcoder), Kdenlive (video editor), MediaInfo (tool that provides technical data about media files), mpv (media player), Peek (animated GIF recorder), RawTherapee (photo processor), XnView (image viewer), and many others. The distribution also integrates the OnlyOffice software suite for general office tasks.