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Highlights of Linux 6.14 include Btrfs RAID1 read balancing support, a new ntsync subsystem for Win NT synchronization primitives to boost game emulation with Wine, uncached buffered I/O support, and a new accelerator driver for the AMD XDNA Ryzen AI NPUs (Neural Processing Units).

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Garbage in, garbage out. Open Source Initiative is starting to look like an organization that’s turning its back on its founding principles.

The post OSI’s Questionable Election Returns Questionable Results appeared first on Linux Today.

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Qubes OS is a free and open-source, security-oriented operating system for single-user desktop computing. Qubes OS leverages Xen-based virtualization to allow for the creation and management of isolated compartments called qubes. These qubes, which are implemented as virtual machines (VMs). This allows each component of the operating system to be isolated from other pieces, preenting compromises from spreading or information from leaking.

The kernel's slab allocator is charged with providing small objects on demand; its performance and reliability are crucial for the functioning of the system as a whole. At the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, two adjacent sessions in the memory-management track dug into current work on the slab allocator. The first focused on the new sheaves feature, while the second discussed a set of allocation functions that are safe to call in any context.

From the LibreQoS site comes the sad news that Dave Täht has passed away. Among many other things, he bears a lot of credit for our networks functioning as well as they do. "We're incredibly grateful to have Dave as our friend, mentor, and as someone who continuously inspired us – showing us that we could do better for each other in the world, and leverage technology to make that happen. He will be dearly missed".

Searching through LWN's archives will turn up many references to his work fixing WiFi, improving queue management, tackling bufferbloat, and more. Farewell, Dave, we hope the music is good wherever you are.

(Thanks to Jon Masters for the heads-up).

Emby is an open-source alternative to Plex Media Server. This guide will teach you how to install Emby Media Server on Debian 12. You will install Emby with Nginx as a reverse proxy and enable UFW. Let’s get started.

The post How to Install Emby Media Server on Debian 12 appeared first on Linux Today.

This week we got some awesome releases, starting with the GNOME 48 desktop environment and the GIMP 3.0 image editor, and continuing with the Blender 4.4 3D graphics software, Kali Linux’s first release in 2025, as well as new elementary OS, Calibre, Finnix, Rescuezilla, Enlightenment, and EndeavourOS releases.

On top of that, Ikey Doherty announced a new name for his Serpent OS distro as AerynOS and I tell you all about what’s coming in Fedora Linux 42. Below, you can check out this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in the 9to5Linux weekly roundup for March 23rd, 2025.

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Finders Keypers is an open-source tool for analyzing the current usage of AWS KMS keys. It supports both AWS customer managed KMS keys and AWS Managed KMS keys.

Finders Keypers supports 28 different resource types across 21 AWS services, focusing on high-usage areas such as AWS Compute, database offerings, analytics services, storage, and secrets and configuration management.

The post Finders Keypers: Open-source AWS KMS key usage finder appeared first on Linux Today.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: EndeavourOS Mercury Neo, Elementary OS 8.0.1, Kali 2025.1a, GNOME 48, GIMP 3, Hyprland 0.48, Wine 10.4, Git 2.49, EU OS on the horizon, and more.

The post Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 12 (Mar 17 – 23, 2025) appeared first on Linux Today.

Hyprland 0.48 tiling Wayland compositor is out with major improvements including ANR dialogs, full color management, sync fixes, and more.

The post Hyprland Celebrates Its Third Birthday with v0.48 appeared first on Linux Today.

We have evaluated each application. Here’s our verdict. Only free and open source software is included.

The post 22 Best Free and Open Source Clipboard Managers appeared first on Linux Today.

As he has in some previous editions of the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), Fred Knight gave an update on the status of various storage standards this year. In it, he looked at changes to the NVM Express (NVMe) standards in some detail. He also updated attendees on the fairly small changes that have come to the SCSI (T10) and ATA (T13) standards over the last few years.

The release of Fedora 42 is only a month or so away, so the folks who engineer the project are calling for the user community to help, in a Test Week that starts on Monday.

The post It’s CoreOS Test Week for Fedora 42 and Fedora Users are Needed appeared first on Linux Today.

EndeavourOS Mercury landed on February 10th, 2025, powered by Linux kernel 6.13 and featuring the KDE Plasma 6.2.5 desktop environment on both the live environment and the offline installation option. EndeavourOS Mercury Neo is here to bump the kernel to Linux 6.13.7 and the live session to KDE Plasma 6.3.3.

The post EndeavourOS Mercury Neo Launches with KDE Plasma 6.3, NVIDIA 570, and Mesa 25 appeared first on Linux Today.

Rescuezilla 2.6 open-source disk imaging app adds support for new hardware, updates UEFI Secure Boot shim, and temporarily removes Firefox in the Oracular release variant.

The post Rescuezilla 2.6 Released with Secure Boot Fixes and Updated Hardware Support appeared first on Linux Today.

Finnix 250 is here to celebrate the distro’s 25th anniversary, which is a huge milestone for such a small project. The first Finnix release was made public on March 22nd, 2000. Despite the small footprint, the Finnix distro ships with hundreds of Linux utilities for system recovery, maintenance, testing, and other system administration tasks.

The post Finnix Linux Distro for Sysadmins Celebrates 25th Anniversary with New Release appeared first on Linux Today.

The kernel's kexec mechanism allows one kernel to directly boot a new one; it can be thought of as a sort of kernel equivalent to the execve() system call. Kexec has a number of uses, including booting a special kernel to perform dumps after a crash. Normally, one does not expect user-space processes to survive booting into a new kernel, but that has not stopped developers from trying to implement that ability. Mike Rapoport ran a memory-management-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit to discuss one piece of that problem: enabling the contents of memory to persist across a kexec handover so that the new kernel can pick up where the old one left off.

Version 137.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Changes include the rollout of tab groups, a number of search-bar changes, and the ability to add signatures to PDF files.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (freetype, grub2, kernel, kernel-rt, and python-jinja2), Debian (freetype, linux-6.1, suricata, tzdata, and varnish), Fedora (mingw-libxslt and qgis), Mageia (elfutils, mercurial, and zvbi), Oracle (grafana, kernel, libxslt, nginx:1.22, and postgresql:12), Red Hat (opentelemetry-collector), SUSE (corosync, opera, and restic), and Ubuntu (aom, libtar, mariadb, ovn, php7.4, php8.1, php8.3, rabbitmq-server, and webkit2gtk).