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Version:next-20250401 (linux-next) Released:2025-04-01

SparkyLinux is a lightweight, fast and simple Linux distribution designed for both old and new computers featuring customised Enlightenment and LXDE desktops. It has been built on the "testing" branch of Debian GNU/Linux.

Porteus is a fast, portable and modular live CD/USB medium based on Slackware Linux. The distribution started as a community remix of Slax, another Slackware-based live CD, with KDE 3 as the default desktop for the i486 edition and a stripped-down KDE 4 as the desktop environment for the x86_64 flavour. There are now several desktop flavours of the distribution, which include editions running Cinnamon, GNOME, KDE Plasma, LXQt, MATE, and Xfce.

The virtual memory area (VMA), represented by struct vm_area_struct, is one of the core abstractions of the kernel's memory-management subsystem; a VMA represents a portion of a process's address space with the same characteristics. A memory-mapped file will be represented by (at least) one VMA, as will the process's stack or a region of anonymous memory. Efficiently managing VMAs and the logic around them is crucial for good performance overall. Lorenzo Stoakes focused on one specific problem area: the merging of anonymous VMAs, during the memory-management track at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit.

Migration is the act of moving data from one location in physical memory to another. The kernel may migrate pages for many reasons, including defragmentation, improving NUMA locality, moving data to or from memory hosted on a peripheral device, or freeing a range of memory for other uses. Given the importance of migration to the memory-management subsystem, there is a lot of interest in improving its performance and removing impediments to its success. Several sessions in the memory-management track of the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit were dedicated to this topic.

The effort to ensure that open-source software is reproducible has been gathering steam over the years, and gaining traction with major Linux distributions. Debian, for example, has been working toward reproducible builds for more than a decade; it can now produce official live CDs of the current stable release that are reproducible. Fedora started on the path much later, but it has progressed far enough that the project is now considering a change proposal for the Fedora 43 development cycle, expected to be released in October, with a goal of making 99% of Fedora's package builds reproducible. So far, reaction to the proposal seems favorable and focused primarily on how to achieve the goal—with minimal pain for packagers—rather than whether to attempt it.

Google engineers propose LUO, a state-machine-driven system to manage live Linux kernel updates with minimal disruption.

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EU OS is a new—still in the idea stage—Fedora-based Linux project designed to provide the EU public sector with secure, sovereign, and eco-friendly computing.

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Security updates have been issued by Debian (amd64-microcode, flatpak, intel-microcode, libdata-entropy-perl, librabbitmq, and vim), Fedora (augeas, containerd, crosswords-puzzle-sets-xword-dl, libssh2, libxml2, nodejs-nodemon, and webkitgtk), Red Hat (libreoffice and python-jinja2), SUSE (389-ds, apparmor, corosync, docker, docker-stable, erlang26, exim, ffmpeg-4, govulncheck-vulndb, istioctl, matrix-synapse, mercurial, openvpn, python3, rke2, and skopeo), and Ubuntu (ansible, linux, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-bluefield, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, linux-azure-fips, linux-gcp-fips, linux-fips, linux-fips, linux-aws-fips, linux-azure-fips, linux-gcp-fips, linux-nvidia-tegra, linux-nvidia-tegra-igx, linux-realtime, linux-intel-iot-realtime, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, opensc, and ruby-doorkeeper).

Wine 10.4 is out now with better PDB support, Vulkan video decoding updates, bug fixes, and more.

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Discover how to use the which command in Linux to find the location of executable files. Learn its syntax, explore options, and see examples.

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Discover a step-by-step guide to install the latest version of the mainline kernel on Ubuntu via the GUI and CLI methods.

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Clairvoyant is a simple program that’s like a magic 8-ball inspired fortune teller. It’s free and open source software.

The post Linux Candy: Clairvoyant is a fortune teller appeared first on Linux Today.

Did you have time to keep up with the news this week? Here’s your chance to brag… or not. This week there are 11 questions. Good luck!

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CloudPanel is a best free hosting control panel designed for ease of use and high performance in managing web applications and servers.

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PhotoPrism’s latest release adds PDF support, improved UI, and new translations and sets the stage for upcoming batch editing and multi-user features.

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Calibre 8.0 ebook manager adds native KEPUB editing, Kobo firmware support, folder-as-device connections, and major bug fixes.

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Version:next-20250331 (linux-next) Released:2025-03-31

CachyOS is a Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. It focuses on speed and security optimisations - the default Linux kernel is heavily optimised using the BORE (Burst-Oriented Response Enhancer) scheduler, while the desktop packages are compiled with LTO, x86-64-v3 and x86-64-v4, Zen 4 optimization, security flags and performance improvements. The available desktop environments and window managers include KDE, GNOME, Xfce, i3wm, Wayfire, LXQt, OpenBox, Cinnamon, UKUI, LXDE, MATE, Budgie, Qtile, Hyprland and Sway. CachyOS also ships with both graphical and command-line installers and provides a Firefox-based browser (called Cachy-Browser) with some security enhancements and performance optimisations.

It looks as if the green light is on for another ‘All Things Open AI’ conference in 2026. It’s likely that a firm date will be announced at the big tent All Things Open event in October.

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