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Version:6.12.48 (longterm) Released:2025-09-19 Source:linux-6.12.48.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.12.48.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.48

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Version:6.1.153 (longterm) Released:2025-09-19 Source:linux-6.1.153.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.1.153.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.1.153

Blender 4.5 LTS was released on July 15, 2025, and will be supported through 2027. This is the last feature release of the 3D graphics-creation suite's 4.x series; it includes quality-of-life improvements, including work to bring the Vulkan backend up to par with the default OpenGL backend. With 4.5 released, Blender developers are turning their attention toward Blender 5.0, planned for release later this year. It will introduce substantial changes, particularly in the Geometry Nodes system, a central feature of Blender's procedural workflows.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, cjson, and firefox-esr), Fedora (expat, gh, scap-security-guide, and xen), Oracle (container-tools:rhel8, firefox, grub2, and mysql:8.4), SUSE (busybox, busybox-links, element-web, kernel, shadowsocks-v2ray-plugin, and yt-dlp), and Ubuntu (imagemagick, linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-6.8, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8, linux-oracle, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-azure-fips, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-6.8, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, linux-raspi, linux-oracle-6.8, linux-realtime, and openjpeg2).

Miracle-WM 0.7 tiling Wayland window manager adds full Sway/I3 IPC support, new mouse and keyboard configurations, and Mir 2.22 compatibility.

The post Miracle-WM 0.7 Brings Full Sway/I3 IPC Support appeared first on Linux Today.

The GNOME 49 Release Candidate has some interesting changes, especially the re-enablement of X11 support in the GNOME Display Manager (GDM) component by default as the devs find it hard to cleanly separate GDM’s ability to launch modern X11 sessions. X11 support was disabled in the GNOME 49 alpha release.

The post GNOME 49 Release Candidate Re-Enables X11 Support by Default in GDM appeared first on Linux Today.

As someone who has been using Linux for more than 12 years, I’ve often come across the same question: “Can I replace Microsoft Office with open-source alternatives on Linux?”

My answer has always been simple: Yes, you can, and I do it every single day.

Over the years, I’ve relied on tools like LibreOffice, ONLYOFFICE, and other open-source office suites instead of Microsoft Office, and here’s why I believe they are not just alternatives but, in many ways, better suited for Linux users.

The post Why I Use LibreOffice and ONLYOFFICE Instead of MS Office appeared first on Linux Today.

Easily install Google Chrome on Debian 13 “Trixie” with this guide, including direct download and repository setup.

The post How to Install Google Chrome on Debian 13 “Trixie” appeared first on Linux Today.

Fast, lightweight, and built for GNOME, Bazaar is a Flatpak store that makes app discovery and management simpler.

The post Bazaar Is the Flatpak Store GNOME Always Needed appeared first on Linux Today.

Looking for ways to catch errors in your writing? LanguageTool and Eloquent offer simple solutions with no fuss.

The post LanguageTool and Eloquent: Two Grammar Checkers for Your Linux Machines appeared first on Linux Today.

For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Aiffro K100 All-SSD NAS.

The post Aiffro K100 All-SSD NAS running Linux: Power Consumption appeared first on Linux Today.

Red Hat Linux powers the first orbital data center, now running edge computing 400 km above Earth.

The post Axiom Space and Red Hat Bring Data Centers to Low Earth Orbit appeared first on Linux Today.

Coming two and a half months after Mixxx 2.5.2, the Mixxx 2.5.3 release brings improvements to the Digital Vinyl System (DVS) support to properly and more accurately represent the pitch control slider on the turntable or CD player. Also, the Alpha-Beta filter was replaced with a more advanced Kalman-Filter equivalent.

The post Mixxx 2.5.3 Open-Source DJ App Brings Major Improvements to Digital Vinyl System appeared first on Linux Today.

Since diagrams such as networks, organizational structures, system architectures, workflows, etc., have become an indispensable part of both technical and managerial work, we come to the conclusion that, in fact, information visualization is becoming even more important these days. Therefore, if you use Linux, we understand very well that choosing the best diagram viewer is key to your productivity while working.

So to help you out, in this article, we will explore the best and most efficient options for diagram viewing on Linux in 2025. Ultimately, the choice is yours.

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Voyager Live is an Xubuntu-based distribution and live DVD showcasing the Xfce desktop environment. Its features include the Avant Window Navigator or AWN (a dock-like navigation bar), Conky (a program which displays useful information on the desktop), and over 300 photographs and animations that can be used as desktop backgrounds. The project also develops several other editions of Voyager Live - a "GE" edition with GNOME Shell, a "GS" variant for Gamers, and a separately-maintained flavour based on Debian's "stable" branch.

IPFire is a Linux distribution that focuses on easy setup, good handling and high level of security. It is operated via an intuitive web-based interface which offers many configuration options for beginning and experienced system administrators. IPFire is maintained by developers who are concerned about security and who update the product regularly to keep it secure. IPFire ships with a custom package manager called Pakfire and the system can be expanded with various add-ons.

Xubuntu is a community-developed operating system based on Ubuntu. It comes with Xfce, which is a stable, light and configurable desktop environment.

Ubuntu Unity is a flavour of Ubuntu featuring the Unity desktop environment (the default desktop environment developed and used by Ubuntu from 2010 to 2017). Unity debuted in the netbook edition of Ubuntu 10.10; it was initially designed to make more efficient use of space given the limited screen size of netbooks, including a vertical application switcher called "the launcher" and a space-saving horizontal multipurpose top menu bar. Ubuntu switched from Unity to GNOME in 2017, but the desktop was resurrected again as an unofficial "Ubuntu Unity Remix" in 2020. It became an official flavour of Ubuntu during the development cycle of Ubuntu 22.10 in 2022.

An official variant of Ubuntu, Ubuntu Studio is a Linux-based operating system for creative individuals in the areas of audio production, video production, graphics design, photography and desktop publishing. It makes professional audio accessible on Linux; it uses the JACK sound server and a kernel built with a low-latency patch. Up until version 20.10 Ubuntu Studio shipped with the Xfce desktop environment, but this was replaced by KDE Plasma in October 2020.