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Git 2.50, a distributed revision control tool, removes the legacy recursive merge engine, completing the transition to the faster, more robust ORT engine.

The post Git 2.50 Lands: Say Goodbye to Recursive Merges appeared first on Linux Today.

The German state of Schleswig-Holstein is bidding Window and Office adieu for Linux and LibreOffice.

The post Yet Another European Government Is Ditching Microsoft for Linux – Here’s Why appeared first on Linux Today.

deepin (formerly, Deepin, Linux Deepin, Hiweed GNU/Linux) is a Debian-based distribution (it was Ubuntu-based until version 15 released in late 2015) that aims to provide an elegant, user-friendly and reliable operating system. It does not only include the best the open source world has to offer, but it has also created its own desktop environment called DDE or Deepin Desktop Environment which is based on the Qt 5 toolkit. Deepin focuses much of its attention on intuitive design. Its home-grown applications, like Deepin Software Centre, DMusic and DPlayer are tailored to the average user. Being easy to install and use, deepin can be a good Windows alternative for office and home use.

If you’re a Arch Linux user who rely on Wine to run your favourite Windows applications, this news is for you! Arch Linux developer Peter Jung announced a significant transition for the Arch Linux wine and wine-staging packages to a “pure wow64 build”.

The post Arch Linux Wine Gets a Pure WoW64 Upgrade appeared first on Linux Today.

In this blog post, we will explain how to install Java 21 on Debian 13 OS in detail. Java is a high-level, object-oriented programming language with a syntax similar to C and C++. It was developed to let programmers write code in Java once and compile it everywhere, making it compatible with multiple platforms without recompiling. Java comes in three different editions: JRE, JDK, and OpenJDK.

JRE stands for Java Runtime Environment. It is a software layer that runs on top of a server operating system and provides class libraries and other resources.

JDK stands for Java Development Kit, a distribution of Java technology by Oracle Corporation. It implements the Java Language Specification and Java Virtual Machine and provides a standard Java Application Programming Interface edition.

OpenJDK or Open Java Development Kit is a free and open-source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE).

Installing Java 21 on Debian 13 is straightforward and may take up to 15 minutes. Let’s get started!

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With over 70% of Plasma users now on Wayland, KDE is preparing for an eventual transition away from X11 support.

The post KDE Confirms Ongoing Plasma X11 Support, But the Future Is Clearly Wayland appeared first on Linux Today.

IceWM 3.8 window manager for the X Window System improves performance with faster Themes menu loading, optimized resource graphs, and more.

The post IceWM 3.8 Window Manager Released with Faster Theme Loading appeared first on Linux Today.

Backups are like insurance; you don’t need them every day, but when disaster strikes, such as accidental file deletion, a disk failure, or a ransomware attack, it’s enough to ruin everything if you’re not prepared. That’s where smart backup planning comes in.

In this guide, I’ll show you how to schedule incremental backups using rsync and cron. I’ll explain what incremental backups are, how rsync works under the hood, and how to automate the whole process with cron.

The post Set Up Incremental Backups with rsync and cron on Linux appeared first on Linux Today.

Version:next-20250626 (linux-next) Released:2025-06-26

Security Onion is a specialist, security-oriented Linux distribution based on Oracle Linux. It is a free and open platform for threat hunting, enterprise security monitoring and log management. It includes custom interfaces for alerting, dashboards, hunting, PCAP, detections and case management. It also includes other tools, such as osquery (a tool for exploring and monitoring operating system data with SQL queries), CyberChef (a web application for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis), Elasticsearch (a data search engine), Logstash (a data collection and processing engine), Kibana (a data visualization plugin for Elasticsearch), Suricata (an intrusion detection and prevention system) and Zeek (a software network analysis framework).

The NLnet Foundation has announced a new group of projects receiving funding through the Next Generation Internet (NGI) Zero Commons Fund.

Free and open source technologies, open standards, open hardware and open data help to strengthen the open web and the open internet. The projects selected by NLnet all contribute in their own way to this important goal, and will empower end users and the community at large on different layers of the stack. For example, there are people working a browser controlled ad hoc cellular network (Wsdr) which can be used to create small mobile networks where they are needed. The open hardware security key Nitrokey is aiming for formal certification of their implementation of the FIDO2 standard, and will be adding encrypted storage capabilities. There are also more applied technologies: the high end open hardware microscope OpenFlexure will enable among others e-health use cases such as telepathology, allowing medical professionals to work together to help people in more remote areas.

See the announcement for the full list of selected projects and the current projects page for other projects recently funded by NLnet.

Libxml2, an XML parser and toolkit, is an almost perfect example of the successes and failures of the open-source movement. In the 25 years since its first release, it has been widely adopted by open-source projects, for use in commercial software, and for government use. It also illustrates that while many organizations love using open-source software, far fewer have yet to see value in helping to sustain it. That has led libxml2's current maintainer to reject security embargoes and sparked a discussion about maintenance terms for free and open-source projects.

One of the biggest changes to come to the Python world is the addition of the free-threading interpreter, which eliminates the global interpreter lock (GIL) that kept the interpreter thread-safe, but also serialized multi-threaded Python code. Over the years, the GIL has been a source of complaints about the scalability of Python code using threads, so many developers have been looking forward to the change, which has been an experimental feature since Python 3.13 was released in October 2024. Making the free-threaded version work with the rest of the Python ecosystem, especially native extensions, is an ongoing effort, however; Nathan Goldbaum and Lysandros Nikolaou spoke at PyCon US 2025 about those efforts.

It took time and the writing of over 60 articles, but LWN's coverage from the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit is now complete. We have also made an EPUB book (13MB) containing the full set of coverage available to all readers. This coverage constitutes the definitive guide to the challenges that these core-kernel communities are facing and their development plans for the coming year.

Documenting an event of this intensity at such a detailed level is not a small undertaking. We are grateful to the Linux Foundation for funding our travel to our event and, especially, to LWN's subscribers for making the whole thing possible. If you appreciate this type of coverage and have not yet subscribed, please sign up today to help make more of it possible.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (commons-beanutils, dcmtk, nginx, trafficserver, and xorg-server), Fedora (atuin, awatcher, dotnet8.0, firefox, glibc, gotify-desktop, keylime-agent-rust, libtpms, mirrorlist-server, qt6-qtbase, qt6-qtimageformats, udisks2, xorg-x11-server, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Mageia (apache-mod_security, clamav, docker, python-django, tomcat, udisks2, and yarnpkg), Oracle (firefox, libblockdev, mod_auth_openidc, perl-FCGI, perl-YAML-LibYAML, tigervnc, and xorg-x11-server and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Slackware (libssh and mozilla), SUSE (gimp, gstreamer-plugins-good, icu, ignition, kernel, pam-config, perl-File-Find-Rule, python311, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-6.8, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, linux-oem-6.8, linux, linux-gcp, linux-raspi, linux-realtime, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-azure, linux-azure-6.8, linux-azure-5.15, linux-azure-fips, and linux-realtime).

Kali Linux has long been the go-to operating system for penetration testers and security professionals, and Learning Kali Linux, 2nd Edition by Ric Messier aims to guide readers through its core tools and use cases.

This updated edition introduces new material on digital forensics and reverse engineering, while keeping its focus on practical, hands-on learning. It’s written for people who have at least some familiarity with Linux or command-line environments, but it doesn’t assume deep expertise.

The post Review: Learning Kali Linux, 2nd Edition appeared first on Linux Today.

Managing endpoints and responding to security incidents in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) can be time-consuming and complex. MDEAutomator is an open-source tool designed to make that easier. MDEAutomator is a modular, serverless solution for IT and security teams looking to save time and reduce manual work. By using Azure Function Apps and a custom PowerShell module, MDEAutomator automates tasks like deploying MDE to new devices and responding to alerts, without needing to manage extra infrastructure.

The post MDEAutomator: Open-source Endpoint Management, Incident Response in MDE appeared first on Linux Today.

While there are obvious limitations using a Raspberry Pi 5 to run LLMs, the fact it runs as well as it does is impressive in itself.

The post Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Ollama GUI appeared first on Linux Today.

Dozzle 8.13 real‑time Docker log viewer improves usability with UI updates and adds a logout icon while fixing several small bugs.

The post Dozzle 8.13 Real‑Time Docker Log Viewer Released appeared first on Linux Today.

This roundup looks at useful software that generators color schemes.

The post 6 Best Free and Open Scheme Color Scheme Generators appeared first on Linux Today.