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Ubuntu Kylin is an official Ubuntu flavour whose primary goal is to create a variant of Ubuntu optimised for Chinese users (using the Simplified Chinese writing system), although it also supports other languages. The default desktop is called UKUI (Universal Kylin User Interface) which is based on MATE desktop and is developed with the Qt toolkit. UKUI strives to adhere to the friendly-and-simple design concept. The distribution also includes more than 20 applications developed in-house, including Kylin Assistant, Kylin Video, Kylin Screenshots and Software Center.

Ubuntu Cinnamon is an official flavour of the Ubuntu distribution featuring the Cinnamon desktop. The project strives to offer modern tools while providing a user-friendly desktop which will feel familiar for users coming from other operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows.

Ubuntu Budgie (previously budgie-remix) is an Ubuntu-based distribution featuring the Budgie desktop, originally developed by the Solus project. Written from scratch and integrating tightly with the GNOME stack, Budgie focuses on simplicity and elegance, while also offering useful features, such as the Raven notification and customisation centre.

Kubuntu is a free, user-friendly Linux distribution based on KDE's desktop software and on the Ubuntu operating system. It has a biannual release cycle. Besides providing an up-to-date version of the KDE desktop at the time of the release, the project also releases updated KDE packages throughout the lifetime of each release.

Lubuntu is a variant of Ubuntu that uses the LXQt desktop environment. (Versions prior to 18.10 shipped with the LXDE desktop.) It includes essential applications and services for daily use, including office suite, PDF reader, image editor and multimedia players. A distribution available for both 32-bit and 64-bit computers, Lubuntu is intended to be user-friendly, lightweight and energy efficient.

SilverBullet is a MIT-licensed note-taking application, designed to run as a self-hosted web server. Started in 2022, the project is approaching its 2.0 release, making this a good time to explore the features it offers. SilverBullet stores notes as plain Markdown files, and provides a Lua scripting API to customize the application's appearance and behavior.

Matthew Garrett has posted a detailed followup to our recent article on the coming expiration if Microsoft's Secure Boot signing key.

The upshot is that nobody actually enforces these expiry dates - here's the reference code that disables it. In a year's time we'll have gone past the expiration date for 'Microsoft Windows UEFI Driver Publisher' and everything will still be working, and a few months later 'Microsoft Windows Production PCA 2011' will also expire and systems will keep booting Windows despite being signed with a now-expired certificate. This isn't a Y2K scenario where everything keeps working because people have done a huge amount of work - it's a situation where everything keeps working even if nobody does any work.

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.

Ubuntu is a complete desktop Linux operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Manifesto: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit. "Ubuntu" is an ancient African word, meaning "humanity to others". The Ubuntu distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world.

4MLinux is a miniature Linux distribution focusing on four capabilities: maintenance (as a system rescue live CD), multimedia (for playing video DVDs and other multimedia files), miniserver (using the inetd daemon), and mystery (providing several small Linux games). The distribution includes support for booting on UEFI-enabled machines.

XIVA Studio is a multimedia-oriented Linux distribution derived from Manjaro Linux and BigLinux. It's main goal is to cater to the needs of professional creators in the area of video, audio, graphics and animation production. XIVA Studio provides optimised Linux kernels built for a number of popular processor and graphics cards configurations. It uses KDE Plasma as the default desktop environment.

As of this writing, just over 4,000 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline repository during the 6.17 merge window. When he announced the merge-window opening, Linus Torvalds let it be known that, due to a busy personal schedule, he was likely to pull changes more quickly than usual this time around; that has been borne out to some extent. Changes merged so far are focused on core-kernel and filesystem work; read on for the details.

Alma-based HeliumOS 10 is out now with Linux kernel 6.12, Zsh as default, Btrfs with optional encryption, and Docker preinstalled—here’s my take.

The post Alma-Based HeliumOS 10 Is Out — Here’s What I Think appeared first on Linux Today.

If you’re not using one of the many Linux distro’s that come with Flatpak management already built in, Warehouse is here to help.

The post Don’t Struggle with Flatpaks—Warehouse Gives Easy Control on Any Distro appeared first on Linux Today.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, java-21-openjdk, kernel, thunderbird, and unbound), Debian (chromium and systemd), Fedora (libtiff), Oracle (java-21-openjdk, libtpms, nodejs:22, redis:7, thunderbird, and unbound), Red Hat (firefox, redis, and thunderbird), SUSE (apache2, cdi-apiserver-container, cdi-cloner-container, cdi- controller-container, cdi-importer-container, cdi-operator-container, cdi- uploadproxy-container, cdi-uploadserver-container, cont, java-11-openjdk, kubevirt, virt-api-container, virt-controller-container, virt-exportproxy-container, virt-exportserver-container, virt-handler-container, virt-launcher-container, virt-libguestf, libarchive, nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed, redis, and rmt-server), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-intel-iotg, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-tegra, linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15, linux-nvidia-tegra-igx, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.15, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-6.14, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-6.14, linux-hwe-6.14, linux-oem-6.14, linux-raspi, linux-realtime, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-6.8, linux-gcp, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-6.8, linux-ibm, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, linux-oem-6.8, linux-oracle, linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-aws, linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws-fips, linux-fips, linux-gcp-fips, linux-azure, linux-fips, linux-intel-iot-realtime, linux-realtime, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-6.8, linux-realtime, and sqlite3).

Hyprland officially launches Hyprperks, offering fans exclusive content, support access, and desktop enhancements for €5 a month.

The post Hyprland Launches Hyprperks: Paid Membership for Exclusive Perks appeared first on Linux Today.

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) was once a widely used method for transferring files or data remotely. However, it transmits information in an unencrypted format, making it an insecure way to communicate.

As we all know, FTP is not secure because all transmissions occur in clear text, which means that anyone sniffing network packets can easily read the data.

Because of this, FTP should only be used in limited cases or on networks you fully trust. Over time, protocols like SCP (Secure Copy) and SSH (Secure Shell) have addressed these security concerns by introducing encrypted layers for securely transferring data between remote systems.

The post 10 Must-Know sFTP Commands for Linux File Transfers appeared first on Linux Today.

ForkServer is the Firefox’s new Linux feature that eliminates annoying forced restarts after updates. Better performance and low memory use.

The post Firefox on Linux Just Got a Major Performance Boost with ForkServer! Here’s What You Need to Know. appeared first on Linux Today.

FBX Review is a lightweight, standalone software tool for viewing 3D assets and baked animations quickly and efficiently. FBX Review is proprietary software and not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.

The post Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Autodesk FBX Review appeared first on Linux Today.

In this article I document transferring my Ubuntu distribution from the microSD card to the eMMC. It makes the distribution much snappier on the RV2.

The post Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Installing to the eMMC appeared first on Linux Today.