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The new open-source PebbleOS smartwatches, Core 2 Duo and Core Time 2, bring back e-paper screens, long battery life, and classic design.

The post Pebble is Back: Introducing Two Open-Source Smartwatches appeared first on Linux Today.

Q4OS is a Debian-based desktop Linux distribution designed to offer classic-style user interface (Trinity) and simple accessories, and to serve stable APIs for complex third-party applications, such as Google Chrome, VirtualBox and development tools. The system is also very useful for virtual cloud environments due to its very low hardware requirements.

The 2024 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit included a tense session on the use of Rust code in the kernel's filesystem layer. The Rust topic returned in 2025 in a session run by Andreas Hindborg, with a scope that also covered the storage and memory-management layers. A lot of progress has been made, and the discussion was less adversarial this year, but there are still process issues that need to be worked out.

Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (exim), Debian (exim4, ghostscript, and libcap2), Red Hat (container-tools:rhel8), SUSE (apache-commons-vfs2, argocd-cli, azure-cli-core, buildah, chromedriver, docker-stable, ed25519-java, kernel, kubernetes1.29-apiserver, kubernetes1.30-apiserver, kubernetes1.32-apiserver, libmbedcrypto7, microcode_ctl, php7, podman, proftpd, tomcat10, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (containerd, exim4, mariadb, opensaml, and org-mode).

Akamai has sent out a press release saying that it is now hosting the kernel.org repositories.

The Linux kernel is massive — approximately 28 million lines of code. Since 2005, more than 13,500 developers from more than 1,300 different companies have contributed to the Linux kernel. Additionally, there are many kernel versions, and developers update the code constantly, distributing that code to developers who are working on various distributions of Linux. Akamai now delivers the infrastructure that these developers and their users rely on, at no cost, supporting the Git environments developers use to access kernel sources quickly, regardless of where they're based.

Version:next-20250327 (linux-next) Released:2025-03-27

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Open source in government; OSI election; Memory-management medley; Address-space isolation; CMA; 6.14 Development stats; State of the page.
• Briefs: Asahi Linux progress; Reproducible Debian; rpi-image-gen; Neovim 0.11; OpenH264; Quotes; ...
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Zorin OS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution designed especially for newcomers to Linux. It has a Windows-like graphical user interface and many programs similar to those found in Windows. Zorin OS also comes with an application that lets users run many Windows programs. The distribution's ultimate goal is to provide a Linux alternative to Windows and let Windows users enjoy all the features of Linux without complications.

Version 0.11 of the Neovim text editor has been released. Notable changes in this release include simpler Language Server Protocol (LSP) client setup, improved tree-sitter performance, better emoji support, and enhancements for Neovim's embedded terminal emulator. See the release notes for a full list of changes.

Rocky Linux from CIQ – Hardened is a new take on Rocky Linux that’s not only fully supported by CIQ, but is also optimized to meet the most stringent security requirements.

The post Rocky Linux From CIQ — Hardened Takes Enterprise Linux Security to the Next Level appeared first on Linux Today.

During a keynote address at All Things Open AI, IBM announced that three key AI tools it has developed are being donated to the Linux Foundation.

The post At ATO AI, IBM Announces It’s Handing Three AI Projects to Linux Foundation appeared first on Linux Today.

FFmpeg is a powerful and widely used open-source multimedia framework designed for recording, converting, streaming, and processing audio and video files. It supports a vast range of codecs and formats, making it an essential tool for developers, content creators, and system administrators working with multimedia.

The post How To Install FFmpeg 7.1.1 on Ubuntu 24.10, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04 And Derivative Systems (Via PPA) appeared first on Linux Today.

Bluefish is a fast and lightweight code editor designed for programmers and web developers who need a powerful yet efficient tool for writing code. It supports a wide range of programming and markup languages, including HTML, CSS, PHP, Python, JavaScript, and more. With its intuitive interface and feature-rich environment, Bluefish is ideal for both beginners and advanced users looking for a robust alternative to heavy IDEs.

The post How To Install BlueFish Editor 2.2.16 On Ubuntu 24.10, Ubuntu 24.04, And Derivative Systems (via FlatPak) appeared first on Linux Today.

There are tons of reasons to switch to another user’s or the root user’s account, however there are multiple ways to do so, which we are going to learn today.

The post Difference Between Su, Sudo Su, Sudo -i, and Sudo -s appeared first on Linux Today.

In a short note to the Reproducible Builds mailing list, Debian developer Roland Clobus announced that live images for Debian 12.10 ("bookworm") are now 100% reproducible. See the reproducible live images and Debian Live todo pages on the Debian wiki for more information on the images.

As you may already know, GNU Octave is a high-level programming language and numerical computing environment designed for scientific computing, data analysis, and machine learning. It provides a powerful interactive interface with extensive support for numerical operations, matrix manipulation, data visualization, and algorithm development. Octave is widely used in academia, research, and engineering fields as a free and open-source alternative to MATLAB.

The post How To Install GNU Octave 9.4 on Ubuntu 24.10, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04 And Derivative Systems appeared first on Linux Today.

DNS is one of these things many take for granted that is critical to using the internet. Without DNS, the internet breaks. It’s critical that a DNS server keeps the internet working in a secure and stable manner. We pick the finest DNS servers.

The post 21 Best Free and Open Source DNS Servers appeared first on Linux Today.

This guide will walk you through the steps to create a video from images and add a background audio for a professional touch.

The post How to Create a Video from Images with FFmpeg (and Add Audio) appeared first on Linux Today.

Immich 1.130, a self-hosted photo and video backup solution, is here with a folder view for mobile, faster timelines, and massive external library scan speed boosts.

The post Immich 1.130 Released with Massive Speed Gains appeared first on Linux Today.

Explore various methods, including reading passwd file and using commands like awk and compgen, to efficiently list users in Linux.

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