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Arun Gupta, Vice President and General Manager for Open Ecosystem, Intel, discusses the company’s commitment to fostering an open ecosystem as a cornerstone of its software strategy. He explains how this approach empowers developers and shapes Intel’s broader technology and business objectives, enhancing platform innovation.

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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (binutils, libsoup, squid:4, tigervnc, and webkit2gtk3), Debian (icinga2, postgresql-13, postgresql-15, smarty3, symfony, thunderbird, and waitress), Fedora (dotnet9.0, ghostscript, microcode_ctl, php-bartlett-PHP-CompatInfo, python-waitress, and webkitgtk), Gentoo (Perl, Pillow, and X.Org X server, XWayland), Oracle (binutils, cups-filters, giflib, squid, and webkit2gtk3), Red Hat (webkit2gtk3), SUSE (ansible-core, apache2, gio-branding-upstream, icinga2, kernel-devel, libnghttp2-14, libsoup-2_4-1, libsoup-3_0-0, libvirt, nodejs-electron, postgresql13, postgresql16, python39, rclone, thunderbird, ucode-intel-20241112, and wget), and Ubuntu (python-asyncssh and tomcat9).

Highlights of digiKam 8.5 include several enhancements and improvements to the Face Management feature thanks to the integration of deep-learning models into the face pipeline for faster and more accurate face detection and recognition. YuNet is now used as the default model for face detection, offering more configuration options to enhance overall accuracy and support for fine-tuning face detection for specific scenarios. On the other hand, SFace is now used as the default deep-learning model for face recognition.

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Incus 6.7 simplifies cluster management and web UI access while enhancing OCI DHCP renewals and instance refresh.

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Version:next-20241118 (linux-next) Released:2024-11-18

Linus has released the 6.12 kernel. "No strange surprises this last week, so we're sticking to the regular release schedule, and that obviously means that the merge window opens tomorrow.".

Headline features in this release include: support for the Arm permission overlay extension, better compile-time control over which Spectre mitigations to employ, the last pieces of realtime preemption support, the realtime deadline server mechanism, more EEVDF scheduler development, the extensible scheduler class, the device memory TCP work, use of static calls in the security-module subsystem, the integrity policy enforcement security module, the ability to handle devices with a block size larger than the system page size in the XFS filesystem, and more. See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) and the KernelNewbies 6.12 page for more details.

Version:6.12 (mainline) Released:2024-11-17 Source:linux-6.12.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.12.tar.sign Patch:full

Vuls is an agentless, free, and open-source vulnerability scanner for Linux and FreeBSD. In this guide, you’ll learn how to install Vuls Vulnerability Scanner on the Debian 12 server. You’ll install Vuls, set up CVE databases, and then scan the local system and remote machine Vuls.

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Boost your Linux command line efficiency with aliases. Learn how to create and manage aliases in Linux for Bash, Zsh, and Fish shells.

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The 6.11.9, 6.6.62, 6.1.118, 5.15.173, 5.10.230, 5.4.286, and 4.19.324 stable kernels have all been released; each contains another set of important fixes.

The OpenWrt router-oriented distribution has long used its own opkg package manager. The project has just announced, though, that future releases will use the apk package manager from Alpine Linux instead. "This new package manager offers a number of advantages over the older opkg system and is a significant milestone in the development of the OpenWrt platform. The older opkg package manager has been deprecated and is no longer part of OpenWrt." There is some more information on this page.

Version:6.11.9 (stable) Released:2024-11-17 Source:linux-6.11.9.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.11.9.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.11.9

Version:6.6.62 (longterm) Released:2024-11-17 Source:linux-6.6.62.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.6.62.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.62

Version:6.1.118 (longterm) Released:2024-11-17 Source:linux-6.1.118.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.1.118.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.1.118

Version:5.15.173 (longterm) Released:2024-11-17 Source:linux-5.15.173.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-5.15.173.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.15.173

Version:5.10.230 (longterm) Released:2024-11-17 Source:linux-5.10.230.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-5.10.230.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.10.230

Version:5.4.286 (longterm) Released:2024-11-17 Source:linux-5.4.286.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-5.4.286.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.4.286

Version:4.19.324 (longterm) Released:2024-11-17 Source:linux-4.19.324.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-4.19.324.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-4.19.324

Linuxfx is a Brazilian Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. It ships with an intuitive Cinnamon desktop user interface designed to facilitate migration of users from Windows. It includes a video management system called Sentinela, a computer vision software with video analytics and software for access control (facial recognition and automatic number plate recognition), object detection, gender, age and mood detection. Other features of the distribution include a new personal assistant, a WX theme for desktop and system applications, and compatibility with software written for Windows (.exe and .msi) through a Wine port. Following the release of Linuxfx 10.6 the distribution became a commercial offering.

Mattermost is an open-source and self-hosted messaging system for your organization. It is an alternative to services like Slack and Microsoft Teams.

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