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Service discovery is the process of automatically finding devices and services on a computer network. Service discovery uses a service’s identity instead of traditional access information (IP address and port). This allows you to dynamically map services and track any changes within a service catalog.

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The biggest questions our man in Italy has about Linux distros and other open source software projects taking political stances is: do they do more harm than good?

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Version:next-20250730 (linux-next) Released:2025-07-30

TTOS Linux is a desktop-oriented Linux distribution based on Debian's "Stable" branch. It comes with several custom utilities and features, such as a user-friendly Internet security suite, an animated live wallpaper, NVIDIA GPU support, a ClamAV antivirus suite, Android remote messaging, UEFI support, and a net system installer with a choice of multiple desktop environments.

Gnuinos is a spin of Devuan GNU+Linux consisting exclusively of Free Software (as defined by the Free Software Foundation) and a choice of several alternative init systems, such as OpenRC, Runit, s6 and SysV. The distribution ships with the GNU Linux-libre kernel. The project provides installation images for desktop and server deployments, as well as pre-configured live images with JWM, KDE Plasma, Openbox and Xfce desktops available for the i686 and x86_64 architectures.

spirit OS is a lightweight remaster of Tiny Core Linux, designed for very old 32-bit computers without UEFI. It includes the IceWM window manager, full multimedia support (video and music with codecs), WiFi tools and the Dillo web browser. It is powered by glibc and a recent Linux kernel. The ISO image weighs less than 400 MB and includes fewer than 300 packages, including GPicView (a fast and simple image viewer), ROX-Filer (a minimal and responsive file manager), VLC (a media player), XMMS (a retro-style music player), and compression tools for handling various archive formats. Extra software can be installed using xpkg.

The HeliumOS project has announced the release of HeliumOS 10. It is relatively new image-based ("atomic") desktop distribution based on packages from CentOS Stream and AlmaLinux, with a goal of providing 10 years of support. HeliumOS 10 uses the KDE Plasma Desktop, Zsh as its default shell, and Btrfs as its default filesystem.

Priority inversion comes about when a low-priority task holds a resource that is also needed by a high-priority task, preventing the latter from running. This problem is made much worse if the low-priority task is unable to gain access to the CPU and, as a result, cannot complete its work and free the resources it holds. Proxy execution is a potential solution to this problem, but it is a complex solution that has been under development for several years; LWN first looked at it in 2020. The 6.17 kernel is likely to contain an important step forward for this long-running project.

Version 2.42 of the GNU C Library has been released. Changes include the addition of a number of new math functions, support for arbitrary baud rates in the termios.h interface, support for SFrame-based stack tracing (described in this article), support for memory guard pages, and a handful of security fixes.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (freerdp, git-lfs, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, grafana, grafana-pcp, icu, ipa, iputils, krb5, libvpx, nodejs:22, osbuild-composer, perl, python-tornado, qt6-qtbase, sqlite, unbound, valkey, wireshark, and yggdrasil), Debian (libfastjson and php8.2), Fedora (glibc), Oracle (firefox, icu, perl, and unbound), Red Hat (389-ds-base, glib2, icu, libtpms, redis:6, redis:7, and yelp), SUSE (boost, forgejo-longterm, java-11-openj9, java-17-openj9, java-1_8_0-openj9, kernel, nginx, and salt), and Ubuntu (linux-xilinx-zynqmp, openjdk-8, openjdk-lts, poppler, and sqlite3).

The lightweight Linux distro Sparky 7.8 rolls out with updated packages, kernel 6.1 LTS, desktop refreshes, and Gimp preinstalled in live media.

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KDE Plasma 6.4.3 introduces important fixes for KWin, Discover, and Spectacle, along with translation updates and enhanced accessibility.

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This week we got news about new GNOME and KDE Plasma updates, a major release of the Amarok music player, the end of life of Ubuntu 24.10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for business developers, Parrot OS 6.4, OBS Studio 31.1, Wayland 1.24, Calibre 8.6, KDE Frameworks 6.16, GParted Live 1.7.0-8, and CachyOS’s July 2025 release.

On top of that, I tell you all about the upcoming GStreamer 1.28 open-source multimedia framework and System76’s new Adder WS laptop. Below, you can check out this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in the 9to5Linux weekly roundup for July 13th, 2025.

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Catch up on the latest Linux news: CachyOS, Krita 5.2.10, OBS Studio 31.1, Plasma 6.3.6, KDE ISO Image Writer, Amarok 3.3, Thunderbird 140, Red Hat offers free RHEL access, and more.

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Probably the biggest change of the upcoming GNOME 49 desktop environment series is that the X11 (GNOME on Xorg) session has been disabled by default in various core components, including GDM (GNOME Display Manager), Mutter, and GNOME Session, the latter also dropping the session restore functionality and X Session Management Protocol (XSMP) support.

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Calibre 8.7 e-book manager adds APNX file support for newer Kindles and improves author matching, while fixing regressions with Kobo devices and book sending.

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It’s not a typo. Linux’s desktop share is growing, according to the US government’s records.

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Firefox 141 introduces WebGPU on Windows for powerful GPU-based web apps, with Linux and Mac support also on Mozilla’s roadmap.

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Hyprland 0.50 tiling Wayland compositor drops legacy rendering, adds triple buffering, and packs in new features for better Wayland compositing performance.

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Krita 5.2.11, a free and open-source digital painting app, brings bug fixes for Android canvas issues, index color filtering, and more.

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