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The folio transition is one of the most fundamental kernel changes ever made; it can be thought of as being similar to replacing the foundation of a building while it remains open for business. So it is not surprising that, for some years, the annual Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit has included a session on the state of this transition. The 2025 Summit was no exception, with Matthew Wilcox updating the group on what has been accomplished, what remains to be done, and where some of the significant problems are.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (nginx and ruby-rack), Fedora (expat and libxslt), Mageia (bluez, dcmtk, ffmpeg, and radare2), Red Hat (container-tools:rhel8, gvisor-tap-vsock, kernel, kernel-rt, libreoffice, and podman), SUSE (buildah, forgejo, gitleaks, google-guest-agent, google-osconfig-agent, govulncheck-vulndb, grafana, helm, libxslt, php8, python-gunicorn, and python-Jinja2), and Ubuntu (freerdp2 and varnish).

Version:next-20250326 (linux-next) Released:2025-03-26

Boudhayan Bhattcharya has posted a lengthy article about the announcement that the Freedesktop project is dropping OpenH264 from the Freedesktop SDK for Flatpak applications and runtimes.

Some Flatpak applications that depend on the Freedesktop runtime version 23.08 will lose H.264 playback support starting with the release scheduled for April, unless application developers replace it with the ffmpeg-full extension. The 24.08 runtime is unaffected, and future releases will include a new codecs-extra extension to replace OpenH264 that includes FFmpeg with support for a number of patented codecs.

Considering all things, I think and hope we made the correct decision and hopefully the new org.freedesktop.Platform.codecs-extra works out. libx264, libx265 and others are built from source and there are no binaries or extra-data involved. So we should theoretically be able to patch and fix any issues that come up in the future.

Apart from all this, I'm slightly worried at the prospects of legal issues cropping up with this setup and also that the new extension contains "too much", but we will have to see where things flow.

The tool analyzes dependencies for Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) identifiers. When a match is found, the tool generates a report with links to the relevant Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) entries, helping teams address security risks.

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Ubuntu-based elementary OS 8.0.1 rolls out with faster search, better AppCenter handling, improved Files and Terminal features, and more.

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Vivaldi 7.2 speeds up browsing with a faster address bar, improved page loading, and new customization tools.

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Nearly 30 years after its first release, the open source Java programming language is continuing to improve.

Today Java 24 becomes generally available, bringing with it substantial improvements across language features, libraries, security, and runtime performance. The latest release contains exactly 24 Java Enhancement Proposals (JEPs), coincidentally matching the version number, along with approximately 3,500 additional fixes and improvements.

The post Java 24 Delivers Quantum Resistance, AI Enhancements, Easier Learning appeared first on Linux Today.

Coming four months after Blender 4.3, the Blender 4.4 release introduces support for integer sockets in the compositor, a much more accurate Fast Gaussian mode of the Blur node, a revamped Glare node for greater control and a better user experience, and support for rendering videos using the H.265/HEVC codec.

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Citrix Wrike is a collaborative work management solution. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.

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Powered by the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel series, the Fedora Linux 42 beta ships with the soon-to-be-released GNOME 48 desktop environment for the flagship Fedora Workstation edition, as well as the latest KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment on the Fedora KDE Spin, which was promoted to edition status.

The post Fedora Linux 42 Enters Public Beta Testing with Linux Kernel 6.14 and GNOME 48 appeared first on Linux Today.

Add additional functionality to a GNOME desktop with these great GNOME extensions. This roundup showcases 42 cool GNOME extensions.

The post 42 Excellent GNOME Shell Extensions appeared first on Linux Today.

We recommend a variety of different Bluetooth tools besides BlueZ, the official implementation of the Bluetooth protocol stack.

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GIMP 3.0 is here with a modern GTK3 UI, non-destructive filters, improved file support, enhanced color management, and more.

The post GIMP 3.0 Released: A Major Overhaul After Seven Years in Development appeared first on Linux Today.

By the time that Linus Torvalds released the 6.14 kernel, 11,003 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the mainline, making this one of the smallest releases we have seen in some time. Indeed, one must go back to the 4.0 release, which happened almost exactly ten years ago, to find a release with fewer changesets than 6.14. Even so, "small" is relative, and 6.14 contains a lot of significant changes.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (ruby-rack), Fedora (chromium, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, OpenIPMI, and python-jinja2), Mageia (kernel, kernel-linus, and wpa_supplicant, hostapd), Red Hat (fence-agents, kernel, kernel-rt, libxml2, libxslt, and pcs), SUSE (cadvisor, docker, freetype2, nodejs-electron, php8, rsync, u-boot, warewulf4, webkit2gtk3, and zvbi), and Ubuntu (elfutils, python3.5, python3.8, ruby-rack, smartdns, and zvbi).

Version:next-20250325 (linux-next) Released:2025-03-25

Emmabuntüs is a desktop Linux distribution with editions based on Debian's Stable branch with both the Xfce and LXQt desktop environments available. It strives to be beginner-friendly and reasonably light on resources so that it can be used on older computers. It also includes many modern features, such as large number of pre-configured programs for everyday use, dockbar for launching applications, easy installation of non-free software and media codecs, and quick setup through automated scripts. In addition, this distribution addresses accessibility issues, for both installation and day to day usage, and includes a large set of applications supporting visually impaired people. The distribution supports English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish languages.

Linus has released the 6.14 kernel, a bit later than expected:

So it's early Monday morning (well - early for me, I'm not really a morning person), and I'd love to have some good excuse for why I didn't do the 6.14 release yesterday on my regular Sunday afternoon release schedule.

I'd like to say that some important last-minute thing came up and delayed things.

But no. It's just pure incompetence.

See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) and the KernelNewbies 6.14 page for details on what's new in this release.

Redo Rescue (formerly Redo Backup and Recovery) is a powerful and user-friendly backup and disaster recovery solution that provides a simple, easy-to-use interface that anyone can navigate.

Whether you’re using Linux or Windows, Redo Rescue supports bare-metal restores, meaning you can fully recover your system even if your hard drive fails or gets corrupted within minutes.

With Redo Rescue, all your files, settings, and system configurations will be restored to the exact state they were in when the most recent backup was taken.

The software runs as a live ISO image, built on Debian, and provides a graphical interface for ease of use, which is open source and completely free for both personal and commercial use.

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