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PipeWire 1.4.9 multimedia framework fixes an audio regression, improves ALSA recovery, and refines SOF card handling for smoother playback.

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Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” lands with Linux kernel 6.17, GNOME 49, and Dracut replacing initramfs-tools for faster, modern booting.

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Qt 6.10 application development framework adds a new Flexbox layout, SearchField control, and major accessibility upgrades for desktop and mobile apps.

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TrueNAS Connect introduces a new browser-based control panel for secure, centralized TrueNAS system management.

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There’s still time to switch from #Windows10 to #Linux. Just saying!

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If you’re just starting your journey into data science, you might think it’s all about Python libraries, Jupyter notebooks, and fancy machine learning algorithms and while those are definitely important, there’s a powerful set of tools that often gets overlooked: the humble command line.

I’ve spent over a decade working with Linux systems, and I can tell you that mastering these command-line tools will make your life significantly easier. They’re fast, efficient, and often the quickest way to peek at your data, clean files, or automate repetitive tasks.

To make this tutorial practical and hands-on, we’ll use a sample e-commerce sales dataset throughout this article. Let me show you how to create it first, then we’ll explore it using all 10 tools.

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For this article in the series, I’ve run a series of benchmarks on the machine. Most of the tests use the Phoronix Test Suite.

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Version:next-20251024 (linux-next) Released:2025-10-24

LazyLinux is a Void-based desktop Linux distribution with Xfce as the preferred desktop and a vast collection of pre-installed software. It intends to be user-friendly and usable right after installation. The distribution ships with many popular productivity and multimedia applications, such as Brave browser, Thunderbird email client, LibreOffice office suite, GIMP image manipulation program, Inkscape vector graphics editor, VLC media player and many others. LazyLinux also provides out-of-the-box support for Flatpak packages.

Quarkos is a desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu's long-term support branch, with a choice of two user interfaces - the modern KDE Plasma desktop or the lightweight Trinity desktop environment (a fork of KDE 3.5). It is a sister project of the Debian-based Q4OS distribution.

The Ubuntu Project has announced that a bug in the Rust-based uutils version of the date command shipped with Ubuntu 25.10 broke automatic updates:

Some Ubuntu 25.10 systems have been unable to automatically check for available software updates. Affected machines include cloud deployments, container images, Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Server installs.

The announcement includes remediation instructions for those affected by the bug. Systems with the rust-coreutils package version 0.2.2-0ubuntu2 or earlier have the bug, it is fixed in 0.2.2-0ubuntu2.1 or later. It does not impact manual updates using the apt command or other utilities.

Ubuntu embarked on a project to "oxidize" the distribution by switching to uutils and sudo-rs for the 25.10 release, and to see if the Rust-based utilities would be suitable for the long-term-release slated for next April. LWN covered that project in March.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.17.5, 6.12.55, and 6.6.114 stable kernels. As usual, each contains important fixes throughout the tree; users are advised to upgrade.

Version:6.17.5 (stable) Released:2025-10-23 Source:linux-6.17.5.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.17.5.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.17.5

Version:6.12.55 (longterm) Released:2025-10-23 Source:linux-6.12.55.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.12.55.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.55

The Spectre class of hardware vulnerabilities truly is a gift that keeps on giving. New variants are still being discovered in current CPUs nearly eight years after the disclosure of this problem, and developers are still working to minimize the performance costs that come from defending against it. The masked user-space access mechanism is a case in point: it reduces the cost of defending against some speculative attacks, but it brought some challenges of its own that are only now being addressed.

Version:6.6.114 (longterm) Released:2025-10-23 Source:linux-6.6.114.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.6.114.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.114

The AlmaLinux project has announced that the upcoming 10.1 release will include support for Btrfs:

Btrfs support encompasses both kernel and userspace enablement, and it is now possible to install AlmaLinux OS with a Btrfs filesystem from the very beginning. Initial enablement was scoped to the installer and storage management stack, and broader support within the AlmaLinux software collection for Btrfs features is forthcoming.

Btrfs support in AlmaLinux OS did not happen in isolation. This was proposed and scoped in RFC 0005, and has been built upon prior efforts by the Fedora Btrfs SIG in Fedora Linux and the CentOS Hyperscale SIG in CentOS Stream.

AlmaLinux OS is designed to be binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL); Btrfs, however, has never been supported in RHEL. A technology preview of Btrfs in RHEL 6 and 7 ended with the filesystem being dropped from RHEL 8 and onward. AlmaLinux OS 10.1 is currently in beta.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (ipa, kernel, and thunderbird), Debian (gdk-pixbuf, gegl, gimp, intel-microcode, raptor2, request-tracker4, and request-tracker5), Fedora (samba and wireshark), Mageia (haproxy, nginx, openssl, and python-django), Oracle (kernel and thunderbird), Red Hat (redis and redis:7), Slackware (bind), SUSE (aws-cli, local-npm-registry, python-boto3, python- botocore, python-coverage, python-flaky, python-pluggy, python-pytest, python- pytest-cov, python-pytest-html, python-pytest-metada, cargo-audit-advisory-db-20251021, fetchmail, git-bug, ImageMagick, istioctl, kernel, krb5, libsoup, libxslt, python-Authlib, and sccache), and Ubuntu (bind9, linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-azure-6.8, linux-gcp, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-6.8, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8, linux-oracle, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gcp-6.8, linux-gke, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, and linux-realtime, linux-realtime-6.8).

DietPi is a Debian-based Linux distribution, primarily developed for single-board computers such as Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi or Odroid. It also supplies builds for 64-bit x86 personal computers and virtual machines, including VMware, VirtualBox, UTM, Hyper-V, Proxmox and Parallels. The base installation of DietPi comes without any desktop, but a desktop option can be activated via the built-in "dietpi-software" program. The distribution ships with a number of menu-driven configuration tools which can be run from the terminal.

System76 announces a new Oryx Pro laptop that comes preinstalled with the COSMIC Beta desktop environment on top of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS.

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