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Coming two months after PorteuX 2.0, the PorteuX 2.1 release is powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.15 kernel series and ships with NTFS3 as the default driver for handling NTFS filesystems instead of NTFS-3G. The devs warn that all symlinks stored on NTFS partitions will need to be regenerated.

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In a new wave of supply chain attacks, security researchers have uncovered multiple backdoored open-source packages uploaded to PyPI (Python Package Index) and npm (Node Package Manager).

These packages are designed to target both Windows and Linux environments and have been carefully crafted to blend in with legitimate development tools. The discovery comes just as Microsoft pushes for centralized software updates across Windows devices—a move we recently explored here.

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In a significant move that’s generating buzz across both the Windows and Linux worlds, Microsoft has open-sourced the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). This change marks a new milestone in the company’s shift toward openness, transparency, and greater collaboration with the open-source community. It comes just weeks after Microsoft addressed long-standing Linux dual-boot issues on Windows systems, signaling a renewed and consistent focus on cross-platform compatibility.

WSL, which allows users to run Linux distributions directly on Windows without the need for a virtual machine or dual booting, has become an essential tool for developers, sysadmins, and even security researchers. Now, with its code made publicly available, the project invites greater participation from the community — and a new wave of possibilities.

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VirtualBox 7.1.10 lands with key bug fixes for Windows and Linux hosts, plus support for kernel 6.15 and 6.16-RC0 on Linux guests.

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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (golang, nodejs22, thunderbird, and varnish), Debian (gimp, modsecurity-apache, python-tornado, and roundcube), Fedora (chromium, coreutils, fcgi, ghostscript, krb5, libvpx, mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, mingw-libsoup, mod_security, and samba), Mageia (php-adodb, systemd, and tomcat), Red Hat (buildah, firefox, glibc, grafana, kernel, libsoup, libxslt, mod_security, perl-FCGI, podman, python-tornado, and skopeo), Slackware (libvpx), and SUSE (helm-mirror, iputils, and libraw).

Linus has released 6.16-rc1 and closed the merge window for this release.

I think we had a fairly normal merge window, although I did get the feeling that there were a few more "late straggler" pull requests than usual. Not to a huge degree, but there was definitely an upward bump at the end of the second week.

But on the whole, all the stats look pretty normal.

Version:6.16-rc1 (mainline) Released:2025-06-08 Source:linux-6.16-rc1.tar.gz Patch:full

Alpine Linux 3.22 drops Plasma X11 (Wayland is now the default KDE session), deprecates LXD, and introduces kernel 6.12.

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Nobara Linux is named after the character Nobara Kugisaki in the anime series Jujutsu Kaisen. The distro’s creator, Thomas Crider, is a fan of the character and chose the name to add a personal touch.

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Meta has released an open source AI tool called Automated Sensitive Document Classification. It was originally built for internal use and is designed to find sensitive information in documents and apply security labels automatically. The tool uses customizable classification rules and works with files that contain readable text. Once labeled, the documents can be protected from unauthorized access or excluded from AI systems that use retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

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Do you know which display manager your Linux system is currently using? Discover all the ways to check your active display manager.

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Nyxt is an unusual web browser that tries to answer the question, "what if Emacs was a good web browser?". Nyxt is not an Emacs package, but a full web browser written in Common Lisp and available under the BSD three-clause license. Its target audience is developers who want a browser that is keyboard-driven and extensible; Nyxt is also developed for Linux first, rather than Linux being an afterthought or just a sliver of its audience. The philosophy (as described in its FAQ) behind the project is that users should be able to customize all of the browser's functionality.

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS officially entered Extended Security Maintenance on May 29, 2025, ending its standard five-year support lifecycle.

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The Netdev 0x19 conference was held in Zagreb, Croatia from March 10 through March 13. The organizers announced today that the videos and slides for all sessions are now online. Topics from the conference include IRQ suspension, the future of SO_TIMESTAMPING, remote TCP connection offloading, and more.

OBS Studio 31.1 promises several new features, including Multitrack Video support on Linux and macOS, preview zoom controls, support for additional canvases for Multitrack Video output, AV1 B-frame support for AMF, and support for color format/space/range GPU conversion.

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Coming one and a half months after GNOME 48.1, the GNOME 48.2 release is here to add two extra wallpapers celebrating Pride month, support for restoring tiled/maximized windows to the correct monitor, support for using opaque dma-buf formats substitutes for scanout, and fix the launch of terminal commands from the run dialog.

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After cleaning up and expanding Whisper-Hindi to 3,000 hours, Collabora now has explicit timestamp prediction, faster I/O, and fine-tuned models across all sizes, bringing us even closer to fully reliable, production-ready Hindi ASR.

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NVIDIA releases Linux Display Driver 575.57 with improved stability for OpenGL, Vulkan, and PRIME setups.

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PipeWire 1.4.4 multimedia framework is a bugfix release that improves MIDI compatibility, fixes mpv buffer issues, and enhances libcamera support.

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The Linux kernel is the core component of any Linux operating system, managing hardware resources and system processes.

Installing the latest Linux Kernel 6.15 on Ubuntu, Debian, and their derivatives can bring you significant performance, security, and hardware support improvements. This guide will walk you through the process step by step.

If you’re also exploring enterprise-ready distributions, you might be interested in AlmaLinux OS 10 – A Major Leap Forward for Open-Source Enterprise Linux. And if you’re new to the terminal, don’t miss our quick primer on 15 Basic Linux Commands to get you started.

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