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When working with files on Linux, it’s important to ensure their integrity. One way to do this is by using checksums, which are unique strings generated from the contents of a file. The MD5 checksum is one of the most commonly used methods for this purpose.

In this article, we’ll explain what MD5 is, how to generate MD5 checksums for files, and how to verify the integrity of files using these checksums.

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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gstreamer1-plugins-base), Debian (chromium, ghostscript, libarchive, mpg123, ruby-saml, and symfony), Fedora (buildah and podman), Red Hat (buildah, containernetworking-plugins, podman, skopeo, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Slackware (wget), SUSE (pcp), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.15, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-nvidia, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.15, linux-raspi, linux-xilinx-zynqmp and mysql-8.0).

DXVK 2.5 is here one and a half months after DXVK 2.4.1 to improve memory management for God of War and other video games by periodically performing memory defragmentation to return some unused memory to the system. However, this feature is currently disabled on Intel’s ANV Vulkan driver.

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Fedora Linux 42 elevates KDE to Edition status alongside GNOME, granting it flagship recognition and equal marketing support across Fedora’s platforms.

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Version:next-20241112 (linux-next) Released:2024-11-12

The OpenMandriva distribution is a full-featured Linux desktop and server, sponsored by the OpenMandriva Association. It was based on ROSA, a Russian Linux distribution project which forked Mandriva Linux in 2012, incorporating many of Mandriva's original tools and utilities and adding in-house enhancements. The goal of OpenMandriva is to facilitate the creation, improvement, promotion and distribution of free and open-source software in general, and OpenMandriva projects in particular. OpenMandriva has traditionally been a fixed release distribution, but in 2023 the project began releasing an alternative rolling branch called ROME.

Good news this week for KDE Plasma users as they got not one, not two, but three great releases, including the KDE Plasma 6.2.3 desktop environment, as well as KDE Gear 24.08.3 and KDE Frameworks 6.8 software suites. LXQt users also got an awesome release with version 2.1, which finally brings a Wayland session.

On top of that, this week brought us new Debian Bookworm, Steam Client, CachyOS, and Ubuntu Touch releases to enjoy. 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 November 10th, 2024.

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The new CachyOS release backports the THP Shrinker from Linux kernel 6.13 to reduce the memory usage when transparent_hugepages is set to “always”, adds the AMD Cache Optimizer to improve gaming and backports the AMD-pstate performance fixes for Strix Point laptops, and improves support for RDNA3 family of AMD GPUs.

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The Latest Niri release, v0.1.10, brings window moving, pointer options, input enhancements, and fixes to Wayland’s scrollable-tiling compositor.

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Calibre 7.21 ebook manager introduces an audio overlay for EPUB, enabling immersive reading with sentence tracking & custom voices.

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Hyprland 0.45, a tiling Wayland compositor, has been released with smoother edges, bug fixes, and breaking changes to optimize your experience.

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Kdenlive 24.08.3 open-source video editor addresses codec crashes, timeline bugs, and clip removal issues.

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Sparky 2024.11 brings the latest Debian testing packages, Linux kernel 6.11, Midori 11.4, Thunderbird 128.4.0esr, and more.

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Wine 9.21 debuts with advanced network support in DirectPlay, D3DX9 format boost, C++ compilation fixes, and I/O improvements.

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Powered by a newer kernel in the Linux 6.1 LTS series, Debian 12.8 is here a little over two months after Debian 12.7 as the seventh point release of Debian Bookworm. Yes, seventh, because Debian 12.3 was never released due to an issue in the EXT4 file system leading to data corruption so it doesn’t count.

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What have been the most significant security-related incidents for the open-source community in 2024 (so far)? Marta Rybczyńska recently ran a poll and got some interesting results. At the 2024 Open Source Summit Japan, she presented those results along with some commentary of her own. The events in question are unlikely to be a surprise to LWN readers, but the overall picture that was presented was worth a look.

KDE Frameworks 6.8 looks like a modest release that introduces Breeze icons for Typst files and monochrome variants for a bunch of symbolic Breeze icons that were inappropriately symbolic but colorful so that they can better match all the other monochrome symbolic icons.

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Longtime Debian and Tor developer, Jérémy Bobbio—perhaps better known as "Lunar"—died on November 8. Lunar was one of the founders of the reproducible builds movement and more recently had been working with Software Heritage. More information and tributes in French can be found at this site. They will be missed.

Coming more than three months after Ubuntu Touch OTA-5, the Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 update improves the stability of the wireless display feature on some devices and adds support for newer generations of Android HAL (hardware abstraction layer), which will allow the developers to port newer Android devices to Ubuntu Touch.

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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (podman), Debian (guix, libarchive, and nss), Fedora (expat, iaito, opendmarc, python-werkzeug, radare2, squid, and xorg-x11-server), Mageia (htmldoc, libheif, nspr, nss, firefox & rust, python-urllib3, python-werkzeug, quictls, ruby-webrick, and thunderbird), Oracle (firefox and NetworkManager-libreswan), SUSE (apache2, chromedriver, chromium, coredns, expat, govulncheck-vulndb, httpcomponents-client, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, libheif, python-wxPython, python311, python312, qbittorrent, ruby3.3-rubygem-actionmailer, ruby3.3-rubygem-actiontext, ruby3.3-rubygem-puma, ruby3.3-rubygem-rails, and virtualbox), and Ubuntu (openjdk-17, openjdk-21, openjdk-8, openjdk-lts, and qemu).