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LibreELEC 12.2 is out with Kodi Omega 21.2, updated kernels for better Intel and Raspberry Pi support, and the removal of the legacy Nvidia driver.

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Learn how to install Docker on Debian 13 (Trixie) from start to finish and get your containerization environment ready in minutes.

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In this article I’ll benchmark the machine. The tests are run using the Phoronix Test Suite, unless otherwise stated. T

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OSMC (formerly Raspbmc) is a Debian-based minimal Linux distribution that brings the Kodi media centre software to a Raspberry Pi, Apple TV and Vero devices. This device has an excellent form factor and enough power to handle media playback, making it an ideal component in a low-cost HTPC (Home Theatre Personal Computer) setup, yet delivering the same Kodi experience that can be enjoyed on much more costly platforms.

Version:next-20250821 (linux-next) Released:2025-08-21

Voyager Live is an Xubuntu-based distribution and live DVD showcasing the Xfce desktop environment. Its features include the Avant Window Navigator or AWN (a dock-like navigation bar), Conky (a program which displays useful information on the desktop), and over 300 photographs and animations that can be used as desktop backgrounds. The project also develops several other editions of Voyager Live - a "GE" edition with GNOME Shell, a "GS" variant for Gamers, and a separately-maintained flavour based on Debian's "stable" branch.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Debian; CPython; huge zero folio; kexec handover; FHS; Koka programming language
• Briefs: PyPI domain checks; Firefox 142.0; Git v2.51; Ghostty; LibreOffice 25.8; Zig 0.15.1; Quotes; ...
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

The Zig project has announced version 0.15.1 of the language. The release, much like the last one, includes incremental progress toward the goal of completely dropping LLVM and improving compile time, as well as a handful of breaking changes as the language team wrestles with past API design. The biggest change this time around is to the standard library Reader and Writer interfaces, which have been completely rearranged in the name of performance and reducing unneeded copies.

All existing std.io readers and writers are deprecated in favor of the newly provided std.Io.Reader and std.Io.Writer which are non-generic and have the buffer above the vtable - in other words the buffer is in the interface, not the implementation. This means that although Reader and Writer are no longer generic, they are still transparent to optimization; all of the interface functions have a concrete hot path operating on the buffer, and only make vtable calls when the buffer is full.

These changes are extremely breaking. I am sorry for that, but I have carefully examined the situation and acquired confidence that this is the direction that Zig needs to go. I hope you will strap in your seatbelt and come along for the ride; it will be worth it.

The Amnesic Incognito Live System (Tails) is a Debian-based live DVD/USB with the goal of providing complete Internet anonymity for the user. The product ships with several Internet applications, including web browser, IRC client, mail client and instant messenger, all pre-configured with security in mind and with all traffic anonymised. To achieve this, Incognito uses the Tor network to make Internet traffic very hard to trace.

Tobias Heider has written an article that explains changes that are coming for Ubuntu's generic Arm64 desktop ISO images in the 25.10 release. The current solution, Heider says, depends on GRUB features that are unavailable in secure boot mode and require adding device-specific logic to multiple packages. The new solution, called stubble, is derived from systemd-stub:

A bundled stubble image contains stubble itself, a Linux kernel, a HWID lookup table to map devices to device trees and multiple device trees. When grub loads this "kernel", stubble executes first, reads the SMBIOS table to generate HWIDs, looks for a match in the embeeded lookup table and loads a matching device tree before passing control to the actual Linux kernel.

The elegance in this approach lies in how it interacts with the rest of the system. Integrating stubble happens entirely at build time in the kernel package. The stubble package is a build dependency for the kernel. After building the kernel itself, we bundle it with stubble and our DTBs and ship the combined binary instead. The resulting stubble + kernel + dtb bundle can be loaded by grub like any other Ubuntu kernel. No further changes in grub or other packages are necessary to make it work.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.16.2, 6.15.11, and 6.12.43 stable kernels. He notes that this is the last release in the 6.15.y series, and recommends that users move to the 6.16.y kernel branch at this time.

Besgnulinux is a lightweight, desktop Linux distribution based on Debian's "stable" branch. Using the JWM window manager, it is designed to be fast, lightweight and easy to use, suitable for older and low-specification computers. Besgnulinux comes with the Calamares system installer, the Brave web browser, and over 40 custom-built tools to control the systems settings as well as the desktop's look-and-feel.

Version:6.16.2 (stable) Released:2025-08-20 Source:linux-6.16.2.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.16.2.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.16.2

Version:6.15.11 (EOL) (stable) Released:2025-08-20 Source:linux-6.15.11.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.15.11.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.15.11

Version:6.12.43 (longterm) Released:2025-08-20 Source:linux-6.12.43.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.12.43.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.43

A tried-and-true step-by-step guide for a hassle-free upgrade to Debian 13 (Trixie) from Debian 12 (Bookworm).

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Debian 13 “Trixie” is here with RISC-V support, Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, new security hardening, HTTP Boot, updated desktop environments, and over 14K new packages.

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SliTaz GNU/Linux is a mini distribution and live CD designed to run speedily on hardware with 256 MB of RAM. SliTaz uses BusyBox, a recent Linux kernel and GNU software. It boots with Syslinux and provides more than 200 Linux commands, the lighttpd web server, SQLite database, rescue tools, IRC client, SSH client and server powered by Dropbear, X window system, JWM (Joe's Window Manager), gFTP, Geany IDE, Mozilla Firefox, AlsaPlayer, GParted, a sound file editor and more. The SliTaz ISO image fits on a less than 30 MB media and takes just 80 MB of hard disk space.

Plasma 6.5 desktop environment adds quick Bluetooth toggles, Flathub URL support in Discover, and faster firmware updates.

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Ken Jin welcomed EuroPython 2025 attendees to his talk entitled "Building a new tail-calling interpreter for Python", but noted that the title really should be: "Measuring the performance of compilers and interpreters is really hard". Jin's efforts to switch the CPython interpreter to use tail calls, which can be optimized as regular jumps, initially seemed to produce an almost miraculous performance improvement. As his modified title suggests, the actual improvement was rather smaller; there is still some performance improvement and there are other benefits from the change.