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Even Linus Torvalds admits that integrating Rust into Linux isn’t easy, but Greg Kroah-Hartman says it’s worth the trouble.

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Coming more than six months after OpenSSL 3.4, the OpenSSL 3.5 release introduces new features like support for server-side QUIC (RFC 9000), support for third-party QUIC stacks (including 0-RTT support), support for PQC algorithms (ML-KEM, ML-DSA and SLH-DSA), and support for central key generation in CMP.

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To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 17 excellent MySQL tools. Hopefully, there will be something of interest for anyone interested in managing MySQL databases with the minimum of fuss.

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In this tutorial, we will explain everything about the hosts file in Linux. The purpose of the host file is to map a domain name to its IP address. In this file, we can configure which websites can access the system, how specific hostnames can be resolved, which websites we want to block, etc. In the following paragraphs, we will describe a host file, how to find the host file location in Linux, how it is used, and how to edit it in any Linux operating system.

Editing a host’s files requires root privileges on the server or a user with sudo privileges. This is important because, at the end of the tutorial, we will explain how to edit the host’s file in Linux with real examples. Let’s get started!

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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (java-1.8.0-openjdk, kernel, libxslt, mod_auth_openidc:2.3, and webkit2gtk3), Fedora (c-ares, giflib, jupyterlab, perl, perl-Devel-Cover, perl-PAR-Packer, prometheus-podman-exporter, python-notebook, python-pydantic-core, rpki-client, ruby, rust-adblock, rust-cookie_store, rust-gitui, rust-gstreamer, rust-icu_collections, rust-icu_locid, rust-icu_locid_transform, rust-icu_locid_transform_data, rust-icu_normalizer, rust-icu_normalizer_data, rust-icu_properties, rust-icu_properties_data, rust-icu_provider, rust-icu_provider_macros, rust-idna, rust-idna_adapter, rust-litemap, rust-ron, rust-sequoia-openpgp, rust-sequoia-openpgp1, rust-tinystr, rust-url, rust-utf16_iter, rust-version-ranges, rust-write16, rust-writeable, rust-zerovec, rust-zip, thunderbird, and uv), SUSE (erlang, erlang26, and govulncheck-vulndb), and Ubuntu (mosquitto).

Version:next-20250422 (linux-next) Released:2025-04-22

Anton Protopopov kicked off the BPF track on the second day of the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit with a discussion about permitting indirect calls in BPF. He also spoke about his continuing work on static keys, a topic which is related because the implementation of indirect jumps and static keys in the verifier use some of the same mechanisms for tracking indirect control-flow. Although some design work remains to be done, it may soon be possible to make indirect calls in BPF without any extra work compared to normal C.

The Fedora Project's RISC-V special-interest group (SIG) has announced the availability of Fedora Linux 42 images for supported RISC-V boards, as well as QEMU and container images. The SIG is working toward making RISC-V a primary architecture for Fedora, and has made significant progress in the past year.

Our upstreaming work continues apace, and we want to acknowledge that none of this progress would be possible without the incredible collaboration from maintainers across the Fedora Project and beyond. Thank you to everyone who reviewed, accepted, merged, and built our patches. Your support makes this architecture possible.

We're also excited about just how many packages build cleanly without special treatment or overlay repositories that need to be cared for. RISC-V is becoming just another architecture, and that's exactly how it should be.

The Python Steering Council accepted PEP 750 ("Template Strings") on April 10. LWN covered the discussion around the proposal, including the substantial revisions to the idea that were needed for it to be accepted. Template strings (t-strings) are a new kind of string that produces structured data instead of a raw string, allowing library authors to build their own custom template-handling logic. Since the approval happened before the cutoff for new features (May 6), support for template strings will be included in Python 3.14, scheduled for October 2025.

DXVK 2.6.1, an open-source translation layer that converts Direct3D 8/9/10/11 calls to Vulkan, brings bug fixes and performance tweaks, improving stability for AMD, Nvidia, and Intel GPUs across various games and setups.

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Flashcards are one of the best tools for memorizing information. This is partly because of their versatility. They can help teach multiplication skills, learn a foreign language, recall facts, historical dates, in fact anything that can be learned in an intuitive way.

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Ask a Linux enthusiast who created the Linux kernel, and odds are they will have no trouble naming Linus Torvalds—but many would be stumped if asked what the first Linux distribution was, and who created it. Some might guess Slackware, or its predecessor, Softlanding Linux System (SLS); both were arguably more influential but arrived just a bit later. The first honest-to-goodness distribution with a proper installer was MCC Interim Linux, created by Owen Le Blanc, released publicly in early 1992. I recently reached out to Le Blanc to learn more about his work on the distribution, what he has been doing since, and his thoughts on Linux in 2025.

Tired of typing long SSH commands every day? Learn how to auto-complete and simplify your SSH connections using a quick config trick. This guide shows you how to save time, avoid mistakes, and connect like a pro with just one word. Perfect for Linux and macOS users who love smart shortcuts!

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YES3 Scanner is an open-source tool that scans and analyzes 10+ different configuration items for your S3 buckets in AWS. This includes access such as public access via ACLs and bucket policies – including the complex combinations of account and bucket settings that can make a S3 bucket effectively public.

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Notepad++ is a completely free source code editor created as a replacement for Notepad on Windows – is written based on Scintilla in C++ and implements Win32 API and STL to ensure program sizes are small with high execution speed – features that have since made it become a family name among developers. Sadly, there isn’t a version available for Linux users.

Here’s a list of the best Notepadd++ alternatives that you can run on your Linux distribution and be satisfied.

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Security updates have been issued by Debian (erlang, fig2dev, shadow, wget, and zabbix), Fedora (chromium, jupyterlab, llama-cpp, prometheus-podman-exporter, python-notebook, python-pydantic-core, rpki-client, rust-adblock, rust-cookie_store, rust-gitui, rust-gstreamer, rust-icu_collections, rust-icu_locid, rust-icu_locid_transform, rust-icu_locid_transform_data, rust-icu_normalizer, rust-icu_normalizer_data, rust-icu_properties, rust-icu_properties_data, rust-icu_provider, rust-icu_provider_macros, rust-idna, rust-idna_adapter, rust-litemap, rust-ron, rust-sequoia-openpgp, rust-sequoia-openpgp1, rust-tinystr, rust-url, rust-utf16_iter, rust-version-ranges, rust-write16, rust-writeable, rust-zerovec, rust-zip, uv, and webkitgtk), Slackware (libxml2 and zsh), SUSE (argocd-cli, chromium, coredns, ffmpeg-6, and firefox), and Ubuntu (imagemagick).

MOVEit is a managed file transfer software product. The software encrypts files and uses file transfer protocols such as FTP(S) or SFTP to transfer data, as well as providing automation services, analytics and failover options.

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This roundup focuses on Type 2 hypervisors. We also include GUI frontends and wrappers to view, access, and manage remote and virtual systems.

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Valkey 8.1 in-memory data store is here with boosts in performance, lower latency, enhanced observability, and more.

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The latest Linux kernel 6.14 is now available as an opt-in option for Proxmox VE 8 via the pve-no-subscription or pvetest repositories.

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