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Plop Linux is a small distribution that can boot from CD, DVD, USB flash drive (UFD), USB hard disk or from network with PXE. It is designed to rescue data from a damaged system, backup and restore operating systems, automate tasks and more.

Fedora 43 moves to a Wayland-only GNOME experience, officially removing support for the X11 session due to a lack of upstream maintenance.

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The upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) brings GNOME 49, VRR, and new default apps like Loupe image viewer and Ptyxis terminal.

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Alpine Linux is a community developed operating system designed for routers, firewalls, VPNs, VoIP boxes, containers, and servers. It was designed with security in mind; it has proactive security features like PaX and SSP that prevent security holes in the software to be exploited. The C library used is musl and the base tools are all in BusyBox. Those are normally found in embedded systems and are smaller than the tools found in GNU/Linux systems.

PorteuX is a Linux distribution based on Slackware Linux, inspired by Slax and Porteus and available to the public for free. Its main goal is to be fast, small, portable (run from a thumb drive), modular and optionally immutable. It is pre-configured for basic usage, including lightweight applications for each one of the seven desktop environments (Cinnamon, GNOME, KDE Plasma, LXDE, LXQt, MATE and Xfce) available. No browser is included, but an app store is provided for downloading any of the most popular browsers, as well as other applications.

Windows Journal is a note-taking application that allows users to create and organize handwritten notes and drawings and save them. Journal is proprietary software and not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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For Linux gamers, the new Steam Client update adds support for automatically installing the Proton Voice Files speech synthesis data when necessary, improves support for game recordings that contain a green bar on the right side of the image when using HEVC encoding on AMD systems if the game window width isn’t a multiple of 64, and improves Game Recording and Remote Play video streams that show green frames when capturing Vulkan games on Intel GPUs.

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Nyarch Linux is an Arch-based, rolling-release Linux distribution designed for "weebs", or non-Japanese persons interested in anime, manga, cosplay and other aspects of the Japanese culture. Some of the distribution's custom features include "Catgirl Downloader" which downloads random pictures of cute catgirls, "Nyarch Assistant", a digital companion which helps with a range of computing and real-life tasks, "Material UwU" which serves as a desktop wallpaper and theme chooser, and "Nyarch Customize", a tool to facilitate desktop layout customisations and animations. Besides the standard release, the project also provides a special variant with pre-configured proprietary NVIDIA display drivers; both come with the GNOME desktop.

The seventh edition of the Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel Summit (known as "OSPM") took place on March 18-20, 2025. Topics discussed on the third (and final) day include proxy execution, energy-aware scheduling, the deadline scheduler, and an evaluation of the kernel's EEVDF scheduler.

The open source ISA RISC-V has long been making inroads into Linux distributions, but this week Enterprise Linux distros got on board en masse.

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Mule ESB (Mule Enterprise Service Bus) is a lightweight, Java-based platform that helps the integration of various applications and systems. It acts as an integration platform, allowing developers to connect applications quickly and easily, enabling them to exchange data and collaborate seamlessly.

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Arriving about five weeks after PipeWire 1.4.2, the PipeWire 1.4.3 release brings many netJACK2 improvements, including fixes for the driver/manager roles, better error handling, support for sending custom commands, support for using the default value of filters, and support for correctly writing MIDI streams.

The post Pipewire 1.4.3 Brings netJACK2 Changes, Improves Alsa audio.channels Support appeared first on Linux Today.

In this second article of a three-part series, I look at how Matt Godbolt uses modern C++ features to try to protect against misusing an API that deals with destructive state transition based on a talk he gave on making code easy to use and hard to misuse.

The post What if C++ had decades to learn? appeared first on Linux Today.

Fwupd 2.0.10 brings AGESA version summaries, UEFI PK key ID reporting, and support for popular peripherals from Lenovo, Logitech, and Poly.

The post Fwupd 2.0.10 Released with AGESA Summary Support appeared first on Linux Today.

Mozilla has decided to throw in the towel on Pocket, a social-bookmarking service that it acquired in 2017. This has left many users scrambling for a replacement for Pocket before its shutdown in July. One possible option is wallabag, a self-hostable, MIT-licensed project for saving web content for later reading. It can import saved data from services like Pocket, share content on the web, export to various formats, and more. Even better, it puts users in control of their data long-term.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, firefox, ghostscript, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, libsoup3, mingw-freetype, perl, ruby, sqlite, thunderbird, unbound, valkey, and xz), Debian (chromium, firefox-esr, libavif, linux-6.1, modsecurity-apache, mydumper, systemd, and thunderbird), Fedora (coreutils, dnsdist, docker-buildx, maturin, mingw-python-flask, mingw-python-flit-core, ruff, rust-hashlink, rust-rusqlite, and thunderbird), Red Hat (pcs), SUSE (augeas, brltty, brotli, ca-certificates-mozilla, dnsdist, glibc, grub2, kernel, libsoup, libsoup2, libxml2, open-vm-tools, perl, postgresql13, postgresql15, postgresql16, postgresql17, python-cryptography, python-httpcore, python-h11, python311, runc, s390-tools, slurm, slurm_20_11, slurm_22_05, slurm_23_02, slurm_24_11, tomcat, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (linux-aws).

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 highlights include Red Hat Enterprise Linux Lightspeed for integrating generative AI directly within the platform to provide users with context-aware guidance and actionable recommendations through a natural language interface.

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Microsoft has officially open-sourced the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), closing the very first issue ever filed on the Microsoft/WSL GitHub repository: “Will this be open source?”

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Welcome back to our ongoing journey through the world of powerful but often overlooked Linux commands. If you’ve been following along, you already know there are lots of handy tools hidden in the terminal, just waiting to make your life easier.

In this fourth installment, we’re bringing you yet another batch of underrated Linux commands that pack a punch. These are tools that many users, especially beginners, might not stumble upon during regular use, but once discovered, they quickly become indispensable.

The post 10 Must-Know Linux Commands You Probably Missed – Part 4 appeared first on Linux Today.

Our Marco Fioretti shares his thoughts on Google’s (and others’) bad boy behavior against Nextcloud (and others).

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