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Alpha 3 of System76’s COSMIC desktop is now available with improved customizable theming, applets, and adaptable windows designed to improve your Linux workflow.

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The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the November 2024 issue. With the exception of a brief period in 2009, The PCLinuxOS Magazine has been published on a monthly basis since September, 2006. The PCLinuxOS Magazine is a product of the PCLinuxOS community, published by volunteers from the community. The magazine is led by Paul Arnote, Chief Editor, and Assistant Editor Meemaw. The PCLinuxOS Magazine is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share-Alike 3.0 Unported license, and some rights are reserved. All articles may be freely reproduced via any and all means following first publication by The PCLinuxOS Magazine, provided that attribution to both The PCLinuxOS Magazine and the original author are maintained, and a link is provided to the originally published article.

 

In the November 2024 issue:

 

* PCLinuxOS Wiki Knowledgebase Resurrected!

* ICYMI: How To Tell If Someone Is Telling You The Truth

* Exploring Typst: A LaTeX Alternative

* GIMP Tutorial: Create A Double Exposure

* Tip Top Tips: Backing Up Your /home Directory

* PCLinuxOS Recipe Corner: Skillet Coq Au Vin for Two

* And much more inside!

 

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Members of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) board sat down for a 45-minute "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) session at All Things Open in Raleigh, NC on October 29. Though the floor was open to any topic the audience might want to ask of the OSI board. Many of the questions were focused on the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID), which was announced the day before. The new definition has been somewhat controversial, and the board spent a lot of time addressing concerns about it during the session, as well as questions on open washing, and a need for more education about open source in general.

While most of us are already enjoying the LibreOffice 24.8 release, The Document Foundation still maintains the LibreOffice 24.2 branch, which is supported until November 30th, 2024, and they just released LibreOffice 24.2.7 as another maintenance update that fixes more bugs.

The post LibreOffice 24.2.7 Is Out as the Last Update in the Series, Upgrade to LibreOffice 24.8 appeared first on Linux Today.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released another four stable Linux kernel updates: 6.11.6, 6.6.59, 6.1.115, and 5.15.170.

Discover a step-by-step tutorial for downloading YouTube audio and video on Linux from the command line using yt-dlp.

The post Download YouTube Videos on Linux from CLI Using yt-dlp appeared first on Linux Today.

Discover the easiest way to install the latest stable version of NeoVim or nightly build on your desired Linux system with hands-on, practical examples.

The post How to Install Latest NeoVim on Linux (Ultimate Guide) appeared first on Linux Today.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr), Fedora (xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Oracle (buildah, e2fsprogs, grafana, kernel, and mod_http2), Red Hat (buildah, container-tools:rhel8, firefox, grafana, grafana:7.3.6, podman, and thunderbird), SUSE (alloy, cargo-audit-advisory-db-20241030, chromedriver, corepack22, netty, openvpn, python310-Werkzeug, thunderbird, uwsgi, and xsd), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-azure-6.8, linux-gcp-6.8, linux-hwe-6.8 and linux, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4).

Version:next-20241101 (linux-next) Released:2024-11-01

Recordbox is a music player and library browser designed primarily to be as simple as possible, and tailored specifically to browsing and playing albums, rather than tracks or playlists.

The post Recordbox – simple but sweet music player appeared first on Linux Today.

Version:6.11.6 (stable) Released:2024-11-01 Source:linux-6.11.6.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.11.6.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.11.6

Version:6.6.59 (longterm) Released:2024-11-01 Source:linux-6.6.59.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.6.59.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.59

Version:6.1.115 (longterm) Released:2024-11-01 Source:linux-6.1.115.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.1.115.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.1.115

Version:5.15.170 (longterm) Released:2024-11-01 Source:linux-5.15.170.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-5.15.170.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.15.170

AlmaLinux now has a status on Microsoft’s cloud that it shares with only six other Linux distributions. Here’s what it means.

The post Azure Grants AlmaLinux Rarefied ‘Endorsed Distribution’ Status appeared first on Linux Today.

A big milestone has been reached: Linux is now the top operating system on Azure, with over 60% of customer workloads running on Linux.

The post Linux Takes Over Azure: AlmaLinux Gains Azure Endorsement appeared first on Linux Today.

The Rust blog has an update on its progress on some of its project goals. One of the project's flagship goals is to resolve the biggest blockers to Linux building on stable Rust:

Finally, we have been finding an increasing number of stabilization requests at the compiler level, and so @wesleywiser and @davidtwco from the compiler team have started attending meetings to create a faster response. One of the results of that collaboration is RFC #3716, authored by Alice Ryhl, which proposes a method to manage compiler flags that modify the target ABI. Our previous approach has been to create distinct targets for each combination of flags, but the number of flags needed by the kernel make that impractical. Authoring the RFC revealed more such flags than previously recognized, including those that modify LLVM behavior.

Pisi Linux is a GNU/Linux distribution based on the old Pardus Linux with its famous PiSi package management system. It's an operating system for desktop computer with software for listening to music, browsing the Internet and creating documents. Pisi Linux is built from scratch on a stable base, but many core user applications, such as the Firefox web browser or the VLC media player, are kept constantly up to date. To increase the distribution's user friendliness, Flash player and many multimedia codecs are installed and pre-configured for immediate use.

Miguel Guevara, Product Manager, Privacy Safety and Security at Google, discusses the complexities involved in scaling differential privacy technology across large systems. He emphasizes the need to develop secure, private, and user-controlled products while effectively addressing the complexities of integrating such technologies into existing systems.

The post Google On Scaling Differential Privacy Across Nearly Three Billion Devices appeared first on Linux Today.

TrueNAS SCALE 24.10 (Electric Eel) debuts Docker-based apps, RAIDZ expansion, TrueCloud backup, and revamped UI with global search.

The post TrueNAS SCALE 24.10 Shifts from Kubernetes to Docker appeared first on Linux Today.