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TrueNAS CORE (previously known as FreeNAS) is a free and Open Source Network-Attached Storage (NAS) operating system that supports file, block and object storage. TrueNAS CORE is FreeBSD based and is a community-supported branch of the TrueNAS project, sponsored by iXsystems. It also has a commercial branch called TrueNAS Enterprise and a free and HyperConverged storage solution called TrueNAS SCALE. The TrueNAS SCALE branch is based on the Debian Linux distribution.

Version:next-20250528 (linux-next) Released:2025-05-28

Version 10 of the AlmaLinux OS distribution has been released.

The goal of AlmaLinux OS is to support our community, and AlmaLinux OS 10 is the best example of that yet. With an unwavering eye on maintaining compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), we have made small improvements to AlmaLinux OS 10 that target specific sections of our userbase.

See the release notes for details.

KaOS is a desktop Linux distribution that features the latest version of the KDE desktop environment, the Calligra office suite, and other popular software applications that use the Qt toolkit. It was inspired by Arch Linux, but the developers build their own packages which are available from in-house repositories. KaOS employs a rolling-release development model and is built exclusively for 64-bit computer systems.

Srinivas Narayana led a remote session about extending Agni to prove the correctness of the BPF verifier's handling of different execution paths as part of the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. The problem of ensuring the correctness of path exploration is much more difficult than the problem of ensuring the correctness of arithmetic operations (which was the subject of the previous session), however. Narayana's plan to tackle the problem makes use of a mixture of specialized techniques — and may need some assistance from the BPF developers to make it feasible at all.

Cory Doctorow wears many hats: digital activist, science-fiction author, journalist, and more. He has also written many books, both fiction and non-fiction, runs the Pluralistic blog, is a visiting professor, and is an advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF); his Chokepoint Capitalism co-author, Rebecca Giblin, gave a 2023 keynote in Australia that we covered. Doctorow gave a rousing keynote on the state of the "enshitternet"—today's internet—to kick off the recently held PyCon US 2025 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Version 25.05 of the NixOS distribution has been released. Changes include support for the COSMIC desktop environment (reviewed here in August), GNOME 48, a 6.12 kernel, and many new modules; see the release notes for details. (Thanks to Pavel Roskin).

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, libsoup, and python-tornado), Debian (libavif and pgbouncer), Red Hat (gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, mingw-freetype and spice-client-win, and webkit2gtk3), SUSE (firefox, govulncheck-vulndb, and python310-setuptools), and Ubuntu (flask, intel-microcode, openjdk-17-crac, tika, and Tomcat).

We recommend the best FOSS mailing list tools.

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Microsoft is open-sourcing its Linux Integration Services Automation image-testing service for everyone.

The post Believe It or Not, Microsoft Just Announced a Linux Distribution Service – Here’s Why appeared first on Linux Today.

Grafana 12 observability platform lands with Drilldown GA, dynamic dashboards, Git Sync, SCIM support, blazing-fast tables, new theming options, and more.

The post Grafana 12 Observability Platform Released with Major Upgrades appeared first on Linux Today.

Nmap, short for Network Mapper, is an open-source and highly versatile tool used by Linux system and network administrators. It is commonly employed for network exploration, security scanning, auditing, and detecting open ports on remote machines.

Nmap can identify live hosts, determine operating systems, detect packet filters, and reveal open ports running on remote systems.

The post 24 Nmap Commands Every Linux Admin Should Use for Network Security appeared first on Linux Today.

Linux is one of the most widely used operating systems in both personal and enterprise environments. Whether you’re aiming to become a system administrator, DevOps engineer, software developer, or IT professional, having a solid foundation in Linux is essential.

To support your learning and interview preparation, we’re excited to introduce a dedicated Linux Interview section on Tecmint, which will feature carefully selected Linux interview questions, along with detailed answers to help you prepare with confidence.

Every weekend, we’ll publish a new article in this section, starting from basic Linux questions and gradually moving toward more advanced topics. This initiative is one of the first of its kind among Linux-focused websites, and we’re committed to delivering high-quality, useful, and unique content.

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Version:next-20250527 (linux-next) Released:2025-05-27

The AlmaLinux Foundation rolls out AlmaLinux 9.6 on the same day that Red Hat officially releases RHEL 10.

The post AlmaLinux 9.6 Released on Same Day as RHEL 10 appeared first on Linux Today.

RHEL 10 introduces groundbreaking features such as “image mode” for an immutable operating system and pioneering FIPS compliance for post-quantum cryptography.

The post Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: An AI-Driven, Quantum-Ready Platform appeared first on Linux Today.

See how the Raspberry Pi 5 compares to a few other mini PCs which cost considerably more (even taking into account the cost of the case, NVMe, and power supply).

The post Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Power Consumption appeared first on Linux Today.

Fwupd 2.0.10 is here about two weeks after fwupd 2.0.9 with support for Lenovo Legion touchpad, Logitech MX Mechanical keyboard, as well as Poly Studio V72 and V12 video bars, and support for including the AGESA version as the summary of the AMD secure processor device.

The post Fwupd 2.0.10 Linux Firmware Updater Adds Support for Lenovo Legion Touchpad appeared first on Linux Today.

The upcoming Rocky Linux 10 is on track to officially support RISC-V, with builds for VisionFive 2, QEMU, and HiFive P550.

The post Rocky Linux 10 Adds Official RISC-V Support appeared first on Linux Today.

The 6.14 kernel development cycle only brought in 11,003 non-merge changesets, making it the slowest cycle since 4.0, which was released in 2015. The 6.15 kernel, instead, brought in 14,612 changesets, making it the busiest release since 6.7, released at the beginning of 2024. The kernel development process, in other words, is back up to full speed. The 6.15 release happened on May 25, so the time has come for the obligatory look at where the changes in this release came from.