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Believe it or not, to celebrate its 20th anniversary, VLC—the renowned media player used by millions worldwide—has announced a truly out-of-this-world project: sending user-submitted videos to the Moon.

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Coming only a week after KDE Plasma 6.3.1, the KDE Plasma 6.3.2 release adds animated WebP and GIF support to the Spectacle screenshot tool, along with a warning notification when WebP support is missing and a prompt that notifies users that WebP is better than GIF.

The post KDE Plasma 6.3.2 Released with Animated WebP and GIF Support for Spectacle appeared first on Linux Today.

Tableau is a visual analytics platform transforming the way we use data to solve problems.

Tableau is proprietary software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.

The post Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Salesforce Tableau appeared first on Linux Today.

With the launch of Hub 10, Nextcloud demonstrates that open source is a viable alternative for secure, enterprise-grade collaboration. The new release improves integration, security, and performance, offering organizations a self-hosted alternative.

The post Open Source Strikes Back: Nextcloud Hub 10 Challenges Big Tech’s Monopoly on AI and Privacy appeared first on Linux Today.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (libreoffice), Fedora (exim and fscrypt), Red Hat (kernel), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (docker, firefox, and podman), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8, linux, linux-oem-6.11, linux-aws, linux-aws-6.8, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-6.8, linux-raspi, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-6.11, linux-oracle, linux-raspi, linux-realtime, linux-aws, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm, linux-intel-iotg, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.15, linux-raspi, and linux-gcp, linux-gcp-6.8, linux-gke, linux-gkeop).

Version:next-20250305 (linux-next) Released:2025-03-05

Mozilla's actions have been rubbing many Firefox fans the wrong way as of late, and inspiring them to look for alternatives. There are many choices for users who are looking for a browser that isn't part of the Chrome monoculture but is full-featured and suitable for day-to-day use. For those who are willing to stay in the Firefox "family" there are a number of good options that have taken vastly different approaches. This includes GNU IceCat, Floorp, LibreWolf, and Zen.

Gentoo Linux offers bootable QCOW2 disk images for amd64 and arm64 architectures, designed for cloud environments and easy testing with QEMU.

The post Gentoo Linux Offers Bootable QCOW2 Images For Cloud Deployment appeared first on Linux Today.

What is virtualization, and how does it benefit your server? In computing, virtualization divides physical computer resources into individual virtual machines called virtual private servers (VPS). Server virtualization masks server resources from server users into individual virtual private servers with their own operating system. Servers get isolated from the OS of the other servers hosted on the master physical machine known as the host. So, what is virtualization? In simple terms, virtualization is a process that partitions one big server into multiple smaller servers.

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Version 136.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Changes include a new vertical tab layout, an automatic attempt to upgrade HTTP connections to HTTPS, support for AMD GPUs on Linux, an Arm64 port for Linux, and more.

There’s a good range of QR tools available for Linux. Here’s our verdict captured in a legendary LinuxLinks-style ratings chart.

The post 12 Best Free and Open Source QR Code Tools appeared first on Linux Today.

Apache NetBeans 25 open-source IDE updates Gradle, Maven, and Java tooling, refining dependency resolution, test execution, and UI stability.

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DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs and server systems, with the option to install desktop environments, too. It ships as minimal image but allows to install complete and ready-to-use software stacks with a set of console based shell dialogs and scripts.

The source code is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi
The main website can be found at: https://dietpi.com/
Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DietPi

The project released the new version DietPi v9.11 on February 23rd, 2025.

The highlights of this version are:

• Pi-hole: Support for Pi-hole v6 added. This was the relevant change to issue the v9.11 release quick after the v9.10
• Initial boot / Firstboot: Fixes for Quartz64/Star64/VisionFive 2 and WiFi connected hardware
• Fixes for Fail2Ban

The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v9_11/

The post Dietpi Released a New Version v9.11 (Pi-Hole V6 Support) appeared first on Linux Today.

It’s been a long road for Wayland’s recently landed color management extension. We take a brief look back at how this latest feature was formed.

The post 12 Years of Incubating Wayland Color Management appeared first on Linux Today.

Armbian 25.2 is here almost three months after Armbian 24.11 featuring the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series for most of the supported boards, with extensive refinements in all areas, as well as support for new boards including Rock 2A and 2F, NanoPi R3S, Retroid Pocket RP5, RPMini, Rock 5T, GenBook, MKS-PI, SKIPR, Armsom CM5, NextThing C.H.I.P, and Magicsee C400 Plus.

The post Armbian 25.2 Released with Support for New Boards, Linux 6.12 LTS, and More appeared first on Linux Today.

Misconfig Mapper is an open-source CLI tool built in Golang that discovers and enumerates instances of services used within your organization. It performs large-scale detection and misconfiguration assessments, leveraging customizable templates with detection and misconfiguration fingerprints to identify potential security risks in widely used third-party software and services.

The post Misconfig Mapper: Open-Source Tool to Uncover Security Misconfigurations appeared first on Linux Today.

Ntopng is an open-source network traffic monitoring tool for traffic analysis and real-time visualization. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to install the Ntopng Network Monitoring Tool on the Debian 12 server.

The post How to Install Ntopng on Debian 12 appeared first on Linux Today.

Jan is a ChatGPT-alternative that runs 100% offline on your desktop. The aim of the project is to make it easy for anyone to run LLMs and use AI yet retain full control and privacy.

The post Machine Learning in Linux: Jan – Alternative to ChatGPT appeared first on Linux Today.

Version 6.10 of the Incus container-management system has been released. New features include better Let's Encrypt support, API-wide filtering, IOMMU support in virtual machines, and more. See this announcement for details.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel), Mageia (x11-server), Red Hat (emacs and webkit2gtk3), SUSE (ffmpeg-7, govulncheck-vulndb, kernel, and skopeo), and Ubuntu (cmark-gfm, erlang, krb5, linux-gcp-6.8, linux-raspi, linux-kvm, lucene-solr, postgresql-12, postgresql-14, postgresql-16, raptor2, spip, tomcat7, and wpa).