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Mozilla Firefox 132 web browser is now available for download strengthening privacy by blocking third-party cookies with Enhanced Tracking Protection’s Strict mode.

The post Firefox 132 Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New appeared first on Linux Today.

Dtrx stands for “Do The Right Extraction“, it is an open-source and very effective command-line application for *nix systems that simplifies your job of archive extraction easier.

The dtrx command is a replacement of “tar -zxvf” or “tar -xjf” commands and it provides a single command to extract archives in a number of different formats including tar, zip, rpm, deb, gem, 7z, cpio, rar, and many more. It can also used to decompress files compressed with bzip2, gzip, etc.

By default, dtrx extracts contents to a dedicated directory and also fixes permission issues (like permission denied) faced by the user while extracting content to ensure that the owner can read and write all those files.

The post Dtrx – Smart Archive (tar, zip, cpio, rpm, deb, rar) Tool appeared first on Linux Today.

DietPi 9.8 enhances support for NanoPi, ROCK, and Orange Pi SBCs, boosts Portainer/NoMachine functionality, and fixes multiple issues.

The post DietPi 9.8 Boosts Support for NanoPi, ROCK, and Orange Pi Boards appeared first on Linux Today.

If you’re wondering what Craig McLuckie is doing since leaving Heptio and VMware behind… well, he’s not living full time in the Kubernetes world anymore, but he heads a startup that’s very much involved in open source issues.

The post What Craig McLuckie Is Doing Now and Why He Is Doing It appeared first on Linux Today.

Vivaldi 7.0 is here with floating tabs, sleek icons, and a powerful Dashboard that brings Mail, Calendar, and Feeds together in one space.

The post Vivaldi Browser 7.0 Introduces Redesigned UI and Tools appeared first on Linux Today.

Understand the compliance requirements for contributing to the Linux kernel due to US sanctions. Learn how OFAC SDN lists affect maintainers and how developers can still contribute.

The post Linux Kernel Maintainer Removals: Compliance Requirements Explained appeared first on Linux Today.

Allowing pretenders to co-opt the term is bad for everyone

The post The open secret of open washing – why companies pretend to be open source appeared first on Linux Today.

Jellyfin 10.10 open-source media server is now available with enhanced transcoding, new Media Segments, improved audio tags, and essential updates.

The post Jellyfin 10.10 Released with New Features and Major Improvements appeared first on Linux Today.

Many of us like to think that our open-source work is unrelated to geopolitics. Think again.

The post Why remove Russian maintainers of Linux kernel? Here’s what Torvalds says appeared first on Linux Today.

Apache Web Server is one of the most widely used web servers on the Internet. Understanding its basics and functionality is essential for anyone working in web development, system administration, or server management.

In this article, we will cover 25 interesting Apache interview questions along with their answers, helping you learn new things about Apache that you may not have known before.

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Discover a step-by-step guide to enable or disable directory listing (or file manager) on Nginx in Ubuntu with a practical example.

The post How to Enable/Disable Directory Listing on Nginx (in Ubuntu) appeared first on Linux Today.

The Linux Kernel’s removal of Russian maintainers over compliance concerns ignites debate. Linus Torvalds defends the decision, citing sanctions and slamming critics.

The post Linus Torvalds Defends Linux Kernel’s Removal of Russian Maintainers appeared first on Linux Today.

Sparrow Li presented virtually at RustConf 2024 about the current state of and future plans for the Rust compiler's performance. The compiler is relatively slow to compile large programs, although it has been getting better over time. The next big performance improvement to come will be parallelizing the compiler's parsing, type-checking, and related operations, but even after that, the project has several avenues left to explore.

Rong Xu and Han Shen described the kernel-optimization techniques that Google uses in the toolchains track at the 2024 Linux Plumbers Conference. They talked about automatic feedback-directed optimization (AutoFDO), which can be used with the Propeller optimizer to produce kernels with better performance using profile information gathered from real workloads. There is a fair amount of overlap between these tools and the BOLT post-link optimizer, which was the subject of a talk that directly preceded this session.

Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian) is a free operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux and optimised for the Raspberry Pi hardware (the armhf processor architecture). Raspberry Pi OS comes with over 35,000 packages, or pre-compiled software bundled in a nice format for easy installation on a Raspberry Pi. The initial build was completed in June of 2012, but the distribution continues to be active developed with an emphasis on improving the stability and performance of as many Debian packages as possible. Although Debian produces a distribution for the arm architecture, it is compatible only with versions later than the one used on the Raspberry Pi (ARMv7-A CPUs and higher vs the Raspberry Pi's ARMv6 CPU).

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, python3.12, and python3.9), Debian (activemq, chromium, libheif, nss, and twisted), Fedora (chromium, dnsdist, dotnet8.0, edk2, glibc, libdigidocpp, mbedtls3.6, NetworkManager-libreswan, oath-toolkit, podman-tui, prometheus-podman-exporter, python-fastapi, python-openapi-core, python-platformio, python-rpyc, python-starlette, rust-pyo3, rust-pyo3-build-config, rust-pyo3-ffi, rust-pyo3-macros, rust-pyo3-macros-backend, suricata, thunderbird, and yarnpkg), Mageia (cpanminus, libgsf, mozjs78, redis, and thunderbird), Oracle (firefox, python3.12, python3.9, and python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9), Red Hat (edk2, grafana, httpd, httpd:2.4, and mod_jk), and SUSE (nodejs-electron, python3, python310, and python39).

Version:next-20241028 (linux-next) Released:2024-10-28

Linus has released 6.12-rc5 for testing.

rc5 looks perfectly normal, and maybe even on the small side of normal. The diffstat looks nice and flat too, with the exception of the removal of the da8xx fbdev driver due to it having been replaced by the tilcdc driver. And I'm sure we're all thinking the same thing: "What lovely descriptive driver names we have".

Version:6.12-rc5 (mainline) Released:2024-10-27 Source:linux-6.12-rc5.tar.gz Patch:full (incremental)

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has been working on defining Open Source AI—that is what constitutes an AI system that can be used, studied, modified, and shared for any purpose—for almost two years. Its board will be voting on the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) on Sunday, October 27, with the 1.0 version slated to be published on October 28. It is never possible to please everyone in such an endeavor, and it would be folly to make that a goal. However, a number of prominent figures in the open-source community have voiced concerns that OSI is setting the bar too low with the OSAID—which will undo decades of community work to cajole vendors into adhering to or respecting the original Open Source Definition (OSD).