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After a year’s gap, VLC 3.0.22 RC1 media player introduces Qt6 build support, Windows ARM64 compatibility, and improved playback reliability.

The post VLC’s First Update in a Year to Introduce Qt6 and Windows ARM64 Support appeared first on Linux Today.

Version 3.14.0 of the Python language has been released. There are a lot of changes this time around, including official support for free threading, template string literals, and much more; see the announcement for details.

Paul McKenney gave a remote presentation at Kangrejos 2025 following up on the talk he gave last year about the lifetime-end-pointer-zapping problem: certain common patterns for multithreaded code are technically undefined behavior, and changes to the C and C++ specifications will be needed to correct that. Those changes could also impact code that uses unsafe Rust, such as the kernel's Rust bindings. Progress on the problem has been slow, but McKenney believes that a solution is near at hand.

Systemd v258 was released on September 17 after more than nine months of development. LWN has already covered some of the features and changes being readied for v258 before it was final. Now that the release is out, it is time to look at more of what came in v258, including a sandbox shell, new boot options, service-level disk quotas, and enhancements to systemd-resolved.

This article picks some useful tools to help you fix Ruby code.

The post 4 Best Free and Open Source Ruby Linter Tools appeared first on Linux Today.

DietPi 9.17 delivers faster, space-saving backups, a Roon early access toggle, and fixes for SPI flashing issues.

The post DietPi 9.17 Released with Faster Backups and Roon Server Early Access appeared first on Linux Today.

FLX1s is a $550 Linux phone that debuts with Debian-based FuriOS, 5G support, and hardware kill switches for privacy.

The post FuriLabs Opens Pre-Orders for FLX1s Linux Phone appeared first on Linux Today.

Git developers discuss adopting Rust, with a formal RFC proposing it as a required dependency once version 3.0 is released.

The post Git Heads Toward 3.0 with Rust as a Hard Dependency appeared first on Linux Today.

Scrobbling is the process of automatically tracking and recording the music you listen to, sending the data (like song title, artist, and timestamp) to a service.

The post 8 Useful Free and Open Source Scrobbler Tools appeared first on Linux Today.

The Multikernel team opens its Linux kernel codebase, promising a new path to scalability for modern multi-core and cloud environments.

The post Linux Kernel Multikernel Project Opens Up, Initial Patches Ready for Review appeared first on Linux Today.

Debian’s APT package manager is adding a new history command, letting users list and inspect past package transactions.

The post Debian’s APT Adds Native History Parsing to Track Past Operations appeared first on Linux Today.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the PCLinuxOS Recipe Corner Special Edition, Volume 2 of the PCLinuxOS Magazine. 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.

 

The cover was designed by Meemaw, Assistant Editor, using an image found on Pixabay. The Recipe Special Edition contains all of the recipes that The PCLinuxOS Magazine ran between January, 2017 and December, 2019. This special edition of the magazine is only available as a PDF download. The HTML versions of the individual articles are available online in the respective month of their original publication.

 

Download the PDF (9.8 MB)

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Zorin OS 18 Beta debuts with a refreshed design, advanced window tiling, web apps, and OneDrive support.

The post Zorin OS 18 Beta Launches with a Redesigned Desktop appeared first on Linux Today.

Ubuntu 25.10 distribution is now available for public beta testing with Linux kernel 6.17, GNOME 46, and many other changes. Here’s what to expect!

The post Ubuntu 25.10 Beta Released with Linux Kernel 6.17, GNOME 49, and More appeared first on Linux Today.

Version:next-20251007 (linux-next) Released:2025-10-07

MakuluLinux is a rolling-release, desktop distribution based either on Ubuntu's LTS (long-term support) release or Debian's "Testing" branch. It includes pre-installed multimedia codecs, device drivers and software for everyday use. MakuluLinux comes in four editions: "LinDoz" - featuring the Cinnamon desktop with the user interface customised to resemble that of Microsoft Windows, "Core" - presenting a highly customised Xfce desktop environment, "Flash" - providing a standard Xfce desktop, and finally "Shift" - delivering a pre-configured GNOME desktop environment.

KDE Linux is a user-focused, general-purpose Linux distribution. It is built by KDE and it is meant to showcase the best implementation of everything KDE has to offer, using the most advanced technologies. The distribution's base packages come from Arch Linux, while everything else is either compiled by the kde-builder tool or included as Flatpak packages. KDE Linux does not come with any traditional package manager, but supports installing Flatpak, Snap or AppImage applications. As it has an immutable base, system updates involve replacing the operating system image with an entirely new one.

LinuxHub Prime is an Arch-based Linux distribution with a customised Openbox window manager as the default desktop environment. Its main feature is a unique installer that provides one-click installation options for several popular window managers and desktop environments, including Awesome, bspwm, Budgie, Cinnamon, Deepin, GNOME, Hyprland, KDE Plasma, MATE, Qtile and Xfce. The installer also includes "Prime Builder", a tool for creating a custom respin of the distribution.

Taylor Blau has posted an extensive set of notes from the recently concluded Git Contributor's Summit. Covered topics include the SHA-256 transition, Rust, Change-ID headers, Git 3.0, and many more. The note are also available on Google Docs for those who prefer that format.

Security updates have been issued by Fedora (chromium), Red Hat (kernel, open-vm-tools, and postgresql), SUSE (chromedriver and chromium), and Ubuntu (haproxy and pam-u2f).