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If you’ve ever reinstalled Ubuntu, you know the pain of setting everything up again, such as finding apps, adding PPAs, and reinstalling software one by one.

Back in the day, tools like Aptik helped automate this, but since Aptik is no longer maintained, you don’t need to rely on it, Ubuntu already comes with the dpkg package manager, which can handle the job on its own.

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to back up your installed packages and restore them later using dpkg commands.

The post How to Backup and Restore Installed Packages in Ubuntu appeared first on Linux Today.

AFBC support has been merged to PanVK and will be available in the Mesa 25.3 release! This new enablement reduces memory bandwidth and boosts performance.

The post PanVK Now Uses AFBC by Default appeared first on Linux Today.

Bluefin LTS released: immutable Linux workstation with CentOS Stream 10 base, Flathub, ZFS, Homebrew, and 3–5 years of long-term support.

The post Bluefin LTS Released: Immutable Desktop on CentOS Stream 10 appeared first on Linux Today.

Tails 7.0 anonymous Linux OS is now available for download based on Debian 13 “Trixie” and featuring the GNOME 48 desktop environment. Here’s what’s new!

The post Tails 7.0 Anonymous Linux OS Officially Released, Based on Debian 13 “Trixie” appeared first on Linux Today.

GNOME 48.5 is now available as the fifth maintenance update to the GNOME 48 desktop environment with various enhancements and bug fixes. Here’s what’s changed!

The post GNOME 48.5 Improves Support for WPA(2) Enterprise Networks, Legacy Tray Icons appeared first on Linux Today.

KDE Plasma 6.5 is packed with lots of goodies for everyone, including major UI improvements to the Sticky Note widget, support for displaying ink levels on your printers, rounded bottom corners for Breeze-decorated windows, and support for syncing the clipboard text between the client and server on remote sessions.

The post KDE Plasma 6.5 Desktop Environment Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing appeared first on Linux Today.

This week, our Linux distro gadabout takes a look at both the Cinnamon and Mate editions of Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara,” and finds absolutely nothing to complain about.

The post Linux Mint 22.2 ‘Zara’: More Excellence From a Consistently Outstanding Distro appeared first on Linux Today.

Rspamd 3.13, an open-source spam filtering system, introduces multiclass Bayes, a neural module overhaul, and improved LLM embedding support.

The post Rspamd 3.13 Launches with Redis-Backed Multiclass Bayes appeared first on Linux Today.

Endless OS is a Linux-based operating system which provides a simplified and streamlined user experience using a customized desktop environment forked from GNOME 3. Rather than using a traditional Linux package management system, Endless OS uses a read-only root filesystem managed by OSTree with application bundles overlaid on top.

Expirion Linux is a Devuan-based desktop distribution which offers LXQt and Xfce desktop editions. The project provides separate releases built from the latest "stable" and "testing" branches of Devuan, with runit and SysV as init system options. Expirion ships with a more recent kernel than Devuan does and it also adds some user-friendly touches, custom themes and wallpapers, as well as productivity applications, such as LibreOffice, Chromium, Firefox, Thunderbird, Audacity, Brasero and VLC.

Shanios is an immutable desktop Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. It provides optimised builds of the GNOME and KDE Plasma desktop environments. Like most immutable Linux systems, Shanios features rollbacks for instant system recovery, atomic updates through a custom deployment tool called shani-deploy, and Flatpak integration. The distribution's other main features include a blue-green deployment strategy using Btrfs subvolumes, preservation of system integrity with a read-only root partition, and enhanced security through AppArmor profiles, firewalld configurations, and full-disk encryption.

GreenBANG (formerly ArchBang Linux) is a lightweight distribution based on Arch Linux. Using the Openbox window manager, it is fast, up-to-date and suitable for both desktop and portable systems.

FreeBSD is a UNIX-like operating system for the i386, amd64, IA-64, arm, MIPS, powerpc, ppc64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC platforms based on U.C. Berkeley's "4.4BSD-Lite" release, with some "4.4BSD-Lite2" enhancements. It is also based indirectly on William Jolitz's port of U.C. Berkeley's "Net/2" to the i386, known as "386BSD", though very little of the 386BSD code remains. FreeBSD is used by companies, Internet Service Providers, researchers, computer professionals, students and home users all over the world in their work, education and recreation. FreeBSD comes with over 20,000 packages (pre-compiled software that is bundled for easy installation), covering a wide range of areas: from server software, databases and web servers, to desktop software, games, web browsers and business software - all free and easy to install.

TeaLinux is an Indonesian Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. It is developed by Dinus Open Source Community (DOSCOM) from Dian Nuswantoro University in Semarang, Central Java. It was started in 2009 (when the distribution was based on Ubuntu). TeaLinux, which is available in COSMIC and KDE Plasma desktop variants, includes a custom system installer called "Tea-Install". The distribution is crafted with a strong focus on programming and development needs and with a clean and efficient environment for developers.

Bluestar Linux is a GNU/Linux distribution that is based on Arch Linux. The Bluestar distribution features up to date packages, a full range of desktop and multimedia software in the default installation and a live desktop DVD.

Lernstick is a mobile and secure learning and working environment for school and at home that can be installed on external storage media (e.g. USB sticks, USB hard drives, SD cards, etc.). The distribution is based on Debian's stable branch. The distribution is intended to perform so that almost every computer can be started from this storage media. Basically, a hard drive with an installed operating system is no longer required. (Optionally, the system can still be installed on the hard disk.) As a result, the learning stick is a platform for so-called Bring Your Own Device scenarios, in which students can also use their private devices for school purposes, such as exams in an secure offline/online environment.

Xray_OS is an Arch-based Linux distribution focused on innovation, creativity, usability and software development. It comes with KDE Plasma as its preferred desktop. Some of the other interesting features of the distribution include a custom system installer, a welcome application called Tolitica with some useful options, smart GPU detection which removes unused drivers during installation, an AUR helper for downloading and building software packages on the fly, and original wallpapers created specifically for Xray_OS.

Bluestar Linux is a GNU/Linux distribution that is based on Arch Linux. The Bluestar distribution features up to date packages, a full range of desktop and multimedia software in the default installation and a live desktop DVD.

Despite its name, the Robot Operating System (ROS) is not an operating system; it is a software development kit (SDK) that provides building blocks for robotic applications. One of the main goals of ROS is to present a common API that abstracts away the details of particular hardware drivers or algorithms to make development easier; developers can focus on what a robot should do rather than the low-level details of specific controllers. The latest release of ROS, Kilted Kaiju, features improvements to the middleware layer that is used to deliver data between components.

extrox is a spin of MX Linux by a member of the MX Linux development team, featuring custom art and theme, careful application selection, various user-friendly improvements, and an audio filter (developed in-house) for enhanced sound quality in music playback and streaming. The distribution uses the Xfce desktop with the Compiz compositing window manager.