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Security updates have been issued by Debian (emacs and openh264), Fedora (rpm-ostree), Mageia (dcmtk, libcap, openssh, and proftpd), Red Hat (emacs, kernel, and pki-servlet-engine), Slackware (emacs), SUSE (chromium, ffmpeg-4, ffmpeg-7, gnutls, libiniparser-devel, procps, socat, vim, xorg-x11-server, and xwayland), and Ubuntu (binutils, libsndfile, libxmltok, and php5).

Version:6.13.5 (stable) Released:2025-02-27 Source:linux-6.13.5.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.13.5.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.13.5

Version:6.12.17 (longterm) Released:2025-02-27 Source:linux-6.12.17.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.12.17.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.17

Version:6.6.80 (longterm) Released:2025-02-27 Source:linux-6.6.80.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.6.80.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.80

TUXEDO OS is an Ubuntu-based distribution developed in Germany by TUXEDO Computers GmbH, designed and optimised for the company's own range of Linux-friendly personal computers and notebooks. The distribution uses KDE Plasma as the preferred desktop. Some of the differences between Ubuntu and TUXEDO OS include custom boot menu, the TUXEDO Control Centre, Calamares installer, availability of the Lutris open gaming platform, preference for the PipeWire audio daemon (over PulseAudio), removal of Ubuntu's snap daemon and snap packages, and various other tweaks and enhancements.

Version:next-20250227 (linux-next) Released:2025-02-27

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Tail calls in CPython; BPF cancellation; Slabs, sheaves, and barns; Atomic block writes; Large filesystem block sizes; EPEL 10 for older CPUs; pytest-mh; Open-source battery.
• Briefs: DMA discussion; Armbian 25.2; Gentoo qcow2; Aqualung 2.0; Emacs 30.1; Rust 1.85.0; Quotes; ...
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Decibels is designed to be a simple program that lets you play audio files. Decibels is explicitly designed for playing single files.

The post Decibels – Simple Audio Player appeared first on Linux Today.

Arch Linux developers will remove old, deprecated repositories by March 1, 2025, to simplify the repository structure and avoid confusion. It’s time to update your Pacman configuration file.

The post Arch Linux Developers To Remove Old Repositories To Simplify Repository Structure appeared first on Linux Today.

This week, fans of the KDE Plasma desktop environment received the major Plasma 6.3 update and a new KDE Frameworks release with lots of goodies, while fans of the GNOME desktop environment were able to take the beta version of the upcoming GNOME 48 desktop series for a test drive and update to GNOME 47.4.

On top of that, we got new releases of EndeavourOS, Darktable, HandBrake, Calibre, and fwupd. Below, you can check out this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in the 9to5Linux weekly roundup for February 16th, 2025.

The post 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 16th, 2025 appeared first on Linux Today.

FOSDEM 2025 featured the usual talks about open-source software, but, as always, the conference also offered the opportunity to discover some more exotic and less software-centric topics. That's how I learned about the Flow Battery Research Collective (FBRC), which is building what will eventually become an open-source home battery. Daniel Fernández Pinto represented the collective at FOSDEM with his talk "Building an Open-Source Battery for Stationary Storage" in the "Energy: Accelerating the Transition through Open Source" developer room (devroom).

The Gentoo Linux project has announced the availability of qcow2 images for amd64 (x86_64) and arm64 (aarch64), and plans to "eventually" offer images for the riscv64 and loongarch64 architectures.

The images, updated weekly, include an EFI boot partition and a fully functional Gentoo installation; either with no network activated but a password-less root login on the console ("no root pw"), or with network activated, all accounts initially locked, but cloud-init running on boot ("cloud-init").

One of the often-requested LWN site features that has languished the longest on our to-do list is full-text RSS feeds. We are happy to announce that, finally, there is a set of such feeds available; the full set can be seen on our feeds page. This is a subscriber-only feature, and it works by creating a unique fetch URL for each user. We will, of course, be counting on our readers to not share those URLs.

Another feature we have had requests for is to automatically present the site in dark-mode colors when a reader's browser has been configured to prefer it. That feature, too, is now available. In this case, we had to think about the interaction between automatic selection and the color customization that the site has long had. The conclusion we reached is that, if custom colors have been configured for an account, they will win out over the automatic selection. There is a new preference in the customization area to change this default if desired.

Both of these features — and the other enhancements we have made recently — were enabled by the support of LWN's subscribers. By making it possible to bring in new staff last year, you created the space to improve the site experience while keeping up with the writing. We thank all of you for your support.

KDE Plasma 6.3.1 is here to make the updates list in the Plasma Discover package manager case-insensitively sorted, restore search results for the BBC Weather provider in the weather widget, add support for the Welcome Center to remember its window size on Wayland and its position on X11 across launches.

The post KDE Plasma 6.3.1 Released with Plasma Discover Improvements and Many Bug Fixes appeared first on Linux Today.

The best video converters make the process simple, and support a wide number of different codecs and formats.

The post 13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Video Converters appeared first on Linux Today.

Version 25.2 of the Armbian Linux distribution for single-board computers (SBCs) has been released. Notable changes in this release include support for many new SBCs, an upgrade to Linux kernel 6.12.x, and more. See the changelog for a complete list.

btop is a highly customizable, real-time system monitor tool that provides users with an intuitive and visually appealing interface to monitor system resources.

Developed by Aristocratos, btop is written in C++ and aims to provide a more modern alternative to traditional resource monitors like htop, glances, or bashtop (its predecessor).

It offers a comprehensive overview (insights) of your system’s performance that includes CPU usage, memory consumption, disk activity, network bandwidth, and processes running on your system.

The post btop: A Modern and Resourceful System Monitor appeared first on Linux Today.

Ubuntu users who need extra hardware support or just want a taste of the new features can now install Linux kernel 6.13. I’ve tested this tutorial on Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) and it worked without issues. Packages are available for 64-bit (x86_64), AArch64 (ARM64), ARMhf, PowerPC 64-bit Little Endian (ppc64el), and IBM System z (s390x) architectures.

The post You Can Now Install Linux Kernel 6.13 on Ubuntu, Here’s How appeared first on Linux Today.

Learn how to install and configure RabbitMQ Server on Linux, create a system administrator account, and access the web interface.

The post How to Install RabbitMQ Server on Linux (Quick Guide) appeared first on Linux Today.

Learn essential Linux networking commands like ping, traceroute, ip, and ethtool to troubleshoot, configure, and monitor network connections.

The post Top Linux Networking Commands and Troubleshooting Tips appeared first on Linux Today.