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In July, at the GNOME annual general meeting (AGM), held at GUADEC 2024, the message from the GNOME Foundation board was that all was well, financially speaking. Not great, but the foundation was on a break-even budget and expected to go into its next fiscal year with a similar budget and headcount. On October 7, however, the board announced that it had had to make some cuts, including reducing its staff by two people. This is not, however, strictly a GNOME problem: similar organizations, such as the Python Software Foundation (PSF), KDE e.V., and the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) are seeing declines in fundraising while also being affected by inflation.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (dmitry, libheif, and python-sql), Fedora (suricata and wireshark), SUSE (cargo-c, libeverest, protobuf, and qemu), and Ubuntu (golang-1.22, libheif, unbound, and webkit2gtk).

Etherpad Lite is a web-based, free document editing tool that enables groups of users to collaboratively work on a document in real-time, similar to a multiplayer editor that runs in a web browser.

Etherpad allows authors to edit simultaneously, seeing each other’s edits in real-time, with the capability to display each author’s text in their own colors.

The post Etherpad: A Real-Time Online Collaborative Document Editor appeared first on Linux Today.

We have compiled a list of the best Java static site generators. These tools are released under a freely distributable license.

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As a Linux administrator for over ten years, my primary responsibility has always been the security management of Linux servers. Firewalls play a critical role in securing Linux systems and networks.

They act like a security guard between internal and external networks by controlling and managing incoming and outgoing network traffic based on a set of predefined rules. These firewall rules allow legitimate connections and block those that are not specified.

With numerous open-source firewall applications available today, choosing the right one for your needs can be challenging. In this article, we will explore ten of the most popular open-source firewalls that can help secure your Linux servers in 2024.

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Clementine is a modern, lightweight, and user-friendly music player designed for Linux users. It is inspired by Amarok, an older music player, but Clementine has improved upon it by focusing on a fast, easy-to-use interface and offering numerous features for managing and playing your music.

It supports a wide range of formats and services, making it one of the most versatile music players available for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

The post Clementine – A Modern Music Player for Linux appeared first on Linux Today.

Version:next-20241023 (linux-next) Released:2024-10-23

Jaq is the successor of the traditional JQ command, with enhanced improvements, programmatical corrections, and simplicity in syntax.

The post How to Install and Use jaq (jq clone) on Linux: Step-by-Step Guide appeared first on Linux Today.

Perhaps one of the more surprising changes in the 6.12-rc4 development kernel was the removal of several entries from the kernel's MAINTAINERS file. The patch performing the removal was sent (by Greg Kroah-Hartman) only to the patches@lists.linux.dev mailing list; the change was included in a char-misc drivers pull request with no particular mention.

The explanation for the removal is simply "various compliance requirements". Given that the developers involved all appear to be of Russian origin, it is not too hard to imagine what sort of compliance is involved here. There has, however, been no public posting of the policy that required the removal of these entries.

Grep is a powerful command-line tool for UNIX-like systems that can search and print text. Learn how to use it on your Linux machine today.

The post What Is GREP in Linux and How Do You Use It appeared first on Linux Today.

Tor Browser 14.0, based on Firefox ESR 128, is now available with enhanced privacy, security, and fingerprinting protections.

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The Image-Based Linux Summit has by now established itself as a yearly event. Following on from last year's edition, the third edition was held in Berlin on September 24, the day before All Systems Go! 2024 (ASG). The purpose of this event is to gather stakeholders from various engineering groups and hold friendly but lively discussions around the topic of image-based Linux — that is, Linux distributions based around immutable images, instead of mutable root filesystems.

Coming more than six months after OpenSSL 3.3, the OpenSSL 3.4 release introduces new features like the ability to directly fetch composite signature algorithms like RSA-SHA2-256, including new API functions, FIPS indicators support in the FIPS provider, as well as the implementation of RFC 9579 (PBMAC1) in PKCS#12.

The post OpenSSL 3.4 Released with Initial Attribute Certificate (RFC 5755) Support appeared first on Linux Today.

Skudonet is a load balancer and application delivery system based on Debian. Originally forked from Zevenet, the platform provides HTTP and HTTPS connections for web applications as well as load balancing services for TCP and UDP traffic. Skudonet is available in community and commercially supported editions.

A status page system is software that lets you communicate incidents, schedule maintenance and downtimes with your customers.

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The AlmaLinux project has introduced a new edition called "Kitten", which will serve as "the direct upstream for AlmaLinux OS and is the primary point for the AlmaLinux community to engage and influence the future of AlmaLinux OS". Not intended for production use, the first release is based on CentOS Stream 10 source, which will eventually be the basis for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10:

Because we anticipated many changes in 10, we wanted to get a head start on building AlmaLinux OS 10. Earlier this year we started setting up infrastructure and the build pipeline for AlmaLinux OS 10, and started testing using CentOS Stream 10's code. Based on this preparation work, we are excited to share that we have successfully built a preview of AlmaLinux OS 10 that we are calling AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10.

The first Kitten release previews a number of ways that AlmaLinux will diverge from RHEL 10, including re-enabling frame pointers, including Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE), and adding packages for Firefox and Thunderbird, which have been dropped from CentOS Stream 10 in favor of Flatpak versions. New installation images for Kitten will be built quarterly. See the release notes for download links, installation instructions, and more information.

The 6.11.5, 6.6.58, 6.1.114, 5.15.169, and 5.10.228 stable kernels have all been released; each contains another set of important fixes.

KDE Plasma 6.2.2 desktop environment rolls out with new translations and fixes, including updates to KWin, Plasma Audio, and Workspace.

The post KDE Plasma 6.2.2 Released with Bugfixes for KWin, Audio Volume, and More appeared first on Linux Today.

KDE Plasma 6.2.2 is here only a week after KDE Plasma 6.2.1 to fix a regression that prevented HDR (High Dynamic Range) from working properly in video games that needed certain brightness levels, like a billion nits of brightness, a regression that could cause the cursor to misbehave in certain video games, and an issue that caused visual distortion in the clipboard widget’s configuration window.

The post KDE Plasma 6.2.2 Is Out Now to Improve Compatibility with Specific Hardware appeared first on Linux Today.

Version:6.1.114 (longterm) Released:2024-10-22 Source:linux-6.1.114.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.1.114.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.1.114