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Version:5.4.297 (longterm) Released:2025-08-28 Source:linux-5.4.297.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-5.4.297.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.4.297

LastOSLinux is Linux Mint-based distribution with the goal of being a user-friendly alternative to Windows. It is designed for current Windows users wishing to migrate to Linux, with a Windows-like user interface and tools. The distribution uses the Cinnamon desktop and it also includes the WINE software which is able to run some Windows applications on Linux.

Shotcut 25.08 video editor update resolves issues from 25.07, fixing Gain/Volume filters, crashes, and adding BT.2020 color space support.

The post Shotcut 25.08 Video Editor Arrives with Key Fixes appeared first on Linux Today.

Learn how to use Debian’s extrepo command to easily add, search, and manage external APT repositories without manual configuration.

The post How to Use extrepo in Debian to Manage Third-Party Repositories appeared first on Linux Today.

A serial terminal is software that allows communication with devices through a serial port, often used for debugging embedded systems and interacting with hardware like microcontrollers.

The post 15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Serial Terminals appeared first on Linux Today.

Hashing is the process of passing data through a formula that produces a condensed fixed-value representation, called a hash value.

The post 15 Best Free and Open Source CLI Data Hashing Tools appeared first on Linux Today.

Based on the recently released Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series and powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series, Grml 2025.08 provides users with fresh software packages, up-to-date hardware support, and fixes for known bugs from previous Grml releases.

The post Debian Trixie-Based Grml 2025.08 Is Out to Celebrate Debian’s 32nd Birthday appeared first on Linux Today.

The GNOME project, which recently celebrated its 28th birthday, has never had a formal technical governance; progress has been driven by individuals and groups that advocated for—and worked toward—a particular goal in an ad hoc fashion. Longtime GNOME contributor Emmanuele Bassi would like to see that change by adding cross-project teams and a steering committee for the project; to that end, he gave a talk (YouTube video) at GUADEC 2025 in late July on his idea to establish some technical governance for the project. He also put together a blog post with his notes from the talk. The audience reaction was favorable, so he has followed up on the GNOME discussion forum with an RFC on governance to try to move the effort along.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (aide, firefox, kernel, and mod_http2), Debian (chromium and unbound), Fedora (mod_auth_openidc), Oracle (fence-agents and kernel), SUSE (ignition, jetty-minimal, kernel, libmozjs-128-0, matrix-synapse, postgresql13, postgresql15, postgresql16, and postgresql17), and Ubuntu (kernel).

Buttercup is a free, automated, AI-powered platform that finds and fixes vulnerabilities in open-source software. Developed by Trail of Bits, it recently earned second place in DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC). Buttercup is made up of four main components, each playing a different role in finding and fixing vulnerabilities.

The post Buttercup: Open-source AI-driven system detects and patches vulnerabilities appeared first on Linux Today.

This malware will still foul you up; it just doesn’t want anyone messing with your servers while it’s using you.

The post DripDropper Linux malware cleans up after itself – how it works appeared first on Linux Today.

Fooyin 0.9 open-source music player is out with support for artwork downloads, synced lyrics, autoplaylists, and numerous bug fixes.

The post Fooyin 0.9 Music Player Arrives with Artwork Downloads, Synced Lyrics appeared first on Linux Today.

FreshRSS 1.27 self-hosted RSS feed aggregator adds stronger security, category search, custom favicons, and PHP 8.5 support.

The post FreshRSS 1.27 Feed Agregator Now Supports PHP 8.5+ appeared first on Linux Today.

Arch’s AUR has been busy battling DDoS attacks and malware. Trouble’s not over—and it’s anybody’s guess what’s next… if anything.

The post Arch’s AUR Battles DDoS Attacks and Persistent Malware All Summer (So Far) appeared first on Linux Today.

Version:next-20250828 (linux-next) Released:2025-08-28

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Groklaw takeover; CRL cache sharing; browsers and XSLT; Microdot; restartable sequences; shadow-stack control
• Briefs: Android restrictions; Arch services; GhostBSD 25.02; FFmpeg 8.0; PyCon videos; Quotes; ...
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Alyssa Rosenzweig has written a blog post about her work to help ship a "great driver" for the Apple M1 GPU that supports OpenGL, Vulkan, and enables gaming with Proton.

We've succeeded beyond my dreams. The challenges I chased, I have tackled. The drivers are fully upstream in Mesa. Performance isn't too bad. With the Vulkan on Apple myth busted, conformant Vulkan is now coming to macOS via LunarG's KosmicKrisp project building on my work.

Satisfied, I am now stepping away from the Apple ecosystem. My friends in the Asahi Linux orbit will carry the torch from here.

Rosenzweig indicates her next project will be working on Intel's Xe-HPG graphics architecture. LWN covered her talk on Apple M1/M2 GPU drivers in October 2024.

extrox is re-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 distributions uses the Xfce desktop with the Compiz compositing window manager.

The Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) language is used by web browsers to style XML content to make it easily readable; XSLT is part of the HTML living standard that is maintained by the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG). Only a small fraction of web sites serve content that requires web browsers to support XSLT, in part because major browser implementations have neglected the technology over the past 25 years. Now, it seems, they would like to rid themselves of it entirely. A plan to disable XSLT in Blink (Chrome's rendering engine) and a pull request by a Google Chrome developer to remove mentions of the specification from the HTML standard have been met with opposition, but arguments in favor of XSLT have proven ineffective.

The GhostBSD project has released version 25.02 of the FreeBSD-based desktop operating system. This release brings GhostBSD up to date with FreeBSD 14.3, includes enhancements for the Software Station package management application, and introduces an "OS X-like" desktop environment based on GNUstep called Gershwin:

This early preview includes:

• GNUstep-based desktop environment with familiar OS X-style interface
• Seamless integration with GhostBSD tools through wrappers for installer, Software Station, Backup Station, and Update Station
• Support for running non-GNUstep applications alongside GNUstep apps
• Several included GNUstep applications to get you started

LWN covered GhostBSD in June 2024.