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An organization that among other things provides hosting for over 500 free and open source projects from all over the world suddenly finds itself needing a helping hand.

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has posted a somewhat belated memorial for John Young, the founder of Cryptome.

John was one of the early, under-recognized heroes of the digital age. He not only saw the promise of digital technology to help democratize access to information, he brought that idea into being and nurtured it for many years. We will miss him and his unswerving commitment to the public's right to know.

To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 1.0 release of the Rust language, version 1.87.0 was announced live today at the 10 Years of Rust celebration in Utrecht, Netherlands. Notable changes include the addition of anonymous pipes to the standard library and the ability for inline assembly (asm!) to jump to labeled blocks within Rust code.

Leon Romanovsky began his session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF) by explaining that the improved DMA-mapping API that he has been working on is a group effort. He, Chaitanya Kulkarni, Christoph Hellwig, Jason Gunthorpe, and others are proposing to modernize the API and to "make it more suitable for current kernels". He told the assembled storage and filesystem developers that the progress on the proposal has stalled, but that it was the basis for further work in various areas, so he hoped to find a way to move forward with it.

The Tor project has announced the oniux utility which provides Tor network isolation, using Linux namespaces, for third-party applications.

Namespaces are a powerful feature that gives us the ability to isolate Tor network access of an arbitrary application. We put each application in a network namespace that doesn't provide access to system-wide network interfaces (such as eth0), and instead provides a custom network interface onion0.

This allows us to isolate an arbitrary application over Tor in the most secure way possible software-wise, namely by relying on a security primitive offered by the operating system kernel. Unlike SOCKS, the application cannot accidentally leak data by failing to make some connection via the configured SOCKS, which may happen due to a mistake by the developer.

The Tor project cautions that oniux is considered experimental as the software it depends on, such as Arti and onionmasq, are still new.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (open-vm-tools), Fedora (dnsdist), Gentoo (Node.js and Tracker miners), Red Hat (kernel and xdg-utils), SUSE (audiofile, go1.22-openssl, go1.24, grub2, kernel-devel, openssl-1_1, openssl-3, and python311-Django), and Ubuntu (ruby-rack).

In this post, I’ll share how Tmux saved my work when SSH kept dropping and why you should use it for unstable SSH connections in Linux.

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This shortcut allows you to recall and reuse the last argument from the previous command without having to retype it. Especially when dealing with lengthy file paths or complex commands, !$ can save time and reduce the chance of errors. In this guide, we’ll explore how it works, look at examples, and compare it with related tools like $_ and the Alt + . keyboard shortcut.

If you’re just starting to explore shell scripting, it might be useful to first read this beginner-friendly guide to echo in shell scripting.

The post Bash !$ Trick: Insert the Last Argument of the Previous Command appeared first on Linux Today.

XPipe is desktop software which lets you create and manage connections to remote and local systems from a central interface. If you want to work with servers and need things like one click connect to ssh, folder management, and editing files on the server, take a look at XPipe.

The post XPipe is an awesome shell connection hub and remote file manager appeared first on Linux Today.

The PeerTube mobile app has reached version 1, allowing users to easily edit playlists, comment on videos, and switch between accounts.

The post PeerTube Mobile App v1 Is Out appeared first on Linux Today.

Discover Lazy Docker, a minimalist CLI tool ideal for Docker users interested in simplified container management, live monitoring, and easy installation on Linux.

The post Lazy Docker: A User-Friendly CLI Tool for Docker Management appeared first on Linux Today.

Cheap Linux VPS hosting is an all-too-common and alluring trap. It is so common precisely because it is so attractive and effective. The promise of hosting your website or email for a handful of dollars per month is fantastic on paper. This is even more enticing when such offers are made by big-name brands trusted by millions who came before you. They surely wouldn’t burn millions of loyal customers that came before you for a few hundred of your bucks. Cheap or affordable is typically a good thing for a consumer. You get the same product or service for less money. Fantastic! Right?

Any server almost always functions under the same principle as any other server. It’s a machine with a CPU, RAM, and storage. You upload your website files to it, and you’re good to go. Unfortunately, the sad reality of cheap hosting is riddled with costly traps and misleading information for the uninformed. It would be great if the product or service you received were the same, but they’re not. Not by a long shot. It would be like comparing a typical functioning house to a tent. Both will keep the rain off your head, but there’s a world of difference in utility and value. Worst still, that’s not a bug. It’s a highly engineered feature! In fact, much of the industry is built around these very dodgy pricing models.

The post Cheap Linux VPS Hosting Is A Trap: What You Need To Look For appeared first on Linux Today.

A decoy filesystem is a virtual system masquerading as a real filesystem that looks like the real thing but is actually fake. Its purpose is to deceive intruders, observe attack behavior, or induce attackers to reveal their identity.

You can think of it as a “digital trap”. It can lure malicious actors into opening it.

The post How to Create Decoy File System in Linux Using FUSE appeared first on Linux Today.

Discover an amazing GUI-based music player named Moosync to play your local, YouTube, Spotify (Ad-Free), or LastFM songs on Linux.

The post Moosync: An Electron-based GUI Music Player for Linux appeared first on Linux Today.

Join Collabora in Stuttgart, Germany for XR EXPO 2025! This two-day event will be the meeting place for the XR community to exchange ideas and explore the latest trends.

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Encountering SSL certificate issues with ‘core.db’, ‘extra.db’, and ‘community.db’ mirror lists in your Arch or Manjaro-based distribution? Learn how to fix this problem with step-by-step solutions.

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Grml is a bootable CD (live CD) based on Debian GNU/Linux. It includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for users of text tools and system administrators. It also provides automatic hardware detection. Grml can be used as a rescue system, for analysing systems and networks, or as a working environment. Due to on-the-fly decompression, Grml includes about 2 GB of software and documentation on the CD.

Libreboot 25.04 “Corny Calamity” open-source boot firmware debuts with a new YY.MM versioning scheme, broad distro support, and more.

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We sat down with Carl Richell, CEO of System76, for an in-depth conversation about the company’s mission, the future of Pop!_OS, and the development of their new Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment. From open-source hardware to the philosophy behind building a Linux-focused ecosystem—this is one interview you won’t want to miss.

The post Interview with Carl Richell, Founder of System76, about COSMIC Desktop, Pop!_OS, & more appeared first on Linux Today.

Fastfetch 2.42 system information tool adds BIOS name normalization on OpenBSD, plus CPU and Wi-Fi improvements across BSD systems.

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