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Discover an amazing command-line utility named Bob Version Manager for NeoVim that allows you to manage multiple versions of NeoVim on your Linux system.

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Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.11 kernel series, PorteuX 1.7 introduces significant changes compared to version 1.6 released at the end of August 2024, including the GNOME 47.1 and KDE Plasma 6.2.1 desktop environments, and experimental build scripts for System76’s Rust-based COSMIC desktop, as well as the upcoming Xfce 4.20 desktop environment.

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Sasha Levin has announced a new tree that is intended to perform continuous-integration tests of pull requests aimed at the mainline. The plan is for this tree to hold more finished work than sometimes ends up in linux-next; in a name that seems destined to create typographical confusion, it is called "linus-next".

The linus-next tree aims to provide a more stable and testable integration point compared to linux-next, addressing the runtime issues that make testing linux-next challenging and focusing on code that's about to be pulled by Linus.

Calibre 7.20 ebook manager introduces automatic PDF header/footer detection, offering a smoother reading experience with enhanced document analysis.

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Version 1.1.0 of the bootc utility for performing transactional, in-place operating system updates using Open Container Initative (OCI) images, has been released. This release "officially stabilizes all APIs" for bootc and includes a number of bug fixes. LWN covered bootc in June.

Twenty years in the making, Ubuntu 24.10 has arrived, and it brings back the Ubuntu 4.10 startup sound. Here’s what else you can expect.

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Pulsar 1.122 cross-platform code editor brings C and PHP enhancements, launcher fixes, opt-in SQL state storage, and more.

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Sigstore is a project that is meant to simplify and improve the process of signing, verifying, and protecting software. It is a relatively new project, declared "generally available" in 2022. Python is an early adopter of sigstore; it started providing signatures for CPython artifacts with Python 3.11 in 2022. This is in addition to the OpenPGP signatures it has been providing since at least 2001. Now, Seth Michael Larson—the Python Software Foundation (PSF) security developer-in-residence—would like to deprecate the PGP signature and move to sigstore exclusively by next year. If that happens, it will involve some changes in the way that Linux distributions verify Python releases, since none of the major distributions have processes for working with sigstore.

On this day 20 years ago, Ubuntu released its 4.10 ‘Warty Warthog,’ forever changing the Linux ecosystem. Happy Anniversary, Ubuntu!

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Last week we got new major Solus and Clonezilla Live releases, a new VirtualBox update that brings support for the upcoming Linux 6.12 kernel series, as well as new Ardour, Calibre, and fwupd bugfix releases.

On top of that, KDE desktop fans received a new Plasma update that improves XWayland gaming, while Slackware-based PorteuX 1.7 distro arrived with many goodies. 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 October 20th, 2024.

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hullcaster is a terminal-based podcast manager which is a fork of shellcaster. It’s free and open source software.

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Security updates have been issued by Debian (asterisk, chromium, php-horde-mime-viewer, and php-horde-turba), Fedora (apache-commons-io, buildah, chromium, containers-common, libarchive, libdigidocpp, oath-toolkit, podman, rust-hyper-rustls, rust-reqwest, rust-rustls-native-certs, rust-rustls-native-certs0.7, rust-tonic, rust-tonic-build, rust-tonic-types, rust-tower, rust-tower-http, rust-tower-http0.5, rust-tower0.4, thunderbird, and unbound), SUSE (buildah, chromedriver, chromium, element-desktop, element-web, jetty-annotations, nodejs-electron, php7, php74, php8, podman, python3-virtualbox, qemu, thunderbird, and valkey), and Ubuntu (amd64-microcode).

The Guix project has disclosed a security vulnerability in the build daemon that the distribution uses to build and install software locally. The vulnerability allows an existing unprivileged user to get access to a setuid binary, and from there potentially interfere with any other software built or installed on the computer. The project recommends upgrading the guix daemon now, to avoid the issue.

This exploit requires the ability to start a derivation build and the ability to run arbitrary code with access to the store in the root PID namespace on the machine the build occurs on. As such, this represents an increased risk primarily to multi-user systems and systems using dedicated privilege-separation users for various daemons: without special sandboxing measures, any process of theirs can take advantage of this vulnerability.

In this blog post, we will discuss what ELF is, how it works, and why it’s so important for Linux users and developers.

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Why do so few companies offer coreboot on laptops? After a 15-month journey to port our own, we discovered firsthand the challenges—and it wasn’t what we expected.

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Without warning, WinAmp deleted its entire GitHub repository, effectively ending the whole story around open-sourcing the music player code.

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Version:next-20241021 (linux-next) Released:2024-10-21

Linus has released 6.12-rc4 for testing. "I'm not happy with how big this is - it's probably far from the biggest rc4 ever, but it _is_ the biggest rc4 we've had in the 6.x series at least in number of commits."

Version:6.12-rc4 (mainline) Released:2024-10-20 Source:linux-6.12-rc4.tar.gz Patch:full (incremental)

Netdata is a free open-source, simple, and scalable, real-time system performance and health monitoring application for Unix-like systems such as Linux, FreeBSD, and MacOS.

It gathers various metrics and visualizes them, allowing you to watch operations on your system. It supports various plugins for monitoring current system status, running applications, and services such as MySQL database server, plus lots more.  Here’s how to install and use Netdata to track MySQL metrics.

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