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The EU’s EuroSearch vision might pave the way for a new search paradigm that will benefit local and regional communities throughout the world.

The post Europe’s Search for a More Localized and Relevant Search Experience appeared first on Linux Today.

This tutorial explains how Flatpak consumes disk space and the effective commands and techniques to remove unused flatpak apps to reclaim that space.

The post How To Remove Unused Flatpak Apps To Free Up Disk Space In Linux appeared first on Linux Today.

Immich is an open-source, self-hosted solution designed to help you back up and manage your photos and videos with ease. Offering features like automatic mobile uploads, facial recognition, and a sleek, user-friendly interface.

Immich serves as a powerful alternative to proprietary cloud services like Google Photos. By using Immich, you can keep your media private, fully under your control, and free from the constraints of centralized cloud storage providers.

It’s the ideal solution for anyone seeking a more secure and customizable way to manage their digital memories.

The post Immich: Your Private, Self-Hosted Alternative to Google Photos appeared first on Linux Today.

Vuls is an open-source tool that helps users find and manage security vulnerabilities. It was created to solve the daily problems admins face when trying to keep servers secure.

It automatically checks for vulnerabilities linked to your system and tells you which servers are at risk. It runs regular scans and creates reports using CRON or other scheduling tools. This way, admins can manage vulnerabilities without having to monitor everything by hand.

The post Vuls: Open-source agentless vulnerability scanner appeared first on Linux Today.

Version:next-20250514 (linux-next) Released:2025-05-14

Nobara Project is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it. The distribution comes with certain features that do not ship with the regular Fedora, such as WINE dependencies, OBS Studio, 3rd party codec packages for GStreamer, NVIDIA drivers, and some package fixes. Nobara aims to fix most of those issues and offer a better gaming, streaming and content creation experience out of the box. The project's official release comes with a custom-themed GNOME desktop, but it also offers separate editions with standard GNOME and KDE desktops.

BPF arenas are areas of memory where the verifier can safely relax its checking of pointers, allowing programmers to write arbitrary data structures in BPF. Emil Tsalapatis reported on how his team has used arenas in writing sched_ext schedulers at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit. His biggest complaint was about the fact that kernel pointers can't be stored in BPF arenas — something that the BPF developers hope to address, although there are some implementation problems that must be sorted out first.

Nextcloud provides an open-source collaboration platform called Nextcloud Hub, which includes file-sharing and syncing features. The company has written a blog post explaining that Google has revoked a critical permission from the Nextcloud Files app for Android that allows it to sync files to Nextcloud Hub.

Google is stating security concerns as a reason for revoking the permission. This is hard to believe for us. Nextcloud has had this feature since its inception in 2016, and we have never heard about any security concerns from Google about it. Moreover, several Big Tech apps as well as Google's own still have this. What we think: Google owning the platform means they can and are giving themselves preferential treatment.

Despite multiple appeals since mid-2024, Google has refused to reinstate the permission, blocking automated Nextcloud file uploads for millions of users.

The Nextcloud app available via F-Droid does not have this limitation, but the post notes that that is not an option for many users.

This detailed tutorial explains how to display real-time undo and redo timestamps directly in your Vim status bar using vim-airline plugin.

The post How To Display Undo And Redo Timestamps In Vim Status Bar Using vim-airline appeared first on Linux Today.

Kdenlive 25.04 open-source video editing software is out with object segmentation, enhanced audio waveforms, OpenTimelineIO support, and more.

The post Kdenlive 25.04 Video Editor Lands with Local Object Segmentation appeared first on Linux Today.

Microsoft Forms is a web-based application that lets you design and analyse online forms, surveys, quizzes, and polls.

Forms is proprietary software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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When I’m not reading self-help books like Atomic Habits, I enjoy testing different software on my Ubuntu system. As someone who likes to explore creative tools and open-source projects, CAD software has become an exciting area of experimentation.

The post 3 Open-Source CAD Software You Can Try on Ubuntu appeared first on Linux Today.

The echo command is one of the most commonly used commands in Unix-like operating systems. It serves the purpose of printing text to the standard output (stdout), and it’s an essential building block in many shell scripts. Whether you’re debugging a script or displaying information to users, echo is the go-to command.

In addition to displaying messages or variable values, echo can also be used in combination with redirection operators to write content into files or to pipe output to other commands. Understanding how echo works and the various options it provides will help you craft more robust and readable scripts. For more advanced redirection techniques, including sending standard output and error to multiple files, check out this guide.

The post How to Use the echo Command in Shell Scripting appeared first on Linux Today.

Mozilla Thunderbird 138 open-source email client brings customizable new mail alerts, dark mode refinements, folder management fixes, and more.

The post Mozilla Thunderbird 138 Released, Here’s What’s New appeared first on Linux Today.

This blog post concerns the HTTP 402 Error, a relatively new status code for Payment Required Error in the browser. The HTTP 402 Payment required status code is not as widely used as other HTTP 4xx codes. It is a rare status code under development that most browsers do not use. However, if you see this status code, you should know there is some payment issue. In the following paragraphs, we’ll explain the 402 Error Payment required error, what causes it, and how to fix it. Let’s get started!

The post 402 Error: Payment Required – What is it and how to fix it? appeared first on Linux Today.

This tutorial explains why Flatpak apps use so much disk space and are larger in size compared to traditional packages in Linux.

The post Here’s Why Flatpak Apps Use So Much Disk Space On Linux appeared first on Linux Today.

Redis leadership asserts that the AGPLv3 license strikes the right balance between protecting the company’s business interests and supporting the open-source community. We’ll see if developers and customers agree.

The post Redis returns to open source with AGPLv3 license but not everyone is happy appeared first on Linux Today.

ricksay builds on the work from ponysay. It provides funny quotes from Rick and Morty Adventures for your console.

The post Linux Candy: ricksay – Rick and Morty quotes of the day appeared first on Linux Today.

Version:next-20250513 (linux-next) Released:2025-05-13

Security updates have been issued by Debian (libeconf and rubygems), Fedora (libxmp), Gentoo (glibc), Oracle (java-1.8.0-openjdk, kernel, libxslt, and virtuoso-opensource), SUSE (augeas, git-lfs, kanidm, and tomcat10), and Ubuntu (linux-lts-xenial).