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openKylin is a Chinese desktop distribution which runs the Kylin and UKUI desktop environments. Both Wayland and X11 sessions are available out of the box. The project is a member of the Debian family and can use APT package management tools. It also features a custom package format which is combined with a custom, modern software centre. openKylin is also a proving ground for custom utilities which assist the user in managing the operating system.

The PyCon team has announced that all PyCon US 2025 recordings are now available on its YouTube channel.

We had an amazing and diverse group of community members join us for PyCon US 2025, attending from 58 different countries! By the numbers, we welcomed a total attendance of 2,225 Pythonistas to the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. We couldn't be more grateful for all who supported the Python ecosystem and helped make PyCon US 2025 a huge success.

See the LWN conference index for coverage of some of the talks from PyCon US 2025.

In July 2024, Let's Encrypt, the nonprofit TLS certificate authority (CA), announced that it would be ending support for the online certificate status protocol (OCSP), which is used to determine when a server's signing certificate has been revoked. This prevents a compromised key from being used to impersonate a web server. The organization cited privacy concerns, and recommended that people rely on certificate revocation lists (CRLs) instead. On August 6, Let's Encrypt followed through and disabled its OCSP service. This poses a problem for Linux systems that must now rely on CRLs because, unlike on other operating systems, there is no standardized way for Linux programs to share a CRL cache.

MakuluLinux is a rolling-release, desktop distribution based either on Ubuntu's LTS (long-term support) release or Debian's "Testing" branch. It includes pre-installed multimedia codecs, device drivers and software for everyday use. MakuluLinux comes in four editions: "LinDoz" - featuring the Cinnamon desktop with the user interface customised to resemble that of Microsoft Windows, "Core" - presenting a highly customised Xfce desktop environment, "Flash" - providing a standard Xfce desktop, and finally "Shift" - delivering a pre-configured GNOME desktop environment.

Dubbed “The Seven Sisters”, SparkyLinux 8.0 is based on and fully compatible with Debian 13 “Trixie”, it’s powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series, and includes all packages updated from the stable Debian and SparkyLinux repositories as of August 13th, 2025.

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Arch Linux introduces Bumpbuddy, a new tool that automatically tracks upstream releases and flags outdated packages for maintainers.

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The Linux Foundation, in cooperation with a couple of other groups, has announced the publication on the intersection of businesses and commercial open-source software (deemed "COSS"). Everything, it seems, is great, and COSS companies make a lot of money for their investors.

Even more encouraging, COSS project communities continue along healthy growth paths after the company receives venture funding. In essence, highly valued COSS companies tend to cultivate more vibrant, diverse, and integral open source ecosystems, reinforcing the idea that business value and community value are tightly coupled in successful COSS models.

Version:next-20250825 (linux-next) Released:2025-08-25

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel and tomcat9), Debian (iperf3, mupdf, qemu, thunderbird, and unbound), Fedora (glab, kubernetes1.31, kubernetes1.32, kubernetes1.33, and toolbox), Oracle (kernel and tomcat9), Red Hat (firefox, kernel, kernel-rt, and squid), SUSE (abseil-cpp-devel, aide, flake-pilot, gdk-pixbuf, glibc, go-sendxmpp, ImageMagick, jetty-annotations, jupyter-bqplot-jupyterlab, libtiff-devel-32bit, pam, pdns-recursor, ruby3.4-rubygem-activerecord, rust-keylime, terragrunt, and thunderbird), and Ubuntu (linux-azure and linux-azure-fips).

Linus has released 6.17-rc3 (called "3.17-rc3" in the email, but the tag in the repository is correct) for testing. "Anyway, things seem fairly normal for this phase in the release cycle, nothing stands out. Please keep testing,"

Version:6.17-rc3 (mainline) Released:2025-08-24 Source:linux-6.17-rc3.tar.gz Patch:full (incremental)

CachyOS is a Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. It focuses on speed and security optimisations - the default Linux kernel is heavily optimised using the BORE (Burst-Oriented Response Enhancer) scheduler, while the desktop packages are compiled with LTO, x86-64-v3 and x86-64-v4, Zen 4 optimization, security flags and performance improvements. The available desktop environments and window managers include KDE, GNOME, Xfce, i3wm, Wayfire, LXQt, OpenBox, Cinnamon, COSMIC, UKUI, LXDE, MATE, Budgie, Qtile, Hyprland and Sway. CachyOS also ships with both graphical and command-line installers.

Kaisen Linux 3.0 lands with a Debian 13 “Trixie” base, but it’s also the last release, as the project officially shuts down.

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Kanri is a fast, open source Kanban app for Linux that keeps your projects on your desktop. Learn how to install it and start managing tasks locally in minutes.

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The 6.16.3 stable kernel update has been released. It contains a set of ext4 filesystem fixes that are probably a good thing for any 6.16 ext4 user to have.

Version:6.16.3 (stable) Released:2025-08-23 Source:linux-6.16.3.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.16.3.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.16.3

In this article I benchmark the Radxa ROCK 5T and compare it to a variety of single board computers (both ARM and RISC-V) as well as an Intel N100 Mini PC

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Highlights of the NVIDIA 580 graphics driver series include improved support for Wayland by introducing support for the fifo-v1 Wayland protocol on Vulkan and fixing a bug that could cause GTK 4 apps to crash when using the Vulkan backend on Wayland.

The post NVIDIA 580 Linux Graphics Driver Released, Promises Better Wayland Support appeared first on Linux Today.

SystemRescue is an Arch-based Linux system on a bootable CD-ROM or USB drive, designed for repairing a system and data after a crash. It also aims to provide an easy way to carry out administration tasks on a computer, such as creating and editing hard disk partitions. It contains many useful system utilities (GNU Parted, PartImage, FSTools) and some basic ones (editors, Midnight Commander, network tools). It aims to be very easy to use. The kernel of the system supports all of today's most important file systems, including ext2, ext3, ext4, ReiserFS, Reiser4FS, btrfs, XFS, JFS, VFAT, NTFS, ISO9660, as well as network file systems, such as Samba and NFS.

MagOS Linux is a Russian desktop-oriented distribution based on ROSA, a distribution that was forked from Mandriva Linux in 2011. It uses the RPM package management. MagOS Linux comes with KDE Plasma desktop by default, but it also ships the lightweight LXQt desktop for older and low-specification computers. Besides the standard upstream packages from ROSA, the project also provides its own RPM package repository (with various network and NVIDIA display drivers), as well as separate modules (in XZM format) with extra hardware drivers, server tools, MATE desktop, Wine emulator, Java software and additional web browsers, including Chromium and Yandex.