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Learn how to manage software on Ubuntu and other Linux distros using snap commands to install, remove, and update packages.

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Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a powerful virtualization technology built into Linux. It allows you to create and manage multiple virtual machines (VMs) on your Ubuntu 24.04 system. Follow this step-by-step guide to install KVM and get started with virtualization on your Linux server.

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Solus is a Linux distribution built from scratch. It uses a forked version of the PiSi package manager, maintained as "eopkg" within Solus, and a custom desktop environment called "Budgie", developed in-house. The Budgie desktop, which can be set to emulate the look and feel of the GNOME 2 desktop, is tightly integrated with the GNOME stack. The distribution is available for 64-bit computers only.

Clonezilla Live is a Debian-based live CD containing Clonezilla, a partition and disk cloning software similar to Norton Ghost. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. With Clonezilla, one can clone a 5 GB system to 40 clients in about 10 minutes.

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Distrobox 1.8 container wrapping layer brings massive updates, shell fixes, better NVIDIA support, and new container distros.

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To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 4 best Groovy static site generators.

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Based on a long-term supported Ubuntu release and featuring the latest KDE software and Plasma desktop environment, the KDE neon distribution uses a rolling release model where users do not have to download new ISO images or reinstall their systems.

However, every two years, the KDE neon devs rebase their distro on the latest Ubuntu LTS series. This week, KDE neon has been rebased on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat), which not only includes the latest security patches and software updates, but it also ships with a newer kernel for better hardware support.

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Bottles 51.14, a Windows compatibility layer for Linux, brings native force stop, Windows 11 support, and personal repos.

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Coming more than 1 year and four months after Inkscape 1.3, the Inkscape 1.4 release introduces a new Filter Gallery dialog to make it easier to find the best filter for your needs, new grid selector buttons to make it easier to identify the grid of your choice, and new modular grids to plan layouts and create icons.

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Version 1.4 of the Inkscape open-source vector-graphics editor has been released. Highlights of this release include a filter gallery, import for Affinity Designer files, internal links in exported PDFs, and more. See the release notes for all of the new features. LWN previewed the 1.4 release in early October.

It is too early to say what the outcome will be in the ongoing fight between Automattic and WP Engine, but the WordPress community at large is already the loser. Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg has been using his control of the project, and the WordPress.org infrastructure, to punish WP Engine and remove some dissenting contributors from discussion channels. Most recently, Mullenweg has instituted a hostile fork of a WP Engine plugin and the forked plugin is replacing the original via WordPress updates.

The Plasma-centered KDE neon has been rebased from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS. Here’s more on that!

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While Debian's "sauce" is not actually all that secret, it is not particularly well-known either, Samuel Henrique said at the start of his DebConf24 talk. There is a lot of software-engineering effort that has been put in place by the distribution in order to create and maintain its releases, but "loads of people are not aware" of it. That may be due to the fact that all of that is not really documented anywhere in a central location that he can just point someone to. Recognizing that is what led him to give the talk; hopefully it will be a "first step toward" helping solve the problem.

Security is paramount. Security involves defence in depth. Approaching security one step at a time, with consistency and rigour, you can mitigate threats, and keep intruders at bay.

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This week we got a lot of great news, starting with the KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment and continuing with the Ubuntu 24.10 distribution. Between them, we got a bunch of KDE software updates, a major release of the KDE neon distribution based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and new Tails and openSUSE Leap Micro releases.

On top of that, I warn you about the end of life of Linux kernel 6.10 and tell you all about the new features of Inkscape 1.4 and the upcoming OBS Studio 31 software. 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 13th, 2024.

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Security updates have been issued by Debian (docker.io, libreoffice, node-dompurify, python-reportlab, and thunderbird), Fedora (buildah, chromium, kernel, kernel-headers, libgsf, mosquitto, p7zip, podman, python-cramjam, python-virtualenv, redis, rust-async-compression, rust-brotli, rust-brotli-decompressor, rust-libcramjam, rust-libcramjam0.2, rust-nu-command, rust-nu-protocol, rust-redlib, rust-tower-http, thunderbird, and webkit2gtk4.0), Oracle (.NET 6.0, .NET 8.0, e2fsprogs, firefox, golang, openssl, python3-setuptools, systemd, and thunderbird), SUSE (chromium, firefox, java-jwt, libmozjs-128-0, libwireshark18, ntpd-rs, OpenIPMI, thunderbird, and wireshark), and Ubuntu (firefox, python2.7, python3.5, thunderbird, and ubuntu-advantage-desktop-daemon).

Cory Doctorow will be giving the closing keynote on the first day of the free online-only The Tech We Want Online Summit.

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Highlights of KDE Frameworks 6.7 include support for adding templates to the “Create New…” menu of the Plasma desktop and Dolphin file manager by placing files in the ~/Templates directory, a redesigned “sleep and screen locking are inhibited” icon, and support for showing elided text labels in a tooltip on hover throughout System Settings’ grid views.

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