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Linus has released 6.15-rc5 for testing. "So it all feels like things are just continuing to go well this release. Let's hope I didn't jinx it by saying so."

PikaOS Linux is a Linux distribution based on Debian's cutting-edge "Unstable" branch, optimised for gaming. It is designed to provide out-of-the-box gaming experience, excellent performance with up-to-date drivers and custom-tweaked Linux kernel, and a choice of GNOME or KDE Plasma desktops, with separate images that use the Hyprland Wayland compositor.

Version:6.15-rc5 (mainline) Released:2025-05-04 Source:linux-6.15-rc5.tar.gz Patch:full (incremental)

Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8 debuts in Oracle Linux (9.5) with advanced memory management, improved I/O, better networking, and more.

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DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs and server systems, with the option to install desktop environments, too. It ships as minimal image but allows to install complete and ready-to-use software stacks with a set of console based shell dialogs and scripts.

The source code is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi
The main website can be found at: https://dietpi.com/
Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DietPi

The project released the new version DietPi v9.12 on April 18th, 2025.

The highlights of this version are:
fish: New software package, an alternative shell
DietPi-Backup: Support for SSHFS added
Amiberry: Updated to Amiberry v7
WiringPi: Added support for Orange Pi boards
Spotifyd: Added support for ARMv8 and x86_64 Bookworm/Trixie systems
Pi-hole: Additionally listen on TCP port 8489 for HTTPS requests
RPi.GPIO: Moved to the usage of python3-rpi-lgpio
Fixes for O!MPD, FreshRSS, DietPi-Config
The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v9_12/

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A new Steam client update improves game syncing and overlay scaling and fixes UI glitches that affect notes and screenshots.

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Brighten up your login with doge. It’s candy personified and a perfect fit for our Linux Candy series.

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At the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF) Kanchan Joshi and Keith Busch led a combined storage and filesystem session on data placement, which concerns how the data on a storage device is actually written. In a discussion that hearkened back to previous summits, the idea is to give hints to enterprise-class SSDs to help them make better choices on where the data should go; hinting was most recently discussed at the summit in 2023. If SSDs can group data with similar lifetimes together, it can lead to longer life for the devices, but there is a need to work out the details.

By connecting powerful language models like GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet 3.5 to real-world tools, the open-source tool SWE-agent allows them to autonomously perform complex tasks: from fixing bugs in live GitHub repositories and solving cybersecurity challenges, to browsing the web or executing custom workflows.

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OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 is here featuring Linux kernel 6.14, KDE Plasma 6, GNOME 48, LXQt 2.2, and a brand new Server Edition.

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The term service mesh has been widely used over the last several years to refer to technology that helps to manage communications across microservices and applications. In the cloud-native world, arguably the first implementation of a service mesh came from Buoyant with the open-source Linkerd technology in 2015. Over the last 10 years, Linkerd has grown as a core project within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Today the project is out with Linkerd 2.18, continuing the technology’s decade-long evolution with improvements focused on operational simplicity and real-world production scenarios.

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Chimera Linux’s updated ISO images come with Limine bootloader adoption, new arch support, and updated kernel and desktop environments.

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Wine 10.6 brings a new lexer for the Command Processor, PBKDF2 in Bcrypt, enhanced image metadata support, and fixes for 27 bugs.

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poddl is a cross platform command line podcast downloader for batch downloading all, individual, or a range of podcast episodes from an RSS feed.

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Catch up on the latest Linux news: Ubuntu 25.04, Fedora 42, Manjaro 25, LXQt 2.2, VirtualBox 7.1.8, TrueNAS 25.04, and more.

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Discover an amazing GTK3-based Markdown editor named Marker, which is completely free and open-source and provides advanced features without compromise.

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Hawk Eye is an open-source tool that helps find sensitive data before it leaks. It runs from the command line and checks many types of storage for PII and secrets: passwords, API keys, and personal information.

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This week we got lots of cool news, starting with major releases of Fedora Linux, Ubuntu, and Manjaro distributions, as well as of the KDE Gear software suite and LXQt desktop environment, and continuing with maintenance releases of PipeWire, PeaZip, MX Linux, VirtualBox, Nitrux, and GNOME.

On top of that, the Linux 6.13 kernel series reached end of life and Collabora’s PanVK Vulkan graphics driver reached Vulkan 1.1 compliance. 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 April 20th, 2025.

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Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, nodejs, openjdk-17, and thunderbird), Fedora (firefox, golang-github-nvidia-container-toolkit, and thunderbird), Mageia (kernel), Oracle (ghostscript, glibc, kernel, libxslt, php:8.1, and thunderbird), SUSE (cmctl, firefox-esr, govulncheck-vulndb, java-21-openjdk, libxml2, poppler, python-h11, and redis), and Ubuntu (docker.io, ghostscript, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, and micropython).