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This article provides our pick of the best open source command line file transfer programs. The software featured here supports a number of different protocols, not just FTP. They offer shell-like command syntax, and are great for scripting purposes.

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The Kali Linux distribution has announced that software updates will soon start failing for all users:

This is not only you, this is for everyone, and this is entirely our fault. We lost access to the signing key of the repository, so we had to create a new one. At the same time, we froze the repository (you might have noticed that there was no update since Friday 18th), so nobody was impacted yet. But we're going to unfreeze the repository this week, and it's now signed with the new key.

The announcement includes instructions for how to recover from the problem.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (glibc, php:8.1, and thunderbird), Debian (libreoffice), Fedora (caddy), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable), Red Hat (php:8.1), SUSE (glow), and Ubuntu (kicad, linux-aws-5.15, linux-azure-nvidia, linux-gcp-5.15, mistral, python-mistral-lib, tomcat8, and trafficserver).

The NVIDIA 575 graphics driver series promises support for NVIDIA Smooth Motion, support for GLX front buffer rendering on Xwayland, support for the __NV_DISABLE_EXPLICIT_SYNC environment variable to also apply to GLX and Vulkan apps, and a new conceal_vrr_caps kernel module parameter to the nvidia-modeset kernel module.

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LXQt 2.2.0 desktop environment introduces enhanced Wayland support, power profile switching, PCManFM-Qt improvements, and better terminal handling.

The post LXQt 2.2 Released with Enhanced Wayland Support appeared first on Linux Today.

Arch-based CachyOS’s April 2025 update fixes kernel issues, adds OCCT for stress testing, and improves handheld support.

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This brief tutorial explains how to perform bulk text replacement in Bash using grep, sed, and xargs commands in Linux.

The post Bulk Text Replacement in Bash: Easy Step-by-Step Guide appeared first on Linux Today.

There are now several public proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for a maximum-severity vulnerability in the Erlang/OTP SSH server (CVE-2025-32433). “All users running an SSH server based on the Erlang/OTP SSH library are likely to be affected by this vulnerability. If your application uses Erlang/OTP SSH to provide remote access, assume you are affected,” Ruhr University Bochum researchers, who discovered and reported the flaw, said.

The post Working PoC exploit for critical Erlang/OTP SSH bug is public appeared first on Linux Today.

Starting August 15, 2025, Steam will no longer work on Linux systems using glibc older than version 2.31.

The post Steam Will Stop Working on Outdated Linux Systems This August appeared first on Linux Today.

Version:next-20250429 (linux-next) Released:2025-04-29

Version 3.25.0 of the Valgrind dynamic-analysis tool has been released. It has lots of new features, including initial support for RISC-V on Linux, handling zstd-compressed debug sections, integration of the Linux Test Project test suite, support for lots more Linux system calls, and more. It also has plenty of bug fixes, of course.

4MLinux is a miniature Linux distribution focusing on four capabilities: maintenance (as a system rescue live CD), multimedia (for playing video DVDs and other multimedia files), miniserver (using the inetd daemon), and mystery (providing several small Linux games). The distribution includes support for booting on UEFI-enabled machines.

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has quietly published "takeaways" from its internal retrospective on the recent board of directors election as an update to the March blog post that announced the new members of the board. The election was controversial, in part, due to poor communication and OSI changing the election rules and disqualifying several candidates after the election finished. LWN covered the election and results in March. The update commits to improvements in communication and candidate selection:

What this election exposed was the need for the organization to also assess whether candidates were fully eligible to run and prepared to be seated on the board before voting begins. This is something we will add to the election timeline next year. While we have not finished figuring out all of the requirements for that assessment, part of it will be asking candidates to sign a Candidate Agreement at nomination time. We also have some ideas on ways for potential candidates to have more information even before submitting a nomination.

In a related note, there is a petition asking OSI to publish the "complete, unaltered" results of the board of directors election. Thanks to Josh Triplett for the tip on the petition.

Martin Lau gave a talk in the BPF track of the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit about a performance problem plaguing the networking subsystem, and some potential ways to fix it. He works on BPF programs that need to store socket-local data; amid other improvements to the networking and BPF subsystems, retrieving that data has become a noticeable bottleneck for his use case. His proposed fix prompted a good deal of discussion about how the data should be laid out.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (thunderbird), Debian (distro-info-data, imagemagick, kernel, libsoup2.4, and poppler), Fedora (chromium, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-1.8.0-openjdk-portable, java-17-openjdk, java-17-openjdk-portable, java-latest-openjdk, pgadmin4, thunderbird, and xz), Mageia (haproxy and libxml2), Oracle (bluez, firefox, gnutls, libtasn1, libxslt, mod_auth_openidc:2.3, ruby:3.1, thunderbird, and xmlrpc-c), Red Hat (delve and golang, glibc, mod_auth_openidc, mod_auth_openidc:2.3, and thunderbird), SUSE (augeas, chromedriver, cifs-utils, govulncheck-vulndb, java-11-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, kyverno, libraw, opentofu, runc, subfinder, and valkey), and Ubuntu (jupyter-notebook and libxml2).

LXQt 2.2 is here to further improve the Wayland session introduced in the LXQt 2.1 release with the ability to set the default compositor and the screen locker by distribution or system-wide, improved support for multi-monitor setups, and support for the latest stable versions of the supported Wayland compositors.

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When you see the message “device or resource busy”, it means that the file or directory is currently being used. Linux prevents you from deleting files that are in use to avoid breaking things or causing data loss.

Here are some common reasons why this happens:

You are trying to delete a directory that your terminal is currently inside.
A program or process is using the file or directory.
A device (like a USB drive or network mount) is still mounted and in use.
In this article, we’ll explain why this happens and how you can fix it.

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What good is having software freedom if the hardware makers are holding you hostage? Marco Fioretti explains… with solutions.

The post Besides Free Software, Europe needs Open Silicon Now! appeared first on Linux Today.

Debian-based Deepin 23.1 is out now with Linux kernels 6.6/6.12, smarter updates, improved hardware support, AI upgrades, and over 100 bug fixes.

The post Deepin 23.1 Launches with Smarter AI, Enhanced Hardware Support appeared first on Linux Today.

Learn how to use the sysctl command in Linux to manage and adjust network, I/O operations, and memory management settings in real-time.

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