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The 6.18 merge window has come to an end, bringing with it a total of 11,974 non-merge commits, 3,499 of which came in after LWN's first-half summary. The total is a little higher than the 6.17 merge window, which saw 11,404 non-merge commits. There are once again a good number of changes and new features included in this release.

HackerOS is a live Linux distribution based on Debian's "Testing" branch and designed for regular users, gamers and cybersecurity enthusiasts. Some of its features include an optimised XanMod Linux kernel for faster boot times and reduced resource usage, out-of-the-box support for NVIDIA graphics cards, and a collection of cybersecurity tools, such as enhanced firewalls and intrusion detection software. The distribution uses the KDE Plasma desktop.

spirit OS is a lightweight remaster of Tiny Core Linux, designed for very old 32-bit computers without UEFI. It includes the IceWM window manager, full multimedia support (video and music with codecs), WiFi tools and the Dillo web browser. It is powered by glibc and a recent Linux kernel. The ISO image weighs less than 400 MB and includes fewer than 300 packages, including GPicView (a fast and simple image viewer), ROX-Filer (a minimal and responsive file manager), VLC (a media player), XMMS (a retro-style music player), and compression tools for handling various archive formats. Extra software can be installed using xpkg.

Version 1.12 of Julia has been released. Highlights of the release include new multi-threading features, new tracing flags and macros, and an experimental --trim feature. See the release notes for a full list of new features, changes, and improvements. LWN last covered Julia in January.

Calibre 8.11 open-source e-book management software is now available for download with an “Ask AI” tab to the dictionary lookup panel and other changes. Here’s what’s new!

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Version 144.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Changes this time include improvements to tab-group and profile management, stronger encryption for stored passwords, a "search image with Google Lens" operation, and "Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine built into the browser".

Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 is now rolling out to all supported devices with support for the Rabbit R1 device, a new Ubuntu Touch upgrader, and various improvements. Here’s what’s new!

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Raspberry Pi 500+ launches as a complete desktop computer based on Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC and featuring a mechanical keyboard with RGB LEDs and 256GB M.2 SSD storage.

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KaOS Linux 2025.09 independent distribution is now available for download with the latest KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment.

The post Independent Distro KaOS Linux 2025.09 Arrives with Linux 6.16, KDE Gear 25.08 appeared first on Linux Today.

Highlights of Linux 6.17 include support for ARM’s “Branch Record Buffer Extension” (BRBE), support for the AMD hardware feedback interface (HFI), Intel Wildcat Lake and Bartlett Lake-S support, initial support for the HEVC(H.265) and VP9 codecs in Qualcomm’s Iris decoder, which is supported by the Video 4 Linux (V4L2) driver.

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Fish shell 4.1 is now available with transient prompts, brace-based commands, smarter autosuggestions, and significant argparse upgrades.

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The latest Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn brings a polished new interface, streamlined workflows, and a host of usability upgrades—check out our screenshots of the refreshed user experience.

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Nosey Parker is an open-source command-line tool that helps find secrets and sensitive information hidden in text files. It works like a specialized version of grep, focused on spotting things like passwords, API keys, and other confidential data.

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Kitty 0.43 GPU-accelerated terminal emulator adds session management, cursor trail colors, blinking text, and improved macOS compatibility.

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Fedora Project seeks community input on a draft AI-assisted contributions policy designed to ensure responsible and ethical AI use.

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Version:next-20251014 (linux-next) Released:2025-10-14

The Free Software Foundation's Licensing and Compliance Lab concerns itself with many aspects of software licensing, Krzysztof Siewicz said at the beginning of his 2025 GNU Tools Cauldron session. These include supporting projects that are facing licensing challenges, collecting copyright assignments, and addressing GPL violations. In this session, though, there was really only one topic that the audience wanted to know about: the interaction between free-software licensing and large language models (LLMs).

Security updates have been issued by Debian (ghostscript and libfcgi), Fedora (qt5-qtsvg), Red Hat (kernel, perl-FCGI, perl-FCGI:0.78, and vim), SUSE (bluez, curl, podman, postgresql14, python-xmltodict, and udisks2), and Ubuntu (linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-azure-fips, linux-oracle, and subversion).

Zorin OS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution designed especially for newcomers to Linux. It has a Windows-like graphical user interface and many programs similar to those found in Windows. Zorin OS also comes with an application that lets users run many Windows programs. The distribution's ultimate goal is to provide a Linux alternative to Windows and let Windows users enjoy all the features of Linux without complications.

CentOS as a group is a community of open source contributors and users which started in 2003 and has been sponsored by Red Hat since 2014. CentOS Linux versions up to CentOS Linux 8 are 100% compatible rebuilds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in full compliance with Red Hat's redistribution requirements. In 2020 it was announced CentOS Linux is being discontinued and replaced with CentOS Stream, a developer-focused distribution which acts as a middle-stream between Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.