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OPNsense 25.1 open-source firewall and routing platform rolls out powered by FreeBSD 14.2, with a revamped UI, ZFS snapshot support, and more.

The post OPNsense Celebrates 10 Years with the 25.1 “Ultimate Unicorn” Release appeared first on Linux Today.

GCompris 25.0 introduces five new activities including “Sketch”, an activity for drawing freely with multiple tools to let children explore their creativity, and “Calculate with ten’s complement”, the continuation of the existing ten’s complement activities to help the children to swap the numbers to easily compute a sum.

The post GCompris 25.0 Open-Source Educational Suite Released with Five New Activities appeared first on Linux Today.

Krita 5.2.9 free and open-source digital painting app brings major bug fixes, improved EXR handling, and enhanced stability for digital artists.

The post Krita 5.2.9 Brings Stability with Key Crash and Performance Fixes appeared first on Linux Today.

openSUSE’s Agama Installer v11 now supports Slowroll and introduces enhanced installation features for SLES 16 Beta and Leap 16 Alpha.

The post openSUSE’s New Agama Installer Now Supports Slowroll appeared first on Linux Today.

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TrueNAS CORE (previously known as FreeNAS) is a free and Open Source Network-Attached Storage (NAS) operating system that supports file, block and object storage. TrueNAS CORE is FreeBSD based and is a community-supported branch of the TrueNAS project, sponsored by iXsystems. It also has a commercial branch called TrueNAS Enterprise and a free and HyperConverged storage solution called TrueNAS SCALE. The TrueNAS SCALE branch is based on the Debian Linux distribution.

While the path toward the ability to write device drivers in Rust has been anything but smooth, steady progress has been made and that goal is close to being achieved — for some types of drivers at least. Device drivers need to be able to set up memory areas for direct memory access (DMA) transfers, though; that means Rust drivers will need a set of abstractions to interface with the kernel's DMA-mapping subsystem. Those abstractions have run into resistance that has the potential to block progress on the Rust-for-Linux project as a whole.

Visitors to the freedesktop.org GitLab instance are currently being greeted with a message noting that the company who has been hosting it for free for nearly five years, Equinix, has asked that it be moved (or start being paid for) by the end of April. The issue ticket opened by Benjamin Tissoires in order to track the planning of a move is clear that the project is grateful for the gift: "First, I'd like to thank Equinix Metal for the years of support they gave us. They were very kind and generous with us and even if it's a shame we have to move out on a short notice, all things come to an end."

The current cost for the services, much of which is for 50TB of bandwidth data transfer per month and a half-dozen beefy servers for running continuous-integration (CI) jobs, comes to around $24,000 per month. Tissoires believes that the project should start paying for service somewhere, in order to avoid upheaval of this sort, sometimes on short or no notice. "I personally think we better have fd.o pay for its own servers, and then have sponsors chip in. This way, when a sponsor goes away, it's technically much simpler to just replace the money than change datacenter." Various options are being discussed there, but any move is likely to disrupt normal services for a week or more.

Version 2.41 of the GNU C Library has been released. Changes include a number of test-suite improvements, strict-error support in the DNS stub resolver, wrappers for the the sched_setattr() and sched_getattr() system calls, Unicode 16.0.0 support, improved C23 support, support for extensible restartable sequences, Guarded Control Stack support on 64-bit Arm systems, and more.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (redis:7), Debian (bind9, chromium, flightgear, pam-u2f, and simgear), Red Hat (fence-agents, git-lfs, libsoup, python3.9, rsync, and traceroute), Slackware (bind), SUSE (apache2-mod_security2, corepack22, go1.24, hplip, ignition, iperf, kernel, kernel-devel-longterm, nginx, nodejs22, openvpn, owasp-modsecurity-crs, and shadow), and Ubuntu (bind9, jinja2, libxml2, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8, php7.0, tomcat6, and vlc).

The Thunderbird project has announced that it is making its Release channel the default download beginning with the 135.0 release in March. This will move users to major monthly releases instead of the annual major Extended Support Release (ESR) that is the current default.

One of our goals for 2025 is to increase active installations on the release channel to at least 20% of the total installations. At last check, we had 29,543 active installations on the release channel, compared to 20,918 on beta, and 5,941 on daily. The release channel installations currently account for 0.27% of the 10,784,551 total active installations tracked on stats.thunderbird.net.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Go vendoring in Fedora; Rust 2024 edition; 6.14 Merge window; uretprobe(); FOSDEM keynote; Earthstar.
• Briefs: Git security; Ubuntu discussion; LWN EPUBs; Facebook moderation; Quotes; ...
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Version:next-20250130 (linux-next) Released:2025-01-30

Simplify systemd service management with isd, a user-friendly keyboard-focused TUI offering fuzzy search, auto-refresh previews, and full customization.

The post ISD Is a New Tool Offering a User-Friendly Approach to Systemd Management appeared first on Linux Today.

The guide provides a step-by-step walkthrough to install and configure SQL Server 2022 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.x or 9.x. It covers the prerequisites, installation steps, and configuration details for running SQL Server, including enabling SELinux for confined applications on RHEL 9. Additionally, it explains how to install SQL Server command-line tools like sqlcmd and bcp for managing databases.

The post How to Set Up SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux appeared first on Linux Today.

Synchronizing files between Linux and Windows can seem challenging, especially if you’re not familiar with the tools available. However, with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), this process becomes much simpler.

WSL allows you to run a Linux environment directly on Windows, enabling you to use powerful Linux tools like Rsync to sync files between the two operating systems.

In this article, we’ll walk you through the entire process of using Rsync to sync files between Linux and Windows using WSL. We’ll cover everything from setting up WSL to writing scripts for automated syncing.

The post How to Use Rsync to Sync Files Between Linux and Windows Using (WSL) appeared first on Linux Today.

This roundup focuses on software that mimics a hardware KVM switch. Use a single keyboard and mouse to control multiple computers by moving your mouse to the edge of the screen, or by using a keypress to switch focus to a different system.

The post 6 Best Free and Open Source Software KVM Switches appeared first on Linux Today.

OPNsense is a FreeBSD-based specialist operating system (and a fork of pfSense) designed for firewalls and routers. It is developed by Deciso B.V. in the Netherlands. Some of the features of OPNsense include forward caching proxy, traffic shaping, intrusion detection, two-factor authentication and easy OpenVPN client setup. The project's focus on security brings a number of unique features, such as the option to use LibreSSL instead of OpenSSL (selectable in the GUI). OPNsense also includes an update mechanism that delivers important security updates in a timely fashion.

Are you searching for a new desktop environment for your Linux OS? Perhaps you’d like to give Orbitiny Desktop a try!

The post Orbitiny Desktop: A Portable, Modular, and Feature-Rich Linux Desktop Environment appeared first on Linux Today.

Version 6.9 of the Incus container and virtual-machine management system has been released. Changes include a command to provide virtual machine memory dumps, ability to set network ACLs for instances on bridged networks, and more.