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Learn how to install Docker Desktop on Linux Mint 22. Follow our step-by-step guide to set up and run containers effortlessly on your Mint system.

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GNOME PowerTracker is a useful tool designed for users of GNOME-based systems, particularly those running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. This extension allows users to monitor power consumption and battery usage in real time, providing a visual representation of how different applications and settings impact energy demands.

The GNOME PowerTracker extension is lightweight and does not require any additional dependencies, making it easy to install and use. It displays active power consumption in watts directly in the top panel of the GNOME desktop environment.

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Valve and Arch Linux join forces, speeding up key projects with a build service and secure signing enclave. Here’s more on that!

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One concern that has often been expressed about the Rust language is that there is only one compiler for it. That makes it hard to say what the standard version of the language is and restricts the architectures that can be targeted by Rust code to those that the available compiler supports. Adding a Rust frontend to GCC would do much to address those concerns; at the 2024 GNU Tools Cauldron, Pierre-Emmanuel Patry gave an update on the state of that work and what its objectives are.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (debian-security-support, nghttp2, and sqlite3), Oracle (cups-filters, kernel, and osbuild-composer), SUSE (openssl-3), and Ubuntu (bubblewrap, flatpak and python2.7, python3.5).

Arch Linux has announced a new partnership with Valve, the company behind the Steam gaming platform and Steam Deck.

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Here’s the problem: You spin up a Terraform resource, pull a basic configuration from the registry, and start wondering what other parameters should be enabled to make it more secure and efficient. Sure, you could use tools like TLint or TFSec, but kuzco saves you time by avoiding the need to dig through the Terraform registry and decipher unclear options. It leverages local LLMs to recommend what should be enabled and configured. Simply put, kuzco reviews your Terraform resources, compares them to the provider schema to detect unused parameters, and uses AI to suggest improvements for a more secure, reliable, and optimized setup.

The post An Extremely Practical Use for AI and Terraform appeared first on Linux Today.

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Mabox is a Manjaro-based rolling release distribution. Mabox Linux features the Openbox window manager as its default interface and provides a welcome screen with access to utilities which add additional software to the operating system.

After a five-year hiatus, the RTorrent command-line BitTorrent client is back with v0.10, bringing performance upgrades and bug fixes.

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GParted Live’s latest release removes cpufrequtils, adds pm-utils, and updates the Linux kernel to v6.10.11.

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Firefox 131 looks like an interesting update introducing temporary site permissions, such as geolocation, which will be automatically removed after one hour or when the tab is closed, and support for text fragments to allow users to link directly to a specific portion of text in a web document via a special URL fragment.

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Radio Recorder is a command line internet radio player and recorder. This is free and open source software written in Java.

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PipeWire 1.2.5 multimedia framework is out now, fixing critical bugs, enhances FreeBSD support, and improves JACK API memory management.

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Tathagata Roy has been working to make the Coccinelle tool that is used (among other things) to automate the refactoring of C code work on Rust code as well. Roy gave a presentation at Kangrejos about that work, including the creative approaches necessary to work with Rust's more complicated control flow and syntax.

Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux Kernel 6.12 RC1. Kernel 6.12 RC1 brings important new features like PREEMPT_RT and sched_ext.

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Mozilla Firefox 131 web browser is now available for download with enhanced privacy and support for text fragments, enabling direct linking to text.

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This week, we got several software updates, including LibreOffice 24.8.2, VirtualBox 7.1.2, MPV 0.39.0, fwupd 1.9.25, and DXVK 2.4.1, a couple of distro releases, including KaOS Linux 2024.09 and CachyOS 240929, the second preview of the upcoming COSMIC desktop environment written in Rust, and the first Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux 6.12 kernel series.

On top of that, the LXQt project shared details about what to expect from the upcoming LXQt 2.1 release, and the Tails, Tor Project, Arch Linux, and Valve announced collaborations. 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 September 29th, 2024.

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Some of the highlights of Linux kernel 6.12 include Clang support (including LTO) for nolibc, support for the cpuidle tool to display the residency value of cpuidle states for a clearer and more detailed view of idle state information when using cpuidle-info, support for NVIDIA’s virtual command queue implementation for SMMUv3, and SWIG bindings for libcpupower making easier to write scripts that use and extend libcpupower’s functionality.

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Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.11 kernel series, the CachyOS September 2024 release brings optimizations for more packages with PGO (Profile Guided Optimization) which leads to a 10 percent performance improvement for LLVM and Clang compilers, and a 1.5% improvement to the GCC compiler.

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