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Linus Torvalds released 6.12-rc1 and closed the 6.12 merge window on September 29; at that point, 11,260 non-merge change sets had been pulled into the mainline for the 6.12 release. That is the lowest number of merge-window changes since 5.17-rc1 in January 2022, which brought in 11,068 changesets. Nonetheless, 6.12 brings a number of interesting changes, many of which were included in the roughly 4,500 changes merged since the summary of the first half of the 6.12 merge window was written.

Discover a step-by-step guide to install the different versions of Perl and manage them with Perlbrew on Ubuntu, with practical examples.

The post How to Install Perl with Perlbrew on Ubuntu and Other Linux Distros appeared first on Linux Today.

WordPress is the world's most popular open‑source blogging and content‑management platform. In its 20‑plus years of existence, WordPress has been something of a poster child for open source, similar to Linux and Firefox. It introduced the concept of open source to millions of bloggers, small‑business owners, and others who have deployed WordPress to support their web‑publishing needs. Unfortunately, it is now in the spotlight due to an increasingly ugly dispute between two companies, Automattic and WP Engine, that has spilled over into the WordPress community.

The 6.11.1, 6.10.12, 6.6.53, and 6.1.112 stable kernels have been released. Each contains important fixes and users of those series should upgrade.

Let’s take a look at some of the best music players created on Linux to date. A music player can be characterized as the best by considering the following features: supported formats, memory consumption, online or offline streaming (or both), user interface design, and feature set.

Some of the music players highlighted below guarantee all the above factors, while others guarantee only some of these factors.

The post 22 Best Music Players That Are Worth Trying On Linux appeared first on Linux Today.

The most recent major release of the Tcl/Tk language and graphical-user-interface toolkit, Tcl/Tk 9.0, has been released, a mere 27 years after the 8.0 major release in 1997. There have been plenty of releases in the interim, though, as can be seen in the Tcl chronology. The 9.0 release brings 64-bit data values, better Unicode support, the ability to use zip files as filesystems, a switch to use epoll() or kqueue() where they are available, SVG support in Tk, access to notifications and other desktop-platform services in Tk, and lots more. For more information, see the release notes for Tcl and Tk that can be downloaded as Markdown files from the announcement page. (Thanks to Matt Bradley.)

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 6 best C++ static site generators. All of these tools are released under a freely distributable license.

The post 6 Best Free and Open Source C++ Static Site Generators appeared first on Linux Today.

Version:6.11.1 (stable) Released:2024-09-30 Source:linux-6.11.1.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.11.1.tar.sign Patch:full ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.11.1

Version:6.10.12 (stable) Released:2024-09-30 Source:linux-6.10.12.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.10.12.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.10.12

Version:6.6.53 (longterm) Released:2024-09-30 Source:linux-6.6.53.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.6.53.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.53

Version:6.1.112 (longterm) Released:2024-09-30 Source:linux-6.1.112.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.1.112.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.1.112

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cups-filters, net-snmp, and osbuild-composer), Debian (booth, cups, cups-filters, python-asyncssh, ruby-httparty, ruby-loofah, ruby-rails-html-sanitizer, tryton-server, unbound, and wireshark), Fedora (chromium, cjson, cups, cups-browsed, libcupsfilters, and libppd), Gentoo (Apache HTTPD, Docker, HashiCorp Consul, IcedTea, nginx, tmux, and yt-dlp), Mageia (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, & java-latest-openjdk and libreoffice), Red Hat (git-lfs, grafana, and osbuild-composer), and SUSE (chromedriver, chromium, coredns, json-java-20240303, kernel, libmozjs-128-0, maven-archetype, python3, python312, and quagga).

VirtualBox 7.1.2 is here only three weeks after the release of VirtualBox 7.1 to address a few GUI issues, especially with the new multi-window layout and language translations, as well as an issue that prevented virtual machines created with the Unattended Install feature to not be removed cleanly. It also adds an option to change the remote display security method in the GUI.

The post VirtualBox 7.1.2 Released with 3D Acceleration Support for VMs Running on ARM appeared first on Linux Today.

PostgreSQL 17 open-source RDBMS brings enhanced performance, advanced features, and better scalability for all workloads.

The post PostgreSQL 17 Rolls Out: Enhanced Performance and Developer Features appeared first on Linux Today.

Coming two weeks after LibreOffice 24.8.1, the LibreOffice 24.8.2 update is here to address more of those pesky bugs, crashes, and other annoyances reported by users, which should improve the overall stability and reliability of the LibreOffice 24.8 office suite series. In numbers, the LibreOffice 24.8.2 release addresses a total of 85 bugs.

The post LibreOffice 24.8.2 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 85 Bug Fixes appeared first on Linux Today.

Discover a wave terminal especially designed for people who find existing Linux terminals boring, as it tends to make things way easier, especially for Linux beginners.

The post Wave: 21th Century Terminal Emulator Designed for Gen Z appeared first on Linux Today.

Discover a step-by-step guide to install the latest version of Remmina on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions, with practical examples.

The post How to Install Remmina on Ubuntu and Other Linux Distros appeared first on Linux Today.

The Arch Linux project has announced that Valve will be helping the distribution with a couple of important initiatives:

Valve is generously providing backing for two critical projects that will have a huge impact on our distribution: a build service infrastructure and a secure signing enclave. By supporting work on a freelance basis for these topics, Valve enables us to work on them without being limited solely by the free time of our volunteers.

Linus has released 6.12-rc1 and closed the merge window for this release.

Despite conference travel (both for me and several maintainers), things seemed to go mostly fairly normally. There's a couple of notable new features in here: For one thing, PREEMPT_RT is now mainlined and enabled as a config option (you do need to enable "EXPERT" to get the question). For another, sched_ext also got merged.

Version:next-20240930 (linux-next) Released:2024-09-30