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For eight years, Masahiro Yamada has been the sole maintainer of the kernel's build and configuration systems — two complex pieces of infrastructure that many people interact with, but few truly understand. Yamada has just stepped down from that position. Maintenance of the build system will be taken up by Nathan Chancellor and Nicolas Schier (in the "odd fixes" capacity), while the configuration system is now entirely unmaintained.

Thanks are due to Yamada for all that work, and to Chancellor and Schier for stepping up. Hopefully a way will be found to better support these important subsystems in the near future.

Proxmox is a commercial company offering specialised products based on Debian GNU/Linux, notably Proxmox Virtual Environment and Proxmox Mail Gateway. Proxmox Virtual Environment is an open-source virtualisation platform for running virtual appliances and virtual machines. Proxmox Mail Gateway is a mail gateway with anti-spam and anti-virus features. The products are offered as free downloads with paid-for support and subscription options.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel and python3.12-setuptools), Fedora (perl-Crypt-CBC and unbound), Gentoo (FontForge, GPL Ghostscript, Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS), and PAM), Oracle (gdk-pixbuf2, jq, kernel, mod_security, ncurses, python-requests, and python3-setuptools), Red Hat (python-requests and socat), SUSE (docker, kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0-RT_Update_2, kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0-RT_Update_4, kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0-RT_Update_5, kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0-RT_Update_6, kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0-RT_Update_7, kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0_Update_2, kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0_Update_4, kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0_Update_5, kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0_Update_6, kubeshark-cli, libgcrypt, pam-config, perl, python-requests, python311, and python313), and Ubuntu (linux-raspi).

FreeBSD, an Unix-like operating system, is going to make it much easier for people to use it as a regular desktop computer. Yes, the upcoming FreeBSD 15’s installer will offer an option to install the full KDE Plasma desktop environment directly.

The post FreeBSD 15 Installer to Include Built-in KDE Plasma Desktop Option appeared first on Linux Today.

ExTiX is a desktop Linux distribution and live DVD based on Ubuntu, offering a choice of alternative desktop environments.

There are a wide range of Linux benchmarking tools that are released under an open source license. To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled our recommendations. We also include tools that stress a system.

The post 15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Benchmark Tools appeared first on Linux Today.

Like any other operating system, GNU/Linux has implemented memory management efficiently and even more than that. However, if any process is eating away your memory and you want to clear it, Linux provides a way to flush or clear the RAM cache.

In this article, we will explore how to clear RAM memory cache, buffer, and swap space on a Linux system to enhance overall performance.

The post How to Clear RAM Cache, Buffers, and Swap in Linux Without Reboot appeared first on Linux Today.

Want complete control over your Linux system—without the command line? Discover how Stacer can clean, tweak, and optimize your setup in just a few clicks.

The post How Stacer Simplifies Linux System Maintenance and Optimization appeared first on Linux Today.

Traefik Proxy 3.5 lands with a new Ingress NGINX Provider, full Gateway API v1.3 support, and a modern React-based dashboard experience.

The post Traefik Proxy 3.5 Brings Ingress NGINX Migration, React Dashboard appeared first on Linux Today.

The Blender team has announced that Blender is soon coming to iPad and Android tablets, making 3D creation more accessible than ever before.

The post The Popular Opensource 3D Software Blender Arrives on Android and iPad Tablets appeared first on Linux Today.

Linux systems provide a variety of system services (such as process management, login, syslog, cron, etc.) and network services (such as remote login, e-mail, printers, web hosting, data storage, file transfer, domain name resolution (using DNS), dynamic IP address assignment (using DHCP), and much more).

Technically, a service is a process or group of processes (commonly known as daemons) running continuously in the background, waiting for requests to come in (especially from clients).

Linux supports different ways to manage (start, stop, restart, enable auto-start at system boot, etc.) services, typically through a process or service manager. Most, if not all, modern Linux distributions now use the same process manager: systemd.

The post How to Find Running Services in Linux with Systemd Commands [Quick Guide] appeared first on Linux Today.

Immich 1.136 brings a major breaking change to media paths—users with relative paths must update to absolute paths and run a database migration tool.

The post Immich 1.136 Photo and Video Backup Brings Breaking Changes appeared first on Linux Today.

Intel’s sudden shutdown of its high-performance Clear Linux OS has left enterprise users scrambling. Here’s where to go next.

The post Trail’s End for Clear Linux appeared first on Linux Today.

Unconventional, opinionated, and undeniably unique — Rhino Linux might change the way you see your desktop. Or at least keep you guessing.

The post Rolling With Rhino: The Ups and Downs of a Reinvented Linux appeared first on Linux Today.

Version:next-20250806 (linux-next) Released:2025-08-06

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.

Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0, based on Debian 13 ("trixie"), has been released. Notable new features include snapshots for thick-provisioned LVM shared storage, affinity rules for high availability (HA) clusters, and a modernized mobile web interface for managing Proxmox systems. See the release notes and known issues for more details about the release.

Let’s see how the Orange Pi R2S compares to a few other single board computers and mini PCs which cost considerably more.

The post Orange Pi R2S Single Board Computer Running Linux: Power Consumption appeared first on Linux Today.

The use of huge pages can significantly increase the performance of many workloads by reducing both memory-management overhead in the kernel and pressure on the system's translation lookaside buffer (TLB). The addition of transparent huge pages (THP) for the 2.6.38 kernel release in 2011 caused the kernel to allocate huge pages automatically to make their benefits available to all workloads without any effort needed on the user-space side. But it turns out that use of huge pages can make some workloads slower as the result of internal memory fragmentation, so the THP feature is often disabled. Two patch sets aimed at better targeting the use of transparent huge pages are currently working their way through the review process.

The call for topics for the 2025 Maintainers Summit has been posted. The Summit, to be held in Tokyo on December 10, will involve around 30 developers gathered to discuss development-process issues for the kernel. Anybody who is interested in attending is encouraged to post a nomination along with the topic they would like to discuss. Nominations and topics are best sent before September 10.

The call for topics for the Kernel Summit, which runs as a Linux Plumbers Conference track, is also out.