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Parch GNU/Linux is an Arch-based, rolling-release Linux distribution for standard desktops as well as some ARM-based devices. Its goal is to provide a streamlined and user-friendly experience while maintaining the customisability and performance of Arch Linux. The distribution offers a choice of GNOME, KDE Plasma and Xfce desktops, the Calamares graphical installer, optimised Persian fonts for enhanced readability and aesthetics, and extensive documentation and community support.

Version:next-20250818 (linux-next) Released:2025-08-18

The second 6.17 kernel prepatch is out for testing. "So it's been a very calm week, and this is one of the smaller rc2 releases we've had lately. I'm definitely not complaining, since I've been jetlagged much of the week, but I have this suspicion that it just means that next week will see more noise."

Version:6.17-rc2 (mainline) Released:2025-08-17 Source:linux-6.17-rc2.tar.gz Patch:full (incremental)

PeaZip 10.6 is here almost two months after PeaZip 10.5 introducing a dynamic virtual mode to the file/archive browser for the ListView component, promising to improve the performance of the application when displaying a large number of items at once.

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GStreamer 1.26.5 is here to introduce JPEG XS support to the videorate and imagefreeze elements, support for discarding select services on each input to cea708mux, and support for brevity in awstranslate, along with an option to partition speakers in the transcription output of awstranscriber2.

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SDesk is an Arch-based Linux distribution which strives for an easy to use, modern approach to desktop computing. The SDesk project ships up to date software and uses GNOME running on a Wayland session for its default desktop environment. SDesk includes a number of popular open source applications, including LibreOffice and uses Calamares to install the operating system.

Grml is a bootable CD (live CD) based on Debian GNU/Linux. It includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for users of text tools and system administrators. It also provides automatic hardware detection. Grml can be used as a rescue system, for analysing systems and networks, or as a working environment. Due to on-the-fly decompression, Grml includes about 2 GB of software and documentation on the CD.

Mesa 25.2 open-source graphics stack for Linux is now available for download with numerous new features and improvements for existing graphics drivers, as well as better support for numerous video games.

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Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat) is now available for download powered by Linux kernel 6.14 from Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin).

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Peropesis (personal operating system) is a small-scale, minimalist, command-line-based Linux operating system. It's an incomplete system, but it's constantly being improved. Also, it is a free operating system created from free software, mostly distributed under the GNU GPL or BSD licenses.

Zephix is a live Linux operating system based on Debian's stable branch. It runs totally from removable media without touching any files stored on the user's system disk. The aim of Zephix is to provide a free modular operating system that users can carry with them and use wherever there is a laptop or a desktop system available. The default ISO image comes without any graphical interface, but several desktop modules are available separately, together with other various popular application modules. Users can also create their own modules using built-in scripts.

Mitchell Hashimoto has written a blog post about "fully embracing the GObject type system" with a rewrite of the GTK version of Ghostty:

In addition to memory management [improvements], we can now more easily create custom GTK widgets. This let us fully embrace modern GTK UI technologies such as Blueprint. For example, here is our terminal window Blueprint file. This has already led to more easily introducing GUI features like a new GTK titlebar tabs option, an animated border on bell, etc.

The rewrite is now the default if one builds Ghostty from source, and will be included in the 1.2 release that is expected in the next few weeks. LWN covered Ghostty in January.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.16.1, 6.15.10, 6.12.42, 6.6.102, and 6.1.148 stable kernels. Get them while they're hot!

Version:6.16.1 (stable) Released:2025-08-15 Source:linux-6.16.1.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.16.1.tar.sign Patch:full ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.16.1

The purpose of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) is to provide a specification for filesystem layout; it specifies the location for files and directories on a Linux system to simplify application development for multiple distributions. In its heyday it had some success at this, but the standard has been frozen in time since 2015, and much has changed since then. There is a slow-moving effort to revive the FHS and create a FHS 4.0, but a recent discussion among Fedora developers also raised the possibility of standardizing on the suggestions in systemd's file-hierarchy documentation, which has now been added to the Linux Userspace API (UAPI) Group's specifications.

Calibre 8.8 comes with an updated Kobo driver that supports the latest Tolino firmware, improved display of lookup results from Google in the E-book viewer, and the ability to handle -epub-text-emphasis properties used in some Japanese language EPUB books during conversion.

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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel and webkit2gtk3), Debian (aide and postgresql-13), Fedora (libtiff, mupdf, and pandoc), SUSE (cairo, chromium, gstreamer-plugins-base, ImageMagick, iputils, kubernetes1.23, kubernetes1.26, matrix-synapse, Mesa, pgadmin4, python3, qemu, and rz-pm), and Ubuntu (aide).

Calibre 8.8 brings improved Google lookup in the e-book viewer, better Kobo support, and a reworked Piper TTS backend.

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SSHFS is a file system in user space (FUSE) that uses the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to mount a remote file system. SSHFS lets you interact with directories and files located on a remote server or workstation over a normal ssh connection.

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