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Android development is an exciting field, and Kotlin has quickly become the preferred language for building Android apps.

If you’re running Ubuntu 24.04 and want to set up Android Studio for Kotlin development, this guide is for you.

In this article, we will walk through the process of installing Android Studio, setting up Kotlin, and creating and running your first Android project in Kotlin.

The post Beginner’s Guide to Android Studio and Kotlin Setup on Ubuntu 24.04 appeared first on Linux Today.

Consul is a modern platform for service discovery that allows you to register services via DNS and HTTP interface. It also offers a Service mesh feature that enables secure connections via TLS and provides authorization between services.

The post How to Install Consul Server on AlmaLinux 9 appeared first on Linux Today.

There are a large number of terminal emulators to choose from, some offering a huge range of features, others aiming to be frugal with system resources. To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 38 useful Linux terminal emulators.

The post 38 Best Free and Open Source Linux Terminal Emulators appeared first on Linux Today.

This week was a bit slow in the news, but we had some great releases like Linux kernel 6.13 and Linux Mint 22.1. In addition, to these awesome releases, this week brought new major releases of OpenZFS, MX Linux, Dillo, and DXVK.

On top of that, I take the new experimental Wayland session of the latest LXQt desktop environment for a test drive on openSUSE Tumbleweed. 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 January 19th, 2025.

The post 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: January 19th, 2025 appeared first on Linux Today.

Fwupd 2.0.4 brings USB descriptor emulation, network metadata fixes, enhanced support for Logitech devices, and more.

The post Fwupd 2.0.4 Enhances USB Descriptor Recording appeared first on Linux Today.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Mint 22.1, VLC AI Subtitles, Arch Community Survey Results, GNOME Audio Player, MX 23.5, Deepin 25 Preview, and more.

The post Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 3 (Jan 13 – 19, 2025) appeared first on Linux Today.

Distrobox 1.8.1, a containerized Linux environment, is a bug-fix release that includes fixes for the NVIDIA toolkit, smarter cloning, performance boosts, and more.

The post Distrobox 1.8.1: NVIDIA Integration and Zsh Improvements appeared first on Linux Today.

Tinc is a simple, lightweight, and easy-to-use mesh VPN daemon. Learn how you can create a private P2P VPN on Linux with Tinc today.

The post How to Create a Lightweight P2P Mesh VPN with Tinc appeared first on Linux Today.

The 6.13 development cycle ended on January 19 with the release of the 6.13 kernel. This cycle was, on its surface, one of the slowest we have seen in some time; the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) and the KernelNewbies 6.13 page can be consulted for a refresher on all it contains. Here, instead, we will take our usual look at where all of those changes came from.

Version 3.2.0 of the Dillo web browser has been released about a month after its 25th anniversary. Notable new features in 3.2.0 include SVG support for math formulas, optional support for WebP images, and more.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, ipa, and NetworkManager), Debian (389-ds-base, busybox, libreoffice, rsync, ruby2.7, tomcat10, and tryton-server), Fedora (chromium and stb), Mageia (openafs and vim), Oracle (.NET 8.0 and .NET 9.0), SUSE (amazon-ssm-agent, chromedriver, git, golang-github-prometheus-prometheus, govulncheck-vulndb, grafana, hplip, pam_u2f, perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib, perl-IO-Compress, redis, redis7, rsync, and velociraptor), and Ubuntu (libpodofo and linux-xilinx-zynqmp).

AV Linux is a versatile, Debian-based distribution featuring a large collection of audio and video production software. Additionally, it also includes a custom kernel with IRQ threading enabled for low-latency audio performance. AV Linux can be run directly from a live DVD or a live USB storage device, though it can also be installed on a hard disk and used as a general-purpose operating system for everyday tasks.

Version:next-20250120 (linux-next) Released:2025-01-20

Linus has released the 6.13 kernel. "So nothing horrible or unexpected happened last week, so I've tagged and pushed out the final 6.13 release."

Significant features in this release include the lazy preemption model for CPU scheduling, Arm64 Guarded Control Stack support, the PIDFD_GET_INFO() operation, multi-grain file timestamps, beginning atomic write support for the ext4 and XFS filesystems, the setxattrat(), getxattrat(), listxattrat(), and removexattrat() system calls, private stacks for BPF programs, a new mechanism for adding guard pages to a memory mapping, the removal of the reiserfs filesystem, and more. See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) and the KernelNewbies 6.13 page for more information.

Version 16.1 of the GDB debugger is out. There are a lot of changes, including watchpoints for tagged data pointers, a new script to print the stack trace of a running process, better Intel Processor Trace support, and more.

Version:6.13 (mainline) Released:2025-01-19 Source:linux-6.13.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.13.tar.sign Patch:full

Rhino Linux is an Ubuntu-based distribution which offers a rolling-release upgrade approach. The distribution uses a customised Xfce desktop environment. Rhino features a custom meta package manager which unifies Deb, Pacstall and Flatpak software management.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.1.126 stable kernel to fix build failures with the 6.1.125 stable release.

Only upgrade if 6.1.125 did not build properly for you. If it did build properly, no need to upgrade. Thanks to Ron Economos for the fix for this issue.

Version:6.1.126 (longterm) Released:2025-01-19 Source:linux-6.1.126.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.1.126.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.1.126

deepin (formerly, Deepin, Linux Deepin, Hiweed GNU/Linux) is a Debian-based distribution (it was Ubuntu-based until version 15 released in late 2015) that aims to provide an elegant, user-friendly and reliable operating system. It does not only include the best the open source world has to offer, but it has also created its own desktop environment called DDE or Deepin Desktop Environment which is based on the Qt 5 toolkit. Deepin focuses much of its attention on intuitive design. Its home-grown applications, like Deepin Software Centre, DMusic and DPlayer are tailored to the average user. Being easy to install and use, deepin can be a good Windows alternative for office and home use.