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The Ghostty terminal emulator project has generated a surprising amount of interest, even before code was released to the public. This is in part due to the high profile of its creator, HashiCorp founder Mitchell Hashimoto. Its development was conducted behind closed doors for beta testing, until version 1.0 was released on December 26 under the MIT license. While far from finished, Ghostty is ready for day-to-day use and might be of interest to those who spend significant amounts of time at the command line.

Version 11.0.0 of the libvirt virtualization API has been released. Notable changes in this release include the ability to export virtiofs filesystems in read-only mode, the addition of support for vlan tagging and trunking of network interfaces with the network, qemu, and lxc drivers, as well as a number of bug fixes.

Markdown (.MD) files are a favorite among developers, writers, and content creators due to their simplicity and flexibility, but what happens when you need to share your beautifully formatted Markdown file with someone who prefers a more universally accepted format, like PDF?

On Linux, you have several tools and methods to achieve this seamlessly and this guide will walk you through the process of converting .MD files to .PDF, ensuring your documents look professional and polished.

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We have just now received word of the passing of Helen Borrie, a longtime contributor to the Firebird relational database project.

Helen's quiet leadership and dedication left a lasting impact on Firebird and its users. Her efforts helped build not just a powerful database but also a strong, collaborative community. She will be deeply missed by all who knew her and benefited from her work.

She will be greatly missed. (Thanks to Steve Friedl.)

If you’ve ever found yourself in a situation where you’re trying to move a bunch of files and folders, only to be stumped by spaces in the folder names, you’re not alone.

Spaces in filenames or folder names can quickly become a frustrating challenge, especially when you’re working from the command line or trying to automate a process.

This issue is common for anyone dealing with large numbers of files, especially when they are organized in folders with spaces in their names.

For instance, if you have a set of HTML files in your Downloads folder, each accompanied by a corresponding folder (like “NAME.html” and “NAME_files/“), moving them can feel like a puzzle.

But don’t worry – there’s a solution that will allow you to move these files with ease, without losing your sanity.

The post How to Move Files and Folders with Spaces on Linux appeared first on Linux Today.

Linux Mint version 22.1, a long-term-support (LTS) release with support until 2029, is now available. Notable changes in this release include a transition to Aptkit for background package management tasks, Captain to install Debian packages, and a new default theme with improved Wayland compatibility. See the release notes for known issues.

Nick Tait announced on the oss-security mailing list that rsync, the widely used file transfer program, had a number of serious vulnerabilities. Users can mitigate all six vulnerabilities by upgrading to version 3.4.0, which was released on January 14. While all users should upgrade, servers that use rsyncd are especially impacted:

In the most severe CVE, an attacker only requires anonymous read access to a rsync server, such as a public mirror, to execute arbitrary code on the machine the server is running on.

Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (rsync), Debian (rsync), Fedora (perl-Net-OAuth and redis), Red Hat (ipa, raptor2, rsync, and tuned), Slackware (rsync), SUSE (apache2-mod_jk, git, kernel, rclone, rsync, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (git, linux-azure-5.4, pdns, pdns-recursor, python-django, rlottie, and rsync).

In this guide, we’ll walk you through the steps to check your Debian version using built-in tools and commands.

The post How To Check Debian Version: Simple Methods For Beginners appeared first on Linux Today.

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From where we sit, Google’s “giveaway” of its open source Chromium assets is basically a ruse to convince the feds that the company isn’t an intentional monopolist… or that it’s changed its ways.

The post Google Kinda Gives Chromium Away Because… Antitrust appeared first on Linux Today.

The Mastodon project has announced that founder Eugen Rochko will be transferring "key Mastodon ecosystem and platform components (including name and copyrights, among other assets)" to a new non-profit organization:

Practically Mastodon will remain headquartered in and operate from Europe primarily. We will continue day-to-day operations through the Mastodon GmbH for-profit entity, which will become wholly owned by the new European not-for-profit entity. The Mastodon GmbH entity automatically became a for-profit as a result of its charitable status being stripped away in Germany. The existing US-based non-profit entity, the 501(c)(3), will continue to function as a fundraising hub.

[...] We are in the process of a phased transition. First we are establishing a new legal home for Mastodon and transferring ownership and stewardship. We are taking the time to select the appropriate jurisdiction and structure in Europe. Then we will determine which other (subsidiary) legal structures are needed to support operations and sustainability.

Rochko has, naturally, also posted about the transition on Mastodon.social.

TuxFamily is a French free-software-hosting service that has been in operation since 1999. It is a non-profit that accepts "any project released under a free license", whether that is a software license or a free-content license, such as CC-BY-SA. It is also, unfortunately, slowly dying due to hardware failures and lack of interest. For example, the site's download servers are currently offline with no plan to restore them.

A download manager is a type of software that manages the downloading of files from the Internet. The best download managers help make the process easier and quicker.

The post 11 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Download Managers appeared first on Linux Today.

Cisco Modeling Labs is an on-premises network simulation tool. We recommend the best free and open source Linux alternatives.

The post Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Cisco Modeling Labs appeared first on Linux Today.

The ptrace() system call allows a suitably privileged process to modify another in a large number of ways. Among other things, ptrace() can intercept system calls and make changes to them, but such operations can be fiddly and architecture-dependent. This patch series from Dmitry Levin seeks to improve that situation by adding a new ptrace() operation to make changes to another process's system calls in an architecture-independent manner.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, NetworkManager, and thunderbird), Fedora (golang-github-aws-sdk-2, golang-github-aws-smithy, golang-github-ncw-swift-2, rclone, and thunderbird), Mageia (ceph, firefox, and thunderbird), Oracle (kernel, NetworkManager, and thunderbird), Red Hat (fence-agents and raptor2), SUSE (dpdk, firefox, frr, grafana, operator-sdk, perl-Module-ScanDeps, proftpd, python311-mistune, redis, thunderbird, valkey, and yq), and Ubuntu (hplip and webkit2gtk).

Hans de Goede has posted an update about his work to support IPU6 cameras on Fedora and submitting fixes upstream.

The initial IPU6 camera support landed in Fedora 41 only works on a limited set of laptops. The reason for this is that with MIPI cameras every different sensor and glue-chip like IO-expanders needs to be supported separately.

I have been working on making the camera work on more laptop models. After receiving and sending many emails and blog post comments about this I have started filing Fedora bugzilla issues on a per sensor and/or laptop-model basis to be able to properly keep track of all the work.

LWN covered the lack of IPU6 drivers in 2022.

ntopng (short for next-generation ntop) is an open-source network traffic monitoring tool that provides a user-friendly web interface to monitor network activity in real-time.

It offers insights into which devices are using your network, how much data they’re consuming, and which websites or services are generating traffic.

The post ntopng – Web-Based Network Traffic and Security Monitoring Tool appeared first on Linux Today.

A Web hosting control panel is a web-based interface that enables users to manage hosted services in a single location. We recommend the best open source solutions.

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