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Linux Lite is a beginner-friendly Linux distribution based on Ubuntu's long-term support (LTS) release and featuring the Xfce desktop. Linux Lite primarily targets Windows users. It aims to provide a complete set of applications to assist users with their everyday computing needs, including a full office suite, media players and other essential daily software.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Becoming a Python contributor; Graphene OS; Fedora quality team; 6.16 Development statistics; Proxy execution; Run-time verification; Confidential VMs.
• Briefs: HeliumOS 10; European Tech Funding; GNU C Library 2.42; OpenPrinting; Wayback 0.1
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Manjaro Linux is a fast, user-friendly, desktop-oriented operating system based on Arch Linux. Key features include intuitive installation process, automatic hardware detection, stable rolling-release model, ability to install multiple kernels, special Bash scripts for managing graphics drivers and extensive desktop configurability. Manjaro Linux offers Xfce as the core desktop options, as well as KDE, GNOME and a minimalist Net edition for more advanced users. Community-supported desktop flavours are also available.

GitHub director of developer policy, Felix Reda, has published a blog post about a GitHub-commissioned study by Open Forum Europe, Fraunhofer ISI and the European University Institute. The study finds, not surprisingly, "a profound mismatch between the importance of open source maintenance and the public attention it receives"; it calls for a European sovereign tech fund (STF) modeled after Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency.

The study proposes two alternative institutional setups for the EU-STF: either the creation of a centralized EU institution (the moonshot model), or a consortium of EU member states that provide the initial funding and apply for additional resources from the EU budget (the pragmatic model). In both cases, to make the fund a success, the minimum contribution from the upcoming EU multiannual budget should be no less than €350 million. This would not be enough to meet the open source maintenance need, but it could form the basis for leveraging industry and national government co-financing that would make a lasting impact.

The European Union is currently starting negotiations for its 2028-2034 budget, the Multiannual Financial Framework; GitHub and others hope to persuade EU legislators to include a European STF in that framework.

There are a lot of things people expect the Linux kernel to do correctly. Some of these are checked by testing or static analysis; a few are ensured by run-time verification: checking a live property of a running Linux system. For example, the scheduler has a handful of different correctness properties that can be checked in this way. Nam Cao posted a patch series that aims to extend the kinds of properties that the kernel's run-time verification system can check, by adding support for linear temporal logic (LTL). The patch set has seen eleven revisions since the first version in March 2025, and recently made it into the linux-next tree, from where it seems likely to reach the mainline kernel soon.

Rescuezilla 2.6.1 disk imaging and recovery adds Ubuntu 25.04 support, improves touchpad gestures, fixes swap partition restore failures, and more.

The post Rescuezilla 2.6.1 Released with Ubuntu 25.04 Base appeared first on Linux Today.

Autodesk Fusion is a computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), computer-aided engineering (CAE) and printed circuit board (PCB) design software application. Autodesk Fusion is proprietary software and is not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

The post Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Autodesk Fusion appeared first on Linux Today.

In the first keynote at EuroPython 2025 in Prague, Savannah Bailey described her path to becoming a CPython core developer in November 2024. She started down that path a few years earlier and her talk was meant to inspire others—not to slavishly follow hers, but to create their own. In the talk, entitled "You don't have to be a compiler engineer to work on Python", she had lots of ideas for those who might be thinking about contributing and are wondering how to do so.

GStreamer 1.26.4 multimedia framework is out with important bug fixes, improved RTP handling, better AWS MediaLive compatibility, and more.

The post GStreamer 1.26.4 Rolls Out with Bug Fixes and Performance Tweaks appeared first on Linux Today.

Debian Trixie is expected to enter its full freeze in August 2025, with release date discussions focusing on late July to mid-August.

The post Debian 13 Trixie Nears Stable Release: Final Freeze Set for August 2025 appeared first on Linux Today.

Falco is an open-source runtime security tool for Linux systems, built for cloud-native environments. It monitors the system in real time to spot unusual activity and possible security threats. Falco is a graduated project from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and is used in production by many organizations.

The post Falco: Open-source cloud-native runtime security tool for Linux appeared first on Linux Today.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, icu, kernel-rt, libtpms, redis:6, redis:7, and sqlite), Fedora (chromium and cloud-init), Oracle (icu, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, kernel, nodejs:22, perl, and sqlite), SUSE (docker, java-1_8_0-openj9, libxml2, python-starlette, and thunderbird), and Ubuntu (cloud-init, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-azure-fips, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4, and perl).

This is a multi-part blog looking at the Firefly AIBOX-3588S Mini PC running Linux. This embedded fanless ARM-based computer sports an 8 core Rockchip RK3588S CPU with a maximum clock speed of 2.4GHz.

The post Firefly AIBOX-3588S Embedded Fanless PC Running Linux – Introduction appeared first on Linux Today.

These interactive Linux-based games teach everything from basic commands to advanced shell skills, all while keeping you engaged.

The post Learn Linux Fast by Playing These Fun and Interactive Games appeared first on Linux Today.

Coming one and a half months after fwupd 2.0.12, the fwupd 2.0.13 release adds support for updating the firmware on more hardware, including the HP USB-C 100W G6 dock, Logitech bulk controller peripherals, as well as more MediaTek scaler devices.

The post Fwupd 2.0.13 Linux Firmware Updater Adds Support for HP USB-C 100W G6 Dock appeared first on Linux Today.

Service discovery is the process of automatically finding devices and services on a computer network. Service discovery uses a service’s identity instead of traditional access information (IP address and port). This allows you to dynamically map services and track any changes within a service catalog.

The post 5 Useful Free and Open Source Linux Service Discovery Tools appeared first on Linux Today.

The biggest questions our man in Italy has about Linux distros and other open source software projects taking political stances is: do they do more harm than good?

The post What’s the Point of Linux “Anti-Something” Distros? appeared first on Linux Today.

Version:next-20250730 (linux-next) Released:2025-07-30

TTOS Linux is a desktop-oriented Linux distribution based on Debian's "Stable" branch. It comes with several custom utilities and features, such as a user-friendly Internet security suite, an animated live wallpaper, NVIDIA GPU support, a ClamAV antivirus suite, Android remote messaging, UEFI support, and a net system installer with a choice of multiple desktop environments.

Gnuinos is a spin of Devuan GNU+Linux consisting exclusively of Free Software (as defined by the Free Software Foundation) and a choice of several alternative init systems, such as OpenRC, Runit, s6 and SysV. The distribution ships with the GNU Linux-libre kernel. The project provides installation images for desktop and server deployments, as well as pre-configured live images with JWM, KDE Plasma, Openbox and Xfce desktops available for the i686 and x86_64 architectures.