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Lenovo unveils the Legion Go S, the first officially licensed SteamOS-based handheld with an 8″ PureSight display, 120Hz refresh rate, powered by AMD Z2 Go.

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The pkgsrc developers have announced the 2024Q4 branch of the pkgsrc cross-platform packaging system. It is the default package manager for NetBSD, SmartOS, and is available for Linux as well. This marks the 85th quarterly release of pkgsrc:

Since the pkgsrc-2024Q3 release, 110 packages were added, 1580 packages were updated (with 2399 updates, including language-specific updates: 24 Go, 3 OCaml, 66 Perl, 5 PHP, 626 Python, 282 Ruby, 44 TeX). 33 packages were removed.

Security updates have been issued by Fedora (firefox, mupdf, and php-tcpdf), SUSE (etcd, file-roller, gtk3, kernel, python-django-ckeditor, rubygem-json-jwt, and tomcat10), and Ubuntu (ffmpeg, HTMLDOC, linux-aws, linux-raspi, linux-gke, linux-hwe-6.8, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8, and tinyproxy).

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Linkwarden 2.9 bookmark manager is a significant release with AI-powered tagging, customizable themes, RSS features, and more.

The post Linkwarden 2.9 Makes Bookmarking Smarter appeared first on Linux Today.

Mecha Comet is a modular handheld Linux computer that connects to Raspberry Pi Hats and other snap-on modules. It runs on Mechanix OS, a Debian-based Linux distribution.

The post Mecha Comet: A Modular Linux Handheld Computer with Raspberry Pi HAT Compatibility appeared first on Linux Today.

GStreamer 1.24.11 brings bug fixes for multimedia playback, Matroska compliance, AV12 alpha issues, and more.

The post GStreamer 1.24.11 Enhances Stability Across Platforms appeared first on Linux Today.

Firefox 135 promises to be a hefty release and the first to introduce support for XZ packaging for faster installations, smaller downloads, and enhanced compatibility and integration with modern Linux distro, instead of the bzip2 packaging used until now (including for Firefox 134).

The post Firefox 135 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing with XZ Packaging on Linux appeared first on Linux Today.

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) ships with Linux kernel 6.8, which has reached the end of its supported life at the end of May 2024. Even if Canonical continues to support Linux 6.8 by backporting bug fixes from newer kernel versions, you may end up in a situation where you need the extra hardware support when installing Ubuntu on a newer computer, or maybe you just want to enjoy some new features.

The post How to Install Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.10 appeared first on Linux Today.

Kernel networking maintainer Jakub Kicinski reviews progress in the networking subsystem in 2024.

Work on relieving the rtnl_lock pressure has continued throughout the year. The rtnl_lock is often mentioned as one of the biggest global locks in the kernel, as it protects all of the network configuration and state. The efforts can be divided into two broad categories – converting read operations to rely on RCU protection or other fine grained locking (v6.9, v6.10), and splitting the lock into per-network namespace locks (preparations for which started in v6.13).

Cyberbro is an open-source application that extracts IoCs from garbage input and checks their reputation using multiple services.

The post Cyberbro: Open-Source Tool Extracts IoCs and Checks Their Reputation appeared first on Linux Today.

Gentoo Linux has published a project retrospective that looks at the major improvements and news from 2024, the Gentoo Foundation's finances, and contributions to Gentoo by the numbers.

The number of commits to the main ::gentoo repository has remained at an overall high level in 2024, with a 2.4% increase from 121000 to 123942. The number of commits by external contributors has grown strongly from 10708 to 12812, now across 421 unique external authors.

The importance of GURU, our user-curated repository with a trusted user model, as entry point for potential developers, is clearly increasing as well. We have had 7517 commits in 2024, a strong growth from 5045 in 2023. The number of contributors to GURU has increased a lot as well, from 158 in 2023 to 241 in 2024. Please join us there and help packaging the latest and greatest software.

The company says that the new functional safety certification for Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System is a key step in its push towards ISO 26262 ASIL-B certification of the entire platform.

The post Red Hat In-Vehicle Linux Gets Closer to Go With New Certification appeared first on Linux Today.

In the past, LWN had a tradition of publishing a timeline of notable events from the previous year in early January. We thought we might try reviving that tradition in 2025 to see if our readers find it useful. While we have covered these events as they happened, it's interesting to see how much has taken place in just 12 months.

Version 134.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Changes include support for touchpad hold gestures on Linux, a refreshed layout for the New Tab page for users in the US and Canada, and improved support for debugging web extensions.

Thomas Roccia, Senior Security Researcher at Microsoft, discusses how threat research drives faster, better decision-making in cybersecurity operations.

Roccia provides insights into balancing internal and external research strategies, the influence of AI and geopolitical events, and how organizations can strengthen their security posture to counter threats.

The post Balancing Proprietary and Open-Source Tools in Cyber Threat Research appeared first on Linux Today.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (python-requests), Oracle (python-requests), SUSE (python-Jinja2 and rizin), and Ubuntu (ceph, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux, linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-nvidia, linux-oracle, linux-raspi, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-hwe-6.8, linux-intel-iotg, linux-oem-6.11, linux-raspi-5.4, and salt).

A color picker is a software tool used to select colors and, in some cases, to create color schemes.

The post 17 Best Free and Open Source Color Pickers appeared first on Linux Today.

Learn a step-by-step guide to installing and configuring a HAProxy reverse proxy program on Ubuntu to load balance your high-traffic web server.

The post How to Install and Configure HAProxy on Ubuntu appeared first on Linux Today.

It’s been a great year for the Budgie desktop with releases like Budgie 10.9 and Budgie 10.9.2, both advancing the hard work of porting Budgie to the Wayland display protocol. Many of Budgie’s components have been ported to Wayland already and the team considers it “daily-drivable on Wayland for a typical end user usecase.”

The post Budgie 10.10 Desktop Will Be Wayland-Only as Work Continues on Budgie 11 appeared first on Linux Today.