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Version:next-20250107 (linux-next) Released:2025-01-07

DB-Engines publishes the 2024 database popularity stats. See the leading platforms in data management for the past year.

The post Here’s the Most Popular Databases for 2024 appeared first on Linux Today.

history is a command which displays or manipulates the history list. We recommend alternatives to this command.

The post Alternatives to popular CLI tools: history appeared first on Linux Today.

During EmacsConf 2024, which was held online in early December 2024, Ramin Honary gave a talk about Project Gypsum, which is his effort to rewrite Emacs in Scheme. Unlike most other Emacs clones, which simply replicate the key bindings, Gypsum is also implementing Emacs Lisp (or Elisp). Honary is initially targeting Guile, which is an implementation of Scheme, but wants to make the code portable to any implementation of R7RS Scheme.

From the Ubuntu Discourse instance comes the sad news that longtime Debian and Ubuntu contributor Steve Langasek has passed away.

Steve passed away at the dawn of 2025. His time was short but remarkable. He will forever remain an inspiration. Judging by the outpouring of feelings this week, he is equally missed and mourned by colleagues and friends across the open source landscape, in particular in Ubuntu and Debian where he was a great mind, mentor and conscience.

Want to run virtual machines on Linux Mint 22? Learn how to install VirtualBox 7.1 with our step-by-step guide, and start creating VMs with ease today.

The post How to Install VirtualBox 7.1 on Linux Mint 22 appeared first on Linux Today.

Is your computer going to sleep in the middle of downloads or updates? Meet Keep-Alive, a lightweight tool designed to keep your system awake.

The post Keep-Alive: Prevent Your Computer from Sleeping on Linux, macOS and Windows appeared first on Linux Today.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Chimera Linux, Nobara 41, Sparky 7.6 releases, Debian 13 alpha installer, Plasma 6.2.5, Fish Shell in Rust, & more.

The post Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 1 (Dec 30 – Jan 5, 2025) appeared first on Linux Today.

Although it appears that after a 22-year run that linux.conf.au is now a thing of the past, the folks who brought it to you have launched a new conference that’s about… well, everything open.

The post ‘Everything Open’ Is Reinventing Open Conferencing in Post Pandemic Oz appeared first on Linux Today.

Two years, 57k lines of C++, now 75k lines of Rust. Fish Shell 4.0 beta has been entirely rewritten in the Rust programming language.

The post Fish Shell 4.0: Rust Is Coming appeared first on Linux Today.

Learn about the pkg-config tool, how to install it on Linux, and how to use it when compiling the program from source code.

The post [Fixed] pkg-config Script Could Not Be Found In Linux appeared first on Linux Today.

The biggest change in Mozilla Firefox 134 for Linux users is support for touchpad hold gestures, allowing users to interrupt kinetic (momentum) scrolling by placing two fingers on the touchpad. This feature was initially planned for Firefox 133. Users can disable or enable this feature in about:config by setting apz.gtk.touchpad_hold.enabled to true or false.

The post Mozilla Firefox 134 Is Out with Support for Touchpad Hold Gestures on Linux appeared first on Linux Today.

Norka is a lightweight text editor and the best alternative to Gedit, where you can write your thoughts without worrying about saving them.

The post Norka: A Lightweight Text Editor And Best Alternative to Gedit appeared first on Linux Today.

Learn how to test microphones on Debian and Ubuntu-based distributions, then learn how to troubleshoot the issue with a few practical examples.

The post How to Test Microphone on Ubuntu (via 3 Methods) appeared first on Linux Today.

Absolute Linux, the Slackware-based distro, ends its journey as Paul Sherman announces its termination, citing a lack of time.

The post Slackware-Based Absolute Linux Has Been Discontinued appeared first on Linux Today.

Ubuntu Studio users are experiencing widespread failures when attempting in-place upgrades from 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS. The root cause appears to be a conflict arising from the optional switchability between PipeWire and PulseAudio sound servers in Ubuntu Studio 24.04.

The post Ubuntu Studio 22.04 To 24.04 Upgrade Breaks Due To PipeWire And PulseAudio Conflict appeared first on Linux Today.

The new ProtonUp-Qt v2.11 enhanced gaming on Linux with proton-ge-rtsp, WineZGUI, and key bug fixes.

The post ProtonUp-Qt v2.11 Introduces New Features and Bug Fixes appeared first on Linux Today.

Security updates have been issued by Fedora (ofono and webkitgtk), Mageia (ruby and virtualbox & kmod-virtualbox), Red Hat (oci-seccomp-bpf-hook and runc), SUSE (corepack22, dpdk, libpoppler-cpp1, pcp, python-Jinja2, and sysstat), and Ubuntu (tinyproxy).

Version:next-20250106 (linux-next) Released:2025-01-06

Linus has released 6.13-rc6 for testing.

So we had a slight pickup in commits this last week, but as expected and hoped for, things were still pretty quiet. About twice as many commits as the holiday week, but that's still not all that many.

I expect things will start becoming more normal now that people are back from the holidays and are starting to recover and wake up from their food comas.