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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free and kernel), Arch Linux (bind and varnish), Debian (glibc and syslog-ng), Fedora (microcode_ctl, mozilla-ublock-origin, nodejs20, and nodejs22), Mageia (firefox, nss, rootcerts, open-vm-tools, sqlite3, and thunderbird), Oracle (gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, kernel, libsoup, nodejs:22, php, php:8.2, php:8.3, python-tornado, redis, and redis:7), Red Hat (libsoup, pcs, and python-tornado), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (bind, dnsdist, elemental-operator, govulncheck-vulndb, gstreamer-plugins-bad, jetty-annotations, jq, libnss_slurm2, libyelp0, mariadb, nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed, prometheus-blackbox_exporter, python-h11, python-httpcore, python-setuptools, python312, python39-setuptools, screen, sqlite3, umoci, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (cifs-utils, glibc, linux-aws, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-nvidia-tegra-igx, linux-raspi, linux-aws-fips, linux-hwe-6.8, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11, linux-oracle, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4, and net-tools).

Microsoft Loop is an online collaborative workspace offering a variety of features to help users gather, organize, and build notes, ideas, and projects.

Loop is proprietary software and not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Ubuntu maker Canonical now donates $10K monthly via thanks.dev to support smaller open source projects powering its work, giving back to the developer community.

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Mastering one-liner commands in the terminal can significantly boost your efficiency, whether you’re managing systems or just organizing your files. These compact, clever snippets can automate repetitive tasks and save valuable time. If you’re interested in enhancing your productivity even further, check out these 20 powerful find command oneliners that can be added to your toolkit.

The post 3 Useful Bash Oneliners: Find IP Address, Copy Trick, Run Previous Command with Different Arguments appeared first on Linux Today.

Archinstall 3.0.5, a guided user-friendly TUI installer for Arch Linux, brings user credential encryption, password hashing, new window managers, and more.

The post Archinstall 3.0.5 Rolls Out with Encrypted Credentials appeared first on Linux Today.

While privacy-focused distributions like Tails 6.14.2 continue to make headlines for their specialized use cases, there’s also a need to spotlight desktop Linux options that focus on performance, ease of use, and hardware compatibility.

One such project that consistently flies under the radar is Nobara Linux — a Fedora-based distro that aims to work perfectly out of the box. With its recent version 42 release, Nobara continues to deliver a polished and powerful experience for gamers, content creators, and everyday users alike.

What Makes Nobara Stand Out?

At its foundation, Nobara is Fedora — enhanced. It ships with proprietary drivers, multimedia codecs, and gaming-related packages that Fedora typically excludes. This approach simplifies the setup process for users who want a ready-to-use system without compromising on performance or compatibility.

The post Nobara Linux 42: A Fedora-Based Distro That Deserves More Attention appeared first on Linux Today.

Imagine you’re happily working on your Linux system, maybe compiling a package, running updates, or just browsing and suddenly, your screen freezes, and a wall of cryptic text appears: “Kernel panic – not syncing: Attempted to kill init!”

Now, before you start sweating, let’s slow down and learn how to understand, simulate, and fix a kernel panic. As someone who’s broken and fixed more Linux machines than I can count in 15+ years, I’ll help you learn this the fun and safe way.

The post How to Trigger and Fix a Linux Kernel Panic appeared first on Linux Today.

TrueNAS CORE (previously known as FreeNAS) is a free and Open Source Network-Attached Storage (NAS) operating system that supports file, block and object storage. TrueNAS CORE is FreeBSD based and is a community-supported branch of the TrueNAS project, sponsored by iXsystems. It also has a commercial branch called TrueNAS Enterprise and a free and HyperConverged storage solution called TrueNAS SCALE. The TrueNAS SCALE branch is based on the Debian Linux distribution.

Version:next-20250528 (linux-next) Released:2025-05-28

Version 10 of the AlmaLinux OS distribution has been released.

The goal of AlmaLinux OS is to support our community, and AlmaLinux OS 10 is the best example of that yet. With an unwavering eye on maintaining compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), we have made small improvements to AlmaLinux OS 10 that target specific sections of our userbase.

See the release notes for details.

KaOS is a desktop Linux distribution that features the latest version of the KDE desktop environment, the Calligra office suite, and other popular software applications that use the Qt toolkit. It was inspired by Arch Linux, but the developers build their own packages which are available from in-house repositories. KaOS employs a rolling-release development model and is built exclusively for 64-bit computer systems.

Srinivas Narayana led a remote session about extending Agni to prove the correctness of the BPF verifier's handling of different execution paths as part of the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. The problem of ensuring the correctness of path exploration is much more difficult than the problem of ensuring the correctness of arithmetic operations (which was the subject of the previous session), however. Narayana's plan to tackle the problem makes use of a mixture of specialized techniques — and may need some assistance from the BPF developers to make it feasible at all.

Cory Doctorow wears many hats: digital activist, science-fiction author, journalist, and more. He has also written many books, both fiction and non-fiction, runs the Pluralistic blog, is a visiting professor, and is an advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF); his Chokepoint Capitalism co-author, Rebecca Giblin, gave a 2023 keynote in Australia that we covered. Doctorow gave a rousing keynote on the state of the "enshitternet"—today's internet—to kick off the recently held PyCon US 2025 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Version 25.05 of the NixOS distribution has been released. Changes include support for the COSMIC desktop environment (reviewed here in August), GNOME 48, a 6.12 kernel, and many new modules; see the release notes for details. (Thanks to Pavel Roskin).

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, libsoup, and python-tornado), Debian (libavif and pgbouncer), Red Hat (gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, mingw-freetype and spice-client-win, and webkit2gtk3), SUSE (firefox, govulncheck-vulndb, and python310-setuptools), and Ubuntu (flask, intel-microcode, openjdk-17-crac, tika, and Tomcat).

We recommend the best FOSS mailing list tools.

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Microsoft is open-sourcing its Linux Integration Services Automation image-testing service for everyone.

The post Believe It or Not, Microsoft Just Announced a Linux Distribution Service – Here’s Why appeared first on Linux Today.

Grafana 12 observability platform lands with Drilldown GA, dynamic dashboards, Git Sync, SCIM support, blazing-fast tables, new theming options, and more.

The post Grafana 12 Observability Platform Released with Major Upgrades appeared first on Linux Today.

Nmap, short for Network Mapper, is an open-source and highly versatile tool used by Linux system and network administrators. It is commonly employed for network exploration, security scanning, auditing, and detecting open ports on remote machines.

Nmap can identify live hosts, determine operating systems, detect packet filters, and reveal open ports running on remote systems.

The post 24 Nmap Commands Every Linux Admin Should Use for Network Security appeared first on Linux Today.

Linux is one of the most widely used operating systems in both personal and enterprise environments. Whether you’re aiming to become a system administrator, DevOps engineer, software developer, or IT professional, having a solid foundation in Linux is essential.

To support your learning and interview preparation, we’re excited to introduce a dedicated Linux Interview section on Tecmint, which will feature carefully selected Linux interview questions, along with detailed answers to help you prepare with confidence.

Every weekend, we’ll publish a new article in this section, starting from basic Linux questions and gradually moving toward more advanced topics. This initiative is one of the first of its kind among Linux-focused websites, and we’re committed to delivering high-quality, useful, and unique content.

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