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The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the January 2025 issue. With the exception of a brief period in 2009, The PCLinuxOS Magazine has been published on a monthly basis since September, 2006. The PCLinuxOS Magazine is a product of the PCLinuxOS community, published by volunteers from the community. The magazine is led by Paul Arnote, Chief Editor, and Assistant Editor Meemaw. The PCLinuxOS Magazine is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share-Alike 3.0 Unported license, and some rights are reserved. All articles may be freely reproduced via any and all means following first publication by The PCLinuxOS Magazine, provided that attribution to both The PCLinuxOS Magazine and the original author are maintained, and a link is provided to the originally published article.

 

In the January 2025 issue:

 

* January 1, 2025 is Public Domain Day In The U.S

* ICYMI: Could KDE & Gnome Have Their Own Distro?

* Tip Top Tips: Is Your Handbrake Too Hot to Handle? Try cpulimit

* GIMP Tutorial: Create A Wave Effect

* Repo Review: OnlyOffice Desktop Editors

* PCLinuxOS Recipe Corner: Cajun Mac & Cheese

* And much more inside!

 

This month’s cover was created by parnote.

 

Download the PDF (6.5 MB)

https://pclosmag.com/download.php?f=2025-01.pdf

 

Download the EPUB Version  (5.8 MB)

https://pclosmag.com/download.php?f=202501epub.epub

 

Download the MOBI Version  (6.1 MB) 

https://pclosmag.com/download.php?f=202501mobi.mobi

 

Visit the HTML Version

https://pclosmag.com/html/enter2024.html

The post The January 2025 Issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine appeared first on Linux Today.

Based on Fedora Linux 41, the Nobara 41 release switches to the open-source NVIDIA graphics driver by default, along with a cuda-devel option for additional CUDA package support, as well as the latest stable Vulkan drivers by default to improve support for some Vulkan games, and ships mesa-libgallium-freeworld compiled with x264/x265 codecs to improve screen recording.

The post Fedora-Based Nobara 41 Gaming Distro Switches to Open-Source NVIDIA Driver appeared first on Linux Today.

Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 1 instant messaging apps land with GTK 4 and Adwaita support, modernized APIs, and more. Not for end-users yet.

The post Pre-Alpha Version of Pidgin 3.0 Released appeared first on Linux Today.

PeaZip 10.2, a free and open-source file archiver, arrives with improved archive detection, maximum Brotli & Zstd compression, updated icons, and more.

The post PeaZip 10.2 Debuts with Enhanced Archive Detection and Unified Icon Design appeared first on Linux Today.

Coming a little over a month after KDE Plasma 6.2.4, the KDE Plasma 6.2.5 release is strictly a bugfix one addressing a System Settings crash that occurred when plugging in a mouse while viewing the Mouse page, one of the most common recent Powerdevil crashes, and a nasty bug that could cause the lock screen to be all black when using the X11 session.

The post KDE Plasma 6.2.5 Released as the Last Update in the Series with More Bug Fixes appeared first on Linux Today.

While work on the Debian Trixie series kicked off a few months ago, there wasn’t an official installer available until now. The first alpha version of the Debian 13 Installer is finally here for early adopters and Linux/Debian enthusiasts who want a taste of the new features and improvements.

The post Debian 13 “Trixie” Installer Alpha Released with Linux 6.12 LTS, RISCV64 Support appeared first on Linux Today.

We are reliably informed by the calendar that yet another year has begun. That can only mean one thing: the time has come to go out on a limb with a series of ill-advised predictions that are almost certainly not how the year will actually go. We have to try; it's traditional, after all. Read on for our view of what's coming and how it may play out.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.12.8, 6.6.69, and 6.1.123 stable kernels. They contain important fixes throughout the kernel tree, as usual.

Security updates have been issued by Red Hat (container-tools:rhel8) and SUSE (liboqs, oqs-provider and python-Jinja2).

Version:6.12.8 (stable) Released:2025-01-02 Source:linux-6.12.8.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.12.8.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.8

Version:6.6.69 (longterm) Released:2025-01-02 Source:linux-6.6.69.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.6.69.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.69

Version:6.1.123 (longterm) Released:2025-01-02 Source:linux-6.1.123.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.1.123.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.1.123