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Linus has released the 6.15 kernel, as expected.

So this was delayed by a couple of hours because of a last-minute bug report resulting in one new feature being disabled at the eleventh hour, but 6.15 is out there now.

Significant changes in 6.15 include smarter timer-ID assignment to make checkpoint/restore operations more reliable, the ability to read status information from a pidfd after the process in question has been reaped, the PIDFD_SELF special pidfd value, nested ID-mapped mounts, zero-copy network-data reception via io_uring, The ability to read epoll events via io_uring, resilient queued spinlocks for BPF programs, guard-page enhancements allowing them to be placed in file-backed memory areas and for user space to detect their presence, the once-controversial fwctl subsystem, the optional sealing of some system mappings, and much more.

See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) and the in-progress KernelNewbies 6.15 page for more information.

Version:6.15 (mainline) Released:2025-05-25 Source:linux-6.15.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.15.tar.sign Patch:full

Daphile is a minimal operating system for running a digital audio player on a headless computer. The operating system and media manager can be controlled remotely using a web-based interface.

Imagine a small voice synthesizer on your computer. eSpeak NG is basically that. eSpeak NG is derived from the original eSpeak project, with the “NG” standing for community-driven efforts to enhance and expand its functionality. eSpeak NG is a small, open-source program that converts text to spoken word in a variety of languages and accents.

eSpeak NG takes a different approach from the more complex text-to-speech systems, which rely on large databases of recorded human voices. It understands the rules of each language’s pronunciation and constructs sounds from the basic phonetic units. This makes it very lightweight and portable!

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iDeal OS is a computer operating system, a custom respin of the powerful MX Linux distribution, with the best privacy and security settings enabled by default. The main goals of iDeal OS are privacy and security, offering to surf, shop, trade and bank online with complete peace of mind, without annoying advertisements, tracking, logging, bugs, viruses or unwanted disclosure of personal information. iDeal OS is available in two different editions: "Emerald", which offers applications for everyday computing needs, and "Diamond", with is a powerful digital workstation with a wide range of professional tools.

LastOSLinux is Linux Mint-based distribution with the goal of being a user-friendly alternative to Windows. It is designed for current Windows users wishing to migrate to Linux, with a Windows-like user interface and tools. The distribution uses the Cinnamon desktop and it also includes the Wine software which is able to run some Windows applications on Linux.

A quarter-century ago when SUSE was the cream of the crop, most Linux distros were envious of the YaST configuration tool.

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Debian 12 “Bookworm” receives its eleventh refresh (12.11), featuring 81 bug fixes and 45 security updates. Here’s more on that.

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The folks who develop Helwan O.S say it’s “designed by devs for devs and creators,” but our Larry Cafiero says it’s a distro that it would probably fit about anybody.

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NixOS is an independently developed GNU/Linux distribution that aims to improve the state of the art in system configuration management. In NixOS, the entire operating system, including the kernel, applications, system packages and configuration files, are built by the Nix package manager. Nix stores all packages in isolation from each other; as a result there are no /bin, /sbin, /lib or /usr directories and all packages are kept in /nix/store instead. Other innovative features of NixOS include reliable upgrades, rollbacks, reproducible system configurations, source-based model with binaries, and multi-user package management. Although NixOS started as a research project, it is now a functional and usable operating system that includes hardware detection, KDE as the default desktop, and systemd for managing system services.

The seventh edition of the Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel Summit (known as "OSPM") took place on March 18-20, 2025. Topics discussed on the second day include improvements to device suspend and resume, the status and future of sched_ext, the scx_lavd scheduler, improving the efficiency of load balancing, and hierarchical constant bandwidth server scheduling.

Continuing our exploration of lesser-known but powerful Linux commands, let’s dive into a new batch of hidden gems. These commands can streamline your workflow, automate tasks, and help you squeeze more control and efficiency out of your command-line experience.

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Shotcut 25.05 is here almost two and a half months after the Shotcut 25.03 release to introduce a new Alpha Strobe video filter, adjustable track headers width to the timeline, an item count to the playlist, a new ‘Add Generator’ option to the Timeline toolbar, and a new File > Rereun Filter Analysis function.

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This week, we got lots of great news, starting with new KDE Plasma, KDE Gear, and KDE Frameworks releases and continuing with a major Mesa graphics stack release, two new computers from Slimbook and System76, a new Raspberry Pi OS release, as well as new releases of fwupd, Calibre, Clonezilla Live, and Flatpak.

On top of that, I tell you all about what’s coming in Linux Mint 22.2, LMDE 7, and Ubuntu 25.10. Below, you can check out this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in the 9to5Linux weekly roundup for May 11th, 2025.

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Catch up on the latest Linux news: Raspberry Pi OS, Plasma 6.3.5, Kitty 0.42, Hyprland 0.49, ‘End of 10’ campaign, openSUSE removing the Deepin desktop, Mint’s theme gets a modern touch, and more.

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Kitty 0.42, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator, brings a Quake-style quick-access terminal, Unicode 16-compliant grapheme segmentation, and more.

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Flatpak 1.16.1, a universal app delivery framework for Linux, brings parental control improvements, faster operations, and multiple bug fixes.

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Good news for KDE Users! KDE’s 9-Year old file transfer suspend bug has been officially fixed in the latest Frameworks 6.15 version.

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This tutorial will explain how to install MariaDB on AlmaLinux 10. MariaDB is an open-source relational database management system used for storing data. MariaDB is written in C, C++, Perl, an57d Bash and is highly compatible with MySQL, with exact matching with MySQL APIs and commands. It was developed by the original developers of MySQL and designed as a drop-in replacement for MySQL. MariaDB is used because it is fast, scalable, and robust, with a rich system of storage engines and plugins. The following paragraphs will teach you how to install MariaDB, manage the service, and use some basic commands for login, creating a database, and users in the MariaDB console.

Installing the MariaDB database system is straightforward and may take up to 15 minutes. Let’s get started!

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