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This malware will still foul you up; it just doesn’t want anyone messing with your servers while it’s using you.

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Fooyin 0.9 open-source music player is out with support for artwork downloads, synced lyrics, autoplaylists, and numerous bug fixes.

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FreshRSS 1.27 self-hosted RSS feed aggregator adds stronger security, category search, custom favicons, and PHP 8.5 support.

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Arch’s AUR has been busy battling DDoS attacks and malware. Trouble’s not over—and it’s anybody’s guess what’s next… if anything.

The post Arch’s AUR Battles DDoS Attacks and Persistent Malware All Summer (So Far) appeared first on Linux Today.

Version:next-20250828 (linux-next) Released:2025-08-28

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Groklaw takeover; CRL cache sharing; browsers and XSLT; Microdot; restartable sequences; shadow-stack control
• Briefs: Android restrictions; Arch services; GhostBSD 25.02; FFmpeg 8.0; PyCon videos; Quotes; ...
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Alyssa Rosenzweig has written a blog post about her work to help ship a "great driver" for the Apple M1 GPU that supports OpenGL, Vulkan, and enables gaming with Proton.

We've succeeded beyond my dreams. The challenges I chased, I have tackled. The drivers are fully upstream in Mesa. Performance isn't too bad. With the Vulkan on Apple myth busted, conformant Vulkan is now coming to macOS via LunarG's KosmicKrisp project building on my work.

Satisfied, I am now stepping away from the Apple ecosystem. My friends in the Asahi Linux orbit will carry the torch from here.

Rosenzweig indicates her next project will be working on Intel's Xe-HPG graphics architecture. LWN covered her talk on Apple M1/M2 GPU drivers in October 2024.

extrox is re-spin of MX Linux by a member of the MX Linux development team, featuring custom art and theme, careful application selection, various user-friendly improvements, and an audio filter (developed in-house) for enhanced sound quality in music playback and streaming. The distributions uses the Xfce desktop with the Compiz compositing window manager.

The Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) language is used by web browsers to style XML content to make it easily readable; XSLT is part of the HTML living standard that is maintained by the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG). Only a small fraction of web sites serve content that requires web browsers to support XSLT, in part because major browser implementations have neglected the technology over the past 25 years. Now, it seems, they would like to rid themselves of it entirely. A plan to disable XSLT in Blink (Chrome's rendering engine) and a pull request by a Google Chrome developer to remove mentions of the specification from the HTML standard have been met with opposition, but arguments in favor of XSLT have proven ineffective.

The GhostBSD project has released version 25.02 of the FreeBSD-based desktop operating system. This release brings GhostBSD up to date with FreeBSD 14.3, includes enhancements for the Software Station package management application, and introduces an "OS X-like" desktop environment based on GNUstep called Gershwin:

This early preview includes:

• GNUstep-based desktop environment with familiar OS X-style interface
• Seamless integration with GhostBSD tools through wrappers for installer, Software Station, Backup Station, and Update Station
• Support for running non-GNUstep applications alongside GNUstep apps
• Several included GNUstep applications to get you started

LWN covered GhostBSD in June 2024.

The Internet is a wonderful thing; it allows anybody to look up information of interest. Included in all of that is the history of the free-software development community; how we got to where we are says a lot about why things are the way they are and what might come next. So the takeover of Groklaw rings a loud alarm; we have been reminded that history stored on the Internet is an ephemeral thing and cannot be expected to remain available forever.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (node-cipher-base), Fedora (keylime-agent-rust and libtiff), Oracle (aide, kernel, mod_http2, pam, pki-deps:10.6, python-cryptography, python3, python3.12, and thunderbird), SUSE (cheat, ffmpeg, firebird, govulncheck-vulndb, postgresql17, tomcat, tomcat10, tomcat11, ucode-intel-20250812, and v2ray-core), and Ubuntu (binutils, gst-plugins-base1.0, gst-plugins-good1.0, and linux-raspi-realtime).

Calculate Linux is a Gentoo-based family of three distinguished distributions. Calculate Directory Server (CDS) is a solution that supports Windows and Linux clients via LDAP + SAMBA, providing proxy, mail and Jabbers servers with streamlined user management. Calculate Linux Desktop (CLD) is a workstation and client distribution (with a choice of Cinnamon, KDE Plasma, LXQt, MATE or Xfce desktops) that includes a wizard to configure a connection to Calculate Directory Server. Calculate Linux Scratch (CLS) is a live CD with a build framework for creating a custom distribution.

Vipnix LiveCD is a portable Linux distribution built on the legacy of Gentoo Linux, Funtoo and Macaroni OS. It combines Gentoo's source-based optimization, Funtoo's innovative tools and Macaroni OS's modern, container-friendly approach. Vipnix integrates the lightweight LXQt desktop environment and the educational XLibre X11 server into a live operating system designed for enthusiasts, professionals and system recovery tasks. It is developed by Vipnix, a Brazilian IT solutions company specialising in customised infrastructure, cybersecurity, data protection and biotechnology.

For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H. I’ll see how the the computer compares to a couple of other mini PCs and a couple of desktop processors.

The post ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: Power Consumption appeared first on Linux Today.

TrueNAS 25.10 “Goldeye” open-source NAS is on the way, bringing Terabit networking, cloud-driven setup, and new virtualization features.

The post What to Expect From TrueNAS 25.10 Open-Source Storage appeared first on Linux Today.

SSH, or Secure Shell, is a network protocol that enables secure remote access to servers (and other devices, but we will focus on servers) over an insecure network. SSH can be enabled on various Linux OS distributions; however, this blog post will focus on helping it on AlmaLinux 10 OS. However, the procedure is similar to that on any other Linux OS. SSH is an essential tool for system administrators, DevOps engineers, sysadmins, developers, and regular Linux users who need to remotely manage their servers. This post will cover how to install SSH on AlmaLinux 10, including configuration of basic rules, enabling SSH through the Firewall, and testing SSH connections. Understanding how to install and enable SSH on AlmaLinux 10 is a straightforward process that typically takes between 5 and 10 minutes to complete. Let’s get things working!

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The performance-tuned CachyOS takes the crown from Linux Mint, topping DistroWatch’s ranking for the most popular Linux distribution.

The post CachyOS Topped DistroWatch’s Rankings appeared first on Linux Today.

DHH designed Omarchy to be a developer’s Linux desktop, and, as such, it comes with carefully selected tools, shell aliases, themes and shortcuts.

The post What Is Omarchy Linux, and Why Is 37signals Moving to It? appeared first on Linux Today.

Version:next-20250827 (linux-next) Released:2025-08-27