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Disagreements over late-stage fixes and developer conduct led Linus Torvalds to drop Bcachefs from the upcoming Linux kernel 6.17 release.

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Minesweeper is a logic puzzle video game genre generally played on personal computers. The game features a grid of clickable tiles, with hidden “mines” (depicted as naval mines in the original game) dispersed throughout the board.

The post Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Minesweeper appeared first on Linux Today.

As part of the activities Embedded Recipes in May in Nice, Collabora hosted a dedicated PipeWire workshop/hackfest. With PipeWire evolving at a rapid pace, the day’s agenda featured several key discussion topics. Here’s a look at what was covered, including updates on video transport, Rust efforts, TSN networking, and Bluetooth support.

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Yesterday, while I was making the final touches on LTM Monthly Newsletter 25.01, exactly in its Cyberwatch section and almost ready to hit the send (and publish) button, I got the news of two very serious vulnerabilities hitting the sudo utility you use frequently—if not daily—on your terminal: CVE‑2025‑32462 and CVE‑2025‑32463.

This should storm your brain with two questions: What do these two sudo flaws offer attackers? And what should you do to protect your Linux system?

While I already highlighted the answers in the last LTM newsletter issue, I believe such an important event deserves a dedicated post. So without further ado, let’s dive in.

The post Your Linux System Was Exposed: Critical Sudo Flaws Now Patched appeared first on Linux Today.

Debian Installer Trixie RC 2 is out with Linux kernel 6.12, Secure Boot support, and new hardware support for Apple M1/M2 laptops.

The post Debian 13 (Trixie) Installer RC2 Now Available appeared first on Linux Today.

Age verification is becoming more common across websites and online services. But many current methods require users to share personal data, like a full ID or birthdate, which raises privacy and security concerns. In response, Google has open-sourced a cryptographic solution that uses zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) to let people verify their age without giving up sensitive information.

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COSMIC Desktop is now available on Void Linux, giving users a chance to explore the next-gen Rust-based desktop environment from System76.

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Version:next-20250710 (linux-next) Released:2025-07-10

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Python packaging; Kernel API specification; Kselftests and KUnit; niri; pedalboard.
• Briefs: Git security fixes; Amarok 3.3; Bash 5.3; Thunderbird 140; tmux-rs; U-Boot 2025.07; Quotes; ...
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Version 3.3 of the Amarok music player has been released. This is the first release of Amarok based on KDE Frameworks 6 and Qt 6. Amarok 3.3 also includes a major rework of its audio engine to use GStreamer for audio playback.

The reworked audio engine provides unified feature set for all users and should provide a solid and future-proof sonic experience for years to come. Notable improvements have also landed to the database system: improved character set support helps with e.g. emojis in podcast descriptions and other very exotic symbols, date handling has been improved ('year 2038 problem'), and various other potential and actual database-related issues have been fixed.

The AlmaLinux project has announced new upgrade paths for its ELevate utility, which allows users to upgrade between major versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives. The new paths include upgrades from AlmaLinux 9 to AlmaLinux 10 and CentOS Stream 9 to CentOS Stream 10, with support for EPEL, Docker CE, and PostgreSQL third-party package repositories. LWN covered ELevate last year.

MIRACLE LINUX is a Japanese Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The distribution is free to use, with a 10-year support, but users can opt for a paid support provided by a company called Cybertrust, Inc. MIRACLE LINUX started as a high performance back-end server for business workgroups in the enterprise, with several specialist editions, such as MIRACLE LINUX for PostgreSQL, MIRACLE LINUX with Oracle and MIRACLE LINUX Server OS. It was also part of the Asianux consortium, now discontinued, together with some high-profile Linux distribution projects developed in China and Korea.

OBS Studio 31.0.4 video production suite fixes crashes related to media sources with no video size and improves stability for macOS 13 and Linux users.

The post OBS Studio 31.0.4 Hotfix Squashes Cross-Platform Crashes and Freezes appeared first on Linux Today.

Wine 10.11 brings fixes and early NTSync groundwork, improving Windows app compatibility on Linux with 25 bug fixes and WIDL enhancements.

The post Wine 10.11 Released with NTSync Prep and Fixes for Over 25 Bugs appeared first on Linux Today.

Oracle Linux 10 is now GA with UEK 8.1, post-quantum crypto, zero-downtime patching, and enhanced dev tools.

The post Oracle Linux 10 Released, This Is What’s New appeared first on Linux Today.

True digital sovereignty begins at the desktop

The post The Year of the European Union Linux Desktop May Finally Arrive appeared first on Linux Today.

A leading economic hub is replacing Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and OnlyOffice.

The post This City Is Dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for Onlyoffice and Linux – Here’s Why appeared first on Linux Today.

It is no secret that the Python packaging world is at something of a crossroads; there have been debates and discussions about the packaging landscape that started long before our 2023 series describing some of the difficulties. There has been progress since then—and incremental improvements all along, in truth—but a new initiative is looking to overhaul packaging for the language. At PyCon US 2025, Barry Warsaw and Jonathan Dekhtiar gave a presentation on the WheelNext project, which is a community effort that aims improve the experience for users and providers of Python packages while also working with toolmakers and other parts of the ecosystem to "reinvent the wheel". While the project's name refers to Python's wheel binary distribution format, its goals stretch much further than simply the format.

The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for June 23rd, 2025, brings news about KDE Plasma 6.4, postmarketOS 25.06, Darktable 5.2, Calibre 8.5, Qt Creator 17, fwupd 2.0.12, and more.

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IPFire 2.29 Core Update 195 Linux firewall distribution is now available for download with support for the WireGuard VPN protocol and other updates. Here’s what’s new!

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