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This article identifies flexible and useful diary tools for the Linux desktop. With features like tag support, encryption, multiple journals, and live searches, Linux diary software makes it easier to keep track of events as they occur.

The post 8 Best Free and Open Source Diary Software appeared first on Linux Today.

Banned and erased from freedesktop.org, Enrico Weigelt unveils Xlibre—a fork of Xorg aimed at revitalizing X11 outside corporate influence.

The post XLibre Xserver: Banned by Red Hat Developer Plans Revival of X11 appeared first on Linux Today.

As Windows 10 nears end-of-life, should you upgrade or switch? Here’s a practical look at life after support—and how Linux compares.

The post End of Windows 10: Don’t Worry Be Happy appeared first on Linux Today.

fiddleitm is an open-source tool built on top of mitmproxy that helps find malicious web traffic. It works by checking HTTP requests and responses for known patterns that might point to malware, phishing, or other threats.

The post fiddleitm: Open-source mitmproxy add-on identifies malicious web traffic appeared first on Linux Today.

PiGro is a free and open source system configuration tool that streamlines managing your Raspberry Pi settings from one convenient location.

The post Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: PiGro – system configuration tool appeared first on Linux Today.

Our look at the popular Dutch Linux distribution EndeavourOS reveals an impressive distro that’s both easy to use and powerful enough for experienced users—thanks to its Arch Linux foundation.

The post EndeavourOS: A Distro That’s All Things to All People appeared first on Linux Today.

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Wireshark 4.4.7 is here to patch a security vulnerability (CVE-2025-5601) that could allow a denial of service attack via packet injection or crafted capture file in Wireshark versions 4.4.0 to 4.4.6 and 4.2.0 to 4.2.12 due to a bug in the column utility module that leads to a dissection engine crash.

The post Wireshark 4.4.7 Network Protocol Analyzer Patches Security Flaw and Fixes Bugs appeared first on Linux Today.

We benchmark a Raspberry Pi 5 (16GB RAM) against a DreamQuest N100 Mini PC. The Pi 5 runs Raspberry Pi OS (Debian-based), whereas the N100 runs Ubuntu 25.04. The tests are run using the Phoronix Test Suite.

The post Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Benchmarking appeared first on Linux Today.

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.

Learn all about Linux display managers – what they are, how they work, and how to install, change, or troubleshoot them

The post Linux Display Managers: Complete Beginner’s Guide appeared first on Linux Today.

Learn how to install, enable, and configure GUFW, a GUI firewall tool for Ubuntu, to manage and secure your network easily.

The post Setting Up Graphical Uncomplicated Firewall (GUFW) on Ubuntu appeared first on Linux Today.

Murena is out with a new major release of its deGoogled and improved version of Android /e/OS 3.O.

The post Murena’s DeGoogled Android Alternative Upgraded to /e/OS 3.0 appeared first on Linux Today.

The Kubernetes project has announced that it will be losing its "special status" with the Slack communication platform and will be downgraded to the free tier in a matter of days:

On Friday, June 20, we will be subject to the feature limitations of free Slack. The primary ones which will affect us will be only retaining 90 days of history, and having to disable several apps and workflows which we are currently using. The Slack Admin team will do their best to manage these limitations.

The project has a FAQ covering the change, its impacts, and more. The CNCF projects staff has proposed a move to the Discord service as the best option to handle the more than 200,000 users and thousands of posts per day from the Kubernetes community. The Kubernetes Steering Committee will be making its decision "in the next few weeks".

PeerTube 7.2, an open-source, decentralized video platform, rolls out with redesigned video management, enhanced filtering, and refined handling of sensitive content.

The post PeerTube 7.2 Rolls Out with Fresh UI and Smarter Video Management Tools appeared first on Linux Today.

Version 2.50.0 of the Git source-code management system has been released with a long list of new user features, performance improvements, and bug fixes. See the announcement and this GitHub blog post for details.

Process Explorer is a task manager and system monitor. It provides the functionality of Windows Task Manager along with features for collecting information about processes running on the user’s system.

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

Karton is a new, still-in-development KDE-native virtual machine manager using libvirt, aiming to bring VM tools closer to the Plasma desktop experience.

The post Karton: KDE’s Libvirt-Powered Answer to GNOME Boxes and Virt-Manager appeared first on Linux Today.

Gnoppix is a Debian and Kali Linux-based distribution which can be run from a DVD, USB thumb drive or from a local drive. It can resume previous sessions while running in a live mode. The distribution attempts to clean up after itself, removing all traces of its use from the computer or used media. Prior to version 22, Gnoppix was a Knoppix-based distribution and live medium featuring the GNOME desktop.

At the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), Anna Schumaker led a discussion about implementing the NFS v4.2 WRITE_SAME command in both the NFS client and server. WRITE_SAME is meant to write large amounts of identical data (e.g. zeroes) to the server without actually needing to transfer all of it over the wire. In her topic proposal, Schumaker wondered whether other filesystems needed the functionality, so that it should be implemented at the virtual filesystem (VFS) layer, or whether it should simply be handled as an NFS-specific ioctl().