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LibreOffice 25.2.3 is here a little over a month after LibreOffice 25.2.2 to address various bugs, crashes, and other annoyances reported by users in an attempt to improve the overall stability and reliability of this popular open-source, free, and cross-platform office suite.

The post LibreOffice 25.2.3 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 68 Bug Fixes appeared first on Linux Today.

When working with Unix-like systems, it’s important to understand the role of different configuration files that influence the shell’s behavior.

Two critical files for Bash users are bashrc and bash_profile. Although they might seem similar at first glance, they are loaded under different circumstances and serve distinct purposes.

Knowing when and how these files are used can help you configure your environment more efficiently, customize your prompt, set aliases, and automate certain tasks when you log in or open a new terminal session.

The post Understanding the Difference Between bashrc and bash_profile appeared first on Linux Today.

Arriving a little over four months after 4MLinux 47.0, the 4MLinux 48.0 release features support for new apps and components, including the Kino IEEE 1394 DV non-linear video editor, the VVenC H.266/VVC encoder, FreeTube YouTube client, and the Bristol emulator for synthesizers, electric pianos, and organs.

The post 4MLinux 48.0 Is Now Available for Download, Powered by Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS appeared first on Linux Today.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (fossil, libapache2-mod-auth-openidc, and request-tracker4), Fedora (thunderbird), Mageia (firefox and thunderbird), SUSE (389-ds, apparmor, cargo-c, chromium, go1.24, govulncheck-vulndb, java-1_8_0-openjdk, kanidm, libsoup, mozjs102, openssl-1_1, openssl-3, python-Django, sccache, tealdeer, tomcat, transfig, wasm-bindgen, and wireshark), and Ubuntu (libreoffice and python-h11).

Kali Linux users must manually install a new archive signing key after the previous one was lost, impacting system updates until resolved.

The post Urgent Update: Kali Linux Users Must Manually Install New Repository Key appeared first on Linux Today.

This roundup focuses on Linux software that let you track artificial satellites from your Linux terminal and desktop.

The post 10 Best Free and Open Source Linux Satellite Tools appeared first on Linux Today.

Mozilla Firefox 138 introduces support for copying links for background tabs using the tabstrip context menu on Linux and macOS systems, an improved address and credit card autofill feature that better handles dynamically updated forms, and new Contrast Control settings that let users use the same colors across websites for improved readability.

The post Mozilla Firefox 138 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New appeared first on Linux Today.

Peridio, a platform for building and maintaining advanced embedded products, has launched Avocado OS, an open-source embedded Linux distribution made to simplify the way developers build complex embedded systems. Avocado OS focuses on delivering a smooth developer experience while offering security, reliability, and consistent performance.

The post Avocado OS: Open-source Linux Platform for Embedded Systems appeared first on Linux Today.

For the last several decades, India has been quietly developing its economic independence muscles as it morphs into an IT leader with global prowess.

The post What the EU Can Learn From India About Digital Policies appeared first on Linux Today.

The GNOME Foundation has announced the hiring of Steven Deobald as its new executive director.

Steven has been a GNOME user since 2002 and has been involved in numerous free software initiatives throughout his career. His professional background spans technical leadership, cooperative business development, and nonprofit work. Having worked with projects like XTDB and Endatabas, he brings valuable experience in open source product development. Based in Halifax, Canada, Steven is well-positioned to collaborate with our global community across time zones.

This week was a bit slow on news and releases. Some highlights include a major release of the OpenMandriva Lx distribution, a major release of the QEMU open-source virtualization software, and new maintenance updates to the GStreamer open-source multimedia framework and Mixxx open-source DJ software.

On top of that, I tell you all about the new alpha milestone of System76’s upcoming Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment. 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 April 27th, 2025.

The post 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: April 27th, 2025 appeared first on Linux Today.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: COSMIC Desktop Alpha 7, OpenMandriva Lx 6, Fedora 43 to remove GNOME X11 support, Arch lands in WSL2, and more.

The post Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 17 (Apr 21 – 27, 2025) appeared first on Linux Today.

Version:next-20250509 (linux-next) Released:2025-05-09

Version:6.14.6 (stable) Released:2025-05-09 Source:linux-6.14.6.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.14.6.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.14.6

Version:6.12.28 (longterm) Released:2025-05-09 Source:linux-6.12.28.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.12.28.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.28

Version:6.6.90 (longterm) Released:2025-05-09 Source:linux-6.6.90.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.6.90.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.90

Version:6.1.138 (longterm) Released:2025-05-09 Source:linux-6.1.138.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.1.138.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.1.138

Version:5.15.182 (longterm) Released:2025-05-09 Source:linux-5.15.182.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-5.15.182.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.15.182

The famfs filesystem is meant to provide a shared-memory filesystem for large data sets that are accessed for computations by multiple systems. It was developed by John Groves, who led a combined filesystem and memory-management session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF) to discuss it. The session was a follow-up to the famfs session at last year's summit, but it was also meant to discuss whether the kernel's direct-access (DAX) mechanism, which is used by famfs, could be replaced in the filesystem by using other kernel features.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, libapache2-mod-auth-openidc, mariadb-10.5, and openssh), Red Hat (osbuild-composer), Slackware (mariadb), SUSE (apache2-mod_auth_openidc, glib2, ImageMagick, libsoup, libsoup2, libva, openvpn, sqlite3, and weblate), and Ubuntu (libsoup3, php-horde-css-parser, and python-django).