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Version:6.16-rc5 (mainline) Released:2025-07-06 Source:linux-6.16-rc5.tar.gz Patch:full (incremental)

The 6.15.5, 6.12.36, 6.6.96, and 6.1.143 stable kernels have been released; each contains another set of important fixes.

Nginx Proxy Manager 2.12.4 lands with API schema fixes, performance improvements, and a batch of new DNS providers for Certbot plugin support.

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Your USB Flash drive can get corrupted easily. If you are having a faulty USB drive, learn how to repair a corrupted USB drive in Linux.

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Version:6.15.5 (stable) Released:2025-07-06 Source:linux-6.15.5.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.15.5.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.15.5

Version:6.12.36 (longterm) Released:2025-07-06 Source:linux-6.12.36.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.12.36.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.36

Version:6.6.96 (longterm) Released:2025-07-06 Source:linux-6.6.96.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.6.96.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.96

Version:6.1.143 (longterm) Released:2025-07-06 Source:linux-6.1.143.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.1.143.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.1.143

Rhino Linux is an Ubuntu-based distribution which offers a rolling-release upgrade approach. The distribution uses a customised Xfce desktop environment. Rhino features a custom meta package manager which unifies Deb, Pacstall and Flatpak software management.

AUSTRUMI (Austrum Latvijas Linukss) is a bootable live Linux distribution based on Slackware Linux. It requires limited system resources and can run on any Intel-compatible system with a CD-ROM installed. The entire operating system and all of the applications run from RAM, making AUSTRUMI a fast system and allowing the boot medium to be removed after the operating system starts.

MocaccinoOS is an independently-developed Linux distribution that has its origins in source-based Gentoo Linux and Sabayon Linux. It uses a custom-built package manager called "Luet", which acts as a front-end for container-based software. The distribution's main features are minimalism and small footprint, ease of use, native vanilla Linux kernels, and support for most important cloud technologies. MocaccinoOS is offered in several variants, including live images with GNOME, KDE Plasma, MATE and Xfce desktops, as well as command-line-only "Minimal Desktop" edition.

The Steam Client update for June 30th, 2025, enables Proton by default for games that don’t have a native Linux build, which is equivalent to setting the “Enable SteamPlay for other titles” option to the enabled state. Also for Linux gamers, this release improves the installation speed of Steam Client updates.

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If you’re a DevOps engineer, system administrator, or a seasoned Linux user, chances are most of your work revolves around the terminal, whether it’s debugging, scripting, or managing systems. Now imagine combining that terminal power with AI. That’s exactly what Gemini CLI brings to the table: an AI-driven experience, right inside your terminal.

With AI tools evolving rapidly, Google has emerged as a major player with its Gemini model, offering powerful capabilities in various domains. Recently, Google released the open-source Gemini CLI, a command-line interface that integrates Gemini’s AI power directly into your terminal workflow.

That means you can now run interactive AI prompts, get help with code, automate tasks, and much more, all without leaving the command line.

In this guide, we’ll walk you through setting up and using Gemini CLI, with practical examples and real-world use cases tailored for Linux professionals and power users.

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ALT Linux was founded in 2001 by a merge of two large Russian free software projects. By the year 2008 it became a large organization developing and deploying free software, writing documentation and technical literature, supporting users, and developing custom products. ALT Linux produces different types of distributions for various purposes. There are desktop distributions for home and office computers and for corporate servers, universal distributions that include a wide variety of development tools and documentation, certified products, distributions specialized for educational institutions, and distributions for low-powered computers. ALT Linux has its own development infrastructure and repository called Sisyphus, which provides the base for all the different editions of ALT Linux.

SDesk is an Arch-based Linux distribution which strives for an easy to use, modern approach to desktop computing. The SDesk project ships up to date software and uses GNOME running on a Wayland session for its default desktop environment. SDesk includes a number of popular open source applications, including LibreOffice and uses Calamares to install the operating system.

Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian) is a free operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux and optimised for the Raspberry Pi hardware (the armhf processor architecture). Raspberry Pi OS comes with over 35,000 packages, or pre-compiled software bundled in a nice format for easy installation on a Raspberry Pi. The initial build was completed in June of 2012, but the distribution continues to be active developed with an emphasis on improving the stability and performance of as many Debian packages as possible. Although Debian produces a distribution for the arm architecture, it is compatible only with versions later than the one used on the Raspberry Pi (ARMv7-A CPUs and higher vs the Raspberry Pi's ARMv6 CPU).

Plamo Linux is a Japanese Linux distribution based on Slackware Linux. The installer, and many text-based and graphical tools have been updated to include Japanese language support.

Kumander Linux is a Debian-based distribution featuring the Xfce desktop. The distribution's key feature is a Windows 7-like theme and desktop behaviour designed to make the migration from Windows to Linux easier.

The pedalboard library for Python is aimed at audio processing of various sorts, from converting between formats to adding audio effects. The maintainer of pedalboard, Peter Sobot, gave a talk about audio in Python at PyCon US 2025, which was held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in May. He started from the basics of digital audio and then moved into working with pedalboard. There were, as might be guessed, audio examples in the talk, along with some visual information; interested readers may want to view the YouTube video of the presentation.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 9.0, container-tools:rhel8, ghostscript, git-lfs, grafana-pcp, pandoc, perl-FCGI:0.78, ruby:2.5, ruby:3.3, tigervnc, and varnish:6), Debian (jpeg-xl and mediawiki), Fedora (darktable, guacamole-server, mingw-gdk-pixbuf, and yarnpkg), Oracle (gimp, kernel, libsoup, python-tornado, python3.12, and thunderbird), Slackware (php), SUSE (libgepub), and Ubuntu (libtpms, linux-aws-5.15, linux-intel-iot-realtime, and linux-bluefield).