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The 6.12.27 and 6.1.137 stable kernels have been released to fix build problems in their predecessors. Only those who are having build troubles with 6.12.26 or 6.1.136 need to upgrade.

restic is a backup program that is fast, efficient and secure. We recommend the best free and open source wrapper tools for restic.

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Canonical released Ubuntu 25.04, codenamed “Plucky Puffin” a few days ago. Here’s the top 10 Features I liked in Ubuntu 25.04..

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Security updates have been issued by Debian (ansible, containerd, and vips), Fedora (chromium, java-17-openjdk, nodejs-bash-language-server, nodejs-pnpm, ntpd-rs, redis, rust-hickory-proto, thunderbird, and valkey), Mageia (apache-mod_auth_openidc, fcgi, graphicsmagick, kernel-linus, pam, poppler, and tomcat), Red Hat (firefox, libsoup, nodejs:20, redis:6, rsync, webkit2gtk3, xmlrpc-c, and yelp), and SUSE (audiofile, ffmpeg, firefox, libsoup-2_4-1, libsoup-3_0-0, libva, libxml2, and thunderbird).

Version:6.12.27 (longterm) Released:2025-05-05 Source:linux-6.12.27.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.12.27.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.27

Version:6.1.137 (longterm) Released:2025-05-05 Source:linux-6.1.137.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.1.137.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.1.137

Version:next-20250505 (linux-next) Released:2025-05-05

Linus has released 6.15-rc5 for testing. "So it all feels like things are just continuing to go well this release. Let's hope I didn't jinx it by saying so."

PikaOS Linux is a Linux distribution based on Debian's cutting-edge "Unstable" branch, optimised for gaming. It is designed to provide out-of-the-box gaming experience, excellent performance with up-to-date drivers and custom-tweaked Linux kernel, and a choice of GNOME or KDE Plasma desktops, with separate images that use the Hyprland Wayland compositor.

Version:6.15-rc5 (mainline) Released:2025-05-04 Source:linux-6.15-rc5.tar.gz Patch:full (incremental)

Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8 debuts in Oracle Linux (9.5) with advanced memory management, improved I/O, better networking, and more.

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DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs and server systems, with the option to install desktop environments, too. It ships as minimal image but allows to install complete and ready-to-use software stacks with a set of console based shell dialogs and scripts.

The source code is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi
The main website can be found at: https://dietpi.com/
Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DietPi

The project released the new version DietPi v9.12 on April 18th, 2025.

The highlights of this version are:
fish: New software package, an alternative shell
DietPi-Backup: Support for SSHFS added
Amiberry: Updated to Amiberry v7
WiringPi: Added support for Orange Pi boards
Spotifyd: Added support for ARMv8 and x86_64 Bookworm/Trixie systems
Pi-hole: Additionally listen on TCP port 8489 for HTTPS requests
RPi.GPIO: Moved to the usage of python3-rpi-lgpio
Fixes for O!MPD, FreshRSS, DietPi-Config
The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v9_12/

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A new Steam client update improves game syncing and overlay scaling and fixes UI glitches that affect notes and screenshots.

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Brighten up your login with doge. It’s candy personified and a perfect fit for our Linux Candy series.

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