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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.

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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().

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0 and .NET 9.0), Arch Linux (curl, ghostscript, go, konsole, python-django, roundcubemail, and samba), Fedora (aerc, chromium, golang-x-perf, libkrun, python3.11, python3.12, rust-kbs-types, rust-sev, rust-sevctl, valkey, and wireshark), Gentoo (Konsole and sysstat), Oracle (.NET 9.0), Red Hat (bootc, grub2, keylime-agent-rust, python3.12-cryptography, rpm-ostree, rust-bootupd, xorg-x11-server, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), SUSE (apache2-mod_auth_openidc, docker, grub2, java-1_8_0-openj9, kernel, less, python-Django, screen, and sqlite3), and Ubuntu (cifs-utils and modsecurity-apache).

KDE Gear 25.04.2 apps collection delivers updated translations and fixes across apps like Kdenlive, Kate, Akonadi, Konsole, and more.

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Passively cool the Raspberry Pi 5 the right way. Use the case as a heatsink. No fan noise to interrupt your concentration.  Here’s how to do it.

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Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9.4 updates the OS Customisation panel with regex support to match SSH public keys and removes the ‘Show password’ checkbox, disables Wayland support for the AppImage bundle, hides system drives in the destination pop-up on Linux systems, and adds support for more archive formats via the libarchive library.

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Version:next-20250616 (linux-next) Released:2025-06-16

Linus Torvalds has released 6.16-rc2, which is "admittedly even smaller than usual", though rc2 is not uncommonly one of the smaller release candidates. It may be that people are taking a breather after a fairly sizable merge window, but it might also be seasonal, with Europe starting to see summer vacations... We'll see how this goes.

The diffstat looks somewhat unusual, with a lot of one-liners with both ARC and pincontrol having (presumably independently) ended up doing some unrelated trivial cleanups.

But even that is probably noticeable only because everything else is pretty small. That "everything else" is mostly network drivers (and bluetooth) and bcachefs, with some rust infrastructure and core networking changes thrown in.

Version:6.16-rc2 (mainline) Released:2025-06-15 Source:linux-6.16-rc2.tar.gz Patch:full (incremental)

The Kubuntu Focus team has some exciting news to share. We have launched the sixth generation of the flagship M2 laptop, featuring the Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX CPU with 24 threads, Nvidia® GeForce® RTX 50-series GPUs, and many more upgrades. See more about this laptop in the press release, and see the press photos here!

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While Oracle is working hard on the next major release of its powerful virtualization software, VirtualBox 7.2, which promises a revamped UI and improvements to ARM virtualization, VirtualBox 7.1.10 is here to introduce initial support for the latest and greatest Linux 6.15 kernel series for both Linux guests and hosts.

The post VirtualBox 7.1.10 Is Out with Initial Support for Linux 6.15 and 6.16 Kernels appeared first on Linux Today.

GXDE OS is a desktop-oriented Linux distribution that combines Debian with Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE), developed by the deepin project. It is based on Debian's "Testing" branch. It ships with up-to-date Linux kernel, base system and applications, and it includes a "Spark Store", a software application marketplace with support for Android applications. The distribution is available for the aarch64 and x86_64 processor architectures.

Fwupd 2.0.11, a Linux firmware updater tool, introduces a new reboot check command for scripting and adds SELinux state reporting, alongside numerous device compatibility and bug fixes.

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Coming two weeks after fwupd 2.0.10, the fwupd 2.0.11 release adds support for the Lenovo Thunderbolt 5 Smart dock, a new check-reboot-needed command for scripts to use, support for reading the SELinux state in the report failure metadata, and support for the Dell dock ownership command.

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In today’s connected world, IoT devices are becoming increasingly common, powering everything from home automation to industrial systems. However, this rapid growth has also expanded the attack surface for cybercriminals.

A recent discovery of the Pumabot botnet demonstrates how attackers are exploiting weak security, particularly poor SSH credential management, to breach and control vulnerable devices. For detailed best practices, it is critical to restrict SSH access from outside your network to mitigate such threats.

As cyber threats evolve, ensuring the security of your Linux systems and IoT devices is paramount. Whether you are running enterprise-grade solutions like AlmaLinux OS 10, a major leap forward for open-source Linux or managing endpoints at home, understanding malware techniques such as fileless attacks covered in Understanding ClickFix Fileless Malware helps to stay one step ahead of attackers.

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Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 is here three months after Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 to update VoLTE support so that it works out-of-box with more carriers on several Volla devices, update Waydroid with initial support for upcoming official Android 13 images, and introduce a new Noto Color Emoji font to improve support for some newer emojis.

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This blog post teaches you how to install WordPress on Debian 13. WordPress is an open-source web content management system written in PHP that stores data in the MySQL database system. It is among the most popular content management systems used by nearly a quarter of the top one million websites. WordPress was created as a tool for publishing blogs but has evolved to support other web content, including more traditional websites. In this blog post, we will install WordPress with the LAMP stack.

Installing WordPress on Debian 13 with the LAMP stack is straightforward and may take up to 10 minutes. Let’s get started!

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