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What Is Package Management in Linux and How Does It Work? | by Mohammed Muneef | Jan, 2025  Medium

The VFS mount pull request was sent out today in advance of the Linux 6.14 merge window opening. One of the changes here is adding a new mountinfo program to the Linux kernel source tree...

Thanks to Valve, another Xbox 360-compatible game controller will see support with the upstream XPad input driver with the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel...

Christian Brauner of Microsoft began sending out his various pull requests today of new material for the Linux 6.14 kernel in advance of the merge window expected to open next week. One of the interesting pull requests is carrying the work of Omar Sandoval for faster /proc/kcore reads that can help with debugger performance...

GDB 16.1 was tagged today as the newest version of the GNU Debugger for helping debug a variety of programming languages on numerous different CPU architectures and platforms...

GE-Proton 9-23 released with a Battle.net fix for Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

An interesting open-source announcement out of Intel this week is that they have open-sourced their P4 software for their line of Tofino programmable Ethernet switches...

It was a busy week in the GNOME space with many packages checking in their "48.alpha" releases for the GNOME 48 Alpha milestone. Plus there has been some additional exciting GNOME developments for the week...

Technical BSD conferences aren't quite as common as the many Linux conferences these days. For the BSD conferences that do happen they tend to be more general in nature than carrying a desktop focus. But being announced this week was GhostBSDCon 2025 as a forthcoming developer conference largely focused on desktop use of this FreeBSD-derived distribution...

Following the recent KDE Plasma 6.3 Beta, there's been a lot of bug fixing happening ahead of the stable release due out next month for this open-source desktop...

Wine 10.0 is working its way to a stable release within the next week or two while for today there is the sixth weekly release candidate...

Kali Linux: The ultimate cybersecurity tool for beginners and pros alike  GeekSided

7 Docker containers that make Linux the perfect OS for a home lab  XDA Developers

How to use the dstat command  Network World

Linux Apps for Chromebooks in 2025: Our Top Picks and Why You Need Them  Lifewire

Linux Mint 22.1 Is Now Available  Yahoo! Voices

Linux Mint 22.1 Is Now Available  How-To Geek

Flathub Makes It Easy to Find Mobile Apps with New 'On the Go' Section  It's FOSS News

GNU Coreutils 9.6 released today as the updated version of these core utilities common to Linux systems and elsewhere...

Linux 6.13 is bringing many exciting features for its stable debut expected this Sunday. But following that it's onward to the Linux 6.14 kernel merge window for which it will be yet another very exciting round from completing the NTSYNC driver to adding new hardware support and much more. Here is a preview of some of the changes expected to be submitted for the Linux 6.14 cycle...