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Debian 13.1 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 09/06/2025 - 22:00
Following the release of Debian 13.0 "Trixie" nearly one month ago to the day, Debian 13.1 is out today with an initial batch of bug fixes and security updates...

Rust Coreutils 0.2 Released With "Massive" Performance Gains, Production-Ready Ubuntu Support

Phoronix - Sat, 09/06/2025 - 21:25
The uutils project today released version 0.2 of the Rust Coreutils as their alternative to GNU Coreutils written in the Rust programming language. This release comes as Ubuntu 25.10 prepares to make use of it by default...

KDE Linux Enters Alpha As Reference Linux Distribution For The KDE Desktop

Phoronix - Sat, 09/06/2025 - 19:30
As an exciting announcement out of the KDE Akademy 2025 conference kicking off in Berlin, Germany... The KDE Linux distribution is now in alpha! This is their in-house reference Linux distribution for the KDE Plasma desktop...

Linus Torvalds Grows Frustrated Seeing "Garbage" With "Link: " Tags In Git Commits

Phoronix - Sat, 09/06/2025 - 18:29
Linus Torvalds has grown frustrated enough with seeing "Link: " tags within Git commits/patches that often times they are of no value and he's had enough of it. For Linux kernel activity moving forward he's going to be more strict over "useless" link tags in Git commit messages...

Linux 6.17 Merges Important Stability Fixes For Open-Source NVIDIA Driver

Phoronix - Sat, 09/06/2025 - 18:14
As a follow-up to the article last week around the open-source NVIDIA Linux driver "Nouveau" about to become much more reliable following fixes, that code was merged on Friday for Linux 6.17...

KDE Plasma 6.5 KWin Adding Support For GPU Underlays

Phoronix - Sat, 09/06/2025 - 18:07
Ahead of Akademy kicking off in Berlin, the annual KDE developer conference, there is another weekly Plasma development update. KDE developer Nate Graham shared the latest exciting progress on Plasma 6.5 while more good news will be coming out later today...

systemd 258 Closing In On Its Stable Release

Phoronix - Sat, 09/06/2025 - 17:51
As what might be its last test release before declaring the stable release, systemd 258-rc4 was released this week as the latest stepping stone for this dominant Linux init system and service manager...

Asciinema – Record and Share Your Terminal Sessions in Linux

Tecmint - Sat, 09/06/2025 - 12:45
The post Asciinema – Record and Share Your Terminal Sessions in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Asciinema is an open-source terminal recording tool that makes it super easy to share your command-line work with others. Unlike

The post Asciinema – Record and Share Your Terminal Sessions in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta Along With COSMIC Desktop Beta In Late September

Phoronix - Sat, 09/06/2025 - 08:30
The long-awaited beta release of the Pop!_OS 24.04 Linux distribution and the closely-aligned COSMIC desktop environment will be happening in late September...

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