Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Process Explorer

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. The post Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Process Explorer appeared first on Linux Today.

[$] Supporting NFS v4.2 WRITE_SAME

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

Security updates for Monday

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,

Kernel prepatch 6.16-rc2

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

Find ASCII Emoji Easily with this GNOME Shell Applet

A simple GNOME Shell extension that lets you search and copy ASCII emoji from your panel without needing to open a browser and hit up a website. You’re reading Find ASCII Emoji Easily with this GNOME Shell Applet, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.

The Kubuntu Focus Team Announces The M2 GEN 6

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! The post